THEATER

MAYDAY MAYDAY A TRUE STORY TOLD BY THE MAN WHO FELL

Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston May 23 at 8:30pm; May 24 at 9:30pm; May 25 at 12:00pm; May 26 at 8:00pm; May 27 at 1:00pm

Writer/Performer Tristan Sturrock Director Katy Carmichael Designers Katy Carmichael, Tristan Sturrock Lighting Designer Dan Winters Sound Designers Paddy Sturrock, Tristan Sturrock Original Music Pete Judge, Alex Vann, Ian Ross, Barney Morse-Brown, Brett Harve Scenic Designer Ruthy Shepherd Projection Designer Brett Harvey Producer Theatre Damfino

PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION.

Special thanks to Susan Feldman and St. Ann’s Warehouse New York; Kneehigh Theatre and Emma Rice; Bristol Old Vic; Ferment and Tom Morris; Kate Yedigaroff; Arts Council UK/South West Arts; Tim Germon and all staff at Derriford Hospital Spinal Unit Plymouth; Cornwall’s Air Ambulance; Treliske Hospital HDU; Tim Streader; Dan Ashworth; Samuel Mayer; Paul Blakemore; Simon Harvey; Dave Harraway; DPS Medical Systems; and the Sturrock and Carmichael families.

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.

ABOUT THE COMPANY Theatre Damfino was launched in 2010 and is a Bristol-based collective of performers, musicians, storytellers, artists, puppeteers, and chefs. www.theatredamfino.co.uk.

KATY CARMICHAEL (co-artistic director) is co-artistic director TRISTAN STURROCK (writer/performer/co-artistic director) of Theatre Damfino with Tristan Sturrock. She directed Mayday was last seen at the 2006 Spoleto Festival USA playing Tristan Mayday at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York, South West Tour UK, in Kneehigh Theatre’s production of Tristan & Yseult at the Dock and Battersea Arts Centre; Frankenspine: My Big Break at Bristol Street Theatre. He has performed with Kneehigh for twenty- Old Vic; and Orpheus and the Furies in St. Pauls Crypt, Bristol. As five years on works that include Brief Encounter at St. Ann’s an actress, she was last at Spoleto Festival USA in 2006, playing Warehouse in New York, Broadway, and the West End; Don Yseult Whitehands in the Kneehigh Theatre production of Tristan John with Bristol Old Vic and Birmingham Repertory Theatre; A & Yseult at the Dock Street Theatre. Other theater credits include Matter of Life and Death and The Riot with National Theatre; Sturm und Drang, Brighton Beach Scumbags opposite Steven and The King of Prussia with Donmar Warehouse. He developed Berkoff, The Beaux’ Stratagem with Bristol Old Vic, The Fall Guy his autobiographical solo show previously called Frankenspine: and Isolated Children in Faraway Places at the Royal Exchange, My Big Break at Bristol Old Vic in 2010. The show then became and Happy Valley at the Liverpool Everyman. On television she is Mayday Mayday and toured the UK, winning the International best known for her roles in Spaced, Coronation Street, Waterloo Fringe Review Award for Outstanding Theatre at the Edinburgh Road, Cutting It, Paul Merton’s Galton and Simpson series, Festival Fringe last year. It had its American premiere at St. Ann’s Clocking Off, Liverpool One, Hex, The Infinite World of HG Wells, Warehouse earlier this spring. Sturrock is an associate artist at One Foot in the Grave, Cold Lazarus, and Death of a Salesman, Bristol Old Vic, where his work includes Peter Pan, Coram Boy, and on film in Martin Amis’s Dead Babies, In the Bleakmidwinter, Treasure Island, Juliet and her Romeo, Faraway, and The Beaux’ and Origin. Stratagem.

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