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Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre\u00a0<\/strong>have today announced the full creative team for\u00a0The Turn of the Screw<\/em><\/strong>, a co-production with English National Opera, alongside titles to complete the Open Air Theatre\u2019s 2018 season<\/p>\n Artistic Director of Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre,\u00a0Timothy Sheader<\/strong>, directs\u00a0The Turn of the Screw<\/em><\/strong>, which plays 9 performances from 22 June \u2013 30 June 2018. ENO Mackerras Fellow\u00a0Toby Purser<\/strong>\u00a0conducts members of the ENO orchestra, and the production is designed by\u00a0Soutra Gilmour<\/strong>. Completing the creative team, lighting design is by\u00a0Jon Clark<\/strong>, sound design by\u00a0Nick Lidster<\/strong>\u00a0for Autograph, and casting by ENO Head of Casting,\u00a0Michelle Williams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This story of unearthly encounters at a remote country house, and of a young governess desperate to protect her children, finds chilling new levels of suspense in this unique outdoor production of Benjamin Britten\u2019s masterly reworking of Henry James’ classic novella.<\/p>\n Timothy Sheader<\/strong>\u00a0is a multiple Olivier-Award winner with credits at Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre including\u00a0Into the Woods<\/em>,\u00a0The Crucible<\/em>,\u00a0Crazy for You<\/em>,\u00a0Lord of the Flies<\/em>, and\u00a0Porgy and Bess<\/em>. His production of\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>\u00a0won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Play Revival, and it subsequently completed a sell-out UK tour ahead of a month-long residency at the Barbican. In 2016 Timothy directed Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s\u00a0Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em>, which won the Olivier-Award for Best Musical Revival and the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical. The production played a return engagement in 2017, and plays at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2018. Other productions include\u00a0The Magistrate<\/em>(National),\u00a0Barnum<\/em>\u00a0(Chichester Festival),\u00a0The Three Musketeers<\/em>\u00a0(Bristol Old Vic),\u00a0Streetcar to Tennessee<\/em>\u00a0(Young Vic),\u00a0Sweet Charity<\/em>\u00a0(Sheffield Crucible, TMA Best Musical Award), andMy Fair Lady<\/em>\u00a0(Aarhus Teater, Denmark).<\/p>\n Previously for the ENO, Mackerras Fellow\u00a0Toby Purser<\/strong>\u00a0conducted\u00a0The Marriage of Figaro<\/em>. He has also conducted orchestras including the\u00a0English Chamber Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra, L\u2019Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orpheus Sinfonia, Sinfonia Viva, Kammerphilharmonie Graz, the St Petersburg Camerata, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the St Petersburg Festival Orchestra, as well as a range of concerts for Raymond Gubbay Ltd at major venues throughout the UK. \u00a0Working with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the tenor Jes\u00fas Le\u00f3n, he recorded\u00a0Bel\u00a0<\/em>Canto<\/em>\u00a0now available on Opus Arte CD. Toby is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Orion Orchestra,\u00a0a stepping-stone orchestra for the most talented musicians leaving music college, and Artistic Director of the Peace and Prosperity Trust. Other notable engagements include conducting\u00a0Madama Butterfly, Eugene Onegin,<\/em>\u00a0Rigoletto<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Fortunio\u00a0<\/em>(Grange Park Opera),\u00a0The Daughter of the Regiment, Orpheus in the Underworld,<\/em>\u00a0Tales of Offenbach\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Queen\u2019s Lace Handkerchief<\/em>\u00a0(Opera Della Luna) and\u00a0Le Comte Ory\u00a0<\/em>(Chelsea Opera Group). For Pimlico Opera, he has conducted productions in various prisons, with a cast of inmates performing alongside professionals, including\u00a0Carmen the Musical, Les Mis\u00e9rables, Sugar, Sister Act, Sweeney Todd\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0West Side Story.<\/em><\/p>\n The Mackerras Conducting Fellowship celebrates the legacy of Sir Charles Mackerras, ENO Music Director between 1970 and 1977, and is made possible with the philanthropic support of The Philip Loubser Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre\u00a0have today announced the full creative team for\u00a0The Turn of the Screw, a co-production with English National Opera, alongside titles to complete the Open Air Theatre\u2019s 2018 season Artistic Director of Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre,\u00a0Timothy … Continue reading