DIRECTION (MARCH 2024)

Evolution Festival will return to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in March 2024 for its eighth year, providing a platform and career launch pad for young theatre makers producing innovative work for stage and screen. Artists from previous years have gone on to create shows at the Lyric, Royal Court Theatre, the Vaults, Bunker Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Sheffield Theatres, and the Young Vic.

Presented by the LYRIC HAMMERSMITH THEATRE and UAL: WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ARTS.

25 - 28 March, 6pm | Rehearsal Room 2

EVOLUTION: LABS was set up in 2016 by YOUNG LYRIC and the BA THEATRE DESIGN course at UAL: WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ARTS as a much-needed collaborative opportunity for early career directors and designers to meet and co-create work. This year JORDI M. CARTER, PRASHANT TAILOR, MATILDA LIU and SEGEN YOSIFE will each direct re-lensed classic plays, respectively: THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, THE BIRDS, MINE EYES HAVE SEEN and CANDIDA. These re-workings are co-created with final year BA Theatre Design students from Wimbledon College of Arts; LEONAH ALEXANDER-JOSEPH, AMELIA KYRIACOU, JUNRU CHEN and DAHYE KIM.

CAST.

Khaya Williams (Khlestakov) DAMI ADEYEYE

Amara Jones (Osip) JESSICA ENEMOKWU

The Mayor PHOEBE CLEGHORN

The Judge (Lyapkin-Tyapkin) AGNES V. MORICZ

CREATIVES.

Director + Dramaturg JORDI M. CARTER

Lighting Design CAREY CHOMSOONTHORN

Producer ANNYS WHYATT

Photography MARTÍN DEL BUSTO

Set & Costume Design LEONAH ALEXANDER-JOSEPH

With thanks to ROB LEHMANN, ADRIAN GARDNER, LUCY ALGAR, GLEN NEATH, PAULA RIVAS, FREDDIE LIPPI, and the Production Teams at the LYRIC HAMMERSMITH and WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ARTS.