Director & Design
The Noble Nine / Matt Parvin
Vault Festival
“a great idea that buzzes with potential” Lyn Gardner
“Polina Kalinina brilliantly captures the charm of an Enid Blyton novel…The most remarkable part is how far we have come since Blyton. I like how Kalinina's direction has kept her contemporary audience in mind throughout the process, allowing us to react to how politically incorrect we were back then. I think this is why the play is so entertaining, because it holds a mirror up to our own nature.” ★★★★★ Voice Mag
“This is a promising debut play from Theatre Tewl with strong foundations for a thrilling and unmissable dark comedy.” ★★★★ Spy in the Stalls
"The play also lends itself to an interpretation as a political allegory. Much like the spoof book Five On Brexit Island, the Nine’s chequered history regarding unwanted intruders and ‘Germans’ on ‘the Island’ could be said to be mindset of the Brexiteers – unable to accept that Britain has moved on from the 1950s, and unable to deliver a coherent or persuasive argument why Brexit must happen, regardless of the cost…” Breaking the Forth Wall
CAST
Ella Bruccoleri / Winnie
Ryan Dooey / Arthur
Claudia Grant / Bammy
Willy Hudson / Hen
Jennifer Leong / Eliza
Dipo Ola / Gregory
Toby Vaughan / Estelle, Presenter, Doctor & Estate Agent
TEAM
Producer / Josh Cockcroft
Associate director / Emma Harris
Lighting / Robert Price
Fight director / Hadley Smith
Photography / Chloe Rosser