Autumn Season 2012

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We are delighted to introduce Mountview’s autumn season 2012, the first curated by our new Director of Performance, Stephen Jameson.

Cressida

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Compleat Female Stage Beauty

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The season opens with Acting students in a quartet of plays exploring the murky backstage world of Elizabethan and Restoration theatre where actors are the rock ‘n’ roll stars of the day. Featuring works by some of today’s foremost stage writers, including Nicholas Wright and April De Angelis, they are directed by four bold young talents: Simon Evans, Abbey Wright, Max Key and Jessica Swale.

The Libertine

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Playhouse Creatures

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Reefer Madness

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Yerma

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Christmas Concerts

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To Book

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Short Courses

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Support Us

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Diary

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Musical Theatre students present two very different productions. Firstly Reefer Madness, a rock opera pastiche of the public health warning films of conservative 1930’s America and then Lorca’s tragedy of yearning, Yerma, which is presented at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

Cover & Yerma image © www.williamsphoto.co.uk

Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Ending the year on a high.

MOUNTVIEW ACADEMY OF THEATRE ARTS Ralph Richardson Memorial Studios Kingfisher Place, Clarendon Road London N22 6XF 020 8881 2201 www.mountview.org.uk

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cressid A play by Nicholas Wright Director Simon Evans Designer Fi Russell Venue

Karamel Club

Performances

Thu 15 Nov at 7pm Mon 19 Nov at 7pm Wed 21 Nov at 3pm Thu 22 Nov at 7pm Sat 24 Nov at 1.30pm

To Book

See p.11

John Shank is an actor, talent scout and trainer of boy players in the seedily glamorous world of London theatre in the 1630s. Women are not seen on the stage, their roles being taken by precocious boys.

Up to his eyes in debt, Shank’s only hope of escaping destitution is an unpromising 14-year-old would-be, Stephen Hammerton. Can he train Stephen to be the new star of the London stage?

Cressida premiered at the Almeida Theatre in 2000 with Michael Gambon as Shank.

Cressida is directed by Simon Evans. Simon was the Donmar Warehouse’s resident assistant director 2011-2012, and worked on Richard II, Inadmissible Evidence, Anna Christie and Moonlight.

A play by Jeffrey Hatcher Director Abbey Wright Designer Fi Russell Venue

Karamel Club

Performances

Fri 16 Nov at 7pm Sat 17 Nov at 7pm Tue 20 Nov at 7pm Fri 23 Nov at 7pm Sat 24 Nov at 5pm

To Book

See p.11

In 1661 the most famous portrayer of female roles on the London stage is Edward Kynaston. A restoration stage celebrity, Mr K is the toast of London for his interpretation of Shakespeare’s heroines. But when Margaret Hughes plays Desdemona at an illegal theatre, instead of stopping the show, the ever-game Charles II changes the law to allow women to act. By the stroke of a pen, Kynaston’s world is turned upside down.

Richard Eyre directed Billy Crudup and Claire Danes in the 2004 film adaptation, Stage Beauty.

Abbey Wright studied at Oxford University and has been resident assistant director at the Donmar Warehouse. Previous directing credits include Dublin Carol at Trafalgar Studios and Bitch Boxer at Soho Theatre.

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books

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An amateur production by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd

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A play by Stephen Jeffreys Director Max Key Designer Fi Russell Venue

Karamel Club

Performances

Thu 6 Dec at 7pm Sat 8 Dec at 7pm Tue 11 Dec at 7pm Thu 13 Dec at 7pm Sat 15 Dec at 1.30pm

To Book

See p.11

The Libertine tells the story of the Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, confidant of Charles II and the most notorious rake of his age. An anti-monarchist royalist, an atheist who converted to Christianity, poet and lover, Rochester embodies the spirit of the Restoration.

This thrilling, convincing portrait of the period centres on the moment that bad boy Rochester’s cynicism is confounded as he falls in love in earnest.

The Libertine was made into a film in 2004 starring Johnny Depp.

A graduate of the Young Vic Directors’ Programme, Max Key’s recent credits include The Turn of the Screw at Arcola Theatre, Land and Sea at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh and Jim Cartwright’s Road at Mountview earlier in 2012.

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books

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A play by April De Angelis Director Jessica Swale Designer Fi Russell Venue

Karamel Club

Performances

Fri 7 Dec at 7pm Mon 10 Dec at 7pm Wed 12 Dec at 7pm Fri 14 Dec at 7pm Sat 15 Dec at 5pm

To Book

See p.11

By royal decree women are allowed to perform on stage for the first time.

Little more than prostitutes, or at best sideshow novelties, the King and all of London society flock to witness the latest new beauty ‘act’. Playhouse Creatures explores the world of these first actresses as they claw their way from notoriety to respectability in their pursuit to become legitimate actors.

Playhouse Creatures is an early work by April De Angelis whose most recent play, Jumpy, premiered at the Royal Court with Tamsin Greig before transferring to Duke of York’s Theatre.

Jessica Swale has directed The Rivals, The Belle’s Stratagem and The Busy Body at Southwark Playhouse and has been described by Michael Billington in The Guardian as “our best young director of period comedy”.

An amateur production by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd

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REEFER MADNESS Book by Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney Music by Dan Studney Lyrics by Kevin Murphy Director Ed Dick Musical Director Gareth Ellis Choreographer David Lee Designer Caroline Jane Reid

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Venue

Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Performances

Mon 19 Nov at 7.30pm Tue 20 Nov at 3pm & 7.30pm Wed 21 Nov at 7.30pm Thu 22 Nov at 3pm & 7.30pm Fri 23 Nov at 3pm & 7.30pm Sat 24 Nov at 3pm & 7.30pm

To Book

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YERMA A play by Federico Garcia Lorca In a translation by Peter Luke Director Sally-Ann Gritton Designer Jessica Banting Venue

Riverside Studios

Performances

Tue 27 Nov at 7pm Wed 28 Nov at 2pm & 7pm Thu 29 Nov at 2pm & 7pm Fri 30 Nov at 2pm & 7pm Sat 1 Dec at 5pm

To Book

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Married for two years, Yerma longs for a child but her husband is cold to her desires. Gossip and superstition hang over their village.

It’s America in the 1930s. J Edgar Hoover is running the newly-founded FBI and conservatism is rife. Marijuana, the demon weed, is turning the nation’s children into depraved drug fiends. Rock musical Reefer Madness pastiches the public health warnings of the day.

Lorca’s beautiful and savage play is transplanted from the suffocating heat of Spain to a remote and rural Cornish landscape with the ensemble painting this physical story with music and passion through to the seemingly inevitable conclusion.

Wholesome couple Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane are drawn from their English studies into a heady world of sex and psychosis, through jazz joints and hallucinatory orgies with singing poppies and dancing goats. Jesus and Franklin D Roosevelt, the President of the United States, try to intervene but will this be enough?

As the villagers make a pilgrimage to a site famed for fertility Yerma is driven to a final, terrible act.

Written in 1934, just two years before his death at the hands of fascist soldiers in an unknown field, Lorca described Yerma as a ‘tragic poem’. Nearly eighty years later that tragedy is undiminished.

Warning: this production is unsuitable for audiences aged under 15

Students go free on Monday to Friday matinees - see p15

An amateur production by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd on behalf of R&H Theatricals of New York

An amateur production by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd

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CHRISTMAS s CONCERT

Cressida | Compleat Female Stage Beauty The Libertine | Playhouse Creatures Tickets £9 | Concessions £6 Telephone: 020 8829 0036

2012 culminates with our annual Christmas Concerts.

Join us for an enchanting programme of carols, festive songs and readings by Mountview students.

Opening times: Monday to Friday, from 10am to 5pm Book 3 shows, get the 4th free!* On performance days the Box Office opens at the Karamel Club one hour before the start of the performance

Fri 7 Dec at 6pm | 8pm

St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens, W2 3UD

*All tickets must be purchased at the same time | Subject to availability

Tickets: £10 (No concessions)

VENUE

To purchase, call 020 8829 0036 (available from 5 November)

Karamel Club

Sat 8 Dec at 4pm

Address: Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ

Hornsey Town Hall Square, Crouch End, N8 8DU

Tube: Wood Green (Piccadilly line) Rail: Alexandra Palace

Admission is free

Bus: 29, 67, 121, 123, 141, 144, 184, 221, 230, 232, 243, 329, W3, W4 Car: Free on-street parking after 6.30pm PADDINGTON STATION

WOOD GREEN STATION

PADDINGTON STATION PADDINGTON RAIL STATION

HORNSEY TOWN HALL SQUARE

ST. JAMES’S PADDINGTON

LANCASTER GATE STATION

WOOD GREEN COMMON

KARAMEL CLUB

ITALIAN GARDENS

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THE MALL WOOD GREEN

Reefer Madness

Yerma

Tickets £10 | Concessions £6.50

Tickets £10 | Concessions £6.50 | Groups £9*

Telephone: 020 8365 5450 | Online: www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk

Telephone: 020 8237 1111 | Online: www.riversidestudios.co.uk

Opening times: Monday to Friday, from 9am to 6pm

Opening times: Monday to Friday, from 2pm to 9pm

Agents and industry professionals should call 020 8829 0036

Agents and industry professionals should call 020 8829 0036

VENUE

Students go free (Monday to Friday matinees only | Tickets must be booked in advance by calling 020 8829 0036) *For groups 10+

VENUE

Address: Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX Tube: Seven Sisters (Victoria line)

Address: Crisp Road, London W6 9RL

Bus: 41, 123, 149, 230, 243, 259, 341, 476

Tube: Hammersmith (Piccadilly, District, Hammersmith & City lines)

Car: Pay and display parking available

Bus: 9, 10, 27, 33, 72, 190, 209, 211, 220, 266, 267, 283, 295, 391, 419, H91 Car: Limited free parking in residents’ bays after 6.30pm | NCP car park on Hammersmith Grove

HAMMERSMITH STATION

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE

TOTTENHAM GREEN

ST. PAUL’S GREEN

THE COLLEGE OF HARINGEY, ENFIELD & NORTH EAST LONDON

SEVEN SISTERS STATION SEVEN SISTERS RAIL

SOUTH TOTTENHAM STATION

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MARKFIELD RECREATION GROUND

RIVERSIDE STUDIOS

FRANK BANFIELD PARK

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COURSES

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ADULT COURSES

Introduction Courses Mountview offers a range of evening classes for adults including acting, musical theatre, performing arts and street dance. Whether you are looking to unlock your imagination and creativity or try out a new dance style, our Introduction Courses will give you an insight into Mountview’s professional training.

Monday evenings 7pm – 8.30pm.

Perform Courses The Perform Courses allow participants to develop their skills through one term of actor training followed by a term focusing on performance. With classes taking place two evenings a week these courses are designed for those looking to build on previous experience.

Courses can be taken in acting, TV & film and devised theatre.

YOUNG PEOPLE’S COURSES Attended by around 240 young people each week Mountview’s ‘Engage’ programme offers classes in acting, musical theatre and street dance.

The classes provide a vibrant and creative environment working with inspiring directors to explore the world of performance and the work of the professional actor.

support

Mountview provides world-class vocational training for the actors, musical theatre performers, directors and technical theatre specialists of the future through a diverse range of programmes. With an international reputation for excellence and strong links with the industry, Mountview nurtures and develops its students to prepare them for a career in the creative arts. Graduates have gone on to secure high-profile roles in theatre, television and film.

As an educational performing arts charity, only 30% of our income for student fees is supported by public funding. In order to continue to offer the highest quality training to our students as well as deliver meaningful and creative opportunities to young people in and around our local borough of Haringey, we need your support.

There are a number of ways to get involved whether you are an individual, a trust, foundation or a company. From joining our Mountview membership scheme, providing a scholarship for a student or supporting our work with young people and the community, you can make a difference.

For more information, visit www.mountview.org.uk/supportus

The classes take place each week on Saturdays.

To talk about supporting Mountview’s work, please contact:

Opportunities For Young People In Haringey

Deborah Akroyd - Director of Development t 020 8826 9212 or e deborahakroyd@mountview.org.uk

Thanks to on-going support from The Tottenham Grammar School Foundation, Mountview is pleased to be able to offer the ‘Haringey Young People’s Bursary Scheme’ which provides tuition fee support to young people from Haringey, enabling them to attend any of Mountview’s part-time courses.

Registered Charity No: 274166

For more information on all these courses visit www.mountview.org.uk or call 020 8826 9217

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THU 15 NOV

7.00

Cressida

KARAMEL CLUB

FRI 16 NOV

7.00

Compleat Female Stage Beauty

KARAMEL CLUB

SAT 17 NOV

7.00

Compleat Female Stage Beauty

KARAMEL CLUB

7.00

Cressida

KARAMEL CLUB

MON 19 NOV

TUE 20 NOV

WED 21 NOV

7.30

Reefer Madness

(Cast A)

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE

3.00

Reefer Madness

(Cast A)

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE

7.00

Compleat Female Stage Beauty

7.30

Reefer Madness

3.00

Cressida

7.30

Reefer Madness

(Cast B)

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE

(Cast B)

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE

(Cast A)

KARAMEL CLUB BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE KARAMEL CLUB

3.00

Reefer Madness

7.00

Cressida

7.30

Reefer Madness

(Cast B)

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE

3.00

Reefer Madness

(Cast B)

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE

7.00

Compleat Female Stage Beauty

7.30

Reefer Madness

1.30

Cressida

3.00

Reefer Madness

5.00

Compleat Female Stage Beauty

7.30

Reefer Madness

7.00

Yerma

(Cast A)

RIVERSIDE STUDIO

2.00

Yerma

(Cast A)

RIVERSIDE STUDIO

7.00

Yerma

(Cast A)

RIVERSIDE STUDIO

2.00

Yerma

(Cast A)

RIVERSIDE STUDIO

7.00

Yerma

(Cast B)

RIVERSIDE STUDIO

2.00

Yerma

(Cast B)

RIVERSIDE STUDIO

7.00

Yerma

(Cast B)

RIVERSIDE STUDIO

SAT 1 DEC

5.00

Yerma

(Cast B)

RIVERSIDE STUDIO

THU 6 DEC

7.00

The Libertine

KARAMEL CLUB

6.00

Christmas Concert

ST JAMES’S PADDINGTON

7.00

Playhouse Creatures

KARAMEL CLUB

8.00

Christmas Concert

ST JAMES’S PADDINGTON

4.00

Christmas Concert

HORNSEY TOWN HALL SQUARE

7.00

The Libertine

KARAMEL CLUB

MON 10 DEC

7.00

Playhouse Creatures

KARAMEL CLUB

TUE 11 DEC

7.00

The Libertine

KARAMEL CLUB

WED 12 DEC

7.00

Playhouse Creatures

KARAMEL CLUB

THU 13 DEC

7.00

The Libertine

KARAMEL CLUB

FRI 14 DEC

7.00

Playhouse Creatures

KARAMEL CLUB

1.30

The Libertine

KARAMEL CLUB

5.00

Playhouse Creatures

KARAMEL CLUB

THU 22 NOV

FRI 23 NOV

SAT 24 NOV

TUE 27 NOV WED 28 NOV THU 29 NOV FRI 30 NOV

FRI 7 DEC

SAT 8 DEC

SAT 15 DEC

KARAMEL CLUB

(Cast A)

KARAMEL CLUB BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE KARAMEL CLUB

(Cast A) (Cast B)

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE KARAMEL CLUB BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE