Supported by Arts Council England, The Bristol Old Vic and The Ronald Duncan Foundation.
BOOBYS BAY
by Henry Drake
Cast in order of appearance
Huck | Oliver Bennet |
Liz | Esther Coles |
Jeanie / Cassandra | Florence Roberts |
Daz | Bradley Taylor |
Ivan | Joseph Chance |
A secluded cove on the North Cornwall coast, 2018.
The performance lasts approximately ninety minutes. There will be no interval.
Director | Chris White |
Set and Costume Designer | Paul Burgess |
Lighting Designer | Arnim Friess |
Composer and Music Director | Michael Henry |
Dialect Coach | Hazel Holder |
Production Manager | Corey Bennett |
Costume Supervisor | Grace Taylor-Shaw |
Deputy Stage Manager | Ana Carter |
Producer | Alison Holder |
Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience members.
We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.
Oliver Bennett | Huck
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes Babe, The Sheep Pig (National Tour), Tomorrow I Was Always a Lion and The Price of Money (Belarus Free Theatre), Worst Wedding Ever (Salisbury Playhouse), Backbeat (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Duke of Yorks Theatre and International Tour), Change (Arcola Theatre), The Fool (Cock Tavern), Avocado (Kings Head Theatre) and To the End of the World and Abigails Party (Warwick Arts Centre and Edinburgh Festival).
Film includes All Is by My Side.
Television includes The Coroner.
Joseph Chance | Ivan
Trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre), Jeeves and Wooster (National Tour and Far East Tour), Pocket Comedy, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew (National and International Tours for Propeller), I Killed Rasputin (Edinburgh Festival), Moonlight and Magnolias and Someone Wholl Watch Over Me (Perth Rep Theatre), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), The School of Night (Soho Theatre), Terror 2010 (Southwark Playhouse), The Merchant of Venice (Lamb House, Rye), Mary Mother of Frankenstein (Theatre National Brussels and Salzburg Festival), Peter and Vandy (Theatre503), Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre), Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Stafford Castle), Cyrano de Bergerac (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Tartuffe (Watermill Theatre, Newbury, and National Tour), Macbeth (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester), The Importance of Being Earnest (Bristol Old Vic), The Spanish Golden Age Season Pedro, The Great Pretender and The Dog in The Manger (Royal Shakespeare Company and Playhouse Theatre), Tamars Revenge (Royal Shakespeare Company), Incarnate (Edinburgh Festival) and Snowbound (Etcetera Theatre).
Television includes Wallander, Family Business and Bloody Britain.
Esther Coles | Liz
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes Touched (Nottingham Playhouse), Empathy Museum (LIFT Festival), The Nap (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Brian Pern Live (Lyric Theatre), Matchbox Theatre (Hampstead Theatre), Shed Plays (Royal Festival Hall), The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court Theatre, The Young Vic and Drum Theatre, Plymouth), The Recruiting Officer (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Rom Com (Hackney Empire), Closer To Ormsby (The Shunt Arch) and Woyzeck, Cant Stand Up For Falling Down, Billy Liar and The Snow Queen (Hull Truck).
Film includes On Chisel Beach, Il Maestro, Cheeky and Sixty Six.
Television includes EastEnders, Josh, Damned, The Syndicate, Code of A Killer, House Of Fools, Nurse, Great Night Out, Doctors, Shameless, Tittybangbang, Whose Baby?, Sea of Souls, A Thing Called Love, No Angels World Productions, Coronation Street, Peak Practice and Hunting Venus.
Radio includes Ricky Zoom, Nurse and Down the Line.
Writing includes The Allotment (BBC Radio 4).
Florence Roberts | Jeanie / Cassandra
Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes Punts (Theatre503), BU21 (Trafalgar Studios), French Without Tears (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, and English Touring Theatre National Tour), Shakespeare in Love (Nol Coward Theatre) and Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse).
Film includes This Is A Relationship, Dan?, Life in Black and Accolades.
Bradley Taylor | Daz
Trained at Drama Centre London.
Theatre includes Mothergun (Arts Theatre), Patronized Horses (Waterloo East Theatre), Wasted (Paines Plough), On the High Road (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Studios), The Dim (Southwark Playhouse), Death of Ophelia (Tate Modern), Hero/Heroine (Etcetera Theatre), Someone to Blame (Kings Head Theatre), The Winters Tale (Old Vic Tunnels), Othello (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Moonfleece (National Tour), Some Trace of Her (National Theatre), Silverland (59E59 Theaters, New York City) and Doctor Faustus (Bristol Old Vic).
Film includes Diggers Dead Cool, OUT, Absence, Rosie, Rock and Roll F***ing Lovely