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TRAINSPOTTING Artwork by Freight Design
BY IRVINE WELSH ADAPTED BY HARRY GIBSON DIRECTED BY GARETH NICHOLLS
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18 OCT – 11 NOV 2017
THE CAST LORN MACDONALD | MARK RENTON Lorn graduated in 2015 from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre credits include: Oresteia: This Restless House (2017 and 2016 Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre, 2016); Boys (Soho Theatre/Nuffield Theatre/Headlong/ Hightide Festival Theatre); What We Know (Traverse Theatre). TV credits include: World’s End (BBC); Neverland (Sky Movies/Syfy); Outlander (Starz/Tall Ship Productions). Radio credits include: Boswell at Large: A Corsican Adventure (BBC). Film credits include: Beats (Sixteen Films).
MARTIN MCCORMICK | BEGBIE/MOTHER SUPERIOR Martin graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD) in 2007. Theatre credits include: Feverdream: Southside (Citizens Theatre); Takin’ Over the Asylum (Citizens Theatre/ Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh). He has also worked with the National Theatre of Scotland, Dundee Rep, VoxMotus, Macrobert, Visible Fictions, Grid Iron, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Magnetic North, Random Accomplice, Eden Court, The Arches, Manchester Royal Exchange and Paines Plough. TV credits include: Still Game, River City (BBC); Taggart (STV); Shetland (ITV); Hollyoaks Later (Lime Pictures). Writing credits include: Squash (A Play, A Pie and A Pint - winner of Best New Play, 2015 CATS award); The Day the Pope Emptied Croy (A Play, A Pie and A Pint/Traverse); Flo (A Play, A Pie and A Pint/Lemon Tree); Potterrow (Cumbernauld Theatre - Winner Best Short Play).
ANGUS MILLER | TOMMY/SICK BOY Angus trained at Drama Centre London. Theatre credits include: Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre, 2016); Pink Confetti (Babel Arts Festival); Bulldog (Etch Theatre); Let The Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland, UK & International Tour); Macbeth (Perth Theatre/Tron Theatre); Fleeto (V.AMP Productions). TV credits include: Teacup Travels (Plum Films, CBeebies); Crowman (Flyboy Productions).
CHLOE-ANN TYLOR | ALISON/DIANNE Chloe-Ann graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2016 and was the Robertson Trust Actor Intern at the Citizens Theatre in 2016/2017. Theatre credits include: Trainspotting (2016), Hansel and Gretel (Citizens Theatre); Circle of Fifths, Dick McWhittington, The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde, As You Like It, Three Sisters (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Titus Andronicus (Dundee Rep); The Merchant of Venice (Bard in the Botanics). On graduating, Chloe-Ann was awarded the James Bridie Gold Medal.
GAVIN JON WRIGHT | SPUD Gavin trained at Coatbridge College. Theatre credits include: Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre, 2016); The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Titus (Macrobert Arts Centre); Cinderella, Snow White, Potterrow (Cumbernauld Theatre); Whisky Galore! - A Musical, The Servant O’ Twa Maisters, The Life of Stuff, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Decky Does a Bronco (Grid Iron); A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity (Grid Iron/ Traverse Theatre/59E59 New York); Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland), Dragon (Vox Motus/National Theatre of Scotland); A Miracle on 34 Parnie Street, Scenes Unseen, The Lying Kind, Ulysses (Tron Theatre); News Just In (Random Accomplice); Titus (Red Bridge Arts, US Tour) and several productions at Òran Mór’s A Play, A Pie and A Pint season. TV credits include: Still Game, Lip Service, Dear Green Place (BBC); Taggart (STV); In Plain Sight (ITV).
TRAINSPOTTING BY IRVINE WELSH ADAPTED BY HARRY GIBSON Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting was published by Secker & Warburg (now Harvill Secker) in 1993. Nine months later, Harry Gibson had adapted the novel for the Citizens Theatre’s Stalls Studio starring Ewen Bremner, who went on to play ‘Spud’ in Danny Boyle’s film version. The adaptation was a huge success and was remounted the following year at the Citizens before going on to tour the globe. Its explicit content and shocking violence made it a commonlycited prime example of ’in-yer-face theatre’, a term used to categorise the work of young writers in the 1990s including Sarah Kane, Philip Ridley and Jez Butterworth. Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting found global notoriety through Danny Boyle’s 1996 film starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd and Johnny Lee Miller. Welsh’s sequel to Trainspotting, Porno, was published in 2012. A film adaptation, again directed by Danny Boyle, was released in 2017 as T2.
CREATIVE TEAM GARETH NICHOLLS | DIRECTOR Gareth is Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre having previously been Main Stage Director In Residence at the Citizens Theatre (2014-16). Directing credits include: Trainspotting (2016), Blackbird, Into That Darkness, Vanya (Citizens Theatre); God of Carnage, Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre); Donald Robertson Is Not A Stand-Up Comedian, A Gamblers Guide To Dying, Letters To Morrissey (Traverse Theatre); Voices From The Black That I Am, Moby Dick, Prom (ÒranMór); Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Coriolanus, The Burial At Thebes (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Educating Ronnie (Utter); The Little Boy That Santa Forgot (Macrobert/Arches); Tin Forest South West (National Theatre of Scotland). Gareth has won three Fringe Firsts Awards and a Scottish Arts Club Award and is co-artistic director of new work company Utter.
MAX JONES | DESIGNER Recent Design credits include: Trainspotting (2016), A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, The Caretaker (Citizens Theatre); The House They Grew Up In (Headlong/Chichester Festival Theatre); Pride And Prejudice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, UK Tour); True West (Citizens Theatre/Tricycle - UK Theatre Award nomination for Best Design); The Winter’s Tale (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The York Mystery Plays (York Minster); Little Shop of Horrors, Educating Rita, Glengary Glen Ross, Bruised, A Doll’s House, Dancing At Lughnasa, Blackthorn, A Small Family Business, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Two Princes, The Grapes of Wrath (Theatre Clywd); The Crucible, Brilliant Adventures, Miss Julie (Royal Exchange); Orpheus Descending (Bunkamura, Japan); The Lady From the Sea (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Blasted (The Other Room); The Broken Heart, The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); Queen Coal (Sheffield Theatres); The Hypocrite, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Merry Wives of Windsor (Royal Shakespeare Company); Play Strindberg (Ustinov, Bath); Much Ado About Nothing (Nameless Media & Productions, Japan tour); Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Time To Reap, Spur of the Moment (Royal Court); Così fan tutte (Welsh National Opera, UK tour).
PHILIP GLADWELL | LIGHTING DESIGNER Currently playing: Five Guys Named Moe (Marble Arch Theatre); Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory); Magic Mike Live (Las Vegas); The Exorcist (Phoenix Theatre, London); Blanc de Blanc, Limbo & Limbo Unhinged (Strut & Fret Production House, International Tours); Gobsmacked (USA Tour). Other shows: Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre, 2016); Hairspray, Laila the Musical, Jackie the Musical ,The King and I, Happy Days The Musical, After Miss Julie (UK Tour); The Infidel: the Musical (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Sound of Music, Gypsy, Chicago (Curve Leicester); Cymbeline (Royal Shakespeare Company); The James Plays, The World of Extreme Happiness, Love the Sinner (National Theatre); Mr. Burns, Before The Party (Almeida); Fräulein Julie (Schaubühne, Barbican); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Milk, Swallow, Ciara (Traverse Theatre); The Seagull (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Twits, Liberian Girl, God Bless The Child, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, No Quarter, Kebab (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (Barbican); First Love is the Revolution, The Boy Who Fell Into A Book, Pastoral, Roller Diner (Soho Theatre); The Member of the Wedding (Young Vic); Testing The Echo (Out Of Joint); Mogadishu, Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith); One For the Road, Hedda Gabler, The Duchess of Malfi (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); The Fahrenheit Twins, Low Pay? Don’t Pay! (Told by an Idiot); If Only (Chichester Festival Theatre); 1984, Macbeth, Too Clever by Half, You Can’t Take it With You (Royal Exchange); Terminus (Abbey Dublin/ Young Vic, International Tour).
MICHAEL JOHN MCCARTHY | COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER Michael John is a Cork-born, Glasgow-based composer, musician & sound designer. Work for performance includes: Trainspotting (2016), The Gorbals Vampire, Rapunzel, Into That Darkness, Fever Dream: Southside, Sports Day (Citizens Theatre); Jimmy’s Hall (Abbey Theatre); Rocket Post, In Time O’ Strife, The Tin Forest, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (National Theatre of Scotland); August: Osage County, George’s Marvellous Medicine, The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil, The BFG, Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); Glory On Earth, A Number, The Weir, Bondagers (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Light Boxes, Letters Home, The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); God of Carnage, The Lonesome West, Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre); Grain In The Blood (Traverse Theatre); Heads Up (Kieran Hurley/Show & Tell); The Interference (Pepperdine Edinburgh); The Red Shed (Mark Thomas/ Lakin McCarthy). Michael John has toured internationally with Zoey Van Goey, Aidan Moffat and Lord Cut-Glass and played on records by Emma Pollock, RM Hubbert, Alasdair Roberts and Trembling Bells/Bonnie Prince Billy amongst others.
EJ BOYLE | MOVEMENT DIRECTOR EJ is a choreographer, movement director and mass movement director/ choreographer. Theatre work includes: Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre, 2016); Oresteia: This Restless House, Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens Theatre/Edinburgh International Festival); The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil, Great Expectations, Much Ado About Nothing, Victoria, James and the Giant Peach (Dundee Rep); Still Game: Live (Glasgow Hydro); Forest Boy (Noisemaker/New York Musical Festival/Arcola); Into The Woods, Atlantic: A Scottish Story (Noisemaker/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Richard III (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Hedda Gabler, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Jumpy (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Not About Heroes (Eden Court); Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). Screen work includes: The Crown (Netflix Original Series); In Plain Sight (ITV); Two Doors Down (BBC); God Help the Girl (Sundance Special Jury Prize). Other work: Creative Associate/Choreographer Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Ceremonies; Assistant Artistic Director Baku 2015 European Games; Mass Movement Director Queens 90th Birthday Parade; Director Under the Ground (Edinburgh Fringe), Associate Director Out of This World (Sadlers Wells, UK Tour). EJ is Artistic Associate of Dundee Rep Theatre.
MAREC JOYCE | ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER Associate Lighting Design credits include: The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland, UK & International Tour); Charge (Motionhouse Dance Company); Driving Miss Daisy (ATG, UK Tour); Sex with Strangers (Hampstead Theatre); Harrogate (Royal Court, UK Tour); Annie Get Your Gun (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield). Lighting design credits include: Mr Swallow - Houdini, The Session (SOHO Theatre); After October, One Day Of The Year (Finborough Theatre); The Get Out, Primetime (Royal Court Theatre); Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse).
GEORGE NICHOLS | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR George is a resident Assistant Director at the Citizens Theatre. He graduated from the University of Bristol in 2015 with a BA in Drama and is currently on Birkbeck University’s MFA Theatre Directing programme. Assistant Directing credits include: Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog (Citizens Theatre/Belgrade Theatre Coventry); Eventide (Up in Arms Theatre). Directing credits include: Oddity (Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff); The Allotment (Alma Theatre, Bristol); Troll, Here (Bristol Old Vic); Entertaining Mr Sloane, Zoo Story, The Masque of Queens (University of Bristol). George is one of the founding directors of the Cardiff Fringe Festival, which offers free performance space to a range of different artists at a local, national and international level.
THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Thomas Abela Front of House Neil Anderson Studio Technician Amy Angus Drama Class Tutor Fin Bain Front of House Paul C Bassett Front of House Duty Manager Esther Batterham Marketing Officer (Maternity cover) Catherine Bird Payroll Officer Dave Black Front of House Ashleigh Blair Scenic Artist/Painter Marissa Bonnar Front of House Alex Brady Box Office Supervisor/ IT Suzanne Brady Box Office/ Drama Class Tutor Laura Briggs Front of House Louise Brown Creative Learning Officer Charlene Boyd Night School Tutor Theo Cherry Front of House Jen Clokey Drama Class Tutor Steph Connell Stage One Producer Lisa Corr Sullivan Drama Class Tutor Natalia Cortes Company Stage Manager Peter Cowan Box Office Elaine G Coyle Head of Wardrobe Carol Cull Housekeeper Kirstie Cusick Head of Communications (Capital) Caroline Darke Trusts & Foundations Manager Lesley Davidson General Manager Saul Davidson Front of House Denise Differ Box Office Manager Louise Dingwall Press and Marketing Officer Michael Dorrance Deputy Head of Workshop Emma Jane Douglas Assistant Scenic Artist/Painter Katie Doyle Front of House Ann Dundas Housekeeper Lisa Dundas Finance Assistant/ Box Office Paul Dundas Front of House Manager Steven Dundas Housekeeper Amir Ebrahim Front of House Archie Fisher Front of House Robyn Ferguson Box Office Sophie Fernie Front of House Barry Forde Assistant Stage Manager Neil Francis Drama Class Tutor Benjamin Frost Wardrobe Assistant Jacky Gardiner Front of House Harvey Gardner Front of House Anne Gillan Finance Officer Elly Goodman Community Drama Artist Jessica Griffiths Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Daniel Hamilton Drama Class Tutor Davy Harrop Front of House/ Stage Door Administrator Stephen Harrop Front of House Duty Manager/ Carpenter Jamie Hayes Head of Stage Dominic Hill Artistic Director Neil Hobbs Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Guy Hollands Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Olivia Hughes Front of House Caroline James Drama Class Tutor Miles Jarvis Front of House Euan Jenkins Front of House Stuart Jenkins Head of Lighting & Sound Arthur Johnston Stage Door Administrator Simon Jones Stage Door Administrator Judith Kilvington Executive Director
Sarah Kinsey Wardrobe Assistant Jenny Knotts Box Office Campbell Lawrie Paul Hamlyn Club Co-ordinator/ Drama Class Supervisor Jamie Leary Front of House/ Box Office Karen Lee-Barron Wardrobe Assistant/ Dresser Niall Macdonald Front of House Alison MacKinnon Head of Marketing & Communications Rose Manson Front of House Collette Marshall Front of House Carly McCaig Community Drama Worker Erin McCardie Front of House Sarah McGavin Drama Class Tutor MornaMcGeogh Drama Class Tutor Michael McGurk Front of House Rachel McGurk Front of House Hazel McIlwraith Head of Development Lawrie McInally Stage Door Administrator Lauren McLean Drama Class Tutor Jason McQuaide Deputy Head of Stage Jon Meggat Technician Kat Moir Drama Class Tutor Tess Monro Assistant Director (Birbeck Trainee) Debbie Montgomery Drama Class Supervisor Christina Morrison Individual Giving Officer Jim Morrison Front of House Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Jack Mullen Box Office Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Keren Nicol Acting Head of Marketing George Nichols Assistant Director (Birbeck Trainee) Petriece O’Donnell Front of House Neil Packham Community Drama Director Sam Packham Front of House/ Stage Door Administrator Tom Penny Assistant Lighting & Sound Technician Donald Pirie Night School Tutor Frances Poet Literary Associate Marion Quinn Front of House Nicholas Ralph Robertson Trust Actor Intern Mo SerpehriDoust Front of House Sinéad Sharkey Actor Intern Christopher Silver Press & Marketing Officer (Maternity cover) Jatinder Singh Front of House Mags Smillie Head of Finance Andy Smith Housekeeper Angela Smith Learning Projects Manager Laura Smith Deputy Head of Production Lorna Stallard Front of House Rosanna Stone Deputy Stage Manager Colin Sutherland Stage Manager Graham Sutherland Head of Production Benjamin Szilli Front of House Nicky Taylor Front of House Erin Tighe Drama Class Tutor Chris Traquair Head Flyman/ Technician Martin Travers Producer (Citizens Learning) Andrew Turner Stage Door Administrator Shiona Walker Digital Officer Colin White Drama Class Tutor Clare Wilde Major Donor Officer Ross Williamson Building Supervisor Gary Wong Front of House
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS All scenery, costumes and props made in the Citizens Theatre workshop. Opening night drinks generously provided by Belhaven and Alliance Wines. Special Thanks to: Jon Meggat, National Theatre of Scotland, The Co-op Funeralcare and Glasgow Angling Centre.
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