Macbeth
Arts University Bournemouth
Palace Court Theatre / Schools Tour
13th - 24th November
Written by William Shakespeare
Adaptation and Director - Rohan Gotobed
Producer - Jonny Hoskins
Production Officer - Ben Goodridge
Stage Manager & Lighting Designer - Dom Phillips
Production Photographer - Steve Porter
Set Designer - Maisie Perkins
Costume Designer - Isabelle Martin
Hair & Make-Up Designers - Tegan Earl & Harriet Toy
Costume Supervisor - Seren Rees
Macbeth - Lorcan Adams
Lady Macbeth - Emily Brown
First Witch - Elsie Cairns
King Duncan / Doctor - Matthew Cook
Macduff - Robert Elson
Lady Macduff / Gentlewoman - Raina Howells-Nivas
Second Witch - Megan Jones
Third Witch / Fleance - Signe Lundgren
Malca - Sophie Shields
Lennox - Charlie Sibley
Ross - Teddy Sterry
Banquo - Henry Tran
8th September 2022.
Where were you?
I was on a train somewhere, a train delayed by thunder, lightning, and rain. My phone told me the Queen was dead, long live the King. I wasn't sure how to respond. Pride? Grief? Activism? How far are our identities shaped by those who reign over us?
It was a joy to adapt and direct 'Macbeth' for these times of complicated change. As well as touring to secondary schools in Dorset and Hampshire, we were also the first production to perform in Bournemouth's newly re-opened Palace Court Theatre.
“The performance was excellent and slick. Every member of the team who saw it has commented on how effectively the script had been modified and adapted. The change from Malcolm to Malca was also excellently done."
— Burgate School
“It was a great abridged version and the kids seemed to enjoy it very much."
— Katherine Senior,
Tilted Wig
"The new eyes that you brought to the text were splendid. It was fantastic acting and such a tight production. A brilliant job."
— Claire Hodgson,
Diverse City
Henry Tran (Banquo), Signe Lundgren (Fleance), and Lorcan Adams (Macbeth).
Matthew Cook (Doctor), Raina Howells-Nivas (Gentlewoman), and Emily Brown (Lady Macbeth)
The company of Macbeth
Henry Tran (Banquo), Signe Lundgren (Fleance), and Lorcan Adams (Macbeth).
ARTRAGE
The National Gallery
21st April 2023
Written by Natalia Lewis
Director - Rohan Gotobed
Producer - Claude Graham
Sound Designer - Joe Dines
Stage Manager - Grace Hans
Casting Director - Sydney Aldridge
Jackson - George Fletcher
Betty - Joanne Leung
Lily - Natalia Lewis
Jack - Eddie Loodmer-Elliott
BSL interpreted by Craig Painting and Diane Upcraft
An R&D funded by Arts Council England, with further support from The National Gallery.
Joanne Leung (Betty van Buren)
Eddie Loodmer-Elliott (Jack Wade)
Joanne Leung (Betty van Buren)
Joanne Leung (Betty van Buren)
Show 6
INK Festival @ The Cut, Halesworth
13th - 17th April 2023
Director - Rohan Gotobed
Artistic Director - Julia Sowerbutts
Festival Manager - Tor Stewart
Technician - Jessica Taylor
Video Technician - Alex Hermon
Stage Manager - Laurence Leonard
Photography - Martin Smith
11 Weeks and 2 Days
Written by Rosalind Adler
Sam - Lewis Bruniges
Hazel - Barbara Horne
Everyone is Lying to Me
Written by Gavin Milnthorpe
Ernie - Lewis Bruniges
Trish - Hattie Chapman
Dad - Paul Hegarty
Carol - Barbara Horne
I See You
Written by Erin De Frias
Cam - Hattie Chapman
That Sinking Feeling
Written by Sam Buss
John - Paul Hegarty
Joan - Barbara Horne
Hazel decides to have a word with her father despite the fact she hasn't been born yet.
Trish wakes up with the alarming thought that every statement of truth is in fact a lie. Probably.
Cam is a young online sex worker with decisions to make when she falls for the boy in the grocery store.
John and Joan live on an iceberg. Their ever-shrinking home makes them aware that distance is what makes the heart grow fonder...
The 7th annual INK Festival was a vast and tantalising smorgasbord of creativity, centred around Halesworth in rural Suffolk.
"I saw an online sex worker recognising why love is something quite different, gazing at a version of herself as a Barbie in a dollhouse, and - surreally and arrestingly - Barbara Horne as an unborn foetus arguing with its father."
— Libby Purves
“Hattie Chapman caught the eye in a series of short plays."
— inews.co.uk
"The direction was absolutely first class. It was so inventive and slick and absolutely filled the stage. The doll's house conceit was inspired."
— Audience Feedback
Ways of Seeing
Wimborne Community Theatre and Millstream Theatre
@ Museum of East Dorset
10th - 11th March 2023
Created by the Company
Written by Tony and Gill Horitz
Director - Rohan Gotobed
Costume and Settings - Hannah Small
Camera Lantern - Clare Small
Stage Manager - Chris McCormack
Production Manager - Tuppy Hill
Access Support - Sandra Davies
Photos - Alastair Nisbet
Performed by twenty disabled and non-disabled people from East Dorset
For this project, in consultation with staff at MED, Wimborne Community Theatre chose and researched some of the key items in the Collection:
Valentine's Cards; the fresco found in excavations at the Roman Villa at Tarrant Hinton in the late 1960s; the black and white portraits taken by the early Edward full plate studio camera over a period of forty years...
Ways of Seeing was an imaginative attempt to go beneath the surface, to discover and share the stories that may lie beneath, reflecting lives in East Dorset over many years.
"Such a wonderful group of performers who are engaging in their ability to tell a story and very much draw you in as an audience."
"Can't fault it at all. In fact I'd go and see it again. So many possibilities that you can go down with immersive theatre like the ways of seeing at the Museum of East Dorset."
"Wonderful and thoughtful tonight. An experience that was innovative and has caused me to think more as I reflect on it - which is the key of a good theatrical experience."
— Audience Feedback
Jackie, Eva, and Jane (In the Kitchen)
Nichola (In the Shop)
The Company (In the Hilda Coles Learning Centre)
Jackie, Eva, and Jane (In the Kitchen)
Broken & Golden
Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists
and CoCreate Dorset
2nd November 2022
Created by the Company
Directed by
Gemma Alldred
Rohan Gotobed
Producer - Alice Chutter
Assistant Director - Joshua Ward
Musical Director - Harry Bassett
Performed by sixteen disabled and non-disabled people from Bournemouth and Poole
The Caravan Plays
The Delicate Art of Falling
The Other Room, Cardiff
4th - 6th August 2022
Written by Tom Wentworth
Director - Rohan Gotobed
Producer - Samantha Jones
Stage Manager - Weronika Szumelda
Performed by
Elicia Axon
Toby Thompson
Created for The Other Room's
Young Artists Festival 2022
Umbrella
Bloomsbury Festival
24th October 2021
21st October 2022
Written by Katherine White
Director - Rohan Gotobed
Producer - Rosie Thackeray
Sound Technician - Barra Fitzgibbon
Girl - Melody Adeniran
D - Michaela Mackenzie
Gran - Emma Wilkinson Wright
This play was adapted for Bloomsbury Radio in October 2022, featuring the same cast.
"Listening to this play was incredibly moving and emotive. It really is a heartfelt piece that strives to get to the core of this, often misunderstood, illness." - Hannah Petch, Chapterz Magazine
straight vodka
Theatre 503
8th - 9th March 2020
Written by Gemma Lawrence
Director - Rohan Gotobed
Curator - Darren Sinnott
Producer - Darcy Dobson
Casting Director - Amy Blair
Shawna - Savannah Ayodae-Greaves
Izzy - Aimée Cassettari
Camilla - Rebecca Norfolk
Em - Gemma Simons
Produced as part of Theatre 503's
RWR for Meat by Gillian Greer,
designed by Rachel Stone
CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR @ COAST TO COAST
Between 2017 and 2021, I co-founded and led
Coast to Coast Theatre Company alongside Molly Harris Farley.
We wanted to create new plays outside London that responded to contemporary issues, including #MeToo, Brexit, and the Climate Emergency.
As a producer, I also developed our productions of Peddling by Harry Melling (Maddermarket Theatre, 2019) and Nowt as Queer as Folk by Becky Pick (Edinburgh Fringe, 2018). We were supported by Minotaur Theatre Company, The Garage Theatre, Norwich Theatre, and the University of East Anglia.
Play Before Birth
Coast to Coast @ Garage Theatre
6th - 7th June 2019
@ Greenside Infirmary Street
12th - 24th August 2019
Writer and Director - Rohan Gotobed
Producer - Molly Harris Farley
Assistant Director - Ash Strain
Marketing - Molly Bernardin
Technical Design - Jasmine Savage
Stage Manager - Millie Bobanović
Assistant Stage Manager - Emily Law
Sophie - Alex Gallacher
Frances - Caitlin Jacobsen
Moira - Ellie Martland
Klara - Rachel Nicholson
Supported by the Garage Theatre and All-In Productions
How do we bring new life into a dying world?
At Klara's baby shower, Moira presents an unthinkable solution. Maybe children aren't the future.
"For the next hour
Don't say anything,
But after that
Don't stop."
"Beautiful, experimental… The shifting dynamic between the four women is also elegantly portrayed, and the actors, particularly Gallacher, display some great comic timing.”
— Concrete Online
"8 Best Edinburgh Fringe Shows About Climate Change That You Should Definitely Check Out.”
— Bustle
“Rachel Nicholson brings moments of beautiful tenderness and vulnerability during Klara's conversations with her unborn baby which prove to be the most affecting moments of the show... There's a gentle heart to the play and those quiet moments speak the loudest."
— The List
Last Night in Europe
Coast to Coast @ Norwich Arts Centre
29th March 2019
Empires
Written by Zoe Callow
Director - Rohan Gotobed
Performer - Priya Patel Appleby
48/52
Writer - Steve Waters
Performer - Michael Bernardin
Baggage
Writer - Freya Bennett
Director - Charlie Collins
Performer - Alex Hayes
The Break-Up
Writer - James McDermott
Director - Charles Douglas
Performer - Liam Purshouse
The Half-Naked Civil Servant
Writer/Director - Tom Rowntree
Co-Director - Louis Williams
Performer - Joe Swift
Scapegoat
Writer/Director - Molly Naylor
Performer - Thomas Guttridge
Last Night in Europe was a unique event that took over the NAC for what was originally marked as 'Brexit Day'.
I commissioned six new monologues from local writers, pairing them with directors and performers. We tried to depict the human impact of Brexit, and question what it means to be British in the 21st Century.
In addition to creating the event, I directed Empires which imagined Brexit through the eyes of Emma Hamilton as she mourned Lord Nelson.
"Can it really be that the world only revolved around us because you were drawing the maps?"
"Priya Patel Appleby is mesmerising as Lady H giving her side of a story known from the perspective of the populist histories that we have always been given. Priya gives us a moving and elegant, eloquent account of just how Nelson’s paramour may have felt about the outcome of Trafalgar.
"The diversity of the six works makes for an enjoyable programme, but what really makes this company stand out is the sheer quality of their productions. They work hard to make convincing and credible drama that suggests levels of experience impossible for such a young team."
— Norwich Eye
About Lester
Coast to Coast @ UEA
7th - 9th June 2018
10th October 2018
Writer and Director - Rohan Gotobed
Producer - Molly Harris Farley
Assistant Director - Holly Richards
Video Design - Tara O'Sullivan
Jane - Erin Clancy
The Devil - Aimée De-Ritis
Lester - Charles Douglas
The Angel - Charley Hawthorne
Fitts - Arthur Maund
Angela - Nancy O'Melia
Carolyn - Polly Pullen*
*When this production was revived in October 2018, the role of Carolyn was played by Nyree Williams
In support of Leeway Domestic Violence & Abuse Services
About Lester was Coast to Coast's first production. We were inspired by the #MeToo movement and wanted to make a show.
This was a play about the art and the artist. We talked about 'American Beauty' and its dark side.
Lester was a movie star, and Jane was his biggest fan. Across parallel universes their lives change, as does the world.
"Shut up, you want to be an actress?
Pretend..."
"About Lester is an amazing production and a very promising debut from
Coast to Coast.
The writing and acting were both incredible, but what really struck me about the play was that it delved into a topic that I had not yet seen portrayed in a creative medium, and it did so whilst bearing in mind all of the topic's complexities and subtleties."
— Feminist Book Club
"Wonderfully written, the cast successfully execute a range of complex and beautifully crafted characters who all possess ambiguous moral compasses. The play serves as social commentary, reflecting on the very relevant topic of the underlying tension between power and sex, and also as a means to emulate the destructive correlation between being beautiful and being worthy."
— Concrete
“Acting in the round gives no hiding place and director Rohan Gotobed makes good use of this, with a minimum of unnecessary gesture or stage presence.
It is a play with a clear message, and one that cannot be shared widely enough. I have spent the hours since I saw this play telling everyone I encounter to go and see it – it is one of the most rewarding and engaging dramas that I have seen for a long time."
— Norwich Eye
