The Children
by Lucy Kirkwood
Hazel and Robin, sixty something nuclear engineers, have retired to a remote seaside cottage and a life of yoga, salad and soil-tilling. All very charming until you realise that this simple lifestyle, which harks back to a bygone age, is partially enforced. Just down the road is the wreck of the nuclear power station where they used to work. Electricity is rationed, the cattle are dead and the water not safe to drink. No wonder, then, that when long-lost colleague Rose turns up unexpectedly, Hazel is apprehensive. Rightly so, it turns out, for Rose, who is pretty, enigmatic and damaged, brings a reckoning.
The Children
Samuel J Friedman Theatre
First Preview 28, Nov 2017
Opening Night 12, Dec 2017
Closing 04, Feb 2018
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Cast
Francesca Annis
Ron Cook
Deborah Findlay
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Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club Lynne Meadow, Barry Grove, The Royal Court Theatre, Vicky Featherstone, Lucy Davies
Written by Lucy Kirkwood
Directed by James Macdonald
Scenic Design by Miriam Buether
Costume Design by Miriam Buether
Lighting Design by Peter Mumford
Sound Design by Max Pappenheim
