The Earthworks
Written by Tom Morton-Smith
Directed by Andrea Ling
Young Vic Theatre, 2024
Theatre-Installation
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Natalie Dew
Mark Edel-Hunt
Anemone Rasmussen -
Designer Emma Bailey
Lighting Designer Bethany Gupwell
Sound Designer and Composer XANA
Movement and Intimacy Director Chi-San Howard
Casting Director Polly Jerrold
Voice and Dialect Coach Elspeth Morrison
Associate Designer Alys Whitehead -
The universe doesn’t care if we know how it works.
A hotel bar in Geneva, the night before the Large Hadron Collider is switched on. A woman walks up to a man. She's a journalist, trying to write a career-defining article, and he is a scientist, still reeling from a recent loss. What could have an obvious ending, turns into a story of two people’s worlds colliding for a brief, yet life-changing moment.
Directed by 2023 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient, Andrea Ling, and written by the award-winning Tom Morton-Smith (My Neighbour Totoro, Oppenheimer at the RSC), The Earthworks is a moving and hilarious exploration into carrying the weight of grief and knowing when it’s time to let go.The Genesis Future Directors Award program is made possible by the Genesis Foundation.
