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Sundowning by Nessah Muthy

Intrepid plays by fearless women since 1991

Betty Hazel Maycock

Teresa Nadia Nadif

Alyssa Aasiya Shah Kali develops and tours ground breaking, thought provoking, contemporary theatre by women Director Helena Bell writers of South Asian descent. Writer Nessah Muthy We seek out and nurture talented writers, bringing their experience Designer ...... Rajha Shakiry and stories to audiences from all backgrounds to transform the theatre Lighting Designer ...... Pablo Fernandez Baz landscape and better reflect modern Britain. Sound Designer Dinah Mullen Sundowning We have been championing women writers from a South Asian Video Designer Daniel Denton background for over twenty five years. We actively encourage our by Nessah Muthy Choreographer Yarit Dor writers and audience to reinvent and reshape the theatrical agenda,

Production Manager Kate Jones and have gained a reputation for putting challenging issues on stage to create engaging and inspiring new theatre. Company Stage Manager ...... Charlotte R L Cooper

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

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Thanks to the staff of Plymouth Theatre Royal for all their support in creating this  Like us facebook.com/kalitheatureUK production of Sundowning.

Thanks to …………………………………………………….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 writer development programmes in , and look for the feedback tab on our Contact page. Birmingham and Leicester. OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 SUPPORTED BY

Kali is a registered charity 1071733 and Shakespeare’s Globe), Visible Bistro, Barbican Pit and One Two Theatre - COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES (Cardboard Citizens and RSC), Krunch and Tokyo. www.dinahmullen.com Sweet Taboo (Talawa TYPT) and Still Life Dreaming (Spare Tyre and Wellcome Trust, Daniel Denton Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe). Rajha’s Video Design Sundowning: (sŭn′dou′nĭng) n. Betty Hazel Citizens, Kali Theatre, Punchdrunk and current collaborations include projects Maycock Theatre Centre. Nessah is presently with Fuel alongside work with The Globe, Daniel Denton is a London based Video under commission to Iris Theatre and National Theatre and . Designer and Animator and associate The Secret Keeper; Fingersmiths – Frozen the National Youth Theatre. For screen, Rajha’s work has been exhibited at the of video design collective, Mesmer. (Clerkinworks); Duck (); Nessah has written for Holby City and V&A (Make:Believe, 2015) and as a World Theatre includes: On Raftery’s Hill A state of increased agitation, confusion, Macbeth, All My Sons, Dangerous Corner, EastEnders: E20. She is the inaugural Stage Design 2013 finalist. (Abbey Theatre), Misty (Bush Theatre & disorientation, and anxiety that typically Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep); Talking recipient of the Character 7 Award and Trafalgar Studios), Alice In Winterland (The Heads, Misery, Once We Were Mothers, is currently developing a number of new Pablo Fernandez Baz Rose Theatre), Flashdance: The Musical Top Girls (New Vic); Big Baby, A Spell of occurs in the late afternoon or evening in ideas for television. Lighting Designer (International tour), To Love Somebody Cold Weather, Common Heaven, Turncoat Melancholy (National Tour), Ready Or Not some individuals affected with dementia (Theatre Centre); Helena Bell 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words (The and national tour), (); Lear’s Daughters; New Director/Dramaturg 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Peter Pan (Exeter NorthcottTheatre), Anatomies (Women’s Theatre Group); The 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Bumblescratch () and Falling Sky (Oxford Touring). Helena became Artistic Director of 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Biedermann and the Arsonists (Sadler’s Kali Theatre in December 2017. She 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Wells). Nadia Nadif was previously AD of Pursued by 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Teresa a Bear Productions, a new writing 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Yarit Dor company resident at Farnham Maltings. 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Choreographer Theatre includes: Our Passion (Middle Productions include The Lamellar Project 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Sundowning is a play that has been with me for a long time. East tour), Macbeth (French language, by Grant Watson (Arcola Theatre, tour 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Yarit choreographs movement, fights I first approached Helena Bell with the idea in 2014. Helena Voila Festival), Timon of Athens (The and forthcoming 2017 US transfer); 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words and intimacy for performance. She is a Factory / Willow Globe), The Scar Test believed in Sundowning from the start. More than that, she Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi by Satinder 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Shakespeare’s Globe Ensemble Associate (/tour), Catalina (/ Chohan, co-produced with Kali Theatre 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Artist, co-founder of Theatrical Intimacy pushed me to dig and dig again, deep beneath my characters, tour), Unsung (Wiltons / (Arcola and UK tour); Kalashnikov – in 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words and an Associate Tutor of RADA. Theatre embarked on endless research with me and generously tour), Londonee (Rich Mix Theatre), The the Woods by the Lake by Fraser Grace in 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words includes: (Shakespeare’s Globe), House of Bernarda Alba (Almeida), Burst helped me find a way to turn a personal heartbreak into a association with Oxford Playhouse and 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), (The Zoo, Edinburgh), New Anatomies Colchester Mercury; and Fresh Tracks, a 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s proper story. (BAC), Sweeney Todd (Shunt Vaults), festival of short new plays. Previously: 100 words 100 words 100 words 100 words Globe), Little Voice (), One Much Ado About Nothing (Baron’s Court Co-Artistic Director of Brighton’s Alarmist Man Two Guvnors (Trinity Theatre), Romeo Helena pushed me to be brave. Braver and braver with each Theatre), Dona Rosita the Spinster (Theatre Theatre developing, directing and touring Dinah Mullen & Juliet and As You Like It (Shakespeare Royal Haymarket), Our Country’s Good draft and helped me pave the way for these complex and new plays including Fossil Woman by Sound Designer in the Squares), Assata Taught Me (The (Colchester Mercury Theatre). TV Louise Warren; The School of Night by Gate), Macbeth (ImmerCity), The Iphigenia flawed working class women. These are characters seen too includes: The Secret World of Yarl’s Wood Stephen Plaice (Pleasance, Edinburgh Dinah has worked with Coney, The Quartet (The Gate), Disgraced (English little on our stages, screens and crucially at the centre of (BBC 2), Marshal’s Law (nominated for Festival) and The Bedbug (British Council Tricycle, The Egg (Theatre Royal Bath), Theatre Frankfurt), Dark Tourism (Park Best Sitcom 2012). Voice work includes: our stories. tour). She worked on early plays for Kali Stonecrabs Theatre Company, ) and Macbeth (RIFT Theatre). ADR (Arabic/English) for the new live Theatre including Rukhsana Ahmad’s Theatre Bromley and The Blue Elephant Dance includes: dancer-dramaturg, Hagit action version of Aladdin (Disney). River on Fire which was nominated for as Designer and Sound Design mentor Yakira Dance Company 2007-2010. The play is not all autobiographical but the parts that are, the Susan Smith-Blackburn Award (Lyric for community based projects. She has are a love letter to my dear Nan, and both my grandparents. Aasiya Shah Hammersmith and UK tour). Helena has collaborated with companies including Charlotte R L Cooper A thank you for the eternal love they showed me and my Alyssa regularly worked as a script consultant, Paniclab, Mars.tarrab, Yellow Earth, Company Stage Manager dramaturg and guest director with other Footprint Project and Neil Bartlett for eternal guilt that I was never able to save Nan, save us all, Aasiya has recently finished a run at the companies including Soho Theatre. venues/ festivals including UnderBelly/ Since graduating with a First Class from the depths of this vile and cruel illness. Because that’s Arcola of Spun. Other theatre credits Zoo Venues at Edinburgh Festival, The Honours in Stage and Arts Management what it is, there’s no getting away from it. There are small include Anita and Me (Birmingham Rajha Shakiry New Diorama, , from the University of Winchester, Rep & tour), Tipping The Velvet (Lyric Designer Albany, Oval House, Charlotte has stage managed in many joys, glimmers of course, but still... Hammersmith/ Royal Edinburgh Lyceum), Studio, Oval House, Montreal Fringe venues around the UK, alongside Child of the Divide (Tamasha). TV includes Training: Wimbledon School of Art Festival, BAC, Little Angel, , training in children’s puppetry. Previous The glimmer, the hope, I sometimes feel is found in the Call the Midwife (BBC), The Level (ITV) (BA) and Royal Central School of Speech Roundhouse Studio, National Theatre productions include Henry V as part of fact that occasionally, for me, time doesn’t really exist at Unforgotten (ITV). and Drama (MA, distinction). Theatre for NT Connections, Hampstead, an Operatic Festival in Italy, The Smurfs Includes: Nine Night (National Theatre), CPT, Burning Man Festival, Rich Mix, Live on Stage in Malaysia, Pyar Actually all. Reality is in fact a blurred state of the past, present and Nessah Muthy Misty (Bush Theatre, Trafalgar Studios), Soho Theatre, Dance City Newcastle, (Birmingham Rep, Theatre Royal Stratford future all melded in to one. With this I am able to believe my Writer The Mountaintop (Young Vic/JMK), Cambridge Junction, Unity Theatre - East and Watford Palace Theatre,) Lord of Nan is always with me, forever. Mobile (The Paper Birds), The Head Wrap Liverpool Homotopia Festival, Toynbee the Flies, Edward II and Caucasian Chalk Nessah Muthy is a Writer’s Guild Award Diaries (The Place, Uchenna Dance), Studios, Duckie, , Park Circle (), Alice Through nominated writer and winner of the Muhammad Ali & Me (Mojisola Adebayo), Theatre, , Birmingham the Looking Glass and Richard II (St. Paul’s Nessah Muthy Adrian Pagan Award 2018. She has worked How Nigeria Became (Unicorn theatre), Rep - BE Festival, Spill Festival, Brighton Church,) and various national touring with a number of including: I Stand Corrected (Mojisola Adebayo Theatre Royal, Brakke Grand - Holland productions. the , HighTide, the & Artscape Cape Town, London and Festival, Hall - Lift Festival, National Youth Theatre, Cardboard Singapore), Richard II (Jericho, Palestine Mirabella Festival - Turin, Leeds Live Art