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2013 Next Wave Festival NOV 2013 George Segal, Torso: Hand on Thigh, 1978 Published by: BAM 2013 Next Wave Festival sponsor BAM 2013 Next Wave Festival #FilterTheatreWater Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Water Filter Theatre & Lyric Hammersmith Created by Filter Theatre and David Farr BAM Harvey Theater Nov 13—16 at 7:30pm; Nov 17 at 3pm Approximate running time: one hour & 40 minutes, no intermission Directed by David Farr Set & costume design by Jon Bausor Lighting design by Jon Clark Music and sound design by Tim Phillips Original video design by Andi Watson recreated by Leo Flint CAST Oliver Dimsdale Poppy Miller Tim Phillips BAM 2013 Next Wave Festival sponsor Ferdy Roberts CREW Relights Katharine Greaves Company stage manager Jess Gow Major support for theater at BAM provided by: Technical stage manager Russell Carr The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund Assistant Stage Manager Charlie Hayday The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Photo: Simon Kane Water NOTE Imagine you looked out of the window one morning and saw jellyfish. No birds fluttering, just a sky full of gelatinous animals. Every now and then a shark or tuna glides noiselessly past. And everywhere… water. With the strange beauty of a dream Water cuts between powerful individual stories, exploring man’s desire to push himself to the limits in an increasingly unstable world of climate change. In Canada two half-brothers clash over the legacy of their dead father. Meanwhile a young female special advisor tries to push through a deal at a political summit, while in Mexico a young Englishman prepares to dive the deepest freshwater cave in the world. PERFORMERS Oliver Dimsdale Poppy Miller Tim Phillips Ferdy Roberts Who’s Who OLIVER DIMSdalE (performer) is co-artistic tors, and Casualty; for ITV: Endeavour, Kingdom, director for Filter and has worked on all of Filter’s Torn, If I Had You, The Commander 1 & 2, In previous shows: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Deep, and The Knock; for Channel 4: Gold- Silence, Water, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Twelfth plated, Buried, and The Fixer. Film includes: Night, Body Stories, Woyzeck, and Faster. Other What You Will, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, theater work includes Pravda (Birmingham Rep Lighthouse, Flood, and A Changed Man. Radio and Chichester Festival Theatre), The Creeper includes: Roots, Fame & Fortune, Glittering (West End and tour), The Comedy of Errors Prizes, Crime & Punishment, Agnes Grey, The (Sheffield Crucible), The Dead Wait (Manchester Mill on the Floss, Mary Hayes in Love, The Evening News Award Best Actor) and Great Complete Adventures of Claudine, Fossils, Smok- Expectations (Manchester Royal Exchange), The ers, all for the BBC. Tempest (RSC—UK and world tour), Workers Writes (Royal Court), A Midsummer Night’s TIM PHILLIPS (musician) has scored many Dream (Wild Thyme Productions), and Beautiful high-profile screen productions including nine Thing/The Changeling and Five Finger Exercise series of Channel 4’s hit show Shameless, HBO’s (all at the Salisbury Playhouse). Television work Entourage, and Tightrope Pictures’ RTS Award- includes Downton Abbey (Series 4), Ambas- winning Instinct. In his role as co-artistic direc- sadors, Law and Order, Breaking the Mould, tor, Phillips writes music for Filter Theatre, one Harley Street, Larkrise to Candleford, Fallen An- of Britain’s most innovative and highly regarded gel, Dalziel & Pascoe, He Knew He Was Right, theater companies. Filter is currently developing Byron, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Casualty, and Guns & Gold with director Sir Michael Boyd and Doctors. Films include Good People (with James touring three shows internationally throughout Franco and Kate Hudson), The Fold, What You 2014. Phillips’ other work in theater includes Will, First Night, Rocknrolla, Nostradamus, Pest, composing music for A Doll’s House starring Gil- and Soho Story. BBC Radio includes Words and lian Anderson and Christopher Eccleston (Don- Music, Sharp Focus, and In the Company of Men. mar Warehouse), Juliet and Her Romeo (Bristol Old Vic), David Hare’s The Secret Rapture, and POPPY MILLER (performer) trained at the Web- Playing the Victim (Royal Court). In 2013 Phil- ber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. lips scored the feature film El Cielo es Azul (dir. Theater for Filter includes: Water (Sidney The- Andrew Fierberg), the two-part miniseries Delete atre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric The- for Sonar Entertainment (dir. Steve Barron), and atre Hammersmith, Manchester Royal Exchange the final two series of Shameless for Company Theatre), Twelfth Night (Tricycle Theatre London Pictures/Channel 4. He recently completed the and national and international Tours), and Three score to Dragon, for the National Theatre of Scot- Sisters (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith). Other land/Vox Motus and Tianjin People’s Art Theatre theater includes: The Good Soul of Szechuan of China. He is also composing the new musical (Library Theatre, Manchester); The Last Days The Grinning Man (dir. Tom Morris) with Marc of Judas Iscariot, The Jew of Malta (Almeida Teitler and Carl Grose. On television, he is scor- Theatre); The Way of the World, Hamlet ing new drama series Truckers for the BBC. (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Switchback (Tron Theatre, Glasgow); Amy’s View (Salisbury FERDY ROBERTS (performer) is co-artistic Playhouse); Bartholomew Fair, Two Gentlemen director of Filter Theatre and an associate direc- of Verona (RSC); Villette, Blue Remembered tor of the Lyric Hammersmith. Theater for Filter Hills (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Mansfield Park includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric (Chichester Festival Theatre); Blood Libel (Nor- Hammersmith), Silence (co-production, RSC), wich Playhouse); Agamemnon’s Children (Gate Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith and tour), Theatre, London); and Out in the Cold (BAC). Twelfth Night (Tricycle Theatre and tour), Water TV includes, for Nickelodeon: The House of (Lyric Hammersmith and tour), The Caucasian Anubis; for the BBC: Emma, New Tricks, Red Chalk Circle (Royal National Theatre and tour), Cap, Attachments, Heartbeat, Holby City, Doc- and Faster (London, New York). Other theater Photo: Simon Kane Who’s Who Photo: Simon Kane Who’s Who includes: Talk Show, Pigeons, The President in the Linbury Prize. Theater designs include Has Come to See You, If You Don’t Let Us Julius Caesar (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Scenes Dream We Won’t Let You Sleep (Royal Court); From the Back of Beyond (Royal Court); The Three Kingdoms (Lyric Hammersmith; Munich Soldier’s Tale (Old Vic, London); Notes From Kammerspiel; Teater No99, Estonia), Wallen- Underground (West End); James and the Giant stein (Chichester Festival), On Religion (Theatre Peach (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); The Great Poche, Brussels), The Birthday Party, The Dumb Highway (Gate Theatre, London); Cymbeline Waiter and Aladdin (Bristol Old Vic), Franken- (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Frankenstein stein (Derby Playhouse), Another Country (West (Derby Playhouse); Shrieks of Laughter (Soho End), Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Change- Theatre, London); The New Tenant, Interior, The ling, and Beautiful Thing (Salisbury Playhouse). Exception and the Rule, Winners, and The Soul Television includes M.I. High, Whistleblower, of Chien-nu (all Young Vic Theatre, London); The Bill, Goldplated, Your Mother Should Know, Bread and Butter (Tricycle); Carver, Mariana and Holby City. Film work includes What You Pineda (Arcola Theatre); The Last Waltz season Will; Mr. Nice; Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll; and (Oxford Stage Company); Melody, In the Bag Honest. (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Sanctuary, The Tempest (Royal National Theatre); Twelfth Night DAVID FARR (director) is a writer and director of (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Switchback, Possible theater and film. In 2013 he directed Hamlet for Worlds (Tron Theatre, Glasgow) and The Tam- the Royal Shakespeare Company where he has ing of the Shrew (Thelma Holt /Theatre Royal, been associate director from 2009. For the RSC Plymouth). Dance designs include Snow White he has also directed King Lear and The Winter’s In Black (Phoenix Dance Theatre /Sadlers Wells); Tale, both performed at the Park Avenue Armory Ghosts, Before the Tempest, Sophie, State- in 2011, as well as Twelfth Night, The Tempest, less and Aslyla (Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, and the House); Mixtures (Westminster Abbey / English devised piece Silence with Filter. Other plays National Ballet); Non Exeunt (George Piper as writer: The Heart of Robin Hood and Night Dances/Sadler’s Wells); and Marjorie’s World of the Soul (RSC), The UN Inspector (National Unhinged (Tilted). Opera design includes The Theatre), The Nativity (Young Vic Theatre), Elton Knot Garden (Klangbogen Festival, Vienna); The John’s Glasses (London West End), and The Queen of Spades (Edinburgh Festival Theatre), Danny Crowe Show (Bush Theatre). Directing Così fan tutte (Handmade Opera), and King credits: Coriolanus (RSC, Old Vic Theatre) and Arthur (New Chamber Opera). Forthcoming Julius Caesar (RSC, Lyric Theatre Hammer- work includes a new commission, Echo and smith). Farr adapted and directed The Odyssey, Narcissus (Royal Opera House), a new version The Birthday Party (Lyric Theatre Hammer- of the Stravinsky ballet Firebird for Bern Ballet smith), and was artistic director of the Gate (Switzerland), and Macbeth for Regents Park Theatre, London, from 1993 to 1997; artistic Open Air Theatre. director of Bristol Old Vic from 2002 to 2005; and artistic director and co-chief executive of JON Clark (lighting designer) studied theater Lyric Theatre Hammersmith from 2005 to 2009. design at Bretton Hall, Leeds University. Recent Film and television writing credits: Spooks (BBC- theater lighting design: Night Time and Stoopud TV series), Hanna (co-writer, feature film, Focus Fucken Animals (2007 Edinburgh Festival); Features). Farr is currently writing screenplays for How Much is Your Iron and The Jewish Wife BBC Film, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, (Young Vic); Pinter’s People (West End); Food and Origin Films.