So this was the first year in my return to full time directing/making theatre with adults and young people. It wasn’t all plain sailing but this is what I managed to do- excluding teaching etc.
Plays I directed in 2019
Shorties– short play event containing 7 short plays – for our company Merry Spinsters that Maev Mac Coille & I formed this year ( along with Rogue Gunner Productions that co produced it with us). They were:
- The Break Out by Anders Lustgarten
- Building Walls by Catherine Harvey
- A Study in Beige by Johnny Blanchard
- Circles by Johnny Blanchard
- Mirror Mirror by Maev Mac Coille
- The Saddest Lines by Maev Mac Coille
- Streetwise by Louise Monaghan
The Lying Kind by Anthony Neilson for Kingston Theatre Company. A dark comedy Farce with a Christmas theme.
The Talking Papaya adapted by Salihah Abaje for Spoken World Productions. (My Year 1 & 2 group made me and their parents etc proud)
Plays seen in 2019- in the order of my seeing them.
- Aladdin Dir: Kerry Michaels at New Wimbledon Theatre. Contained Paul Merton as Widow Twankie and Pete Firman as Wishy Washy
- Hamilton by Lin -Manuel Miranda. Dir: Thomas Kail.
- Anthony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare at National Theatre. Dir: Simon Godwin. Contained Sophie Okeneodo and Ralph Fiennes.
- Sleeping Beauty (Amateur Panto) in Banstead Church Institute Hall. Pilgrim Panto Company.
- Pinter 7. A Slight Ache- Radio play/ A Dumb Waiter. West End Dir: Jamie Lloyd. Contained Gemma Whelan, Danny Dyer and Martin Freeman.
- Dangerous Lenses by Brooke Robinson Dir: Melissa Dunne at Vaults Festival.
- All about Eve. Based on film. Dir. Ivo Von Hove. Contained Gillian Anderson and Lily James.
- Rattled by Rachel Harper at Old Red Lion. Dir: Jemma Gross. Also performed by Rachel H.
- Ladykiller by Madeline Gould at Vaults Festival. Dir. Madeline Moore.
- Company by Sondheim & George Furth at West End. Dir: Marianne Elliott. Adapted for Robert to be Bobbie as a woman. Contained Patti La Pone and Rosalie Craig.
- Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm at Vaudeville Theatre in West End. Dir: Nicole Charles.
- Top Girls by Caryl Churchill. NT. Dir: Lyndsey Turner.
- Night of the Living Dead LIVE! Pleasance. Dir: Benji Sperring.
- King Hedley II by August Wilson at Theatre Royal Stratford. Dir : Nadia Fall. With Lenny Henry and Martina Laird.
- Wooden Meadow by Stewart Pringle ( rehearsed reading as part of Vibrant Festival at Finborough Theatre ) Dir: Fidelis Morgan.
- Small Island by Andrea Levey adapted by Helen Edmundson at National Theatre. Dir: Rufus Norris.
- Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini in West End. Dir : Sam Mendes.
- Noises Off by Michael Frayn at Lyric Hammersmith. Dir : Jeremy Herrin. With Merra Syral
- Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton adapted by Emma Rice at Cambridge Arts Theatre. Dir. Emma Rice.
- Little Miss Burden by Matilda Ibini at The Bunker. Dir: Debbie Hannan
(I bought tickets to at least 5 more productions – Death of Salesman had my ticket £ twice and yet…- that I wanted to see but life got in the way. )
Thanks to all those who employed me, worked with me and who I had the joy of seeing your work.