The Grain Store

1 - 5 Aug

By Natal’ia Vorozhbit | Translated by Sasha Dugdale | Directed by Oscar Toeman

The Grain Store

1 - 5 Aug

Directed by Oscar Toeman
Set and Costume Design by Nicolai Hart
Lighting Design by Alex Musgrave
Sound Design by Ollie Brennan

In all my life I’ve never seen such a stubborn crowd. Will they ever believe? This is Pravda here. ‘The Truth’! 

Ukraine,1929. As Stalin launches the first of his Five-Year Plans, a close-knit rural community stands unwittingly in the path of his drive to create a thriving socialist Soviet Union. The outcome is catastrophic. Commissioned and premiered by The Royal Shakespeare Company in 2009, this extraordinary play by Ukrainian writer Natal’ia Vorozhbit tackles this often-forgotten story with intelligence and passion.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

Duration: 2 hours and 50 minutes including a 20-minute interval

This play features strobe lighting, haze, gunshot sound effects, depictions of starvation, scenes of violence and death, references to suicide and offensive language.

Booking Info

Dates

Tuesday 1 August, 7.30pm
Wednesday 2 August, 7.30pm
Thursday 3 August, 7.30pm
Friday 4 August, 7.30pm
Saturday 5 August, 2.30pm
Saturday 5 August, 7.30pm

Prices
Standard £18
Concessions (under 18/student/over 65) £12
Southwark Presents Cardholder £10
Venue

The Mack, Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JT

To Book

020 8881 2201
Our box office hours are currently Monday-Friday 9am-8pm and Saturday 9am-3pm. Online booking is 24 hours, but phone and in-person bookings should be made within these times. Tickets are booked subject to Mountview's terms and conditions.

Industry Bookings

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

Oscar Toeman

Director

Oscar trained on the NT Studio Directors Course, is a Lincoln Centre Directors Lab alumni, and a winner of an MGC Futures Bursary.

He was awarded the JMK Runner’s Up Prize for his production of The Sugar Syndrome at the Orange Tree, and is an Associate Artist of NYT.

Productions as Director include: The Misfortune of the English, The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree), Actually (Trafalgar Studios), After October, Laburnum Grove (Finborough).

As Associate/Staff/Assistant Director, productions include: Oslo (NT/West End), Waste (NT), The Merchant of Venice (RSC) and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe/West End).

Nicolai Hart-Hansen

Set & Costume Designer

Nicolai’s selected work includes: Last Shelter (Candoco), Mugabe, My Dad and Me (ETT), Counting Sheep (Belarus Free Theatre), Vincent River (Trafalgar Studios), Demons (Splitmoon), In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, The Knowledge (Charing Cross), La Traviata (Switzerland), The Window (Rambert), The Pulverised, In the Jungle of Cities (Arcola), Cock/Bull (Denmark), Exodus (Dane Hurst Company), Vestige/it’s not me (Voxed), Lilly of the Valley (ROH2), Nordost (Salisbury), Playing the Victim (Royal Court Theatre), Private Fears in Public Places (Northampton), Watership Down (Lyric Hammersmith), Medea (New York), Winter Under the Table, Habe Kein Angst (Copenhagen).

Nicolai is represented by Rachel Daniels at berlinassociates.com.

Alex Musgrave

Lighting Designer

Alex has been nominated for an Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design for You are Here (Southwark Playhouse).

Alex was the recipient of the Association of Lighting Designers Lumiere Scheme.

Most recent design work includes: Home (Chichester Festival Theatre), The White Factory (Marylebone Theare), Private Lives (The Barn Theatre, Cirencester), The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), Rapunzel (Watermill Theatre), Anyone Can Whistle and You Are Here (Southwark Playhouse), Oppenheimer (Mountview), King Charles III and Let The Right One In (ArtsEd).

The Grain Store Creatives

Musical Director
Bianca Fung**

Sound Designer
Ollie Brennan

Movement Support
Christina Fulcher

Fight Choreographer
Marcello Marascalchi

Voice Coach
Matthew Harrison

Intimacy Coordinator
Steve Brownlie

** MA Musical Directing student

The Grain Store Crew

Production Managers
Davin Patrick
Cory Duffill

Costume Supervisor
Alice Basaral

Stage Manager
Ryan Mulgrew† (he/him)

Deputy Stage Manager
Tessa Alderton† (she/her)

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager
Sean Anthony† (they/them)

Assistant Stage Manager
Elysia Beaumont† (they/she)

Production Electrician
Hayde Camidge†

Production Programmer
Yann Rigotti†

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Lead Scenic Artist
Leonie Elliott‡

† Theatre Production Arts student
‡ Scenic Art and Prop Making student