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Melly Still 
 
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Meet Melly Still
 
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Melly's Career
 
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Melly's Career

Melly Still has worked extensively in theatre, taking on the roles of director and co-director, designer, movement director, choreographer, adaptor and even yoga instructor! She has worked on many productions at the Young Vic Theatre in London, including the much-acclaimed Grimm Tales, a production that toured Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand in 1996. Melly has also worked on two theatre productions based on novels by Salman Rushdie. She designed and co-devised Haroun and the Sea of Stories for the Royal National Theatre in 1998, and in 2003, she was designer and choreographer for the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Midnight's Children.

In Beasts and Beauties, Melly took on the three roles of adaptor, director and designer. Poet Carol Ann Duffy translated and retold the eight fairy tales, but Melly (with Tim Supple) had the task of adapting the stories for the stage. Once she had done this, she started to think about direction and the design of set and costumes, a process that mostly took place in a model box in her mind.

Because of the critical success of Beasts and Beauties, Melly was invited back to the Bristol Old Vic to direct and design the upcoming production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She is currently working on this play, which will be performed around Christmas 2004.

 

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Productions
Beasts and Beauties
The Ensemble
Staging Miracles
Fable To Stage
Music
Wardrobe
Props
Beauty and the Beast
Storytelling
Design
Direction
Introduction
Toby and the Wolf
Issues
Literary Tale
Once Upon A Time
Tales of the Past and Continuity
Connections: Matt Wilde Assistant Director | Giles Cadle Set Designer | Jon Morrell Costume Designer | Nicholas Hytner Director
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