When We Were Us
Written by Catherine Zulver, Presented by Red Scare Theatre Company
Many years ago, Claire and Dylan were young and in love, travelling the world together. It's been over a decade since they last spoke when Dylan calls Claire from a hospital room in New York, where he has collapsed with an unknown illness. Not really knowing why, Claire rushes to his side.
Now the two of them must work out what they are to each other, and what they want to be.
Catherine Zulver’s new musical, When We Were Us, produced by Red Scare Theatre Company, directed by Helen Mackenzie Hughes (Melancholy Play) and starring Julia McDonald (The Sandwich Artist, Hausdown) and Kevin Orlando (Wicked, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812) is the latest work by the playwright and composer who brought you the smash hit In It Together at BATS Theatre in 2018.
If you’re a fan of musicals — like Once, The Last Five Years, Tick, Tick Boom or films like (500) Days of Summer — When We Were Us perfectly captures the magic, melancholy and heartbreak of young love when the whole world is in front of you and you don’t yet know who you are.
Written by Catherine Zulver Music in collaboration with Marley Richards, 2023-4 Isaac Thomas, 2018
Content Warning: Flashing Lights
“Why did you come?” “Why did you ask?"”
Creative team
Red Scare Theatre Company
Helen Mackenzie Hughes - Director
Catherine Zulver - Playwright & Composer, Costume Designer
Kevin Orlando - Dylan
Julia McDonald - Claire
Millie Fuller - Claire Understudy
Tadhg Mackay - Dylan Understudy
Phoebe Caldeiro - Music Director
Marley Richards - Assistant MD, Assistant Composition & Instrumentalist
Cassandra Tse - Producer, Sound Designer
James Cain - Publicist
Scott Maxim - Set Designer
Riley Gibson - Lighting Designer
Ace Dalziel - Stage Manager
Tom Whaley - Guitarist
Sophie Badrick - Operator
