Stars in the Morning Sky

Nicholai La Barrie is a theatre and film director and has been a MOBO Fellow. He is Associate Director at The Lyric Hammersmith.

Theatre credits include: Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); Two Stangers (Carry a cake across NY); Romeo & Juliet (Royal Exchange Theatre), God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith); Associate Director Australia & Resident Director West End on Tina – The Tina Turner Musical; Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Grey (Oval House); Liar, Heretic, Thief (Lyric Hammersmith); White (Edinburgh Festival ); Gob (London International Festival of Theatre); The Book of Disquiet (Blue Elephant Theatre); I’ll Take You There(Gate); There is Nothing There (Oval House); Chet Baker: Speedball (606 Jazz Club) and Portrait For Posterity (Arcola Theatre).

Film credits include: Hamlet Sort Of (2017); North East South West (Short Film 2016); Aingeal (2012) and Dark Stranger (2009 Official selection Caribbean film festival).

Dramaturge include: Heart of Hammersmith; Feels and The Mob Reformers (Lyric Hammersmith).

Alexander Galin is one of the leading Russian playwrights, screenwriters, film and theatre directors. 

His plays include: The Wall (1971), Flying Birds (1974), Hole (1975), Roof (1976), Hallucination (1977), Retro (1979), East Stand (1981 ), Stars in the Morning Sky (1982), Tamada (1983), The Librarian (1984), Group (1989), «... Sorry» (1990), Title (1991), Czech Picture (1993), Anomaly (1996),The Clown and the Bandit (1997), The Siren and the Victoria (1998), Competition (1998), Accompanist (1998).

Plays by Galin were produced by more than 200 theaters all over the world, including the  Moscow Art Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, "Odeon" in Paris, the Schiller Theater in Berlin.

Michael Glenny was a British lecturer in Russian studies and a noted translator of Russian literature into English. He was the author of several works on Russian literature as well as co-author with Norman Stone of The Other Russia, an oral history of the experiences of Russian emigres for which he also conducted many of the interviews. He died in Moscow in the late summer of 1990.

Cathy Porter, author and translator, educated at London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Cambridge University, has published books, articles and essays on Russian history, culture and politics, and translations from Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Czech, including many stage works performed in theatres in the UK, the States and Ireland.

Implications of rape. Discussions of pregnancy. Contains strong language, alcohol abuse, violence and use of blood.

This amateur production of “Stars in the Morning Sky” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk 

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