A Cracked Plaster Sky
By Kay Adshead
Omnibus Theatre | 24 - 28 OCTOBER 2017
CAST
Emer Dineen
Janet Etuk
Victoria Falconer
William McGeough
CREATIVES
Writer: Kay Adshead
Director: Caroline Bryant
Designer: Futures Theatre & Peter Morton
Composer: Victoria Falconer
Composition Consultant: Elle Osborne
Movement Director: Coral Messam
Lighting Designer: Dylan Tate
Voice & Dialect coach: Izo FitzRoy
Costume Supervisor: Flair May
Production photography by Lidia Crisafulli
I have spent 70 pale dawns and
dungeon dark dusks
searching,
and here I am
finally
finally
shining back”
Inspired by real stories from women working in street prostitution, 'A Cracked Plaster Sky' tells the irreverent and painfully amusing story of Grace, and the voice inside her head. A voice that, despite poverty, violence, imprisonment, estrangement and despair, won’t shut up.
Told over 70 years, the story strips to the bone a fleshy, raw life. It proposes a different way of being. It reveals other shining universes.
'A Cracked Plaster Sky' represents the first commission from Futures Theatre's creative engagement programme 'An Alternative Life', a three-year programme working with some of the most vulnerable women in Lambeth which aims to build confidence, communication skills and self-belief in a different, positive future.
