People of the Abyss
Adapted from books by Jack London and Charles Dickens
In collaboration with Prodigal UPG
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
February - March 2019
‘The question naturally arises, how do they live? The answer is that they do not live. They do not know what life is.’
Prodigal UPG with final year Acting CDT students blend performance-parkour with Charles Dickens, Jack London and contemporary political speakers on a journey into the dark heart of capitalism. Inspired by London’s undercover odyssey amongst the dispossessed of the East End, we’ll meet the people who cling to the slopes of the Abyss and fight never to fall all the way in.
Directors: Miranda Henderson, Alister O'Loughlin
Designer: Arabella Ockenden
Production Manager: Shaz McGee
Stage Manager: Kathryn Sanders
Assistant Stage Manager: Alexa Zetzsche
Lighting Designer: Corrie Harris
Chief Electrician: Michael Glanville
Lighting Programmer & Operator: Alex Walton
Cast:
Yik-Sau Chung
Sophie Jacob
Suzy Kohane
Ari Oskarsson
Jacob Seelochan
Sound Designer: Chris Umney
Associate Sound Designer/Production Sound Engineer: Rhi Lawrence