The Yellow Wallpaper - Digital Programme

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

WELCOME FROM ANDA WINTERS

Welcome to the Coronet Theatre, where we are honoured to present Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s iconic work, The Yellow Wallpaper , under the capable direction of Stephanie Mohr.

The Yellow Wallpaper remains a powerful exploration of timeless themes, including women’s inequality and the often-silenced issues of postpartum depression and the psychological pressures of motherhood. These are topics that are still not openly discussed enough in our society.

In this production, we have sought to delve into the central character’s psychology through innovative digital technology. Our projection serves as a window into the tortured mind, offering you an intimate glimpse into her world.

Our exceptional performers, Aurélia Thiérrée, who delivers a haunting and emotionally charged monologue, and Fukiko Takase, who masterfully connects two distinct spaces, will guide you through a journey that explores the depths of the human psyche and the intricate struggles faced by women in an era when their voices were too often suppressed.

Thank you for joining us on this extraordinary journey.

Anda Winters Artistic Director The Coronet Theatre

Photo– David Jensen

WELCOME FROM STEPHANIE MOHR

Written in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novella pioneered a different way of thinking. It deeply affected generations of women, allowing them to more openly discuss mental health and post-natal depression. The Yellow Wallpaper offered a new way of writing from an internal and subjective perspective. For me, and many others, this seminal feminist text explores what it means to be in a corset of society’s expectations.

The Coronet Theatre presents a performance across both the auditorium and the studio for the first time ever, linking the two spaces through the medium of live video. We made the decision to stage this intensely singular, semiautobiographical story with two performers. Presented in juxtaposition, and at times in harmony, Fukiko and Aurelia reflect the duality of the protagonist’s inner and outer existence.

We explore the timeless struggles that women face in performing their life in society and what it means to occupy a woman’s ‘role’.

In order to capture the spirit of this story, it was important to me to preserve the text and present each word intact. With its rich history, The Coronet Theatre felt like the perfect space to honour the impact of this book on all of us.

I’m excited to return here after the success of Youth Without God to present this adaptation and contribute to the building’s cinematic heritage with a production that brings film and theatre together as one.

Stephanie Mohr Director

Photo – Hugo Glendinning

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

CAST

Aurélia Thiérrée

Fukiko Takase

CREATIVES

Based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Director

Stephanie Mohr

Choreography

Fukiko Takase

Sound Designer

Mike Winship

Lighting Designer

Eduardo Strike

Video Consultant

MJ Holland

Stage Manager

Nick Graham

Photo – Hugo Glendinning

IN REHEARSAL

CAST

AURÉLIA THIERRÉE

Aurélia Thiérrée grew up performing in her parents shows, Victoria Thiérrée Chaplin and Jean Baptiste Thiérrée: Le Cirque Imaginaire and Le Cirque Invisible. She starred in three shows directed and created by Victoria Thiérrée Chaplin: Aurelia’s Oratorio which toured the world for eight years, Murmurs for seven years and currently Bells and Spells which was at The Coronet in 2019 and which will be seen in Paris next month.

Thiérrée has worked in cabaret in Berlin (Winter Garden) and toured with The Tiger Lilies in The Tiger Lilies Circus . Theatre work includes with Dorian Rossel in Le Dernier Metro and Tous Les Poetes Habitent Valparaiso ; Razerka Lavant in La Dame au Petit Chien , and at the Paris Opera with Deborah Warner in La Traviata

She’s appeared in many films, including those by directors Milos Forman, Guillaume Nicloux, Constance Meyer, Jalil Lespert and Jacques Baratier.

FUKIKO TAKASE

Fukiko Takase was born in New York but raised in Japan where she trained with Katsuko Orita. After receiving the Cultural Affairs Fellowship from the Japanese government, she moved to Europe to study at Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy and the London Contemporary Dance School.

Fukiko then worked with the Henri Oguike and Wayne McGregor dance companies before making her way as an independent solo artist. Her work includes 1001 with Dustin O’Halloran premiered in Minneapolis, USA, Don Juan Techno Club with Daniel Brandt and Frieder Nagel premiered in Nuremberg, Germany as well as performing Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece in 2019.

She featured in Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace video Ingenue , as well as choreographing for Daniel Brandt and Hikaru Utada. In 2018 she choreographed and toured Japan with Hikaru Utada’s anniversary concert tour, performing for 140,000 people. Fukiko danced for Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined , and has become Honourable Professor for Shikoku University in 2022. Choreographed UMITOKAMI which collaborates with Japanese traditional instruments and puppet theatre Joruri, performed in 2022 and 2023.

CREATIVE TEAM

Stephanie Mohr Director

Stephanie Mohr is a multi-award winning director who was born in Genoa and grew up in Paris and Vienna. She trained as an Assistant Director at Austria’s National Theatre, the Burgtheater, and has since been working freelance in Vienna (Theater in der Josefstadt, Volkstheater, Burgtheater, Schauspielhaus), Frankfurt, Linz, Mannheim, Klagenfurt, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Kiel, Regensburg, Bochum, Duisburg (Ruhr Triennale), Munich (Gärtnerplatztheater, Kammerspiele) and Aixen-Provence.

She made her UK debut directing Youth without God by Christopher Hampton after Ödön von Horváth at the Coronet Theatre in 2019. Most recent work includes Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi in Linz, Horváth’s A Child of Our Time at Theater in der Josefstadt (Vienna) and the world premiere of Peter Turrini’s Es muss geschieden sein at Raimundspiele Gutenstein Festival.

https://www.stephaniemohrregie.com

Mike Winship Sound Designer

Mike is originally from Newcastle upon Tyne and studied Drama & Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths College. He was a member of the National Theatre’s Sound & Video department for over a decade before becoming freelance. He has designed sound for theatre, dance, film, art installations and audio drama. Based in London, Mike has worked across the UK, as well as in Europe and the USA.

Recent sound design work includes: Requardt & Rosenberg’s Super Normal Extra Natural (The

Place/Croydon Whitgift Centre); Complicité’s climate change film Can I Live? ; Nua Dance’s Noise (BBC Dance Passion online and The Place); Anna X (Harold Pinter Theatre & Sky Arts) and Youth Without God (Coronet).

www.mikewinship.com

Eduardo Strike Lighting Designer

Eduardo Strike’s lighting design work in theatre includes Bad Ladz at the Wimbledon New Theatre Studio, Happy Hour at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, and Princess Ida at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall.

Previously he has worked as Technical Manager of the ADC Theatre in Cambridge, Relighter on Twopence to Cross the Mersey (UK Tour), and Technical Deputy Stage Manager on Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (UK Tour).

MJ Holland Video Consultant

MJ recently worked as head of video for Derren Brown’s Showman . His previous credits include Russell Maliphant Conceal|Reveal as well as Maliphantworks 1 and 2 at the Coronet, Hofesh Shechter Company’s Grand Finale and Political Mother and Eastman’s Tezuka

MJ studied Lighting Design at Rose Bruford College, but moved into video after graduating purely by accident when he was offered an international tour that was promised to be ‘just a laptop with some short clips’ that turned into so much more! He would like to thank all that helped him get here, particularly Adam Carrée of Sadlers Wells and Nick Hillel of Yeast Culture.

Photo – Hugo Glendinning

POETRY AT THE CORONET

POETRY CLUB: DON PATERSON & NICK LAIRD

24 Sep

The fourth event in our 2023 series marking the 10th anniversary of Poetry Club will be a reading by Don Paterson, Scottish poet and writer, whose many awards include winning the T.S. Eliot prize twice, and will read alongside multi awardwinning Irish poet Nick Laird

YANG LIAN & YOYO: AN EVENING OF POETRY

01 Oct

Award-winning poets Yang Lian and YoYo present a special evening of poetry, reading their respective collections A Tower Built Downwards and One Man’s Decision to Become a Tree.

POETRY CLUB: DALJIT NAGRA,

MATTHEW HOLLIS & MONA ARSHI

19 Oct

The fifth instalment in the 10th anniversary series features Forward Prize, SouthBank Show Decibel Award and Cholmondeley Award winner Daljit Nagra, award-winning biographer, editor and poet Matthew Hollis and Forward Prize winner Mona Arshi.

IRENE SANTORI: THE BOOK OF LIQUIDS

16 Nov

Italian award-winning poet, translator and essayist Irene Santori reads from her 2021 collection The Book of Liquids. Accompanied by musician Jacopo Dell’Erba, Santori delivers a dreamlike diorama of shared experiences through time.

Photo – Hugo Glendinning

PAULA QUINTANA

LAS ALEGRÍAS

27 - 28 Oct

The UK premiere of acclaimed dancer and choreographer Paula Quintana’s award-winning solo dance piece Las Alegrías ( The Joys ).

The UK premiere of an explosive piece from Switzerland’s next generation of hip-hop dance.

COMPANY MEK

FATHER POLITICS

23 - 24 Nov

LUIGIA RIVA & DANIELE DEROSSI A TRIPLE BILL

10 - 11 Nov

A daring and thoughtprovoking evening of performance art blending dance, biology and sound.

THE CORONET THEATRE TEAM

Artistic Director & CEO

Anda Winters

General Manager

Andy McDonald

Senior Producer

Hetty Shand

Finance Manager

Andrew Michel

Company & Production Coordinator

Emma Smith

Producer

Daphne Seale

Assistant Producer / PA to Artistic Director

Lola Gabellini

Associate Producer

Cathy Lewis

Social Media Manager

Alex Hick

Marketing Manager (Freelance)

Elliot Hall

Press Representative

Sharon Kean

Poetry Coordinator

Marion Manning

Audience Experience Manager

Giudi Di Gesaro

Box Office Assistant

Ivana Dieli

Duty Managers

Francesca Battinieri

Renata Wilson

Adrielle Feliciano

Riccardo Tito Pescini

Front of House Staff

Maria Lisberg-Jonasson

Brian Maitland

Nadia Qashou

Andreane Rellou

Ewa Emini

Zsuzsa Magyar

Sua Tsubokura-Aguiriano

Maya Giulivi

Samuel Tannenbaum

Hazel Townsend

Daniel Camou

Elias Giulivi

Sofia Bitelli

Kelsey Moebius

Thea Gavanski

Trustees

Linda Bernhardt

Mike Fisher

Mimi Gilligan

Jane Quinn

Anda Winters

Bill Winters (Chair)

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DEAD POETS

LIVE: SYLVIA PLATH

FEATURING DENISE GOUGH

17 - 18 Nov

Two-time Olivier

Award winner Denise Gough and Dead Poets Live return to The Coronet Theatre to explore the life of Sylvia Plath.

and powerful dramatic monologue by Northern Irish poet Louis MacNeice.

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AUTUMN WINTER 2023

POETRY CLUB

A series of spellbinding readings from some of the UK’s most acclaimed poets.

DON PATERSON & NICK LAIRD

24 Sep

DALJIT NAGRA, MATTHEW HOLLIS & MONA ARSHI

19 Oct

YANG LIAN & YOYO: AN EVENING OF POETRY

01 Oct

Award-winning poets Yang Lian and YoYo present a special evening of poetry readings from their latest collections.

TATTOOIST DOY: CORONET SPECIAL EVENT

09 Oct

Selected as world’s top five tattooists by The Guardian, Tattooist Doy will perform a Korean style live tattoo on stage, accompanied by music.

PAULA QUINTANA

LAS ALEGRÍAS

27 - 28 Oct

Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Paula Quintana brings her awardwinning solo dance piece to The Coronet Theatre for its UK premiere.

LUIGIA RIVA & DANIELE DEROSSI

A TRIPLE BILL

10 - 11 Nov

A daring and thought-provoking evening of performance art blending dance, biology and sound.

IRENE SANTORI:

THE BOOK OF LIQUIDS

16 Nov

Italian award-winning poet, translator and essayist Irene Santori reads from her 2021 collection, accompanied by musician Jacopo Dell’Erba.

DEAD POETS LIVE:

SYLVIA PLATH

17 - 18 Nov

Two-time Olivier Award winner Denise Gough returns to The Coronet Theatre with Dead Poets Live to explore the life of Sylvia Plath, in ‘a stellar performance’ (Times Literary Supplement).

COMPANY MEK

FATHER POLITICS

23 - 24 Nov

The UK premiere of an explosive piece from Switzerland’s next generation of hip-hop dance.

BALLET BLACK:

THEN OR NOW

01 Dec

A powerful classical ballet film set against the backdrop of Adrienne Rich’s poetry, followed by a post-show discussion with with members of the artistic team.

DEAD POETS LIVE:

AUTUMN JOURNAL

03 Dec

A thrillingly intimate and powerful dramatic monologue by Northern Irish poet Louis MacNeice, featuring Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment; Normal People).