‘Someone has always been there before…’
What place does woodland hold in our hearts? Do we go there to get lost or be found? Whose Woods These Are celebrates the precious and timeless world of the forest, embracing its romance, darkness and fragility through interweaved stories and music. Sally Hodgkiss and Niall Ashdown invite you to lose yourself in this tender and playful love letter to the woods.
"Sally Hodgkiss is a performer of raw honesty, wry irony, detail, charm and wit." Simon Stephens, internationally renowned Olivier-Award winning playwright
"Niall Ashdown is exquisite." The Independent.
Sally Hodgkiss
Sally Hodgkiss is an award-winning actor, writer and comedian.
Born and raised in the North-West of England, Sally moved to London to attend drama school where she now lives and performs regularly on the comedy circuit, most recently as a guest at The Comedy Store with Paul Merton & Suki Webster. Other notable comedy credits include The Comedy Store Players, Whose Line is it Anyway? Live and The Stephen Frost Impro Allstars.
Her acting career has taken her to many theatres around the UK including the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sheffield Crucible, Octagon Theatre Bolton, HOME, and Theatre Royal Plymouth among others. She also has extensive screen experience including several short films and features, such as It Could Happen To You which was selected for the New York Short Film Festival 2021. She has worked for the BBC several times both on screen and for radio.
Sally was chosen to take part in a highly acclaimed Royal Court Theatre Playwriting Group, and has gone on to write various pieces for stage and screen.
Niall Ashdown
Niall Ashdown is an English comedian, actor, improvisor and writer.
He has previously improvised in such television shows as Lifegame, Animo, Improbable Tales at the Nottingham Playhouse, Impropera and with the Comedy Store Players. He has written and performed two acclaimed solo shows, Hungarian Bird Festival and The Man Who Would Be Sting and is in Note to Tale, a work with the improvising classical quintet Between the Notes. He is also part of Impropera - a group who improvise operas based on suggestions from the audience.
Ashdown has also appeared in Whose Line is it Anyway, Chambers, Swiss Toni, Outnumbered and, as writer/performer, Barking and Confessions, and was in the original British version of Whose Line is it Anyway?
He has co-written and was included in two series of Losers for BBC Radio 4 and in the radio play, Tunnel Vision and has previously written poetry for Radio 3's The Verb. He is also the voice of Match of the Day's Thunderbird puppet Alan Hansen.
Location: The Crown House
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