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Alma Tavern, Bristol
Thursday, 8 July 2004, 7.30pm and 9.00pm |
A Pint On the House
by John Colborn |
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CAST |
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MORGAN ........................................................... Peter Townsend |
MEG/BEL ........................................................... Pameli Benham |
JULIA/WOMAN .......................................................... Noni Lewis |
GLYN/GEORGE ................................................. Jonathan Nibbs |
JASPER ................................................................ Simon Winkler |
EDDIE .............................................................. Tony O'Callaghan |
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| Directed by Mark Smalley |
| Lighting/sound by Pete Rogers |
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| John Colborn (writer) is a freelance advertising copywriter who sometimes takes his eye off the ball and finds himself designing and building new houses instead. His stage play Canute2 placed third in the Southwest Scriptwriters' New Writing Festival 2002. |
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Mark Smalley (director) is a producer with the BBC Radio Features and Documentaries Department, based in Whiteladies Road. He's been zapping his way across the dial long enough to have worked on MW and FM, on local radio, Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service and Radio 4. However, this is the first time he's directed a group of actors in the flesh, so hold onto your hats.
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| Pete Rogers (lighting/sound) has BTEC National Diplomas in both Performing Arts and Technical Theatre. He’s worked for the Actors’ Workshop since 2000 and a cted in their productions of Bleak House and Clara. He’s currently forming his own company, Beehive Productions. |
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Pameli Benham (Meg/Bel) directs regularly for Theatre West, Stepping Out Theatre Company and Southwest Scriptwriters. Her most recent production, Cracked, has just finished a successful run at the Alma Tavern. She acts on stage, film and radio, sings with the Gasworks Choir, and runs drama and writing workshops. In her spare time she doctors dissertations, dances, cooks, gardens, writes and sculpts. |
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Noni Lewis (Julia/Woman) recently finished a successful run of Death and Life and In Between by David Carter as part of Stepping Out's Cracked double bill. She has a wealth of stage, screen and voice experience and is happy to be appearing in Southwest Scriptwriters showcase for the third year in a row. Noni is also busy recording with Aardman Features as a character in their new Wallace and Gromit feature film, Curse of the Wererabbit and is kept very busy organising her wedding. Noni can be contacted at noni75@yahoo.com. |
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| Jonathan Nibbs (Glyn/George) trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, worked extensively in rep countrywide, quite a lot in radio, less in television, and has been seen over the last five Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory seasons here in Bristol - where he's now delighted to be part of this New Writing Festival. |
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Tony O'Callaghan (Eddie) has been acting since childhood. He has performed in a variety of plays, musicals and films and on TV. His acting roles include Fagin, Molina in Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Danforth in The Crucible and various Shakespearean roles - Macbeth, Mercutio, Benedick. Tony has also found directing rewarding with Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and The White Devil to his credit. He is also a painter and househusband, with two young sons. |
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| Peter Townsend (Morgan) trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the mid-1990s. He has recently toured Macedonia in the Theatre in the Dark production of The Watery Part of the World. Last January, he played Charles Dickens in a TV commercial for the Dickens Collection. He’ll soon be seen again on television as the Holby City/Casualty vicar. |
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Simon Winkler (Jasper) has over 15 years experience in live theatre ranging from Geordie soldier in The Long and the Short and the Tall to prosecuting council in Witness for the Prosecution. He’s currently involved in ITV’s The Sitcom Trials in London, Bristol and Edinburgh. |
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Special thanks to Andy Cotton, Sara Davies, and Nick Green and his Uncle Sid. |
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