Athena
by Gracie Gardner
The Yard Theatre
Director - Grace Gummer
Designer - Ingrid Hu
Fight Director - Claire Llewellyn
Lighting Designer - Marty Langthorne
Composer & Sound Designer - Esther Kehinde Ajayi
Movement Director - Yami Lofvenberg
Voice Coach - Rachel Coffey
Assistant Director - Amber Evans
Casting Director - Naomi Downham
Original composition of 'Netch' by Miguel Fernandes + Louise Scheuer
Performers
Athena - Milliicent Wong
Mary Wallis - Gracie Saif
Jamie - Amaia Naima Aguinaga
Photography by Ali Wright
In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to battle.
Athena and Mary Wallace are training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together. They compete against each other. They spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.
From Award-winning playwright Gracie Gardner, following an acclaimed extended run in New York, comes a fierce coming of age comedy where two teenagers parry class, competition and power as they practice fencing and life. But only one will win – en garde.
Directed by the first recipient of the National Theatre Women of Tomorrow Director’s Award Grace Gummer.
"deeply funny" (Exuent) "sabre-sharp" (Time Out)
★★★★ "Enthralling"
“Aided by Ingrid Hu’s engrossing blue-and grey piste set, complete with netted curtains and metallic flooring, and Esther Kehinde Ajayi’s constant, tension-building soundscape, it is clear, that ultimately, only one will be victorious.” (The Stage)
★★★★ "Impressive" (The Independent)
★★★★★ "Exhilarating"
“Ingrid Hu and Marty Langthorne conjure a fencing club, a teenage bedroom, a nightclub with lighting alone. Noset changes here: only speed-of-light transformations from there to here, keeping up with the velocity of the swinging blade.” (Londontheatre1)
A Kettle of Fish
24 September – 13 October, 2018 The Yard Theatre, London
Writer - Brad Birch
Director - Caitlin McLeod
Designer - Ingrid Hu
Lighting Designer - Joshua Gadsby
Composer and Sound Designer - Max Pappenheim
Video Designer - Tegid Cartwright
Stage Manager on The Book - Devika Ramcharan
Production Manager - Seb Cannings
Casting Director - Ruth O'Dowd CDG
Assistant Stage Manager - Isobel Eagle-Wilsher
CAST
Lisa - Wendy Kweh
Photography by Helen Murray
She’s on a plane. She’s 30,000 feet in the air. And on the ground, back home, an emergency is unfolding.
Lisa is on her way to a new country for her work. She has spent months learning. She’s read the books, she’s watched the YouTube videos. She knows this business.
But something has happened thousands of feet below, hundreds of miles away. A disaster. A tragedy. Something that prompts her to question what is more important to her; where she has come from? Or where she is going?
Setting the story against a multi-layered visual language involving three symbolic spaces, A Kettle of Fish is a multi-media performance experienced through an immersive and intimate sound design.
