by Robert Softley Gale
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After a sell out success at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland present an updated version of their hilarious new musical for a new tour.
The local am-dram society is under pressure to comply with the equalities agenda. They come up with a cunning plan to create a gripping show starring ‘the disabled’. What could be better than the Oscar-winning ‘My Left Foot’? The only snag is they’re having real trouble finding any disabled actors – but that never stopped Daniel Day-Lewis!
In the world of amateur theatre, winning the one-act festival isn’t a matter of life and death – it’s much more important. Throw in a few love triangles and throw out political correctness, all the drama happens behind the curtains.
25th – 26th April at Alhambra, Dunfermline
2nd – 3rd May at Shizuoka Arts Theatre, Japan
14th – 18th May at Brighton Festival
21st – 25th May at Dundee Rep Theatre
Awards: Scotsman Fringe First 2018 🏆 / Herald Angel 2018 🏆 / Broadway World – Best New Musical 2018 🏆 / CATS Awards 2019 – Best Music & Sound 🏆
Written and directed by Robert Softley Gale, co-director of Wendy Hoose and creator of If These Spasms Could Speak and Blanche & Butch.
Music and lyrics by Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer – The Opera) and award-winning partnership Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie (The Snow Queen).
ACCESS INFORMATION
Click the link for access information
All performances are made accessible through integrated BSL, verbal description and captions.
There are relaxed performances at Brighton Festival on May 16th at 7.30pm & at Dundee Rep Theatre on May 25th at 2.30pm
BSL trailer
Audio Flyer
Character Descriptions
Set Description
Click on the below link for a description of the set for My Left/Right Foot – The Musical. The document is accessible to screen-readers. Set Description
Visual Guides
These Visual Guides are for any audience members who would like information including: what the different parts of the venue will look like (box office, toilets, foyer); what to expect from the production (pictures of each character, an explanation of key moments from the script)
2019 CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Cast
Richard Conlon : Ian
Christopher Imbrosciano : Chris
Natalie MacDonald : Nat
Katie Barnett : Amy
Neil Thomas : Grant
Shannon Swan : Gillian
Gail Watson : Sheena
Alex Parker : Alex
Creative Team
Robert Softley Gale : Writer / Director
Richard Thomas : Music & Lyrics
Claire McKenzie : Additional Music
Scott Gilmour : Additional Lyrics
Rachel Drazek : Choreographer
Mairi Taylor : Dramaturg / Creative Producer
Alex Parker : Musical Director
Natalie MacDonald : Performance Interpreter / BSL Translation
Rebecca Hamilton : Set & Costume Designer
Grant Anderson : Lighting Designer
Lewis den Hertog : Animation Designer
Laurence Owen : Music Arrangement and Production
Laura Donnelly CDG : Casting Director
Judith Drake : Academic Theatre Consultant
Production Team
Niall Black : Production Manager
Emma Skaer : Stage Manager
Andy Stuart : Sound Operator
Andy Reid : AV Operator
Katy Lonsdale : Costume Supervisor
For BOP Theatre
Robert Softley Gale : Artistic Director
Mairi Taylor : Executive Producer
Michelle Rolfe : Producer
Callum Madge : Engagement & Office Manager
READ: An interview with Christopher Imbrosciano in The Herald
PRODUCTION IMAGES
Photos by Mihaela Bodlovic
REHEARSAL IMAGES
REVIEWS:
“…hilarious; the gags are close to the bone”
★★★★★ The List
“…perfectly pitched, gloriously irreverent and fantastically funny”
★★★★★ Fest
“…a riotously funny, often potty-mouthed take-down of actorly pretensions”
★★★★★ Evening Standard
“It’s smart work, beady-eyed and deliberately outrageous.”
★★★★ The Independent
“…clever, heartfelt, funny, often refreshingly filthy and brilliantly performed”
★★★★ The Scotsman
“…a scurrilous but schmaltzy affair that kicks received notions of disability well into touch.”
★★★★ The Herald
REVIEWS
Feature Review The Guardian
★★★★★ Sunday Post
★★★★★ Musical Theatre Review
★★★★★ British Theatre Guide
★★★★★ Broadway Baby
★★★★★ Broadway World
★★★★★ Fringe Guru
★★★★★ Musical Theatre Musings
★★★★★ Mind the Blog
★★★★★ Young Perspective
★★★★★ UK Theatre Network
★★★★★ Across the Arts
★★★★★ Mind the Blog
★★★★★ My Theatre Mates
★★★★★ Daily Mail (print only)
★★★★ The Times
★★★★ The Skinny
★★★★ WhatsOnStage
★★★★ The Wee Review
★★★★ The Stage
★★★★ Deadline News
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Robert Gale:
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Interview with Robert Gale and Mairi Taylor:
BIOS
Robert Softley Gale : Writer / Director
Robert is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene. His professional acting debut was in 2002 and since then he has appeared in many productions – including co-writing and performing in Girl X for National Theatre of Scotland. His award-winning solo performance – If These Spasms Could Speak – was a hit of the 2013 Made in Scotland programme and has subsequently toured internationally to countries including Brazil, Estonia, the USA, Ireland and India. For BOP he has directed the smash-hit sex comedy Wendy Hoose and Purposeless Movements, for which he was nominated for a CATS Best Director award.
Richard Conlon : Actor
Richard trained at Queen Margaret University College.
Richard was involved in a number of award-winning productions including: The
Belle’s Stratagem which won Best Ensemble at The Critics’ Awards for Theatre in
Scotland 2018; and My Left Right Foot which won both a Fringe First Award and a
Herald Angel Award in the Edinburgh Festival 2018.
Recent theatre credits include: Spuds (Glasgow Oran Mor); My Left Right Foot (National Theatre of Scotland/Birds of Paradise TC); Rachel’s Cousins (Edinburgh Traverse/Glasgow Oran Mor); The Whip Hand (Edinburgh Traverse/Birmingham Rep); God of Carnage and Harold & Maude (both Glasgow Tron); The Belle’s Stratagem; Jumpy; The Iliad; The Crucible; A View From The Bridge; The Merchant of Venice; A Christmas Carol and As You Like It (all Edinburgh Lyceum); Fat Alice (Glasgow Oran Mor/Aberdeen Lemon Tree/Edinburgh Traverse); Propaganda Swing (Nottingham Playhouse/Coventry Belgrade); Aladdin and Jack & The Beanstalk (both Edinburgh Brunton); Woman in Mind (Dundee Rep/Birmingham Rep); And Then There Were None (Dundee Rep); Macbeth (Perth Theatre); Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (ABandC Theatre);Spuds; Right Now; Private Lives; St. Catherine’s Day; The Importance of Being Alfred and The Matinee Idle (all Glasgow Oran Mor); Smalltown (Random Accomplice); Zorro and Peter Pan (both Visible Fictions); Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (Paines Plough/Glasgow Oran Mor); First You’re Born (Plutot la Vie); Great Expectations (Prime Productions); Brightwater (Mull Theatre); Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland’s Elgin Project); Cat on A Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie and Woman in Black (all St. Andrew’s Byre). Richard was also an original member of the Dundee Rep Ensemble, with productions including All My Sons; A Family Affair; The Plague; Cabaret; and Flora The Red Menace, amongst others. He also returned to play Pirelli in Sweeney Todd.
Richard’s television and film credits include: Garrow’s Law (Shed Media/BBC); PC Elliott in Low Winter Sun (Tiger Aspect for Channel 4); Age of Genius (BBC); The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle (BBC); High Road (ITV); Taggart (ITV) and Bad Boys (BBC).
Aside from his many roles on stage and screen, he has also performed on several BBC radio broadcasts including comedies: The Ellis & Clark Show and The Knox Factor and dramas: Brothers; 44 Scotland Street; Rebus: The Black Book; Rough Magic; The Dead Hour; A Second Life; The Lady Detectives; and Benedict’s Rule.
Natalie MacDonald : Actor/Performance Interpreter
NATALIE MACDONALD studied theatre at Langside College and RSMAD (RCS), then Interpreting Studies in British Sign Language to English, at Herriot Watt University. Natalie registered with Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (SASLI) 15 years ago and she has worked all over Scotland as a freelance interpreter, performer, director and theatre maker. She specialises in making theatre creatively accessible for Deaf Audiences with interpreting and integrated BSL performances. Natalie believes that ALL theatre can be enhanced by BSL. Some of Natalie’s previous work includes, Birds of Paradise, Solar Bear, NTS, Independance, Poorboy, Graeae, Communicado, RCS, Random Accomplice and Ramesh Meyyappan to name but a few.
Christopher Imbrosciano : Actor
Christopher last performed in the UK in 2015. He made his West End debut in Teddy Ferrara at Donmar Warehouse. As an American actor he has appeared all over the United States. He has performed Off-Broadway in Agatha Christie‘s The Unexpected Guest, and Inside/Out…Voices from the Disability Community. His regional theater credits include Teenage Dick (Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland) Teddy Ferrara (Goodman Theatre, Chicago) Romeo & Juliet (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts), Inside/Out (The Kennedy Center, Washington DC), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Guild Hall, New York), Rock Doves (Adrienne Theatre, Philadelphia). TV/Film: The Good Wife, and Ben Comen.
Shannon Swan : Actor
Shannon Swan trained at the Dance School of Scotland (Music Theatre course) and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her theatre work includes Glasgow Girls (2016/17 and 2019 tours) and Glory on Earth (Royal Lyceum). Television work includes Outlander and BBC’s Children in Need. Her work while training includes Return to the Forbidden Planet (SWG3), Merrily We Roll Along (Chandler Studio, RCS) and Cabaret (New Athenauem, RCS). Shannon is also a singer-songwriter and has performed in many concerts including Susan Boyle in Concert.
Neil Thomas : Actor
Neil Thomas graduated from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, in 2006 with a BA in Acting. Since graduating Neil has worked in theatre in the UK and internationally, touring regularly to the United States and Canada, playing in cities such as: West Palm Beach; Las Vegas; Calgary; Vancouver; Los Angeles and New York City. In the UK, Neil has appeared in many theatre productions over the past thirteen years, including various Scottish touring and Edinburgh Fringe shows. As well as enjoying several runs with Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, appearing in productions as diverse as ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Neil has also worked on productions at Dundee Rep and Oran Mor, amongst others. Appearances in musicals include: ‘Company’; ‘Clinton The Musical’; ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and the Visible Fictions/Scottish Opera co-production ‘Clockwork’, based on Philip Pullman’s acclaimed children’s novel.
Neil has performed in many Christmas shows and pantomimes over the years, at theatres including: The Tron, Glasgow; The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh and The Websters Theatre, Glasgow. Neil has contributed both on-screen and as a voice artist for television in the UK, and most recently appeared in Season 4 of the Sony/Starz TV show, ‘Outlander’.
Voice-over work includes a variety of independent animated films, voice work for websites and regular work for radio advertising and for the Royal Bank of Scotland. He also regularly sings in cabarets and musical theatre revue shows around Scotland, both in major theatres and for corporate events.
Gail Watson : Actor
Gail was born and raised in Bonnyrigg near Edinburgh where she lives with her husband and 2 sons. She has worked for 23 years as an Actor. Gail has had the pleasure of working with companies such as Grid Iron, Communicado, National theatre of Scotland, appeared in many productions at Traverse, Royal lyceum, The Edinburgh Kings and Edinburgh Festival Theatre Eden court, Pitlochry Festival,Perth rep, The Byre theatre, Oran Mor, Nottingham playhouse, Notthcott Theatre Exeter. Gail was a part of Dundee Rep ensemble, and Toured many shows over the years. She was in Morag Fullarton’s hit show Doris and Dolly and the Dressing room Divas at the Oran Mor and Edinburgh Festival, which will return to the Rose Theatre for Gilded Balloon in winter 2018. Also Played Patsy Cline in her production Bottle of wine and Patsy cline’ for Oran Mor/Gilded Balloon. She was nominated for best actress at the Edinburgh festival for her performance in Barflies. This is the first time working for BOP, and has enjoyed every part of the process.
Her television work includes Shetland, In plain sight, Mrs McColl in BBC katie Morag, Taggart, Still Game, Scottish Killers, Tesco advert ‘Helens leg of lamb’, River City, Gary Tank Commander, Crowdie and Cream, Wedding Belles, The Near Room Blue Haven (comedy pilot) and Bob Servant Independent.
Alex Parker : On Stage Musician / Musical Director
Alex graduated from Birmingham University in 2012 with a BMus Honours degree in music.
His musical director credits include Sweet Charity (Pimlico Opera), Barnum, The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (Menier), Wonderland (UK Tour), A Little Night Music 40th Anniversary Concert (Palace), South Pacific (Cadogan Hall), Merrily We Roll Along, Sunset Boulevard, Follies (Yvonne Arnaud), The Whatsonstage Awards 2015- present (Prince Of Wales). His assistant and associate musical director credits include West Side Story, On The Town (BBC Proms), Les Miserables (Queens and Dubai Opera), Stephen Ward (Aldwych), The Pajama Game (Minerva) and Soho Cinders (Soho).
Alex produced and served as the musical supervisor to the London premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together at the St. James Theatre in 2013. He was also the musical supervisor for the London premiere of Workingat the Southwark Playhouse in 2017.
As a composer, Alex has written four musicals with his writing partner Katie Lam: AmDram, All Aboard, The Railway Children and After You. The pair have recently been awarded the NYMT Emerging Artist’s Award and have been commissioned to write the company’s 2020 musical. He is also working on a musical adaptation of a book that was recently made into an Oscar-winning film.
His upcoming projects include My Left/Right Foot (National Theatre Of Scotland), The Color Purple (Curve) and Mame (Hope Mill).
Richard Thomas : Music & Lyrics
Richard Thomas is an Olivier and Rose D’Or winning composer and writer and is best known for writing and composing Jerry Springer: The Opera, which was the first-ever musical to win all four British ‘Best Musical’ awards. The show ran for 609 performances in London (National Theatre, Cambridge Theatre) and a UK national tour and continues to be performed regularly around the world including notable productions off-Broadway, and at Carnegie Hall, and the Sydney Opera House, Australia. Other notable credits include the libretto for hit opera Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House/BAM New York), the lyrics to Made in Dagenham (Adelphi West End), songs for Tracey Ullman’s recent sketch shows (BBC1 and HBO), Shoes (Sadler’s Wells/West End) and five half hour BBC2 Musicals, “Kombat Opera Presents..”
Claire McKenzie & Scott Gilmour : Additional Music & Lyrics
Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie are an award-winning musical theatre writing partnership otherwise known as Noisemaker.
Both graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the pair work throughout the UK and internationally creating innovative, original work to challenge the expectations of musical theatre. Scott and Claire have worked with a wide variety of companies including The National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Sheffield Crucible, Dundee Rep, Citizens Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Channel 4 Films and The BBC.
Previous credits include: SONGS FROM THE SEVEN HILLS (Sheffield Crucible), CEILIDH (NOISE Opera/Sloans), ATLANTIC (Assembly/AMTP Northwestern, Chicago/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland- Herald Angel Award Winner 2017), LITTLE RED AND THE WOLF (Dundee Rep Theatre – Nominated for Best Production for Children and Young People UK Theatre Awards and Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2016), THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), FOREST BOY (NYMF, New York/The Other Palace, London/Edinburgh Fringe Assembly – Winner of S&S Award for Best Musical in Development, The NYMF 2016 Publishing Award), THE GIRL WHO (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse/Edinburgh Fringe Assembly), FREAKSHOW (The Roundhouse/ The Arches – Winner of the Scottish Daily Mail Drama Award 2012).
Upcoming Projects include: HI, MY NAME IS BEN is international co production currently in development between Noisemaker, Dundee Rep and the prestigious Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. Based on an incredible true story, HI, MY NAME IS BEN has a concert performance at Dundee Rep in later this year before opening at Goodspeed in Spring 2019. The pair are also working with acclaimed Scottish band Belle & Sebastian to develop their album, GOD HELP THE GIRL, into a live stage show. Scott and Claire were also recently selected as the New Voices 2017 – an award for emerging writers from across the globe chosen by New Musicals Inc. and Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment.
Rachel Drazek : Choreographer
Current projects alongside My Left/Right Foot include a large-scale outdoor performance piece for Gravity Fields Festival (Sept 2018), If we’ve never been to the Moon andThe Naughty Fox – both for The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
Other credits include Digging for Victory (Watermill), Electra (The Bunker, London), Dido & Aeneas (Festival Voices London), 100 Years of War & Peace (Rosa Productions, Greenham Common), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse London), Purposeless Movements (BOP) & Hurricane Boy (Ellen Havard).
Within education & community contexts Rachel is Performance Coach for Post-Graduate Creative Musicians at Leeds College of Music (LCoM), and recently travelled to Rwanda with BOP & The British Council.
She trained in Acting at GSA Conservatoire, and UCLAN for an MA in Somatic Movement.
Rebecca Hamilton : Set & Costume Designer
Rebecca trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2006) where shespecialised in set and costume design and scenic painting. She works as a freelance designer, model maker and scenic artist.
Design credits include: Flight – Vox Motus, Beyond the Lake – Rising Dawn Pictures, Bunny – Hopscotch Films, The Inescapable Arrival of Lazlo Petushki – Outland/Hidden Tiger Productions, MagicFest Gala – Edinburgh International Magic Festival, Tin Forest – National Theatre of Scotland, Station Stories – Cryptic, In Time O’ Strife – National Theatre of Scotland. Scenic painting credits: Outlander – Left Bank Pictures, The Edinburgh Dungeon, The 306: Dawn – National Theatre of Scotland, Eve – CBBC, Tommy’s Honour – Tommy’s Honour Productions, A Christmas Carol – National Theatre of Scotland,Dragon – Vox Motus. Model making credits: Flight – Vox Motus, The Inescapable Arrival of Lazlo Petushki – Outland/Hidden Tiger Productions, Calculating Ada – BBC, Tin Forest – National Theatre of Scotland, Wallace – The Arches/National Theatre.
Grant Anderson : Lighting Designer
Grant studied lighting design at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and graduated receiving the Dean of Drama Award for Best Individual Work.
Grant has also designed extensively for the Scottish Events Industry, including Botanic Lights 2015 Seasons In Colour and 2016 EXPLORE, (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh); Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Torchlight Procession & Street Party, including the 2017 Midnight Moment. As well as designing in the UK, Grant’s work has transferred internationally to New York, Beijing, Madrid, Valencia and Rio.
Selected credits include: Wendy Hoose, Blanch & Butch, The Tin Soldier (Birds of Paradise); One Mississippi, Submarine Time Machine, To Begin (National Theatre of Scotland & NTS Learn); Little Red And The Wolf, Freak Show, Forest Boy, The Girl Who (Noisemaker); Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs (Edinburgh International Festival); The Broons national tour (Sell A Door); Cuttin’ A Rug, Simon’s Magical Christmas Socks, Panic Patterns (Citizens Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Love Song, In My Father’s Words, Hecuba, Promises Promises, Baby Baby (Dundee Repertory Theatre); The Polar Bears Go Wild (Macrobert, Stirling); News Just In (Random Accomplice); And The Beat Goes On (Perth Theatre & Random Accomplice); Summer on Stage 2012 – 2016 (Lyceum Theatre); The Maw Broon Monologues (Tron Theatre); Without A Hitch (Room 2 Manoeuvre). Chess, Into The Woods, Cabaret, 9 to 5, Urinetown, Addams Family, Godspell, Avenue Q, Sunday In The Park With George, Company, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Wasted Love, Show Choir (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
Grant is a member of the Association of Lighting Designers. For further information on his work please visit www.grantanderson.design
Lewis den Hertog : Animation Designer
Lewis den Hertog is an artist based in Glasgow. He has been creating video and sound design for theatre for several years, recently he provided designs for Showtime From The Front Line (Mark Thomas, Lakin McCarthy), The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Birds Of Paradise), Jury Play (GridIron) and Velvet Evening Seance (Aberdeen Performing Arts). Other recent productions include The Divine Chaos Of Starry Things (Watch Your Head), Crude (GridIron), The Cheviot, The Stag, And The Black, Black Oil (Dundee Rep), and Escape Speed (Aberdeen Performing Arts). Lewis is also the technical coordinator for the Glasgow Short Film Festival and for Document Human Rights Film Festival.
Emma Skaer : Stage Manager
Emma has worked in Stage Management in Scottish Theatre for over 15 years after training at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She has worked on varied shows from small scale Highlands and Islands tours to big International tours. Previous shows include, Let The Right One In, The James Plays, An Appointment with The Wickerman, The Bacchae, MacBeth, Enquirer, Adam (National Theatre of Scotland), The Book of Beasts, Hansel and Gretel, How to Fix a Broken Wing (Catherine Wheels Theatre Company), Sunshine on Leith, Equus, Sweeney Todd (Dundee Rep), and is really excited to be working with Robert Gale again after previously working with him on Girl X and If These Spasms Could Speak.
Andy Reid : AV Operator
“Andy is a freelance AV technician based in Glasgow. He has toured across the UK and internationally, working with a great variety of Scottish and UK theatre companies including Vanishing Point, Grid Iron, and National Theatre of Scotland.”
Katy Lonsdale : Costume Supervisor
Katy graduated Performance Costume at Edinburgh College Of Art in 2003 and was a successful candidate for the BBC visions award securing a traineeship with the BBC’s costume designer, Frances Tempest. She then went on to design and produce costumes and puppets for Blue boat Theatre and was costume designer and maker for the Yorkshire based Mikron Theatre company for several years. She has worked for National Theatre of Scotland on numerous productions, inter dispersed with smaller scale commissions for dance, short films and physical theatre. Her recent work includes principal model maker and model painter on the award winning Vox Motus production, Flight and costume designer for the Outland/Hidden Tiger Productions short, The Innescapable Arrival Of Lazlo Petushki, which was a Scottish Bafta award winner.
Laurence Owen : Music Arrangement and Production
Laurence Owen is a composer, sound designer and performer. He was composer and musical director of Cat & Mouse (Village Underground), and sound designer for 1927’s Golem (Young Vic, Trafalgar Studios), for which he was nominated for a ProSound Award.
Laurence has co-written and performed four original Fringe musicals: Lullabies Of Pervland (2014), the Malcolm Hardee Award-winning Cinemusical (2015), Cinemusical High (2016) and The Time Machine (2017). Upcoming projects include Jekyll vs Hyde, winner of the 2019 Wilton’s Music Hall Fringe Foundations Award.
As a media composer, his clients include the BBC, Toyota, O2, Stella Artois, Embraer, Sipsmith, ARTE, The Beano, Historic Royal Palaces and the V&A Museum. His film credits include the Sundance Film Festival-selected White Morning, which earned him two award nominations at SoundTrack Cologne Festival.
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My Left Right Foot – The Musical (2018)
Information below is about the 2018 run of the show
Assembly Roxy: 1 – 27 August, part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018
From Robert Softley Gale, co-director of Wendy Hoose and creator of If These Spasms Could Speak and Blanche & Butch. Original music by award-winning partnership Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie (Atlantic) with additional songs by Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer – The Opera). Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland present this hilarious new musical, celebrating BOP’s 25th anniversary.
Age guide: 16+ – contains strong language and strong humour!
Part of the Made in Scotland Showcase
Join the conversation: #MyLeftRightFoot
Photos by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Access Information
Audio Description, British Sign Language and Captions are integrated into every performance, and the venue has a loop system. The performance on Sunday 19th August will be Relaxed.
For further information about the Relaxed performance, please read, THIS DOCUMENT.
Booking information
- Age guide: 16+
- Contains strong language and strong humour!
- Seating rake is steep
- Hearing Loop best in rows 3,4,5 – see venue signage and ask staff if you need access to these rows
- View of captions obstructed by cast in rows 1,2,3,4
- If using BSL sit centre and from about row 6 to take in whole image of stage – interpreter is integrated and moves around stage.
- Wheelchair spaces limited by venue to four per show – additional options to transfer
- Wheelchair spaces cannot be booked online. Fringe Access line booking options:
Phone: +44 (0) 131 226 0002 (10am – 6pm) / Email: accessbookings@edfringe.com / Textphone: +44(0)7860 018 299
Pre-show accessibility information:
- Plain text character descriptions READ THEM HERE
- Plain text set description READ IT HERE
- Plain text, easy read synopsis READ IT HERE
How to get there
The below video shows the most accessible route to Assembly Roxy, starting from Festival Theatre. For information on how to get to Festival Theatre please visit this page.
WATCH THE BSL TRAILER
FEEDBACK
Your feedback is really important to us. If you enjoyed the show, or even if you didn’t, we’d really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete our feedback form. We promise it’s very quick; there’s only 12 questions and for most of them you only have click a box. You could pop the kettle on then start the form and by the time it’s boiled you’ll have finished it – it’s that quick.
DEVELOPMENT
Click the link below for the transcript of a discussion with Bobath and BOP after watching a sharing of scenes and songs worked on during the MLRF development week in May.
Development Discussion Transcript
2018 CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Cast
Richard Conlon : Ian
Matthew Duckett : Chris
Natalie MacDonald : Nat
Louise McCarthy : Amy
John McLarnon : Grant
Dawn Sievewright : Gillian
Gail Watson : Sheena
Gavin Whitworth : Gav
Creative Team
Robert Softley Gale : Writer / Director
Emily Reutlinger : Associate Director
Claire McKenzie : Music
Scott Gilmour : Lyrics
Douglas Maxwell : Dramaturg
Richard Thomas : Additional Music & Lyrics
Gavin Whitworth : Musical Director
Rachel Drazek : Movement Director
Natalie MacDonald : Performance Interpreter / BSL Translation
Rebecca Hamilton : Set & Costume Designer
Grant Anderson : Lighting Designer
Lewis den Hertog : Animation Designer
Laura Donnelly CDG : Casting Director
Judith Drake : Academic Theatre Consultant
Production Team
Niall Black : Production Manager
Emma Skaer : Stage Manager
Nic Reilly : Assistant Stage Manager
Andy Stuart : Sound Operator
Andy Reid : AV Operator
Katy Lonsdale : Costume Supervisor
Guy Coletta : Production Sound Engineer
For BOP Theatre
Robert Softley Gale : Artistic Director
Mairi Taylor : Executive Producer
Michelle Rolfe : Producer
Callum Madge : Projects Officer
BIOS
Robert Softley Gale : Writer / Director
Robert is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene. His professional acting debut was in 2002 and since then he has appeared in many productions – including co-writing and performing in Girl X for National Theatre of Scotland. His award-winning solo performance – If These Spasms Could Speak – was a hit of the 2013 Made in Scotland programme and has subsequently toured internationally to countries including Brazil, Estonia, the USA, Ireland and India. For BOP he has directed the smash-hit sex comedy Wendy Hoose and Purposeless Movements, for which he was nominated for a CATS Best Director award.
Richard Conlon : Actor
Richard trained at Queen Margaret University College.
Richard was involved in a number of award-winning productions including: The
Belle’s Stratagem which won Best Ensemble at The Critics’ Awards for Theatre in
Scotland 2018; and My Left Right Foot which won both a Fringe First Award and a
Herald Angel Award in the Edinburgh Festival 2018.
Recent theatre credits include: Spuds (Glasgow Oran Mor); My Left Right Foot (National Theatre of Scotland/Birds of Paradise TC); Rachel’s Cousins (Edinburgh Traverse/Glasgow Oran Mor); The Whip Hand (Edinburgh Traverse/Birmingham Rep); God of Carnage and Harold & Maude (both Glasgow Tron); The Belle’s Stratagem; Jumpy; The Iliad; The Crucible; A View From The Bridge; The Merchant of Venice; A Christmas Carol and As You Like It (all Edinburgh Lyceum); Fat Alice (Glasgow Oran Mor/Aberdeen Lemon Tree/Edinburgh Traverse); Propaganda Swing (Nottingham Playhouse/Coventry Belgrade); Aladdin and Jack & The Beanstalk (both Edinburgh Brunton); Woman in Mind (Dundee Rep/Birmingham Rep); And Then There Were None (Dundee Rep); Macbeth (Perth Theatre); Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (ABandC Theatre);Spuds; Right Now; Private Lives; St. Catherine’s Day; The Importance of Being Alfred and The Matinee Idle (all Glasgow Oran Mor); Smalltown (Random Accomplice); Zorro and Peter Pan (both Visible Fictions); Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (Paines Plough/Glasgow Oran Mor); First You’re Born (Plutot la Vie); Great Expectations (Prime Productions); Brightwater (Mull Theatre); Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland’s Elgin Project); Cat on A Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie and Woman in Black (all St. Andrew’s Byre). Richard was also an original member of the Dundee Rep Ensemble, with productions including All My Sons; A Family Affair; The Plague; Cabaret; and Flora The Red Menace, amongst others. He also returned to play Pirelli in Sweeney Todd.
Richard’s television and film credits include: Garrow’s Law (Shed Media/BBC); PC Elliott in Low Winter Sun (Tiger Aspect for Channel 4); Age of Genius (BBC); The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle (BBC); High Road (ITV); Taggart (ITV) and Bad Boys (BBC).
Aside from his many roles on stage and screen, he has also performed on several BBC radio broadcasts including comedies: The Ellis & Clark Show and The Knox Factor and dramas: Brothers; 44 Scotland Street; Rebus: The Black Book; Rough Magic; The Dead Hour; A Second Life; The Lady Detectives; and Benedict’s Rule.
Matthew Duckett : Actor
Matthew Duckett trained in Classical Acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has worked extensively throughout the UK, and is excited to be working on Birds of Paradise’s current venture.
Theatre credits include: Matt (Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), National Production Company) Banquo (Macbeth, National Production Company), Tommo Peaceful (Private Peaceful, National Production Company), Thomas Montgomery and Sir Frederick Smith (Pacifists and Protestors, Gloucester Theatre Company), Multiple characters (The London Dungeon, Merlin PLC), Henry Soames and Roger (Notes From Underground, Traffic of the Stage Theatre), Multiple roles (Shakespeare! Live, Traffic of the Stage Theatre), Sir Amyas Paulet (Mary Stuart, Embassy Theatre, RCSSD) Lucentio (The Taming of the Shrew, Webber Douglas, RCSSD), Corny Collins (Hairspray, Rugby Theatre), Tom Collins (RENT!, Rugby Theatre), Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rugby Theatre – RSC Open Stages).
Natalie MacDonald : Actor/Performance Interpreter
NATALIE MACDONALD studied theatre at Langside College and RSMAD (RCS), then Interpreting Studies in British Sign Language to English, at Herriot Watt University. Natalie registered with Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (SASLI) 15 years ago and she has worked all over Scotland as a freelance interpreter, performer, director and theatre maker. She specialises in making theatre creatively accessible for Deaf Audiences with interpreting and integrated BSL performances. Natalie believes that ALL theatre can be enhanced by BSL. Some of Natalie’s previous work includes, Birds of Paradise, Solar Bear, NTS, Independance, Poorboy, Graeae, Communicado, RCS, Random Accomplice and Ramesh Meyyappan to name but a few.
Louise McCarthy : Actor
Louise is originally from Glasgow. After finishing high school she went straight on to train as an actress at The Arts Educational School, London. After graduating Louise went on to play one of the principal roles “Lisa” in Mamma Mia in London’s West End. (Prince Of Wales Theatre London). Other theatre work includes, Yer Granny, Men Should Weep (National Theatre Scotland), Cutting A Rug (Citizens Theatre) For which she was nominated as best actress at the 2017 CATS AWARDS. The DOLLS Abroad (U.K and Scottish Tour) Louise and her Comedy partner Gayle both co/wrote and starred in the show which recently won ENTS24 #1 rising comedy show in the U.K. The girls where also nominated for Best Double Act at this years Great British Panto Awards. Much Ado About Nothing (Bard In the Botanics), Three Sisters, Peter Panto and the Incredible Stinkerbell, Sleeping Betty, Snaw Queen (Tron), The Trouble with Double, Role Shift (Oran Mor), Jaqueranda, Sleeping Beauty (Perth Theatre), Bingo The Musical (Stellar Quines).
Television Credits includes, Stacey Stone, Raptures (CBBC), Sketchland, What’s Funny About the Indyref (BBC Scotland), Scot Squad, Only An Excuse (BBC Comedy Unit), Two Doors Down (BBC), In Plain Sight (ITV Drama) Aldi Midget’s Advert (ITV).
Film Credits: Louise has just recently finished filming “Country Music” (Three Chords Productions) alongside Julie Walters and Jessie Buckley directed by Tom Harper. The film is due for release 2018.
John McLarnon : Actor
John originally hails from Glasgow and trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
John’s recent theatre credits include: Sunshine On Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse/UK Tour) Apologia (Trafalgar Studios), Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour), The Parting Glass (London Irish Play Festival), TOM (No 1 UK tour), The Commitments (Palace Theatre, West-End), We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre, West-End), Jekyll & Hyde (Union Theatre, London.
Recent television credits include: Killick in Outlander (Starz/Amazon) and Britstick (Channel 4).
John is also an accomplished singer-songwriter. His debut EP ‘Thirty Two Winters’ was released in late 2017, and went straight in at no1 on the iTunes singer-songwriter chart. His follow up single ‘Ghosts’ was released in February 2018. Both are available to buy and stream now on all major music platforms.
Dawn Sievewright : Actor
Pinocchio National Theatre, Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour Duke of York’s Theatre, Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour National Theatre/National Theatre Scotland, Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour National Theatre of Scotland/LIVE Theatre, The A-Z Of Mrs P Southwark Playhouse, Beauty And The Beast Macrobert, Glasgow Girls National Theatre Scotland/Theatre Stratford East, Glasgow Girls National Theatre Scotland/Citizen Theatre Glasgow, Letters From Everyone Lonesome Schoolboy Productions, Legally Blonde Savoy Theatre, Quadrophenia UK No1 Tour
Gail Watson : Actor
Gail was born and raised in Bonnyrigg near Edinburgh where she lives with her husband and 2 sons. She has worked for 23 years as an Actor. Gail has had the pleasure of working with companies such as Grid Iron, Communicado, National theatre of Scotland, appeared in many productions at Traverse, Royal lyceum, The Edinburgh Kings and Edinburgh Festival Theatre Eden court, Pitlochry Festival,Perth rep, The Byre theatre, Oran Mor, Nottingham playhouse, Notthcott Theatre Exeter. Gail was a part of Dundee Rep ensemble, and Toured many shows over the years. She was in Morag Fullarton’s hit show Doris and Dolly and the Dressing room Divas at the Oran Mor and Edinburgh Festival, which will return to the Rose Theatre for Gilded Balloon in winter 2018. Also Played Patsy Cline in her production Bottle of wine and Patsy cline’ for Oran Mor/Gilded Balloon. She was nominated for best actress at the Edinburgh festival for her performance in Barflies. This is the first time working for BOP, and has enjoyed every part of the process.
Her television work includes Shetland, In plain sight, Mrs McColl in BBC katie Morag, Taggart, Still Game, Scottish Killers, Tesco advert ‘Helens leg of lamb’, River City, Gary Tank Commander, Crowdie and Cream, Wedding Belles, The Near Room Blue Haven (comedy pilot) and Bob Servant Independent.
Emily Reutlinger : Associate Director
Previous music theatre credits include the recent actor-muso production of Side Show along with several new musical-development projects with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The Wakeful Chamber by Rebecca Sharp and Pippa Murphy (Play, Pie, Pint), and three seasons as assistant director with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Emily’s production of Uncanny Valley by Rob Drummond (Borderline/Edinburgh Int’l Science Festival) received the 2016 CATS award for Best Production for Children and Young People.
Other recent productions include Invisible Army by Victoria Beesley (Terra Incognita), Julius Caesar (RCS), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard in the Botanics) and Potterrow by Martin McCormick (Cumbernauld Theatre). She has also worked extensively with the Traverse, Theatre Uncut, and Stoirm Og and is currently developing a new production of Cymbeline for the RCS (February 2019).
Claire McKenzie & Scott Gilmour : Music & Lyrics
Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie are an award-winning musical theatre writing partnership otherwise known as Noisemaker.
Both graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the pair work throughout the UK and internationally creating innovative, original work to challenge the expectations of musical theatre. Scott and Claire have worked with a wide variety of companies including The National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Sheffield Crucible, Dundee Rep, Citizens Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Channel 4 Films and The BBC.
Previous credits include: SONGS FROM THE SEVEN HILLS (Sheffield Crucible), CEILIDH (NOISE Opera/Sloans), ATLANTIC (Assembly/AMTP Northwestern, Chicago/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland- Herald Angel Award Winner 2017), LITTLE RED AND THE WOLF (Dundee Rep Theatre – Nominated for Best Production for Children and Young People UK Theatre Awards and Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2016), THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), FOREST BOY (NYMF, New York/The Other Palace, London/Edinburgh Fringe Assembly – Winner of S&S Award for Best Musical in Development, The NYMF 2016 Publishing Award), THE GIRL WHO (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse/Edinburgh Fringe Assembly), FREAKSHOW (The Roundhouse/ The Arches – Winner of the Scottish Daily Mail Drama Award 2012).
Upcoming Projects include: HI, MY NAME IS BEN is international co production currently in development between Noisemaker, Dundee Rep and the prestigious Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. Based on an incredible true story, HI, MY NAME IS BEN has a concert performance at Dundee Rep in later this year before opening at Goodspeed in Spring 2019. The pair are also working with acclaimed Scottish band Belle & Sebastian to develop their album, GOD HELP THE GIRL, into a live stage show. Scott and Claire were also recently selected as the New Voices 2017 – an award for emerging writers from across the globe chosen by New Musicals Inc. and Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment.
Douglas Maxwell : Dramaturg
Douglas Maxwell has been one of Scotland’s top playwrights since his debut in 2000. His recent work includes The Whip Hand at The Traverse Edinburgh, Charlie Sonata at The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Yer Granny (a version of Roberto Cossa’s La Nona) for the National Theatre of Scotland and Fever Dream: Southside for The Citizens, Glasgow.
His many other plays include Decky Does a Bronco, Mancub, Promises Promises (staged in New York as The Promise) and A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity.
His plays have been performed in translation in Germany, Norway, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Holland, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Wales, Japan, France, Belgium and South Korea, where his debut play Our Bad Magnet has run for over ten years.
His plays are published by Oberon books. His first collection of work focuses on his writing for younger audiences. As well as Decky Does a Bronco and Mancub that volume also contains Too Fast, The Mother Ship and Helmet.
Douglas lives on the Southside of Glasgow with his wife and two daughters.
Richard Thomas : Additional Music & Lyrics
Richard Thomas is an Olivier and Rose D’Or winning composer and writer and is best known for writing and composing Jerry Springer: The Opera, which was the first-ever musical to win all four British ‘Best Musical’ awards. The show ran for 609 performances in London (National Theatre, Cambridge Theatre) and a UK national tour and continues to be performed regularly around the world including notable productions off-Broadway, and at Carnegie Hall, and the Sydney Opera House, Australia. Other notable credits include the libretto for hit opera Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House/BAM New York), the lyrics to Made in Dagenham (Adelphi West End), songs for Tracey Ullman’s recent sketch shows (BBC1 and HBO), Shoes (Sadler’s Wells/West End) and five half hour BBC2 Musicals, “Kombat Opera Presents..”
Rachel Drazek : Movement Director
Current projects alongside My Left/Right Foot include a large-scale outdoor performance piece for Gravity Fields Festival (Sept 2018), If we’ve never been to the Moon andThe Naughty Fox – both for The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
Other credits include Digging for Victory (Watermill), Electra (The Bunker, London), Dido & Aeneas (Festival Voices London), 100 Years of War & Peace (Rosa Productions, Greenham Common), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse London), Purposeless Movements (BOP) & Hurricane Boy (Ellen Havard).
Within education & community contexts Rachel is Performance Coach for Post-Graduate Creative Musicians at Leeds College of Music (LCoM), and recently travelled to Rwanda with BOP & The British Council.
She trained in Acting at GSA Conservatoire, and UCLAN for an MA in Somatic Movement.
Rebecca Hamilton : Set & Costume Designer
Rebecca trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2006) where shespecialised in set and costume design and scenic painting. She works as a freelance designer, model maker and scenic artist.
Design credits include: Flight – Vox Motus, Beyond the Lake – Rising Dawn Pictures, Bunny – Hopscotch Films, The Inescapable Arrival of Lazlo Petushki – Outland/Hidden Tiger Productions, MagicFest Gala – Edinburgh International Magic Festival, Tin Forest – National Theatre of Scotland, Station Stories – Cryptic, In Time O’ Strife – National Theatre of Scotland. Scenic painting credits: Outlander – Left Bank Pictures, The Edinburgh Dungeon, The 306: Dawn – National Theatre of Scotland, Eve – CBBC, Tommy’s Honour – Tommy’s Honour Productions, A Christmas Carol – National Theatre of Scotland,Dragon – Vox Motus. Model making credits: Flight – Vox Motus, The Inescapable Arrival of Lazlo Petushki – Outland/Hidden Tiger Productions, Calculating Ada – BBC, Tin Forest – National Theatre of Scotland, Wallace – The Arches/National Theatre.
Grant Anderson : Lighting Designer
Grant studied lighting design at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and graduated receiving the Dean of Drama Award for Best Individual Work.
Grant has also designed extensively for the Scottish Events Industry, including Botanic Lights 2015 Seasons In Colour and 2016 EXPLORE, (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh); Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Torchlight Procession & Street Party, including the 2017 Midnight Moment. As well as designing in the UK, Grant’s work has transferred internationally to New York, Beijing, Madrid, Valencia and Rio.
Selected credits include: Wendy Hoose, Blanch & Butch, The Tin Soldier (Birds of Paradise); One Mississippi, Submarine Time Machine, To Begin (National Theatre of Scotland & NTS Learn); Little Red And The Wolf, Freak Show, Forest Boy, The Girl Who (Noisemaker); Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs (Edinburgh International Festival); The Broons national tour (Sell A Door); Cuttin’ A Rug, Simon’s Magical Christmas Socks, Panic Patterns (Citizens Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Love Song, In My Father’s Words, Hecuba, Promises Promises, Baby Baby (Dundee Repertory Theatre); The Polar Bears Go Wild (Macrobert, Stirling); News Just In (Random Accomplice); And The Beat Goes On (Perth Theatre & Random Accomplice); Summer on Stage 2012 – 2016 (Lyceum Theatre); The Maw Broon Monologues (Tron Theatre); Without A Hitch (Room 2 Manoeuvre). Chess, Into The Woods, Cabaret, 9 to 5, Urinetown, Addams Family, Godspell, Avenue Q, Sunday In The Park With George, Company, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Wasted Love, Show Choir (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
Grant is a member of the Association of Lighting Designers. For further information on his work please visit www.grantanderson.design
Lewis den Hertog : Animation Designer
Lewis den Hertog is an artist based in Glasgow. He has been creating video and sound design for theatre for several years, recently he provided designs for Showtime From The Front Line (Mark Thomas, Lakin McCarthy), The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Birds Of Paradise), Jury Play (GridIron) and Velvet Evening Seance (Aberdeen Performing Arts). Other recent productions include The Divine Chaos Of Starry Things (Watch Your Head), Crude (GridIron), The Cheviot, The Stag, And The Black, Black Oil (Dundee Rep), and Escape Speed (Aberdeen Performing Arts). Lewis is also the technical coordinator for the Glasgow Short Film Festival and for Document Human Rights Film Festival.
Emma Skaer : Stage Manager
Emma has worked in Stage Management in Scottish Theatre for over 15 years after training at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She has worked on varied shows from small scale Highlands and Islands tours to big International tours. Previous shows include, Let The Right One In, The James Plays, An Appointment with The Wickerman, The Bacchae, MacBeth, Enquirer, Adam (National Theatre of Scotland), The Book of Beasts, Hansel and Gretel, How to Fix a Broken Wing (Catherine Wheels Theatre Company), Sunshine on Leith, Equus, Sweeney Todd (Dundee Rep), and is really excited to be working with Robert Gale again after previously working with him on Girl X and If These Spasms Could Speak.
Nic Reilly : Assistant Stage Manager
Nichola trained in stage management at the RSAMD graduating in 2007. Previous productions include Frankie and Johnny: Northern Stage, Alice in Wonderland: Northern Stage, Thingummy Bob: Lung Ha Theatre Company, James and the Giant Peach: Northern Stage, Get Carter: Northern Stage, Huxley’s Lab: Lung Ha Theatre Company & Grid Iron Theatre Company, Barflies: Grid Iron Theatre Company. Nichola is thrilled to be working with Birds of Paradise and National Theatre Scotland on My Right Left Foot and is excited to be part of the Edinburgh Festival once again.
Andy Stuart : Sound Operator
Andy Stuart is a sound engineer with nearly 10 years experience in theatre. Having worked on shows including; Adam (National Theatre of Scotland), Knives in Hens (Perth Theatre), and Chick Whittington (Macrobert Arts Centre) he is extremely looking forward to his first venture with Birds of Paradise Theatre Company.
Andy Reid : AV Operator
“Andy is a freelance AV technician based in Glasgow. He has toured across the UK and internationally, working with a great variety of Scottish and UK theatre companies including Vanishing Point, Grid Iron, and National Theatre of Scotland.”
Katy Lonsdale : Costume Supervisor
Katy graduated Performance Costume at Edinburgh College Of Art in 2003 and was a successful candidate for the BBC visions award securing a traineeship with the BBC’s costume designer, Frances Tempest. She then went on to design and produce costumes and puppets for Blue boat Theatre and was costume designer and maker for the Yorkshire based Mikron Theatre company for several years. She has worked for National Theatre of Scotland on numerous productions, inter dispersed with smaller scale commissions for dance, short films and physical theatre. Her recent work includes principal model maker and model painter on the award winning Vox Motus production, Flight and costume designer for the Outland/Hidden Tiger Productions short, The Innescapable Arrival Of Lazlo Petushki, which was a Scottish Bafta award winner.