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Little Black Book

BY JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE, TRANSLATED BY SOLVÈNE TIFFOU

Written by
Jean Claude Carriere 

Directed by
Kate Fahy

Desiged by
William Fricker

Sound design by
Jing Ng

Original Music
Sophie Cotton

Assistant Director
Alex Marx

Production Manager & Lighting
Leigh Porter

Kate Fahy is an actor and director.

She directed Oliver Cotton’s play Wet Weather Cover at The Kings Head Theatre and The Arts Theatre.

As an actor her most recent film credits include Joanna Hogg’s Archipelago with Tom Hiddleston and Simon Rumley’s The Living and the Dead for which she won Best Actress award at the Campobasso Film Festival and Best Supporting Actress at the Austin Film Festival in Texas.

Her theatre credits include Edward Albee’s The Goat at The Almeida Theatre and in its West End transfer at The Apollo, plus most recently Martin Crimp’s Definitely The Bahamas at the Orange Tree Theatre.

She is soon to be seen on TV in Death in Paradise. 

 

Alex Marx is an actor, director and writer.

In theatre, he has performed in numerous plays including The Dog in the Manger, She Stoops to Conquer, Limehouse Nights and Killing Romeo - as well as pieces of new writing by Lucy Kirkwood and Ella Hickson. As a director, he worked on The Tuba Bear's Picnic, with Simon Callow and Ian McMillan, as well as his first play as a writer, The Space in Between, which showed in Edinburgh, and subsequently transferred to the Orange Tree Theatre. He is also a founding member of Pangolin’s Teatime, a multi-award winning puppetry company, whose show Immigrants just played in the West End.

In film, he has played leading roles in award-winning shorts like Alleyman, Home Sweet Home and The Hummingbird and his first feature, Sable Fable, just won Best Film and Best Director at the ABFF in Florida. Happy Accident was his first film as a writer/director and starred Kate Fahy and Tim McInnerney. His second film, Synchronicity, is in post-production, and stars Bill Paterson, Ty Glaser and Ben Aldridge.

He is currently working on two short films, Fingers and The Cleaner, his first feature, Cash Back, and a play called Then It Started to Snow.

 

Leigh Porter graduated from Rose Bruford College in 1994. This is the fourth production that Leigh has Production Managed at Park Theatre, but the first in Park 90 and the first that he has lit. His previous productions at Park Theatre were ‘Daytona’, ‘Adult Supervision’, and ‘Sleeping Beauty’. Other productions include; ‘Peggy For You’, ‘Copenhagen’, ‘Democracy’, ‘Life After George’, ‘Bedroom Farce’, ‘Damsels in Distress’, ‘Glorious’, ‘Entertaining Angels’, ‘My Brilliant Divorce’, ‘Dinner’, ‘Losing Louis’, ‘Terms of Endearment’, ‘Ying Tong’, ‘Martha Josie and the Chinese Elvis’, ‘The Clean House’, ‘End of the Rainbow’, ‘Basketcase’, ‘Over My Shoulder’, ‘Wait Until Dark’, ‘Dora the Explorer’, ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘Othello’, ‘Ladies in Lavender’, ‘Gertrudes Secret’, ‘Winters Tale’, ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’, ‘Birds of a Feather’, ‘Wah! Wah! Girls’, and ‘Rough Justice’. Leigh has worked on events and shows at venues including; Tower of London, Royal Courts of Justice, Natural History Museum, Royal Naval College, Kensington Palace, and Hampton Court Palace as well as over 175 theatres.

 

Jing Ng is currently in his final year at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, specialising in Performance Sound. He has a keen interest for sound design in theatre and dance; and enjoys collaborative, devised and experimental works. 

- Singapore National Arts Council Scholarship Award 2011

- Singapore credits: Kuo Pao Kun Devised AgainGirl In The White Sand BoxMini FireballMan To Man.

- UK credits: Corpus ChristiOrion’s HatThe Holocaust ProjectRites & Regulations (Edinburgh Fringe 2012), Ghost SonataThe BacchaeYou Me Bum Bum Train 2011.

www.jingsound.wordpress.com / www.soundcloud.com/jingsound 

 

Sophie Cotton was born in London and began composing at a young age. From 2009–2011 Sophie studied for an Mmus in composition with Jonathan Cole at the Royal College of Music where she started to explore, more fully, her curiosity for combining determinate and indeterminate sounds. She has had works performed by the Ossian Ensemble, Composer's Ensemble (Cond. Richard Baker / Dominic Muldowney), Kermani Trio, Borromini Quartet, Shoals Duo and the New Ensemble (Cond. Tim Lines). She has also participated in master classes with the BBC Singers, Simon Holt and Mark Anthony Turnage and in workshops with the Rambert Dance Company. In 2009, she began to pursue her interest in music for theatre, working as Assistant Composer at Shakespeare's Globe on such productions as Mathew Dunster's Troilus and Cressida and Romeo and Juliet. Since graduating from the RCM she has assisted Jeremy Sams on Roger Michelle's 2012 film Hyde Park on Hudson. She has also worked as Music Associate at the National Theatre on Polly Findlay's production of Antigone and in workshops for Bijan Shebani's Damned by Despair. In 2013 she participated in workshops for the RNT’s current production of Emil and the Detectives and composed the music for Guy Slater’s multi-award nominated production of Rahila Gupta’s Don’t Wake Me. Currently she is writing the music for the short film Job's Dinner, directed by Giles Foreman.

 

William Fricker studied drama at Birmingham University and theatre design at the Slade School of Art. Since graduating he has designed for numerous theatres and worked an assistant to a host of eminent designers. Recent design of his own work includes Lay Down Your Cross for Hampstead Theatre, The Glass Menagerie and two pantomimes for The Theatre Chipping Norton and Faces in the Crowd for The Royal Court Theatre. Will is the Set Design Associate to the original designer Rae Smith of the National Theatre’s hit production WarHorse which he has mounted on behalf around the the world.

You can see some pictures of his work on www.williamfricker.co.uk

Irene Cotton started her career at The Old Vic when Jonathan Miller was Artistic Director,. productions include: King Lear;Andromache; The Tutor; Flea in her Ear; As You Like it; Marya; Candide; The Tempest; Bussy D’Amboise; TooClever by Half; Into the Woods; Hair, and many others.West End credits include: Leonardo; La Bete;The Countess; Blues Brothers; Forever Plaid; Annie Get Your Gun; The Sound of Music; Cinderella; WetWeather Cover , The Fantasticks .Regional and Broadway credits include: My FairLady;Sound of Music; Sleuth; Woman in Black; A Better Day; Carrington; West Side Story; South Pacific; Translations; Carousel; Closer; Peter and the Wolf, Churchill At Bay, TV credits include: award-winning Panorama; The Hutton Report; Blair on Trial; Why We Went to War, Fable, and many political dramas; 200 episodes The Bill; Out of Tune; Tales from the Tower, 10 years working on CBBC. Films include: Sofa; Being Dead; Seventh Moon; Poor Empire; Deadline; The Pier, The Office Romance, original casting director on The Libertine. She has cast hundreds of commercials and radio plays. English casting of a French film called Les Voyages Immobilieres, The Long Lonely Walk. Dirty Dancing west end and tour. She is presently casting feature film Americus.