Claire Lams (Nadia) in 'Rust' at the Bush Theatre © Helen Murray
Nadia and Daniel have a secret. In fact they have quite a few. They’ve just signed on the dotted line for a studio flat. Under a pseudonym, naturally – Mr and Mrs White. After years of school pick-ups, TV takeaways, and the day to day drudgery of married life, this is their chance to wipe the slate clean. But as much as they try and redefine the rules, and themselves, the outside world is closing in.
Ultra-contemporary, sexy and funny, Rust pushes the boundaries of trust, love and lust to the limit.
Terrorism, an earlier version of this play was produced by the Bush Theatre and HighTide in 2016 as part of This Place We Know.
David Gregory is Sound Designer for One Cold Dark Night, Terrorism, Nobody’s Listening
David trained at the Central School of Speech of Drama and was nominated for Off West End Sound Designer of the Year, 2010 for The Wages of Thin at the Old Red Lion.Recent sound design credits include: Rise (Old Vic New Voices), Stalking the Bogeyman (Southwark Playhouse), Queens of Syria (Young Vic), Luce (Southwark Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Watermill Theatre), Alice in Wonderland (Watermill Theatre),When We Were Women (Orange Tree Theatre), Brenda (HighTide), The Dogs of War (Old Red Lion), These Trees Are Made Of Blood (Southwark Playhouse), The Secret Adversary (Watermill), Contact.com (Park Theatre), But First This (Watermill), Next Fall (Southwark Playhouse), National Youth Theatre Rep Season (NYT), Housed (Old Vic New Voices), Waiting for Godot (Arcola Theatre), Red Forest (Young Vic/Belarus Free Theatre), Eldorado (Arcola Theatre/Mongrel Thumb).
Jess is a graduate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the 2018 Laboratory Associate Lighting Designer at Nuffield Southampton Theatres. She received the Association of Lighting Designer’s Francis Reid Award in 2017.
Designs include: Medusa, Much Ado About Nothing, Dungeness, Love and Information (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Fabric, Drip Feed (Soho Theatre); Homos, or Everyone in America (Finborough Theatre); SongLines (HighTide); A New and Better You, Buggy Baby (The Yard); The Marbleous Route Home (Young Vic); Reactor (Arts Ed); Devil with the Blue Dress, FCUK’D (Off West End Award nomination) (The Bunker); Split, WAYWARD (Vaults); Ajax (The Space); The Blue Hour of Natalie Barney, The Dowager’s Oyster, Youkali: The Pursuit of Happiness, The Selfish Giant (Arcola Theatre); The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Merton Arts Space); And the Rest of Me Floats (Birmingham Rep); And Here I Am (UK Tour. Co-Design with Andy Purves); The Poetry We Make (Vaults Festival/RADA/Rosemary Branch/Old Red Lion); This is Matty, and He is Fucked (Winemaker’s Club); Flux: Shadowlines (King’s Place); SQUIRM (King’s Head/Theatre503/Bread & Roses Theatre/C Venues); Glitter & Tears (Bread & Roses Theatre/theSpace UK); Balm in Gilead, The Same Deep Water As Me, August (Guildhall).
As Assistant Lighting Designer: A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); A Tale of Two Cities (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Fox on the Fairway (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch).
Kenny Emson is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His plays include Quadrophenia (Mercury Theatre), Parkway Dreams (Sir John Mills Theatre) Terrorism (Bush Theatre), This Must be the Place (Vault Festival – co-written with Brad Birch) andPlastic (Old Red Lion). He was co-creator, co-writer and associate producer on the BAFTA Craft, SXSW and Prix Italia nominated The Last Hours of Laura K and adapted Agatha Christie’s The Coming of Mister Quin which was nominated for a BAFTA CYMRU games award. He has written for EastEnders, Doctors, BBC Radio 3 and 4 and has been shortlisted for the Bruntwood, Red Planet and Papatango Prizes as well as winning the Adrienne Benham, Off West End Adopt a Playwright and Mercury/Weinberger Playwriting awards.
Max Johns trained in theatre design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was the recipient of a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship in 2015. Prior to this he worked for a number of years as a designer in Germany. His most recent UK productions include Rust for Hightide/the Bush, The Half God Of Rainfall for Kiln/Birmingham Rep/Fuel, Wendy and Peter Pan for The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Kes and Random for Leeds Playhouse, Utility for the Orange Tree Theatre, Buggy Baby for the Yard Theatre, Yellowman for The Young Vic, Baddies for Synergy Theatre Project, Fidelio for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Enron for the Egg, There Shall Be Fireworks for the Plasticine Men, Twelfth Night for the Orange Tree Theatre, Life Raft, Medusa, and Under a Cardboard Sea for Bristol Old Vic, Strawberry and Chocolate for Tobacco Factory Theatres, Infinity Pool for Bedlam, Bucket List for Theatre Ad Infinitum, and Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. Max has also had work produced at the V&A and Theatre Royal Bath. Forthcoming productions include King John at the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Eleanor Rhode.
Theatre credits include: Sweeney Todd; Othello; Paint Your Wagon; Clockwork Orange; The Big I Am; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman); One Night In Miami; Wonderland (remount); Shebeen (Nottingham Playhouse); Songlines (HighTide); An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre / National Theatre); Blood Knot; The March On Russia (Orange Tree Theatre); The Crucible; Buggy Baby; This Beautiful Future (Yard Theatre); Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure; Winter Solstice (Actors Touring Company); The Claim (Shoreditch Town Hall & National Tour); All The President’s Men?; Pomona (additional casting) (National Theatre); Death Of A Salesman (Royal and Derngate / Tour); Wish List; Yen (Royal Court and Royal Exchange Manchester); A Streetcar Named Desire (co-casting director, Royal Exchange Manchester); Bird (Sherman Cymru & Royal Exchange Manchester); Britannia Waves the Rules (Tour); Billy Liar (Royal Exchange Manchester); My Mother Said I Never Should (St James Theatre); The Crocodile (Manchester International Festival).
Casting Director TV credits include: Call The Midwife (Series 9); Doctors (BBC).
Casting Associate and Assistant TV credits include: Howards End; Delicious (two series); Rillington Place; Thirteen; Call the Midwife (five series); Silent Witness (two series); The Game; Esio Trot; Mr Stink; WPC56; The Preston Passion; The Night Watch; Holby City (four series); The Riots: In Their Own Words; Undeniable.
Film credits include: The Secret Agent; Whirlpool; A Street Cat Named Bob (as Casting Associate).
Sophie was recently nominated for ‘Best Casting in a Theatre Production’ at the Casting Directors’ Guild Awards for An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre / National Theatre).
