Adapted by: Joannah Tincey
Performers: Joannah Tincey and Nick Underwood
Director: Abigail Anderson
Lighting Design: Simon Wilkinson
Set and Costume Design: Dora Schweitzer
Sound Design: Mark Melville
ABIGAIL
ANDERSON (Director)
Abigail
has directed over 80 productions including: Canterbury
Tales, in a new adaptation for Guildford Shakespeare Company, Colder than Here and See How They Run for Theatre by the Lake
in Keswick; Good Intentions for
Frinton Summer Theatre; Joking Apart
by Alan Ayckbourn for Kean Productions and five devised comedy shows with Gonzo
Moose Theatre Company.
She was
Associate Direcvtor for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds from 2008-2012 for whom
she directed national tours of:
Dick Turpin’s Last Ride, The Two of Us, Cider with
Rosie, Three Men in a Boat, Twelfth Night and Art;
as well as acclaimed in house productions of Shakespeare and pantomines.
Abigail
has worked as an Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and
Shakespeare’s Globe, as well as directing Platform readings for the Royal
National Theatre.
DORA
SCHWEITZER (Set and Costume Design)
Dora
was trained by Motley, taught by Percy Harris and Alison Chitty. Previously she
read English Literature at UEA and her approach to Theatre Design is heavily
influenced by this textual background. She has designed over seventy
productions, including Seagull
(Arcola Theatre, with Geraldine James & Roger Lloyd Pack), Jane Austen's Emma
(with Doon MacKichan at Edinburgh, Watford Palace & Tricycle), Grumpy
Old Women Live (Several National tours, Australian
tour and DVD release), The Lifeblood (Wiltons,
Riverside), Cider With Rosie,
Dick Turpin, Merchant
of Venice (Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal), Nicholas
Nickleby (GSMD). Current projects include Medea
with Actors of Dionysus, opening at the Rose, Kingston and touring nationally.
NICK UNDERWOOD (Actor)
Nick studied at Edinburgh University and trained at the
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre
includes He’s Much To
Blame and Much Ado About Nothing for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Thin Ice (Shams
Theatre), A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Bolton Octagon), Ubu (Theatre
Modo), And Tell Sad
Stories of the Death of Queens
(Glasgay/Tennessee Williams Festival) and Macbeth (China
Plate). TV includes Emmerdale, Coronation Street and docu-drama, The
Angry Brigade (BBC). He’s worked extensively for BBC Radio drama
including as announcer and various characters in the new Paul Temple
mysteries. He has also staged his own
plays at the Arches, Tramway and Tron Theatres in Glasgow. His first radio play was produced by the BBC
in 2009. Joannah and Nick co-founded Two Bit Classics in 2013.
SIMON
WILKINSON (Lighting Design)
Simon
designed lighting for Nick’s productions of Naked
Neighbour (Twitching Blind) and What
Happened Is This. He is an associate artist of
Scotland’s Magnetic North and a regular collaborator with Vox Motus. Other
recent theatre work includes: The Day
I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Roman Bridge and
Truant (National Theatre of Scotland); Chalk
Farm and The
Static (ThickSkin); HeLa
and Skewered
Snails (Iron Oxide); The
Infamous Brothers Davenport and Cinderella
(Royal Lyceum). Simon’s lighting has won
a Guinness World Record, caused reports of an alien invasion, and attracted
tens of thousands of people to a windswept Highland Forest.
MARK MELVILLE (Sound Design)
Mark is a composer and sound designer for theatre and film and trained at
Leeds College of Music.
Recent productions include: Mister Holgado (The Unicorn Theatre); In A
Deep Dark Wood (Gobbledegook/Moko
Dance/Sadlers Wells); A Midsummer
Night's Dream (Edinburgh Royal
Lyceum); My Shrinking
Life, Knives In Hens, Miracle Man and Empty (National Theatre of Scotland); Wonderland (Vanishing Point/Edinburgh International Festival/Napoli Teatro
Festival); Saturday
Night (Vanishing Point/National
Theatre of Portugal).
Upcoming work includes Dragon (Vox Motus and the National Theatre of Scotland), Growing Old (Vanishing Point and the Brighton Festival) and Going in a Field (Vanishing Point and the National Theatre of Scotland).
Mark is also an associate artist with The Dukes Theatre and has work
exhibited at the V&A Museum and the Prague Quadrennial Festival.
JOANNAH
TINCEY (Actor/writer)
Jo
studied English Literature before training as an actor at RADA.
Recent
theatre work includes: The Stepmother, The Man Who Pays The Piper, Seven Year
Twitch and Mobile 4, all for The Orange Tree Theatre Richmond; the 2012 season
at Theatre by the Lake (including four roles in Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of
Great Expectations); multiple roles in the UK tour of Cider with Rosie for
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and many other in-house productions at the same
venue; US Tours of As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing for AFTLS, and
Lady Clancarty for The Cheltenham Everyman.
She won
the 2007 Carleton Hobbs Award from BBC Radio spending 6 months on the Radio Rep
acting in a range of classic plays. As a writer she recently edited and adapted
work by The Mitford Sisters to create ‘In The Footsteps of the Mitfords’ a
site-specific and interactive performance piece for Chipping Norton Theatre, in
association with Scary Little Girls. Jo
is also an experienced workshop leader and has lead sessions in schools,
community centres and universities in the UK and Internationally.