ACT/REACT 2
STAMPED 27TH OCTOBER
Directed by Lydia Ziemke
MONDAY 27 OCTOBER 2008 8PM @ THEATRE503
ALL TICKETS £5
BOX OFFICE: 020 7978 7040
Throughout the ages, people have written letters to each other, constantly longing for an understanding of the rules and randomness of human existence. Stamped 27th October brings to vividly theatrical life the moments of summer apple picking and fatal idealism, joyous reunions, crushing defeats and longing for love in the letters of the Pastons to the Mitfords and Surrealists, and especially of people in conflict in different times and places, all written on the same late October date.
Six actors move, dance, sing and speak to the music of time, in Lydia Ziemke’s highly theatrical exploration of the gradual progress of human understanding.
The cast will include Will Beer, Susanna Fiore, Zannah Hodson, Emma Laird-Craig, Jessica Sedler and Tara Siddall.
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Upstart would like to thank The Lantern Arts Centre, The Cavendish Arms, The Jerwood Space, and LAMDA for providing subsidised rehearsal space.
Company Biographies
Lydia Ziemke (director) is a freelance director and dramaturg, dividing her time between London and Berlin.Her work includes independent devised and scripted pieces, educational and youth theatre work and dance. Most recently she has presented the choreography (and workshop) Thrown (in ass. with nightmare before valentine) at IUGTE international theatre methods festival in Latvia and the Schaubühne Youth theatre production Weg-A Way at the Contacting the World festival in Liverpool. She is strongly associated with the Schaubühne and The English Theatre in Berlin for which she is continuously forging international relations. Upcoming work there include Anthony Neilson's Stitching and work by Peca Stefan. In London she is currently preparing work for Southwark Secrets and for the German Season at Arcola Theatre in 2009.
Will Beer (actor) trained at LAMDA. Theatre work includes Oxford Street (Royal Court), Whipping It Up (Number 1 Tour), Leonce and Lena (Tabard), 93.2 FM (Royal Court, touring), and Jackets (Theatre503). Film and TV credits include Gosford Park (Zestwick Films), The Omid Djalili Show (BBC), Love Soup (BBC), Foyle's War (BBC) and The Bill (BBC).
Susanna Fiore (actor) trained at LAMDA. Theatre work includes Sound Dust (Theatre503) Mr. Lorrimer (rehearsed reading, The Tristan Bates Theatre); The Things Good Men Do (Joanna Morgan Productions for the Old Red Lion Theatre, developed at Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); Dogfight (The Arcola Theatre & The Underbelly - Edinburgh Festival 2007); Peter Pan (Boo! Productions); Leonce and Lena (Tabard Theatre), The 22nd July Project (Oval House Theatre); Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens (Brentwood Theatre Essex & Fortune Theatre); Phaedra (John Thaw Studio, Manchester); Les Mains Sales (Director’s Showcase: Linbury Studio, LAMDA). T.V & Film includes Martina Cole’s Lady Killers (Free At Lat TV for ITV) My Last Five Girlfriends (Julian Kemp); Roadkill (NFTS Shorts); One Thousand Stories (BBC Sport); Divine Retribution (Abzolute Productions).
Zannah Hodson (actor) trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes: An Ideal
Husband (Manchester Royal Exchange), Les Mains Sales (Linbury Studio, LAMDA), Great Expectations (tour), Only Connect's production of Of Mice and Men at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, and Hay Fever at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, starring Judi Dench. Film includes: De Lovely, Two Girls, and corporate film work for Lloyds TSB. TV and commercial workincludes: The Sea Captain's Tale (BBC) and a commercial for UK Living. Readings/ workshops include The Globe, Royal Court and The Gate, and Hedda Gabler, a week-long workshop with Ian Rickson (Actors' Centre).
Emma Laird-Craig (actor) trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, Moscow Arts Theatre, and The Actor's Temple. Since graduating last year her theatre credits include Mary in Our Country's Good, with Masterclass at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Sarah in The Photojournalist for the London Playwright's Platform at Theatre503, Lisa in Girl Interrupted, Actors Studio at Pinewood Showcase, and Permission to Play at Shakespeare's Globe. Other roles include Cynthia in Semi-Monde, Lady in Orpheus Descending, Meme in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Akulina in The Philistines, Gloucester in King Lear. Film: Casting Nina (post-production). She is currently training in Karate to play Xia in the film Triptych (in pre-production), and preparing for the BBC Choir of the Year semi-final singing gospel with Singology.
Jessica Sedler (actor) studied at Bristol University and went on to train at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include Tales From The Brothers Grimm (Creation Theatre Company, Oxford), Escaping Hamlet (Teatro Dei Borgia and Andy Jordan Productions), Anne Frank in And Then They Came For Me (Lyric West End and Tour), Lucy’s Brief Guide On How To Be Human (New Voices 24hr Plays, Old Vic Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Mercury Theatre Colchester/Globe Theatre, Germany), Sixteen Sonorous Stones (Bridewell Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Orange Tree Theatre Tour), Subverse (Theatre503), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Globe Theatre, Germany), The Fence (Oxford Playhouse), King John (The Space), and Les Mains Sales (Linbury Studio, LAMDA). Jessica is a full member of the Old Vic New Voices Company and has taken part in rehearsed readings for the Hamsptead Theatre, the Tristan Bates Theatre, the Orange Tree Theatre, the Albany Theatre Deptford and the Actors Touring Company. Television and Film credits include Manhunt (ITV/Talkback), Living in Hope (Fluidity Films) and Incessant (Section 8 Creations).
Tara Siddall (actor) studied English at Edinburgh University, before training at LAMDA. She recently performed as Cherie Blair in the musical Blair on Broadway in the West End, The Heritage Arts Company's production Where Soldiers Sleep at the Landguard Fort and Offstage Theatre's production of Phaedre at Craigmillar castle. Other roles include Rosetta in Leonce and Lena and Edith in Mr Kolpert. Tara also performs in the News in Briefs comedy revue at the Arts Theatre. Tara is also a professional Jazz singer performing as part of Finger in the Pie's burlesque cabaret at Madame Jo Jo's in the West End.