Sarah Thomas and Ben SantaMaria are proud to present the cast of their provocative upcoming play Sublime. Joining the previously announced Adele Oni are Suzy Gill, Michael Fatogun and Declan Cooke.
The heistess is back in town. One week, three jobs; she’s good, but can she pull it off?
Adele Oni has been a professional actress for two years whilst continuing to train at the Actors Class (London) and privately with renowned vocal coach, Leontine Hass. Her credits include ‘Housefull 3 (feature film)’, ‘Charly’s Aunt’ The London Theatre, ‘Girl-Dem’ the Criterion Theatre and ‘No Sex Please, We’re British’ International tour.
Suzy Gill trained at Drama Studio London and the University of East Anglia. Her acting credits include the New Diorama, ATT and Siberian Lights. She is a playwright and spoken word poet, performing regularly at Creative Nights in London Bridge and the Poetry Brothel. Suzy also runs the BlueAsh Theatre Company.
Following the completion of his law degree, Michael Fatogun trained at the Young Persons Theatre Company. His credits include Rizen 2 and Season 3 of Obsessions: Dark Desires (US.) Michael recently finished filming a guest role on ITV’s Fearless and theatre credits include Safe at The London Theatre Workshop.
Declan Cooke trained at City Lit in London in 2012-13 and with Scott Williams’ Impulse Company from 2015-16. He has worked in TV and feature film and has played lead and supporting roles across several fringe theatre venues in London, Edinburgh and Brighton. Sublime is his first play at Tristan Bates.
The heistess is back in town. One week, three jobs; she’s good, but can she pull it off?
Sublime is a provocative new play by Sarah Thomas, directed by Ben SantaMaria.
Starring Adele Oni.
After a two year estrangement Sophie bursts back into her brother’s life, claiming to need his help in a series of thefts to cover a debt she owes in her new home in Corsica. Upset at her absence and seeming to have settled down with his girlfriend Clara, Sam is unable to say no to a last bash at an old, exciting life.
As they don their costumes and practice their old grifting routines, old emotions quickly resurface and collide, forcing them to question the new lives they have built for each other.
Can Sophie lure Sam away from domestic coupledom to rekindle their old crime partnership and save her skin? Balaclavas, wigs, jewels and forbidden passions collide in this tough-talking, fast-swindling dark comedy thriller.
Sarah Thomas is an emerging writer who has written three full-length stage plays all in different stages of development. She has had a short play produced at Theatre 503 (Gloves) off and has also held rehearsed readings of her other pieces. She is developing a play about female resistance heroes (High Seas) which she is hoping to bring to a London stage later this year.
Ben SantaMaria is a London-based writer/director. He recently co-directed After Orlando for Chaskis Theatre at The Vaults, London Waterloo and Gerry’s, Theatre Royal Stratford East. He also co-directed, devised and wrote Jarman Garden, a full-length multimedia performance about the life, work and Dungeness garden of Derek Jarman (Riverside Studios, 2004). It was a finalist for the 2003 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award.He has directed and assisted at various other London venues including Shakespeare’s Globe and the Finborough. His writing has been staged at venues such as Theatre 503, Theatre N16, ARC Stockton and LOST Theatre and he’s currently developing two full-length plays, Hunters and lulla.
