JURASSIC.

November

2025

Writer: Tim Foley
Creative Producers: Ransack Theatre
Director: Piers Black
Senior Producer & Actor: Alastair Michael
Actor: Matt Holt
Movement Director: Yandass Ndlovu
Set & Costume Designer: Eleanor Ferguson
Lighting Designer: Catja Hamilton
Sound Designer: Anna Short
Assistant Director: Yanni Ng
Assistant Producer: Louis Lisle
Stage Manager: Olga Morisse
Assistant Lighting Designer: Haley Yiu
Sound Associate: Patch Hamilton
Photography: Chris Payne & Rich Southgate

Written by Bruntwood Prize-winner Tim Foley, this fast-paced satire
follows a university dean who mistakes Jurassic Park for a real
documentary, triggering mass redundancies, student protests, and
bizarre conspiracies. What starts as an awkward disagreement
between Jay, a liberal palaeontologist, and Dean, “The Dean” quickly
spirals into a chaotic fight for academic survival.
Through farcical storytelling and bold, inventive design, the
production moves from realism into a surreal, high-stakes world
mirroring the disorienting nature of modern misinformation. The
play tackles everything from fake news and deepfakes to the rise of
radicalised reasoning and the institutional failures that let it thrive.