MAKING IT!
About Making It!
Jess dreams of treading the boards. Pilar's aiming for supermarket drama. Bronwyn's gone viral on YouTube. A roll-call of hilarious characters comes to life in Davina Leonard’s fresh, poignant one-woman comedy drama about making it as an actress.
Jess dreams of treading the boards. Pilar's aiming for supermarket drama. Bronwyn's gone viral on YouTube. A roll-call of hilarious characters comes to life in Davina Leonard’s fresh, poignant one-woman comedy drama about making it as an actress.
Making It! was first performed at the Camden Fringe festival in 2013, and then played at the London Theatre and the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, before its hugely-successful run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014 at the Assembly George Square (Box Theatre) where it played to full houses. Since 2016, Making It! has successfully toured the world, starting in East Africa, where it played to sell-out houses in 2016 and 2017.
Jess is determined to be a bright new force on the London stage. BAFTAs surely await. But for now the only boards she treads are at the cafe where she works. Pilar wants to act in a supermarket. And Bronwyn’s gone viral on YouTube. Jess carries us on her irrepressible comic journey through the dark heart of the drama industry via thankless crowd scenes on TV soaps, questionable auditions and pearls of wisdom from a pantomime horse. All she needs is an agent, a great part and the right stage. Poignant comedy theatre about making coffees and making it!
Making It! is written and performed by Davina Leonard, and directed by Rae McKen. Additional material from Giles Fernando.
Photography by Alice Fisher
Music by Kevin MacLeod, "SpyGlass" and "Improbable" available through Incompetech.com
Jess is determined to be a bright new force on the London stage. BAFTAs surely await. But for now the only boards she treads are at the cafe where she works. Pilar wants to act in a supermarket. And Bronwyn’s gone viral on YouTube. Jess carries us on her irrepressible comic journey through the dark heart of the drama industry via thankless crowd scenes on TV soaps, questionable auditions and pearls of wisdom from a pantomime horse. All she needs is an agent, a great part and the right stage. Poignant comedy theatre about making coffees and making it!
Making It! is written and performed by Davina Leonard, and directed by Rae McKen. Additional material from Giles Fernando.
Photography by Alice Fisher
Music by Kevin MacLeod, "SpyGlass" and "Improbable" available through Incompetech.com
About Davina Leonard:
Davina moved to London in 2012 from her country of birth, Kenya, where she performed at the Courtyard Theatre as Beverly in Abigail’s Party and as Isobel at the Phoenix Theatre in Fugard's My Children, My Africa! Making It! was Davina Leonard's first show as writer/performer. Most recently, she was Elizabeth North in Sanaa Award-winning play, A Man Like You, which toured to Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa and Hong Kong, and she performed the main role in Duncan Macmillan's multi-award-winning play Every Brilliant Thing to sell-out houses in an African Tour.
About Rae McKen:
Rae studied for her MA in Text and Performance at Kings College London and RADA. She was a recipient of the Channel 4 Regional Director’s Scheme. Rae is Artistic Director of Custom/Practice. As Director, theatre includes: As You Like It; The Malcontent; Romeo & Juliet; Macbeth (Custom/Practice); Gravity, Respect (Birmingham Rep); Jamie the Saxt (Finborough Theatre); Origin Unknown (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Airswimming (Salisbury Playhouse); Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home (mac and national tour); Women Beware Women (Landor Theatre)
Davina moved to London in 2012 from her country of birth, Kenya, where she performed at the Courtyard Theatre as Beverly in Abigail’s Party and as Isobel at the Phoenix Theatre in Fugard's My Children, My Africa! Making It! was Davina Leonard's first show as writer/performer. Most recently, she was Elizabeth North in Sanaa Award-winning play, A Man Like You, which toured to Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa and Hong Kong, and she performed the main role in Duncan Macmillan's multi-award-winning play Every Brilliant Thing to sell-out houses in an African Tour.
About Rae McKen:
Rae studied for her MA in Text and Performance at Kings College London and RADA. She was a recipient of the Channel 4 Regional Director’s Scheme. Rae is Artistic Director of Custom/Practice. As Director, theatre includes: As You Like It; The Malcontent; Romeo & Juliet; Macbeth (Custom/Practice); Gravity, Respect (Birmingham Rep); Jamie the Saxt (Finborough Theatre); Origin Unknown (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Airswimming (Salisbury Playhouse); Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home (mac and national tour); Women Beware Women (Landor Theatre)