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A MONSTER CALLS TEACHING RESOURCES JULY—AUGUST 2018 CONTENTS Cast and Creative team 3 Old Vic Education The Old Vic The Cut Characters 8 London SE1 8NB E [email protected] Synopsis 9 @oldvictheatre Themes 11 © The Old Vic, 2017 All information is correct at the time of going to press, but may A Monster Calls Rehearsal Diary by Miranda Cromwell, 13 be subject to change Associate Director Teaching resources Compiled by An interview with Miranda Cromwell, Associate Director 17 Susie Ferguson Design James Cunninghame Graham An interview with Dan Canham, Movement Director 18 Rehearsal and Production Photography Manuel Harlan An interview with Matt Costain, Cast 19 Education & Community Hannah Fosker An interview with Benji Bower, Composer 20 Head of Education & Community Liz Bate Education Manager Classroom Activities 21 Naomi Lawson Young Persons Programme Manager Monique Odoom-Simpson Glossary 28 Education and Community Intern Portraying Grief and Loss: Challenging Subject Matter 29 Further details of this production oldvictheatre.com for Younger Audiences Bibliography and Further Reading 31 The Old Vic A Monster Calls teaching resources 2 CAST HAMMED ANIMASHAUN MATT COSTAIN Anton/Ensemble Mr Marl/Ensemble Theatre includes: Barber Shop Chronicles, Amadeus, Theatre as a performer includes: La Strada, Hetty Feather The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre); 7 New Plays (West End/UK tour); Treasure Island (West End); (National Theatre Studio); The Importance of Being Earnest Wendy and Peter, The Histories Cycle (RSC); War Horse, (Lyric Hammersmith/Latitude Festival); A Midsummer Night’s The Birds (National Theatre); Macbeth, Pericles, Dream, Bugsy Malone, Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith); Man Falling Down (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Tempest Measure for Measure (Young Vic); Hate/La Haine (Regent’s Park); Romeo and Juliet (Rose Theatre); (Barbican); Heroes, Married to the Game (Theatre 503); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dr. Faustus, The Master The Boy Who Fell Into a Book (Soho); Mogadishu and Margarita (Chichester Festival); Theatre as a Director (Royal Exchange Manchester/UK tour). Television includes: and Aerial/Movement Director includes Treasure Island Breeders, Furious Andrew, Black Mirror, Pls Like!, Flowers, (West End); La Strada, (West End/UK tour); Wendy Wizard Sleeve, Deadbeats, The Mimic. Film includes: and Peter, The Histories Cycle, Dido Queen of Carthage The Festival, The Ellington Kid, Twenty8k, Borrowed (RSC); The Birds (National Theatre); The Empire Strikes Time, Tooting Broadway. Back, Brazil, Cuckoo’s Nest, Blade Runner, Bugsy Malone, Alien (Secret Cinema). NANDI BHEBHE Miss Godfrey/Ensemble GEORGIA FROST Theatre includes: The Tin Drum (Liverpool Everyman/ Sully/Ensemble UK tour); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theatre includes: Little Mermaid (the egg, Theatre Royal (Shakespeare’s Globe); 946 (The Asylum/Shakespeare’s Bath); Television includes: Casualty, Magic of Musicals Globe); A Season in the Congo (Young Vic); Fela! (BBC). Georgia recently graduated from Bristol Old Vic (National Theatre/Broadway); 5,6,7,8 (Royal Court); Theatre School, where she won the Alan Bates Award Episodes of Blackness (Vocab Dance Company); 2017. 946 (St Ann’s Warehouse). STUART GOODWIN SELINA CADELL Monster/Ensemble Grandma/Ensemble Theatre includes: La Strada (West End/UK Tour); Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (The Old Vic/ Cyrano (The Company); Sleeping Beauty (Bristol Old Vic); New York); The Dresser, Noises Off (West End); Tristan & Yseult (USA tour); The Wild Bride (UK/USA tour); Humble Boy (Orange Tree); People, The Habit of Art, Midnight’s Pumpkin (BAC); A Conversation, Two Clouds Stanley (National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream Over Eden, Peer Gynt (Royal Exchange Manchester); (Albery Theatre); Twelfth Night, Uncle Vanya (Donmar). Hinge of the World (Yvonne Arnauld Theatre); Television includes: Love Nina, The Lady Vanishes, The Gentleman (Jermyn Street); A Russian in the Woods, Upstairs Downstairs, Toast, Spooks, Lewis, Midsomer Julius Caesar, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (RSC); Murders, Bremner, Bird and Fortune, The Catherine The Country Wife (Sheffield Crucible);The Three Tate Show, Casanova, Foyle’s War, Sword of Honour, Musketeers (Young Vic). Television includes: Doctors, Great Expectations, People Like Us, Doc Martin. Strictly Confidential, The Bill, Prime Suspect, State of Play, Film includes: The Lady in the Van, Nativity, Hereafter, State of Mind, The Cops. Film includes: Cashback, Rita, Snowcake, Festival, Match Point, Mrs Dalloway, Sue and Bob Too. The Madness of King George. FELIX HAYES Dad/Ensemble Theatre: Vice Versa, The Tempest, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, City Madam, Cardenio, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Peter Pan, Jane Eyre (Bristol Old Vic/National Theatre); One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, A Christmas Carol (Tobacco Factory Theatres). Television includes: Three Girls, A Gert Lush Christmas Special, Drunk Histories, Friday Night Dinner, Roisin Conaty. The Old Vic A Monster Calls teaching resources 3 JONATHAN HOLBY WITNEY WHITE Swing Lily/Ensemble Theatre includes: A Tale of Two Cities, Peter Pan Theatre includes: Loserville (West Yorkshire Playhouse/ (Regent’s Park); Lord of the Flies (Regent’s Park/UK tour), West End); Wonder.Land (National Theatre); Dusty The Importance of Being Earnest (ContextureTheatre); (Charing Cross Theatre); Room (Stratford East/Dundee Mirrorball (Arcola); The Renaissance Body (RSC); Rep/Abbey Theatre). Television includes: Doctors, Brian Looks Like Alan Rickman (BCT/York Theatre Royal); Clean Break. Project Mayhem (Secret Theatre Project, Hong Kong). Television includes: Queens. Film includes: The Terrible TESSA WOOD Tale of Henrietta Tate, The Intent, Blood and Glory, Beatgirl. Understudy Grandma Theatre includes: The Rocky Horror Show (West End/ JOHN LEADER German tour); The Provoked Wife, Five Kinds of Silence Harry/Ensemble (Stepping Out Theatre); Our Town (Almeida); The Barrier Theatre includes: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: (Park Theatre); Orpheus & Euridyce, Memories of Loss A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Lion, (Riverside Studios). Televison includes: First Kill, Last Kill, the Witch and the Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Accidental Heroes and Triangle. Film includes: The Last Peter Pan, War Horse (National Theatre); Chigger Foot House on Cemetery Lane, Skin, Swoosh!, Somebody Boys (Tara Arts); Running Wild (Regent’s Park); Romeo to Love Me, Skin — Terror Awards International for Best and Juliet (Orange Tree); Beasty Baby (Theatre Rites/ Supporting Actress. Polka); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Terribles); Clown (Pohang Bada International Festival, MUSICIANS South Korea). John trained at East 15 Acting School. BENJI BOWER MARIANNE OLDHAM Composer/Musician Mum/Ensemble Theatre includes: La Strada, Hetty Feather (West End/ Theatre includes: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Kenny Wax); Peter Pan, Jane Eyre (Bristol Old Vic/ (The Old Vic); An Inspector Calls (West End); National Theatre); The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe The Argument (Hampstead); Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sleeping Beauty, The Boy (Chichester); The Real Thing,The Changeling (ETT); Who Cried Wolf, Treasure Island, Papa Please Get Hamlet (The Factory); Design for Living (Salisbury The Moon For Me, Aesop’s Fables (Bristol Old Vic); Playhouse); The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Market Theatre We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (UK/World tour); Outpost, Johannesburg/Live Theatre Newcastle); Troilus and One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Cinderella, Ali Baba Cressida (Cheek by Jowl); How Many Miles to Basra and the Forty Thieves, Ugly Duckling (Tobacco Factory (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Television includes: A Very Theatres); Orpheus and The Furies, Table of Delights English Scandal, The Living and the Dead, Life in Squares, (Damfino Theatre); Television includes:Panorama, The Musketeers, Foyle’s War, The Crimson Field, Doctors, Horizon, Alaska, Countryfile, Autumwatch. The Impressionists, WPC56. Film includes: Finding your Feet, Absolutely Anything, Silent Girl, Titus, WILL BOWER 500 Miles North. Musician Theatre includes: Jane Eyre, Peter Pan (National Theatre/ MATTHEW TENNYSON Bristol Old Vic); The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe Conor (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Theatre includes: Flare Path (West End); Making Table of Delights (Bristol Old Vic); Cinderella: A Fairytale, Noise Quietly — Evening Standard Theatre Award One Hundred and One Dalmations (Tobacco Factory for Outstanding Newcomer (Donmar); Salome, (RSC); Theatres); Outpost (Green Ginger). Television includes: Cleansed (National Theatre); The Seagull (Regent’s Park); Frozen Planet, Cult of a Suicide Bomber; Faster Harder A Breakfast Of Eels — Off West End Award for Best Male Stronger. Will also is co-founder of UNFORSCENE and Performance (The Print Room); A Midsummer Night’s Bower Brothers with worldwide releases on Tru Thoughts Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Beautiful Thing — Records and Kudos Records. Credits include: Pacific Manchester Theatre Award for Best Newcomer Heights, New World Disorder, Fingers and Thumbs (Royal Exchange Manchester). Television includes: and Return of the Wob. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Grantchester, Humans, Babylon, Father Brown, The Hollow Crown. Film includes: Making Noise Quietly. The Old Vic A Monster Calls teaching resources 4 CREATIVE TEAM SIOBHAN DOWD PATRICK NESS Conception Author Siobhan