Mary Laws - Blueberry Toast

UK premiere first performed at the Soho Theatre, London on 24 May 2018

CAST

Gala Gordon BARB

Gareth David-Lloyd WALT

Adrianna Bertola JILL

Matt Barkley JACK

CREATIVE

Writer Mary Laws

Director Steve Marmion

Designer Anthony Lamble

Lighting Designer Rob Casey

Sound Designer Mic Pool

Fight Director Bret Yount

Choreographer Stuart Rogers

Voice Coach Rebecca Gausnell

Production Manager Sebastian Cannings

Casting Director Nadine Rennie CDG

Assistant Director Lakesha Arie-Angelo

Costume Supervisors Sarah Mills and Sarah Mercade

Producers for Platform Presents Isabella Macpherson and Gala Gordon

Producers for Soho Theatre David Luff and Holly De Angelis

CAST

Gala Gordon BARB

Theatre credits include: Frida in the premiere of Howard Brentons The Blinding Light directed by Tom Littler at the Jermyn Street Theatre and Irina in Benedict Andrewss acclaimed production of Three Sisters at the Young Vic.

Screen work includes: Christine Keeler in Series 2 of The Crown for Netflix, Verity in Endeavour: Arcadia and Elena in Chris Foggins independent feature Kids In Love opposite Will Poulter and Cara Delevingne.

Gareth David-Lloyd WALT

Theatre credits includes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatr Clwyd); The Stick House (Raucous); Twelve Angry Men (Kenwright); Lyre, Oscar and Jim (HighTide Festival); Three Women and a Piano Tuner (Chichester/Hampstead Theatre); Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre); After Agincourt, Before Nell (L&G Productions) and The Threepenny Opera (National Youth Theatre).

Television and film include: The Widow, Albert, Robin Hood: The Rebellion, Waterloo Road, Dark Signal, Holby City, Red Faction, Warehouse 13, Torchwood, Sherlock Holmes, Girl Number 9, A Very British Cover Up, Caerdydd, Doctor Who, Beethoven, The Bill, Rosemary and Thyme, Absolute Power, Casualty and Mine All Mine.

Adrianna Bertola JILL

Theatre credits include: Markie/Lily/Tina/Little Girl in The Twilight Zone (Almeida Theatre); Violet Beauregarde in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original cast Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Matilda in Matilda (original cast, RSC); Young Cosette in Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); Gretl von Trapp in The Sound of Music (London Palladium) and Brigitta von Trapp in The Sound of Mu sic Anniversary Tour to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Film credits include: Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger.

Television credits include: Sharice in Casualty , Silent Witness , Hank Zipzer , Call the Midwife , Red or Black , Mr Eleven , The Erin Simpson Show , The Little House , The Harry & Paul Show , Doctors , Magic Grandad .

Recordings Include: Matilda (original cast album recording), The Sound of Music (cast album recording).

Other work includes: Mini Jessie J in the Whos Laughing Now music video, performed live at V Festival with Jessie J, various commercials including Littlewoods , Compare the Market , Hyundai , BT , Batchelors and various voice over work including Disney, MTV and Microsoft .

Matt Barkley JACK

Matt trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and New York Film Academy. Theatre credits include: Gangsta Granny (West End/UK Tour) . Short film credits include: The Soup (The Forum) and Alien Culture (BFI/London Calling).

CREATIVES

Mary Laws Writer

Mary is a native of Texas and received her MFA in playwriting in 2014 from the Yale School of Drama. Marys plays include: B ird Fire Fly , The Drive and Wonderful (Tympanic Theatre Company); What A Very Pretty Pageant! and Stand (an autumn play) (The American Laboratory); The Trapeze Artist (Baylor University) and This (Yale Cabaret). Her work has been read/developed by Baylor University, Theater Masters National MFA Playwrights Festival, the American Laboratory, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the Endstation Theatre Playwrights Initiative, Le Pav dOrsay in Paris and The Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival. For three years she served as literary associate at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York.

Film/television includes: The Neon Demon (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, Cannes Film Festival selection, released by Amazon Studios) and three seasons writing and producing Preacher (AMC).

Awards include the Howard Stern Scholarship and UR/SA Grant for Playwriting. She mentored for the Yale/Co-Op Eugene ONeill Playwriting Program, the Dwight/Edgewood Project in New Haven and taught Playwriting at Wesleyan University. She received her BFA from Baylor University.

Steve Marmion Director

Steve is artistic director of Soho Theatre. Since joining Soho Theatre he has directed: Roller Diner (winner of the West End Wilma Award for Best Comedy 2017) ; Bits of Me Are Falling Apart; First Love is the Revolution; Death of a Comedian (co-production with Lyric Belfast and Abbey Dublin); I Kiss Your Heart; The One (returning summer 2018); The Night Before Christmas; Address Unknown; Pastoral; The Boy Who Fell Into A Book; Utopia; Fit and Proper People; Mongrel Island and Realism . In March 2016 he directed the new musical Only the Brave (Wales Millennium Centre). Since December 2015, he has written and directed Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella and Aladdin at the Oxford Playhouse . Prior to joining Soho Theatre, Steve directed Macbeth for Regents Park Open Air Theatre and Dick Whittington , Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk for the Lyric Hammersmith. In 2009 he directed the highly successful production of Edward Gants Amazing Feats of Loneliness for Headlong Theatre, which received rave reviews at Soho Theatre. In 2008 he had three critically praised successes with Vincent River in New York, the original Edinburgh production of Only the Brave and Metropolis in Bath. He also transferred Rupert Goolds Macbeth onto Broadway. Steve was assistant, then associate director, at the RSC for over two years from 2006-07. In 2004 he directed several premieres for Sir Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre and returned to direct the Christmas show in 2006. He has worked with the National Theatre, RSC, in the West End, on Broadway, at the Royal Court, Lyric Hammersmith, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatre Royal Bath, Watford Palace Theatre, Sherman Theatre Cardiff and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Only the Brave (2008) was nominated for Best New Musical and Best New Music at the MTM: UK Awards, and his Madam Butterflys Child (2004) and Mad Margarets Revenge (2005) won the London One Act Theatre Festival.

Anthony Lamble Designer

Credits at Soho Theatre include: Roller Diner , First Love is the Revolution and The One .

Further theatre credits include: Again , Hamlet and Boa (Trafalgar Studios); Jack and the Beanstalk (Oxford Playhouse); Twitstorm (Park Theatre); Run The Beast Down (Finborough Theatre); The Inn at Lydda (Shakespeares Globe); A Month of Sundays (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); The Bastard of Istanbul (Istanbul International Theatre Festival); Joe Lycett (Live Recording at Duchess Theatre); Hamlet Whos There (Elsinore Shakespeare Festival); Allegro, Cyrano de Bergerac , Three Sisters and Shivered (Southwark Playhouse); Test Rock Opera (Scala Basel); Pygmalion (Viennas English Theatre); Richard III , Clarion , Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre and Ghost From A Perfect Place (Arcola); The Devil Masters and Spoiling (Stratford East); Ciara , The Artist Man and Mother Woman and The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society (Traverse Theatre); Peter Pan and the Designers of the Caribbean (Bloomsbury); The Tempest (RSC/Ohio); Omeros and Romeo and Juliet (Globe Theatre); Charlie F (UK Tour/Toronto); Jackie The Musical (Gardyne Theatre, Dundee); Shush , The Passing , The East Pier , Bookworms , The Comedy of Errors and The Playboy of the Western World (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); For Once (Pentabus); Relatively Speaking (Watermill); The Complaint and Everything Is Illuminated (Hampstead); The Price (West End/Tricycle/Tour); The Caucasian Chalk Circle , Translations , Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads , A Midsummer Nights Dream and As You Like It (National Theatre); Measure For Measure , Richard III , The Roman Actor and King Baby (RSC), The Entertainer (Old Vic).