55 Days

15 - 18 Jul

By Howard Brenton | Directed by James Yeatman

55 Days

15 - 18 Jul

Director James Yeatman
Set Designer Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Costume Designer Sorcha Corcoran
Lighting Designer Matt Hockley
Sound Designer Sonum Batra

And when king’s head and king’s crown are gone, what will be in their place? You?”

December 1648. In a country exhausted by Civil War, the army occupies London and moves against parliament in a military coup. Howard Brenton’s play explores the next 55 dangerous days as the victors in the Civil War are tasked with negotiating the future and begin to think the unthinkable. How to forge a country without a king?

55 Days is performed by our MA Performance – Acting cohort.

Age guidance: 16+
Duration:
2 hours 20 minutes (incl. a 20-minute interval)
This production features strobe lighting, execution, weaponry, loud sound effects, sudden lighting, bright lights, ball throwing.

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

Booking Info

Dates

Wed 15 Jul, 7:30pm
Thu 16 Jul, 7:30pm
Fri 17 Jul, 7:30pm
Sat 18 Jul, 2:30pm
Sat 18 Jul, 7:30pm

Prices
Standard £21
Restricted View £16
Concessions (Mountview alumni/Access/Under 18/Student/Unemployed)* £13.50
Venue

The Backstage Theatre, Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JT

To Book

020 8881 2201

Our box office hours are currently Monday-Friday 9am-8pm and Saturday 9am-3pm. Online booking is 24 hours, but phone and in-person bookings should be made within these times. Tickets are booked subject to Mountview's terms and conditions.

Industry Booking

If you are an agent, casting director or industry colleague looking to view this production, please contact Neil Rutherford - [email protected]

Access and Concessions Bookings

*Please bring proof of ID when purchasing concession tickets. Access tickets are charged at the concession rate. Audience members who require a companion ticket can book this by contacting the box office team on [email protected] or 020 8881 2201.

55 Days Creatives

Creatives

Fight Choreographer
Rachid Sabitri (he/him)

Voice Coach
Megan Burns

Assistant Director
Ben Cawood *

* MA Creative Practice - Directing student 

55 Days Production Team

Production Team

Production Manager
Tiffany Ledesma (she/her)

Costume Supervisor
Kat Stone (she/her)

Stage Manager
Alex Kewley (she/her)

Deputy Stage Manager
Ella-Laya Ponter (she/her)

Assistant Stage Manager
Olivia Parsons (she/her) ∆
Grace Ho ∆

Production Electrician
Will Mortimer (he/him) ∆

Production Sound Engineer
Will Mortimer (he/him) ∆

Lighting Programmer & Operator
Joe Lofthouse (He/him) ∆

LX Crew
Kayla Warham (she/her) ∆

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith (she/her)

Scenic Art Manager
James Wilkes (he/him)

Scenic Artist & Prop Maker
Ruby Orrin (they/them) ∆
Sally Strong (she/her)

∆ FdA/BA Technical Production student

James Yeatman

Director

James is Co-Artistic Director of Kandinsky Theatre Company and a Complicité Associate.

Credits as Writer/Director: More Life (Royal Court), The Winston Machine (New Diorama/UK tour), SHTF (Vienna Schauspielhaus), There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Dinomania (New Diorama), Trap Street (New Diorama/FIND Festival/Schaubuhne).

Adaptor and Co-Director with Simon McBurney: Beware of Pity (Schaubuhne), The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court).

Co-Adaptor/Dramaturg with Jeff James: Winter’s Tale (Dailies Teatr, Latvia), Persuasion (Royal Exchange), Associate Director: Chimerica (West End) and Master and Margarita (Barbican).

Sorcha Corcoran

Costume Designer

Sorcha is an award nominated set and costume designer.

Recent credits include: Ruthless, The Hills of California, Return to the Forbidden Planet and Faustus: That Damned Woman (Greenwich Theatre), A Christmas Carol and Dennis of Penge (Barn Theatre), Shockheaded Peter (Mountview), The Gel (New Diorama Theatre), Husk (Hope Mill Theatre), Burying Your Brother in the Pavement, Jane Eyre and They Shoot Horses Don’t They (Rose Bruford College), The Witches of Eastwick (Pleasance Theatre), Educating Rita, Calendar Girls, God of Carnage, Duet for One, Guys and Dolls (Frinton Summer Theatre), Snakes and Ladders (Southwark Playhouse), Broken Water (Arcola Theatre) and Papercut (Park Theatre).

Matt Hockley

Lighting Designer

Matt trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His recent lighting design credits include: Redcliffe (Southwark Playhouse), Beauty and the Beast (Charing Cross Theatre), Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Milton Keynes Theatre), Tick, Tick...BOOM! (China tour), NERDS (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Mosquitoes (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), Desperate Times (Bristol Old Vic), Come Dine With Me: The Musical (Edinburgh), Hay-fever (Theatre Royal Windsor) and Coming Clean (Turbine Theatre).

Associate Lighting Designer: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour).

Sonum Batra

Sound Designer

Sonum is a musical director, composer and sound designer.

Recent credits as Composer/Sound Designer include: Lost Girl (The Lowry), Kailey (Kerry Wright Productions), Spiders (Bush Theatre), One Punch (Hull Truck Studio), Northbound Boy (King’s Theatre), The Watsons, The Art of Success, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Blue Stockings (Mountview), Iloya (Utopia), Ladies Unleashed (Hull Truck), Favour (Bush Theatre).

Recent credits as Composer and/or Musical Director include: Pride and Prejudice (Bolton Octagon), King Lear and As You Like It (East London Shakespeare Festival), Operation Beach Hut, Jennie Lee and Red Sky at Night (Mikron Theatre), Lumberjills (Capitol Theatre), Arabian Nights (Hoxton Hall), Relativity (Finborough Theatre), Not the End of the World (Edinburgh Fringe), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warhorse Theatre Works).

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