Malcolm Rippeth

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CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS

HIS DARK MATERIALS PART 1 & 2 – Birmingham Rep, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh
EDWARD GANT’S AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS – Headlong, Steve Marmion

BRIEF ENCOUNTER – Kneehigh at Cinema Haymarket, previously Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse with David Pugh, forthcoming UK Tour, dir Emma Rice
DON JOHN - Kneehigh and Royal Shakespeare Company co-production, dir Emma Rice
CALENDAR GIRLS - Chichester Festival Theatre/ David Pugh Ltd tour, Hamish McColl

THE BLOODY CHAMBER - Northern Stage, director Neil Murray

MARY ROSE - The Royal Lyceum, Director Tony Cownie

MaETERNAL - BalletLORENT at Northern Stage, choreographer Liv Lorent
DESIGNER BODY- balletLORENT tour, choreographer Liv Lorent

MOST RECENT THEATRE PRODUCTIONS include
For West Yorkshire Playhouse: THE GROUCH (director Sarah Esdaile) and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (director Gail McIntyre
For the Theatre Royal, Northampton: JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and STARSEEKER – both directed by Dani Parr
For English Touring Theatre: HAMLET (& transfer to the New Ambassadors), SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES and MOTHER COURAGE – all directed by Stephen Unwin
and:
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR - Chichester Festival and Headlong Theatre Company co-production, transferring to Gielgud Theatre, director Rupert Goold

CYMBELINE – Kneehigh Theatre Company on tour in South America and previously on UK tour including RSC Swan/WYP, director Emma Rice
KAFKA’S DICK – Watford Palace Theatre, director Sarah Esdaile
FAUSTUS – Headlong Theatre UK tour, and previously at Hampstead Theatre, original director Rupert Goold, revival directed by Steve Marmion
TUTTI FRUTTI – National Theatre of Scotland 2007, director Tony Cownie
TRANCE – Bush Theatre, directors Shoji Kokami and Sarah Chew
CYRANO DE BERGERAC – Bristol Old Vic, director Simon Reade
MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION – Edinburgh Lyceum & Nottingham Playhouse
- director Tony Cownie
MONKEY – Dundee Rep, director Dominic Hill

 

MOST RECENT OPERA, MUSICAL AND DANCE WORK includes

THE GYMNAST – a new devised dance piece, Edinburgh Festival, co-directors Jane Arnfield and Nigel Charnock

CARMEN JONES – Royal Festival Hall, director Jude Kelly

SEVEN DEADLY SINS – Welsh National Opera & Diversions Dance co-production - choreographed by Roy Campbell-Moore

THE PHILOSOPHERS’ STONE – Garsington Opera, director John Cox

and: ANGELMOTH, La NUIT INTIME, La VIE DES FANTASMES EROTIQUES ET ESTHETIQUES for balletORENT on UK tour, choreographer Liv Lorent

Other work for KNEEHIGH includes
NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS – Lyric Hammersmith/Kneehigh tour, director Emma Rice
THE BACCHAE – Kneehigh/West Yorkshire Playhouse, UK tour and Lyric Hammersmith
- director Emma Rice, Winner of the TMA Award for Best Touring production 2005
ANTIGONE AT HELL’S MOUTH –Kneehigh Theatre/NYT at Soho Theatre, Mike Shepherd
PANDORA’S BOX – Kneehigh co-production with Northern Stage on UK tour - directed by
Emma Rice and Neil Murray

Other work at WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE
SCUFFER (Courtyard Theatre, Alex Chisholm); THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (Quarry, Ian Brown); VODOU NATION (UK tour, Geraldine Connor & Brett Bailey); HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (WYP/Northern Stage/Teatre Romea co-production playing at WYP, Newcastle Playhouse, Paris and Barcelona, dir Josep Galindo); MEDEA and OFF CAMERA (Courtyard and Femi Elufowoju Jnr).

Other work for ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE
ROMEO AND JULIET (& Hong Kong Arts Festival, Stephen Unwin) and JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN (co-designer Ben Ormerod, dir Stephen Unwin) and ANTON CHEKHON (Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal & Oxford Playhouse, Michael Pennington). Malcolm was also associate lighting designer on THE YORK REALIST for ETT and The Royal Court in the West End.

 

Other work for NORTHERN STAGE includes
THE LITTLE PRINCE, GREAT EXPECTATIONS(and Greenwich); KAPUT! (at Live Theatre, Newcastle) CINZANO & SMIRNOVA’S BIRTHDAY and THE SNOW QUEEN and THE TIGER’S BRIDE - all directed /designed by Neil Murray; NOIR (Northern Stage & Live Theatre at Newcastle Playhouse, Max Roberts).

 

Other work for LIVE THEATRE NEWCASTLE includes
A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN ELDON SQUARE and LUSH LIFE (both Max Roberts) and THE
LOVERS; OUR KIND OF FUN; TOAST and DIRTY NETS (all Jeremy Herrin); CHARLIE’S TROUSERS, COOKING WITH ELVIS and KEEPERS OF THE FLAME - RSC/Live Theatre co-prod, all directed by Max Roberts

 

Other THEATRE WORK includes
HAY FEVER and MACBETH (York Theatre Royal, both Damian Cruden), DICK WHITTINGTON (Theatr Clwyd, Peter Rowe); WOODY ALLEN’S MURDER MYSTERIES (I’m a Camera,Croydon Warehouse, Janey Clarke); COELACANTH (Pleasance Edinburgh, Erica Whyman); LITTLE SWEET THING (Birmingham Rep/Nottingham Playhouse/Ipswich Wolsey, Michael Buffong); BLACK COCKTAIL (Pleasance Edinburgh, Erica Whyman); BILL SHAKESPEARE’S ITALIAN JOB (Cooperesque at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh, Malachi Bogdanov); DEALER’S CHOICE (Salisbury Playhouse Studio, Femi Elufowoju Jnr); FOYER (Leicester Haymarket, Richard Gregory); BOB DOWNE – BRIGHTER! WHITER! (Karushi at Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh & UK tour); BINTOU (Arcola Theatre, Sacha Wares); THE SELFISH GIANT (Gulbenkian Studio Newcastle and then Leicester Haymarket Studio, Annie Wood); A BILLION SECONDS (Strathcona Theatre Company on UK tour, Ann Cleary); ABYSSINIA (Tiata Fahodzi UK tour, Femi Elufowoju Jnr); THREE WISHES (Karushi at Pleasance Edinburgh, Erica Whyman); THE GHOST OF GARCIA LORCA (Foolsyard at Gulbenkian Studio Newcastle and N/E tour, Paul Phillips); TEAR FROM A GLASS EYE (Gate Notting Hill & National Studio production, Erica Whyman); THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP ( Southwark Playhouse, Erica Whyman); POPPY DAY (Stone Ranger at Pleasance Edinburgh & UK tour, Erica Whyman); MEL AND SUE – BACK TO OUR ROOTS (1999 UK Tour, dir Cal McCrystal) and MEL AND SUE – PLANET PUSSYCAT (1996, Edinburgh & tour, Alison Edgar) – both Stone Ranger prods and SPITTING LOVE – New Writing North at Customs House, South Shields, Wils Wilson.

Malcolm also relit THE DISTANCE FROM HERE for the Almeida Theatre and was production electrician on their production of LULU at the Kennedy Center, Washington. He was also full-time production electrician on their productions of RICHARD 1I and CORIOLANUS at the Gainsborough Studios in London, BAM in New York and Akasaka Theatre Tokyo.

Other Work in BALLET and OPERA
WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM? and INFINITO NERO (co-designer Cathie Boyd) – Almeida Aldeburgh Opera at Aldeburgh Festival, Almeida and UK tour, director Cathie Boyd
THE BALL – balletLORENT on site specific UK tour, Dusseldorf & Bruges, chor Liv Lorent