Last Days
Cast sheet
Thursday 11 December 2025
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7.45pm
A co-commission with Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Approximate timings
Composer
Oliver Leith
Librettist and Art Director
Matt Copson
Co-directors
Anna Morrissey, Matt Copson
Set designer
Grace Smart
Costume Designer
Nat Turner
Lighting designer
Prema Mehta
Sound Design
Sound Intermedia
Blake
Jake Dunn
Superfan
Patricia Auchterlonie
Housemate
Edmund Danon
Delivery Driver / Housemate
Mimi Doulton
Groundskeeper
Sion Goronwy
Private Investigator
Jimmy Holliday
MORMONS / HOUSEMATES
Kate Howden, Zahid Siddiqui
Magician
Henry Jenkinson
Trip (Blake's Manager)
Pre-recorded role
Cole Morrison
Opera singer
Pre-recorded role
Caroline Polachek
Conductor
Jack Sheen
Orchestra
12 Ensemble
Orchestra
GBSR Duo
Co-Artistic Directors
Eloisa-Fleur Thom, Max Ruisi
Musicians
Eloisa-Fleur Thom, Alessandro Ruisi, Oliver Cave, Ellie Consta, Luba Tunnicliffe, Matthew Kettle, Max Ruisi, Peteris Sokolovskis, Toby Hughes
Percussionist
George Barton
Pianist
Siwan Rhys
Associate Director
Netia Jones
Senior Producer
Rachel Caccia
Producer
Grace Cook
Assistant Producer
Darragh Kelly
Linbury Technical Manager
Thomas Thompson
Linbury Assistant Technical Manager
Nick Manning
Senior Stage Technician
Charlie Earl
Stage Technician
Daryl Anderson
Senior Lighting Technician
Sophie Bailey
Lighting Technician
Matt Iles
Senior Sound and Video Technician
Andre Birck
Sound and Video Technician
Sharon Tsang
Linbury Costume Manager
Alice Lessing
Wigs and Make-up Senior Technician
Keisha Banya
Armoury Manager
Max Brown
Surtitle Manager
Andrew Kingsmill
Synopsis
Blake, a successful musician, has recently escaped rehab to return home...
Blake, a successful musician, has recently escaped rehab to return home. The safety of his house is soon disrupted by a slew of unwelcome guests – an insistent delivery worker, a pair of Mormons on a mission, a chorus of scrounging friends and the ominous figure of the property’s groundskeeper. Matters are made worse by the never-ending phone calls from his Manager and presence of a Private Investigator and Superfan stalking nearby. Blake responds by hiding and disassociating from his surroundings.
As the chaos around him reaches an apex, a ghostly apparition of a magician appears before Blake, offering him a way out – in the form of a bullet. Blake is left alone – at last – with nothing to confront but himself. Realising he is existentially trapped, he chooses to end it all, and with his death the last days are over.
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