Hole
by Ellie Kendrick
CAST (in alphabetical order)
Ronke Adekoluejo
Ebony Bones
Alison Halstead
Rubyyy Jones
Cassie Layton
Eva Magyar
Directors Helen Goalen, Abbi Greenland
Designer Ccile Trmolires
Lighting Designer Katharine Williams
Composer Ebony Bones
Sound Designer Emily Legg
Casting Director Lotte Hines CDG
Production Manager Marius Rnning
Costume Supervisor Ruth Best
Stage Managers Surenee Chan Somchit, Zo Elsmore
Stage Management Work Placement Melody Hui-Ling Lo
Set built by Royal Court Stage Department
The Royal Court and Stage Management wish to thank the following for their help with this production: Gwyneth Herbert, Alex McPherson.
Hole
by Ellie Kendrick
Ellie Kendrick (Writer)
Ellies previous work at the Royal Court includes Silly Girl (part of The Big Idea programme). Other works developed at the Royal Court include TABS, which was in the top 10 for the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. She has taken part in three writing groups at the Royal Court, including an invitational group in 2016, during which this play was written. She is one of two Jerwood New Playwrights of 2018.
Ronke Adekoluejo (Ensemble)
For the Royal Court: Bad Roads.
Other theatre includes: Cyprus Avenue (Abbey, Dublin/Public, NYC); The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Twelfth Night (Filter); The Oresteia (HOME, Manchester); Pride & Prejudice (Crucible, Sheffield); The House That Will Not Stand, The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (Kiln); Anon (WNO); Random (Crooked Path).
Television includes: Faith, Cuckoo, Rough Cut, Doctor Who, NW, Cold Feet, Sick Note, Josh, Chewing Gum, Suspects, The Forgiving Earth.
Film includes: Christopher Robin, Been So Long, Ready Player One, One Crazy Thing, Lascivious Grace, Broken.
Ruth Best (Costume Supervisor)
Dance includes: Roma, III, The Gift (Salvatore Siciliano Ballet Company, Berlin).
Opera includes: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Kiez Oper, Berlin).
Ebony Bones (Composer/Ensemble)
Ebony is a London-born composer, producer, singer and songwriter. Noted for her collaborations with Yoko Ono, Ebony has been enlisted by Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander Wang to score campaigns and runway shows. She first uploaded an anonymous demo to MySpace in 2008 entitled We Know All About U, which became the BBCs most played record by an unsigned artist.
In the time since, Ebony has released three full-length albums garnering widespread critical praise. Her most recent release Nephilim on her own label, 1984 Records, is a collaboration with the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra, who perform her compositions.
Helen Goalen (Director)
Theatre for RashDash includes: Three Sisters (Royal Exchange, Manchester/Tobacco Factory/Yard/ Cambridge Junction/MAYK/Bristol Old Vic); Snow White & Rose Red (Cambridge Junction/ BAC); The Darkest Corners (Transform Festival); Two Man Show (Northern Stage/Soho); We Want You To Watch (National); Oh, I Cant Be Bothered, The Frenzy, The Ugly Sisters, Set Fire To Everything (Lyric, Hammersmith/ Greenwich+Docklands International Festival/ Imagine Watford/Latitude Festival); Scary Gorgeous (Hull Truck/Theatre in the Mill, Bradford); Another Someone.
Abbi Greenland (Director)
Theatre for RashDash includes: Three Sisters (Royal Exchange, Manchester/Tobacco Factory/Yard/ Cambridge Junction/MAYK/Bristol Old Vic); Snow White & Rose Red (Cambridge Junction/ BAC); The Darkest Corners (Transform Festival); Two Man Show (Northern Stage/Soho); We Want You To Watch (National); Oh, I Cant Be Bothered, The Frenzy, The Ugly Sisters, Set Fire To Everything (Lyric, Hammersmith/ Greenwich+Docklands International Festival/ Imagine Watford/Latitude Festival); Scary Gorgeous (Hull Truck/Theatre in the Mill, Bradford); Another Someone.
Alison Halstead (Ensemble)
Theatre includes: Future Bodies (HOME, Manchester/RashDash/Unlimited); Julius Caesar (Sheffield Theatres); The House of Bernarda Alba (Graeae/Royal Exchange, Manchester); Blood Wedding (Graeae/Dundee Rep); Exhibit B (Barbican); Prometheus Awakes (Graeae/La Fura dels Baus); Macbeth, As You Like It, King John (Chicago Shakespeare); Antigone, No Place Like Home (Steppenwolf); Aida (ENO); Wondrous Strange (Mimbre/RSC); Falling Up (Mimbre/National).
Lotte Hines CDG (Casting Director)
For the Royal Court: Pests (& Clean Break).
Other theatre includes: The Wolves (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Things of Dry Hours, La Musica, Dirty Butterfly, The Island (Young Vic); Meek, Junkyard, Boys Will Be Boys, The Glass Menagerie, People Places & Things (& National/UK tour), The Absence of War, Medea (Headlong); As You Like It, Pride & Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird (Regents Park Open Air); The Barbershop Chronicles (& National/Fuel/US tour), The Crucible (Leeds Playhouse); Elephant (Birmingham Rep); Speech & Debate (Trafalgar Studios); Brenda (& HighTide Festival), Removal Men (Yard); The Illiad, The Weir (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Pride & Prejudice (Crucible, Sheffield); The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Chichester Festival); Another Place (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); We Are Proud to Present (Bush); The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic); Pieces of Vincent (Arcola).
Film includes: CLAAM (short), Above (short).
As casting associate, other theatre includes: Harry Potter & the Cursed Child (West End); The Seagull (Regents Park Open Air); Tipping the Velvet (Lyric, Hammersmith/Lyceum, Edinburgh); Bull (Crucible, Sheffield).
As casting assistant, other theatre includes: Hamlet (Barbican/West End); A View from the Bridge (Young Vic).
Lotte worked as Casting Associate for the Royal Court from 20082012 and then as Deputy Casting Director from 2012- 2014.
Rubyyy Jones (Ensemble)
Theatre includes: Corpus Christi, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Arcola); Taylor Mac (Barbican); Long Live Queen James (Hampton Court Palace/ Banqueting House).
Solo shows include: HIDDEN WOMYYYN, RAAAGE (VAULT Festival).
As headline/featured/solo artist, events include: Queer & Now (V&A); Copenhagen International Performance Art Festival; Vienna Queer Performance Festival; Pride Programme (Brussels/Tel Aviv/London/Slovenia/ Manchester/Oxford/Berlin/Florence).
Awards include: Burlesque Hall of Fame Award for Most Innovative.
Cassie Layton (Ensemble)
Theatre includes: Secret Theatre (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Persuasion (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Macbeth (Young Vic); Romeo & Juliet (Globe); Pitcairn (Chichester Festival/Out of Joint); Sense & Sensibility (Watermill).
Television includes: Father Brown, Holby City, Doctors, The Commoners, Lovesick, Saturdays.
Film includes: Pylon, Jarhead 2, #Iamthescariest (short), La Petite Mort (short).
Radio includes: The Quanderhorn Xperimentations, Home Front, Cassandra at the Wedding, Pilgrim, Chiwawa, Clayton Grange, The Pursued, Plain Murder, The Cazalets, Dog Days, The Interplanetary Notes of Ambassador B, The Divine Comedy, What Would Elizabeth Bennett Do?, The Rivals.
Emily Legg (Sound Designer)
For the Royal Court: Katzenmusik, Road [as associate], Plaques & Tangles, Young Court Season, Live Lunch, The Get Out, Gastronauts, Lost in Theatre (Open Court).
