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BY ANNIE SIDDONS
28 Nov 2015 - 3 Jan 2016
THE CAST PETER COLLINS | PIERLUIGI AMBROSI / ENSEMBLE Theatre credits include: White, The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk (Catherine Wheels); Tin Forest (National Theatre of Scotland); Horizontal Collaboration (David Leddy/Fire Exit); Macbeth, Thebans, Medea, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (Theatre Babel); The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing (The Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Complicite/National Theatre/Berliner Ensemble); Beauty and the Beast (Tron Theatre); Hamlet: First Cut (Red Shift); How the Other Half Loves (Bolton Octagon); Ticket to Write/ Northern Exposure (Paines Plough); Grimm Tales (Leicester Haymarket); Temptations and Betrayals (Bristol Old Vic). TV credits include: The Secret Agent, Casualty, Grease Monkeys (BBC); Mile High (Sky One); Eve (CBBC); Peak Practice (ITV); The Hunt, Always and Everyone (Granada). As a director Peter has made work for National Theatre of Scotland, Òran Mór, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly known as RSAMD) and the National Youth Theatre.
JESSICA HARDWICK | RAPUNZEL Jessica Hardwick trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and graduated in 2013. Theatre credits include: Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens Theatre/ Edinburgh International Festival); Miss Julie (Citizens Theatre); The Venetian Twins (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Fair Intellectual Club by Lucy Porter, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK Tour for Stella Quines); Slope (Untitled Projects); Three Sisters (Tron Theatre); Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre/ Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse/Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Antipodes (Sam Wanamaker Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe). Radio credits include: The Pillow Book, McLevy (BBC). Last year she was named Best Newcomer at the CATS awards for her performances as Sonya in Crime and Punishment and Christine in Miss Julie. This year she won the Citizens Theatre Society’s Christina Chalmers Award for Best Actor.
KEITH MACPHERSON | THE DUKE / THE BOAR / FISHWOMAN / ENSEMBLE Theatre credits include: Light Boxes, Decky Does a Bronco (Grid Iron); James and the Giant Peach (Dundee Rep); Henry V (Bard in the Botanics); Bauble Trouble, Museum of Dreams, The Wizard of Oz, Waiting for Godot, Peter Pan, Desire Under the Elms (Citizens Theatre); The Monster in the Hall, Yellow Moon (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); Rogue Herries (Theatre by the Lake); Mother Courage, Clutter Keeps Company (Birds of Paradise); A Christmas Carol (Cumbernauld Theatre); Funny (Reeling and Writhing); 4.48 Psychosis (Sweetscar/Cumbernauld Theatre/Tramway); Faust, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Arsenic and Old Lace (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Private Agenda, Factory Girls (7:84); The Lost Child, One Snowy Night (Minerva Theatre); Invisible Man (Vanishing Point); Brave (Communicado); El Quijote (The Gate); Little Victories, Dead Heroic, Sunset Song (TAG); Timeless (Suspect Culture); Macbeth (Chester Gateway); Bloodknot, Piaf, Twelfth Night (Brunton Theatre). TV credits include: Silent Witness; The Culture Show (BBC); Taggart (SMG). Radio credits include: The Chronycle (BBC).
HANNAH MCPAKE | SHARK / ENSEMBLE Hannah trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: The Tempest (Improbable/Northern Stage); Romeo and Juliet, The Knight of The Burning Pestle (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Forsyth Sisters, The Bloody Ballad (Gagglebabble); The Gamblers (Greyscale Theatre/Northern Stage); Green Man // Red Woman (National Theatre Wales); Grimm Tales (Theatr Iolo at the Tron Theatre); A High Street Odyssey (Inspector Sands); Silly Kings (National Theatre Wales); Maudie’s Room (Roar Ensemble/Sherman Cymru); Sue, The Second Coming (Bristol Old Vic); My Life in CIA (Give It A Name); Cinders, Plum & Me, Will (Sherman Cymru); Macbeth, King Lear, Oliver Twist (TNT Theatre); The First Time I Saw Snow (Belgrade Theatre Coventry); Don Quixote (Theatre Modo); The Ghost of Scrooge (Library Theatre, Manchester). TV credits include: Trollied (Roughcut TV for SKY1); Skins (E4/Company Productions Ltd). Radio credits include: Modesty Blaise (BBC).
CAT MYERS | MUSICIAN Since graduating from Edinburgh Napier University with a BA Honours Degree in Music, Cat has written and recorded with a number of artists and has gone on to tour the UK, Europe and the USA extensively. She has also drummed for theatre productions including The Tin Forest (National Theatre of Scotland) and Sports Day (Citizens Theatre). The last year has seen her tour with Honeyblood headlining sold out shows and supporting Belle & Sebastian across the east coast of America. Most recently she supported the Foo Fighters at Murrayfield Stadium.
CAMRIE PALMER | PREZZEMOLINA / ENSEMBLE Camrie Palmer recently graduated from Manchester School of Theatre, having previously trained at Dundee College. She is currently Citizens Theatre Actor Intern. Theatre credits include: Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens Theatre/ Edinburgh International Festival). Her credits during training included Women of Troy, Dancing at Lughnasa and Helena Kaut-Howson’s adaptation of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.
WENDY SEAGER | MOTHER GOTHEL / PAULO Wendy graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has worked consistently as an actor and director since then in a career spanning over 25 years. Theatre credits include: Descent, Brace Position (Òran Mór/Traverse); Long Live the Little Knife, City of the Blind, Susurrus (David Leddy/Fire Exit); Bondagers, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Six Black Candles (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Uncle Vanya, Too Clever by Half (RSC/Moscow State Theatre); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Visible Fictions); Beauty and the Beast, Lucy and the Christmas Treasure (Dundee Rep); The Real Wurld (Tron Theatre); Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden (Stellar Quines). Radio credits include: Anna Karenina, I Love you Goodbye, Mary Stuart, The Hydro, Lynton Bay, Rebus, The Strange Case of Mr Hyde, The Life Class (BBC). She has also worked extensively as a singer and spent six years touring around Europe as Agnetha from Abba.
EWAN SOMERS | PATRIZIO Ewan recently graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and is currently Citizens Theatre Actor Intern. Theatre credits include: Lot and his God (Citizens Theatre); Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens Theatre/ Edinburgh International Festival). His credits while training include the title role in Titus Andronicus, Friar Lawrence (Romeo and Juliet), Touchstone (As You Like It), Menelaus (The Oresteia), Pinchwife (The Country Wife), Lord Augustus (Lady Windermere’s Fan) and Adam Smith (The Low Road).
CREATIVE TEAM ANNIE SIDDONS | AUTHOR Annie is a playwright and performer from London. She trained at Desmond Jones School of Music and Physical Theatre, National Theatre Studio Directors’ Course, Royal Holloway University of London (BA Hons 1st Class in Theatre and French). Her shows for kids include The Great Ghost Rescue (Teater Sagohuset); The Nutcracker and The Mouse King (Unicorn); Danira and the Ravens (Battersea Arts Centre), The Yellow Lemon Mission and Rapunzel, which was first produced by Kneehigh Theatre in 2006 and subsequently toured the UK, played the Southbank Centre, then went to the USA. Her shows for older audiences, in which she performs, include Raymondo, which she’s just finished touring in the UK, and which played the British Council Showcase in Edinburgh in 2015. Her new show How (Not) to Live in Suburbia will preview in festivals in early 2016.
LU KEMP | DIRECTOR Lu is a theatre director and dramaturg working in new writing, physical theatre and dance. She is Associate Artist with Inspector Sands for whom she directed Mass Observation (Almeida Summer Festival 2013) and If That’s All There Is (which won the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award 2009). She will direct their new show The Lounge in 2016. Recent work includes Have Your Circumstances Changed? (Artangel); Bondagers (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Don Quixote (Òran Mór) and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (National Theatre of Scotland). Lu has worked as a dance dramaturg for the Xchange Birmingham, Rambert, Sadler’s Wells and The Place. She trained on the LEM at Lecoq, Paris, and with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, New York.
RACHAEL CANNING | DESIGNER / PUPPETRY Rachael trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Rachael is the co-artistic director of The Wrong Crowd. Set and costume design credits include: A Christmas Carol (Citizens Theatre); Swanhunter, Hag, The Girl with the Iron Claws (The Wrong Crowd, UK tour); Magical Night (Royal Opera House); Mad Forest (Battersea Arts Centre); Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauties, The Snow Tiger (Sherman Cymru); The Tailor’s Daughter (Welsh National Opera); Peter Grimes (Costume – Grand Theatre Geneva); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Purcell His Ground (English National Opera). Puppet design and direction credits include: The Jungle Book, Of Mice And Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The City Madam (RSC); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre/Traverse/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Into the Woods, Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Public Theater, New York); The Red Balloon (Royal Opera House); Kes (Sheffield Crucible).
LIZZIE POWELL | LIGHTING DESIGNER Lizzie trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Her lighting designs for the Citizens Theatre include 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 Crucible); Violence and Son, Weekly Rep (Royal Court Theatre); Anna Karenina (The Royal Exchange, 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); Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith); Any Given Day, While You Lie, The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre); Huxley’s Lab, Spring Awakening (Grid Iron/Lung Ha’s); Under Milk Wood (Theatre Royal, Northampton).
MICHAEL JOHN MCCARTHY | COMPOSER / MUSICAL DIRECTOR Michael John is a Cork-born, Glasgow-based composer & musician. Work for performance includes: Into That Darkness, Fever Dream: Southside, Sports Day (Citizens Theatre); The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil, The BFG, Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); Light Boxes, Letters Home, The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); In Time O’ Strife, Blabbermouth, The Tin Forest, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (National Theatre of Scotland); A Gambler’s Guide to Dying (Gary McNair with Show And Tell); Right Now (Traverse Theatre); Bondagers (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre), Glory (Janice Parker Projects); The Winter’s Tale (People’s Light & Theatre, Philadelphia). Other companies he has worked with include The Arches, Lung Ha’s, Macrobert Arts Centre, Platform, Playgroup, Theatre Uncut, Utter, Vox Motus and Youth Music Theatre UK. He is lead artist on Turntable, a participatory arts music project, in association with Red Bridge. He has toured internationally with Zoey Van Goey, Aidan Moffat and Lord Cut-Glass and played on records by RM Hubbert, Jo Mango, Alasdair Roberts and Trembling Bells/Bonnie Prince Billy.
JIM MANGANELLO | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Jim Manganello is currently on a year-long placement as Birkbeck Trainee. He is co-founder of Fratellanza, a collective based in his hometown of Detroit, with whom he has devised several pieces of music-theatre. Directing credits include: War and Peace (Viaduct, Chicago); The Water Station (AuQuai, Brussels); Measure for Measure, Richard II (University of Michigan); The Well of the Saints (University College Dublin). Acting credits include: Playboy of the Western World, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Michigan Classical Rep); Medea (Festival Sortilèges, Belgium); Diary of a Madman, Mozart and Salieri (Fratellanza); puppeteering with Redmoon in Chicago, and a three-man version of Full Metal Jacket. Training: École LASSAAD, Brussels.
EMMACLAIRE BRIGHTLYN | FIGHT CONSULTANT Originally from Canada, EmmaClaire Brightlyn is an actress, fight director and teacher based in Glasgow. She has taught physical theatre and stage combat for The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Edinburgh College, various Stagecoach groups and at The University of Lethbridge in Canada. Fight directing credits include: Dragon (Vox Motus/National Theatre of Scotland/Tianjin Children’s Art Theatre); West Side Story, Festen (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); The Maids, Miss Julie, The Libertine (Citizens Theatre); The Seafarer, Macbeth (Perth Theatre); Hamlet (Wilderness of Tigers); Slope (Untitled Projects); Titus Andronicus (Dundee Rep). EmmaClaire also appeared as a featured Gladiator and co-fight captain in Ben Hur Live! (New Arts Concerts, Germany) in 2011.
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4 – 20 Feb
25 Feb – 5 Mar
15 Apr – 14 May
ALSO FEATURING IN OUR SPRING SEASON: GET CARTER 8 – 12 Mar A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM 29 Mar – 2 Apr OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME 20 May – 4 Jun
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Jamie Leary Karen Lee-Barron Claire Lowney Michelle Lyons Robert Macfarlane Alison MacKinnon Lauren Macluskie Jim Manganello Rose Manson Collette Marshall Carly McCaig Erin McCardie Hayley McCready Michael McGurk Rachel McGurk Hazel McIlwraith Lawrie McInally Hannah McLean Jason McQuaide Jon Meggat Keira Miller Debbie Montgomery Declan Mooney Christina Morrison Jim Morrison Jacqueline Muir Jack Mullen Ian Murray Denis Murphy Emily Murphy Gareth Nicholls Keren Nicol Petriece O’Donnell Neil Packham Sam Packham Camrie Palmer Frances Poet Marion Quinn Valerie Rickis Sarah Scarlett Jatinder Singh Mags Smillie Andy Smith Angela Smith Ann Smith Laura Smith Ewan Somers Lorna Stallard Colin Sutherland Graham Sutherland Benjamin Szili Nicky Taylor Anna Thompson Jenni Thomson Erin Tighe Chris Traquair Martin Travers Andrew Turner Colin White Ross Williamson Emma Louise Wyllie
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