The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes (2 page)

CREATIVE TEAM

NICOLAS KENT
(Director)

Started his career at Liverpool Playhouse in 1967 as an ABC TV trainee regional theatre director. In 1970 he became Artistic Director of the Watermill Theatre, from 1970-72 Associate Director of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and from 1976-81 Administrative Director of The Oxford Playhouse Company. From 1984-2012 he was Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre in London.

He has directed productions in over 100 theatres around the world including the West End and New York; as well as for notable companies in Great Britain including The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court, The Donmar Warehouse, The Hampstead Theatre, the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and the Young Vic.

He is probably best known for the political work he did at Tricycle Theatre, where the verbatim plays he directed became known as the Tricycle Tribunal plays, and included
The Colour of Justice (the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry), Nuremberg, Srebrenica, Bloody Sunday
(Olivier Award for Special Achievement),
Guantanamo
&
The Riots
. Most were broadcast by the BBC, and two were performed in the Houses of Parliament and on Capitol Hill. They constituted a body of work which won the
Evening Standard
Theatre Awards Special Award for “pioneering political theatre”.

In 2009 directed the nine-hour trilogy
The Great Game – Afghanistan
which was nominated for an Olivier award in London, and subsequently toured the USA; as well as two command performances for the Pentagon in Washington in 2011. One year later he directed an eight play series:
The Bomb: a partial history

He has also directed many plays in the USA both regionally and in New York, on BBC TV and radio. Most recently he directed David Greig’s
Letter of Last Resort
for BBC Radio 4, and his own translation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s
I just don’t believe it
with Michael Gambon & Frances de La Tour at the 2013 Cheltenham Literary Festival

He was awarded an Honorary Degree at Westminster University in 2006, the Liberty Human Rights Award 2010 and the first ever Freedom of the Borough of Brent in 2012.

ELLAN PARRY
(Designer)

Is a previous winner of the Jocelyn Herbert Award and a Linbury Prize Finalist. Recent designs include
El Ni
ñ
o
(dir. John la Bouchardiere, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, USA), the world premier of new opera
Neige
(dir. Catherine Kontz, Grand Theatre de Ville, Luxembourg),
The Miser, (
dir. Nancy Meckler, Watermill Theatre, Newbury),
Noye’s Fludde
(dir. Olivia Fuchs, Southbank Centre, London),
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, (
dir. Caroline Leslie, the Theatre, Chipping Norton),
The Secret Marriage
(dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans, British Youth Opera, Peacock Theatre, London),
The Fairy Queen
(dir. Susannah Waters, Brighton Theatre Royal),
Without You
(dir. Steve Maler, Menier Chocolate Factory, London, and the Panasonic Theatre, Toronto – co-designer with Timothy Bird),
Electric Hotel
(Fuel/Sadlers Wells, dir. David Rosenberg, national tour – costume designer),
Sense & Sensibility
(dir. Helen Tennison, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and touring, nominated for Off West End Award – Best Design), and community productions of
Carmen
(dir. James Hurley, Sadlers Wells, London) and
The Magic Flute
(dir. Andrew Leveson, Glyndebourne). Ellan trained at Motley and Wimbledon School of Art.

MATTHEW EAGLAND
(Lighting Designer)

Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before eventually heading the lighting departments of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Cambridge Arts Theatre, and has subsequently designed the lighting for many productions throughout the UK and around the World.

Recent productions include:
Variation on a Theme
and
This Was A man
(both at The Finborough),
Ignis
(The Print Room),
It’s a Wonderful Life
(Pitlochry Festival Theatre),
Kindertransport
(National Tour),
September in the Rain
(National Tour),
Mansfield Park
(National Tour),
The West End Men
(The Vaudeville),
I Lombardi
(UCO), Alan Ayckbourn’s
Intimate Exchanges
cycle of plays (Mercury Colchester),
Flow
(The Print Room),
Haunting Julia
(Tour), Derren Brown’s
Svengali, Cool Hand Luke
(Aldwych Theatre), and
Broken Glass
(Vaudeville Theatre).

Other highlights…
Plays
:
Terre Haute
(Trafalgar Studios and 59E59 Theater, New York),
The Secret of Sherlock Holmes
Duchess Theatre,
Our Man in Havana
(Nottingham Playhouse),
Carrie’s War
(The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue),
Darwin in Malibu
(Birmingham Rep),
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
(Nottingham Playhouse),
My Boy Jack
(National tour),
An Hour and a Half Late
(Theatre Royal Bath Productions),
Little Women
(Duchess Theatre) and
Copenhagen
(Watford Palace).
Musicals
:
Assassins, A Little Night Music, Company,
Grand Hotel
(Royal Academy of Music)
Alfie
(Watford Palace) and
Murderous Instincts
(Savoy Theatre).
Opera
:
La Traviata, L Elisir di Amore, La Finta Semplice, Jacko’s Hour, The Long Christmas Dinner
and
The Dinner Engagement
(double bill),
L’Heure Espagnol
and
Gianni Schicchi
(double bill).

ANDY GRAHAM
(Sound Designer)

Graduated from Mountview Theatre School in 2001 with a BA (Hons) in Technical Theatre. As a sound operator, credits include
The King & I, The Full Monty, Contact, Jerry Springer The Opera
(Olivier Award for Best Sound),
Guys And Dolls
(Olivier Nomination),
The Lord Of The Rings
(Olivier Nomination),
Our House, Loserville
and
Once – The Musical
(Olivier nomination).

For Kneehigh Theatre Company, Andy has worked as an operator and Associate Sound Designer on three seasons of The Asylum,
Brief Encounter
(UK Tour, USA & Australian Tours & Broadway – Tony Nomination for Best Sound),
The Red Shoes (
UK, USA and Australia
), The Wild Bride
(UK, USA and New Zealand),
The King of Prussia, Midnight’s Pumpkin
, and
Blast!

Solo design work and collaborations include
Mary Rose
(Riverside Studios),
Allegro, Spend Spend Spend
(LMST/Bridewell),
Jekyll and Hyde
(English Theatre, Vienna),
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
(BAC),
The Kiss Of The Spider Woman
(Arts Ed),
The Other School
(NYMT/St James),
A Scent Of Flowers
(Brockley Jack) and
The Beautiful Game
(Union). He is currently the UK Sound Associate for
Once – The Musical
(Phoenix) and
Handbagged
(Vaudeville).

NICK OF TIME PRODUCTIONS LTD
presents politically engaged theatre with the aim of encouraging discussion and debate around important issues, and giving a voice to marginalised groups. The company is run by Nicolas Kent with a broad range of associates including Mary Lauder (former General Manager of the Tricycle Theatre) Jack Bradley (former Literary Manager of the National Theatre and presently working with Sonia Friedman Productions Ltd), Belinda Lang (actor), Nabil Elouahabi (actor), Jenny Jules (actor) and Charlotte Westenra (director).

Since 2012 Nick of Time Productions has commissioned plays from Clare Bayley and Rahila Gupta on deaths in custody in collaboration with Inquest and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. The company is also working on a project on Drones co-produced with Jemima Khan, and with commissions from Christina Lamb & Ron Hutchinson, David Greig and Amit Gupta.

COMMA PRESS
is a Manchester-based publishing ‘experiment’ specialising in short narratives; it is the most prolific hardcopy publisher of short stories in the UK, and also regularly commissions short film adaptations – poem-films and short story adaptations. For more information go to
commapress.co.uk
or follow us on
Twitter @ commapress
.

HERITAGE ARTS COMPANY
The Heritage Arts Company exists to rouse the public imagination, through both creating its own work and producing work by others. We employ spectacle to inform, to entertain and to teach. We are an arts company, undertaking all mediums and art forms, but our home is in live performance. Our guiding principles are equality and honesty. Since 2007 we’ve made or produced radio plays, straight theatre, modern dance, gallery installations, set design, multiplayer games, and the VAULT Festival – the largest arts festival of its kind in London. Recent work includes VAULT Festival 2014 (“An incredibly rich programme of theatre, music and comedy” –
The Independen
t”), the stage adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo classic
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
(“A real blast… a trip I heartily recommend
” –
The Telegraph
) and a brand new adaptation of Ian McEwan’s debut novel
The Cement Garden
, starring George Mackay and Ruby Bentall (“Adventurous and youthfully energetic
” –
The Times
).
www.heritagearts.co.uk
|
@HeritageArts
|
facebook.com/HeritageArtsCompany

PW PRODUCTIONS
PW Productions is one of the West End’s most prolific and significant theatre producers, responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions in British theatre over the past 30 years, including
The Woman In Black
and
An Inspector Calls
. We specialise in high-quality production, management and bookkeeping/accountancy services for first-class plays and musicals in the West End, on tour throughout the UK and (given enough notice) throughout the world. We have acted as General Managers, Bookkeepers and Accountants to more than 250 productions in London and throughout the UK.
www.pwprods.co.uk
|
@PWProds

YOUNG PEOPLE’S CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS
around this production co-ordinated and run by

GILLIAN CHRISTIE
(Workshop coordinator)

Gillian worked with Nicolas Kent as Education Director at the Tricycle Theatre for over 12 years delivering a variety of creative projects and workshops for children and young people. In addition to facilitating creative writing workshops, she is project leader for a local inter-generational community event leading to Black History Month, and co-ordinating a personal history project for Age UK, both based in Islington.

LUCY POPESCU
(Workshop Artistic Director)

Lucy Popescu is a writer, arts critic and creative writing teacher with a background in literature, theatre, and human rights. She is a volunteer mentor with Freedom from Torture’s writing group, Write to Life. She runs regular writing workshops in north London and is experienced in inspiring, developing and shaping others’ creative work. Lucy is the author of
The Good Tourist
and has edited various books including refugee writer Jade Amoli-Jackson’s
Moving a Country
, Write to Life’s collection of refugee writing,
Body Maps
, and the PEN anthology
Another Sky
.

THE NIGHTMARES OF CARLOS FUENTES

Rashid Razaq

THE NIGHTMARES
OF CARLOS FUENTES

Based on the short story by Hassan Blasim