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presents A Midsummer ’s Dream

A Old Vic production In association with Handspring Puppet Company Co-commissioned by Spoleto Festival USA

By

DIRECTOR

PUPPET DESIGN, FABRICATION AND DIRECTION Handspring Puppet Company

PERFORMERS Saikat Ahamed, Colin Michael Carmichael, Naomi Cranston, David Emmings, Alex Felton, Fionn Gill, Akiya Henry, Kyle Lima, Saskia Portway, David Ricardo Pearce, Jon Trenchard, Miltos Yerolemou

June 15 & 18-22 at 8pm June 15, 16, 19, 22 & 23 at 2pm University

Presented with support from: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

National Endowment for the Arts

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale Center for British , through the generosity of the Terry F. Green 1969 fund for British Art and Culture University of New Haven WSHU Public Radio Group About

A Time to Dream

In many ways, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the archetypal love story, relevant in any age. A story of the folly and joy of falling in love. On top of that, it’s a play profoundly about the imagination, perfect to explore the nature of the relationship between (and puppets!) on a stage, and an audience in an auditorium.

Which is where we begin with our …Dream world. A world where reality blurs with the mystic, a world where fairies – powerful, magical, mischievous and dangerous – are a reality; an ever- changing world of puppets, lots of puppets, and people who fancy each other so wildly they can barely keep their clothes on.

Handspring Puppet Company – a Associate Company of international repute – are the most accomplished, magical creators of puppet theatre in the world. We hope you enjoy these extraordinary artists applying their breath-taking skill to perhaps the classic play of the imagination.

Tom Morris Artistic Director, Bristol Old Vic Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2 Program

Saikat Ahamed Snug / Puck Colin Michael Carmichael Quince / Peasblossom Naomi Cranston Helena David Emmings Snout / Mustardseed / Puck / Philostrate Alex Felton Lysander Fionn Gill Flute / Moth / Puck Akiya Henry Hermia Kyle Lima Demetrius Saskia Portway Hippolyta / Titania David Ricardo Pearce Theseus / Oberon Jon Trenchard Starveling / Cobweb / Onstage Musical Director Miltos Yerolemou Bottom / Egeus

Tom Morris Director Handspring Puppet Company Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction Vicki Mortimer Designer Philip Gladwell Lighting Designer Dave Price Christopher Shutt Sound Designer Andrew Dawson Movement Director Laurel Swift Choreographer James Bonas Associate Director Molly Einchcomb Associate Designer Katerina Hicken Costume Supervisor Joseph Wallace Puppetry Associate

Jacqui Leigh Production Manager Jim Leaver Production Manager (Bristol) Robin Longley Company Stage Manager Rebecca James Deputy Stage Manager Andy Guard Assistant Stage Manager Rachel Bowen Re-lights Jason Barnes Sound Engineer Katie Davies Lighting Operator (Bristol) Jonathan Everett Sound Operator (Bristol) Fred Stacey, Andy Scrivens & Cliff Thorne Original Set and Scenic Art Emma Cains Wardrobe Supervisor Holly McLean Costume Assistant Sarah Bird Casting Consultant Emma Stenning Executive Producer Catherine Morgenstern Producer

3 Program

Handspring Puppet Company

Art Department

Adrian Kohler Puppet Conception, Design, Sculpture, Construction and Direction Basil Jones Puppet Conception and Direction James Dee Factory Mgr and Puppet Engineer (Metal work on Oberon/Titania) Jessica Mias-Jones Asst Factory Mgr / Sculptor (Massage Fairy, Lion) Simon Dunckley Sculptor and Puppet Engineer (Bottom machine, Oberon’s hand) Andy Mias-Jones Sculptor and Puppet Engineer (Scary Fairy, large jellyfish) Thys Stander Chief Cane Sculptor Kyle Daniels Puppet Builder and Asst Factory Manager (small jellyfish) Ncedile Daki Puppet Builder and Engineer (Lover figures’ jointing and carving) Janni Younge Sculptor (Lover figures’ heads) Phyllis Midlane Fabric Engineer Lyn Holm Assistant Puppet Builder Zweli Ngcombela Studio Assistant Jonah De Lange Puppet Builder John Bramwell Component Builder Zanmari Nel Studio Assistant Philip Roberts Studio Assistant Lungiswa Mkwasi Studio Assistant Kiara Daniesli Studio Assistant Karen Zasloff Intern

Production Department

Basil Jones Executive Producer Janni Younge Associate Director Roderick Bothman Finance James Nilsen Assistant to the Producer Melanie Roberts Administrative Assistant

4 The Performers

Saikat Ahamed Colin Michael Carmichael Naomi Cranston

David Emmings Alex Felton Fionn Gill

Akiya Henry Kyle Lima David Ricardo Pearce

Saskia Portway Jon Trenchard Miltos Yerolemou

5 About the Artists

BRISTOL OLD VIC is the longest created shows for children touring continuously-running theatre in throughout Southern Africa. In 1985 the UK and following a recent they made their first play for adults £12million redevelopment project, and moved to Johannesburg where is now one of the most modern they worked with a succession of and comfortable with state of the innovative directors including Market art rehearsal rooms, a dramatically Theatre founder, Barney Simon, extended forestage and precision- and the artist and director, William engineered sightlines giving Kentridge. Their collaborations with audiences an even more intimate Kentridge include Woyzeck on the theatrical experience. Highveld, Faustus In Africa and Our mission is to create pioneering Ubu & the Truth Commission, which twenty-first century theatre in toured to festivals throughout the partnership with the people of world. Since 2000 the company our energetic city; inspired by the has produced three plays with history and magical design of the animals in leading roles: The Chimp most beautiful playhouse in the Project, Tall Horse and . country. We are led by artists who More recently they have made see the world with distinctive clarity Or You Could Kiss Me with Neil and whose ability to articulate what Bartlett at the National Theatre, and they see allows us to understand presented Ouroboros, directed by and engage with our world afresh, associate director Janni Younge. whether that be through our The Residenz theater of Munich 350-strong Young Company, our in association with Handspring many outreach and education U.K. is currently presenting Stiller projects or helping ascendant artists (based on the novel by Max Frisch), by nurturing the spark or seed of an directed by Tina Lanik and Merv idea into something fully-formed. Miller. Handspring’s work has been We are publicly funded by Arts presented at many international Council England and Bristol City festivals including Edinburgh, LIFT, Council, using that investment to Avignon, the Next Wave Festival support experiment and innovation, at BAM in New York, The African to allow access to our programme Odyssey Festival at the Kennedy for people who would not otherwise Centre in Washington, Theatre encounter it or be able to afford d’Automne in Paris, Theatre der it and to keep our extraordinary Welt in Germany, as well as in Hong heritage alive and animated. Kong, Singapore, Adelaide, Berlin, We strive to be welcoming, Zurich and Bogota. The company professional and boundlessly provides an artistic home and curious; playful, ambitious and professional base for a core group rigorous; resourceful, honest, and of performers, designers, theatre generous; collaborative, Bristolian artists and technicians based in and world class. South Africa. They continue to explore the boundaries of adult HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY puppet theatre within an African was founded in 1981 by four context. Kohler and Jones are graduates of the Michaelis School of recipients of an Olivier Award (with Fine Art in Cape Town, South Africa. Rae Smith) [2007] as well as a Two of the co-founders, Adrian Special Tony Award [2011]. 6 Vita Kohler and Basil Jones, continue to Awards for theatre, a Fleur Du Cap run the company. Originally they Award, The Cape Tercentenary

6 About the Artists

Foundation’s Molteno Medal Island, Dracula, A Land to Die For, (Gold) [1987-2010], and a Special Bhagdad Burning, The Ramayana, Achievement Award from the Outer For the Time Being. His writing Critics Circle to Adrian Kohler and work includes: Telling Tales (BBC Basil Jones [2011]. With the War Asian Network), The Tiger and the Horse Creative Team they received a Moustache (One-man show). Critics Circle Award and The Drama Desk Award for thrilling stagecraft COLIN MICHAEL CARMICHAEL [2011]. With Rae Smith they won (performer) trained at East 15. Best Design from the Toronto Theatre includes: Years as the Theatre Critics Circle and most Ridiculusmus ‘Gimp’ in The recently the LA Drama Critics Circle Exhibitionists, Da Music, Say Special Award to Adrian Kohler with Nothing; work with Scarlet Theatre Basil Jones for Handspring Puppet (Love and Other Fairytales, The Theatre in recognition of the design, Wedding), Platform 4, fabrication, and direction of the Oswin, Theatro Vivio and Kirsty puppets of War Horse [2012]. Housley. With his own company, Brian, he has co-devised all of the SAIKAT AHAMED (performer) has company’s shows, including Billy previously appeared in Bristol Old Holiday, Art Factory, Man Band Vic’s Peter Pan, , and Bournemouth Ballards. He also Bangladesh (scratch performance works with Kazuko Hohki as a co- in Bristol Old Vic Ferment). devisor (Kazuko Hohki’s Wuthering Other theatre includes: The Tiger Heights, Incontinental). Film includes: and the Moustache (Brewery , St Trinians 2, Burke and Theatre), Ali Baba and the Forty Hare, Scar Tissue. Television includes: Thieves, (Tobacco Black Mirror, Coupling, Man Down, Factory Theatre), A Fine Balance Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Comic ( Theatre/Tamasha Arts), Strip, FM, Eastenders. East is East (Oldham Coliseum), Shepherd’s Pie Anyone? (Theatre NAOMI CRANSTON (performer) Royal, Stratford), Gym Buddies trained at RADA. Theatre credits ( Theatre), James and the include: All’s Well That Ends Well, Giant Peach (Polka Theatre), Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare’s Globe), (Settle Festival The Importance of Being Earnest Theatre), Journey to the West (Tara (Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Glass Arts), Cornershop (Man-Méla), The Slipper (Northern Stage), Scared Immigrant Song (Mainbrace), Three To Death (the Mill at Sonning). Sisters, The Matchmaker (Jermyn Television includes: Popatron, Street Theatre).Film includes: Doctors (both BBC). Frail, This Must be , East is East, Halal Harry, It was an DAVID EMMINGS (performer) Accident. Television includes: The trained at Royal Central School of Choir, Parents, Trollied, Home Time, Speech & Drama. Theatre includes: Monday Monday, Being Human, War Horse (National Theatre and Afterlife, 7/7 Attack on . West End), Something Very Far His work in radio includes: Norman Away (Unicorn), Father Christmas Beaton Fellowship recipient 2006, (Lyric Hammersmith), The Confetti Silver Street (regular), Little Master Maker (New Diorama/Stratford Misery, Mahabharata, Two Men in East), The Boy from Centreville the Fog, Walking the Line, Small (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Film

7 About the Artists includes: Sherlock Holmes (Warner Flyboys (Chapter Theatre Arts), Bros), Alice (Ruby Films/Film4), Thoroughly Modern Millie (RWCMD/ Mime Poker (Chief Productions), The Sherman Theatre), Richard III, Love’s Homeless Polar Bear (Greenpeace/ Labours Lost, , Partizan Films). Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hay Fever (RWCMD), Habeas Corpus ALEX FELTON (performer) trained (RWCMD/ Chapter Theatre Arts). at Drama Centre. Theatre includes: Television includes: Merlin (BBC), All’s Well That End’s Well (National Perfect Summer (BBC Wales), In Theatre), (Clwyd Deep (ITV). Theatre Cymru), The Winter’s Tale (Old Vic Tunnels), The Importance SASKIA PORTWAY (performer) has of Being Earnest (Library Theatre), appeared in Bristol Old Vic’s Coram Passing By (), Boy. Other theatre includes: , The River Line (Jermyn Street Measure for Measure (National Theatre), The Reluctant Debutante Theatre), , A Midsummer (Theatre Royal Bath), Pride and Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Prejudice (Theatre Royal Bath), Coriolanus, and , 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic). Television As You Like It, , The includes: Bonekickers, Changeling, Love’s Labour’s Lost, (BBC). , The Taming of the Shrew, (Shakespeare FIONN GILL (performer) has At The ), Intimate appeared in Bristol Old Vic’s Coram Exchanges (Cheltenham Everyman), Boy and Swallows and Amazons. Richard III (Ludlow Festival/Exeter Other theatre includes: Beyond Northcott), The House of Bernarda (Karla Shacklock), L’Autruche, Alba ( Dog), Blavatsky’s Tower Keepers (The Plasticine Men), (Theatre West/Angelhair), Magpie Anomie (Precarious), Lost in (Fairground).Television and radio the Wind (Lost Spectacles), includes: Law and Order UK, A Rumplestiltskin (The Globe Players), Tale of Two Castles, Paris Brothel, The Hotel (Mark Watson), Summer Doctors, The Giblet Boys, Poetry 1871 (Triangle Theatre), Cinderella Please, One in a Million, Great Lives, (The Globe Players), For Provide Life War Music, Mary Mary. (Fionn Gill), The Great Exhibition (Triangle Theatre), The Nutcracker DAVID RICARDO PEARCE (Bath Theatre Royal), A Servant’s (performer) trained at Bristol Old Christmas (Triangle Theatre), Vic Theatre School. For Bristol Old Druthers (Precarious), General Vic: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Strike 1926 (New Factory of the (2003).Other theatre includes: The Eccentric ), The Very Last Sacred Flame (English Touring Showdown (Playground Rules). Theatre), The Big Fellah (Lyric Film includes: 1234 (Sleepdogs). Hammersmith/Out of Joint), The Television includes: . Rover (/ Artluxe), Alfie (SJT/Bolton KYLE LIMA (performer) is from Octagon), As You Like It (Grosvenor Cardiff originally and studied Park Open Air Theatre), Romeo at The Royal Welsh College of and Juliet (Bolton Octagon), Saint Music and Drama, graduating in Joan (National Theatre), Privates 2009. Theatre includes: Aladdin on Parade (WYP/Birmingham Rep), (Salisbury Playhouse), Muscle, Inglorious Technicolour (SJT), Annie

8 About the Artists

Get Your Gun (), Saturday Exchange), One Flew Over the Night (), Two Cities Cuckoo’s Nest (Leicester Curve), (Salisbury Playhouse), Sweeney Adelaide Road (RSC), Hansel and Todd (Trafalgar Studios). Television Gretel, Travels With My Aunt (Royal includes: The Spa (Tiger Aspect/ and Derngate), (RSC Sky), Eastenders, Outnumbered, – West End and Stratford), The Extras and Border Crossing (BBC). Comedy of Errors (The Globe), Othello (RSC), A Midsummer Night’s JON TRENCHARD (performer) Dream ( De Lyon), Tintin trained at the London Academy (West End and tour), Guys and Dolls of Performing Arts. For Bristol Old (), Beauty and Vic: Swallows & Amazons (West the Beast (RSC), Sleeping Beauty End & National Tour; Children’s (Young Vic), The Misanthrope Touring Partnership). Other (Chichester Festival Theatre), theatre includes: the title role in A Animal Crackers (Manchester Government Inspector (Northern Royal Exchange), Romeo and Juliet Broadsides), Animal Farm (Theatr (Belgrade Theatre), The Winter’s Clwyd), Oh What a Lovely War Tale (RSC). Film and television (Northern Stage), Richard III, The includes: Movie, Comedy Of Errors, A Midsummer Syrio Forel in HBO’s Game of Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Thrones, My Family, Black Books, Venice, The Taming of The Shrew, Absolutely Fabulous (BBC). Twelfth Night (Propeller, touring internationally), The Merry Wives TOM MORRIS (Director) is Artistic Of Windsor (Stafford Shakespeare Director of Bristol Old Vic and has Festival), Sunset Boulevard (The been Associate Director of the Watermill), Great Expectations (New National Theatre since 2004. He was Vic Theatre), By Jeeves! (Jordan the Artistic Director of Battersea Arts Productions), Mack & Mabel (The Centre (BAC) from 1995 to 2004 and Watermill, National Tour and West before that was an arts journalist, End), The Secret Diary Of Adrian broadcaster and freelance producer. Mole, Aged 13, playing Adrian Mole For Bristol Old Vic, credits include: (Belfast Festival), Peter Pan (Oxford Swallows and Amazons, Juliet and Playhouse), Todd! The Demon Her Romeo and Does My Society Barber Of (Kabosh Look Big in This?. Other credits Theatre), Leonardo’s Last Supper include: The Death of Klinghoffer (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), (ENO & Metropolitan Opera), Every La Ronde (), Good Boy Deserves Favour (National pantomimes for Qdos, New World Theatre), War Horse (as co-director and Jordan Productions, and Puck for National Theatre, 2011 Tony Award in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer for Best Director), A Matter of Life Night’s Dream (Queen Elizabeth and Death (adapted from the film Hall). Film includes: The Da Vinci with Emma Rice, National Theatre), Code ( Pictures). Television Coram Boy (developed with Melly includes: My Family (DLT/BBC). Still, National Theatre), Disembodied, Newsnight: The Opera, Kombat MILTOS YEROLEMOU (performer) Opera Klubneit, Home, Passions, Theatre includes: The Lion, Unsung, To The Island With The The Witch and the Wardrobe Goose, Macbeth, Oedipus The King, (), You Can’t Othello Music, Trio, All That Fall (all Take It With You (Manchester Royal BAC, as director), World Cup Final

9 About the Artists

1966, Jason and the Argonauts, Ben BASIL JONES (Puppet Conception Hur (all BAC, co-written with Carl and Direction) is a co-founder and Heap), Jerry Springer: The Opera executive producer of Handspring (for BAC as producer), Ooogly Puppet Company. Jones completed Boogly (devised and directed), his BFA at UCT where he met future Nights at the Circus, The Wooden husband, Adrian Kohler. In 1990, Frock (both written with Emma Rice Jones set up a not for profit NGO for Kneehigh). Handspring Trust, which produced Spider’s Place, an innovative, multi- ADRIAN KOHLER (Puppet media science education series Construction, Design, Sculpture, for TV, radio and comic aimed at Construction, and Direction) is a young learners from disadvantaged co-founder and Artistic Director of backgrounds. He set up the Handspring Puppet Company, and is Handspring Awards for Puppetry, considered to be one of the world’s which recognise and encourage leading masters of his medium. His puppet design, direction and mother was a thoughtful amateur performance in South Africa. The , who with his father, as Handspring Trust is involved in yacht builder and cabinetmaker, a number of projects in urban gave him a firm grounding in townships and rural areas, using woodwork and the creation of puppetry as a means to educate moving figures. A BA Fine Art at the and empower youth, bringing University of Cape Town followed. communities together through He then spent a year at street parades and performance. He Theatre - the city’s only non-racial speaks and writes on the subject venue at the time and another in of puppetry and is interested in Birmingham U.K. at the Canon Hill growing an international dialogue Arts Centre and Weld Community on the theatre of objects. He Arts Centre. Kohler then moved received the Naledi Executive to Botswana to run the National Directors Award [2012], a lifetime Popular Theatre Programme achievement award from Tshwane for three years. His puppets for University [2006] and an honorary Handspring have been widely doctorate in literature from UCT acclaimed and exhibited. He has had [2012]. a solo retrospective at the in South Africa, and groups VICKI MORTIMER (Designer) of his works have been shown at The studied at the School of Barbican Art Gallery, London and Art. Her work in theatre includes The Museum for African Art, New many productions at the National York. His puppets are held in public Theatre, most recently: Last of and private collections including the Hausmanns, Travelling Light the Constitutional Court in South (costume design), Hansel and Gretel Africa, the Munich Stadtmuseum and Hamlet, several shows for the in Germany, and the Old Mutual RSC, including The Seagull, Uncle Art Collection. Kohler received Vanya and The Winter’s Tale, work at the Michaelis Prize, a lifetime the Royal Court, the Donmar and the achievement award from Tshwane Almeida, Don John for Kneehigh at University [2006] and an honorary RSC and BAC, Nights at the Circus doctorate in literature UCT [2012]. at Lyric Hammersmith (costume design). Internationally: and Nine on Broadway

10 About the Artists

(costume design), and Easter and Testing the Echo (OOJ), The Boy Night and Dreams at Dramaten Who Fell Into a Book, Dandy in the Theatre, Stockholm, as well as Underworld (Soho). several seasons of productions in Tokyo. Opera includes most DAVE PRICE (Composer) is a recently Written on Skin for Aix composer, performer and sound Festival, Orest for Nederlands Opera designer and is an associate of the (costume design), Al Gran Sole for award-winning physical theatre Salzburg Festival and Staatsoper company, Gecko. Theatre credits Berlin, After Dido for ENO at the include original scores and sound Young Vic, Die Meistersinger von designs for: Rats’ Tales (Royal Nurnburg and St Matthew Passion Exchange Manchester), Missing for Glyndebourne. Designs for (Gecko), A Soldier In Every Son - An dance include Yantr`a for Stuttgart Aztec Trilogy, Measure for Measure Ballet, Genus for Paris Opera (RSC), Fen (National Theatre Garnier, Skindex for Nederlands Studio/Finborough), Adventures Dans Theater and three pieces for Inside (Lyric Hammersmith/ Random Dance Company. Love Productions for ), and as composer and performer: PHILIP GLADWELL (Lighting The Overcoat, Taylors Dummies Designer) Theatre credits include: (Gecko), Beasts and Beauties Love The Sinner (National Theatre), (Hampstead), No Quarter, , Kebab (RSC). Dave recorded several albums (Royal Court), Before The Party and toured extensively with the (Almeida), Miss Julie (Schaubühne pop group Aqualung and works Berlin), One For The Road, God of with singer Gwyneth Carnage, Blood Wedding, Hedda Herbert as multi-instrumentalist and Gabler, The Bacchae (Royal & co-producer of her forthcoming Derngate), Cinderella, Aladdin, CD, which is the culmination of Mogadishu, Punk Rock (Lyric), The a residency at Aldeburgh Music. Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation He co-founded the experimental Society, Melody, In The Bag music collective Noszferatu, who (Traverse), The Spire, Design for recorded a CD (Drempel) for the Living (Salisbury), Small Hours NMC label and performed at major (Hampstead), For Once (Pentabus), UK contemporary music festivals and Further Than the Furthest Thing several times on BBC Radio 3. Other (Dundee Rep, Winner Critics Award recent highlights include gigs with for Theatre in Scotland for Best Eska, Finn Peters’ Music of the Mind Design), Five Guys Named Moe project and recording with Duke (Stratford), Terminus (Abbey Dublin/ Special and Regina Spektor. /US/Young Vic/Edinburgh), You Can’t Take it With You, 1984, CHRISTOPHER SHUTT (Sound Macbeth (Manchester), The Wiz Designer) For Bristol Old Vic: Coram (Birmingham /WYP), Thoroughly Boy, Far Away. For the National Modern Millie, Radio Times, Theatre: War Horse (Tony Award, Relatively Speaking, Daisy Pulls it NY Drama Desk Award, Olivier Off, (Watermill), Gypsy, nomination), The Effect, The White (Leicester), My Guard, Burnt by the Sun, Every Romantic History (Bush/Sheffield), Good Boy Deserves Favour (Olivier Amazonia, , The Member of nomination), Gethsemane, The Hour the Wedding, Festa! (Young Vic), We Knew Nothing of Each Other,

11 About the Artists

Philistines, Happy Days, Coram Boy premiered at the World Science (Olivier nomination), A Dream Play, Festival in New York and featured Measure for Measure, Humble Boy, as 3 talks at TEDMED in San Diego. Play Without Words, Albert Speer, This year he received his third grant Not About Nightingales, Machinal. from Wellcome Trust to develop For Complicite: A Disappearing Chasm of Sorrow, the story Anton Number, The Elephant Vanishes, Chekhov’s astonishing exploration to Mnemonic (NY Drama Desk Award), Sakhalin Island in 1890. The Noise of Time, The Street of Crocodiles, The Three Lives of Lucie LAUREL SWIFT (Choreographer) Cabrol. Other credits: The Playboy specializes in the folk arts and of the Western World, All About My has taught morris for theatre Mother, Moon for the Misbegotten and film. She is the founder and (Old Vic), (Olivier nomination), choreographer of Morris Offspring, The Man Who Had All The Luck a young band of morris dancers (Donmar), , Judgment Day who have appeared on BBC2’s (Almeida), Love and Information, Culture Show, sold out the South Kin, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Serious Bank, and are about to undertake a Money, Road (Royal Court), Blasted major tour of UK Arts Centres with (Lyric Hammersmith), All My Sons folk powerhouse, Faustus. Laurel (Broadway), Bacchae, Little Otik also appears in Under Her Skin, a (National Theatre of Scotland), King duo show with the performance Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, storyeller Debs Newbold. Directed King John, Romeo and Juliet (RSC), by John Wright, Under Her Skin Arturo Ui (New York with Al Pacino, gives an ancient British folktale a music by Tom Waits). BBC Radio: A strong contemporary retelling. It is Shropshire Lad, Tennyson’s Maud, A a fully integrated show, inventive Disappearing Number. and theatrical yet, sharing the tale equally between Debs’ charismatic ANDREW DAWSON (Movement storytelling voice and Laurel’s Director) is a director, performer, double bass, fiddle and clogs. Laurel Feldenkrais practitioner, and fellow plays double bass with Gadarene, at Winchester University. He studied fiddle with irresistible ceilidh-dance dance with Merce Cunningham in groovers The Gloworms and has New York and theatre in Paris with been awarded two opportunities Phillipe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux to showcase compositions with and Jacques Lecoq. He created and innovative folk organization Distil: performs Space Panorama (1987), Pocket Garden (2007) and London Quatre Mains (1998), the award- Haven (2008). winning solo show Absence and Presence (2005) and directed the JAMES BONAS (Associate Director), stage show of Wallace and Gromit As Associate/Assistant Director, (1995), Amnesia Curiosa (2008) and credits include: The Death of Pandora 88 (2003). Recent credits Klinghoffer, Dr Dee - with include: Co-Director on The Heads Manchester International Festival, for Blind Summit (2013), Movement The Damnation Of Faust, The Director at ENO and MET on the Flute, Tosca, La Clemenza Di Tito, opera Dr. Atomic and The Pearl A Dog’s Heart - with Complicite (all Fishers at ENO. With an Arts Award ), , from the Wellcome Trust, he created A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera The Articulate Hand (2011) which North and Minnesota Opera),

12 About the Artists

Hansel & Gretel (Glyndebourne include: Miss Austen Regrets, Festival Opera), Don Carlos, Romeo Four Seasons, Nightwatch, Inside & Juliette (Los Angeles Opera), Men and recent release The Fear. Carmen Jones (). Theatre credits include: Rodgers and Other credits as Director for theatre Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song at and opera include: Hansel & Gretel the Ahmanson Theatre, LA, Westside (Co-Opera National Tour), Seven Story for Brigenz Opera Festival, Angels (Royal College of Music), Thoroughly Modern Milly at The Robin Hood (Castle Theatre), Night Shaftesbury and at the Opera ( and at the London Palladium. National Tour). JOSEPH WALLACE (Puppetry MOLLY EINCHCOMB (Associate Associate) is a film and theatre Designer) graduated from Royal director. He is an associate artist Welsh College of Music and Drama. of Twisted Theatre, Bristol Old Vic She was Associate to Vicki Mortimer Young Company and the Wardrobe on Hansel and Gretel, Last of the Theatre. Joseph’s short films have Haussmans and Beauty and the won awards and been screened at Beast (National Theatre) and has festivals internationally and he has assisted on productions for the created animation for film, theatre National Theatre, Almeida, Royal and television. Recent works include: Opera House, English National Yesterday at Theatre Uncut festival, Opera, Aix-en-Provence Opera The Life After for Bristol Old Vic Festival and Glyndebourne. Design Young Company and Closer Each credits include: Live action Art Day at The Wardrobe Theatre. Director for title cards (London Film includes dance, food and 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony), fashion films and the BAFTA Cymru The Drawer Boy (The Finborough), nominated animation The Man Who Tagore’s Women (Southwark Was Afraid of Falling. Playhouse), Barbershopera: Apocalypse No! (Drum Theatre, JACQUI LEIGH (Production Plymouth and Trafalgar Studios), Manager) is a freelance production African Gothic (Arcola), manager with over thirty years’ Barbershopera (Trafalgar Studios, experience in the entertainment Theatre 503, Edinburgh Fringe), industry and specialising in theatre, Wizard of Oz (Courtyard Theatre, international circus, outdoor Hereford), L’Etoile, events, street theatre, live music, (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff). festivals, dance, teaching and corporate events. Recent credits KATERINA HICKEN (Costume include: Production Management Supervisor) has been involved in for Shakespeare’s Globe, including costume for over a decade, working touring to the Middle East, on as a maker, costumier and supervisor Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer within a diverse range of creative Night’s Dream and Macbeth, environments such as period costume Production Management for house, Cosprop, theatre, feature films Manchester International Festival/ and TV dramas. Throughout this Punchdrunk on Crash of the Elysium, time she has worked on period films Production and Site Management including: Goya’s Ghost, Casanova, for Artichoke on Peace Camp and Perfume, Beatrix Potter, National Lumiere, Event Stage Management Treasure and Belle. Television dramas for the Doha Tribeca Film Festival,

13 About the Artists

Production Management for Derby Old Vic includes: Hey Diddle Feste at Arts Agenda, Production Diddle, Wild Oats, Coram Boy, Consultant for Circus Fest at the Coasting, Orpheus and the Furies Roundhouse. (Theatre Damfino, developed with Bristol Old Vic Ferment), The ROBIN LONGLEY (Company Stage Misanthrope and Swallows and Manager) trained at Bristol Old Vic Amazons. Other work includes: Theatre School. Theatre includes: King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, Bristol Old Vic’s production of Richard II, Comedy of the Errors Swallows and Amazons (at the and (Shakespeare at and UK tour, The Tobacco Factory), Hello Dolly!, Children’s Touring Partnership), The Importance of Being Earnest, Antony & Cleopatra, Rattigan’s and Much Ado About Nijinsky, , Master Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Builder, Taking Sides, Collaboration, Theatre). Andy has also worked for Hobson’s Choice, Peter Pan, The contemporary dance company Stan Father, Song of the Western Men, Won’t Dance and the Shunt theatre The Lady’s Not For Burning, The collective. Misanthrope, One Snowy Night, (Chichester Festival Theatre), Wounded, The Secret Garden, Noises Off, , Christmas Carol, These Four Streets, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, How to Tell The Monsters From The Misfits, The Mothership, The Witches, Celestina, Steve Nallon’s Christmas Carol, (Birmingham Rep), The Seagull, Antony and Cleopatra, A New Way to Please You, Believe What You Will, Speaking Like Magpies, (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Hanging Man (US tour, co-production with Improbable Theatre), Vodou Nation, Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Dick Wittington, Pool Death, Arabian Nights (Salisbury Playhouse), Hello Dolly!, Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park).

ANDY GUARD (Assistant Stage Manager) trained at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and previously worked in the Fashion and Textiles industry before working in theatre. He still designs fabric. Work for Bristol

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Simon Critchely & Jamieson Webster: Shakespeare, a Difference–Reinterpreting Hamlet and Other Plays

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A comic-rap-scrap metal musical prompted by the real life experience of a Chinese restaurant delivery man trapped in a Bronx elevator for 81 hours.

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