Suzy Storck

Their voices.

Their bodies moving about.

Their bodies all over the place all over me all day.

I can’t stand it anymore.

Another unbearably hot evening. Suzy Storck sits by the window. A glass of wine. A bottle. Three. Her husband’s left. Maybe he’s coming home. Maybe he’s not. The radio buzzes. Upstairs, the sound of tiny hands behind a bedroom door. Her children. Another glass. The smell of an animal that isn’t quite yet dead. And still the sun will just not set.

How exactly did she end up here?

Suzy Storck is the debut UK production of Jean-Pierre Baro, one of the most exciting new artists in French theatre, that dares to ask the question: what happens when you don’t want children - and you already have them?

Rehearsal photography: Helen Murray

Running time: 75 minutes

Suggested age guidance: 14+. Please call the Gate Theatre on 020 7229 5387 if you wish to know more about the themes and content of the show.

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26 October – 18 November
Matinee performances: 3pm
Evening performances: 7.30pm

Running time: 75 minutes

Cast & CREATIVES

Kate Duchene

Kate Duchene's previous credits for the Gate Theatre include The House of Bernarda Alba. Her theatre credits include Hedda Gabler, Everyman, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Miser (National Theatre), Forbidden Zone (Barbican), Faust, The Relapse, The Country Wife, Murder in the Cathedral and The Merchant of Venice (RSC), The Cherry Orchard (RSC, Barbican, Aldwych Theatre), The Sugar Syndrome (Royal Court), The Trial of Ubu (Hampstead Theatre), Henry VIII (Shakespeare's Globe), The Rivals (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham rep), The Sea (Leeds Playhouse), Kean (Old Vic), Cloud Nine, The Triumph of Love, Summerfolk and Love's Labours Lost (Chichester Theatre). For television her credits include, Foyle's War, Afterlife, The Worst Witch, Out of Hours, A Sense of Guilt, Marple; and for film, All Good Children, An Education, Monsieur N and The Tall Guy.

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Jonah Russell

Jonah Russell's theatre credits include My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre Kingston), A View from the Bridge, Kursk (Young Vic), Pains of Youth, Waves, Women of Troy, Attempts on her Life, and The Seagull (National Theatre), Lady Chatterley's Lover (Sheffield Crucible/ETT), Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep), Hood (Theatre Royal Nottingham/New Perspectives) The Mikvah Project (The Yard), Clytemnestra (Sherman Cymru), Yerma (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Small Hours (Hampstead Theatre) and Romans in Britain (Sheffield Crucible). For television his credits include Hatton Garden, The Hollow Crown, 24: Live Another Day, The Borgias, Green Wing, D-Day and Hidden City; and for film, Dark River, '71, Queen and Country, Kursk, Hell's Pavement, Play The Game and What a Girl Wants.

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Theo Solomon

Theo Solomon's theatre credits include Woyzeck (The Old Vic), The Minotaur, My Father Odysseus (Unicorn Theatre), Karagula (Styx) and Hamlet (UK tour).

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Caoilfhionn Dunne

Caoilfhionn Dunne's theatre credits include Katie Roche (Abbey Theatre), The Nest (Lyric Belfast, Young Vic), Wild (Hampstead Theatre), Forever Yours, Mary Lou (Theatre Royal, Bath), Our Country's Good, The Veil (National Theatre) Fathers and Sons, The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse). Her television credits include Love/Hate, Vexed II, Little White Lies and for film; In View, Wrath of the Titans, Corduroy.

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Magali Mougel – Writer

Magali Mougel’s plays include, Erwin Motor, devotion, La Dernière Battue, Léda, le sourire en bannière and Penthy sur la bande, Je ne veux plus, Léda, Guérillères ordinaires, Elle pas Princesse, Lui pas Héros, Poudre Noire, Anticorps and La Nuit où le jour s’est levé, co-written with Sylvain Levey and Catherine Verlaguet. In 2017, her play The Lulu Projekt will run at Editions Espaces 34. The play has been selected for le Prix Godot 2017 des lycéens.

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Adrien Wernert – Sound Designer

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Christopher Nairne – Lighting Designer

Christopher was awarded OffWestEnd.com’s “Best Lighting Designer” award in 2016 for Teddy at Southwark Playhouse.

Other recent theatre includes: This Beautiful Future (Yard Theatre); Judith: A Parting from the Body, Cargo, After Independence and Octagon (Arcola Theatre); Chinglish and The Buskers Opera (Park Theatre); Speech & Debate and BU21 (Trafalgar Studios); Home Chat and Coolatully (Finborough Theatre); Last of the Boys,This Will End Badly and Johnny Got His Gun (Southwark Playhouse); Little Light (Orange Tree Theatre); and Lionboy (Complicite international tour).

Opera includes: L’Agrippina (Barber Opera); Jephtha, La Bohème and Macbeth (Iford Arts); Albert Herring (Hampstead Garden Opera); Belshazzar (Trinity Laban Conservatoire); Vivienne (Linbury Studio, ROH); and La Bohème (OperaUpClose, 2012 Olivier award winner).

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Natalie Pryce – Design Assistant

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Ben Hadley – Assistant Director

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Chris Campbell – Translator

Chris was Deputy Literary Manager of the National Theatre for six years and is currently Literary Manager of the Royal Court. He has translated plays by Philippe Minyana, David Lescot, Rémi de Vos, Adeline Picault, Magali Mougel, Launcelot Hamelin, Frédéric Blanchette, Catherine-Anne Toupin and Fabrice Roger-Lacan for The National, The Almeida, The Donmar, The Traverse, The Birmingham Rep and The Young Vic among others. His translation of Right Now was co-produced in 2016 by the Traverse, Bush and Ustinov theatres and in 2017, Oberon Books published a collection of his contemporary French translations. In 2014 Chris was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. As an actor Chris has worked at theatres including The National, The Royal Court, The Traverse, The West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Birmingham Rep, The Gate and English Touring Theatre. Directors have included Howard Davies, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Wilson, William Gaskill, Erica Whyman, Stephen Daldry, Ian Brown and Annie Castledine. He most recently appeared alongside Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady.

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Cécile Trémolières – Designer

Cécile is a set and costume designer based in London. She trained in Wimbledon College of Arts, graduating with a first class degree in 2013. She is a Linbury Prize finalist in 2013 and a Jerwood Young Designer 2016 for her work at the Gate on The Iphigenia Quartet.

Cécile’s work was exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial 2015, and at the V&A exhibition Make/Believe: UK Design for Performance 2011-2015, and at the World Stage Design exhibition in Taipei, in July 2017.

As Designer, her credits includes: This Beautiful Future (Yard Theatre), The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre), Punkplay (Southwark Playhouse), My People (Clwyd Theatr), Invisible Treasure (Oval House), The Mikvah Project (Yard Theatre).

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