What's On January - March 2019

WHAT'S ON JANUARY-MARCH 2019

A PLACE FOR YOU A PLACE TO INSPIRE Our GENERATION N*XT courses for 6 - 24s have now launched. See more on page 6.

There are also three and six week intensive summer courses, and taster evenings for our adult courses will be happening soon.

Additionally, our full-time degree courses are open for applications.

A PLACE TO RELAX Eat and drink at Well Street Pizza and Westland Coffee and Wine on our ground floor.

Enjoy our year-round programme of performances in our theatres. See more on pages 8 - 12.

A rooftop restuarant is coming soon.

A PLACE TO HIRE Dance and acting studios for community and commercial use.

Work space and meeting rooms, music practice rooms and a West End-scale rehearsal studio.

See rates on page 15.

GET INVOLVED AND FIND OUT MORE:

MOUNTVIEW.ORG.UK

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WE'VE ARRIVED! Our new home in Peckham will change the shape of UK drama training. World-class training facilities have brought Mountview’s classes and departments under one spectacular roof for the first time. Professional rehearsal spaces and theatres will bring our student community closer together with industry practitioners, promoting new routes to training and employment throughout the creative industries and beyond.

We are very grateful to everyone who has supported this ambitious project to date.

With the help of our generous supporters, Mountview has secured 96% of its target, allowing us to open the doors to our new home and invite the new generation of students to start their journey with us.

However, there is one task left for us to complete and we need your help to do it.

WE NEED TO RAISE THE FINAL ÂŁ1 MILLION TO FIT OUT OUR 200-SEAT MAIN THEATRE Please help us. With your support, we can give Mountview a theatre fit for the stars of the future and the thousands of audience members who will watch them perform there.

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SUPPORT US You can play a part in this important moment in Mountview’s history by naming a step, making a personal gift to honour a friend or loved one, or supporting us through your company. Every gift, big or small, will contribute directly to fitting out our new theatre by providing a stage for our students to shine.

For more information about how you can help us please contact: Clare McCulloch, Development Manager on 020 8829 1078 claremcculloch@mountview.org.uk or visit mountview.org.uk/support-us

THANK YOU A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has helped us get this far. Whatever size, every gift has helped us to build our new home in Peckham.

FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN AMBASSADORS Dame Judi Dench DBE Mina Anwar · Olivia Colman · Lindsey Coulson · Judy Craymer MBE · Stephen Daldry · Howard Goodall CBE · Douglas Henshall · Kit Hesketh-Harvey · James McConnel · Leigh Lawson · Twiggy Lawson · Eddie Marsan · Michael Pennington · Ken Stott · Roy Williams OBE 5

PECKHAM

GENERATION N*XT HAS

LANDED

A range of 10-week dramatic training courses for young people from Saturday 12 January 2019 in the heart of Peckham Saturdays at Mountview is GENERATION N*XT takeover day with a huge range of courses for 6–18s. Monday nights are for 16–24s who are keen to get serious about performance.

We have worked hard to make our courses affordable for everyone, and there are means-tested bursaries available for Southwark residents. Find out more about Southwark bursaries by visiting mountview.org.uk/take-part

SATURDAYS

9:00

Ballet A fun and inclusive way to learn the core of all dance training

9:00-10:00 6-8 years £45

10:15-11:15 9-11 years £45

Street Dance Freestyling, popping, locking and more

9:00-10:00 6-10 years £45

10:15-11:15 11-14 years £45

11:00

Acting Unleash your creativity and imagination.

Underpin your acting and performance skills through games, text and improvisation

10:30-12:30 6-8 years | £90

Song & Dance A chance for 6-10 year olds to sing and dance to some favourite tunes

10:30-12:30 6-10 years £120

West End Skills Garage Triple-threat musical theatre training in acting, singing and dance 6

10:00

prices areatfor a 10-week course ©All John Hunter RULER thisisruler.net

at full price

MONDAYS

18:00

19:00

Guerrilla Film Making From storyboard to framing to edit, this course is full of tips, tricks and techniques to create amazing films without finance and slick equipment

18:00-20:30 16-19 years | £125 20-24 years | £125

Acting Collective In-depth skills training leading to an annual performance.

18:00-20:30 16-19 years | £125 20-24 years | £125

20:00

Beats & Lyrics Collective 18:00-20:30 Incorporate spoken word, rap, 16-24 years beatboxing and music-making to build a £125 unique performance mix Street Hip-Hop Expressive freestyle dance to hip-hop and house tunes

18:30-20:00 16-24 years £75

Commercial Funk Precision choreography, incorporating jazz, funk and hip-hop

18:30-20:00 16-24 years £75

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

11:30-13:30 9-11 years | £90 12-14 years | £90 15-18 years | £90

14:00-16:00 11-14 years | £120 15-18 years | £120 7

MUSICAL THEATRE

CRAZY FOR YOU

VENUE

Music and Lyrics by George Gerswhin and Ira Gershwin

The Pleasance, Islington

Book by Ken Ludwig · Directed by Paul Foster

This show is double cast (1/2)

FEB

Thu 7 · 7.30pm (1) Fri 8 · 7.30pm (2) Sat 9 · 12pm (2) Sat 9 · 5pm (1)

Tue 12 · 7.30pm (2)

Wed 13 · 7.30pm (1) Thu 14 · 7.30pm (2) Fri 15 · 7.30pm (1) Sat 16 · 12pm (1) Sat 16 · 5pm (2)

TICKETS

£15 Full Price £12 Concessions

TO BOOK

020 7609 1800 pleasance.co.uk

INDUSTRY BOOKINGS 020 8881 2201

boxoffice@mountview.org.uk

#CrazyMV

CRAZY FOR YOU®, THE NEW GERSHWIN® MUSICAL is presented by arrangement with MusicScope & Stage Musicals Ltd. of New York

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Bobby Child arrives in dusty Deadrock from New York City, and the town – and Bobby are transformed. This romantic comedy set in the Wild West is jam-packed with some of the Gershwins’ most treasured songs including You Can’t Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It and I Got Rhythm. © Seita/Claudio Divizia/truhelen/Shutterstock

Paul Foster has most recently directed Kiss Me, Kate at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre.

Further credits include The Light Princess (Cadogan Hall), Annie Get Your Gun (Crucible Theatre), A Little Night Music and Tell Me On A Sunday (Watermill Theatre).

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

By Arthur Ransome · Adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson · With songs by Neil Hannon

MUSICAL THEATRE VENUE

Backstage Theatre, Mountview

FEB

Directed by Steve Grihault

Wed 13 · 7.30pm Thu 14 · 7pm

Fri 15 · 7.30pm Sat 16 · 2pm

Sat 16 · 7.30pm

TICKETS

£15 Full Price £12 Concessions £10 Southwark Residents*

TO BOOK

020 8881 2201 mountview.org.uk

INDUSTRY BOOKINGS 020 8881 2201

boxoffice@mountview.org.uk

#SwallowsMV

Four siblings set sail in their boat Swallow to conquer land and sea. But the dastardly Captain Flint and some rival Amazon pirates are getting in the way. Performed

by Mountview’s Musical Theatre students, this show is packed with family fun and adventure.

Steve Grihault is Mountview’s Head of Acting. He originally trained as an actor, and worked for over twenty years with companies including The Young Vic, English Shakespeare Company and Theatr Clwyd.

Directing credits at Mountview: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Our Country's Good.

© Transia Design/Danussa/Shutterstock

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books

*Southwark Presents cardholders only

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ACTOR MUSICIAN VENUE

Backstage Theatre, Mountview

MAR

Wed 6 · 7.30pm Thu 7 · 7.30pm

DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (and other love songs)

By Carl Grose · Music by Charles Hazlewood Directed by Paul-Ryan Carberry

Fri 8 · 7.30pm Sat 9 · 12pm Sat 9 · 5pm

TICKETS

£15 Full Price £12 Concessions £10 Southwark Residents*

TO BOOK

020 8881 2201 mountview.org.uk

INDUSTRY BOOKINGS 020 8881 2201

boxoffice@mountview.org.uk

#DeadDogMV

Amateur Production Licensed by arrangement with The Agency, 24 Pottery Lane, Holland Park, London W11 4LZ info@ theagency.co.uk

*Southwark Presents cardholders only

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Macheath is getting married, the Mayor has been murdered, and so has his dog.

This is a tale of political corruption and widespread injustice; a tale for our times.

Mountview’s actor musicians present Kneehigh’s witty reimagining of The Beggar’s Opera.

Actor and director Paul-Ryan Carberry trained at Mountview.

Recent directing credits include The Three Musketeers (St Paul's Covent Garden), A Serious Business (Luton Library Theatre) and Healing Wounds (Wardown Park Museum).

He previously directed Touched and The Nativity for Mountview.

© Roger Bamber/Alamy

HER NAKED SKIN

ACTING

By Rebecca Lenkiewicz · Directed by Carol Harvey

VENUE

Backstage Theatre, Mountview

MAR

Sat 16 · 7.30pm

Mon 18 · 7.30pm Tue 19 · 7.30pm Wed 20 · 2pm

Wed 20 · 7.30pm

TICKETS

£15 Full Price £12 Concessions £10 Southwark Residents*

TO BOOK

020 8881 2201 mountview.org.uk

INDUSTRY BOOKINGS 020 8881 2201

boxoffice@mountview.org.uk

#NakedMV

Presented to commemorate 100 years since the first British women won the right to vote, Her Naked Skin is a stark and honest look at the Suffragettes’ campaign. Taking on the political and the personal, this play is about heroism, friendship and equality.

Carol Harvey is an actor and director, working regularly with Mountview’s students as a Senior Acting Tutor and

An amateur production presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, ltd.

director. Director credits at Mountview: London Road.

*Southwark Presents cardholders only

© Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy

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ACTING VENUE

Backstage Theatre, Mountview

MAR

Wed 27 · 7.30pm Thu 28 · 7.30pm Fri 29 · 7.30pm Sat 30 · 2pm

Sat 30 · 7.30pm

TICKETS

£15 Full Price £12 Concessions £10 Southwark Residents*

TO BOOK

020 8881 2201 mountview.org.uk

INDUSTRY BOOKINGS 020 8881 2201

boxoffice@mountview.org.uk

#BoyMV

First produced and performed at the Almeida Theatre on 5th April 2016 An amateur production by arrangement with Judy Daish Associates ltd.

NURSE MRS ELLIE CHARLES DRUGGY WOMAN DRUGGY MAN MUM AND TEE AGE SON YOUNG WOMAN BUS STOP MORNING UNKEMPT

By Leo Butler · Directed

by Dan HerdMIDDLE-AGED MAN TRENDY YOUNG BLOKE ROMANI WOMAN PARK MAN WITH DOG WOMA IN TRACKSUIT BUS STOP SCHOOL GIRL WOMAN WITH PUSHCHAIR TEENAGE BOY ROAD WORKS BUILDER CYCLIST PAULA NO. 23 JERMAIN FASHIONABLE FOREIGN STUDENT TRAIN EXHAUSTED MIDDLE-AGED MAN THREE DRUNK FRIENDS LIAM ANDY NAT PROFESSIONAL WOMAN IN FIFTIES SUITED READING NEWSPAPER YOUNG WOMAN LATE-TWENTIES HOMELESS GUY TWO FRIENDS OLD WOMAN LARGE BAG TO YOUNG MUSLIM MAN YOUNG WOMAN BARRIERS LONDON VICTORIA EVENING UNIFORMED LADIES PERSON ON PHON COLLEAGUE SOMEONE ON PHONE DRUNK COMMUTERS OLDER MAN POLICE OFFICER RUBY FRIENDLY-LOOKING COUPLE WOMAN IN PURPLE LONDON BUS TOURS HOMELESS MAN MP ON Liam is loveless and hopeless, wandering PHONE EMPLOYEE GENT IN PUR the city tryingSHOP to find direction.

Meeting a host of characters he loses himself in the PLE UNIFORM GRANDMOTHER DAUGH wonderland of London. This production is immersive, planting you at the centre of HAMILTON T-SHI TER GRANDAUGHTER Liam's world.

NURSE MRS ELLIE CHARLES DRUGGY WOMAN DRUGGY MAN MUM AND TEE AGE SON YOUNG WOMAN BUS STOP

BOY

Dan Herd is a Senior Acting Tutor at Mountview. He

has directed at the Lyric

Hammersmith, The Old Vic and the Theatre Royal Haymarket

and was an Artistic Associate

at the Soho Theatre. Previously

*Southwark Presents cardholders only

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for Mountview: Legally Blonde

and Six Characters in Search of an Author.

© Armin Staudt/Shutterstock

BACKSTAGE THEATRE

Peckham High Street

Peckham Library

ADDRESS 120 Peckham Hill Street, SE15 5JT

Entrance via Library Square

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Mountview is well served by the Transport for London (TfL) overground train and bus networks. Further information about travel by bus, train or tube can be found on the TfL website.

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our building on Peckham Hill Street, with excellent links to major stations and tube stops Elephant & Castle (Northern Line), Vauxhall (mainline rail/Victoria line) and Waterloo. Local buses also go further into south London to destinations including Lewisham, Dulwich and Catford.

TUBE The London Overground (Orange line)

leaves every 15 minutes from Peckham Rye and Queens Road Peckham. This line, as well as reaching many neighbourhoods in South West and East London, links to Canada Water (Jubliee Line), Clapham High Street (Northern Line), Whitechapel (District/Hammersmith & City Lines) and Highbury & Islington (Victoria Line). Good bus and mainline rail links also serve the Tube.

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TRAIN Peckham Rye station has four services

per hour to London Bridge (12 minutes) and two services per hour to Victoria (15 minutes).

In addition, the Thameslink service serves major central stations including Blackfriars and St Pancras International.

CYCLING/WALKING Peckham is just three miles

from the South Bank making walking and cycling easy options. Surrey Canal Walk runs down the side of our building and into Burgess Park. This links up with cycle paths going into the City and West End via Elephant & Castle.

Cycle racks can be found around Library Square and Peckham Hill Street.

CAR Mountview has very limited parking for

disabled patrons only. Please call ahead to arrange use of this space. A public pay-anddisplay car park can be found behind the Aylesham Shopping Centre.

THE PLEASANCE, ISLINGTON ADDRESS Carpenters Mews, North Road, N7 9EF TUBE Caledonian Road (Piccadilly Line) RAIL Caledonian Road & Barnsbury (Rail) BUS 17 · 19 · 153 · 259 · 274 · 393 · N91 13

HIRE A SPACE LOOKING FOR WORKSPACE, REHEARSAL SPACE, STUDIOS OR A MEETING ROOM? Our new home in Peckham has a range of spaces to hire: • • • • • •

Co-work office space for independent creative practitioners Rooms for meetings and away days Studios for acting, dance and movement 195m2 professional rehearsal room with adjoining green room/office space available Music practice rooms 80-seat and 200-seat theatres

We offer discounts for not-for-profit and community groups.

For more information visit mountview.org.uk/hire or email mattnoble@mountview.org.uk

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RATES Commercial Studio

Hour

Evening/ Half day (4 hours)

Day (8 hours)

Week (Mon-Sat)

£

£

£

£

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500

2,500

Black Box/TV Studio

Commercial Not for Profit Community

55 45 30

165 135 90

330 270 180

1,650 1,350 900

Dance/Acting Studio

Commercial Not for Profit Community Alumni

45 35 25 15

135 105 75 45

270 210 150 90

1,350 1,050 750 450

Large Meeting Room

Commercial Not for Profit Community Alumni

25 20 10 8

75 60 30 24

150 120 60 48

750 600 -

Small Meeting/Practice Room

Commercial Not for Profit Community Alumni

20 15 8 4

60 45 24 12

120 90 48 24

600 450 240 -

Main House

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POA

Studio Theatre

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POA

All rates exclude VAT 15

DIARY FEB

MAR

THU 7

7.30PM

CRAZY FOR YOU

PL

FRI 8

7.30PM

CRAZY FOR YOU

PL

SAT 9

12PM · 5PM

CRAZY FOR YOU

PL

TUE 12

7.30PM

CRAZY FOR YOU

PL

WED 13

7.30PM

CRAZY FOR YOU

PL

WED 13

7.30PM

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

MV

THU 14

7.30PM

CRAZY FOR YOU

PL

THU 14

7PM

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

MV

FRI 15

7.30PM

CRAZY FOR YOU

FRI 15

7.30PM

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

SAT 16

12PM · 5PM

CRAZY FOR YOU

PL

SAT 16

2PM · 7.30PM SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

KEY

WED 6

7.30PM

DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE

MV

THU 7

7.30PM

DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE

MV

FRI 8

7.30PM

DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE

MV

SAT 9

12PM · 5PM

DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE

MV

SAT 16

7.30PM

HER NAKED SKIN

MV

MON 18

7.30PM

HER NAKED SKIN

MV

PL

TUE 19

7.30PM

HER NAKED SKIN

MV

MV

WED 20

2PM · 7.30PM HER NAKED SKIN

MV

WED 27

7.30PM

BOY

MV

THU 28

7.30PM

BOY

MV

FRI 29

7.30PM

BOY

MV

SAT 30

2PM · 7.30PM BOY

MV

MV

MV · BACKSTAGE THEATRE, MOUNTVIEW | PL

· THE PLEASANCE THEATRE, ISLINGTON

Southwark residents receive a discounted rate for our tickets with a Southwark Presents card. To get yours visit southwark.gov.uk and search 'Southwark Presents Card'.

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