The Odd Couple
(Female version)

by Neil Simon

Directed by Gigi Robarts

July 26 - 30, 2011

The Tower Theatre performing at Theatro Technis, Camden Town




Cast

 

Olive Madison

Lily Ann Green

Florence Unger

Anne Connell

Mickey

Katharine Williams

Sylvie

Tracy-Leigh Batchelor

Renee

Deborah Rothfield

Vera

F. Wilde

Manolo Costazuela

Jonathan Benda

Jesus Costazuela

Jonathan Wober

Production Team
Director : Gigi Robarts
Assistant Director : Ahmmad Makaddar
Set Design : Tony Bennett
Costume Design : Sheila Burbidge, Jill Batty, Lynda Twidale
Lighting Design : Rich Evans
Sound Design : Laurence Tuerk
Additional Sound : Stephen Ley
Hair & Make-Up : Katreena Watherston

Stage Managers : Ann Watchorn, Moira McSperrin
Assistant Stage Managers : Annemarie Fearnley, Jill Ruane, Martin Buttery
Lighting Operator : Rosey Tyler
Sound Operator : Martin Brady
Set Construction : Keith Syrett, Phillip Ley, Michael Bettell and members of the cast & crew



For the Tower Lily Ann Green has played Annie in All My Sons, Émilie in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Agnes in Steward of Christendom. She has directed The Talented Mr Ripley, Memory of Water, The Diary of Anne Frank, Torch Song Trilogy, Art & Jake’s Women. Elsewhere she has recently appeared as Maggie in Jake’s Women, Ellen in Disappeared and Myra in Colder Than Here. She has also directed Enchanted April for SLT, Hilltops for the English Theatre of Bruge and 4Play at the Hen & Chickens and the Edinburgh Festival.

Anne Connell has been with the Tower since 1995, playing numerous parts since then including Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa, Muriel in Talking Heads, the Narrator in Under Milk Wood, Muriel in Habeas Corpus and most recently Queen Margaret in Princess Ivona. She also co-authored Curiouser and Curiouser, an adaptation and merging of both of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” books, which performed at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall in 2008.

This is Deborah Rothfield's debut Tower production and, due to a City career, her first performance in sixteen years. Previous theatre credits include : Meg and Lulu in The Birthday Party; Marion in The Noble Spaniard; The Pagan Woman in Yerma; Marilyn in Crossing Delancey; Jessica in The Merchant of Venice; First Witch in Macbeth; Phoebe in As You Like It and The Countess Wraith in Dracula Spectacula. All these productions were in Nairobi, Kenya, or Melbourne, Australia.

F. Wilde hails from Los Angeles originally and lived in New York City. She has worked extensively in theatre and film on both sides of the pond. Previous productions include : Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Chester Gateway); Marisol (Southwark Playhouse); The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (Courtyard Theatre); Mrs Sorkin (Bridewell Theatre). Films/TV : Good Fellas (Warner Brothers); General Hospital (ABC); and All My Children (NBC). She performed in the role of Karen in Jake's Women at The White Bear Theatre.

Jonathan Benda trained at City Lit in Covent Garden, graduating in July 2010. Since then he has appeared as Shipuchin in Naughty Chekhov, Captain Ironside in The Magnetic Lady and Richard Greatham in Hay Fever. Film credits include Ben Volio in Me, Me, Me and roles in seven short films. Other roles performed include Lear (King Lear), Eilert Loevborg (Hedda Gabler), Maurice (Flatspin) and Agamemnon (Iphigenia).

This is Jonathan Wober's sixth role with the Tower since joining in 2009, after appearing as an eastern European inThe Archbishop’s Ceiling, an Englishman (in a dinner jacket) in Dangerous Corner, various Ankh-Morporkians in Maskerade, a Roman in Julius Caesar and another Englishman (in a hoodie) in Smells of Wee. This is his first role as a Spaniard. He is also a member of the publicity team and the Company Committee.

Katharine Williams has been acting for a decade mainly at The Questors' Theatre in West London whose acting course she completed in 2001. Her most recent credits there are Titus Androncius (2011), Beauty & The Beast and Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (both 2010). She also made her debut at the Putney Arts Centre as Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever (2011) and is delighted to be in her first production with the Tower in this wonderfully warm and sparkling hit by Neil Simon with an equally wonderfully warm and sparkling cast.

Tracy-Leigh Batchelor trained with Susan Batson in New York and with Method Studio/ Caravanserai in London. Other credits include roles in The Positive Hour and The Open Couple performed at the Edinburgh Festival and at Pentameters Theatre. Tracy is the lead voice-over in Ben Fellows film Greenwich Village Massacres.

The Odd Couple is Gigi Robarts's first production with the Tower. Other shows she has directed include Tartuffe, Black Widow, Loveplay, The Children's Hour and Hay Fever (all performed by PTC). She also directed two plays for KDC - Jake's Women (White Bear Theatre) and The Long Run (Landor Theatre). Gigi directed Sartre's Huis Clos in French (Baron's Court Theatre) with Something Wicked productions.