IDX Productions

THE PROVOKED WIFE

CREW:
PAUL JEPSON
JESS CURTIS
SVEN ORTEL
CAROLYN DOWNING
CLAIRE RUSS
TREVOR BROWN
MATTHEW DARBY
DAVID WM. PALMER
DANIEL BERZON
HENRIETTA BUTLER

Acknowledgements & Thanks

PAUL JEPSON – Director & Co-producer
Paul trained as a director at the Drama Studio London and as a movement director at the Jean Newlove Centre for Laban Studies. Theatre includes: Bright by Polly Wiseman (Soho Theatre); Life After Life, written and directed (Royal National Theatre, Lyttleton Loft); Ben Elton's Gasping (national tour, Manchester Evening News Award nominee); Schnitzler's Anatol and Barry Heath's Rats, Buckets & Bombs (both Nottingham Playhouse); The Idiot, written and directed (West Yorkshire Playhouse, winner of Wellcome Trust Science on Stage and Screen Award); A Doll's House (Salisbury Playhouse); Charley's Aunt (Norwich Playhouse); Fame, The Musical (second cast, West End); and Barry Collins's Judgement (Man in the Moon). Opera includes: The Escape from the Seraglio and Gluck's Orpheo (Opera Spezzata and Theatre Royal Plymouth). Paul is currently under commission from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. [top]

JESS CURTIS – Designer
Jess trained at the Motley theatre design course. Her recent theatre work includes: four plays for the Peter Gill Season in the Sheffield Crucible Studio; The Wizard of Oz (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Dangerous Corner (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Garrick Theatre); Hysteria and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Salisbury Playhouse); Sugar Sugar (Bush Theatre); A Winter's Tale (National Theatre Studio); Second to Last in the Sack Race, Blue Remembered Hills, Once a Catholic and The Duchess of Malfi (New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme); Dreams from a Summerhouse and A Clandestine Marriage (Watermill Theatre); Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre); Arms and the Man (Exeter and The Mercury Theatre, Colchester); 218:Underground (National Youth Theatre); and Roberto Zucco (Guildhall School of Music and Drama). Opera work includes: Bastien and Bastienne and Macbeth (Nor Jyske Opera); Orpheus in the Underworld (Den Ny Opera); Three French Operas (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); The Rake's Progress and Don Giovanni (RSAMD); A Rake's Progress (British Youth Opera); and Vanessa (Trinity College of Music). Film work includes: I Just Want to Kiss You (BBC 2 Brief Encounters); You Shall Have a Fishy (Open Eye Productions); and Moth (Amulet Productions). [top]

SVEN ORTEL – Lighting Designer
Sven studied Lighting Design at Rose Bruford College, London. Previously he worked as a movie electrician, light jockey and lighting designer in his hometown of Cologne, Germany. Since leaving Germany in 1999, Sven has designed for various performance styles and genres, including dance, installation art, architecture and theatre. Recent lighting designs include: multimedia project Each and Every Inch (with Cathy Boyd, for Theatre Cryptic at Usine C, Montreal); and The Seven Deadly Sins of the Bourgeoisie (dir. Mehmet Ergen, Arcola Theatre). Sven's recent work with projection technology includes: realisation and editing of video imagery for The Powerbook (Jeanette Winterson, dir. Deborah Warner), The Coast of Utopia (Tom Stoppard, dir. Trevor Nunn) and Jerry Springer – The Opera (all Royal National Theatre); and Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde (Royal Court and Lyric Theatre). Current projects include: co-designing Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (dir. Nicholas Hytner, Royal National Theatre); video realisation for The Powerbook (European tour); designing video for a double bill at Glyndebourne; and filming a short film about Tommy Cooper for the BBC. [top]

CAROLYN DOWNING – Sound Designer
Carolyn graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2002 with a first class honours degree. Her work there included various styles of production, including puppetry, physical and non-text based theatre. Since graduating, she has been working at the Phoenix Theatre as no. 2 sound operator on Blood Brothers. Other credits include: Moonshed (Royal Exchange Theatre Company, Manchester); The Watery Part of the World (Sound And Fury); This Way Up (national tour); Heavenly Hades (Red Circle Theatre Company, based in Japan); Mongoose (Southwark Playhouse); Small World (Sue Lee and Kosta Andreas Theatre Company, touring production); Habitats (Gate Theatre); The Visitor (MAXIS Sound Art Festival, Sheffield); and a short animation film, Robot 27 (Bournemouth University). [top]

CLAIRE RUSS – Choreographer
Claire graduated from the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance and formed the Claire Russ Ensemble in 1990. In 1993 the Ensemble was selected by The Place Theatre London to represent Britain on a European tour of work by emerging artists. Subsequent works include: Dangerous When Wet (1994); Sweet Boys (1996); Gourmet (1998); [B&B]4 (1999/2000); VeilSAFE (Year of the Artist Award, 2000); TUESDAY (dance film, dir. Moritz Baumann, 2001); and CODE (Richmond Festival 2001). Film credits include: award winning Candy (dir. Tony Fabian); and Red Peppers (dir. Dominique Santana, assisting Stuart Hopps). Choreography for theatre includes: Voyage in the Dark (Young Vic), Sweet Dreams (Chelsea Centre, both for Sphynx Theatre); and Cherished Disappointments in Love (assistant director, Soho Theatre). [top]

MATTHEW DARBY – Production Manager [top]

DAVID WM. PALMER – Stage Manager
David trained on the Diploma in Stage Management course at ALRA. He was production manager for Dangerous Liaisons and Love is a Game of Chance (Compagnie Sublime); technical director of OVO Productions' award winning Romeo & Juliet; stage manager of The Stoning and Summer (Hidden Plot Productions); and company manager of I am Star Trek (Skullduggery). David is currently working on Bluebeard's Wives (S.P.I.D.); Boxed Off (Edinburgh Fringe); and for Act Now School of Performing Arts. David previously had careers as a web programmer, a multimedia artist, an optician’s assistant, a physicist, a philosopher & historian of science, a barman and a bookseller. [top]

DANIEL BERZON – Lighting Assistant [top]

HENRIETTA BUTLER – Production Photographer [top]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Many properties were very kindly donated or loaned for this production.
Lady Brute's pearls by Sadia, for Chimera Arts (020 7385 5724)
Hatbox by Philip Treacy of London
Corfu III chairs by Habitat
Bags and Boxes by Lulu Guinness
Paint by Fired Earth
Constable's Uniform from Hertfordshire Police
Rifle prop from Barnet District Venture Scout Shooting Club

We would like to thank the following individuals for their generous support towards this production:
Dr. and Mrs. Barretto; Jeremy Brown; Matthew Byam Shaw; John Heywood; Peter Murphy; Ian Ross; Richard Arnold; and His Grace The Duke of Marlborough

Thanks also to Taz Pide Restaurant for the Gala catering; Iona at the Royal Court Theatre; the Production Services Department at Central School of Speech and Drama; Mercure London City Bankside Hotel and Craig David for donating Gala raffle prizes; Lucinda Morrison, Mary Parker, Gemma Gibb and Pia de Souza; Kit Patrick and David Hamilton-Peters; Huw Morgan and Paul Lincoln; Julia Magnet and her wardrobe; Ray Biggs at Grimsthorpe Castle; Hilary Bartlett and Dinah the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel; and Hilary Best and her team at Tower Bridge Business Complex.

Special thanks to Thea, Juliet, Tom, Kath, Chris, Sarah
and all the staff & volunteers at Southwark Playhouse,
with best wishes for their second decade of being
" One of London's most impressive small theatres" (Observer).