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A Wing and a Prayer |
When air accident investigators are called in to discover the cause of the crash, they unwittingly unite the public and private lives of a husband and wife locked in an explosive breakdown.
Award winning, ex VTOL Director, Mark Murphy, invites you to take off on this new venture, bringing together fast, flowing film, dark comedy and moving text.
Co-commissioned by Oxford Playhouse, South Hill Park, Bracknell and BAC and developed at BAC. Supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.
Writer/Director
Mark Murphy
Performers for development phase 1
Louie Dempsey
Jason Hughes
Liz Kettle
Nick Whitfield
Performers for development phase 2
Craig Conway
Louie Dempsey
Eric MacLennan
Louise Yates
Designer
Miranda Melville
Lighting designer
Paul Davies
Soundscore
Mark Murphy
Loved the lights and sound…The concept was great
Audience member, October 2002
Excellent production… Excellent idea. Great actors – seduction
scene was brilliant.
Audience member, October 2003
For more information please email kate@fueltheatre.com
2003
Scratch performances at BAC's OctoberFest
2002
Scratch performances at BAC's OctoberFest
The Team
For details of Mark Murphy see biog page
Miranda Melville
Miranda Melville has designed extensively for theatre, opera, film and dance.
She designed all of V-tol Dance Company's shows and collaborated with them
on their site specific projects, as well as all of Mark's subsequent work
including SWALK with Walk The Plank. Other recent work includes Britten's
opera Owen Wingrave for television, Deborah Bull's The Dancer's Body for BBC2
and The Truth, a film with Ricochet Dance Company.
Craig Conway
Original member of The Northern Stage Ensemble’s: A Clockwork Orange,
Animal Farm, Romeo and Juliet and more recently played the lead role Winston
Smith at the Lyric Hammersmith in Orwell’s 1984. TV credits include:
Our Friends in the North, Wokenwell, In Defence. Film credits include: Downtime,
Combat, Dog Soldiers and he is currently working on a new Mike Leigh project.
Craig has also written and directed for the Contact Theatre: Manchester, Freefall
and Car Trouble; for Newcastle Playhouse: City of Sonnets; and Blink of an
Eye (film) and A Pure Buzz (film) and was assistant director for To You (opening
performance for the Lowry)
Louie Dempsey
Originally from Dublin, Louie worked on both scratch versions of A Wing and
A Prayer. Films include the forthcoming epic Troy with Brad Pit and Shooters
which he co-wrote. Louis starred in Stones in his Pockets in West End and
world tour.
Eric MacLennan
Eric was born in Scotland. Studied theatre at University of Warwick and trained
at Ecole Jacques Lecoq. Extensive theatre work as a performer includes: Volcano
Theatre; DV8 Physical Theatre; Royal Exchange Manchester; Citizens Theatre,
Glasgow; Bristol Old Vic; RNT Studio; London Bubble; Orange Tree Richmond;
Salisbury Playhouse; TAG Theatre, Glasgow; Scarlet Theatre; Lumiere and Son;
Red Shift and The Gate Theatre. He has previously worked with Mark Murphy
in VTOL’s Without Trace. As a director, Eric has devised work with the
Hairy Marys and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is currently
teaching part-time at University of Kent at Canterbury in the School of Drama,
Film and Visual Arts.
Louise Yates
Theatre: Louise has worked extensively in regional rep and more recently in
London, including A Christmas Carol at the Lyric, Hammersmith; Experiment
with an Airpump at Hampstead; Bread and Butter at Southwark Playhouse; The
Road to Ruin and A Kind of Alaska at the Orange Tree, Richmond. Television:
Brookside, Coronation Street, Family Affairs, London Bridge, The Bill, Alan
Partridge, Reeves and Mortimer, A Touch of Frost, Rik Mayall Presents, and
to be seen next in Wire in the Blood with Robson Green.
