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'Art' 6 E Education@Oldvictheatre.Com @Oldvicnewvoices ‘ART’ TEACHING RESOURCES DEC 2016–F E B 2 017 CONTENTS Company 3 Old Vic New Voices Education The Old Vic The Cut Creative team 4 London SE1 8NB Synopsis of 'Art' 6 E [email protected] @oldvicnewvoices Form of style 8 © The Old Vic, 2017. All information is correct at the Provocation 10 time of going to press, but may be subject to change Monologues 11 Teaching resources Written by Susanna Gould Design Matt Lane-Dixon Comedy or tragedy? 12 Rehearsal and production photography Manuel Harlan Themes 14 Old Vic New Voices Hannah Fosker Head of Education Modern art 17 & Community Sharon Kanolik Head of Education 'Art' at The Old Vic – Yasmina Reza 19 & Community (Maternity Cover) Richard Knowles Stage Business Co-ordinator 'Art' at The Old Vic – Christopher Hampton 21 Floriana Dezou Old Vic New Voices Intern 'Art' at The Old Vic – Matthew Warchus 22 Further details of this production oldvictheatre.com The rehersal process 23 Interview with Tim Key 26 The Old Vic ‘Art’ teaching resources 2 COMPANY TIM KEY DANIEL COPELAND Yvan Understudy Yvan Theatre: Tree (The Old Vic); Party (Arts Theatre). Theatre: The Hobbit (West End); Invincible (Orange Film: Alpha Papa, The Double. TV: Midmorning Matters, Tree/St James); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Peep Show, Foreign Bodies. Radio: Tim Key’s Late Holy Mackerel! (Shanty Theatre); The Jungle Book Night Poetry Programme. Tim has also written and (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Railway Children, performed in the sketch show Cowards for BBC TV and The Caretaker (Nottingham Playhouse); A Midsummer Radio. He won the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2009 for Night’s Dream (Theatre Royal Northampton); The BFG his weird and wonderful poetry/stand-up fusion and has (Derby Theatre); Get Carter, The Third Man (Red Shift); since published three books of his work. Tim regularly Bentwater Roads (Eastern Angles); The Odyssey, performs his terse poems on the comedy circuit, and is Metamorphosis, The Crock of Gold (London Bubble); currently developing new poetry to be performed in Peter Pan (Polka Theatre). TV: Walter, Casualty, London and beyond. The Day Britain Stopped, Six Experiments That Changed the World. PAUL RITTER Marc GARY MACKAY Theatre: The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic/ Understudy Marc/Serge Broadway); The Audience (West End); The Curious Theatre: Let the Right One In (National Theatre of Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Hothouse, Scotland: West End/New York); The 39 Steps (UK tour); Coram Boy (National Theatre). Film: Their Finest, The Madness of George III (West End/UK tour); Inferno, The Limehouse Golem, Suite Francaise, The Signal Man (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Complicit, The Eagle, The Other Man, Quantam of Little Otik (National Theatre of Scotland: UK tour); Solace, Nowhere Boy, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, Retreat (Edinburgh Festival/New End Theatre The Libertine, Love You More. TV: Friday Night Dinner, Hampstead); When Five Years Pass, The Highway We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story, Mapp & Lucia, Crossing (Arcola); Lark Rise to Candleford (Finborough); The Game, The Bletchley Circle, Great Expectations, Julius Caesar (Barbican); Twelfth Night (Broadway); Pulling, No Offence. Run for Your Wife (Vienna English Theatre). TV: Derren Brown’s Twisted Tales, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Lip RUFUS SEWELL Service, Hollyoaks, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Serge Half Moon Investigations, Francis. Theatre: Closer (Donmar); Old Times (West End); Rock n’ Roll (Royal Court/West End/Broadway – Olivier, London Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor); Luther (National Theatre); Macbeth (West End); Translations (New York – Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut); Arcadia (National Theatre); Making It Better (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); Rat in the Skull (Royal Court/West End). Film: Gods of Egypt, Hercules, The Sea, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, The Holiday, Amazing Grace, The Illusionist, A Knight’s Tale, Illuminata, Dark City, Dangerous Beauty, The Woodlanders, Carrington, A Man of No Importance, Cold Comfort Farm. TV: Victoria, The Man in the High Castle, Killing Jesus, Restless, Parade’s End, Zen. The Old Vic ‘Art’ teaching resources 3 CREATIVE TEAM YASMINA REZA The Old Vic/Broadway); True West (Donmar/Broadway); Writer The Unexpected Man (RSC/West End/Broadway); ‘Art’ Yasmina is an award-winning French playwright and (Broadway/West End/Los Angeles – Olivier and Tony novelist. Her plays have been produced worldwide Awards for Best Play); Hamlet, Henry V (RSC); Volpone and translated into many languages. They include (National Theatre – Evening Standard Award for Best Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Director); Much Ado About Nothing (West End); Betrayal, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3, A Spanish Play, God of Death of a Salesman, The Plough and the Stars, Carnage, How You Talk the Game and Bella Figura. Fiddler on the Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Novels include Babylone (Prix Renaudot 2016), (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Opera: Falstaff, Così Fan Hammerklavier, Desolation, Adam Haberberg, Nulle Part, Tutte (ENO); The Rake’s Progress (ROH/WNO). Film: Dawn Dusk or Night and Happy Are the Happy. Yasmina Pride (BIFA Best British Independent Film), Simpatico. wrote the screenplay for Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz Matthew was an Associate Director at the West Yorkshire and directed the film,Chicas , from her play, A Spanish Playhouse and Artistic Associate at The Old Vic before Play. She has won an Olivier and two Tony Awards. being appointed Artistic Director of the theatre in 2014. CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON MARK THOMPSON Translator Designer Christopher’s plays, musicals and translations have Theatre: Electra (The Old Vic); Charlie and the garnered many awards including three Oliviers and four Chocolate Factory, ‘Art’, God of Carnage, Mamma Mia!, Tonys. Prizes for screenplays include an Oscar and two Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, BAFTAs. Plays include Appomattox, The Talking Cure, Bombay Dreams (West End/Broadway); Three Days Tales from Hollywood, The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse; in the Country, London Assurance, She Stoops to adaptations from novels Youth Without God (Horváth), Conquer, England People Very Nice, What the Butler Embers (Márai), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos); Saw, The Madness of George III, The Wind in the plus translations of plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Molière, Willows (National Theatre); One Man Two Guvnors Horváth, Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller. He’s written (National Theatre/Broadway); Welcome Home Captain librettos for three Philip Glass operas and co-written Fox!, Company, Insignificance, The Front Page musicals including Sunset Boulevard. Screenplays (Donmar); The Blue Room (Donmar/Broadway); include Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement, A Dangerous A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway); The Taming of the Method, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Shrew (Delacourte NY). Mark has won five Olivier Argentina, the last three of which he also directed. and two Critics’ Circle Awards. MATTHEW WARCHUS HUGH VANSTONE Director Lighting Theatre: Groundhog Day, The Caretaker, The Master Hugh has designed the lighting for nearly 200 Builder, Future Conditional, Speed-the-Plow (The Old productions and worked for most of the UK’s national Vic); Matilda the Musical (RSC/West End/Broadway – companies and extensively on Broadway. He has seven Olivier Awards, including Best Director and Best received many awards for his work including three New Musical, and four Tony Awards); Ghost The Musical, Olivier Awards, a Tony and a Molière. Theatre: No’s La Bête (West End/Broadway); Deathtrap (West End); Knife, Groundhog Day, The Caretaker, The Master The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic/Broadway – Tony Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Dreamgirls Award for Best Revival of a Play); God of Carnage (West (West End); The Red Lion (National Theatre); Welcome End/Broadway – Tony Award for Best Play and Best Home Captain Fox!, Closer (Donmar); Matilda the Direction of a Play); Boeing-Boeing (West End/ Musical (RSC/international); Shrek the Musical (New Broadway/UK tour – Tony Award for Best Revival of a York/West End/UK tour); Ghost the Musical (West End/ Play); The Lord of the Rings (also co-writer, Toronto/West international); An Act of God (New York/tour); Strictly End); Buried Child (National Theatre); Endgame (West Ballroom (Leeds/Toronto/Australian tour); Tanz Der End); Our House (West End – Olivier Award for Best Vampire (Germany/Russia/Austria); Don Quixote Musical); Follies (Broadway); Life x 3 (National Theatre/ (Royal Ballet). The Old Vic ‘Art’ teaching resources 4 MIC POOL SARAH BIRD CDG Sound Casting Theatre: No’s Knife, Fortune’s Fool (The Old Vic); Theatre: Fortune’s Fool, Sweet Bird of Youth, Hedda The King’s Speech, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Gabler, Cause Célèbre (The Old Vic); The Dresser, Brand, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Unexpected Man The Girls Musical, Perfect Nonsense, Elf the Musical, (West End); The 39 Steps (West End/Broadway – Tony The Ladykillers, The Bodyguard, Brief Encounter, Award Best Sound); The Captain of Kopenick (National Calendar Girls, God of Carnage, Heroes, The Play What Theatre); The Seagull, Victoria, Beauty and the Beast, I Wrote, ‘Art’ (West End); Good Canary (Rose Kingston); Roundhouse Season of Late Shakespeare Plays The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); Me and My (RSC); Deny, Deny, Deny (Park Theatre); Beryl, Cat Girl (Sheffield Crucible);Mrs Klein (Almeida); Uncle on a Hot Tin Roof, Peter Pan, Life is a Dream – TMA Vanya (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Film: Stormbreaker,
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