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MARKETING PACK 2016 Adapted and Co-Directed by David Stuttard MARKETING PACK 2016 Adapted and co-directed by David Stuttard Co-directed and starring Tamsin Shasha Assistant Director – Justin Murray Cast – Dionysus – Tamsin Shasha Pentheus – Colin Kiyani Teiresias/Chorus – Janna Fox Cadmus – Patrick Knox Agave/Chorus – Danielle Bond Chorus – Lizzie Buckingham Sound Design – Matt Eaton Lighting Design – Edmund Sutton Cast TAMSIN SHASHA – DIONYSUS Tamsin trained at Oxford School of Drama, Ecole Philippe Gaulier and National Centre for Circus Arts. She co-founded aod in 1993 and for them has worked as producer, performer, director and movement coach. She is an experienced classical actress and aerialist and has collaborated on the majority of aod’s productions working with many leading theatre and dance practitioners including Marcello Magni (Complicité), Thea Barnes (Phoenix Dance) and currently with George Mann (Theatre Ad Infinitum) on Helen. She co-wrote and performed the solo aerial drama, Bacchic (national and international tour) working with award winning director, Jonathan Young with whom she co-wrote Helen. She has played many tragic and comic roles for the company including Medea, Antigone, Dionysus, Hekabe and Lysistrata and most recently directed a new version of the latter for its national Spring 2016 tour . Other theatre credits include Misterioso (Riverside Studios), The Extraordinary Cabaret of Dorian Gray (West End) and Hippolytus (Hope Theatre). PATRICK KNOX – CADMUS Patrick Knox has toured with AOD in Electra. Other theatre includes People’s Day (Pleasance Theatre), Someone to Blame (Kings Head), The Sutton Hoo Mob, A Dulditch Angel, The Edge Of The Land (Eastern Angles), The Canterbury Tales (Theatre Royal Nottingham), Macbeth (Orange Tree), The Winter’s Tale, The Alchemist, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Third Party Productions), Hamlet, Dr Faustus, The Marriage of Panurge (Medieval Players), The Merchant of Venice (Watermill Theatre). TV includes Keen Eddie (Paramount), Them And Us (BBC), Doctor Faustus (BBC). Film includes Little Dorrit, The Fool (Sands Films). JANNA FOX – TEIRESIAS / CHORUS Janna is originally from Leeds and trained on the 1 Year Course at Drama Studio London 2010/2011. She has worked in Film, Theatre and T.V since. Janna has toured as far afield as Brits Off Broadway in Manhattan, New York (59e59 2009) with Brighton based theatre company Two Bins. Last summer she completed a UK and Ireland open-air tour playing Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice and Helena/Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Earlier this year she played Sussie in Reza De Wetts African Gothic at The Park Theatre for Two Sheds and will be starting 2017 playing Verda in Lil Warrens Strange The Road at The Hope Theatre, Islington. DANIELLE BOND – AGAVE / CHORUS Danielle graduated from the London School of Musical Theatre winner of the John Pocock Cup. Previously she studied at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Theatre includes: 'Macbeth' (The Attic Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon), 'The Baker's Wife' (Drayton Theatre, London), 'Spend Spend Spend' (Bridewell Theatre, London). Credits whilst training include: Mary in 'Merrily We Roll Along', Sue in 'RSVP ASAP,' Rosalind in 'As You Like It', Joyce in 'Top Girls'. Danielle is delighted to be making her debut with Actors of Dionysus in 'Bacchae'. COLIN KIYANI – PENTHEUS Colin Kiyani is a recent Musical Theatre graduate from the Urdang Academy where his credits whilst training included The Baker in The Bakers Wife, Emcee in Cabaret, and Hamlet in What’s in a Name - Shakespeare Shorts. Theatre credits include Nick Piazza in Fame (EU Tour), Teen Angel in Grease (EU Tour), Prince Charming in Cinderella and Aladdin in Aladdin both for Harrogate Theatre, Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (UK Tour) and recently Melchior in Spring Awakening (Young Actors Theatre). Colin first worked with AOD in September performing the title role in Alexandros, again in March with Lysistrata, and is delighted to be working with them again on Bacchae. LIZZIE BUCKINGHAM – CHORUS Lizzie trained at the Northern School of Contemporary dance followed by the Urdang academy. Training credits include Gertrude in Seussical the Musical and The Baker's Wife in The Baker's Wife. Lizzie's professional credits include Aladdin in Eva Long Productions Pantomime (tour), Chorus in Hippolytus (The Hope Theatre), Scout in The Den (Swan Wharf), featured dancer in White Cane (film), Laura in Auditions The Musical (The Headgate Theatre) and Joanna in Love Lost (TALOS/The Chelsea Theatre). Lizzie played Cassandra in AOD's Paris Alexandros in 2015 and more recently Myrrhine in their 2016 tour of Lysistrata. She has recently returned from 3 months in Beijing working a a facilitator for UKCI on their forthcoming production of the Magic Paintbrush at the Beijing Poly Theatre. Creative Team DAVID STUTTARD – ADAPTOR David Stuttard took an MA in classics from St. Andrews University. He founded aod in 1993, and was for many years its Joint Artistic Director. He has published his own translations and adaptations of Greek tragedies and comedies, many of which he has directed in the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. His reconstruction of Euripides’ Trojan Trilogy premiered at The British Museum in 2007. Books include An Introduction to Trojan Women (Company Dionysus 2005), Looking at Lysistrata (Duckworth Press 2010) and AD 410, The Year That Shook Rome (with Sam Moorhead, British Museum Press 2010). He is currently writing Power Games: The Greek Olympics of 416 BC to be published by The British Museum Press in 2011. He is also collaborating with Sam Moorhead on a book on Roman Britain (for Thames and Hudson). David frequently works around the Mediterranean with The Traveller and Westminster Classic Tours, for whom he is a consultant. You can read his blog at www.davidstuttard.com JUSTIN MURRAY – ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Justin recently graduated from a Classics degree at Durham University and is thrilled to be working in the Classical sphere again. Previous directing credits while at uni include 'Cloud Nine' by Caryl Churchill (Hill College Theatre Company), 'Antigone' by Jean Anouilh (Aidan's College Theatre), 'Gilbert is Dead' by Robin French (Aidan's College Theatre, and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (Oooook! Productions). He is also Artistic Director of new production company Catharsis Theatre, and recently wrote and directed a new adaptation of Euripides' 'Hippolytus' at arts festival Art in Action. MATT EATON – SOUND DESIGNER Matt is a sound designer and composer in theatre and film. He is an associate artist at Creation Theatre Company. Recent work includes, Titus Andronicus and Ravens (USF Florida), Kethra (Kuwaiti Pavilion at the Venetian Biennale of Architecture), I’m an Aristocrat Get Me Out of Here, (UK tour), Wuthering Heights (UK tour). Break The Floorboards (Watford Palace Theatre and tour), On the shore with Caution (Scheer, Germany) Sound designer and musical arranger, Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, The Snow Queen, Rapunzel and the Magic Pig (Creation, Oxford) Composer, Shadow Shows (Edinburgh International Film Festival), Nosferatu (Warwick Arts Centre), The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (Midlands Arts Centre), Film and TV credits: The Gambler (BBC Radio 3), Volkswagen and British Telecom advertisements, Channel 4 Films, BBC 2’s Horizon' Music production clients include Domino Records, Warp Records, Klangbad music. Matt releases music on the Domino Recordings record label. EDMUND SUTTON – LIGHTING DESIGNER Edmund Sutton has a physics degree from Bristol University. Tour management and re-lighting credits include 'Shhh!' (UK, C 12 Dance Theatre), ' So It Goes' (UK, On The Run), 'Finding Joy' (UK, Vamos Theatre), 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' (TNT, Italy), 'Macbeth' (TNT, Germany), '. Other work includes lighting designs for Italian, French, Armenian, Iranian, and Indian theatre, opera, concerts, and exhibitions. He has also worked for Luxam, lighting exhibits in the refurbished Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of London Docklands. He is a member of the Association of Lighting Designers and the Institute of Physics. Reviews of previous aod productions “A superb performance, bringing the text to vivid contemporary life. I urge you to see it.” EdinburghGuide on Bacchic “Outstanding, exquisite, inventive and seamless. Crisp, delicate and layered – this is a rare piece of theatre.” The Stage, Bacchic “Gripping stuff, as sharp as steel and wholly accessible. Superb.” The Stage, Oedipus “Tamsin Shasha gives an incredibly sexy performance.” The Stage, Bacchic A bold, vis “A highly accessible, no-nonsense approach to the contemporary staging of classical texts has won [aod] an enviable reputation for making Greek tragedy seriously sexy.” The Guardian “seriously special….spare, muscular.…elegant pace and effective choreography.” Chelmsford Weekly News, Grave Gifts “They bring tears to the eyes and make the hair at the nape of the neck bristle... Let nothing stop you from seeing them.” The Times “This is an athletic, sensual, ritualistic staging. In language that is often highly poetic, the many layers of meaning in this ancient story are fully explored.” Glasgow Herald, Grave Gifts “Stunning, absorbing, seductive magic.” Aberdeen Press and Journal, Bacchae “A strongly visual, almost cinematic experience, strong on sensuality and eroticism.” Sheffield Telegraph Company Information aod is a UK theatre company which tours nationally and internationally with productions of Greek drama, or new writing based on classical myth reimagined for modern audiences.
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