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IT’S FRIDAY, 5PM, THE AIR IS THICK WITH CIGGY SMOKE- FILLED ANTICIPATION,

THE STREETS’R TIPSY WITH POSSIBILITY, EXPECTATION...

EVERYBODY’S DREAMING, BEAMING, GETTING STEAMING FOR THE NIGHT AHEAD…

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT

Written by Danielle Phillips

Children of the Night is a play and a party. Part poem, part kitchen-sink, part dance-party.

Set on the closing night Doncaster’s infamous club Karisma. It follows the story of Lindsay Jenkins, a working class ex-miner’s daughter, as she navigates coming of age during an HIV outbreak in the grand finale of clubland: the late 90’s.

Children of the Night is a loud night out and quiet revolt, it celebrates post- Thatcherism, rebellious ravers and asks why so many Northern towns have found a new identity in club culture?

The show ran for a week of preview performances at Cast, Doncaster in March 2023 to sell-out audiences. A 2025 Edinburgh Fringe run and national tour are currently in development.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Playwriting

Shortlisted for the 2024 New Diorama Theatre Untapped Award

Made the top 9% of the BBC Open Writers Call 2024

Karisma. Are. You. Ready?

Trailer

Making The Show

Creative Team

  • Danielle Phillips - Writer

  • Ruby Clarke - Director

  • Hannah Sibai - Designer

  • Annie May Fletcher - Sound Designer

  • Jessie Addinall - Lighting Designer

  • Jennifer Kay - Movement Director

  • Stephanie Dale - Dramaturg

  • Lauren Townsend - Producer

  • Oliver Brown - Production Manager

  • Rebecca Hitchcox - Stage Manager on Book

Cast

  • Danielle Phillips - Lindsay

    Danielle is a stage and screen actor from Yorkshire.

    She most recently starred as ‘Alice’ in ‘Masters of the Air,’ A Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks production for Apple TV. Danielle also received a nomination for an ‘Evening Standard Future Theatre Award 2021’.

    Television credits include: The Sister Boniface Murder Mysteries (BBC/Britbox), Father Brown (BBC)

    Film credits include: Ready Player One (Warner Bros)

    Stage credits include: Sky Comedy Rep (Birmingham Rep), The Upstart Crow (The Gielgud), Trying It On by David Edgar (RSC, Royal Court)

  • Luke Broughton - DJ Don

    Luke lives in Leeds and trained at Bretton Hall College. His theatre credits include Kes (Derby Playhouse), NOLA (Look Left, Look Right) Horrible Histories (Birmingham Stage Company/Sydney Opera House), The Worm Collector and Crap Dad (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Revengers Tragedy, (Well Fangled Theatre) World’s Apart and Freefalling (Red Ladder Theatre Company)

    Luke’s television and film credits include Gunpowder (Kudos) Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Heartbeat (ITV) Boy A (Cuba Pictures) Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures) Buried (World Productions), The Driver and The 4 O’ Clock Club (BBC).

    Radio credits include Stone, Des Res, A Painters Sky and Sorry Boys you Failed the Audition (BBC)

  • Andy McLeod - Terry

    Andy's stage credits include:

    There Should Be Unicorns (Middle Child Theatre), Macbeth (Kenneth More Theatre), the UK and International tour of User Not Found (Dante Or Die), Secret Life of Humans (New Diorama Theatre), Down & Out in Paris and London (New Diorama Theatre), Kings (Smoke & Oakum) Vassa Zheleznova (The Faction/Southwark Playhouse) and Border Men (King's Head Theatre).

    His screen credits include:

    The Outlaws (Big Talk Productions), EastEnders (BBC),The Beast Must Die (New Regency Productions), Sham Love Series (Zikora Studios), Past Tense (SAE Institute), The Nest (Beyond Fiction) and The Introduction (The Curious Room).

  • Rosa Hesmondhalgh - Jen

    Rosa Hesmondhalgh is an actor and playwright from Leeds.

    Past theatre credits include: Madame Ovary (Edinburgh Fringe & UK tour), The Snow Queen (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Doctor Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Storyhouse Chester), Trial By Laughter (UK Tour, Watermill Theatre).

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