In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises)

Have you ever wondered whether having a child is a responsible or a selfish act?

Amidst the constant bombardment of headlines and news reports about tragedies, destruction and global political unrest, can we really justify bringing a child into the world?

Don’t miss the world premiere of Nina Segal’s In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises). A play that explores one couple’s anxiety over having their first baby with humour, empathy and understanding.

Over the course of one night, a man and woman try to comfort their screaming infant. But, as the hours grow longer, and they become intoxicated from lack of sleep, the world becomes elastic around them and the horrors that scar our planet crash into the baby’s room.

Book now to see this powerful and pertinent new play directed by Genesis Future Director Award winner, Ben Kidd.

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Approx running time: 60 mins

Please note, there is smoking, loud noises and some strobe lighting throughout the show.

Have we told you about our Gate Weekend offer?

£10 tickets for any Thursday, Friday or Saturday performance. Quote GATEWEEKEND online, over the phone or at the counter; subject to availability.

Check out our trailer below!

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Captioned by Stagetext

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Book now to see In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) and both parts of The Iphigenia Quartet for only £40.

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Rehearsal photo credits to Bill Knight

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Thursday 04 February - Saturday 27 February 2016

Monday - Saturday 7:30pm
Saturday Matinees 3pm

£20 full price
£15 concessions (senior, student, unwaged, access, union members). There are a limited amount of concessions per performance.
£10 Gatecrasher

Cast & CREATIVES

Alex Waldmann

Alex Waldmann plays Man. Trained at LAMDA Theatre credits include: Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston), King John (Globe Theatre), Widowers Houses (Orange Tree Theatre) Jonah and Otto (Park Theatre), The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Duchess of Malfi (Sam Wannamaker Playhouse Globe), All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Hamlet, King John, A Soldier in Every Son and Richard III (RSC), The Holy Rosenbergs (National Theatre), Speechless (Shared Experience), Rope (Almeida Theatre), Hamlet and Twelfth Night (Donmar West End), Angry Young Man (Trafalgar Studios), Hobson's Choice (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Troilus & Cressida (Cheek by Jowl). Television work includes: Duchess of Malfi, The Night Watch, Psychoville and First Light. Radio includes: Three Sisters, The Talisman, Macbeth, Once and Future King, Julie, August 1914, The Stuarts, Eustace Diamonds, The Spy. He is also the founder of SEArED theatre company.

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Adelle Leonce

Adelle Leonce plays Woman.

Her theatre credits include Florence in Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith), Light Shining In Buckinghamshire (National Theatre), The Dutch Courtesan (Shakespeare’s Globe-Wanamaker Festival), A Stab In The Dark, A Series Of Increasingly Impossible Acts, A Streetcar Named Desire, Chamber Piece, Woyzeck, Glitterland (Secret Theatre Company). Her television credits include Shameless and Vera.

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Georgia Lowe – Designer

Georgia’s theatre credits include: Re:Home (The Yard), Man with a Hammer
(The Drum, Plymouth), Yen (Royal Court, Royal Exchange, Manchester);
Pomona (National/Royal Exchange, Manchester/Orange Tree); The Four
Fridas (Greenwich & Docklands International Festival); Defect, Promise (Arts
Ed Schools); These Trees Are Made Of Blood (Southwark Playhouse); Need
a Little Help (Tangled Feet); Far Away (Young Vic); Last Words You’ll Hear
(Almeida /Latitude Festival); Turfed (LIFT Festival); Alarms & Excursions
(Chipping Norton); Eldorado (Arcola Studio); The Mystae, Ignorance/Jahiliyyah
(Hampstead); Cuckoo (Unicorn); Unscorched, Facts, Fog, Blue Surge
(Finborough); The Ruling Class (English Theatre, Frankfurt); Commonwealth
(Almeida Projects); Say It With Flowers (Sherman Cymru); LIFT, Shallow
Slumber (Soho); Pericles, Songs of Songs (RSC); After the Rainfall (Curious
Directive); The Dark Side of Love (RSC/Lift/World Shakespeare Festival);
Drowning On Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre); Amphibians (Bridewell
Theatre).
Opera includes: Bluebeard’s Castle (Opera de Oviedo); Acis & Galatea, Handel’s
Susanna (Iford Arts).
Georgia trained on the Motley Theatre Design course and as an RSC design
assistant. She was a Linbury Prize for Stage Design finalist in 2011.
www.georgialowe.co.uk

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Jane Arnold-Forster – Production Manager

Jane’s most recent theatre credits including Out of the Cage and Thark (Park
Theatre), Sheltered (Tabard Theatre) and Even Stillness Breathes Softly
Against a Brick Wall (Soho Theatre). She was part of the production teams for
Port, The Captain of Kopenick and This House (National Theatre). Production
Manager for, amongst others, Ignorance (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs),
La Boheme (Charing Cross Theatre), A Life (Finborough Theatre), The Man
on Her Mind (Charing Cross Theatre) and The Only True History of Lizzie Finn
(Southwark Playhouse).

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Sean Gibbon – Design Assistant

Sean is a recent graduate of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. His
recent design credits include: Sunken Dreams (Liverpool Lantern Theatre),
Working: The Musical, Company and August: Osage County (LIPA).He has
also worked in various production roles for Hollyoaks, Liverpool Empire, White
Horse Theatre Company, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and Manchester Royal
Exchange.

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Anna Himali Howard – Director

Anna Himali Howard is a director and theatremaker. She was Paines Plough's Trainee Director in 2016. She is also an Alumni Artist at the Gate Theatre and an alumnus of the Birmingham REP Foundry. Her work as a Director includes Albatross by Isley Lynn for NEW (RWCMD/Paines Plough/Gate Theatre), Life Is No Laughing Matter by Demi Nandhra (Birmingham REP/mac Birmingham), 20B by Jane English (Birmingham REP/CPT). As a theatremaker work includes Mahabharat/a by Anna Himali Howard and Zarina Muhammad (Camden People's Theatre), The Beanfield by Breach Theatre (New Diorama, National tour 2016). Anna was Associate Director on Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Drywrite/Soho Theatre international tour) and Assistant Director on Othello, directed by Ellen McDougall (Shakespeare's Globe) and In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) by Nina Segal, directed by Ben Kidd (Gate Theatre).

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Ben Kidd – Director

Recent directing includes: Chekhov's First Play (Dead Centre / Dublin Theatre Festival), Spring Awakening (Headlong), LIPPY (Dead Centre / Traverse / Young Vic), The Collision of Things (Pleasance), The Shawl (Young Vic), Souvenir (Dead Centre / Dublin Fringe), Anne and Zef (Company of Angels / Salisbury Playhouse) and Richard III (Riverside Studios).

He is co-founder and joint artistic director of Dead Centre, based between Dublin and London. He is also an associate artist with Company of Angels, and was winner of their Young Angels award. He was the inaugural winner of the Genesis Future Director Award at the Young Vic in 2012.

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George Dennis – Sound Designer

George Dennis is a freelance sound designer. His previous credits for the Gate Theatre include: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), Image of an Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, The Edge of our Bodies (Gate Theatre). His theatre credits include: The Homecoming (The Jamie Lloyd Company/Trafalgar Studios in which he received a Olivier Award nomination), Babe (Polka Theatre/UK Tour), Harrogate (also HighTide Festival), Primetime ’16, Fireworks, Liberian Girl, Primetime ’15 (Royal Court), The Mountaintop, The Island (Young Vic), Imogen, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), In Fidelity (Traverse/HighTide Festival), Noises Off (Nottingham Playhouse/Northern Stage/Nuffield Southampton), German Skerries (Orange Tree), Brave New World, Regeneration (Royal and Derngate/Touring Consortium), Forget Me Not, Visitors (Bush Theatre), Eventide (Arcola Theatre/UK Tour), Chicken (Eastern Angles/Unity Theatre), Beautiful Thing (Arts Theatre/UK Tour), A Breakfast of Eels, The Last Yankee (Print Room), peddling (Arcola Theatre/59E59, New York/HighTide Festival), Mametz (National Theatre of Wales), Minotaur (Polka Theatre/Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Spring Awakening (Headlong), Love Your Soldiers (Sheffield Crucible Studio), Thark (Park Theatre), Moth (Bush Theatre/HighTide Festival), Hello/Goodbye (Hampstead Theatre), Liar Liar (Unicorn Theatre), Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour), The Seven Year Itch (Salisbury Playhouse), When Did You Last See My Mother? (Trafalgar Studios 2), Debris, The Seagull, The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), A Life, Foxfinder (Finborough Theatre).

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Join the conversation

Have you ever wondered whether having a child is a responsible or a selfish act?

Amidst the constant bombardment of headlines and news reports about tragedies, destruction and global political unrest, can we really justify bringing a child into the world?

Book now to see this powerful and pertinent new play directed by Genesis Future Director Award winner, Ben Kidd.

Time Out ????
The Stage ????
Evening Standard ????

Approx running time: 60 mins

Please note, there is smoking, loud noises and some strobe lighting throughout the show.

Have we told you about our Gate Weekend offer?