Rosalind Parker -- Director
Rosalind Parker is the co-founder and Director of Rough Magicke Productions, which was formed with the principle aim of exploiting the musical element of theatre to engage the audience more directly with the visual narrative. We seek to create intimate and highly involving theatre which hopes to break down some of the elements of the ‘musical theatre’ genre which forces the connection between actor and audience to be one of spectacle and spectator.
With Rough Magicke Rosalind has directed and accompanied: Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Jan 06), and Company (Jul 06), Brecht’s Threepenny Opera (Jan 07), William Finn’s A New Brain (Jul 07) which toured Cambridge, Harlow, Stowmarket and Bedford, and Miller’s The Crucible (May 08) for which she composed an original score.
Rosalind is currently touring Rough Magicke’s latest project Songs for a New World in Harlow, Bishops Stortford, Cambridge, Newport, (Sept 08), and Birmingham, Loughborough, Warwick, Coventry (Oct 08), before bringing it back to Cambridge for a Christmas run.
In Cambridge, Rosalind was Assistant Director to Annie Castledine and Clive Mendus (from Theatre du Complicite) on the trienial Cambridge Greek Play The Medea, Cambridge Arts Theatre (Oct 07).
A choral scholar in Clare College Choir, Rosalind made her opera directing debut with Clare College Music Society’s production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (May 07). The following year she was invited back by the CCMS to direct Puccini’s Gianni Schicci (May 08). Rosalind has recently been appointed Director for the newly founded Ardente Opera Company, with whom she will direct Hindemith’s Morder, Hoffnung der Frauen and Sancta Susanna in Cambridge, (Dec 08) and St. James’s, Piccadilly (Jan 09). Other directing credits within the university include Sweet Charity with FitzTheatre (April 08) and Shakespeare Shorts for the Clare Alumni Literary Festival (June 08).
Rosalind has explored various dynamics of the relationship between music and theatre, as the Musical Consultant on Little Red Things for Gomito Productions (an ensemble company which employ physical theatre, mime, puppetry and live music to tell their stories) which recieved ***** from Three Weeks in Edinburgh Fringe 06, and was long listed for a Total Theatre Award. The sequel, The Sundragon, is currently on a National tour (venues including the Lyric Hammersmith, London).
