No Such Theatre presents
Produced by Carrie Croft
Directed by James Christensen
Associate Direction by Benjamin Peterson
Jack Studio Theatre, Brockley
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11 - 22 July 2023
There’s a certain kind of sadness that glows in from the light outside of a window, when the child wakes up from a bad dream and there’s daylight behind the curtains.
But when they pull the curtains, it’s not sunlight coming in. Just the empty glow of streetlamps and a trace of the moon.
And so the bad dream begins again...
Jeremy waits in his pristine kitchen after school, chatting online to a man he’s never met. Sonya sits alone in the school cafeteria at lunch, wishing she were one of the popular kids and obsessively studying for her history class. Embedded in their suburban lives, the two drift along while the outside world hovers inscrutably, just out of sight.
But someone has come to visit. A fuzzy, friendly face from the woods beyond. He’s here to talk and to listen. He’s here to play and to pretend. He’s here to show you who you really, truly are.
The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy is a brilliantly surreal comic nightmare of middle-class suburbia from acclaimed Australian playwright Lally Katz, which takes a look at the moments in life when we suddenly feel like frightened, lost children again.
Jack Studio Theatre, Brockley
11 – 22 July 2023
CAST AND CREATIVES
The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy
by Lally Katz
presented by No Such Theatre
produced by Carrie Croft
Director: James Christensen
Associate Direction: Benjamin Peterson
Composer and Sound Designer: James Christensen
Designer: Georgie White
Lighting Designer: Alex Lewer
Stage Manager: Nicky Davis
AV Design: Nicky Davis
CAST
The Apocalypse Bear: Remi King
Jeremy: Gassan Abdulrazek
Sonya: Siddy Holloway
Postman: Benjamin Peterson
Intriguingly odd [and] grippingly cringe-inducing.
A vision of the world in which nothing gets better, only more itself...
London Pub Theatres
...you should go and see the play for yourself. [NST work] with clarity, holding up a lamp so that you can find your own way through the weirdness rather than leading you towards a view that would be more [theirs] than yours.
British Theatre Guide
