Paines Plough have announced casting for the transfer of Sam Steiner’s You Stupid Darkness! to Southwark Playhouse, a co-production with Theatre Royal Plymouth.
An urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a collapsing world, the production is directed by former Paines Plough co-Artistic Director James Grieve and the cast includes: Andrew Finnigan; Jenni Maitland; Lydia Larson; Andy Rush.
The show opened at Theatre Royal Plymouth earlier this year and will run at Southwark Playhouse from 16 January – 22 February.
“I just think it’s, you know, important to look at the good things that are happening as well.”
Everything’s been falling apart for a while now. In a cramped, crumbling office four volunteers spend a few hours every Tuesday night on the phone to strangers telling them everything is going to be ok. As the outside world disintegrates around them, Frances, Joey, Angie and Jon teeter on the edge of their own personal catastrophes. Their hopes and fears become entangled as they try, desperately, to connect with the callers and with each other.
