Elling and his roommate, the uncouth, reluctant virgin Kjell Bjarne, are the Odd Couple of Oslo: a pair of confused souls taking their first steps in the outside world after years of isolated, institutional life. Given a flat in the city by social services, they must re-assimilate themselves into society or face a return to the asylum.
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Mark trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where he won the Richard Pilbrow Prize. Mark worked for a year and a half with London Contemporary Dance Theatre before getting his first position as Lighting Designer at the Redgrave Theatre where he lit over fifty productions.
Theatre for the Bush includes: Elling, The Danny Crowe Show.
Opera includes: Le Nozze di Figaro (Los Angeles Opera); Tannhäuser (Teatro Real Madrid); Kaspar Hauser, Le Nozze di Figaro (RSAMD/ New Athenaeum Theatre Glasgow); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Finta Giardiniera (RCM/Britten Theatre) The Cumnor Affair (Tête à Tête); Flight, La Rondine (BYO); The Cunning Little Vixen (RCM); Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Mikado (Carl Rosa/Raymond Gubbay/Gielgud Theatre); Blind Date-a new opera (Tête à Tête); Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots (Wilton’s Music Hall); Hansel and Gretel (Opera North); Tannhäuser (Los Angeles Opera); Lysistrata (New York City Opera); Odysseus Unwound(Tête à Tête); La Vie Parisienne (D’Oyly Carte); Eugene Onegen (MTL); Die Fledermaus, Orlando Finto Pazzo, Shorts, Six-Pack, Family Matters (Tête à Tête); Falstaff (RAM); Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Zuid, Netherlands); Hansel and Gretel (Scottish Opera on tour); Manon, Die Fledermaus (English Touring Opera); Ariadne auf Naxos, Albert Herring (Aldeburgh); Le Torreador, Messalina, Amadigi (Jonathan Dove’s) Le Porte di Bagdad, The Lady and the Sweep (Batignano, Italy); La Fanciulla del West, Norma (Opera Holland Park); The Rape of Lucretia, Cosi fan Tutte (RCM); Nitro (Royal Opera, BBCTV, Linbury Theatre); Lysistrata (Houston Grand Opera); The Knot Garden (Istituto di Musica di Montepulciano).
London theatre includes: Salad Days (Riverside Studios); Kurt & Sid (Trafalgar Studios); Family Man (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Fast Labour (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Hampstead Theatre); Elling (Trafalgar Studios); The Birds, The Colonel Bird (The Gate); Retreat, Each Day Dies with Sleep, House Among The Stars, Lips Together Teeth Apart (Orange Tree Theatre); On The Piste (The Garrick); It Runs in the Family (The Playhouse); Kit and the Widow (Vaudeville and Ambassadors); Gogmagoggs (Lyric Hammersmith); Shadow of a Gunman (Tricycle); Easter (Riverside Studios, Oxford Stage Company); Out of Our Heads (ATC).
Regional theatre includes: The Daughter-in-Law (New Vic Theatre Stoke); Behzti (Birmingham Rep); Tall Phoenix (Belgrade Theatre Coventry); Broken Glass, How The Other Half Loves, The Deep Blue Sea, Get Ken Barlow (Palace Theatre Watford); A Chorus of Disapproval, The Beggars Opera, Henry IV pt. 1 & 2 (Old Vic Theatre, Bristol); Privates on Parade (New Vic Theatre Stoke); Present Laughter, A Streetcar Named Desire, Misery (Mercury Theatre Colchester); Forty Years On (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Mark has also lit plays in many other regional theatres including: Derby Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, York Theatre Royal, Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Greenwich Theatre, Churchill Theatre Bromley, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Everyman and Playhouse Theatres Liverpool, Nuffield Southampton, Northcott Exeter, Salisbury Playhouse.
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