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"Simon Evans's spare, brooding, finely shaded production"

"As good as anything in town"

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  WERNER

  Theatre: includes Posh (Royal Court/Duke of York’s), The Way of the World (Sheffield Theatres), School for Scandal (Barbican), The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic), A Woman Killed with Kindness, Pains of Youth, The Observer, Hothouse, The Reporter (NT), Beautiful Thing (NML Productions/Sound Theatre).
  Film: includes Untitled Mike Leigh Project, A Long Way Down, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alice in Wonderland, Me and Orson Wells, Becoming Jane, The Living and the Dead, Kinky Boots Factory, These Foolish Things, The Fall, Vera Drake, LD50, Two Men Went to War, 28 Days Later, All or Nothing, Gosford Park.
  Television: includes The White Queen, The Borgias, Pramface, Words of Captain Scott, Doctor Who, Home Time, Ashes to Ashes, Lead Balloon, Sense & Sensibility, Jekyll, Bash, A Very Social Secretary, Silent Witness, Messiah, Beethoven’s Eroica, Canterbury Tales – Man of Law, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Harry Enfield’s Celeb, Surrealismo, Attachments, Crime & Punishment.

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  YOUNG WOMAN

  Trained: Central School of Speech & Drama
  Theatre: includes Under a Foreign Sky (Unicorn).
  Television: includes Doctors.

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  OLDER MAN

  For the Donmar: Hecuba, To the Green Fields and Beyond, Fool for Love, Translations.
  Theatre: includes Desire Under the Elms, The Big Fellah (Lyric Hammersmith), The Duchess of Malfi, Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic), Faith Healer (Bristol Old Vic), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Chichester Festival), The Fastest Clock in the Universe, Three Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead), Portrait of a Lady, A Doll’s House  Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Peter Hall Company), The Hothouse, Anthony & Cleopatra, King Lear (NT), Ghosts (Gate), The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, The Alchemist, The Virtuoso, Amphibians, A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC), As You Desire Me (Playhouse), The Birthday Party (Duchess), Othello, Miss Julie (Greenwich), Macbeth (Sheffield Theatres), Messiah (Riverside Studios), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Manchester Royal Exchange), Not About Nightingales (NT/New York), Three Sisters (Royal Court), Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC/New York), Peer Gynt (Gate, Dublin), The Playboy Of The Western World (Abbey, Dublin).
  Opera: includes The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne/Paris/New York).
  Film: includes The Number Station, Mathilde, To Kill a King, King Lear, Scold’s Bride.
  Television: includes Silk, Richard II, Proof, Dalziel and Pascoe, Waking the Dead, Red Cap, Atilla , Second Sight, Mind Games, Holby City, Small World, Between the Lines, George Gently.

Director

Simon Evans - Read bio

Simon Evans - Biography

DIRECTOR

Simon was Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse in 2011, Staff Director at the National Theatre, Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre and Associate Director at the White Bear Theatre. He is Artistic Director of Black and White Rainbow.
As Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar: Richard II, Inadmissible Evidence, Anna Christie, Luise Miller, Moonlight, 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Theatre: includes Project Hope/Shawshank Redemption (Secret Cinema), Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Print Room), Madness in Valencia (Trafalgar Studios), Whiff Whaff (Theatre Uncut), Apple Pie, Hours Till Autumn, Apple Pie, Hours ‘til Autumn (Riverside Studios), Cyrano de Bergerac, The Misanthrope (White Bear), Us and Them (Bush/RR), Something Perfect, Disappear , Devolution (Theatre503), Skyscraper (New York), ARDEN 2.0 (Old Vic New Voices), Firefly Heartbeat (Tristan Bates), Singin’ in the Rain (Cambridge Arts).  As Associate Director includes The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Finding Neverland (Weinstein Live Entertainment). As Assistant Director includes Men Should Weep (NT), Like a Fishbone (Bush). As Writer includes Who is Rachel? (Channel4.com), The Waiting (SkyArts), Bait, Somewhere by the Fire (Black and White Rainbow).

Designer

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DESIGNER

Trained: Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design
For the Donmar: Lower Ninth (Trafalgar Studios), Creditors (also New York), Kiss of the Spider Woman
Theatre: includes Some Like it Hip Hop (Sadler’s Wells), Thom Pain (based on nothing) (The Print Room), The Kitchen Sink (Bush), Wild Oats (Bristol Old Vic), Good With People (Paines Plough/ Traverse, Edinburgh), DA (Gate, Dublin), The Painter, When Five Years Pass (Arcola), No Idea (Young Vic), Edward II, Doctor Faustus – Manchester Evening News Award, Salt, A Taste of Honey (Manchester Royal Exchange), Encourage the Others (Almeida), Romeo and Juliet (Globe), The Real Thing, The Herbal Bed (Salisbury Playhouse), The Lady in the Van (Hull Truck/UK tour), Ingredient X , Belong (Royal Court), Crocodile (Sky Arts), Speaking in Tongues (Duke of York’s), The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Arabian Nights (Tricycle), Paradise Lost (Headlong), Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre/Leicester Square), An Enemy of the People, My Dad’s a Birdman (Sheffield Theatres).
Ben also won The Linbury Prize commission to design Paradise Lost for Rupert Goold.

Lighting Designer

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David Plater - Biography

LIGHTING DESIGNER

For the Donmar: Richard II, Four Quartets, Frame 312, Three Days of Rain, Morphic Resonance, Splash Hatch, concert performances of Company and Merrily We Roll Along (Queen’s).
Theatre: includes Poetry Week (MGC/Arts), Twelfth Night, Richard III, What You Will, 13 The Musical (Apollo), Macbeth (Sheffield Theatres), Mixed Marriage, The Beaver Coat (Finborough), The Chair Trilogy (Lyric Hammersmith), The Arab Israeli-Cookbook (Gate/Tricycle), Loyal Women (Royal Court), Company, Animal Farm(Derby Playhouse), Stacy, Fanny & Faggot (Trafalgar Studios), My Night with Reg , Dancing at Lughnasa (New Vic, Stoke), When We Are Married, A Passionate Women (Theatre Royal York), Moment of Weakness (Coventry Belgrade), Amy’s View (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford), What You Get & What You Expect (Lyric Hammersmith), What Now Little Man (Greenwich), Michael Ball (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Dark Tales (Arts).
Dance: Ballet Black ROH2 2001 to 2012 .
David was Head of Lighting at the Donmar Warehouse from 1994 until March 2012 

Sound Designer

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For the Donmar: The Silence of the Sea (Trafalgar Studios), A Voyage Around My Father, The Philanthropist.
Theatre: includes The Doctor's Dilemma, Misterman, Twelfth Night, No Man’s Land, Tristan & Yseult, The Emperor Jones, Earthquakes in London (NT), The Heart of Robin Hood, Great Expectations, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), The Seagull (Headlong), Travels with my Aunt, Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory), My Perfect Mind (Young Vic), In the Beginning was the End (dreamthinkspeak), Journey’s End - Drama Desk Award (Duke of York’s/New York), Equus - Tony Award (Gielgud/New York), Pygmalion, The Philanthropist (New York), The Changeling, Troilus and Cressida (Barbican), A Month in the Country, Seven Doors, Pal Joey, Heartbreak House, Nathan The Wise (Chichester Festival), DruidMurphy, Penelope, The Hackney Office, The New Electric Ballroom (Druid), Testament (Dublin Theatre Festival), Measure For Measure, Habeas Corpus, Private Lives, Much Ado About Nothing, Design for Living, As You Like It (The Peter Hall Company), Our Boys, Goodnight Mr Tom, A Voyage Round My Father, The Vortex, Some Girls, Waiting for Godot, The Dresser, Amy’s View, You Never Can Tell, A Flea in her Ear, National Anthems, Six Degrees of Separation, Betrayal, Abigail’s Party (West End). 

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