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A CITIZENS THEATRE AND HOME CO-PRODUCTION
ENDGAME BY SAMUEL BECKETT
4 – 20 FEB 2016
THE CAST CHRIS GASCOYNE | CLOV Chris trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (1989-1992). Theatre credits include: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Y’Shunta Joined (Nottingham Playhouse); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Racing Demon, The Absence of War, Murmuring Judges (National Theatre); Bluebird (Royal Court Theatre/ Ambassadors Theatre); The Changing Room (Royal Court Theatre/Duke of York’s Theatre); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Octagon Theatre Bolton); The Long and the Short and the Tall (Man in the Moon); Wasteland (Sheffield Theatres); The Ribcage (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester). Television credits include: Between the Lines, Frontiers, The Locksmith, New Street Law, Casualty (BBC); Coronation Street, Where the Heart Is, A Touch of Frost, Blue Murder, The Thing About Vince, Hard Cases, Peak Practice, A Thing Called Love, The Bill, Connie, The Royal, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Duck Patrol, Soldier Soldier (ITV); Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury Films). Film credits include: Suckers (East Midlands Arts); My Last Five Girlfriends (Willing Pilowsky Productions).
PETER KELLY | NAGG Peter has worked extensively in theatre for over 50 years. He has appeared at the Citizens Theatre many times (including five roles as pantomime dames) as well as seasons with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; Traverse Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Theatre credits include: Out at Sea (Citizens Theatre); I am a Cabaret, Titus Andronicus, Clydeside (The Close Theatre Club); Chips With Everything (Vaudeville Theatre); The Brothers Karamazov (Fortune Theatre); Masterclass (Omega Productions); Aladdin (King’s Theatre, Glasgow); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens (Royal Shakespeare Company); Crime and Punishment, Pocahontas (Lyric Theatre); The Hard Man (Traverse Theatre). Television credits include: The Taming of the Shrew, EastEnders (BBC); Taggart, Rebus (ITV); A Touch of Frost (Yorkshire Television); Minder (Euston Films). Film credits include: Carry On Constable (Peter Rogers Productions); The Tall Guy (London Weekend Television); The Horsemen, The Virgin Soldiers (Columbia Pictures Corporation); Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (Channel 4 Films); Welcome to Sarajevo (Miramax).
DAVID NEILSON | HAMM David trained at Central School of Speech and Drama from 1970-73 and since then has been an actor in theatre, TV, radio and film. He has also worked as a theatre director in Sheffield and Bristol Little Theatre, from where his production of Raymond Briggs’ anti-nuclear fable When the Wind Blows transferred for a West End run in 1983. He has also written for the stage and his version of Robin Hood, published by Samuel French, is still performed and has recently had an outing in Finland. Television work has included Boys from the Blackstuff, Bergerac, The Buccaneers, Bad Company, Between the Lines, Blue Heaven (BBC); Bermuda Grace (NBC) and The Bill (Thames Television) (twice). He is now concentrating on programmes beginning with the letter C and has played Coronation Street’s Roy Cropper since 1995. This is David’s first appearance on stage since being Lucky in Waiting for Godot at the Library Theatre, Manchester in 2008.
BARBARA RAFFERTY | NELL Barbara studied at the Sorbonne Paris and RSAMD (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). She has performed in theatres all over Britain. Her association with the Citizens Theatre began with Les Justes (1972) in The Close Theatre Club, a former sister company of the Citizens Theatre. She later played Maggie in Giles Havergal’s Citizens Theatre production of Men Should Weep (1998) and more recently appeared in True West (2013) and The Libertine (2014). She is delighted to be back at the Citizens Theatre. Recent theatre credits include: The House Of Bernarda Alba (Tramway); Blood Wedding (Donmar Warehouse); Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); The Missing, Yer Granny (National Theatre of Scotland); two tours of the London Palladium production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and many pantomimes at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow. Television credits include: Rab C Nesbitt as Ella Cotter (The Comedy Unit); Katie Morag as Grandma Mainland (Move On Up); Rockface, River City, Sea of Souls, Garrow’s Law, Doctors, Murder Rooms (BBC); Taggart (STV). Films credits include: Blood Red Roses (Blood Red Roses Productions); Last King of Scotland (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Women Talking Dirty (Rocket Productions); Billy Bongo Leaves Home (Peel Street Films); Last Word (Sigma Films); The Wicker Man (British Lion Films). She has recorded many radio plays and comedies. Barbara is married to actor Sean Scanlan.
CREATIVE TEAM SAMUEL BECKETT | AUTHOR Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1927, where he studied Italian, English and French. His first published works were poems and literary essays. By the outbreak of the Second World War, Beckett had written two novels (the first of which would not be published until after his death). During the war, he worked as a courier in the French resistance and narrowly evaded capture by the Gestapo (exploits he later described as “boy-scout stuff”). In 1949, Beckett wrote En attendant Godot, which he translated and published in English as Waiting for Godot in 1954. The play brought Beckett international renown and cemented his place as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd movement. Endgame was first performed in French in 1957. The English title reflects Beckett’s enduring passion for chess. In 1969, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and theatre until his death in 1989.
DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre. Since joining the Citizens in 2011, he has directed The Choir, Fever Dream: Southside, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Libertine, Miss Julie, Crime and Punishment (winner of Best Director and Best Production, 2014 CATS Awards), Far Away, Seagulls, Doctor Faustus, Sleeping Beauty, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls, King Lear and Betrayal (winner of Best Director, 2012 CATS Award). Before joining the Citizens he was Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and Joint Artistic Director of Dundee Rep. Other credits include Falstaff and Macbeth (Scottish Opera) and The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company). He has directed in theatres in London and throughout the UK.
TOM PIPER | DESIGNER As Associate Designer for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Tom has designed over 30 productions including Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, City Madam, The Histories Cycle (for which he won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for Best Set Design); As You Like It, The Grain Store, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony and Cleopatra. Other recent designs include: Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Theatre); Richard III, The Tempest and As You Like It (Bridge Project BAM/The Old Vic); Zorro (West End, Tour, Paris, Moscow, Amsterdam, Atlanta and Tokyo); Dealer’s Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End); Falstaff, Macbeth (Scottish Opera); Fall (Royal Shakespeare Company/Traverse Theatre); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre/St Ann’s Warehouse New York); Bracken Moor (Tricycle Theatre/Shared Experience); The Plough and the Stars, The Crucible, Six Characters In Search of an Author (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Big Meal (Theatre Royal, Bath); King Lear, Hamlet, The Libertine (Citizens Theatre).
LIZZIE POWELL | LIGHTING DESIGNER Lizzie trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Her lighting designs for the Citizens Theatre include Rapunzel, The Choir, Fever Dream: Southside, A Christmas Carol, The Libertine, Far Away, Seagulls, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls. Other theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Theatres); Violence and Son, Weekly Rep (Royal Court Theatre); Anna Karenina (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Glasgow Girls, In Time O’ Strife, My Shrinking Life, Enquirer, An Appointment with the Wicker Man, Knives in Hens, Girl X, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s a Troll, Venus As A Boy (National Theatre of Scotland); Debuts (National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse Theatre); Woyzeck, A Streetcar Named Desire, Show 3, Glitterland, A Series of Increasingly Impossible Tasks, Show 6, Stab In The Dark (Secret Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith); Any Given Day, While You Lie, The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre); Pangaa (Ankur Productions); Huxley’s Lab, Spring Awakening (Grid Iron/Lung Ha’s); Caged, Pobby and Dingan, The Book of Beasts (Catherine Wheels); Under Milk Wood (Theatre Royal, Northampton); The Wasp Factory (Cumbernauld Theatre); The Wall (Tron Theatre); Great Expectations (Byre Theatre/Prime Productions); Travels With My Aunt (The New Wolsey, Ipswich).
STEPHEN DARCY | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Stephen Darcy is a director and actor. He completed a directing MFA at Birkbeck in 2015, attended RADA between 1998 and 2001 and read drama at Trinity College, Dublin (1994-1998). As an actor he has performed in the Abbey Theatre, Olympia Theatre, Project Arts Centre, The West End, Bush Theatre, The Finborough and Theatre503 as well as many roles in TV, film and radio. Assistant Directing credits include: Fever Dream: Southside, Into That Darkness, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol (Citizens Theatre). Directing credits include: One in a Million (A Play, a Pie, and a Pint); Rum and Vodka (Citizens Theatre); A Bite of the Big Apple (Equilibrium); Richard III (RADA Enterprises Ltd); The Magic (Soho Theatre & Theatre503); Chelsea Hotel (RADA Festival); The Taste of Tears (The Nursery); Nine (Lion and Unicorn).
HOME – CO-PRODUCERS HOME, Manchester’s new centre for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books, officially opened its doors over the 2015 May Bank Holiday weekend. Designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo, it features a 500-seat theatre; a 150-seat flexible theatre; a 500m2, 4m high gallery space; five cinema screens; digital production and broadcast facilities; a café bar and a restaurant. HOME was formed from the merger of two of Manchester’s best-loved cultural organisations, Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre Company. HOME’s theatres are a platform for questioning and ambitious artistic projects that involve audiences with new and extraordinary theatrical experiences. The international contemporary visual art programme is dedicated to presenting new commissions by emerging and established artists of regional, national and international significance, with a bold, proactive policy of visual, innovative storytelling with the ability to experiment and explore, probe and provoke, creating a distinct experience for both artists and audiences. HOME’s five cinemas showcase the very best in contemporary and classic cinema, screening works by artists and filmmakers both established and new. HOME is a centre for co-production, talent development and artistic creation, dedicated to learning, for people of all ages. A place for new work and playful ideas; of festivals and commissions; of artists and of audience engagement. www.homemcr.org | @HOME_mcr
Endgame in rehearsals. L-R David Neilson, Chris Gascoyne
Photo by Alex Brady
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS All scenery, costumes and props made in the Citizens Theatre workshop. Opening night drinks generously provided by Belhaven and Alliance Wines. Special Thanks to: Clow Ladders; Matthew, Alex and Euan Jenkins; Gavin O’Donoghue.
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