The Comedy of Errors 2022 tour programme

Illustration by Emily Chappell. Photo by Phill Sharp.

– A CITIZENS THEATRE PRODUCTION –

Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock

19 – 20 AUG Live At No 40, Glasgow

26 AUG – 3 SEP Perth Theatre

7 – 17 SEP

CAST CINDY AWOR Cindy Awor recently finished her training at Edinburgh Napier University and is one of this year’s Citizens Theatre Graduate Actors. Prior to this, she trained at Glasgow Clyde College (Langside) and was part of the Scottish Drama Training Network Graduate Scheme. Recent credits include: Dog Squad (CBeebies); VS09 (New Celts Productions); Candy (Blazing Griffin); The Big Data Show (Civic Digits Theatre Company).

ESME BAYLEY Esme trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Recent credits include: Julius Caesar (Company of Wolves); How Not To Drown (Thick Skin & Traverse Theatre Company); Gaslight (Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts); Edward the Second, Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure, Taming of the Shrew (Bard in the Botanics); The Elves and the Shoemaker (Beacon Arts Centre); Ricky McWhittington (Glasgow Life); Look Back in Anger, Cinderella (Cumbernauld Theatre); Secret Show 1 (Blood of the Young & Tron Theatre).

JOHN MACAULAY John Macaulay studied at Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre work includes: Fatal Attraction (Ambassador Theatre Group); Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Company); August: Osage County, Great Expectations, The Witches, Midsummer, The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black Black Oil, Equus, Macbeth (Dundee Rep); Alice in Wonderland, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (National Theatre); Betrayed (Tron Theatre); Peer Gynt (National Theatre of Scotland); A Streetcar Named Desire, Of Mice and Men, The Snow Queen (Perth Theatre); Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard in the Botanics); Caledonia Dreaming (7.84 Theatre Company); 8000 Metres (Suspect Culture); The Voices (Forced Entertainment); The Glass Slipper (Southwark Playhouse); How to Steal a Diamond (Vox Motus); The Whistleblower (Birds Of Paradise Theatre Company); Horizontal Collaboration (Fire Exit). Television work includes: Waterloo Road (Headstrong Pictures); Burnistoun, Gary Tank Commander (The Comedy Unit/BBC Scotland); M.I. High (Kudos Film and TV); Single Father (BBC Scotland/Red Production Company); Still Game (Effingee); Jess the Border Collie, Rockface, English Express (BBC); River City, Suspect (BBC Scotland); Murder in Mind (Chrysalis); The Vice (Carlton Television); Missing (Scottish Television); Living with Technology (Grampian Television).

Radio includes: On the Skids, A Second Life, All at Sea (BBC Scotland).

MICHAEL GUEST Michael trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Recent credits include: A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Scottish Opera); A Christmas Carol, The Comedy of Errors (Citizens Theatre); Joke (Citizens Theatre/A Play, A Pie and A Pint); Raven’s Hollow (Shudder/AMC).

FRANCESCA HESS Francesca is making her professional stage debut after graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in July. She is one of this year’s Citizens Theatre Graduate Actors. Prior to RCS, Francesca trained at the Inspire Academy Workshop in Nottingham.

Theatre credits include: Gloria, Thebans, Much Ado About Nothing, August: Osage County and Vassa (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Death and Botany (55 Kings); The Astronaut Wives Club (NYT).

Film/TV credits include: Four to the Floor (Channel4/Lemonade Money); Some Lines (Sirloin Films); Videohead (JT Media).

JOHN KIELTY John Kielty is an actor, writer and composer.

He has written many theatre scores including A to Z of Dundee for Dundee Rep’s 80th Anniversary Season and the Òran Mór Summer Panto Dracula ReVamped. He has written and contributed to many award-winning musicals with his brothers, including Glasgow Girls for National Theatre of Scotland and, in 2014, they wrote the opening number for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. He recently musically directed and arranged the new Runrig musical The Stamping Ground (Eden Court) and is developing new musical The Edinburgh Seven with Katy Lipson and Aria Entertainment. His award-winning musical Wasted Love was recently adapted as a TV Pilot for Amazon Prime.

ANGUS MILLER Angus trained at Drama Centre London.

Theatre credits include: Mooning (Òran Mór); The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh/Citizens Theatre); The Belle’s Stratagem (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre/Scottish Tour); Pink Confetti (Etch/Babel Performing Arts Festival, Romania); Let The Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland/ Royal Court/Apollo Theatre, West End/St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC/US Tour); Macbeth (Perth Theatre/The Tron, Glasgow). Television credits include: The Gold (BBC1/Paramount+); Shetland (Series 5-7) (BBC); Guilt (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Teacup Travels (CBeebies). Angus is also currently a continuity announcer at STV. Film credits include: Harm (Futuristfilm Ltd); Crowman (Flyboy Creative).

RENEE WILLIAMS Renee Williams hails from California. Theatre credits include: Hang, Andromache, The Motherf*cker with the Hat, The Tempest (Tron Theatre); The Guitar Man (Surrogate Productions); Horizonal Collaboration (Fire Exit); Up Close and Personal (Cumbernauld Theatre). Film/TV credits include: She Will (Popcorn Group); Logan High (Chalkboard TV/CBBC); The Merits of Extinction (New Religion Film); Armchair Detectives (Tiger Aspects).

CREATIVE TEAM DOMINIC HILL DIRECTOR

NIKOLA KODJABASHIA COMPOSER

Dominic joined the Citizens Theatre as Artistic Director in 2011. His productions at the Citizens have included Cyrano de Bergerac, A Christmas Carol, Oresteia: This Restless House (winner of Best Director, 2016 CATS Awards), Hamlet, Crime and Punishment (winner of Best Director and Best Production, 2014 CATS Awards), King Lear and Betrayal (winner of Best Director, 2012 CATS Awards). 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), The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Scottish Opera).

Nikola is one of the leading figures in the European music and stage avantgarde. Theatre credits include: Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Crime and Punishment, Hamlet, Hansel & Gretel (Citizens Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Oresteia: This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/ National Theatre of Scotland); La Suite (Fabien Prioville Dance Company/ Pina Bausch Foundation); Bacchai (National Theatre); Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic); Inkheart, Romeo and Juliet (HOME Manchester); Eyes of the Landscape, Sandpit, Scherzo for Piano and Stick, Insomnia (Riotous); Siege (Freedom Theatre Palestine); Scorched (Old Vic); Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse). Other notable scores include: La Biennale di Venezia (2004), BBC Singers (2010), Operaen i Midten Denmark (2019/20) as well as a number of TV and Film scores.

JESSICA WORRALL DESIGNER Recent work: Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe); After Edward, Edward II, The Treason Trial of Walter Raleigh (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Educating Rita (Dukes Theatre); Quality Street (Northern Broadsides). Other theatre includes: Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Captive Queen (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); When We Are Married, She Stoops to Conquer, Love’s Labour’s Lost, We Are Three Sisters, Wars of the Roses, School for Scandal, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Northern Broadsides, National Tours); Rites (National Theatre of Scotland); Grit (Tramway, Glasgow – costume only); The Knitting Circle (Vital Xposure); Alice Through the Looking Glass (The Egg Theatre); Huxley’s Lab (Grid Iron). As a member of the performance group, People Show, Jessica has designed & devised over 30 productions, including The Last Straw no.130 (Summerhall & Ovalhouse), Hands Off no.127 (Toynbee Studios), Fallout no.124 (Centre for Contemporary Art), The Ghost Sonata no.119 (Sefton Park Glass House), The Birthday Show no.120 and Baby Jane no.113 (UK Tours).

BENEDICTE SEIERUP AND LUCIEN MACDOUGALL MOVEMENT

LIZZIE POWELL LIGHTING DESIGNER

Eleanor is currently on placement at the Citizens Theatre as part of her MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck University. Eleanor previously studied Theatre at Trinity Western University, Canada. Assistant Director credits include: The Rainman (Pacific Theatre, Vancouver, Canada); Much Ado About Nothing (SAMC Theatre, Langley, Canada); Medea (Rose Bruford, London). Selected Directing credits include: Have You Heard (Nora Productions, London); Inside Voices (Vancouver Fringe Festival, Canada); The Comedy of Errors (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival); Still the Kettle Sings (Plan Z Theatre, Vancouver, Canada).

Theatre designs include: Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Endgame, Hansel & Gretel, The Choir, The Libertine, Far Away/Seagulls, Krapp’s Last Tape/Footfalls (Citizens Theatre); The Da Vinci Code, Dial M For Murder (Simon Friend Productions, UK Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish Opera); Falstaff (Santa Fe Opera & Scottish Opera); King John, Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Mountaintop, Mother Courage, The Mighty Walzer, Anna Karenina (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Cyrano de Bergerac (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/West End); Orphans, Red Dust Road, Adam, Glasgow Girls, In A Time O’ Strife, Enquirer, Knives in Hens (National Theatre of Scotland); The B̀ookies, Wings Around Dundee, Smile, Death Trap (Dundee Rep); Avalanche (Sydney Theatre Company/Barbican Theatre); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Victory Condition, B, Human Animals, Violence and Son (Royal Court); The Country Girls (Chichester Festival); What Girls Are Made Of (Traverse Theatre & Raw Material); Kes (Perth Theatre).

Benedicte and Lucien both trained at Guildford School of Acting and under Jacques Lecoq in Paris. They have worked as actors, devisers, movement tutors, directors and movement directors over several years and in many countries. They have written and devised four plays together, their favourite being The Nose (After Gogol). They are currently movement tutors at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Movement Directing work with Dominic Hill at the Citizens Theatre includes: The Comedy of Errors (2021), Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol (2014, 2018 & 2021), Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty and Crime and Punishment. Lucien recently worked on series 2 of Hitmen (Sky).

ELEANOR FELTON ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR Last summer we hoped to celebrate the reopening of live theatre with The Comedy of Errors – sadly, as with many shows at the time, Covid forced us to abandon the planned run. So, I am delighted that we are able to restage the show for audiences this summer. It is one of Shakespeare’s most joyful and silliest plays, originally written after two years of the plague and containing plenty of slapstick humour, jokes and a cheering family reunion.

We have had great fun in making it and I hope very much that you enjoy it too. While the redevelopment of the Citz continues, we are grateful to our friends at Scottish Opera for inviting us to share their marquee and, afterwards to be able to take our work further afield with our first visit to Perth Theatre. I look forward to seeing you on the tour.

Thank you for your support.

Dominic Hill, Citizens Theatre Artistic Director

THE CITIZENS COMPANY Anna Athanasiadi Cindy Awor Esther Batterham Catherine Bird Ashleigh Blair Alex Brady Suzanne Brady Katrina Caldwell Peter Clerke Natalia Cortes Elaine G Coyle Denise Differ Louise Dingwall Karen Dunbar Lisa Dundas Catrin Evans Eleanor Felton Barry Forde Elly Goodman Maddy Grant David Harrop Francesca Hess Dominic Hill Neil Hobbs Euan Jenkins Stuart Jenkins Simon Jones Amber Keating Jenny Knotts

Sound No2 / Swing Technician Graduate Actor Marketing & Communications Officer Payroll Officer Scenic Artist Box Office Supervisor / IT Box Office / Learning Tutor Learning Tutor Learning Tutor Company Stage Manager Head of Wardrobe Box Office Manager Press and Marketing Officer Learning Tutor Box Office Head of Creative Learning Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Assistant Stage Manager Community Drama Artist Deputy Stage Manager Stage Technician Graduate Actor Artistic Director Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Stage Door Administrator Head of Lighting & Sound Stage Door Administrator Digital Officer Box Office

Carol Laula Alison Lewis Alison MacKinnon Keir Martin Carly McCaig Niamh McCarron Morna McGeoch Alex McGowan Lawrie McInally Claire McNeil Rachel Mimiec Jacqueline Muir Jack Mullen Ailsa Munro Denis Murphy Allan Othieno Neil Packham Frances Poet Gail Power Mairi Rosko-Mathisen Molly Ross Saffron Shearer Mags Smillie Laura Smith Graham Sutherland Martin Travers Rikki Traynor David Young Ritchie Young

Learning Tutor Marketing & Communications Manager Head of Marketing & Communications Sound Supervisor / No1 (Perth) Community Drama Worker Creative Intern Learning Tutor Executive Director Stage Door Administrator Finance Manager Learning Tutor Production Administrator Box Office Learning Tutor Head of Workshop Learning Tutor Community Drama Director Literary Associate Learning Tutor Development Director Individual Giving & Events Officer Wardrobe Assistant / Dresser Head of Finance Deputy Head of Production Head of Production Producer (Citizens Learning) Learning Tutor Facilities Supervisor Sound Supervisor / No1

The Citizens Theatre Graduate Actor scheme is supported by The Garrick Charitable Trust and The Ernst Maas Educational Trust.

Board: April Chamberlain (Chair), Alex Reedijk (Vice Chair), Councillor Susan Aitken, Gemma Bodinetz, Stephen Dunn, Laurence Fraser, Dominic Hill, Jackie Kay, John McElwee, James Scanlon, Irene Tweedie and Louise Welsh

All costumes and props made by the Citizens Theatre workshop.

This production is part of the Live at No.40 festival, an outdoor celebration of theatre, music and opera at New Rotterdam Wharf, Scottish Opera’s Production Studios, 40 Edington Street, Glasgow.

Special thanks to: Frances Poet, Scottish Opera, Tramway, Tron Theatre, Blue Parrot Ltd, The Laurieston, The Clutha Bar and Ann’s Fry.

SUPPORTING CITIZENS CORPORATE CITIZENS Kube Networks Two Fat Ladies

SUPPORTERS CMS Charitable Trust Comic Relief Cruden Foundation The Ernst Maas Educational Trust The Garrick Charitable Trust Glasgow Buildings Preservation Trust Glasgow City Health & Social Care Partnership Life Changes Trust Morrisons Foundation The National Lottery Community Fund (Young Start)

The National Lottery through Creative Scotland Postcode Community Trust Scottish Government Souter Charitable Trust

BEST FRIENDS Amish Amin David Armstrong Susan Bell John Bremner Rosemary Bremner Kevin Roderick Brown April Chamberlain Sean Daisley Julie Doughty John Ferris Mary Henderson Gordon Jeyes

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Additional thanks to the many individuals that have also given donations throughout the year, and those who would prefer their support to remain anonymous.

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