Into the Woods
Assistant Stage Manager Swing
Theatre Royal Bath - Scenario Two Productions
August - September 2022
Director: Leah Hausman & Terry Gilliam
Set Designer: Jon Bausor
Costume Designer: Antony McDonald
Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson
Sound Designer: Paul Groothuis
Video Designer: Will Duke
Musical Director: Stephen Higgins
Company Manager: Sarah Walley
Stage Manager: Chris Bawtree
Deputy Stage Manager: Maikel Bellanco
Assistant Stage Manager (book cover): Valeria Bettini
Assistant Stage Manager: Jess Hardcastle
Assistant Stage Manager Swing: Sammy Lacey
This imaginative and delightfully playful new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods arrives as a timely celebration of the late composer’s remarkable impact on musical theatre.
The supremely talented ensemble cast includes Julian Bleach (co-creator of Olivier Award-winning Shockheaded Peter, Doctor Who, The Borgias), Audrey Brisson (Olivier Award nominee for Amélie, Outlander), Nicola Hughes (Olivier Award nominee for Fosseand Porgy and Bess), Rhashan Stone (All About Eve, Noël Coward Theatre, Finding Alice) and Alex Young (Follies, National Theatre) alongside Gillian Bevan, Nathanael Campbell, Maria Conneely, Lauren Conroy, Phoebe Fildes, Samuel Holmes, Charlotte Jaconelli, Henry Jenkinson and Barney Wilkinson.
In this production, a young girl playing with her grandfather’s toy theatre imagines an upside down, fairy tale world. A baker and his wife must set out to reverse a curse which has left them childless and hunt down four magical items to lift the spell. On the way, they meet Little Red Riding Hood (plus a captivating Wolf), Rapunzel and Cinderella, charming Princes (and the obligatory, less charming, Stepsisters), Jack (he of beanstalk fame) and, of course, a Witch.
Photos by Marc Brenner