EAST

EAST

STAGE MANAGER

THE KINGS HEAD THEATRE

ATTICIST

Tell how it chanced that we sworn mates were once the deadly poison of each other’s eye...

At the start of 2018, Atticist staged a new production of Steven Berkoff’s startling and influential masterpiece at the King’s Head Theatre, where EAST made its London debut in 1975. This was the first time the play had been resurrected in its original London home.

Assaultive, riotously funny, and entirely unapologetic, EAST catapults us into the youth of Mike and Les and Sylv - living at full throttle while Mum and Dad fantasise about the lives they lived (or wish they had). The twists and turns of EAST's profane verse plunge into interior worlds that are absurd, overwhelming - and captivating. Five characters and a pianist lure us in with tall-tales, lust, and bravado.

CAST & CREATIVES:

SYLV Boadicea Ricketts

MUM Debra Penny

LES Jack Condon

MIKE James Craze

DAD Russell Barnett 

and Carol Arnopp on piano

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Director Jessica Lazar

Movement Director Yvan Karlsson

Music Director Carol Arnopp

Assistant Director Siobhan James-Elliott (King's Head Theatre Trainee Director)

Stage Manager Timothy Kelly

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Set & Costume Design Anna Lewis

Lighting Design David Doyle

Additional Sound Design Odinn Orn Hilmarsson

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Producers Bridie Bischoff and Tom Ford

Assistant Producer Amy George

Publicist Chloé Nelkin Consulting

Photos (C) Alex Brenner

5 X OFFIE NOMINATIONS:

BEST DIRECTOR / BEST ENSEMBLE / BEST CHOREOGRAPHER / BEST FEMALE / BEST LIGHTING DESIGN

FINALIST FOR BEST ENSEMBLE

★★★★★ London Pub Theatres

★★★★★ Theatre Bubble

★★★★★ Everything Theatre

★★★★★ Stage Talk

★★★★★ Stage Review

★★★★★ Broadway World

★★★★★ The Londonist

★★★★★ IthankyouTheatre

★★★★ The Stage

★★★★ ReviewsHub

★★★★ Spy in the Stalls

★★★★ Ham&High

TWO THOUSAND TIMS

TWO THOUSAND TIMS

TWO THOUSAND TIMS

WRITER / PERFORMER / DESIGNER

DRAMA BARN, UNIVERSITY OF YORK (SUMMER 2016) & ETCETERA THEATRE, LONDON (NOVEMBER 2017) 

Directed by KATIE SMITH

Associate Director LOUISE WALLER

Moral Support DAISY THE DOG

Featured in The Metro, The New Scientist, and BBC Radio York, 'Two Thousand Tims' is a bizarre foray into the topic of nominative determinism. 

Part lecture, part stand-up, part monologue, this one-man, multi-Tim, show uses verbatim testimony and multimedia to explore the way we are all shaped by our names. 

For one night only, come see the culmination of the project that saw this Tim get emailed by 2000 other Tims from across the globe, and was described by playwright Tim Crouch as “typical of the sort of thing a Tim would do”.

Originally titled A Tim By Any Other Name, this piece started its life as my BA final year independent project. With the help of my collaborator Katie Smith, a first scratch performance was performed at The Drama Barn, University of York on 9th May 2016, and can be viewed online here:

If you're interested in the development of the piece - or if you're called Tim and want in on the project, please do contact me. 

Download the original draft of the script if you're interested. 

ABIGAIL

ABIGAIL

STAGE MANAGER

THE BUNKER THEATRE, JANUARY 2017

RIVE / THE BUNKER

In Fiona Doyle's ABIGAIL, a Man in his 40s and a Woman in her 20s meet on a trip to Berlin. Across a fractured timeline, the story of their relationship, their love, and their struggle unravels before our eyes.

CAST & CREATIVES:

By: Fiona Doyle

Producer: Zoe Robinson and Joel Fisher

Director: Joshua McTaggart

Lighting: Christopher Nairne

Sound: Andrew Josephs

Design: Max Dorey

Stage Management: Timothy Kelly

Cast: Tia Bannon, Mark Rose

Photos (C) Anton Belmonte

ALAN AND BENNET

ALAN AND BENNET

ALAN AND BENNET

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ("RESIDENT TIM") & PRODUCER

RABBIT HOLE NW3 THEATRE (CAMDEN FRINGE 2015)

GREENSIDE @ INFIRMARY STREET (EDINBURGH FRINGE 2016)

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY TOBY KING

STARRING ELIZABETH COOKE AND ISAAC BERNIER-DOYLE

ALAN BENNETT HAS A PROBLEM: HE CAN'T STOP TALKING TO HIMSELF. OVER THE COURSE OF AN HOUR, ALAN AND ALAN DISCUSS MOSCOW, MONKS AND MOTHERS, ALL THE WHILE TRYING TO IGNORE THE OMINOUS TICKING FROM THE CORNER... COMIC, THOUGHTFUL AND A LITTLE TRAGIC, 'ALAN AND BENNETT' WILL LEAVE AUDIENCES WONDERING: JUST WHO ACTUALLY IS ALAN BENNETT?

I founded Cup of Brew alongside Toby King in 2015.

Alan and Bennett was our first play.

 

"this play is a total triumph, a beautiful homage to the writer’s style and art"

★★★★★

Richard Birch, EdFringe Review

http://edfringereview.com/r/V5IUZY4kR7KYvS-pXDx6yg

 

"Elizabeth Cooke & Isaac Bernier-Doyle hold the audience’s attention without fail throughout this enigmatic play"

Laura Peatman, LDN Theatre Bloggers

https://laurapeatman.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/camden-fringe-review-alan-and-bennett/

THE SUITORS

THE SUITORS

LIGHTING DESIGNER

UNIVERSITY OF YORK (SPRING 2016)

DIRECTED BY VENETIA COOK

Two of the most hilarious French comedies in a unique double bill.

George Dandin and The Suitors are masterpieces by the greatest playwrights of the French 17th century, Molière and Jean Racine.

Both premiered within the same month in 1668, the two plays centre on their lead characters’ obsessive pursuit of their goals. They form a comical match made in heaven.

The Suitors centres on a judge who cannot stop judging, in everyday life as well as his court. His delusions cause hilarious and outrageous complications for all those around him.

DELIRIUM

DELIRIUM

PROJECTION DESIGNER / ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER

BLACK BOX THEATRE, UNIVERSITY OF YORK (SPRING 2016)

DIRECTED BY VENETIA COOK

How far would you go in a world without morals or humanity? 

The Karamazov family live in a world of frustration, violence and devotion. Delirium depicts their collective struggle to resist their inherited demon, the insect which plagues their minds and everything within their world as they obsess over money, God, women, alcohol and knowledge.

What becomes of a life of debauchery, excess and selfish pursuits? 

Will it ever resolve, or have they reached the point of no return?

“Another such touch comes in the form of Smerdyakov telling his own life story to the audience towards the end. The character wheels on an old school overhead projector, and projects slides depicting grotesque cartoons of his upbringing onto one of the screens. It offers up a fine example of the unique visual aesthetic and forms of storytelling you can only find in theatre.”

A Younger Theatre

CAST:
FATHER ZOSIMA – Max Manning
ALYOSHA – James Ralph
FYODOR – Josh Welch
MITYA – Christian Loveless
IVAN – Audun Abrahamsen
SMERDYAKOV – Jack Gates
KATERINA – Beth Rigby
GRUSHENKA – Estela Williams

PRODUCTION TEAM:
DIRECTOR - Venetia Cook
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS – Evie Pettit & Julia Levai
PRODUCER – Alana Tiernan
ASSISTANT PRODUCERS – Katie Garnett & Sophia Steinsberg
PRESS & PUBLICITY – Maisie Pearson
PRODUCTION MANAGER – Amilee Jobin
DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER – Nina Harding
LIGHTING DESIGNER – Izzy Marsh
ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGN – Sekeenat Karim
AUDIO/VISUAL DESIGNER - Tim Kelly
SET DESIGNER – Natasha Dawson
ASSISTANT SET DESIGNER – Miranda Lowe
SOUND DESIGNERS – Serena Bury & Vanessa Ostick
COSTUME DESIGNER – Annlouise Butt
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER – Roberta Petraccone
STAGE MANAGER – Evie Jones
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER - Anna Jones

THE WHEEL

THE WHEEL

SET & PUPPET DESIGNER

BLACK BOX THEATRE, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, NOV 2015

DIRECTED BY SAFFIA SAGE

Banishment. Abandonment. An act of selflessness. When Beatriz takes it upon herself to lead a child back to her father, an unimaginable journey begins, unhindered by space or time. Through war zones and impossible scenarios, Beatriz struggles to reach an understanding of what is right, what is human, and how we keep sight of these amidst the atrocities of war. 

Photos

(C) Timothy Kelly, Krister Gressum Antonsen and Annika Ranin

Reviews

"The children Beatriz encounters are puppets, and they are this production’s most powerful assets. [...] They cleanly and concisely create living, breathing characters out of these puppets, and they’re an absolute joy to watch." 

A Younger Theatre






MANCUB

MANCUB

LIGHTING DESIGNER

THE DRAMA BARN, UNIVERSITY OF YORK

'Mancub' is a bold and funny play about the perils of adolescence.

It tells the beautiful and absurd story of a boy who seems to be turning into animals. Paul faces the usual struggles of growing up. He struggles for understanding with his father, and struggles to work out what girls are about. But he also faces a more pressing problem. Strange things keep happening, and they are getting stranger. Reality seems to be shifting. People are looking at him in a different way. 

Does Paul really turn into animals, or does he only think he does?

 

CAST & CREATIVES:

Cast:

Will Heyes

Elizabeth Cooke

Joel Bates

Production:

Director | Harry Benjamin

Writer | Douglas Maxwell

Set Designer | Lydia Johnson

Lighting Designer | Timothy Kelly

Sound Designer | Nick Upton

Producer | Kate Mason

Photos | Gavin Pattison

"It is rare for a creative performance to be considered flawless, but the Drama Barn’s rendition of Mancub merits to sit in that rank" 

Unknown Magazine

http://unknownmagazine.co.uk/mancub-2/

★★★★

"outstanding light-displays" 

Nouse

http://www.nouse.co.uk/2015/10/24/review-mancub/

"Tim Kelly’s lighting design makes excellent use of the Barn’s new lighting rig [and] blend[s] seamlessly with the rest of the production" 

A Younger Theatre

http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-mancub-drama-barn/

MAKING TRACKS

MAKING TRACKS

MAKING TRACKS

(PART OF THE THIS IS A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT SERIES)

Director

The National Railway Museum (SUMMER 2015)

Co-directed with Annlouise Butt

Movement Directed by Saffia Sage.

Making Tracks was a piece of verbatim, site-specific theatre about the importance of women and the feminist movement during the history of the railway industry and was part of the Department's This is a Public Announcement series. My role in this production included facilitating the devising, structuring and polishing of material around the interviews we conducted, and also making executive decisions on how to respond to the needs of the space. We wanted to create a show that could appeal to all ages, but also had something to say, and the show we ended up making was both deeply political and bursting with energy. It incorporated elements of live music and physical theatre as well as being an immersive experience for the audience, where - much like an interactive museum exhibit - the audience could chose what they wanted to learn about and in which order.

MACBETH

MACBETH

MACBETH

Performer (Macbeth)

DRAMA BARN, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, SPRING 2015

DIRECTED BY WILEM POWELL

 

Reviews:

"Wilem’s production is vision focused and performance driven, and Tim Kelly’s Macbeth and Saffia Sage’s Lady Macbeth are incredible." 

★★★★★ 

Nouse 

http://www.nouse.co.uk/2015/03/07/review-macbeth/

"The chemistry between Tim Kelly and Saffia Sage as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is hypnotising. [...] Kelly’s portrayal of Macbeth hit the perfect notes and his progression as a more masculine and cruel force towards the end pertinently underlined his character’s ascension to power." 

Unknown Magazine

https://unknownmagazineonline.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/drama-barns-macbeth-review/

 

"Tim Kelly’s Macbeth is a cold, ruthless politician, and an excellent modern translation of the original power-hungry soldier"

A Younger Theatre

https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-macbeth-university-of-york/

 

"From the moment he was crowned Thane of Cawdor, a fire lit in his eye that you felt would have to be torn from him."

James Ralph

http://jameswralph.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/to-actors-in-macbeth.html

THE LIBRARIUM

THE LIBRARIUM

THE LIBRARIUM

DIRECTOR

DRAMA BARN, UNIVERSITY OF YORK (WINTER 2013/14)

WRITTEN BY JOSEPH COOPER

The Librarium was my first outing into direction. It was a new piece of writing by Joseph Cooper, an old classmate of mine and this was its premiere production. An intimate piece, with immersive elements and performed in-the-round, it required a real focus on character and atmosphere.

Throughout the rehearsal process, I and the rest of the team wrote a blog: http://librarium-york.tumblr.com/

 

"A truly unique experience" 

York Vision

http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/scene/stage/review-the-librarium/25/01/2014

★★★★ 

Nouse

http://www.nouse.co.uk/2014/01/25/review-the-librarium/