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Katie Mitchell

KATIE MITCHELL

  
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Katie Mitchells previous work at the Royal Court includes 2071, Ten Billion, Wastwater, The City, The Country and Forty Winks. Other work includes The Trial of Ubu Roi (Hampstead Theatre), After Dido (ENO and Young Vic), and A Woman Killed with Kindness, Pains of Youth, &Some Trace of Her, Waves, Three Sisters and The Seagull (National Theatre). International work includes The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festical.Schaubühne, Berlin); A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Vienna Burgtheater); Lungs, The Yellow Wallpaper (Schaubühne, Berlin); Happy Days and Travelling On One Leg (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Night Train (Schauspiel, Cologne/Avignon Festival/Theatertreffen); Rings of Saturn, Waves (Schauspiel, Cologne). Katie has been Associate Director at the Royal Court Theatre, RSC and National Theatre. She was awarded an OBE in 2009 for services to Drama.

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below is a list of Katie Mitchell's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         After Dido         Beauty and the Beast         Cat In the Hat, The         Dream Play, A         Fraulein Julie         Hansel and Gretel         Mysteries, The         Ophelias Zimmer         some trace of her         Ten Billion         Waves         Way Back Home, The

After Dido

Synopsis:
This time around, Miss Mitchell is working with ENO on one of the earliest English operas, Dido and Aeneas, to mark the 350th anniversary of the birth of its composer, Henry Purcell. the music, played on period instruments directed from the harpsichord by Christian Curnyn, is gorgeous, as is the singing led by soprano Katherine Manley and mezzo Susan Bickley. there is also a real surprise, as the team of film and sound technicians suddenly burst into mellifluous song. the film and sound work is immaculate and surprising as ever, simultaneously showing the underlying components and their results. the story is where one might easily get lost, having a very limited amount to do with the love affair between the Carthaginian queen and her exiled Trojan paramour. the film quietly tells three apparently unconnected stories of Home Counties loneliness. Sandy McDade, a champion when it comes to depicting despair, plays a desolate lady who has just lost her husband. Amanda Hale is a younger woman whose life and love has reached such a nadir that she ends up taking the familiar exit combination of pills and spirits. Finally, Dominic Rowan and Helena Lymbery play a couple whose relationship might be on the rocks but moving towards reconciliation, though it is impossible to guarantee that that is the subject.
- Philip Fisher, British theatre Guide

Notes:
A live music And film performance inspired by Purcell's Dido And Aeneas

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Organisations:
Young Vic / ENO

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Genre:
Opera

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  11 other parts

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Beauty and the Beast

Synopsis:
Wild and lively, the production explodes with music and magic, story-book sets, shadow puppetry and a 150-piece orchestra in an 18-inch box!

Notes:
devised by Katie Mitchell And Lucy Kirkwood, book by Lucy kirkwood

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Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Family Show

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cat In the Hat, The

Synopsis:
From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that the cat in the hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he is certainly fun to play with. And he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home. . .? the National theatre's production of the Cat in the Hat is a lively, engaging first theatre experience for 3-6-yearolds.

Notes:
from the book by Dr Seuss

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Organisations:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dream Play, A

Synopsis:
Written in 1902, A Dream Play is a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism. It follows the logic of a dream, in which characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image.

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strinberg. tr. Caryl Churchill, Adap. Katie Mitchell And the company

1st Produced:

Organisations:
National Theatre, London

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2005   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Fraulein Julie

Synopsis:
Strindberg's tragedy is reimagined for the multimedia age as theatrical performance and live filming techniques converge, lending fresh cinematic perspective to a classic story. Aristocratic Julie and Jean, a servant in her household, are entangled in a sexually charged game. But as their dangerous pursuit of one another escalates, Strindberg's play finds a new focus. For it is Jean's fiancee, a cook of few words, who is given a voice in this moving adaptation that uses real-time film and sound effects to track the life-changing events through Kristin's eyes.

Notes:
After August Strindberg, a version by Katie Mitchell, translated by Maja Zade presented in the German language with subtitles

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Schaubuhne Berlin

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hansel and Gretel

Synopsis:
Two children lost in the woods. . .a trail of breadcrumbs. . .and a bewitching house made of sweets. Following the Cat in the Hat and Beauty and the Beast, Katie Mitchell returns to the National theatre to stage the classic fairytale. She will collaborate once again with Lucy Kirkwood and designer Vicki Mortimer, applying their extraordinary imagination and creativity to conjure the world of Hansel and Gretel in an intimate and magical new production.

Notes:
written by Lucy Kirkwood, devised by Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell based on the story by the Brothers Grimm

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mysteries, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Edward Kemp

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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ophelias Zimmer

Synopsis:
I do not know, my lord, what I should think. Katie Mitchell explores Ophelia, freed from Hamlet.

Notes:
directed by Katie Mitchell with text by Alice Birch

1st Produced:
Schaubuhne Berlin     Dec 2015

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
In German with English surtitles.

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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some trace of her

Synopsis:
A woman lies dead on a bed in her wedding dress, a silver knife through her heart. the two men who loved her lie beside her.

Notes:
Inspired by the Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky And Adapted by Katie Mitchell And the company from the translation by David Magarshack And poems of Emily Dickinson

1st Produced:

Organisations:
National Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
multi media Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Ten Billion

Synopsis:
By the end of this century, the human population is likely to be over ten billion. Just twenty five years ago, it was less than five billion. How are the choices we're making as a species impacting upon our environment? And how will the sheer force of numbers affect the way we live in the future? Scientist Stephen Emmott and director Katie Mitchell deliver a new kind of scientific lecture, highlighting key issues being lost in translation in our discussion of the environment. Ten Billion paints a vivid portrait of a species with its head in the sand.

Notes:
Stephen Emmott (in collaboration with Katie Mitchell)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Royal Court Theatre (Festival d'Avignon)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Waves

Synopsis:
the Waves is an exploration of group consciousness, tracking a band of friends from childhood to old age and death through a series of self-communing monologues, interspersed by impersonal bulletins on the progress of the sun as it interacts through the course of the day with the sea. Though there are a number of stage-like elements to the book, it is actually very difficult to pull off as a theatre piece. Mitchell's ingenious and incrementally moving solution is to go for broke. Just as Woolf's book beats its head against the bars of the conventional novel of character and narrative, so Mitchell's production deliberately bangs its brow against the limitations of the theatre of permanent long-shot and crisply defined roles. the excellent company of actors are shown manning a cross between a recording studio, replete with sound effect props, and a television studio, where we watch people being filmed for the simultaneous and surreally intense close-up shots. the piece is about the extent of our profound craving to feel part of a wholeness greater than individuality and the contrasting strength of our compulsion to retain the ego that feels jealousy, social insecurity and sexual infatuation.
Paul Taylor, Independent

Notes:
devised by Katie Mitchell And the company, from novel by Virginia Woolf

1st Produced:

Organisations:
National Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Way Back Home, The

Synopsis:
an inter-galactic adventure tale for families and young children. One day a boy finds a plane in his cupboard. He flies his plane higher and higher until he runs out of petrol and lands on the moon. He is frightened, lost and alone until a passing Martian lands there too! Who is the strange alien? Can they be friends? and how will they find their way back home?

Notes:
book by Oliver Jeffers; adapted by Katie Mitchell and Vicki Mortimer; Lyrics Rory Mullarkey (after Oliver Jeffers).

1st Produced:
Waterside Arts Centre In Sale     26 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Big Wooden Horse

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
50 min Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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