Name: Fuente Ovejuna
Start: 2023-11-15T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2023-11-15T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Courtyard Theatre, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

This event has multiple dates:

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 7.30pm
Thursday 16 November 2023, 7.30pm
Friday 17 November 2023, 2.30pm
Friday 17 November 2023, 7.30pm
Saturday 18 November 2023, 2.30pm
Saturday 18 November 2023, 7.30pm
Thursday 23 November 2023, 2.30pm
Thursday 23 November 2023, 7.30pm
Friday 24 November 2023, 11am

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FUENTE OVEJUNA, 15-18 November, 23-24 November 2023 programme.pdf

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To book tickets to the showings at the Curve Theatre, Leicester, please email outreach@cssd.ac.uk

By Lope de Vega

Translated by Adrian Mitchell

Performed by BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre

Designed & produced by BA (Hons) Theatre Practice

The farming town of Fuente Ovejuna rises up against a tyrannical overlord. This masterpiece from the Spanish Golden Age is as whip-smart as it is camp gory.

Carried by an ensemble of colourful characters, what begins as a comedy ends as something quite different: a prescient examination of democracy and revolution, a grim portrait of recycled violence and class division.

This production is a quick-moving, stripped-back, contemporary take on Fuente Ovejuna, which is as politically spiky now as it was in Spain, 1612.

Approximate running time: 1 hour 40 minutes (no interval).

This production contains strong language, scenes of violence, implied sexual assault and rape, predatory male behaviour, references to suicide, realistic imitation firearms, non-realistic displays of murder and the use of fake blood.

By arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

Locations and Showtimes

Courtyard Theatre, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Wednesday 15 – Thursday 16 November, 7.30pm
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 November, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Curve Theatre, Leicester

Thursday 23 November, 2.30pm* & 7.30pm
Friday 24 November, 11am^

* Q+A Session to follow performance
^ Relaxed performance. Q+A Session to follow performance.

To book tickets to the showings at the Curve Theatre, Leicester, please email outreach@cssd.ac.uk.

Booking and Venue Information

Tickets

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To book tickets to the showings at the Curve Theatre, Leicester, please email outreach@cssd.ac.uk.
Accessibility

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is fully wheelchair accessible, please speak with our box office team on 02077228183 or boxoffice@cssd.ac.uk if you have any further enquiries.
COVID-19 Information for attending productions

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Please note that these measures are subject to change without notice and we advise attendees to check the COVID-19 Information webpage and the Eventbrite booking page for updates. Updates to safety measures will also be communicated with ticket holders by email through Eventbrite.

Creative and Production Team

*BA (Hons) Theatre Practice **Visiting Professional ^ Staff

Director Jim Manganello** he/him

Composer Adam Gerber** he/him

Musical Director Joe Baldwin^ he/him

Set Designer Isabella Sarmiento-Abadia* she/her

Costume Designer Kerry Loosemore* she/her

Lighting Designer Conor Costelloe* he/him

Sound Designer Bili Keogh* he/him

Voice Coach Annie Morrison**

Fight Directors Jonathan Leverett**, Stephen Louis**

Fight Captain Anton Bibby (he/him)

Intimacy Director Rebecca Reaney**

Production Manager James Thompson^ he/him

Tour Production Manager Dan Shelley** he/him

Assistant Production Managers Katie Daley* she/her, Jude Lewis* he/him

Stage Manager Nathan Friend* he/him

Deputy Stage Manager Gúa Ástudóttir* she/her

Assistant Stage Managers Tilda Finlow* she/her, Charlie Hughes* she/her

Costume Supervisor Alison Cartledge** she/her

Costume Assistant Flo Crowson* they/them

Assistant Lighting Designer Julius Hansen* he/him

Head of LX William Gibbs*

Deputy Head of LX Effie Birch-Scanlan* she/her

Lighting Programmer & Operator Victoria Sutton* she/her

Production Sound Engineer Daniel Leaf* he/him

Fit-Up Crew Enola de Jong* she/her, Emily Pettican* she/her, Alex Dickinson* he/him

FOH Manager Martin Juul Sorensen^

BA (Hons) Acting (Musical Theatre) Course Leader Wendy Gadian^

Special thanks to Dan Large from Electric Foundry, WhiteLight, National Theatre Props Hire, Autumn Fletcher-Smith*, Tabitha Pow^, Peter Rice^, Donato Wharton^