Whoever makes up a story makes up a world, so you should always try and welcome people into the home of your story. That’s my suggestion.
Summer 2016. Britain has voted to leave the European Union, Elisabeth has returned home to the village she grew up in, and her elderly former next-door neighbour Daniel won’t wake up. New fences are going up, the library is closed, and her mother keeps talking about the latest antiques show on TV.
Elsewhere, the sleeping Daniel Gluck dreams – of his long-lost little sister; of Christine Keeler; of art, poetry and music.
From writer Harry McDonald (Foam) and director Charlotte Vickers (Sap, Andromeda) comes an adaptation of Ali Smith’s Booker-Prize shortlisted novel. As the divides between people become ever starker, Autumn finds connections across time and experience, and the resilience of the most unlikely of love stories.
CAST
GARY LILBURN
Theatre includes: Six Characters In Search Of A Good Night’s Sleep (Southwark Playhouse); Trouble In Mind (National Theatre); The Taming Of The Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), All That Fall (Out of Joint); The Cripple Of Irishman (West End / Broadway); Dr Faustus (Glasgow Citizens); 16 Possible Glimpses (Abbey Theatre); Calendar Girls (Chichester / West End); The Man Who Had All The Luck (Donmar Warehouse); The Quare Fellow (Tricycle Theatre) and The Weir (Royal Court).
Television includes: Father Brown, Bad Sisters, Belgravia, Doctors, Silent Witness, Casualty, Paula, Catastrophe (series 1-3), Mrs Brown’s Boys, Single Handed, Pulling, Whistleblower and Pete Verses Life
Film includes: Philomena, Eden, Garage and Veronica Guerin.
Radio includes: The Devils, Blue Thunder, Nora Webster, Love in Recovery, and Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall.
NANCY CRANE
Theatre includes Kyoto (RSC); A View from the Bridge (Headlong); Summer and Smoke (Almeida & West End), Dance Nation, Against (Almeida); Chimerica (Almeida & West End); Yellowfin, A Lie of the Mind, Next Fall (Southwark Playhouse); The Sewing Group, Now or Later, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Our Late Night, The Strip (Royal Court); Teddy Ferrara (Donmar); Vieux Carre (King’s Head); The Children’s Hour (W End); Design for Living (Old Vic); Love the Sinner, Angels in America (National Theatre); Re-Orientations (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); Chains of Dew, Trifles (Orange Tree); The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Six Degrees of Separation (Sheffield Crucible); The Price (National Tour); Habitat (Royal Exchange Manchester).
Television includes The Buccaneers, Inside Man, The Crown (series 5), Suspicion, The Girlfriend Experience, Call the Midwife, Avenue 5, Chimerica, Black Earth Rising, Melrose.
Films include The Current War, Leavey, The Danish Girl, Woman in Gold, Batman: The Dark Knight, The Road to Guantanamo, The Machinist.
REBECCA BANATVALA
Theatre credits include: Northanger Abbey (Orange Tree Theatre & UK Tour); Sap (Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Paines Plough Roundabout & Soho Theatre / UK Tour); I F*cked You In My Spaceship (VAULT Festival); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Rotterdam (UK Tour); The Three Musketeers (The Dukes) and Trident Moon (Finborough Theatre).
Television includes: Grace (ITV); Vigil (BBC); The Syndicate (BBC); Love, Death & Robots (Netflix) and Emmerdale (ITV).
Film includes: The Princess Switch 3 (Netflix).
Radio includes: Snares (BBC Radio 4).
SOPHIE WARD
Theatre includes The Silver Cord (Finborough Theatre); The Mirror Crack’d (National Tour); The Swell (Orange Tree Theatre); Artefact and Paradise Circus (Playground Theatre); Mount Vernon (King’s Head Theatre and Vindicate Company, Los Angeles); Brave New World (Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton); Cancelling Socrates and Flowers of the Forest (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Exorcist, A Judgement in Stone, Go Back For Murder and The Grass is Greener (National Tours for Bill Kenwright Ltd); Private Lives (Carpe); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (National Tour for Nimax); An Ideal Husband (Theatr Clwyd Cymru); Nothing (59E59, New York); Electricity (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Semi-Monde (Lyric Theatre); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (National Tour); The Turn of the Screw (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Venice Preserv’d, The Robbers Hamlet, Don Carlos, Private Lives and The Milk Train (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow) and Flare Path (King’s Head Theatre).
Film includes Swiperight, Jane Eyre, Book of Blood, Out of Bounds, Wuthering Heights, Young Toscanini, A Summer Story, Little Dorrit, Young Sherlock Holmes, Return to Oz and Aria.
Television includes Troubled Blood, This Sceptred Isle, Agatha Raisin, A Very British Scandal, The Moonstone, Doctors, Secret State, Hustle, Land Girls, Law and Order, New Tricks, Lewis, Holby City, Heartbeat, Dinotopia, A Village Affair, A Dark Adapted Eye, Taking Liberty, Inspector Lynley, Peak Practice, Rhona, Chiller: Prophecy, Taking Liberty, Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery, Dark Adapted Eye, The Strauss Dynasty, The Shell Seekers and Class of ’61.
Age Guidance: 14+
