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The Original Theatre Company, Ghost Light Theatre and Eilene Davidson in association with Park Theatre present the World Premiere of

Monogamy

By Torben Betts

TORBEN BETTS I WRITER
ALASTAIR WHATLEY I DIRECTOR
JAMES PERKINS I DESIGN
CHRIS WITHERS I LIGHTING
MAX PAPPENHEIM I SOUND
ELLIE COLLYER-BRISTOW CDG I CASTING


Director l Alastair Whatley

Alastair is the Artistic Director of The Original Theatre Company.

Directing credits for the company include: The Importance of Being Earnest (2018) Wait Until Dark (2017); first-class national and international tours of the hit, record breaking production of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong (2013–2015); The Private Ear and The Public Eye (2013); Our Country’s Good (2012); Twelfth Night (2011); Dancing at Lughnasa (2011); The Madness of George III, starring Simon Ward (2010); Journey’s End (2010); Shakespeare’s R&J (2008); Twelfth Night (2005); The Taming of the Shrew (2006) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2006).

Other directing credits include: Henry V (2007) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (2006) for South Hill Park Arts Centre.

His acting credits include Invincible (UK tours and New York); Birdsong; Three Men in a Boat; See How They Run; Dancing at Lughnasa; Vincent in Brixton; A Midsummer Nights Dream (all for Original Theatre Company); Henry V (RSC) and A Desire to Kill on the Tip of The Tongue (Edinburgh Festival).

He is the recipient of the Max Cary Award for Innovation presented by The University of London and the Stage One Bursary for young producers.

 

Writer l Torben Betts

Theatre: The Misanthropist (Northampton Theatres); The National Joke (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Get Carter (Northern Stage); Invincible (Brits Off Broadway – New York, National Tour, Orange Tree Theatre/St James Theatre); The Seagull (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre);  Get Carter (Northern Stage); What Falls Apart (Live Theatre); A Listening Heaven (Stephen Joseph Theatre/Edinburgh Royal Lyceum, nominated as TMA Best New Play 2001); The Unconquered (Traverse/Tron/Arcola/Brits-off-Broadway/UK tour, winner of Best New Play at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland); Muswell Hill (Orange Tree Theatre/Park Theatre); The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre); The Error of their Ways (HERE Arts Center); Lie of the Land (Arcola Theatre/Pleasance Theatre);  The Swing of Things (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Her Slightest Touch (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Incarcerator (Battersea Arts Centre); The Lunatic Queen  (Riverside Studios); Five Visions of the Faithful (Edinburgh Festival Theatre); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre/Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Biggleswades (Southwark Playhouse) and Silence and Violence (White Bear Theatre). British independent feature film Downhill.

 

Lighting l Chris Withers

For the Original Theatre Company: Wait Until Dark.

Credits include: Murder for Two (The Watermill and The Other Palace); Stig of the Dump (Arts Theatre West End and UK Tour); Disgraced (English Theatre, Frankfurt); Vassa Zheleznova (The Faction, Southwark Playhouse); Heartbreak Hotel (The Jetty, Greenwich); Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots, Robin Hood, Aladdin (Greenwich Theatre); Hamlet, Thebes, Richard III, The Talented Mr Ripley (Faction Theatre, New Diorama); The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie, Othello, Hedda Gabler (UK Tours); Listen We’re Family (Wilton’s Music Hall); Mush and Me (Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals); Terry Pratchett’s Soul Music (Rose Theatre Kingston); Lucy and the Hawk (Northern Stage and Oval House); What the Animals Say (Hull Truck and Northern Stage); The Great British Country Fete (Bush Theatre and Tour) and Hindle Wakes, December Man, Saturn Returns (Finborough).

Recent credits as an assistant/associate include: Lampedusa (Hightide Festival and Soho Theatre); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios); Lingua Franca (59E59 New York); Little Fish (Finborough Theatre); Well (Apollo Shaftesbury Ave) and How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found (Southwark Playhouse).