Difficult to Describe, Understand or Measure by Sibila Diaz-Plaja Directed by Faith Abongo
		Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 December, 2023 At the Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington

Part of Writers' Room : Home - four short plays on the theme of 'Home', the others being Homemakers by Janet South, An IQ Test for my Birthday by Melanie Bell and When You Go to Ireland by Kate Roche.

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Photography by Jason Harris

Cast List Jo : Rebecca Allan Tom : Nick Edwards Production Team Director : Faith Abongo Associate Director : Ian Hoare

For Writers' Room : Home Artistic Team Lead : Landé Belo Producer : Nichola Vasey Set Design : Angelika Michitsch Costume Design : Lucy Moss & Rachel Bothamley Lighting Design : Robin Snowdon Sound Design : Colin Guthrie Stage Manager : Jacqui Dickson ASMs : Lorelle Hirth, Olga Walkowska Lighting Operator : Laurence Tuerk or Robin Snowdon Sound Operator : Peta Barker Set Design Assistant : Millie Weston Set Construction and Get-In : Max Batty, Keith Syrett, Gary O’Keefe, Olga Walkowska, Stephanie Grundy, Seun Debiyi, Alex Burton, Izzy Cooper, Valentina Payne, Isabelle Leong

	Ex Drama school grad Rebecca Allan has performed in previous Tower shows Table, Trainspotting, A Passage to India, Breaking the Code, Queers and, most recently, Our Country's Good.			This is Nick Edwards' tenth show with the Tower following roles in Under the Blue Sky, The Vortex, The Deep Blue Sea, Time and the Conways, Mother’s Day, Clybourne Park, Sweat, London Wall and most recently ConsentLondon Wall. He has acted and directed on the London stage with various theatre groups, most notably KDC and SEDOS. When not acting, Nick is an assistant principal in an academy in North Kensington.
	Faith Martin Abongo joined the Tower Theatre in early 2022. She performed as an actor for the company’s annual Spring Forward season in the one-woman show Tituba. Faith has since completed an outstanding month-long performance of Tituba at the 2023 Edinburgh Festival fringe, which she also produced and directed. Difficult to Describe, Understand or Measure is her second show as director. In 2024, she hopes to be showcasing her first plays as a writer and director with the company.			It would take 13 years and a pandemic for Sibila Diaz-Plaja - an English literature graduate from Goldsmiths College and an avid theatregoer - to try her hand at writing. In her full-time day job, Sibila works in Film Development looking for great stories and helping others hone their scripts and find their voice. As a first time participant of the Tower Theatre Writers' Room, she has enjoyed exploring her own storytelling voice further and seeing her first medium-length play come to life in rehearsals. Sibila is interested in exploring relationship dynamics, how we communicate and how it reflects and impacts our wider world.