Summer 2, 2023

GBS Theatre

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov (1903)
in an English version by Tom Stoppard (2009)

Cast (in order of appearance) Creative Team

Lopakhin Director
Vir Hirani Ebenezer Bamgboye

Dunyasha Designer
Kitty Reed Roma Farnell

Yepikhodov Lighting Designer

David Bankole Abraham Walkling-Lea

Firs Sound Designer

Adrian Paul Jeyasingham Kacey Thurbon

Anya Movement
Melanie-Joyce Bermudez Lizzie Ballinger

Ranevskaya Voice Coach

Tiffany Gray Emma Woodvine

Varya Fight
Maya Loveday Philip d’Orleans

Gaev Captioner
Charles Entsie Jenny Skene

Charlotta Ivanovna
Tae Eun

Simeneonov-Pishchik Content warnings: contains haze, strong

Osamudiamwen Audu language, mild physical violence.

Yasha This amateur production of The Cherry Orchard is

Louis Goodwin presented by arrangement with United Agents Ltd.

Trofimov
Lee Simmonds

Ranevskaya (u/s) Elyssia Roe (graduate)

Simeneonov-Pishchik (u/s) Danny Hughes (graduate)

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Production Team
The students working on this production are on the FdA in Technical Theatre and Stage Management,
the BA (Hons) in Technical Theatre and Stage Management and the PgDip in Theatre Costume.

Production Manager Costume Supervisors /

Dan Britton Wardrobe Assistants /
Dressers
Technical Manager Miriam Dheva-Aksom
Ruby Elms Zelfa El Khazen

Deputy Technical Manager Hair, Wigs and Make-up

Harry Leng Bloodworth Keisha Banya (staff)

Stage Manager Construction Project Manager

Jordan Deegan Fleet and Scenery Builder
Teddy Stelling
Deputy Stage Manager
Ana Chen Scenic Art
Head of Department
Chief Electrician Theo Corrance
Elizabeth Skellett
Scenic Artists
Production Electrician El Brigham
Jayden Hendricks-Kynaston Grace Farrow-Moore
Naomi Mmbaga
Lighting Programmer
James White Prop Makers
Xilan Chen
Lighting Crew Rosemary Fleming
Lara Carey Alice Gibson
Mila Mussatt Aidan O’Sullivan
Caitlin MacGregor
Sonny Trickey Special thanks
James White Caffè Nero

Chief Production Sound

Engineer
Ben Davidson

Production Sound Engineer

Izzy Hobby

Sound Operators and Crew

Ben Davidson
Will Hamilton
Izzy Hobby
Mia Swann
Kacey Thurbon
Matt Webb
Biographies
Anton Chekhov Ebenezer Bamgboye
Writer Director
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright Ebenezer is an award-nominated director. He is the
and short-story writer. He was born in 1860 and ex Deputy Director of Jermyn Street Theatre, an
during his short life (44 years) wrote some of ex Resident Director of The Almeida Theatre and
the greatest plays in history. These include The has in the past worked as an Assistant/Associate
Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, Ivanov, director for Headlong, The Almeida Theatre and the
Platonov, The Bear, A Marriage Proposal, The Old Vic as their Baylis Assistant Director.
Wedding, The Wood Demon and The Seagull.
During his early life, he supported his family and Recent work Includes: Under the Kunde Tree
his education by writing short stories, mostly (*****Reviews Hub) at the Southwark Playhouse;
about contemporary Russian life. These included The Anarchist (****The Guardian, Offie Nominations
The Huntsman, The Lady with the Dog, Misery and for Best Director and Performance Ensemble) at
The Chameleon. He also trained and practiced as Jermyn Street Theatre; Boys Cry (****The Stage)
a physician often treating the poor free of charge. at Riverside Studios; Two Horsemen (****Reviews
He suffered from poor health for much of his life Hub) at Jermyn Street Theatre; Six Artists in Search
and was diagnosed with tuberculosis. A condition of a Play at the Almeida.
that led to his death in 1904. His writings have
influenced artists from all over the world and Ebenezer has also directed public third-year drama
continue to do so today. school productions at LAMDA and GSA.

Tom Stoppard Roma Farnell

Translator and Adaptor Designer
Tom Stoppard is an multi award-winning playwright Roma Farnell is in her final year of the BA (Hons)
and screenwriter. His plays include: Rosencrantz in Technical Theatre and Stage Management at
and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Inspector RADA, specialising in design and scenic art. Credits
Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, Dogg’s Our Pett, include: Scenic Artist, The Swell, dir. Hannah
New-Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, Hauer-King, des. Amy Jane Cook (Orange Tree
Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a Theatre, June 2023); Designer, Wild Cherries, dir.
play for actors and orchestra written with André Kristine Landon-Smith, assoc dir. Poppy Clifford
Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, (RADA, Mar 2023); Designer, Rapunzel and the
Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, The Coast Rascal Prince, dir. Colin Blumenau (The Production
of Utopia, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Hard Problem, and Exchange at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, Dec 2022);
Leopoldstadt. His translations include: The Seagull, Scenic Artist, Beauty and the Beast, des. Cleo
Henry IV, Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The House Of Pettitt (Watford Palace Theatre, Dec 2022);
Bernarda Alba and Largo Desolato. Scenic Artist, The Solid Life of Sugar Water, dir.
Indiana LownCollins, des. Ica Niemz (Orange Tree
His screenplays include: Anna Karenina, Despair, Theatre, Oct 2022); Scenic Artist, Dirty Dancing
The Romantic Englishwoman, The Human Factor, Secret Cinema (Watford Palace Theatre, Jul 2022);
Brazil, Empire of the Sun, The Russia House, Billy Assistant Designer/Scenic Artist, TONY! The Tony
Bathgate, Poodle Springs and Shakespeare in Love Blair Rock Opera, dir. Peter Rowe, des. Libby
(with Marc Norman). Television adaptations include: Watson (Park Theatre, Jun 2022); Scenic Artist,
Parade’s End (BBC/HBO), A Walk on the Water (from The Gift, dir. Jasmine Teo (RADA, Mar 2022);
Enter a Free Man), Three Men in a Boat and The Dog Designer, Kursk, dir. Philip Sheppard (RADA, Oct
It Was That Died. Original television screenplays 2021); Designer/Literary Adapter, Dr Faustus
include: Another Moon Called Earth, A Separate (Malvern Theatres, Sep. 2020).
Peace, Neutral Ground, Teeth and Professional Foul.
He has also written extensively for radio.
Biographies continued
Abraham Walkling-Lea
Lighting Designer
Abraham Walkling-Lea is currently in his third and
final year of RADA’s BA (Hons) in Technical Theatre
and Stage Management specialising in theatrical
lighting design and programming. Abraham enjoys
lighting for all different kinds of theatre including
immersive experiences and exhibitions, straight
plays including devised pieces and musicals. He
also works as a production electrician and works at
several venues including The Royal Albert Hall and
Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Previous lighting design credits include: Birdies

Adventures in the Animal Kingdom (Harrow Arts
Centre, Patch Plays, April 2022); The Effect (RADA,
October 2022); Blood on Your Hands (Cockpit
Theatre, Patch Plays, June 2022); Darkie Armo Girl
(Finborough Theatre, Where’s Betty Productions,
June 2022); RADA Technical Exhibition 2022 (RADA,
December 2021); Timon of Athens (RADA, April
2022); Bedfordshire Youth Opera Festival (August
2021); BLANK (National Theatre Connections,
June 2020); Son et Lumiere (RADA, February
2023); Rapunzel and the Rascal Prince (Sutton
Coldfield Hall, The Production Exchange, December
2022); Fatherhood (RADA, January 2023); The
Motherf**ker with the Hat (RADA, March 2023);
RAMBERT x RADA Dance Show 2023 (RADA, April
2023); Company, Associate Lighting Designer,
(RADA, May 2023); The Cherry Orchard (RADA,
June 2023).

Kacey Thurbon
Sound Designer
Kacey Thurbon is in her second year of RADA’s
FdA in Technical Theatre and Stage Management
specialiing in sound. This is the first time she has
designed sound for a show in the round. Some of
the elements she dealt with were to use classical
and instrumental music and to work out the best
speaker layout to evenly cover the GBS.

Sound work includes: Sound and Lighting Designer,

Running with Ghosts (Fringe show, August 2022);
Sound No 1, Wolves (RADA, September 2022);
Sound Designer and Sound No 1, MA Lab Works
(RADA, December 2022); Sound No 3, Company
(RADA, May 2022); Sound No 4, Jack and the Bean
Stalk (Hackney Empire, December 2022).
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Asde Audu Bankole Bermudez Brennan-Healy Delima

Charles Tae Patrick Louis Tiffany Vir

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