Open Air Theatre | The Comedy of Errors

Creative Team:

Director Philip Franks
Theatre includes: Separate Tables, The Cherry Orchard, Twelfth Night (Chichester); Collaboration/Taking Sides (Chichester & West End); Nicholas Nickleby Parts 1 & 2 (Chichester, West End & Toronto); Private Lives, The Heiress (National Theatre); Macbeth (Sheffield Theatres); The Tempest (Liverpool Playhouse); Kafka’s Dick, Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Nottingham Playhouse); The Cocktail Party (Edinburgh Festival); The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Hamlet (Greenwich Theatre & tour); Dr Faustus (Greenwich Theatre); Early Morning, Frankenstein (National Theatre Studio); The White Devil (Lyric Hammersmith); Great Expectations (Salisbury Playhouse).
Film includes: Theatre sequences in Finding Neverland.
Radio includes: An English Tragedy; Blithe Spirit.
Awards include: Hamada/Scotsman Award for The Cocktail Party.
Installation, Set & Costume Designer Gideon Davey
Theatre includes: Attempts on her Life (world premiere); Handbag; Quixote and Svjek; Helen.

Opera includes: Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, Forza del Destino, Il Ritorno D’Ulisse, Romeo et Juliette (The Bayerische Staats Oper); Radamisto (Santa Fe Opera / English National Opera); Cunning Little Vixen (Grange Park Opera); Tancredi (Theater an der Wien); Armide (Theatre des Champs Elysees); La Traviata (Semperoper Dresden); Luisa Miller (Lyon); Alcina (Bordeaux); Rinaldo (Glyndebourne); Tosca (English National Opera); and productions for Royal Danish Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, and Welsh National Opera, in Cologne, Rome, Florence, Innsbruck, Gratz, Malmo, Vienna, Stuttgart and Berlin.
Music Matthew Scott
Theatre includes: The Habit of Art, Major Barbara, The Heiress, Mother Clap’s Molly House (National Theatre); The Circle, Collaboration/Taking Sides, The Cherry Orchard, Hobson’s Choice, Twelfth Night, Office Suite, Pravda, Entertaining Angels (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hysteria, The Life of Galileo (The Birmingham Rep); The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mother Courage (national tour); The Tempest (Liverpool Everyman); The Hypochondriac (Almeida); Private Lives, The Duchess Of Malfi, Collaboration/Taking Sides (West End).
Television includes: Drop the Dead Donkey; Middlemarch.
Film includes: The Feast of July; The Land Girls.
Matthew Scott is Head of Music at the National Theatre.
Movement Director Quinny Sacks
Theatre includes: Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale (RSC); Machinal, Lady in the Dark (RNT); Mojo, Mouth to Mouth (Royal Court); The Threepenny Opera (Donmar); My Fair Lady, The Boy Friend, Summer Holiday (national tours); Private Lives (Albery Theatre & Broadway); Salad Days (Riverside).
Opera includes: The Voyage (Metropolitan Opera, New York); The Fairy Queen, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Rake’s Progress, The Elixir of Love (ENO); L’Etoile, La Bohème, Playing Away (Opera North).
Television includes: The Singing Detective; Lipstick on Your Collar.
Film includes: Shakespeare in Love; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Tune in Tomorrow; Restoration; The Importance of Being Earnest.
Lighting Designer Zerlina Hughes
Theatre includes: Hercules, Macbeth – False Memory, In The Solitude of the Cotton Fields, Mark Ravenhill’s Faust (ATC); Outcry (Cheek By Jowl); Treasure Island, Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); Death in Venice (Citizen’s Theatre/San Francisco); The Pleasure Man (Citizen’s Theatre/Stockholm); Rameau’s Nephew, The She-Wolf, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Oedipus Rex, The Father (Citizen’s Theatre).
Opera includes: Dead Man Walking (Copenhagan/Cape Town); Faust, La Vie Parisienne (Malmo); Tosca (NorrlandsOperan); La Bohème (Scottish Opera-Go-Round); Cosi Fan Tutte (Scottish Opera); Les Mamelles de Tirésias, L’Heure Espagnole (Grange Park Opera).
Film includes: Naked, Secrets and Lies, Career Girls as Assistant Director.
Sound Designer Fergus O'Hare
For Regent’s Park: The Crucible; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; The Importance of Being Earnest; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Recent work includes: The Lion’s Face (The Opera Group/ROH); Pictures From An Exhibition (Sadler’s Wells); Peter and Vandy (503), All My Sons (Curve); Inherit The Wind (Old Vic); The Black Album (National Theatre); Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company); In The Red and Brown Water (Young Vic); Twelfth Night (Donmar, West End); Cordelia Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company); Marble (Abbey Theatre).
Work in New York, Los Angeles and Sydney includes The Shape of Things; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg;
Dance of Death; Noises Off; Electra (Drama Desk Nominee); An Enemy of the People.
Casting Director Joyce Nettles
Theatre includes: Three Sisters, As You Desire Me, The Country Wife, The Sea, Glengarry Glen Ross, Enron (West End); Julius Caesar (Barbican); Hamlet, Ivanov, Richard II, Coriolanus, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester).
Television includes: Midsomer Murders; Foyle’s War; Goodnight Mr Tom; To the Ends of the Earth.
Film includes: Hamlet; Breaking the Waves.
Awards: Emmy for RKO 281.
Joyce has been Head of Casting with the Royal Shakespeare Company for ten years.
Fight Director Paul Benzing
Theatre includes: Journey’s End (Comedy Theatre); Hamlet (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); This Story Of Yours (New End Theatre, Hampstead); Excuses (ATC); National Anthem (Old Vic); Edward Bond’s Lear (Sheffield Crucible); Twelfth Night (UK tour); Son Of Man, Our Friends In The North, Look Back In Anger (Northern Stage); The Country Wife, The Sea, Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Black Comedy, Our Country’s Good (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Troilus and Cressida (Cheek By Jowl); West Side Story (Wandsworth Prison); Dreams of Violence, Flight Path (Out Of Joint); Statement Of Regret, Mother Courage, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Nation (National Theatre); Othello (Ludlow Festival).

Television includes: Manchester Passion.
Voice Coach Barbara Houseman
For Regent’s Park, as Production Voice Coach: The Crucible; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; The Importance of Being Earnest.
Personal Voice Coach includes: for Jude Law Hamlet (West End); for Daniel Radcliffe Equus (Broadway and West End); for Patrick Kielty A Night in November (Trafalgar Studios); for Kenneth Branagh Richard III (Sheffield Crucible); for Frank Skinner Art (West End).
Production Voice Coach includes: Calendar Girls (present tour); The Misanthrope (Comedy); Treats (Garrick); The Play What I Wrote (Wyndham’s); Further than the Furthest Thing (Tricycle); Mnemonic (Complicite); Hamlet (Birmingham); Doctor Doolittle (Apollo); Cleansed (Royal Court).
Associate Director responsible for voice and text: Romeo and Juliet (Naples Festival ’10); The Comedy of Errors, More Grimm Tales (Young Vic).
Voice and Text Coach – Royal Shakespeare Company ’91-’97 includes: Macbeth (with Derek Jacobi); Hamlet (with Kenneth Branagh); Richard III (with Simon Russell Beale); A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Cast:

Alister Cameron : Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
For Regent’s Park: As You Like It; A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Theatre includes: Antony & Cleopatra (national tour); The Venetian Twins (The Octagon, Bolton); King of Hearts (Hampstead Theatre and tour); Monkey’s Uncle (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Educating Rita (tour); The Real Thing, No Sex Please We’re British (Strand Theatre); House Guest (Savoy Theatre); Rolls-Hyphen-Royce (Shaftesbury Theatre); Volpone (Garrick Theatre).
Television includes: Foyle’s War; Poirot; The Buccaneers; Drop the Dead Donkey; Eastenders; Emmerdale Farm; Paul Merton – The Series.
Film includes: Into the Storm; The Duel; The Bourne Ultimatum; Remote; Love Actually; Tincture of Vervain.
Anna-Jane Casey : The Courtesan, a singer
Theatre includes: Chicago (Adelphi & Cambridge Theatres); Sunday in the Park with George, Forbidden Broadway (Menier Chocolate Factory); Hobson’s Choice, Mack & Mabel (The Watermill, Newbury); Piaf, Sweet Charity (Sheffield Crucible); My One and Only (Chichester); On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall); Cats (New London Theatre); Starlight Express (Apollo Victoria); West Side Story (Prince Edward & Prince of Wales Theatres); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Rodgers & Hammerstein Prom (Royal Albert Hall); Wild Wild Women (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Children of Eden (Prince Edward Theatre).
Television includes: Eastenders; Holby City; Heartbeat.
Film includes: Beyond the Sea.
Radio includes: Candide (Royal Festival Hall); Rodgers & Hammerstein Prom (Royal Albert Hall).
Awards include: TMA Award for Best Performance in a Musical 2005; TMA Nomination for Best Actress 2003.
Josh Cohen : Dromio of Ephesus
Theatre includes: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (Almeida); Into the Hoods (Novello Theatre); Lucky You (Edinburgh & Oxford Playhouse); What We Did to Weinstein (Menier Chocolate Factory); Phallacy (King's Head); Rent (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Graduate (Gielgud Theatre); Quartermaine's Terms (Theatre Royal Northampton).

Television includes: Ladies of Letters; The Murder Room.

Film includes: The Lost Battalion; Fire.
Tim Freeman : 2nd Merchant
Theatre includes: Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk (Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury); Veronica’s Room, April in Paris (Frinton Summer Theatre); Habeas Corpus, Journey’s End, Brass Bulls, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Of Mice and Men, The Triumph of Love, The Europeans, Cinderella, The Recruiting Officer, Oh! What a Lovely War (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Cyrano de Bergerac (Bristol Old Vic); Knight of the Burning Pestle (Young Vic); Cinderella, Aladdin, The Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal York); Treasure Island (Vicuna’s English Theatre); Bouncers, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew (national tour).
Richie Hart : A soldier
For Regent’s Park: The Importance of Being Earnest.
Theatre includes: Major Barbara, Burnt by the Sun (National Theatre); Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Upstairs at The Gatehouse).
Television includes: The Inbetweeners Series 1 & 2; The Persuasionists.
Jo Herbert : Adriana
For Regent’s Park: The Importance of Being Earnest.
Theatre includes: The Fairy Queen (international tour); Blackbird (Salisbury Playhouse); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival).
Television includes: Casualty 1909; Lewis.
Short films include: A Small Good Thing.
Joseph Kloska : Dromio of Syracuse
Theatre includes: Three Sisters (Manchester Royal Exchange); Fast Labour (West Yorkshire Playhouse & Hampstead Theatre); The Vertical Hour (Royal Court).
Television includes: Pete Versus Life; Foyle’s War; Lark Rise to Candleford.
Film includes: Jane Eyre; Made in Dagenham; Happy-Go-Lucky; Blooded.
Radio includes: Roaring Trade; Playing with Trains; Howard’s End; The Contingency Plan; Lady Audley’s Secret; Tomorrow Today; Rock ‘n’ Roll; Arcadia; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Number Ten; The Archers; The Trial and Death of Socrates.
Awards include: Winner of the BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award 2006.
Daniel Llewelyn-Williams : Antipholus of Ephesus
Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Arundel Festival); Macbeth (Arundel Festival & tour); My Sainted Aunt (New End Theatre); Brassed Off, Troilus & Cressida, An Inspector Calls (Clwyd Theatr Cymru & tour); Romans in Britain (Sheffield Crucible); Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin (national tour); Suddenly Last Summer, Arden of Faversham (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Carrie’s War (Apollo Theatre).
Television includes: Ultimate Force; Torchwood; Eastenders; Midsomer Murders.
Film includes: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight; Charlotte Grey; Vanity Fair.
Awards include: Philip Sayer Award; Lilian Baylis Award.
Daniel is also an accomplished fight director.
Christopher Logan : An officer
Theatre includes: Philadelphia Here I Come! (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin); The Rivals (Southwark Playhouse); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester, UK tour, West End & Toronto); Pravda (Chichester & Birmingham Rep); Twelfth Night (Thelma Holt, Theatre Royal Plymouth & UK tour); The Quare Fellow (Oxford Stage Company UK tour & Tricycle Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NYT – Bloomsbury Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (NYT – Edinburgh Festival & Arts Theatre); British Federation of Festivals Gala Concert (Queen Elizabeth Hall).
Television includes: Kerching!
Feature films include: The Magic Flute; Mrs Henderson Presents; Esther Kahn.
Radio includes: The Arab/Israeli Cookbook.
Christopher Ravenscroft : Egeon, a merchant of Syracuse
Theatre includes: The Promise, Alison’s House (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Bedroom Farce, Landslide (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Taking Care of Baby (Hampstead Theatre); As You Like It (Crucible Theatre); Summer and Smoke (Apollo Theatre); The Tempest (Liverpool Playhouse); The Invention of Love, People at Sea (Salisbury Playhouse); A Doll’s House (Peter Hall Company); The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre); Nicholas Nickleby (RSC, London & New York); Julius Caesar, Macbeth (RSC); Bent (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Waiting for Godot (Contact Theatre, Manchester).
Television includes: Murder in Mind; The Ruth Rendell Mysteries; The Shell Seekers; The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Film includes: Henry; Tom & Thomas; Gents.
Audio CD includes: The Aeneid.
Sophie Roberts : Luciana, Adriana's sister
Theatre includes: Private Lives (Salisbury Playhouse); Collaboration/Taking Sides (Chichester & Duchess Theatres); War and Peace (Hampstead Theatre & national tour); Charley’s Aunt (Theatre Royal Bath & national tour); Mayfly (The Old Vic 24 Hour Plays); When Five Years Pass (Arcola Theatre); Tartuffe (Watermill Theatre & national tour).
Film includes: The Young Victoria.
Radio includes: Snobs; Dr Bernhardi; The Fountain Overflows; The French Lieutenant’s Woman; Much Ado About Nothing; The Loop; Lost Hearts; Memorials to the Missing; Hold My Breath; 50 Berkeley Square; The Long Goodbye; The Piper’s Chair; The Brothers; Severn Sea.
Awards include: BBC Carleton Hobbs Radio Award.
Veronica Roberts : Emilia, an Abbess
Theatre includes: Separate Tables (Chichester); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester, UK tour, West End & Toronto); Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead & tour); Being Olivia (Croydon Warehouse); The Shell Seekers (tour); Buried Alive (Hampstead Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Duke’s Theatre, Lancaster); Shirley Valentine (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Dancing at Lughnasa (Garrick Theatre); Under Milk Wood (Bristol Old Vic).
Television includes: Emma; Midsomer Murders; Party Animals; Secret Smile; Class of ’76; Afterlife; New Tricks; Little Britain; Fields of Gold; Peak Practice; Playing the Field; Tenko.
Film includes: Just Ines.
David Shaw-Parker : Balthasar, a priest
Theatre includes: Oedipus Rex, The False Servant, My Fair Lady (National Theatre).
Television includes: I Woke Up One Morning; City of Vice; Midsomer Murders; Inspector Morse; The Bill; Casualty; Crossroads; The Magistrate; Space Precinct; Written Britain; Pieces of a Silver Lining; The Brollys; Mister Men; PC Pinkerton; The Famous Five; Spot the Difference; Urban Gothic.
Film includes: Diary of a Surreal Killer; Second Chance; Leprauchan; Kafka; The Muppet Christmas Carol.
Tom Silburn : 1st Merchant
For Regent’s Park: The Tempest.
Theatre includes: The Good Soul of Sechuan (Young Vic); Two Princes (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); On The Third Day (New Ambassadors); Chasing The Moment (Arcola Theatre); Dr Faustus (Bristol Old Vic); S/11, The Government Inspector, King Lear, The Master and Margarita, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chichester Festival Theatre); Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep, tour & West End); Macbeth, King John, The Merry Wives, Alcestis, Much Ado About Nothing (national tours); Colombe (Salisbury Playhouse).
Film includes: The Trench; King Lear.
Richard Warrick : Angelo, a goldsmith
Theatre includes: Dracula (White Bear Theatre); Of Mice and Men (tour); La Ronde, The Secret Rapture (Arts Educational).
Film includes: Frontman.
Daniel Weyman : Antipholus of Syracuse
Theatre includes: For King and Country (national tour); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester, Gielgud Theatre & international tour); Calico (Duke of York’s Theatre); Julius Caesar (Barbican & international tour); As You Like It (The Crucible & the RSC); Hedda Gabler (West Yorkshire & Liverpool Playhouses); Black ‘Ell (Soho Theatre); The Vortex (Donmar Warehouse); The Glass Room (Hampstead Theatre).
Television includes: Van Gogh: Painted with Words; Holby City; Dunkirk; Midsomer Murders; Wire in the Blood; Doctors; May 33rd.
Film includes: Day of the Flowers; Just Ines; Millions.
Awards include: TMA Nomination for Best Performance in a Play (Nicholas Nickleby).
Faye Winter : Luce, a maid
Theatre includes: Hamlet (Donmar at the Wyndham’s Theatre & Broadway); The Beggar’s Opera (Gilt & Grime at The Cobden Club); Hung Up (Pikku Piekko at The Space); The Country Wife (Theatre Royal Haymarket).
Television includes: Doctors.
Alan Brown : The Porpentine band
Paul Frankish : The Porpentine band
Richie Hart : The Porpentine band
Tom Silburn : The Porpentine band