The Moving Theatre in association
with Global Uncertainties presents
THE WORLD PREMIERE
First performance at Park Theatre:
Wednesday 22 January 2014
THE KEEPERS OF INFINITE SPACEby Omar El-Khairy
Cast in order of appearance
Saeed | Edmund Kingsley |
Yael/Sara/Claire | Laura Prior |
Khalil | Hilton McRae |
Abner | John Wark |
Ziv/Tom | Cornelius Macarthy |
Haneen/Asma | Sirine Saba |
Tarek/Muhib | Patrick Toomey |
Shadi | Philip Correia |
The action takes place in Israel and Palestine,
1990 and 2012 - 2014.
The performance lasts approximately 90 minutes.
There will be no interval.
Developer and Director | Zoe Lafferty |
Designer | Philip Lindley |
Lighting Designer | Johanna Town |
Music and Sound Designer | Richard Hammarton |
Costume Designer | Susan Kulkarni |
Fight Director | Tim Klotz |
Executive Producer | Caroline Rooney |
Producer | Chris Foxon |
Dramaturg | Carissa Hope Lynch |
Casting Director | Emily Jones |
Production Manager | David Leigh-Pemberton |
Assistant Director | David Mumeni |
Stage Manager | Hannah Boustred |
Assistant Stage Managers | Mica Taylor |
Bethany Roberts | |
Assistant Producer | Jessica Campbell |
We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.
Philip Correia | Shadi
Philip trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes The History Boys (Wyndhams Theatre and National Theatre), NT50 (National Theatre), The Pitmen Painters (National Theatre and Live Theatre), Hobson’s Choice and The Syndicate (Chichester Festival Theatre and Minerva Theatre), The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC), Northern Odyssey (Live Theatre Newcastle), Judgement Day (The Print Room), The Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Rep), Country Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Bus Stop (New Vic/SJT), Romeo and Juliet (Jermyn Street Theatre) and What Cheryl Did Next (Theatre503).
Television includes Inspector George Gently, Vera, Casualty, Lewis, Hollyoaks, Canoe Man, Doctors and The Bill.
Film includes The Hunters.
Radio includes Blue Flu.
Edmund Kingsley | Saeed
Edmund trained at RADA.
Theatre includes Richard III, King John, Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Tempest and The Lord Of The Flies (Royal Shakespeare Company), The River Line (Jermyn Street Theatre), Dangerous Corner and The Importance of Being Earnest (Salisbury Playhouse), She Stoops to Conquer (Nottingham Playhouse), The Duchess of Malfi and Volpone (Greenwich Theatre), Moscow Live (HighTide), Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Repertory Company), Rope (Watermill Theatre), A Reluctant Hero, The Proposal, A Christmas Carol and As You Like It (Bridge House Theatre), ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Human Rites (Southwark Playhouse), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre), Julius Caesar (Menier Chocolate Factory) and The Taming Of The Shrew (Thelma Holt National Tour).
Television includes Breathless, Endeavour, The Borgias, Doctors, Sensitive Skin, Agatha Christie - A Life in Pictures and As If.
Film includes Allies, Eliza Graves, Hugo, The Reverend, Toto and Beast. Radio includes The Christmas Mysteries and The Bulldog Has Landed.
Cornelius Macarthy | Ziv/Tom
Cornelius was born in London and grew up in Sierra Leone. He trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
He recently completed a European tour playing Bertrand Russell, in a production based on Bertrand’s life and writings in his book of the same name, directed by multi-award-winning Bosnian director Haris Pašović.
Other theatre includes Rising Damp (National Tour), Antony & Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre), 1936 (Sadlers Wells), Come Dancing (Theatre Royal Stratford East), 12 Proposals for a Better Europe (Belarus Free Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse), Peter Pan (York Theatre Royal), To Kill a Mockingbird (National Tour), Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Manchester Library Theatre), Lost in the Stars (Queen Elizabeth Hall), King Cotton (Manchester Lowry/Liverpool Empire), A Taste of Honey (York Theatre Royal), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Liverpool Playhouse), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (West End), Lifting the Mask (National Tour), Spirit of the Dance (National Tour), Cinderella (Greenwich Theatre), Drive Ride Walk (Albany Theatre) and Notes Across a Small Pond (Bridewell Theatre).
Television includes A Touch of Frost, Doctors, EastEnders, Collision, Murder Investigation Team, Empathy, My Hero, Torchwood and Kingmakers.
Film includes Teach Me, Candle to Water, Patient 17, Millions and In the Mood.
Cornelius’s world tours with London Community Gospel Choir have led to extensive work as a session singer with a wide variety of recording artists including Blur, Beautiful South, Manu Dibango, Madonna, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Tom Jones, Atomic Kitten, Will Young, Billie Piper, R. Kelly, Boy George, Van Morrison and P Diddy.
Hilton McRae | Khalil
Theatre includes Timon of Athens (National Theatre), The Kreutzer Sonata (Gate Theatre/ La MaMa New York), End of the Rainbow (Northampton Theatre Royal), Experimentum Mundi (Edinburgh International Festival), The Oresteia Trilogy (Fisher Centre, New York), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Manchester Library Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (RFH), Weapons of Happiness