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Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita’s BIOGRAPHIES Baghdad for ROH2 and DanceLines08 directed by Wayne Claire Cunningham McGregor. With Amy Bell (Maresa von Stockert’s Tilted Q&A What was your favourite game as Productions) she has choreographed That Was the Time I Stopped and Crossing The Sea, a chamber opera a kid? Scooter Chase, which involved commissioned by Wilton’s Music Hall. whizzing around on plastic, yellow and blue scooters. Phil King HHHHH Claire is based between Belgium and the UK where she Q&A What was your favourite game as ‘It seems right to deem the work works on a broad range of projects. As a dancer she has a kid? Conkers. I used to spend hours touched by a kind of collective genius. performed with Theatre-Rites (UK), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui roasting conkers or soaking them in No matter your age, it should leave you feeling (Belgium), Rui Horta (Portugal) and Random Dance (UK). vinegar to try and make them harder. stimulated, rib-tickled, lighter than when you As a Rehearsal Director Claire teaches dance and yoga Phil King is a musician, based in Bristol. He has recorded walked in and glad to be alive’ The Times for various companies throughout Europe, including Carte two solo albums: They Come and They Go (2009) and Blanche (Norway) Eastman (Belgium), Cas Public (Canada), We are delighted to be recreating this hugely successful Leaves (2006). Songs from both have been played on many Aracaladanza (Spain). Recent choreographic credits include collaboration. When Theatre-Rites embarked on the regional radio stations as well as on BBC Radio 2. He the contemporary dance piece 4m2 and a musical of the original Mischief in 2007, we had no idea that both the performs regularly all over the UK as a solo artist and with children’s story Flat Stanley. She was also a movement process of creating Mischief and the experience of various bands. He has also composed music for dance, coach on the feature film Harry Potter and the Goblet watching it would be so magical, uplifting and rewarding. theatre, television and film. For more information check of Fire. This is Claire’s third tour getting up to Mischief! Theatre-Rites is grateful to the original commissioners: out Phil’s website at www.phil-king.net Sadler’s Wells and the Dance Touring Partnership, and Rachel Donovan Mohsen Nouri for the support of the Arts Council. Q&A Which cartoon character would you Q&A Which cartoon character would The audience responses, the wonderful reviews and the most like to meet? Would love to meet you most like to meet? Bugs Bunny. Award for Achievement in Dance made it clear that we Dory from Finding Nemo, although she’d Mohsen graduated from The Central must spread more Mischief to more people, and we are probably forget all about me in 3 seconds! School of Speech and Drama. Previous thrilled to bring this wonderful and exciting revival to you. Rachel trained at Middlesex University. Theatre credits work for Theatre-Rites includes In One Ear, Unfolding Have as much fun watching it as we had making it. include: Rapunzel or the Magic Pig (Creation), Love’s Labour’s Anderson, The Thought That Counts, Lighten Up, Salt and Enjoy all the colours and the shapes and the lovely Lost and (Guildford Shakespeare Co), Low Pay? Paradise. Mohsen is an original cast member of Mischief. performers. Revel in the delights of the music and Don’t Pay! (Salisbury Playhouse), Queen Bee (New Writing Other credits include Romeo & Juliet, King Arthur and let a bit of mischief be ignited in you. North), The Venetian Twins and Cleo Camping Emanuelle the Quest for the Grail, The Secret Garden, Karagoz (Little Sue Buckmaster & Arthur Pita and Dick (Bolton Octagon), Don Quixote (West Yorkshire Angel Theatre), Doctor Dolittle (David Ian Productions), Playhouse), A Little Fantasy and The Evocation of Papa Mas The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Mostly Harmless Created by (Told By An Idiot), Something Somatic (Theatre Science), Book Productions), Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play (Polka DIRECTOR Sue Buckmaster of Little Things (Oval House), Beauty and the Beast, The Theatre). Mohsen can also be seen in Beth Orton’s music CHOREOGRAPHER Arthur Pita Mysteries, The Twits and The Miser (Coventry Belgrade), video Conceived (Black Dog Films). Most recently, Mohsen VISUAL ARTIST Sophia Clist A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Orange Tree), Trojan Women was in the hit production of Peter Pan in Kensington (Actors of Dionysus), (Principal Theatre) and Gardens and the subsequent tour to San Francisco (PPKG COMPOSER Charlie Winston The Pink Bits (). Film and TV credits include Ltd). Mohsen can currently be seen in the much acclaimed LIGHTING DESIGNER Guy Hoare Breakfast on Pluto, The Bill, The Stranger, The Dignity of In The Night Garden (Ragdoll Ltd) for the BBC. Difference and Five Years. Rachel is also a motion-capture Performers and Collaborators artist for computer games and feature films including Iron Alexander Varona Claire Cunningham Man 2, Angels and Demons, 2012, the Harry Potter series Q&A Which cartoon character would Rachel Donovan and John Carter of Mars. you most like to meet? Tom and Jerry Gavin Eden Alexander received the Critics Circle Gavin Eden Valentina Golfieri Dance Award in 2006 for best dancer in the Q&A What is your favourite film? Phil King - live musician contemporary dance sector. He joined the Russell Maliphant Batman Returns, it has the best characters! Mohsen Nouri Company performing the duet Push and the solo Flux which Or 3Iron (a South Korean film). Alexander Varona was choreographed for him and premiered at Sadler’s Frank Wilson Gavin trained at London Studio Centre & Wells (2006). His most recent project Cast No Shadow, with PRODUCTION MANAGER Simon Sturgess Royal Ballet Senior Associates. His theatre credits include: filmmaker Isaac Julien, performed at Sadler’s Wells, BAM COSTUME SUPERVISOR Alice White Cygnet & Swan in Swan Lake choreographed by Matthew Theatre New York, Seoul, South Korea and Challon, France. Bourne (Sadler’s Wells, UK Tour & City Centre New York); COMPANY STAGE MANAGER Patrick Nelson In 2005 Alexander was invited to choreograph and perform Mischief choreographed by Arthur Pita with Theatre- TECHNICAL STAGE MANAGER Nathan Johnson his own solo Timelapse at the opening night of the Graz Rites ( & UK Tour); Shall We Dance TECHNICAL STAGE MANAGER Estelle Rickelton International Dance Festival, Austria. He also choreographed choreographed by Adam Cooper (Sadler’s Wells); Be Mine! and directed his own show Boleros de Nuestras Vidas in FOAM CUT AND SUPPLIED BY Kewell Convertors Ltd choreographed by Drew McOnie ( & Jackson’s 2004 which premiered at the National Theatre in Havana. GIANT PUPPET BY Tony Mason Lane); Cupid, Gobstopper & u/s Fritz in The Nutcracker In 2003 and 2004 Alexander appeared as the Moor in OTHER SET ELEMENTS CONSTRUCTED BY The Professionals choreographed by Matthew Bourne (Sadler’s Wells); Kevin Carlos Acosta’s Tocororo, which had its UK premiere at PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY BY Patrick Baldwin Boggs in Edward Scissorhands choreographed by Matthew Sadler’s Wells in 2003 before returning to the London MISCHIEF WEB DESIGN Hans de Kretser Associates Bourne (UK, Asia & USA Tour); ensemble in Nixon In China Coliseum in 2007. In 2004 Alexander danced in Berlin with GRAPHIC DESIGN Shaun Webb Design www.swd.uk.com choreographed by Mark Morris (ENO at the Coliseum); DanzAbierta in Eat, Drink, Smoke, Havana by choreographer ensemble in The Mikado choreographed by Anthony Running time 65 minutes, with no interval Norbert Sevros at the International House of Culture. Van Laast (ENO at the Coliseum); ensemble in Carmen www.mischieftour.co.uk choreographed by Pablo Vernon (ENO at the Coliseum); Frank Wilson Visit the Mischief tour website for video clips, interviews, Night of a 1000 Voices (Royal Albert Hall). Q&A What was your favourite game and to read all the latest news. as a kid? Hide and seek Valentina Golfieri Frank has worked in commercial dance Mischief Tour Q&A Which cartoon character would you for over 16 years with artists such as Beverly most like to meet? Lady Oscar. Raised by 19 & 20 Feb LONDON Laban Theatre Knight, George Michael, Mark Morrison, Angie Stone, Kylie, www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/labantheatre her father as a boy, she became the Jamelia, Wyclef Jean, Bono, Madonna and Cher. He started Captain of the Royal Guards at the court working and dancing with Mo-ideas, C-more-moves and 24 - 26 Feb LONDON of Marie Antoinette in XVIII century France. She was so Justin (RIP), who were pushing the boundaries of hip hop www.artsdepot.co.uk fierce - definitely a childhood idol! dance calling their style ‘Abstract’. He has also worked with 3 - 6 March BARCELONA Mercat de les Flors Valentina moved to the UK from Rimini (Italy) to train at Jonzi D, Benji Reid, Storm, B-boy Banksy, Lil Tim, Paradigmz, www.mercatflors.org London Contemporary Dance School. There she completed Collin Williams, Cricket Philly, Rockafella, Quick Step, DJ Pogo her BA (Hons), toured with the postgraduate performing and Bizznizz. In 2001 he joined Robert Hylton’s Company, 16 - 27 March NEW YORK New Victory Theater company EDge07 and gained an MA. Valentina first performing in Urban Classicism (UK and world tour) working www.newvictory.org performed for Arthur Pita as the Bride in God’s Garden. with KTP and Natty. Choreography credits include Too Hard She regularly performs for Frauke Requardt; productions to Breathe with Irven Lewis (Breakin Convention ’05 and include: Electric Hotel, Pictures From an Exhibition at Sadler’s Holland) and Clown-a-dread (Breakin Convention ’06). Frank Wells, Jammy Dodgers, Roadkill Café. Valentina is also a performed in Boy Blue’s Olivier Award-winning Pied Piper founding member of the Van Huynh Company and her (Theatre Royal Stratford East), recently revived at London’s other recent performance credits include Short Back and Barbican / UK tour, and Into the Hoods (Peacock Theatre, Sides’ new production Paper Mountain (performer/ Edinburgh Festival, and, most recently, puppeteer), Megan the Monkey in Will Tuckett’s Thief Of Royal Festival Hall). Sue Buckmaster His musicals include Aspects of Love in the UK and South evenings, he would compose music for the Rambert Ballet Q&A Which cartoon character would you like to meet? Africa; The Witches of Eastwick and All The Fun Of The Fair School and subsequently for the . With a Betty Boo, because she’s feisty, and also The Simpsons. on tour in the UK; Assassins (Crucible, Sheffield), City of growing reputation this became his day job, working on Sue is the Artistic Director of Theatre-Rites and the fourth Angels in Frankfurt and My Fair Lady in Singapore, all everything from ‘Merlin The Magnificent’ for the Unicorn generation of theatre practitioners in her family. She has directed by Nikolai Foster. Theatre to arrangements for the and many years of experience as a director, puppetry specialist BBC Concert Orchestra. Arthur Pita - Choreographer and teacher, and has worked with a range of companies Simultaneously Charlie was writing and performing his own Q&A What would you dress up as at a fancy dress party? including the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare songs, at times travelling for months around France, Italy Spider man. Company, , Sadler’s Wells, South Bank and Spain playing gigs and performing his songs at dawn Centre and Complicite. Arthur is Portuguese, was born in South Africa and studied on London’s bridges with a brass section. Signed to Peter dance in Johannesburg. He came to London in 1991 where Sue’s most recent work outside Theatre-Rites is head Gabriel’s Real World Records Charlie recorded his album he trained at London Contemporary Dance School, gaining of puppetry for the acclaimed Peter Pan in Kensington ‘Hobo’ with David Bowie’s producer Mark Plati. Rootsy and a masters degree. Gardens. Sue has created eight theatre and nine contagious, Charlie’s music took off in France, eventually site-specific shows for Theatre-Rites, most recently the His choreographic work includes works for Johannesburg topping both the single and album charts and propelling acclaimed Paradise for the Ruhrtriennale Festival 2010. Dance Umbrella, Resolution! and Spring Loaded at The him to national superstar status. Now Charlie has started She has an MA in Contemporary Theatre Practice from Place, Mappa Mundi and Women Beware Women for the receiving plaudits in the UK, playing to rapturous Essex University, which included a thesis on the , Caledonian Road for the Almeida audiences, and touted by the press. Psychoanalytical Study of the Power of the Puppet. Theatre, La Boheme and Show Boat both directed by Charlie has recently toured extensively throughout Europe, Francesca Zambello at the Royal Albert Hall, Idomeneo headlining a number of major concerts and in 2010 won Sophia Clist with Placido Domingo for Los Angeles Opera, Frankenstein the European Border Breakers Award for Best UK artist Q&A Which cartoon character would you like to meet? for Derby Playhouse, La Forza del Destino for the Lithuanian in Europe. Pingu. State Opera, Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, The Gambler for Opera www.charliewinston.com From a background of sculpture Sophia creates installations, Zuid, Carmen for The , Den Norske sets and objects for performers and audiences to inhabit, Opera, West Side Story for Municipal Festival of Larnaca in THEATRE-RITES manipulate and transform. Much of her work is collaborative Cyprus, Street Scene (Evening Standard Award Best Musical) for The Opera Group and Young Vic, The Winter’s Tale for ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sue Buckmaster and interactive, working with artists in dance, theatre, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Claire Templeton music, film, and with the general public. Royal Shakespeare Company, La Cenerentola for Garsington Opera, Orfeo ed Euridice for Minnesota Opera and The PROJECT MANAGER John Johnston As Associate Artist of Theatre-Rites 1998 - 2007 Sophia Glass Menagerie for the Young Vic. Commissions include ADMINISTRATOR Suzie Bryce designed many touring and site-specific productions Snow White in Black (National Dance Award Modern Theatre-Rites creates high quality visual and object-led including: The Thought That Counts (barbicanbite05 and Repetoire) for Phoenix Dance Company performed at theatre for adults and young people, that stirs the Young Vic); Hospitalworks (Polka Theatre/Teater der Welt); Sadler’s Wells, And Then Gone for Bare Bones performed imagination and stimulates thought. Besides traditional Finders Keepers (); Shopworks (LIFT/Wiener at the Linbury ROH, The Stepfather for CandoCo Dance venues, our shows are performed in sites as diverse as a Festwochen); Cellarworks (LIFT); In One Ear; Catch Your Company, Dancing in the Dark for Images of Dance, dusty cellar, a working hospital and a derelict salt factory Breath (Lyric Hammersmith); The Lost and Moated Land Romeu e Julieta for Dancando com a Diferenca (Madeira) and all carry a hallmark of integrity, bold imagination and and Sleep Tight. and Utopia a site specific commission for the International artistic excellence. We aim to inspire and entertain. Sophia designed Cinderella directed by Melly Still (Lyric Dance Festival Birmingham. Founded in 1995 the company is based in London and Hammersmith) in 2008, and she created Purl II, a Arthur was an Associate Artist at The Place and it was tours nationally and internationally. participatory time-based sculpture at Port Eliot Literary there he launched Open Heart Productions with a double Festival in 2010. Her installation and performance work Theatre-Rites’ next production is a co-production with bill Boomshe Sheboom and Bugger, A Fairy Tale. He later London’s Barbican Theatre and the Salzburg Festival for Stretch (Crying Out Loud) continues to evolve, showing premiered Camp which ran for 3 weeks at The Place nationally and internationally at festivals, theatres and Christmas 2011. This new family show for ages 5 plus will followed by a UK tour. Most recently God’s Garden a see the company collaborate once again with Arthur Pita. in public spaces. co-commission from DanceEast and ROH2 which premiered at Jerwood Dance House DanceEast www.theatre-rites.co.uk Guy Hoare - Lighting Designer and Linbury Theatre Royal Opera House. [email protected] Guy has been designing lighting for theatre, dance, opera www.arthurpita.com Tel: 020 7928 4875 and musicals for over fifteen years. He was nominated for Best Lighting Designer for A Christmas Carol (2010 TMA Charlie Winston MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE Awards) and for Best Lighting Design in Opera for The Q&A What is your favourite band? SUPPORTED MISCHIEF Magic Flute (2009 Knight of Illumination Awards). He was Bjork and Stevie Wonder. Theatre-Rites and Arthur Pita would like to thank the the lighting designer for Henri Oguike Dance Company for The son of folk-musicians-turned-hoteliers, Charlie Winston following for their help with Mischief: six years, designing over twenty new works. Recently he grew up in a bohemian ‘Fawlty Towers’ in Suffolk, an Emma Gladstone, Suzanne Walker, Laura Cubitt, Robin has re-mounted his 2002 design for Oguike’s Frontline in eccentric environment in which he embraced music, playing Dingermans, Maho Ihara, Matthew Morris, James Painting, Portugal, for Companhia Nacional de Bailado and in Italy, drums and piano from an early age and composing songs Ben Ash, Liz King at Kneehigh, Roisin Caffrey, Lucy for Aterbaletto. Other designs for dance include pieces for at the age of 12. Leaving home at 17 Charlie took a music Moelwyn-Hughes, Teo Ghil and Zoë Lavelle. Rafael Bonachela, Mark Bruce, Ben Wright, Shobana foundation course at Brunel University where, in the Jeyasingh, Robin Dingemans, Claire Cunningham & Jose Agudo, Darren Ellis, Jo Fong, Sarah Warsop, Anthony Kurt-Gabel, Charlotte Eatock and Alicia Herrero-Simon. Mischief was originally commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and Dance Touring He also designed And Who Shall Come To The Ball? for Partnership, and supported by an Arts Council England Lottery grant, the Paul Candoco and the 2008 production of Havana Rakatan. Hamlyn Foundation and Jerwood Studio at Sadler’s Wells.

His opera credits include The Cunning Little Vixen (The National Theatre, Brno); Promised End, The Duenna, The Magic Flute, Katya Kabanova, Don Giovanni, Anna Bolena, Susannah, Eugene Onegin and Seraglio (English Touring Opera); The Magic Flute, Hansel & Gretel, Tosca, The Marriage of Figaro and Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Longborough Festival Opera); Simon Boccanegra, The Merry Widow, Tosca and Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera UK) and Names of the Dead (BAC). Recent theatre credits include Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland); Serenading Louie (); Be Near Me (National Theatre of Scotland / Donmar Warehouse); Waste (Almeida); (Northern Broadsides / West Yorkshire Playhouse / West End); Elektra (Young Vic); A Christmas Carol and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (West Yorks Playhouse / Birmingham Rep); , Bollywood Jane, and How Many Miles To Basra? (West Yorks Playhouse); Amadeus, Could it be Magic?, The Little Fir Tree, Macbeth, Fen and Far Away (Sheffield Theatres); Kes and Season’s Greetings (Liverpool Playhouse); Of Mice And Men (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatr Clwyd). He also designed Soho and Marat/Sade for as well as thirteen touring shows for London Classic Theatre.