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Cassie and the Lights

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Overview

Produced by:
Patch of Blue, in association with New Diorama Theatre and Xinyi Shen for Verse Unbound and Amelia Campbell
Dates:
June 13 - July 02, 2023
Run Time:
1 Hour, 5 Minutes
Intermission:
No
Theater:
Showing in Theater
Tickets:
$40 (59E59 Member price: $30)
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Show Info

Written and directed by Alex Howarth

With Alex Brain, Emily McGlynn, Michaela Murphy, and Helen Chong

Can kids be parents? Three sisters in foster care wrestle with that question as they try to write the next chapter in their story after important pages are torn out in this new play from Patch of Blue (We Live by the Sea, 2018).

Based on real life events and interviews with children in foster care, the show incorporates live music and video projection to transport audiences between the adult world and the at once more honest and more fantastical world of childhood, where much is mysterious but everything is possible.

Cassie and the Lights is a tender and playful examination of what makes a family and what holds it together.

Alex
Brain
Emily
McGlynn
Michaela
Murphy
Helen
Chong,
Understudy
Teresa
Origone,
Musician
Rachel Sampley,
Lighting and Video Design
Ellie Mason and Imogen Mason,
Composers
Will Monks,
Relighter
Georgia Cusworth,
Assistant Set Designer
Alex Brain, Michaela Murphy, and Emily McGlynn in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo Caption: Alex Brain, Michaela Murphy, and Emily McGlynn in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo: Pull Focus Productions
Michaela Murphy in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo Caption: Michaela Murphy in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo: Pull Focus Productions
Emily McGlynn in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo Caption: Emily McGlynn in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo: Pull Focus Productions
Alex Brain, Emily McGlynn, and Michaela Murphy in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo Caption: Alex Brain, Emily McGlynn, and Michaela Murphy in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo: Pull Focus Productions
Emily McGlynn, Alex Brain, and Michaela Murphy in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo Caption: Emily McGlynn, Alex Brain, and Michaela Murphy in CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
Photo: Pull Focus Productions
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Producing Company

Patch of Blue

We are a multi award winning company creating fresh, exciting and touching theatre with live music that allows an audience to see the world through different eyes. We present our work at festivals and through international touring, and are supported by Arts Council England. Our mission is to create, fresh, playful, socially engaged theatre with live music, and to amplify under-represented voices.

Read more at: patchofblue.webs.com

Verse Unbound

Verse Unbound founded by Xinyi Shen, is a London based theatre production company specialising in producing and events management for international festivals, touring and cultural collaborations. With a strong connection to both the China and UK theatres, it is established with an aim of working towards the development of both UK and Chinese theatre industries, personal and social development of young audiences, as well as contributing to cultural collaboration. 

Read more at: www.verseunbound.com/

Reviews

★★★★ "Glows in the darkness.. a thoughtful, warm, moving hour that will leave you wanting to call whoever you think of as family" – The Guardian

★★★★ "Bursts with life and quirkily observed truths" – Lyn Gardner, The Stage

"Top Shows of Edinburgh Fringe" – The Stage 

Nominated for the BBC Writer's Room Popcorn Award 

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