The Zero Hour

The Zero Hour: Imitating The Dog Theatre Company

Imitating the Dog and Pete Brooks are set to take their audience on a breath-taking journey in their twisted tale of how a moment in history can have an infinite number of outcomes for those caught up in its sweep.

The Zero Hour follows the stories of five couples living through five very different versions of the same historical events in the final hours of the war in Berlin in 1945. Across these different histories the protagonists' lives connect and gradually build a picture of human stoicism in the face of history.

Framed as film that is being directed by a Chinese film director and crew, The Zero Hour fuses live action with pre-recorded film, animation, and computer generated imagery to create a world where human relations are located to be at the heart of historical events. Disturbing and romantic in turn The Zero Hour is shot through with the obsessions that are the hallmarks of ITD’s narrative inventions to date. The play will be performed in Chinese, German, French, Russian and English.

Performers: Laura Atherton, Nicholas Cass-Beggs, Song Chang, WeiDa Chen, Morven Macbeth, Adam Nash, Matt Prendergast, Ian Ryan, Anna Wilson-Hall and Jinyu Zhou

Building on the recent successes of Hotel Methuselah, Kellerman, and their collaboration with Oldham Coliseum on The Hound of the Baskervilles, Imitating The Dog create a memorable and immersive experience for the audience in this captivating fusion of cinema and theatre.