 Kate Sagovsky
Kate is Artistic Director of Freefall Theatre and is currently studying for an MA in Movement Studies at The Central School of Speech and Drama, after completing a degree in English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford she directed Love’s Labour’s Lost for the OUDS/Thelma Holt Japan Tour 2007 which toured to the Metropolitan Arts Centre in Tokyo after being performed at College Gardens Westminster Abbey (London), The Dell (Stratford-Upon-Avon) and Merton College Gardens (Oxford). She also directed Tongues by Sam Shepherd (Burton Taylor Theatre), The Compartment by Johnny Speight (Burton Taylor Theatre), The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler(The Michael Pilch Studio Theatre), Some Voices by Joe Penhall(Old Fire Station, Oxford), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queen’s College Gardens, Oxford) and Mugged by Andrew Payne (OUDS Youth Company at the Burton Taylor Theatre and Castle Arts Centre, Wellingborough as part of the NT Shell Connections Festival). In addition she was Assistant Director/Movement Director for Three Sisters by Chekhov(Oxford Playhouse), and Movement Director for Cyrano trans. by Anthony Burgess (Oxford Playhouse) and Trojan Women trans. by Avery Willis (Oxford Playhouse) in which she also played the role of Kassandra. She was President of Balliol Drama Society, a founding member of Freefall Dance and OUDS Education and Access co-officer, in which role she led access workshops for both primary and secondary schools. Before Oxford she directed productions of My Fair Lady, Medea, Stepping Out, and Table Manners and assisted in the Cambridge Arts Theatre Education Department. More recently, she has worked as an Assistant Director on the Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays, movement directed for Semi-Monde by Noel Coward (Embassy Theatre), Madonna Kebab (Embassy Theatre) and Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton (Oxford Playhouse). She is currently co-directing Flesh by Ambrose Hogan which will be performed at Westminster Abbey as part of a festival celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of slavery, and the Freefall Theatre ‘Not for Sale’ Tour, 2007.
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Jack is the Producer of the Not for Sale tour. He is currently finishing a degree in Law at Balliol College, Oxford. While at university he performed in a number of shows, including playing Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queen’s College Gardens), Orlando in As You Like It (Christchurch College Gardens), Noel in Claw by Howard Barker (OFS Studio), Henry Carr in Travesties by Tom Stoppard (Keble O’Reilly Theatre),Frondoso in Fuente Ovejuna (Oxford Playhouse) and King Ferdinand in the OUDS Japan Tour of Love’s Labour’s Lost (Westminister Abbey, London; Merton College, Oxford; The Dell Theatre, Stratford; Metropolitan Arts Space, Tokyo). In the Summer of 2005 he attended the British American Drama Academy Summer In Oxford course on a scholarship. He was also the JCR President of his College in 2006, and the Marketing Manager for The Roman Actor (2005) and the OUDS Japan Tour 2006.
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 Heather Oliver
Heather is the Press Officer for Glyndebourne Productions. She graduated from Oxford University with a first class degree in English Literature and Language. While at university she produced a number of shows, inlcuding The Oxford Revue which ran in Edinburgh (Smirnoff Underbelly 2005), the OUDS/Thelma Holt Ltd Japan Tour 2006 (Westminister Abbey, London; The Dell Theatre, Stratford; Merton College Gardens, Oxford; Metropolitan Arts Space, Tokyo) and A Doll’s House (Moser Theatre, Oxford; Kenton Theatre, Henley-on-Thames).
She has had various acting roles at Oxford, including Rosalind in As You Like It (Christ Chuch College and Said Amphitheatre, Oxford), Laurencia in Fuente Ovejuna (Oxford Playhouse) and Mary Queen of Scots in Mary Stuart (O’Reilly Theatre, Oxford).
She was the founding member of Sausage Productions, the Drama Editor of The Cherwell newspaper and a reviewer of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005 for the Fest newspaper. She was the President and Treasurer of the Univ Players Drama Society and the Executive Producer of the Oxford Revue in 2004-6.
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Theatre in its physical immediacy holds the potential to be the most provocative of all art forms. Yet, so often the very specific opportunities that theatre presents are let go, unnoticed. Ephiphanies occur and are communicated in moments of free movement through space (whether that be words through the white of a page or across to a listener’s ear, the mind’s journey through the space of the imagination, or the physical body moving through the air). It is only in theatre that the languages of body, word, sound and image can combine within both literal and metaphorical space enabling a unique and potent expression and communication of ideas. It is through theatre that we can powerfully say that which what cannot be said in any other way. Freefall theatre is not about aesthetics, entertainment, or education, it is not a theatre of physicality, poetry or politics; it is a combination of all these things and more. It is about theatre experienced in the present tense, leading to an indefinable alteration of any participant’s path into the future. A relevant intellectual and emotional experience which moves, provoking question and response. We aim not to prioritise the verbal, physical or visual language of theatre but to synthesise them, using a fusion of contemporary theatre practices to wield the communicative power of theatre to its full effect. We aim to challenge, question and provoke, reminding people of the important questions that go unasked and unanswered in contemporary society. We challenge ourselves and our audiences to take the time to perceive and respond to fundamental issues that we so often overlook through laziness or fear. We dare you to look into the abyss and jump.
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