Huxley's Lab winner of Best Ensemble at the CATS Awards 2010
A co-production between Grid Iron and Lung Ha's Theatre Company in association with the Festival Theatre, part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival
1st - 8th April 2010
Venue: Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
In an age where genetic perfection is held as the quintessential path to a happy, fulfilled life, is there increasingly little space for difference in our society? Are we sleep-walking into a new age of eugenics, or is Huxley's "Brave New World" still hundreds of years away?
We enter, behind doors that should be closed, a lab which might determine the future of our race...
But someone is trying to break into this perfectly controlled world, to pose their difference as a joyous alternative, to make their voices heard.
Two of Scotland's most extraordinary theatre companies come together for this site-responsive, promenade production around the University of Edinburgh's splendid Informatics Forum.
"Do you hear the tinkle of the bells? The distant tinkle of the bells? We are at the gates. And we know the four digit code."
“Huxley’s Lab… fresh, funny and polemical."
The Guardian* * * *
“Strong performances all round and brilliant stage management”
The Edinburgh Evening News * * * *
“an experience that those who see it
are unlikely to forget."
The Scotsman * * * *
“ambitious and genuinely inclusive production.”
The Times * * *
Cast
Pete Garnett
Sean Hay
Mark Howie
Carmen Pieraccini
Alan Simpson
Stephan Tait
Nicola Tuxworth
Gail Watson
Ben Winger
Jonathan Allan
Robert Bell
William Donaldson
John Edgar
Marsaili Farquhar
Katy Gow
Graham Lawrie
Kirsten Lawrie
Alasdair MacCulloch
Katrina Merrilees
Leigh Flynn
Lindsay King
Andrew Knowles
Joanne Lynch
Catherine Smiley
Jonathan Ah-Nien
Creative Team
Co-Director - Maria Oller
Co-Director and Writer - Ben Harrison
Composer - Philip Pinsky
Set Designer - Jessica Worrall
Costume Designer - Kat Smith
Lighting Designer - Lizzie Powell
Choreographer - Janis Claxton
Production Manager - Fiona Fraser
Technical Manager - Phil O'Halloran
Stage Manager - Mickey Graham
Stage Management - Catherine Devereux and Nichola Reilly
Sound Engineer - Simon Kasprowicz
Assistant Set Design and Video - Rob Kennedy
Costume Design Assistant - Sophie Donaldson
Dresser - Helen Gallogly
Production Technician - Martin Ross
Production Technician - James Gardner
Production Assistant - Chris Reid
Front of House - Becky Jones
Graphic Design - Emma Quinn
Photography Douglas Jones
Support Team
Nick Cheales
Chloe Smithson Wisdom
Peter Airlie
Meg Faragher
Kirsty Halliday
Roxanne Hartley-Davis
Sophie Ignatieff
Becky Leach
Carla White
