The Seagull(1896)
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Summer 1, 2021 GBS Theatre The Seagull (1896) by Anton Chekhov adapted by Joan Oliver Cast (in alphabetical order) Creative Team Simon Medvedenko Director Ian Bouillion Joan Oliver Eugene Dorn Designer Dylan Corbett-Bader Louis Carver Masha Russian Translator and Literary Advisor Florence Dobson Viktorija Rasciauskaite Boris Trigorin Associate Designer Raphel Famotibe Anita Gander Irina Arkadina Lighting Designer Elizabeth Hollingshead Amy Mae Konstantin Associate Lighting Designer Gabriel Howell Ollie Morrill Paulina Sound Designer Megan Langford Dylan Marsh Nina Cellist Aliyah Odoffin Elizabeth Hollingshead Ilia Shamrayev Movement Coach Samuel Tracy Mixalis Aristidou Peter Sorin Voice and Dialect Coach Benjamin Westerby Deborah Garvey Fight Coach Bret Yount Student Production Team Production Manager Radio Mic Runner Scenic Art Assistants Sam Kelly Abraham Walkling-Lea Jordan Deegan-Fleet Roma Farnell Technical Manager Broadcast Lucinda Plummer Jack Hollingsworth Andrea Scott Spiky Saul Stage Manager Sound Crew Props Maker Rosa Watson Alfie Sissons Pip Beattie Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu Deputy Stage Manager Abraham Walkling-Lea Props Assistants Jaimie Wakefield Isabelle Whitehill Aidan O’Sullivan Sylvia Wan Assistant Stage Manager Construction Project Manager Thomas Fielding Jeff Bruce-Hay (RADA Staff) Show Crew Alfie Sissons ASM 2s Assistant Construction Project Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu Aidan O’Sullivan Manager Abraham Walkling-Lea Sylvia Wan Joel Mansi Thomas Isabelle Whitehill Chief Electrician Scenery Builders Special thanks: Sammy Emmins Alice Harvey Dylan Corbett-Bader Henrietta Mathias Emily Flo Carter - starring as the Production Electrician Zoë Sim singer across the lake Sophia Dreyer Construction Crew Programmer Benet Doeringer Thomas Burbage Lizzie Hodge Dylan Mulholland Lighting Operator Alfie Sissions Jayden Hendricks-Kynaston Skylar Turnbull Hurd Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu Set Lighting Abraham Walking-Lea Rebecca Gale Isabelle Whitehill Lighting Crew Costume Supervisor Jayden Hendricks-Kynaston Amera Spagnoli Jasper Leigh Iona Ridley Wardrobe Assistants Sophie Reshad Chief Production Sound Allison Silberberg Engineers Kieran Dye Dressers Wilkie Morrison Roma Farnell Spiky Saul Production Sound Engineer Ella Bloomfield Scenic Art Head of Department Sound Operators Anita Gander Ella Bloomfield Abraham Walkling-Lea Scenic Artist Steven Peters (RADA graduate) Radio Mic Co-ordinator James Breedon Biographies Anton Chekhov Giovanni (Westminster Opera Company at the Writer Château de Panloy); The Barber of Seville, Kiss me Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright Figaro (Merry Opera Company), LA Favourite (UCL and short-story writer. He was born in 1860 and Opera Society, The Theatre Royal Stratford East); during his short life (44 years) wrote some of L’incoranazione di Poppea (Royal Academy of Music, the greatest plays in history. These include The Shoreditch Town Hall). Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, Ivanov, Platonov, The Bear, A Marriage Proposal, The Wedding, The Wood Demon and The Seagull. Anita Gander During his early life, he supported his family and Associate Designer his education by writing short stories, mostly Anita is in her final year of RADA’s BA (Hons) about contemporary Russian life. These included in Technical Theatre and Stage Management The Huntsman, The Lady with the Dog, Misery and specialising in stage design and scenic art. After The Chameleon. He also trained and practiced as graduation she sees herself pursuing a career as a physician often treating the poor free of charge. designer and director for stage with a focus on He suffered from poor health for much of his life creating immersive experiences for the audience. and was diagnosed with tuberculosis. A condition that led to his death in 1904. His writings have In previous roles at RADA, she designed the set influenced artists from all over the world and for Close Quarters by Kate Bowen directed by Zoé continue to do so today. Ford-Burnett and worked as a head scenic artist on various shows over the last two years, including Macbeth, Circle Mirror Transformation and The Joan Oliver Importance of being Earnest. Director Joan is a RADA acting graduate. Her television Anita also successfully created the concept, work includes Casualty, The Bill, Jonathan Creek, designed and directed RADA’s escape room London’s Burning and EastEnders. Her theatre experience Phase One, a cross departmental credits include Educating Rita, Golden Girls, Don collaboration of the technical course which took Juan Comes Back from the War and The Party’s place in December 2020. Over. Alongside her acting Joan established herself as a teacher and freelance director. She returned Most recently Anita designed the devised piece to RADA as the Education and Outreach Manager sunlight is the best disinfectant directed by Lesley in 2009, a role which she continued to hold until Ewen before stepping into the role of associate 2014, when she took up her current position of alongside designer Louis Carver for The Seagull. Foundation Course Director. For RADA, Joan has directed Rotterdam by Jon Brittain, and debbie tucker green’s one woman play random, starring Amy Mae Ronke Adekoluejo. Lighting Designer Theatre includes: Half Breed (Talawa/Soho/ Edinburgh Festival Fringe); The Playboy of the Louis Carver Western World (Gaiety, Ayr/Market Place & Arts Designer Centre, Armagh/Lyric, Belfast); There Are No Training: Foundation Degree in Technical Theatre, Beginnings (Leeds Playhouse); Two Trains Running Postgraduate Diploma in Theatre Design, RADA. (Royal & Derngate/ETT/RTST); Noises Off (Lyric, Theatre credits: The Secret Rapture, David Hare, Hammersmith); The Memory of Water (Nottingham Guildhall School; Ladybird, Vassily Sigarev, Playhouse); The Trick (Bush/UK tour); Start Cockroach, Sam Holcroft, When She Danced, Martin Swimming (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Wild East Sherman, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado (Young Vic); Hansel & Gretel (Rose); The Fisherman About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The (New Perspectives/Edinburgh Festival Fringe/ Ecstasy and the Ecstasy (RADA). Cabaret (Trinity Arcola/West End/UK tour); Three Sat Under The Laban). Banyan Tree (Polka/Belgrade, Coventry/UK tour); About Leo (Jermyn Street); Mountains: The Dreams Operatic credits: Nabucco, Lucia di Lammermoor of Lily Kwok (Royal Exchange, Manchester/UK (Dorset Opera), Radamisto, Opera Scenes, Opera tour); Br’er Cotton (Theatre 503); Othello, Jeckyll Makers (Guildhall School); Dido and Aeneas, Don & Hyde (NYT); The Host (Yard/St. James Church, Biographies continued Piccadilly); The Ugly One (Park); Babette’s Feast (Print Room); I’m Not Here Right Now, The Lounge (Soho); Wordsworth (Theatre By The Lake); Paradise Of The Assassins (Tara Arts); Knife Edge (Pond Restaurant, Dalston); Minaturists 55 (Arcola); Prize Fights, Henry V (RADA); Orphans (Southwark Playhouse); Macbeth (Italia Conti); Liola (New Diorama); Children in Uniform, Punk Rock (Tristan Bates); The Three Sisters (Cockpit); Sweeney Todd (Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop/West End/Barrow, New York); Pool, The Gut Girls (Jack Studio). Dance includes: Sense of Time (Royal Ballet, Birmingham), The Legacy (The Place). Circus includes: The Exploded Circus (Pavillion, Worthing/UK tour). Awards include: Knight of Illumination for Sweeney Todd. Ollie Morrill Associate Lighting Designer Ollie is in his second year of study on RADA’s Foundation Degree in Technical Theatre and Stage Management. Previously he spent time working as a Lighting Designer and Production Electrician in school and fringe-level theatre both in the UK and in Malaysia. He has worked mostly on musical theatre and live music events but enjoys lighting all types of performance art. The Seagull is his first opportunity to work as an Associate Lighting Designer. Dylan Marsh Sound Designer Dylan Marsh is a first time designer, relatively new to the world of theatre, with a passion for music and the arts. By taking a more cinematic and atmospheric approach to this sound design, composing his own music with input from the acting company, Dylan aimed to create and leave as much space for the music to breath and evolve during the show as possible. RADA Supporters Thank you to all those who donate in support of our training, our students, our creative and outreach programmes. Principal Partner Silver partners Warner Bros. 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