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
KHALID ABDALLA
Khalid Abdalla is a British actor and activist. His most recent credits include PRIMA FACIE directed by Susanna White and SECRET SERVICE, directed by James Marsh and Farren Blackburn for ITV. Khalid has been taking his play NOWHERE around the globe, written by himself and directed by Omar Elerian.
Khalid played ‘Ulle Dag Charles’ in THE DAY OF THE JACKAL for Sky, and prior to this performed MNEMONIC at the National Theatre under Simon McBurney’s direction, a co-production with Complicité. Khalid was nominated for a Critics Choice award, BAFTA Scotland award, Awards Daily Cooler award, Gold Derby award, Satellite award and SAG award for his role as ‘Dodi Fayed’ in Netflix’s THE CROWN. He was also nominated for a SAG Award for an Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for THE DAY OF THE JACKAL.
Khalid made his Hollywood debut in 2006, with his portrayal of ‘Ziad Jarrah’ in UNITED 93 and then went on to play the lead in THE KITE RUNNER. He again joined Paul Greengrass on the film GREEN ZONE with Matt Damon, amongst a multitude of other theatre, film and television projects.
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
31 October (matinee): Jack Wolfe
31 October (evening): Luca Pasqualino
1 November: Dónal Finn
3 November: Adrian Lester
4 November: Hugh Skinner
5 November: Aysha Kala
6 November: Reece Shearsmith
7 November (matinee): Jamael Westman
7 November (evening): Rosie Sheehy
8 November: Ria Zmitrowicz
10 November: George Fouracres
11 November: Jack Holden
12 November: Katie Leung
13 November: Khalid Abdalla
14 November (matinee): Oliver Johnstone
14 November (evening): Katherine Parkinson
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
The Other Palace is a theatre for discovering, developing, exploring, and celebrating theatre. It’s a lively,friendly, and inventive place where ideas can be shared and explored, and the next generation of theatre-makers are encouraged, supported and celebrated. Acting as a creative hub for both the aspiring and accomplished within the industry as well as breaking down the barriers between audiences and creators, everyone is welcome at The Other Palace.
The Other Palace has an extraordinary history dating back to 1766 when it began life as the Charlotte Chapel. By 1924 the chapel had fallen into disrepair and was converted into a cinema called the St. James’ Picture Theatre. In 1931 the cinema reopened as the Westminster Theatre, with the chapel’s crypt becoming dressing rooms, a green room, and stalls bar. The theatre fell dark in 1990 and after a long campaign to save it from demolition, it was destroyed by a fire in 2002. Following the loss of the theatre, the Theatres Trust and Save London’s Theatres campaign fought to reinstate a theatre on site. In 2009 Westminster council granted planning permission for a theatre to be built. In 2012 the current theatre building opened as St James Theatre and was acquired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LW Theatres in 2016.
Following a refurbishment in 2017, it reopened as The Other Palace: the home of musical theatre. In October 2021, The Other Palace was acquired by Bill Kenwright Ltd, one of the largest commercial theatre producers in the UK. In addition to producing touring, West End and Broadway productions, Bill Kenwright Ltd also operates Theatre Royal Windsor – one of the only unsubsidised, commercial producing theatres outside of London to operate all year round, blazing the trail for regional creative organisations.
Bill Kenwright (Sept 1945-Oct 2023)
Executive Producer
The Other Palace (2021-2023)
Artistic Director: Paul Taylor-Mills
General Manager: Graeme Russell
Technical and Buildings Manager: Ashley Pickles
Deputy Technical Manager: James Pheby
Theatre Technician: Liam Boner, Stella Buddell, Tom Jervis
Marketing Manager: Tatiana Timoshina
Box Office Manager: Michael Hogg
Deputy Box Office Manager: Amy Hunnable
Sales Advisors: Zahra Jassi, Aliyah Salim, Niamh Taylor
Programming Administrator: Tom Heath
Front of House Manager: Julene Robinson
Bar Manager: Mike Cross
Deputy Front of House Manager: Aaron Kendall
Duty Manager: Tim Harris
Security: Kanupriya Ahuja, Manan Goswami, Reka Horvath, Muhammad Shoaib Ul Hassan, Eren Senkoy
Raouf Zeghdane, Sabrina Safin Zinnia
FOH Staff: Thomas Allam, William Allam, Nkechi Ampabeng, Jefferson Ashqui, Mehtaab Bashir, Aimee Bevan, Ashh Blackwood, Amy Mitchell Bridger, Alex Careswell, Lauren Edwards, Christiana Faseni, Daniel Fesoom, Samuel Gadd, Milo Hallett, Matthew Hartley, Emile John, Jonathan Jurado-Daza, Joel MBA Kamdem, Nicole Llerena, Eden Longange, Geoffrey MacCarthy, Oliver McSorley, Joe Millington, Malakai Mitchell-Bailey, Bentleigh Nesbit, Sebastian Newton, JP Quiroz-Silva, Yekta Rafatpanah Callan Ridgwell, Aliyah Salim, Mia Shah, Tafanique Service, Dominic Short, Piper Swaine, Niamh Taylor, Finlay Tomlinson, Matthew Villanis, and Elise Zavou.
Best Friends: David Ashton, Craig Barlow, Lauren Broughton, Thomas Byrne, Fatma Charlwood, Cason Crane, Peter Dudas, Karl Facer and Christopher Savvides, Lee Farman, Mike Forsdike, Richard Hogan, Kirsty Hyndman, Hayley McKenzie, and Mark Walker.