#Mandi Symonds

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Scrubbers, Mai Zetterling (1982)

[witchytrina]

Daise Congar: A WOMAN

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Scrubbers | Mai Zetterling | 1982

Rachel Weaver, Imogen Bain, Kathy Burke, Anna Mackeown, Pauline Melville, Brian Croucher, Caroline Needs, Mandi Symonds, Honey Bane, Kate Ingram, Elizabeth Edmonds, Dawn Archibald, et al.

[liza-rph]

Under the cut are 7 gifs (250x160) of Mandi Symonds, who plays Daise Congar on Season 1, Episode 1 of The Wheel of Time live-action series on Amazon Prime Video. She is an English actress of unspecified mixed racial background. (Some GIFs contain the images/appearances of Zoë Robins and Madeleine Madden.)

All these gifs were made from scratch by me, and are mainly for roleplaying purposes. Please DO NOT repost or claim as your own, as well as add them to gif hunts._ If you wish to edit or resize them, please inform me about it beforehand._

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[theblacktower]

Mandi Symonds has joined the cast as Daise Congar.

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Women on the Globe stages 2018-2019. 

To celebrate International Women's Day 2019, we've gathered together pictures of some (there are many more) of the women who have graced our stages recently.

Behind the stage, many of the designers, directors and other creatives on these productions were also women.

Who is your favourite female theatre maker? 

[danbenzvi]

Just listened to: “Doctor Who: The Legacy Of Time”

Time is collapsing. Incidents of chaos and devastation are appearing throughout the lives of one Time Lord and his many friends – all fallout from one terrible disaster. From Earth’s past and present to timeless alien worlds, from the cloisters of Gallifrey into the Vortex itself... The Doctor must save universal history – and he needs all the help he can get.

 1. Lies in Ruins by James Goss

On a strange ruined world, a renowned archaeologist opens an ancient tomb. Only to find another archaeologist got there first. Professors Summerfield and Song unite to solve a mystery. Then the Eighth Doctor arrives, and things really become dangerous. Because their best friend isn’t quite the man River and Benny remember…

Starring Paul McGann as The Doctor, Alex Kingston as Professor River Song and Lisa Bowerman as Professor Bernice “Benny” Summerfield.

Guest starring Alexandria Riley as Ria, Okezie Morro as Scavenger Captain and Beth Chalmers as Scavenger.  All other parts played by members of the cast.

 2. The Split Infinitive by John Dorney

A criminal gang appears to have recruited a member with time-bending powers. It’s a case for the Counter-Measures team – in the 1960s and the 1970s! The Seventh Doctor and Ace have their work cut out to save the day twice over, and make sure Gilmore, Rachel and Allison don’t collide with their past, or their future.

Starring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace, Simon Williams as Group Captain Ian Gilmore, Pamela Salem as Professor Rachel Jensen, Karen Gledhill as Dr. Allison Williams and Hugh Ross as Sir Tobias “Toby” Kinsella.

Also starring Vince Leigh as Kazan and Glen McCready as Vince.  All other parts played by members of the cast.

 3. The Sacrifice of Jo Grant by Guy Adams

When pockets of temporal instability appear in a Dorset village, UNIT are called in. Soon, Kate Stewart and Jo Jones find themselves working alongside the Third Doctor, while Osgood battles to get them home. But this isn’t the first time UNIT has faced this threat. Only before, it seems that Jo Grant didn’t survive...

Starring Tim Treloar as The Doctor, Katy Manning as Josephine “Jo” Jones, Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart and Ingrid Oliver as Osgood.

Also starring Nicholas Briggs as Lieutenant Wallace.  All other roles played by members of the cast.

 4. Relative Time by Matt Fitton

Disaster strikes inside the Time Vortex, and the Fifth Doctor is thrown together with someone from his future… someone claiming to be his daughter! Kleptomaniac Time Lord, the Nine, believes it’s his chance to steal something huge. But Jenny just wants her dad to believe in her.

Starring Peter Davison as The Doctor and Georgia Tennant as Jenny.

Also starring John Heffernan as The Nine, Ronni Ancona as Thana, Mandi Symonds as Captain and Christian Brassington as Mr. Grigorian.  All other roles played by members of the cast.

 5. The Avenues of Possibility by Jonathan Morris

DI Patricia Menzies is used to the strange, but even she is surprised when the eighteenth century itself falls onto her patch. Fortunately, she has the founders of modern policing to help with her enquiries. And when the Sixth Doctor and Charley arrive, they find armed and hostile forces trying to change Earth history forever.

Starring Colin Baker as The Doctor, India Fisher as Charlotte “Charley” Pollard and Anna Hope as DI Patricia Menzies.

Also starring Richard Hansell as John Fielding, Duncan Wisbey as Henry Fielding, Delroy Atkinson as Wadmore and Sara Poyzer as Stables.  All other roles were played by members of the cast.

 6. Collision Course by Guy Adams

Fallout from the temporal distortions has now reached Gallifrey. To find the cause, Leela and Romana remember travels with the Fourth Doctor to the same world, at different times. The enemy is revealed, and it may take more than one Doctor to prevent the destruction of everything!

Starring Tom Baker as The Doctor, Louise Jameson as Leela and Lalla Ward as Romana.

Special guest stars Tim Treloar as The Doctor, Peter Davison as The Doctor, Colin Baker as The Doctor, Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, Paul McGann as The Doctor and Lisa Bowerman as Professor Bernice “Benny” Summerfield.

Also starring Alan Cox as Tompino, Richard Earl as Punshon and Rebecca Kilgarriff as Ankarrie.  All other parts played by members of the cast.

Plus two additional discs worth of behind the scenes material.

[Standard spoiler policy in effect here: if it’s something mentioned on the Big Finish website, it’s not a spoiler.]

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The filmmaker behind massive hits like “Independence Day" and “The Patriot” has locked in a filming location for a remake of the 1976 movie “Midway," starring Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda, about the decisive 1942 naval battle that became a turning point for U.S. forces in the war in the Pacific.

After scouting filming locations around Pearl Harbor, German director Roland Emmerich settled on Oahu, and will begin filming the $100-million blockbuster next month at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The same location was most recently used to film Cameron Crowe’s offensively awful film “Aloha,” starring Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone.

Woody Harrelson will be starring as the legendary Adm. Chester Nimitz, who, with the help of innovative U.S. codebreakers, foiled a Japanese ambush at Midway on June 4, 1942, less than a month after the conclusion of the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Luke Evans (“Beauty and the Beast,” “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women”) will star as Cmdr. Wade McClusky, who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Midway. Mandy Moore and Patrick Wilson have also been confirmed for roles in the film, which is expected to be released sometime in late 2019.

Navy officials have emphasized that Emmerich and crew, a team that includes Mark Gordon, who assisted with the production of “Saving Private Ryan,” “are dead-set on making sure it’s a historically accurate [film],” the Star-Advertiser reported. Last month, a call went out for local military members and their families to serve as extras in the film, a request that received almost 1,500 responses.

Filming is also expected to take place in Canada, among other potential locations.

Knowing when and where the enemy planned to attack in June 1942 allowed Adm. Nimitz to dispatch the carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown to ambush the unsuspecting Japanese navy. Aircraft from the three U.S. ships would wind up sinking four of Japan’s lead carriers, a devastating blow that decimated Japanese dominance at sea and allowed U.S. forces to go on the offensive in the Pacific.

The Yorktown was damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea and limped into Pearl Harbor only eight days before Midway. But with battle imminent, she was quickly patched up and prepared for a fight after 1,400 shipyard workers spent 72 hours readying the carrier, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

“There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway,” author Craig Symonds wrote in his book, “The Battle of Midway.” “At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever.”

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The filmmaker behind massive hits like “Independence Day" and “The Patriot” has locked in a filming location for a remake of the 1976 movie “Midway,“ starring Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda, about the decisive 1942 naval battle that became a turning point for U.S. forces in the war in the Pacific.

After scouting filming locations around Pearl Harbor, German director Roland Emmerich settled on Oahu, and will begin filming the $100-million blockbuster next month at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The same location was most recently used to film Cameron Crowe’s offensively awful film “Aloha,” starring Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone.

Woody Harrelson will be starring as the legendary Adm. Chester Nimitz, who, with the help of innovative U.S. codebreakers, foiled a Japanese ambush at Midway on June 4, 1942, less than a month after the conclusion of the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Luke Evans (“Beauty and the Beast,” “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women”) will star as Cmdr. Wade McClusky, who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Midway. Mandy Moore and Patrick Wilson have also been confirmed for roles in the film, which is expected to be released sometime in late 2019.

Navy officials have emphasized that Emmerich and crew, a team that includes Mark Gordon, who assisted with the production of “Saving Private Ryan,” “are dead-set on making sure it’s a historically accurate [film],” the Star-Advertiser reported. Last month, a call went out for local military members and their families to serve as extras in the film, a request that received almost 1,500 responses.

Filming is also expected to take place in Canada, among other potential locations.

Knowing when and where the enemy planned to attack in June 1942 allowed Adm. Nimitz to dispatch the carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown to ambush the unsuspecting Japanese navy. Aircraft from the three U.S. ships would wind up sinking four of Japan’s lead carriers, a devastating blow that decimated Japanese dominance at sea and allowed U.S. forces to go on the offensive in the Pacific.

The Yorktown was damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea and limped into Pearl Harbor only eight days before Midway. But with battle imminent, she was quickly patched up and prepared for a fight after 1,400 shipyard workers spent 72 hours readying the carrier, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

“There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway,” author Craig Symonds wrote in his book, “The Battle of Midway.” “At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever.”

September 12, 2018

[scifi4wifi]

Big FInish Audio Review: 'Doctor Who - The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles'

Big FInish Audio Review: ‘Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles’

The Twelfth Doctor is played and narrated by vocal chameleon Jake Dudman in this new set of adventures, featuring some familiar voices from the Twelfth Doctors TV exploits.

The Charge of the Night Brigade by David Llewellyn

The Doctor arrives in the rat infested Chimera, 1855, where Mary Seacole (Mandi Symonds) has opened up the “British Hotel”, where she tends over the wounded and hungry…

[cinema-neilton1962]

Some minor casting has been announced by wotonprime on twitter. From left to right. . Juliet Howland as Natti Cauthon Christopher Sciueref as Abell Cauthon Mandi Symonds as Daise Conger Michael Tuahine as Bran al'Vere David Sterne as Cenn Buie Lolita Chakrabarti as Marin al'Vere Not expecting to much from these lot. Probably only in the first episode and a few lines. Credits:@wheeloftimeunofficial (em Tijuca, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG_7c7IjnWG/?igshid=1ovpi1u0l54qr

[ozu-teapot]

Scrubbers | Mai Zetterling | 1982

Kathy Burke, Eva Mottley, Anna Mackeown, Mandi Symonds, Faith Tingle, Amanda York, Dawn Archibald, Imogen Bain, et al.

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Under the cut are 56 gifs (250x160) of Zoë Robins, who plays Nynaeve al’Meara on Season 1, Episode 1 of The Wheel of Time live-action series on Amazon Prime Video. She is a New Zealander actress of Nigerian descent, so please cast her accordingly.  (Some GIFs contain the images/appearances of Madeleine Madden, Mandi Symonds, and Rosamund Pike.)

All these gifs were made from scratch by me, and are mainly for roleplaying purposes. Please DO NOT repost or claim as your own, as well as add them to gif hunts._ _If you wish to edit or resize them, please inform me about it beforehand.

Please like or reblog if you are using/saving them, or spreading the resource.

(TW: drinking, violence, gore, and blood in some gifs)

[judechristian]

Dark Night of the Soul

By Athena Stevens, Lily Bevan, Amanda Wilkin, Katie Hims, Rachael Spence and Lisa Hammond

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, January 2019

Cast: Athena Stevens, Lily Bevan, Amanda Wilkin, Rachael Spence, Lisa Hammond, Pauline McLynn, Mandi Symonds, Alistair Toovey, Lucie Sword, Louis Maskell, Jay Villiers, Wendy Kweh

Production photographer: Helen Murray

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BOOM by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Directed by Katherine Nesbitt Presented by Announcement Productions and Theatre503 Theatre 503, The Latchmere pub 2-26 August “I have erections at the most inappropriate times” Spike Milligan, comedy genius, poet and writer of most of the Goon shows was performing at the Wolverhampton Grand in the ‘fag’ end days of Variety. His ‘turn’ had not gone down well. He took it very badly and tried to commit suicide with a potato peeler. Peter Sellers, his friend, was horrified. In reaction Sellers went on stage dressed as a lion tamer. He plonked down a gramophone player and proceeded to play a record of Florence Foster Jenkin’s. He was met with deafening silence. As Sellers went into the wings the Management promptly fired him. Sellers telegraphed his agent the next day: “audience with us all the way, managed to shake them off at the station”. I like to think that Peter Sinn Nachtrieb might like this story. Certainly, as he was growing up he watched Monty Python obsessively- and the Python team in turn cited the Goons as being an enormously important influence. In his play ‘Boom’ Nachtrieb uses that same sort of surrealistic, existential and wacky sense of humour to carry his work. Jules, a sometime student of biological sciences, places an ad in the personal columns offering, “sex to change the course of the world”. A reply comes from Jo an attractive young woman who is expecting a night of unrequited passion. Instead she is drawn into a post-apocalyptic world that neither of them can control. The writer avers that it was his intention to write a piece that was both ‘epic and intimate’. And certainly, the question of what role the Fish bowl plays or the Woman in corner is doing is left open to interpretation. So, yes ‘Boom’ is entertaining and has many ‘laugh out loud ‘moments but it doesn’t real hang together as a play. It’s simply too staccato. It jabs at you rather than impressing with an overall ark. The performances cannot be faulted. Will Merrick as Jules does a sterling job of holding the piece together. He oozes class and comic perception. He can take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. Nicole Sawyerr’s Jo grows on you. I wasn’t sure of her at the beginning but she revels in the many layers of the character she reveals. Mandi Symonds’ Barbara has some of the most startling moments in the piece. Her speech at the end of the play is a ‘tour de force’. Katherine Nesbitt’s direction is to be praised. She has the ability to make you listen to the profound while a man is taking his pants off. Quite an achievement. Right at the end, and after the applause for the Actors, someone at the end of our row said, very loudly, ‘different!’. It raised the biggest laugh of the night. My companion, sitting in seat 61, felt strongly that the line was scripted by Nachtrieb and voiced by a member of the cast. Thinking about it she may be right. Certainly, Spike Milligan would have approved. Theatre 503, at The Latchmere, 503 Battersea Park Rd, London SW11 3BW TIME: 7.45pm Duration: 90 minutes (no interval) Weds. 9th August: Parent & Baby Friendly Matinee, 12midday Weds. 16th August: Relaxed Performance, 3pm Tickets £15/£12 (Previews and Wed. Matinees £10. Sat. Matinees Pay What You Can) Box Office: https://theatre503.com/whats-on/boom/ Reviewer Richard Braine is actor, director and playwright. As an Actor he has worked extensively throughout the country including Chichester Festival Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, and Stephen Joseph Theatre in Yorkshire. His Television and Film credits include: “Calendar Girls”, “Pride, Prejudice and Zombies”, “Finding Neverland”, “Bridget Jones”, “Suspicions of Mr Whicher”, “Mr Selfridge” and many years ago Gussie Fink-Nottle in “Jeeves and Wooster”. He has also filmed over 150 Commercials all over the world. He has directed the European premiere of Sternheim/Martin “The Underpants” at The Old Red Lion Theatre and written three plays: “Being There with Sellers”, “Bedding Clay Jones” and “Sexing Alan Titchmarsh”.

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There is a ‘boom’ in Boom – let’s get that out of the way. But it was as though the narrator in this most American play, Barbara (a bombastic Mandi Symonds), had been doing television shows for many years, and without the watchful eye of the Federal Communications Commission, the US regulator for broadcast media, now finds herself doing theatre, so she can swear to her heart’s content without being bleeped or worse still, fined. So Boom deploys the word ‘motherf– — er’ repeatedly, mostly, as far as I could tell, because it can. The first few times were amusing enough, but it gradually gets increasingly unfunnier, much like the show as a whole.

It’s like a train that’s run out of steam before limping into its terminus station, with a part-philosophical and part-self- congratulatory epilogue, taking the form of a monologue from Barbara that seemed to go on for longer than the average-length sermon in a local parish church on a Sunday morning would. Fairly recently, an actor told me that “people like their shows [to be] grounded” – this one is, I’m sorry to report, dramaturgically all over the place.

Rather like the 1728 satire The Beggar’s Opera, there’s a reprieve from a sad ending, because Barbara is able to pull the levers, in more ways than one, in such a way that has a direct impact on the show’s proceedings. This ‘anything goes’ approach is not disappointing in its own right, but the main problem with it is the missed opportunities as the play’s fullest potential is never realised.

There’s some great acting from the two main characters, Jules (Will Merrick) and Jo (Nicole Sawyerr), who make the best with what they’re given. But, goodness me, they’re not given much.

“Really? Again?” I thought to myself as it became clear the play explores the end of the world. How (un)original. There have been more than enough dystopian plays, books and motion pictures over the years – does the London stage really need another one? There’s not much this play adds to the canon of post-apocalyptic theatre, save for some witty punchlines in the awkwardness between Jules and Jo that pervades the plot from beginning to end.

Barbara’s inability to properly express herself results in missing words from sentences and exaggerated expressions, which will have worked better on a larger stage but in the studio space of Theatre503 (wonderful as it is), it’s overkill, to be blunt. Even so, Mandi Symonds is delightful in the role, and I wonder if this would work better as a one-woman show. There are glimpses of her life outside directing what essentially is a play within the play, and the character development could be substantially deeper if the show were really stripped back.

As it is, there are some mildly humorous observations about the limitations of budgetary (and other) constraints on this production. The stop-start, freeze-frame nature of the play makes it sluggish, however. “Please make this night worth surviving”, Jo pleads, bless her. It’s a bit of a stretch to say I shared Jo’s wish to be taken either by her own hand or that of Jules, but I did find it a struggle to maintain interest throughout. A talented cast is let down by an almost tortuously meandering script.

If there’s anything to be taken away from this bizarre and unfocused play, it’s that not even the end of the world can stop ruthless and cutthroat management styles from continuing to rear their ugly heads.

Review by Chris Omaweng

Jules, a marine biologist, placed a personals ad offering “sex to change the course of the world”. Jo replied and has come to Jules�� lab expecting a hot night of no strings sex. But this is no casual encounter, it has evolutionary significance and the future of the human race hangs in the balance. Will they survive? Will we survive? What’s with the fish tank? And who is the strange woman in the corner? Cast: Will Merrick (The Rack Pack (BBC), Skins (E4)), Nicole Sawyerr & Mandi Symonds (1984, West End)

Announcement Productions in association with Theatre503 presents BOOM Running Time: 1hr 35 mins Written by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Directed by Katherine Nesbitt

ARTISTIC TEAM WRITER – Peter Sinn Nachtrieb DIRECTOR – Katherine Nesbitt PRODUCER – Ian Melding DESIGNER – Nicola Blackwell LIGHTING DESIGNER – Robbie Butler SOUND DESIGNER – Callum Wyles

CAST JULES – Will Merrick JO – Nicole Sawyerr BARBARA – Mandi Symonds

Booking to 26th August 2017 https://theatre503.com/

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