Absolute Scenes
a large cast site-specific show
A play by Timothy X Atack directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya
The world’s about to end, so of course we’re throwing a huge party. There are thousands of people here: multiple dance floors, denialist splinter groups, lovers’ rifts and DJs giving body counts. No one can remember how long the party has been going, nobody knows exactly when the apocalypse will strike. But Eddie and Wen have just split up. What will the rest of the night bring for them… if not the end of everything?
Absolute Scenes is a play about the stupid and wonderful things that happen when we’re faced with the inevitable – featuring an ensemble of funny, desperate, surprising characters, and interweaving stories of the many ways people find hope and dignity in the face of total catastrophe.
Cast & Credits
PARTY INDEX Chiara Lari
EDDIE Bill Caple
WEN Josephine Brookman-Amissah
MR SIRIUS THE JOBLESS ASTRONOMER Patrick McAndrew
THE RINGER Josh Williams
ROSIE CRUCIAN Max Guest, Shivam Pallana
ALSO PARTY INDEX Victoria Hoyle
NORMAL CAROL Anna-Sophie Tutton
JAMANDA Camilla Eliot
STAY Evie Hargreaves
BEAR & ICE CREAM Tanvi Virmani
PRINZ CARR Joshua Hurley
COSMOS Shivam Pallana
WHITE HOPE Eve Pereira
OFFICER/MONSTER Alex Chard
REILLY B STUNDEN Joe Welch
VALE OF DEF Alexander Uzoka
HIGHBOUND MIKE Yazmin Kayani
LYNN ENDERBY WILLIAMS II Rebecca Hyde
REGRET Luke Taylor-Uttley
HUNNINGTON Tom Moran
KULTUR Joe Usher
DRUNK FREND FOR HIRE Phoebe Cook
DESIGNATED DRIVER Ajani Cabey
PATIENCE FROM THE GRAVEYARD/GHOST Ruby Ward
NICE ALICE Carlie Diamond
CORIN BLAINE Tom Atkinson
Written by Timothy X Atack Directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya Set Design by Charlotte Hurrell Costume Design by Natasha Sadier Projection Design by Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng Lighting Design by Mary Bennett Sound Design by Joe Waddington Production Manager Ed Wilson Stage Manager Kizzie Tims Assistant Production Manager & Site Manager Leila Glen Assistant Directors Jessy Roberts, William Byam Shaw Deputy Stage Managers Caitlin Ravenscroft, Maddie Coward Assistant Stage Managers Ellie Condon, Abbi Davies, Chris Davies, Tabbi Dodds Covid Supervisors Alice Dillon, Beshlie Thorp AV Operator Sophie Robinson Prod LX Alastair Barrows Tech Team Adrianne Broadgate, Willow Digweed, Maisy Harbert, Dan Knipe, Chris Monks, Sophie Robinson Props Supervisor Frankie Dowers Props Assistants Elspeth Goodman, Tom Gould, Zoe Mackinnon, Jess Manley, Lola O’Donoghue, Jess Way Head of Scenic Construction Andy Scrivens Construction Manager Kirk Bishop Construction Assistants Jack Bain, Lewis Bamford, David Bath, Millie Edinburgh, Jude Fullwood, Adam Mulligan Supervising Scenic Artist Leri Tecwyn Scenic Artists Rowan Batoctoy, Gina Hammersley Costume Supervisor Evie Akerman Costume Assistants Saskia Bath, Ruth Ferns Duncan, Laetitia Gorget, Maisie Higgins, Ruby Nex, Susie Pearce, Angelica Robinson, Charlotte Rowen Rehearsal Photography Rhea Norwood Production photography Mark Dawson Photography.
Absolute Scenes was commissioned by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, who approached us in the depths of the 2021 lockdown to write and direct a new play for a big cast and a creative team of students who'd been working remotely for a year, in the hope that this might be something we could actually present live, in a shared physical space... and that's what we did. Rehearsed and performed site-specifically at The Marble Factory, with a cast of 27 actors, and a whole bunch of love.
