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Sleepless archiveA woman lies awake. Pupils like pinpricks, skin saturated in sweat, the odd jerk of a muscle. She hasn't slept for 3 months. She knows what is happening to her and there's nothing she can do. Francesca Trevisan's body is discovered in her car in the North Sea. Her neighbours say she had been acting strangely. Her daughter and a doctor she has never met are left to discover what drove her to commit such an act. Set against the backdrop of an unfolding mad cow crisis, Cosima and Dr Graham go on a journey through history and a race against time to find the cause and cure of a rare disease before its commercial interest wanes. Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a family cursed with a rare genetic disease that cruelly deprives members of sleep until they die, Sleepless is a story that sits at the crossroads of two cutting edge areas of science: sleep research and prion theory, and begs the broader question: how do we decide the value of a human life?
Performers Michael Cusick, Jake Ferretti, Andrew Quirbach, Leoni Schulz, Balvinder Sopal.
Author Hannah Barker. Author Liam Jarvis. Company Analogue. Company Staatstheater Mainz. Director Hannah Barker. Design Anike Sedello. Lighting Jurgen Sippert. Sound Elena Pena. Design Christoph Schodel (video design). Dramaturg Jorg Vorhaben.


Sleepless (Play) production archive for QTIX code T0285233886. Details of all Sleepless archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S01388769467

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1 Sep 16
14 Sep 16
Shoreditch Town Hall
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