amy rockson

actor

Amy will take on Titania, the beautiful Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is her SATTF debut.

Past Productions

2000 Season King Lear & A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Our very first Tobacco Factory Season began inauspiciously; an unknown company playing in a new and little known venue in a depressed inner city area of Bristol, our first Tuesday evening performance played to only 12 people. But in the second week The Independent gave almost half a page to an enthusiastic review of King Lear and the tide turned instantly.
Both the season’s productions were designed in period.

King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream

2001 Season - Measure for Measure & Coriolanus
We prepared a version of Measure for Measure to open our second season, which included a wholly new scene of 50 lines (a first-part introduction for Mariana and her back-story with Angelo) written by the playwright, Dominic Power. That this went completely unremarked by any of the critics we reckoned the highest compliment to Dominic’s ability to weave new material seamlessly into a classic text.
Measure for Measure was designed in period, Coriolanus relocated in the eighteenth century.

2002 Season – The Winter’s Tale & Twelfth Night
We set the first play in the period between 1890 and 1906. For the second we returned to 1600.

2003 Season – Troilus and Cressida & As You Like It
Thanks to a grant from the Fenton Trust we were able to increase our company of actors to 20 to produce the first play, which we set in the early years of the 2oth century (not actually in the 1st World War, as some critics assumed). For the second we again looked to eighteenth century classicism, this time to express its version of ‘pastoral’.

2004 Season – Macbeth & The Changeling
Towards the end of the 2003 season the company was invited to take its 2004 season to the Barbican in the Autumn following the spring openings at the Tobacco Factory. This would be the company’s first London transfer – a five-week residency in the Barbican’s Pit Theatre.
Both productions were designed in the early Jacobean period. Dominic Power provided a superb version of The Changeling, with one wholly new scene (which completed the story of the rivavlry between Antonio and Franciscus, and took Vermandero to the Madhouse towards the end of the play), together with many other smaller touches that strengthened the relationship between the play’s two plots. This version is available on request to the SATTF office.