BY JEAN GENET
IN A TRANSLATION BY MARTIN CRIMP THE CAST
PRODUCTION TEAM
SAMUEL KEEFE | MISTRESS Samuel graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in July 2012. His Radio and TV credits include: 44 Scotland Street (BBC Radio 4), Zombie Rule No.9 (BBC Scotland/Solus Productions) and Burnistoun (Comedy Unit). Credits whilst training include: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Medea, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Sweet Bird Of Youth. Samuel is making his professional stage debut in The Maids.
ROSS MANN | CLAIRE Ross graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2012. Theatre credits include: The Inventor’s Story (Ankur Productions), Cain’s Book (Untitled Projects), Kasimir and Karoline (NTS Rehearsed Reading) and Train to Xi’An (The Arches). Credits at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland include: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Much Ado About Nothing, Medea, The Sunbeam and Sweet Bird of Youth. Ross is making his professional stage debut in The Maids.
SCOTT REID | SOLANGE Scott is in his third and final year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre credits include: King Lear (Citizens), Passion (Old Red Lion), The Martyr (Theatre 503), Fit for a King (The Arches). Credits at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland include: The Importance of Being Earnest, Romeo & Juliet, Uncle Vanya and Lie of the Mind. Later in the year Scott is on a national tour with Paddy Cunneen’s play Fleeto, where he will play the part of Mackie.
MARTIN CRIMP | TRANSLATOR Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for theatre in the 1980’s. His plays include The City (2008), Fewer Emergencies (2005), Cruel and Tender (2004), Face to the Wall (2002), The Country (2000), Attempts On Her Life (1997), The Treatment (1993), Getting Attention (1992), No One Sees the Video (1991), Play with Repeats (1989), Dealing with Clair (1988), and Definitely the Bahamas (1987). He has close relationships with the Royal Court Theatre, where he was writer-in-residence in 1997, The Young Vic, and the National Theatre, which in 2007 produced the UK’s first major revival of Attempts on her Life. His work is widely translated and has been seen on numerous European stages including the Bouffes du Nord and Théâtre de la Colline in Paris, the Vienna Festwochen and Berlin’s Schaubühne. The Treatment (winner of the John Whiting award) was produced by New York’s Public Theater in the same year as the Royal Court premiere, and in 1998 his translation of Ionesco’s The Chairs won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. He has also translated works by Koltès, Genet, Marivaux, Molière, Chekhov and most recently Gross und Klein by Botho Strauss.
STEWART LAING | DIRECTOR & DESIGNER Stewart Laing is Artistic Director of Untitled Projects which he formed in 1998. The Company’s large-scale theatre, blending landscape, biography, novel, video, lecture, music, documentary, installation, interview, science and playwriting includes: The Salon Project (2011), An Argument About Sex (2009), Slope (2006), blind_sight (2004) and Myths of the Near Future (1998– 2000). As a director and designer, Stewart has created productions for the Citizens Theatre, Dundee Rep, National Theatre of Scotland, Traverse Theatre, Scottish Opera, Grange Park Opera, Norrlandsoperan, Malmö Opera, Bavarian State Opera. He has also designed for the West End and Broadway, winning a Tony Award in 1997 for outstanding set design on the musical, Titanic. In 2002 Stewart received a Creative Scotland Award to research digital imagery in live performance. Untitled Projects has received recognition of its exceptional vision with significant three year funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Fund.
STUART JENKINS | LIGHTING DESIGNER Stuart Jenkins has been working in professional theatre for over 25 years and has worked for Theatr Clwyd, Citizens Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Traverse Theatre, Wildcat, Tron Theatre, Lung Ha’s, TAG and the National Theatre of Scotland
amongst others. Lighting credits include: Molly Sweeney (Citizens Theatre/NTS), Blasted, The Human Voice, Vernon God Little, Ten Rillington Place, Smoking with Lulu, Krapp’s Last Tape, The Shadow of a Gunman (Citizens Theatre), Suddenly, Last Summer (Theatr Clwyd), Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto (Opera on a Shoestring), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Tron Theatre), Dr. Ferret’s Bad Medicine Roadshow and On the Rim of the World, Temptations of Tam (Scottish Opera/Citizens Theatre). He lives in Glasgow with his partner and three children.
SCOTT PATERSON | GUITAR COACH Scott Paterson has been writing and performing as lead guitarist with the rock band Sons & Daughters for the last decade and has released 4 albums on Domino Records. He has also performed and toured as part of Franz Ferdinand and The Kills. In addition he has worked on composition pieces for short films most recently Scott Graham’s ‘Native Son’ as part of Sons & Daughters.
DEBBIE HANNAN | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Debbie trained in directing at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she developed and directed Pamela Carter’s liberty, equality, fraternity (Tron, Traverse, Cockpit). She previously assisted John Tiffany and Vicky Featherstone on National Theatre of Scotland’s Enquirer, and most recently assisted Dominic Hill on Sleeping Beauty. Recent directing work includes: Roses are Dead (Arches Live!) and Yellow Pears (Bruce Millar Award 2012).
EMMACLAIRE BRIGHTLYN | FIGHT DIRECTOR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Actor Intern positions are supported by The Robertson Trust. All scenery, costumes and properties made in the Citizens Theatre workshops. Thanks to Alan McKendrick for dramaturgical support. Special thanks to: Diane Karcher-Mourgues, Timorous Beasties, Richmond’s Plumbing & Heating, Merchants, Strung Out, Lush, Megan Reid, The Cooperative and Gary McCluskey.
THE MAIDS by Jean Genet, in a translation by Martin Crimp was first performed at the Young Vic Theatre on 1st July 1999. The Glasgow Citizens Theatre’s licence to present Jean Genet’s play THE MAIDS is granted by Rosica Colin Limited, London.
17 Jan – 2 Feb 2013