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THIS MIGHT NOT BE IT

by Sophia Chetin-Leuner

Bush Theatre

30 January - 7 March 2024

"Set against the backdrop of the UK's deepening mental health crisis, this timely character piece focuses on the resilient, exhausted workers keeping our underfunded NHS functioning... Madden's measured staging handles the play's serious subject matter with finesse, while teasing out every bit of its dry gallows humour." - The Stage

 

"The relationship between [Angela, played by Debra Baker] and Denzel Baidoo's naive, hot headed, increasingly-disillusioned Jay is beautifully drawn in Ed Madden's subtly directed production. Each tentative step they take towards each other is observed with a quiet, touching truth." - The Telegraph 

 

"The setting is an NHS mental health clinic, but the beauty of this piece is that it speaks in a universal language about the way people find ways of co-existing in an office where space is tight and time is short. Small gestures are magnificed, resentments fester." - The Times

 

Design by Alys Whitehead

Lighting by Laura Howard

Sound by Max Pappenheim

 

Cast: Denzel Baidoo, Debra Baker, and Dolly Webb
 

Directing: About

adapted from Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Royal Opera House, Linbury Theatre

20 - 28 October 2023

Nominated for the National Dance Award for

Best Modern Choreography

"Beg, steal and borrow to get a ticket... The manner in which the movement and text interpreted and interpenetrated one another was itself a revelation. I have never before witnessed anything of that kind and at that level of intensity." - Dance Europe
 

"Sam Steiner's play, set in a world of rationed speech, lends itself to movement, and the dancers here also retain the dialogue, fusing the forms with quiet grace" - The Guardian

"A deft, witty staging." - Independent

"Dialogue, dance and music fuse effortlessly as the couple ride the changes in life and love... Hayward and Campbell as you have never seen them... A super 70 minutes of theatre, dance theatre, call it what you will" - Seeing Dance

Choreography by Kristen McNally

Text by Sam Steiner

Score by Isobel Waller-Bridge

Design by Anisha Fields

Lighting by Lee Curran

Sound by Max Pappenheim 

Casts: Alexander Campbell and Francesca Hayward; Jacob Wye and Hannah Rudd

THE LIMIT

Directing: About

OCTOPOLIS

by Marek Horn

Hampstead Theatre Downstairs

15 September - 28 October 2023


"Ed Madden's superb production is sensitive to both the thrilling ideas and shifting emotions of the play." - The Arts Desk

"Marek Horn's brilliant, intellectually demanding play... Madden's production is energised... Redgrave fascinates as the bereaved academic, Miller brings fierce intelligence to his role." - The Mail

"Horn's cerebreal writing is fascinating to listen to... An engrossing night with some superbly observed performances from Redgrave and Miller." - WhatsOnStage

"It can be funny, touching, and surprising, but fascination, here, is the priority... Madden directs the piece with an intellectual creativity, turning a very on-the-page script into something living and breathing." - Broadway World

 

"Where better than Hampstead to watch the interplay of   cutting-edge science with emotional intensity and philosophical unanswerables?" - Libby Purves

Design by Anisha Fields

Lighting by Jamie Platt
Sound by Esther Kehinde Ajayi

Cast: Jemma Redgrave, Ewan Miller

YELLOWFIN

by Marek Horn

Southwark Playhouse

13 October - 6 November 2021

Nominated for five Off-West End Awards, including for

Best New Play and Best Director.


"Ed Madden's traverse staging of Horn's interval-free text swims by beautifully... This world premiere run of the play is urgent, astute and persuasive." - The Times

"Madden's tidy production allows Horn's skilful wordplay to take centre stage... The climactic moments are superbly well constructed, leading to a delicious denouement. I guarantee you'll never look at a tin of tuna in quite the same way" - WhatsOnStage

"A rare glimpse of that vanishing species: the

play of ideas." - The Telegraph

"Sharp, tangy and truly hilarious... Much credit goes to director Ed Madden for showcasing and framing these performances with finesse, [finding] dynamism in exquisite pacing and in Pappenheim's sound world." - Exeunt

 

"Smart, funny, scary: an absolute bream of a play. An ace cast in a diamond production." - David Jays

Design by Anisha Fields

Lighting by Rajiv Pattani
Sound by Max Pappenheim

Cast: Nancy Crane, Nicholas Day, Joshua James, Beruce Khan

Directing: About

A NUMBER

by Caryl Churchill

The Other Room, Cardiff

13 Feb - 3 March 2018
 

"Madden's subtle production... Deftly

directed and performed." - The Stage

"A poised presentation of this beautifully

thoughtful tale" - British Theatre Guide

"More pertinent, more perceptive, and

more powerful than ever." - The Reviews Hub

Design by Carl Davies
Lighting by Joe Fletcher

Sound and Music by Tic Ashfield

Cast: Brendan Charleson and Stevie Raine

A TABLE TENNIS PLAY

by Sam Steiner

Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

1-25 August 2019


"Heartsore drama, vivid theatricality... In Ed Madden's production, every minute feels beautifully considered, and his cast smash it out of the park. " - Sunday Times

 

"Madden's production remains largely abstract; a perfect counter for characters that are so vividly drawn... An absolute ace." - WhatsOnStage

"In Ed Madden's beautifully judged, brilliantly acted production, a play that takes its time comes up like a bruise." - Fest

 

"You want to hang on to every last word." - Telegraph

Design by Lizzy Leech

Lighting by Charlotte Burton
Sound by Richard Bell

Cast: Beth Holmes, Euan Kitson and Rosa Robson

THE WORLD'S WIFE

by Tom Green and Carol Ann Duffy

Welsh National Opera and touring

15 October - 3 November 2017

"This stunning one-woman show... Skilfully

directed by Ed Madden." - The Arts Desk
 

"Simply staged... Amanda Forbes brilliantly turns from Medusa's fury to Anne Hathaway's tenderness to Salome's vampy vacuum cleaner cabaret." - The Times

"An intimate experience, painting the sharp wit and emotional push-me-pull-you of Duffys' poetry... Sensitively wrought." - The Stage

Design by Grace Smart

Lighting by Joe Price
Sound by Samuel Jones

Cast: Amanda Forbes and the Mavron Quartet

Directing: About

LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS

by Sam Steiner

Warwick Arts Centre / Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Festival Fringe / Roundabout at Summerhall / UK Tour 

2015-17

"I don't even want to think about how young this company is... About as promising as debuts get." - Time Out

 

"Beautifully choreographed by

director Ed Madden." - The Guardian

"An intelligent, confident, beautifully formed 

piece of theatrical metaphor... Madden's

subtle, effective production." - Fest

Cast: Beth Holmes and Euan Kitson

Directing: About
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