 
On the renovated docklands of South East London, on the bank of the river Thames, the doors of the Dusk are open for business. Bets are called, cards are dealt and roulette wheels spun. As fortunes are won and lost, an inhuman killer stalks the local avenues and alleyways a killer with a taste for human flesh.
Is there more to casino owner Reggie "The Gent" Mead or is he just a common gangster? What secrets are hidden in the bowels of the Dusk? And what connection does the apparently sleazy Bermondsey casino have to a long- buried government initiative known as Project: Twilight?
The Doctor must form uneasy alliances where the line between friend and enemy is blurred, playing games of chance...
But are the stakes too high?
 This play was co-written with Mark Wright.
Project: Twilight was recorded 23-24 June 2001 at the Moat Studios, London. It was released on 20 August 2001.
Project: Twilight was the fifth Big Finish Doctor Who audio to feature new companion Dr. Evelyn Smythe, played by Maggie Stables.
The play marked the second acting appearance of co-author Mark Wright in a Big Finish Doctor Who play. He had already appeared as Stephen Keysler in the first Seventh Doctor release "The Fearmonger" and would return as a slave in "The Eye of the Scorpion" and a dim-witted guard in "The One Doctor."
Holly De Jong (Amelia) had previously appeared in BBC1's "Blackadder II" as well as cut scenes restored to the Director's Cut of "Aliens". Rob Dixon (Reggie Mead) was a regular on "Cops" and was later seen behind the bar of the Woolpack in "Emmerdale" while Rosie Cavaliero (Cassie) appeared in ITV's "Cold Feet".
Rupert Booth had played the Doctor in a number of amatuer-produced Doctor Who audios
Project: Twilight came sixth in the 2001 Doctor Who Magazine Awards with a score of 7.08 out of 10.
June 2003 saw a sequel to Project: Twilight entitled Project: Lazarus starring the Sixth and Seventh Doctors, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. The novel, Project: Valhalla, published December 2005 bridges the gap between the two audios, explaining what happened to Cassie.
MORE ABOUT PROJECT: TWILIGHT
1. DEVELOPMENT: FROM BLOOD MONEY TO PROJECT: TWILIGHT
The original pitch for Project: Twilight was a different beast. Click HERE to discover how the story developed from it's original form.
2. AN INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT & WRIGHT
Soon after the release of Project: Twilight, Cav and Mark were interviewed by Scottish journalist Kenny Smith for his fanzine, The Finished Project. With special thanks to Kenny we are able to reprint the feature HERE.
3. PROJECT: TWILIGHT GALLERY
Click HERE for a selection of Project: Twilight art and photos.
PROJECT: TWILIGHT REVIEWS
"Project: Twilight is so easy to enjoy on first listening that one feels suspicious. What's the catch? Why isn't more thought or concentration required of the listener? Debutante writers Cavan Scott and Mark Wright clearly do not suffer from first-publication syndrome; their script comes without any apparant agenda, and is gratifying rather than gratuitous."
"Perhaps the main reason Project: Twilight is so easy to enjoy is that it doesn't matter where any of the characters are at any given time, since they all have easy access to each other, and the facts are revealed at a pace that suits them. It's definately not a film, novel or teleplay squashed into this format, and the writers give the impression they've been doing this for years."
"Chinese cooking is about contrasts - sweet needs sour, crisp needs gooey and fiery needs bland. Here are the yin and yang of archetype and originality, cosiness and horror, closure and promise; a well-balanced set meal."
Dave Owen, Doctor Who Magazine, Issue 309, October 2001
"And, what with exploding bodies, wrecked faces, corpses drained of blood, promises and threats passing over years and years, this is Doctor Who at its most powerful. Listening to this, hearing the brilliance and conviction with which the cast lend this excellent story, suddenly Daleks seem quite playful, and Cybermen seem a million years away. This could never be featured on television, or if it were, it would be relegated to well past the watershed."
'Project: Twilight' rates alongside 'The Holy Terror' as Big Finish's best. And it shocks."
Nigel Parry, web review
"Project: Twilight is a very well written, performed, produced and directed piece of drama, and meets the levels of high quality that has become expected of Big Finish after so many previous good releases. The vampires work well in the modern setting, and with uniformly good performances from the cast, Cavan Scott and Mark Wright can be very pleased with the final result. And once more I can't recommend highly enough the musical score to Project: Twilight which is so fitting to the story that it heightens the tension to high levels indeed. Project: Twilight never threatens to break into the very best that Big Finish have done, but it's certainly well up there with the best of the rest, and it's very highly placed amongst them too. And the ending of this shows that there very well maybe a sequel, and I for one would welcome that prospect."
Simon Catlow, web review
"Project: Twilight" by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright would not have been out of place in the horrors of Season 22 [of Doctor Who]. This is a story full of deeply unpleasant people doing deeply unpleasant things to other deeply unpleasant people. While the writers have clearly being aiming for "grim and gritty", they have achieved only unpleasantness. Frankly, I did not care what happened to any of these characters, so long as it happened quickly."
Zoltan Dery, web review
"Without doubt Project Twilight is one of the most brutal, violent, sadistic and stomach-churning stories ever to call itself a Dr Who adventure…and thank heavens for that! Many fans have speculated over the years what Dr Who would be like if it was made solely for adults and now we know. P:T makes no compromises towards Who's famous ' Family Audience' and, frankly, is all the better for it. This is big, scary grown up stuff whose tone and style are new to Who (at least in a dramatised form)."
This is a fascinating new take on Dr Who and although I'm not sure I would like this level of violence and adult oriented tone to become a regular feature it does show how good Dr Who can be when done for grown ups."
Andymondas, web review
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