WHAT?
Our first project will feature an award winning play by Jaan Tätte, one of Estonia's most influential playwrights in the modern era. His work "Happy Everyday!" ("Palju õnne argipäevaks!"), a situation comedy, won the Baltic Assembly Literature Prize in 2002.
The events seem to be totally absurd at first sight: a wife informs her husband that she is in love and suggests him to arrange a ménage a trois. However all is not as it seems.
WHO?
The Production Team:
Liisa Smith - Director
Angus Moncrieff - Composer
London native Angus Moncrieff is a composer, orchestrator, trumpet player and educator. Credits as composer include ITV's Primeval, as well as numerous short films and trailers. He has orchestrated for ITV's Marple, BBC's Dracula and Life Line, and films including Riprendimi and Scenes of a Sexual Nature.
Angus is also very active in the London jazz scene as a trumpet player, writer and band leader, and has performed at London jazz venues including the 606 Club, Pizza Express in Soho and The Vortex. He also works as Musical Director of a community big band, and teaches brass and music theory privately.
Angus graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he was the recipient of various scholarships, including the Georges Delerue Award (for Film Scoring) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Award (for Jazz Composition).
Cara Newman - Set & Costume Design
Cara graduated from the Wimbledon College of Art in 2009. In November she exhibited her work of The Duchess of Malfi at the National Theatre as one of the Linbury Prize Finalists. She is currently assisting David Farley on Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory) and Charlie Edwards on Adriana Lecouvreur (Royal Opera House). Future productions include Dido and Aeneas (St Pauls Church, Sept 2010). Past credits: The Rivals (Southwark Playhouse, 2010), The Woman Before (Soho studio and Brockley Jack, 2009), His Purple Garden (Chapter House, Merton Abbey, 2009). http://web.me.com/cara_newman/caranewman
Merilyn Püss - Lights, Graphics & Photography
Merilyn Püss, originally from South-East Estonia, has made it to London while chasing a dream, currently doing her MA in Aural and Visual Cultures in Goldsmiths. With a degree in photography, she is inspired by people and performing arts that she loves to explore with a camera.
Merike Taal - Press Officer
The Cast:
Annabel Pemberton - Annette
Since graduating from Rose Bruford College, Annabel has specialised in new writing, including Fighting (Brockley Jack Theatre), After Circles (Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe), For Once I Was ... (Tristan Bates), Theatre Grand Slam (Zeitgeist Theatre). Before that she performed in Melbourne, including Picasso's Women (Butterfly Club), After the Fall - The Women of Troy (Freefall Theatre), Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's Last Night on Earth (Melbourne Shakespeare Festival) and on TV in Blue Heelers. Annabel has also performed in French for the Melbourne French Theatre and a French poetry recital for the National Gallery of Victoria. Annabel is currently looking for representation.
Lucy Laing - Anna
Lucy trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Her most recent theatre credits include The Blue Lady in 'Cuckold's Fair' at The Barons Court Theatre and as Claire in 'Little Fish' at The Space. Her next venture will see her retuning to the Barons Court Theatre in July for the two hander 'Blind Spots'.
Previous theatre roles include:- Titania, 'A Midsummer Nights Dream', Lisa, 'The Glory of Living', Rebecca 'A Chorus of Disapproval', and Elizabeth in ‘The Crucible’; Magic Hat Production and The Life of Timon', CP Productions.
Full details can be found at www.lucylaing.co.uk
David Swain - Manfred
The bulk of David’s work has been in the realm of theatre with works ranging from Shakespeare (As You Like It (Jacques), The Comedy of Errors (Egeon), The Tempest (Caliban) and Hamlet (Hamlet)) to David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) via Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and F***ing) and a variety of productions from new and upcoming writers.
Film is his second most worked in medium with a host of feature and short film credits.
David’s training includes courses at: Arts Educational, Birmingham School of Acting, Central School of Speech and Drama and East 15.
Kevin Potton - Fred
Kevin was born in Scotland of an Irish mother. He started the piano, aged 8, proceeding through all the classical grades by 14 and was a competition pianist. He read his first degree in music at UEA, Norwich, and subsequently won a county council scholarship to continue his studies in singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London under the eminent opera baritone, Derek Hammond Stroud, O.B.E. He then worked as a classical session singer for London Voices with whom he appeared in several Verdi opera recordings and film soundtracks including Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. He then trained for 3 years at East 15 Acting School. He was flown to Las Vegas to rehearse for an 8 month contract aboard the 5-star Japanese cruise ship, M/S Asuka, as the Male Principal Singer in 5 large-scale musical theatre shows, touring Japan, China and Taiwan. He has completed several short films this year and has been cast in his first 2 feature film roles, one as a Pole and the other as an Austrian, both shooting in the summer. His most recent theatre work includes playing Peter Mandelson in The Sitcom Trials at the Leicester Square Theatre. He appears regularly for London Irish Theatre – last month in a trip to the Isle-of-Man, presenting a 2-hander issue play to open the country’s conference on adult abuse in care homes. He has also just completed a short run of John Dunne’s play, Day Centre, for the London Irish in Camden Town. He is due to appear at this year’s Camden Fringe Festival at the Etcetera Theatre, 21, 22, 23 August, 10.30pm in a madcap comedic 2-hander, The Will, an original work with songs, written by David Doyle.
WHEN & WHERE?
The staging of the play will take place at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town in May & June 2010. The opening night will be on the May 25th if you want to mark that in your calendar.
You can learn more about the venue here:
http://www.giantolive.com/whats-on/happy-everyday.html
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