who's
who
written by
sebastian
michael
directed by
michael cabot
designed by
jennifer hayton
lighting design
by daryl chapman
produced
by lucille o'flanagan
cast in order
of speaking
eugen
richard stemp
tender
richard cunningham
willow
emma scotson
jo juliet
moore
daniel
gary grant
paul
james dillinger
michael
& michael
in association
with
the southwark
playhouse
present
a new play
about life on the edge of the century
THE
POWER OF LOVE
michael
& michael
Sebastian
Michael and Michael Cabot both trained at the Drama Studio London and started
working together as a translator team, which led to their first productions
of Horvàth's Judgment Day (Chelsea Centre Theatre) and Frisch's
Andorra (New End Theatre) with the London Classic Theatre Company.
As Michael & Michael they then translated and produced the British
premiere of Dea Loher's award-winning play Tattoo (New Grove Theatre)
and with London Classic staged a new translation of Lorca's Yerma
at the Southwark Playhouse. This is their first collaboration as
a writer/director team.
sebastian
michael writer
THE POWER OF LOVE
is
Sebastian's first play to be staged in London in seven years. Previous
writing credits in Britain include Sisters and QED (Edinburgh
Fringe), All The World (Etcetera Theatre) and Exit (Canal
Café Theatre). Sebastian has written a musical, Monstersound,
which reached the shortlist of the Musical of the Year Competition in Copehagen
1997 and the screenplay for a feature film. Sebastian has worked
variously as a writer, translator, producer, director and actor, he is
a founder member of music comedy act Kissing
the Goldfish and now also appears as a solo performer, most recently
in his first full-length show agreeably mad
at the Finborough Theatre which can be seen again at The Canal Café
Theatre in September.
michael
cabot director
Directing
credits include: Andorra (New End), Woyzeck and Judgment
Day (Chelsea Centre), Tattoo (New Grove), A Midsummer Night's
Dream (New End), Yerma (Southwark Playhouse), Love in A Wood
(New End), a new adaptation of Oliver Twist (Radlett Arts Centre),
Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (SYP Productions) and currently
in production The Country Wife (Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate).
Michael is Artistic Director of The London Classic Theatre Company.
lucille
o'flanagan producer
Lucille
is a theate director of ten years' experience usually found fronting K&B
Productions as director/producer with such productions as: Ken &
Barb - A Day in the Life of a Supermodel by Stephen Dinsdale (Gilded
Balloon, Edinburgh and 10-week National Tour), Dangerous Play by
Andrew Loudon (Arts Theatre) and Road Rage (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh).
She also runs the Oranje Boom Boom comedy club in London and is expanding
into the Midlands.
jennifer
hayton designer
Jennifer
runs the 3-Dimensional Design and Costume Construction Workshop at Dartington
College of Arts. Her design credits include: Stylist on Road Rage,
Costume Designer on Iago: Stands Accused of Villainous Secrets (Mind
Your Head Theatre Company at Bristol New Vic Studio), and Costume &
Set Design for The Coast of Bohemia (Brno Festival, Czech Republic).
daryl
chapman lighting designer
Daryl
has studied courses in Technical Theatre and Lighting Design at both
the
University of Glamorgan and the Welsh College of Music & Drama.
He has
worked
extensively within the live music industry as a sound and lighting
engineer
with bands such as 'Catatonia', 'Stereophonics' and 'Dodgy' to
name
but a few. The design for this production marks his return to his
roots
in Theatre Lighting.
richard
stemp eugen
Richard
trained at Clare College, Cambridge, and the Academy of Live and Recorded
Arts (ALRA). His roles have varied from young boys (Hansel in Hansel
and Gretel) to elderly animals (Badger in Wind in the Willows)
and from romantic heroes (Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Cleveland
in the belated premiere of Fanny Burney's A Busy Day) to self-confessed
sluts (Audrey in As You Like It, in which he also played Orlando
and Sundry Lords). Recent credits include Oliver in Nick Dear's
The Art of Success, Cassius in Julius Caesar and Caryl
Churchill's Cloud 9 in which he played Clive and Cathy.
richard
cunningham tender
Richard
trained at LAMDA. Theatre credits include Malcolm in Macbeth (Pentameters),
Wife Begins at Forty, The Hollow (Colchester), A Private
Renaissance (Exile Theatre), The Snow Queen (Canterbury) Wife
Begins At Forty (UK Tour), Ravings; Dreamings (Manchester Library),
My Cousin Rachel and Dromio in Comedy of Errors (Colchester),
Noises Off, Great Expectations (Hornchurch), Philip
in You Never Can Tell (UK Tour), Indian Ink (Aldwych), The
Age of Bel Canto (Purcell Room). Film/TV includes Ole
and Strange But True for LWT.
emma
scotson willow
Emma
left Guildford School of Acting last year with the Principal's Award.
Film work includes: The Price for last year's Stella Screen Tour
(also shown at this year's World Cup and worldwide), Goats (Phillip
Schmassman), Blood and Chocolate (Ella Galaher) and Poems (BFS).
Theatre includes A Christmas Carol (The Colourhouse Theatre) and
Dracula (The White Bear). Television: Front Row
(Cable).
juliet
moore jo
Juliet
trained at Rose Bruford Drama School and the National Youth Theatre.
Theatre credits include: The Canterville Ghost, Wuthering Heights (ACT
Paris), End of the World Romance (Recreation Theatre Company, Sadlers
Wells), Freddy and the Cloven Hoof (Vienna's English Theatre),
Casablanca (Mac Theatre), Gremlins in the Works (Derby Playhouse,
Mermaid Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Globe Players), Caucasian
Chalk Circle (Newcastle Playhouse), The Kitchen (Buxton Opera
House/Bloomsbury Theatre) and The Musician (Guitarist) in Yerma
with Michael&Michael/The London Classic Theatre Company at The Southwark
Playhouse. Juliet has just filmed a pilot comedy show, Edit 2,
for Channel 4.
gary
grant daniel
Gary
is twenty-one and has just finished working on a pilot for a Granada Television
series. He is making his first stage appearance since taking the
lead in George MacEwan Green's One Season's King two years ago.
In the meantime, he has worked solely for screen, including credits such
as a major Nike campaign and Quarantine for LWT. Gary goes
straight from here to start work on a new play at the Pentameters and will
also be filming a British made science fiction movie.
james dillinger
paul, waiter and stage management
James has just graduated from the Guildford School of Acting, and this is his first public appearance. Parts played in training include Buckle in Dick Whittington and Wondercat, Ted Washbrook in A Chorus of Disapproval, Walter and Joe in Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens and chorus member in Kiss of the Spider Woman. James is originally from East London and a former member of the Half Moon Young People's Theatre in Bow.
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