The Ice Cream Boys premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre on 9 October, 2019 with the following cast:
CAST
Jacob Zuma | Andrew Francis |
Ronnie Kasrils | Jack Klaff |
Thandi Dube | Bu Kunene |
CREATIVE TEAM |
Director | Vik Sivalingam |
Set & Costume Designer | Cecilia Trono |
Lighting Designer | Tim Mascall |
Sound Designer | Nicola Chang |
Production Co-ordinator | Jo Heanley |
Stage Manager | Anna Short |
Assistant Stage Manager | Kate Francis |
Set Builder | James Donnelly |
Videographer & Rehearsal Photographer | Anna Urik |
Production Photographer | Robert Workman |
Produced and general managed by Jermyn Street Theatre in association with Jeffrey T. Apter.
With thanks to Arts Council England, Max Adelman, Scott Carver and Peter Samuels.
CAST
JACK KLAFF | RONNIE KASRILS
For Jermyn Street Theatre: Statements, Moscow Art Workshop, Foreign Sky and Ivy and Joan .
Other theatre includes: Macbeth, Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Repertory); Representative, Drama at Inish, Still Goes On (Finborough); Henry VI, Sons of Light, As You Like It, Tamburlaine, School of Night (Royal Shakespeare Company); Tempest, Botticelli (Oxford Playhouse); Nagging Doubt (Donmar Warehouse); Stockwell (Kiln Theatre); Matchmaker, Map of the Heart (West End); Point Vallaine (Chichester Festival Theatre); National Health, Merchant of Venice, Othello, Im Not Rappaport, Letters, Evening Light (Bristol Old Vic); Oedipus, Cuddles, Secrets (Tristan Bates); Royal Hunt of the Sun (National Tour); Carver, Lower Depths, Cherry Orchard (Arcola); Shirleymander, WhoWhatWhyBus (The Playground Theatre); Frankenstein, Midsummer Nights Dream (US Tour/New York); and Richard II (Rose Theatre Bankside)
Television includes: The Sweeney, Miners Strike, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Boon, Rendell Road Rage, Last Duel, Vanity Fair, Midsomer, Grushko, Whoops Apocalypse, Death is Part of the Process, Ivanhoe, Cadfael and his own solo works.
Film includes: Star Wars, For Your Eyes Only, King David, 1871, Threat, Storage, Decadentally and Eyes of Orson Welles .
Radio includes: Notre Dame, Brave New World, Phantom of the Opera, Tynan, Importance of Being Frank, Welles, With Great Pleasure, Poetry Please, Comandante and several of his own works.
ANDREW FRANCIS | JACOB ZUMA
Theatre includes: Comedy of Errors (Ludlow Festival); Romeo and Juliet (Belgrade Theatre); Comedy of Errors (Nottingham Playhouse); Master Harold and the Boys (Palace Theatre) and On the Death of Ken Sara-Wiwa (Contact Theatre).
Television includes: Doctors, Messiah, EastEnders and The Benny Hill Show .
Radio includes: Desire, The Woodcutter and London .
BU KUNENE | THANDI DUBE
Theatre includes: 12 Angry women (Producers Club Theatre, New York City); A Sketch of New York (The Alpha NYC Theatre Company) and Harvest (Wallis Knot Theatre Company).
Film includes: Ear of The Beholder and Indigo .
CREATIVE TEAM
GAIL LOUW | WRITER
For Jermyn Street Theatre: Shackletons Carpenter (also UK Tours).
Other theatre includes: Blonde Poison (UK/Los Angeles/South Africa/Auckland/Wellington/Sydney/Melbourne/Berlin); Miss Dietrich Regrets (UK/Prague); The Half Life of Love (UK/Oregon); Two Sisters (UK/Los Angeles/Oregon); Mitfords (UK); Being Brahms (UK); And This Is My Friend Mr Laurel (Edinburgh/UK/Dubai); Killing Faith ; Joe Ho Ho ; Duwayne ; A Life Twice Given and Larkin (UK).
Gail has had several awards including Argus Award for Artistic Excellence for Blonde Poison , Best New Play at Brighton Festival for Duwayne and Naledi Award in South Africa for Miss Dietrich Regrets .
VIK SIVALINGAM | DIRECTOR
Theatre includes: There of Here (Park Theatre); Home (The Last Refuge); The Drunken City (Tabard Theatre); Twelfth Night (Iris Theatre); Macbeth, Wild Honey (Sainsbury Theatre); The Tempest (Rio Olympics); Invisible Man (Royal Shakespeare Company, Park Avenue Armory, New York); The Radio Serenade (Medicine Show Theatre, New York); Much Ado About Nothing (The Whitman Theatre, New York); In Arabia, Wed All Be Kings (Carne Theatre); Posh (Greenwood Theatre); Closer (New Crescent Theatre); and Crimes of the Heart (Old Rep Theatre).
Vik is a graduate of the Arts Council/Birkbeck University of London MFA in Theatre Directing and also holds a Post Graduate Award in Teaching Shakespeare (Royal Shakespeare Company/Warwick University).
CECILIA TRONO | SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
For Jermyn Street Theatre: The Last Ones (OffWestEnd nomination Best Set Designer); Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act and Fever (Assistant Designer).
Design credits include: Mites (Tristan Bates); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Rubenstein Kiss (Southwark Playhouse); The Paradise Circus (The Playground Theatre); The Blue Hour of Natalie Barney (Arcola); The Riots (Stratford Circus, London); She is Shakespeare (Thtre de Mnilmontant, Paris) and Bluebeards Castle in collaboration with OperaUpClose (The North Wall, Oxford).
Cecilia is a French performance designer based in London. She graduated with First Class Honours from Rose Bruford College in 2017.
TIM MASCALL | LIGHTING DESIGNER
For Jermyn Street Theatre: Tomorrow At Noon, Mad As Hell, Tonight At 8:30, I Have Been Here Before, Bloody Poetry, The Autumn Garden and The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith.
Other theatre includes: Orpheus Descending (Theatr Clwyd/Menier Chocolate Factory); Lord Of The Flies (Theatr Clwyd/Sherman Theatre); Midsummer (National Theatre of Scotland); Rails, Bold Girls (Theatre by the Lake); Jumpy, A Taste Of Honey, Long Days Journey Into Night, Kill Jonny Glendenning, Faith Healer (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Licensed to Ill (Cornershop); Consent, The Truth, A Little Night Music, My Fair Lady, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Central Theatre, Budapest ) ; Without You, Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson, Fully Committed (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Maids (Dundee Rep); The Real Thing (Bath Theatre Royal); Pygmalion (English Theatre Frankfurt); I Loved Lucy (Arts Theatre); Why The Whales Came (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Vagina Monologues (Wyndhams); Eric and Little Ern, Potted Panto (Vaudeville); Invincible (St. James); Derren Brown: Miracle, Infamous (Palace Theatre); Something Wicked This Way Comes (Old Vic); Enigma (Adelphi); Evening Of Wonder, Potted Potter (Garrick); and Ruby Wax: Losing It (Duchess).
Opera credits include: Peter Grimes, The Gamblers (LPO at the Royal Festival Hall); Aida (Opera Holland Park) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Garsington).
NICOLA CHANG | SOUND DESIGNER
Theatre includes: Little Baby Jesus, The Tempest (Orange Tree); Wild Goose Dreams (Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal); Germ Free Adolescent (Bunker Theatre); The King of Hells Palace (Hampstead); The Death of Ophelia (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeares Globe); Wonder Winterland (Oxford School of Drama/Soho Theatre); Summer Rolls (Park Theatre); White Pearl (Royal Court); Trying to Find Me (PULSE Festival/Latitude); From Shore to Shore (Manchester Royal Exchange/UK Tour); Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre); Pool (no water) (Oxford School of Drama/Royal Court); No Mans Land (Square Chapel, Halifax); Dangerous Giant Animals (Tristan Bates); Finishing the Picture (Finborough); A Hundred Words for Snow (Arcola); 10, Kompromat, Inside Voices (VAULT 2019); and The Free9 (National Theatre).
