October 2017 – Through the Streets of Shoreditch
Twistov was a theatrical adventure through the streets and back-alleys of Shoreditch in association with Dash Arts.
A young migrant, Twistov, has gone missing in London. Inspired by Charles Dickens’ OLIVER TWIST and the experience of migrant communities currently living in UK cities, TWISTOV explored identity and home and who we become if both are taken away from us.
Twistov started at RICH MIX and was staged in and around Shoreditch, the heart of Dickens’ East End, where faint traces of the past remain visible. Over the performance, TWISTOV took the audience on a journey that asks us to see beyond the new buildings and trendy shops, to look down side streets and in doorways and meet another London. Here we faced our own sense of home and identity: what would we do and where would we run, if these were our stories?
Twistov was made possible with the generous support of Cockayne – Grants for the Arts; London Community Foundation; Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation; Tower Hamlets Event Fund; Big Lottery Fund, Near Neighbours Funds; Unity Theatre Trust; Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust; ACE – Grants for the Arts.
TWISTOV CAST:
Kas Darley
Charlie Folorunsho
Malcolm Freeman
Noemi Gunea
Zed Josef
Vlada Lemeshevska
Natasha Magigi
Ryan Moore
Dato Papava
ADDITIONAL CAST /CREW FROM SOMERSET HOUSE VERSION:
Sarah Finigan
Ammar Haj Ahmad
Miry Mayer
Anthony Ofoegbu
Iante Roach
Mark Stevenson
Alice Terekhova
Production Assistants – Amy Borsuk, Molly Burcham
CHORUS:
The Mother Birds of Europe
Steve Cox
Yana Fialkova
Miguel Hernando
James McGraw
Susie New
Mark Newman
Iante Roach
Jackie Withnall
Anthea Wormington
CREATIVE TEAM:
Sophie Austin – Director
Michael Wagg – Writer
Bryan Woltjen – Designer
Miguel Hernando – Movement Director
Molly Leigh-Moy – Assistant Director
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Barbra Egervary – Production Manager
Catherine Cooper – Stage Manager
Mark Stevenson – Producer
Annette Corbett – Assistant Producer
Sherry Neyhus — Producer, Dash Arts
Oriana Newman – Production Assistant
TWISTOV started as a love letter to London, inspired by Oliver Twist. It remains so
but has become much more than that thanks to the people we’ve met along the
way. Over four years we have talked, played, debated and explored with
so many remarkable people, who have given their time to share their own stories,
their insights and experiences of arriving and surviving in this city. It is now also a
love letter to them. They are:
Aiste Gramantaite
Alex Reynolds
Prof. Algirdas Pakštas
Alice Terekhova
Ammar Haj Ahmad
Amy Borsuk
AnaMaria Burduli
Angela Legg
Anna Lukanina
Anna Meabishvili
Dr. Anna Pechurina
Anna Rys
Anthony Ofoegbu
Asem Koshkarbaeva
Beth Flintoff
Bill Keenan
Chris Williams
Darya Malyntiva
David Sulkin
Elena Liutkute
Erin Hunter
Fiona Whitelaw
Ingo Raudkivi
Dr. Ivan Gololobov
Jamie Hind
Jelena Ponomarjova
Jeremy James
John Seaward
Kate Beswick
Katie Battcock
Krystina Shveda
Leonard
Lucy Howell
Maeve Scullion
Marina Burina
Marsha Turner
Martin Burns
Milena Dijarova
Miry Mayer
Molly Burcham
Molodyi Teatr
Olga Petrouchenko
Rafael Ferenc
Ray Bishop
Sarah Finigan
Sergei Ostrovsky
Sylvie More
Val Matthis
Viktoriya Nartey
Yuldosh Juraboev
THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS, VENUES & ORGANISATIONS:
Rich Mix; Dirty Bones; Deb and Darron from Maurice’s Fabrics (Chorus costumes);
Jack MIddleton (Set Dressing); Mamalan; Spitalfields Housing Association; Jo
Tyabji & all her housemates; St John on Bethnal Green; The Lyric Hammersmith;
The Tricycle Theatre; The Albany; Greenwich & Lewisham Young People’s
Theatre; Somerset House; Pushkin House; Penned in the Margins, Dana Morton,
Alivia Cross, Dylan Greer, Indigo Shoreditch, The Roving Cafe, Danny O’Doherty
And especially Damian, Charlie, Hayley, Jimmy, Salim, and all at the Nomadic
Community Gardens