A striking physical theatre retelling of Shakespeare's most popular tragedy… Bringing to bear work with musicianship, clown, physical theatre and ensemble, this production takes a rigorous and violent physical approach to the text, combining it with exhilarating aspects of live music gig and event performance to produce a provocative and accessible hour long show. Bringing together live soundscape, stripped back set and a tight knit ensemble, this hyper-mobile production will thrive inside the origins of this grotesque tale of ambition and the human condition.
DIRECTOR:
Alexandra Spencer-Jones
MUSICAL SUPERVISOR:
Roddy Lynch
ALEXANDRA SPENCER-JONES
After completing a PhD in Shakespearean Studies, an MA in Classical Studies and a BA in English and Drama from Cambridge University, ASJ is based in London and works as a freelance director and theatre facilitator internationally.
She is currently the Artistic Director of the award-winning Action To The Word, Associate Director of SIX The Musical West End, an Associate of Shakespeare's Globe.
Directing credits include: A Clockwork Orange (West End Soho Theatre, The Park Theatre, Broadway's New World Stages and International Tour), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare's Globe), Gobsmacked (Southbank Centre and International Tour), A Generous Lover (International Tour), A Midsummer Night's Dream (NT Riverside/Latitude Festival), Dracula (West End Arts Theatre), Chopped Logic (Latitude Festival/Camden People's Theatre) Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe), Constance & Sinestra and The Cabinet of Sceams (New Wimbledon Theatre/International and Latitude Festival), Sweeney Todd (Glasgow Athenaeum), Spring Awakening (Stratford Circus), Godspell (Assembly Rooms Edinburgh), Pains of Youth (Master Shipbuilders), Romeo & Juliet (Stockwell Playhouse), Legally Blonde (Assembly Rooms Edinburgh), Women Beware Women (Camden People's Theatre/LIPA), Batboy (Chandler Glasgow), The Lost Boy Peter Pan (Pleasance Theatre), City of Angels (Stratford Circus), All Day Permanent Red (Royal Court Theatre), Titus Andronicus (C Venues Edinburgh), Rhythm of Silence (Latitude Festival/Charleston Festival), Street Scene (Glasgow Athenaeum), Rent (Birmingham Hippodrome), The Oresteia (Camden People's Theatre), The Threepenny Opera (C Venues Edinburgh) Shakespeare Shorts or What's In A Name (International Tour) and The Taming of the Shrew (European Tour).
As Movement/Associate Director: Six The Musical (West End, Korea), Bend It Like Beckham (West End), Oliver (Grange Opera), Peter Grimes (Grange Opera), La Perichole (Garsington Opera), The Wizard of Oz (West End, International) and Hope (Royal Court).