United Kingdom
Productions directed:
RAIN SNAKES – P.O. Enquist British premiere
Nordlys at Young Vic, London, 1996
Cast: Sian Thomas, Imogen Claire, Robert David MacDonald, Jason Morell
Designer: Kathy Strachan Lighting designer: Joe Lewis
Choreographer: Imogen Claire
Critics' Choice - Time Out
WAITING FOR GODOT - S. Beckett
Contact Theatre, Manchester, 1996
Cast: Ciaran McIntyre, Ged McKenna, John Quinn, Stephen Ventura, Nitzan Sharron
Designer: Bernadette Roberts Lighting designer: Simon Mills
Dambæk has ensured that this difficult work, as famous for its pauses as it is for its prose, is given a quality production at Contact Theatre - The Stage
HAPPY DAYS - S. Beckett
Citizens´ Theatre, Glasgow, 1992
Cast: Anne Myatt, Derwent Watson
Designer: Rosa Maggiora Lighting designer: Mike Lancaster
Dambæk´s great achievement is to humanise the play and ensure that palpable emotion floods the auditorium by the end. This was a revelatory production - The Sunday Times
THE TELEVISION PROGRAMME - M. Vinaver British premiere
Gate Theatre, London,1992
Cast: Joanna Bacon, Anastasia Malinoff, Guy Burgess, John Muirhead, Di Langford, Esther Turnage, Devon Scott, Alistair Cording, Marva Alexander, Toby Whithouse
Designer: Kathy Strachan Costumes: Bernadette Roberts
Lighting designer: Johanna Town
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL – W. A. Mozart
Buxton Opera Festival, Canterbury Opera Festival, 1991
Cast: Steffanie Pearce, Rosemary Joshua, Philip Sheffield, Adrian Thompson, Alan Ewing, Grant Russell, Michael Hartley, Barry Webb
Conductor: Anthony Hose
Designer: Stewart Laing Lighting designer: Gerry Jenkinson
Choreographer: Terry Gilbert
THE INNOCENTS - W. Archibald
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 1991
Cast: Penny Bunton, Pauline Jefferson, Jane Louise Arnfield, Richard Heap, Stefan
Gudjosson, Ilan Ostrove, Claire Chapman, Alexandra Milman
Designer: Kathy Strachan Lighting designer: Mike Lancaster
Composer: Ron Shaw
IN THE SOLITUDE OF COTTONFIELDS – B.M. Koltés British premiere
Almeida Theatre, London, 1990
Cast: Jonathan Phillips, Jeffrey Kissoon
Designer: Stewart Laing
Dambæk´s taut production heightens the play's inherent sensuality - The Guardian
THE HOUR OF THE LYNX - P.O.Enquist British premiere
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 1990
Cast: Simon Donald, Carol Ann Crawford, Anne Scott Jones
Designer: Kathy Strachan Lighting designer: Jeanine Davies
Composer: Ron Shaw
Festival: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1990
Award: Scotsman Fringe First
Dambæk's translation is sure-footed and idiomatically sweet. His direction honours the play's lambent mysteries, drives on its powerful narrative and burnishes its bright imagery. -
The Observer
GHOSTS - H. Ibsen
Lyric Theatre, Belfast 1990
Cast: Stella McCusker, Robert French, John Hewitt, Joseph Crilly, Eileen
McCloskey
Designer: Peter Ling Lighting designer: Gerry Jenkinson
Festival: Ibsen Stage Festival, Nationaltheatret, Oslo 1990
One of the highlights of this festival - Aftenposten
BLENDING IN - M. Vinaver
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 1989
Cast: Una McLean, Alison Peebles, Hilary Maclean, Alexander West, Stewart Preston
Designer: Sandra Jurca Avci Lighting designer: Ace McCarron
Festival: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1989
Dambæk's direction is, as usual, scrupulous and streamlined using a clever rearrangement of desks to point out the clockwork-like intricacy of the play. - The Times
JUST FRANK – F. Gilchrist, V. Foxall
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1989
Cast: Paul Morrow, Anne Downie, Hilary Maclean, James Gibb, Alexander West
Designer: Kathy Strachan Lighting designer: Mike Lancaster
A lovingly, vigorously and excitingly performed hymn to survival ... an odyssey of 1980´s experience ... genuinely uplifting ... among the best ensemble acting I've ever seen ... relentless energy and surprise ... all credit to Dambaek who choreographs the action and orchestrates the text with great confidence and verve. - BBC
THE WHITE DEVIL – J. Webster
Covent Garden Theatre, London 1986
Cast: Andrea Brooks, Nick Elsworth, Keith Harle, Ian Jeffs, Ona McCracken,
Robin McDonald, Richard Pocock, Richard Sandells, Arturo Venegas
Designer: Stewart Laing
HOMES AND GARDENS – M. Bunyan Premiere
Cockpit Theatre, London, 1984
Cast: Cockpit Youth Company
Designer: Marion Davies
Composer: Mark Bunyan
Towards the end there are 42 named characters on stage and a professional piece with more than occasional nods towards the originality of Sondheim. The overall effect is quite stunning. The Times Educational Supplement
DEATHWATCH - J. Genet
No Comps Prod. @ Cockpit Theatre, London, 1983
Cast: Gary Oldman, Sean Mathias, Mark Rolston, Keith Harle
Designer: Kim Dambæk Costumes: Luiven Rivas Sanchez
This tale of human ritual, passion and sacrifice is given firm direction by Dambaek who adds an extra layer of fantasy by setting the piece in a Parisian house of pleasure - The Stage
SPRING AWAKENING - F. Wedekind
Cockpit Theatre, London, 1983
Cast: Cockpit Youth Company
Designer: Marion Davies
Dambæk´s circus style production, full of sinister adult clowns putting the whey faced children through their paces, is a masterpiece of imagination and invention. - City Limits
SUBTLE BODIES - C. Barker Premiere
Cockpit Theatre, London, 1983
Cast: Cockpit Youth Company
Designer: Marion Davies
Composer: Mark Bunyan
Km Dambaek works wonders with a large cast ... An evening that is at once, powerful, funny and a brave advocacy of gay and bisexual love. - City Limits
THE MIGHTY HUNTER - W. Mankowitz
Café Theatre, London, 1982
Cast: Michael Mears, Ray Roberts
Designer: Claudia Mayer
OBSTRUCT THE DOORS-CAUSE DELAY AND BE DANGEROUS - J. Moore Premiere
Cockpit Theatre London, 1982
Cast: Cockpit Youth Company
Designer: Marion Davies
Composer: Ian McQueen
Performed with tribal fervor, energetic, arresting and always confident and original. A bruising evening. - Time Out
NIGHTPIECE - W. Hildesheimer
Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 1982
Cast: Laurance Rudic, Rupert Farley
Designer: Colin MacNeil Lighting designer: Allan Wands
FUNAMBULI - Commedia dell’arte street theatre
Covent Garden Piazza, London, 1980
Cast: Susannah Vernon Hunt, Joanna Lane, Rory McDermott, Richard McCabe
Costumes and masks: Claudia Mayer
LA MUSICA - M. Duras
Drama Centre London, 1980
Cast: Susannah Vernon Hunt, Anthony O’Callaghan, Odette Bennett, Joanna Lane, Hamilton Wilson
Designer: Caroline Burgess
Paul Morrow in JUST FRANK. Photo Sean Hudson
Anne Myatt in HAPPY DAYS. Photo Ivan Kyncl