Bash
Written by Neil Labute
Directed by Matthew Bulgo
Designed by Anna Bliss Scully
Bash was first performed by True/Fiction at the Swansea Grand Theatre Arts Wing, in December 2003. It subsequently trasferred to The Space, London for a run in April 2004.
"A dazzling reworking"
The Big Issue
A triptych of starkly brilliant short plays, examining the dark stain of the human condition. If good people can do bad things, then very good people can do very bad things: "there's never an answer. uh-uh. there never is..."
Iphigenia in Orem: a businessman confides in a stranger about the weekend he lost both his job and his child.
A Gaggle of Saints: a young couple separately recount their anniversary celebrations in New York.
Medea Redux: a woman unravels her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high school English teacher.
Cast
Young Man
Matthew Bulgo
John
Craig Russell/Michael Thomson
Sue
Vikki Perry
Woman
Laura Cameron
Featuring Filmed Performances by
Justin Mitchell Davey
Colin Hardy
Will Huggins
Alastair Kirton
Kaitlyn Riordan
Miranda Roszkowski
Paul Shelford
Creative
Director
Matthew Bulgo
Designer
Anna Bliss Scully
Lighting Designer
Mark Howland
Film & Projection
Marc Price
Technical Assistants
Ben Austin
Chris Evans
Tom James
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Cast
Matthew Bulgo
Training: LAMDA Theatre: The Prince Hamlet (Toronto Dance Theatre), BANK (Kings Head), Feeding Time (BAC), Bloody Sunday (Tricycle Theatre), Words & Music (Ruth is Stranger than Richard), The Secret of Belonging, Stella Time, Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco, Gull (all Antic Corporation), The Play About The Baby (BAC), Hamlet (Natural Perspectives), The Ceremony (Soho Theatre), Breakfast Hearts, Choirplay, Patching Havoc (Theatre 503), Riddance, Bash, & Mr. Theatre Comes Home Different (all True/Fiction), Company, Cabaret (Broadway Studio), Sweeney Agonistes (Arcola), Quinto Quarto (Union Theatre) Film/TV: Thicker Than Water (Karakucha Productions), Dash, Dash (RCA) Fooled Around and Fell In Love (Hard8 Films), and The Overcoat (IOM Films).
Laura Cameron Woman
Laura graduated from LAMDA in July 2003.
She has since played ‘C’ in Crave (Liquid Theatre at BAC, dir. Matt Peover) and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (LOST Youth Theatre Company, dir. Hannah Eidinow).
Roles at LAMDA included: Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Alice Berry in New England, Lyubov Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, and Imogen in Cymbeline.
Vikki Perry Sue
Trained at LAMDA where roles included Sophie in New England, Rebecca in Today, Claire Beaumont in Daemons, Maria in The Fix, Mrs. Yang in The Good Person of Setzuan and Annabella in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Theatre Credits include A MIdsummer Night's Dream, Antigone, Merrily We Roll Along, Under The Moon, Grimm Tales (Taliesin Theatre), Mrs. Swabum in Habeus Corpus, Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (Theatre Einon) and Mystery Bouffe (Theatre Bryncheiniog).
Professional debut in 1996 playing Pippa Hailsham Brown in Agatha Christie's Spider's Web in a national tour.
Craig Russell John
Theatre credits include: The Foreigners (Pleasance, London), The Real Monty (Theatre Royal, Nottingham), Immaterial Time (White Bear, London), Il Trovatore and Othello (Royal Opera House, London), Would You Credit It? (Welsh Tour), Why Don't You Talk To Me? (Castle Theatre, Aberystwyth) and Woyzcek (Wyeside Arts Centre).
TV credits include: Doctors, Score, Sorted, Eastenders, Fish Out of Water (BBC), Is Harry On The Boat? (Sky 1), Drunk (Channel 4), Agony (Live TV).
Short films include: The Taxi (London Guerilla Film Festival), Bad Korma and Nowhere Fast (Hard 8 Films).
Film credits include: Team One (Imaginary Films), Anazapata (Enterprise Films) and Arthur's Dyke (Quirky Films).
Michael Thomson John
Michael trained at LAMDA graduating in 2002.
Professional theatre credits include Cameron in J. M. Barrie's Mary Rose (Nottingham Playhouse), Toby Cole in David Hare's Amy's View (Salisbury Playhouse), Fedotik in The Three Sisters (Mercury Theatre, Colchester). More recently he has appeared in Journey's End and Coriolanus, both at Colchester.
Creative
After doing a degree in English and then training as a theatre designer, Ben has designed for theatre, television and film. In the last few years, he has worked as a set designer and draughtsman on the BBC's Torchwood and all three seasons of the new Doctor Who. He has also assisted designers Richard Hudson and Vicki Mortimer.
Chris Evans Operator
Chris trained at RADA on the Technical and Stage Management Course, graduating in 2003.
Credits whilst in training included Pillars of Society (Technical Manager, Venbrugh Theatre), The Tree (Sound Operator), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Sound Operator, Vanbrugh Theatre), Lovers (ASM, Gielguid Theatre), Prize Fights (DSM, Vanbrugh Theatre), Mojo (Production LX, Gielguid Theatre), The Crucible (Stage Manager, Vanbrugh Theatre), The Rimers of Eldritch (Set Construction/LX Crew/LX Board Operator), Guys & Dolls (Wardrobe Assistant and Dresser), Napolio Milionaria (Scenic Painting, GBS Theatre), The Beau Defeated (Set Construction/LX Crew/Follow Spot Operator, GBS Theatre). He spent his secondment working for Unusual Rigging.
Mark Howland Lighting Designer
Trained at RADA. Previous lighting designs include Electra (St.John's College), Fiddler on the Roof (Gulbenkian Theatre), The Tempest, Entertaining Strangers, The Crucible and Roberto Zucco (all at RADA), The Magic Flute, Yeoman of the Guard and Orpheus in the Underworld (all at the Nuffield Theatre), Virginia Plain (White Bear Theatre), Riddance (The Space), Ash (Cobden Club), Pippi Longstockings (Jackson's Lane Theatre), F***list Celebrity (Finborough Theatre and Etcetera Theatre) and Problem Child (New End Theatre). Mark has also worked as Assistant LD to Bruno Poet on The Marriage of Figaro and Orpheus in the Underworld with British Youth Opera and Midnight's Children at the Barbican. He has also spent some time at the Royal Court with Rick Fisher, lighting A Number
Tom trained at RADA on the Technical Theatre and Stage Management Course, and graduated in 2002. He recently worked as a Sound Technician for Coldplay's UK and European tour, and works regularly with many international bands.
Marc has made three short films: Fooled Around, Fell in Love, a three minute film exploring sexual attraction; One Dragon 2, a sixteen minute action film; and Nowhere Fast, a twenty minute charaqcter driven piece about three young men in severe financial difficulties and their extremely desperate efforts to overcome them.
He has continued to produce film work for theatre productions including In Camera (Pintsize Theatre) M.A.D.C.A.P. House (Education Authority) and Bash (True/Fiction).
Marc recently formed Nowhere Fast Productions, a company named after one of his previous films. He has recently finished post-production on his first feature, a zombie epic entitle Colin.
Photographs courtesy of Anna Bliss Scully. Company No.:5270647. True/Fiction logo kindly designed by Martin McGrath