The Bush Theatre presents the world premiere of
FEAR
by Dominic Savage
19 June - 14 July 2012
Sponsored by Ogilvy & Mather
With thanks to
Westfield, Dwell, Jo Topping, Mark Dakin, Andy Hilton at Belgrade Theatre Company, Daniele Lydon, Suzanne Bell, Matthew Byam Shaw, Hamleys, Richard James (Savile Row), Lisa Duncan, Andrew Taylor at Duran Audio, Stage Electrics, Smythson of Bond Street, Ella May Mcdermott, Zoe Spurr, Lisa Duncan, William Gilchrist, Stefan Furenbrink & Will Adams at Rake and Sian Breckin
Cast and Creative Team
Amanda | Louise Delamere
Gerald | Rupert Evans
Jason | Jason Maza
Kieran | Aymen Hamdouchi
Kieran’s Mum | Lorna Brown
Writer and Director – Dominic Savage
Designer – takis
Lighting Designer – James Whiteside
Sound Designer and Composer – Ed Clarke
Casting Director – Chloe Emmerson
Company Stage Manager – Mary Hely
Assistant Stage Manager – Sarah Barnes
Assistant Stage Manager (placement) – Susan Fayyad
Costume Supervisor – Sara Polonghini
Set Builder – Foot Print
Production Assistant – Jamie Robson
Production Electrician – Nic Farman
Company
Lorna Brown Kieran’s Mum
Theatre includes: Clybourne Park (Royal Court and Wyndhams Theatre); Short Fuses (Bristol Old Vic); Once on This Island (Hackney Empire & Tour); Things of Dry Hours (Royal Exchange & Gate Theatre); 93.2FM (Royal Court); Trade (RSC); The Big Life, Funny Black Women on the Edge (Stratford East) The Weave (Soho).
Television includes: Dominic Savage’s True Love, Outnumbered, Much Ado About Nothing, French and Saunders, Family Business, Rough Treatment, Bad Girls, Catherine Tate Show, Vivienne Vyle, Holby City, Casualty, Coronation Street and The Bill.
Film includes: Les Misérables, World War Z, Gambit, Little Soldier.
Louise Delamere Amanda
Theatre includes: Suddenly Last Summer (Nottingham Playhouse); Tartuffe (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Cyrano de Bergerac (Haymarket, Theatre Royal); Love and Liberty (Tron Glasgow); Hayfever (The Royal Edinburgh Lyceum); The Beggar’s Opera (Traverse Theatre).
Recent television includes: The Bible, Vexed, Scott & Bailey, Waterloo Road, The Good Samaritan, Doc Martin, Torchwood, The Rise and Fall of Rome, The Chatterley Affair, No Angels, People Like Us, Dirty War.
Film includes: The List, U Want Me 2 Kill Him, A Boy Called Dad, Bullet Boys, Daddy’s Girl, Family Business, Born Romantic, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Princess Caraboo, Judge Dredd.
Rupert Evans Gerald
Theatre for the Bush includes Physco geography and His Ghostly Heart; (The Broken Space Season).
Other theatre includes: Life is a Dream, Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Donmar Warehouse); Romeo and Juliet, King John (RSC); Breathing Corpses (Royal Court); Sweet Panic (Duke of York’s Theatre).
Television includes: World Without End, The Little House, Emma, Monday Monday, The Palace, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fingersmith, North and South and Sons and Lovers.
Film includes: The Incident, Elfie Hopkins, Sidney Turtlebaum, Agora, Guantanamera, Otto and Hellboy.
Aymen Hamdouchi Kieran
Television includes: Dominic Savage’s True Love, Black Mirror: The National Anthem.
Film includes: Offender, My Brother The Devil, Zero Dark Thirty, Laid Off, Ghost, Some Dogs Bite.
Jason Maza Jason
Theatre for the Bush includes Flight Path.
Other theatre includes: Sucker Punch (Royal Court); Pornography (Tricycle Theatre); Mad Blud (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
Television includes: Silk, Whitechapel, The Titanic and Trial & Retribution; and for film, Get Lucky, The Man Inside, Welcome to the Punch, Outside Bet, The Knot, Victim, Demons Never Die, Shifty and Fish Tank.
Dominic Savage Writer and Director
Dominic began his career as a documentary film maker. His documentary work for television includes a number of films made for Channel 4 - Seaside Organist for the Short Story strand, The Outsiders (nominated for the Grierson award) and Rogue Males & The Complainers for Cutting Edge. He has also made a number of documentaries for the BBC.
In 2000 Savage turned to fiction and wrote and directed Nice Girl for BBC Drama winning the BAFTA Award for New Director Fiction 2001. Nice Girl was also nominated for Best Single Drama and Innovation at the BAFTA Television Awards 2001.
He then wrote and directed When I Was 12 in 2001 for BBC Screen Two, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Single Film. Then came Out of Control in 2002 (BBC One), winning the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2002 and the Royal Television Society Award, and Broadcast awards for Best Single Film 2003.
LOVE + HATE was Savage’s first feature. Released Nationwide in May 2006, the film premièred at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005, winning awards at Giffoni, Palm Springs, Malmo, and Ziln Film Festivals.
Single dramas Born Equal (BBC One) starring Colin Firth, Anne Marie Duff, and Robert Carlyle and Freefall (BBC Two) starring Dominic Cooper, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Aiden Gillan followed.
In 2010 He wrote a two-part television drama with Simon Stephens that he directed for BBC Two called Dive.
Savage’s latest work for television is a semi-improvised five-part drama series entitled True Love, all shot in his home town of Margate, for BBC One, due to be screened in June.
takis Designer
takis is an experimental set, costume and installation designer. He was nominated for a 2012 Off West End Theatre Award for His Teeth. From 2007-2011 as Designer in residence for HighTide takis built the visual identity