Modvax Three short plays presented together as part of the Love [and Survival] in a Time of Covid festival
		Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th July, 2021 At the Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington

Balsa Wood and Memory by Vyvian Shaw, directed by Lucy Moss
Cast : Rahul Singh, Sara Odeen-Isbister

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Penny From Heaven by Emma Jarvis, directed by Adam Hampton-Matthews
Cast : Jonathan Wober, Kevin Furness, Katie Smith

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Condensed written, performed and directed by Anthea Hill


Production Team
Event co-ordinator : Angharad Ormond
Set Design : Peter Foster, Jude Chalk
Lighting Design : Stephen Ley
Sound and Projection : Laurence Tuerk, Kaushal Ginige
Stage Managers : Roanne Insley, Jacqui Dickson
Lighting Operator : Samuel Littley

For Love [and Survival] in a Time of Covid
Artistic Directors : Ruth Sullivan, Angharad Ormond, Simona Hughes

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Photography by Adam Hampton-Matthews

Penny from Heaven

Adam Hampton-Matthews is delighted to be making his Tower Theatre directorial debut with such a great group of people and brilliant cast. Adam joined the Tower Theatre in 2013 as part of the company in The Producers which then went on to tour at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, winning production of the year. Adam has since performed in several other shows including Matthew in Rules for Living, Ben in Deposit, Christophe in Wolf Hall, Ned in Nell Gwynn, Edgar/Poor Tom in King Lear, Lomax in Major Barbara and George in Sons of Paradise. Other roles outside the Tower include Lawrence in Calendar Girls (WEOS) and Elvis in Andy Capp the Musical.

Jonathan Woberjoined the Tower in 2009, when he appeared in The Archbishop’s Ceiling and Dangerous Corner. He has toured to Paris in Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winter's Tale and to the Minack Theatre in Cornwall in David Copperfield and The Return of the Marionettes. Other Tower productions have included The Odd Couple, Jump to Cow Heaven, Tartuffe, The Kitchen Sink, Farewell to the Theatre, Handbagged and Harvey. In 2019 he appeared at Ravenscourt Arts Theatre in Hammersmith and the Arcola Theatre in Dalston (in a co-production with the Royal Shakespeare Company).

Since joining the Tower Theatre in 2013 Katie Smith has performed in a number of productions including Under The Blue Sky, An Enemy of the People, Clybourne Park, Sherlock Holmes and, most recently, Sweat (just before lockdown). She also occasionally treaded the 'virtual' boards for the Virtual Tower over the last 18 months. Katie has assistant directed on the Tower productions of Frankenstein and Antigone.

This is Kevin Furness' fourth production with the Tower Theatre, having appeared in 1984, To Kill A Mockingbird and Pygmalion. He's had a passion for acting since he was a child; as a teenager he appeared in productions with Tallaght Theatre Group. Recently he completed a 6-month course with the Independent Centre For Acting Training. One of the highlights of the training was being taught by theatre director, Mike Alfreds.

Balsa Wood and Memory

Lucy Moss is a playwright and actor. She has most recently been working on the Tower Theatre's Five Women, which is currently undergoing editing before release as a radio play. She played Mother in Virtual Tower's award-winning zoom play adaptation of Metamorphosis. She co-wrote the Tower's adaptation of The Canterbury Tales and has appeared in a variety of other shows, including two different productions of The Seagull in 2018, where she played Irina each time.