Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before.
In this fast moving kaleidoscope more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.
Caryl Churchill is one of the UK’s most influential playwrights and her association with the Royal Court dates back to 1972 with her play Owners. Her plays at the Royal Court include Seven Jewish Children, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Top Girls, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Cloud Nine and Serious Money.
James Macdonald directs. His previous credits at the Royal Court include Cock, (which is currently running at the Duke on 42nd Street, in New York), Drunk Enough to Say I Love You Dying City, Fewer Emergencies, Lucky Dog, Blood, Blasted, 4.48 Psychosis [including European/US tours]. His other directing credits include King Lear, The Book of Grace, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (the Public Theater); Top Girls (Broadway/MTC); Dying City (Lincoln Center); A Number (New York Theatre Workshop); And No More Shall We Part (Hampstead Theatre); A Delicate Balance, Judgment Day, The Triumph of Love (Almeida); John Gabriel Borkman (Abbey Theatre Dublin/BAM); Dido, Queen of Carthage, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Exiles (National Theatre), Glengarry Glen Ross (West End), and A Number (New York Theatre Workshop). James MacDonald was Associate Director of the Royal Court from 1992 to 2007.
Running time 1hr 45mins approx, no interval.
