devotion

Sometimes it’s like the whole world up there doesn’t exist anymore. That it fizzled out at about five o’ clock this morning.

That now it’s just us. 

Me and you. 

In the whole universe, sat here.

Alone.

Welcome to a night in the office from hell.

 It’s 1983 and in an abandoned workplace in the Midlands, two solitary clerical workers sit down at their desks to begin a routine night shift. But as the evening creeps into the night, a confidential file is accidentally opened and a quietly horrifying secret is unleashed. A secret that’ll soon turn their lives of rotas, packed lunches and fag breaks violently upside down.

A fantasy thriller told to a pounding 1980s soundtrack, welcome to a world of ruthless ambition, desperate escapism and deeply held desires.

‘Saw this for the second time tonight. Wonderfully captivating, thought provoking and brilliantly acted.’ Audience member

Devotion took place in Jubilee Lounge, Stoke Town Hall, Stoke-on-Trent, September 2016.

Supported with thanks to funding from National Lottery through Arts Council England and Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. With thanks also to New Vic Theatre, Mitchell Arts Centre and Moonbrushed Media.

Creatives

Writer Kat Boon

Director Kat Hughes

Sound Design James Earls Davis

Lighting Design John Slevin

Cast

Rodgers           Naomi Felton

Hunter             Benedict Shaw

Photography courtesy of Moonbrushed Media.