Summerfolk
Assistant Stage Manager Swing
National Theatre, Olivier Theatre
February - May 2026
Director: Rob Hastie
Adapted by: Nina Raine & Moses Raine
Set & Costume Designer: Peter McKintosh
Lighting Designer: Paul Pyant
Sound Designer: Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Composer: Nicola T. Chang
Movement Director: Thomas Herron
Company Stage Manager: Laura Draper
Deputy Stage Manager: Fran O'Donnell
Assistant Stage Manager: Helen Stone
Assistant Stage Manager: Chris Carr
Assistant Stage Manager Swing: Sammy Lacey
A summer of pleasure. A storm on the horizon.
It’s a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia’s elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs.
When they’re having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Varvara just can’t shake the feeling that their holiday idyll is built on borrowed time.
As the party continues, how long can they ignore the storm on the horizon?
Deputy Artistic Director Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge) directs Maxim Gorky’s razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, revived for 2026 in a new adaptation from Nina Raine (Consent) and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart).