“What is a revolution if you can’t dance!”
Arcola’s co-founder Leyla Nazli (Mare Rider, Silver Birch House) adapts Ece Temelkuran’s celebrated novel Women Who Blow on Knots for the stage, presenting a powerful tale of freedom, resilience, and unbreakable female friendships.
Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, we follow the journey of four remarkable women on a road trip starting from Tunisia through Libya and Egypt to Lebanon. Madame Lilla, a mysterious and glamorous chameleon, takes charge and leads revolutionaries Maryam and Amira; and Eve, a Turkish journalist, headfirst through an adventurous journey that changes the course of their lives.
As they traverse North Africa to the Middle East in a classic Cadillac, these women confront their pasts and form indestructible bonds, undeterred by the socio-political turmoil around them. This powerful adaptation celebrates the indomitable spirit of women who dare to unravel the knots of their destinies and weave new futures.
Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and political commentator, and author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship. Her novel Women Who Blow On Knots is a phenomenon in Turkey, with more than 120,000 copies sold.
Leyla Nazli’s previous work at Arcola: Mare Rider (2013); Silver Birch House (2007). Leyla is Executive Producer and co-founder of Arcola Theatre.
Lerzan Pamir’s previous work at Arcola: Dark Vanilla Jungle (2015); When the Bulbul Stopped Singing (2013).
PAGE TO STAGE Post – Show Talk: On Tuesday 29th October, meet acclaimed author Ece Temelkuran and Adaptor & playwright Leyla Nazli as they discuss the plays compelling themes and its skilful adaptation for the stage, hosted by Nadia Idle.
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Running time
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Age guidance
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Content warnings
“Like a dream, this show shimmers. Heartening, engaging, memorably characterised, continually episodic...The immediacy, cries, reveals are inherently theatrical and precious. A must-see.”
“An exploration of revolution, mysticism and feminine power ... offers compelling moments of theatrical magic.”
“An ambitious and compelling adaptation”
“It’s the universal bonds of sisterhood and motherhood you come away remembering”
“Female stories from the Arab Spring take centre stage in this imaginative joyride through North Africa”
“Nazli does a fine job of adapting this epic tale, distilling it down to two hours, and the tight, focused ensemble effortlessly draw us into the drama. It’s a truly international collaboration, beautifully staged by Lerzan Pamir, aided by Öguz Kaplangi‘s atmospheric sound.”
“The message of unity and solidarity in times of turmoil is nothing if not timely; a theme will no doubt speak to the local community, but also has a much wider resonance”
“Nazli has produced a thrilling work, which very much highlights the beautiful complexity of women’s lives.”
Production photos
The Company
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Nicole Ansari-Cox
Madame Lilla
Nicole Ansari-Cox
Madame Lilla
Nicole Ansari-Cox is an award-winning actor, director, writer, producer, and human rights and climate change activist. She began her career in European theatre and film, with her work spanning multiple countries, languages, and cultures. In more recent years, she has focused much of her career in the USA. Notably, she performed with the acclaimed Théâtre du Soleil under the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine, both in Paris and on tour, and has starred in numerous theatrical productions in cities like Vienna, Zurich, London, Berlin, and New York, starring as Irma La douce, Roxanne, Antigone, Berenice, Alma Mahler, amongst many others.
One of her standout roles was in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, which was directed by Trevor Nunn at the Royal Court in London. She later performed this role in the West End and on Broadway. This spring, Nicole is once again collaborating with Trevor Nunn and Brian Cox in The Score, which is transferring from the Royal Theatre Bath to the West End. In London, Nicole was most recently seen in Joshua Sobol’s Sinners at the Playground Theatre
Her film and TV credits include roles in Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects, Land of Dreams, Succession, Law and Order, and FBI, among others. Recently she wrapped filming Under the Stars, Jukebox, Hotel Tehran, Baba in Graceland and Glenrothan, directed by Brian Cox.
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Gamze Sanli
Eve
Gamze Sanli
Eve
Gamze is a Turkish and Cypriot actor, filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, producer and facilitator.
Her craft weaves folklore and mythology, abolition and political resistance, death and witchcraft. Moving through different mediums, including experimental film and performance, documentary, illustration, embroidery, poetry and music, she reimagines and reframes the world with a queering, decolonial lens. She is also in the programming team of the London Short Film Festival and MENA Film Festival, and is part of the Migrants in Culture Saturday School creative lab for border abolition.
She is the founder of the Scattered Seeds; a collective of diasporans, migrants and internationalists, focusing on anti-colonial, abolitionist, feminist resistance with radical pedagogy, archiving, and art. She is also the art and activism director of the SWANA collective Full Potential. Having worked in Erbil, Istanbul, and Athens, she is now based in London.
Theatre credits include: ‘ΑΧΑΡΝΗΣ / ΠΡΑΤΗΡΙΟΥΧΟΙ’ (Athens Από Μηχανής), ‘Kusursuz Dünya’ (Istanbul Hata Yapım Atölyesi), ‘Punta Atmak’ (Istanbul Sabancı Museum), and ‘Toros Canavarı’ (Istanbul Kolektif Sahne). Film credits include: ‘Neo Nahda’ (Other People’s Films), ‘A’mantia’ and ‘A Place That Time Forgot’. Previously she has worked on documentary projects including ‘Aladağ: Bir Yürek Yangını’ and ‘A Flag Without a Country’. Her work in theatre as a performer, assistant director and music assistant includes several experimental theatre projects in Istanbul with Emre Koyuncuoğlu, such as ‘Silver Moon’, ‘Spot Welding’ and ‘Silent Immigration’.
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Livia Arditti
Maryam
Livia Arditti
Maryam
Livia is a Sephardi actor from Turkey based in Paris. She trained alongside Giles Foreman and later graduated from École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.
Theatre credits include: Noé 2.0, Les pieds dans le plat ! by company illico echo (Tour in France), À la Recherche de l’Àge d’Or directed by Susana Lastreto (Dejazet Theatre), Les Précieuses Ridicules (Avignon Off Festival), Tartuffe (Arcola Theatre), The Pearl by John Steinbeck directed by Andrew Wilson (Tour in France). Julius Caesar directed by Deborah Warner (Barbican), Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe directed by Giles Foreman.
Tv/film credits include: A matter of principle by Antoine Raimbault, Adopt a daddy by Xavier de Choudens
Livia was the co-artistic director of illico echo, a France based theatre company.
She is also a professional percussionist playing with Zalindê. She choreographed their show Caleidoscópio (tour in France and Spain) and collaborated with artists such as Ibrahim Maalouf, Mathieu Chedid, Hollysiz, Féfé…
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Antonia Salib
Amira
Antonia Salib
Amira
Antonia Salibis a British-Egyptian actor, director and workshop facilitator. She recently performed in AFTER SEX at the Arcola Theatre. Previously she starred in Hijack (Apple TV+) opposite Idris Elba as well as appearing in Marvel’s Moon Knight (Disney+) with Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke. Her other acting credits include The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre), Black Ice (Theatre503), Biosphere (Pleasance Theatre), The Funeral (King’s Head Theatre) and Know You Well (Southwark Playhouse).
She has produced and starred in Chronic, a short film about chronic illness within a romantic relationship. For this, she was nominated for Best Actress at BIFA qualifying Little Wing Film Festival.
As a director her credits include Her Country (New Diorama), She is Taken Lightly (Katzpace) and SPY MOVIE: The Play! (Hope Theatre) as assistant director.
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Öncel Camcı
Ensemble
Öncel Camcı
Ensemble
Öncel Camcı is an Offie nominated actor from London, who was born and raised in Türkiye. He is a 2023 graduate of East 15 Acting School – which he represented as a finalist at the 2023 Spotlight Prize.
After acting school Öncel has been in productions such as the Offie nominated three-hander The House We Inherit at the Bridge House Theatre, and A Woman on Fire at the Barons Court Theatre.
His theatre credits whilst training include; Konstantin in The Seagull, Edmund in King Lear, and Juan in Yerma…
“An actor to watch out for” -The Reviews Hub, 2023.
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Mercedes Assad
Ensemble
Mercedes Assad
Ensemble
Training: LAMDA
Theatre credits include: Julius Caesar (RSC), Red Ellen (Northern Stage, Nottingham Playhouse & Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), Light Falls (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester).
Short Film includes: If Then Was Now
Television: FBI: International (CBS), Amicable (BBC)
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Sara Diab
Ensemble
Sara Diab
Ensemble
Sara Diab is an actor of Egyptian heritage who graduated The Oxford School of Drama in 2023. Her credits include Arabian Nights (Bristol Old Vic), Murder at The Embassy (Feature Film), Refugee! (Roundabout stage Edinburgh Fringe).
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Ece Temelkuran
Writer of the Book
Ece Temelkuran
Writer of the Book
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist, a political thinker, and a
public speaker whose work has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, Le
Monde, La Stampa, New Statesman, and Der Spiegel, among several
international media outlets. She won the Edinburgh International Book Festival
First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow On Knots and the
Ambassador Of New Europe Award for her book Turkey: The Insane and the
Melancholy. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed book How to
Lose a Country. Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World, her latest
book has been published in several languages. Ece Temelkuran lived in Beirut,
Tunis, and Paris, to write her novels. She was a visiting fellow at Saint Anthony’s
College Oxford to write Deep Mountain: Across The Armenian Turkish Divide.
For the last six years, she has lived in Zagreb. She was a fellow at Robert Bosch
foundation. Her novel The Time of Mute Swans has been published in several
languages and has been turned into play in Thalia Theater in Hamburg. She is
on the advisory board of Progressive International and Democracy Next. She
received the El Mundo Award for her body of work. She is currently based in
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Leyla Nazli
Adaptor
Leyla Nazli
Adaptor
Leyla Nazli co-founded the Arcola Theatre with Mehmet Ergen in 2000 where she is the Executive Producer and Deputy Artistic Director. She has produced hundreds of critically acclaimed and award winning in-house plays and operas for the past 23 years and curates the annual opera festival Grimeborn.
She was commissioned by Royal Shakespeare Company to write a one act play, She is Yours for Mischief Festival in 2014.
Her play, Mare Rider (★★★★ whatsonstage.com, ★★★★ Exeunt) was lauded as ‘a hallucinatory and disturbing revisionist feminist fable for our time’ by The Arts Desk, whilst The Stage praised it for its ‘unsentimental and illuminating sensitivity, pierced through with a no-nonsense wit’. Following its successful run at the Arcola, the production toured Europe in 2013, and the play prompted the Evening Standard to label Nazli as ‘a talent to track’
Subsequent to a rehearsed reading at the Royal Court, Nazli’s debut play Silver Birch House opened to critical acclaim at the Arcola in 2007 (★★★★Time Out, ★★★★The Stage, ★★★★Evening Standard, ★★★★The Metro). Staged by Ergen, the play was described as ‘deeply moving’ by The Guardian, and as ‘a powerful piece of personal and political history’ by Time Out.
In 2006 she was one of 50 promising new writers selected to take part in The Fifty, a year-long mentoring programme organised for the 50th anniversary of The Royal Court Theatre, in conjunction with the BBC. Writers were nominated by theatres nationwide and received a bursary, as well as masterclasses in writing for theatre, radio, film and television.
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Lerzan Pamir
Director
Lerzan Pamir
Director
I was born in 1987 in Bursa, Turkey. After graduating from Uludağ University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, I pursued a second bachelor’s degree in Film, Drama, and Directing at Kadir Has University.
During my studies, I directed several plays, including Mehmet Baydur’s Tensing (2007), Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid (2008), Jean Tardieu’s Gişe (2010), and Chekhov’s The Bear (2011). I also worked with Mehmet Ergen in his plays such as Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Lucy Kirkwood’s It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First, and the musical Shrek.In 2012, I directed Deniz Altun’s Pippa at Talimhane Theatre as part of the ‘Europe-Now’ project. The following year, I served as an assistant director on Jonathan Lloyd’s Inside Out, staged at Aksanat, and co-directed David Greig’s When the Bulbul Stopped Singing with Natalie Katsou. In 2014, I co-directed the Off-Broadway musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change with Mehmet Ergen at Zorlu PSM, which won Best Musical at the Sadri Alışık Awards. That same year, I directed the children’s play Family
Tree at Aksanat and Philip Ridley’s Dark Vanilla Jungle at Talimhane Theatre. In 2015, I directed The Play That Goes Wrong, which won Best Comedy at the Afife Jale Awards, and also I worked with Mehmet Ergen as an assistant director in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, both staged at Zorlu PSM. In 2018, I directed The Bank Robbery for BKM.In 2020, I directed Ahmet Sami Özbudak’s Şehirde Kimse Yokken, produced by Zorlu PSM, and Leyla Nazlı’s Mare Rider as part of the Minimal Season at Istanbul Municipal Theatre. Following this, I directed Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, a production that has consistently played to sold-out audiences since its premiere. Last season, I co-directed the musical 1923, commissioned by Zorlu PSM to for the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, with Mehmet Ergen. I am currently working as a director at Talimhane Theatre.
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Neil Irish
Designer
Neil Irish
Designer
Neil trained in Birmingham and late at The Slade.
Recent productions HANSEL AND GRETEL. and RIGOLETTO Opera Holland Park. London. AMADIGI, LA BOHEME and THE GOLDEN COCKEREL English Touring Opera. A TALE OF TWO CITIES Chung Ying Hong Kong and China tour. CANTERBURY TALES and HENRY V. Guildford Shakespeare Company. THE SHORT LONG DROP. Vanguard London.
Other work includes WOYZECK at St Anne’s. New York. RODELINDA. Opera. BAM. NYC
SWITZERLAND and DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE. Frankfurt. MY FAIR LADY. Cyprus
CENERENTOLA Danish Opera. DR JEKYLL Hong Kong. THE SHAPE OF THINGS. Istanbul.
Neil has designed several shows for Jermyn St Theatre , Guildford Shakespeare Co , Red Shift and Compass touring companies. Also for Birmingham Rep , Nottingham Playhouse Derby Theatres , Leeds Playhouse , Crucible , Opera Theatre Co Dublin , Pavilion Theatre Dublin , Almeida / ENO Opera. New Zealand Opera , Second Stride Dance Co , LCB Ballet
Royal Lyceum Edinburgh. New Wolsey Ipswich. Greenwich Theatre , Everyman Liverpool. Bolton Octagon. Gate Theatre Dublin.
Future projects include PANDORAS BOX Royal Academy of Music London Youth Opera , PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. GSC. THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Opera Holland Park.
Neil has also worked for both Set and Costume Departments BBC TV.
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Oğuz Kaplangı
Sound Designer
Oğuz Kaplangı
Sound Designer
Oğuz Kaplangı is a Turkish composer and sound designer based in Edinburgh, who primarily works in theatre, film, television and advertising. Oğuz moved to the UK in 2018 and that same year he was awarded with the Best Music and Sound in Scotland Theatre at the CATS Awards for his work in Zinnie Harris’ adaptation of Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros.
Theatre:
Hamnet (RSC, Garrick Theatre), A Museum in Baghdad (RSC), #WeAreArrested (RSC, Arcola Theatre), Meet Me at Dawn (DOT, Arcola Theatre) , Macbeth (an Undoing), Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti, Rhinoceros, Lyceum Christmas Tales, Tiny Tim, Nyanya and the Mighty Wizz! (Royal Lyceum Theatre), The Duchess [of Malfi] (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Trafalgar Theatre), Still, The Monstrous Heart, Revolting, Rabbit Catcher, Doomsdays (Traverse Theatre), Treasure Island (Cumbernauld Theatre), Ostan (Park Theatre), The Alchemist (Tron Theatre), 1984, Yangınlar (Incendies) (Bursa NKT), Let the Right One In, How to Hold Your Breath, Frozen, 0/Damage Inc. (DOT), Positive Stories for Negative Times (Revolting) (And The Name For That Is) (Wonder Fools).
Television:
Wahlburgers, Kanaga, The Class, Donnie Loves Jenny, Nightwatch, Lock Up, Sexy Beasts, According to Alex, Killer Kids, Young Marvels, Big Brew Theory, Bizarre Foods, İstanbul Kafası.
Film:
Make Me A King, Last Summer, Birthday, Swipe Right, A Glimpse, Kötü Kedi Serafettin, Çılgın Dersane, Recep İvedik, Celal ile Ceren, Aziz İstanbul, Erkekler, Ayakta Kal, Avanak Kuzenler.
Dance:
A Wee Journey (EIF 2022 / Scotland Tour 2023).
Albums, soundtracks and singles:
1984, Last Summer, End Your Groan, Yangınlar, Don’t Walk Alone, Rebirth 2.0, Rhinoceros, Meet Me at Dawn, Nocturne of Pruva, Istanbul Calling series, Nudge Nudge (Zi Punt), Are You Satisfied? (Rebel Moves), French Fries Alaturca (Rebel Moves).
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Richard Williamson
Lighting Designer
Richard Williamson
Lighting Designer
Previous work includes: The Olivier award winning Rotterdam (West End/Off Broadway/UK National Tour); Dogs of Europe (Belarus Free Theatre at the Barbican and international tour); Richard III, An Arab Tragedy (Swan Theatre Stratford/International tour); Sampled and Danse Élargie (Sadler’s Wells); Great Expectations (UK tour); Little Miss Sunshine (Arcola Theatre and UK Tour); Fiddler on the Roof and The Comedy about a Bank Robbery (Istanbul); Beowulf, Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine, Jason and the Argonauts (Unicorn); What’s On Stage ‘Best Production’ Winner Thebes Land (also video), New Nigerians, Drones Baby Drones (also video), Shrapnel (also video), Mare Rider, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Country (Arcola Theatre); A Political History of Smack and Crack (Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre); Oedipus at Colonus (Cambridge Arts Theatre); The Body (Barbican); The Dark Side of Love (Roundhouse); In My Name, Boris World King (Trafalgar Studios); Amphibians (Bridewell); Thrill Me (Tristan Bates/Charing Cross Theatre/UK and international tour); Twentieth Century Boy (New Wolsey Ispwich); Re:Home (also video), Brenda (The Yard); Play Size (Young Vic); The Al Hamlet Summit (Tokyo International Festival/International tour); Strangers In Between (Trafalgar Studios and Kings Head); Ballo, Tosco, Denial, Someone To Blame (Kings Head); Summer Begins (Southwark Playhouse). Richard trained at LAMDA, is a Trustee of the Kings Head Theatre, is a board member of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, and develops industry leading applications zoomOSC and zoomISO.
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Ibraheem Hamirani
Stage Manager
Ibraheem Hamirani
Stage Manager
Ibraheem grew up in Oman and is a London-based Stage Manager. He is a graduate in Stage Management from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His credits include La Bohème (OperaUpClose), Scoring A Century (British Youth Opera), The Tempest (Wildcard’s productions), An Inspector Calls (PW Productions), Bad Roads (Fourth Monkey Productions), Duck (Katy Galloway Production), Rumble In The Jungle (Rematch), Don’t Destroy Me (2’sCompany Theatre). He is extremely excited and eager to be a part of this production.
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Carrie Croft
Production Manager
Carrie Croft
Production Manager
Carrie is a Production Manager, Producer and General Manager, based in London working in both off-West End and West End theatres. She completed the MA Collaborative Theatre Production and Design course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Distinction in 2022.
Recent Theatre Productions include: Bombay Superstars (UK tour and West End); Echo and Narcissus and Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov); Julie: The Musical (The Other Palace, Studio); Priscilla the Party (West End); Foam (Finborough Theatre); Othello (Riverside Studios); Birthright (Finborough Theatre); Apocalypse Bear Trilogy (Brockley Jack Theatre); Disruption (Park 200, Park Theatre); Shape of Things (Park 200, Park Theatre); Rocky Horror 50th Anniversary Gala (Peacock Theatre) Love and Information (Omnibus Theatre); Fucking Men (Waterloo East); Breeding (Kings Head Theatre); Earthquakes in London and Ring Ring (Omnibus Theatre); Under the Black Rock (Arcola Theatre); Sus (Park 90, Park Theatre).
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Defne Özdoğan
Costume Supervisor & Assistant Designer, Assistant Stage Manager
Defne Özdoğan
Costume Supervisor & Assistant Designer, Assistant Stage Manager
Defne Ozdogan is a freelance spatial designer based in London and Amsterdam, specializing in theatre and performance art. Originally from Istanbul, she holds a BA in Architecture from Central Saint Martins College of Arts. Her work spans stage and production design, exploring a variety of scales and narratives. Defne’s artistic vision draws on traditional craftsmanship, blending it with innovative, sustainable solutions.
She has collaborated with numerous stage designers on productions such as Possession, Sputnik Sweetheart, and No for an Answer at the Arcola Theatre. In addition to assisting on these shows, Defne has also led her own design projects for both film and theatre, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Arcola Youth Theatre), Mrs. Caliban (Theatro Technis), Captive (Independent Film), and Action at a Distance (Independent Film).|
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Balim Kar
Assistant Director
Balim Kar
Assistant Director
Balim Kar’s credits include: as Director: Dönerdi Dünya Bizsiz (Zorlu Performing
Arts Center, Turkey). As Dramaturg: Carcass Stars and Articulate Brothers (The
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James Christensen
Cover Stage Manager
James Christensen
Cover Stage Manager
James is a director, deviser, composer, and stage manager from Melbourne Australia. His work spans a range of styles including new writing, classical adaptation, experimental performance, musical, opera, and live art – with a particular focus on formal innovation and collaborative interplay between varied artistic disciplines. He is currently the Resident Production Manager for the Advanced Theatre Practice programme at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Recent Stage Management credits include: After Sex (Arcola Theatre); Othello (Riverside Studios); Form(at) Festival (Camden People’s Theatre); Earthquakes in London and Nora: A Doll’s House (Rose Bruford College).
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Lucy Cullingford
Movement Director
Lucy Cullingford
Movement Director
For the National Theatre: Dear Octopus, The Father and the Assassin, All of Us, Death of England and The Winter’s Tale.
In London’s West End: King Lear, Don Quixote and My Mother Said I Never Should
Other theatre includes:
The spy who came in from the cold; The Caretaker, Chichester Festival Theatre; Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus, Snow in Midsummer, The Tempest, Don Quixote, The Jew of Malta and Matilda The Musical (dance repetiteur; in the West End) for the RSC; Shakeapeare’s Macbeth on international tour; Medea at @sohoplace; Top Girls at Liverpool Everyman; Hamlet at Bristol Old Vic; Constellations (also West End, Broadway and on tour) at the Royal Court; Bridgerton for Secret Cinema; King Lear at Chichester; The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas at Leeds Playhouse; Anansi at the Unicorn; A Thousand Splendid Suns, 101 Dalmatians and Of Mice and Men at Birmingham Rep; The Remains of the Day for Out of Joint and Royal & Derngate; Swallows and Amazons for Storyhouse; Mountains for the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Abigail’s Party (also UK tour), Talking Heads, The Mother, The Double and The Spanish Golden Age at Theatre Royal Bath/Arcola; The Shadow Factory at the Nuffield; Anything is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough and No Place for a Woman for Small Things Theatre; The Last Mermaid for Wales Millennium Centre; East is East for Northern Stage and Nottingham Playhouse
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Beyhan Murphy
Belly Dance Consultant
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Mathilda Finlow & Alexander Dickinson
Stage Management Placements
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Nadia Idle
Post- Show Talk Host
Nadia Idle
Post- Show Talk Host
Nadia Idle is a lecturer, podcaster, and life-long activist from Cairo and London. She co-edited Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it, which documented Egypt’s 2011 revolution in Tweets. This groundbreaking work was the first to narrate a historic event using social media posts. Nadia also runs consciousness-raising workshops aimed at combating isolation and fostering collective action. She is one third of ACFM, the politics, music, and culture podcast which ranks amongst the top 10% of global downloads.
This production is supported by
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Cockayne
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Royal Victoria Hall Foundation
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Peggy Ramsay Foundation
Special Thanks to Zeynep Dalkiran/Pan Productions, Hilal Yalçınkaya, Deniz Ülkü & Simay Yigit.