Amara Okereke and Kyle Rowe are now in rehearsals for Echo, Susan Eve Haar’s play coming to King’s Head Theatre this month.
Directed by Abigail Zealey Bess, the psychological thriller (previously called Paper Doll) arrives in London after successful runs at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and 59E69 in New York.
At a secluded B&B in upstate New York, a couple arrives to celebrate their tenth anniversary. The room is romantic, garish, off-kilter. So is she. Unstable, sensual, unpredictable – she wants something dangerous. He’s desperate to please her. But as champagne flows and erotic games escalate, the night spirals into something darker, more surreal… until a baby, a blade, and a secret crack everything open.
Twenty years later, another couple returns to the same room to scatter her mother’s ashes. But something lingers in the wallpaper, in the fan’s rhythmic hum, in the echoes of the past. She’s never been here before, at least not this version of her…
Echo has design by Peiyao Wang, lighting design by Daniel Carter-Brennan, sound design by Julian Starr, video and projection design by Matt Powell and casting by Nicholas Hockaday.
Echo opens on July 18, and will run until August 17. Tickets here.
Top image: Kyle Rowe & Amara Okereke in rehearsals for Echo – credit Steve Gregson (image supplied)