How are five strangers linked in One Minute when a child disappears? Watch this brilliant trailer for the Barn Theatre’s brand-new production of Simon Stephens’ haunting play about modern tragedy and grief, which starts performances in Cirencester on Saturday 19 May 2018. Time to get booking and planning your trip to the Cotswolds!
One Minute, which follows the stories of five characters after a child is taken in London, runs at the Barn Theatre, the new, state-of-the-art Cotswolds venue, from 19 May to 16 June 2018, with a press night on 23 May. This brand-new production considers Simon Stephens‘ 2002 play through the lens of today’s social media spins on such tragedies.
A child goes missing, vanishes into thin air, leaving a tender, fragmentary play about the inarticulacy of grief. One Minute is a disquieting portrait of lives that are united in the single moment it takes for a child to disappear. The play follows several connected characters through their struggles with Daisy Schults’ disappearance: the two policemen investigating the disappearance; Daisy’s mother Anne; and Marie Louise, a woman who believes she glimpsed Daisy after she had been separated from her mother.
Robert is new to the police force, and his enthusiasm for the case is keener than that of his cynical colleague Gary. Mary Louise begins a strange friendship with a woman who knows Gary from the café where she works. Anne’s life has stopped: she wants to know when ‘missing’ becomes ‘presumed dead’.
The production marks the directorial debut of the Barn’s 29-year-old artistic director Iwan Lewis, a former West End actor himself. The five-strong cast features Bad Education, Sherlock and Misfits television star Jack Bence, alongside Rebecca Crankshaw, Sarah Hanly, Gary Summers and Sophie May Wake.
Post-show Q&A
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock chairs a Q&A with Iwan Lewis & the One Minute company after the 7.30pm on Friday 25 May 2018.
Official trailer
We hope you enjoy the Official Trailer for ONE MINUTE.
Written by @StephensSimon Directed by @IwyLewis
Five lives collide in the time a child disappears.
Opening MAY 19TH at Barn Theatre Cirencester. https://t.co/wbKfk8T4yJ pic.twitter.com/iq6waovH1r
— Barn Theatre (@Btheatreciren) May 13, 2018
