Bad Ladz
A new dark comedy from Mischief’s Niall Ransome about three northern lads who kidnap someone to prove to everyone how hard they are. Little do they know that this boy is the cousin of the toughest guy on the estate and they are in way over their heads. Performed in July 2023 at the New Wimbledon Studio Theatre.
"undeniably funny and surprisingly moving" - theatre weekly reviews
”boisterous, briskly paced and bighearted production” - london theatre 1
”easy to notice director Rosa Crompton’s deft hand at bringing them together as a team” - everything theatre
Writer - Niall Ransome
Director - Rosa Crompton
Producer - Tom Platt, Platt Productions
Designer - Ellie Light
Sound Designer - Anna Short
Lighting Designer - Eduardo Strike
Assistant Director - Jessica Rose Saunders
Image credit Harry Elletson
photo credit Harry Elletson www.harryelletson.com
Puck’s Forest Adventure
A magical show for children aged 3-7 performed outside. Puck has accidentally turned someone into a donkey and he’s going to get in trouble if the children don’t help him perform spells and sing songs. Originally performed at Green Man Festival 2022 with plans to tour in 2023. The aim of this show is to engage children in Shakespeare’s world and get them to speak his text, sing songs in iambic and turn themselves into all sorts of woodland creatures.
Produced by Zoe Lora Biles
Performed by Freddy Elletson and Aneurin Rees with original composition and performance by Aneurin Rees.
Photographs Harry Elletson photography
‘4’ by Sarah Milton
4 is written and performed by Sarah Milton and Produced by Ellie Stone for Bruised Sky and performed at the Park Theatre 16-21 May 2022.
Sound Design - Anna Short
Lighting Design - Rory Beaton
Associate Producer - Martin Murphy
Poster Image - Lauren Mabbett
photographer - Harry Elletson
Read the article in the guardian with writer Sarah Milton here .
AnyWhichWay Theatre
AnyWhichWay is a theatre company formed from a group of actors during Lockdown in 2020 with Director Geraldine Alexander. They worked on Richard III and came up with their own version called ‘Citizens’ Richard’ which includes their own written responses. I worked with the company to make a 12 minute video, shot entirely on iphones. Since then I have co-directed a live performance with Geraldine Alexander.
Please enjoy this one minute trailer.
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Photo credit - Harry Elletson Photography
JUMP
Performed at Theatre N16 and Gilded Balloon August 2018 this one man show explores life for a teenage boy in Hull when he is forced to go on the run with his younger brother and is entirely written in verse.
FCUK'D was listed as 'Best Theatre' by Theatre Weekly in their 'Best of the Fest' roundup after giving the show a 5 star review calling the show 'a modern day masterpiece of story-telling'.
Other reviews include
★★★★ - Broadway Baby 'moments of true sublime beauty in the narrative.'
★★★★ - Broadway World Scotland 'an ideal Fringe show'.
★★★★ - Edinburgh 49 'artistic and moving with hints of truly brilliant wordplay'.
Written by Niall Ransome
Performed by George Edwards
Sound Design by Peter Wilson
Photography by Harry Elletson photography and design
Tits'N'Teeth
This startling and provocative one woman show was written and performed by Isla van Tricht and produced by Eastlake productions for N16 and Underbelly in August 2018.
Press for Tits'N'Teeth includes...
★★★★★ - The Wee Review 'an important production that will likely start many important conversations with the audience members who are lucky enough to see it'
★★★★★ - Backstage Fringe 'incredibly well crafted and engaging'
★★★★ - The Scotsman 'deceptively simple but extremely nuanced'.
★★★★ - Theatre Weekly 'perfect balance between humour and darkness'.
Photo credit Harry Elletson photography and design.
Not Savages
'Not Savages' by Sean O'Neil was first produced as part of The Miniaturists at The Arcola and then was part of 'Play, Pint, Pie' at Vaulty Towers (part of VAULT festival 2018).
The play was performed by Freddy Elletson, Jay Mailer and Nathan Coenen (Arcola)/ Will Mytum (VAULT).
Siren
This dark comedy was originally performed at VAULT festival in 2017 where it won the 'festival spirit' award and then the show then transferred to Brasserie Zedel later in the year.
★★★★- Everything Theatre 'funny, poignant and at times shocking'.
★★★★ - The Play's The Thing 'a delightfully dark comedy'.
Produced by Oran Doyle at Over The Limit Theatre
Sound Design by - Óðinn Örn Hilmarsson
Lighting Design by - Gregory Jordan
Choreography by - Marah Wilson & Nicholas Hart
photo credit Michael Corcoran at silhouette films
The Remnants
The Remnants: As Thyself' and 'The Remnants: Threadbare' were two new plays written by Isla van Tricht and produced by Shrapnel theatre. The plays were presented as a double bill and performed by the same company although they weren't narratively linked. The shows did a week run at The Arts Theatre and a month at C Nova in Edinburgh.
“This play leaves you spellbound” THREE WEEKS ★★★★★
BROADWAY BABY ★★★★
FRINGE FAN ★★★★
THREE WEEKS ★★★★
Writer - Isla van Tricht
Producer - Paul Virides by Shrapnel Theatre
Designer - Kate Brooks
Choreographer - Kate Burke
Photo credit Piers Foley and Nick Rutter