THE POWER OF LOVE


 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 stemp
 

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 cunningham
 

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 scotson
 

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 grant
 

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 dillinger
 

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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