"The Smell of Burning Flesh..."

The People of the Play - Crew

Director/Playwright - Patrick Malone

Patrick is in his second year reading theology at Wycliffe Hall. This is his first attempt at playwriting. Before coming to Oxford he trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School and with Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Theatre includes: The Crucible (Young Vic), Henry V (La Comedie Anglaise), Food, Ophelia Speaks, An American Hero Returns, and Signing (All for the New Writers' Season at The Lyric, Hammersmith), The Confidential Clerk (Greenwich), No Name (Eastern Angles and Wolsey, Ipswich), Hamlet (Red Shift) and Cyrano de Bergerac (OUDS @ OFS). Film includes: Cecilia's Day Off (Channel 4), Firing into the Crowd (Channel 4), True Blue (Film Four and Miramax), Half-Life, The Perfect Elephant (Meridian), and Flyfishing. There is a real danger that Patrick will be ordained in the Church of England in the Summer of 2003.

Assistant Director - Rachel Oakeshott

Rachel is in her second year reading English at Univ. At Oxford she has been a concubine in Arabian Nights (Univ Garden show TT2001), a dominatrix judge in Volpone(Magdalen auditorium HT2001), and fairy godmother in an adaptation of Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes(a Theatre in Education project). Rachel also enjoyed playing Olivia in Twelfth Night, going mad in The Tin Can People and being strangled in The Physicists, all at Westminster School. She is President of Univ Players. This is her first foray into directing, and she is excited to be working with such an experienced and talented director and cast.

Playwright - James Mumford

Producer - Oliver Marre

Ollie's dramatic career has spanned more than a decade. In early years, he won acclaim for his performances as Ship's Captain in the devised work, 'Titanic', and King Priam of Troy in 'The Trojan Wars'. He more recently played Malvolio in 'Twelfth Night'. Latterly, however, he has tended to shun the limelight. His directorial debut was co-directing 'Journey's End' at the age of fourteen, a production which he claims has never been surpassed. Since then, notable productions have included 'Tin Can People', Pinter's 'The Caretaker', and 'The Physicists'. At Oxford, Ollie has directed 'Volpone' at the Magdalen Auditorium and, in 2000, Trinity's acclaimed and comical Cuppers entry based on 'Hamlet'. Ollie worked briefly in the professional theatre (stage management in the West End). He is now President of the Trinity Players.

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