A Very Expensive Poison
A Very Expensive Poison
by Lucy Prebble
Based on the Guardian/Faber book “An Expensive Poison” by Luke Harding
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical
On Behalf of Samuel French
A Concord Theatricals Company
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A brazen political assassination is carried out in broad daylight.
Based on the book of the same name by investigative journalist Luke Harding, A Very Expensive Poison tells the true story of the radioactive poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.
On the cusp of unnerving global crises and rumblings of a new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us deep into the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.
CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Katy Maudlin
Set Designer: Jonel Factor
Costume Designer: Dylan Lumsden
Lighting Designer: Oscar McGovern
Sound Designer: Jett Manzie-Adams
Musical Director: Xani Kolac
Movement Director: Colin Sneesby
Intimacy Coordinator: Isabella Vadiveloo
Voice and Dialect CoachAlexandra Whitham
Assistant Director: Marion Slatter
Dramaturg: Blake Hohenhaus
Stage Manager: Jordan Smith
Assistant Stage Manager: Felicity Ethell
Workshop Head of Department (Scenic): Willow Argus
Workshop Head of Department (Staging): Sara Bayley
Workshop Assistant Head of Department (Staging): Yolanda Box
Workshop AssistantsGeorgia Formosa, Natalie Wing Hei La, Helen Zhang
Costume Assistants: Jamie Garcia, Mia Gionfriddo
Head Electrician: Alex White
Lighting Programmer and Operator: Poppy Gordon
CAST
Elisheva Biernoff-Giles, Jesse Challis, Aimee Forrest, Amy Kmet, Sophie Malek, Oriana Morris-Johnson, Bella Ness, Daniel Nieborski, James Provis, Amira Susskind