Directed by Alastair Whatley
Designed by David Woodhead
Music & Sound designed by Giles Thomas
Lighting Designed by Chris Withers
Casting by Ellie Collyer-Bristow
From the hand of Frederick Knott, author of Dial M Murder, and the producers behind Night Must Fall and Birdsong, comes a major revival of the classic, edge of your seat, thriller Wait Until Dark.
Set amidst the social turbulence of 60’s London the play follows the story of Suzy, a blind woman who left alone in her apartment becomes embroiled with a group of conmen hatching an elaborate scam. As the tension notches up, Suzy is left to fend for herself but with the phone line cut dead and the house plunged into darkness, can Suzy outwit the murderous visitors?
Wait Until Dark, made into a film starring Audrey Hepburn in 1967, is often ranked as one of the top 100 scariest films of all time and this exciting new production reclaims it for the stage.
A star cast includes Jack Ellis (Prime Suspect & Bad Girls) and Oliver Mellor (Coronation Street)
Suitable for 12+
Recent theatre: Shawshank Redemption UK tour for Bill Kenwright director David Eijsbjorn . Another World by Gillian Slovo National Theatre. Wrote and co directed and acted in Shakespeare Mon Amour with Maria Cassi at Teatro del Salle,Florence: Danforth in The Crucible at the Old Vic: Jaggers in Great Expectations At The Vaudeville West End: Hastings in Richard 3rd at The Old Vic with Kevin Spacey directed by Sam Mendes.
West End credits include: Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men at the Haymarket : Don Pedro in Much Ado about Nothing at The Queens Theatre: Leon Czolgocz in Assassins at Donmar Warehouse director Sam Mendes.
For the RSC :Horatio in Hamlet: Orsino in Twelth Night: P.R Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange:
Jack was a Founder member of The Actors Touring Company London appearing in Quixote,Ubu,Tempest,The Provoked Wife, Measure for Measure,Berlin Berlin.
At the The Traverse Theatre Edinburgh: Klimkov ,Dead Men. Losing Venice Jack has played Captain Hook in Peter Pan at Belfast,Windsor and Mansfield.
TV Credits: Bad Girls as Jim Fenner. Prime Suspect as D.I. Tony Muddiman. Coronation Street as Harry Mason. Rome as Bibulus and many more including New Tricks ,Lewis.Vera.Inspector Morse. House of Saddam. The Knock.Waking the Dead.
Oliver is well known for his regular role as Dr. Matt Carter in Coronation Street (ITV).
Other TV & Film Credits include: Walter MacMurray in Father Brown (BBC); Ed in Bedlam (Red Productions); Julian Woodley in Midsomer Murders (ITV); Doctors; Eastenders; Emmerdale; Skins; Dr. Who; Hollyoaks in the City; The Royal
Theatre Credits include: Charles in Blithe Spirit (Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne); Tony Wendice in Dial M For Murder (UK Tour); James Herriot in All Creatures Great & Small (UK Tour); Edward Raynor in Black Coffee (UK Tour); Albert Feather in Ladies in Retirement (UK Tour)
For The Original Theatre Company: Invincible (2016, 2017 & 59e59 Brits Off Broadway, New York)
Theatre: A View from a Bridge, The Rivals, A Slight Ache, The Lover, King David – Man of Blood (Colchester Mercury Theatre); The Tempest (Teatr Modrzejewskiej/Colchester Mercury); Transmissions (Birmingham Rep); Tanika’s Journey (Southwark Playhouse); The Police (Battersea Arts Centre); Softly Softly (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Infant (Les Enfants Terrible/Ed Fringe); As You Like It (Worcester Swan Theatre); Measure for Measure (The Custard Factory); Bhagat Singh (The Drum Theatre), One Christmas Eve (St Paul’s Church) and Rebecca (Pathfinder Studios).
Television: Raised with Wolves (Channel 4); The Job Lot (ITV) and Crimewatch (BBC).
Film: We Can Be Hero’s; Faintheart (Film 4); House of Screaming Death.
Writer: One In Five.
Registered blind at the age of thirteen, Karina gained a BA in English and Drama at Hope University Liverpool and an MA at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. After further training with Graeae and Greentop Circus, Karina is now one of the very few visually-impaired actresses to have a parallel career as an international aerial circus performer.
Theatre credits: National Theatre of Wales, The Roundhouse Camden, the Half Moon, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, the Tron, Frantic Assembly, the Soho Theatre, Graeae and Paines Plough. Favourite roles include Mary Warren in The Crucible, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Esmerelda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Madame Fifi in The Fly and Beatrice Joanna in The Changeling. Awards: Best Actress nomination for Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards.
Circus & Aerial work includes: Paralympics Opening ceremony, National Theatre of Wales, Greentop Circus, Extraordinary Bodies, DiverseCity. In 2016 Karina was a guest artist with Circus Oz in Melbourne and in 2017 begins a national tour with Rogueplay Theatre in a show she’s co-devising which mixes theatre and circus in new ways.
TV credits: The Bill, Crimewatch, Off Their Rockers.
Radio credits: soloparentpals.com (Five series). She also works as voice over artist and accent coach for theatre, film and television.
Shannon is from Scarborough and trained at Drama Studio London (Spotlight Prize Nominee 2014) and the University of Northumbria, achieving a First Class Honours BA(Hons) degree in Performance.
Theatre: includes Shadowlands (UK Tour); A Christmas Treasure Island (Hull Truck Theatre); The Accrington Pals (Fairfield Halls); Cosmic (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Santa's Rusty Robot (Tour); Roses and Castles (Portsmouth New Theatre Royal); Coda (Theatre 503) and King Lear (The Reversed Theatre Company).
Film & Television: Fish Tank Girls (Channel 4); Gorka (Fodor Films)
Training: LAMDA
Theatre: Most recently Tim played Teddy in House and Garden at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
Earlier credits include: Vershinin in Three Sisters at the Lyric Theatre Belfast; The Heart Of Robin Hood, Thomas More, Sejanus, Believe What You Will, Back To Methuselah , Richard II , Romeo And Juliet [all for RSC], King Lear [Chichester / Brooklyn Academy of Music], Birdsong [Original Theatre Company Tour], I Kiss Your Heart, Realism [Soho Theatre], Duchess Of Malfi , Volpone, Doctor Faustus and School For Scandal [Greenwich Theatre], Macbeth [Chichester / West End /BAM & Broadway], Twelfth Night [Chichester], A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Squerryes Court], Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads [Pilot Theatre Tour], Henry V [Royal National Theatre], The Beggar’s Opera [Richmond Orange Tree], Rose Rage [Haymarket], Mountain Language [Royal Court]
Television: Dark Heart [ITV Encore], Father Brown, Framed, Casualty, Silent Witness, Doctors, Holby City, The Bench [BBC]; Mayday [Kudos], Mammon [NRK Norway], Crossing Lines [Film United], Lewis, A Touch Of Frost [ITV], The Liquid Bomb Plot [Raw Television], The Bill [Talkback ] Bombshell [Shed ] , The Brief [Carlton] , Mine All Mine [Red ], Single [Tiger Aspect], Foyle’s War [Greenlit], Midsomer Murders [Bentley ], Bomber [Zenith]
Film: A Hundred Streets [One Square Mile], Maleficent [Briar Rose Prods] , The Crown And The Dragon [Arrowstorm], Macbeth [Illuminations] , Wondrous Oblivion [Apt Films].
Tim has also worked extensively in Radio and Audio, and is The Third Doctor Who for Big Finish Productions.
Theatre: The Ladykillers, Pygmalion (Theatre Royal Windsor); Black Coffee, And Then There Were None (Bill Kenwright Ltd); Lear (Union Theatre); The Queen or The Excellency of Sex (Shakespeare’s Globe); Potted Panto (West End, Vaudeville Theatre); There but for the Grace of God (Southwark Playhouse); Dido (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (National German Theatre Tour); On the Razzle (Lichfield Garrick Rep) and Amadeus (Aberystwyth Arts Centre Productions) as well as opening the Avenue Theatre with Red Rose Chain for their premiere Season.
Tom was recently nominated for Best Actor at the Los Angeles Newport Film Festival for his performance in the award winning and critically acclaimed Western, Black Hill.
TV: Doctors (BBC).
Alastair is the Artistic Director of The Original Theatre Company.
His directing credits for the company include most recently directing Gwen Taylor in The Importance of Being Earnest in May this year; first-class national and international tours of the hit, record breaking production of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong (2013–2015); The Private Ear and The Public Eye (2013); Our Country’s Good (2012); Twelfth Night (2011); Dancing at Lughnasa (2011); The Madness of George III, starring Simon Ward (2010); Journey’s End (2010); Shakespeare’s R&J (2008); Twelfth Night (2005); The Taming of the Shrew (2006) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2006). Other directing credits include: Henry V (2007) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (2006) for South Hill Park Arts Centre.
As a producer, he has worked on all the company’s past shows, from Twelfth Night in 2005 to Wait Until Dark in 2017.
His acting credits include Invincible (UK tours and New York); Birdsong; Three Men in a Boat; See How They Run; Dancing at Lughnasa; Vincent in Brixton; A Midsummer Nights Dream (all for Original Theatre Company); Henry V (RSC) and A Desire to Kill on the Tip of The Tongue (Edinburgh Festival).
He is the recipient of the Max Cary Award for Innovation presented by The University of London and the Stage One Bursary for young producers.
David is one of the UK’s leading up and coming designers. He was a finalist in the Linbury Prize for Stage Design and won the 2014 Off-West End Award for Best Designer. He graduated from LIPA with a first class degree in Theatre & Performance Design.
For Original Theatre Company he designed last year’s production of Night Must Fall.
Just a few of his recent productions include Gaslight (ATG); the European Premiere of Peter and The Star Catcher (Northampton); Billy Liar (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Abigail’s Party (Curve, Leicester); The Wasp (Hampstead Theatre) and he is designing Birmingham Rep’s forthcoming main stage adaptation of The Nativity films this Christmas.
Ellie is currently casting a new musical about Dusty Springfield for Eleanor Lloyd Productions.
Recent credits include: Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall), Wordsworth, Two Way Mirror, After the Dance, As You Like It, Miss Julie, Handbagged, Remarkable Invisible and The Secret Garden (Theatre by the Lake), A Lie of the Mind (Southwark Playhouse), Madame Rubinstein (Park Theatre), Dirty Great Love Story (Arts Theatre), Fool for Love (Found 111), children’s casting for The Wind in the Willows (Theatre Royal Plymouth, Lowry, Mayflower and London Palladium), Much Ado About Nothing (ReFASHIONed Theatre @ Selfridges for The Faction), French Without Tears (Orange Tree/ETT - UK Tour), Night Must Fall (Salisbury Playhouse/Original Theatre Company - UK Tour), Sideways (St James Theatre),Gaslight (Ed Mirvish, Toronto), The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield, Southampton),Dancing at Lughnasa (Theatre, Belfast),Handbagged (Eleanor Lloyd Productions - UK tour), The Gathered Leaves (Park Theatre), Arcadia (ETT – UK Tour), Told Look Younger (Jermyn Street), Eldorado(Arcola), Tape (Trafalgar Studios), Blue Remembered Hills, Playhouse Creatures and Fred's Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre),Four Nights In Knaresborough (Southwark Playhouse); Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Beand Bernarda Alba (Union); This Is How It Goes and A Christmas Carol (King’s Head).
RC-ANNIE Ltd was established in 2005 by Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown. Work in theatre includes: Common, Ugly Lies the Bone, Peter Pan, The Threepenny Opera, The James Plays (co-production with National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival) and Cleansed at the National Theatre; Salome, Snow in Midsummer, The Famous Victories of Henry V and Girl Fights at the RSC; HIR at Bush Theatre; Woyzeck at the Old Vic; Twelfth Night, The White Devil, Comus and Imogen at Shakespeare’s Globe; East is East at Northern Stage; My Brilliant Friend at The Rose Theatre, Kingston; The Boys in the Band and Dead Funny at the Vaudeville; The Boys in the Band at Park Theatre and on UK tour; Insignificance, Jumpy, My People, All My Sons, Aristocrats and Salt, Root and Roe at Theatr ClwydOpera work includes: Carmen at The Grange Festival; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House; and Wildman of the West Indies and Jason for English Touring Opera. Film includes Heretiks, Genesis, Arthur and Merlin, Howl, The Seasoning House, City Slacker, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Deviation.
Directed by Alastair Whatley
Designed by David Woodhead
Music & Sound designed by Giles Thomas
Lighting Designed by Chris Withers
Casting by Ellie Collyer-Bristow
Fight Directors - Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown of Rc-Annie Ltd
‘a chilling and terrifying role... played for the first time by a blind actress, Karina Jones’ The Times
★★★★★ ‘Groundbreaking… a true theatrical masterpiece’ West End Wilma
‘Delivers a powerful punch… Karina Jones, the first blind actress to play the heroine is a knockout’ Sunday Mirror
‘Truly terrifying and astonishing… prepare to be scared’ Eastbourne Herald
‘Gripping… shines a light on the power darkness has’ WhatsOnStage
‘A gem of a suspense thriller’ Explore Gloucestershire
‘A thoroughly spellbinding piece of theatre’ Gloucestershire Echo
★★★★ 'suspense, twists and turns... the cast is uniformly excellent' Latest Brighton
‘Theatre at its best. Tense and thrilling… will not disappoint’ East Anglian Daily Times
‘Tense and thrilling, this production of the classic play Wait Until Dark is finely tuned and theatre at its best.’ East Anglian Daily Times
‘The audience were on the edge of their seats.…nail-biting’ Local Secrets
★★★★ Essential Surrey
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