ADULT CHILDREN
“One of the most unflinching depictions I’ve seen of the realities of lockdown.”
The Stage
“A real journey, melancholic and insightful.”
WhatsOnStage
"Technically dazzling...a beautiful depiction of community, family and especially isolation.”
The Times
Adult Children is a play that never happened, staged in a theatre that was closed, at a time we were not able to gather to tell stories together.
When Boris Johnson announced the lockdown in December 2020, Sacha Wares brought together writer Ella Hickson, ScanLAB Projects, the Donmar Warehouse and ETT to capture the feeling of the time our theatres went dark at Christmas.
ScanLAB Projects lidar-scanned the iconic Donmar Warehouse, creating a digital replica of the auditorium. A company of over 50 performers, who never met, were all individually rehearsed, scanned and digitally reassembled as a virtual acting company and audience, along with scans of homes, streets, cars and ambulances. The result is a powerful drama that takes the viewer on a virtual reality journey from the familiar setting of a theatre out beyond its walls and into the empty streets of lockdown London.
CO-CREATORS
Sacha Wares, Ella Hickson, and Scanlab Projects
CREATIVE TEAM
Composer Adrian Lee
Sound Gareth Fry
Movement Leon Baugh
Costume Kinnetia Isidore
Lighting Prema Mehta
Casting Anna Cooper CDG
CAST
B Prisca Bakare
Husband Tobi Bakare
Sam Isaac Bakare
Baby Ezekiel Bakare
Neighbour Nabil Elouahabi
Bloke Beruce Khan
A Jodie McNee
Mum Annie Tyson
Narrator Robin
SUPERNUMARARIES
Tanya Aanderaa, Leon Baugh, Marc Benga, Hannah Bristow, Toni Brooks, Tom Brooks, Lieve Carchon, Alice Cescatti, Jesse Cescatti-McFarlane, Maxwell Cescatti-Mcfarlane, Jennie Cook, Anna Edwards-McConway, Rupert Fawcett, Jennifer Gleave, Ella Hickson, Ramin Gray, Grey Grierson, Amy Hathaway, Rhys Holland, Jessica Hennessey, Lisa Hickey, Barney Iley, Kinnetia Isidore, Christina Kopka, Alice Louise, Imogen Mackenzie, Shannon Martin, Gerry McRanor, Alex Merry, Graham Michael, Sasha Milavic Davies, Freddie Odong, Megan Ong, Jacques Pillet, Simon Pink, Julia Phelan, Ruairi Phelan, Nancy Phelan, Jonathan Purkiss, Reece Richardson, Mark Shaer, Matthew Shaw, Benjamin Smith, Rebecca Tarry, Mary Tillett, Kirsty Terry, Rachel Thomas, Dougie Wood
ACCESSIBILITY
Adult Children is captioned and comes with an audio-described introduction and BSL onboarding information.
