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Show History
The team
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The Night Shift |
Ever dreamt you were dreaming?
We each spend twenty-five years asleep yet no one really knows why we dream. Now, Luna has the answer. The trouble is she can’t remember it, or doesn’t want to. She didn’t do it, she’s sure of that. Or was that a dream?
From award winning writer/director Mark Murphy, this unflinching, discomforting and ultimately consoling story is a slick and sinister thriller from the darkest recesses of Luna’s past. A history of traumatic dreams, broken hearts and a long buried secret that if uncovered, will change her life forever.
Co-commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre, Quay Arts
Centre, Isle of Wight and BAC. Developed at BAC. Funded by Arts Council, England.
Writer/Director
Mark Murphy
Performers
Catherine Dyson
Craig Conway
Previous performers
Catherine Dyson
Eric MacLennan
Jason Thorpe
Designer
Miranda Melville
Composer
Nathaniel Reed
Lighting design
Lizzie Powell
Relights
Adam Bullock
Original lighting design
Jon Linstrum
Technical management
Adam Bullock and Lizzie Powell
**** The Times
**** The Herald
**** The List
"a haunting and beautiful performance" The Scotsman
"a fascinating piece of theatre...and two marvellous
performances from Catherine Dyson and Jason Thorpe" Scotland on Sunday
Pick of the Day Metro
Catherine Dyson: Stage Award Best Actress Nominee 2005
The Night Shift scratch made you want to run out of the
theatre, grab a group of friends and go back in to see it all over again.
It was intense. Brilliantly performed. Spine-tingling. Night Shift blasted
a breath of fresh air through Studio 2.
David Jubb, Artistic Director, BAC
This must rate as one of the best plays I have ever seen - shocking, scary, totally absorbing - with brilliant performances from Catherine Dyson and Craig Conway. A masterpiece.
Audience member, Salisbury Playhouse, November 2006
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This show is available for touring. For more information email kate@fueltheatre.com
2006
October/November: national tour to Newcastle, Liverpool, Bristol, Maidenhead, Birmingham, Coventry, Tunbridge Wells, Isle of Wight, Salisbury
August: Esplanade, Singapore
2005
September: run at BAC, London
August: run at the Traverse Theatre as part of the British Council Showcase
2005 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2004
Scratch performances at BAC's OctoberFest
April: Scratch performances at BAC
The Team
For details of Mark Murphy see biog page.
Catherine Dyson (Performer)
Catherine Dyson is a performer and devisor. Recent theatre work also includes
'It Is Like It Ought To Be' with Univited Guests, 'found' in collaboration
with Norwegian based artist a smith and 'Dead Man’s Biggest Fan' with
Melanie Wilson (selected for the 2005 This Way Up touring initiative). She
has performed in several radio broadcasts for London's Resonance FM, most
recently lead role in 'Chalky Cobb'. She was nominated for Best Actress in
the Stage Awards 2005 for her performance in 'The Night Shift'. She appeared
as a monster in 2005 horror film The Descent and made several ghostly appearances
as The Woman In Black (Fortune Theatre).
Craig Conway (Performer)
Craig’s recent theatre work includes Bodies at the Northern Stage, Homage
to Catalonia at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, and both Peer Gynt and Romeo
and Juliet at the National Theatre. He played the title role in Paul Kerryson’s
Macbeth at the Leicester Haymarket. Craig’s credits include playing
the original characters of Gray/Andrew throughout the development phase of
The Night Shift. His TV work has included Little Angel and Our Friends in
the North with the BBC. Film credits include Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake.
Miranda Melville (Designer)
Miranda Melville has designed extensively for theatre, opera, film and dance.
Recent work includes How to Live with Bobby Baker at the Barbican Theatre
and Jardin Blanc for Yolande
Snaith Theatre Dance. Her long collaboration with Mark Murphy includes designs
for Vtol Dance Company and A Wing and a Prayer.
Nathaniel Reed (Composer)
Nathaniel Reed studied Performing Arts at Middlesex University. He has composed
for theatre, dance and film. Collaborations include work with Vtol, Frantic
Assembly, Cardboard Citizens, Jeff Noon, Kip Hall, and Liam Steel. He is currently
working with Panta Rei Danseteater.
Lizzie Powell (Lighting Designer/Technical
Management)
Trained at LAMDA in Stage Management and Technical Theatre (2000–2002),
Lizzie is a director of the Irish theatre company Blood In The Alley. Lighting
designs for the company include Trickyat the Richmond Studio Theatre and King’s
Cross, London, This Ebony Bird at the Half Moon Theatre, Cork; Romeo and Juliet
at Belvedere College, Dublin, the Cork Opera House and The Black Box, Galway;
Second City Trilogy at the Half Moon Theatre, Cork. For Liquid Theatre: Cowboy
Mouth and The Cudgel and The Rapierat BAC, London; Crave at BAC and on national
tour; and Patching Havoc at Latchmere Theatre, London.
Adam Bullock (Relights/Technical
Management)
A freelance lighting designer and production electrician for theatre and events,
Adam has recently completed an Associate LD role on the West End musical Hedwig
and the Angry Inchand a Scandinavian tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. A regular
with the English Pocket Opera Company, Opera Holland Park and event production
teams, his design, relights and production credits span all sectors of the
industry.
Downloadable information
for venues and press
To download a Touring Information Pack (including copy and press quotes) click
here:
info pack
To download a Technical Rider for the show click here: tech
rider
To download high resolution images of the show click here.
