The Tower Theatre performing at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch
Photography by Laurence Tuerk and Dom Ward
Cast
Stokes
Harry Reeder
Beauregard
Matthew Vickers
Mrs Hinchcliffe
Penny Tuerk
Florence
Antoinette Alexandrou
The Apparition
Sam South
Singers
Lola Loughran
Selina Ream Matilda James Rachel Briggs Marc Meeby
Production Team
Director : Dom Ward
Costume Design: Ashlin McMillan
Lighting Design: Stephen Ley
Sound Design: Colin Guthrie & Phillip Ley
Construction Manager : Michael Bettell
Stage Managers : Sarah Ambrose & Lesley Scarth
ASMs : Jacqui Dickson, Ann Watchorn, Michael Bettell
Lighting Operator : Laurence Tuerk
Sound Operators: Colin Guthrie, Phillip Ley, Giulia Bertolini
Harry Reeder has acted in over 20 Tower plays since his first role as Monty in Chicken Soup with Barley
in 1989.
He lives in Hackney and is very pleased to be performing in a ghost story at the "actors church", where many Elizabethan actors are buried!
Matthew Vickers has been a Tower Member for seven years now having performed in a variety of plays. Most
recently he was a rather pompous author who got some just deserts in Dinner. He is very excited to be playing a sort of West
Virginian Derek Acorah in Darker Shores, especially in a Church with several deceased actors down below.
This is Penny Tuerk's second production at St. Leonard's church, having directed Julius Caesar
there last year. She has been a member of the Tower Theatre Company since 1970 and has taken part in nearly seventy productions
as an actor or director. Over the past thirty years she has also served at various times as Company Chairman and
Artistic Director and she is currently Chairman of the Trustees of the charity that supports the Tower Theatre Company.
Darker Shores is Antoinette Alexandrou's first performance with the Tower Theatre. She has been
honing her craft from the ripe old age of 6 when she she first attended the famous Anna Scher Theatre
School.
As was common for Alumni from the school she picked up various acting jobs from the likes of Casualty and The Bill. Uncommon
however was her transition into an adult actor. She went on to study at 'The Actors Temple' and has since matured into a fine actress
carving a career in classic and contemporary theatre including parts in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia) and Oleanna
as well as numerous film credits, the latest playing the lead in the film Cowboys.
Dom Ward joined the Tower by accident, having been press-ganged into a production of The Entertainer in 2001.
Having briefly cornered the market in romantic juveniles with roles in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Hot Mikado and
Guys and Dolls, Dom went off to train at Mountview Academy. Since then he's broadened his range, playing everything from the Devil
(Brimstone and Treacle) to (the front half of) a pantomime horse. The majority of Tower members will have most recently seen Dom
losing his mind in The Birthday Party, which was followed by the small but beautifully formed The Last Five Years
and, earlier this year, Smells of Wee. Dom was also the face of online divorce.
Harry Reeder has acted in over 20 Tower plays since his first role as Monty in Chicken Soup with Barley
in 1989.
He lives in Hackney and is very pleased to be performing in a ghost story at the "actors church", where many Elizabethan actors are buried!
Matthew Vickers has been a Tower Member for seven years now having performed in a variety of plays. Most
recently he was a rather pompous author who got some just deserts in Dinner. He is very excited to be playing a sort of West
Virginian Derek Acorah in Darker Shores, especially in a Church with several deceased actors down below.
This is Penny Tuerk's second production at St. Leonard's church, having directed Julius Caesar
there last year. She has been a member of the Tower Theatre Company since 1970 and has taken part in nearly seventy productions
as an actor or director. Over the past thirty years she has also served at various times as Company Chairman and
Artistic Director and she is currently Chairman of the Trustees of the charity that supports the Tower Theatre Company.
Darker Shores is Antoinette Alexandrou's first performance with the Tower Theatre. She has been
honing her craft from the ripe old age of 6 when she she first attended the famous Anna Scher Theatre
School.
As was common for Alumni from the school she picked up various acting jobs from the likes of Casualty and The Bill. Uncommon
however was her transition into an adult actor. She went on to study at 'The Actors Temple' and has since matured into a fine actress
carving a career in classic and contemporary theatre including parts in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia) and Oleanna
as well as numerous film credits, the latest playing the lead in the film Cowboys.
Dom Ward joined the Tower by accident, having been press-ganged into a production of The Entertainer in 2001.
Having briefly cornered the market in romantic juveniles with roles in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Hot Mikado and
Guys and Dolls, Dom went off to train at Mountview Academy. Since then he's broadened his range, playing everything from the Devil
(Brimstone and Treacle) to (the front half of) a pantomime horse. The majority of Tower members will have most recently seen Dom
losing his mind in The Birthday Party, which was followed by the small but beautifully formed The Last Five Years
and, earlier this year, Smells of Wee. Dom was also the face of online divorce.