28 SEPTEMBER – 09 NOVEMBER 2024
ROOM 13
Fear is just the beginning…
Written exclusively for the Barn Theatre by Duncan Abel & Rachel Wagstaff and inspired by the ghost stories of M.R. James, this world premiere is guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seats with an adrenaline-filled, hair-raising night of entertainment you won’t forget.
In a lonely hotel, four strangers are forced to spend the night in Room 13. Bearing the weight of their own grief, shame and darkness, they come to realise that Room 13 has secrets of its own.
As the four solitary souls develop unexpected bonds, they each share something from their past that still haunts them – stories of a painting that conceals a horrific secret; a macabre song that whispers in the depths of night, and children’s voices that echo from a forgotten well.
As the veil between the present and the past, the living and the dead, becomes frayed, the new companions will have to face their darkest fears if they are ever to escape Room 13…
Think Woman in Black… then scarier!
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PROGRAMME
Room 13 is written by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, directed by Loveday Ingram, with design by Alfie Heywood, lighting design by Hector Murray, and sound design and composition by Elizabeth Purnell. Emily Jones CDG is Casting Director. The stage management team are Judith Volk (ASM), Victoria Rose (ASM), Gareth Newcombe(DSM) and Christopher Reid (sound programmer).
Room 13 is a Built by Barn production in association with Bob & Marianne Benton, and Ollie Hancock for Tiny Giant Productions.
Cast
SAMUEL COLLINGS
as Anderson
George Naylor
as Jacobs
Ffion Jolly
as Mary
ALICE BAILEY JOHNSON
as Lena
PHILLIP PELLEW
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Samuel Collings
as ‘Anderson’
Recent stage credits include The Great Murder Mystery for The Lost Estate, and The Girl on the Train at Salisbury Playhouse. His film credits include Thirty Seven and Bluebird and his TV work includes The Lost Pirate Kingdom, The Last Czars and Outlander.
George Naylor
as ‘Jacobs’
TV credits include Spirit Rangers, Dancing Queens andCasualty and his stage work includes Henry V at the Changeling Theatre, and the West End production and UK tour of Mousetrap.
Ffion Jolly
as ‘Mary’
Most recently see on stage in The Dark Place at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, her film appearances include Mission Impossible: Fallout, The Marvelsand Hotel Cleaners. Ffion’s recent TV credits include Insomnia, Coronation Street and Doc Martin.
Alice Bailey Johnson
as ‘Lena’
Stage credits include Tina: The Musical at the Aldwych and Uncle Vanya at Hampstead. She has appeared in films such as Hard Truths andKing of Thieves and on TV in Black Mirror 5, Pillow and Sexy Beast.
Phillip Pellew
Philip is a founder member of the award winning, international physical theatre company ‘The David Glass Ensemble’, and has been with the Olivier Award winning ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’ since its inception. He has performed theatre, burlesque, opera, circus and street skills around the world. He has worked at the National Theatre, the Barbican, the Royal Opera House and in numerous productions throughout the West End and the UK. Philip has been a Panto Dame, done Motion Capture for numerous computer games, and has even jousted in a medieval tournament! He has worked with Zeffirelli, Ninagawa and Lindsay Kemp, and spent 10 years with the ‘Lost Child Project’ working with street kids around the world.
Theatre Credits include: ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’ (three West End runs, a BBC Radio series and shows all over the globe), ‘Movieplex’ (National Theatre), ‘59 minutes to save Christmas’ (Barbican), ‘Gormenghast’ (Battersea Arts Centre & UK Tour), ‘The Three Musketeers’ (Bristol Old Vic), ‘The Red Thread’ (Young Vic & International Tour), ‘Off the Wall’ & ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’ (Polka Theatre), ‘Otello’ & ‘Il Trovatore’ (Royal Opera House), ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘Jungle Book’ & ‘101 Dalmatians’ (Nuffield Theatre), ‘The Terminatrix’ (National Theatre Studio), ‘Robin Hood’ (Theatre Royal Stratford East), and ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend’ (Barn Theatre).
Creatives
Rachel Wagstaff
CO – WRITER
Rachel’s critically acclaimed stage version of Birdsong has just opened its fifth UK tour, having opened in the West End. Rachel wrote the book for Flowers for Mrs Harris, which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre after premiering at the Sheffield Crucible. The original production won the UK Theatre Award for Best Musical and the London premiere at Riverside Studios won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production. For Agatha Christie Ltd she adapted The Mirror Crack’d, which recently toured the UK in a new production by Original Theatre. Her musical Moonshadow, co-written with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), played at the Royal Albert Hall and the Princess Theatre in Melbourne and she also wrote the book for original musical Only The Brave, which opened at the Wales Millennium Centre. With Duncan Abel, Rachel adapted Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, which toured the UK, and made its multi-award winning US premiere at the Ogunquit Playhouse; and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, which had a record-breaking UK tour and West End run and is now performed across the UK and beyond. Also with Duncan Abel, Rachel adapted Rebecca Netley’s The Whistling, which opens at The Mill at Sonning this autumn.
For radio, Rachel adapted Sebastian Faulks’ novel The Girl at the Lion d’Or as a five-part series and, with Duncan Abel, wrote original radio play When I Lost You, both for Radio 4.
Duncan Abel
CO – WRITER
Most recently, Duncan adapted Rebecca Netley’s The Whistling for the Mill at Sonning, with Rachel Wagstaff. Also with Rachel, he co-wrote the multi award-winning adaptations of The Da Vinci Code (UK Tour/Ogunquit Playhouse) and The Girl on The Train (UK Tour/Duke of York’s Theatre). Duncan has also written for BBC Radio 4 and Sing London.
His short stories are published in various literary anthologies. He is currently under commission to several UK theatre companies.
Loveday Ingram
DIRECTOR
Theatre credits include Rebus: A Game Called Malice (Lee Dean Productions/UK Tour); The Girl on the Train (Salisbury Playhouse); Dinner With Groucho (Dublin International Theatre Festival); Fatal Attraction (ATG/UK Tour); The Rover, The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); Henry V, Julius Caesar (Storyhouse); Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Liverpool Playhouse/National Theatre of China Beijing); My One and Only (Piccadilly Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre: Nominated for 4 Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Award); The Blue Room (also Chichester Festival Theatre), When Harry Met Sally (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Bedroom Farce (Aldwych Theatre); Three Sisters, Pal Joey (nominated for TMA and Barclay Best Musical Awards), Dead Funny, Insignificance (Chichester Festival Theatre); Macbeth (Theatre Severn); Richard III (Nottingham Playhouse/York Theatre Royal); These Shining Lives (Park Theatre); Rockabye (Beckett Centenary Festival/Gate Theatre Dublin/Barbican); Boston Marriage, Hysteria (Irish Times Award) (Project Theatre Dublin); Outlying Islands, Lettice and Lovage (Bath Theatre Royal); The Messiah (National Theatre of Brent/Bush Theatre). Opera credits include All About Love (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House ); Brittain’s Rape of Lucrece(BAC); Barber’s Vanessa (Lyric Hammersmith). Music Video includes This Time It’s Forever (Women’s Aid).
Alfie Heywood
DESIGNER
Alfie’s recent credits as Designer include: The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood, Private Lives, Treasure Island, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (Barn Theatre), Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Ellen and Rigby, A Greasy Spoon, Vernon’s Girls, Lost in Colomendy, Netherley Hillbillies, Offered Up, Omnibus (all at Liverpool’s Royal Court), A Monster Call’s and Wendy and Peter Pan (Watermill Theatre), Twelfth Night (Stafford Gatehouse), Guys and Dolls, Start (both at Mountview Academy), Nora: A Doll’s House, The Ballad of Maria Marten (both at Rose Bruford), Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre), Unspoken Spoken (Candoco Dance Company).
Recent credits as associate to designer Christopher Oram include: Turn of the Screw and Platee (both at Garsington Opera), Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre, West End), Geisha (Northern Ballet), The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre, West End), The Wreckers (Houston Grand Opera), Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s Theatre, West End), The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre, Chicago) and most recently La Traviata (Sante Fe Opera). They are currently working on a design for Tulsa Ballet’s new production of Alice in Wonderland and Norwegian’s National Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet both opening in 2025.
Examples of his work can be found at www.alfieheywood.com
Hector Murray
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Hector is a lighting designer for live performance working in the West End, UK and internationally. He was nominated for an Off West End Award (2020) and received The ETC Award from the Association of Lighting Designers (2017) for excellence in Lighting Design.
Selected design credits: Constellations (Barn Theatre); Fairy Queen (HGO); High Society (Mill at Sonning); Birds and Bees (UK Tour); A Night with Boy Blue (Barbican); Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion); Kattam Katti (Sadlers Wells); 1ST Luv (Big House); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Union) and Acts of Resistance (Bristol Old Vic).
Selected associate credits: Discoshow (Las Vegas); Kiss Me Kate (Barbican); Opening Night (Gielgud); A Streetcar Named Desire (Phoenix); The Doctor (UK Tour, Park Avenue Armory & Burg Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Bridge); Hamlet, Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory) and Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter).
He’s also worked with Arts Ed, Mountview, Sadlers Wells, Zoonation, Gecko, Akram Khan Company, Gandini Juggling and Rambert School.
Hector trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama
ELIZABETH PURNELL
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER
Bristol based composer and sound designer Elizabeth Purnell trained at Bristol University and writes music in a variety of genres, from audiobooks to radio dramas to installations and events. She wrote the fanfare for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Theatre includes 20 of the Award-winning Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’s productions, musicals and shows at the Old Rep in Birmingham, Liverpool Playhouse, Hackney Empire, Salisbury Playhouse and the Orange Tree Theatre. She is also a composer for BBC radio dramas and an Emmy nominated orchestral arranger and conductor for films and TV, including Black Mirror, Annihilation, Devs, HANNA, and the Ivor Novello award winning Any Human Heart, numerous BAFTA awarded Attenborough natural history documentaries, recording with BBC orchestras and many ensembles in Europe.
THEATRE: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold dir. Jeremy Herrin (Minerva, Chichester), Oliver Twist (Tobacco Factory), Girl on the Train dir. Loveday Ingram, A Chorus of Disapproval, How the Other Half Loves dir. Gareth Machin (Salisbury Playhouse); And Then There Were None Dir. Lucy Bailey (Derngate/National & international tour); Of Mice and Men dir. Iqbal Khan (Birmingham Rep & tour); Arms and the Man, Shaw Shorts, Candida, While the Sun Shines, The False Servant dir. Paul Miller (Orange Tree Theatre); A View from the Bridge (Liverpool Playhouse); 21 shows for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory; Our New Girl (Bush); Kindertransport (Aberystwyth); The Camp, The Wills’ Girls (Show of Strength); Khadija is 18/The Sea at Night/Commercial Road (Hackney Empire); Walking the Chains (Passenger Shed Bristol); Knives in Hens (Ustinov)
TELEVISION INCLUDES: …The Great Fire (ITV); Churchill (C4); A Bitter Inheritance (BBC) Wildlife on One (BBC); These Four Walls (BBC)………
FILM INCLUDES: …Orchestration on numerous feature films, including Alex Garland’s Annihilation, DEVS, Civil War. Shadow of the Vampire
RADIO INCLUDES:…’Fairy Meadow’ BBC Podcast; Mighty Beast BBC; Anthony and Cleopatra BBC; A Season in Hell BBC; The Once and Future King BBC; The Martin Beck series BBC; The Element of Water BBC; She BBC; A Triton Amongst the Minnows BBC
OTHER…‘1984’ Storytel; ‘Vergil!’ Audible; Fanfare for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham.
CHRISTOPHER REID
SOUND DESIGNER
Chris is an award winning Sound Designer based in London. With over twenty five years experience
working on a variety of theatrical produc@ons in the West End, on Broadway and around the world.
Theatre Includes: Kyoto, RSC. Daddy Issues, Seven Dials Theatre (Offie Nomina5on for Best Sound Design). Triple Threat The Z, Virginia Beech. The Inheritance Young Vic, West End & Broadway (Drama Desk Award Winner, Tony award & Olivier award nomina5ons for Best Sound Design). Hamlet Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company at RADA. Vincent River The Old Red Lion. Pinocchio, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Demon Barber, Tam O’ Shanter and Of Mice and Men Perth Theatre.
As Associate Sound Designer: Taskmaster Live, Dock X London. Burlesque the Musical, Manchester & Glasgow. Stranger Things: The First Shadow, West End. Minority Report, NoSngham, Birmingham & Lyric Hammersmith. Stranger Things: The First Shadow West End. Death Note the Musical West End. Peaky Blinders: The Rise Riyadh. Taran5no Live Riverside Studios. 2:22 A Ghost Story West End. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe West End. The Ocean at the End of the Lane West End & UK Tour. The Jungle New York & San Fransisco. Summer and Smoke West End. Mary Stuart West End. Beginning Na@onal Theatre. Labour of Love West End. Billy Elliot the Musical Japan, South Korea & Australia. Series 3 Presenta5on Louis VuiXon Founda@on, Paris. The Audience West End. Macbeth Na@onal Theatre of Scotland, Japanese Tour. King Charles III West End & Broadway. Skylight West End. Black Watch Na@onal Theatre of Scotland, Interna@onal Tour.
Web: crsounddesign.com
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28 September – 09 November 2024
ROOM 13
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