Welcome to Bettyland
Writer
Rebecca Jade Hammond
Director
Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
Location
The Sainsbury Theatre
Dates
Friday 5 April, 7:00pm
Monday 8 April, 7:00pm
Tuesday 9 April, 2:00pm
Wednesday 10 April, 7:00pm*
Thursday 11 April, 2:00pm
The running time is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes with no interval.
*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.
About the show
"It's just a matter of time before the pendulum swings in our favour. And when it does. My god. My sweet god who must have been woman to show the mercy that she has"
Bettyland is an ultra-femme utopia within a dystopian world. It's a place of humanity, care & divine feminine freedom.
But now Betty is gone, a girl dead, the community is spoiling and Bettyland is decaying.
Welcome to Bettyland is a piece of new writing rooted in the world of Greek tragedy and a reimagined contemporary response to Sophocles' Antigone.
Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is a British-Ghanaian writer-director.
His previous credits include directing the play For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (Olivier nominated / Black British Theatre Award for Best Director) and writing and directing Sweet Like Chocolate Boy (Jack Studio & London Tour).
Tristan’s direction of the Orange Tree production of Arinze Kene’s Little Baby Jesus won the 2019 JMK Award.
In 2021, Tristan was nominated for the TV Edinburgh & Netflix Stage to Screen programme.
Rebecca is a Welsh writer represented by The Haworth Agency and actor represented by The Artists Partnership. She is published by Methuen.
She has been short-listed for Papatango Writing Prize, placed in the top 10% for both BBC Drama Room and Verity Bargate Award. Rebecca is the founder and Artistic Director of Chippy Lane Productions Ltd. one of Wales’ foremost new writing companies. Her writing work includes: Mad Margot (Sherman Theatre/Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama/The Yard), Right Where We Left Us (Chapter/Chippy Lane Productions) published by Methuen, Little Ember (Theatr Clwyd) and Blue (Chapter/Chippy Lane Productions).
She is currently co-writing a new television series with Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education) called FULL OUT and developing a new Welsh musical with Wales Millennium Centre about infamous Cardiff busker Toy Mic Trev.
Contains violence, mental health, suicide, PTSD / trauma, sexual assault, sexually explicit language, swearing, homophobia, racism, death and grief.
There are flashing lights throughout the performance.
Creative Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Director
Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu*
Designer
Tara Usher*
Lighting Designer
Jennifer Garland
Sound Designer
Summer Collier
Music Director
Ashley Daniels*
Voice Director
Aundrea Fudge*
Movement Director
Gaby Nimo*
Musical Arrangements
Abhinav Mishra
Costume Supervisor
Sesselja Fanneyjardóttir*
Intimacy Director
Raniah Al-Sayed*
Fight Director
Sam Behan*
Assistant Director
Paloma Sierra
Cast
Gus
Gabe Acevedo
Pia
Tateyana Arutura
Arlo
Mandisa Baleni
Evan
Sam Bampoe-Parry
Harper
Brooke Bazarian
Eiry
Eve Cowley
Gage
Vikram Grover
Paige
Felicity Ison
Iza
Kai Alexandra Johnson
Jonas
Nana Yaw Kyeremateng
Peyton
Pei Lin
Letch
Jerry Madison Jr
Sirus
Alexander Makar
Pearl
Kristen Misthopoulos
Production Team
Company Stage Manager
Stephanie Leeson
Deputy Stage Manager
Abhinav Mishra
Assistant Stage Manager
James Knight
Production Manager
Jasmin Meara-Wall
Production Lx
George Rogers
Deputy Lx / Programmer
James Imber
Production Sound Engineer
Jacob Eckardt
Production Carpenter
Callum Duncan
Lighting Crew
Jay Cheung
Angelika Marr
Ace Turner
Charlie Henley-Castleden
Patrick McAneny
Sound Assistants
Abigail Brophy
Alexander Hoppe
Amelia Thorpe
Olly Griffiths
Danielle Small
Construction Crew
Holly Higgs
Annabel Smeaton
Chloe Wood
Cameron Mackenzie
Heather Trevelyan
