Emma
“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”
The beautiful, high-spirited Emma Woodhouse is determined that she will never marry but loves to meddle in her friends and neighbours’ relationships. When her confidante and former governess, Miss Taylor weds her fiancé Mr Weston, Emma, having introduced the couple, takes credit for the marriage and decides that a future in matchmaking lies ahead of her.
So begins a comic journey through the lives and loves of Emma’s acquaintances but as the romantic web she weaves amongst her friends becomes ever more entangled, will Emma herself get swept up in true love’s wake…?
Jane Austen’s enduring comedy of manners is filled with memorable characters – the dashing Mr Knightley, Emma’s friends Jane Fairfax and Harriet Smith, the mercenary Reverend Elton and his delightfully pretentious wife Augusta. This delightful new stage adaptation celebrates the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen‘s birth.
Venue
Presented by
Theatre Royal Bath Productions
Written by
Jane Austen
Adapted by
Ryan Craig
Directed by
Stephen Unwin
Price
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Access Performances
Audio Described: Sat 4 Oct at 2.30pm
A Free Touch Tour is available to book at 1pm before the Audio Described performances.
Captioned: Wed 1 Oct at 7.30pm
Age Guidance
10+
Please note, no under 5s will be admitted to the auditorium.
Cast
India Shaw-Smith
India trained at LAMDA and has worked across theatre, film and television.
Theatre credits include: Eddie & the Slumber Sisters (National Theatre of Scotland), Run At It In The Countryside written/directed by Mark Ravenhill and a series of notable plays in Vancouver, including The Pillowman and Gruesome Playground Injuries (Untold Wants Theatre Inc.).
Film credits include: the upcoming indie feature The Pines Still Whisper (Jamie Knox)
Television credits include: Vanity Fair (ITV), Supernatural (CW), and Andor S2 (Disney/Lucasfilm). Most recently, she stars as series regular Viridia in Spartacus: The House of Ashur, premiering this autumn on STARZ.
India is thrilled to be making her English theatre debut in the title role of Emma.
Ed Sayer
Ed‘s recent work includes Midwinter Break directed by by Polly Findlay.
On stage, Ed was most recently seen in the RSC’s new production of Cymbeline where he plays Posthumus.
Screen credits include: Toast of Tinseltown, Pennyworth and The Crown.
William Chubb
Theatre credits include: Uncle Vanya (Orange Tree); Farm Hall (Tour); The Tempest (Deborah Warner, Bath), The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Chichester), Witness For The Prosecution (County Hall, London), Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), This House (National Tour), Racing Demon (Bath), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, (Old Vic), King Lear (Old Vic), In The Depths of Dead Love (The Print Room), Lawrence After Arabia (Hampstead), Waste, Great Britain, Othello, Scenes from an Execution (National Theatre), Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Vortex, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Love’s Labours Lost (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Yes Prime Minister (Chichester/Gielgud Theatre), The History Boys (National Theatre) and The Sea (Theatre Royal Haymarket).
Television credits include: Amadeus, Lord of the Rings, Pistol, Vampire Academy, Sandman, Miracle Workers 2: Dark Ages, Quiz, Close to the Enemy, My Baby, Breathless, Edge of Heaven, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Law and Order, Silk, House of Cards
Film credits include: H Is For Hawk, Empire of Light, A Week in Paradise, The Chippie, 6 Days, Adrift in Soho, Veer, Affair of the Necklace, Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War, Milk, The Woodlanders.
Maiya Louise Thapar
Maiya has recently graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
In her final year, Maiya took on the roles of Charlotte Cary in The Welkin and Kathryn in Splendour. She is excited to be joining the terrific cast of Emma as her first professional engagement.
Oscar Batterham
Theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); Noises Off! (West End); The Egyptians (Gulbenkian); Richard III; All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC) Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End); The Suppliant Women (Young Vic/ UK tour); 1984, The Whale; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The One That Got Away (Theatre Royal Bath); Skylight (Theatr Clwyd); Stella (Brighton Theatre Royal/LIFT); The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre, Kingston).
Television credits include: The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky); The Saints (eOne); The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky/Clerkenwell Films); Truelove (Channel 4); A Spy Among Friends (ITV); Obsession (Moonpage Pictures/Netflix).
Radio credits include: Pericles, Stranded 2, Unit: Nemesis (BBC); Persuasion (Audible)
Daniel Rainford
Daniel is a Royal Central School of Speech & Drama trained performer and alumni of The Nottingham Television Workshop.
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (West End); Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street Theatre); Noises Off (Birmingham Rep & UK Tour); Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Derby Theatre); Surfacing (The Vaults); When Darkness Falls (UK Tour); Private Peaceful (Nottingham Playhouse); Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida Theatre); Horseshoes for Hand Grenades (East Riding Theatre) and Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem (Old Red Lion).
Television credits include: Doctors (BBC).
Film credits include: The Batman (Warner Bros) and Cost of Living (Rhyming Films).
Radio includes: QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE (BBC Radio 4); A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE (BBC Radio 4)
Peter Losasso
Theatre credits include: The Comedy of Errors and A Company of Rascals (Yvonne Arnaud); The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); Mrs Warren’s Profession (Theatre Royal, Bath & UK Tour); Wendy & Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); Fighting Irish (Belgrade Theatre); The Wipers Times (Watermill Theatre, UK Tour & West End); Trial by Laughter (Watermill Theatre & UK Tour); Anguis (Bunker & Gilded Balloon), Romeo & Juliet and Twelfth Night (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival).
TV credits include: Seven Dials Mystery (Netflix), Passchendaele 100 (BBC), Tracy Beaker Returns (BBC) and Parents of the Band (BBC).
On graduating from LAMDA, Peter won the Spotlight Prize 2016. He also works as a Movement Practitioner, teaching at RADA and movement directing professionally.
Jade Kennedy
Jade trained at Mountview.
Theatre credits include: Little Women (UK Tour), Rebus: A Game Called Malice (UK Tour), Fun Home (Gate Theatre, Dublin), Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (Kenny Wax Productions – Original Cast and album), The Snow Queen (Brighton Open Air Theatre) and Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre – West End).
Workshop credits include: Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Parent Agency (Scenario Two) and Gin Craze (Royal and Derngate Theatre).
TV credits include: Four episodes of Winter Palace (Netflix) and Gundi (Objective Fiction).
Rose Quentin
Rose trained at the London School of Musical Theatre, and graduated in 2019.
Theatre credits include: Infamous (Jerymn Street Theatre); Mrs Warren’s Profession (Bath Theatre Royal, National Tour); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (National Tour, Tilted Wig); Grand Hotel (Bridewell Theatre) and Peter Pan (Northcott Theatre).
Other Film/TV credits include: The York Witches Society (Film); Jules (Short Film); Doc Martin (ITV) and Doctors (BBC)
Radio credits include: Harry’s Home (Soundhouse studios) and The Chronicles of Wild Hollow (Shouting is Funny).
Directing credits include: Curtain Up! (Albany Theatre) and Call Me By My Name (Apple Cart Theatre).
Creative Team
Director
Stephen Unwin
Stephen Unwin
Set & Costume Designer
Ceci Calf
Ceci Calf
Lighting Designer
Ben Ormerod
Ben Ormerod
Sound Designer
John Leonard
John Leonard
John Leonard started work in theatre sound 46 years ago, during which time he has provided soundtracks for theatres all over the world.. His most recent theatre includes: Song At Twilight, at Bath Theatre Royal & UK Tour, Eden at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs; Sleeping Beauty at The Theatre Royal, Stratford East; Corrido – A Ballad for The Brave at The Victoria & Albert Museum; Mood Music at The Old Vic; Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Bristol Old Vic, West-End, New York & Los Angeles; My Name Is Lucy Barton at The Bridge Theatre; Present Laughter and In Praise of Love at Bath Theatre Royal & Ustinov Studio & The Real Thing for Bath Theatre on Tour; The Stepmother at The Minerva Theatre, Chichester; The Retreat, Beirut and The Other Place at The Park Theatre; All Our Children, at the Jermyn Street Theatre; Duet For One, U.K. Tour; Consent, Waste, Detroit, Grief, Untold Stories-Cocktail Sticks, 2000 Years, England People Very Nice, Much Ado About Nothing, and London Assurance at the National Theatre; Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe; The Dark Earth and The Light Sky, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf and Ghosts (also West End and New York) at the Almeida; Into The Woods at The Royal Exchange, Manchester; The BFG at Birmingham Rep; Birthday and Tribes at The Royal Court; Prism, Cell Mates, The Firm, Mother Christmas, Stevie, Farewell To The Theatre, Lawrence After Arabia, Ken and Mr. Foote’s Other Leg (also West End) at Hampstead; Consent, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Libertine, Dead Funny, Hand To God, The Duck House, Just Jim Dale, Firebird and McQueen (West End)
He has written an acclaimed guide to theatre sound, is the recipient of Drama Desk, LDI Sound Designer Of The Year and USITT Distinguished Career Awards and is a Fellow of The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a Companion of The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and an Honorary Fellow of The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Casting Director
Ginny Schiller CDG
Ginny Schiller CDG
Ginny has been an in-house casting director for the RSC, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, ETT and Soho Theatre and has worked closely with Bath Theatre Royal and Ustinov Studio for over a decade. She has cast extensively for the West End and touring circuit as well as for the Almeida, Arcola, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, Cambridge Arts, Charing Cross Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cyrmu, Frantic Assembly, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, Jermyn Street, Leicester Curve, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Menier Chocolate Factory, Northampton Royal & Derngate, Nottingham Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Drum, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible, Traverse Edinburgh, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wilton’s Music Hall, Young Vic and Yvonne Arnaud Guildford.
Recent credits include: As You Like It (Theatre Royal Bath); The Deep Blue Sea, The Score and A View from the Bridge (Theatre Royal Bath/Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse/The Ambassador’s Theatre); Noises Off (Tour/Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Starry Messenger (Wyndhams); 4000 Miles, The Other Boleyn Girl, Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Tour).
Associate Director
Millie Gaston
Millie Gaston
Choreographer
Natasha Harrison
Natasha Harrison
Natasha Harrison trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, before completing her MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching, graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Movement & Choreography credits include: Pimpinone (Royal Ballet & Opera); The Real Thing (Associate – Old Vic); Peanut Butter & Blueberries (The Kiln) When it happens to you; Hir (Park Theatre); The Bolds (Unicorn Theatre); Good Enough Mums Club (UK Tour); Ride (Leicester Curve and Southwark Playhouse); Linck & Mülhahn (Hampstead Theatre); Lord of the Flies (Leeds Playhouse) Ride (Charing Cross Theatre); Girl From The North Country (UK Tour); The Bolds (Unicorn Theatre); One Jewish Boy (Trafalgar Studios); A Single Man, Whodunnit Unrehearsed, Whodunnit Unrehearsed 2, La Cage Aux Folles, Building The Wall (Park Theatre) A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre); One Jewish Boy (Trafalgar Studios); Mold Riots (Theatr Clwyd); Macbeth (Associate Movement Director) (Manchester Royal Exchange); Shakespeare Nation, Julius Caesar: First Encounters (RSC); The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton’s Music Hall); Rocky Road (Jermyn Street Theatre); Handbagged (Salisbury Playhouse); Not Such Quiet Girls (Leeds Playhouse/Opera North); Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood (CAST Doncaster); Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre); Wasted, Dear Brutus, The Cardinal (Southwark Playhouse); A game of Love and Chance (Arcola Theatre); Shed Crew, Leeds Lads, The Damned United, The Life and Soul (Red Ladder); The Cardinal, Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse); Ode to Leeds, Blackthorn, Zoetrope, Into the Woods (asst) (Leeds Playhouse). Tiny Dynamite (Old Red Lion); The Crucible (Royal and Derngate); Yokes Night (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Twist (Theatre Centre UK Tour); Tumulus (Soho Theatre); Hunger (Arcola Theatre); This Land R&D (Plymouth Theatre Royal)
Composer
Matthew Scott
Matthew Scott
Matthew Scott is the composer for the Theatre Royal Bath and UK Tour of Emma.
Costume Supervisor
Heather Leat
Heather Leat
Heather Leat is the costume supervisor for the Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour of Emma.
Props Supervisor
Katie Balmforth
Katie Balmforth
Katie Balmforth is the props supervisor for the Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour of Emma.