Golem
Theatre’s Tomorrow Creeps Preview
‘Scream Babooshka and consider a creeping truth: we are such stuff as nightmares are made on.’
Following the successes of Macbeths (2016) and I Know You Of Old (2017), GOLEM! return to push the boundaries of adaptation yet further with Tomorrow Creeps, a new play orchestrated from sixteen Shakespeare texts and inspired by the storytelling of Kate Bush.
Directed by Anna Marsland (Ballistic at Edinburgh Festival and soon at The
King’s Head, Islington) and featuring David Fairs, Conor O’Kane (Offie-nominated
for Miss Nightingale) and Zena Carswell (winner of The Origins Award for Outstanding New Work at VAULT festival 2016
for Butter
with Lady Junk Theatre), Tomorrow
Creeps has been created with the Vaults
in mind and promises to be an immersive piece of new theatre. Multi-instrumentalist
musician and composer, Odinn Hilmarsson has also designed and created a soundscape to
complete the piece.
As someone lucky enough to have experienced Golem’s I
Know You of Old at the Hope Theatre (and no aficionado of Shakespeare), it was one of the best
pieces of new writing that I saw (twice) last year, together with great
performances from this innovative and talented company. So, retrospectively,
here’s my belated five stars!
So roll on
Tomorrow Creeps, Babooshka! Let the nightmare begin!
Praise for GOLEM!
'Condensing and repurposing Shakespeare’s original text, writer David Fairs discovers a much blacker comedy at the heart of Much Ado About Nothing.'
‘Macbeths is an impressive achievement… feeling like a completely new, contemporary story…
With riveting performances and a narrative that continually wrong-foots its
audience, David Fairs has created a gripping thriller that will appeal just as
much to those who claim not to like Shakespeare as it does to die-hard fans.’
- Liz Dyer for London Theatre 1
‘Scream Babooshka and consider a creeping truth: we are such stuff as nightmares are made on.’
Once again the talented team
at Golem! Theatre is at their creative
best with David Fairs’ new play Tomorrow
Creeps, premiering as part of the Vaults Festival from 24 January 2018.
Following the successes of Macbeths (2016) and I Know You Of Old (2017), GOLEM! return to push the boundaries of adaptation yet further with Tomorrow Creeps, a new play orchestrated from sixteen Shakespeare texts and inspired by the storytelling of Kate Bush.
TOMORROW CREEPS
a new play by DAVID FAIRS
drawn from the works of William
Shakespeare,
and inspired by Kate Bush
At VAULT Festival 2018, The Vaults, Leake
Street, London SE1 7NN
24-28 January 2018,
7:30pm
with matinee 27
January, 2:30pm
Tickets £10 (+£1.50 booking fee) at www.vaultfestival.com
Cast: The Fallen
Tyrant David Fairs
The Spectral Queen Zena Carswell
The Hollow Hero Conor O’Kane
Creatives:
Producer Sarah Lambie & GOLEM!
Director Anna Marsland
Writer David Fairs
Sound design Odinn Hilmarsson

‘GOLEM! sticks up two fingers at
Shakespeare purists who, with quivering voices, clutch their pearls and gasp,
“But the text!”…Fairs’ work is an important contribution to Shakespeare
practice…To create an entirely new play
using only Shakespeare’s text demonstrates the timelessness and robustness of
the language, characters and themes. This
is Shakespeare fan fic executed with care, skill and panache. More, please!’
- Laura Kressly, The Play’s The Thing
'Condensing and repurposing Shakespeare’s original text, writer David Fairs discovers a much blacker comedy at the heart of Much Ado About Nothing.'
- Dave Fargnoli, The Stage
'I Know You Of Old
is an
astonishing achievement.'
- Liz Dyer for
TheatreThings
'Ones to watch'
- Paul Joyce, I Thank You Theatre
'I Know You of Old
is a
clever, intelligently crafted play which proves highly successful thanks to tight and skilled direction, matched by
enjoyable performances from an exceptionally capable cast.'
- Peter Brown,
ActDrop
'Marsland is a thorough visionary,
constructing her world with nuance and finesse and ensuring the little things
don’t crack the faΓ§ade that she painstakingly puts together.'
- Daniel Perks,
Culture by Night
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