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Dilated Theatre Company in association with Park Theatre presents a major revival of

SUS

By Barrie Keeffe

BARRIE KEEFFE | WRITER
PAUL TOMLINSON | DIRECTOR
KEVIN KAMARA | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
MISCHA ALEXANDER, ALEX JONES, FERGAL COGHLAN | PRODUCER
CLARE LANGFORD, RUPERT HOLLOWAY | ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
CARRIE CROFT | PRODUCTION MANAGER & DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER
LEE NEWBY | SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
PHILIP MATEJTSCHUK | SOUND DESIGNER
JAMIE PLATT | LIGHTING DESIGNER
NEIL MONAGHAN | GRAPHIC DESIGN & EDITOR 

 


 

Barrie Keeffe | Writer  

Barrie Keeffe (1945 – 2019) was a playwright and director with notable plays including: The Long Good Friday, which won the Mystery Writers of America Edgard Allan Poe Award; Heaven Scent, a Giles Cooper Best Radio Plays Award; and Gotcha, which received the Paris Critics Prix Revelation. 

Other plays, which were produced in theatres in 27 countries, include Scribes; Only a Game; A Mad World My Masters; Frozen Assets; Bastard Angel; Wild Justice; My Girl and Better Times

Several of his plays were adapted for TV and fiilm, and he has written two novels and eleven plays for BBC Radio. He was resident writer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Shaw Theatre and Soho Theatre, and Associate Writer for Theatre Royal Stratford East. 

 

Paul Tomlinson | Director  

Paul was Director of Productions at Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch from 1974 to 1984. He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town. He started as an actor in the West End and in regional theatre in Newcastle, St. Andrews and Salisbury. 

He has directed at a dozen British regional theatres. He was artistic director for a season at the Byre St. Andrews and ran Theatrescope at the Salisbury Playhouse from 1971 to 1974. He has also directed at the Belgrade Coventry, the Swan Theatre Worcester, Dundee Rep and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Productions ranged from Death of a Salesman to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, from The Hostage to Lock Up Your Daughters

As a Freelance Director he has directed the national tour of The Norman Conquests; tours in Sweden of Romeo and Juliet and Bedroom Farce; commercial Pantomimes including Jack and The Beanstalk with Charlie Drake. He has been to South Africa for BBC Radio who produced his documentary/drama If The Snakes Don’t Get You, later broadcasted on Radio4 with himself as the narrator.

Paul says of the play: "SUS was the fourth production I directed of Barrie's plays. It’s an intensely powerful play, as relevant now as when it was first written. It is with particular poignancy that I embark on this directorial revival, having lost Barrie in late 2019. It was the end of not only a forty year friendship, but also a strong working relationship founded on mutual respect, trust, political viewpoints and creative styles. That said, there is no greater homage we can pay to great writers than to allow their work to live on." 

 

Kevin Kamara | Assistant Director & Producer

Kevin trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre, Controlled Chaos Theatre Company).

Film credits include: You Are Me

 

Mischa Alexander | Producer 

Mischa trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama & University of Warwick 

Theatre credits include: Badgers Can’t Be Friends (Greenside Studio, Nicholson Square).

 

Clare Langford | Associate Producer 

Clare trained at Drama Centre London. 

Television credits include: With-Hunt; A Century of Murder; Raiders of the Lost Art; The Bloody Stuarts.  

 

Carrie Croft | Production Manager & Deputy Stage Manager 

Carrie trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama & University of East Anglia. 

 

Lee Newby | Set and Costume Designer 

Theatre credits include: Steve (Seven Dials Playhouse); Les Misérables (The Mack Theatre); The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre); Hamlet & The Cherry Orchard (Theatre Royal Windsor); My Night with Reg (Turbine Theatre); Labour of Love (Noël Coward Theatre); Musik (Leicester Square Theatre); The Life I Lead (Wyndham’s Theatre & UK Tour); The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre); Mother of Him, Whodunnit [Unrehearsed], Gently Down the Stream (Park Theatre); The Last Five Years, Grand Hotel, Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse); A Prayer for Wings, Jerker (King’s Head Theatre).

 

Philip Matejtschuk | Sound Designer 

Philip trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.  

Theatre credits include: Wolves Are Coming For You, The Invisible Man, Cinderella: A Fairy-tale, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Jack Studio Theatre); MacBeth (Greenwich Theatre); The Prince and the Pauper (The Watermill Theatre); Maggie May, Adding Machine: A Musical (Finborough Theatre); That Girl (Old Red Lion); For King and Country (Southwark Playhouse); Heartbreak House (Union Theatre); Thark (Drayton Arms); Brimstone and Treacle (Hope Theatre); The Burnt Part Boys (Park Theatre); Othello (Rose Playhouse/Waterloo East, Theatre Lab NYC); Sea Life (Hope Theatre); Dead Party Animals (Hope Theatre).   

 

Jamie Platt | Lighting Designer 

Jamie trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. 

Theatre credits include: The Last Five Years (West End); Jellyfish (National Theatre); Kinky Boots (New Wolsey Theatre); The Barber of Seville (Nevill Holt Opera); RIDE, Mythic (Charing Cross Theatre); Kes (Octagon Theatre & Theatre by the Lake); Moonlight and Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse); Never Not Once, Gently Down The Stream, Alkaline (Park Theatre); Either, Paradise, Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre); The Beat of our Hearts (Exeter Northcott Theatre); Anna Karenina (Guildhall); The Last Five Years, Beast, Klippies (Southwark Playhouse).

 

Neil Monaghan | Graphic Design & Editor  

Neil trained at the BBC. 

Theatre credits include: Dot’s Net (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Eye Contract (Riverside Studios); 100 (Soho Theatre).

Film credits include: In RomaniaElection Night.