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TRUE WEST

BY SAM SHEPARD

Tue 29 Oct – Sat 16 Nov 2013

SAM SHEPARD - WRITER Sam Shepard had his first New York plays, Cowboys and Rock Garden, produced by Theatre Genesis in 1963. Eleven of his plays have won Obie Awards including Chicago and Icarus’s Mother (1965); Red Cross and La Turista (1966); Forensic and the Navigators and Melodrama Play (1967); The Tooth of Crime (1972); Action (1974) and Curse of the Starving Class (1976). Mr. Shepard was awarded a Pulitzer Prize as well as an Obie Award for his play Buried Child (1979). Fool For Love (1982) received the Obie for Best Play as well as for Direction. The critically acclaimed production of True West, starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise opened in New York in 1984. A Lie of the Mind (1985) won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1986 and the 1986 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play. A revived Buried Child under the direction of Gary Sinise opened on Broadway in April 1996 and won a Tony Award nomination. His most recent plays, Kicking A Dead Horse (2007) and Ages of the Moon (2009) both received their world premieres at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Mr. Shepard wrote the screenplays for Zabriskie Point; Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas and Robert Altman’s film version of his play Fool For Love. As writer/director, Mr. Shepard filmed Far North and Silent Tongue in 1988 and 1992 respectively. As an actor he has appeared in the films Days of Heaven, Resurrection, Raggedy Man, The Right Stuff, Frances, Country, Fool For Love, Crimes of the Heart, Baby Boom, Steel Magnolias, Bright Angel, Defenseless, Voyager, Thunderheart, The Pelican Brief, Safe Passage, Hamlet, and most recently Don’t Come Knocking, also co-written with Wim Wenders. In 1986, Mr. Shepard was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1992, he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

THE CAST STEVEN ELLIOT | SAUL KIMMER Steven trained as an actor for three years at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. Theatre credits: Frankenstein, The Winter’s Tale (Royal National Theatre); Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Revenger’s Tragedy, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Pentecost, The Bite of the Night, The Jew of Malta (RSC); The Devil Inside Him (National Theatre Wales); Dancing at Lughnasa (Abbey, Dublin); King Lear (Almeida, London). Other theatre work includes: Amadeus, Hamlet, And Then There Were None, Jane Austen’s Emma (Salisbury Playhouse); Associate Artist at Clwyd Theatr Cymru (Macbeth, A Chorus of Disapproval, Arcadia, Troilus and Cressida, Two Princes, Measure for Measure, Noises Off, The Suicide); Dumb Show (New Vic, Newcastle under Lyme). Television credits include: Da Vinci’s Demons, Judge John Deed, Holby City, Art that Shook the World (BBC); Porthpenwaig (S4C); Mike Bassett: Manager (ITV); Inspector Morse (Carlton TV); Harpur and Isles (TV Movie); 90 Days in Hollywood. Film work includes: Hamlet, Cold Earth, Rise of the Appliances and Time Bandits.

ALEX FERNS | LEE Recent theatre credits include: Casualties (Park Theatre); South Pacific (Barbican and tour); The Hard Man (Scottish Touring Consortium); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory); And The There Were None, Guys and Dolls (Donmar Warehouse); Strangers On A Train (No 1 Tour); Coyote On A Fence (Manchester Royal Exchange/West End); I.D. (Almeida Theatre); ART (West End); A Streetcar Named Desire, Richard III (Mercury Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Stray Theatre Company). TV credits include: The Widower, Making Waves, Taggart (ITV); Low Winter Sun (Kudos/ BBC); Retro (Sky); The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Doctors, Eastenders, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, Holby City, Rhodes (BBC); Wings (Endemol Productions); Psychos (Channel 4); The Bill (Thames Television); Black Velvet Band (International Television); A Year in Moments (Horizon Films).

Film credits include: Farewell, Joyeux Noel (Nord Ouest); Man Dancin’ (IA Productions); Britanic (Regency Films); Ghost and the Darkness (Paramount Pictures). Radio includes: Dr Finley’s Black Bag, Mount of Swans (Radio 4); Macbeth (Richard Eyre). Awards: Best Actor, Man Dancin’ (Cherbourg Film Festival); Best Actor, Coyote on a Fence (TMA Awards); Nominated for Best Actor, The Hard Man (Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland); nominated for Best Supporting Actor, I.D. (What’s On Stage); nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Little Shop of Horrors (TMA Awards); nominated Best Actor, Eastenders, (British Television Awards).

EUGENE O’HARE | AUSTIN Eugene is delighted to return to the Citizens Theatre where he played Mick in Phillip Breen’s production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker in 2008. Other theatre includes: Translations (Royal National Theatre); Our Private Life (Royal Court); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey Theatre/ Hampstead); Lovers (Strindberg Theatre, Stockholm); The Hanging Gardens (National Theatre Studios); Victoria Wood’s Talent (Menier Chocolate Factory); Farewell (Field Day); The Civilisation Game, Teechers (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Riff Raff (Arcola); Memoirs of a Dead Man (Edinburgh Festival); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic/Brook Atkinson Theatre, Broadway). Eugene will reprise the role of Pierre in Lolita Chakrabarti’s award-winning play Red Velvet at the Tricycle Theatre in February 2014 prior to a New York transfer in April. Film, Television & Radio includes: The Fall (BBC 2); Nothing Personal (Film 4); Prometheus (20th Century Fox); London Irish, Black Mirror, Call it a Night (Channel 4); Waking the Dead (BBC 1); Countdown to War (BBC 2); Translations, Red Herrings (BBC Radio 4); Farewell (BBC Radio 3). Eugene is a member of Field Day theatre company where he has worked with its co-founder Stephen Rea and the author of True West, Sam Shepard.

BARBARA RAFFERTY | MOM Barbara studied at the RSAMD (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). She has played in most theatres in Britain. Her last appearance at the Citizens Theatre was in 2008 as Maggie in the Giles Havergal production of Men Should Weep and she is delighted to be back. Stage credits include: The House of Bernanda Alba (Raindog); Blood Wedding (Communicado); Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); The Missing (National Theatre of Scotland); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty UK Ltd); The Shepard Beguiled, A Fine Romance, Tamlane, Gillespie (The Brunton); and many pantomimes at the King’s Theatre, Glasgow. Television credits include: Rab C Nesbitt as Ella Cotter (The Comedy Unit), River City for 5 years as Shirley Henderson, Rockface, Sea of Souls, Murder Rooms, Doctors (BBC); Taggart, Doctor Finlay (STV); The Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rockstar (Channel 4) and she has just finished filming Katie Morag for CBeebies. Film credits include: Blood Red Roses (Blood Red Roses Productions); Last King of Scotland (Fox Searchlight Pictures); Women Talking Dirty (Rocket Productions); Billy Bongo Leaves Home (Peel Street Films); Last Word (Sigma Films); The Wickerman (British Lion Film). She has recorded many radio plays and comedies. Barbara is married to actor Sean Scanlan.

CREATIVE TEAM PHILLIP BREEN | DIRECTOR Previous productions for the Citizens Theatre include A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, his own adaptation of The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The Shadow of a Gunman and The Caretaker. Other credits include The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); Trouble and Shame by David Ireland (Òran Mór); Threeway by DC Jackson, Holes by Tom Basden (Invisible Dot); Sex With a Stranger by Stefan Golasewski (Invisible Dot/ Trafalgar Studios); direction and design of The Stefan Golaszewski Plays (Traverse, Bush, Off-Broadway - 2008 Fringe First Winner, Stage Award Nominee); Party by Tom Basden (Invisible Dot, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sydney International Festival, West End - 2009 Fringe First Winner). Direction and design of Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher! (2011 Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner, Fortune Theatre, West End, Soho Theatre, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Los Angeles); The Hard Man (Scottish Touring Consortium); Dumb Show (New Vic Newcastle under Lyme); Vivienne Westwood’s Alternative Christmas Lecture (RSC); Measure for Measure, Two Princes by Meredydd Barker, Cariad, Suddenly Last Summer, The Birthday Party (all Clwyd Theatr Cymru while Director of New Writing 2006-08), I’m Hans Christian Andersen (Edinburgh, Tour and Canberra Festival); The Promise (Union Theatre); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); The Glory of Living and The Game of Love and Chance (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts); As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice (Birmingham School of Acting); The Zam Zam Room: An Evening With His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley (Ronnie Scott’s, Soho Theatre, Off Broadway - 2005 Stony Award Nomination, Time Out New York Critics Choice Award, LA, New York and London 2012); Far Too Happy (2001 Perrier Award Nomination -Edinburgh, West End and Tour). He has essays on Shakespeare published in Actor’s Shakespeare (Routledge 2011) and Director’s Shakespeare (Routledge 2009).

MAX JONES | DESIGNER Credits include: Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford University Drama Society/Japan Tour); Pride and Prejudice, The Winter’s Tale (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Brilliant Adventures, Miss Julie (Royal Exchange); The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Time to Reap, Spur of the Moment (Royal Court); Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); Così Fan Tutte (Welsh National Opera/UK tour); Twist of Gold (Polka Theatre); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The Caretaker (Citizens Theatre); Fartherland (Gate and Munich); The Hard Man (Scottish Touring Consortium); Party

(Arts Theatre); Mad Forest (JMK Award, Battersea Arts Centre); Dumb Show (New Vic Theatre, Stoke); Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Youth Opera); The Life of Ryan… and Ronnie (Script Cymru) and Salt Meets Wound (Theatre 503). Previous productions at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, where Max is an Associate, include Educating Rita, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bruised, A Doll’s House, Dancing at Lughnasa, Blackthorn, A Small Family Business, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Two Princes and The Grapes of Wrath.

TINA MACHUGH | LIGHTING DESIGNER Theatre credits include: Pride & Prejudice (Open Air Theatre/Regent’s Park); The Tempest, Love in a Wood, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VI, The Phoenician Women, Shadows, Ghosts (Olivier Award Nomination), The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); The Machine Wreckers, Guiding Star, Rutherford and Son (Olivier Award Nomination) (National Theatre); The Caretaker, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Citizens Theatre); The Hardman (Scottish Touring Consortium); Measure for Measure, Two Princes, The Grapes of Wrath (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); The Recruiting Officer, Hedda Gabler (Abbey, Dublin); The Way Home, Paradise Bound (Liverpool Everyman); When Harry Met Sally (UK tour); Book of Evidence (Gate, Dublin); Nixon’s Nixon (West End/Australian Tour); A Doll’s House, Spoonface Steinberg (Shared Experience); Sweeney Todd, A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Derby Playhouse).

Opera credits include: Idomeneo (LA Opera with Plácido Domingo); Pelléas and Mélisande (Opera Theatre Company, Dublin); The Turn of the Screw (Wilton’s Music Hall); Der Rosenkavalier (Scottish Opera); Il re Pastore (Opera North); La Bohème, A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera Ireland). Dance credits include work for: Rambert Dance Company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, Houston Ballet, English National Ballet, DV8.

ANDREA J COX | COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER Studied Physics and Philosophy at Liverpool University. After working and designing shows for the Liverpool Everyman and Bristol Old Vic she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company designing over 50 shows, including: The Histories (all eight plays at Stratford upon Avon and the Roundhouse, London), Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Theban Plays, Little Eyolf, Tales from Ovid, Henry VI & Richard III (Power Center, Michigan, USA), As You Like It (Kennedy Center, Washington DC), Ghosts, Phoenician Women, The Mysteries, Servant of Two Masters, Back to Methuselah. Other Sound Designs include: Pull of Negative Gravity (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and 59E59, New York); Sons of York (Finborough); Scarecrow & His Servant (Southwark Playhouse); The Oresteia Trilogy (Fisher Center, Bard College, New York); A Christmas Carol, A Doll’s House, A Midwinter Dream, Comedy Chekovs (Bridge House Theatre, Warwick); Pieces (Clwyd Theatr Cymru and 59E59 New York); Onassis (Derby Theatre/West End); Basket Case, Northampton (Associate Designer); Calendar Girls (Associate Designer); Sex with a Stranger (Trafalgar Studios); Yes Prime Minister (West End, on tour and Los Angeles); Charlotte’s Web (Derby Theatre); Therese Raquin (Old Joint Stock); Holes and Threeway (Edinburgh Fringe 2013 Festival); Rough Justice (tour).

RENNY KRUPINSKI | FIGHT DIRECTOR Renny Krupinski is a British Equity Registered Fight Director, award-winning actor, writer and director. He directed fights for Phillip Breen’s tour of The Hard Man and The Merry Wives of Windsor at the RSC where he’s recently directed fights for The Winter’s Tale and Dominic Hill’s The City Madam. Other fight credits include: London West End and most UK regional theatres for over 20 years. On TV his regular fights include: Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street. Also the award- winning film Tyrannosaur and a new BBC series, Hank Zipzer. Acting credits include: Claudius in Hamlet, Salieri in Amadeus (Twice), Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, Banquo in Macbeth and Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant Of Venice. On TV he was the cult villain Sizzler in Brookside. Renny wrote and choreographed the fights for Bare, performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010, for which he gained a Fringe First, best director award and best actor nomination. Renny jointly created The Academy of Performance Combat and is the voice and face of Oblivion at Alton Towers. He actively supports The Fragile X Society.

ROS STEEN | VOICE & DIALECT COACH Work for Citizens Theatre includes: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Marilyn, One Million Tiny Plays About Britain, My Name is Rachel Corrie, Topdog/Underdog, Educating Rita, Don Juan, Desire Under the Elms, The Bevellers, Shadow of a Gunman, No Mean City, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, A Handful of Dust, Cleo, Camping, Emanuelle and Dick, A Whistle in the Dark, Thérèse Raquin, Top Girls, Wide Sargasso Sea, Bash, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme. Other work includes: Macbeth, Let the Right One In, Glasgow Girls, Beautiful Burnout, Black Watch, (National Theatre of Scotland); seasons for the Traverse Theatre, Royal Lyceum and Dundee Rep; Edinburgh International Festival, Tron Theatre, Magnetic North, West Yorkshire Playhouse, His Majesty’s Aberdeen, Perth Theatre, Òran Mór, Paines Plough, Catherine Wheels,Vanishing Point, Borderline, Visible Fictions, Theatre Jezebel, Stellar Quines, lookOUT, untitled projects and TAG. Films include: I Love Luci, Gregory’s Two Girls. TV and radio credits include: Sea of Souls, Rockface, 2000 Acres of Sky, Monarch of the Glen and Hamish Macbeth; radio plays for BBC. She is currently Professor of Voice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Amy Angus Jackie Arbuthnott Tom Arnott Lorraine Barclay Isabella Basset David Black Harriet Bolwell Alex Brady Suzanne Brady Neil Bratchpiece Jessica Brettle Laura Briggs Marion Brochard Louise Brown Andrew Bunton Lara Carter Guy Coletta Lisa Corr Natalia Cortes Elaine G Coyle Carol Cull Maureen Dalton Lesley Davidson Denise Differ Marco Di Mario Tracey Doherty Chris Donald Miriam Sarah Doren Michael Dorrance Ann Dundas Lisa Dundas Paul Dundas Julia Easton Sophie Fernie Fiona Findlater Sarah Amy Fishlock Barry Forde Neil Francis Frazer Fyfe Jacky Gardiner Harvey Gardner Vasso Georgiadou Anne Gillan Elly Goodman Racheal Greer Jessica Hardwick John Haughian Eleanor Harris Jamie Hayes Neil Haynes Jill Henderson Dominic Hill

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Guy Hollands Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Stuart Jenkins Head of LX & Sound Judith Kilvington Executive Director Jennifer Knotts Front of House Carmen Lam Development Assistant Kylie Langford Wardrobe Assistant Campbell Lawrie Box Office/Drama Class Supervisor Karen Lee Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Robert MacFarlane Wardrobe Assistant Alison MacKinnon Head of Marketing & Communications Catherine Major Drama Class Assistant Jason McQuaide Welder/Stage Technician Carly McCaig Creative Learning Assistant Morna McGeoch Drama Class Tutor Mark McGrory Front of House Michael McGurk Front of House Danielle McIlven Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Lawrie McInally Stage Door Administrator Lauren Macluskie Front of House Debbie Montgomery Drama Class Tutor Jim Morrison Bar Supervisor Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Catriona Mullen Front of House Jack Mullen Box Office Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Emily Murphy Front of House Keren Nicol Senior Marketing and Press Officer Petriece O’Donnell Front of House Cathy O’Neill Deputy Stage Manager Neil Packham Community Drama Director Marion Quinn Front of House Valerie Rickis Assistant Stage Manager Sami Sharif Front of House Claire Sharp Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Greg Sinclair Artist in Residence Andy Smith Housekeeper Angela Smith Education Officer Ann Smith Housekeeper Laura Smith Deputy Head of LX & Sound Lorna Stallard Front of House Cecilia Stamp Marketing Assistant Graham Sutherland Head of Production Chris Traquair Head Flyman/Technician Martin Travers Producer (Citizens Learning) Andrew Turner Stage Door Administrator/

Front of House Duty Manager Alex Weltike Stage Management Placement

(Bristol Old Vic Theatre School) Colin White Drama Class Tutor/Supervisor Ross Williamson Building Supervisor Richard Young Studio Technician

Board: Professor Adrienne Scullion (Chair), April Chamberlain, Laurence Fraser, Colum Halforty, Edward Harkins, Ryan James, Alex Reedijk and Bailie James Scanlon.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Actor Intern positions are supported by The Robertson Scholarship Trust.

All scenery, costumes and props made in the Citizens Theatre workshops.

Opening Night drinks generously provided by Belhaven Brewery and Alliance Wines.

Special Thanks to: Dobbies Garden World , Dundee Rep Theatre, McGhee’s Bakery (bread supplier), Perth Theatre, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Specsavers (Trongate), Tron Theatre.

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