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Candide The Version

Music by Book adapted from Voltaire by New Lyrics by Leonard Bernstein Hugh Wheeler John Caird Lyrics by Richard Wilbur Additional lyrics by , John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein

Directed by Rupert Hands - Musical Director Leo Munby Choreography by Sarah Golding - Set and Costume Design by Rhyannon Richardson Lighting Design by Peter Harrison - Sound Design by Daniel Higgott Orchestrations by Jason Carr

Performed by Mountview’s Third Year BA (Hons) Performance - students Technical roles by Mountview’s Theatre Production Arts students

29 April - 7 May 2021 Mountview Theatre, Peckham

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe. mtishows.co.uk Photo by RULER

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Today’s students will join a constellation of graduates making their mark on the profession. Actor Noah Thomas (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), Actor/Writer Amy Trigg (winner, inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020), Olivier Award-winning Actor/Writer MBE () and Michael Longhurst, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse are just a few of our notable alumni.

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‘Mountview was the only school willing to give someone like me a chance. I was going through the homeless system when I applied and I thought going to drama school was going to be an impossible mission, but then Mountview offered me a place and a full scholarship - it changed my life. Knowing the Judi Dench Fund will help future students in my position is amazing.’

CHARLIE HEPTINSTALL BA (Hons) Performance - Acting 2020 graduate Photo by RULER ‘This is a story rich and rare of philosophic interplay twixt optimism and despair…’ Our eponymous hero Candide survives numerous disasters but never gives up on his optimistic pursuit of love and truth, and his journey of discovery is anything but dull. Through anguish, despair, euphoria and joy Leonard Bernstein’s exquisite musical proves that ‘life is happiness indeed’.

CAST KEY: Voltaire Cast (V) Bernstein Cast (B) DURATION 145 MINUTES

MAX RACHEL ABBY GABE DANIEL AMELIA BOWKER BREEZE FELL HAMPTON-SAINT HARRIOTT HARRISON

Maximillian (V) ∙ High Paquette (V) ∙ Stanislaus Theodore ∙ Ensemble Pangloss (B) ∙ High Candide (B) ∙ Señore ∙ Marta (V) ∙ Ensemble Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble ∙ Ensemble Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble Ensemble

LAUREN BEN KAINE DANIEL BROOKE DEAN HARTLEY JOYCE LAWRENCE LUIZ MAGEE MAKOWSKI-CLAYTON

Old Woman (V) ∙ Don Issacar ∙ Grand Inquisitor ∙ Captain ∙ James ∙ Hermann Augustus ∙ Candide (V) ∙ Señore ∙ Ensemble Vanderdendur ∙ Señore ∙ Cacambo Ensemble Ensemble Ensemble Ensemble Andrew Lloyd Webber Lonsdale Scholar for Foundation Scholar Vocal Excellence SADI GEORGIA JACK NATHANIA AYESHA JACK MASEGO MASON OFRECIO ONG PATEL POWELL

Tsar Ivan ∙ Ensemble Marta (B) ∙ Ensemble King of Eldorado ∙ Cunegonde (V) ∙ Cunegonde (B) ∙ Pangloss (V) ∙ High Ensemble Ensemble Ensemble Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble

LAURA LIV JO HOLLY SAMUEL IVERSON RAINERI SHERRY STEPHENSON WAKEFIELD WOLSTENHOLME YABUT

Old Woman (B) ∙ Sultan Achmet ∙ Queen Charles Edward ∙ Paquette (B) ∙ Stanislaus Corporal ∙ Governor of Maximillian (B) ∙ High Ensemble of Eldorado ∙ Ensemble Ensemble ∙ Ensemble Montevideo ∙ Ensemble Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble ACCORDION LOUSIA GREEN KEYBOARD MICHAEL CULLEN TRUMPET MARK HARRISON BAND BASS JESS MARTIN PERCUSSION TRISTAN BUTLER VIOLIN ATHENA OCTAVIA CELLO ANGUS MCCALL REEDS HANNAH LAWRENCE HARP CATRIN MEEK TROMBONE RHI HARRISON PRODUCTION

DIRECTOR ASSISTANT MUSICAL DIRECTOR LX PROGRAMMER DEPUTY LEAD CARPENTER RUPERT HANDS MICHAEL CULLEN * RUTH HARVEY † TOM BARNETT

MUSICAL DIRECTOR PRODUCTION MANAGER LX NO. 3 LEAD SCENIC ARTIST/PROP MAKER LEO MUNBY DAVIN PATRICK JOSHUA ROONEY-WALKER † MORWENNA GOODBAN

CHOREOGRAPHER ASSISTANT PRODUCTION LX NO. 4 DEPUTY SCENIC ARTIST/PROP SARAH GOLDING MANAGER FRANCESCA MCEWEN † EFA GREGORY † MAKER EMMA FROUD

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER STAGE MANAGER LX NO. 5 VOICE COACH RHYANNON RICHARDSON SHANEICE BROWN † ZIHAIRE ADAMS † LAURA NEEL

LIGHTING DESIGNER DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER PRODUCTION SOUND ENGINEER CAMERA OPERATORS PETER HARRISON LYDIA HOLFORD † WAYNE HARRIS CECILE FRAY IAN S. MURPHY † SOUND DESIGNER REHEARSAL ASSISTANT STAGE ASSISTANT PRODUCTION SOUND JAHMAL SWABY † DANIEL HIGGOTT ETHAN TRAYNOR † MANAGER ENGINEER † SHANNON POLLARD * ORCHESTRATOR SOUND OPERATOR MA Musical Direction student ** JASON CARR ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER LAURIE KIRKBY MA Theatre Directing student † (BOOK COVER) Theatre Production Arts student

CAMERA DIRECTOR NATASHA GUZEL † SOUND NO. 2 GAVIN HALES NATHAN BROWN † ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS THANKS TO

WARDROBE SUPERVISOR MADDIE LAWLESS † SOUND NO. 3 AUTOGRAPH SOUND RECORDING KATIE HIGGINS FRANCESCA MAI † JONATHAN SCOUSE † WHITE LIGHT LTD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LEAD CARPENTER PRODUCTION LX SAM TANNENBAUM ** EMMA HAYWARD COLIN EVERSDIJK †

RUPERT HANDS Director RHYANNON RICHARDSON Set and Costume Designer Directing: All That I Am, Spring Awakening, Between Riverside and Rhyannon has been working in professional theatre for over 20 years, Crazy, Company (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Next both as a set and costume designer and as a maker. Much of her work To Normal, Assassins (Royal Academy of Music), Cabaret (London has been with community groups, theatre in education and drama College of Music), Pericles (LAMDA), Fox (Old Red Lion), Blackbird schools, but she has also designed for a wide range of both small (Other Room, ), The (Ambassadors), Krindlekrax and large scale productions and tours, including the Chester Mystery (Shoreditch Town Hall). Associate/Assistant Director for Jamie Lloyd: Plays. She also designs for events, festivals and theme parks, and Cyrano de Bergerac, , Pinter at the Pinter, Apologia, The Ruling works as a mural artist and illustrator. Class, The Pitchfork Disney, Assassins (West End). Other Associate Director credits include: King Lear, Glengarry Glen Ross, Hobson’s PETER HARRISON Lighting Designer Choice (West End), Grey Gardens (Southwark), Beautiful Thing (UK Peter trained at RADA. Lighting Design credits include Pink Mist tour), The Rehearsal (Chichester), (Theatr Clwyd). ( Old Vic), Macbeth (Stafford Festival Shakespeare), Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Paul Musical Director LEO MUNBY Bunyan (Welsh National Youth Opera), Wilde Creatures (Tall Stories), Credits as Musical Director: BKLYN (Lambert Jackson Productions), In Nocentes and Home Turf (Sadler’s Wells), and Jean and Antonin The Last Five Years (Minack Theatre, Cornwall), Gypsy (Royal Exchange (Gartnerplatz Theatre, Munich). As an Associate Lighting Designer his Theatre, ), Guys and Dolls (Mountview), Dogfight work includes Betrayal (West End and Broadway), Collaborators, As (Southwark Playhouse), Project Broadway (Symphony Space, New You Like It (National Theatre), Made in Dagenham (), York), Music Theatre Group (National Theatre Studio). As Musical and The Commitments (Palace Theatre). Supervisor: The Secret Society of Leading Ladies (The Barn Theatre), An Evening with Jason Robert Brown and Special Guests (Theatre DANIEL HIGGOTT Sound Designer Royal Haymarket). As Music Assistant: Company (Gielgud Theatre). As As Designer: Dick Whittington (Hackney Empire 2019), Composer: STOP with Annabel Mutale Reed. (Hackney Empire 2018), Growl (UK tour), A Spoonful of Sherman (UK/ Ireland tour). As Associate Designer: Secret Cinema presents: Casino Choreographer SARAH GOLDING Royale, Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Secret Cinema X: Co-founder of SAY Dance. Credits include: Cruise (Duchess Theatre), Tell No One - The Handmaiden, Our Country’s Good (Royal Alexandra Balletboyz - The Intro, Blood and Belif (U.Mi-1 London Fashion Theatre, Toronto), Good People (Noel Coward). As Programmer: All week 21), The Conversations With X (Trinity Laban), Primetime My Sons (Apollo Theatre), Secret Cinema presents: Romeo and Juliet, (Royal Court), TRANSIT-20 (Dance film), The Album (SAY), Becoming Moulin Rouge and 28 Days Later. Shades (Chivaree Circus). Performer credits: STOMP (Ambassadors Theatre/world tour, Glynis Henderson Productions), The Deluge (Lîla Dance), Us (Cathy Waller Company), Shame (bangbangbang group), The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court), Love_Dances (Adam Russell), Triptych (Quang Kien Van).

WARNING Candide contains scenes depicting violence, execution and sexism, and one instance of pyrotechnic devices. COMING UP NEXT book, music and lyrics by jonathan larson

saturday 8 - 15 may 2021

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