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Sundowning by Nessah Muthy Sundowning by Nessah Muthy Betty . .Hazel Maycock Intrepid plays by fearless women since 1991 Teresa . Nadia Nadif Alyssa . Aasiya Shah Kali Theatre develops and tours ground breaking, Director . .Helena Bell thought provoking, contemporary theatre by women Writer . Nessah Muthy writers of South Asian descent. Designer . .Rajha Shakiry Lighting Designer . Pablo Fernandez Baz We seek out and nurture talented writers, bringing their experience and stories to audiences from all backgrounds to transform the theatre Sound Designer . .Dinah Mullen landscape and better reflect modern Britain. Video Designer . .Daniel Denton Sundowning Choreographer . Yarit Dor We have been championing women writers from a South Asian background for over twenty five years. We actively encourage our Production Manager . .Kate Jones by Nessah Muthy writers to reinvent the theatrical agenda and have gained a reputation Company Stage Manager . Charlotte R L Cooper for staging inspiring and provocative new theatre. Wardrobe Support . Alex Horner Our new Discovery and Festival Writer Development Programmes Kali Theatre encourage and support the creation of new work through writing Artistic Director . Helena Bell workshops, dramaturgical support and public readings. Executive Director . .Christopher Corner Administrator. Samia Djilli Publicist . Nancy Poole Find our more and join our mailing list at kalitheatre.co.uk Marketing . Reshmi Mayer Email us [email protected] Thanks to the staff of Plymouth Theatre Royal for all their support in creating this Like us facebook.com/kalitheatureUK production of Sundowning. Follow us @KaliTheatreUK Thanks to Pursued by a Bear who first commissioned Sundowning when under previous AD Helena Bell and in particular Julia Tymukas, Thomas Kell, Katharine Ives and Cathy Westbrooke who helped support early sharings. Also thanks to Victoria Alcock, Amelda Brown, Tanya Franks, Mona Goodwin, Zainab Hasan, Rebekah Murrell, Sakuntala Ramanee, Lucy Thackeray, Fiona Skinner, Grant Watson, Ria Zmitrowicz and Fourth Monkey for the loan of lights and all those whose help came too late to be included here. DISCOVERY SHOWCASES Please take a moment to tell us what you thought of In February/March next year, look out for our three Sundowning on the feedback form included with this showcases of new work from our current Discovery programme or go to our website www.kalitheatre.co.uk and look for the feedback tab on our Contact page. writer development programmes in London, Birmingham and Leicester. OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 SUPPORTED BY Kali is a registered charity 1071733 I Stand Corrected (Mojisola Adebayo Festival, Hoxton Hall - Lift Festival, COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES & Artscape Cape Town, London and Mirabella Festival - Turin, Leeds Live Art Singapore), Richard II (Jericho, Palestine Bistro, Barbican Pit and One Two Theatre - and Shakespeare’s Globe), Visible Tokyo. www.dinahmullen.com (Cardboard Citizens and RSC), Krunch and Sundowning: (sŭn′dou′nĭng) n. Betty Hazel Citizens, Kali Theatre, Punchdrunk and Sweet Taboo (Talawa TYPT) and Still Life Daniel Denton Maycock Theatre Centre. Nessah is presently Dreaming (Spare Tyre and Wellcome Trust, Video Design under commission to Iris Theatre and Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe). Rajha’s A state of increased agitation, confusion, The Secret Keeper; Fingersmiths – Frozen the National Youth Theatre. For screen, current collaborations include projects Daniel Denton is a London based Video (Clerkinworks); Duck (Unicorn Theatre); Nessah has written for Holby City and with Fuel alongside work with The Globe, Designer and Animator and associate disorientation, and anxiety that typically Macbeth, All My Sons, Dangerous Corner, EastEnders: E20. She is the inaugural National Theatre and Bush Theatre. of video design collective, Mesmer. Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep); Talking recipient of the Character 7 Award and Rajha’s work has been exhibited at the Theatre includes: On Raftery’s Hill occurs in the late afternoon or evening in Heads, Misery, Once We Were Mothers, is currently developing a number of new V&A (Make:Believe, 2015) and as a World (Abbey Theatre), Misty (Bush Theatre & Top Girls (New Vic); Big Baby, A Spell of ideas for television. Stage Design 2013 finalist. Trafalgar Studios), Alice In Winterland (The some individuals affected with dementia Cold Weather, Common Heaven, Turncoat Rose Theatre), Flashdance: The Musical (Theatre Centre); A Christmas Carol Helena Bell Pablo Fernandez Baz (International tour), To Love Somebody (Young Vic); Lear’s Daughters; New Director/Dramaturg Lighting Designer Melancholy (National Tour), Ready Or Not Anatomies (Women’s Theatre Group); The (The Arcola Theatre and national tour), Falling Sky (Oxford Touring). Helena became Artistic Director of Pablo Fernandez Baz was born in Galicia. Peter Pan (Exeter NorthcottTheatre), Kali Theatre in December 2017. She He studied film and photography before Bumblescratch (Adelphi Theatre) and Nadia Nadif was previously AD of Pursued by graduating as a Lighting Designer at the Biedermann and the Arsonists (Sadler’s Teresa a Bear Productions, a new writing Central School of Speech and Drama. Wells). company resident at Farnham Maltings. Companies he has worked with include: Sundowning is a play that has been with me for a long Theatre includes: Our Passion (Middle Productions include The Lamellar Project Nofit Circus, Zecura - Ura, Tricycle Yarit Dor East tour), Macbeth (French language, by Grant Watson (Arcola Theatre, tour Theatre, Talawa Theatre, Stonecrabs time. I first approached Helena Bell with the idea in 2014. Choreographer Voila Festival), Timon of Athens (The and 2017 US transfer); Kabaddi Kabaddi Theatre ,Little Soldier Productions, Helena believed in Sundowning from the start. More than Factory / Willow Globe), The Scar Test Kabaddi by Satinder Chohan, co-produced Yellow Earth Theatre, Kiln Theatre Yarit choreographs movement, fights that, she pushed me to dig and dig again, deep beneath (Soho Theatre/tour), Catalina (Ovalhouse/ with Kali Theatre (Arcola and UK tour); and The Spanish Theatre Company. and intimacy for performance. She is a tour), Unsung (Wiltons Music Hall / Kalashnikov – in the Woods by the Lake Former Lighting Designer at Fourth Shakespeare’s Globe Ensemble Associate my characters and so pave the way for these complex and tour), Londonee (Rich Mix Theatre), The by Fraser Grace in association with Monkey, Pablo has recently designed Artist, co-founder of Theatrical Intimacy flawed working class women. These are characters seen House of Bernarda Alba (Almeida), Burst Oxford Playhouse and Mercury Theatre, for CircusFet2018 , CasaFest2018 and and an Associate Tutor of RADA. Theatre too little on our stages, screens and crucially at the centre (The Zoo, Edinburgh), New Anatomies Colchester; Footprints in the Sand by Tanzsolofestiv 2018, (a dance festival in includes: Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe), (BAC), Sweeney Todd (Shunt Vaults), Oladipo Agboluaje & Rukhsana Ahmad Bonn). He lately assisted multi-awarded As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), of our stories. Helena embarked on endless research with Much Ado About Nothing (Baron’s Court (Oval House & National Tour). Prior to Lighting Designer Felipe Ramos at Los Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s me and generously helped me find a way to turn a personal Theatre), Dona Rosita the Spinster (Theatre PBAB she was Co-Artistic Director of Teatros del Canal, Madrid. Globe), Little Voice (Park Theatre), One heartbreak into a proper story. Royal Haymarket), Our Country’s Good Brighton’s Alarmist Theatre, directing Man Two Guvnors (Trinity Theatre), Romeo (Colchester Mercury Theatre). TV and touring many new plays including Dinah Mullen & Juliet and As You Like It (Shakespeare includes: The Secret World of Yarl’s Wood Fossil Woman by Louise Warren (Lyric, The play is not all autobiographical but the parts that are, Sound Designer in the Squares), Assata Taught Me (The (BBC 2), Marshal’s Law (nominated for Hammersmith); The School of Night by Gate), Macbeth (ImmerCity), The Iphigenia are a love letter to my dear Nan, and both my grandparents. Best Sitcom 2012). Voice work includes: Stephen Plaice (Pleasance, Edinburgh Dinah has worked with Coney, The Quartet (The Gate), Disgraced (English A thank you for the eternal love they showed me and my ADR (Arabic/English) for the new live Festival) and The Bedbug (British Council Tricycle, The Egg (Theatre Royal Bath), Theatre Frankfurt), Dark Tourism (Park action version of Aladdin (Disney). tour to Moscow). She directed several eternal guilt that I was never able to save Nan, save us all, Stonecrabs Theatre Company, Churchill Theatre) and Macbeth (RIFT Theatre). early plays for Kali including Rukhsana Theatre Bromley and The Blue Elephant Dance includes: dancer-dramaturg, Hagit from the depths of this vile and cruel illness. Because that’s Aasiya Shah Ahmad’s acclaimed River on Fire - as Designer and Sound Design mentor Yakira Dance Company 2007-2010. what it is, there’s no getting away from it. There are small Alyssa nominated for the Susan Smith-Blackburn for community based projects. She has Award (Lyric Hammersmith and UK tour). collaborated with companies including Charlotte R L Cooper joys, glimmers of course, but still... Aasiya has recently finished a run at the Helena has also regularly worked as a Paniclab, Mars.tarrab, Yellow Earth, Company Stage Manager Arcola of Spun. Other theatre credits freelance dramaturg and guest director Footprint Project and Neil Bartlett for The glimmer, the hope, I sometimes
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