The Speculator

The Speculator
Summary
Dates 2nd & 3rd December
Performance Course Third Year BA Acting
Location New Atheneum Theatre
Creative Team
Director Mark Thomson
Assistant Director
Designer Rachael Light
Movement Director
Sound Designer Hayley Grogan
Lighting Designer Louise Chan
Production Team
Stage Manager Nina Madriz
Deputy Stage Manager Rhiannon Mitchell
Assistant Stage Manager Catherine Donaldson
Assistant Stage Manager (Book Cover) Marjolaine Demaude
Assistant Stage Manager Shannon White
Technical Stage Supervisor Darren Wilson
Head of Flys Euan Dyer
Deputy Technical Stage Supervisor Kyle Jessiman
Deputy Technical Stage Supervisor Rory Gilmore
Production Electrian Nicholas Ruebenacker
DPLX Pierce Brown
Lighting Crew Laura Martin
PSE Stuart Green

Overview

The Speculator is set in Paris in 1720. The French playwright Pierre Marivaux is playing games with love and chance. Europe is in chaos. And John Law, a Scot from Edinburgh, is the richest and most powerful man in the world. He upsets order and alters the value of money. How long can his influence last?

Stage Management

The ASMs did some provisional props lists, risk assessments and props research tasks remotely before most props were cut due to Coronavirus safety measures.

However the ASMs did build an IKEA bed and mix some brown and black paint with some Cuprinol Oak finish wood stain which was then painted onto the bed as well as using the mixed brown and black paint to paint the top of a table.

the Tavern Crates and Barrels were borrowed from NTS.