Barber Shop Chronicles A Fuel, National Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production WHEN: VENUE: THURSDAY, NOV 8, 7∶30 PM ROBLE STUDIO THEATER FRIDAY, NOV 9, 7∶30 PM SATURDAY, NOV 10, 2∶30 & 7∶30 PM Photo by Dean Chalkley Program Barber Shop Chronicles A Fuel, National Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production Writer Inua Ellams Design Associate Director Bijan Sheibani Catherine Morgan Designer Rae Smith Re-lighter and Production Electrician Lighting Designer Jack Knowles Rachel Bowen Movement Director Aline David Lighting Associate Sound Designer Gareth Fry Laura Howells Music Director Michael Henry Sound Associate Fight Director Kev McCurdy Laura Hammond Associate Director Stella Odunlami Wardrobe Supervisor Associate Director Leian John-Baptiste Louise Marchand-Paris Assistant Choreographer Kwami Odoom Barber Consultant Peter Atakpo Company Voice Work Charmian Hoare Pre-Production Manager Dialect Coach Hazel Holder Richard Eustace Tour Casting Director Lotte Hines Production Manager Sarah Cowan Wallace / Timothy / Mohammed / Tinashe Tuwaine Barrett Company Stage Manager Tanaka / Fifi Mohammed Mansaray Julia Reid Musa / Andile / Mensah Maynard Eziashi Deputy Stage Manager Ethan Alhaji Fofana Fiona Bardsley Samuel Elliot Edusah Assistant Stage Manager Winston / Shoni Solomon Israel Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng Tokunbo / Paul / Simphiwe Patrice Naiambana Costume Supervisor Emmanuel Anthony Ofoegbu Lydia Crimp Kwame / Fabrice / Brian Kenneth Omole Costume and Buying Supervisor Olawale / Wole / Kwabena / Simon Ekow Quartey Jessica Dixon Elnathan / Benjamin / Dwain Jo Servi Abram / Ohene / Sizwe David Webber Co-commissioned by Fuel and the National Theatre. Development funded by Arts Council England with the support of Fuel, National Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Binks Trust, British Council ZA, Òran Mór and A Play, a Pie and a Pint. Inua Ellams’ 2018–19 residency is supported by the Stanford Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts. PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. 2 About the Artists Tuwaine Barrett Wallace / Timothy / Mohammed / Tinashe Tuwaine trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Credits at Mountview include: The Alchemist; Macbeth; A Lie of the Mind; Ghosts; Othello; and If You Don’t Let us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep. His work in theater includes: Blue Orange (Soho Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire and; Photo by Marc Brenner A Season in the Congo (Young Vic). TV includes: Rellik; A Discovery Of Witches; and Silent Witness. Film includes: Drop. Alhaji Fofana Quick Cuts. Radio includes: Three Strong Ethan Women (BBC). Elliot Edusah Alhaji won the 2017 Children’s BAFTA Samuel Award for Best Performance for his Mohammed Mansaray This is Elliot’s first professional role role of Ryan in Screwball. His television Tanaka / Fifi after completing his training at credits includes Silent Witness (BBC), Mohammed’s theater credits include LAMDA in 2018. Theatre credits at Holby City (BBC), Josh (BBC3), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest LAMDA include Taming of the Shrew; Brotherhood (Big Talk/Comedy Central), (Sheffield Crucible), lead roles in Mrs. Suckerpunch; All’s Well That Ends Well Siblings (BBC 3) and a series regular in Dalloway, Jekyll & Hyde, and Othello for and The Flick. Prior to this, Elliot’s Youngers, series 2 (Big Talk/E4). the National Youth Theatre’s Rep West theatre credits include As You Like It End Season. He also has musical (The Brit School); and Heartfelt (Theatre Solomon Israel theater experience having partaken in Royal Stratford East). Winston / Shoni Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Solomon trained at LAMDA. Theater Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury Theatre, Maynard Eziashi credits include: The Fantastic Follies of World Tour). His television credits Musa / Andile / Mensah Mrs Rich; Duchess of Malfi; Miss include: Tracey Beaker Returns (CBBC), Maynard Eziashi’s work in theater Littlewood; Kingdom Come; Twelfth Night; Law & Order UK and The Bill (ITV). Film includes: The Winter’s Tale; Pericles; and The Comedy Of Errors; and The Tempest credits include: My Brother the Devil Season of Migration to the North (Royal (Royal Shakespeare Company); The (Rock Rest Entertainment). Shakespeare Company); Free Fall Pulverised (Arcola/York Theatre Royal); (Pleasance); Faith v Reason (Bush); A Dutchman (Young Vic); Octagon Patrice Naiambana Jamaican Airman Forsees his Death (Arcola); I Know All the Secrets in My Tokunbo / Paul / Simphiwe (Royal Court); and A Respectable World (Tiata Fahodzi); Chigger Foot Boys Theater: The Man Who Committed Wedding (Almeida). TV includes: Bad (Ovalhouse); Juicy and Delicious Thought (Fringe First Award Winner); Boys; The Changeling; and Hallelujah (Nuffield Southampton); Taking Steps Rosamunde Hutt’s New Nigerians Anyhow. Film includes: The Contract; (Old Laundry Theatre). TV credits (Arcola); The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang); and Ace Ventura: include: Lovesick; Doctor Who; I Live Wives (Femi Elufowoju Jnr Ensemble); When Nature Calls. With Models; Josh; Brothers with No The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); Iyalode Game; Law and Order; Holby City; and of Eti, Duchess of Malfi (Utopia Theatre); 3 Othello; The Histories Cycle; The Spanish Ekow Quartey David Webber Tragedy; Cymbeline; The Lion The Witch Olawale / Wole / Kwabena / Simon Abram / Ohene / Sizwe and The Wardrobe (Royal Shakespeare Theater credits include: Amadeus David trained at Rose Bruford. His Company); Pericles (Shakespeare’s (National Theatre); People, Places & theatert work includes: Death and the Globe); Steven Berkoff’s Coriolanus Things (National King’s Horseman and Leave Taking (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Marcello Theatre/Headlong/Exeter Northcott); (National Theatre); The Hudsucker Proxy Magni’s Tell Them That I’m Young and Peter Pan (National Theatre); A (Nuffield Southampton and Liverpool Beautiful; Ragamuffin (Double Edge Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Playhouse); Catch-22 (Northern Stage); Theatre).TV: The Bible; Torchwood; Silent Royal Bath); As You Like It (National Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic); Witness; Casualty; In Exile. Film: Turn up Theatre); Richard II (Shakespeare’s Government Inspector (Young Vic); Charlie; Spectre; Monochrome; Globe); The Absence of War What’s in the Cat for Contact (Royal Schweitzer. Founder of Tribal Soul Arts (Headlong/UK Tour); Spring Awakening Court); One Love (Bristol Old Vic and (Headlong/West Yorkshire Talawa); and The Big Life (Apollo, West Anthony Ofoegbu Playhouse/UK Tour); Long Story Short End). TV includes: Chewing Gum; Prime Emmanuel (Pleasance Theatre); and Eye Of a Suspect; Youngers; Nan; The Royal Anthony’s theater credits include: Circle Needle (Southwark Playhouse). Film/TV Bodyguard; How Not to Live Your Life; Mirror Transformation (HOME, credits include: Call the Midwife (BBC); and Being Human. Film includes: Manchester); Titus Andronicus; Julius Enterprice (BBC3); Undercliffe; Zapped; Captain Phillips; The Children Act; Broken; Caesar; Antony & Cleopatra (The Royal Porters; The Current War; and Titus Tipping the Velvet; 51st State; Among Shakespeare Company Rome Season, Andronicus with Peter Capaldi for Giants; The Avengers; and Getting Hurt. 2017-2018); Twelfth Night (Nottingham Shakespeare’s Globe. Ekow was Playhouse); Death and the King’s nominated for the prestigious 2015 Ian Inua Ellams Horseman (Royal National Theatre); Charleson Award. Writer Twelfth Night (Royal Theatre, Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a cross Northampton); Oedipus at Colonus Jo Servi art form practitioner, a poet, playwright (Nevada Conservatory Theatre); Elnathan / Benjamin / Dwayne & performer, graphic artist & designer, Treemonisha (Hackney Empire and Jo’s theater credits include: Chess and founder of the Midnight Run—an Battersea Arts Centre); and The (London Coliseum); The Life (Southwark international, arts-filled, night-time, Beatification of Area Boy—world tour Playhouse); Dirty Dancing (U.K. & playful, urban, walking experience. He is (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Television European Tour); Sunny Afternoon a Complete Works poet alumni and a credits include: Moonfleet, Spooks, (Harold Pinter Theatre); City of Angels designer at White Space Creative Casualty, Chambers, Family Affairs and (Donmar Warehouse); A Midsummer Agency. Across his work, Identity, The Bill. Film credits include: Justified, Bad Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park); Jersey Displacement & Destiny are reoccurring Day, Dead Room, Plato’s Breaking Point, Boys (Prince Edward Theatre); Before themes in which he also tries to mix the The Killing Zone and Samson and Delilah. The Dawn - Kate Bush (Hammersmith old with the new: traditional African Apollo); The Enchanted Pig (New Victory storytelling with contemporary poetry, Kenneth Omole Theater, New York); The Human Comedy pencil with pixel, texture with vector Kwame / Fabrice / Brian (The Young Vic & Watford Palace); images. His poetry is published by Kenneth Omole trained Rose Bruford Guys And Dolls; Jailhouse Rock; Ragtime Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches & Drama School. His theater credits (all Piccadilly Theatre) Cinderella (Old several plays by Oberon. include: Assata Taught Me (Gate Vic Theatre) and Disney’s The Lion King Theatre); The Cane (The Bush Theatre), (Lyceum Theatre). Film & Television: Bijan Sheibani and This Language (Edinburgh Fringe). Muppets: Most Wanted (Disney); Director Kenneth was also nominated for Best Saturday Live (Triffic Films) and The Bijan’s