‘Can love exist between two people with diametrically opposing views on the afterlife?’
…Kate’s had another panic attack. She’s convinced her dead mother is sending her signs and needs Dom’s help to understand what it all could mean? Only to find Dom eating the biggest sign yet – the last casserole her mother ever made.
The first play by innovative London acting studio Actors East, developed over 5 years of improvisational workshops, Casserole is a blisteringly funny and emotionally raw one-act play that looks at how grief causes people to hide from each other within a relationship.
Actors East has grown from an acting studio in a basement in Dalston to become one of London’s most innovative new writing companies. By enabling actors, writers and directors to collaborate freely without the friction of cost, Actors East has become the forefront of grassroots theatre.
Nomination for 3 OFFIE awards: NEW PLAY, DUO PERFORMANCE in a play and SET DESIGN.
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Running time
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Age guidance
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Content warnings
“MUST SEE SHOW - The finest two-hander I’ve seen this year. It’s a new way forward. One of the finest small-scale plays to come out of Arcola...”
“A fiery, cruel, and enlivening piece of theatre, fuelled by the flames of interpersonal strife, Casserole cannot be missed. A stunning and intimate drama.”
“Powerful two-hander about love, death and grief...Flood and Alexandrou excel.”
“Actors East Theatre’s debut show makes a bang.”
“You truly are a fly on the wall... Strong performances.”
“Beautifully presented with care and passion.”
The Company
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James Alexandrou
Performer, Director & Co-Writer
James Alexandrou
Performer, Director & Co-Writer
Founder of Actors East as well as film & theatre-maker, writer, and actor.
Alongside a 27-year career as an actor and a 15-year career as a filmmaker, James also completed an MA in Directing Fiction at the elite NFTS.
It was during that time that he opened Actors East in response to the prohibitively expensive rents of rehearsal rooms in London. Vowing to always offer his studio on a “pay what you can” basis for unfunded projects and individuals with no questions asked – a community of creatives, teachers, writers and directors grew.His latest release is An Audio Testimony a short film exec produced by Jonathan Glazer for the Weiner Holocaust Library.
James is also developing his 2nd feature film project.
His latest music video Charley boy for Truman won a UK MVA’s. -
Kate Kelly Flood
Performer & Co-Writer
Kate Kelly Flood
Performer & Co-Writer
Television credits; I Hate Suzie Season 2 (HBO) and Forgive me Father (ADB). Film credits; Unthinkable Conversations (Dream Maker Films) Dance With Me (PompHouse) Theatre credits; Dear England (West End), Swallow (Tristan Bates Theatre) Burnt Toast (Assembly Rooms).
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Dom Morgan
Co-writer
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Avital Lvova
Producer
Avital Lvova
Producer
Avital Lvova is an actress, theatremaker and producer from Berlin. She studied under Uri Roodner at East 15 Acting School.
Fringe First Award Winner 2017 and 2018, Best Female Performer Nomination OFFIES 2017
Stage credits include: Borders (New York Theatre Workshop,US/ Adelaide Festival,AU), Hell on Earth (HAU1 Berlin,GER)/Dance Umbrella Johannesburg,SA), Isabelle (Volksbühne Basel,CH), Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre), Angel (Arcola Theatre/59E59 Theatres New York, US)
Screen credits: Gala Dali alongside Ben Kingsley in Daliland (dir. Mary Harron), Treason (Netflix), The Power (Amazon), Trackers (HBO), Waiting for the Sea (dir. Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov).
Next seen in The Tattooist of Auschwitz (SKY), Three Body Problem (Netflix) and Edgar Baghdasaryan’s blacklisted arthouse film Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev.
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Paulina Camacho
Co-Set Designer
Paulina Camacho
Co-Set Designer
Paulina hails from Guatemala. She has lived in 5 different countries around the world and now lives and works in London. Her work is centered around telling stories through space, in film, television and Theatre. Since graduating with an MA in Production Design at the prestigious NFTS, she has worked with Warner Brothers, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney, Lucas film and Apple TV.
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Paul Weedle
Co-Set Designer
Paul Weedle
Co-Set Designer
Paul is an Irish set designer with a first-class master’s degree in architecture from University College Dublin. He has worked on notable productions like Andor – Star Wars, The Crown (Netflix) and Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Paul also contributed to the design of the Fantastic Beasts theme park at Universal Studios. His mentors include esteemed production designers like Luke Hull, Adam Stockhausen, Martin Childs, and Stuart Craig. Paul’s attention to detail and storytelling through spatial design set him apart in the world of production design.
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Katie Mcgoldrick
Costume Designer
Katie Mcgoldrick
Costume Designer
Katie is a stylist and costume designer based in London. She works across commercial, music and narrative projects.
Her clients range from Stella McCartney, Tag Heuer, Radiohead, Boots, BMW and Channel 4’s Climate Season. Charity projects include films for Age UK, Alzheimers Society and Shelter. She attended Central Saint Martins and began her creative career in fashion editorial at youth culture publication Dazed.
Through her love of sourcing one off pieces, she strives to be sustainably conscious and elevate the emotional impact of her projects by using vintage items with their own lived experience. Her work is consistently celebrated for the depth of its character development and the naturalness of its aesthetic.
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Kit Mackenzie
Lighting Designer
Kit Mackenzie
Lighting Designer
Kit is a London based cinematographer working across commercials, music videos and short films.
He was fuelled first by a love of theatre; growing up in a small market town there was the occasional opportunity to lend assistance on local ‘am-dram’ shows meaning that before he was 10 Kit was on occasional follow spot operator and later lighting designer.
An alumni of the National Film and Television school he is returning to his theatrical routes for Casserole.
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Sophie Sparkes
Stage Manager
Sophie Sparkes
Stage Manager
Sophie is an actor, writer, director and composer based in London.
Sophie has worked as a stage and production manager on new plays and devised work across the UK.
As a filmmaker, she has worked on narrative films, documentaries and music videos.
Sophie’s music has been performed across the UK, and in venues including The Southbank Centre, The Saatchi Gallery, The King’s Place and St Martin-in-the-Fields, and by ensembles including The Helsinki Chamber Choir, The Latvian Radio Choir, The Aurora Orchestra, The BBC Singers and Ensemble Klang. She is currently honing her craft as an actor at Home Studio London with Laurence Mitchell and Madeleine Potter. -
Emma Beinish
Graphic Designer
This production is supported by
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Actors East
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Arts Council England
