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Sonia Valente
Actor's Portfolio
2025 - The Glorious History of the French Revolution by Sam Ward
The play is an anarchic and irreverent retelling of the Europe’s bloodiest revolution.
Here’s five things you need to know about the French Revolution 1789-1794:
• things were bad, really bad
• some revolutions aren’t real revolutions (despite what people say)
• sometimes it takes a guillotine to get anything done
• building a new future is harder than it looks
• the revolution is not over
Comedy
Duration: 70 min
Directed by: James Palm
Cast:
Alice Shuttleworth
Daniel Seorici
Eduardo Pelegrinello
Halle Thomson
Joseph Leaman
Kate Isaacs
Laetitia Heuermann
Laura Arbelaez
Lucy Melrose
Nadine Wagner
Sonia Valente
Sophie Adair
Sunneth Lawrence
Vebri Carolin
Crew:
Production Manager: Thomas Quine
Lighting Designer: William Gibbs
Sound Designer: Bili Keogh
Designer: Violet Goens
Stage Manager: Seren Stewart
Venue: Courtyard Theatre, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Dates: 15 August 7.00pm and 16 August 1.30pm
2025 - The Rota by Hannah Martin
Set in a small plates, natural wine sort of restaurant. Clem, single mother and waitress, struggles to balance her demanding job with caring for her daughter. As she deals with an unsupportive manager and increasingly entitled customers, tensions rise leading to a final confrontation. A dark comedy about the pressures and expectations of the hospitality industry.
Comedy
Duration: 17 min
Directed by: Jessie Jacobs
Cast:
Clem: Sonia Valente
David: Daniel Newton
Andy; Costumers 2,4&6: Felicity Moore
Costumers 1,3,5&7: Paddy Lish
Crew:
Producer: Thomas Price for One Act: a short play charity festival
Sound Designer: Jessie Jacobs
Choreographer: Paddy Lish
Poster by: Frazier Bailey
Venue: New Studio, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Date: 23 May 2025
2025 - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Separated from her twin brother Sebastian in a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy, calls herself Cesario, and becomes a servant to the Duke Orsino. He sends her to woo the Countess Olivia on his behalf, but the Countess falls in love with Cesario. Meanwhile Olivia’s uncle, Sir Toby Belch, gets drunk with his friend Sir Andrew Aguecheek and they play a trick on Malvolio, Olivia’s steward. Eventually Sebastian turns up and causes even more confusion, chaos and comedy.
Comedy
Duration: 140 minutes with interval
Directed by: Samantha Kelly
Cast:
Viola: Naomi Bowman & Hannah Dormor
Olivia: Sonia Valente
Maria: Samantha Kelly
Sir Toby Belch: : Lonjezo Kalanda
Sir Andrew Aguecheek: Frankie Calvert
Malvolio: Nick Hodgson
Sebastian: Anna Gurber
Count Orsino: Rob Green
The Fool & Antonio: Mark Coram
Captain; Officer; Priest; Curio & Valentine: Jennie Rich
Crew:
Producer: Karen Notaro
Assistant Director: Sonia valente
Lighting Designer: Mark Coram
Sound Designer: Karen Notaro
Choreographer: Naomi Bowman
Costume: Samantha Kelly
Poster by: Ruth Patel
Venue: Camden People's Theatre
Dates: 13-14 February 2025
2024 - Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
Yerma and Juan love each other but after several years of marriage they are childless and people have started to gossip. Who, if anyone, is to blame…?
Tragedy
Duration: 105 minutes with interval
Directed and translated by: Michael Reilly
Cast:
Yerma: Ece Leah Wilde
Juan: Tirusanthan Thiruvilangam
Maria & Hembra: Flora Blissett
Victor: Alwiyyah Saad
Pagan Woman & Dolores: Frankie Calvert
Women of the Pueblo: Rocio Arsuaga, Lizzie Bennett, Marta Escudero, Nelda Pereira, Sonia Valente
Sisters of Juan & Girls of the Pueblo: Camila Iturbe & Sarina Salamon
Macho: Dougal Patterson
Spirit of the Earth: Marta Escudero
Crew:
Producer: Sue Small
Assistant Director: Annie Boden
Stage Manager: Eddy Molis
Set Designer: Helen Mason
Set Adviser and Set Construction: Paul H Lunnon
Lighting Designer: Paul Evans
Lighting operator: Clovis Parker-Jervis
Sound Designer: Dougal Patterson
Sound Operator: Michael Shufro
Music by: Michael Reilly & Ece Leah Wilde
Choreographer: Marta Escudero
Costume: Rocio Arsuaga & Sonia Valente
Photography by: Paull H Lunnon
Venue: Network Theatre
Dates: 10-13 July 2024
2024 - Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus, Rome's most honoured general, returns from wars against the Goths with their queen, Tamora, her sons and her lover, Aaron the Moor, as captives. When her eldest son is sacrificed by Titus; she vows revenge.
Tragedy
Duration: 130 minutes with interval
Directing: Gavin McAlinden
Cast:
Titus: MICHAEL CLAFF
Tamora: MELANIE CARSS
Marcus: LUCY WILLIAMS
Aryan: ARYAN CHAVDA
Lavinia: ANASTASIA FEDOTOVA
Lucius: NILESH MISTRY
Saturninus: EDUARDO GISPERT
Bassianus: RUBEN BROCKHAUS
Demetrius: IAN RUSSELL
Chiron: PAUL HIGGINSON
Martius: ATUL CHAUHAN
Quintus: MAYANK ADLAKHA
Mutius/Clown: ZOE COOPER
Young Lucius: AMAL SCARANOVE
Nurse: DAYNA SHUFFLE and SONIA VALENTE
Messenger/3rd Goth: DORA CSAPO
Publius: MICHAEL BROSNAN
Caius: LEE MORTACCHI and CATALIN PANAITE
1st Goth: JANE KUSTNER
Venue: Tower Theatre
Dates: 8 -13 January 2024
Set and Costume Design: Esme Solomon
Light and Sound design: Gavin McAlinden
Art work and photograph by: Michael Brosnan
2023 - Sheila's Island by Tim Firth
Bonfire night 2019
Sheila, Denise, Julie, and Fay are Team C in Pennine Mineral Water Ltd.’s annual outward-bound team-building weekend.
Sheila has been nominated team leader, and, using her cryptic crossword solving skills, has unwittingly stranded her team on an island in the Lake District. In thick fog. What could possibly go wrong?
Comedy
Duration: 115 minutes with interval
Directing: Mark Coram
Cast:
Sheila: Lesley Godwin
Denise: Karen Notaro
Julie: Samantha Kelly
Fay: Sonia Valente
Venue: Network Theatre
Dates: 16-18 August 2023
Set, sound and Light Design: The St. Jame's and Westminster Players
2022 - The Six Wives of Windsor by Samantha Kelly
Katherine of Aragon has booked a table for six at the Il Purgatoio. All Henry VIII wives are expected to attend but it's well known that Anne and Jane can't stand each other... why do Kitty and Jane think they are both still married to Henry? Why is Anne insisting they are divorced and Katherine says they are just separated? Which nasty rumours are Lady Rochford blogging about and where is Cromwell getting his information from?
Comedy
Duration: 105 minutes with interval
Directing: Samantha Kelly
Cast:
Lady Jane Rochford: Clare Clarke
Thomas Cromwell: Mark Coram
Thomas Wolsey: Nick Hodgson
Mary Lascelles: Sonia Valente
Katherine D'Aragon: Karen Notaro
Anne Boleyn: Ruth Patel
Jane Seymour: Bobbie O'Rourke
Mrs Von Cleve: Samantha Kelly
Kitty Howard: Naomi Bowman
Prof. Katherine Par: Laura Forster
Thomas Cramner: Greg Smith
Venue: Network Theatre
Dates: 3-5 August 2022
South and Light Design: John Allen and Greg Smith
2022 - The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
Bennett's play imagines a meeting between W H Auden and Benjamin Britten, in Oxford, thirty years after they fell out with each other. Auden, ever the bully is now an ageing celebrity and Britten is no longer avant garde. He is writing his final opera, Death in Venice and needs encouragement. Will Auden help? A play within a play, this story keep being cut by the actor's real life problems, egos, absences while the playwright (Neal) show up unannounced and Kay and the ASM keep trying to keep things running smoothly.
Drama
Duration: 115 minutes with interval
Directing: Andy Webb
Cast:
Fitz / Auden: Bob Callender
Henry / Britten / Boyle: Simon Gleisner
Donald / Carpenter: Doug Dunn
Tim / Stuart: Tom Boxall
Kay / May: Fiona Daffern
Neal, the author: Jason Rosenthal
Georgina, the ASM: Sonia Valente
Brian: Dennis Fenton
Venue: South London Theatre
Dates: 14-18 June 2022
Photos: Phil Gammon
Stage Manager: Lily Ann Coleman
ASMs: Cherie Koh, Dennis Fenton & Carole Coyne
Lighting & Sound Designer: Jason Salmon
Operator: Sarah Farage
Rigging: Sean Thomas
Music: Andrew Chadney
Mask & Make-up: Lily Ann Coleman
Costume: Jess Osorio
Set building: Sean Thomas, John Winters, Mark Ireson & Hans Mudlamootoo
Assistant director: Charlotte Benstead
2021 - Maryland by Lucy Kirkwood
In a world where all women are called Mary, two women meet at a police station, where they are both reporting an experience of sexual assault. Mary 2 is shell-shocked. She cries tears of frustration when faced with an identity parade of hat-wearing men; her attacker had a scar on his forehead. Mary is full of simmering fury, unwilling to give up on walking home alone in the dark. They are cajoled into small talk by a police officer called Moody, who is wistful but incurious about the fact that his mum – also called Mary – always seemed anxious and worried.
An all-female chorus of furies tear through the scenes, running through a tick-list of worries, from the comical to the catastrophic.
Drama
Duration: 30 minutes
Directing and Design: Charlotte Benstead
Cast:
Mary - Saffy Andrews
Mary 2 - Anna Rubincam
DC Moody - Phil Ross
DC Eddowes - Marysia Skwarka
The Furies - Carole Ironside, Monique Munroe, Teresa Donoghue, Sonia Valente and Janine Wunsche
Venue: South London Theatre
Date: 21st November 2021 at 8pm and 9:33pm
Photos: SLT Arquive
Stage Manager: Jane Moorhead
Make Up: LilyAnn Green Coleman
Sound Design: Zach Letts
Light Design: Chaz Doyle
Assistant Director: Michael Nanni
1070's in England. Lucy is an overweight 12 year old girl being bullied by Judith, who is trying to steal Lucy's pound note. Lucy is desperately saving her money for a Knickerbocker Glory and a new 7 inch single. Will she get past Judith? and why is she daydreaming about Debbie Harry?
Comedy
Duration: 8 minutes
Directing and Design: Jenny Gammon
Cast:
Siobhan Campbell as Judy
Gisele Parker as Judith
Sonia Valente as Debbie Harry
Venue: South London Theatre
Dates: 12-14 August 2021
Photos: Phil Gammon
What is perfection? Why is it celebrated? Is it achievable?
Social anxiety and expectations of beauty for women in the western world...
Anxiety plays a huge part in many people's lives and social pressures and expectations perpetuate the vicious cycle of trying to achieve perfection. Join Sarah and Sonia, as they embark on a journey through some of the ritualistic behaviours women put themselves through to create the "perfect woman".
https://emilyclairemorgan9.wixsite.com/methodinourmadness
Autobiographic comedy
Duration: 40 minutes
Written and performed by Sarah Barton & Sonia Valente
Light Design by S&S & Geraldo Monteiro
Sound Design by S&S & Ben Clark
Set Design by S&S
Costume Design by S&S
Videos and projections by S&S
Once upon a time there was an imaginary country where all inhabitants would like to be equal in rights ...
A land where the superior national interest, many years ago, dictated that its leader had an exclusive mission, writing decrees, creating and inventing detailed laws, that defended and safeguarded the collective interest ...
In this context of SUBMISSION TO THE LAW, it is natural that the subordinate's personal strength is tamed and manipulated by the boss's legislative force, through an alleged intellectual superiority, characteristic of an autocratic law-maker ...
But one day, in that country located somewhere in space and time, some winds of revolution begin to be felt, and the decrees of the absolute ruler begin to be answered ...
Experimental play
DURATION: 50 minutes
DIRECTING: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Ricardo Vinagre as Actor
Marisa Gomes as Actress
Sónia Valente as Director
Comedy
DURATION: 55 minutes
DIRECTING: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Ricardo Vinagre as Paulo
Sara Joaquim as Anastacia
Sónia Valente as Judite
Wilson Subtil as Anacleto
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte
In a succession of entertaining adventures in which the subject of domestic violence is underlying, we get to know the marital problems of Paul, the husband of Anastasia, a man who lives in the constant anxiety of trying to overcome the virtues of his wife's deceased first husband.
Satire
DURATION: 55 minutes
DIRECTING: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Sónia Valente as Serafina
Sílvia Ferrete as Afonsina
Casimiro Simões as Baltasar
Martina Mendes as Young Inhabitant
Ricardo Vinagre as The 1st Statue
Subtle Mafalda as The 2nd Statue
Wilson Subtil as The 3rd Statue
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte
The Shakespearean text "Romeo and Juliet" serves as basis for the actors to search for the true essence of the Theater, using it as instrument of liberation of the themselves.
In this "process" of discovery, the actors (and their characters) will end up facing various questions of almost impossible response, for example, what is love and what is beauty ...
Prologue with two actors that addresses the lack of interest in theatre by the audience.
Comedy
DURATION: 7 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Casimiro Simões as The Audience
Sónia Valente as Actress
The story of a homeless man, someone with a past like any other person, but who, due to the misfortunes of life, was forced to live on the street. One day he meets a young volunteer who helps him to hope again.
Drama
DURATION: 15 minutes
DIRECTION: Sílvia Ferrete
CAST: Ricardo Vinagre as Carlos
Sara Joaquim as Joana
Sónia Valente as Woman
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte
The motto of this production is based on the following question: "what is judgment and what is madness?" And one of the possible answers to give may be: "simple points of view and nothing else!" Built from the play " The Crazy and Death "by Raúl Brandão, the plot revolves around Baltasar Penacho de Moscoso, an useless civil governor who devotes his entire working hours to the write poetry, without being able to see his enormous lack of talent for such noble art.On a routine day, when he is trying to write another of his fastidious poems, he is visited by a brilliant scientist with a powerful bomb, Capable of destroying everything and everyone, dragging the politician / poet into a spiral of madness ...
Satirical comedy
DURATION: 55 minutes
DIRECTION AND ADAPTATION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Ricardo Vinagre as Baltasar Penacho de Moscoso
Catarina Reis as Etelvina Carvalho Pintassilgo
Sónia Valente as Judite
Marisa Gomes as Ana Penacho de Moscoso
Francisco Salgueira as Nunes
LIGHT: Carlos Duarte
SOUND: Martina Mendes
The action takes place in Paris in the seventeenth century, focusing on the subject of avarice. The play recounts the adventures of a greedy widower who, stubbornly, submits to extreme poverty all those who live with him, including his own son.
"After all, the coffers are suspicious, I do not trust them because they are exactly the right bait for thieves, because they are always the first thing they are going to rob. But will it be a good idea to bury, in the garden of your own residence, a box with ten thousand doubloons in gold coins? ... Ten thousand doubles is a very high sum, plus the twenty thousand doubles that are also hidden there, in the other little boxes ... Anyway, it's no small disruption, this to discover in the whole house safe places to hide my precious little boxes ... "
Comedy
DURATION: 72 minutes
DIRECTION AND ADAPTATION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Casimiro Simões as Harpagão
Ricardo Vinagre as Cleanto
Daniela Neto as Dorimena
Marisa Gomes as Beatriz
Sónia Valente as Eufrosina
Liliana Sá as Mariana
LIGHT: Carlos Duarte
SOUND: Martina Mendes
Award for Best Performance by an Actress, received at The Theatre Festival of Barcelos in 2013.
Teseu, King of Athens, is a hero. Everyone admires and glorifies him. In the eyes of his subjects, he is a perfect monarch. And the crown prince, his son Hipólito, wants to be like him. Strong, daring, heroic and courageous. But such a desire seems to be far from happening. If the prince were really brave and strong, his father would have taken him into battle. On the other hand, the reality in which he believes is diferent. He convinced himself that his feelings are fragile and forbidden ... He longs for feelings and pleasures that he does not dare reveal. He longs to touch the skin of his stepmother, Fedra, the woman chosen by his heart ...
The Celtic gods were numerous and powerful. All children of a primordial mother-goddess, the personification of our planet.
The patriarch who led the deities of the mainland was the god of wisdom, Dgada. Wielding a magic staff, he ruled his divine community, permanently at war with their rivals the sea gods ... The earthly deities were still protected by an army commanded by three warrior goddesses: Morrigan, Macha, and Modron.
Belenos, the god of fire, also participated in this war, spitting uninterruptedly against the enemy, its huge and deadly fireballs.
However, the visit of Lugos, the god of the sun, provokes a true chain reaction, causing the remaining gods to reflect on their own destiny, the future of the earth and the origins of humanity ...
Melodrama
DURATION: 60 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Casimiro Simões as Dagda
Catarina Reis as Modron
João Pedro Gama as Lugos
Sónia Valente as Morrigan
Liliana Sá as Macha
Wilson Subtil as Belenos
Silvia Ferrete as Woman
Fernando Silva as Man
MAKE-UP: Daniela Neto
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte
Drama
DURATION: 65 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Sónia Valente as Fedra
Ricardo Vinagre as Hipólito
Casimiro Simões as Teseu
Liliana Sá as Sacerdotisa de Atena
Silvia Ferret as Maid
Daniela Neto as Maid
Comedy
DURATION: 50 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Casimiro Simões as Man
Sílvia Ferrete as Laura
Sónia Valente as Nélia
Catarina Reis as Juliana
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte
A comedy that addresses the eternal and desirable theme of the war between sexes. Indeed, the gulf between the sexes, the misunderstandings and conflicts, even in the twenty-first century, remain present in our lives, just as at the time when Adam first had those complications with Eve ... Women say that they want sensitive men, but never too sensitive ...
Honorable Mention received at The Theatre Festival of Mortágua in 2012.
The plot of the "Auto of India", written in 1509, addresses the subject of adultery. A woman, called Constança, is unfaithful to her Husband who leaves for India, driven by the desire for quick and easy enrichment. Initially, the woman worries because she is not yet sure whether the husband leaves or not. Having dispelled this anguish by the news of the departure brought by the maid, her servant, Constança rejoices and indulges in a life of adulterous pleasure with her lovers: the Castilian braggart (Juan de Zamora) and a former Portuguese suitor named Lemos. However, three years after the departure, comes the announcement of the unwanted return of the Husband, a fact that infuriates Constança very much...
The temporal and spatial circumstances are those of the first decade of the sixteenth century, when, behind the glory and the epic façade of overseas expansion, it was already possible to perceive the profound changes, not all positive, that this expansion was provoking in the Portuguese society.
Satirical farce
DURATION: 60 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Sílvia Ferrete as Constança
Sónia Valente as Maid
Fernando Silva as Lemos
Roberto Moreira as Juan de Zamora
Casimiro Simões as Husband
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte
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