nabokov in association with the Bush Theatre presents the World premiere of ARTEFACTS by Mike Bartlett
Sixteen-year-old Kelly has never known her Dad. Turns out he?s from Iraq, which her mum never mentioned, and he?s brought an ancient Mesopotamian vase as some kind of present. But Kelly doesn?t want a vase. She wants her Dad to stay and get to know her. It?s not the reunion either of them expected and for Kelly, it?s the beginning of an epic and dangerous journey.
Mike Bartlett has been described as ?One of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times? (The Stage). His first play My Child was called ?Brutal, thrilling, unmissable? (Evening Standard) and ?The theatrical equivalent of a firecracker? (Metro).
nabokov is a national and international touring new writing company dedicated to developing and producing new work that responds to contemporary agendas. nabokov's last production, the World Premiere of Edmund White's TERRE HAUTE ('Topical, transgressive and thrillingly dramatic' – Telegraph) played Trafalgar Studios last year and opens in New York in 2009.
National Tour 2008
26 & 27 March
Emlyn Williams Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold.
7 & 8 April
The McCarthy Studio, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
10 – 12 April
Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal
23 eve & 24 April mat & eve
Salberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse.
30 April
Norwich Playhouse.
1 ? 2 May
Mercury Theatre, Colchester.
6 ? 10 May
Drum Theatre Plymouth.
New York
21 May – 8 June 2008
59East59 Theaters, New York, NY 10022
Lighting for the Bush: Apologia, Wrecks, Artefacts (also New York), How to Curse, and the space lighting concept for The Library, the initial 2010 season in the Bush’s new building.
Other UK theatre includes The Voysey Inheritance, Elmina’s Kitchen, Scenes from the Big Picture for the National Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Coriolanus (also USA), and The Merchant of Venice for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Lower Ninth, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Days of Wine and Roses, Passion Play and Good for the Donmar; Gaslight and As You Like It at the Old Vic; Mrs Warren’s Profession at the Strand Theatre; The York Realist for the English Touring Theatre/Royal Court; and Love, Love, Love for Paines Plough. Other London theatre includes Faith (Royal Court); Certain Young Men, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Tongue of a Bird (Almeida); The Rubenstein Kiss (Hampstead); The Field (Tricycle); Nakamitsu (Gate); and The White Devil, The Common Pursuit, Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory). UK regional theatre includes The Birthday Party (Birmingham Rep); Arcadia, The Rivals, Loot, Paradise Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); A Number, Gladiator Games (also London), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Original Sin, The Tempest, Don Juan, The Country Wife, A View From the Bridge, As You Like It (also London), Twelfth Night (Sheffield Theatres); Rutherford and Son (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Where There’s a Will (Theatre Royal Bath Productions); Treehouses (Northcott, Exeter); Dealer’s Choice (Clwyd Teatr Cymru); Dealer’s Choice (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Australian theatre includes In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play (Sydney Theatre Company), The Gift (Melbourne Theatre Company), The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne), and Cordelia (Little Dove Theatre Art, Canberra). European theatre includes Great Expectations and American Buffalo (Gate, Dublin) and Hysteria (English Theatre, Frankfurt).
Musicals include the Menier Chocolate Factory production of A Little Night Music on Broadway (Walter Kerr) and in London’s West End (Garrick); Miss Saigon (Gothenburg Opera); Showboat, West Side Story (Tiroler Landesteater, Innsbruck); Promises, Promises (Sheffield); The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham); and Assassins (Oxford). Opera includes: Mary Seacole, Oreste, and Oresteia (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio); Les Pêcheurs des Perles and Iris (Opera Holland Park, London); and M Butterfly, Martha, The Barber of Seville, La Sonnambula, Carmen (Castleward Opera, Northern Ireland).
Hartley is also artistic director of C venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Lucy has previously designed Wrecks, Broken Space Festival, 2,000 Feet Away, Tinderbox and The dYsFUnCKshOnalZ for the Bush Theatre (with whom she is a former Associate Artist).
Recent theatre credits include Twelfth Night for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Dreams of Violence (Out of Joint); Shades for the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival; Macbeth (Edinburgh Lyceum/Nottingham Playhouse); Nina and Gas Station Angel (repertoire, LAMDA); Timing (Kings Head) and When Romeo Met Juliet (BBC)
She designed Artefacts (Nabakov Theatre Company / Bush Theatre) and Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios), both of which transferred to the 2008 ‘Brits off Broadway Festival’ in New York and other theatre credits include Be My Baby (New Vic Theatre); Rope (Watermill Theatre); Closer (Theatre Royal Northampton); The Long and the Short and The Tall (Sheffield Lyceum); The Prayer Room (Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh Festival); Ship of Fools (set, Theatre 503); The Tempest (set, Box Clever National Tour); The Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible Studio); Almost Blue (Riverside Studios, winner of Oxford Samuel Beckett Trust Award); Dr Faustus (The Place); Touch Wood (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Breaker Morant (Edinburgh Festival); Richard III (Cambridge Arts); Flight Without End, Lysistrata, Othello (LAMDA); Generation (Gate Theatre) and Season of Migration to the North (RSC New Writing Season).
Lucy graduated from Motley Theatre Design School in 2003, having also gained a BA in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle.
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