Cast and creative team announced for the world premiere of A DEAD BODY IN TAOS
by Best of Theatre Staff on Monday 5 September 2022, 11:35 am in Upcoming and New Shows
Full casting and creative team have been announced today for the world premiere of David Farr’s new play exploring how Artificial Intelligence is increasingly becoming part of peoples’ lives. A Dead Body in Taos will preview at Bristol Old Vic and Theatre Royal Plymouth before its official opening at Wilton’s Music Hall from 26 October - 12 November with a press night on 27 October.
Sam hasn’t spoken to her mother Kath for three years when she learns that she’s been found dead in the New Mexico desert.
Travelling to the small town of Taos to identify the body, she discovers Kath has become embroiled in a shadowy enterprise, offering Sam an unimaginable chance to rebuild their broken relationship. But to do so, she must decide whether she can finish what her mother started.
Directed by Rachel Bagshaw (The Shape of the Pain, Midnight Movie), designed by Ti Green (Touching the Void), and featuring original composition by Ben and Max Ringham (Blindness, Electric Hotel), David Farr’s compelling new play is both an unsettling science fiction and an intimate study of loss and bereavement, examining how artificial intelligence could alter our understanding of death, consciousness, and the soul.
CAST
- David Burnett – LEO
- Gemma Lawrence – SAM
- Nathan Ives-Moiba – JACOB FELLOWS
- Clara Onyemere – TRISTANA CORTEZ/ AGNES MARTIN/ KATH’S MUM
- Eve Ponsonby – KATH
- Dominic Thorburn - CURTIS ADAMS/ MICHAEL/ DR FRITZ ERHARDT
CREATIVE TEAM
- Writer - David Farr
- Director - Rachel Bagshaw
- Designer - Ti Green
- Lighting Design - Katy Morison
- Composition and Sound Design - Ben and Max Ringham
- Video Design - Sarah Readman
- Movement Director - Ingrid Mackinnon
- Accent Coach - Gurkiran Kaur
- Costume Supervisor - Victoria Nissley
- Assistant Director - Tian Brown-Sampson, Oliwia Charmuszko-Carrigan
- Associate Sound Designer - Eleanor Isherwood
- Casting Director - Louis Hammond CDG
- Production Manager -Helen Mugridge
- Company Stage Manager - Roisin Symes