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About the play
The Play
The Cast
Production Credits
Kathmandu
Four individuals attempt to escape from each other…to something
better.
A profoundly disturbing tale of obsessive love, abandonment and…dog-napping.
This darkly funny and provocative play travels into the forbidden world
of the mindstalker where the tormented becomes the tormentor.
Written by Greg Freeman, Directed
by Ken McClymont (former Artistic Director of
the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington) and Designed by
Lizzie Clachan (founder member and chief designer of Shunt) this
atmospheric production, with its unsettling mix of self-destruction and
edgy humour makes Kathmandu unmissable.
The Cast
SANDRA CLARK (MARTHA)
Work in theatre included 2 seasons with RSC culminating in a world tour of Romeo and Juliet; Black Comedy, Real Inspector Hound, Under Milk Wood - Chester Gateway; Move Over Mrs Markham, All My Sons, Dick Whittington — Manchester Library; Loot — Worthing; Toys In the Attic- Newbury Watermill; Sex After Supper —twice - Edinburgh Fringe and Kings Head, London.
Television included 4 years of Me and My Girl; London’s Burning, Portrait of A Marriage, Dr Finlays Casebook; Taggart; East Enders.
Three seasons with BBC Radio Repertory Company - Presenter for Weekend Woman’s Hour and made a BBC feature Thick Clothes & Thin Air about walking along the hippy trail to Everest Base Camp.
HOWARD LEE (FRANK)
Howard Lee trained at RADA and also at the Jacques Lecoq Mime School. Howard has had and still enjoys an eclectic career spanning 30 years. From Summer Season Rep to street performing clown and Children’s TV presenter. He has numerous television drama and film credits. including the Oscar nominated Hindi movie 'Lagaan’. He has performed in 3 previous Edinburgh Festivals and last year his one-man show The Lion and Albert won a 5 star review in "The Scotsman". He enjoys art, woodwork, home and family...and a sporting life. He has no pets.
OLIVIA BUSBY (ROSALIND)
Trained at the Coventry Centre for Performing Arts and Philippe Gaulier. Theatre Credits include; The Coming of Gowf, 2001 — A Yule Odyssey, Dark Places like some Pubic Roots, and Privatise Zebra Crossings, all at The Old Red Lion. Also; Tandem and Baggage for the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Film/TV credits include Baggage, The Bandparts, Murder Squad and Messiah 3. She has appeared in several TV commercials and will be working with Tim Hope on his latest short film Leibestodre. Olivia is also appearing in Life at Cowgate Central @ 7.00pm each day of the fringe.
ALEX HUGHES (OWEN)
Most recent theatre credits incl. Playing both the title roles in an Oedipus Double bill - Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Jeremy Kingston's Oedipus at the Crossroads (Rosemary Branch) and performing in a one man show Gogol's Diary of a Madman. Films credits incl. That’s For Me, Rubbah Bizkit and Notting Hill Anxiety Festival opposite Julie Delpy directed by Ravi Kumar. Alex has been a member of the Di Travis workshops for 3 years and has spent the last year working with young directors at the Drama Centre. He has also just filmed two episodes of Silent Witness for BBC Drama to be screened in the Autumn.
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Production Credits
KEN McCLYMONT (Director)
Studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. Artistic Director of The Old Red Lion Theatre directing over thirty premieres incl: Waiting for Angels, Murder In Bridgport, Diaspora Jigs, Life After Life. Wrote/directed Associates, Santa’s War Stars In Space, Other premieres incl. Burning Bridges (Soho), The Trilogy (Riverside), The Coming of Gowf, Jack’s Out (Bush). Other plays incl. A Chaste Maid In Cheapside (Old Red Lion) and The Slab Boys (Old Red Lion) which won Best Production of a Comedy Award (LFA). In 1989-90 he won an Outstanding Contribution to Fringe Theatre Award for programming of an exceptional standard at the Old Red Lion.
LIZZIE CLACHAN (Designer)
Studied BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art and then completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Design as part of the Advanced Theatre Practice course at Central School of Speech & Drama. Co-founder of Shunt, working with the company for the last five years — Ballad of Bobby Francois, Tennis Show, Dance Bear Dance etc. Other design and installation as a freelance artist includes work for The Royal Exchange, London Bubble and Theatre Venture and Oxford House amongst others.
ALEXANDRA GILL (Company Manager)
Alex has worked as a stage manager and lighting designer on over 100 productions in the last 7 years. She has worked with both Greg Freeman and Ken McClymont on Take (Old Red Lion) and Kathmandu (Menier Theatre).
JUDI SISSONS (Executive Producer for City Stages)
Studied 3D Design at Chelsea School of Art and worked as an Interior designer. More recently gained BA (Hons) First Class in English and works as a freelance writer, editor and script reader.
GREG FREEMAN (Writer)
Written for television for a number of years, two humour books published, previous plays produced include Last Bus To Paradise and Take.
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