Shifters
Bush Theatre 16 February-30 March ‘24
Duke of York’s Theatre 12 August-12 October ‘24
Cherry Lane Theatre, New York 6 July-20 September ‘26
"Alex Berry’s design is like the action: spiky, bright, rapidly changing.”
- Susannah Clapp, The Guardian
"Lombe’s play is full of meditations on memory. We’re told that first love makes an especially deep dent in our brains and that events from our past get distorted to fit the narratives we tell ourselves in the present. Those touches of neuroscience are echoed both in Alex Berry’s synapse-like neon-lit set design and in the play’s structure, which skips restlessly between past and present, blurring them together as it builds to an intriguingly ambiguous ending.”
- Alice Saville, The Independent
Writer: Benedict Lombe Director: Lynette Linton Set and Costume Designer: Alex Berry Lighting Designer: Neil Austin Sound Designer: Tony Gayle Composer: XANA Movement and Intimacy Director: Shelley Maxwell Production Dramaturg: Deirdre O'Halloran Voice Coach: Joel Trill Casting Director: Heather Basten (CDG) Production manager: Chloe Stalley-Gibson Stage managers: Crystal Gayle, Ella McDermott, Sarah Back Costume supervisor: Laura Rushton Co-Producers: Eleanor Lloyd Productions, Chuchu Nwagu Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions, Little Simz, Idris Elba and Maya Jama
Photographs © Marc Brenner