Alexander Zeldin's BEYOND CARING to Launch National Tour

Following acclaimed runs at The Yard and National Theatre, Beyond Caring tours this June and July to a series of unusual and original performance spaces. Devised and directed by Alexander Zeldin, the production plays in a found space within Birmingham REP, Theatre Delicatessen Sheffield, HOME Manchester and a single performance at Théâtre de la Ville in Luxembourg. James Doherty joins the cast with Luke Clarke, Janet Etuk, Kristin Hutchinson and Victoria Moseley all reprising their roles. In addition to the performances, in every city the company will be taking workshops and debate off-site into spaces belonging to communities affected by issues in the play.

Four people arrive to work the night shift in a meat factory. They meet for the first time. They are employed as cleaners, by a temp agency. They are all on zero-hours contracts.

Every shift, they clean. Every four hours, they take a break. They drink tea or coffee together. They read magazines. They chat. As it gets light, they go home, or to another job.

The cycle goes on... And on... Strangers. Until something stirs, until isolated people get too close to one another, too fast.

Through investigation, first-hand experience and with the participation of individuals in low-paid work, Alexander Zeldin's brutally honest and darkly humorous play exposes stories of an invisible class.

Alexander Zeldin has worked across the world as a theatre-maker. His new play, Love opens at the National Theatre this autumn. His other work includes directing at the Mariinsky Opera, the Naples Festival (European Theatre Company 2010) and in South Korea, a production of Macbeth (Korean Critics' Choice 2011) and Black Battles with Dogs (2012) at the Southwark Playhouse. In 2013 he assisted Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne onA Magic Flute at the CICT. In 2011, Zeldin formed an ensemble of actors in the UK with the aim of collaborating together on long-term projects which he writes. Past projects include Doing the Idiots (NT Studio 2012) and Shemehe at the Rustaveli Theatre Georgia for a co-operative project between the National Theatre Studio, the British Council and Rustaveli. His work has been recognised by a nomination to the Rolex Mentor Protégé Award in 2012, for the leading young artistic voices of the future. He is a current recipient of the Quercus Award and is Associate Director at the Birmingham REP.

Luke Clarke's theatre credits include Marguerite (Sadler's Wells), Doing the Idiots (National Theatre Studios), Touch Me (The Rustaveli Theatre Tbilisi). As Artistic Director of The Alchemist Theatre Company he has written and directed Sealand (The Wild Theatre), Humans Inc. (C Venues), Liberation (The Place). Later in the year he will be part of Alexander Zeldin's devised production Love at the National Theatre.

James Doherty's theatre credits include Eventide (Arcola Theatre and tour), London Road (National Theatre), Chicago, Marguerite, Les Miserables, A Slice Of Saturday Night (West End) and Kiss Me Kate (Royal Albert Hall). His television credits include Cradle To Grave, Him & Her The Wedding, Veep, Endeavour, Ambassadors, Boomers, The It Crowd, Phoneshop, Count Arthur Strong, Watson & Oliver, The Royal Bodyguard, A Touch Of Cloth, Miranda, Rev, Mongrels, The Thick Of It and 2 Point 4 Children. His film credits include London Road, In The Loop and Closed Circuit.

Janet Etuk's theatre credits include Doing The Idiots (National Theatre), Touch Me (The Rustaveli Theatre, Tbilisi), The Four Minute Mile (Oxford Playhouse), Sealand (Arcola Theatre) and The Spanish Tragedy (Old Red Lion).

Kristin Hutchinson's theatre credits include Beauty and the Beast, Waves, A Dream Play and Iphigenia at Aulis (National Theatre), The Empress, Creation and Passion, The Mysteries (RSC), Live Like Pigs (Royal Court), Worker's Playtime/The Jewish Wife and Party Time/One For The Road (BAC),Tons of Money, How The Other Half Loves (Bristol Old Vic), Hiawatha (Sheffield Crucible), and Vassa Zheleznova, The House of Bernarda Alba, Women of Troy (Gate Theatre). Her television credits include Measure for Measure, Pie in the Sky and Inspector Wycliffe.

Victoria Moseley's theatre credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Water, Macbeth, Night (Filter Theatre), From Morning to Midnight, His Dark Materials (National Theatre), Tombstone Tales (Arcola Theatre), Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (RSC), Hobson's Choice (Birmingham REP) and Alice in Boogie Wonderland (Liverpool Everyman). Her television credits include Merseybeat,The Whistle Blower, Mindblowing; and for film What You Will.

Beyond Caring Listings

Birmingham REP

7 - 11 June

www.birmingham-rep.co.uk

Théâtre de la Ville, Luxembourg

17 June

www.theatres.lu

Theatre Delicatessen Sheffield

6 - 9 July

www.theatredelicatessen.co.uk/about/the-moor-sheffield/

HOME Manchester

13 - 16 July

www.homemcr.org

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