LITTLE BEAST — 2024
Our debut play Little Beast is a creative retelling the fascinating and tumultuous life of Lady Caroline Lamb, a woman whose defiance and love affair with poet Lord Byron captivated and scandalised her contemporaries.
We bring the past forward by introducing a modern counterpart. A woman of the same name born two hundred years later. Both worlds: the modern and the past, are places where the boundaries for passion and propriety are starkly drawn, but constantly transgressed. We meet Lady Caroline Lamb and Caro at the peak of their youth. Audiences will witness her passionate and ill-fated romance with Byron, a relationship which ignites both her creativity and her descent into madness.
Little Beast is an exploration of the human spirit’s resilience. We invite audiences to reflect on the timeless struggle for personal freedom and the price of nonconformity.
PEOPLE
CREATIVE TEAM
Gina McTeague
Director
Bryony Barclay, Isabella Iversen
Writers
Philippine Lazare
Choreographer
Valentina Bordeu
Costume Designer
Manon Vernier
Graphic Designer
Matis de Broissia
Teaser Filmmaker
Emilia Barclay
Photographer
CAST
Bryony Barclay
William Lamb
Valentina Bordeu
Caro
Isabella Iversen
Little G
Philippine Lazare
Lady Caroline Lamb
Gina McTeague
The Doctor
Manon Vernier
Lord Byron
GALLERY
REVIEWS
THE FERNYHOUGH ARTS REVIEWS
Combining traditional theatre, physical theatre and experimental theatre, this work hits the creative bullseye with everything it sets out to achieve. Tonally it flawlessly shifts from drama, to tragedy, to dark humour in the flick of a big haired heiress’s fan.
THE SMU REVIEWS
This inventive, original production succeeds on all fronts. The all-female cast are fantastic (…), the script is witty and perfectly paced (…). The direction and choreography, however, is perhaps the most unexpectedly welcome element of the show.
I would heartily recommend giving this wonderful production your time.
THANK YOU
A MASSIVE THANK YOU
TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Amanda Baker ; Emilia and Julianne Barclay ; Xavier Bouyoux ; Maria Carter Hampshire ; Hortense and Florence Chavancy ; James Dickinson, Robert Gilson ; Linda Holmgren (Swann Entertainment) ; Ben and Lachlan Iversen ; Bertrand, Jérome and the Lazare family ; Anne, Béatrice and Louis-Michel Liger-Belair ; Maureen Lippitt ; Nicky McDiarmid ; the de Montalembert family ; Leila Murat ; Gregory Rybak ; Len and Barbara Steffen ; Ida Swann (Swann Entertainment) ; Lina Taylor ; Lucas Torres ; Ondine Vernier ; Mary Wyllie.
SPECIAL THANKS
FOR THEIR SUPPORT
Anagha Ajay ; Emilia Barclay ; Fabian Bevan and the Bang Gang ; Matis de Broissia ; Cédric Leffray ; Laurent de Montalembert and the FONACT family ; Ramsey Pagget, Marc Proulx.
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