Productions
Positive Cynic Podcast
Guests try to convince the Positive Cynic that everyone should try doing what they do. From big to small to bizarre hobbies - what makes you feel better, and why? I’m Beckie, a glass half empty kind of person, trying to be more positive. This is my dose of cynical positivity. From book collecting to decluttering; from Eurovision to watching Columbo... I take a sideways look at the little things that put a spring in our step.
https://anchor.fm/positive-cynic-audio
- Director: Beckie Mills
Cast
Russ Spencer, Rob Lilley, Susan Harrison, Bobby George, Dr Lydia Hansell, Kate Aasa, Philip Spedding and many more...
Stray by Cara Jennings
Stray is a tragicomedy about Billie and Florence, two lonely people who are much better at talking to their cat than they are to humans. The cats (Cosmo and Winston) are played by Cara Jennings and Sophie Trott, as are Billie and Florence.
Proteus Creation Space, Council Road, Basingstoke, RG21 3DH More Information
- Director: Beckie Mills
Cast
Cara Jennings and Sophie Trott
April 2016
Jennie Benton Wordsmith at the Edinburgh Fringe
Jennie Benton Smith is a 15 year old rapper and spoken word artist from Tunbridge Wells who is on a quest to bring her show about love and words to anyone who will listen.
Underbelly Clover Med Quad, EH8 9AG, 5th - 31st Aug 2015, 1.25pm
- Director: Beckie Mills
Cast
Susan Harrison. Co-starring Dylan Kennedy. Captivating, Chortle. First-class comic acting, The Guardian, **** One4Review, edfringereview.com. Arts Award Voice, ThreeWeeks.
Jennie Benton Wordsmith
Friday 11th July 2014
The Marlborough Theatre, 4 Princes Street, Brighton
- Director: Beckie Mills
Cast
Susan Harrison with Waleed Akhtar Jennie is a rapper and spoken word artist from Tunbridge Wells who is very keen to meet you all. Join Susan/Jennie and her best friend in the whole of year 10, Auburn Joe, in what will be a very silly, funny and endearing show.
Razor sharp wit and apt social observation. **** (ThreeWeeks)
Horizon
by Matt Hartley
Soho Theatre More Information
- Director: Beckie Mills
Cast
Performed at Soho Theatre as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival in May 2014
The Cradle of Liberty
by Adam Taylor
A new play inspired by the Pussy Riot case, and the much less publicised plight of Chechnya's Stolen Brides, January 2013
- Director: Beckie Mills
Cast
Everyday Maps for Everyday Use
by Tom Morton-Smith
Finborough Theatre, December 2012 View Trailer
- Director: Beckie Mills
- Sound: Paul Gavin
- Set Design: Olivia Altaras
- Costume Design: Gabriella Slade
- Lighting: Neill Brinkworth
Cast
Michael Kirk, Skye Lourie, Moncef Mansur, Cosima Shaw, Michael Shelford, Harry Lister Smith. A stunning new play about fantasy and sexuality, and about the blurry and indistinct lines between reality and desire.
Romeo and Juliet
Pendley Shakespeare Festival, July – August 2012
- Director: Beckie Mills
- Sound: Mike Groves
- Set Design: Olivia Altaras and Beata Nora
- Costume Design: Emily Stuart
- Lighting: Danny Murphy
Cast
Stephen Davies, Ryan Lane, Steffan Donnelly, Jonathan Mulquin, Simon Hill, David Bevan, Jack McMahon, Tom Williams, James Sheldrake, Alex Hill, Douglas Dean, Louise Torres-Ryan, Amy Sutton, Sarah Whitehouse, Hannah Crighton, Maryann O’Brien, Joanne Wright, Matthew Burns, Emilio Iannucci, Pete Benson, Jonathan Oldfield and Jeremy Smith
Alban
A new opera by Tom Wiggall and John Mole
St Albans Cathedral and The Church of St Alban the Martyr, Holborn
- Director: Beckie Mills
- Conductor: David Ireson
- Set Design: Anna Bliss Scully
- Costume Design: Ann Hollowood
- Lighting: Colin Innes-Hopkins
Cast
Philip Salmon, Dominique Thiébaud, Paul Sheehan, Louise Mott, Des Turner, Marina Barker, Tom Bullard
Love on The Dole
by Walter Greenwood and Ronald Gow
Finborough Theatre, September – October 2010
- Director: Beckie Mills
- Sound: Chris Barlow
- Set Design: Olivia Altaras
- Costume Design: Fiona Albrow
- Lighting: Dan Cloake and Aaron Porter
Cast
Liz Bagley, Janie Booth, Ben Crowe, Emily Dobbs, Joe Evans, Colette Kelly, William Maxwell, Jack Monaghan, Sadie Pickering, Carl Prekopp, Matthew Randall and Fiona Whitelaw
‘Essential viewing.’ Evening Standard
I was a Beautiful Day
by Iain Finlay MacLeod
Tron Theatre, Glasgow, April 2010
- Director: Beckie Mills
- Set Design: Anna Bliss Scully
- Lighting: Richard Howell
Cast
Martin McCormack, Kirsty Stuart, Robert Willox
I was a Beautiful Day
by Iain Finlay MacLeod
Finborough Theatre, July 2009
- Director: Beckie Mills
- Set Design: Anna Bliss Scully
- Lighting: James Smith
Cast
Nicholas Karimi, Kirsty Stuart, Robert Willox
The End of the World as We Know It
Lightship John Sebastian, for Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Harbour, April 2007
- Director: Beckie Mills and Ian Wainwright
- Set Design: Thecla Mallinson
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