John

CAST & CREW

A WORK CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY Lloyd Newson

CREATIVE ASSOCIATE Hannes Langolf

PERFORMERS Taylor Benjamin, Lee Boggess, Gabriel Castillo, Ian Garside, Ermira Goro, Garth Johnson, Hannes Langolf, Vivien Wood, Andi Xhuma.

ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR/ COMPANY MANAGER David Grewcock

CHOREOGRAPHY Lloyd Newson with the performers

SET AND COSTUME DESIGN Anna Fleischle

LIGHTING DESIGN Richard Godin

SOUND DESIGN Gareth Fry

JOHN is a new verbatim dance-theatre work by Lloyd Newson, Artistic Director of DV8 Physical Theatre. Newson interviewed more than 50 men asking them frank questions about love and sex. One of those men was John.

What emerged was a story that is both extraordinary and touching.  Years of crime, drug use and struggling to survive lead John on a search where his life converges with others in an unexpected place, unknown by most. JOHN authentically depicts real-life stories, where movement and spoken word combine to create an intense, moving and poignant theatrical experience.