Big Bear Theatre Company is delighted to announce our cast for Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief Park Theatre May 14 -June 8
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Alice Bailey Johnson plays Desdemona.
Her theatre credits include OH! What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Solid Air (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Three Lions (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh), Noises Off (Novello Theatre), Stepping Out (Salisbury Playhouse). Screen credits include Mike Leigh’s new film MR Turner. |
Ingrid Lacey plays Emilia
Theatre: The Astronaut's Chair (Plymouth Drum Theatre), 5@50 (Royal Exchange, Manchester) Elling (The Bush and Trafalgar Studios), Knight of the Burning Pestle (YoungVic/Colchester), Blood, Our Late Night (Royal Court), Gone to LA (Hampstead Theatre), After the Rain (Gate Theatre), Charley's Aunt (Derby), The Railway Children, Touched (Oldham Coliseum), Squaring The Circle, History of Mr Polly, The Last Supper (Contact Theatre, Manchester), Outside Edge, Killing of Sister George (Watermill Theatre), The Magistrate, Enemy Of The People, Cinderella, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Country Wife, Widower's Houses, Good Morning Bill (Bristol Old Vic). Television includes: New Tricks, Skins, The Return of Tracy Beaker, The Bill, Doctors, Casualty, Bedtime, The Last Detective, Heartbeat, Getting Hurt, Pie in the Sky, Drop the Dead Donkey, Look at the State We’re In, The Chief, A Woman’s Guide to Adultery, White Girls on Dope, Harry Enfield's TV Programme, Sweating Bullets (USA), She Wolf of London (USA), Never Come Back, Saracen, The Two of Us, Inspector Morse, Northanger Abbey, Thunder Rock. Film: The Cat’s Meow (USA), In Love and War (USA) and The Funny Man Ingrid is co-founder of Face to Face which specialises in communication skills coaching in business. www.facetofacetraining.com |
Ursula Early plays Bianca
Ursula Early’s stage acting credits include The Endings (Soho Theatre & Nottingham Playhouse), Wives As They Were Maids As They Are and Animal Magnetism (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and Haymarket, Basingstoke), Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night (Cambridge Shakespeare Company), Powerhouse (Pleasance Theatre London & Edinburgh), Guests (Hall For Cornwall), Diamond (Kings Head), Blame (Sphinx Theatre Company – Tour), On screen Ursula has been seen in The Bill, Life Begins (ITV) and the independent film The Life Class (Through The Fire Productions). Ursula is the Artistic Director and producer for them she has produced Laugh Your Farce Off - a regular night of new farces (Pleasance, Islington and Pleasance Edinburgh), A Bold Stroke For A Husband (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds & Bridewell) and Big Bear commissioned Double Indignity (Bridewell Theatre). In 2012 she was invited to be a producer on Old Vic New Voices TS Eliot US/UK Exchange. |
Big Bear in association with Park Theatre are delighted to announce the next production...
DESDEMONA: A PLAY ABOUT A HANDKERCHIEF
By Paula Vogel
A deliciously demented version of Othello.
May 13th - June 8th 2014
FOLLOW LINK TO BOOK TICKETS: http://parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/desdemona
Desdemona's fate hinges on the location of a handkerchief...In this hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic play, playwright Paula Vogel exposes a very different side to Othello’s wife: a volatile and passionate young woman who revels in bawdy tales of conquest – much to the chagrin of her long suffering maid, Emilia, and the entertainment of local prostitute, Bianca.
Against the backdrop of a misogynistic sixteenth century world, Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief tells the wild but timeless tale of three very different women - who form an unlikely friendship fighting against the roles in which society has placed them.
Paula Vogel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her play ‘How I Learned to Drive’, and an Obie Award for ‘the Baltimore Waltz’. Her plays have been performed on Broadway and across the world.
Directed by James Bounds
Produced by Ursula Early
Image by Sam Cope at Strawberry Cake Ltd
DESDEMONA: A PLAY ABOUT A HANDKERCHIEF
By Paula Vogel
A deliciously demented version of Othello.
May 13th - June 8th 2014
FOLLOW LINK TO BOOK TICKETS: http://parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/desdemona
Desdemona's fate hinges on the location of a handkerchief...In this hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic play, playwright Paula Vogel exposes a very different side to Othello’s wife: a volatile and passionate young woman who revels in bawdy tales of conquest – much to the chagrin of her long suffering maid, Emilia, and the entertainment of local prostitute, Bianca.
Against the backdrop of a misogynistic sixteenth century world, Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief tells the wild but timeless tale of three very different women - who form an unlikely friendship fighting against the roles in which society has placed them.
Paula Vogel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her play ‘How I Learned to Drive’, and an Obie Award for ‘the Baltimore Waltz’. Her plays have been performed on Broadway and across the world.
Directed by James Bounds
Produced by Ursula Early
Image by Sam Cope at Strawberry Cake Ltd
FOLLOW LINK TO BOOK TICKETS: http://parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/desdemona
