The production will begin performances at Cast, Waterdale, Doncaster, on the 4th February with the tour concluding at the Southwark Playhouse from the 11th March until the 4th April.
It has been announced that Children of the Night, which transports audiences to the euphoria and chaos of Northern England in the 1990s, will embark on a UK tour next year.
This debut play by Danielle Phillips was shortlisted for both the 2023
Women’s Prize for Playwriting and the 2024 New Diorama Untapped Award. It will travel to through Doncaster, Salford, Hull and Birmingham, before making its
London debut at Southwark Playhouse Borough in March.
Living amidst the electric finale of 90s nightlife, post-Thatcher Britain and during the UK’s first heterosexual HIV cluster, Lindsay Jenkins is a young Donny lass with an undeniable thirst for hedonism. Inspired by her single dad (an ex-miner and old school raver), Lindsey pulsates her way through ‘Yorkshire’s very own Vegas’, navigating sexual health, grief and the perceived ‘lack of ambition’ in working-class towns – all of which she encounters across three long summers on Doncaster’s relentless dancefloor.
The piece is also performed by Danielle Phillips (The Merry Wives of Windsor & The
Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s Globe; The Upstart Crow, West End; Trying It On, RSC & Royal Court), one half of Mad Friday Productions, alongside co-founder and producer Lauren Yvonne Townsend (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, West End). Kimberley Sykes (Dido Queen of Carthage, RSC UK Tour; Romeo and Juliet, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) is Director and Dramaturg and Hannah Sibai (Sing, Dance, Leap, Royal Opera Theatre; No Such Thing as Wolves, Birmingham Hippodrome) leading on set and costume design.
Lighting design is from Jessie Addinall (Oliver Twist!, Hull Truck Theatre) alongside sound design and composition from Ben McQuigg (Next Generation Hamlet, RSC). Movement direction will be led by Jennifer Kay, with additional dramaturgy from Stephanie Dale and casting provided by Ellie Collyer- Bristow. It is produced by Mad Friday Productions.
For further information visit: https://madfridayproductions.co.uk/