PAST SHOWS
A TRIO OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Director: Ellie Jay Stevens
Writer: Tennessee Williams
Designer: Fiona McKeon
Producer: Helen Fox and Becks Granger
Actors: Massimiliano Acerbi, Helen Fox, Codge Crawford
Make-up assistant & sound operator: Sam Fox
Marketing Assistant: Truly Siskind-Weiss
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Williams' legacy, Fox and Hound Theatre brings these captivating plays to life. Director Ellie Jay Stevens masterfully curates an evening centred around the female experience and triumph over entrapment.
Ivan's Widow: Dive into the struggle of a widow as she grapples with distinguishing fantasy from reality. Seeking help from a determined psychiatrist, she embarks on a journey to uncover the truth.
Talk to Me like the Rain and Let Me Listen: Witness a couple trapped in an endless cycle of deprivation. Their emotional scene portrays acceptance of the unalterable, worn-out emotions.
27 Wagons Full of Cotton: Explore the complexities of abuse and a dysfunctional relationship under dire circumstances. This disturbing look at resilience and redemption offers a glimpse of hope.
Reviews:
https://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/feature/18920/a-trio-of-tennessee-williams
Shows:
7th September 2023 - Redgrave Theatre, Bristol
14th September 2023- Queen’s Hall, Hexham
21st September 2023 - Oxford Playhouse B.T. Studio, Oxford
7th October 2023 - Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
8th March 2024 - Sir William Borlaise Grammar School
5th April 2024 - The Theatre Royal, Dumfries
6th April 2024 - Catstrand
9th - 12th April 2024 - The Everyman Studio, Cheltenham
8th-9th November 2024 - Factory Theatre, The Tobacco Factory, Bristol
HOW YOU DIED
Director: Ellie Jay Stevens
Writer: Edith Keays
Designer: Hugo Doddsworth
Producer: Becks Granger
Actors: Tom Gould-Scott & Lois Baglin
‘A’ and ‘B’ are childhood friends who are catching up after a decade. ‘A’ was an aspiring lawyer, and ‘B’ was a famous children’s presenter. There’s only one thing getting in their way… ‘B’ has been dead for ten years. Ten years on. Technology is flourishing, and the world has developed holograms to represent those that have died. ‘A’ can finally get the closure that will allow them to live. Yet, what begins as a night of nostalgia and reconciliation unearths discussions of power, lies, and secrets…
Reviews:
https://everything-theatre.co.uk/2024/08/review-how-you-died-hen-and-chickens-theatre/
https://lostintheatreland.co.uk/how-you-died-review-old-red-lion-theatre/
https://www.thereviewshub.com/how-you-died-old-red-lion-theatre-london/
Shows:
1st - 3rd February - The Old Red Lion, London
12th - 13th August - Hen and Chickens Theatre, London
HINDSIGHT
Director: Ellie Jay Stevens
Writer: Jill Franklin
Producer: Helen Fox
Actors: Helen Fox, Codge Crawford, Sam Fox and Ellie Jay Stevens
The pieces of the puzzle that make up Laura’s brain don’t seem to fit. Why don’t people say what they mean? When the world doesn’t make sense, Laura is labelled problematic. In the perfect storm, she is forced to confront all the things which send her spiralling in desperation.
Follow this all too common story with a parent trying to shield their child from a world that may not accept her and a teacher completely out of their depth. How will Laura and her best friend Bear navigate an uncertain future for a child with undiagnosed Autism?
The play highlights that we cannot always see what is in front of us but just a moment can change everything and begin a new way of thinking.
Shortlisted for the 2016 David MacLennan Award Based in South West Scotland this small company are taking a look at Autism, their realism meets a sensory insight into one child’s experience of the world. The play won the Derek Award for Best Drama at EdFringe 2019 and will be performed at Scottish Parliament in March 2024.
Reviews:
https://www.theweeroom.co.uk/blog/somewhere-over-the-rainbow
https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/award-winning-play-on-autism-and-education-perform
Shows:
26th March 2024 - The Scottish Parliament
28th March 2024 - Gosforth Civic Centre, Newcastle
THE STRONGEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
Director: Ellie Jay Stevens
Writer and performer: Truly Siskind-Weiss
Prop maker: Lorna Foster
Set Builder: Mikey Cross
The Strongest Girl in the World, tells the story of one woman's journey to learn more about her late father and her former self. Truly yearns to understand the carefree child that she once was; her father’s daughter. As Truly tells it, she "knows [her] father through other people." In the play, she embodies those other people, voicing family members, friends, storybook characters, and more in an effort to understand who her father was. Telling a story of growth, grief, and resilience, the play is a comedic and heartwarming look at how we remember those we’ve lost.
Reviews:
https://theatreandtonic.co.uk/blog/the-strongest-girl-in-the-world-ed-fringe-review
Shows:
1st - 3rd June 2023 - Bread and Roses, London
4th - 19th August 2023 - Greenside Venues, Edinburgh
BECAUSE WE SAID WE WOULD…
Director: Ellie Jay Stevens
Writer: Helen Fox
Actors: Helen Fox
& Codge Crawford
“This show from south west [Scotland] based Fox and Hound Theatre deserves to be packed to the rafters for its brilliant writing, thoughtful direction and mercurial acting…. If you get a chance, this is compulsory viewing for both seasoned and novice theatre lovers”
Because We Said We Would is a dynamic working class story of friendship and music weaving through the decades in a white box theatre show where their world is drawn throughout. Follow the lives of Jeanie and Tam, from the age of 7, as they bond over their love of music and watch as a childish promise leads to a life-long connection but not everyone’s song plays out the same…
The bold and brilliant Because We Said We Would is a production both brimming with audacious invention, and poignant enough to reduce both the performers and the audience members to tears.
Reviews:
Shows:
9th - 10th December 2022 - The Alma, Bristol
2nd November 2023 - Birchvale Theatre, Dalbeattie
3rd November 2023 - Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine
A PIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION
Directors: Ellie Jay Stevens & Cara Vaitilingam
Writer: Joséphine Fransilja Brookman
Producer: Pihla Pekkarinen
Actors: Joséphine Fransilja Brookman, Rhea Norwood & Dumile Sibanda
A Pigment Of Your Imagination is a surrealist black comedy set in the living room of a dysfunctional but swanky three-bed flat in Islington. Two roommates come home to find Jade has covered the living room in "paint" & recreated a crime scene…
Shows:
16th - 17th December 2022 - The Pleasence, London
SNAPGRAM DORIAN GRAY
Directors: Ellie Jay Stevens & Ben Nash
Writer: Truly Siskind-Weiss
Actors: Ethan Taylor, Guenevere Lambert, Ben Henry Lamb & Charles Upton
Sound Designer: Hannah Bracegirdle
Photography: BoyzinBristol
In the world of social media, where image is everything, Dorian’s currency has an expiration date. Young and impossibly beautiful, he dreads the day when his boyish good looks leave him. So, when his artist friend, Basil, takes a mesmerizingly gorgeous photo of him, Dorian wishes for the image to carry the burden of age and conscience instead of himself. But, is a life free of wisdom and morality really worth living?
This modern adaptation of Wilde’s classic combines physical theatre with heightened English to bring the story of Dorian Gray to Bristol in 2022
Shows:
11th - 15th October 2022 - The Alma, Bristol
GIRL IN THE MACHINE
Director: Ellie Jay Stevens
️Designer: Hugo Dodsworth
Writer: Stef Smith
️Voice Coach: Jonathan Grosberg
Sound Designer and Operator: Elliot Paris-Hamilton
Assistant Production Manager: Joe Culpin
Costume Supervisor: Shanice Dacres
Stage Manager and Director of Photography: Jack Bain
Deputy Stage Manager: Katrina-Summer Richards
Rehearsal DSM: Lydia Morgan
Prop Makers: Ziva Bucer, Tommy Karolyi, Isabella Keating, Lisa Viel-Vigneron
Construction Assistants: Jocelyn Chen, Iona Hicks, Muir McFadden, Sally Strong
Photography by Craig Fuller
Girl in the Machine is a gripping and fast-paced drama about technology in the near future. People are chipped, nurses are becoming redundant and new technology has just been released. This Black Box helps people to relax and unwind. However, paradise comes with a glitch: an option to upload your consciousness and leave your body to die with the promise (from the technology itself) that you will live forever in bliss.
The play revolves around Polly and Owen, a successful and wildly in-love couple. However, as this new technology creeps further into their lives, they are forced to look within and confront their feelings about both the world around them as well as themselves.
Shows:
13th - 14th May 2022 - The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
