Pearson Morna - Interference

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No rights in incidental music or songs contained in the work are hereby granted and performance rights for any performance/presentation whatsoever must be obtained from the respective copyright owners. All rights whatsoever in this play are strictly reserved and application for performance etc. should be made before rehearsals by professionals and by amateurs as follows: For Darklands: please contact Knight Hall Agency Ltd, 7 Mallow St, London EC1Y 8RQ, email For Metaverse: please contact Curtis Brown Group Ltd., Haymarket House, 2829 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4SP, email For Glowstick: please contact Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, email No performance of any of these plays may be given unless a licence has been obtained. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Interference Cast and CreditsCreative Team

Writer Darklands	Morna Pearson
Writer Metaverse	Hannah Khalil
Writer Glowstick	Vlad Butucea
Director	Cora Bissett
Designer	Jen McGinley
Video Designer & Movement Director	Gail Sneddon
Lighting Designer	Simon Wilkinson
Sound Designer	Garry Boyle
Associate Video Designer	Lewis den Hertog
Dramaturg	Rosie Kellagher
Casting Director	Laura Donnelly, CDG

Cast

Daughter in Metaverse/Brie in Darklands	Shyvonne Ahmmad
Woman in Metaverse/IDA in Glowstick	Moyo Akand
Mother in Metaverse/Moira in Darklands/River in Glowstick	Maureen Beattie
Mute AI in Metaverse/Logan in Darklands	Nicholas Ralph

Production Team

Production Manager	Chris Holmes
Assistant Producer	Seona McClintock
Company Stage Manager	Anne E. Interference Cast and CreditsCreative Team Writer Darklands Morna Pearson Writer Metaverse Hannah Khalil Writer Glowstick Vlad Butucea Director Cora Bissett Designer Jen McGinley Video Designer & Movement Director Gail Sneddon Lighting Designer Simon Wilkinson Sound Designer Garry Boyle Associate Video Designer Lewis den Hertog Dramaturg Rosie Kellagher Casting Director Laura Donnelly, CDG Cast Daughter in Metaverse/Brie in Darklands Shyvonne Ahmmad Woman in Metaverse/IDA in Glowstick Moyo Akand Mother in Metaverse/Moira in Darklands/River in Glowstick Maureen Beattie Mute AI in Metaverse/Logan in Darklands Nicholas Ralph Production Team Production Manager Chris Holmes Assistant Producer Seona McClintock Company Stage Manager Anne E. Page Deputy Stage Manager Marian Sharkey Assistant Stage Manager Laurie Sutton Stage Supervisor David Hill Stage Technician Adam Quinn Lighting Supervisor Paul Froy Lighting Technician James Gardner Sound Supervisor Andy Stewart Video Supervisor Ellie Thompson Costume Supervisor Jessica Griffiths Costume Technician Beth Hicks Access Yvonne Strain BSL Performance Interpreter Lisa Li BSL Performance Interpreter Chris McKiddie Audio Describer To find out about the National Theatre of Scotland staff involved in this and all productions, please visit nationaltheatrescotland.com/about/contact-us National Theatre of Scotland is a Theatre Without Walls. We dont have our own building. Instead, we bring theatre to you. From the biggest stages to the smallest community halls, we showcase Scottish culture at home and around the world. We have performed in airports and tower blocks, submarines and swimming pools, telling stories in ways you have never seen before. We want to bring the joy of theatre to everyone. Since we were founded in 2006, we have produced hundreds of shows and toured all over the world. We strive to amplify the voices that need to be heard, tell the stories that need to be told and take work to wherever audiences are to be found. nationaltheatrescotland.com Jackie Wylie Artistic Director and Chief Executive Seona Reid DBE Chair The National Theatre of Scotland, a company limited by guarantee and registered in Scotland (SC234270), is a registered Scottish charity (SC033377). Directors Note by Cora Bissett Back in 2017, the seed for Interference began with my feeling that our freedoms of speech, thought and actions were being insidiously eroded at the same time as the UK government was announcing that the UN Declaration of Human Rights would be scrapped and replaced with a British Bill of Rights with very little clarity or interrogation. This evolved into an interest in the myriad ways in which our entire private spaces were being accessed, often with our complete collusion, whether that be our online data, our homes, our dating patterns or our thoughts. Scientists have already connected a paralyzed mans brain to a computer to help him walk, for example, and Facebook says its working on software that allows you to type just by thinking.