Summer tour 2022
SUPPORTED BY
VENUES and BOOKING
SATURDAY 16th JULY
DORKING HALLS
PLAYS IN THE PARK
PERFORMANCE AT 7 PM
SUNDAY 17th JULY
QUAY ARTS
AT NEWCLOSE COUNTY CRICKET GROUND
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6 PM
WEDNESDAY 20th JULY
THE MILL ARTS CENTRE
AT BICESTER & NORTH OXFORD
CRICKET CLUB
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6 PM
THURSDAY 21st JULY
BEARSTED CRICKET CLUB
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6 PM
FRIDAY 22nd JULY
VALLEY END
CRICKET CLUB
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6.30 PM
SATURDAY 23rd JULY
HENLEY KENTON THEATRE
AT HENLEY RUGBY CLUB
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6 PM
SUNDAY 24th JULY
THEATRE ROYAL
AT BURY ST EDMUNDS CRICKET CLUB
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6 PM
THURSDAY 28th JULY
FARNHAM MALTINGS
AT FARNHAM CRICKET CLUB
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6 PM
FRIDAY 29th JULY
THE RIVERHOUSE BARN
ARTS CENTRE
AT WALTON-ON-THAMES CRICKET CLUB
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6 PM
SATURDAY 30th JULY
HAMPTON
POOL
PERFORMANCES AT 11 AM and 2 PM
SUNDAY 31st JULY
THE SHED, WHITEHILL & BORDON
AT
HEADLEY CRICKET CLUB
PERFORMANCES AT 2 PM and 6 PM
THE CAST
Training: Originally from Derry in Ireland, Aoibheann trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.
Theatre credits include:
Marge in Kinky Boots (NCL); Nellie in Some Enchanted Evening (The Barn Theatre); Cricket in Pinocchio (U.K tour); The World Goes Round (the MAC); Pam in Third Wheel (Crazy Coqs/online web series); Lead Singer in Titanic Dance (China tour); Marion in Robin Good (Norwich Playhouse); and Baguette in Beauty and the Beast (Sutton Coldfield), for which she was Musical Director.
Recordings: Third Wheel
Film and TV: 5 Minutes of heaven (Big Fish Films); Spill It (BBC); In Cold Blood (BBC)
AOIBHEANN BIDDLE
TITANIA/HELENA/STARVELING
Training: Webber Douglas
Theatre credits include:
A Christmas Carol (Scoot Theatre); Private Lives, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Blithe Spirit (Mill at Sonning); House And Garden (Watermill); Don't Dress For Dinner, Cash On Delivery, Tom Dick & Harry, The Man Upstairs (Southwold); For All Time (Fletcher Prods/Southwark Playhouse); Robin Hood (City Varieties); Across the Dark Water (The Point); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Pocket Henry V & The Merchant of Venice (Propeller); The Trial of Jane Fonda (Assembly Rooms); Batman Live (World Tour); Peter Pan (O2 Arena & US tour); Messenger (Shunt); A Number, Dick Barton, Dead Funny (Keswick); Hamlet, The Grapes Of Wrath, Summer Lightning, Chimneys (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); UK tours of The Lady Vanishes, The BFG and Equiano; Othello (Southwark Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (TNT World Tour); The Taming of the Shrew (Creation); The Focus Group, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, Crash (The Oval House); The Glass Menagerie, The Arcade (BAC).
DARRELL BROCKIS
OBERON/BOTTOM
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre credits include:
The Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 The Musical (The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Play that Goes Wrong (West End); A Christmas Carol (Scoot Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (Jermyn Street/GSC); The Last of the Pelican Daughters (The Wardrobe Ensemble/Complicte/Bristol Old Vic); A Christmas Carol (Theatre by the Lake); For Services Rendered (Jermyn Street Theatre); Shadowlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Macbeth (Watermill Theatre); A Christmas Carol (RSC); Love’s Labour’s Lost/ Robin Hood (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Twelfth Night (RSC); Footprints on the Moon (Finborough Theatre);
The Emperor and the Nightingale (Theatre by the Lake); Singin’ In the Rain (Bolton Octagon/Salisbury Playhouse/New Vic).
SALLY CHENG
HERMIA/SNUG
Training: Miles trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre credits include:
A Christmas Carol (Antic Disposition); The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre); Onwards, an Evening with Drew Gasparini & Friends (The Phoenix Arts Club).
Credits whilst training include: Hanschen in Spring Awakening; Hamlet in Hamlet; Todd in Sweeney Todd; Love and Information; "I Want...": A Musical Review
MILES HENDERSON
LYSANDER/SNOUT
ROWENA LENNON
PUCK/FLUTE
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include:
The Jungle Book (Watermill Theatre); The Animals and Children took to the Streets (1927 Productions); Golem (1927 Productions); Frankenstein (Watermill Theatre); Boudica Workshop (Shakespeare’s Globe); Rocks (Arts Theatre West End & Miniaturists); Jekyll and Hyde (Sell A Door); We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (World Tour and West End); The Railway Children, Pride and Prejudice and The Wind in the Willows (Heartbreak Productions); Othello (Swivel Theatre Company); True Love Waits (Box of Tricks).
Television includes: Call the Midwife (Neal Street Productions).
Film includes: Ape (Rogue Films); Junkhearts (Coded Pictures).
LUKE THORNTON
DEMETRIUS/QUINCE
Training: Luke trained as an Actor Musician at Rose Bruford College. His many varied instrument skills include: drums, bass, guitar and harmonica. He is delighted to join the case of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Theatre credits include:
Nigel in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Steven/Tony Sharpe in Love Letters (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); One-Eye in Weapons of the Weak (The Other Palace); Cheever in The Crucible (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Ensemble in Midnight (Union Theatre, Southwark); Edwin in Summer Holiday (Octagon Theatre Bolton and Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Various roles in Beauty and the Beast, The Panto That Nearly Never Was, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin (Theatr Clwyd); Solo Singer in Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra - A Night at the Musicals (Congress Theatre); Onstage Swing/1st cover Willard in Footloose (UK Tour); Douggie in Dusty (Charing Cross Theatre); Rolf in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium and Sunderland Empire); Frog in The Cunning Little Vixen (Queen Elizabeth Hall).
Luke also sings as part of the Four Harmonies (Jersey Boys Tribute) and has been a soloist at the Royal Albert Hall and Sydney Opera House.
Max trained at Rose Bruford College. He is an actor, director and producer.
Theatre credits include: The Woman In Black (West End); The 39 Steps (Barn Theatre/Theatre Royal Windsor); The Hound of the Baskervilles (ETF/Jermyn Street); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors (Propeller); One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket); NT 50 Gala (National Theatre); An Ideal Husband (Chichester Festival Theatre); Anything is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough (The Vaults); The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith (Jermyn Street); Murder On The Nile (UK Tour).
Film includes: Dream Horse and the Downton Abbey film.
Max was assistant director on the national tour of The Grapes of Wrath and he recently assisted at The Coronet theatre in Notting Hill on their production of The Outsider by Albert Camus, adapted by Ben Okri and winner of the Offie Award for Best Ensemble.
MAX HUTCHINSON
DIRECTOR - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AND
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF SCOOT THEATRE
Alana Ashley is a multi skilled creative, working in the theatre, TV and film industries as a designer, assistant and maker.
She is an award winning MA graduate of Theatre Design from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the founder of Whitecard Collective, a group for graduates set up during the pandemic.
Previous design credits include: Shirley Valentine (Theatre Royal Bury St, Edmunds), A place by the bridge (Tobacco Factory Bristol).
Assisting credits include multiple brilliant projects with designer Sam Wilde and Outlier with designer Rebecca Wood.
Currently designing shows for theatres and immersive event companies around the UK, including Theatre Alibi and Scoot theatre!
ALANA ASHLEY
DESIGNER
THE SHOW
This summer, join Scoot for our outdoor, family-friendly, sixty-minute production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream!'
Touring (mainly) cricket clubs in the South East, six actor-musicians present one of Shakespeare’s favourite comedies, with a Scoot ‘spin’!
Get ready for confusion, chaos and costume changes!
Whether you’re 5 or 105, a Shakespeare newcomer or a Bard aficionado – we’ve got something for everyone! So bring a picnic blanket, enjoy the hospitality of your local cricket club and let us entertain you.
HOWZAT!?
"The course of true love never did run smooth..."
Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia. But Demetrius loves Hermia. And Helena loves Demetrius.
They all run into the woods where the mischievous sprite Puck has plenty of tricks in store for them! Meanwhile, the local cricket team is getting together to rehearse a play…
Expect music, magic, and cricket bat sword fights!
“I loved it”
“Hilarious…accessible for all ages”
About Scoot
Scoot was formed to tour high quality, professional theatre to non-traditional spaces. In 2020, our two-week tour of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was seen by 2500 people and picked up a 4 star review in The Telegraph.
We are a community-focused company, aiming to add value in the places we work.
We are particularly excited about engaging new audiences.
We hope you’ll join us for a chat after the performance.
We’ll be offering a very informal Question and Answer session after each show.
This is for anyone who might want to know more about the plays, Shakespeare or theatre in general. It’s completely voluntary of course but we’d love to hear your thoughts, reactions and maybe find out what you’d like to see us do next!
SPECIAL THANKS
SCOOT THEATRE ARE INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL TO EDWARD HALL AND ROGER WARREN FOR THE USE OF THEIR ADAPTATION
F.A.Qs
Can I bring a chair?
Please do!
You're welcome to bring picnic chairs and blankets. Seating areas are allocated on a "first come, first served" basis on the day.
Can I buy tickets on the Door?
All tickets must be purchased in advance.
Do I have to stay for the chat at the end?
Of course not! We’d love it if you did!
Let's talk about the weather...
Part of the fun of outdoor performances is embracing the Great British Weather! In our experience we’d say it's best to come prepared for all types. There is the possibility that we may have to stop and re-start the show and we will do everything we can to get to the end of the performance!
On very rare occasions, it may not be possible for us to complete the performance (this only happened once last year – so we rearranged the date). But, we will never cancel a performance before the advertised start time. We know from experience how quickly bad weather can clear up and give us the perfect gap for our sixty-minute show!
For the refund policy for your venue, please check in with the partner theatre you have booked your tickets through.
What about accessibility?
If you would like to know more about access at a particular venue, or would like to make us aware of your specific requirements, please do get in touch either via scoottheatreuk@gmail.com or any of the options on our Contact Page
FOR ALL ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT SCOOT THEATRE AT: