Cast
| Errol | Jonathan Ajayi |
| Vivian | Rakie Ayola |
| Vernice | Debra Michaels |
| Shelley | Tilly Steele |
| Alvin | Tok Stephens |
Creative Team |
| Playwright | Caryl Phillips |
| Director | Nancy Medina |
| Designer | Max Johns |
| Lighting Designer | Sally Ferguson |
| Sound Designer | Xana |
| Fight and Intimacy Director | Yarit Dor |
| Costume Supervisor | Rianna Azoro |
| Voice Coach | Joel Trill |
| Wigs, Hair and Makeup | Cynthia De La Rosa |
| Production Manager | Phil Buckley |
| Company Stage Manager | Rike Berg |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Hanne Schulpe |
Cast
JONATHAN AJAYI
Theatre credits include:The Brothers Size (The Young Vic).
Television credits include:Noughts and Crosses (BBC), The Drifters.
RAKIE AYOLA
Theatre credits include:The Half God of Rainfall (Kiln Theatre), Leave To Remain (Lyric Hammersmith), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (The Palace Theatre), The Rest of Your Life (Bush Theatre), King Lear (Royal Exchange/Talawa), Crave/ 4:48 Psychosis (Sheffield Crucible), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Apollo Theatre), The Winters Tale (RSC), The Next Room (Theatre Royal, Bath), Welcome To Thebes (National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic), Dido Queen of Carthage (Globe), King Hedley II (Tricycle Theatre) and Hamlet and Twelfth Night (Birmingham Rep).
Television credits include:Noughts and Crosses, Shetland, Brexit: The Uncivil War, Flowers, Vera, Code of A Killer, Midsomer Murders, Under Milk Wood, Black Mirror, Stella, Silent Witness, My Almost Famous Family, Doctor Who, Holby City, Sea of Souls, Canterbury Tales and Being April.
Film credits include:Been So Long, Dredd, Now is Good, Sahara, The I Inside, Great Moments in Aviation and The Secret Laughter of Women.
DEBRA MICHAELS
Theatre credits include:The Man of La Mancha (English National Opera), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (National Theatre/UK Tour), Red Snapper (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Cinderella (Watford Palace), Chicago and Catwalk (The Tricycle), Carmen Jones (Old Vic/European tour), Porgy And Bess (Glyndebourne/Covent Garden), Barnum, Little Shop Of Horrors, Soul Train, Cinderella, Tricksters Payback, Jekyll and Hyde, Four Note Opera, Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Nights Dream and The Bottle Imp.
Television credits include:Broken, Doctors, Holby City, The Lodge, The South Bank Show Special, The Real McCoy, The Laurence Olivier Awards, The Evening Standard Awards and Rites.
Debra has worked as a Musical Director on The Wiz (Riverside Studios) and Singing Bridges (LWT), and as vocal coach on McDonalds Our Town Story (The Dome). She also co-created and choreographed The Wedding Dance which received its premiere at Bolton Octagon prior to a tour.
TILLY STEELE
Tilly grew up in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. She is a graduate of the University of Sheffield and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. This is her first time performing at the Bush Theatre.
Theatre credits include:Barnbow Canaries (Leeds Playhouse), Teechers (Cheltenham Everyman) and Road (Circomedia).
Television credits include:Doctor Who (BBC), Victoria (ITV) and Career of Evil (BBC).
TOK STEPHEN
Theatre credits include:Summer and Smoke (Almeida/Duke of Yorks Theatre), Revenants (Pleasance), Boudica (Globe Theatre) and Scuttlers, Summerfolk and Macbeth (RADA).
Television credits include:Grantchester, Letters (short film).
Creative Team
CARYL PHILLIPS PLAYWRIGHT
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts and brought up in England. He has written extensively for stage, radio, television and the screen. His first play, Strange Fruit, premiered at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre in 1980, with subsequent productions in London and at the Liverpool Playhouse. Where There is Darkness and The Shelter both premiered at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. In 2007 his adaptation of Simon Schamas Rough Crossings for the stage toured Britain. He collaborated with Peter Hall, writing and co-producing a three-hour film of his first novel, The Final Passage, for Channel Four, for whom he also wrote the film Playing Away. In 2001 he adapted V. S. Naipauls The Mystic Masseur for Merchant Ivory Films. He is the author of numerous books of non-fiction and fiction. Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award, and A Distant Shore was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for The European Tribe, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crossing the River, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is a contributor to newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and holds honorary doctorates from a number of universities. He has taught at universities in Singapore, Ghana, Sweden and Barbados, and is currently Professor of English at Yale University. His most recent novel, A View of the Empire at Sunset, was published in 2018.
NANCY MEDINA DIRECTOR
Nancy Medina is originally from Brooklyn, New York City, and currently based in Bristol. She is the 2018 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award winner and will be collaborating with Royal & Derngate and English Touring Theatre on August Wilsons Two Trains Running in the autumn of 2019. In 2017 she was a Genesis Director at the Young Vic. She is an acting tutor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Course Leader for a post-16 Professional Acting Diploma at Boomsatsuma. Her directing credits include: The Half God of Rainfall (Kiln Theatre/ Fuel/Birmingham Rep), Flesh (NT Connections/Bristol Old Vic), Curried Goat and Fish Fingers (Bristol Old Vic), Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), When They Go Low (NT Connections/Sherman Theatre), Yellowman (Young Vic), Romeo and Juliet (GB Theatre), As You Like it (GB Theatre), Dogtag (Theatre West), Strawberry & Chocolate (Tobacco Factory Theatres), Dutchman (Tobacco Factory Theatres) and Persistence of Memory (Rondo Theatre).
MAX JOHNS DESIGNER
Max Johns trained in theatre design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was the recipient of a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship in 2015. Prior to this he worked for a number of years as a designer in Germany. His most recent UK productions include:
