14 - 25 APRIL 2015
WHITE BEAR THEATRE, KENNINGTON, LONDON
Entering their fifth anniversary year Encompass Productions present the world
premiere of Stasis at the White Bear
Theatre, Kennington for two weeks
from 14 April 2015.
How far are you willing to go to say you’re sorry?
Stowaway Ren is on a
Union spacecraft. Mission uncertain. What is for sure, is that she shouldn’t be
there. With the whole crew in stasis and only a hologram and the ship’s computer
for company, Ren must cope with isolation and depleting oxygen whilst trying to
find her way home.
An intimate and bold
new vision from Emily Holyoake and Encompass Productions, Stasis is a thrilling science fiction drama with a ‘spellbinding
narrative saturated with imagination, sincerity, and humour’ (Impact – preview).
Reviews
and press for Encompass Productions:
‘Guaranteed to strike a chord.
Impressive...original.’ The Stage
‘Pitch-perfect.
Intelligent, stimulating and heartfelt. The sheer beauty blew me away.’ ★★★★★EdFringe Review
‘Accomplishes
something original...see this show.’ ★★★★ LondonTheatre1
‘A
highly dramatic show with big ideas. Encompass are ones to watch.’
Everything
Theatre
‘Visually
stunning...genuinely moving and thought provoking.’
A
Younger Theatre
‘High
quality acting and equally impressive directing panache. A breath of fresh
air.’
Theatre
Bubble
‘Raw, edgy, with distinctive eloquent
performances. Terrific direction...this is real theatre.’ John Foster (BAFTA award-winning
writer)
Encompass are a London-based
theatre and production company that have been making bold and visually
arresting new work since 2010. They explore the psychological and emotional,
drawing from cinematic influences to tell stories through heightened reality. Their
mission: to challenge, move and entertain.
Directed by Liam Fleming
Produced by Jonathan
Woodhouse & Liam Fleming
Written by Emily Holyoake
Designed by Sarah Buller
Music and sound by Alex Burnett
Lighting by Owen Pritchard Smith
Associate Producer: Rachael Owens
CAST BIOGRAPHIES
Naomi Stafford – Ren
Naomi trained as an actor and graduated from
the Poor School in 2012. She also gained a first class degree in Maths from the
University of Leeds. She tours regularly with the award-winning Bootworks
Theatre Company with A Little Box of
Horrors and La Boite Noire. She
has also appeared in more classical theatre; as Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard and Olga in The Parasite, an adaptation of
Turgenev’s A Poor Gentleman. Most
recently she had the pleasure of working with Roundhouse Radio, recording two
new radio plays; Tiger and The First Day of the Rest of Your Life. Naomi
is the co-founder of The Watermark Collective; a company of actors who provide
a bespoke script reading service for new writing of screen, stage and radio.
Ceridwen Smith – The Hologram
Ceridwen trained at Drama Centre London,
which included work at Shakespeare’s Globe, London and the Vakhtangov
Institute, Moscow. Since graduating, her work has included Venice
Preserv'd (Spectators' Guild); The Wind in the Willows (Lord
Chamberlain's Men); The Girl With No Heart (National tour with
Sparkle and Dark); Audience with the Ghostfinder (Etcetera); Olga’s
Room (Arcola); Rhinegold (The
Yard); Mervyn Peake’s Noah’s Ark (Blue
Elephant); The Clockmaster (National tour with Sparkle and
Dark) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cochrane).
Scarlet Sweeney – The Computer (voice)
Theatre credits: As Ye Sow (Pleasance, Edinburgh – Nominated Best Actress by The
Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Awards for Acting Excellence), The Ruth
Ellis Show (George Wood Theatre), Blood Wedding (Waterloo East Theatre),
Potholes (Theatre 503), Love Vs Hate; Wounds
(Tristan Bates Theatre), St George’s Day (New Diorama Theatre), 7 Year Itch (Barbican), Le Justes (Cockpit Theatre – in
French/co-directed), Grand Guignol
(Etcetera Theatre), Revenge of the Grand
Guignol (Courtyard Theatre), We Are Scorned (Bloomsbury Theatre), The Censor (BAC), Mariana Pineda (Arcola Theatre), All Together Now (Barbican), In
Camera (Rosemary Branch), Jocasta
(Chelsea Arts Theatre), Coffee Cigarettes
& Paranoia (King’s Head Theatre). Film: Mother (Contra Image), Keith
and Val (Beckton Alp Cinema).
BARE ESSENTIALS - REVIEWS AND PHOTOS
Bare Essentials recently had its most successful run to date with four performances at the Take Courage Theatre at the legendary
Amersham Arms, New Cross. On the last night we moved downstairs to the main space which completely filled up with a sell-out audience! Our regular series of new writing events received a number of excellent reviews, see some choice quotes below alongside production photos:
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| 'Build A Wall' by Cary Pepper |
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| 'Letting Go' by Rhea MacCallum |
'High quality acting and equally impressive directing panache. A breath of fresh air on the fringe circuit.' ★★★★ Theatre Bubble
Read full review >>
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| 'I'll Take a Dozen Accountants...with Sprinkles' by Matt Hanf |
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| 'Friend Roulette' by Adam Lowe |
'Theatre at its most nude and impactful. Another astonishing achievement. Miss the next Bare Essentials at your peril.' ★★★★ Grumpy Gay Critic
Read full review >>
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| 'The Maltese Walter' by John Minigan |
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| 'Little Boy' by John Foster |
'Encompass Productions has proved again that all one needs for interesting theatre is a great script, a room and actors that are willing to give it their all.' ★★★★ Female Arts
BAFTA-winning writer John Foster - whose work 'Little Boy' was met with unanimous praise - also shared his thoughts on the night as well as his experience of working with Encompass for a second time on Bare Essentials:
'A very rigorous and creative process which makes Bare Essentials very different from the average scratch night...[it] is sustained at another level and provides a proper professional production of a very high standard.'
We'd like to thank everyone who made this the biggest and best
Bare Essentials yet - look out for the next event in June, and see you at
Stasis at the White Bear Theatre in next month!
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| Team Encompass for Bare Essentials February 2015! |
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