A PLAY CONCERNING A FARMER’S RADICAL ATTEMPT TO RESTORE HIS LAND TO ITS SUPPOSED FORMER GLORY, AND THE DIFFERING REACTIONS OF HIS CHILDREN: OR
BUNNIES (FOR SHORT)
by Kieran Lynn
First production at Bike Shed Theatre
on 2 November 2011
Remounted production opened at New Diorama
on 23rd October 2012
BUNNIES
by Kieran Lynn
2012 Cast in order of appearance
| EVA | Annette Chown |
| STAMPER | Richard Pulman |
| MAX | Jolyon Westhorpe |
Creative Team
| Director | David Lockwood |
| Producer | Fin Irwin |
| Designer | Stuart Crewes |
| Lighting Designer | Rachel Duthie |
| Sound Designer | Paul Bull |
| Musical Direction | Katherine Brooks |
| Stage Manager | Isabel Irwin |
| Assistant Director | Justine Bock |
The original production was directed by Fin Irwin and designed by Thomasin Marshall. The cast were
| STAMPER | Stuart Lyddon |
| EVA | Emily Spetch |
| MAX | Michael Woodman |
CAST
Annette Chown – EVA
Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes: Up the Feeder, Down the Mouth (Bristol Old Vic), Antigone (Bristol Old Vic), The Maids (Blue Angel Theatre Company), Serendip (Bikeshed Theatre), Und (The Mechanical Animal Corporation).
Television and Film includes: Casualty (BBC Productions), Five Daughters (BBC Productions), Mistresses (Ecosse TV Productions for BBC), Pleasure Park (It’s My Shout Productions), Lightweight (Saltaire Films).
Audio includes: Private Peaceful (BBC Radio 4), Weird (BBC Audiobooks), My Friend Boo (Griffilms).
Richard Pulman – STAMPER
Television and Film includes: Sept 2012, Short film for vetlife.com, as: Edwyn Cardoggan, Channel 4 production of Country House Rescue as: Cistercian Monk (2012). Theatre includes: Don Quixote By Bicycle for Burn the Theatre as: Don Quixote (2012), Self-Centred for Bare Bones Theatre as: Danny (2012), Exeter Blitz Project for Viva Voce as: Ron Potter (2012), Quills for ‘Exeter Alternative Theatre’ as: Lunatic (Dir: Sarah White, 2010), Hollyhayes for Tale Valley Community Theatre (2010), Grand Guignol for Exeter Alternative Theatre as: Prof. Ternier (2009), Rhinoceros for Northcott Theatre as: Jean (Dir: Polly Agg-Manning, 2008), Crave for Northcott Theatre as: Character A (2007).
Jolyon Westhorpe – MAX
Trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre includes Salome (Etcetera Theatre), Werther’s Sorrows (Edinburgh Festival), (Tangent) New Diorama, Out of Love (The White Bear), A Whisper Of Smoke (Old Red Lion), Theatre Ashes (Latitude Festival 2011), Straight) Cardiff Arts Institute).
Justine Bock – Assistant Director
Justine studied Drama at the University of Exeter and is now working as a freelance drama practitioner, director and technician. As director for the Bike Shed Theatre: The Capture (2012) and Class of 2012 (2012). As assistant director: Bunnies (2011), Playing With Snails (2012), The Exeter Blitz
Project (2012). As stage manager: Told:Retold (2011), After Dark (2011), Tin Girls (2012), The Exeter Blitz Project (2012), Flushed (2012).
Katherine Brooks – Musical Director
Adapted the score for a five-piece jazz version of The Magic Flute, and created and provided original music for Playing with Snails (both Bike Shed Theatre). Katherine performs as a musician in the South West, alongside running the Music Bird Choir and the Exeter’s children’s theatre schools.
Paul Bull – Sound Designer
Paul Bull provides sound and music – and other technical – support for all types of live performance. In addition, he is a sound artist, composes electronic music and performs as a musician using no-input mixing techniques.
Recent sound designs include: The Complaint at Hampstead Downstairs, Uncle Vanya and Palace of the End at the Arcola, Waiting for Lefty at the Bike Shed, Christie in Love for Cheekish productions, The Notebook of Trigorin for the Finborough, and Blok/Eko for The Wrestling School at the Exeter Northcott.
Since 2000, Paul has been sound designer on many Edinburgh shows. In 2010 he designed the sound for the Fringe First winner Lockerbie:Unfinished Business at the Gilded Balloon. This success was repeated the following year with both An Instinct for Kindness and Somewhere Beneath It All A Small Fire Burns, Still. In 2012, Paul was sound designer on Hand over Fist and Look Left Look Right’s NOLA.
Paul is also a sound engineer, and over the past 12 months has worked with Camille O’Sullivan, The Magnets, Mike Westbrook, The Segue Sisters, The Pindrop Band, pianocircus, Exeter Contemporary Sounds, The Segue Sisters and Murray Lachlan Young.
Stuart Crewes – Set Designer
As visual artist Absolute Catastrophe: Art Tourist (Thailand 2011); Inna Space