In a remote English cottage by the sea, retired scientists Hazel and Robin are determined to grow old together as the world crumbles around them. Practicing yoga, tending cows, and rationing electricity, the couple does its best to live “normally” in the wake of a nuclear disaster. But their already precarious existence is challenged when Rose, a friend and former colleague, shows up after 38 years with a life-altering request. Kirkwood’s West End and Broadway hit raises big questions about culpability, and what we owe ourselves and younger generations.
“Grips compulsively . . . leaves you an abundance of ideas on which to ruminate.” Guardian
“A thought-provoking and haunting drama about legacies and how the past always catches up with the present." NY Daily News
RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES WITHOUT INTERMISSION
THE CHILDREN
CAST
CREATIVE TEAM
Directed by Steve Kidd
Set Designer/Director of Production Jessica Hill Kidd
Costume Designer David T. Howard
Lighting Designer David Roy
Sound Designer Peter Sasha Hurowtiz
Dialect Coach Donnla Hughes
Stage Manager Robin Grady*
Assistant Stage Manager Jessica Corsentino
Assistant to the Director Omar Laguerre-Lewis
Production Assistant Eddy Tavares
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
