29 MARCH – 18 MAY 2024

Cast

CONSTELLATIONS

“We have all the time we always had…”

The Award-winning smash hit brings together the unlikeliest of couples in Roland, a beekeeper and Marianne, a physicist. What follows is a relationship and friendship that embraces the richness of the characters, allowing the audience to share in the comedy and the heartbreak, drawing them into the unflinching reality that the characters eventually face.

Constellations is a high concept romance, a Sliding Doors to the power of 100 – and many other things at once: a drama about time and memory, about death and grief, playful and profound, comic and mournful.

Nick Payne’s dazzling play is a beautiful rich exploration into human connections with a plot that ingeniously keeps us guessing until the very end.

Constellations first premiered in the UK in 2012, winning the best play category at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, making the 29-year-old Payne the youngest winner of the award. It also received several nominations at the 2013 Olivier Awards before debuting on Broadway in 2015 to great acclaim. 2021, it was back in the West End, winning an Olivier in 2022 for Best Revival.

Constellations is directed by Jessica Daniels who previously directed Barn favourites – Michael Morpurgo’s, The Butterfly Lion and The Mozart Question, for which she was nominated for the Best Director category at the UK Theatre Awards 2022.

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Age Guidance

14+

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Content Warning's

Strong language and mature themes including assisted dying

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RUNNING TIME

70mins

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SHOW INFO

Director: Jessica Daniels

Constellations is a one-act play with no interval. No latecomers or readmittance will be allowed.

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Cast

FAYE BROOKES

as Marianne

TOM LORCAN

as Roland

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Faye Brookes

Faye Brookes was most recently seen touring the UK starring as Fran in Strictly Ballroom the Musical. Brookes is best known for playing the role of Kate Connor in Coronation Street from 2015-2019, winning a National Television Award for her performance, and finishing second place in the 2021 series of Dancing On Ice. Her performance credits also include playing Roxie Hart in Chicago (UK Tour), Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (UK Tour) and Princess Fiona in Shrek (UK Tour).

Tom Lorcan

Tom Lorcan is best known for playing the role of Mike Hargrave in Coronation Street. His screen credits also include playing Captain Stark in House of the Dragon, Edward Vickers in Gentleman Jack and Neil Hughes in Granchester. His stage credits include playing Dad in the Olivier Award-winning A Monster Calls (Bristol Old Vic & Kennedy Center, USA), Tony in Billy Elliot (West End) and Donnie/Knuckles in the original West End cast of Jersey Boys (West End).

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JESSICA DANIELS

DIRECTOR

Jess has been the Resident Director of the Olivier Award-Winning Girl From the North Country since it began at The Old Vic in 2017. This includes managing two West End transfers, the 2019 North American premiere in Toronto, and the 2023 UK/Ireland tour.

Productions for The Barn: The Mozart Question and The Butterfly Lion.
Jess was nominated for Best Director at the 2022 UK Theatre Awards for The Mozart Question. It was also included in The Guardian’s Top 10 shows of 2022.

Other directing credits include: The Snow Queen (South Street Arts Centre); A Pupil (Park Theatre); Connect NOW Monologues (The Old Vic); Conquest (VAULT Festival / The Bunker); The State We’re In (Theatre503)

ETHAN CHEEK

DESIGNER

Ethan is a Performance Designer working across Theatre, Film and Music.

Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Their recent theatre credits include:
My Sons A Queer (Broadway, Associate Designer). £1 Thursdays (The Finborough). Shock Horror (UK Tour). Into The Woods (Playground Theatre). Borders (VAULTS). The Scar Test,
Little Sweet Thing, Blister (LAMDA). Millennials (The Other Palace, Associate designer). The Concrete Jungle Book (The Pleasance). Rabbit Hole (The Union, OFFIE Nominated). The Bridges of Madison County (Quick
Fantastic) and Spring Awakening (RCSSD).

Associate/Assistant Design credits include work with Rosanna
Vize, Ryan Dawson Laight, Andrew Exeter, Justin Williams and Lee Newby.

AMANDA PRIESTLY

COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER

Amanda is delighted to be back at The Barn Theatre after her role as Composer and Sound
Designer on Sherlock Holmes and The Whitechapel Fiend. She was selected in 2022/23 for
BBC Sound First, which aims to identify the best sound design talent in the UK. BBC
Commissions: a setting of Joelle Taylor’s Atlas for R3 poetry programme The Verb,
Fingerprints and Lightbulbs for R4’s Short Cuts, and BBC Bitesize GCSE Biology podcast.
Recent theatre work includes The Pillowman, Things I Know To Be True, The Girl on the Train
(Harborough Theatre), The King Stone R&D (Nottingham Playhouse), Solitary Pathways
(Leeds Playhouse), Rabbit Hole, The York Realist, The Innocents (Little Theatre, Leicester)
Upcoming 2024: The Trials by Dawn King (Nottingham Playhouse).

CHRISTOPHER REID

SOUND PROGRAMMER

Chris is an award winning Sound Designer based in London. With over twenty five years experience working on a variety of theatrical productions in the West End, on Broadway and around the world. Theatre Includes: Daddy Issues, Seven Dials Theatre (Office Nomination for Best Sound Design). Triple Threat The Z, Virginia Beech. The Inheritance Young Vic, West End & Broadway (Drama Desk Award Winner, Tony award & Olivier award nominations for Best Sound Design). Hamlet Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company at RADA. Vincent River The Old Red Lion. Pinocchio, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Demon Barber, Tam O’ Shanter and Of Mice and Men Perth Theatre. As Associate Sound Designer: Minority Report, Nottingham, Birmingham & Lyric Hammersmith. Stranger Things: The First Shadow West End. Death Note the Musical West End. Peaky Blinders: The Rise Riyadh. Tarantino Live Riverside Studios. 2:22 A Ghost Story West End. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe West End. The Ocean at the End of the Lane West End & UK Tour. The Jungle New York & San Fransisco. Summer and Smoke West End. Mary Stuart West End. Beginning National Theatre. Labour of Love West End. Billy Elliot the Musical Japan, South Korea & Australia. Series 3 Presentation Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris. The Audience West End. Macbeth National Theatre of Scotland, Japanese Tour. King Charles III West End & Broadway. Skylight West End. Black Watch National Theatre of Scotland, International Tour.

HECTOR MURRAY

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Hector is a lighting designer for plays, musicals and dance. He was nominated for an Off West End Award (2020) and received The ETC Award from the Association of Lighting Designers (2017) for excellence in Lighting Design.Design credits include: High Society (Mill at Sonning), The Least We Could Do (Hope Theatre), Birds and Bees (Sheffield); A Night with Boy Blue (Barbican); Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion); Kattam Katti (Sadlers Wells); 1ST Luv (Big House); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Union) and Acts of Resistance (Bristol Old Vic).As associate: I Should Be So Lucky (Manchester Opera House); Mrs Doubtfire (Shaftesbury); A Streetcar Named Desire (Phoenix); The Doctor (Duke of York’s, Park Avenue Armory & Burg Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Bridge); Hamlet, Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory); Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter) and Broken Wings (Dubai Opera).Other companies he’s worked for include Arts Ed, Mountview, Zoonation, Sadlers Wells, Gecko, Akram Khan Company, Far From the Norm, Gandini Juggling and Rambert School. Hector trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama