It’s 4.18am.

We’re on a suburban street in London.
We meet seven different people.
They are strangers to each other.
They are in their flat, their bedroom, their kitchen. Personal crisis is keeping each of them awake, as they do what they can to fend off the isolation and fear that strikes in the middle of the night.
The desperation – and jubilation – of these individuals coalesce into a much larger canvas, on which financial crash, migration, environmental catastrophe and police brutality rotate.

A narrator will takes us in and out of these different lives (at times becoming these characters, at others their omniscient narrator-observer) with three performers (who will act as an extension of their imagination). There will also be elements of videography — projecting faces and landscapes onto screens and bodies — to bring the outside world into the theatre space.

OUTREACH : Sylvain Levitte is providing workshops for people (15 years+) working on writing, confidence on stage, and learning to listen to the body and one's scene partner, in a way that mirrors what was done in March 2024 with Kae Tempest's poems at the Evreux National Scene.