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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: The Prince Homburg (Donmar Warehouse); The Lion in Winter (The Theatre Royal Haymarket); Inherit the Wind (Old Vic) and Mucky Kid (Latchmere Theatre).

Screen credits include: Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy series 2 (upcoming), Reacher, Honeymoon/Funeral (upcoming), Lodge 49, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Soulmates, Gumshoe, The Woman In White, Humans, Vera, The Paradise, Ripper Street, Endeavour, The Tudors and Lewis, Survivor, Breaking the Bank and The Fifth Estate.

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 BBC 1 mini-series Wahala and Chloe. She featured in a recurring role for the ITV mini-series Litveneko. Some of her early work includes Sinbad, and the BBC’s hit detective dramady Death in Paradise.

Other screen credits include: Ashes to Ashes, Thorne and Da Vinci’s Demons. She is set to appear in the highly anticipated finale season of Outlander.

Her theatre credits include: Racing Demon (Crucible Theatre), Here’s What She Said To Me (Utopia Theatre/Crucible Theatre), Random (Synergy Theatre Project); Iya Ile (The first wife) (Soho Theatre/Tiata Fahodzi – Olivier Award nomination); Treasure Island (Theatre Royal Haymarket) Little on the Inside (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Hoard, Octagon (Arcola) and The White Card (Northern Stage/Manchester HOME/Soho Theatre).

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 credits include: 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, Charity (European Tour); Birthday (Royal Court); Play Mas (Orange Tree); Family Man (Stratford East) and The Architect (Actors Touring Company GDIF).

Television credits include: 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 and Casualty.

Films credits include: 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 and Harry Hill – The Movie.

Animation credits includes:  Jo Jo and Gran Gran Series 1,2 & 3, Bob The Builder and Zog.

Radio and narration credits 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 and JoJo and Gran Gran.

Writing credits include:  Afternoon Play: Fruit Salad and 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

For Kiln Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun and Wine in the Wilderness and Water

Theatre credits includes: Oedipus (Wyndhams Theatre); Hardtime Pressure, Heroes Welcome, Gregory Motton’s Downfall, Some Singing Blood, Been so Long, Choir Boy  (Royal Court theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (The Tyne Theatre/Bloomsbury Theatre); Macbeth, Black Poppies, Blood Wedding, Market Boy  (National Theatre); Great Big Shame (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse/New Ambassadors Theatre) and Sitting in Limbo (Watford Palace Theatre).

Television credits includes: London’s Burning pilot, EastEnders, Valentine Falls, Thief Takers, Brothers and Sisters, Dreamteam, Numb3rs, Airforce One is Down and Steal.

Film credits 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 and 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 nearly 20 years as a director, voiceover artist & an award-winning actress & writer. She is most recognised for her performances in BAFTA Winning TV series Dreaming Whilst Black and the Tony winning, UK transfer of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding at the Lyric Hammersmith.

Further screen credits include: The Kitchen, We Are Lady Parts, Big Boys, Ladies First and award winning short film You & Me Makes Three, 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) and 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 Nights 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) and Drunk History (Comedy Stories).

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

 

CREATIVE TEAM

Natasha Gordon | Playwright

Nine Night is Natasha Gordon’s debut play. It was first produced 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 in 2019.  Her stage adaptation of Bernadine Evaristo’s novel Mr Loverman will be staged at the National Theatre in spring 2027.

Natasha trained as an actor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her stage credits include: Nine Night (Trafalgar Studios); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre/St Ann’s Warehouse); The Low Road, 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 Apocalypse and Danny and the Human Zoo.

Creative Team

Natasha Gordon

Writer
Natasha Gordon

Writer

Nine Night is Natasha Gordon’s debut play. It was first produced 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 in 2019.  Her stage adaptation of Bernadine Evaristo’s novel Mr Loverman will be staged at the National Theatre in spring 2027.

Natasha trained as an actor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her stage credits include: Nine Night (Trafalgar Studios); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre/St Ann’s Warehouse); The Low Road, 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 Apocalypse 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
Libby Watson

Set & Costume Designer

Libby trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has a 1st Class BA Hons degree in Theatre Design from Wimbledon School of Art. She has designed extensively in the UK and abroad. Libby designed the premiere of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop in the West End which was the winner of 2011 Olivier Award for Best Play.

For Kiln Theatre/Tricycle Theatre: Manic Street Creature, Gem of the Ocean, Blues for Mr Charlie, Radio Golf and The War Next Door.

Theatre credits include: L’elisird’amore, Samson and Delilah (Dorset Opera); Gang of Three (Kings Head/UK Tour); The Rat Trap (Park Theatre); Es and Flo (Cardiff Milennium Centre); The Fellowship (Hampstead Theatre); Tony the Rock Opera (Leicester Square Theatre, UK Tour); Kvakk!?! (Rogeland Teater Norway); Glitterball, Deranged Marriage, Break the Floorboards, Laila (Rifco/Watford Palace/UK Tour); Bring It On (Queen Elizabeth Hall London); Toast by Nigel Slater (The Other Palace, UK Tour); Being Mr Wickham (Live Stream/UK Tour/59E59, New York); Dr Faustus (Sam Wanamaker Theatre); Trolle and Helt Privat (Kilden Theatre, Norway); Earnes?! (Underbelly, The Peacock/Adelaide/UK Tour); The Philanthropist (Trafalgar Studio); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Wolsey Theatre); Once (Wolsey and UK Tour); Daisy Pulls it Off (Park Theatre); Peter Pan (Misi Producciones Bogota Columbia); Fences (Duchess Theatre/Theatre Royal Bath); One Man Two Guvnors, Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity, It’s a Wonderful Life, Wolsey Theatre, Les Femmes Savantes, The Miser (Belgrade Theatre); Rudy’s Rare Records (Birmingham Rep/Hackney Empire); Propaganda Swing (Belgrade/ Nottingham Playhouse); Frankie and Johnny (Chichester Festival Theatre); History Boys (UK Tour); Play Mas (Orange Tree); Feed the Beast, Hysteria (Birmingham Rep); Three Sisters (UK Tour); Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Sheffield Crucible/UK tour); Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (Hampstead Theatre/UK Tour); Blest Be The Tie and What’s in the Cat (Royal Court).

Film credits include: Alexander Pope Discovering a Genius and Tell Me You Love Me (short).

Commercial credits include: Burgess yachts, Aesop Gift Sets, Aesop Lucent Aurner and Eleos, and costume for the London shoot of How to Make a Killing.

Rory Beaton

Lighting Designer
Rory Beaton

Lighting Designer

Rory is an award-winning lighting designer whose work can be seen globally.

For the Kiln: Please Please Me, Pins & Needles

Theatre credits include: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (Royal Court/Garrick Theatre/Apollo Theatre); Jews. In Their Own Words (Royal Court); The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo Theatre); Death Drop: Back in the Habit, Instructions For A Teenage Armageddon (Garrick); Burlesque The Musical (Savoy Theatre); Your Lie In April (Harold Pinter); Wild About You, JO: The Little Women Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Merchant of Venice 1936 (Royal Shakespeare Company/Criterion Theatre/Trafalgar Theatre) and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! (Coliseum); Disney’s High School Musical (Wembley Troubadour/Manchester Lowry); Sweeney Todd (Birmingham Rep); Johannes Radebe: Finally Home (UK & Ireland Tour); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Global Tour); Midnight: A New Musical (Sadler’s Wells East); The Lord of the Rings (Chicago, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, UK); Jesus Christ Superstar (Watermill Theatre); Tom Fletcher’s The Creakers (Southbank Centre/Theatre Royal Plymouth); Little Shop of Horrors (Hope Mill Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse) and Grayson The Musical (Soho Walthamstow).

Mwen

Sound Designer & Composer
Mwen

Sound Designer & Composer

Mwen is a Sound Designer and Composer working across theatre, music production and live audio-visual performance.

Theatre credits include: Cowbois (Royal Shakespeare Company/Royal Court Theatre); Sonders (Daniel Kaluuya’s Centre 59 – Roundhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (National Youth Theatre); Dismissed (Soho Theatre) and Key Workers Cycle (Almeida Theatre).

Alongside their theatre work, Mwen has performed at Southbank Centre, Somerset House and Glastonbury Festival, as well as on international tours. Their compositions and productions have received airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music, XFM, NTS and Rinse FM, and have been synchronised for television and fashion films.

Mwen was a 2023–24 Sounding Change Artist Residency grantee with the University of Birmingham’s Music Department and received an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant in 2025. Their current practice extends into immersive audio-visual performance, combining sound, visuals, movement and interactive technology.

Kloé Dean

Movement Director
Kloé Dean

Movement Director

Kloé Dean is a choreographer, movement director and creative consultant working across live performance, film, television and theatre. Her work is recognised for its clarity, bold physical language and emotional intelligence, bringing movement-led storytelling to stages and screens internationally.

Kloé’s work is inseparable from her identity as a performer. With over 20 years performing and creating, she works from inside the body, not just from the outside looking in.

Kloé has collaborated with leading music artists including Little Simz, Anne-Marie, Nao, Cleo Sol, SAULT, Giggs, Leigh Anne, Kojey Radical, Ezra Collective, Little Mix and Wizkid.

Selected screen & broadcast credits include: NFL Halftime Performance (UK), Paris Has Fallen, Supacell, The BRIT Awards, The MOBO Awards, Glastonbury Festival, BBC Big Weekender, The Jonathan Ross Show and Lewis Hamilton: Another Dream Come True.

Selected theatre credits include: Afronauts (The Royal Court); Bloodsport, Tambo and Bones (Stratford East); Marie & Rosetta (Soho Place/UK Tour); Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (The Lyric); The Boy at the Back of the Class (Rose Theatre Kingston); Wallace (Scottish Tour); The Koala Who Could (UK/Asia Tour); Liberation (Royal Exchange Manchester) and Our Mighty Groove (Sadler’s Wells East).

Selected commercial & brand collaborations include: Red Bull, Timberland, Nike, Jimmy Choo, Marks & Spencer, Yazoo, ASDA George, Star Alliance and Airtasker.

Hazel Holder & Claudette Williams

Voice & Dialect Coach

Julia Horan CDG

Casting Director

Jordi M. Carter

Associate Director
Jordi M. Carter

Associate Director

Jordi M. Carter (he/him) is a Caribbean-British director from Streatham, South London.

Directing credits include: August Wilson’s Seven Guitars (LAMDA); The Rise of Josephine Baker, Dead Internet (Riverside Studios); Brink (Almeida Theatre); …Before I Wake (Daniel Kaluuya’s Centre 59 – Roundhouse); Pause/Rewind (Bush Theatre); His Name (Contact Manchester); Aromatherapy (Talawa Theatre Company) and The Government Inspector (Lyric Hammersmith/Wimbledon College of Arts).

As Associate Director: Marie & Rosetta (Rose Theatre Kingston/English Touring Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre/@sohoplace); Friendsgiving / The Mending Circle (Lyric Hammersmith – Bill Cashmore Award).

As Assistant Director: Animal Farm (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Leeds Playhouse/Nottingham Playhouse – Olivier Award-nominated) and We Need New Names (UK Tour – New Perspectives/Fifth Word/Brixton House Theatre).

Training includes: Fresh Direction (Young Vic); The Knot (New Diorama Theatre/Guildhall School of Music & Drama/Uproot Productions) and Developing Your Creative Practice – Theatre Directing (Arts Council England).

Jordi was formerly a Trustee of Chichester Festival Theatre, Lambeth Baylis Trustee at The Old Vic, Co-Artistic Director/CEO of Boundless Theatre, and Young Associate at the Young Vic.

jordimcarter.com | @jordimcarter

Izzy Pellow

Costume Supervisor
Izzy Pellow

Costume Supervisor

Isobel Pellow trained at London College of Fashion.

For Kiln: Coven, The Ballad of Hattie and James, Mlima’s Tale, Retrograde (also Apollo Theatre) and Girl on an Altar.

Other theatre includes: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); Hansel and Gretel, Tristan Und Isolde (Longborough Festival Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Unicorn Theatre); Hamlet (Chichester Festival Theatre); Poor Clare (Orange Tree Theatre); 4.48 Psychosis, More Life (Royal Court Theatre); Princess Essex (Shakespeare’s Globe); Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder (Ambassadors Theatre); Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Stratford East); The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); A Christmas Carole (Southend Palace); Alice in Wonderland (Brixton House); The Memory of Water, Blackout Songs (Hampstead Theatre); House of Flamenka (Peacock Theatre); Green Eggs and Ham (Opera North); The Sweet Science of Bruising, Britten in Brooklyn (Wilton’s Music Hall); Four Play and Clickbait (Theatre 503).

Tevae Humphrey

Wigs, Hair and Make-Up Supervisor