Parliament Square
Writer
James Fritz
Director
Anna Marsland
Venue
The Carne Studio Theatre
Dates
Tuesday 8 December 7:45pm
Wednesday 9 December 2:15pm
About the show
“Focus on that focus on that anger with what’s happening that’s what will drive you that’s what’s gonna get you over the line.”
What would you give up in order to change things? Your marriage? Your children? What about your life?
As Kat takes the train journey towards London, she struggles between the desires to keep the life she has and fight for the world she wants.
Fifteen seconds of suffering isn’t all that bad when there is so much at stake.
She’s written a letter explaining everything. She just needs to get herself to Parliament Square. Find the best spot. Then set herself on fire.
James Fritz is a multi-award-winning writer from south London, whose plays for stage and radio include Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Parliament Square, Ross & Rachel, Start Swimming, The Fall, Comment Is Free, Death of A Cosmonaut and Lava. He has won the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, a Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and the Imison and Tinniswood BBC Audio Drama Awards, the first time a writer has won both in the same year. He has also been nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, a BBC Radio Award for Best Single Drama, and was named runner-up in the 2013 Verity Bargate Award. He is a graduate of both the Channel Four Screenwriting Programme and the BBC’s TV Drama Writers' Programme and has a number of original television series in development.
Photos: Alex Brenner
Creative team
Director
Anna Marsland
Set / Costume Designer
Valentine Gigandet
Lighting Designer
Vadim Wilkie
Sound Designer
Jahmiko Marshall
Movement Director
Heriberto Montalban
Voice Coach
Stevie Rickard
Cast
Catherine, Taxi Driver, Friend 2
Clara Courty Zanca
Doctor, Colleague, Friend, Announcer
Ned Costello
Kat
Sophia Papadopoulos
Tommy
Dominic Rawson
Voice, Jo , Physio
Eleanor Sager
Mum, Ticket Woman
Laura Trosser
Production team
Production Manager
Anna Eagle
Stage Manager
Josephine Lea Fadani
Deputy Stage Manager
Molly Goodison
Assistant Stage Manager
Marcus Grove
Chief LX
Harry Masters
Production Sound Engineer
Kirsty Robson
Sound Assistant
Megan Bishop
Production Carpenter
Maria Dedio
Construction Crew
Tara Daynes
Rebecca Harris
Josette Shipp
Brent Tan
Technical Stage Manager
Olivia Dunne
Costume Supervisor
Lydia Comer-Narroway
Wardrobe Department
Sheena Heueston
Lesley Read