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Pigeon Party! starring Mo Willems’ Pigeon<br />
featuring Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! & Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!<br />
Presented by Big Wooden Horse Theatre Company<br />
Adapted and directed for the stage by Adam Bamp<strong>to</strong>n-Smith from the books by Mo Willems<br />
Design by Claire Sutherland<br />
Lighting Design by Will Evans<br />
Music by Shock Productions<br />
Lyrics by Guy Picot<br />
Running time: 45 mins<br />
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Mo Willem's Pigeon is back and ready <strong>to</strong> party! Squeezing all the fun of the first three Pigeon books in<strong>to</strong> one<br />
raucous production, this lively show for children 3 and up is full of fun, feathers, laughter and excitement and<br />
features original music and lots of audience participation. Meet the friendly hot dog man, Pigeon’s new friend<br />
Duckie and the lovable Knuffle Bunny! Can you s<strong>to</strong>p Pigeon driving the bus? Will he sh<strong>are</strong> the hot-dog? And<br />
after all <strong>that</strong> it’s time for bed, the Bus Driver wants Pigeon <strong>to</strong> go <strong>to</strong> bed, all his friends want him <strong>to</strong> go <strong>to</strong> bed,<br />
but the question is will you let him stay up late???<br />
Musical Numbers<br />
Just the Ticket (Bus Driver)<br />
Hot Dog Party! (Pigeon and Duckie)<br />
Five More Minutes (Pigeon)<br />
<strong>We</strong> Could Count the Stars (Pigeon and Duckie)<br />
Hot Dog Party! reprise (Pigeon and Duckie)<br />
Res<strong>our</strong>ces<br />
www.pigeonpresents.com<br />
(Games, info, teacher’s pack and print-outs)<br />
www.mowillems.com<br />
www.bigwoodenhorse.com<br />
30 NORTHFIELD ROAD, WEST EALING, LONDON W13 9SY, UK<br />
tel: +44(0)208 5678 431 email: info@bigwoodenhorse.com web: www.bigwoodenhorse.com
About Us<br />
BIG WOODEN HORSE THEATRE COMPANY aims <strong>to</strong> present high quality theatre <strong>to</strong> younger audiences<br />
across the United Kingdom and <strong>to</strong> represent the best of British theatre craft abroad. <strong>We</strong> believe <strong>that</strong> young<br />
people deserve highest quality of writing, performance and production <strong>that</strong> a professional theatre company<br />
can offer. The company's productions will always strive <strong>to</strong> both entertain and inform young people, drawing<br />
from different cultures and traditions <strong>to</strong> present entertaining and educational work.<br />
CAST AND CREW<br />
ED BURNSIDE (BUS DRIVER / HOT DOG MAN / DUCKIE)<br />
Ed trained as an ac<strong>to</strong>r gaining a BA Hons in Acting (First) at Italia Conti. He has<br />
<strong>to</strong>ured extensively. Notable credits include Twelfth Night (Stafford), Iphigenia at<br />
Aulis (Oxford Playhouse, dir. Helen Eastman), Marat Sade (dir. Philip Wilson),<br />
three years at the Edinburgh Festival winning a Fringe First for Jekyll (Adam<br />
House Theatre), Candide (Landor Theatre), Power (National Theatre, dir.<br />
Lindsay Posner), Mafeking! (Bridewell Theatre), The Tempest and Macbeth<br />
(T<strong>our</strong>s and New Players Theatre, <strong>We</strong>st End). He is co-Artistic Direc<strong>to</strong>r of Dorset<br />
Corset Theatre Company, directing and performing around the UK in their<br />
adaptations of Persuasion, Far From The Madding Crowd, Northanger Abbey<br />
and Under The Greenwood Tree. For Big Wooden Horse: The Night Before<br />
Christmas (Brigh<strong>to</strong>n Dome, Artsdepot and <strong>to</strong>ur: direc<strong>to</strong>r of the Arts Depot revival), Don't Let The Pigeon Stay<br />
up Late! (national <strong>to</strong>ur). Ed danced in Jane Campion's new film, Bright Star (choreographed by Jack Murphy)<br />
and most recently, played Max/Erich in Imaginary Forces' highly acclaimed new play, The Iron Eyelashes,<br />
(Dublin and Brigh<strong>to</strong>n Festivals and <strong>to</strong>ur).<br />
NATHAN GUY (PIGEON)<br />
Nathan began his training at Aberystwyth University of Wales before graduating<br />
with his Masters degree from Central School of Speech & Drama. Theatre<br />
credits include: Silly Billy in Jack & the Beanstalk (Civic Theatre, Chelmsford),<br />
Stingy in Lazy Town Live & Lazy Town Live Pirate Adventure! (UK T<strong>our</strong>s) Idle<br />
Jack in Dick Whitting<strong>to</strong>n (The Hexagon, Reading), Pigeon in Dont Let the Pigeon<br />
Stay Up Late! (UK T<strong>our</strong>), Will Scarlet in Robin Hood (The Connaught, Worthing),<br />
The Gruffalo/Preda<strong>to</strong>rs in The Gruffalo’s Child (UK T<strong>our</strong>), Whiff in Whiff (Peoples<br />
Theatre, Newcastle), Muddles in Sleeping Beauty (The Connaught, Worthing),<br />
Ertaozi in Love is Verticle (Corn Exchange Newbury & The Maltings Farnham),<br />
Billy in The Snow Dragon (UK, USA & Polish T<strong>our</strong>), Owl in The Owl & the<br />
Pussycat (UK T<strong>our</strong>) both productions for Tall S<strong>to</strong>ries, Punch in Topsy Turvy (Baron’s C<strong>our</strong>t Theatre), Hansel<br />
in Hansel & Gretel (UK T<strong>our</strong>), Joe in The Selfish Giant (UK T<strong>our</strong>) and Prince Tristan in Goblins Don’t Sc<strong>are</strong><br />
Us (New End Theatre, Hampstead). TV, Film & credits Include: Prince Ot<strong>to</strong> in Genie in the House Series 2<br />
for Nickelodeon, Toby in the short film Schools Out, Bubble Gum Boy in the short Stray Balloon and more<br />
recently Nathan completed shooting his first feature Three Minute Moments playing the role of Tom opposite<br />
Belinda Lang.<br />
CJ (Company Stage Manager)<br />
CJ originally hails from sunny Los Angeles, CA where she first discovered her passion for theatre before<br />
moving <strong>to</strong> England <strong>to</strong> study. She received her BA (Hons) degree in Stage Management and Technical<br />
Theatre from GSA Conserva<strong>to</strong>ire and her BA (Hons) in Film and Media Production from London Southbank<br />
University. She has worked on the technical side of many shows including, Chaplin: A Memory as<br />
<strong>Entertainment</strong>, The S<strong>to</strong>rm, The Importance of Being Earnest, Cold Comfort Farm, The Secret Garden and<br />
the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre’s Pan<strong>to</strong>mime of Jack and the Beanstalk. This is her second year with Big<br />
Wooden Horse Theatre Company where she has stage managed the US <strong>to</strong>ur of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive<br />
the Bus and the UK <strong>to</strong>urs of The Night Before Christmas and Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!<br />
30 NORTHFIELD ROAD, WEST EALING, LONDON W13 9SY, UK<br />
tel: +44(0)208 5678 431 email: info@bigwoodenhorse.com web: www.bigwoodenhorse.com
CREATIVES<br />
MO WILLEMS (Author)<br />
Mo began his c<strong>are</strong>er as a writer and anima<strong>to</strong>r for PBS’ Sesame<br />
Street, where he garnered 6 Emmy Awards for his writing. During<br />
his nine seasons at Sesame Street, Mo also served as a weekly<br />
commenta<strong>to</strong>r for BBC Radio and created two animated series,<br />
Nickelodeon’s The Off-Beats and Car<strong>to</strong>on Network’s Sheep in<br />
the Big City. While serving as head writer for Car<strong>to</strong>on Network’s<br />
#1 rated show, Codename: Kids Next Door, Mo began writing<br />
and drawing books for children. His debut effort, Don’t Let the<br />
Pigeon Drive the Bus! became a New York Times Bestseller and<br />
was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 2004. The following year<br />
Knuffle Bunny: a Cautionary Tale was awarded a Caldecott<br />
Honor. The sequel, Knuffle Bunny Too: a Case of Mistaken<br />
Identity garnered Mo his third Caldecott Honor in 2008. In<br />
addition <strong>to</strong> picture books, Mo created the Elephant and Piggie<br />
books, a series of “Easy Readers”, which were awarded the<br />
Theodor Suess Geisel Medal in 2008 and 2009, and an illustrated memoir of his year-long trip around the<br />
world in 1990-91 entitled You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons. Mo’s drawings, wire<br />
sculptures, and ceramics (done in collaboration with his father) have exhibited in numerous galleries and<br />
museums across the nation and his graphic s<strong>to</strong>ry about his family experiences during 9/11 for DC comics<br />
resides in the Library of Congress’ permanent collection. Mo can be heard on NPR’s All Things Considered<br />
where he occasionally serves as the broadcast’s ‘Radio Car<strong>to</strong>onist’. While no longer working in television,<br />
Mo voices and produces animated car<strong>to</strong>ons based on his books with <strong>We</strong>s<strong>to</strong>n Woods studios. The animated<br />
Knuffle Bunny was awarded Best Film during the New York International Children’s Film Festival in 2008 and<br />
received the Andrew Carnegie Medal in 2007. Mo lives in Massachusetts with his family.<br />
ADAM BAMPTON-SMITH (Writer/Direc<strong>to</strong>r)<br />
Adam founded Big Wooden Horse Theatre Company in 2003 <strong>to</strong> create theatre specifically for young<br />
audiences. He wrote and directed Pigeon Party! which has <strong>to</strong>ured the UK for the past year and is now due <strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>to</strong>ur the USA well in<strong>to</strong> 2011. For the company he has also written and produced The Legend of Perseus,<br />
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! and The Night Before Christmas. His<br />
show based on the first Pigeon book Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! <strong>to</strong>ured extensively throughout the<br />
UK and North America, where it spent for three extremely successful seasons. Adam also wrote and directed<br />
an adaptation of the L Frank Baum novel The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus which premiered in the UK<br />
this Christmas season.<br />
CLAIRE SUTHERLAND (Designer)<br />
Claire is an award winning Designer (IVCA Clarion 2008) who has worked with Theatre, Film and Opera<br />
Companies throughout the UK as a Set, Costume, Props Designer and Scenic Artist. Theatre design credits<br />
include: Holes, Theatre Royal Bath; Moll Flanders at Chatham Central Theatre; Lola, Trestle Theatre; The<br />
<strong>to</strong>wn of <strong>to</strong>tal darkness for Edcoms; The Just at White Bear Theatre; Fairytaleheart at The Old Red Lion and<br />
is the Youth Designer at The Circus Space. Claire has also worked with Chloe Lamford (2007 TMA Best<br />
Design Award) on theatre, film and opera projects over the past three years. These include The Full<br />
Monteverdi, a feature length opera film, Lola at Trestle Arts Base & The Magic Flute, English T<strong>our</strong>ing Opera.<br />
30 NORTHFIELD ROAD, WEST EALING, LONDON W13 9SY, UK<br />
tel: +44(0)208 5678 431 email: info@bigwoodenhorse.com web: www.bigwoodenhorse.com
WILL EVANS (Lighting Designer)<br />
Will trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Lighting design credits include: for Big Wooden<br />
Horse, Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!, The Tempest, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and The<br />
Legend of Perseus; for Tall S<strong>to</strong>ries How the Giraffe got its Neck, Monster Hits, Does A Monster Live Next<br />
Door?, Cat and No Mouse. Other lighting design credits include: The Music of Andrew Lloyd <strong>We</strong>bber,<br />
Showbiz Pops Orchestra/Really Useful Group; Thark, Upstairs at the Gatehouse/Hidden Pearl Productions;<br />
Big Space, Battersea Arts Centre; Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Bux<strong>to</strong>n Opera House; Honeymoon in Flames,<br />
Pauper’s Pit Theatre, Bux<strong>to</strong>n; Serenading Louie, RADA; Spend Spend Spend and 7 Lears (Birmingham<br />
School of Acting). Will also lit the popular jazz singer Cl<strong>are</strong> Teals’ Paradisi Carousel <strong>to</strong>ur in 2007. Re-lights<br />
include national <strong>to</strong>urs of: An Inspec<strong>to</strong>r Calls, PW Productions; Mine, War and Peace, Jane Eyre, Orestes<br />
and Kindertransport, Sh<strong>are</strong>d Experience; Street Trilogy, Theatre Absolute; HMS Pinafore, Carl Rosa Opera,<br />
Golden Boy, Broadway Productions; Something Else and The Snow Dragon and Snow White, Tall S<strong>to</strong>ries.<br />
Associate Lighting Design on The Gruffalo, Arts Theatre, London for Tall S<strong>to</strong>ries. Will is an Executive<br />
Member of the Association of Lighting Designers.<br />
SHOCK PRODUCTIONS (Music)<br />
Jon Fiber and Andy Shaw of Shock Productions have composed and recorded songs and sound effects for<br />
theatre since 1997. Current show highlights include, for Big Wooden Horse: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the<br />
Bus! UK and international <strong>to</strong>urs; Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!, UK <strong>to</strong>ur; The Night Before Christmas,<br />
UK <strong>to</strong>ur; The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, UK <strong>to</strong>ur. For Tall S<strong>to</strong>ries: Room on the Broom, UK & USA<br />
<strong>to</strong>ur; The Gruffalo, UK and international <strong>to</strong>urs; William’s Monster, UK and international <strong>to</strong>ur; How the Giraffe<br />
Got It’s Neck, UK <strong>to</strong>ur; Snow White, UK & USA <strong>to</strong>urs and sound design for David Wood’s production of The<br />
Tiger Who Came <strong>to</strong> Tea, UK <strong>to</strong>ur.<br />
GUY PICOT (Lyrics)<br />
Guy has written lyrics for the Big Wooden Horse shows Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and The Night<br />
Before Christmas, as well as the forthcoming The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. He also wrote lyrics<br />
for The Rabbit and The Hedgehog for Theatre Royal York. For TV Guy has written episodes of Bad Girls and<br />
Footballers’ Wives and was script associate on the <strong>We</strong>st End show Bad Girls The Musical. He has directed<br />
his own shows Bonnie in Brigh<strong>to</strong>n, People Who Don't Do Dinner Parties and The Christmas Present. He is<br />
currently developing a comedy drama TV project in LA.<br />
30 NORTHFIELD ROAD, WEST EALING, LONDON W13 9SY, UK<br />
tel: +44(0)208 5678 431 email: info@bigwoodenhorse.com web: www.bigwoodenhorse.com