The Small Hours (Sensory Guide)

The Small Hours Sensory guide

Performance running time: 65 minutes Carne theatre, LAMDA Oct 2022

Here is a guide to sensory information symbols in this document:

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Indicates a scene where actors will run around the seating, and/or retrieve items from underneath the seating

Arriving at LAMDA

When You arrive at LAMDA the box oﬃce is to your right. You should pick up your ticket here by telling a staﬀ member your name.

Toilets are located right next to the box oﬃce if you would like to use them. LAMDA staﬀ will be nearby wearing LAMDA branded Tshirts. If you need any help please ask them.

This is the Theatre Foyer. You are welcome to wait in this area until someone announces ‘the house is open’.

There are plenty of tables and chairs in this area should you want to sit down.

This performance will take place in the Carne theatre.You can access the Theatre by walking through this set of doors in the foyer. The Carne is fully accessible step free.

When you enter the theatre an usher will take your ticket from you.

This is what the stage will look like. You are free to sit wherever you like

During this performance the actors playing characters will run around the seats and through the centre aisles. Some actors will also retrieve items from underneath the seating.

If you do not wish to be near anyone running, or getting items, please speak to an usher who can guide you to a suitable seat.

About the show

It's the middle of the night, and Peebs and Epi are the only students left at school over half-term. At the end of their night out, former stepsiblings Red and Jazz try to navigate their reunion. With only a couple of hours until morning, Jaffa tries to help Keesh finish an essay. As day breaks, Wolfie is getting up the courage to confess a secret to VJ at a party.

Their choices are small yet momentous. The hours are small but feel very, very long. And when the night finally ends, the future is waiting –every last bit of it.

The cast

Mahaila Palmer

Playing

Keesh Ibraheem Hussain Playing Epi Issac Jean Meiro Jazz Jenkins Uriel Kuntu-Blankson Alfayd Raji Ramesa Sohail Travis Philips

Playing

Jaﬀa

Playing

Jazz

Playing Peebs Playing

VJ

Playing

Wolﬁe

Playing Red she/her she/her she/herhe/him he/him he/him he/himhe/him

Scene 1 - 1AM

The character Peebs will appear in the downstage aisle. He says hello to the character Epi very suddenly, which startles him.

Peebs tells Epi about a cyst he has in graphic detail. The two also discuss medical trauma and operations in hospital very brieﬂy.

The cast of actors begin walking around the stage singing loudly to transition into scene 2. Some actors will grab items from underneath the audience’s seats.

Scene 2 - 2AM

The characters Jazz and Red run around the seats very quickly and suddenly, laughing to each other.

Jazz and Red have an argument about their parents’ divorce. Red states that he wants to hit Jazz.

Jazz confesses to Red that she found some paedophilic content on her father’s laptop.

The cast of actors begin walking around the stage singing loudly to transition into scene 3. Some actors will grab items from underneath the audience’s seats.

Scene 3 - 3AM

The character Keish shouts excitedly when playing a video game with her friend Jaﬀa. Jaﬀa joins in shouting when he loses the game.

The cast of actors begin walking around the stage singing loudly to transition into scene 4. Some actors will grab items from underneath the audience’s seats.

Scene 4 - 4AM

Once the cast have ﬁnished the scene transition a loud nightclub song will begin playing immediately. The character VJ then shouts over the music to her friend.

A wind noise plays very quietly but then suddenly becomes very loud.

Scene 5 - 5AM

A sudden ﬂash of light and burst of noise happens when the character Keesh says “That’s not the end for people in retail”

A sudden ﬂash of light and burst of noise happens when the character Epi says “Everything in the future will just be more of the same. Or that things might get worse”