Original Sin Kick for Touch Small Change Mean Tears Friendly Fire Nicholas Wright's lecture Designing for Peter Gill Observer review Times review Guardian review Telegraph review Sheffield Telegraph interview Yorkshire post interview Clare Wilkie interview Guardian interview Sheffield Telegraph preview Ruth Gemmell interview Metro Yorkshire interview Independent preview Grandage interview Susan Brown interview
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The Sheffield Crucible and Studio
present a season of work by playwright Peter Gill
Plays
Thursday 23 May — Saturday 22 June, 2002
Over four weeks, this major retrospective of work by one of the country's leading
writers also includes discussions, play readings and seminars:
Wednesday 29 May, 1pm-2pm, Crucible Studio Theatre
Thursday 6 June, 2pm-4pm, the Millennium Galleries
Designers Alison Chitty and Jessica Curtis lead a workshop exploring the practical
issues facing designers when creating a stage environment for Gill’s work. Suitable
for people with some experience of theatre design.
Staging Gill
Saturday 15 June, 1pm-3pm, Crucible Studio Theatre
Directors Paul Miller, Josie Rourke, Rufus Norris and Nick Nuttgens lead a creative
and technical exploration of taking the work of Peter Gill from the page to the
stage. Suitable for people with some experience of theatre design.
Peter Gill Masterclass
Thursday 20 June, 10am-1pm, Crucible Studio Theatre
Peter Gill takes a directing masterclass with invited young, practising theatre
directors. This is an opportunity to experience one of British theatres key practitioners
at work. Masterclass audience is suitable for people with a particular interest
in theatre directing.
Post show talks
with directors and members of the companies:
- Original Sin and Studio shows — 13 June
- Friendly Fire — 11 June
Reviews, interviews, etc
- The Stage
review of Kick for Touch, 13 June
2002
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Independent review, 10 June 2002
- Observer review,
9 June 2002
- Times review,
3 June 2002
- Guardian review,
3 June 2002
- Telegraph
review, 3 June 2002
- Sheffield
Telegraph interview with Peter Gill, 31 May 2002
- Yorkshire
Post interview with Peter Gill, 31 May 2002
- Sheffield Star
interview
with Clair Wilkie, 29 May 2002
- Guardian interview
with Peter Gill, 27 May 2002
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Essay by Michael Grandage on Peter Gill, 26 May2002
- Sheffield
Telegraph preview and interview with Peter Gill, 24 May 2002
- Sheffield Telegraph
interview with Ruth Gemmell, 24 May 2002
- Metro Yorkshire interview
with Peter Gill, 21 May 2002
- Independent preview
by Peter Gill, 18 May 2002
- Yorkshire Post
interview with
Michael Grandage, 17 May 2002
- Sheffield Star
interview with
Susan Brown, 10 May 2002
Festival Production Team
Designer |
Alison Chitty |
Training: St Martin's School of Art and Central School of Art and Design.
Theatre: work includes: Ecstasy and Uncle Vanya (Hampstead Theatre); Measure
For Measure and Julius Caesar (Riverside Studios); A Month In The Country,
Don Juan, Danton's Death, Venice Preserv'd (British Drama Award), Tales
From Hollywood, Fool For Love (West End), Antony And Cleopatra, The Late
Shakespeares and Remembrance Of Things Past (Olivier Award for Best Costume
Designer) and Luther (all Royal National Theatre); Tartuffe, Volpone and
Hamlet (RSC); Orpheus Descending (Haymarket and Broadway).
Opera: includes: New Year (Houston and Glyndebourne); Gawain and Arianna
(ROH); Jemifa (Dallas); Billy Budd (Geneva, Paris, LA, ROH -Olivier Award);
Khovanshchina (ENO — Olivier Award); Meistersinger (Copenhagen); Turandot
(Paris); The Flying Dutchman and Julius Caesar (Bordeaux); Tristan And Isolde
(Seattle and Chicago); Otello (Munich); Dialogues Of The Carmelites (Santa
Fe); Aida (Geneva) and The Last Supper (Berlin and Glyndebourne). Film:
work includes: Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet; Naked and Secrets And Lies (Palme
D'Or, Cannes).
She is Director of Motley Theatre Design Course.
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Associate Designer |
Jessica Curtis |
Training: Motley Theatre Design Course. Theatre: The Wizard Of Oz
(West Yorkshire Playhouse); Macbeth (Nor Jyske Opera); Dangerous Corner
(West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Garrick Theatre); The Clandestine Marriage
(the Watermill Theatre); The Europeans (the British American Drama Academy);
Arms And The Man (Exeter and the Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Three French
Operas (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); Orpheus In The Underworld
(Den Ny Opera, Denmark); Second To Last In The Sack Race (the New Victoria
Theatre, Stoke); The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Salisbury Playhouse);
Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre); Dangerous Corner (Palace Theatre, Watford);
Sugar Sugar
(Bush Theatre); The Winter's Tale (Royal National Theatre Studio); 218:
Underground (National Youth Theatre); The Rake's Progress and Don Giovanni
(Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama); The Rake's Progress (British
Youth Opera); Vanessa (Trinity College of Music). Film: I Just Want To Kiss
You (BBC 2 'Brief Encounters'); You Shall Have A Fishy (Open Eye Productions).
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Lighting Designer |
Hartley T A Kemp |
Theatre: work with Peter Gill includes The York Realist (English Touring
Theatre/Royal Court) and Certain Young Men and Tongue Of A Bird (Almeida).
Work for Sheffield Theatres includes Don Juan, The Country Wife, As You
Like It, A View From The Bridge, Twelfth Night (Crucible) and Queueing For
Everest (Crucible Studio). Other recent work includes The Merchant Of Venice
(RSC UK and international tour); Passion Play and Good (Donmar Warehouse);
The Doctor's Dilemma (Almeida and UK tour); 50 Revolutions (Oxford Stage
Company, Whitehall Theatre); No Sweat (Birmingham Rep); Dealer's Choice
(Theatr Clwyd and West Yorkshire Playhouse); Faith (Royal Court Upstairs);
The Disputation and The Queen Of Spades And I (Pluto Productions, New End);
Thieves Like Us, In The Jungle Of Cities, Rosmersholm and Seascape With
Sharks And Dancer (Southwark Playhouse); When Did You Last See Your Mother?
(BAG). Opera: recent credits include: Mary Seacole (Gynyame, Royal Opera
House Linbury Studio); Oreste and Oresteia (English Bach Festival Opera,
Royal Opera House Linbury Studio); Iris (Opera Holland Park); M Butterfly,
Martha, The Barber Of Seville, La Sonnambula and Carmen (Castleward Opera,
Castleward and Belfast); Die Fledermaus (London City Opera, Chichester Festival
Theatre and tour); and The Marriage Of Figaro (QEH and tour). Musicals:
recent work includes: Show Boat and West Side Story (Tiroler Landestheater,
Innsbruck); Dorian (Arts Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Theatre Royal,
Hanlcy); Assassins and Sweet Lorraine (Old Fire Station, Oxford); and The
Happy Prince (tour). Hartley is also Artistic Director of C venues at the
Edinburgh Festival.
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Peter Mumford |
Theatre: recent work as lighting designer includes Bacchae and Van Gogh
In Brixton/House Of Secrets (Royal National Theatre); The Feast Of Snails
(Lyric Theatre); Private Lives with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan (Albery
Theatre and Broadway); Hamlet with Sam West for the RSC (Barbican); The
Bartered Bride (Royal Opera House); Madame Butterfly (Northern Ballet Theatre);
Luther (Royal National Theatre); Redundant (Royal Court); Iphigenia (Abbey
Theatre, Dublin); God Only Knows (Vaudeville); Medea (Queen's Theatre);
11 Corsaro (Athens Concert Hall); Don Pasquale (Opera Zuid, Holland); The
Coronation Of Poppea (English National Opera); Of Oil And Water (Siobhan
Davies Dance Company); Irek Mukhamedov And Dancers (Sadler's Wells); The
Dispute and The Critic (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Arthur (Birmingham
Royal Ballet); The Crucible, Hidden Variables, A Stranger's Taste, This
House Will Burn (Ashley Page — Royal Ballet); Sounding, Unrest, The Celebrated
Soubrette (Rambert Dance Company); Lautrec (Shaftesbury Theatre); I Lakarina
(Acropol Theatre, Athens); Eugene Onegin, Madama Butterfly (Opera North);
Giulio Cesare (Opera de Bordeaux); Summerfolk, The Merchant Of Venice, Money,
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (Royal National Theatre); Othello, The Taming
Of The Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company); Long Day's Journey Into Night,
An Ideal Husband, Oliver Twist, Therese Raquin (Gate Theatre, Dublin).
He directed and designed the European premiere of Earth And The Great Weather
(by John Luther Adams) for the Almeida Opera 2000 season. Recently designed
sets and lighting for Un Ballo In Maschera — Vilnius Festival. Television/Film:
work includes directing 24 short films for the BBC2 series Forthy-Eight
Preludes And Fugues (J S Bach) and he was lighting director for the other
24 films in the series. He was also Director of Photography for a new TV
film version of Jenufa (dir. Katie Mitchell) for BBC2. In the past his work
as a TV/film director has won both the Opera Screen and Dance Screen Awards
and his TV adaptation of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake was nominated for an
Emmy. He was the winner of the 1995 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Dance for his work on The Glass Blew In (Siobhan Davies)
and Fearful Symmetries (Royal Ballet) and nominated Best Lighting Designer
in 2000. He recently won Best Lighting Designer at the Irish Theatre Awards
for Iphigenia.
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Composer |
Terry Davies |
Terry is a composer and conductor whose credits include films, theatre
and TV for many countries around the world. His dance piece The Car Man
was winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical Event 2000.
Theatre: Terry's compositions for theatre include: Luther, The Rise And
Fall Of Little Voice, The Misanthrope, Neaptide, The Festival Of New Plays,
Antigone and Tales From Hollywood (Royal National Theatre); Alice In Wonderland,
A Patriot for Me, New England and Coriolanus (RSC); Life After George (the
Duchess Theatre); The Lady In The Van (Birmingham Rep); Speed-The-Plow (Ambassadors
and Duke of York's); Romeo And Juliet, As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost,
Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Regent's Park Theatre). The York Realist, Hushabye Mountain and The
School For Scandal (English Touring Theatre); Alarms And Excursions (Gielgud
Theatre); Tongue Of A Bird (Almeida Theatre); The Snow Queen (Theatr Clwyd);
Uncle Vanya (Held Day); The Way Of The World (Lyric, Hammersmith) and Richard
III (Icelandic National Theatre). Terry has written two musicals: Kes (music
and lyrics for Octagon Theatre, Bolton and Theatre Royal, York) and The
Birds (Istanbul City Theatre).
Television: Terry has conducted and/or orchestrated for many dramas and
documentaries including: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries; Flesh And Blood;
Sinners; Dalziel And Pascoe; Shackleton; Crime And Punishment; Bloody Sunday;
Perfect Strangers (BAFTA nominated score); Jason And The Argonauts; Superhuman;
The Mayor Of Casterbridge; The Turn Of The Screw; All The King's Men; Shooting
The Past (winner Prix Italia, 1999); Our Mutual Friend and Deacon Brodie.
Film: Terry has orchestrated and conducted the scores for Doctor Sleep;
The Lawless Heart; The Sleeping Dictionary; Born Romantic; A Midsummer Night's
Dream (Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Kline version); The War Zone; Perdita
Durango; Cousin Bette and Photographing Fairies and orchestrated The Parole
Officer. He also conducted the music for The House Of Mirth; Some Voices;
About Adam; The Suicide Club; The Last Yellow; With Or Without You; Shakespeare
In Love (co-conductor — Oscar-winning score); The Debt Collector and Divorcing
Jack.
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Casting Director |
Julia Horan |
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Simone Reynolds |
Assistant Director |
Nikolai Foster |
Nikolai trained at Drama Centre London, graduating in July 2001. Work
as assistant director whilst training included The Importance Of Being Earnest
(Queen's Theatre Hornchurch), The Rendezvous (Cochrane Theatre), The Merchant
Of Venice, Middleton's Women Beware Women and Koltes' Roberto Zucco. He
comes to the Crucible on the Channel Four Theatre Director Scheme, where
he has assisted Michael Grandage on Richard III and Don Juan, Angus Jackson
on Mamet's Sexual Perversity In Chicago and The Shawl, Fiona Laird on High
Society (on which he was also resident director) and Erica Whyman on Pinter's
The Birthday Party.
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Dialect Coach |
William Conacher |
Theatre: Semi Detached, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The King Of Prussia,
The Recruiting Officer, Aristocrats, The Sea, In Celebration, Hock And Soda
Water, A Spell Of Cold Weather, The Front Page (Chichester Festival and
Minerva Theatres); Snake In The Fridge, Loot, Time And The Conways (Royal
Exchange, Manchester); No Sweat, Silence (Birmingham Rep); Half A Sixpence,
Naked Justice (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Angels In America, The Glass Menagerie,
The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, Molly Sweeney, Death Of A Salesman, Perfect
Days, Pygmalion (Library Theatre, Manchester); Comedians (Oxford Stage).
London credits include: The Beautiful Game (Cambridge); Closer To Heaven
(Arts); Top Girls (Aldwych); Dick Whittington (Sadler's Wells); The Blue
Room (Haymarket). Television: Peak Practice; Heartbeat; A Touch Of Frost;
Messiah; In His Life: The John Lennon Story; BAFTA award winning Faking
It. Film: Topsy Turvey; My Kingdom; The Rocket Post and Three Blind Mice.
William is also dialect coach at RADA. |
Chaperone |
Gaynor Watts |
Stage Manager |
Cath Booth |
Di Stalker |
Deputy Stage Manager |
Kath Bools |
Emma Cameron |
Louise Dancey |
Donna Reeves |
Assistant Stage Managers |
Danni Bastian |
Kim Lewis |
Student on placement |
Adam Foster |
Andrew Foster |
Festival brochure |
Sophie Hunter |
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