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Smells of Wee
A new comedy about love, lotto, letters and lies |
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Tuesday March 1st - |
The Tower Theatre performing at the |
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Photography by Alexander Knapp
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Production Team Stage Manager : Margaret Ley |
 | Dom Ward joined the Tower by accident, having been press-ganged into a production of The Entertainer in 2001. Having briefly cornered the market in romantic juveniles with roles in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Hot Mikado and Guys and Dolls, Dom went off to train at Mountview Academy. Since then he's broadened his range, playing everything from the Devil
(Brimstone and Treacle) to (the front half of) a pantomime horse. The majority of Tower members will have most recently seen Dom losing his mind in The Birthday Party, which was followed by the small but beautifully formed The Last Five Years at the Courtyard Theatre Studio. Dom was also the face of online divorce.
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 | Alison Liney likes acting because she is always
learning. Prior to joining this cast she had never played a squirrel as a warm up. The nearest she'd come to such experimentation was playing a drinks vending machine in a family game of charades. She has been acting for over 50 years, 13 of them with the Tower. She last appeared in October 2010 as Doris in My Mother Said I Never Should.
Coincidentally, Doris, like Barbara, had a husband called Jack. Unless he was a bigamist with a helicopter it can't have been the same one.
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 | Anna Fiorentini trained at the Mountview Theatre School and at Middlesex University. Credits include Regan in King Lear (Greenwich Playhouse); Emilia in Othello (The Starting Gate); Singer in The Caucasion Chalk Circle (Young Vic); and Laura in the BBC's ChuckleVision. For the Tower, Anna has played Myra (Hay Fever), Annie (The Real Thing) and
Freda (Dangerous Corner). This year Anna looks forward to celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Anna Fiorentini Theatre and Film School. Although Anna has enjoyed embracing Smells of Wee she is delighted to say she herself still smells as fragrant as ever!
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 | This is Jonathan Wober's fifth role with the Tower since joining in 2009. Previous roles include Sigmund in The Archbishop's Ceiling, Robert in Dangerous Corner and Decius Brutus/chorus member in Julius Caesar in Shoreditch and Paris. He has also been publicity manager on five plays and is a member of the Company Committee. He lives in Islington a few minutes from the
Rosemary Branch pub - and where in the theatre he was recently propositioned by the panto dame (much to the amusement of his two daughters) and where he celebrated his 40th birthday party.
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 | This is Michael Mayne's second play with Tower Theatre - the first was Julius Caesar last year. He trained at the Corona Academy and LAMDA. Credits include various repertory theatres including the Nottingham Playhouse, RSC, Ballet for All (part of the Royal Ballet), Theatre Centre and Greenwich Theatre. In recent years he has played a variety of parts in Blue Remembered Hills, The Merchant of Venice, Fred and Madge and The Bishops Candlesticks. He has also directed Cold Comfort Farm, The Kitchen, You are a Good Man Charlie Brown as well as Not about Heroes and Lysistrata, which he took to Prague and Edinburgh respectively.
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 | This is Emily Ambler's first production since joining the company in 2010. Before to moving to London she trained at Norwich City College, completing a National Diploma in Performing Arts. She has performed with the Maddermarket Theatre Company and the Sewel Barn, where she played Adele from Shakers- Restirred in 2007. She moved to Manchester at 19 where she trained with Kate Marlow at the Drama Studio and had professional engagements in programmes such as Hollyoaks and Britain's Got the Pop Factor. Since moving to London she has done workshops with RADA and The National Theatre.
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 | James Claridge trained at the Birmingham Theatre School and was former Artistic Director of the Loft Theatre in Leamington Spa. As Director, productions include: Cliché (Brighton Festival and Etcetera Theatre, Camden), A Servant to Two Masters, Playhouse Creatures (Two Hats, Waterside Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon), Closer, Shopping & F***ing, The Talented Mr Ripley and Forty Winks (Loft Theatre). As Assistant Director : Macbeth The Panto (Oddsocks Productions national tour) and The Hypochondriac (Belgrade Theatre).
James once toured the country with TV's The Gladiators, dressed as a giant baby!
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 | Dani Carbery trained as an actress at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. There she discovered her passion for writing both
plays and poetry. Dani's debut play, Cliché, premiered at the Brighton Festival in 2008 before enjoying a successful and critically acclaimed
run in London. Following on from this success Dani has written a number of short scripts for stage, screen and radio, most recently Palliative Patter which
had its professional debut at the Marlborough Theatre in Brighton in November 2010.
Smells of Wee is her most exciting project to date. She has a talent for discovering the extraordinary behind the ordinary, giving voices
to characters that, in everyday life, may go unheard and ensures they all have jolly good giggle along the way!
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