The Libertine (2007)

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[[Image:libertineposter.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Bob Callender]] and [[Maria Bates]]]]

by [[Stephen Jeffreys]]

Directed by [[Bob Callender]]

Performances: Tuesday 15th – Saturday 19th May [[2007]], Prompt Corner

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== Cast ==

*Rochester - [[Rob Clother]]
*Etherege - [[Matthew Davies]]
*Sackville - [[Adam Bambrough]]
*Downs - [[Siobhan Campbell]]
*Harris - [[Steve Ellis]]
*Alcock - [[Adam Crook]]
*Charles - [[Chukwudi Onwere]]
*Jane - [[Penny Allen]]
*Barry - [[Liz Chambers]]
*Malet - [[Juliet Holden]]
*Luscombe - [[Fiona Daffern]]
*Mrs Will - [[Alina Cooper]]
*Vizard, Mrs Wade - [[Dee Fancett]]
*Constable, Playgoer, Guard - [[Adrian Cross]]
*Kedgeo, Bouncer, Pike - [[Dylan Hird]]
*Huysmans, Punter, Staff - [[John Thompson]]

== Crew ==

*Director - [[Bob Callender]]
*Assistant Director - [[Kat Moody]]
*Stage Management - [[Gavin Parker]]
*Stage Management - [[Laura King]]
*Sound Design - [[Andrew Rickinson]]
*Musical Director - [[Helen Jones]]
*Lighting Design & Choreography - [[Anna York]]
*Sound Operator - [[Fiona Mitchell]]
*Lighting Operator - [[David Redford-Green]]
*Fight Director - [[Anton Krause]]
*Monkey and Dildoes - [[Hazel Hindle]]
*Properties - [[Alan Buckman]]
*Photography - [[Mark Davies]]
*Programme - [[Dee Fancett]]

"A huge piece, well brought off." Jason.

"You really pulled it off." Sarah Archer.

== Gallery ==
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Image:Libertine 043 2.jpg|[[Rob Clother]] as Rochester and [[Chukwudi Onwere]] as Charles.
Image:Libertine 2.jpg|[[Rob Clother]] with [[Penny Allen]] as Jane.
Image:Libertine 3.jpg|[[Steve Ellis]] as Harris.
Image:Libertine 5.jpg|[[Siobhan Campbell]] as Downs.
Image:Libertine 6.jpg|
Image:Libertine 050.jpg
</gallery>
Photos: [[Mark Davies]]

== Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

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== Reviews ==
JOHN Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, wrote many bawdy satires during his short lifetime in the late 1600s, and was the model for the foppish title character in George Etherege's Restoration comedy The Man of Mode, writes Mark Campbell.

The Libertine, a 1994 play by Stephen Jefferys, performed recently at the South London Theatre in West Norwood, attempted to reconstruct the life of this extravagant womaniser, raconteur and patron of the arts.

The result was a sometimes fascinating look at a circle of young, fashion-obsessed dandies who lived for pleasure while at the same time cocking a snook at their benefactor, King Charles II.

Judging by the play, Rochester was a deeply unpleasant man who was redeemed through his affair with then-famous actress Elizabeth Barry.

But even this newly discovered altruism couldn't save him from the ravages of alcoholism and syphilis.

Directed by Bob Callendar and staged in the theatre's small studio space, Prompt Corner, the large cast had clearly worked hard at maximising the impact of Jeffrey's script, some of it based directly on Rochester's writings.

But the decision to have the actors perform in rather tatty 'ordinary' dress, in truth a tatty collection of 1970s charity shop cast-offs, and virtually no props (apart from giant papier mâché phalluses) robbed the story of much of its drama and colour.

It was also much too long, with the second act introducing new, unnecessary plot developments just when the end seemed in sight.

Rob Clother played Rochester as a man fully aware of his genius, with Adam Bambrough's Sackville a gruff Northerner with an amusing line in plain speaking.

Matthew Davis made a flamboyantly garrulous Etheredge.

It was an intriguing idea to cast a black actor as the King, but although Chukwudi Onwere looked and acted the part, his Kenneth Williams-style upper class accent seemed wildly overplayed.

The most engaging performances came from the two female leads.

Liz Chambers as Elizabeth Barry was excellent, while the stolid resilience of Juliet Holden as Rochester's embittered wife Elizabeth Malet formed the calm centre around which everything else revolved.

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== References ==

== External Links ==

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Habeas Corpus (1998)

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[[Image:CHANGETHISNAME.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Poster Designer]]]]

by [[Alan Bennett]]

Directed and Designed by [[Alan Buckman]]

Performances: Tue 20th – Sat 24th February [[1998]], [[Bell Theatre]]

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== Crew ==

*Stage Management - [[Jill Davies]], [[Annette Wiseman]]
*Lighting Design - [[Keefe Browning]]
*Lighting Operator - [[Keefe Browning]], [[Matthew Blackstaffe]]
*Sound - [[Paul O'Connor]]
*Set Construction - [[Anton Krause]]
*Prompt - [[Juliet Male]]

== Reviews ==

"This farcical comedy by [[Alan Bennett]] was first staged by South London Theatre in 1978, when the play was but five years old.
In 1998 it looks decidedly whiskery, interesting in its way, but more as an indication of which way the wind was blowing in the salad days of one of our more thought-provoking dramatists.
The author has called 'Habeas Corpus' "farce without the paraphernalia of farce", acting on which hint, director, [[Alan Buckman]] has here reduced its props to their absolute minimum of three chairs.
In a sense, it reminds one of the old concept of Humours comedy, each character representing his or her abiding passion or characteristic.
The plot - don't make me laugh - consists largely of a string of jokes, of which a fair specimen is the following hilarious exchange. "I had to get my skates on for Evensong." "Evensong on Ice?"
Thin ice, no doubt. But at least Mr Buckman's has assembled a cast of slick performers who give the play a kind of marionette-like precision. [[Sarah O'Driscoll]], a case in point worth noting, gives glamorous Felicity Rumpers the mechanical movements of an animated doll, and a sex doll at that.
[[Alan Jarvis]]'s maniacally robust portrayal of Hove's very own cynical Dr Arthur Wicksteed is of a man decaying at the edges with unrequited lust. [[Ruth Shettle]] as his wife, Muriel is a heaving mountain of concupiscence, [[Andrew Rickinson]] as his son, Dennis, a spotty post-adolescent horror, and not a pretty sight.
As Sir Percy Shorter, the short President of the BMA, [[John Hartnett]] is the living embodiment of peppery choler, and has some of the funniest moments of the evening. [[Juliette Mills]] seems to attractive for the part of the repressed, flat-chested Constance Wicksteed, showing a pleasing vivacity beyond the demands of the role.
[[Brian Scoltock]] plays the aptly named Canon Throbbing with a schoolboy relish; [[Matthew Lyne]] lends a goonish quality to Mr Shanks, the man from the false bust suppliers; and [[John Lyne]] repeats his make-weight role of twenty years ago, the supposedly suicidal Mr Purdue.
[[Pam Jarvis]] is very regal, tres colonial as Lady Rumpers, and [[Maggie Cearns]] cleverly ties all the strings together as the cheerfully hoovering but ultimately rather tedious Mrs Swabb." Donald Madgwick (Croydon Advertiser)

== Gallery ==

== Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

Members are encouraged to write about their experiences of working on or seeing this production. Please leave your name. Anonymous entries may be deleted.

== See Also ==
* [[Habeas Corpus (1978)]]

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