Fabulous Creatures 22 May - 15 June at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston (London) The untold story of the female monsters of The Odyssey. Written by Quentin Beroud & Emily Louizou Directed by Emily Louizou 🌪️💥🕷️ Lyrics: Quentin Beroud Music & Sound Design: Irene Skylakaki Choreography & Movement: Ioli Filippakopoulou Set & Costume Design: Ismini Papaioannou Executive Producer: Elizabeth Filippouli Lighting Design: David Doyle Stage Manager: Ibraheem Hamirani Assistant Director: Costi Levy Assistant Producer: Glerren Bangalan Assistant Producer: Anastasiya Sosis Assistant Designer: Ugne Garcia Velickaite Videographer: Vasilis Katsaros Cast: Hannah Van Der Westhuysen, Kate Newman, Jazz Jenkins Presented by Collide Theatre in partnership with Elizabeth Filippouli and in association with Arcola Theatre Supported by the Embassy of Greece in London and The Hellenic Centre.

22 May - 15 June 2024 Arcola Theatre, London Fabulous Creatures The Untold Story of the Female Monsters of The Odyssey

Collide Theatre in partnership with Elizabeth Filippouli and in association with the Arcola Theatre present FABULOUS CREATURES The untold story of the female monsters of The Odyssey. Written by Quentin Beroud & Emily Louizou Directed by Emily Louizou Lyrics by Quentin Beroud Music by Irene Skylakaki Movement & Choreography by Ioli Filippakopoulou Welcome to the Monstrous Cabaret Club, a place to drown more than your sorrows, where the acts are unreal and the voices to die for! Whether you’re strapping in for the Sirens or caught between Scylla and Charybdis, you’re in for a night you’ll never survive forget! Once the pre-eminent killers of the mythical age, who even Gods would turn to for their dirty work, they’ve long given up their licence to kill. Now they run a private club hidden somewhere between Mount Olympus and the Underworld. They used to kill, but now they cabaret: SIREN, the woman-bird with the notorious voice SCYLLA the rock star with her outrageous costumes And last but not least the shapeshifting CHARYBDIS aka “Whirlpool”, the hostess of the grotesque, your MC with no clemency. But the glamorous routine of their cabaret life is about to be shattered. A desperate and determined woman comes to them for help in taking down her abusive husband before he returns from a ten year war. These fabulous creatures are now faced with a deadly dilemma: sacrifice the safety of the shadows or come out into the light and help a stranger in her hour of need? As the stakes ratchet up, we move from cabaret to tragedy. Collide (“clearly a company to keep an eye on”, The Guardian) invites you to an epic new show about revenge and sisterhood. An ensemble of three brings you the never before told story of the female monsters of The Odyssey, blending humour and darkness, myth and modernity and Collide’s signature dream-like aesthetic.

Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine; a collage of fragments, an orgy of deconstruction. We invite you to walk through the pieces of a broken civilisation and experience a grotesque wasteland full of beauty and cruelty. The human body stands at its centre – fragile and yet capable of extreme destruction and pain. We live in a time when Europe is facing all sorts of crises – economic, political, social, humanitarian ones – governments are busy burying these problems rather than facing them with actual solutions, and young people do not know which way to go. For Müller’s Hamlet to be a machine is to be free of cultural and personal memory, to feel no pain, to have no thoughts. With a disturbing energy Müller writes of the “ruins of Europe,” for a revolution that both reduces and elevates humans to machines. Hamletmachine is a harrowing portrait of the aftermath of a war, of life under crisis. This provocative site-specific production invites you to enter a diseased crumbling world, and to experience the struggle for a new unspoiled one. Hamletmachine is a site-specific promenade performance in an unused warehouse on Tanner Street (Tower Bridge, London) as part of Ugly Duck’s latest creative season. Ugly Duck works with artists to create amazing events in unusual, underused spaces. [London, July 2016] Director: Emily Louizou Music Composition: David Denyer Designers: Alegia Papageorgiou & Greta Landers Choreography: Ioli Filippakopoulou Movement: Hanna Junti Lighting Design: Daniel English Producer: Rachel Horowitz Translator: Marc von Henning Marketing: Inés Aparicio Trailer and Poster: Florence Knoyle Rehearsal Videos: Vasilis Katsaros Production Images: Alex Davison Stage Manager: Lucy Hickling ​ Cast: Ava Pickett, Susan Hoffman, Alexandra Sinclair, Jordan Matthews, Jamie Spindlove, Oliver West, Maximilian Davey, Chris Szuca

Tuesday, 4 October - Saturday, 29 October 2022 Finborough Theatre Info & Tickets here: https://finboroughtheatre.co.uk/production/the-coral/ “What is the goal?” “The end of the struggle between rich and poor.” The first UK production in 100 years A millionaire and his double. A need for a revolution. A cycle of family trauma. Join a father’s quest to escape the horror of his past. Join his children’s quest to change the status quo. Brought up in poverty, the Millionaire is the autocratic boss of a factory, intent on acquiring as much wealth as possible in order to distance himself from his unhappy poverty-stricken childhood. He has hired his exact physical double, the Secretary, who impersonates him at public functions. The only physical difference between them is a piece of coral on the Secretary’s watchchain… The Millionaire’s son and daughter feel utter disgust for their father’s money and his ruthless exploitation of the poor. The last thing they want is to inherit the money and become like their father. Part parable, part family drama, and part thriller, tragic yet deeply cynical, Georg Kaiser’s symbolic and epic play is a radical exploration of humans’ absurd and eternal entanglement with money, a world where the few have accumulated so much wealth and so much power to be able to destroy the many. Directed and Adapted by EMILY LOUIZOU Set and Costume Design IOANA CURELEA Movement Direction IOLI FILIPPAKOPOULOU Music Compositon DAVID DENYER Lighting Designer AMY HILL Dramaturg QUENTIN BEROUD Assistant Director ASKA HAYAKAWA Assistant Producer ARIELLE ZILKHA Associate Producer for Collide SAMUEL SKOOG Stage Manager NELL THOMAS Producer Presented by Collide Theatre in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre. Cast STUART LAING JOANNE MARIE MASON ESME SCARBOROUGH ADAM WOOLLEY ARIELLE ZILKHA

Director Emily Louizou discusses The Coral, running at the Finborough Theatre in London from the 4th to the 29th October. https://finboroughtheatre.co.uk/production/the-coral/

THE CORAL Finborough Theatre, 4 October 2022 – 29 October 2022 Written by Georg Kaiser Directed & Adapted by Emily Louizou Designer: Ioana Curelea Composer: David Denyer Movement: Ioli Filippakopoulou Lighting Designer: Amy Hill Stage Manager: Nell Thomas Dramaturg: Quentin Beroud Assistant Producer: Arielle Zilkha Assistant Director: Aska Hayakawa Associate Producer: Samuel Skoog Photography: Sanne Hofker PR: Mobius ​ CAST: Stuart Laing Joanne Marie Mason Esme Scarborough Adam Woolley Arielle Zilkha

A world premiere from the writer of Netflix hit Love & Anarchy.   Shortlisted for the New Diorama Untapped Award 2023 “I want to scream. I need an entirely new life because the old one isn’t working.” Daphne is desperate to re-invent herself, to turn over a new leaf. She plants the seeds for her perfect life, but the fruit tastes rotten. The Woman Who Turned into a Tree is new play based on an ancient myth about obsession and isolation. Fusing Collide’s trademark movement and striking visuals with live sound and original music, a world premiere from writer Lisa Langseth (Love & Anarchy, Netflix) and director Emily Louizou. --- With thanks to our partners the Embassy of Sweden, Handelsbanken, HOPE, Aquavit and Vintersol. The UK version of The Woman Who Turned Into A Tree was first commissioned and presented as part of New Nordics Festival by Cut the Cord Theatre in October 2021.   https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/the-woman-who-turned-into-a-tree/ Written by Lisa Langseth Directed by Emily Louizou Music Composition by David Denyer Movement Direction by Ioli Fillippakopoulou Set & Costume Design by Ioana Curelea Lighting Design by Amy Hill Assistant Director: Alexandra Stroming Assistant Producer: Sanjana Samaddar Assistant Stage Manager: Eve Wilson Stage Manager: Stephanie Siraut Photography: Lucy Feng Performed by Bathsheba Piepe & Ioli Fillipakopoulou

Written by Lisa Langseth Directed by Emily Louizou PRESENTED BY OMNIBUS THEATRE AND COLLIDE THEATRE A world premiere from the writer of Netflix hit Love & Anarchy. Shortlisted for the New Diorama Untapped Award 2023 “I want to scream. I need an entirely new life because the old one isn’t working.” Daphne is desperate to re-invent herself, to turn over a new leaf. She plants the seeds for her perfect life, but the fruit tastes rotten. The Woman Who Turned into a Tree is new play based on an ancient myth about obsession and isolation. Fusing Collide’s trademark movement and striking visuals with live sound and original music, a world premiere from writer Lisa Langseth (Love & Anarchy, Netflix) and director Emily Louizou. https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/the-woman-who-turned-into-a-tree/