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“IT’S FRIDAY, 5PM, 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

A Play, A Poem, and A Party

GCSE results day 1997: Lindsay Jenkins - a young Donny lass with an A in English, a thirst for rave and £4.25 for the taxi home - embarks on her first PROPER night out.

Armed with a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 and her best mate Jen, Lindsay loses herself in the hedonism of Doncaster's infamous club Karisma. The bass drops. The strobe hits. This is freedom. This is everything.

But when chasing the high of clubland becomes all-consuming, and a national media storm erupts around the UK's first heterosexual HIV cluster, Lindsay must confront the brutal truths lurking beneath the bassline.

Children of the Night is a love letter to the working-class cultural pulse of the North, mixing kitchen-sink drama with spoken-word dance-floor euphoria.

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

Inspired by the testimony of 30 people from Doncaster.

Supported by Arts Council England, Right Up Our Street, Cast and Stage One.

Making the Show

DIGITAL SHOW PROGRAMME

Cast (2026 Touring Production)

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)
Gareth Radcliffe - Terry

Gareth Radcliffe’s work in theatre includes: The National Theatre's UK tour of War Horse; The Goal for Hereford Courtyard; Oliver Twist, My Sister Syria, King Lear,Life and Death of Martin Luther King and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest on international tours; and The Enfield Haunting, and Doctor Who - Time Fracture, in the West End.
Charlotte Brown - Jen

Born and bred in Leicester, East Midlands, Charlotte’s recent Television credits include Coronation Street, Sherwood, and the BAFTA-winning children’s series The 4 O’Clock Club.
On stage, she's appeared in Sky Comedy Rep's telling of new works and the award-winning play The Lost Lionesses, earning a nomination for Best Supporting Performer in a New Production.
Charlotte is excited to continue connecting with audiences and can’t wait to help tell the story of Children of the Night.

Luke Broughton - Voice of DJ Don

Luke is originally from Merseyside and trained at Bretton Hall College. Theatre credits include The Big Opera Adventure (Opera North), Cuttlefish, (Shooting Fish), Children of the Night (Mad Friday) 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)
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), Burn It (Red Productions) The Driver and The 4 O’ Clock Club (BBC).
Radio credits include Stone, Des Res, A Painters Sky, Pins and Needles and Miracle Worker (BBC)
Connor O'Hara - Voice of MC Danger