FAR AWAY AND SEAGULLS
TWO PLAYS BY CARYL CHURCHILL
23 May – 8 June 2013
THE CAST
CREATIVE TEAM ALASDAIR HANKINSON | TODD/CLIFF
Alasdair graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in July 2012. His professional credits include: Doctor Faustus (Citizens Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sleeping Beauty (Citizens Theatre); #neednothing (Arches Live!); The History Boys (Greenwich Theatre); Kasimir and Karoline (NTS Rehearsal Reading) and The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth (Unicorn Theatre, London). He has just finished filming for the upcoming Untitled Projects / NTS show Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Whilst training, Alasdair was the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Bursary and is currently one of two Citizens Theatre Actor Interns.
LUCY HOLLIS | JOAN Lucy is one of the Actor Interns at the Citizens Theatre. Her theatre credits include: Takin’ Over the Asylum (Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre) and Sleeping Beauty (Citizens Theatre). Lucy graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she worked with Vanishing Point’s Matthew Lenton, playing Mina in Liz Lochead’s Dracula. During her third year, Lucy also took part in NTS’s Arab Spring Season at the Òran Mór, playing Farah in Could You Please Look into the Camera.
KATHRYN HOWDEN | HARPER/VALERY Theatre credits include The Guid Sisters (NTS/Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh) Footfalls, King Lear, Sleeping Beauty (Citizens), Mountain Men (BBC Comedy Showcase), A Slow Air (Tron/Traverse), Be Near Me (NTS), The Last Witch (Herald Angel Award 2009), Any Given Day, The Ballad of Crazy Poala, Bondagers, Poor Superman (Traverse), The Government Inspector (Almeida), Swing Hammer Swing! (Citizens), That Face, Tartuffe (Tron), Pheadra (Theatre Babel) A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, Every One, Trumpets and Raspberries, Victory , Six Black Candles, Breathing House, The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh). TV credits include Parade’s End (HBO/BBC), Case Histories, Pram Face, Dear Green Place (BBC) Reubenesque. Film credits include 39 Steps (BBC).
MAUREEN CARR | DI Theatre credits include: No Mean City (Citizens); Tartuffe (Royal Lyceum Theatre); The Guid Sisters, Men Should Weep (National Theatre of Scotland); Six Black Candles (Goldfish Theatre Company); The Steamie (Laidlaw Productions); Educating Agnes (Theatre Babel); Reasons To Be Cheerful (7:84). Television, film and radio credits include: Case Histories, River City, Sea of Souls (BBC Scotland); Merlin (Shine TV); One Night in Emergency (Silver River); Monarch of the Glen (BBC Television/Ecosse Films); Still Game (Comedy Unit/BBC Television); Taggart (Scottish Television); Overnight Express (Square Go Productions/BBC Television); Afterlife (Gabriel Films); American Cousins (American Cousins Ltd.); One Life Stand (Elemental Films) Orphans (Antonine Films); Riff Raff (Paralax Pictures); Fags Mags and Bags (BBC Comedy Unit).
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DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre and has directed Doctor Faustus, Sleeping Beauty, Krapp’s Last Tape and Footfalls, King Lear and Betrayal (winner of Best Director, 2012 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland) for the theatre. From 2008, he was Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Prior to this he worked at Dundee Rep where he was Associate Director and Joint Artistic Director. Other credits include Falstaff (Scottish Opera) and The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company). He has directed in theatres in London and throughout the UK.
NEIL HAYNES | DESIGNER Designs include: Hansel and Gretel, After the End, Topdog/Underdog, My Name is Rachel Corrie, Grapes of Wrath, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Citizens Theatre); Cooking with Elvis, Bliss and Mud, Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Tron Theatre, Glasgow) Roman Bridge, Transform Glasgow: Smiler (National Theatre of Scotland), The Chooky Brae (Borderline Theatre Company).
LIZZIE POWELL | LIGHTING DESIGN Lizzie has worked with a variety of theatre companies. Her lighting designs include Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls (Citizens Theatre), Glasgow Girls (with Citizens Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East), My Shrinking Life, The Enquirer, An Appointment With The Wickerman, Knives In Hens, Girl X, Cockroach, Nasty, Brutish and Short, The Dogstone, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us (with Traverse, Edinburgh), Transform Glasgow: Smiler, Transform Orkney: Mixter Maxter, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s a Troll, Rupture, Venus as a Boy, The Recovery Position, Oedipus the King and Home Edinburgh (National Theatre of Scotland); Caged, Pobby and Dingan, The Book of Beasts (Catherine Wheels), While You Lie, Any Given Day, The Dark Things (Traverse, Edinburgh), Spring Awakening, Huxley’s Lab (Grid Iron), Treasure Island (Wee Stories), Playback (Ankur), First Light (Starcatchers), First You’re Born (Plutôt la Vie), Under Milk Wood (Theatre Royal, Northampton), The Death of Harry, Making History (Ouroborous), The Wasp Factory (Cumbernauld), Second City Trilogy (Cork Opera House), Smallone, Romeo and Juliet, This Ebony Bird, Tricky (Blood in the Alley).
SCOTT TWYNHOLM | COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER Theatre credits include: Girl X (National Theatre of Scotland); This Is What We Ask (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre); Good With People (Paines Plough/Datum Point); A Beginning, A Middle and An End (Greyscale/Stellar Quines), The Grapes of Wrath, Tall Tales for Small People and Gothic (Citizens Theatre); Dig, Juicy Fruits and In The Pipeline (Paines Plough/Òran Mór); Fleeto (Òran Mór); First Light (Imaginate); If These Spasms Could Speak (The Arches); Night and Day, City of Strangers and September Songs (Linden Tree/ Tron Theatre). Film credits include: Vanilla Sky, Palme d’Or nominated The Edukators, Out Cold, Parliamo Glasgow, Get Luder, My Brother the Ark Raider and Alasdair Gray - A Life in Progress. Band projects include: Looper, Metrovavan and Hoboken.
MAX BARTON | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Max is the Associate Director at Jermyn Street Theatre and is Resident Assistant Director at the Citizens Theatre. His directing credits include: Hamlet (Kronborg Castle, Elsinore), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (European Tour), The Golem (showcase), Red and White (Drama Centre), The Curse of Macbeth, (The Playhouse at the Fringe), Metamorphosis (C(too), Edinburgh), The Shape of Things (Corpus Playroom); Noises Off, No Magic and Bedroom Farce (ADC Theatre, Cambridge), Pool (no water) (Homerton Studio). Max was resident assistant director to Trevor Nunn on A Chorus of Disapproval (Harold Pinter Theatre). His other assisting and associate credits include: Boy Meets Boy and St. John’s Night (Jermyn Street Theatre), Front (RADA festival 2012), Marlowe Showcase (Soho Theatre).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Hats made with the assistance of staff and students from North Glasgow College: Shona Crozer; Jill Busby; Dianne Chapman; Abby Boulstridge; Margaret McNay; Sheena Devine; Linda Livingstonne; Carolyn Beattie; Alexa Gibson; Justine Kinnell; (students) Nancy Paxton, Millinery lecturer; Anne Wood; Sandra Thomson; Kay Muir (staff).
Special thanks to: badgemaster.co.uk; Corporate Insignia; Deltex; Colin MacLaren; Richard Newlands; Guy Morse Brown; Abate Pest Management Ltd; Mr & Mrs Hilly; Banbury Pastiche; M.C. Printers; Snugglemuffin; Tron Theatre; Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; Alex Robertson, Plumbing Supplies Ltd; Paul Claydon, National Theatre of Scotland.
Frazer Fyfe Carpenter Jacky Gardiner Front of House Vasso Georgiadou Front of House Anne Gillan Finance Officer Elly Goodman Community Drama Artist Rachael Grew Front of House Alasdair Hankinson Actor Internship John Haughian Stage Door Security Eleanor Harris Head of Development Jamie Hayes Head of Stage Neil Haynes Head Scenic Artist Jill Henderson Drama Class Assistant Dominic Hill Artistic Director Guy Hollands Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Lucy Hollis Actor Internship Stuart Jenkins Head of LX & Sound Debbie Jones Front of House Jennifer Knotts Front of House Campbell Lawrie Box Office/Drama Class Supervisor Jessie Lawson Front of House Karen Lee Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Catherine Major Drama Class Assistant Joanne Marr Drama Class Tutor Alison Martin Head of Marketing & Communications Gerald McDermott Electrician/LX Operator Jason McQuaide Welder/Stage Technician Catherine Major Drama Class Assistant Iain McClenaghan Front of House Morna McGeoch Drama Class Assistant Mark McGrory Front of House Lawrie McInally Stage Door Administrator Crawford McKenzie Deputy Head of Wardrobe Lauren Macluskie Front of House Debbie Montgomery Drama Class Tutor Jim Morrison Bar Supervisor
Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Catriona Mullen Front of House Jack Mullen Box Office Emily Murphy Front of House Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Keren Nicol Senior Marketing and Press Officer Petriece O’Donnell Front of House Cathy O’Neill Deputy Stage Manager Neil Packham Community Drama Director Sam Packham Front of House Suzanne Pirrie Box Office/Drama Class Assistant Ellen Porteous Front of House Duty Manager Marion Quinn Front of House Sami Sharif Front of House Suzy Sharif Front of House Andy Smith Housekeeper Angela Smith Education Officer Ann Smith Housekeeper Laura Smith Deputy Head of LX & Sound Lorna Stallard Front of House Anna Stapleton Administrative Director Kerry Stirling Front of House Graham Sutherland Head of Production Chris Traquair Head Flyman/Technician Martin Travers Producer (Citizens Learning) Andrew Turner Stage Door Administrator/ Front of House Duty Manager Colin White Drama Class Tutor/Supervisor Emma Whoriskey Assistant Stage Manager Ross Williamson Building Supervisor
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The Actor Intern positions are supported by The Robertson Scholarship Trust. Scenery, costumes and properties made in the Citizens Theatre workshops.
THE CITIZENS COMPANY Amy Angus Drama Class Tutor Tom Arnott Front of House Lorraine Barclay Front of House Isabella Bassett Front of House Omar Bhatia Front of House David Black Front of House David Black Wardrobe Intern Alex Brady Box Office Supervisor/IT Neil Bratchpiece Front of House Laura Briggs Front of House Marion Brochard Front of House Louise Brown Creative Learning Officer Andrew Bunton Front of House Lara Carter Drama Class Assistant Helen Cassidy Digital Marketing Manager Lisa Corr Drama Class Tutor Natalia Cortes Company Stage Manager Elaine G Coyle Head of Wardrobe Carol Cull Housekeeper Maureen Dalton Front of House Lesley Davidson Head of Operations Denise Differ Box Office Manager Marco Di Mario Front of House Miriam Sarah Doren Drama Class Assistant Michael Dorrance Deputy Head of Workshop Ann Dundas Housekeeper Lisa Dundas Box Office/Housekeeper Paul Dundas Box Office/Data Supervisor Julia Easton Box Office Sophie Fernie Front of House Barry Forde Assistant Stage Manager Neil Francis Drama Class Tutor
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