Deadeye by Amber Lone
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Birmingham Repertory Theatre company and Kali Theatre company present The World Première of Deadeye by Amber Lone First performed on 12 October 2006 at The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre Following its run at The Door (Thu 12 – Sat 28 October), Deadeye plays at the following venues: Fri 3 – Sat 4 November: Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham Wed 8 – Thu 9 November: Contact, Manchester Tue 14 – Sat 18 November: Soho Theatre, London Birmingham Repertory Theatre Centenary Square Broad Street Birmingham B1 2EP www.the-door.co.uk Deadeye by Amber Lone Tariq Shane Zaza Deema Chetna Pandya Zainab Sakuntala Ramanee Rafique Madhav Sharma Jimmy Pushpinder Chani Kerry Beth Vyse Director Janet Steel Designer Matthew Wright Lighting Designer Simon Bond Assistant Director Sayan Kent Dialogue Coach Sarah Simmons Company Stage Manager Andy Beardmore Assistant Stage Manager Tabatha Williams Sakuntala Biographies Ramanee Zainab Shane Zaza Theatre credits Tariq include: Tales From The Firozsha Baag Shane trained at (National Theatre the National Youth Studio); Trust Theatre. Theatre (National Theatre Studio); Camille includes: Furnace (Lyric Hammersmith); The Maharajah’s Four (Soho Theatre); Daughter (Oval House); Maa (Royal Billy Liar (Liverpool Court); India Song (Theatre Clwyd); Playhouse); Mercury Fur (Paines House Of The Sun (Theatre Royal, Plough); Minutes Pass (Polka Theatre); Stratford); Around The World In Eight George’s Marvellous Medicine (Bolton Days (Southampton); The Mysteries Octagon); The Long Way Home (New (Belgrade Coventry) and Amongst Perspectives); East Is East (New Vic Barbarians (Royal Exchange). Television Theatre); Master And Margarita, Kes, and film credits include: Dalziel And Dot Com, The Arbitrary Adventures Of Pascoe, Emmerdale, If I Had You, Wish An Accidental Terrorist and Nicholas Baby, The Brief, The Bill, Where The Nickleby (NYT/Lyric Hammersmith). Heart Is, Murder In Suburbia, Trust Me Television includes: Murphy’s Law, I’m A Prime Minister, Hustle, Behind Dalziel & Pascoe, Waterloo Road, Closed Doors, 24 Seven, Bollywood Doctors, Messiah, Casualty, Watch Over Queen, Indian Summer, The Butterfly Me and The Bill. Film includes: The Da Effect, Murder In Mind, Doctors, Holby Vinci Code. Radio includes: Orwell’s City, The Safe House, Big Kids, Grange Babies. Hill, Out Of Sight, Casualty, EastEnders Chetna Pandya and Stone Cold. Radio credits include: numerous radio dramas for Pam Deema Frazer Soloman, Martin Jenkins, Alison Chetna trained at Hindell, Kristine Landon-Smith and Mountview. Theatre Vanessa Whitburn. credits include: Coram Boy (National Madhav Theatre); Lucky Stiff Sharma (New Wimbledon Rafique Theatre); Hurting Too Much, Rubik’s It all began with Cube, Shame On You, Krishna’s touring Shakespeare Tea Party and Zameen (Kali Theatre in India, Singapore, Company); Romeo & Juliet (Changeling Malaysia, Sarawak, Theatre Co); Best Little Warehouse In Brunei, N. Borneo and Texas (Centre Stage/Millfield Theatre) Hong Kong, followed by a scholarship and In Our Time (London Palladium). to RADA and a career of some four Television credits include: Broken decades so far. Theatre includes: News, The Worst Week Of My Life, Behzti (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Green Wing, The Message, New Tricks Calcutta Kosher, Worlds Apart, House and Doctors. Radio includes: Bitter Of The Sun (Theatre Royal Stratford Fruits Of Palestine. East); The King And I (West End tour); The Accused (Haymarket and tour); Last Dance At Dum Dum (New Ambassadors/tour); Crazy Horse (Bristol (Royal Shakespeare Company); Baiju New Vic/tour); Not Just An Asian Babe Bawra (Theatre Royal Statford East); (Watermans); Indian Ink (Aldwych); 14 Songs, 2 Weddings And A Funeral High Diplomacy (Westminster); Untold (Tamasha Theatre Company); Made Secret Of Aspi (Cockpit); Therése In India (Leicester Haymarket), and Raquin (Nottingham Playhouse); Transmissions Festival (Birmingham Twelfth Night (Dundee Theatre Royal); Repertory Theatre). He has worked Romeo And Juliet (Shaw/Edinburgh extensively for Theatre In Education Festival/USA); The Importance Of companies, including Women And Being Neutral (ICA); Fiddler On The Theatre, Catalyst, Language Alive and Roof (tour); Blithe Spirit (Birmingham Speakeasy Theatre.Television includes: Repertory Theatre); and the title role in Fair City, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Hamlet (The Howff). Recent television Doctors and Casualty. Radio includes: includes: Casualty, Reverse Psychology, Currently in Silver Street, Behind Closed Coronation Street, Grease Monkeys, Doors, A Minus and Ties. Films include: Doctors And Nurses, Innocents, Almost Adult and Cross My Heart and Dalziel And Pascoe, Holby City, Dream Anita And Me. Team, Amongst Barbarians, Trial And Retribution, McCallum, Fighting Back, Beth Vyse Inspector Alleyn, The Rector’s Wife, Kerry Tygo Road, Cardiac Arrest, Shalom Beth trained at Rose Salaam, Black And Blue, Medics, Boon, Bruford. Theatre This Office Life, The Bill, South Of The credits include: Border, King And Castle, Tandoori Silence (Arcola Nights, Old Men At The Zoo, Maybury, Theatre); Beauty And Minder, Target, The Road To 1984, The Beast (Royal Blunt Instrument, Cold Warrior, Sarah, Shakespeare Company); Tamer Tamed Looking For Clancy, The Regiment, (RSC/ West End); Birdsong (RSC); A Day Imperial Palace, Adam Smith, The In Dull Armour (RSC, The Other Place); Brahmin Widow, First Lady, Moonbase The Taming Of The Shrew (RSC/ West 3, Doctor Who, Anything But The End); Measure For Measure (RSC) and Woods, Rogue’s Rock, The Moonstone Mooney And His Caravans (Greenwich). and Uncle Tulip. Madhav also directs Television credits include: My Family in the theatre, and has appeared in and Spooks. Film credits include: numerous films, includingEntrapment Action (RSC Film Festival). Radio credits and East Is East and many radio plays, include: Doctor Who and Culture most recently A House For Mr Biswas. Shock. Pushpinder Amber Lone Chani Writer Jimmy Amber Lone, originally from Pushpinder trained Birmingham, studied English & History at Carlton Television at York University before settling in Workshops and south London where she worked as a Birmingham Theatre refuge and resettlement worker for a School. Theatre variety of projects, providing support to includes: Paper Thin (Kali Theatre); Asian women. Amber’s first full-length What We Did To Weinstein (Menier play Paradise, about a young boy’s Chocolate Factory); Twelfth Night (The journey towards radical Islam, was Stage Works); Midnight’s Children produced at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2003. She was selected as Matthew Wright one of six writers for Soho Theatre’s Designer Writers Attachment Programme in Matthew trained at the Glasgow 2004–05, and her other writing credits School of Art in Textile Design. Designs include a short play for M6 Theatre for theatre include: In Praise Of Love Company. Amber is currently writing (Chichester Festival Theatre); Speaking a full-length play for Theatre Centre Like Magpies (Royal Shakespeare and is a member of the Red Room Company); One Under (Tricycle); Writers’ Group. For radio, Amber’s first Clouds (UK tour); Paper Thin (Kali play Ties was broadcast on Radio 4 in Theatre); Us And Them, The Dead Eye March 2004, and she has also written Boy (Hampstead); The Green Man, numerous episodes of Westway (BBC Presence, Royal Supreme, Blood Red World Service). Amber is represented by Saffron Yellow, Musik, The Imposter Micheline Steinberg Associates (info@ (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Summer steinplays.com). Lightning, Amy’s View (Salisbury), Janet Steel Arcadia (Theatre Royal Northampton); Director Dancing At Lughnasa, Four Nights In Knaresborough, All That Trouble We Janet has been Artistic Director of Kali Had (New Victoria Theatre, Stoke); Theatre Company since 2003. She Private Lives, Charley’s Aunt (Northcott began her career as an actress, her Exeter); Larkin With Women (West theatre work includes: Cinders and A Yorkshire Playhouse); The Deep Blue Colder Climate (Royal Court Theatre); Sea, Neville’s Island, A Taste Of Honey Blood Wedding (Half Moon); Romeo (Watford Palace); Confusions, Habeus And Juliet (Sherman Theatre & Albany Corpus (Salisbury); Summer Lightning Empire) and Oedipus Rex (Tara Arts). (Salisbury & Theatre Royal Bath); End Television credits include: An English Of The Affair (Salisbury/Bridewell); Our Christmas, The Bride, Gems, The Country’s Good (Edinburgh Lyceum); Refuge and Shalom Salaam. Janet Hamlet (RNT Education); Woman In began directing in 1988 as assistant to Mind (Theatre Royal York); Twelfth Tessa Schneideman at Loose Change Night, Hamlet (OSC); Romeo And Juliet Theatre, producing UK premières at (Greenwich) and Pow! (Paines Plough). BAC by Spanish authors, where she Other designs for Birmingham directed her first full-length piece, Repertory Theatre include: Katherine White Biting Dog. Directing includes: Desouza, Behzti, Getting To The Foot Behzti (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Of The Mountain, Swamp City, Bells April In Paris, Bretevski Street, A Hard and Chaos (Kali Theatre Company), and Rain and Top Girls (Northampton Royal On The Ceiling, which also played in Theatre); Exodus (Millennium Mysteries the West End. Opera credits include Ii at Coventry Belgrade); Brecht’s Pomo D’oro (Batignano Opera Festival) Antigone, The Mother, Orpheus and Don Pasquale (Scottish Opera Descending, An Ideal Husband, Romeo Go Round). Matthew also designed & Juliet, The Knockey and Serious the costumes for Seriously Funny for Money (Rose Bruford College). For Channel Four Television.