About
Rebecca Wilkie as Slava
It’s nice to dream. to have dreams. even if they can’t be real.
Written and directed by Jack MacGregor
Assistant Director Keira Smith
Starring Rebecca Wilkie & Matthew Zajac
Set by Ali MacLaurin
Lighting by Grant Anderson
Music by Jonny Hardie & Brian MacAlpine
Production Manager Nils Hertog
Stage Manager Chariya Glasse-Davies
A Dogstar Theatre Production
Supported by Creative Scotland
Filmed January 2022, Findhorn Universal Hall
SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH FRINGE 2022
AUGUST 3RD - 14TH, 8:45PM
SUMMERHALL LUSTRUM AWARD WINNER 2022
Nightlands is a play about how authoritarianism weaponises nostalgia, about Russia today, a psychological thriller located in the ex-Soviet ghost town of Pyramiden, Svalbard.
Set in 1999, at the dawn of the Putin autocracy, Pyramiden’s caretakers play out a generational and ideological conflict. Sasha (Matthew Zajac) is nostalgic for the collapsed communist past, Slava (Rebecca Wilkie) wants a better future. Their epic struggle rages like the storms of the Polar Night.