ANITA VETESSE (Mrs Chasen) Anita trained at RSAMD and has worked extensively throughout Scotland for over 15 years. Most recently as Margaret in Tony Roper’s 25th Anniversary tour of The Steamie and Lady Noyes Woodhull in The Royal Lyceum’s/ Vox Motus production of The Infamous Brothers Davenport. She has just finished filming River City for BBC Scotland and One Day Like This for Darlow Smithson Productions. Anita is delighted to be back at the Tron playing Mrs Chasen as part of the Glasgay! Festival and looking forward to doing panto at the Tron this Christmas.
RICHARD CONLON (Dr Matthews) Richard trained at Queen Margaret University College. He was an original member of the Dundee Rep Ensemble, with productions including All My Sons; A Family Affair; The Plague; Cabaret; and Flora The Red Menace, amongst others. Recent theatre includes Pirelli in Sweeney Todd; St. Catherine’s Day (Òran Mór); Smalltown (Random Accomplice); A View From The Bridge; The Merchant of Venice; A Christmas Carol and As You Like It (all Edinburgh Lyceum); Zorro and Peter Pan (both Visible Fictions); Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (Paines Plough /Òran Mór); Great Expectations (Prime); Brightwater (Mull); the title role in Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland’s Elgin Project); The Importance of Being Alfred and The Matinee Idle (Glasgow Òran Mór); Cat on A Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie and Woman in Black (all St. Andrew’s Byre). TV and film include: Garrow’s Law (Shed Media/BBC); PC Elliott in Low Winter Sun (Tiger Aspect for Channel 4); Age of Genius (BBC); The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle (BBC); High Road (ITV); Taggart (ITV) and Bad Boys (BBC).
PAUL SORLEY (Lighting) Paul trained at the Citizens’ Theatre then moved to the Tramway where he currently works as chief electrician. At the Tramway he has worked with internationally respected companies and directors such as Robert Lepage and Peter Brook. His design credits include work for the Citizens’, King’s, Tron, and Traverse as well as Theatre Cryptic and Postcard Records.
Tue 30 Oct - Sat 3 Nov 2012
Karenina; The Rivals; Pygmalion; The Weavers; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (all for Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre); Into The Dark (Visible Fictions); Parking Lot in Pittsburgh; Californian Poppy; Broadway Bound; The RideDown Mount Morgan (all for St Andrews Byre Theatre); and Eating The Elephant (Ashton Group TC). Television credits include: Cowards; Tell Tale Hearts; Down Among the Big Boys; The Barnstormers; St Anthony’s Day Off; End of The Line; The Odd Job Man; The Walls of Jericho all for the BBC; three separate Taggart dramas for STV; and Billy Liar and Micawber both for ITV. Films include: Deathwatch and Savage Play.
ROSS BROWN (Sound) Ross graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MA in Music and now works as a Composer, Musical Director and Sound Designer. Theatre credits include: Lady M (Theatre Jezebel); Ulysses, Flo White, Mr Merlin, Edwin Morgan’s Dreams - And Other Nightmares (Tron Theatre); Clockwork (Visible Fictions/Scottish Opera); The Man Who Lived Twice, Mother Courage (Birds of Paradise); Pinocchio, Music makes the Memories (Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prom Night of the Living Dead, The Court of Miracles, Pinocchio, When a Star Falls, His Dark Materials, Love but Her, Geordie, Tall Tales, How to Create an Avatar, Wee MacGreegor and Tam O’Shanter (Scottish Youth Theatre). Ross also played Mr Fey in Half Moon Investigations (BBC) and has worked for MT4UTH, Impact Arts, Youth Music Theatre UK and UK Theatre School.
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Theatre Jezebel & Glasgay! Present the Scottish Premiere of
by Colin Higgins Directed + Designed by Kenny Miller
Harold and Maude
CAST
Harold … TOMMY BASTOW Maude … VARI SYLVESTER Mrs Chasen … ANITA VETTESSE Dr Matthews … RICHARD CONLON ENSEMBLE: Jane Austen, Stephanie Driver and Effie Scott
CREATIVE TEAM Director & Designer … Kenny Miller Dramaturg … Mary McCluskey Lighting Design … Paul Sorley Sound Design … Ross Brown Stage Manager … Suzanne Goldberg Deputy Stage Manager … Sam Ramsay Set Built by … Hugh Speirs, Chris Higson and Alex Robertson Rigging by … Kevin Murray and Steve Macluskie Producer on behalf of Glasgay! … Steven Thomson Producer on behalf on Theatre Jezebel … Anne McCluskey
SYNOPSIS
by Colin Higgins
Harold is a 19 year old rich kid bored with wealth and obsessed with death. He regularly stages mock suicides to shock his socialite mother, attends funerals and drives a hearse. “I like you Harold” “I like you Maude” Maude is a 79 year old widow who takes the best from any situation, even funerals.
Harold meets Maude at a funeral and their extraordinary friendship begins to blossom. Maude teaches Harold how to grasp life and live it to the full. “Reach out, Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can.” Harold and Maude is an eccentric yet beautiful love story full of dark humour, which is as meaningful to today’s audiences as it was 40 years ago when this cult story hit the cinema screens.
ABOUT THEATRE JEZEBEL ‘Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work’ Bette Davis Theatre Jezebel exists to create memorable theatrical experiences for audiences by using the wealth of talent within Scotland to produce distinct re-workings of classic texts and unique interpretations of contemporary plays. After collaborating on many theatre productions over a number of years, Mary McCluskey, Kenny Miller and Anne McCluskey have come together to form Theatre Jezebel. Kenny, Mary and Anne have a wealth of theatre experience from Scottish Youth Theatre to the Citizens, from the RSC to the Barbican and London’s West End. The individual members of the team have worked on productions worldwide, from St. Andrews to St. Petersburgh from New York to Perth, Western Australia via
LA. The impetus to form Theatre Jezebel has come not only from the team’s existing long-standing relationship but also from their mutual dedication to working in Scotland.
ABOUT GLASGAY! FESTIVAL Glasgay! was established as an annual arts festival in 1993 with founding artists such as Sir Ian McKellan, Jackie Kay, Rhona Cameron, Penny Arcade, Tim Miller, Scott Capurro, Alan Carr amongst many others. The festival, led by Producer, Steven Thomson, commissions and produces work from emergent and established artists such as Louise Welsh, Jackie Kay, Tim Fountain and a raft of other Scottish talent. Recent productions include The Maw Broon Monologues by Jackie Kay; Edwin Morgan’s Dream & Other Nightmares by Liz Lochhead; and Panic Patterns & Memory Cells by Louise Welsh.
BIOGRAPHIES KENNY MILLER (Designer & Director) Kenny Miller is a freelance director and designer who was for many years Head of Design/Associate Director of the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow. He has worked in theatre and opera all over Scotland, England, America, Germany and Canada. He recently directed and designed The Seagull, Company Policy, Romeo & Juliet and Don Giovanni for Òran Mór, and designed Born Bad for Scottish Youth Theatre. He recently directed and designed Days of Wine and Roses for Theatre Jezebel of which he is a founding member. Other designs include Autobahn, Doubt, A Parable (Theatre Jezebel), Valhalla!, Ya Beauty and the Beast, Betrayed, From the West Bank, Address
Unknown, Flo White, Staircase and Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut (Tron Theatre), Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s A Troll (National Theatre of Scotland), Proof, Tam O’Shanter (Perth Theatre) and The Steamie (National Tour), Clockwork (Visible Fictions/Scottish Opera) and Marilyn (Citizens’Theatre).
CAST BIOGRAPHIES TOMMY BASTOW (Harold) Tommy Bastow is an English actor and musician from Epsom, Surrey. He is best known for playing the character Dave the Laugh in the 2008 film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, as Joe in the BT adverts and as the lead singer in the band FranKo.
Bastow is a graduate of the BRIT School in Croydon. He has appeared in two episodes of the CBBC program M.I.High as Lewis Chuckworth, and in a short film titled Londongrad. Film & TV work includes Spanish – American horror film Exorcismus; The Cut, (BBC) and EastEnders as Seb Parker. Tommy is also lead singer with his own band FranKo. VARI SYLVESTER (Maude) Vari trained at RADA in London. Recent theatre productions include: From These Parts (Right Lines Productions); Death of a Salesman; The Attic; Jane Eyre; Great Expectations; and The Silver & The Red (all Perth Theatre); Macbeth; Twelfth Night; The Greeks; Medea; Thebans (all for Theatre Babel); Broken (Glasgow Òran Mór); Anna