Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Peta Barker
Tuesday 3rd - Saturday 7th April, 2018
The Tower Theatre performing at the Bridewell Theatre, off Fleet Street
Photography by Robert Piwko
Cast List
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Thomasina Coverly : Sarah McCarthy
Septimus Hodge : Dom Ward
Jellaby : Landé Belo
Ezra Chater : Richard Brent
Richard Noakes : David Miller
Lady Croom : Heather Dalton
Captain Brice : Allan Hart
Augustus Coverly : Aron von Andrian
The present day
Hannah Jarvis : Helena Cashmore
Bernard Nightingale : Matthew Vickers
Valentine Coverly : Paul Willcocks
Chloe Coverly : Sarah Assaf
Gus Coverly : Aron von Andrian
Production Team
Director : Peta Barker
Set Design : Robert Hebblethwaite
Costume Design : David Taylor, Sheila Burbidge and Lynda Twidale
Lighting Design : Nick Insley
Sound Design : Peta Barker and Colin Guthrie
Stage Manager : Jacqui Dickson
Assistant Director : Karen Hope
ASMs : Moira McSperrin, Josephine James, Tom Tillery
Lighting and Sound Operator : Danya Bradley-Barnes
Construction, Get-in and Rigging : John McSpadyen, Max Batty,
Jude Chalk, Phillip Ley, Stephen Ley, Isaac Insley, Michael Bettell, Kevin
Thompson, Sarah Belhia, Piers Gough, Arion Mehmeti and the cast & crew
This is Sarah McCarthy's first production performing with the
Tower, but she was Costume and Make-Up Assistant for the recent production of Frankenstein. She graduated from the PPA Academy in Guildford in 2016 and has
since been involved with various projects. Appearances include ensemble and swing work in London workshops Can't Stop It and
Notre Dame. Most recently she had the pleasure of playing the lead as Hannah in a new musical When Strawberries are Not Enough at the Hampton Hill Theatre.
Having performed in mostly musicals, she is looking forward to working on stage with this remarkable and enlightening play.
Dom Ward trained at Mountview Academy and has been with the Tower since he was press-ganged into a production of
The Entertainer. After a brief career playing romantic leads in musicals including Hot Mikado and Guys and Dolls, he graduated to
playing grown-ups, including David in After the Dance, Stanley in The Birthday Party, and Carr in Travesties, also by Tom Stoppard. Most recently,
he played a variety of wildly accented characters in The 39 Steps. Dom has also strayed onto the other side of the rehearsal room, directing everything
from Victorian ghost stories (Darker Shores) to classic farce (Loot) and Emlyn Williams' forgotten classic Accolade.
This is Landé Belo's fifth production with the Tower, having played Francine/Lena in
Clybourne Park, multiple characters in Dr Faustus, Prudence in The House of Bernarda Alba and Pope Joan/Louise in Top Girls.
Appearances with other theatre companies include Gillian in Thriller of the Year (Incognito Theatre), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Fay in A
Chorus of Disapproval (Garden Suburb Theatre).
Richard Brent joined the Tower in 2014, and credits include last year's Bedroom Farce (Trevor), as well as Mother's
Day (Gordon), Time and the Conways (Ernest Beevers), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Player/Hamlet) and The
Accrington Pals (Ralph). He has also enjoyed many a production with Putney Theatre Company over the years - playing Victor in Private Lives,
Karl/Steve in Clybourne Park, Charlie in How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream
(as part of the RSC's Open Stages project), Malvolio in Twelfth Night and a singing-and-dancing-and-kennel-riding Snoopy in the musical You're
a Good Man Charlie Brown. By day he is an editor, and as such is particularly pleased to be playing a significant footnote in history this time around.
This is David Miller's first production with the Tower Theatre Company, but he has previously been seen at the Bridewell in SEDOS'
productions of The Government Inspector (also at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), One Man, Two Guvnors, and a staged reading of Clybourne Park.
While at university in Sheffield, he was involved in various student productions, theatre-in-education projects and walk-on roles at the Crucible Theatre.
In 2016 he took part in We're Here Because We're Here, a nationwide commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, devised by Jeremy Deller
and the National Theatre.
Heather Dalton has been an amateur actor for over
twenty years; this is her second role for the Tower Theatre following her appearance as Isabella Bird, Joyce and Mrs Kidd in Top Girls last year.
With the Wanstead Players her roles have included Ruth in Blithe Spirit, Helena in A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Joan in Time and Time Again, Sheila Birling in An Inspector Calls, Mrs Gibbs in Our Town, Edna Selby in Harlequinade, the Princess Royal in Crown
Matrimonial and Major Barbara in Major Barbara.
Heather has also played various roles in Measure for Measure, That Scoundrel Scapin, Oepidus Rex, Oh! What a Lovely War and The Hollow Crown.
Allan Hart has been a Tower member for 28 years and directed many
productions including My Mother Said I Never Should, The Beauty Queen
of Leenane, Abigail's Party, Dealer's Choice, Closer, The Weir and The
Homecoming. He has also acted in several shows, notably Twelve Angry Men, In Celebration,
East, Blue Remembered Hills, Road and How the Other Half Loves.
Aron von Andrian found his passion for the stage at age twelve where he joined the Orange Tree
Theatre group in Richmond. After studying performing arts at Richmond College he went on to study method acting at Brian
Timoney's actors' studio where he played Darryl from the play Monster for his showcase performance at the
Groucho Club in Soho. After graduating he worked extensively in film and also writes
for short films and Theatre. This is his second Tower Theatre show; he recently played Felix and Rab in Frankenstein.
Helena Cashmore has been a Tower Theatre member since 2010, with parts including Beatrice Farrar in Hindle Wakes, Lue in The Winterling, Jacie Triplethree in Comic Potential
and Melitta in Mrs Klein. She has also performed with UCLU Drama Society, including as Dotty in Jumpers and Elizabeth Barry in The Libertine.
Before moving to London, Helena was a member of the Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company, with whom she appeared several times at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall,
including as Miranda in The Tempest and Princess Catherine in Henry V.
Matthew Vickers has been involved with the Tower Theatre since Popcorn in 2003. More recently he has appeared in
Coyote on a Fence, Foxfinder, Clybourne Park, Doctor Faustus, An Enemy of the People and Frankenstein.
Paul Willcocks trained with the Academy Drama School on their repertory course and played a variety of roles including Levin in Anna Karenina,
Albie in A Map of the Heart and Jack Chesney in Charley's Aunt. Other notable roles have included Caliban in The Sea and The Mirror, Gaveston in Edward II
and the Innkeeper's Son, working with the Mariinsky Acrobatic Troupe, in The Fiery Angel. In 2010 he appeared in the first professional revival of The Human Comedy
at the Young Vic. For the Tower Theatre he recently played Branwell in Brontë (Upstairs at the Gatehouse) and various roles in Kindertransport
(Theatro Technis/Upstairs at the Gatehouse). This is his third production for the Tower Theatre.
Sarah Assaf is excited to take part in her first Tower Theatre show, having joined the acting company in autumn 2017. After a long break from acting during
her school years, Sarah has been taking acting classes at City Academy. She also enjoys playing the piano in her spare time, and has a degree in Music.
Peta Barker's acting credits include Ariel and Caliban (The Tempest), Iago (Othello), Mrs Yajnavalkya
(Valmouth), The Voice of Audrey II - the Plant (The Little Shop of Horrors), Mbongeni (Woza Albert!), Scullery (Road),
Ash (Dealer's Choice), Jack Mullen (The Weir), John (Shining City), Derek (Brighton Beach Scumbags) and
Hoke (Driving Miss Daisy). Directing credits include Blue Remembered Hills, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Burn This, Lysistrata,
The Blue Room, Brimstone and Treacle and The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
He has also adapted and directed Russell Hoban's novel Kleinzeit for the stage
and was part of the Tower Team in the RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the
Barbican and Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Summer 2016, playing Snug the Joiner.
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Arcadia
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Tuesday 3rd - Saturday 7th April, 2018 |
The Tower Theatre performing at the Bridewell Theatre, off Fleet Street |
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Photography by Robert Piwko
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Cast List
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Production Team
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Tower, but she was Costume and Make-Up Assistant for the recent production of Frankenstein. She graduated from the PPA Academy in Guildford in 2016 and has
since been involved with various projects. Appearances include ensemble and swing work in London workshops Can't Stop It and
Notre Dame. Most recently she had the pleasure of playing the lead as Hannah in a new musical When Strawberries are Not Enough at the Hampton Hill Theatre.
Having performed in mostly musicals, she is looking forward to working on stage with this remarkable and enlightening play.
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Dom Ward trained at Mountview Academy and has been with the Tower since he was press-ganged into a production of
The Entertainer. After a brief career playing romantic leads in musicals including Hot Mikado and Guys and Dolls, he graduated to
playing grown-ups, including David in After the Dance, Stanley in The Birthday Party, and Carr in Travesties, also by Tom Stoppard. Most recently,
he played a variety of wildly accented characters in The 39 Steps. Dom has also strayed onto the other side of the rehearsal room, directing everything
from Victorian ghost stories (Darker Shores) to classic farce (Loot) and Emlyn Williams' forgotten classic Accolade.
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This is Landé Belo's fifth production with the Tower, having played Francine/Lena in
Clybourne Park, multiple characters in Dr Faustus, Prudence in The House of Bernarda Alba and Pope Joan/Louise in Top Girls.
Appearances with other theatre companies include Gillian in Thriller of the Year (Incognito Theatre), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Fay in A
Chorus of Disapproval (Garden Suburb Theatre).
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Richard Brent joined the Tower in 2014, and credits include last year's Bedroom Farce (Trevor), as well as Mother's
Day (Gordon), Time and the Conways (Ernest Beevers), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Player/Hamlet) and The
Accrington Pals (Ralph). He has also enjoyed many a production with Putney Theatre Company over the years - playing Victor in Private Lives,
Karl/Steve in Clybourne Park, Charlie in How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream
(as part of the RSC's Open Stages project), Malvolio in Twelfth Night and a singing-and-dancing-and-kennel-riding Snoopy in the musical You're
a Good Man Charlie Brown. By day he is an editor, and as such is particularly pleased to be playing a significant footnote in history this time around.
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This is David Miller's first production with the Tower Theatre Company, but he has previously been seen at the Bridewell in SEDOS'
productions of The Government Inspector (also at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), One Man, Two Guvnors, and a staged reading of Clybourne Park.
While at university in Sheffield, he was involved in various student productions, theatre-in-education projects and walk-on roles at the Crucible Theatre.
In 2016 he took part in We're Here Because We're Here, a nationwide commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, devised by Jeremy Deller
and the National Theatre.
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| Heather Dalton has been an amateur actor for over
twenty years; this is her second role for the Tower Theatre following her appearance as Isabella Bird, Joyce and Mrs Kidd in Top Girls last year.
With the Wanstead Players her roles have included Ruth in Blithe Spirit, Helena in A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Joan in Time and Time Again, Sheila Birling in An Inspector Calls, Mrs Gibbs in Our Town, Edna Selby in Harlequinade, the Princess Royal in Crown
Matrimonial and Major Barbara in Major Barbara.
Heather has also played various roles in Measure for Measure, That Scoundrel Scapin, Oepidus Rex, Oh! What a Lovely War and The Hollow Crown.
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Allan Hart has been a Tower member for 28 years and directed many
productions including My Mother Said I Never Should, The Beauty Queen
of Leenane, Abigail's Party, Dealer's Choice, Closer, The Weir and The
Homecoming. He has also acted in several shows, notably Twelve Angry Men, In Celebration,
East, Blue Remembered Hills, Road and How the Other Half Loves.
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Aron von Andrian found his passion for the stage at age twelve where he joined the Orange Tree
Theatre group in Richmond. After studying performing arts at Richmond College he went on to study method acting at Brian
Timoney's actors' studio where he played Darryl from the play Monster for his showcase performance at the
Groucho Club in Soho. After graduating he worked extensively in film and also writes
for short films and Theatre. This is his second Tower Theatre show; he recently played Felix and Rab in Frankenstein.
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Helena Cashmore has been a Tower Theatre member since 2010, with parts including Beatrice Farrar in Hindle Wakes, Lue in The Winterling, Jacie Triplethree in Comic Potential
and Melitta in Mrs Klein. She has also performed with UCLU Drama Society, including as Dotty in Jumpers and Elizabeth Barry in The Libertine.
Before moving to London, Helena was a member of the Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company, with whom she appeared several times at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall,
including as Miranda in The Tempest and Princess Catherine in Henry V.
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Matthew Vickers has been involved with the Tower Theatre since Popcorn in 2003. More recently he has appeared in
Coyote on a Fence, Foxfinder, Clybourne Park, Doctor Faustus, An Enemy of the People and Frankenstein.
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Paul Willcocks trained with the Academy Drama School on their repertory course and played a variety of roles including Levin in Anna Karenina,
Albie in A Map of the Heart and Jack Chesney in Charley's Aunt. Other notable roles have included Caliban in The Sea and The Mirror, Gaveston in Edward II
and the Innkeeper's Son, working with the Mariinsky Acrobatic Troupe, in The Fiery Angel. In 2010 he appeared in the first professional revival of The Human Comedy
at the Young Vic. For the Tower Theatre he recently played Branwell in Brontë (Upstairs at the Gatehouse) and various roles in Kindertransport
(Theatro Technis/Upstairs at the Gatehouse). This is his third production for the Tower Theatre.
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Sarah Assaf is excited to take part in her first Tower Theatre show, having joined the acting company in autumn 2017. After a long break from acting during
her school years, Sarah has been taking acting classes at City Academy. She also enjoys playing the piano in her spare time, and has a degree in Music.
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Peta Barker's acting credits include Ariel and Caliban (The Tempest), Iago (Othello), Mrs Yajnavalkya
(Valmouth), The Voice of Audrey II - the Plant (The Little Shop of Horrors), Mbongeni (Woza Albert!), Scullery (Road),
Ash (Dealer's Choice), Jack Mullen (The Weir), John (Shining City), Derek (Brighton Beach Scumbags) and
Hoke (Driving Miss Daisy). Directing credits include Blue Remembered Hills, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Burn This, Lysistrata,
The Blue Room, Brimstone and Treacle and The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
He has also adapted and directed Russell Hoban's novel Kleinzeit for the stage
and was part of the Tower Team in the RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the
Barbican and Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Summer 2016, playing Snug the Joiner.
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