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Rough Crossings

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.

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Rough Crossings

Publisher: Amber Lane Press

Year published: 2007

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

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

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

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