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A Midsummer Night’s DreamA Bristol Old Vic production In association with Handspring Puppet Company Co-commissioned by Spoleto Festival USA

By William Shakespeare

DIRECTOR Tom Morris

PUPPET DESIGN, FABRICATION AND DIRECTION

Handspring Puppet Company

PERFORMERS Saikat Ahamed, Colin Michael Carmichael, Naomi Cranston, David Emmings, Alex Felton, Fionn Gill, Akiya Henry, Kyle Lima, Saskia Portway, David Ricardo Pearce, Jon Trenchard, Miltos Yerolemou

June 15 & 18-22 at 8pmJune 15, 16, 19, 22 & 23 at 2pmUniversity Theatre

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Yale Center for British Art, through the generosity of the Terry F. Green 1969 fund for British Art and Culture

University of New Haven

WSHU Public Radio Group

Presented with support from:

Pel l i Clarke Pel l i Architects

National Endowment for the Arts

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A Time to Dream

In many ways, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the archetypal love story, relevant in any age. A story of the folly and joy of falling in love. On top of that, it’s a play profoundly about the imagination, perfect to explore the nature of the relationship between actors (and puppets!) on a stage, and an audience in an auditorium.

Which is where we begin with our …Dream world. A world where reality blurs with the mystic, a world where fairies – powerful, magical, mischievous and dangerous – are a reality; an ever-changing world of puppets, lots of puppets, and people who fancy each other so wildly they can barely keep their clothes on.

Handspring Puppet Company – a Bristol Old Vic Associate Company of international repute – are the most accomplished, magical creators of puppet theatre in the world. We hope you enjoy these extraordinary artists applying their breath-taking skill to perhaps the classic play of the imagination.

Tom MorrisArtistic Director, Bristol Old Vic

Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

About

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ProgramSaikat Ahamed Snug / Puck

Colin Michael Carmichael Quince / Peasblossom

Naomi Cranston Helena

David Emmings Snout / Mustardseed / Puck / Philostrate

Alex Felton Lysander

Fionn Gill Flute / Moth / Puck

Akiya Henry Hermia

Kyle Lima Demetrius

Saskia Portway Hippolyta / Titania

David Ricardo Pearce Theseus / Oberon

Jon Trenchard Starveling / Cobweb / Onstage Musical Director

Miltos Yerolemou Bottom / Egeus

Tom Morris Director

Handspring Puppet Company Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction

Vicki Mortimer Designer

Philip Gladwell Lighting Designer

Dave Price Composer

Christopher Shutt Sound Designer

Andrew Dawson Movement Director

Laurel Swift Choreographer

James Bonas Associate Director

Molly Einchcomb Associate Designer

Katerina Hicken Costume Supervisor

Joseph Wallace Puppetry Associate

Jacqui Leigh Production Manager

Jim Leaver Production Manager (Bristol)

Robin Longley Company Stage Manager

Rebecca James Deputy Stage Manager

Andy Guard Assistant Stage Manager

Rachel Bowen Re-lights

Jason Barnes Sound Engineer

Katie Davies Lighting Operator (Bristol)

Jonathan Everett Sound Operator (Bristol)

Fred Stacey, Andy Scrivens

& Cliff Thorne Original Set and Scenic Art

Emma Cains Wardrobe Supervisor

Holly McLean Costume Assistant

Sarah Bird Casting Consultant

Emma Stenning Executive Producer

Catherine Morgenstern Producer

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Program

Handspring Puppet Company

Art Department

Adrian Kohler Puppet Conception, Design, Sculpture, Construction and DirectionBasil Jones Puppet Conception and DirectionJames Dee Factory Mgr and Puppet Engineer (Metal work on Oberon/Titania)Jessica Mias-Jones Asst Factory Mgr / Sculptor (Massage Fairy, Lion)Simon Dunckley Sculptor and Puppet Engineer (Bottom machine, Oberon’s hand)Andy Mias-Jones Sculptor and Puppet Engineer (Scary Fairy, large jellyfish)Thys Stander Chief Cane SculptorKyle Daniels Puppet Builder and Asst Factory Manager (small jellyfish)Ncedile Daki Puppet Builder and Engineer (Lover figures’ jointing and carving)Janni Younge Sculptor (Lover figures’ heads)Phyllis Midlane Fabric EngineerLyn Holm Assistant Puppet BuilderZweli Ngcombela Studio AssistantJonah De Lange Puppet BuilderJohn Bramwell Component BuilderZanmari Nel Studio AssistantPhilip Roberts Studio AssistantLungiswa Mkwasi Studio AssistantKiara Daniesli Studio AssistantKaren Zasloff Intern

Production Department

Basil Jones Executive Producer Janni Younge Associate Director Roderick Bothman Finance James Nilsen Assistant to the Producer Melanie Roberts Administrative Assistant

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The Performers

Saikat Ahamed Colin Michael Carmichael

David Emmings Alex Felton

Naomi Cranston

Fionn Gill

Kyle Lima

Jon Trenchard Miltos YerolemouSaskia Portway

Akiya Henry David Ricardo Pearce

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BRISTOL OLD VIC is the longest continuously-running theatre in the UK and following a recent £12million redevelopment project, is now one of the most modern and comfortable with state of the art rehearsal rooms, a dramatically extended forestage and precision-engineered sightlines giving audiences an even more intimate theatrical experience.Our mission is to create pioneering twenty-first century theatre in partnership with the people of our energetic city; inspired by the history and magical design of the most beautiful playhouse in the country. We are led by artists who see the world with distinctive clarity and whose ability to articulate what they see allows us to understand and engage with our world afresh, whether that be through our 350-strong Young Company, our many outreach and education projects or helping ascendant artists by nurturing the spark or seed of an idea into something fully-formed. We are publicly funded by Arts Council England and Bristol City Council, using that investment to support experiment and innovation, to allow access to our programme for people who would not otherwise encounter it or be able to afford it and to keep our extraordinary heritage alive and animated.We strive to be welcoming, professional and boundlessly curious; playful, ambitious and rigorous; resourceful, honest, and generous; collaborative, Bristolian and world class.

HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY was founded in 1981 by four graduates of the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, South Africa. Two of the co-founders, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, continue to run the company. Originally they

created shows for children touring throughout Southern Africa. In 1985 they made their first play for adults and moved to Johannesburg where they worked with a succession of innovative directors including Market Theatre founder, Barney Simon, and the artist and director, William Kentridge. Their collaborations with Kentridge include Woyzeck on the Highveld, Faustus In Africa and Ubu & the Truth Commission, which toured to festivals throughout the world. Since 2000 the company has produced three plays with animals in leading roles: The Chimp Project, Tall Horse and War Horse. More recently they have made Or You Could Kiss Me with Neil Bartlett at the National Theatre, and presented Ouroboros, directed by associate director Janni Younge. The Residenz theater of Munich in association with Handspring U.K. is currently presenting Stiller (based on the novel by Max Frisch), directed by Tina Lanik and Merv Miller. Handspring’s work has been presented at many international festivals including Edinburgh, LIFT, Avignon, the Next Wave Festival at BAM in New York, The African Odyssey Festival at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, Theatre d’Automne in Paris, Theatre der Welt in Germany, as well as in Hong Kong, Singapore, Adelaide, Berlin, Zurich and Bogota. The company provides an artistic home and professional base for a core group of performers, designers, theatre artists and technicians based in South Africa. They continue to explore the boundaries of adult puppet theatre within an African context. Kohler and Jones are recipients of an Olivier Award (with Rae Smith) [2007] as well as a Special Tony Award [2011]. 6 Vita Awards for theatre, a Fleur Du Cap Award, The Cape Tercentenary

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About the ArtistsFoundation’s Molteno Medal (Gold) [1987-2010], and a Special Achievement Award from the Outer Critics Circle to Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones [2011]. With the War Horse Creative Team they received a Critics Circle Award and The Drama Desk Award for thrilling stagecraft [2011]. With Rae Smith they won Best Design from the Toronto Theatre Critics Circle and most recently the LA Drama Critics Circle Special Award to Adrian Kohler with Basil Jones for Handspring Puppet Theatre in recognition of the design, fabrication, and direction of the puppets of War Horse [2012].

SAIKAT AHAMED (performer) has previously appeared in Bristol Old Vic’s Peter Pan, Treasure Island, Bangladesh (scratch performance in Bristol Old Vic Ferment). Other theatre includes: The Tiger and the Moustache (Brewery Theatre), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Cinderella (Tobacco Factory Theatre), A Fine Balance (Hampstead Theatre/Tamasha Arts), East is East (Oldham Coliseum), Shepherd’s Pie Anyone? (Theatre Royal, Stratford), Gym Buddies (Soho Theatre), James and the Giant Peach (Polka Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Settle Festival Theatre), Journey to the West (Tara Arts), Cornershop (Man-Méla), The Immigrant Song (Mainbrace), Three Sisters, The Matchmaker (Jermyn Street Theatre).Film includes: Frail, This Must be the Place, East is East, Halal Harry, It was an Accident. Television includes: The Choir, Parents, Trollied, Home Time, Monday Monday, Being Human, Afterlife, 7/7 Attack on London. His work in radio includes: Norman Beaton Fellowship recipient 2006, Silver Street (regular), Little Master Misery, Mahabharata, Two Men in the Fog, Walking the Line, Small

Island, Dracula, A Land to Die For, Bhagdad Burning, The Ramayana, For the Time Being. His writing work includes: Telling Tales (BBC Asian Network), The Tiger and the Moustache (One-man show).

COLIN MICHAEL CARMICHAEL (performer) trained at East 15. Theatre includes: Years as the Ridiculusmus ‘Gimp’ in The Exhibitionists, Da Da Music, Say Nothing; work with Scarlet Theatre (Love and Other Fairytales, The Wedding), Platform 4, Cindy Oswin, Theatro Vivio and Kirsty Housley. With his own company, Brian, he has co-devised all of the company’s shows, including Billy Holiday, Art Factory, Man Band and Bournemouth Ballards. He also works with Kazuko Hohki as a co-devisor (Kazuko Hohki’s Wuthering Heights, Incontinental). Film includes: Hot Fuzz, St Trinians 2, Burke and Hare, Scar Tissue. Television includes: Black Mirror, Coupling, Man Down, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Comic Strip, FM, Eastenders.

NAOMI CRANSTON (performer) trained at RADA. Theatre credits include: All’s Well That Ends Well, Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Importance of Being Earnest (Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Glass Slipper (Northern Stage), Scared To Death (the Mill at Sonning). Television includes: Popatron, Doctors (both BBC).

DAVID EMMINGS (performer) trained at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. Theatre includes: War Horse (National Theatre and West End), Something Very Far Away (Unicorn), Father Christmas (Lyric Hammersmith), The Confetti Maker (New Diorama/Stratford East), The Boy from Centreville (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Film

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About the Artistsincludes: Sherlock Holmes (Warner Bros), Alice (Ruby Films/Film4), Mime Poker (Chief Productions), The Homeless Polar Bear (Greenpeace/Partizan Films).

ALEX FELTON (performer) trained at Drama Centre. Theatre includes: All’s Well That End’s Well (National Theatre), As You Like It (Clwyd Theatre Cymru), The Winter’s Tale (Old Vic Tunnels), The Importance of Being Earnest (Library Theatre), Passing By (Finborough Theatre), The River Line (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Reluctant Debutante (Theatre Royal Bath), Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Royal Bath), 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic). Television includes: Bonekickers, Holby City (BBC).

FIONN GILL (performer) has appeared in Bristol Old Vic’s Coram Boy and Swallows and Amazons. Other theatre includes: Beyond (Karla Shacklock), L’Autruche, Keepers (The Plasticine Men), Anomie (Precarious), Lost in the Wind (Lost Spectacles), Rumplestiltskin (The Globe Players), The Hotel (Mark Watson), Summer 1871 (Triangle Theatre), Cinderella (The Globe Players), For Provide Life (Fionn Gill), The Great Exhibition (Triangle Theatre), The Nutcracker (Bath Theatre Royal), A Servant’s Christmas (Triangle Theatre), Druthers (Precarious), General Strike 1926 (New Factory of the Eccentric Actor), The Very Last Showdown (Playground Rules). Film includes: 1234 (Sleepdogs). Television includes: Comic Relief.

KYLE LIMA (performer) is from Cardiff originally and studied at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in 2009. Theatre includes: Aladdin (Salisbury Playhouse), Muscle,

Flyboys (Chapter Theatre Arts), Thoroughly Modern Millie (RWCMD/ Sherman Theatre), Richard III, Love’s Labours Lost, the Duchess of Malfi, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hay Fever (RWCMD), Habeas Corpus (RWCMD/ Chapter Theatre Arts). Television includes: Merlin (BBC), Perfect Summer (BBC Wales), In Deep (ITV).

SASKIA PORTWAY (performer) has appeared in Bristol Old Vic’s Coram Boy. Other theatre includes: Hamlet, Measure for Measure (National Theatre), King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Changeling, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, The Cherry Orchard (Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory), Intimate Exchanges (Cheltenham Everyman), Richard III (Ludlow Festival/Exeter Northcott), The House of Bernarda Alba (Red Dog), Blavatsky’s Tower (Theatre West/Angelhair), Magpie (Fairground).Television and radio includes: Law and Order UK, A Tale of Two Castles, Paris Brothel, Doctors, The Giblet Boys, Poetry Please, One in a Million, Great Lives, War Music, Mary Mary.

DAVID RICARDO PEARCE (performer) trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. For Bristol Old Vic: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2003).Other theatre includes: The Sacred Flame (English Touring Theatre), The Big Fellah (Lyric Hammersmith/Out of Joint), The Rover (Hampton Court Palace/Artluxe), Alfie (SJT/Bolton Octagon), As You Like It (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Bolton Octagon), Saint Joan (National Theatre), Privates on Parade (WYP/Birmingham Rep), Inglorious Technicolour (SJT), Annie

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About the ArtistsGet Your Gun (Young Vic), Saturday Night (Arts Theatre), Two Cities (Salisbury Playhouse), Sweeney Todd (Trafalgar Studios). Television includes: The Spa (Tiger Aspect/Sky), Eastenders, Outnumbered, Extras and Border Crossing (BBC).

JON TRENCHARD (performer) trained at the London Academy of Performing Arts. For Bristol Old Vic: Swallows & Amazons (West End & National Tour; Children’s Touring Partnership). Other theatre includes: the title role in A Government Inspector (Northern Broadsides), Animal Farm (Theatr Clwyd), Oh What a Lovely War (Northern Stage), Richard III, The Comedy Of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of The Shrew, Twelfth Night (Propeller, touring internationally), The Merry Wives Of Windsor (Stafford Shakespeare Festival), Sunset Boulevard (The Watermill), Great Expectations (New Vic Theatre), By Jeeves! (Jordan Productions), Mack & Mabel (The Watermill, National Tour and West End), The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 13, playing Adrian Mole (Belfast Festival), Peter Pan (Oxford Playhouse), Todd! The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Kabosh Theatre), Leonardo’s Last Supper (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), La Ronde (Pentameters Theatre), pantomimes for Qdos, New World and Jordan Productions, and Puck in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queen Elizabeth Hall). Film includes: The Da Vinci Code (Columbia Pictures). Television includes: My Family (DLT/BBC).

MILTOS YEROLEMOU (performer) Theatre includes: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens), You Can’t Take It With You (Manchester Royal

Exchange), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Leicester Curve), Adelaide Road (RSC), Hansel and Gretel, Travels With My Aunt (Royal and Derngate), Twelfth Night (RSC – West End and Stratford), The Comedy of Errors (The Globe), Othello (RSC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera De Lyon), Tintin (West End and tour), Guys and Dolls (Donmar Warehouse), Beauty and the Beast (RSC), Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic), The Misanthrope (Chichester Festival Theatre), Animal Crackers (Manchester Royal Exchange), Romeo and Juliet (Belgrade Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (RSC). Film and television includes: The Inbetweeners Movie, Syrio Forel in HBO’s Game of Thrones, My Family, Black Books, Absolutely Fabulous (BBC).

TOM MORRIS (Director) is Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic and has been Associate Director of the National Theatre since 2004. He was the Artistic Director of Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) from 1995 to 2004 and before that was an arts journalist, broadcaster and freelance producer. For Bristol Old Vic, credits include: Swallows and Amazons, Juliet and Her Romeo and Does My Society Look Big in This?. Other credits include: The Death of Klinghoffer (ENO & Metropolitan Opera), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre), War Horse (as co-director for National Theatre, 2011 Tony Award for Best Director), A Matter of Life and Death (adapted from the film with Emma Rice, National Theatre), Coram Boy (developed with Melly Still, National Theatre), Disembodied, Newsnight: The Opera, Kombat Opera Klubneit, Home, Passions, Unsung, To The Island With The Goose, Macbeth, Oedipus The King, Othello Music, Trio, All That Fall (all BAC, as director), World Cup Final

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About the Artists1966, Jason and the Argonauts, Ben Hur (all BAC, co-written with Carl Heap), Jerry Springer: The Opera (for BAC as producer), Ooogly Boogly (devised and directed), Nights at the Circus, The Wooden Frock (both written with Emma Rice for Kneehigh).

ADRIAN KOHLER (Puppet Construction, Design, Sculpture, Construction, and Direction) is a co-founder and Artistic Director of Handspring Puppet Company, and is considered to be one of the world’s leading masters of his medium. His mother was a thoughtful amateur puppeteer, who with his father, as yacht builder and cabinetmaker, gave him a firm grounding in woodwork and the creation of moving figures. A BA Fine Art at the University of Cape Town followed. He then spent a year at The Space Theatre - the city’s only non-racial venue at the time and another in Birmingham U.K. at the Canon Hill Arts Centre and Weld Community Arts Centre. Kohler then moved to Botswana to run the National Popular Theatre Programme for three years. His puppets for Handspring have been widely acclaimed and exhibited. He has had a solo retrospective at the National Gallery in South Africa, and groups of his works have been shown at The Barbican Art Gallery, London and The Museum for African Art, New York. His puppets are held in public and private collections including the Constitutional Court in South Africa, the Munich Stadtmuseum in Germany, and the Old Mutual Art Collection. Kohler received the Michaelis Prize, a lifetime achievement award from Tshwane University [2006] and an honorary doctorate in literature UCT [2012].

BASIL JONES (Puppet Conception and Direction) is a co-founder and executive producer of Handspring Puppet Company. Jones completed his BFA at UCT where he met future husband, Adrian Kohler. In 1990, Jones set up a not for profit NGO Handspring Trust, which produced Spider’s Place, an innovative, multi-media science education series for TV, radio and comic aimed at young learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. He set up the Handspring Awards for Puppetry,which recognise and encourage puppet design, direction and performance in South Africa. The Handspring Trust is involved in a number of projects in urban townships and rural areas, using puppetry as a means to educate and empower youth, bringing communities together through street parades and performance. He speaks and writes on the subject of puppetry and is interested in growing an international dialogue on the theatre of objects. He received the Naledi Executive Directors Award [2012], a lifetime achievement award from Tshwane University [2006] and an honorary doctorate in literature from UCT [2012].

VICKI MORTIMER (Designer) studied at the Slade School of Art. Her work in theatre includes many productions at the National Theatre, most recently: Last of the Hausmanns, Travelling Light (costume design), Hansel and Gretel and Hamlet, several shows for the RSC, including The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Winter’s Tale, work at the Royal Court, the Donmar and the Almeida, Don John for Kneehigh at RSC and BAC, Nights at the Circus at Lyric Hammersmith (costume design). Internationally: Fiddler on the Roof and Nine on Broadway

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About the Artists(costume design), and Easter and Night and Dreams at Dramaten Theatre, Stockholm, as well as several seasons of productions in Tokyo. Opera includes most recently Written on Skin for Aix Festival, Orest for Nederlands Opera (costume design), Al Gran Sole for Salzburg Festival and Staatsoper Berlin, After Dido for ENO at the Young Vic, Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg and St Matthew Passion for Glyndebourne. Designs for dance include Yantr`a for Stuttgart Ballet, Genus for Paris Opera Garnier, Skindex for Nederlands Dans Theater and three pieces for Random Dance Company.

PHILIP GLADWELL (Lighting Designer) Theatre credits include: Love The Sinner (National Theatre), No Quarter, Oxford Street, Kebab (Royal Court), Before The Party (Almeida), Miss Julie (Schaubühne Berlin), One For The Road, God of Carnage, Blood Wedding, Hedda Gabler, The Bacchae (Royal & Derngate), Cinderella, Aladdin, Mogadishu, Punk Rock (Lyric), The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society, Melody, In The Bag (Traverse), The Spire, Design for Living (Salisbury), Small Hours (Hampstead), For Once (Pentabus), Further Than the Furthest Thing (Dundee Rep, Winner Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Design), Five Guys Named Moe (Stratford), Terminus (Abbey Dublin/Australia/US/Young Vic/Edinburgh), You Can’t Take it With You, 1984, Macbeth (Manchester), The Wiz (Birmingham /WYP), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Radio Times, Relatively Speaking, Daisy Pulls it Off, Blithe Spirit (Watermill), Gypsy, The King And I (Leicester), My Romantic History (Bush/Sheffield), Amazonia, Ghosts, The Member of the Wedding, Festa! (Young Vic),

Testing the Echo (OOJ), The Boy Who Fell Into a Book, Dandy in the Underworld (Soho).

DAVE PRICE (Composer) is a composer, performer and sound designer and is an associate of the award-winning physical theatre company, Gecko. Theatre credits include original scores and sound designs for: Rats’ Tales (Royal Exchange Manchester), Missing (Gecko), A Soldier In Every Son - An Aztec Trilogy, Measure for Measure (RSC), Fen (National Theatre Studio/Finborough), Adventures Inside (Lyric Hammersmith/Love Productions for Channel 4), and as composer and performer: The Overcoat, Taylors Dummies (Gecko), Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead), Troilus and Cressida (RSC). Dave recorded several albums and toured extensively with the pop group Aqualung and works with singer songwriter Gwyneth Herbert as multi-instrumentalist and co-producer of her forthcoming CD, which is the culmination of a residency at Aldeburgh Music. He co-founded the experimental music collective Noszferatu, who recorded a CD (Drempel) for the NMC label and performed at major UK contemporary music festivals and several times on BBC Radio 3. Other recent highlights include gigs with Eska, Finn Peters’ Music of the Mind project and recording with Duke Special and Regina Spektor.

CHRISTOPHER SHUTT (Sound Designer) For Bristol Old Vic: Coram Boy, Far Away. For the National Theatre: War Horse (Tony Award, NY Drama Desk Award, Olivier nomination), The Effect, The White Guard, Burnt by the Sun, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Olivier nomination), Gethsemane, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other,

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Philistines, Happy Days, Coram Boy (Olivier nomination), A Dream Play, Measure for Measure, Humble Boy, Play Without Words, Albert Speer, Not About Nightingales, Machinal. For Complicite: A Disappearing Number, The Elephant Vanishes, Mnemonic (NY Drama Desk Award), The Noise of Time, The Street of Crocodiles, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol. Other credits: The Playboy of the Western World, All About My Mother, Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic), Piaf (Olivier nomination), The Man Who Had All The Luck (Donmar), Ruined, Judgment Day (Almeida), Love and Information, Kin, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Serious Money, Road (Royal Court), Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith), All My Sons (Broadway), Bacchae, Little Otik (National Theatre of Scotland), King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, King John, Romeo and Juliet (RSC), Arturo Ui (New York with Al Pacino, music by Tom Waits). BBC Radio: A Shropshire Lad, Tennyson’s Maud, A Disappearing Number.

ANDREW DAWSON (Movement Director) is a director, performer, Feldenkrais practitioner, and fellow at Winchester University. He studied dance with Merce Cunningham in New York and theatre in Paris with Phillipe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and Jacques Lecoq. He created and performs Space Panorama (1987), Quatre Mains (1998), the award-winning solo show Absence and Presence (2005) and directed the stage show of Wallace and Gromit (1995), Amnesia Curiosa (2008) and Pandora 88 (2003). Recent credits include: Co-Director on The Heads for Blind Summit (2013), Movement Director at ENO and MET on the opera Dr. Atomic and The Pearl Fishers at ENO. With an Arts Award from the Wellcome Trust, he created The Articulate Hand (2011) which

premiered at the World Science Festival in New York and featured as 3 talks at TEDMED in San Diego. This year he received his third grant from Wellcome Trust to develop Chasm of Sorrow, the story Anton Chekhov’s astonishing exploration to Sakhalin Island in 1890.

LAUREL SWIFT (Choreographer) specializes in the folk arts and has taught morris for theatre and film. She is the founder and choreographer of Morris Offspring, a young band of morris dancers who have appeared on BBC2’s Culture Show, sold out the South Bank, and are about to undertake a major tour of UK Arts Centres with folk powerhouse, Faustus. Laurel also appears in Under Her Skin, a duo show with the performance storyeller Debs Newbold. Directed by John Wright, Under Her Skin gives an ancient British folktale a strong contemporary retelling. It is a fully integrated show, inventive and theatrical yet, sharing the tale equally between Debs’ charismatic storytelling voice and Laurel’s double bass, fiddle and clogs. Laurel plays double bass with Gadarene, fiddle with irresistible ceilidh-dance groovers The Gloworms and has been awarded two opportunities to showcase compositions with innovative folk organization Distil: Pocket Garden (2007) and London Haven (2008).

JAMES BONAS (Associate Director), As Associate/Assistant Director, credits include: The Death ofKlinghoffer, Dr Dee - with Manchester International Festival, The Damnation Of Faust, The Magic Flute, Tosca, La Clemenza Di Tito, A Dog’s Heart - with Complicite (all English National Opera), Pinocchio, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera North and Minnesota Opera),

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Hansel & Gretel (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Don Carlos, Romeo & Juliette (Los Angeles Opera), Carmen Jones (Royal Festival Hall). Other credits as Director for theatre and opera include: Hansel & Gretel (Co-Opera National Tour), Seven Angels (Royal College of Music), Robin Hood (Castle Theatre), Night at the Opera (London Palladium and National Tour).

MOLLY EINCHCOMB (Associate Designer) graduated from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She was Associate to Vicki Mortimer on Hansel and Gretel, Last of the Haussmans and Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre) and has assisted on productions for the National Theatre, Almeida, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival and Glyndebourne. Design credits include: Live action Art Director for title cards (London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony), The Drawer Boy (The Finborough), Tagore’s Women (Southwark Playhouse), Barbershopera: Apocalypse No! (Drum Theatre, Plymouth and Trafalgar Studios), African Gothic (Arcola), Barbershopera (Trafalgar Studios, Theatre 503, Edinburgh Fringe), Wizard of Oz (Courtyard Theatre, Hereford), L’Etoile, Three Sisters (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff).

KATERINA HICKEN (Costume Supervisor) has been involved in costume for over a decade, working as a maker, costumier and supervisor within a diverse range of creative environments such as period costume house, Cosprop, theatre, feature films and TV dramas. Throughout this time she has worked on period films including: Goya’s Ghost, Casanova, Perfume, Beatrix Potter, National Treasure and Belle. Television dramas

include: Miss Austen Regrets, Four Seasons, Nightwatch, Inside Men and recent release The Fear. Theatre credits include: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song at the Ahmanson Theatre, LA, Westside Story for Brigenz Opera Festival, Thoroughly Modern Milly at The Shaftesbury and The Sound of Music at the London Palladium.

JOSEPH WALLACE (Puppetry Associate) is a film and theatre director. He is an associate artist of Twisted Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Young Company and the Wardrobe Theatre. Joseph’s short films have won awards and been screened at festivals internationally and he has created animation for film, theatre and television. Recent works include: Yesterday at Theatre Uncut festival, The Life After for Bristol Old Vic Young Company and Closer Each Day at The Wardrobe Theatre. Film includes dance, food and fashion films and the BAFTA Cymru nominated animation The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling.

JACQUI LEIGH (Production Manager) is a freelance production manager with over thirty years’ experience in the entertainment industry and specialising in theatre, international circus, outdoor events, street theatre, live music, festivals, dance, teaching and corporate events. Recent credits include: Production Management for Shakespeare’s Globe, including touring to the Middle East, on Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth, Production Management for Manchester International Festival/Punchdrunk on Crash of the Elysium, Production and Site Management for Artichoke on Peace Camp and Lumiere, Event Stage Management for the Doha Tribeca Film Festival,

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Production Management for Derby Feste at Arts Agenda, Production Consultant for Circus Fest at the Roundhouse.

ROBIN LONGLEY (Company Stage Manager) trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre includes: Bristol Old Vic’s production of Swallows and Amazons (at the Vaudeville Theatre and UK tour, Children’s Touring Partnership), Antony & Cleopatra, Rattigan’s Nijinsky, The Deep Blue Sea, Master Builder, Taking Sides, Collaboration, Hobson’s Choice, Peter Pan, The Father, Song of the Western Men, The Lady’s Not For Burning, The Misanthrope, One Snowy Night, (Chichester Festival Theatre), Wounded, The Secret Garden, Noises Off, Dancing at Lughnasa, Christmas Carol, These Four Streets, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, How to Tell The Monsters From The Misfits, The Mothership, The Witches, Celestina, Steve Nallon’s Christmas Carol, (Birmingham Rep), The Seagull, Antony and Cleopatra, A New Way to Please You, Believe What You Will, Speaking Like Magpies, (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Hanging Man (US tour, co-production with Improbable Theatre), Vodou Nation, Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Dick Wittington, Pool Death, Arabian Nights (Salisbury Playhouse), Hello Dolly!, Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park).

ANDY GUARD (Assistant Stage Manager) trained at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and previously worked in the Fashion and Textiles industry before working in theatre. He still designs fabric. Work for Bristol

About the ArtistsOld Vic includes: Hey Diddle Diddle, Wild Oats, Coram Boy, Coasting, Orpheus and the Furies (Theatre Damfino, developed with Bristol Old Vic Ferment), The Misanthrope and Swallows and Amazons. Other work includes: King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, Richard II, Comedy of the Errors and Uncle Vanya (Shakespeare at The Tobacco Factory), Hello Dolly!, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). Andy has also worked for contemporary dance company Stan Won’t Dance and the Shunt theatre collective.

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Thursday, June 20

10am (2hr)

Southern Connecticut State University, Lyman Center Kendall Drama Lab (Blackbox Theater), 501 Crescent Street

Capacity is limited. Arrive early to guarantee a spot!

Puppetry Master Class with Bristol Old Vic,

of Midsummer Night’s Dream

Experience more with a Master Class!

For more information on this and other Master Classes, go to:www.artidea.org/masterclasses

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Simon Critchely & Jamieson Webster: Shakespeare, a Difference–Reinterpreting Hamlet and Other Plays

JUNE 22 (1 PM) FREE

Yale University Art Gallery

Philosopher Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster bring diverse interpretive texts and tools to their provocative analyses of Shakespeare and Hamlet in particular, inviting us to consider new ways of engaging with revered text.

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