
Neverwhere
Performed: 19th - 21st March 2015
Description
Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her - and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.
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Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won't stop for him, his landlord rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness, a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
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For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family's slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door's entourage in their determined - and possibly fatal - quest.
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For the dread journey ever-downward - through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time - is Richard's final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.
Cast & Crew
Directed by: Gillie Kerrod & Stephen Finegold
Choreography by: Katie Allcott & Daniel Cox (assistant)
Puppets by: Jenny Birch
Fight Director: Ian Stapleton & Stephen Finegold
Lighting by: Matt Blackmore
Sound by: Richard Olive
Set by: Tony Clark
Props by: Jenny Birch
Costume by: Adelle Beswick, Josephine Finegold & Alison Roberts
Full cast list (in alphabetical order):
Penny Brown
Layla Davies
Rachel Clements
Sol Cotton
Ruth Coulson
Molly Ehrenberg Peters
Charlotte Forrester
Flynn Greenwood
Sophie Holdsworth
Georgie Jessop
Rachel Jowett
Olivia McConnell
Colette McNulty
Jack Prince
Joanne Rogers
Abigail Rolt
Charles Royle
Chris Rhodes
Daniel Russell
George Seabourne
Robin Simnett
Jonathan Stewart
Josephine Tomlinson
Sam Wharvell
Jujin Whippey
Tom Willsher
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Crrrpllrrr/Puppeteer
Hunter
Sylvia
Marquis de Carabas
Estate Agent
Lamia
Fortune Teller
Lord Rat Speaker
Earl's Retainer
Jessica
Old Bailey
Station Announcer
Door
Mr Vandemar
Anaesthesia
Rat Speaker
Mr Croup
Richard Mayhew
Master Longtail/Puppeteer
Tooley
Abbot
Varney
The Angel Islington
Gary
Brother Sable
The Earl of Earl's Court