Women, Beware the Devil

9 - 12 Jul

By Lulu Raczka

Women, Beware the Devil

9 - 12 Jul

By Lulu Raczka

Director Hannah Eidinow
Movement and Intimacy Director Christina Fulcher
Set Designer Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Costume Designer Rhyannon Richardson
Lighting Designer Mark Dymock
Composer Sonum Batra

You understand then
Why I have to do everything I can
Everything possible
To protect this house
And you understand
Don’t you
What that means for you?

England, 1640. War is brewing. Rumours are flying. A household is in crisis… and the Devil is having some fun. When Elizabeth’s ancestral home comes under threat, she elicits the help of Agnes, a stable girl suspected of witchcraft. But Agnes has dark dreams of her own for this house.

Performed by members of our MA Acting cohort, Women, Beware the Devil is a deadly play of treachery and trickery by The Sunday Times Playwriting Award-winner Lulu Raczka.

Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes, including a 15-minute interval

This production features strobe lighting, haze, scenes of a sexual nature, incest, physical and sexual violence, self harm, threat, discrimination, gunshot sound effects and weaponry.

Booking Info

Dates

Wed 9 Jul, 7:30pm 
Thu 10 Jul, 7:30pm
Fri 11 Jul, 7:30pm
Sat 12 Jul, 2:30pm
Sat 12 Jul, 7:30pm

Prices
Standard £18
Concessions (Mountview alumni/access/under 18/student/unemployed)* £13.50
Southwark Presents Cardholder £12
Venue

The Backstage Theatre, 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 Booking

If you are an agent, casting director or industry colleague looking to view this production, please contact Neil Rutherford - [email protected]

Access and Concessions Bookings

*Please bring proof of ID when purchasing concession tickets. Access tickets are charged at the concession rate. Audience members who require a companion ticket can book this by contacting the box office team on [email protected] or 020 8881 2201.

Hannah Eidinow

Director

Hannah is an award-winning director including five Scotsman Fringe First Awards, and most recently directing the winning play for the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing 2024.

Her work has toured the UK and internationally including the Brits off-Broadway Season, New York with Playing with Grown Ups by Hannah Patterson and A British Subject by Nichola McAuliffe.

Credits include: An Instinct for Kindness (UK tour/Trafalgar Studios/LitLive, the Mumbai LitFest/Argus Angel Award, nominated for Best Solo Performance Whatsonstage Awards), The Lady from the Sea, a new version by Frank McGuinness (Arcola/BBC Radio 3). Hannah trained at LAMDA.

Christina Fulcher

Movement and Intimacy Director

Christina is a movement director and certified intimacy director/coordinator (Bectu IC Registry).

She holds an MFA in Movement Directing and Teaching from RCSSD. She is a senior lecturer at LAMDA and Leeds Conservatoire.

Her credits include work with the BBC, Royal Opera House, English Theatre Frankfurt, Park Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, and the West End.

Mountview productions: Spring Awakening, The Watsons, Serious Money, and The Grain Store.

Full credits: linktr.ee/fulchermovement | @FulcherMovement

Mark Dymock

Lighting Designer

Mark’s credits include: Once, Clybourne Park and Betty Blue Eyes (first national tours), Tony! Tony Blair the Rock Opera (Harry Hill and Stephen Brown), Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Mast Mayflower Made), The Standard Short Long Drop (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design - The Vanguard, Camden), Ken (Terry Johnson and Hampstead), House and Garden (The Watermill), Return to the Forbidden Planet (25th Anniversary tour), Don’t Look Now (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design - Queen’s Theatre), Michael Morpurgo’s Butterfly Lion (Kenwright), Dell Computers Gala (Buenos Aires), The Full Monty, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oliver! (Bermuda City Hall), working with Willy Russell on Educating Rita and Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse), Shirley Valentine (Royal Court Liverpool), Pride and Prejudice, Farm Boy, The Hired Man and Kissing Sid James (New York E59).

Sonum Batra

Composer

Sonum is a Yorkshire-based musical director, composer and sound designer.

Credits as MD/pianist include: Guts! The Musical (Hull Truck Theatre, upcoming), Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty (Cast), Pinocchio, 71 Coltman Street and The Railway Children (Hull Truck), Spring and Port Wine (Bolton Octagon), Just an Ordinary Lawyer (Leeds University/Hull Truck), Aladdin (Buxton Opera House), Dick Whittington (Grange Theatre), Bring on the Bollywood (Belgrade Theatre), His Indian Boyfriend and Kat in Kixx (Theatre Royal Stratford East), John and Jen (Rosemary Branch), Swallows and Amazons (Bristol Old Vic), They’re Playing Our Song (Catford Broadway).

Credits as Composer and Sound Designer include: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Blue Stockings (Mountview), Jennie Lee and Red Sky at Night (Mikron Theatre), Lumbejills (Capitol Theatre), Ladies Unleashed (Hull Truck), Animalis Carnivale (Roehampton University), Favour (Bush Theatre), Arabian Nights (Hoxton Hall), Relativity (Finborough Theatre), Not the End of the World (Edinburgh Fringe), Rare Dreams and Persona (Youth Music Theatre UK) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warhorse Theatre Works).

Women, Beware the Devil Creatives

Fight Choreographer
Marcello Marascalchi

Movement Support
Yasmine Irian-Angeni

Voice Coach
Jessica Hammet

Assistant Director
Ophelia Fellhauer *

Production Manager
Naomi Wildridge

Costume Supervisor
Kate Page

* MA Theatre Directing student

Women, Beware the Devil Crew

Stage Manager
Ella-Laya Ponter ¤ (she/her)

Deputy Stage Manager
Audrey Camberlin ¤ (she/her)

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Managers
Myah Morris-Drake
Abbie Kell
Freddie Outhwaite ¤

Assistant Stage Managers
Lyra Winter ¤ (she/her)
Oli Fuller (they/he)

Production Electrician
Jack Goodwin

LX Programmer & Operator
Carlos Quitumbo ¤

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Painters
Scarlett Fraser
Alex Holl
Amy Kennington

¤ Dip/FdA/BA Stage Management/Technical Production student

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