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THE KEEPERS OF INFINITE SPACEby Omar El-Khairy

Cast in order of appearance

Saeed	Edmund Kingsley
Yael/Sara/Claire	Laura Prior
Khalil	Hilton McRae
Abner	John Wark
Ziv/Tom	Cornelius Macarthy
Haneen/Asma	Sirine Saba
Tarek/Muhib	Patrick Toomey
Shadi	Philip Correia

The action takes place in Israel and Palestine,

1990 and 2012 - 2014.

The performance lasts approximately 90 minutes.

There will be no interval.

Developer and Director	Zoe Lafferty
Designer	Philip Lindley
Lighting Designer	Johanna Town
Music and Sound Designer	Richard Hammarton
Costume Designer	Susan Kulkarni
Fight Director	Tim Klotz
Executive Producer	Caroline Rooney
Producer	Chris Foxon
Dramaturg	Carissa Hope Lynch
Casting Director	Emily Jones
Production Manager	David Leigh-Pemberton
Assistant Director	David Mumeni
Stage Manager	Hannah Boustred
Assistant Stage Managers	Mica Taylor
	Bethany Roberts
Assistant Producer	Jessica Campbell

We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.

Philip Correia | Shadi

Philip trained at LAMDA.

Theatre includes The History Boys (Wyndhams Theatre and National Theatre), NT50 (National Theatre), The Pitmen Painters (National Theatre and Live Theatre), Hobson’s Choice and The Syndicate (Chichester Festival Theatre and Minerva Theatre), The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC), Northern Odyssey (Live Theatre Newcastle), Judgement Day (The Print Room), The Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Rep), Country Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Bus Stop (New Vic/SJT), Romeo and Juliet (Jermyn Street Theatre) and What Cheryl Did Next (Theatre503).

Television includes Inspector George Gently, Vera, Casualty, Lewis, Hollyoaks, Canoe Man, Doctors and The Bill.

Film includes The Hunters.

Radio includes Blue Flu.

Edmund Kingsley | Saeed

Edmund trained at RADA.

Theatre includes Richard III, King John, Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Tempest and The Lord Of The Flies (Royal Shakespeare Company), The River Line (Jermyn Street Theatre), Dangerous Corner and The Importance of Being Earnest (Salisbury Playhouse), She Stoops to Conquer (Nottingham Playhouse), The Duchess of Malfi and Volpone (Greenwich Theatre), Moscow Live (HighTide), Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Repertory Company), Rope (Watermill Theatre), A Reluctant Hero, The Proposal, A Christmas Carol and As You Like It (Bridge House Theatre), ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Human Rites (Southwark Playhouse), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre), Julius Caesar (Menier Chocolate Factory) and The Taming Of The Shrew (Thelma Holt National Tour).

Television includes Breathless, Endeavour, The Borgias, Doctors, Sensitive Skin, Agatha Christie - A Life in Pictures and As If.

Film includes Allies, Eliza Graves, Hugo, The Reverend, Toto and Beast. Radio includes The Christmas Mysteries and The Bulldog Has Landed.

Cornelius Macarthy | Ziv/Tom

Cornelius was born in London and grew up in Sierra Leone. He trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

He recently completed a European tour playing Bertrand Russell, in a production based on Bertrand’s life and writings in his book of the same name, directed by multi-award-winning Bosnian director Haris Pašović.

Other theatre includes Rising Damp (National Tour), Antony & Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre), 1936 (Sadlers Wells), Come Dancing (Theatre Royal Stratford East), 12 Proposals for a Better Europe (Belarus Free Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse), Peter Pan (York Theatre Royal), To Kill a Mockingbird (National Tour), Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Manchester Library Theatre), Lost in the Stars (Queen Elizabeth Hall), King Cotton (Manchester Lowry/Liverpool Empire), A Taste of Honey (York Theatre Royal), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Liverpool Playhouse), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (West End), Lifting the Mask (National Tour), Spirit of the Dance (National Tour), Cinderella (Greenwich Theatre), Drive Ride Walk (Albany Theatre) and Notes Across a Small Pond (Bridewell Theatre).

Television includes A Touch of Frost, Doctors, EastEnders, Collision, Murder Investigation Team, Empathy, My Hero, Torchwood and Kingmakers.

Film includes Teach Me, Candle to Water, Patient 17, Millions and In the Mood.

Cornelius’s world tours with London Community Gospel Choir have led to extensive work as a session singer with a wide variety of recording artists including Blur, Beautiful South, Manu Dibango, Madonna, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Tom Jones, Atomic Kitten, Will Young, Billie Piper, R. Kelly, Boy George, Van Morrison and P Diddy.

Hilton McRae | Khalil

Theatre includes Timon of Athens (National Theatre), The Kreutzer Sonata (Gate Theatre/ La MaMa New York), End of the Rainbow (Northampton Theatre Royal), Experimentum Mundi (Edinburgh International Festival), The Oresteia Trilogy (Fisher Centre, New York), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Manchester Library Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (RFH), Weapons of Happiness (Finborough Theatre), Caroline Or Change (National Theatre), Rabbit (West End/Brits off Broadway), Twelfth Night (Tour), The Comedy of Errors (Sheffield Crucible), Hamlet (Northampton Theatre Royal), The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse), Peer Gynt (Arcola Theatre), My One and Only (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), Mamma Mia (West End), The Front Page (Donmar Warehouse), Othello and A Doll’s House (Birmingham Rep), Les Miserables (West End), Miss Saigon (West End), Hedda Gabler (Manchester Royal Exchange), Macbeth (Dundee Rep), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (RSC/Broadway), The Danton Affair, Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Total Eclipse, Piaf, Much Ado About Nothing, The Innocent, Antony and Cleopatra, Captain Swing, The Churchill Play, The Merchant of Venice, Factory Birds and Bandits (RSC) and LayOff/Yobbo Nowt (7:84).

Television includes New Tricks IX, Injustice, Zen, Red Riding Trilogy -1983, The Execution of Gary Glitter, Lewis, Frances Tuesday, Murder City, Silent Witness, Baby Father, Midsomer Murders, Serious & Organised, Monarch of the Glen, Deacon Brodie, The Justice Game, King of Hearts, First Take, Zorro: The Reward, To Each His Own, William Tell, Roll Over Beethoven, Poppyland, The Kit Curran Radio Show, Forever Young, Leaving and Gaskin.

Film includes Far From the Madding Crowd, Serena, Power of Three, Stroke of Genius, Mansfield Park, Return of the Jedi, Secret Rapture, Greystoke andThe French Lieutenant’s Woman.

Laura Prior | Yael/Sara/Claire

Laura trained at Rose Bruford College.

Theatre includes Potholes (Theatre503), The Midnight Princess (Rose Theatre Kingston), Eisteddfod (HighTide Festival Theatre for Latitude Festival), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe), Epidemic (Old Vic New Voices), Blue Sky/Green Forest (Arcola Theatre), The Witch of Edmonton (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Loyal Women (Greenwich Theatre).

Sirine Saba | Haneen/Asma

Sirine trained at RADA.

Theatre includes The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and HMS Pinafore (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre), Scorched (Old Vic Tunnels), Nation and Sparkleshark (National Theatre), Testing the Echo (Out of Joint/Tricycle Theatre), Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre), Rough Cuts: the Spiral and The Rise and Fall of a Lebanese Pop Princess (Royal Court Theatre), Midnight’s Children, Pericles, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Beauty and the Beast, Tales from Ovid, A Warwickshire Testimony and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic).

Television includes Doctors, I am Slave, Silent Witness, Footballers’ Wives, The Bill and Prometheus.

Film includes Exhibition, Maestro and Revolution.

Sirine has also recorded a wide variety of plays, books and short stories for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, including most recently The Brick, The Insider, The Reluctant Spy and The Deportation Room.

Patrick Toomey | Tarek/Muhib

Patrick trained at LAMDA.

Theatre includes Casualties (Park Theatre), The Father (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Lovebirds (Southwark Playhouse), Wild Horses (Theatre503), On the Waterfront (Hackney Empire), Edward II and Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe), Mister Heracles (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The School for Scandal (Derby Theatre Royal and Northampton Theatre Royal), Sweet Phoebe (Hen and Chickens), The John Wayne Principle (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), The Boys in the Band (Aldwych Theatre), The School for Scandal (English Touring Theatre), The Recuiting Officer, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The Blue Angel (Gielgud Theatre), The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre), The Country Wife (Holland Park), Lady Betty and As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl), A Small Family Business (Birmingham Rep), Romeo and Juliet (London Shakespeare Group), The Beaux’ Stratagem (Scarborough) and Pommies (Warehouse Theatre).

Television includes Doc Martin, The Escape Artist, Vera, Law and Order UK, Missing, Mutual Friends, Holby City, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Courtroom, Hollyoaks, The Only Boy For Me, The Bill, William and Mary, Monarch of the Glen, Jackson’s Wharf, Water Rats, Heartbeat, The House of Angelo, Murder Most Horrid, Annie’s Bar, Over Here, Cadfael, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Streetwise and The Two of Us. Film includes Walking with the Enemy, Balloon Man, The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb, Arsene Lupin and Pressure Point.

Radio includes Soho Nights and The Father.

John Wark | Abner

John trained at RADA.

Theatre includes Dog in the Manger, Tamar’s Revenge and Pedro, the Great Pretender (Royal Shakespeare Company), Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic and Barbican Theatre), Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us (National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), The Winter Guest (Almeida Theatre), Torch Song Trilogy (Tron Theatre, Glasgow), The Only Girl in the World (Arcola Theatre), Jamie the Saxt and The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre) and Thark (Park Theatre).

Television includes Robin Hood, Taggart, The Ten Commandments and G-Force.

Film includes The Fitzroy, A Little Chaos, Breaking the Waves, The Oxford Murders, Late Night Shopping and Within the Woods. John has recently been cast in Werner Herzog’s forthcoming film Queen of the Desert.

Omar El-Khairy | Playwright

Omar is the Leverhulme Associate Playwright at the Bush Theatre and co-founder of the international theatre and film collective Paper Tiger. He is developing a new play A Soldier Dreams of White Tulips as part of Paper Tiger’s residency as Associate Artists at Ovalhouse, where his first full-length play Sour Lips recently premiered. Theatre includes Return to Sender (Orange Tree Theatre), Given the Times (Finborough Theatre), Polling Booth (Theatre503), Eyelids (Unicorn Theatre), Lovestrong (Lyric Hammersmith), Burst (Zoo Venues, Edinburgh Festival), Longitude (The Public Theatre, New York) and The Arc (Arcola Theatre). His short film No Exit is in production with Idioms Film in the West Bank, Palestine, and he is now developing his first feature length screenplay, Sheikh. Omar holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the LSE.

Zoe Lafferty | Developer and Director

Zoe trained at Drama Centre, London and the Vaktangov Theatre School, Moscow. Zoe has directed, written and researched for theatre in Afghanistan, the US, Palestine, Europe and Japan, and travelled in secret through Syria during the uprising to collect material for her verbatim play The Fear of Breathing. She is Associate Director of The Freedom Theatre Palestine and Associate Director and board member of The Red Room Theatre Company. Directing includes The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre; Akasaka Red Theatre, Tokyo), the world premiere of Bola Agbaje’s Concrete Jungle (Riverside Studios), Gaza: Breathing Space (Soho Theatre), Adult Child/Dead Child (Unicorn Theatre and Edinburgh Festival), Alice in Wonderland (Freedom Theatre Palestine) and Sho Khman? (Freedom Theatre Palestine and International Tour). Associate Directing includes Lost Nation (The Red Room). Assistant Directing includes The Dresser (Watford Palace Theatre), Waiting For Godot (Freedom Theatre Palestine and American Tour), Protozoa (The Red Room) and Oikos (The Red Room). Zoe co-wrote Off Record with Paul Wood, a verbatim piece on the Israel/Palestine conflict performed at the Soho Theatre, and has developed work with National Theatre Wales.

Philip Lindley | Designer

At the Finborough Theatre, Philip is Associate Designer, and has designed Mirror Teeth, Drama At Inish, Autumn Fire, The American Clock, Merrie England, The Fear of Breathing, Passing By, Somersaults, Rooms and As Is. Trained as an architect, Philip began his theatre career as a set and lighting designer before joining the BBC TV Design Department. During 25 years at the BBC, he worked on every type of production including Dr. Who, Blackadder, Top Of The Pops, Mastermind, Swap Shop, Play For Today, Play For Tomorrow, 30 Minute Theatre, Lorna Doone, Z For Zacharias, The Tripods, Juliet Bravo, Rings On Their Fingers, The Kamikaze Ground Staff Dinner Party, Goodbye Darling, Tomorrow’s World, the 1981 Royal Wedding and The Scientist. After leaving the BBC, he worked as a freelance theatre consultant before moving to Lisbon where he continued to design sets and lighting for Portuguese theatre including productions of Cymbeline, Saturday Sunday Monday, The Bear, The Proposal, Recklessness, Tone Clusters, One For The Road, A Time For Farewells and Dracula. Since returning to live in the UK, he has designed Nerve, The Good Doctor and Sleeping Dogs (Baron’s Court Theatre), Miss Julie (Theatro Technis), The Three Sisters and Endgame (Bridewell Theatre), Fair Em and Measure For Measure (Union Theatre), The Theban Plays (The Scoop – Time Out best free London event of 2013) and Passing By (Tristan Bates Theatre).

Johanna Town | Lighting Designer

Theatre includes What the Butler Saw, Some Like It Hip Hop, Betrayal, Speaking in Tongues, Fat Pig, Hello and Goodbye, Top Girls, Via Dolorosa and Beautiful Thing (West End), Haunted (New York, Royal Exchange and Sydney Opera House), Rose (National Theatre and Broadway), My Name is Rachel Corrie (Royal Court Theatre, West End and New York), Guantanamo (New York, Tricycle Theatre and West End), Arabian Nights and Our Lady of Sligo (New York), The Steward of Christendom (Out of Joint, Broadway and Sydney), Macbeth (Out of Joint, World Tour and Arcola Theatre) and The Permanent Way (Out of Joint, National Theatre and Sydney). Johanna is an Associate Artist for Theatre503 where recent productions include The Life of Stuff, Man in the Middle, The Final Shot and Ship of Fools. Her many other theatre credits include Fences (Theatre Royal Bath), Smack Family Robinson (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Straight (Bush Theatre and Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Medea, Romeo and Juliet (Headlong), Moon on A Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (Polka Theatre), Blue Heart Afternoon and Lay Down Your Cross (Hampstead Theatre), Llywyth (Sherman Cymru and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), Charged (Soho Theatre), Miss Julie, Private Lives, The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) and The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC).

Johanna has also worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre where her credits include Rhinoceros, The Arsonists and My Child. She has also lit numerous productions for Out Of Joint including Our Country’s Good, Bang Bang Bang, Dreams of Violence, Our Lady of Sligo, The Permanent Way and King of Hearts.

Opera includes Carmen, Kátya Kabanová, Cinderella, Phaedra & Ariadne Auf Naxos and The Secret Marriage (Scottish Opera), The Marriage of Figaro for Classical Opera Company and Tobias and the Angel for Almeida Opera Festival.

Richard Hammarton | Music and Sound Designer

Theatre includes Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Six Characters Looking for an Author (The Young Vic), The Mountaintop (Theatre503 and Trafalgar Studios), The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), Brilliant Adventures, Edward II and Dr Faustus (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Speaking in Tongues (Duke of York’s Theatre), A Raisin in the Sun (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, and National Tour), I Know How I Feel About Eve (Hampstead Theatre), The Last Summer (Gate Theatre, Dublin), Mudlarks (HighTide Festival, Theatre503 and Bush Theatre), Ghosts (Duchess Theatre), The Pitchfork Disney (Arcola Theatre), Judgement Day (The Print Room), Same Same, Little Baby Jesus and Fixer (Ovalhouse), Cheese (Fanshen Theatre), An Inspector Calls (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), What Happens in the Winter (Upswing), Persuasion, The Constant Wife, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Real Thing and People at Sea (Salisbury Playhouse), Platform (Old Vic Tunnels), Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Royal Bath and National Tour), The Shooky, Steve Nallon’s Christmas Carol and Dealer’s Choice (Birmingham Rep), Hello and Goodbye and Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios), Breakfast with Mugabe (Theatre Royal Bath), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Theatre Royal Northampton), Inches Apart, Ship of Fools, Natural Selection and Salt Meets Wound (Theatre503) and Blowing (National Tour).

Film includes The Pier, First the Worst, A Neutral Corner, Snow, The Button and Raptured.

Television includes Agatha Christie’s Marple, No Win No Fee, Sex ‘N’ Death, Wipeout, The Ship, Konigsspitz, K2 and The Fisherman’s Wife. Orchestration includes Agatha Christie’s Marple, Primeval, Dracula, Jericho, If I Had You, A History of Britain, Silent Witness, Dalziel and Pascoe, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz and Scenes of a Sexual Nature.

Interactive work includes pieces at the Foundling Museum, Moore Outside at Tate Britain, You Shall Go to the Ball at Royal Opera House and Light at BAC.

Susan Kulkarni | Costume Designer

Susan trained at Somerville College, Oxford University, and RADA.

Theatre includes Detroit, Cesario, More Light, The Prince of Denmark and King James’ Bible (National Theatre), Herding Cats (Hampstead Theatre), And Darkness Descended (Punchdrunk), I Didn’t Always Live Here (Finborough Theatre) and The Prince and the Pauper and The Legend of Captain Crow (Unicorn Theatre), Narrative (Royal Court Theatre), Zombie Lab (The Science Museum), Measure for Measure and Marat/Sade (RSC) and The Look Out (Royal Festival Hall). Susan is currently Head of Costume for Future Cinema and Secret Cinema and she designs all of their large-scale immersive productions. Her work includes The Shawshank Redemption, Brazil, Blade Runner, Prometheus, The Red Shoes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the interactive premiere of Watchmen.

Television/Film credits include Downton Abbey II, Dancing on the Edge by Stephen Poliakoff, Mrs Dickens’ Family Christmas, Big Ballet, Eye and Mermaid and Three and A Dream (shorts shot in Qatar for the Doha Film Institute).

Advertisements include Push, PETA and Peroni.

Tim Klotz | Fight Director

Tim has been a fight director for almost twenty years and has been resident fight director for the Drama Centre London since 2004. He has worked at Shakespeare’s Globe, Lyric Hammersmith, Gate Theatre, Nashville Ballet, Royal Festival Hall, Sony, SEGA, Rebellion and a host of smaller theatres and educational projects. Tim was on the staff of the Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Conference in Banff, Canada.

Caroline Rooney | Executive Producer

Caroline is a Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellow and Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Kent. Her research by practice engages with arts activism and popular culture towards coming to terms with a new Middle East in the making. Theatre includes The Rebel Cell at El Sawy Culturewheel in Cairo.

Film includes The Road to Midan Tahrir, featuring interviews she carried out with Egyptian writers in 2010. Caroline’s poetry appears in an anthology of human rights poetry (London Human Rights Consortium, 2013) and she has published widely on the Arab avant-garde and popular culture, liberation struggles and their aftermaths, and alternative enlightenments. With director Mai Masri she is currently working on a documentary film addressing the experiences of Palestinian child prisoners. Her current research programme is entitled: Imagining the Common Ground.

Chris Foxon | Producer

Chris read English at Oxford University and trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on an AHRC Scholarship. Chris is the producer of the multi-award-winning Papatango Theatre Company and was an assessor for the 2013 T.S. Eliot Commissions with the Old Vic Theatre.

Productions include Happy New (Trafalgar Studios), The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre and Akasaka Red Theatre, Tokyo), Unscorched and Pack for Papatango Theatre Company at the Finborough Theatre, Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic), The Madness of George III (Oxford Playhouse) and Tejas Verdes (Edinburgh Festival).

Theatre as Assistant Producer includes On The Threshing Floor (Hampstead Theatre), ‘Endless Poem’ as part of Rio Occupation London (BAC, People’s Palace Projects and HighTide Festival Theatre) and Mudlarks (HighTide Festival Theatre, Theatre503 and Bush Theatre).

Carissa Hope Lynch | Dramaturg

Carissa trained at the University of California and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

As a dramaturg, theatre includes Gastronauts (Royal Court, Theatre Upstairs), Peckham: the Soap Opera (Royal Court, Bussey Building and Theatre Upstairs), Reasons to be Cheerful (Theatre Royal Stratford East, New Wolsey, National Tour), Prometheus Awakes (Greenwich and Docklands International Festival), The Garden (London 2012 Festival), and The Iron Man (Brighton Festival, GDiF). She supported script and concept development in respective collaborations between Graeae and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal Plymouth, and Dundee Repertory. Carissa has read for the Bruntwood Prize for playwriting and the Verity Bargate Award, and she is the Deputy Literary Manager at the Royal Court Theatre.

Emily Jones | Casting Director

Theatre includes Unscorched (Papatango Theatre Company at the Finborough Theatre), As You Like It and Richard III (Changeling Theatre) and World Enough and Time (Dalston Bunker).

Theatre as assistant to Ginny Schiller includes 1984 (Headlong), Relative Values (Theatre Royal Bath), Scenes from a Marriage (St James Theatre), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and Ghosts (Rose Theatre Kingston) and Pride and Prejudice (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park). Film includes Limbo and Ibiza Undead.

David Leigh-Pemberton | Production Manager

David trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is a freelance general manager and production manager.

Production management includes Journeying Boys (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), Nothing is the End of the World (Except the End of the World), Somersaults and Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (Finborough Theatre).

David was Production Assistant on Potted Potter (Garrick Theatre) and General Manager for Sunstroke (Platform Studio Theatre). David is Technical Manager for the annual charity event West End Bares (Café De Paris).

David Mumeni | Assistant Director

David trained as an actor at Drama Centre, London and is an Associate Artist of The National Youth Theatre.

Theatre as an actor includes ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl), Product Placement (Nabokov) and The Machine (The Donmar Warehouse and New York).

Television as an actor includes Fresh Meat, PhoneShop, Cuckoo, Confessions From The Underground and Whitechapel.

Film as an actor includes The Inbetweeners Movie and Noble.

Writing includes Our Days of Rage (Old Vic Tunnels) and My Christian Name (The Lantern Theatre, Liverpool).

Directing includes Odd Ball (Lost Theatre) and Fishbowl (Not Too Tame).

Assistant Directing includes Lysistrata and Poundtown (Greenwich Theatre).

Jessica Campbell | Assistant Producer

Jessica read English at Oxford University.

Theatre as producer includes Hansel and Gretel (Opera in Space at the Bussey Building), Bloody Poetry (Keble O’Reilly Theatre) and Mephisto (Oxford Playhouse), which transferred to the International Student Drama Festival 2013, The State Vs John Hayes (Hen and Chickens Theatre and Edinburgh Festival) and The Comedy of Errors (Southwark Playhouse, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Japan).

Production Acknowledgements

Production Photography | Richard Davenport

Production Artwork | Nidal El-Khairy

Graphic Design | Felix Trench

This production was initiated by Caroline Rooney in dialogue with Mai Masri as part of the RCUK funded Imagining the Common Ground programme. The play was inspired by true stories and developed through research by Caroline Rooney and Zoe Lafferty. We would like to thank the following people and organisations in Palestine for their help and support: the YMCA in Beit Sahour and Al-Khalil and the young ex-prisoners we met through them; Addameer; the Abu Jihad Museum; Zakaria Zubeidi, Faisal Abu Alhayjaa, Majd Beltaji, Momin Switat and Adnan Torokman.

The play was initially developed with the following actors:

Nyasha Hatendi, Nicholas Karimi, Siân Polhill-Thomas and John Wark.

We would also like to thank the following:

Henry Gilbert, Micheal Cusick, Nadia Nadif, Zoë Nicole, Abram Rooney, Sian Goff, Miles Mitchell, Paul Mclaughlin, Lola Frears, Nick Bruckman, Anna Brooks-Beckman, Rodrigo Penalosa Pita, Richard Listor, Hannah Jenner, Bérengère Auriaudo De Castelli, Anastasiya Trayanova, Rita Sakr and Julia Borossa.