Lands by Antler at Bush Theatre © Helen Murray
2 performers, a mini trampoline and a 1000 piece puzzle.
But there’s a problem. There’s a fucking massive problem and soon they’re going to have to talk about it.
The award-winning Antler return with a playful, intimate dissection of a relationship teetering on the edge of collapse. An absurd tragicomedy, Lands explores the impossibility of relationships, our inability to understand one another and the hills we’re willing to die on. This moving play arrives at the Bush following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017.
A Bush Associate Artist 2017-18. Antler is an award-winning company, telling stories through theatre and film. Winner of the IdeasTap Underbelly Award, winner of Pulse Festival Suitcase Prize, nominated for The Stage Best Ensemble Award, and winner of Best Short Fiction at BFI Future Film Festival, Antler have transferred shows to the Bush, Soho Theatre and toured the UK.
Their previous shows include This Way Up (2012), Maria 1968 (2012), Where The White Stops (2013-2014), If I Were Me (2015-2016), Days Like This (2016) and Lands (2017).
Charlotte studied Classics at King’s College, Cambridge before training in Set and Costume Design at the Motley Theatre Design School in 2011.
Theatre design credits include: Parents’ Evening (Jermyn Street Theatre), Play About My Dad (Jermyn Street Theatre), Acis and Galatea (St John Smith’s Square), Kingdom Come (RSC), Summerfolk (Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA), Home Chat (Finborough Theatre), Adler and Gibb (Summerhall, Unicorn, The Lowry, Kirk Douglas Theatre), It is Easy to be Dead (Finborough Theatre, Trafalgar Studios), All or Nothing (West End, UK National Tour, Vaults), Mouthful (Trafalgar Studios), The Devil to Pay on Brook Street (Handel House Museum), Pal Joey (Karamel Club), The Dispute (Summerhall, Odeon Cinemas), The Winter’s Tale (Bernie Grant’s Centre), The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Tempest (Ovalhouse), This Child (Bridewell Theatre), Richard II (St James’ Church), Hamlet (The Rose Theatre), The Provoked Wife (Greenwich Playhouse), Entries on Love (RichMix), Abstract/Nouns (Pleasance).
Film design credits include: The Rain Collector (Wigwam Films), Lizard Girl (BBC), Double Take (BAFTA/Channel 4), Paper Mountains (Ruby Productions), Copier (Screen West Midlands Digishorts), Mirror (Ruby Productions).
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart is a theatre director who’s worked as an assistant director on Network (National Theatre); Lazarus (King’s Cross Theatre); Adler and Gibb (international tour); Measure for Measure (Young Vic); Stink Foot (The Yard Theatre); Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse). Previous directing credits with Antler include: Days Like This (Battersea Arts Centre, BEFestival); If I Were Me (UK tour, Soho Theatre) and This Way Up (C Venues, Debut Festival). Other directing credits include: You’re So Relevant (Young Vic).
Her training is a culmination of time spent on The National Theatre Studio Director’s Course, The Jerwood Assistant Director Programme at the Young Vic, the Contemporary Theatre course at East 15 Acting School and Dartington College of Arts. She was a JMK Award finalist in 2016.
Rachel’s theatre includes: As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Squares), Alice in the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Christmas Carol, The Book’s the Thing (Librarian Theatre), Unemployed Actors Union (Theatre N16), DARE Festival, Phone Home (Shoreditch Town Hall), The Midnight Gang (The Chickenshed), The Divided Laing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Steady Rain (Arcola Theatre).
Since completing her degree at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in 2014, Rachel has worked on a variety of productions. When not working as a Stage Manager, Rachel works as a member of the technical crew with ESS Hire, most recently working on the Jack Petchey Speak Out Finals. Every year Rachel enjoys going back to the Twinwood Vintage Festival where she works as one of the stage managers.
