Spring Season 2016

Spring SEASON 2016

Welcome to Mountview’s Spring Season

MOUNTVIEW: excellence, access and innovation We are one of the UK’s top drama schools. We deliver the most pertinent training for an everchanging industry.

We are committed to training the most talented people regardless of background or income.

We work in collaboration with the finest established and emerging creative practitioners to create challenging new work.

In 2015 we celebrated our 70th anniversary. To safeguard our future we are planning a new unified school and theatre in the heart of Peckham in south London. The new home will befit the quality of our training, allow us to expand our outreach programmes and include studio and rehearsal spaces for professional and community groups.

Our hardship fund helps students with severe financial difficulties pay for vital costs related to their training. If you would like to support this fund please visit mountview.org.uk/supportus

STEPHEN JAMESON Principal and Artistic Director

President Judi Dench CH DBE · Chairman Vikki Heywood CBE · Principal & Artistic Director Stephen Jameson · Executive Director Sarah Preece · Board of Directors Tony Ageh OBE · Sir Brendan Barber · Ibinabo Jack · Andrew Parker · Paul Roberts OBE · Indhu Rubasingham · Patrick Spottiswoode · Hamble Wallace · Vincent Wang · Artistic Associates Maria Aberg · Annabel Arden · Paul Arditti · Neil Austin · Alecky Blythe · Paul Clay · Lindsey Coulson · Brian Cox

CBE

· Howard Goodall

CBE

· Douglas Henshall · Amanda Holden · Stephen Jeffreys · Terry Johnson · Kwame Kwei-

Armah OBE · Twiggy Lawson · Eddie Marsan · Elaine Paige OBE · Michael Pennington · Roy Williams OBE · Anton Woodward

OBE

Venues Arcola Theatre · Bernie Grant Arts Centre · Karamel Club · Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

DALSTON KINGSLAND STATION

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Abbot St

Ashwin St

ARCOLA THEATRE

Dalston Lane

Balls Pond Rd

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Balls Pond

TOTTENHAM GREEN

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE THE COLLEGE OF HARINGEY, ENFIELD & NORTH EAST LONDON

Ashwin St

Kingsbury

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Kingsland High St

KINGSLAND SHOPPING CENTRE

SEVEN SISTERS STATION SEVEN SISTERS RAIL

DALSTON JUNCTON STATION

MARKFIELD RECREATION GROUND

SOUTH TOTTENHAM STATION

Arcola Theatre

BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE

ADDRESS 24 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL

ADDRESS Town Hall Approach Road, N15 4RX

TUBE Dalston Junction/Dalston Kingsland (Overgound), Hackney Downs (National Rail)

CAR Pay and display parking available

TUBE Seven Sisters (Victoria Line)

CAR Pay and display parking available

WOOD GREEN STATION

Cromer Rd

TOWARDS EMERSON PARK RAIL

FIELDERS SPORTS GROUND

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Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

ADDRESS Coburg Road, N22 6UJ

ADDRESS Billet Lane, Hornchurch, RM11 1QT

TUBE Wood Green (Piccadilly Line) CAR Free on-street parking after 6.30pm

TUBE Emerson Park (Overground), Hornchurch/Upminster Bridge (District Line)

To book pre-theatre dinner and interval drinks,

CAR There is a large car park next to the

visit karamelrestaurant.com

theatre which is free after 6pm

Kiss Me, Kate Music and lyrics by Cole Porter · Book by Bella and Samuel Spewack · Directed by Darren Lawrence

Bernie Grant Arts Centre Thu 11 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Fri 12 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 2) Sat 13 Feb · 2pm (Cast 2) Sat 13 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch Thu 18 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Fri 19 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 2) Sat 20 Feb · 2.30pm (Cast 1) Sat 20 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 2) Mon 22 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Tue 23 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 2) Wed 24 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Thu 25 Feb · 2.30pm (Cast 2) Thu 25 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 2) Fri 26 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Sat 27 Feb · 2.30pm (Cast 2) Sat 27 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1)

Tickets From £8

To book 020 8365 5450 © antart/Shutterstock

berniegrantcentre.co.uk 01708 443333

A backstage battle between former lovers Fred Graham and Lilly Vanessi spills on to stage as they mount a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. And just when things couldn’t get worse, up pop a pair of gangsters who want to share the limelight! Cole Porter’s classic musical comedy is brimming over with some of musical theatre’s greatest songs, including Too Darn Hot and Brush Up Your Shakespeare.

Darren Lawrence trained as an actor at Central School Of Speech and Drama and was most recently seen in Russell T. Davies’ critically acclaimed Cucumber for Channel 4. He has directed at Mountview for over 10 years.

queens-theatre.co.uk Booking fees may apply

Industry bookings 020 8829 0036 marketing@mountview.org.uk

#KateMV An amateur production by arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Musicals Ltd of New York

Dogfight Music and Lyrics by Ben Pasek and Justin Paul · Book by Peter Duchan · Based on the Warner Bros. film and screenplay by Bob Comfort · Directed by Adam Welsh

Venue Karamel Club

Performances Thu 25 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Fri 26 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 2) Sat 27 Feb · 2pm (Cast 2) Sat 27 Feb · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Tue 1 Mar · 7.30pm (Cast 2) Wed 2 Mar · 7.30pm (Cast 1) Thu 3 Mar · 7.30pm (Cast 2) Fri 4 Mar · 7.30pm (cast 1) Sat 5 mar · 2pm (Cast 1) Sat 5 Mar · 7.30pm (cast 2)

Tickets £12 (£8 concessions)

To book 020 8881 2201

Industry bookings 020 8829 0036 marketing@mountview.org.uk © Militarist/Shutterstock

#DogfightMV An amateur production by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd on behalf of Music Theatre International of New York

Three young marines head out for a final boys’ night. As their evening unfolds, self-conscious Rose is enlisted as cocksure Eddie’s date, unaware that she is part of an unfortunate bet.

Compassion trumps cruelty in this award-winning show from contemporary musical theatre writers Pasek and Paul.

Adam Welsh is a performer, director and founder member of award-winning theatre company Dead Centre. In 2014 Dead Centre won Best Production for Lippy at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and in 2015 received a special citation at the OBIE awards in New York. Adam also regularly develops new work at the National Theatre Studio and has directed many shows for Mountview including Spring Awakening.

The Crucible

By Arthur Miller · Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin

Venue Arcola Theatre

Performances Tue 15 Mar · 7.30pm Wed 16 MAr · 7.30pm Thu 17 Mar · 7.30pm Fri 18 Mar · 7.30pm Sat 19 Mar · 3pm

Tickets £12 (£8 concessions)

To book 020 7503 1646 arcolatheatre.com Booking fees may apply

Industry bookings 020 8829 0036 marketing@mountview.org.uk

© bobrsergey/Shutterstock

Arthur Miller’s classic drama sees a small and pious American town gripped by suspicion and hysteria following accusations of witchcraft. Based on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and written as an allegory of the McCarthy blacklists of the 1950s, The Crucible is a powerful study of the combustibility of community.

Caitriona McLaughlin is an Associate Director at the Playgound Studio London and was instrumental in creating the Royal Court’s Theatre Local project. Recent directing credits include Monsters Dinosaurs Ghosts (Abbey Theatre) Luck Just Kissed You Hello (Hot for Theatre/Galway and Dublin Theatre Festivals) and She Knit the Roof (Earagail Arts Festival).

#CrucibleMV An amateur production by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd

Balm in Gilead

By Lanford Wilson · Directed by Joseph Blatchley

Venue Arcola Theare

Performances Tue 29 Mar · 7.30pm Wed 30 Mar · 7.30pm Thu 31 Mar · 7.30pm Fri 1 Apr · 7.30pm Sat 2 Apr · 3pm

Tickets £12 (£8 concessions)

To book 020 7503 1646 arcolatheatre.com Booking fees may apply

Industry bookings 020 8829 0036 marketing@mountview.org.uk

© Karl Thaller/iStock

#GileadMV An amateur production by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd

Welcome to Frank’s Cafe, a greasy spoon diner frequented by dealers, bums and vice. Meet the colourful and often desperate characters of New York’s seedy underworld in this critically acclaimed play from 1965 by Lanford Wilson.

Joseph Blatchley trained as an actor, director and film maker. His film Fragments won Outstanding Film of the Year at the 1984 London Film Festival. He has assisted Peter Brook and Maurice Bénichou and has directed across Europe and in the UK at Hampstead Theatre, Gate Theatre, Riverside Studios and Manchester Royal Exchange.

Diary Thu 11 Feb

7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Fri 12 Feb

7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Sat 13 Feb

2pm · 7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Thu 18 Feb

7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Fri 19 Feb

7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Sat 20 Feb

2.30pm · 7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Mon 22 Feb

7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Tue 23 Feb

7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Wed 24 Feb

7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Thu 25 Feb

2.30pm · 7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Thu 25 Feb

7.30pm

Dogfight

Karamel Club

Fri 26 Feb

7.30pm

Dogfight

Karamel Club

Fri 26 Feb

7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Sat 27 Feb

2pm · 7.30pm

Dogfight

Karamel Club

Sat 27 Feb

2.30pm · 7.30pm

Kiss Me, Kate

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Tue 1 Mar

7.30pm

Dogfight

Karamel Club

Wed 2 Mar

7.30pm

Dogfight

Karamel Club

Thu 3 Mar

7.30pm

Dogfight

Karamel Club

Fri 4 Mar

7.30pm

Dogfight

Karamel Club

Sat 5 mar

2pm · 7.30pm

Dogfight

Karamel Club

Tue 15 Mar

7.30pm

The Crucible

Arcola Theatre

Wed 16 MAr

7.30pm

The Crucible

Arcola Theatre

Thu 17 Mar

7.30pm

The Crucible

Arcola Theatre

Fri 18 Mar

7.30pm

The Crucible

Arcola Theatre

Sat 19 Mar

3pm

The Crucible

Arcola Theatre

Tue 29 Mar

7.30pm

Balm in Gilead

Arcola Theatre

Wed 30 Mar

7.30pm

Balm in Gilead

Arcola Theatre

Thu 31 Mar

7.30pm

Balm in Gilead

Arcola Theatre

Fri 1 Apr

7.30pm

Balm in Gilead

Arcola Theatre

Sat 2 Apr

3pm

Balm in Gilead

Arcola Theatre

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