Mother Clap's Molly House

23 - 26 Jun

By Mark Ravenhill | Music by Matthew Scott

Mother Clap's Molly House

23 - 26 Jun

Director Philip Engleheart
Musical Director David Keefe
Movement Director Emily Holt
Set and Costume Designer Dora Schweitzer
Lighting Designer Mark Dymock
Sound Designer
Michael Livermore

Skipping between an 18th century Molly house and a group of men planning a raunchy party in 21st century Shoreditch, Mother Clap’s Molly House is a riotous celebration of the diversity of human sexuality, and a comment on the commodification of sex and love.

Performed by Mountview’s Third Year BA Performance – Musical Theatre students.

The play was first performed at the National’s Lyttleton Theatre on the 4th September 2001 and at the Aldwych Theatre on the 8th February 2002. The play was commissioned and presented in a workshop production by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in February 2000.

We don’t want to give away any spoilers for a show, but understand that some content may cause distress for audiences. If there are certain themes or content that you would find particularly upsetting, we encourage you to contact us before viewing to find out more about the show – please email boxoffice@mountview.org.uk

Mother Clap’s Molly House contains strong language, sexual content (including non-consensual activity), drugs, abortion and discrimination. Flashing light effects will be used.

Duration: 120 mins, plus a 20-minute interval

Show programme

Download a printable copy of the show programme (1.6mb)

Booking Info

Dates

Closed performances for academic assessment:
Wed 23 – Sat 26 June

Venue

Backstage Theatre, Mountview

To Book

If you are an agent, casting director or industry colleague looking to view this production, please contact Neil Rutherford, Industry Liaison Manager - neilrutherford@mountview.org.uk

Philip Engleheart

Philip is an artistic associate at Mountview where he directed the musical Ruthless and designed Romeo and Juliet directed by Stephen Jameson and was involved in the development of the interiors for the new Peckham site.

He is a muliti-disciplinary theatre practitioner having worked as an actor, director and predominantly as a designer.

His work covers a broad range of genres including Devised theatre, Forum theatre, New writing, Puppetry, Mask and Musicals.

He is a visiting practitioner at LAMDA, Central School of Speech and Drama and the Royal College of Music.

David Keefe

David is currently Children’s MD on Matilda the Musical.

Credits as MD include Love is Only Love (The Other Palace), The Magic Flute (Soho Theatre), Tin (Miracle Theatre) and UK premieres of Thrill Me and A Catered Affair.

Other credits include: Street Scene and The Human Comedy (Young Vic), The Woman in White (Charing Cross Theatre), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour) and Salad Days (Riverside Studios) as well as many education projects for the ROH, Holland Park and ETO.

Emily Holt

Movement Director

Movement/choreography credits include: A Christmas Carol-ish (Soho), The Kitchen Sink (Queens Theatre), Jack and the Beanstalk/Dick Whittington (Yvonne Arnold), The Suicide (Story House), The Entertainer (Curve Theatre/UK tour), The Wipers Times/Trial by Laughter (The Watermill/UK tour/Arts Theatre London), The Little Beasts (The Other Palace), Mr Swallow-Houdini/MrSwallow-Dracula! (Soho Theatre/Pleasance), Tolkien (feature film, Fox Searchlight), Let the Right One In, Merrily We Roll Along, Bare, Spring Awakening, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret (LAMDA) and Mother Clap’s Molly House (Mountview).

Dora Schweitzer

Dora trained on the Motley Theatre Design Course and has designed over 90 productions. These include the premieres of two plays written by Ian Hislop: The Wipers Times (Watermill/The Arts Leicester Square/tour) and Trial by Laughter (Watermill/national tour). Most recently she designed Stiletto Beach in rep with So Here We Are (Queens, Hornchurch). Dora designed the sets and costumes for the first five tours and West End transfer of Jenny Eclair’s Grumpy Old Women Live(Avalon).

Mark Dymock

Lighting Designer

Credits include: TONY! Tony Blair the Rock Opera (Leicester Square Theatre), Once (first national tour), Clybourne Park (first national tour), Return to the Forbidden Planet (25th Anniversary tour), Don’t Look Now (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design – Queen’s Theatre), Betty Blue Eyes (first national tour), Ken (Terry Johnson and Hampstead), House and Garden (Watermill Theatre), Michael Morpurgo’s Butterfly Lion (Kenwright), Dell Computers Gala (Buenos Aires), The Full Monty, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oliver!, (Bermuda City Hall), working with Willy Russell on Educating Rita, Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse) and Shirley Valentine (Royal Court Liverpool), Farm Boy, The Hired Man, Kissing Sid James (New York E59).

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Michael Livermore

Recent credits include Murder for Two, Into the Woods, Sister Act, Hands on a Hard Body, Anne Frank, The Baker’s Wife, Tipping the Velvet, Blood Brothers and A Chorus Line.

Michael composed the original music score for a production of Tory Boys by James Graham in London’s West End.

As a former Director of Production Arts at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in Wood Green, Michael is very pleased to be returning as a sound designer.