Production History and Development- Tim Crouch develops his work in collaboration with the artists Karl James and a smith. Their role, as Crouch puts it, is to ask as many questions as possible about the whats, whys, and hows of the piece. In development a smith played the father, but never in front of an audience. In rehearsal and previews, Ian Golding and Cath Dyson did so as did Hannah Ringham, who would later on be the second actor in Crouch’s 2007 piece ENGLAND.
2005-Previewed at the National Theatre, Germany and UK.
2005-Premiered Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
2005-2006-Tours Ireland and UK
2006-International Tour Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, Russia, Portugal, Finland, Italy
2006-2007-Run at the Barrow Street Theatre, West Village NYC.
2007-Run at Intrepid Theatre, Victoria, Canada.
2007-2008-Run at Soho Theatre, London, from here tours UK a second time.
2008-2009-Second International Tour: Brazil, Singapore, Quebec, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Brown University USA.
2010-Run at the Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles.
2011-Three performances UMASS Amherst.
2011-Two performances Athens Greece.
Notable second actors include: Mark Ravenhill, Toby Jones, F. Murray Abraham, Maura Tierney, Frances McDormand, Michael Cerveris, Marin Ireland, Peter Dinklage, Mike Meyers, Adam Rapp, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Durang, Geoffrey Rush, Peter Gallagher, Jason Alexander, Alanis Morisette, Alan Cumming.
Professional Productions without Tim Crouch
2009-Australia, Perth Theatre Company, Luke Hewitt as Hypnotist.
2011-New Zealand, Circa Two Wellington Theater, Tim Spite as Hypnotist.
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