Alving in Ghosts and Maud Gonne in a new play about WB Yeats. She has toured extensively for Bill Kenwright, in the Sir Peter Hall production of An Ideal Husband, The Chalk Garden and The Constant Wife and transferred to The West End in the Martin Shaw Man for all Seasons. Maev also holds the record as the longest serving Mollie in the world’s longest-running production, The Mouse Trap.
Cornelius Garrett (Andrew)
Cornelius has worked in theatres up and down the country. Productions include Macbeth, Tamburlaine, Twelfth Night, The Government Inspector, Arden of Faversham at Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre; Romeo and Juliet at Newcastle; Afore Night Come with the RSC; Merchant of Venice and Marino Faliero at The Young Vic, London; Time and the Conways, The Winter’s Tale, Duchess of Malfi, Loves Labours’ Lost, Aladdin, The Winslow Boy, Room with a View and many others at the Bristol Old Vic; several seasons at The Alma Tavern Theatre in Bristol; and Panto and Summer Rep at Sheringham in Norfolk. In 2010 he worked with Lars Harald Gathe in a production of Visits by Jon Fosse. Television includes three years of the fashion designer serial Gems, Casualty, Emmerdale, The Bill and Heartlands, as well as several of the BBC TV Shakespeare plays. Films include Artemis’ 81, James Bond – For Your Eyes Only and The White Lady. He has recorded dozens of Audio Books for the BBC and Radio dramas, with classic serials such as Lorna Doone and Joseph Andrews.
Alex Gilbert (Titania)
Alex trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include: Winnie, Daisy Pulls It Off (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Player Queen/Fortenbras, Hamlet (Northern Broadsides); Laura Sanderson, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (The Mill at Sonning); Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (Young Shakespeare Company); Dijana, It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It’s All Right Now (Cockpit Theatre); Nurse, Romeo and Juliet (Tucked In Productions/Bristol Old Vic); Gwendolyn, The Importance of Being Earnest (Redgrave Theatre); Michelle, DEBRIS and Miss Fitzpatrick, Remarkable Trees (Juncture Productions); Mary, The Long Road (Bath Literature Festival); Hortensio, Who’s Shrew (Lucky Stuff Productions); Creon, Medea (Lost Theatre); Maid, What Every Woman Knows (Finborough Theatre). TV credits include: Rebecca, Acting Up (Talkback Thames).
Elaine Montgomerie (Lady Eliza)
Dame Elaine Montgomerie is a veteran actress who has played leading roles in major companies throughout Britain and Australia. In recent years, as Madame Pompadour in her one-woman show I Shall Be Remembered, she has toured Australia and the U.K., including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012. Elaine has toured the major cities of Australia as leading lady for the J.C. Williamson Shakespeare company playing roles which included Portia, Queen Hermione, Helena and Viola. She speaks fluent Italian and translated Italian classic, La Locandiera by Goldoni (1757) and has played the lead role with several companies. Some favourite roles include; Amanda in Private Lives, Maria in When we are Married, Mrs Bennett in Pride and Prejudice.
CREATIVE TEAM
Lars Harald Gathe (Director)
Lars Harald Gathe is an award-winning director and writer for theatre, film and television. Originally from Oslo, Norway he is best known for his productions of the plays of Jon Fosse, one of the world’s most performed contemporary playwrights. Lars’ directing credits include UK premieres of Visits by Jon Fosse, Theatre Delicatessen, London (2010), Winter by Jon Fosse, The Alma Tavern, Bristol (2009) and The Gaelic Teacher by Paolo Chianta, London Fringe Show at the Etcetera Theatre (2008). Assistant director credits include Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, the Tobacco Factory, Bristol (2009), Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, The Tobacco Factory, Bristol (2009). Writing credits include 0% Inspiration, the Hive (2010), 1% Inspiration, Upstairs at the Lansdown (2009). Lars won Best Feature Film for Ulysses Road at Realheart International Film Festival and a Special Mention for Move Your Body at the Cambridge International Super-8 Festival.
Christopher Faulds (Designer)
Following an MA in Theatre Design at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Chris received the 2009 Jocelyn Herbert Award and was a 2009 Linbury Prize finalist. Since then he has designed and made for live performance both in the UK and abroad but has also given artistic direction to both still and moving image and coordinated large-scale, creative works and live event productions. Selected performance design credits include: The Art Of Defining Me by Seeta Patel & Kamela Devam, Arts Council England Commission, première at RichMix, London, June 2013; Kalashnikov; in the woods by the lake by Fraser Grace, A PBAB production, directed by Helena Bell, SE England tour Oct/Nov 2011; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, directed by Rosamunde Hutt, at the Unicorn Theatre, London, April 2011; Minor Sonata, choreographed by Viacheslav Samodrov, at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, St Petersburg and the London Coliseum, July 2010; Visits by Jon Fosse, directed by Lars Harald Gathe, at Theatre Delicatessen, London, September 2010; Unspoken Voices, choreographed by Seeta Patel, at the Arnolfini, Bristol, November 2010.
Berislav Juraic (Producer)
Recent producing credits include: the world premiere of Ann Henning Jocelyn’s Doonreagan (Jermyn Street Theatre), the English language premiere of Elfriede Jelinek’s Sports Play (National Tour, Chelsea Theatre & Soho Theatre, 2012, revival at Camden People’s Theatre in 2013 and international tour to three continents in 2013/2014), Peer Gynt Recharged (Riverside Studios, London), the UK premiere of Woman Bomb by Croatian playwright Ivana Sajko (Tristan Bates Theatre, selected for 2011 Havana International Theatre Festival in Cuba) and the UK premiere of It’s Raining in Barcelona by leading Catalan playwright Pau Miró. He also produced the critically acclaimed Edward Bond Season (including a world premiere, two first revivals and two UK premieres). Other London credits include: the UK Premiere of Jon Fosse’s Visits (Theatre Delicatessen) and Hedda (Riverside Studios, 2010). Credits abroad include: J.L. Lagarce’s Just the End of the World (Croatia, France); B.M. Koltès’ Tabataba (Croatia, France); Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (Croatia, France, S. Korea, Japan); El-Harrag, a contemporary dance and circus project (Algeria, Croatia, Palestine, Jordan). In addition to producing for other companies, he co-founded Just a Must company with director Vanda Butkovic to introduce postdramatic theatre in translation to British and international audiences.
Ben Newsome (Casting Director)
Theatre credits include The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (The Arts Theatre, West End), Search For A Twitter Star (The Lyric Theatre, West End), I Do! I Do! (Riverside Studios), Crazy For You The Musical (Upstairs At The Gatehouse), The Mark Of Lia (The Brockley Jack), Pop Factor (UK Tour), Old Goat Song (The Lion & Unicorn), The Boy Who Was Woody Allen (The Pleasance), The Route To Happiness, Next Thing You Know, A Class Act, Sleeping Arrangements, Title Of Show, That Face & Meet Me In St Louis (Landor Theatre), One Touch Of Venus, Phantom, Little Me, Days Of Hope (Ye Olde Rose & Crown), The Secret Garden In Concert (The Kings Head & UK Tour), A Body To Diet For (Etcetera Theatre), ROOMS – A Rock Romance, Armstrongs War, As Is (The Finborough), The Raft (The London Theatre), RENT (Tabard Theatre), Where’s Ellie (The Rag Factory), Blood Wedding (The Courtyard), Passing By (Tristan Bates Theatre), Ushers: The Front Of House Musical (The Hope Theatre), Walk Like A Man (World Tour), Santaphrenia (Leicester Square Theatre) & Only Our Own (The Arts Theatre, West End). Workshops include Meangirls The Musical (Battersea Barge) & Golden Age (Etcetera Theatre). Pantomime credits
