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William
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Directed by Robert J. Williamson
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David
Davies Theseus & Oberon
David is an ensemble member of the British Shakespeare
Company, last year playing Chorus/Exeter in Henry V and
Dukes Frederick and Senior in As You Like It.
He finished 2007 with an extensive tour of Germany and Switzerland
for New Triad Theatre in Alan Ayckbourn’s Time and
Time Again. Other work for the BSC
includes Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and
Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet in 2006. He reprised
Capulet under RJ Williamson’s direction in Saffron Waldon.
A continuing good run with the company sees him in the film Sweet
Swan of Avon where the BSC provided its troupe of players.
David returned to England with the Bell Shakespeare Company’s
production of The Comedy of Errors to open the
Bath Shakespeare Festival 2006, and to play Blackpool’s
Grand Theatre. He studied acting at the National Institute of
Dramatic Arts in Sydney and has been an ensemble member of Bell
Shakespeare for 6 years playing the Sydney Opera House and touring
Australia. His theatrical highlight has been playing Hamlet for
The Hole in the Wall Theatre Company. Other companies he has
worked for include the Perth Theatre Company and Deckchair Theatre’s
1999 tour of Croatia and Bosnia with Nevesinska 17.
He has also played roles on television, including Stingers, The
Sleepover Club, and Bush Patrol, as
well as writing several plays including The Karismatic
Effekt and
his one man show Finchie about the legendary Australian
actor Peter Finch, based on Trader Faulkner’s biography,
which he hopes to perform soon.
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Daniela Lavender Hippolyta & Titania
Daniela Lavender was born in Bahia, Brazil, the
daughter of a professor of English. She studied journalism at PUC
University and Drama at Dirceu de Mattos College in Rio. She went
on to train at London International School of Acting and studied
Flamenco under Roberto Amaral and Yolanda Arroyo in Los Angeles.
Her work in theatre includes Elmire in Tartuffe and
Joan in Sexual
Perversity in
Chicago. TV includes EastEnders, Casualty and Manchild,
and her film credits include Longitude, Ali
G In Da House, Emotional
Backgammon (Best Acting Award at Denver World Film
Festival), and most recently Push for Lee
Daniels. She lives in Oxfordshire and has a cat called Busta.
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Richard Morrison Robin
Goodfellow (Puck) & Philostrate
Richard trained at LAMDA for 3 years and is an
ensemble member of the British Shakespeare Company. He has appeared
in many Shakespeare plays, most recently doing extracts from Henry
V at Chichester
Cathedral in a charity event for the Queen Alexander Hospital Home.
Other roles include Menenius in Coriolanus (Edinburgh),
Lord Grey in Richard III (Greenwich Playhouse),
and Simondes in Pericles (MaCowan
Theatre, London). This is Richard’s fifth season for
the BSC; previously he played Grumio in Taming
of the Shrew, Donalbain/1st
Murderer in Macbeth, Borachio in Much
Ado About Nothing, Antonio
in Twelfth Night and Puck in the 2005/6 BSC production
of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. His television and film
work includes Hope
and Glory (BBC), Family Affairs (Channel
5), Mid-Air
Collision (Sky 1), Summer
Job (Raddish films), and has appeared in many
army corporate training films for the MoD. Richard has
just finished playing the villain, Creepy Crawley the Caretaker,
in Warner Bros live stage production of Scooby
Doo Live: Stage Fright! and he would
have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!
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Barrie Palmer Peter
Quince & Egeus
Barrie trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre
School. His Shakespeare work includes the Comedy Season in 2005/6
with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, Newcastle
and London's West End, where he appeared in Twelfth Night and As
You Like It. Barrie is
an ensemble member of the British Shakespeare Company; in
2007 he toured playing Adam and Hymen in As
You Like It and
Bardolf and the Duke of Burgundy in Henry
V, and appeared as
the Duke of Clarence in the BSC’s film Sweet
Swan of Avon.
Since then he has been working hard with Robert J Williamson to
secure funding and sponsorship for the Company and is pleased
to have helped bring this production to Arundel. Last Christmas
he appeared
in Pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, playing Beauty's
father in Beauty and the Beast. Barrie has
also appeared alongside Ian Lavender in The Dresser, produced
by Kate O'Mara. His TV credits include EastEnders, Abolition, Silent
Witness, Jonathan
Creek and Children’s Promise. Barrie
is looking forward to continuing with the BSC into the future.
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Jacqueline Wilder Hermia
Since graduating from Webber Douglas, Jacqueline
has worked in both film and theatre. Theatre roles include
Luciana in The
Comedy of Errors at the Cliveden Shakespeare Festival,
Clara and Sarah in Trelawny of the ‘Wells’,
Mary in The
London Nativity, Steph
in Never Saw The Day and Katherine in Love's
Labour's Lost. Having
worked on several shorts, she made her feature film début as
Scarlett in All Bar Love, a British rom-com. Among
her other interests, Jacqueline also plays the harp and hopes one
day to be playing it in a costume drama!
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Oliver Farnworth Lysander
Oliver graduated from Bristol Old Vic in 2006
and was cast immediately as a new regular Will Hacket in Hollyoaks for Mersey Television. Theatre includes: Bloke in London
Plays: London Tongue at the Old Red Lion; Edmund in The
Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at the Redgrave Theatre; Simon in Jack
and the Beanstalk at the Cresset Theatre, Peterborough and most recently
Arthur in Saturday Night Sunday Morning at Harrogate Theatre and
Oldham Coliseum. Television: Nev Cartwright in The
Royal for Yorkshire
Television.
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Luciano Dodero Demetrius
Luciano trained at Guildhall and is an ensemble
member of the British Shakespeare Company, having played Tybalt
in Romeo
and Juliet and Demetrious in Dream in
their 2006 tour. He is delighted to be back for more open-air
Shakespeare. His theatre credits include
Error of their Ways (Cockpit Theatre), The
Tempest (Sheffield
Crucible and Riverside Studios), Frankenstein (Stephen
Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Measure for Measure (Rosemary
Branch Theatre),
Twelfth Night (Riverside Studios) and Wuthering
Heights (National
tour). His TV work has included Twentieth
Century Battlefields (BBC2), and he has
appeared in the films Inbetween (La Toyson
D'or Films), and Eric and Emma Forever (Silvertip
Productions). He is absolutely delighted to be going to Arundel
and exploring dreams and adventures.
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Catherine Lake Helena
Catherine Lake trained at Central School of Speech
and Drama. Theatre
credits include Educating Rita (Brussels), Flowers
of Red (Brighton
and Edinburgh Festivals), and the political musical Failed
States (The Pleasance, London). For the past two
years she has been a company member of the physical theatre ensemble,
Bottlefed. Her
work with the company includes Camille (shortlisted
for the One Act Lost Festival), Return to Reason (shortlisted
for Total Theatre Award) and part of the new Secrets season
at Southwark Playhouse. Forthcoming work with Bottlefed includes
further collaboration with Southwark Playhouse, and a tour of their
latest work Hold
Me Until You Break (Norway, London, Switzerland & Iceland). She
is delighted to be making her début with the British Shakespeare
Company for the Arundel Festival.
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Robert
J Williamson Director & Nick
Bottom
Robert was born in Yorkshire, and trained at
RADA, where he played Berowne in Love's Labour's
Lost. He is the
founder of the British Shakespeare Company, as well as the Edinburgh,
Brighton, Holland Park, Birmingham, Leicester, Kew Gardens, Nottingham,
Oxford and Leeds Shakespeare Festivals. After establishing his
Company and becoming the most successful open-air producer of Shakespeare
in the country, in 2003 he played both Touchstone in As
You Like It and the title role in Hamlet, directing both shows. Both productions
transferred to the West End at the Holland Park Theatre, making
Robert one of the only actor-managers in history to take a self-directed
Hamlet into London’s West End. His other Shakespearean actor-director
credits include: title roles in Henry V and Macbeth, Benedick in
Much Ado About Nothing, Feste in Twelfth
Night, Petruchio in The
Taming of the Shrew, Orlando and Jacques in As
You Like It, Mercutio
in Romeo and Juliet and Oberon/Theseus in A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream. For three successful years, Robert created and produced
the Holland Park Shakespeare Festival in London's West End, and
in 2006 the BSC became an international force in Shakespeare performance,
as Robert took the Company to Norway to begin an annual festival
at the billionaire philanthropist Petter Olsen's theatre on his
estate in Ramme Gaard. Last year Robert moved into film, beginning
work on Sweet Swan of Avon, a major feature drama-documentary,
in which he has directed and acted in a series of extracts from
Shakespeare’s works. The film will receive a major international
cinema release later this year. In 2006 Robert's campaign for a
National Shakespeare Day received huge press and cross-party support,
and his idea for educational Shakespeare Packs has recently become
government policy. Robert has dedicated his entire working life
to both his Company and to the works of William Shakespeare. While
he has lived in London for 17 years, he is now relocating himself
and the BSC to his native Yorkshire, in order to dedicate his time
to the construction of a replica of Shakespeare's Rose Theatre.
He is delighted his Company is performing before the Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk in the beautiful surroundings of Arundel Castle.
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Anthony Acosta Francis
Flute
Anthony Acosta was born to a Filipino mother
and Portuguese father. After receiving a BA English degree, he
went on to graduate from ArtsEd School of Acting where his credits
included Lucio in Measure for Measure and Caulfield in Funeral
Games. He appeared in a series of Chekhov farces for the Agent
Provocateur Theatre Company, and most recently he played the role
of Dumaine in Love’s Labour’s Lost for the Curious
Room Theatre Company. He is delighted to be making his BSC début.
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Kevin Brannagan Tom
Snout
Kevin Brannagan has been a jobbing actor since
Jesus played fullback for Galilee. His TV appearances include Coronation
Street, Emmerdale,
Merseybeat, Heartbeat, and The
League of Gentlemen. His film work
includes Going Off Big Time, Mixed
Reception, Early Retirement and
The Last Train. His theatre experience is long
and varied, from The
Marat/Sade to Educating Rita, King
Lear to Waiting for Godot. He
is currently involved in a two-man production of Macbeth that
will be touring in the new year. He appeared as Francis Bacon in
the BSC’s
contribution to the film Sweet Swan of Avon.
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Robert Crumpton Snug
Robert trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic
Art, following a degree in English and History at Jesus College,
Oxford. Robert is an ensemble member of the British Shakespeare
Company and this is his fourth year with them, having played Touchstone
in
As You Like It, the Dauphin in Henry
V, Benvolio in Romeo and
Juliet, and Tranio in The Taming
of the Shrew. Since last year
he has also been the Company’s literary director, and has
been working on the film Sweet Swan of Avon. He
recently played the King of Navarre in Love’s Labour’s
Lost at Brockwell
Park, and has also appeared as Julius in General
Strike 1926 at Conway Hall, Tony in Kiss
Me Like You Mean It at the Soho
Studio Theatre, the Black Prince in The
Six of Calais at Regent’s
Park, Alexei in 1905 at Brunswick House, and performed
in the ensemble of The Emperor Jones at the Gate
Theatre, Notting Hill. His TV and radio work includes the ITV drama Dead
Clever with
Helen Baxendale, and H - A Hiroshima Story for
BBC Radio 3. He has also lent his voice to the art installation Project
Man at
the Saatchi Gallery, and appeared in commercials for Philips
and Shell. He is delighted to be working with the BSC again in
such a lovely environment.
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Rebecca
Wicking Peaseblossom, a Fairy
Rebecca trained full-time at the Sylvia Young
Theatre School followed by Laine Theatre Arts. Her credits include Chess
in Concert (The Royal Albert Hall), Annie Get
Your Gun (Union Theatre), I Love You, You're
Perfect, Now Sing ... again! (Upstairs
at the Gatehouse), Odette (Guidecca Productions), Thursford
Christmas Spectacular, Jason & the Argonauts (New
Players Theatre), Dick Whittington (Gorleston
Pavilion), Mother Goose (Qdos), and Hogarth (Bridewell
Theatre). She has been a vocalist onboard P&O's Cruiseliner
Aurora and reached the final stages of the BBC2 Radio Voice of
Musical Theatre, and can be heard on the soundtracks for Lady
in the Dark (Original Cast CD for The National Theatre)
and The Beach (20th Century Fox). Rebecca will
be appearing at The Duchess Theatre (London) in September at
the Never Neverland concert singing the songs
of Scott Alan, and has recently released her debut Musical Theatre
album. For more information, please go to www.rebeccawicking.com
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Mackenzie
Rowswell Indian changeling child
Mackenzie, who at 5 1/2 is making his Shakespearean
début, attends Jellyroll Dance Drama and Singing group
in his home town of Chichester. He has a natural love of the
theatre and is a born performer. The BSC are delighted to have
him as part of the Company.
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Amy
Louise Smith Cobweb, a Fairy
Amy Louise Smith, 14, is a local girl attending
Chichester High School for Girls. She has taken dance and singing
classes since she was 5 and attended Jellyroll and then Chichester
Festival Youth Theatre where she had a role in the sell out production
of Arabian Nights. Amy has also modelled and
plays the saxophone. This is her Shakespearean début.
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Elyon Choreographer &
Mustardseed, a Fairy
Elyon was born in Angola and raised in England
as one of five children, and she is trilingual in English, Spanish
and Portuguese. She has a jovial nature and is enthusiastic to
the point of excitement when it comes to working with others
on creative projects. She believes in hard work but always injects
elements of excitement, positivity and of course fun into her
routines and rehearsals. As a dance choreographer she has expertise
in many different dance genres from traditional African to contemporary
European. Through the running of her own dance group in London
for young people, she loves being able to inspire and breed enthusiasm
in her pupils. Elyon has also over recent years taken up a role
as a vocal coach, training singers both individually and in groups,
often for theatrical performances. She is a co-founder of a performing
arts scheme called V.I.P. Singing is another of her great passions
in life and she plays a large role at her church in North London,
taking a leading role in the services there and also around England.
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THE WIND QUARTET MUSICIANS
Samuel Baines, Amy Hargreaves, Lorna Rathborn & Katherine Bettelley |
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FOR THE COMPANY
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Artistic Director
Robert J Williamson |
Company
Manager
Barrie Palmer |
BSC Literary Director
Robert Crumpton |
Crew
Richard Patch |
Choreographer
Elyon |
Website & Marketing Material
Chris Hopkins / Design
Forte |
Fight Director
Robert J Williamson |
Publicity Co-ordinator
Helen Maleed |
Production Assistant
Jo Short |
Administration & Accounting
Jill Roca |
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