Time Fracture (stage play)

Doctor Who: Time Fracture was a stage show produced by Immersive Theatre and licensed by BBC Studios, with James Goss acting as lore consultant and script editor. The staged production - billed as an "immersive experience" - was written by Daniel Dingsdale.

It featured video and audio clips, special effects, screen-used props and creatures, and music cues from the series. After being delayed from its initial opening date in 2020 due to COVID-19, it finally opened on 26 May 2021 at Davies Mews in London. The show had a length of two hours and fifteen minutes.

All of the main TV Doctors were featured in some capacity, represented in a variety of ways.

Synopsis

 * 1940 – at the height of the Blitz. A weapon of unknown origin destroys a small corner of Mayfair, and simultaneously opens a rift in space and time. For decades, UNIT have fought undetected to protect the people of Earth from the dangers it poses. Weakened and beaten back as the fracture’s multiplied out of control, they're close to defeat.

Plot
All fourteen paths to be added.

Cast

 * Not all characters are necessarily featured in a single individual's given experience of the story.

Pre-recorded video

 * Jemma Redgrave - Kate Stewart
 * Jodie Whittaker - Thirteenth Doctor
 * David Bradley - First Doctor ''
 * Jo Martin - "Fugitive" Doctor ''

Pre-recorded audio

 * Jon Culshaw - The Brigadier
 * Daniel Dingsdale - Twelfth Doctor
 * Jacob Dudman - Eleventh Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Ninth Doctor
 * Jonathon Carley - War Doctor
 * Sylvester McCoy - Seventh Doctor
 * Colin Baker - Sixth Doctor
 * Peter Davison - Fifth Doctor
 * Tom Baker - Fourth Doctor
 * Tim Treloar - Third Doctor
 * Michael Troughton - Second Doctor
 * Nicholas Briggs - Daleks and Cybermen

Archive audio

 * Paul McGann - Eighth Doctor

Live actors

 * Angus Brown
 * Angus Dunican
 * Anouk Chalmers
 * Becky Bassett
 * Bethany Blake
 * Charlie Burt - Queen Elizabeth I
 * Chioma Uma
 * Christina Andrews
 * Craig Hamilton
 * Daisy Winter-Taylor
 * Dare Emmanuel - UNIT Scientist
 * Efé Agwele
 * Ellamae Cieslik - Celeste Amorea [Singer]
 * Elliot Rodriguez
 * Gareth Radcliffe
 * Georgia Redgrave
 * Harry Pudwell
 * Hayden Wood
 * Howard Grater
 * Ivy Corbin
 * Jamal Renaldo - Captain Robert Dudley
 * James Bryant
 * James Byng
 * James Lawrence
 * Jenny Horsthuis
 * Jessica Elton
 * Jessica Hern - Zoria, Dr. Evelyn Yates, and Cover for Queen Elizabeth
 * John Sodiq Akanmu
 * Jon Davey - Zygon
 * Kieran Mortell
 * Liv Spencer
 * Max Krupski
 * Maxwell Tyler - Brolls/Professor Parry
 * Megan Louise Wilson
 * Michael Geary
 * Molly Walker
 * Paul Collin-Thomas - Rassilon
 * Paul Croft
 * Paul Easom
 * Ricky Hunt
 * Ricky Shah
 * Ryan Ruel
 * Sam Blythe

Creative Team

 * Tom Maller - Director
 * Daniel Dingsdale - Writer
 * Rebecca Brower - Production designer
 * Terry Cook - Lighting Designer (for Woodroffe Bassett Design)
 * Matt Ladkin - Assistant Lighting Designer
 * Adam Povey - Lighting PM/Crew Chief
 * Luke Swaffield - Sound designer (for Autograph)
 * Novak - Video & Projection Design
 * Jon Bulleid - Illusion Design & Director
 * Carly Blackburn - Movement Director
 * Danny Nolan - Music Producer & Composer
 * Barnaby Race - Music Content Creator & Additional Songs
 * James Goss - Lore Consultant & Script Editor
 * Stuart Boother - Fight Director
 * Louise Duggan, Zands Duggan - Period Music Composers
 * Ryan O'Connor - Art Director
 * James Sutton - Prop Maker
 * Mark Jones - Costume Supervisor
 * Fiona Kingwill - Assistant Director
 * Brodie Turner - Safeguarding Consultant

Music from Murray Gold is also featured within the show.

Production Team

 * Zoe Snow - Production Manager (for Gary Beestone Events)
 * Matt North - Company Manager
 * Daniel Gammon - Stage Manager
 * Lorna Adamson - Deputy Stage Manager
 * Danielle Whitfield - Assistant Stage Manager
 * Sarah Coates - Assistant Stage Manager (Book Cover)
 * Peter Carrington - Assistant Stage Manager
 * Debs Machin - Assistant Stage Manager
 * Sophie Cairns - Assistant Stage Manager
 * Amy Warren - Assistant Stage Manager
 * Virna Sologaistoa - Covid Compliance Officer
 * Jack Berry - Head of Lighting
 * Harry Johnson - Head of Sound
 * Edward Aspinall - Head of Video
 * Liam Sayer - Technical Swing LX/Video
 * Gabriel Maillard - Technical Swing Sound/Video
 * Marta Bagnoli - Wigs, Hair and Make Up Manager
 * Jen Clarke - Wardrobe Manager
 * Emily Noble - Wardrobe Assistant
 * Ester Mangas - Wardrobe Assistant
 * Fiona Kingwill - Resident Director
 * Emily Bestow - Art Standby
 * Becky Craven - Operations Manager
 * Iain Fraser-Barker - Front of House Manager
 * Rich Penrose - Bar Manager

Featured creatures/monsters

 * The number of creatures featured in a single individual's given experience of the story will vary based on their own choices, as well as their own decisions to explore outwith the plot.


 * Daleks
 * Cybermen
 * Kerb!am Man
 * Weeping Angels
 * Zygons
 * Silents
 * Davros
 * Time Lords
 * Brian the Ood

Featured/visited locales

 * The number of locales featured in a single individual's given experience of the story will vary based on their own choices, as well as their own decisions to explore outwith the plot.

There are 17 different worlds :
 * Torchwood Hub
 * Leonardo da Vinci's workshop
 * UNIT HQ
 * Cyberman tomb
 * London, 1940
 * Gallifrey
 * Kasaavin realm
 * Queen Elizabeth's court
 * Shakespeare's study
 * Borlls' Salvage and Import Export Imporium (reached by going right at a forked path)
 * A cellar of mannequins
 * The National Gallery
 * An area marked ZZ1
 * The Black Archive

Story notes

 * To research for writing Time Fracture, Dingsdale watched over 400 episodes of Doctor Who.
 * John Barrowman was set to reprise his role of Captain Jack Harkness in a pre-recorded video segment, but his footage was removed from the show shortly before its release after Barrowman fell out of grace with the BBC when past actions of his were brought to light by Noel Clarke.
 * Some of the set dressing was original screen-used props, whilst other items were replicas.
 * During the interval, a Silurian and an unidentified blue woman sing several songs to entertain the audience members.

Easter eggs

 * "Bad Wolf" and "Torchwood" are both referenced by graffiti in one of the areas. "Mr Smith I Need You" is also featured in the same corridor, in reference to The Sarah Jane Adventures.
 * William Shakespeare is a featured character that audience members may encounter.
 * Posters for Vitex, Kerb!am and the "Vote Saxon" campaign are featured in areas.
 * Queen Elizabeth wears the Coronet of Rassilon at one point in the production.
 * Both a Torchwood Institute agent and a Time Agent are featured within paths of the story.