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The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other

by Peter Handke
from a new translation by Meredith Oakes

For a moment, a bright, empty town square. And then a figure darts across, and another and another – businesspeople, roller-bladers, a cowboy, several street-sweepers, a halfdressed bride, a film crew, a line of old men, a tourist, a beauty in a mirrored dress, Abraham and Isaac, a family of refugees, a fool – more and more people, the bizarre and the humdrum, fleetingly connected by proximity alone.

Surprising, funny, fast and physical, this is theatre to set the imagination on fire.

Twenty-seven actors, 450 characters and no dialogue: a play without words by the great experimental figure of European theatre, Peter Handke.

Cast credits:

: Susan Brown

: Jessie Burton

: Pip Carter

: Paul Chesterton

: Lisa Dillon

: Callum Dixon

: Noma Dumezweni

: Susan Engel

: Susannah Fielding

: Mark Hadfield

: Amy Hall

: Daniel Hawksford

: Tom Hickey

: Richard Hope

: Mairead McKinley

: Nick Malinowski

: Shereen Martineau

: Justine Mitchell

: Daniel Poyser

: Adrian Schiller

: Amit Shah

: Sara Stewart

: Giles Terera

: Jason Thorpe

: Harry Towb

: Simon Wilson

: Sarah Woodward

Production credits:

Director: James Macdonald

Associate Director: Jonathan Burrows

Set Designer: Hildegard Bechtler

Costume Designer: Moritz Junge

Lighting Designer: Jean Kalman

Music: Mel Mercier

Sound Designer: Christopher Shutt

Trailer by Stephen Cummiskey

The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other finished on: 12 April 2008