Desara Productions Ltd in association with Neil McPherson
for the Finborough Theatre presents
The world premiere
STONE FACE
by Eve Leigh
First performed at the Finborough Theatre: Tuesday, 17 May 2016
STONE FACE
by Eve Leigh
Cast in order of speaking
| Cutler | Liz Jadav |
| Ali | Ellie Turner |
| Catherine | Ellie Turner |
| Mel | Liz Jadav |
The action takes place over a period of years in London.
The performance lasts approximately 90 minutes.
There will be no interval.
| Director | Roy Alexander Weise |
| Desginer | Loren Elstein |
| Lighting Designer | Simon Gethin Thomas |
| Sound Designer | Odinn Orn Hilmarsson |
| Casting Director | Carla Morris |
| Stage Manager | Matthew Gardner |
| Producer | Desara Bosnja |
Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members.
We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.
Liz Jadav | Cutler / Mel
Theatre includes Cymbeline and Stepping Out (National Tour), The Ugly Duckling (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and Nottingham Playhouse), My Name Is Stephen Luckwell, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Under the Story Tree and Can You Whistle Johanna? (Nottingham Playhouse), The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest and The Wind in the Willows (Illyria Theatre), Grimms (Trafalgar Studios), TASTE (The Theatre, Chipping Norton, and Theatre du Preau), My Dad’s Corner Shop (Derby Theatre), Sanguine Nights and Awakening Durga and Tamasha’s 25th Birthday (Kali Theatre).
Television includes Emmerdale and Hollyoaks.
Audio includes Zombies, Run! Season 5.
Ellie Turner | Ali / Katherine
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Merit, Hindle Wakes and Drama At Inish.
Theatre includes The Cherry Orchard and Hamlet (National Theatre), Nordost (Company of Angels), The Playboy Of The Western World, Henry V, Oliver Twist and La Ronde (Riverside Studios and National Tour), The School For Wives (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The Lodger (Arcola Theatre) and Bloody Poetry (White Bear Theatre Club).
Film includes The Three Of Us, Silence and Mother No More.
Television includes Misfits.
Eve Leigh | Playwright
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include her first play Silent Planet.
Trained at the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme and Studio Group, and is currently under commission to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Theatre includes Plunder (The Young Vic), Red Sky at Night (Bush Theatre), Rapture (Soho Theatre), and the interactive installations Your Future (Camden People’s Theatre, Hebbel Am Ufer, Ballhaus Ost, and Sophiensaele, Berlin), A Short and Boring Story (Camden People’s Theatre), and Something Else (Ovalhouse and Camden People’s Theatre).
Dramaturgy includes How to Win Against History by Seiriol Davies (Ovalhouse and National Tour), Das Spiel by Philipp Oberlohr (Ovalhouse and International Tour) and The Climate Games (Berliner Festspiele and COP21, Paris).
Roy Alexander Weise | Director
Director Roy Alexander Weise is currently Trainee Director at the Royal Court Theatre.
Trained on the BA Hons Directing course at Rose Bruford College and after graduating was made Associate Artist at The Red Room. He was First Runner Up for the JMK Award 2014 and in the same year was the BBC Theatre Fellow at the Bush Theatre and the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.
Theatre includes In Smoke and Aperture (Royal Court Theatre), Plunder and One Million Tiny Plays about Britain (The Young Vic), Palindrome (Arcola Theatre), The Man in the Green Jacket (Jermyn Street Theatre), What Happens Behind the Bar (Cockpit Theatre), SKEEN! (Ovalhouse), Invisible Mice (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) and Chameleon (Unicorn Theatre).
Assistant Direction includes Hangmen (Royal Court Theatre and Wyndham’s Theatre), Escaped Alone, You For Me For You, Primetime 2015,Violence and Son, Who Cares and Liberian Girl (Royal Court Theatre), Albion and We Are Proud to Present... (Bush Theatre), Public Enemy (The Young Vic), Hamlet and The Government Inspector (Taking Part at The Young Vic), The Serpent’s Tooth (Almeida Theatre) and Lulu (Rose Bruford College).
Television includes Trainee Direction for Invisible.
Loren Elstein | Designer
Trained at the National Institute for Dramatic Art, Sydney, where her design for Loot secured her the Australian Production Design Guild Award for Best Design and the William Fletcher Foundation Grant for Excellence in Design 2013.
Designs include Pia De Tolomei (English Touring Opera), The Water Palace (George Bernard Shaw Theatre), Mimbre do Shakespeare (Royal Shakespeare Company), Polymer (Udderbelly at the Southbank Centre), A Room of Her Own with Mimbre Acrobats (WOW Festival at the Southbank Centre), The Man Who Almost Killed Himself (Edinburgh Festival and BBC iPlayer), Ten Women (Ovalhouse), and is currently designing A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Trier).
Commercial work includes Art Direction for FatBoy Slim’s The Collection 30” and McBusted’s Most Excellent Adventure Tour Music Videos.
Simon Gethin Thomas | Lighting Designer
Trained in Lighting Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Designs include German Skerries (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Eventide