MIST AFTER DRACULA First Presented at All Saints Church, Highgate 10th Sept, 2010
MIST AFTER DRACULA at KASTEEL de KEVERBERG, KESSEL, Roermond, Holland Produced by Handplay in association with KarinArts 12TH TO 26TH SEPT, 2010 http://mistafterdracula.weebly.com
PRESENTED AT THE UNITARIAN CHURCH, HAMPSTEAD FEBRUARY 2011
The Cast
JUDI BOWKER played the lead in the popular TV series Black Beauty. Other leading TV credits include: The Glittering Prizes with Tom Conti, Dracula with Louis Jourdan, Ellis Island with Richard Burton, Hindle Wakes with Trevor Eve, This House Of Brede with Diana Rigg, Picture Of Dorian Grey with John Gielgud, Anna Karenina with Christopher Reeves, Doctor Jeckle and Mr Hyde with Kirk Douglas, Wilfred and Eileen,Dangerous Corner with Daniel Day Lewis and Anthony Valentine, The Country Party with Peter Barkworth and Shiela Gish and South Riding with Dorothy Tutin. Films include major roles in Zeffirelli’s Brother Sun and Sister Moon, East Of Elephant Rock, with John Hurt, The Shooting Party, with James Mason and Clash Of The Titans with Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier. Stage: Judi has played leading roles at the National Theatre under Sir Peter Hall, with Albert Finney, Robert Stevens, Sir Ralph Richardson, Michael Bryant and Dorothy Tutin. Nottingham Playhouse, Manchester Royal Exchange, Edinburgh LyceumTheatre, where she played Nora in A Doll’s House to great acclaim, The Old Vic in The Women with Diana Quick and Maria Aitkin and also starred as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion on a World Tour. For her own theatre company Pilgrim she played in The Sensualist (Arts Theatre) The Brownings Through Casa Guidi Windows (World Tour) Uncle Vanya, Lermontov, The Seagull, An Ideal Husband, Lady From The Sea, Three Sisters. Hedda Gabler (Pentameters Theatre. Hampstead) RichardIII. (Upstairs At The Gate House Theatre) The Cherry Orchard, Mr Silver’s Secret (Tour) She played in two new plays, Roebuck, and Mr Silver’s Secret, in New York, Boston and South America. She played Alice in Strindberg’s The Dance of Death at Pentameters Theatre. Recently she played Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Anna in a touring production of Chekhov’s Ivanov. In Feb this year she played the Mistress in Waltz of the Toreadors.
HARRY MEACHER received a Major Award to R.A.D.A. where he won The Ronson Award, The Principals Award, Stage Fighting Award and an honorary diploma. Harry went on to perform at The National Theatre, The Royal Court, the West End, Citizens Glasgow, Liverpool Playhouse, Leeds Playhouse and most of the major English repertory companies. For five years he acted, directed and held lectures and workshops on the great European playwrights, nationally and internationally, touring capital cities in the Middle and Far East, Australia and New Zealand. He has written several plays the most recent being The Racontuer of Banyalbufar, In Love With Anton, Cardboard Dreams, Silvers Secret, and The Wildes Of Essex. He co-wrote The Sensualist with Kit Gerould, which transferred to The Arts Theatre. Harry has adapted works by Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Gorky, Bronte, Wilde, Sheridan Lermontov and Dickens. Harry has played title roles in King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Richard III, Platonov, Valmont in Les Liasons Dangereuses and Shylock in TheMerchant Of Venice. He has directed and performed in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (Time Out, Critic’s Choice), Three Sisters,The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard; Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler,The Lady From The Sea and The Wild Duck. Strindberg’s The Father.. He adapted and directed Gorky’s The Lower Depths and his own play Wildes of Essex. He also directed and appeared in John Cooper’s new play TheEducation Of A Lapdancer at the Pleasance Theatre. and as Ernest in Bedroom Farce, directed by Alex Holt. Directed The School For Scandal at Upstairs at the Gatehouse. Last year Harry directed and adapted Ibsen’s Ghosts at Pentameters Theatre, played Mephistopheles and directed John Cooper’s 21st Century Faust UK Tour and played Halvard Solness in Ibsen’s The Master Builder at Hampstead. He toured the Mediterranean with Judi Bowker in his play The Brownings through Cassa Guidi Windows. He has written two new plays, Buccaneer and A Haunting Twist and performed them in New York , Boston and South America. Last December he played Edgar in Strindberg’s The Dance Of Death. Since 2007 he has played Strindberg in London Theatre’s production’s Strindberg In Hollywood, directed John Cooper’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd and played Prospero in The Tempest and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Pentameters Theatre. He has recently directed his own adaptation of The Wind In The Willows, played the title role in Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov and Sherlock Holmes. Most recently he played Hector Hushabye in Shaw’s HeartbreakHouse. In September 2009 directed and adapted Des Marshall’s much acclaimed book An Urban Robinson Cruso. In Feb, this year he starred as the General in Ranjit Bolts translation of The Waltz of the Toreadors. In March he directed Daniel Deronda. Recently he was awarded the Peggy Ramsey Foundation Award for his new play Mist –After Dracula. In 2003 he co-founded leading Lady Productions, wrote and acted in two of their projects. Catalina and Rebecca’s Ghost. In 2005 he co- founded Coachouse Films and has appeared in Happy Days and Cassandra’s Clock a supernatural thriller set in the New Forest and starring Judi Bowker. All have been shown on various television channels. They recently filmed a story about the 1908 marathon called, Dorando by Bernardo Stella and Directed by Tom Reah.
BRYAN HANDS Made an early start in the business as a child actor on radio for the BBC. He won a scholarship to RADA and has worked as an actor, producer, director and writer ever since. He has worked in rep, in the West End and toured in this country and abroad. . Recent stage roles include: Doc in Small Craft Warnings by Tennessee Williams at the Landor Theatre and Einstein in a new play for the Casa Festival at the Union Theatre. At Pentameters, Hampstead he has played Hamm in Endgame by Samuel Beckett, Alonso in The Tempest, Peter Quince in AMidsummer Nights Dream, Ratty in The Wind in The Willows, CountShabelsky in Ivanov, Dr. Mortimer in Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles, Antonio in Twelfth Night and Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House. Most recently he played Sir Hugo Malinger in an adaptation of Daniel Deronda. He has just completed a short film 'Old Boys' and featured in a 'pop video' for the group 'The Count and Sinden'! He also recently directed a production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde at The Gatehouse Theatre, Highgate in London.
ELLEN HOPKINS Ellen had her early training in dance and drama in the Netherlands. She played leading roles in amateur productions before taking up work experience in London. In the summer of 2009, Ellen was assistant stage manager and understudy for the part of Joyce in a Logos Theatre Company Production of Noel Coward's 'I'll Leave it To You' at Pentameters Theatre, London. Her professional acting debut was in the Pentameters 2009 Christmas play for children, Harry Meacher's adaptation of 'The Story of the Amulet' by Edith Nesbit. In January this year Ellen appeared in ‘Bedtime Tales’ (also at Pentameters) for Butterfly Wheels Company and more recently worked on the lighting for ‘Waltz of the Toreadors’ directed by Harry Meacher. In May 2010 Ellen appeared in John Cooper’s adaptation of George Elliot’s Daniel Deronda at the Gatehouse Theatre, Highgate.
LUCIE HOWARD trained at the University of Hull then at ALRA where her credits included Dora Spenlow in David Copperfield, Alice Ayres in Closer, and Hazel Conway in Time and the Conways. Since graduating she has filmed Branded, a comedy sketch show pilot, and has just finished filming the horror film Patrol Man. Recent stage credits include Wenonanah in Hiawatha (Edinburgh Festival), Kat in Joy Division (Rosemany Branch), Lulu in Saturday Night (White Bear) and Elena in Susanna (Hen & Chickens). She has just finished a rehearsed reading of A Decade under The Influence at the Young Vic and played Kate Meyrick and Baroness de Langen in Daniel Deronda at The Highate Gatehouse Theatre in London for Traffic of the Stage Company. She has most recently played Daisy, Countess of Warwick in a new play Billy Fiske – King of Speed.
VICTORIA KEMPTONVictoria has worked extensively in repertory theatre throughout the UK, including: the title role of Gigi (Dundee Rep. Theatre); Lucy in The Country Wife (Theatre Clwyd); Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (English Theatre of Hamburg); Madame Aracti in Blithe Spirit and Frosine in The Miser opposite Ian Richardson (Chichester Festival Theatre). Other favourite roles include Rita in Educating Rita, Annie in The Norman Conquests; Helen in A Taste of Honey; Lydia in Rattigan’s In Praise of Love; Flora in Pinter’s A SLIGHT ACHE; Mrs. Samsa in Stephen Berkoff’s METAMORPHOSIS and choreographed and played Dorothy in STEPPING OUT. More recently she appeared as Annabel in Alan Ayckbourn’s SNAKE IN THE GRASS (Epsom Playhouse); Mrs.Tarleton in Shaw’s MISALLIANCE (Michael Friend Productions); Freda in DANGEROUS CORNER, and Ellen in the much-acclaimed JOURNAL OF AN URBAN ROBINSON CRUSOE, both directed by Harry Meacher. (Pentameters Theatre). She’s toured nationally in many productions including GODSPELL, PETER PAN, and THE CANTERBURY TALES. Television/Film credits include: TOMORROW’S WARRIOR; SEEING A BEAUTY QUEEN HOME, and FANNY BY GASLIGHT.
ROGER SANSOM has worked as an actor across Britain, and has also been on radio and television. Parts played out of London include Richard II, Shylock, Julius Caesar and Dracula. In recent years Roger has played both Dukes in As You Like It at the Courtyard, Manders in Ghosts at Wimbledon, Hastings in Richard III at Hampstead, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing at Guildford and Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest at Jermyn Street Theatre and again, most recently, at The Gatehouse, Highgate. Last autumn he played Escalus and Abhorson in Measure For Measure at the Courtyard in Shoreditch. At Wimbledon and BAC he has performed Wilde Blooms, which he adapted from Oscar Wilde’s lesser known works. At Pentameters Theatre, Hampstead he has played Gonzalo in The Tempest, Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Badger in The Wind In The Willows, Borkin in Ivanov, Sir Henry in Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Most recently, at The Gatehouse Theatre, Highgate in London, he played Mr. Gascoigne and Lord Brackenshaw in Daniel Deronda.