Francesca Moody Productions
Tom & Christie Barnes
No Guarantees
By Tim Crouch
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The unmissable theatrical event returns, now featuring Juliet Stevenson, Olivia Williams, Suranne Jones, Tanya Reynolds and many more…
Tim Crouch’s ‘revelation of theatre-making‘ (Guardian) returns to London this autumn with a new slate of co-stars, each seeing the script for the very first time live on stage.
Watch some of acting’s biggest names take on this spectacle of spontaneity, taking to the stage and trusting their instincts with no rehearsal and no safety net.
A father loses his daughter to a car accident. The man behind the wheel is a stage hypnotist. When the father volunteers for the hypnotist’s act, these two men meet face to face for the first time since the accident.
Previously performed with some of the greatest actors in the world, this unique production ‘vividly celebrates the live, raw, communal experience of theatre’ (Financial Times).
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Cast
Tim Crouch
Tim is an Obie Award-winning writer, director and theatre-maker. He was an actor before starting to write and he still performs in much of his work. His plays include Toto Kerblammo! (Unicorn Theatre), Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and tour), Superglue (NT Connections); Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (NTS and Royal Court); Beginners (Unicorn Theatre); Adler and Gibb (Royal Court and tour); what happens to the hope at the end of the evening (Almeida); I, Cinna (the poet) (RSC and Unicorn Theatre); I, Malvolio (Brighton Festival and tour); The Author (Royal Court and tour); ENGLAND – a play for galleries (Traverse Theatre, Fruitmarket Gallery and tour); An Oak Tree (Traverse Theatre and tour), Shopping for Shoes (National Theatre) and My Arm (Traverse Theatre and tour).
Directing credits include The Tempest for Shakespeare’s Globe (in which he played Prospero); Toto Kerblammo!, Beginners and Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore (Unicorn Theatre); BS Johnson’s House Mother Normal (New Perspectives and Brighton Festival); I, Cinna (the poet), The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear (RSC); PEAT, (Ark, Dublin), and The Complete Deaths (Spymonkey/Brighton Festival).
For radio, Tim’s adaptation of Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveller received a special commendation at the BBC Audio Awards 2024. His play Range Anxiety is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 this September. For TV, Tim created and co-wrote Don’t Forget the Driver, a six-part series for BBC2 which won Best Comedy at the Venice TV awards, 2019.
Other awards include: Scotsman Fringe First (Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel), Off-West End Offie (I, Cinna (the poet)), Writers Guild of Great Britain, Best Play for Young Audiences (Beginners); John Whiting Award, Total Theatre Award (The Author); Scotsman Fringe First, Total Theatre & Herald Archangel Award (ENGLAND), Obie Special Citation, Herald Angel (An Oak Tree), Prix Italia for Best Adaptation in Radio Drama (My Arm).
Tim is published by Methuen Books.
timcrouchtheatre.co.uk
@thistimcrouch
caitlin fitzgerald
Caitlin recently starred as Desdemona in Tom Morris’ new production of OTHELLO in the West End, opposite Toby Jones and David Harewood. Other recent theatre credits include Elizabeth Proctor in the National Theatre’s West End transfer of THE CRUCIBLE, and before that made her UK Theatre debut as the leading role of Sara Muller in WATCH ON THE RHINE at the Donmar Warehouse.
On-screen, Caitlin can currently be seen in a lead role in WE WERE LIARS for Amazon, and will soon be seen as the female lead alongside Idris Elba in ABOVE THE BELOW, a survival thriller for Lionsgate that Idris is co-directing alongside Martin Owen. She recently filmed a guest lead role in THE KENNEDY’S for Netflix, opposite Michael Fassbender.
She can currently be seen in Patrick Somerville’s critically acclaimed HBO Max limited series STATION ELEVEN for director Hiro Murai, Shonda Rhimes’s highly-anticipated Netflix limited series INVENTING ANNA, and the HBO series, SUCCESSION.
Previously she starred in Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar nominated feature THE TRIAL OF CHICAGO 7, opposite Mark Rylance and Eddie Redmayne and Sophia Takal’s independent feature ALWAYS SHINE, opposite Mackenzie Davis, as well as the third season of Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning Lifetime series UNREAL. Caitlin is also known for her work in the Emmy and Golden Globe award winning Showtime series MASTERS OF SEX, opposite Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan.
Caitlin trained at NYU’s ‘Tisch School of the Arts’ and RADA.
guest stars
7 October: Gwyneth Keyworth
8 October: Prasanna Puwanarajah
9 October: Rosalie Craig
10 October: Olivia Williams
11 October: Rhashan Stone
13 October: Clare Perkins
14 October: Tom Mothersdale
15 October: Gemma Whelan
16 October: Bessie Carter
17 October (matinee): Josh Finan
17 October (evening): Sid Sagar
18 October: Juliet Stevenson
20 October: Sean Gilder
21 October: Kadiff Kirwan
22 October: Caitlin FitzGerald
23 October: Sacha Dhawan
24 October (matinee): Melanie La Barrie
24 October (evening): Tanya Reynolds
25 October: Sophie Melville
27 October: Phoebe Campbell|
28 October: Matthew Baynton
29 October: Hammed Animashaun
30 October: Brian Gleeson
1 November: Dónal Finn
3 November: Adrian Lester
4 November: Hugh Skinner
5 November: Aysha Kala
6 November: Reece Shearsmith
7 November: Rosie Sheehy
8 November: Ria Zmitrowicz
10 November: George Fouracres
11 November: Jack Holden
12 November: Katie Leung
13 November: Khalid Abdalla
15 November: Suranne Jones
Credits
Writer and performer: Tim Crouch
Directors: Tim Crouch, Karl James and Andy Smith
Music: Peter Gill
Casting: Naomi Downham
Production Management: JBPM
Stage Manager: Carrie Hitchman
Sound No. 1: Lucy Taylor
Marketing: Margo Jones Agency
Press: About Grace PR
Producer: Francesca Moody Productions
Co-Producers: Tom & Christie Barnes
Associate Producer: No Guarantees
Karl James
Karl has co-directed Tim Crouch’s My Arm, An Oak Tree, ENGLAND, The Author, What Happens To Hope At The End of The Evening, Adler & Gibb and total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation.
Most of Karl’s time is spent as director of The Dialogue Project, enabling people to have conversations when the stakes are high. His audio work has featured on BBC’s radio series Short Cuts, in A Different Kind of Justice for BBC Radio 4, at Latitude Festival and in Third Coast’s Filmless Festival in Chicago. Karl’s podcast series is called 2+2=5 and his book on how to have better conversations ‘Say It and Solve It’ was published in 2013.
www.thedialogueproject.com
www.understandingdifference.blogspot.com
Andy Smith
Andy Smith is a theatre-maker who has collaborated closely with Tim Crouch since 2004, most recently co-directing (along with Karl James) Truth’s A Dog Must To Kennel (2022) and total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation (2019). Other recent works include COMMONISM (2018, in collaboration with Amund Sjølie Sveen), SUMMIT (2018) and The Preston Bill (2015). He is currently developing CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY, one of a series of plays designed for groups of people to meet, read together, and then discuss. He is a part-time lecturer in theatre practice at The University of Manchester.
www.andysmiththeatre.com
FMP is an Olivier Award-winning, Tony-nominated production company whose work in theatre has originated two of the most globally successful television shows of the last decade: Fleabag and Baby Reindeer.
We make original theatre, television, film and audio. We believe in finding the right home for the right story and growing it over time: from tiny fringe theatres to the West End, to the next big Amazon television series and beyond.
We’re serious about our work, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We work with leading writers and nurture new talent to produce bold, award-winning shows with huge potential and something to say – be it drama, comedy, horror, or musicals. Our work is itch-scratching, big-swinging and full of heart.
Current & upcoming productions: An Oak Tree (The Other Palace); ROLEPLAY (Soho Theatre); Garry Starr: Classic Penguins (The Other Palace); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (The Other Palace).
Recent productions include: Shedinburgh (Young Vic & Edinburgh Fringe); Crybabies: The Scaring (Soho Theatre & Pleasance Edinburgh); ROLEPLAY (Summerhall); Relics (Lyric Hammersmith); Weather Girl (St Ann’s Warehouse New York, Soho Theatre, Summerhall); Ohio (Young Vic, Assembly Roxy Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic); My Master Builder (Wyndham’s Theatre); An Oak Tree (Young Vic, Bergen International Festival, Festival d’Avignon, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); How to Win Against History (Bristol Old Vic, Norwich Theatre Playhouse, Underbelly Edinburgh); Garry Starr: Classic Penguins (Studio Seaview NYC, Pleasance Grand Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, Underbelly Edinburgh & Soho, Arts Theatre, Garrick Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Noël Coward Theatre, BAM, Phoenix Theatre); Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (The Ambassadors Theatre, Underbelly Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic, HOME Manchester, Roundabout); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen (Arts Centre Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Bush Theatre, Roundabout); I’m Almost There (Summerhall, Minetta Lane Theatre New York); VL (Roundabout); Nutcracker (Southbank Centre); Never Have I Ever (Chichester Festival Theatre); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre New York); Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Harold Pinter Theatre); Berlusconi: A New Musical (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Mum (Soho Theatre); Leopards (Rose Theatre); Baby Reindeer (Bush Theatre, Roundabout); and Fleabag (Wyndham’s Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Soho Theatre, UK and Australian Tour, S. Korea, Underbelly Edinburgh).
Executive Producer: Francesca Moody
Shedinburgh Producer: Darcy Dobson
General Manager: Kati Donlon
Associate Producer: Grace Dickson
Shedinburgh Associate Producer: Tom Chamberlain
Assistant General Manager: Gianna Schuetz-McKinnis
Marketing Coordinator: Katie Kirkpatrick
Stage One Trainee Producer: Aya O’Shea Freke
Creative Associate: Jon Brittain
Production Associate: Jack Boissieux
www.francescamoody.com