Waj Ali and Rakie Ayola in The Rest of Your Life
“Some nights you wait for all your life… These mark the way. And they all pass you by as you come ever closer to the one you wait for, the day you die. And of course there are nights like this one.”
In a café on the Uxbridge Road Nick is getting ready to cash up when his routine is interrupted by a late night visitor. Over a cup of coffee and under a harsh florescent light, Hannah begins to unravel Nick’s past. Was she part of his story or does she have the wrong man? Is she here to reconnect or is her motive darker? Is she who she says she is? Is Nick?
Justice, truth, and privacy collide in this intimate play with a dark heart from Critics’ Circle Award-winning playwright Barney Norris (Visitors, Bush and Arcola theatres, 2014; Eventide, Arcola Theatre, 2015).
A staple of West London social life, Bar FM is a live-music venue near Shepherd’s Bush Green. Featuring live bands, DJs, open jamming sessions and most famously karaoke, Bar FM is a local favourite for those looking for a good night out. Set up by Freddie and Mylene, it has always welcomed newcomers and locals along for a dance and often a sing-along.
Barney Norris was born in Sussex in 1987. Upon leaving university he founded the touring theatre company Up In Arms with the director Alice Hamilton. His plays include Visitors (Up In Arms, Arcola, Bush and tour) and Eventide (Up In Arms, Arcola and tour). His first novel, Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain, is published by Doubleday, and he is also the author of a book on theatre, To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill, published by Seren. He won the Critics’ Circle and Offwestend Awards for Most Promising Playwright in 2014, was named as one of the 1000 Most Influential Londoners in 2015, and was the Literature nominee for the South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Award in 2016. He is the Playwright in Residence at Keble College, Oxford. Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain is currently Waterstone’s Book of the Month.
Recent credits include Spine, Tribute Acts, Ross & Rachael, Lost in the Neuron Forest, A Conversation, The Fanny Hill Project, Penguinpig Tether, Much Further Out Than You Thought (UK Tour), If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Old Red Lion), Screens (Theatre 503), Heartbreak Hotel (The Jetty), Macbeth, Followers (Southwark Playhouse), Arthur’s World (The Bush), Free Fall (The Pleasance), Stink Foot (The Yard), The Boy in Darkness, Nightmare Dreamer, Flying Roast Goose (Blue Elephant), Party Skills for the End of The World, 66 Minutes in Damascus (Shoreditch Town Hall), Borderline Vultures (The Lowry), Organs of Little Apparent Importance (HighTide Festival). Studied Sound Design (BA) at The Leeds College of Music and Advanced Theatre Practice (MA) at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Miranda Cromwell is a freelance director, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Twisted Theatre. She attended the National Theatre Studio Directors course 2015 and was previously Young Company Director at Bristol Old Vic. Theatre credits include FEED (Islington Community Theatre) Magic Elves (Bristol Old Vic) Death and Treason (Twisted Theatre, RSW tour) Dancing at Lughnasa (Charleston College of Arts, USA) Pigeon English (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Underbelly) Children of Killers (Cottesloe, National Theatre) and Our Country’s Good (BOV Young Company, NSDF; judges’ award for artistic leadership). As Associate Director Coram Boy (Colston Hall); as Assistant Director Enemy of the People (Chichester Festival), Hang (Royal Court Theatre), Peter O’Toole Memorial (The Old Vic), Swallows and Amazons and Faraway (Bristol Old Vic).
Priscilla John, Orla Maxwell and Francesca Bradley have worked together as a casting team since 2009 on diverse and exciting film and international TV projects. Priscilla leads the team with a wealth of experience including the Royal Court Theatre in 1970’s, Granada TV, and an independent career casting for David Lean, Steven Spielberg, Gore Verbinski, Terrence Davies and Andrei Tarkovsky. Always on the hunt for new UK talent, the team are passionate theatregoers attending fringe, West End and drama graduate shows.
