Before I Sleep – Holland Festival

Outside you see an office block in the business discrict of Amsterdam. Inside you find a world where the new comes crashing down on the old, and the future is anything but clear. A world created by the English company dreamthinkspeak. Artistic director Tristan Sharps’ mix of film and live performance was based on Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. The old servant Firs is the only one still wandering about, adrift in time, looking for a place to rest. He leads us from the Old Russia to a shopping mecca for the new millennium, a journey spanning hundred years andcovering fifty four thousand square feet of floor space, which makes you realise what it means to feel a stranger in your own world.

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direction Tristan Sharps film Tristan Sharps design Tristan Sharps head of carpentry Eddie Crowther 3D modelling Clare Grotefeld set Tabby Riley architecture modelling Richard Smith, Graham Hubbard dollhouse modelling Claire Hoskin, Pete Marsh costume design Berthe Fortin music Max Richter sound design Pendle Poucher design assistent Lauren Pratt cast Joop Schenk, Anka Pajor, Georges Devdariani, Galyna Kyyashko, Anne Katic, Vitali Usanov, Karolina Joniec, Charmaine Noten, Marynka Nicolai, Anne-marie Westerveen, Bruno La Rooij, Scott Jun, Florian Myjer, Milou Duijnhoven, Michael Poole, Belle Van Heerikhuizen, Carola Baertschiger, Monica Battaglia, Armin Tashakoor, Francesco Calabretta, Tessa Cushan, James Folan, Ocean Isoaro, Georg Nikoloff, Remigiusz Rachuba, Jihane El Fahidi, Michelle de Bruijn, Dennis Rudge, Leonid Vlassov, Katarina Justic production dreamthinkspeak with the support of Arts Council England commissioned by The Brighton Festival

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