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Ida
2 WEEKS DEVELOPMENT 2005
Director
by: Lisa Forrel
Creative Team include:Naomi Sorkin, Denise Stevenson, Matthew
Hart, Tony Guilfoyle, Paul Ibey and Rhydian Jones
Has since received an Arts Council grant for further development.
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The Broken Heel
An Eastern Musical Extravaganza
2 WEEKS DEVELOPMENT 2005
Director Svelana Dimcovic
Creative Team include: Writer Steve Keyworth, Naomi Sorkin
Cast include: Tanya:Joanna Croll, Tasha:Lewis Barfoot, Sonia:Vanessa
Ackerman, Ivan & Ferret:Adrian Hughes, Sanjay & Sergei:Dominic
Geraghty, Older Tasha: Naomi Sorkin, Lena:Rachel Pickup; Roxy:Vanessa
Ackerman, Older Ivan: Kelyn Jones, Older Tanya: Denise Stephenson,
Dragan: Ben Caplan.
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Masterclasses included
Writing with Devising Amy Russell
A Visual Approach Linda Kerr Scott
Butoh Paul Ibey
The Emotional Punch Joseph Alford
Improvising Stories Niall Ashdown
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Everything Is Illuminated
Suzanna Rosenthal Productions
2 WEEK DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 2004
Directed by Olivia Jacobs
Creative team included: Simon Block (writer) Jon Fiber
(musical director) Isla Shaw (designer) James Whiteside (lighting
designer)
Cast included: Danny Scheinmann, Lucien Mac Dougall, Ben Caplan,
Benedicte Seirerup, Ashley Drees, Lois Naylor, Jon Fiber
The development
workshop entailed two weeks of devising from the novel Everything
is Illuminated by Jonathan Saffran Foer.
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After being involved
in this period, Simon Block produced script to present in a
rehearsed reading at The Soho Theatre, London.
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'Our two exploratory weeks were essential
for the development of this project. In translating a complex
novel from page to stage, we had many questions that we could
not possibly have answered without this playing time. The
development period helped to clarify many of the creative
team's thoughts and also inspired a great many new ideas.
This means that we will go into the rehearsal period next
year that much better informed! The two weeks were a necessary
luxury that we are very grateful to the Playground and the
Arts Council England for." Suzanna Rosenthal, Producer
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A Sudden Silence ('Jezebel')
Written by Penny Black, (Literary Manager of The Gate Theatre,
London)
Directed by Ellen Hughes
Cast includes:- Susan Porrett, Virginia Denham, Cate Hamer and
Bettrys Jones
THE PLAY Who are you if you are no longer able to say
who you are? Stroke is the third largest killer in the UK, but
there are thousands more it does not kill but leaves paralysed
or unable to speak (dysphasia). I really wanted to explore the
effects of this sudden lack of communcation on three generations
of a family and felt that theatre is the ideal medium to do
it in.
"After a two day
workshop in a small intimate space earlier in the year, it was
glorious to turn up at The Playground and use that wonderful
space to experiment and improvise. When you have so much room
and no pressure to provide a performance, there is nowhere for
the flaws to hide! Invaluable." Penny Black, playwright and
Literary Manager of The Gate theatre, London.
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Biannual Playwrights' Award 2003-4
Late Night at the Punch and Judy by Lindy Newns
PLAYWRIGHTS' AWARD WINNER'S DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 2004
As the winner of The Playground Biannual Playwrights' Award
2003/4, this project was awarded a budget of £3000.00 to spend
on development work. Following a development workshop directed
by Charlotte Gwinner, Lindy rewrote the script which had a reading
at Player Playwrights in London.
Cast included: Leah Muller, Marlene Sidaway, Tim Morrand,
Robert Styles
A second development period is due to take place in December
to move the script further along its journey.
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Gimme Lithium or Death, by Sean Burn
Directed by Alan Marni
SHORTLISTED PLAYWRIGHT'S 3 DAY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP, 2004
The piece culminated in a staged reading to an invited audience.
Since then, Sean has reworked the script and produced a new
version.
Cast included: Laura Eades, Amani Johara and Michelle
Bourne
"having a script
'playgrounded' was a really superlative experience for me: gimme
lithium or death was taken to the next level by all the hardwork
put in during those days of rehearsal/reading. I cant thank
you enough for that." Sean Burn
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Masterclasses with Marcello Magni 2004, 2003
"One of the most generous and
intuitive teachers I have had the pleasure to work with. His
eagle eye let's you away with nothing, his discipline pushes
you further and the fun and pleasure he has for his work and
students, brings you back year after year".
Clare McKenna, actress.
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The
Lemon Pincess - a co production with The Caird Company.
From an original idea by and directed by Ruth Carney
4 WEEK DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 2003
Written by Rachael Mcgill
First inspired by conversations between Ruth Carney and Stephen
Forber, whose daughter died of nvCJD in 2001 at the age of 21.
From an article in The Guardian Ruth started a six month research
project into this story of human tragedy. This resulted in two
weeks work with the Oxford School of Drama which was then presented
at The National Theatre. From this The Caird Company became
involved and so did Rachael McGill and The Playground. This
continued work resulted in a staged reading at the West Yorkshire
Playhouseas part of the BBC Northern Exposures Season and a
presentation at The Old Vic, as part of Old Vic New Voices.
Cast included: Nia Gwynne, Joanna Marks, Simon Muller
and Richard Stacey
"Without The Playgrounds involvement
in this three year labour of love we would not be going ahead
as a full production at The West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2005"
Ruth Carney
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WEST
YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE - The Lemon Princess, 4 February
2005 to 5 March 2005, Courtyard Theatre
"Mad cow disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. I mean who
thinks these names up? I prefer Mad Cow, at least you can still
say it when you're pissed. Me daughter says you can get it from
mechanically recovered meat products. I asked if that meant
the RAC scraping up roadkill and selling it on." Despite their
bickering stage double act on the Leeds pub circuit, Mike and
his seventeen year old daughter Becky are TIGHT. She pretends
not to laugh at his jokes, he pretends not to encourage her
singing career, they nick each other's fags and moan about their
non-existent love lives. Then Becky's behaviour starts to become
very unusual. By Rachael McGill
Cast includes: Elaine Glover, Nigel Hastings and Lesley
Vickerage
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The Secret Agent
3 WEEK DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 2003
Directed by William Galinsky
A devised piece of theatre originally based on and around the
footnotes of Joseph Conrads 'The Secret Agent'
Cast included: Geoffry Beevers, Caitriona Mclaughin,
John Joyce, Annie Tobyn, You-ri Yamanaka, John Albasiny, Laurence
Harvey and Tylan Halici. |
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Masterclass with Hideki Noda 2003
"He
encouraged us to give ourselves a good creative shaking. All
this stuff just bubbled up from hidden places, it was very inspiring".
Peter Keswick
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The London Project
1 WEEK DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 2002
Directed by Di Trevis
A music theatre piece based on excerpts from Mayhews book
'London Labour and London Poor'
Creative team and cast included:
Designer: Pamela Howard
Music: Dominic Muldowney
Dramaturg: Colin Chambers
Aimee Cowen, Samantha Robinson, Branwell Donaghey, John Rogan,
Karl Johnson, Lucy Stevens, Sara Kestelman, David Sturzaker,
Warren Mitchell
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Masterclasses with
Henryk Baranowski 2001, 2002
"I really enjoyed working with
Henryk & would sell my mother to do so again".
Caitriona McGlaughlin, director and actress
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The Idiot
DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP AND PRODUCTION 2000-2001
Directed by Henryk Baranowski
A new adaptation by Henryk Baranowski and Jane Corbett of Dostoyevsky's
The Idiot. Developed over a five week period with 8 actors and
cellist Kathryn Locke, culminating in performance to an invited
audience at The Playground. The production then went on a four
week run at The Riverside Studios. Subsequently, the production
was invited to the International Theatre Festival in Beijing
China.
Set against the crumbling world of Russia's old aristocracy,
two men become rivals for a notorious woman.
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"The tale contrasts spiritual and carnal
love, compassion and greed. Baranowski's flexible wooden set
is used to striking effect. The production's visual style is
impressive". The Stage
"It could be that it takes a director from Eastern Europe to
bring to life the dark passions and strange dichotomies that
characterise the Russian peoples. Certainly, Polish director
Henryk Baranowski's production of The Idiot is one of the best
stage adaptations of its kind that I have ever seen". Disability
Times
Cast included (Riverside
production): David Gwillim, Bernice Stegers, Sarah O'Keefe,
Amanda Beckman, Kathryn Lock, Rhydian Jones, Alan Marni, Naomi
Sorkin, and Philip Rham
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The Present
FILM: FOUR WEEKS' DEVELOPMENT, TWO WEEKS' SHOOT 2001
Written and Directed by Nick Ward
An experimental film based on Nick Ward's original stage play
'The Present'
Cast included: Katrin Cartlidge, Susan Vidler, Roland
Manookian, Chris Simon and Marcello Magni |
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