The Rat Trap
By Noël Coward, Reimagined by Bill Rosenfield, Directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward
In fashionable 1920s Belgravia, Sheila, a talented novelist, and Keld, an aspiring playwright, embark on married life. Both are fiercely ambitious, but when Keld’s career takes off and Sheila’s doesn’t, professional jealousy and an affair have a devastating effect on their marriage.
Startlingly moving, but full of customary sparkling wit and dark humour, Noël Coward’s first play is given a stylish period revival for its centenary year. The Rat Trap is lovingly revised by Bill Rosenfield and presented by Troupe, who return to Park Theatre after its critically acclaimed production of The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 and 2.
Ashley Cook for Troupe in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19:30
Tue, Thu & Sat15:00
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Duration
2 hours and 20 mins inc interval
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Tickets
£22.50 - £57.50
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Genre
Drama
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Age guidance
12+
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Content warnings
This production includes strong language, upsetting themes and some offensive racist language.
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In the press
"Sumptuous, panoramic, intense, amusing"
The Times on Troupe's The Forsyte Saga Part 1 & 2
"A first-rate production"
The Observer on Troupe's The Forsyte Saga Part 1 & 2
"Dramatic storytelling of the highest order"
Daily Express on Troupe's The Forsyte Saga Part 1 & 2
"The stage equivalent of a box-set binge"
Financial Times on Troupe's The Forsyte Saga Part 1 & 2
"A gripping theatrical event"
WhatsOnStage on Troupe's The Forsyte Saga Part 1 & 2
Cast and creatives
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Daniel Abbott
Edmund Crowe
Daniel Abbott
Edmund Crowe
Daniel trained at LAMDA.
Theatre credits include: Fanny (King’s Head Theatre); Linck & Mülhahn (Hampstead Theatre); Are You As Nervous As I Am? (Greenwich Theatre); Groan Ups (National Tour); The Tempest and Measure for Measure (Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Lion in Winter (English Theatre Frankfurt); Wasted (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Pride and Prejudice (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park); Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, Henry V and The Famous Victories of Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Green Children and Progress (The Avenue Theatre, Ipswich) and Wuthering Heights and The Comedy of Errors (Red Rose Chain).
Television credits include: Silo, Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour, Marcella, Save Me and Holby City.
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Gina Bramhill
Olive Lloyd-Kennedy
Gina Bramhill
Olive Lloyd-Kennedy
Gina trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Shakespeare Company); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Theatre Royal Bath); Edmond de Bergerac (Birmingham Rep and National Tour); Bad Jews (Theatre Royal Bath, St James Theatre and Arts Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl); Chicken (Southwark Playhouse) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong).
Film credits include: Shoshana, Northern Comfort, Pleasure Island, The Wedding Video, Red Lights, Lotus Eaters and Made in Dagenham.
Television credits include: Beyond Paradise, Bait, Miss Fallaci, The Flatshare, Avenue 5, Silent Witness, Us, Agatha and the Midnight Murders, Kate & Koji, Black Mirror, Sherlock, Brief Encounters, The Living and the Dead, Father Brown, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Endeavour, Mr Selfridge, Being Human, Without You, Pete Versus Life and Victoria Wood’s Midlife Christmas.
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Zoe Goriely
Ruby Raymond
Zoe Goriely
Ruby Raymond
Zoe trained at École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre credits include: As Long As We Are Breathing (Arcola Theatre) and Catalyst (The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford).
Television credits include: Trigger Point.
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Ailsa Joy
Naomi Frith-Bassington
Ailsa Joy
Naomi Frith-Bassington
Ailsa trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre credits include: Noises Off (National Tour); As You Like It, Boatman Town and Antigone (Creation Theatre); Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Bad Jews (Theatre Royal Bath, National Tour and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Jack and the Beanstalk (The Theatre, Chipping Norton); The Three Musketeers and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Iris Theatre); Not Quite Jerusalem (Finborough Theatre); The Two Gentlemen of Verona and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company); TimePlays (Hampton Court Palace); Berenice (The Space); The Wind in the Willows (Polka Theatre); Fast Track, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Peer Gynt (The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford); Much Ado About Nothing, Arabian Nights and Pride and Prejudice (The Drill Hall) and The Sirens’ Call (Watermill Theatre, Newbury).Television credits include: Plebs and The Royals.
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Ewan Miller
Keld Maxwell
Ewan Miller
Keld Maxwell
Ewan trained at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Theatre credits include: Octopolis (Hampstead Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (National Theatre); The Comedy of Errors, A Christmas Carol and Joke (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow) and Milkshake (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh).
Film credits include: One Shot and Close.
Television credits include: Crime, The Gray House and Debriefing the President.
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Lily Nichol
Sheila Brandreth
Lily Nichol
Sheila Brandreth
Lily trained at ArtsEd.
Theatre credits include: The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); Henry VI Part I, Maydays, Imperium 1: Conspirator and Imperium 2: Dictator (Royal Shakespeare Company); Blood Wedding (Salisbury Playhouse); If We Were Older (National Theatre) and Julius Caesar (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).
Television credits include: 3 Body Problem, Code of Silence, Death in Paradise, Renegade Nell, Maternal, Lockwood & Co, The South Westerlies and I Hate Suzie.
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Angela Sims
Burrage
Angela Sims
Burrage
Angela trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Theatre credits include: Gaslight, Improbable Fiction, Stepping Out, A Party to Murder, Absent Friends, Building Blocks, Season’s Greetings and Ten Times Table (The Mill at Sonning); A Star Danced and The Wizard of Oz (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Blithe Spirit (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Jack and the Beanstalk (The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury); Henceforward, Communicating Doors and And a Nightingale Sang (Swan Theatre, Worcester) and The Wizard of Oz (Castle Theatre, Wellingborough).
Film credits include: Cruella, The Little Stranger, Dreams of Life and Stoned.
Television credits include: Dreamland, Vera, Back, Call the Midwife, Living the Dream, The Crown, Chickens, Frankie, Psychoville, Law & Order: UK, Casualty, New Tricks, Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley, The Bill, EastEnders, Murder in Mind, The Queen’s Nose, Happiness, Cry Wolf, Great Expectations, London’s Burning, McCallum and Five Children and It.
Radio credits include: Mrs McGinty’s Dead, Gaudy Night, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Three Act Tragedy, Stage Fright, Dead Man’s Music and A Murder is Announced.
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Noël Coward
Playwright
Noël Coward
Playwright
Noël Peirce Coward was born in 1899 and made his professional stage debut as Prince Mussel in The Goldfish at the age of 11, leading to many child actor appearances over the next few years. During that time he began to write plays, often in collaboration with his friend Esmé Wynn. His first West End play, I’ll Leave It to You (1920), had a short run at the New (now Noël Coward) Theatre. Other plays written around that time included The Rat Trap which was written in 1918 but not produced until 1926.
Coward’s breakthrough as a playwright came with the controversial The Vortex (1924) which featured themes of drugs and adultery and made his name as both actor and playwright in the West End and on Broadway. During the 1920s and 1930s, Coward wrote a string of successful plays, musicals and intimate revues including Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Easy Virtue (1925), This Year of Grace (1928) and Bitter Sweet (1929). His professional partnership with childhood friend, Gertrude Lawrence, started with the musical revue London Calling! (1923) and was followed by Private Lives (1930) and Tonight at 8.30 (1935).
During World War II, he remained a successful playwright, screenwriter and director, as well as entertaining the troops and even acting as a spy for the Foreign Office. His plays during these years included Blithe Spirit (1941), which ran for 1997 performances, outlasting the War (a West End record until The Mousetrap overtook it), This Happy Breed and Present Laughter (both 1942). His two wartime screenplays, In Which We Serve, which he co-directed with the young David Lean as well as starring in, and Brief Encounter quickly became classics of British cinema.
However, the post-war years were more difficult. Austerity Britain – the London critics determined – was out of tune with the brittle Coward wit. In response, Coward re-invented himself as a cabaret and TV star, particularly in America, and in 1955 he played a sell-out season in Las Vegas featuring many of his most famous songs, including Mad About the Boy, I’ll See You Again and Mad Dogs and Englishmen. This was followed by three live television specials on CBS including Together With Music with Mary Martin. In the mid-1950s he settled in Jamaica and Switzerland and enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1960s becoming the first living playwright to be performed by the National Theatre, when he directed Hay Fever there. Late in his career he was lauded for his roles in a number of films including Our Man in Havana (1959) and his role as the iconic Mr Bridger alongside Michael Caine in The Italian Job (1969).
Writer, actor, director, film producer, painter, songwriter, cabaret artist as well as an author of verse, essays, autobiographies and a novel, he was called by close friends ‘The Master’. His final West End appearance was Suite in Three Keys in 1966, which he wrote and starred in. He was knighted in 1970 and died peacefully in 1973 in his beloved Jamaica.
For further information on Noël Coward’s life and work, visit www.noelcoward.com
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Bill Rosenfield
Reimaginer
Bill Rosenfield
Reimaginer
Bill Rosenfield is a UK based playwright whose play Another America was presented at the Park Theatre in 2022 and is published by TRW scripts. His other plays include 46 Beacon (Trafalgar Studios, published Samuel French), Sunshine and Shadow (Blank Theatre, Los Angeles) Let Me (Asolo Theatre, Sarasota Unplugged Series) and Bridal Terrorism (Samuel French). He is the author of “Unleashed!” (currently under option from Grove Entertainment and Frank Marshall). His adaptation of Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella was produced as part of the City Center Encores! Series in New York City. In an earlier career he was responsible for over 65 Original Cast recordings (25 of which received Grammy nominations) including Assassins, Chicago (revival), Cabaret (revival), Ragtime, The Last Five Years, Parade, The Full Monty, Titanic, The Who’s Tommy, Guys and Dolls (revival), The Color Purple, Legally Blonde, Passing Strange, Curtains, Songs for a New World, The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Caroline, or Change, Hair (revival) and most recently was pulled out of his self-imposed retirement to co-produce the recording of Stephen Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are. He was featured alongside his late husband Gary Gunas in the popular web series Old Show Queens (oldshowqueens.com). He has been honoured with two Drama Desk Awards as well as a Richard Rodgers Award and an SDC Foundation Governor’s Award.
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Kirsty Patrick Ward
Director
Kirsty Patrick Ward
Director
Productions for Troupe include The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton’s Music Hall and Southwark Playhouse).
Theatre credits include: Manic Street Creature which won a Scotsman Fringe First Award, a Stage Edinburgh Award and a Mental Health Fringe Award (Kiln Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and Summerhall Edinburgh); The Gang of Three (King’s Head Theatre); The Children and Moonlight and Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse); Strike! (Southwark Playhouse); Groan Ups (Vaudeville Theatre, National Tour and Centrál Színház, Budapest); One Man, Two Govnors (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Spiderfly (Theatre503); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (National Tour); Table (Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts); Exactly Like You which won the VAULT Festival Spirit Award (Underbelly Edinburgh and The Vaults); Chef which won a Scotsman Fringe First Award (Underbelly Edinburgh and Soho Theatre); I’m Not That Kind of Guy (The Vaults and Paines Plough); Mary Louise (The Vaults); Evita (MT4Uth, Belfast); Comets which won the IdeasTap Summer Brief (Latitude Festival); People Like Us (Pleasance London); Snow White (National Tour for The Old Vic); A Writer’s Response to ‘Chavs’ by Owen Jones (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and Latitude Festival); Present Tense (Live Theatre); Life Support (York Theatre Royal) and Old Vic New Voices: The 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic). Work as Associate Director includes: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion Theatre); Present Laughter (Theatre Royal Bath and National Tour); Brideshead Revisited (English Touring Theatre and York Theatre Royal); Communicating Doors (Menier Chocolate Factory); Theatre Uncut: Flagship Tour (Soho Theatre and National Tour); Symphony (Watch This Space at National Theatre and Latitude Festival) and Young Pretender (Underbelly Edinburgh and National Tour). Work as Assistant Director includes: Arcadia (English Touring Theatre); Othello and King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe); Our New Girl (Bush Theatre); Bunny which won a Scotsman Fringe First Award (nabokov, Underbelly Edinburgh and National Tour) and The Boy on the Swing (Arcola Theatre). Work as Dramaturg includes Shebeen which won the Alfred Fagon Award (Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal Stratford East). Kirsty is a graduate of the National Theatre Studio Directors Course, took part in National Theatre Connections, was shortlisted for the J. P. Morgan Award for Emerging Directors and was a finalist for the JMK Young Directors Award. She also took part in the Old Vic New Voices T. S. Eliot US/UK Exchange.
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Ashley Cook for Troupe
Producer
Ashley Cook for Troupe
Producer
Ashley Cook founded Troupe in 2013, which presents new plays and stage adaptations, alongside rediscovered work by classic writers. Troupe’s latest work at Park Theatre includes The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 and 2 by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan, based on the books by John Galsworthy which transferred to the Royal Shakespeare Company Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, and a commission of a new adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man by Simon Reade. Other recent work includes The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson at Southwark Playhouse, which transferred to Wilton’s Music Hall and Rasheeda Speaking by Joel Drake Johnson at Trafalgar Studios, which starred Tanya Moodie, Elizabeth Berrington, Sheila Reid and Bo Poraj. Other productions at Southwark Playhouse include the centenary year revival of Dear Brutus by J. M. Barrie and The Cardinal by James Shirley, directed by Justin Audibert, which starred Stephen Boxer and Natalie Simpson for which she won the Ian Charleson Award. It was supported by an inaugural MGCfutures Bursary Award. Troupe’s previous rediscoveries at the Finborough Theatre include Rodney Ackland’s After October, Robert Bolt’s Flowering Cherry and R. C. Sherriff’s The White Carnation, which later transferred to Jermyn Street Theatre. Ashley is a previous Stage One Small Scale Commercial Investment recipient, a Stage One Bursary Award winner, and Troupe has been nominated for a total of fourteen Off West End Awards.
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Libby Watson
Set and Costume Designer
Libby Watson
Set and Costume Designer
Libby trained at Wimbledon School of Art and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre credits include: …Earnest?, The History Boys and Three Sisters (National Tours); The Gang of Three (King’s Head Theatre); Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] (Park Theatre, Leicester Square Theatre and National Tour); Strike! (Southwark Playhouse); The Fellowship (Hampstead Theatre); KVAKK!?! (Rogaland Teater, Stavanger); Bring It On: The Musical (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Nigel Slater’s Toast (The Other Palace and National Tour); Being Mr Wickham (Jermyn Street Theatre, National Tour and 59E59 Theaters, New York City); Doctor Faustus (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Trolle and Helt Privat (Kilden Teater, Kristiansand); The Philanthropist and The Mountaintop which won an Olivier Award for Best New Play (Trafalgar Studios); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, One Man, Two Govnors, Sweet Charity, It’s a Wonderful Life and Guys and Dolls (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Once (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Queens Theatre, Hornchurch and National Tour); Daisy Pulls It Off (Park Theatre); Peter Pan (Misi Producciones, Bogotá); Fences (Theatre Royal Bath, Duchess Theatre and National Tour); The Sisterhood, Marriage, Stars in the Morning Sky and The Miser (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Rudy’s Rare Records (Birmingham Rep and Hackney Empire); Propaganda Swing (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Nottingham Playhouse); Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Chichester Festival Theatre); Play Mas (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Feed the Beast and Hysteria (Birmingham Rep); Gem of the Ocean, Blues for Mr Charlie, Radio Golf, Es & Flo and The War Next Door (Kiln Theatre); One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Kiln Theatre, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and National Tour); Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (Hampstead Theatre and National Tour) and Blest Be the Tie and What’s in the Cat (Royal Court Theatre). Film and television credits include: Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius and Tell Me You Love Me.
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Jamie Platt
Lighting Designer
Jamie Platt
Lighting Designer
Jamie trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre credits include: The Last Five Years (Southwark Playhouse, Garrick Theatre and International Tour); Jellyfish (National Theatre); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre, Chicago); RIDE (Southwark Playhouse, Charing Cross Theatre and The Old Globe, San Diego); Something Rotten! in Concert and Pippin in Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Word-Play (Royal Court Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Curve Theatre, Leicester); The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Concert (Prince Edward Theatre); Something Rotten!, Suddenly Last Summer and Sister Act (English Theatre Frankfurt); The Children and Moonlight and Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse); Footballers’ Wives: The Musical (The Assembly Rooms Edinburgh); Pride and Prejudice and Kes (Octagon Theatre, Bolton and National Tour); The White Chip, Our House, Manic Street Creature, Strike!, Beast and Klippies (Southwark Playhouse); The Harmony Test, Octopolis, Nineteen Gardens, Either, Paradise and Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre); The Rape of Lucretia, The Elixir of Love, Blond Eckbert and The Snowmaiden (Hackney Empire and National Tour); The Barber of Seville (Nevill Holt Opera); Kinky Boots (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); The Gang of Three (King’s Head Theatre); That Face (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Cowboys and Lesbians, SUS, Never Not Once, Gently Down the Stream and Alkaline (Park Theatre); Sleeping Beauty and Mythic for which he was nominated for a Knight of Illumination Award and a BroadwayWorld Award for Best Lighting Design (Charing Cross Theatre); The Gap, Head Over Heels and Vincent River (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester); Fame (Birmingham Hippodrome); Anna Karenina (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); My Fair Lady and Singin’ in the Rain (The Mill at Sonning); One Who Wants to Cross, Checkpoint Chana, Quaint Honour, P’yongyang, We Know Where You Live and Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre); Daniel’s Husband (Marylebone Theatre) and Ragdoll and Something in the Air (Jermyn Street Theatre). Work as Associate Lighting Designer includes: Frozen: The Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane and International Tour); Six (Arts Theatre and International Tour); Born With Teeth and The Starry Messenger (Wyndham’s Theatre); Ink (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Night of the Iguana (Noël Coward Theatre) and Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre). Jamie has been nominated for five Off West End Awards for Best Lighting Design.
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Ed Lewis
Sound Designer and Composer
Ed Lewis
Sound Designer and Composer
Ed studied at the University of Oxford and trained as a composer and sound designer at Bournemouth Media School.
Theatre credits include: The Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall and Royal Shakespeare Company); Inside No. 9 Stage/ Fright (Wyndham’s Theatre and National Tour); A View from the Bridge (Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Killer Joe and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios); The Best Man (Playhouse Theatre); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Force Majeure (Donmar Warehouse); Only an Octave Apart, A Christmas Carol and The Child in the Snow (Wilton’s Music Hall); Notes from a Small Island, Othello and Visitors (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Broken Glass (Palace Theatre, Watford); Darker Shores, Amongst Friends, Platinum, Ignorance/ Jahiliyyah, On the Rocks and Alligators (Hampstead Theatre); King Hamlin and Almost, Maine (Park Theatre); Table (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme); Scarlett (Hampstead Theatre and Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Fool for Love, Bug, Unfaithful and The Dazzle (Found111); The Vertical Hour and Remarkable Invisible (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); The Rubenstein Kiss (Nottingham Playhouse); Baddies: The Musical, Breaking the Ice, Hannah, My Mother Medea, Minotaur, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and My Father, Odysseus (Unicorn Theatre); Chef which won a Scotsman Fringe First Award (Underbelly Edinburgh and Soho Theatre); Abigail’s Party (Curve Theatre, Leicester); The Speed Twins (Riverside Studios); Gravity (Birmingham Rep); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse); Measure For Measure (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff); Once Upon a Time in Wigan and Sixty Five Miles (Paines Plough at Hull Truck) and Krapp’s Last Tape and Spoonface Steinberg (Hull Truck).
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Ingrid Mackinnon
Movement Director
Ingrid Mackinnon
Movement Director
Theatre credits as Movement Director and Choreographer include: Private View and Typical (Soho Theatre); Twelfth Night, Princess Essex for which she won a Black British Theatre Award for Best Movement Director, and The Duchess of Malfi (Shakespeare’s Globe); Noughts & Crosses, Every Leaf A Hallelujah and Romeo and Juliet for which she won a Black British Theatre Award for Best Choreographer (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park); Apex Predator (Hampstead Theatre); Toto Kerblammo! (Unicorn Theatre); Skeleton Crew and Trouble in Butetown (Donmar Warehouse); The School for Scandal, The Merry Wives of Windsor, First Encounters: The Merchant Of Venice and Kingdom Come (Royal Shakespeare Company); Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (National Theatre); The Big Life and Red Riding Hood (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Dreaming and Drowning (Bush Theatre); Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic); Portia Coughlan and Reimagining Cacophony (Almeida Theatre); Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre, Kingston); That Face (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); The Meaning of Zong (The Barbican Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and National Tour); Blue (English National Opera); Further than the Furthest Thing (The Young Vic); Enough of Him (National Theatre of Scotland); A Dead Body in Taos (Fuel Theatre); The Darkest Part of the Night and Girl on an Altar (Kiln Theatre); Playboy of the West Indies (Birmingham Rep); Moreno (Theatre503); Antigone (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Liminal (King’s Head Theatre); Liar Heretic Thief (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); Josephine (Theatre Royal Bath); #WeAreArrested (Arcola Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Border (Theatre Centre). Theatre credits as Intimacy Director include: Eureka Day (Nottingham Playhouse); Private View and Super High Resolution (Soho Theatre); Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Faust and Festen (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre and Noël Coward Theatre); Twelfth Night, Princess Essex and The Duchess of Malfi (Shakespeare’s Globe); Evita (London Palladium); Here We Are, Coriolanus, The House of Bernarda Alba and Phaedra (National Theatre); Shucked, Noughts & Crosses, Brigadoon, La Cage aux Folles, Robin Hood, The Tempest, Every Leaf A Hallelujah, Once on This Island, Antigone, 101 Dalmatians, Legally Blonde and Carousel (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park); The Great Gatsby (London Coliseum); Apex Predator (Hampstead Theatre); The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and Skeleton Crew (Donmar Warehouse); Wolves on Road (Bush Theatre); The Real Thing (The Old Vic); Romeo and Juliet (Duke of York’s Theatre); Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic); Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Sunset Boulevard (Savoy Theatre); That Face (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); The Effect (National Theatre and The Shed, New York City); Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre and National Tour); Es & Flo (Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff and Kiln Theatre); Enough of Him (National Theatre of Scotland) and Girl on An Altar (Kiln Theatre). Ingrid holds an MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Claire Llewellyn for Rc-Annie
Fight Director
Claire Llewellyn for Rc-Annie
Fight Director
Theatre credits include: The Harder They Come (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Cinderella, Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Romeo and Juliet and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Liverpool Everyman); Rough Magic and Midsummer Mechanicals (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Code, Unfortunate and The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse); The Queen of Spades (Garsington Opera); The Fair Maid of the West (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Unseen (Riverside Studios); Red Speedo andDuet for One (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Oliver! and Never Have I Ever (Chichester Festival Theatre); Art (National Tour); Wonder Boy (Bristol Old Vic and National Tour); Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse); Feral Monster(Welsh National Theatre); Hir, Jack and the Beanstalk and Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] (Park Theatre); Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) (Criterion Theatre and International Tour); Maud and Down in the Valley (Scottish Youth Opera); Peter Pan (Reading Rep Theatre); Around the World in 80 Days (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick and Hull Truck); Kidnapped (National Theatre of Scotland); Oklahoma! (Wyndham’s Theatre); 71 Coltman Street(Hull Truck); Carmen (Opera North) and Don Giovanni (Nevill Holt Opera). Theatre credits as Associate Fight Director include: Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Gielgud Theatre, National Tour and Ireland Tour); Life of Pi (National Tour) and To Kill a Mockingbird (Gielgud Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and National Tour).
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Caroline Hannam
Costume Supervisor
Caroline Hannam
Costume Supervisor
Caroline trained at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Theatre credits as Costume Supervisor include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Grimaldi Forum, Monte-Carlo); The Sound of Music (Curve Theatre, Leicester); The Talented Mr Ripley, …Earnest?, Magic Goes Wrong, Hairspray, Once, The Cat and the Canary, Dreamboats and Petticoats, Driving Miss Daisy, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The History Boys and Footloose (National Tours); The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre and National Tour); Wilko: Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll(Southwark Playhouse and Leicester Square Theatre); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham and Noël Coward Theatre); Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] (Park Theatre, Leicester Square Theatre and National Tour); Strike! (Southwark Playhouse); West Side Story (Ljubljana Festival); Evita(International Tour); The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre and National Tour); Sweet Charity (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Dance ‘Til Dawn (Aldwych Theatre and National Tour) and Midnight Tango (Aldwych Theatre, Phoenix Theatre and National Tour). Theatre credits as Head of Wardrobe include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Grimaldi Forum, Monte-Carlo); Dear England (The Lowry, Salford); The Lehman Trilogy(Gillian Lynne Theatre and International Tour); The Pirates of Penzance, The Midnight Bell, Rough Crossing, Cabaret and Acorn Antiques: The Musical! (National Tours); The Confessions (European Tour); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham and Noël Coward Theatre); Saving Grace (Riverside Studios); Chicago (Ljubljana Festival); Saturday Night Fever (Peacock Theatre); The Exorcist (Phoenix Theatre and National Tour); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre) and Driving Miss Daisy (Wyndham’s Theatre).
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Lois Sime
Stage Manager
Lois Sime
Stage Manager
Lois trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: My First Ballet: Swan Lake(English National Ballet); Lovestuck (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Mother Goose (Hackney Empire); Old Bridge, Invisible and Statues (Bush Theatre); Clybourne Park (Park Theatre); The Last Word (Marylebone Theatre); Ready, Steady, Go! (Polka Theatre and European Tour); The Game of Love and Chance (Arcola Theatre); The Prince (Southwark Playhouse); For Tonight (Adelphi Theatre); Mr Stink (Chickenshed Theatre); The Mosinee Project (New Diorama Theatre); Magical Merlin (Fortune Theatre) and Benidorm Live! and You Bury Me (National Tours).
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Julia Wilkens
Assistant Stage Manager
Julia Wilkens
Assistant Stage Manager
Julia trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Peter Pan (Castle Theatre, Wellingborough); Beauty and the Beast (BEAM Theatre, Hertford) and Pygmalion (The Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks).
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Molly Nice
Assistant Stage Manager
Molly Nice
Assistant Stage Manager
Molly is training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include: The Paddington Bear Experience (London County Hall); So You’ve Found Me (Lion and Unicorn Theatre); Dick Whittington (Bocking Village Hall) and Sunday in the Park with George, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Next to Normal (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts).
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Abigail Grimes
Assistant Stage Manager
Abigail Grimes
Assistant Stage Manager
Abigail is training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include: The Welkin (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); Clueless The Musical (Trafalgar Theatre); Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre) and Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder (Ambassadors Theatre).
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Natasha Werblow
Assistant Stage Manager
Natasha Werblow
Assistant Stage Manager
Natasha is training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include: Carrie and Faustus: That Damned Woman (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); Rodney Black: Who Cares? It’s Working (Arcola Theatre and The Bristol Improv Theatre); Carousel (Birmingham City Academy); 10 Stories High (theSpace @ Niddry Street Edinburgh); Outlying Islands (Jermyn Street Theatre); Our House (Southwark Playhouse); Spring Awakening (Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol); Carrie (The Loco Klub, Bristol); Frolickes of Narnia (Winston Theatre, Bristol) and Iphigenia (Wickham Theatre, Bristol). Television credits include: Double the Money.
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Kyle Smith
Assistant Director
Kyle Smith
Assistant Director
Kyle is training at East 15 Acting School. Theatre performance credits include: Cabaret (Sierra Repertory Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Vermont Shakespeare Company); Forever Plaid (Pacific Conservatory Theatre); Next to Normal (Midtown Arts Center, Eugene) and Life Could Be a Dream (Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Ashland).
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Lewis Champney for eStage
Production Manager
Lewis Champney for eStage
Production Manager
Productions for Troupe include: The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 and 2 and A Single Man (Park Theatre).
Lewis trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Farewell Mister Haffmann, 23.5 Hours and Sorry We Didn’t Die at Sea (Park Theatre); Gods of Salford (The Lowry, Salford); Cutting the Tightrope (Arcola Theatre and Edinburgh International Festival); As Long As We Are Breathing and Gigi & Dar(Arcola Theatre); Puppy (King’s Head Theatre); The Three Musketeers (Oxford Playhouse); Captain Amazing(Southwark Playhouse); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Very Expensive Poison and Next to Normal (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts) and Lysistrata (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama). Opera credits include: The Little Zombie Girl (Shaw Theatre) and Eugene Onegin (Jacksons Lane Arts Centre). Theatre credits as as Assistant and Associate Production Manager include: When It Happens to You, The Marilyn Conspiracy, Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 3 and Kim’s Convenience (Park Theatre); The Quest (Shaw Theatre); Rinaldo and Pandora’s Box (Royal Academy of Music); The Odyssiad and The Hobbit (Oxford Playhouse); Some Demon (Arcola Theatre); Here (Southwark Playhouse); Dick Whittington and Killing Jack(Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch) and A Playlist for the Revolution, Sleepova and Paradise Now! (Bush Theatre).
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