Casting Announced for BLACK BATTLES WITH DOGS at Southwark Playhouse

Three Europeans are isolated on the construction site of a western company in the heart of Africa, surrounded by barbed wire fences. High up on the watchtowers above, African security guards call out in the night to one another in throat songs to keep awake. As evening falls, a mysterious man, Alboury, penetrates the camp. When it emerges that he has come to demand the body of his brother who died that day in unknown circumstances, the ensuing action leads to a disturbing twist of events.

Black Battles with Dogs takes place in a world where people are trapped and alone and where racism, fear and envy take hold of each character in turn. This production at Southwark Playhouse marks the play's first London revival in over 20 years.

Joseph Arkley trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Theatre includes The Winter’s Tale, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Glass Menagerie (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Stoopud Fucken Animals (Traverse Theatre) and Mud (Gate Theatre).

Paul Hamilton's theatre credits include Anthony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale, Troilus and Cressida, Richard III (Royal Shakespeare Company), Out of a House Walked a Man (National Theatre), Peri Banex (Young Vic), A Streetcar Named Desire (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh) and Men Should Weep (Oxford Stage Company).

Osi Okerafor's theatre credits include Othello (Royal Shakespeare Company), Eurydice (ATC), Nobody Knows (Drum Theatre, Shaw Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Broadway Theatre),

Rebecca Smith-Williams trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Theatre credits include After Troy (Oxford Playhouse), Mary Mother of Frankenstein (National Theatre of Belgium), As You Like It, Merlin and the Woods of Time (Chichester Open Air Theatre) and The Fool (Cock Tavern).

Writer Bernard-Marie Koltès is France's most performed playwright abroad and is considered one of the most important voices in modern theatrical writing. Plays include Bitterness, (1970), La Marche (1970), Heritage (1972), Récits morts (1973), Sallinger (1977), The Night Just Before the Forests (1977), Quay West (1985), In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (1985), Tabataba (1986), Return to the Desert (1988) and Roberto Zucco. Black Fights With Dogs is his first major play.

Director Alex Zeldin’s theatre credits include The Constant Prince (Arcola Theatre, Oxford Playhouse and tour of Egypt) Macbeth (Miryang International Festival, South Korea), Romeo and Juliet (Napoli Teatro Festival Italy), The Storm (National Theatre Studio). Opera includes Gianni Shicchi, Spanish Hour and Powder her Face (Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg). In 2011, Alexander co-founded the Idiots Company with Marcin Rudy and an ensemble of young actors from the East 15 School of Acting. Recent projects include Doing the Idiots (text by Alexander Zeldin) and Touch Me (a co-production between Rustaveli National Theatre, Tbilisi and National Theatre Studio with British Council). In 2011-12 Alexander was nominated for the Rolex Mentor Protege Award for young theatre artists.

Co-Designer Chloe Lamford trained at the Wimbledon School of Art. She won Best Design at the 2007 TMA awards for her design for Small Miracle by Neil D’Souza. Theatre credits include Knives in Hens (National Theatre Scotland), Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar/Trafalgar Season), Disco Pigs (Young Vic), On The Record (Arcola Theatre), Rhetoric (Greyscale at the Almeida), Ghost Story (Sky Arts Live Drama season), My Romantic History (Sheffield Crucible, Bush Theatre), Joseph K. (Gate Theatre), Songs From A Hotel Bedroom (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, and Tour), Sus (Young Vic), It Felt Empty… (Clean Break, installation at Arcola’s Studio K), The Kreutzer Sonata (Gate Theatre), Everything Must Go! (Soho Theatre), This Wide Night (Soho Theatre and Tour), The Mother Ship, How To Tell The Monsters From The Misfits (Birmingham Rep), The Country (Salisbury Playhouse), Desire Lines, The Snow Queen (Sherman Cymru), Blithe Spirit (Watermill Theatre), Antigone at Hell’s Mouth (Kneehigh Theatre and National Youth Theatre), Silence (Wilton’s Music Hall), Lola (Trestle Theatre Company), Small Miracle (Tricycle Theatre and Mercury Theatre, Colchester), The Wild Party (Rosie Kay Dance Company) and The Shy Gas Man (Southwark Playhouse).

Co-Designer Katie Bellman trained at the Motley Theatre Design School. Credits include comedian Quartet (Coming Up Later Festival, Old Vic Tunnels), The Coronation of Poppea (King’s Head Theatre), A Woman of No Importance (Greenwich Playhouse), Palace Balls (Jermyn Street Theatre),
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Edinburgh Festival). As Assistant Designer, credits include Britannicus (Wilton’s Music Hall), On the Record (Arcola), Hayfever (Rose Theatre, Kingston) and Suffocation (Oval House Theatre).

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