Sand by Nick Gill - a US Premiere

See Know Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director in a rare solo performance in
SAND
the US premiere of a devastating new play by Nick Gill

SPECIAL LIMITED RUN: March 28 – 30

Join us at Your Theatrical Playground, Know Theatre, for a rare chance to see our Producing Artistic Andrew J. Hungerford onstage in the solo performance of an unforgettable new play, in its US premiere.

It’s now the sixth of August 1945.
She is alone.
god, my head.
At 8.15 in the morning, everything is quiet.
The house is still.
Thirty one thousand and sixty feet above her, there is a single aircraft.
In forty three seconds, the bomb it has released will have fallen around twenty nine thousand feet and will detonate above the city.

In forty four seconds, seventy thousand people will be dead.
and the world turns.

 – excerpt from Sand by Nick Gill

At Know Theatre for a special limited run, March 28 – 30, Sand is a riveting new work of theatre that combines fiction, science, and history to explore the threat of nuclear weapons and the devastation of nuclear war. It’s a fractured collection of narratives that jump across the stories of a dozen women over a century-long timeline, building to an inevitable breaking point.

Sand is an intense, poetic dive into the frightening power that humanity wields against itself.

A version of the play was shown at the Royal Court Theatre on June 17, 2013, directed by Vicky Featherstone and performed by Eileen Walsh & Toby Jones.

Acclaimed director and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music professor Brant Russell (The Man-Beast) helms a script-in-hand staging of the show for the US premiere of this powerful new script. 

Sand also offers a rare chance to catch a performance by Producing Artistic Director Andrew Hungerford, last seen in a dramatic role on Cincinnati stages in his 2010 Cincy Fringe Show, “Of People and Not Things.”

Says Hungerford,

“I first read this script just a few weeks ago, and instantly knew we needed to produce it. For one, it’s a perfect fit for the SecondStage of our season examining fear itself. 

From a personal perspective, I was plagued by nightmares and anxiety attacks about nuclear war as a kid growing up at the tail end of the cold war.

In the 90’s, it felt like the world began to come to its collective senses as disarmament began to take hold. But now as non-proliferation treaties are scrapped, as countries ramp up missile production and nuclear programs, it’s vital for us to consider the ramifications of those choices, to take a hard look at the nuclear powder keg our modern world sits atop.”

As a small but nimble professional Theatre, Know Theatre is uniquely suited to take a show from page-to-stage both rapidly and effectively – especially when a story is as relevant to this moment as Nick Gill’s Sand is.

Join us for a gripping night of hot-off-the-presses theatre, in a special limited run from March 28 – 30 – only at Your Theatrical Playground, Know Theatre of Cincinnati.

Cast

Starring Know Theatre Producing Artistic Director Andrew J. Hungerford

Production Team

Director –  Brant Russell

Scenic & Lighting Designer – Andrew J. Hungerford