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NINE NIGHT

12 Nov–02 Jan 2027

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Kiln Theatre presents

Nine Night

by Natasha Gordon

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Some secrets don’t make it to the grave

When Gloria passes, her family gathers for the traditional Jamaican Nine Night. And that means the whole family.

As more and more mourners gather bringing rum and curry and complaints, tensions build, and the family must face some uncomfortable truths.

‘A spirit never wan fi leave de family home’; and there’s still 8 days left…

Amit Sharma (Retrograde, Please Please Me) directs this brand new production of Natasha Gordon’s critically acclaimed debut play celebrating the humour and hardships of grief.

 

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Special Performances

Alcohol Free Performance: 23 November, 7.30pm
Post show Q&A and Supporters’ Evening: 1 December, 7.30pm
Schools’ Performance: 9 December, 1.30pm
Supporters’ Matinee: 16 December, 2.30pm

Access Performances

Audio Described Performance, preceded by a Touch Tour: 17 December, 7.30pm
Captioned Performance: 3 & 22 December, 7.30pm
Relaxed Performance: 12 December, 2.30pm
BSL Performance: 8 December, 7.30pm

For a plaintext pdf of the show infromation for Nine Night, please click here.

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Ticket Prices

£15 – £45

Duration

TBC

Dates

12 Nov–02 Jan 2027

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Cast

Sonya Cassidy

Sophie
Sonya Cassidy

Sophie

Theatre credits include: Dennis Kelly’s The Prince of Homburg alongside Charlie Cox (The Donmar Warehouse); The Lion in Winter with Joanna Lumley (Theatre Royal Haymarket); and Inherit The Wind (The Old Vic), both directed by Trevor Nunn. She also starred in Mucky Kid by Sam Potter, (Latchmere Theatre).

On screen, Sonya can be seen in Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy series 2 (airing in 2027) for Paramount+ and as a lead, regular in Reacher for Amazon Prime. Sonya also stars as a lead in two series of AMC’s Lodge 49 created by Jim Gavin and starring Paul Giamatti and Wyatt Russell on Amazon Prime and ITVX in the UK. She stars in CBS’s The Man Who Fell To Earth opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor as well as AMC’s Soulmates created by Brett Goldstein and William Bridges and Gumshoe, for HBO Max. Other credits include The Woman in White opposite Jessie Buckley and series 2 lead in the BAFTA award-nominated sci-fi series Humans. Additional television credits include: Vera, The Paradise, Ripper Street, Endeavour, The Tudors, and Lewis.

In film, Sonya will soon be seen in Honeymoon/Funeral opposite Rebecca Ferguson and Greta Lee directed by Nahnachka Khan, she is featured in crime thriller Survivor opposite Pierce Brosnan and James D’Arcy; the comedy Breaking The Bank alongside Kelsey Grammer and Tamsin Greig; and in biographical drama The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Alicia Vikander.

Estella Daniels

Trudy
Estella Daniels

Trudy

Estella Daniels is a talented Actor, singer and dancer. She has an extensive list of theatre and television credits, which includes the upcoming BBC1 miniseries Wahala and BBC1/AMAZON hit Chloe. She featured in a recurring for the ITV miniseries Litvinenko; Produced and directed by Jim Field Smith.  Some of her early work includes Sinbad (SKY 1) and the BBC’s hit detective dramady; Death In Paradise. Other screen credits are; Ashes to Ashes (BBC); Thorne (SKY 1) and
Da Vinci’s Demons (BBC) by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Blade franchise and Man of Steel). She is set to appear in the highly anticipated finale season of the  Starz/Amazon series Outlander.

Her theatre credits include Racing Demon (Crucible Theatre) and Here’s What She Said To Me (Utopia Theatre/Crucible Theatre). Estella captivated audiences in BAFTA Award-winning one-woman-show Random. She headed the cast in Oladipo Agbaluoage’ Iya Ile (The first wife) (Soho Theatre/ Tiata Fahodzi production); receiving rave reviews and a nomination for an Olivier Award. She was a key fixture in Treasure Island (Theatre Royal Haymarket) and has been a favorite of Edinburgh Fringe Festival, receiving stellar reviews for her performance in Alice Birch’s  Little on the Inside. She has made several appearances at the London Arcola Theatre with HOARD and OCTAGON  and most recently, Estella lead the cast in the UK debut of Claudia Rankine’s The White Card (Northern Stage, Manchester HOME and Soho theatre co-production).

Her credits also include serving as Co-Producer of the Sickle Cell Collective and Associate Director on the eagerly awaited play Crescent Cell Sickle Moon, written by Mojisola Adebayo.

Llewella Gideon

Auntie Maggie
Llewella Gideon

Auntie Maggie

Theatre includes: Care (Young Vic); Going for Gold (Park Theatre/ Daphne Hackett Theatre Barbados); Marys Seacole, The Vote (Donmar); The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre); Faith, Hope and Charity (European tour); Birthday (Royal Court); Play Mas (Orange Tree); Family Man (Stratford East) The Architect (Actors Touring Company GDIF).

Television includes: Eastenders; Mr Loverman; Boarders; Queenie; Top Boy; Gangsta Granny Strikes Again; Mrs Sidhu Investigates; Christmas Carole; Small Axe Mangrove; The Real McCoy; Absolutely Fabulous; Nighty Night; Game Face; Millie In-Between; Still Open All Hours; Delivery Man; The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff; Holby; Casualty.

Film includes: Where He Sleeps; Rye Lane; Paddington; A Street Cat Named Bob; My Jerome; Black Sea; Second Coming; Before I Go to Sleep; Manderlay; Nativity; Absolutely Fabulous –The Movie; Harry Hill – The Movie.

Animation includes:  Jo Jo and Gran Gran BBC Series 1,2,3; Bob The Builder; Zog Series

Radio and narration includes:  Comedy School, Bob the Builder; CBeebies Storytime; Between the Lines; Beauty of Britain; The Little Big Woman Radio Show series 1 – 3; Lenny Henry Up Next; Emerald Green; Giles Wembley Hogg Goes Off; The Mayor of Balham; JoJo and Gran Gran.

As a writer: Afternoon Play: Fruit Salad; The Little Big Woman Book.

Ava Hinds-Jones

Anita
Ava Hinds-Jones

Anita

Ava is a LAMDA graduate. She starred as Billy in Ben Wheatley’s TV series, Generation Z for Channel 4. She recently embarked on a US tour of Hamnet with the RSC; and was recently seen in ITV drama, Believe Me and Silent Witness for the BBC.

Upcoming credits include: Death in Paradise.

Gary McDonald

Uncle Vincent
Gary McDonald

Uncle Vincent

Theatre includes: Oedipus (Wyndham’s Theatre); Hardtime Pressure (Royal Court Theatre); Heroes Welcome (Royal Court Theatre); Gregory Motton’s Downfall (Royal Court Theatre); Some Singing Blood (Royal Court Theatre); Been so Long (Royal Court theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Kiln Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (The Tyne Theatre/Bloomsbury Theatre); Macbeth (National Theatre); Black Poppies (National Theatre); Great Big Shame (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Leonardo in Blood Wedding (National Theatre); The Trader in Market Boy (National Theatre); Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse/New Ambassadors Theatre); Headmaster Marrow in Choir Boy (Royal Court); Sitting in Limbo (Watford Palace Theatre); Wine in the Wilderness and Water (Kiln Theatre).

Television includes: London’s Burning pilot; EastEnders; Valentine Falls; Thief Takers; Brothers and Sisters; Dreamteam (Sky One); Numb3rs; Airforce One is Down; Steal (Amazon Prime).

Film includes: Shooting Stars; Secrets and Lies; All or Nothing; Until Death; The Shepard; Airforce One is Down; Outpost – Black Sun; Lapse of Honour; The Lost Ones; 5lbs Of Pressure; A Miracle Before Christmas; Voodoo Macbeth; The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer; Private Number; Queens English.

Dani Moseley

Lorraine
Dani Moseley

Lorraine

Born and raised in South London, Dani Moseley has been working professionally in the creative industry for over 18 years as an award winning Actress & Writer, Director & Voice Over Artist. She is most recognised for her outstanding performances as supporting Lead; Amy, in BAFTA Winning and EMMY nominated TV series Dreaming Whilst Black (2 seasons, BBC) and comedic multi rolling in the Tony Award winning Broadway transfer of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding at the Lyric Hammersmith.

Dani’s distinguished body of work also includes the critically acclaimed Feature Film The Kitchen (Netflix), We Are Lady Parts (Channel 4), Big Boys (Apple TV), Ladies First (Netflix) and the eagerly anticipated sapphic short film You & Me Makes Three where Dani plays the lead role ‘Amara’. It’s currently on the global film festival circuit.

Javone Prince

Robert
Javone Prince

Robert

Javone Prince is a BAFTA-nominated actor who has had starring roles across stage, film and television.

For Kiln Theatre: Loot

 

Theatre credits includes: Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, Richard III (RSC); The Suicide, Statement of Regret, Burn, Chatroom, Citizenship (National Theatre); Sugar Mummies, 93.2 FM (The Royal Court); Blackta, In The Red and Brown Water, Raisin In The Sun (Young Vic); One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Old Vic); Ìyà-Ilé (Soho Theatre); Out of Fog (Almeida); The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke (Complicite).

Television credits includes: Dodger, The Javone Prince Show, Inside No. 9, Rev, The Verdict, Outnumbered, Flat TV, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, My Family, Little Miss Jocelyn, Still Open All Hours, Sticky, Verbatim, Life’s Too Short (BBC); The Dumping Ground, Sorry, I’ve Got No Head, Horrible Histories, Hank Zipzer (CBBC); Plebs, Timewasters, The Bill, Three Little Birds (ITV); PhoneShop, Maxxx, Babylon (Channel 4); Find Me In Paris (Netflix); Drunk History (Comedy Stories)

Film credits includes: No Time To Die (MGM).

Creative Team

Natasha Gordon

Writer
Natasha Gordon

Writer

Natasha Gordon is a British playwright and actress of Jamaican descent. Her debut play, Nine Night, enjoyed a sold-out run at the National Theatre in April 2018 before transferring to Trafalgar Studio in 2019. In 2022 the play received its US premiere at the Round House in Washington DC and a revival was produced by Leeds and Nottingham Playhouses in the UK. In 2018 Natasha won the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards as well as the Critics’ Circle Award. Nine Night was also nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy. She is currently working on commissions for the National Theatre and for television.

As a performer, her stage credits include: Nine Night (Trafalgar Studios); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre/St Ann’s Warehouse); The Low Road and Clubland (Royal Court Theatre); Mules (Young Vic) and As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company). Film and TV credits include: Dough, Line of Duty, You, Me and the Apocolypse, and Danny and the Human Zoo. 

Amit Sharma

Director
Amit Sharma

Director

Amit Sharma is Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre where he most recently directed Please Please Me, Pins and Needles and The Purists. Before joining the Kiln Theatre as Associate Director, he was previously Deputy Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep, Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, and Associate Director at Graeae Theatre Company where his journey into theatre began. Sharma directed the critically acclaimed and sell-out run of Retrograde at the Kiln, transferring to the West End’s Apollo Theatre in March; and has also directed two productions at the National Theatre – The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae Theatre Company/Theatre Royal Plymouth co-production) and The Boy With Two Hearts (also Wales Millennium Centre). He also co-directed Prometheus Awakes, one of the largest outdoor productions featuring Deaf and disabled artists as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad (Graeae Theatre Company/ Greenwich+Docklands International Festival/ Stockton International Riverside Festival/La Fura Dels Baus); and Aruna and The Raging Sun in Chennai, India as part of UK/INDIA Year of Culture 2017. He is an international award-winning director of theatre and television. Sharma is a BAFTA nominated director, for his two films which were part of the Criptales season on BBC and BBC AMERICA. He also co-directed the award-winning BBC and NETFLIX television drama Then Barbara Met Alan (Best Single Drama, 2023 Broadcast Awards). He began his training at Graeae Theatre Company with Missing Piece 1. His other theatre credits include One Under (Graeae Theatre Company/Theatre Royal Plymouth), Cosmic Scallies (Graeae Theatre Company/Royal Exchange Theatre), and Iron Man (Graeae Theatre Company/international tour). His other television work includes Hamish, and Thunderbox.  

Libby Watson

Set & Costume Designer

Rory Beaton

Lighting Designer

Mwen

Sound Designer & Composer

Kloé Dean

Movement Director

Hazel Holder & Claudette Williams

Voice & Dialect

Julia Horan CDG

Casting Director

Poppy Apter

Casting Assistant