Rough Crossings
By Caryl Phillips
Year staged: 2007
Opening night: 14/09/2007
Theatre Company: Birmingham Repertory Theatre; 1913
Staged in: Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Cast Size: 16
Synopsis
As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British naval officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for equality, their convictions will change attitudes towards slavery forever.
Original Cast
Dawn Hope
Phyliss George
Rob Hastie
William Sharp / Redocat / Lieutenant
Mark Jax
Captain / Cornwallis / Falconbridge
Peter de Jersey
David George
Miranda Colchester
Eliza Sharp
Michael Matus
Granville Sharp
David Fisheley
Henry De Mane
Peter Bankole
Issac
Ben Okafor
James Somerset
Ed Hughes
John Clarkson
Daniel Williams
Buck Slave / Sierra Leone Settler
Wunmi Mosaku
Sally Peters
Andy Frame
Thomas Clarkson
Patrick Robinson
Thomas Peters
Ian Drysdale
Johnson / Sergeant Davey / American Officer
Jessica Lloyd
Ship's Boy / Anna Maria Falcobridge
Production Team
Paul Pyant
Lighting
Lorna Heavey
Video Designer
Rupert Goold
Director
Laura Hopkins
Designer
Adam Cork
Music and Sound
Vik Sivalingam
Assistant Director
Tom Snell
Re-lighter / Production Technician
Jennifer Stowar
Production Assistant
Liz Ranken
Choreography
Paul Pyant
Lighting