Moscow Live
A new play by Serge Cartwright
A world premiere
Sourced, developed and produced by HighTide
Main House, The Cut
You can’t even read the label on a Russian jam jar but you want to tell me what’s wrong with the whole of my society?
A state-run English-language TV station in Moscow. On Englishman Richard Hunt’s first day as acting producer, Milosevic dies. A simple story of an evil man dying unmourned may not be so simple after all.
Moscow Live, Serge Cartwright’s first play, is based on his experiences in a Moscow newsroom. A fast, funny but deadly serious look at how truth and news are rarely the same thing, and how individual motives interfere with both. Thrilling, thought-provoking and razor sharp.
National Theatre Staff Director Jonathan Humphreys (Gethsemane, The Pitman Painters, All's Well That Ends Well) makes his HighTide directing début.
Moscow Live contains some strong language.
Cast
Lorna Beckett
Kieran Bew
Edmund Kingsley
Alastair Roberts
Jeany Spark
Martin Turner
Direction
Jonathan Humphreys
Design
takis
Lighting
Matt Prentice
Sound
Christopher Shutt
Music
Tom Mills
Voice
John Tucker
Dramaturge
Sebastian Born (National Theatre)
Casting
Camilla Evans and Greer Dale-Foulkes
Assistant Director
Alev Scott
