The Rivals programme by Citizens Theatre

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2 – 19 NOV 2016

CAST DESMOND BARRIT | SIR ANTHONY ABSOLUTE Theatre credits include: Habit of Art, The History Boys, Stuff Happens, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Three Men on a Horse, The Wind in the Willows, Mountain Giants (National Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, Henry IV, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Constant Couple (Royal Shakespeare Company); Real Inspector Hound / Black Comedy, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Donmar Warehouse); Three Men on a Horse (Vaudeville Theatre); Harvey (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); This is a Chair (Royal Court Theatre); Then Again (Lyric Hammersmith); Therese Raquin, Henry IV (Theatre Royal, Bath); Damsel in Distress, On the Razzle, The Merchant of Venice, Fortune’s Fool (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chichester Festival Theatre, Her Majesty’s Theatre); The Birthday Party (Royal Exchange Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatr Clwyd); HMS Pinafore (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne); Die Fledermaus (Welsh National Opera); Wicked (Apollo Victoria).

NICHOLAS BISHOP | FAULKLAND Theatre credits include: Man and Superman, Three Days in the Country, War Horse (National Theatre); Eldorado, Moby Dick, The Texas Sharpshooter (Arcola Theatre); The Country Wife (Royal Exchange Theatre); While The Sun Shines (Theatre Royal Bath); A Tale of Two Cities (The King’s Head Theatre); The Railway Children (Waterloo Station); Measure for Measure (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre). Television credits include: Cranford, Hustle (BBC); Drifters (E4).

LUCY BRIGGS-OWEN | LYDIA LANGUISH Theatre credits include: The Night Watch, Widower’s Houses (Royal Exchange Theatre); Future Conditional, Fortune’s Fool (London Old Vic); Communicating Doors (Menier Chocolate Factory); Shakespeare In Love (Noel Coward Theatre); Midsummer Night’s Dreaming, Boris Godunov, The Orphan of Zhao, Cardenio, The City Madam, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company); Noises Off (West End); The Way of The World (Sheffield Crucible); Mrs. Warren’s Profession (West End & Tour); The Importance of Being Ernest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Private Lives (Hampstead Theatre); Troilus and Cressida (Cheek By Jowl); The Pains of Our Youth, Don Juan Comes Home From The War (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry). Television credits include: Siblings (BBC); Midsomer Murders (ITV).

LILY DONOVAN | LUCY Lily recently graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include: Playhouse Creatures (Tobacco Factory Theatres); The Ugly One (Alma Tavern Theatre); The Tempest, The Wind in the Willows (Redgrave Theatre); As You Like It, The Country Wife, Separate Tables: Table By The Window, Ladybird, Our Country’s Good (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School). Pre-Bristol Old Vic Theatre School: W in Lungs, Rebecca in The Country, Dora in Our Class, Vi in The Memory of Water, Norma in Be My Baby, Amelia in The House of Bernarda Alba, Sharon in Ballymum.

KEITH DUNPHY | SIR LUCIUS O’TRIGGER Theatre credits include: The Easter Rising And Thereafter (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Birthday Party (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Beggar’s Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV Part 1 (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Victoria Station, One for the Road (Young Vic Theatre / The Print Room, London); Romeo and Juliet (Mercury Theatre); Treasure Island (Rose Theatre); Black Milk (Prime Cut Productions); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Grapes of Wrath (Mercury Theatre); This Lime Tree Bower (BAC); She Stoops to Conquer (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); High Society (Sheffield Crucible); Macbeth (Ludlow Festival Theatre); Henry V, Richard ll, Romeo and Juliet, The Histories (Royal Shakespeare Company); Twelfth Night (Belfast Lyric Theatre); Catastrophic Sex Music (Mercury Theatre/Latitude). Television credits include: No Offence (Channel 4); Beowulf (ITV); Hollow Crown, Peaky Blinders, Life Begins, Ultimate Force (BBC). Film credits include: The Spoiler (Wildfrontier Productions); Les Misérables, Children of Men (Universal); Black Death (Egoli Tossell Film); The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Sixteen Films); Inside I’m Dancing (WT2 Productions).

HENRY EVERETT | DAVID/COACHMAN/PIANO Theatre credits include: Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); Man and Superman (National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Michael Grandage Company); The Nutcracker (Theatre Royal Bath), Sold (Theatre 503); All Creatures Great and Small (Gala Theatre, Durham); The Suitcase Kid (Orange Tree Theatre); My Brother the Robot (Tall Stories); Autobahn (King’s Head); Fool for Love, Reigen (GBS Theatre, RADA); The Cherry Orchard (Dog Orange); The Taming of the Shrew, The

Importance of Being Earnest, The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth (Oxford Shakespeare Company); A Christmas Carol (Shaw Theatre); Private Lives, Dead of Night (Sheringham Little Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (The Roses, Tewkesbury); Lovers From Hell (Ovalhouse). TV credits include: Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story, Switch (BBC); Emmerdale (ITV); The Bill (Freemantle); Routes (Channel 4). Film credits include: WMD (Patchwork Productions); Milk Man (Rum Jam Films).

JESSICA HARDWICK | JULIA MELVILLE Jessica trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and graduated in 2013. Theatre credits include: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (National Theatre of Scotland and USA Tour); Rapunzel, Miss Julie (Citizens Theatre); Lanark (Edinburgh International Festival/Citizens Theatre); The Venetian Twins (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Slope (Untitled Projects/Citizens Theatre/Traverse Theatre); The Fair Intellectual Club (Stellar Quines Theatre Company, UK Tour); Three Sisters (Tron Theatre); Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre/Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse/ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh). Radio credits include: The Fair Intellectual Club, McLevy, The Pillow Book (BBC Radio 4). Jessica won ‘Best Newcomer’ at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2014.

JULIE LEGRAND | MRS MALAPROP Theatre credits include: A Waste of Time, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Balcony, The Blacks, The Screens, Chinchilla (Citizens Theatre); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Wit (Royal Exchange Theatre); Gypsy (Savoy Theatre); Midsummer Mischief, Romeo and Juliet, Beauty and The Beast, Temptation, Cymbeline, The Revengers Tragedy, The Human Voice, Oedipus (Royal Shakespeare Company); Remembrance of Things Past, The Forest, The Cherry Orchard, The Critic, The Duchess of Malfi, Way Upstream, The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, Don Quixote (National Theatre); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); To Kill A Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Royal Festival Hall); Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy); See How They Run (Duchess); Arcadia (Haymarket); The House of Bernarda Alba (Gielgud); Marya (Old Vic). TV credits include: Holby City, Doctor Who, Casualty, Fields of Gold, Starting Out, (BBC); Edge of Heaven, Footballers’ Wives, Night and Day, Kavanagh QC, Moving Story, Inspector Morse, Coasting, Anglo Saxon Attitudes, El C.I.D. (ITV); North Square, Good Friday 1663 (Channel 4); Bad Girls (Shed Productions). Film credits include: One for the Road (EM Media); Prick Up Your Ears (Civilhand/Zenith Entertainment); Water (HandMade Films).

LEE MENGO | BOB ACRES Lee trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: The Libertine (Citizens Theatre); A Mad World, My Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company/English Touring Theatre); 6:37 (Royal Court); It’s a Family Affair (Sherman Cymru); Spangled (Mercury Theatre); Macbeth (P.A.C); Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Hired Man (Torch Theatre); Muscle (Shock and Awe); The Bells of Shoreditch, The Whole Truth (Dirty Protest); Canterbury Tales, Moll Flanders, Richard III (Mappa Mundi); Mabinogion, The Grapes of Wrath, The Voyage (Theatr Clywd); Fear Of Drowning (Chapter Arts). Television credits include: The Indian Doctor, Tracy Beaker (BBC); Stella (Tidy Productions); Skins (Company Pictures); Gwaith Cartef, D Plates (Fiction Factory). Film credits include: High Tide (Long Arm Films); One Chance (The Weinstein Company). Radio credits include: The Terrace, The Exuberant, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, This Is My Mark, The Presence, Aberystwyth Mon Amour (BBC).

SHAUN MILLER | FAG Shaun recently graduated from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: En folkefiende (Squint/The Richard Burton Theatre Company); All That I Am, Narrative, Macbeth, The London Cuckolds, The Winter’s Tale (The Richard Burton Theatre Company); BOYS (Open Letter Theatre Company); Two Noble Kinsmen, Frankenstein (RWCMD); Tumilt in the Clouds (Paddy Cunneen).

RHYS RUSBATCH | CAPTAIN JACK ABSOLUTE Rhys trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: Wendy and Peter Pan (Royal Shakespeare Company); Mametz, The Persians (National Theatre of Wales); Hannah, Not Now Bernard, Henry V (Unicorn Theatre / Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith/Royal Exchange Theatre); Greenland, Our Class (National Theatre); Eurydice (Young Vic); Sitcom Trials (Leicester Square Theatre). TV credits include: Sherlock (Hartswoods Films); Merlin (Shine); In Search of Pete Doherty (Endemol). Film credits include: Burn Burn Burn (Rather Good Films); Zero Dark Thirty (Columbia Pictures); Hunky Dory (Film Agency for Wales). Radio credits include: Ed Reardon (BBC).

ERRAND BOY | NATHAN MCGILL/FLYNN MURPHY

CREATIVE TEAM DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre. Since joining the Citizens in 2011, he has directed This Restless House (winner of Best Director, 2016 CATS Awards), Endgame, 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).

TOM ROGERS | DESIGNER Theatre credits include: The Choir (Citizens Theatre); The Snow Queen, The Misanthrope (Bristol Old Vic); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133/4s The Musical (Leicester Curve); Grey Gardens (Southwark); Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales (Bargehouse, Southbank); Racing Demon, 20 Tiny Plays (Sheffield Crucible); Oliver!, The Secret Adversary, Bunch Of Amateurs, Witches of Eastwick, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Watermill Theatre); Each His Own Wilderness, The Man Who (Orange Tree); Beyond the Fence (Arts Theatre); Beacons (Park Theatre); Bedroom Farce, Separate Tables, The Recruiting Officer, Joking Apart, The Spire, Epsom Downs, The Game Of Love and Chance (Salisbury Playhouse); My Judy Garland Life (Nottingham Playhouse); Moominland Midwinter (Theatre Royal Bath); Happy Days, Radio Times (UK Tours). Opera credits: Powder Her Face (Opera Philadelphia); Carmen (USA / Italy); Il Matrimonio Segreto, La Cenerentola (Scottish Opera); La Fille du Regiment (Holland Park). Forthcoming: Five Guys Named Moe (West End); Written on Skin (Opera Philadelphia); Ragtime (Charing Cross). Tom was the costume designer for Britain’s Got Talent 2015/2016 and for Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways worldwide tour.

HOWARD HUDSON | LIGHTING DESIGNER Recent theatre includes: Romeo and Juliet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, Garrick); In The Heights (King’s Cross Theatre); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133/4s The Musical (Leicester Curve); Hedda Gabler, Night Must Fall, Bedroom Farce, Separate Tables (Salisbury Playhouse); Crazy For You, Tell Me On A Sunday, Oliver!, The Secret Adversary (Watermill); The Smallest Show On Earth (Mercury Colchester & UK Tour). Opera and dance credits: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Opera House); Fidelio, Vert-Vert (Garsington Opera); Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty (ENB UK Tour); La Boheme, Die Fledermaus, Lakmé (Opera Holland Park); Eglė Queen of the Serpents (Lithuanian National Ballet, Vilnius). International: Gaslight (Ed Mirvish, Toronto); Titanic (Princess of Wales, Toronto); The Phantom of the Opera (Romanian National Opera, Bucharest); Death and the Maiden, Educating Rita (English Theatre Frankfurt); La Cage Aux Folles (Aarhus Theatre, Denmark); Cornelius (59E59, New York).

DAN JONES | ORIGINAL MUSIC Dan has developed a career bringing together music, sound and drama after studying composition at the Centro Ricerche Musicali, Rome. He received BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards for his score for Any Human Heart and recently scored the BBC’s critically acclaimed Shakespearean epic The Hollow Crown. Other music includes scores for the Oscar-nominated films The Tonto Woman and Shadow Of The Vampire, and the BAFTA-winning dramas The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, Appropriate Adult and Criminal Justice and major series including David Attenborough’s Life Of Mammals. Orchestral arrangements include work for Alpha, Jarvis Cocker and Massive Attack’s recently released The Spoils. He works regularly for the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse and Almeida Theatres. Sound installations include: Music For Seven Ice Cream Vans (LIFT), Sky Orchestra (International Tour, Sydney Festival 2007) and recently Moon with Luke Jerram. He co-founded Sound&Fury, codirecting War Music, Ether Frolics, Going Dark and Kursk which won the first ever Jury Prize for Sound Design at the Prague Quadrennial in 2011.

ED MADDEN | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Ed is a freelance Director, creative associate at the Gate Theatre, and co-founder of new writing company Walrus. He studied at the University of Warwick. As director: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (UK Tour, Paines Plough Roundabout, Warwick Arts Centre). As Assistant Director: The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre).

THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Thomas Abela Neil Anderson Amy Angus Fin Bain Paul C Bassett Catherine Bird Marissa Bonnar Alex Brady Suzanne Brady Laura Briggs Marion Brochard Louise Brown Andrew Bunton Tess Campbell Theo Cherry Jen Clokey Lisa Corr Natalia Cortes Elaine G Coyle Carol Cull Rachel D’Arcy Caroline Darke Lesley Davidson Saul Davidson Denise Differ Miriam Sarah Doren Michael Dorrance Ann Dundas Lisa Dundas Paul Dundas Archie Fisher Robyn Ferguson Sophie Fernie Barry Forde Neil Francis Ben Frost Jacky Gardiner Harvey Gardner Anne Gillan Elly Goodman Jessica Griffiths Davy Harrop Stephen Harrop Jamie Hayes Neil Haynes Jill Henderson Dominic Hill Neil Hobbs Guy Hollands Olivia Hughes Caroline James Miles Jarvis Euan Jenkins Stuart Jenkins Arthur Johnston Debbie Jones Simon Jones Niamh Kane

Front of House Technician/Electrician Drama Class Tutor Front of House Assistant to the Directors Payroll Officer Front of House Box Office Supervisor/IT Box Office/Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House Creative Learning Officer Front of House Development Manager Front of House Drama Class Tutor Drama Class Tutor Company Stage Manager Head of Wardrobe Housekeeper Interim Marketing Officer Trusts & Foundations Manager General Manager Front of House Box Office Manager Drama Class Tutor Deputy Head of Workshop Housekeeper Finance Assistant Front of House Manager Front of House Front of House Front of House Assistant Stage Manager Drama Class Tutor Wardrobe Assistant Front of House Front of House Finance Officer Community Drama Artist Wardrobe Assistant Front of House/Stage Door Administrator Front of House Duty Manager Head of Stage Head Scenic Artist Drama Class Tutor Artistic Director Deputy Head of Lighting and Sound Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Front of House Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House Head of Lighting & Sound Front of House Front of House Stage Door Administrator Front of House

Judith Kilvington Sarah Kinsey Jenny Knotts Campbell Lawrie Jamie Leary Karen Lee-Barron Robert MacFarlane Alison MacKinnon Rose Manson Collette Marshall Carly McCaig Erin McCardie Michael McGurk Rachel McGurk Hazel McIlwraith Lawrie McInally Hannah McLean Jason McQuaide Jon Meggat Shaun Miller Debbie Montgomery Declan Mooney Christina Morrison Jim Morrison Jacqueline Muir Jack Mullen Denis Murphy Emily Murphy Gareth Nicholls Keren Nicol Petriece O’Donnell Neil Packham Sam Packham Frances Poet Marion Quinn Valerie Rickis Mo Serpehri Doust Marian Sharkey Jatinder Singh Mags Smillie Andy Smith Angela Smith Ann Smith Laura Smith Lorna Stallard Graham Sutherland Nicky Taylor Erin Tighe Chris Traquair Martin Travers Andrew Turner Izzie Turner Chloe-Ann Tylor Shiona Walker Colin White Ross Williamson Emma Louise Wyllie

Executive Director Wardrobe Assistant Box Office Paul Hamlyn Club Co-ordinator/ Drama Class Supervisor Front of House/Box Office Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Wardrobe Cutter Head of Marketing and Communications Front of House Front of House Community Drama Worker Front of House Front of House Front of House Head of Development Stage Door Administrator Drama Class Tutor Deputy Head of Stage Electrician/Operator Actor Intern Drama Class Tutor Apprentice Carpenter Development Assistant Front of House Production Administrator Box Office Head of Workshop Front of House Associate Artist Marketing & Communications Manager Front of House Community Drama Director Front of House Literary Associate Front of House Assistant Stage Manager Front of House Deputy Stage Manager Front of House Head of Finance Housekeeper Learning Projects Manager Housekeeper Deputy Head of Production Front of House Head of Production Front of House Drama Class Tutor Head Flyman/Technician Producer (Citizens Learning) Stage Door Administrator Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Robertson Scholarship Trust Actor Intern Digital Officer Drama Class Tutor Building Supervisor Front of House

Board: Professor Adrienne Scullion (Chair), April Chamberlain (Vice Chair), Laurence Fraser, Alex Gaffney, Colum Halforty, Dominic Hill, Ryan James, Alex Reedijk and Bailie James Scanlon.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Set build by Andrew Scrivens, Fred Stacey and Andrew Tinklin at the Bristol Old Vic Scenic Workshops. Set painted by Cliff Thorne, Jo Brown and Tom Crossley-Thorne. Costumes hired from and made by Bristol Costume Services. Additional costumes made by Janet Christmas and Sarah Pozton-Le’Strange. Wigs supplied by Campbell Young Associates. Harpsichord supplied by Hilda McGee. Opening night drinks generously provided by Belhaven and Alliance Wines. Special Thanks to: Hilda McGee, Mary Glasgow and Derek McGill, Claire Murphy and Brian Murphy, all the staff at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and all the staff at Bristol Old Vic.

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