JOSIE IRELAND

CREDITS            

    
Days of Significance
Milton Court Theatre
October 2023


Set in 2003, after the invasion of Iraq, Days of Significance follows the complex love lives and mortal fears of young soldiers departing their English market-towns for the deserts of the Middle East. With questions around morality at its heart, this thought-provoking play examines the cost of sending naïve young people to war, and the catastrophic reverberations for the West’s moral authority.

This production piloted ‘Safe Space’ methods with the support of Guildhall’s Safe Space Working Group. I had the pleasure of designing a new ‘decompression room’, researching quiet and sensory rooms in theatres & public spaces. Thanks go to Qian Yan Tan for her advice and expertise. The materials used or bought for this show were entirely recycled, reused, or repurposed for other projects. By the get-out, our only discards were 3 paint cans and 2 broken, unfixable chairs.

Writer: Roy Williams
Director: Monique Touko
Designer: Amy Jane Cook
Lighting Designer: Oliver Hynds
Sound Designer: Finn Rowden

Production Manager: Josie Ireland
Assistant Production Managers: Sam Bernstein, Ida Pontoppidan
Production Management Supervisor: Ben Kosminsky-Wallace

Photography: David Monteith-Hodge