'IN THE NIGHT' World Premiere Cast Set at Gate Theatre

Gate Theatre today announces the casting for the world première of In The Night Time (Before the Sun Rises). Ben Kidd directs Alex Waldmann as Man and Adelle Leonce as Woman. In The Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) opens at the Gate Theatre on 8th February, with previews from 4th, and runs until the 27th February.

A baby cries. A bottle breaks. A window smashes.

Over the course of one night, mum and dad try to still their screaming infant - but as the hours grow longer, the world becomes elastic around them, and the horrors that scar our planet crash into the baby's room. Should they ever have brought this child into such a wounded world?

This is Nina Segal's first professionally produced play. The world première of In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) takes a hallucinatory look at one couple's experience of having their first baby.

Alex Waldmann plays Man. His theatre credits include Henry VI in The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston), Widowers Houses (Orange Tree Theatre), Jonah and Otto (Park Theatre), The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Duchess of Malfi (Sam Wannamaker Playhouse), All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Hamlet, King John, A Soldier in Every Son and Richard III (RSC), The Holy Rosenbergs (National Theatre), Speechless (Shared Experience), Rope (Almeida Theatre), Hamlet and Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse), Angry Young Man (Trafalgar Studios), Hobson's Choice (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Troilus & Cressida (Cheek by Jowl). His television work includes Duchess of Malfi, The Night Watch, Psychoville and First Light. He is also the founder of SEArED theatre company.

Adelle Leonce plays Woman. Her theatre credits include Florence in Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith), Light Shining In Buckinghamshire (National Theatre), The Dutch Courtesan (Shakespeare's Globe-Wanamaker Festival), A Stab In The Dark, A Series Of Increasingly Impossible Acts, A Streetcar Named Desire, Chamber Piece, Woyzeck, Glitterland (Secret Theatre Company). Her television credits include Shameless and Vera.

Ben Kidd directs. His credits include Chekhov's First Play (Dead Centre / Dublin Theatre Festival), Spring Awakening (Headlong), LIPPY (Dead Centre / Traverse / Young Vic), The Collision of Things (Pleasance), The Shawl (Young Vic), Souvenir (Dead Centre / Dublin Fringe), Anne and Zef (Company of Angels / Salisbury Playhouse) and Richard III (Riverside Studios). He is co-founder and joint Artistic Director of Dead Centre, based between Dublin and London. He is also an associate artist with Company of Angels, and was winner of their Young Angels award. He was the inaugural winner of the Genesis Future Director Award at the Young Vic in 2012.

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