Candide

Candide The Royal National Theatre Version

Music by Leonard Bernstein

Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler

New Lyrics by John Caird

Lyrics by Richard Wilbur Additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein Directed by Rupert Hands - Musical Director Leo Munby Choreography by Sarah Golding - Set and Costume Design by Rhyannon Richardson Lighting Design by Peter Harrison - Sound Design by Daniel Higgott Orchestrations by Jason Carr Performed by Mountview’s Third Year BA (Hons) Performance - Musical Theatre students Technical roles by Mountview’s Theatre Production Arts students

29 April - 7 May 2021 Mountview Theatre, Peckham

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe. mtishows.co.uk

Photo by RULER

ABOUT MOUNTVIEW Excellence, Access and Innovation in dramatic training are at the heart of our work. Since 1945, we have trained the very best performers, directors, theatre production artists and producers. We are committed to ensuring our community of over 500 students is representative and that drama training is accessible to all.

Opened in 2018, our home in Peckham was conceived in partnership with Southwark Council as a truly 21st-century drama school and a creative arts hub for all. Our state-of-the-art facilities include the 200-seat Mountview Theatre (made possible by a £1m donation from Sir Cameron Mackintosh), the 80-seat Backstage Theatre, 21 acting/dance studios, TV and radio suites and production workshops. In recognition of their extraordinary work in establishing Mountview’s new home and for their commitment to promoting inclusivity, Joint Chief Executives Stephen Jameson and Sarah Preece were presented with Olivier Awards in 2020.

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CHARLIE HEPTINSTALL BA (Hons) Performance - Acting 2020 graduate Photo by RULER

‘This is a story rich and rare of philosophic interplay twixt optimism and despair…’ Our eponymous hero Candide survives numerous disasters but never gives up on his optimistic pursuit of love and truth, and his journey of discovery is anything but dull. Through anguish, despair, euphoria and joy Leonard Bernstein’s exquisite musical proves that ‘life is happiness indeed’.

CAST

KEY:

MAX BOWKER

RACHEL BREEZE

ABBY FELL

GABE HAMPTON-SAINT

DANIEL HARRIOTT

AMELIA HARRISON

Maximillian (V) ∙ High Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble

Paquette (V) ∙ Stanislaus ∙ Ensemble

Theodore ∙ Ensemble

Pangloss (B) ∙ High Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble

Candide (B) ∙ Señore ∙ Ensemble

Marta (V) ∙ Ensemble

LAUREN HARTLEY

BEN JOYCE

KAINE LAWRENCE

DANIEL LUIZ

BROOKE MAGEE

DEAN

Old Woman (V) ∙ Ensemble

Don Issacar ∙ Vanderdendur ∙ Ensemble

Grand Inquisitor ∙ Señore ∙ Cacambo

Captain ∙ James ∙ Ensemble Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Scholar

Hermann Augustus ∙ Ensemble Lonsdale Scholar for Vocal Excellence

Candide (V) ∙ Señore ∙ Ensemble

SADI MASEGO

GEORGIA MASON

JACK OFRECIO

NATHANIA ONG

AYESHA PATEL

JACK POWELL

Tsar Ivan ∙ Ensemble

Marta (B) ∙ Ensemble

King of Eldorado ∙ Ensemble

Cunegonde (V) ∙ Ensemble

Cunegonde (B) ∙ Ensemble

Pangloss (V) ∙ High Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble

LAURA RAINERI

LIV SHERRY

JO STEPHENSON

HOLLY WAKEFIELD

SAMUEL WOLSTENHOLME

IVERSON YABUT

Old Woman (B) ∙ Ensemble

Sultan Achmet ∙ Queen of Eldorado ∙ Ensemble

Charles Edward ∙ Ensemble

Paquette (B) ∙ Stanislaus ∙ Ensemble

Corporal ∙ Governor of Montevideo ∙ Ensemble

Maximillian (B) ∙ High Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble

Voltaire Cast (V)

Bernstein Cast (B)

DURATION 145 MINUTES

MAKOWSKI-CLAYTON

BAND

ACCORDION LOUSIA GREEN BASS JESS MARTIN CELLO ANGUS MCCALL HARP CATRIN MEEK

KEYBOARD MICHAEL CULLEN PERCUSSION TRISTAN BUTLER REEDS HANNAH LAWRENCE TROMBONE RHI HARRISON

TRUMPET MARK HARRISON VIOLIN ATHENA OCTAVIA

DIRECTOR RUPERT HANDS

ASSISTANT MUSICAL DIRECTOR MICHEAL CULLEN *

LX PROGRAMMER RUTH HARVEY †

DEPUTY LEAD CARPENTER TOM BARNETT

MUSICAL DIRECTOR LEO MUNBY

PRODUCTION MANAGER DAVIN PATRICK

LX NO. 3 JOSHUA ROONEY-WALKER †

LEAD SCENIC ARTIST/PROP MAKER MORWENNA GOODBAN

CHOREOGRAPHER SARAH GOLDING

ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER FRANCESCA MCEWEN †

LX NO. 4 EFA GREGORY †

DEPUTY SCENIC ARTIST/PROP MAKER EMMA FROUD

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER RHYANNON RICHARDSON

STAGE MANAGER SHANEICE BROWN †

LX NO. 5 ZIHAIRE ADAMS †

VOICE COACH LAURA NEEL

LIGHTING DESIGNER PETER HARRISON

DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER LYDIA HOLFORD †

PRODUCTION SOUND ENGINEER WAYNE HARRIS

SOUND DESIGNER DANIEL HIGGOTT

REHEARSAL ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER SHANNON POLLARD †

ASSISTANT PRODUCTION SOUND ENGINEER ETHAN TRAYNOR †

CAMERA OPERATORS CECILE FRAY IAN S. MURPHY † JAHMAL SWABY †

PRODUCTION

ORCHESTRATOR JASON CARR

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (BOOK COVER) NATASHA GUZEL †

CAMERA DIRECTOR GAVIN HALES

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS MADDIE LAWLESS † JONATHAN SCOUSE †

WARDROBE SUPERVISOR KATIE HIGGINS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SAM TANNENBAUM **

PRODUCTION LX COLIN EVERSDIJK †

SOUND OPERATOR LAURIE KIRKBY SOUND NO. 2 NATHAN BROWN † SOUND NO. 3 FRANCESCA MAI †

* MA Musical Direction student ** MA Theatre Directing student † Theatre Production Arts student

THANKS TO

AUTOGRAPH SOUND RECORDING WHITE LIGHT LTD

LEAD CARPENTER EMMA HAYWARD

RUPERT HANDS Director

RHYANNON RICHARDSON Set and Costume Designer

Directing: All That I Am, Spring Awakening, Between Riverside and Crazy, Company (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Next To Normal, Assassins (Royal Academy of Music), Cabaret (London College of Music), Pericles (LAMDA), Fox (Old Red Lion), Blackbird (Other Room, Cardiff), The Secret Garden (Ambassadors), Krindlekrax (Shoreditch Town Hall). Associate/Assistant Director for Jamie Lloyd: Cyrano de Bergerac, Evita, Pinter at the Pinter, Apologia, The Ruling Class, The Pitchfork Disney, Assassins (West End). Other Associate Director credits include: King Lear, Glengarry Glen Ross, Hobson’s Choice (West End), Grey Gardens (Southwark), Beautiful Thing (UK tour), The Rehearsal (Chichester), Hamlet (Theatr Clwyd).

Rhyannon has been working in professional theatre for over 20 years, both as a set and costume designer and as a maker. Much of her work has been with community groups, theatre in education and drama schools, but she has also designed for a wide range of both small and large scale productions and tours, including the Chester Mystery Plays. She also designs for events, festivals and theme parks, and works as a mural artist and illustrator.

LEO MUNBY Musical Director Credits as Musical Director: BKLYN (Lambert Jackson Productions), The Last Five Years (Minack Theatre, Cornwall), Gypsy (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Guys and Dolls (Mountview), Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), Project Broadway (Symphony Space, New York), Music Theatre Group (National Theatre Studio). As Musical Supervisor: The Secret Society of Leading Ladies (The Barn Theatre), An Evening with Jason Robert Brown and Special Guests (Theatre Royal Haymarket). As Music Assistant: Company (Gielgud Theatre). As Composer: STOP with Annabel Mutale Reed.

SARAH GOLDING Choreographer Co-founder of SAY Dance. Credits include: Cruise (Duchess Theatre), Balletboyz - The Intro, Blood and Belif (U.Mi-1 London Fashion week 21), The Conversations With X (Trinity Laban), Primetime (Royal Court), TRANSIT-20 (Dance film), The Album (SAY), Becoming Shades (Chivaree Circus). Performer credits: STOMP (Ambassadors Theatre/world tour, Glynis Henderson Productions), The Deluge (Lîla Dance), Us (Cathy Waller Company), Shame (bangbangbang group), The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court), Love_Dances (Adam Russell), Triptych (Quang Kien Van).

WARNING

PETER HARRISON Lighting Designer Peter trained at RADA. Lighting Design credits include Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic), Macbeth (Stafford Festival Shakespeare), Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Paul Bunyan (Welsh National Youth Opera), Wilde Creatures (Tall Stories), In Nocentes and Home Turf (Sadler’s Wells), and Jean and Antonin (Gartnerplatz Theatre, Munich). As an Associate Lighting Designer his work includes Betrayal (West End and Broadway), Collaborators, As You Like It (National Theatre), Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre), and The Commitments (Palace Theatre).

DANIEL HIGGOTT Sound Designer As Designer: Dick Whittington (Hackney Empire 2019), Aladdin (Hackney Empire 2018), Growl (UK tour), A Spoonful of Sherman (UK/ Ireland tour). As Associate Designer: Secret Cinema presents: Casino Royale, Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Secret Cinema X: Tell No One - The Handmaiden, Our Country’s Good (Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto), Good People (Noel Coward). As Programmer: All My Sons (Apollo Theatre), Secret Cinema presents: Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and 28 Days Later.

Candide contains scenes depicting violence, execution and sexism, and one instance of pyrotechnic devices.

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