’S

In a version by Directed by

1 ANTON CHEKHOV’S

In a version by TOM MURPHY

Black Box , 22 February – 7 March 2020 Live in Cinemas 5 March 2020

Creatives Cast Company Director Ranyevskaya Séamus Hughes Garry Hynes Derbhle Crotty Delia Keane Set and Costume Design Yasha Mary McHugh Francis O’Connor Ian-Lloyd Anderson Seán T. Ó’Meallaigh Co-Costume Design Varya Michael Rooney Doreen McKenna Siobhán Cullen Peter Shine Lighting Design Dunyasha Ambre Shoneff James F. Ingalls Megan Cusack Sound Design Yepikhodov Gregory Clarke Peter Daly Act One May Movement Director Anya Act Two 8 weeks later David Bolger Rachel Feeney Act Three August Rory Nolan in rehearsal for (Photograph: Boyd Challenger.) Music Boris Act Four Short time after Conor Linehan Garrett Lombard Assistant Lopakhin Costume Design Aaron Monaghan Clíodhna Hallissey Gayev Rory Nolan Charlotta Helen Norton Firs John Olohan Petya Marty Rea

2 3 A Kind of Farewell A Note on The Cherry Orchard by

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, born in 1860, at had been cut down after he ‘You should fall in love! A man of your age! Superman? All his hopes seem to reside died in 1904 at the age of forty-four from sold the estate. And in his prose poem And maybe you’d understand something… in the future. ‘Humanity’, Petya says, ‘is the dreaded ‘White Death’, consumption, , he has the young Egorushka You’re not above love…’ moving forward towards a higher truth’. tuberculosis, fatal before penicillin. remember; One can only hope. One has to believe in Chekhov, a doctor himself, long refused Or Firs? Firs who hates his freedom and Time, in Teleology, that we are getting to name his disease and wrote right up to ‘White crosses and gravestones. And when reminisces nostalgically about the good old better. This from the most humane of the end which occurred in the spa town of the cherry trees blossomed, white blobs days of . Or Gayev, sucking sweets, Artists for whom time ran out. , Germany. merged with the white cherry blossom still being dressed by Firs, waxing eloquent to become a white sea. And when they over bookcases while being obnoxious to The final image of the is sound. Two The Cherry Orchard, his final play, was ripened, the white gravestones and crosses the help. sounds. The string breaking and the axe written in 1903 and is considered one of were spattered with crimson clots like chopping. The string and the axe. It leaves the masterpieces of Modernist Theatre blood.’ As Petya says to Anya; us wondering many things. Like all great alongside Ibsen and Strindberg. Chekhov writing the possibilities of meaning unfold called it a in four acts, but it is hard It is hard not to think of the tubercular ‘Owning living souls: that has changed endlessly. A haunting. And prophetic in its to read or see it as such from the distance Chekhov spitting red blobs of lung tissue you all.’ way when we consider the tragic trajectory of over one hundred years. Yes, it has discreetly into his white handkerchief or of Russian history. many comic elements but the overriding that in the writing of The Cherry Orchard, And still Chekhov deals gently with them symbol of The Cherry Orchard seems to he was writing some sort of valediction, as he does with all his characters. He sees It is very exciting to watch Garry Hynes be at variance with Comedy unless we a kind of farewell. And something there the absurdity and the desperation in all take on another master in Druid’s first assume he means by Comedy, Balzacian too of being cut down before his time like our hearts, but his hand is gentle and his outing with a major Chekhov play. And Human Comedy; namely that since the Ranyevskaya’s orchard. eye forgiving as he points all this out. He that it is Tom Murphy’s version we are removal of the Divine from the equation, was the grandson of a serf and knew in seeing is an added attraction given his own we are all lost, abandoned, ridiculous, And what do we make of that mysterious his bones the cost of servitude, the price unique mastery and the long and fruitful absurd. The Cherry Orchard is in a sense mournful sound ‘that seems to fall from the extracted from the vanquished by the collaboration between Garry and Tom and the primal scene where Ranyevskaya and sky, like a harp string breaking far away’? triumphant and this thread runs through Druid down the long decades. A fitting her brother Gayev played as , Difficult not to read these images and all his work. It is impossible not to root for celebration and tribute to two great where Ranyevskaya can still see the motifs as Chekhov’s private commentary Lopakhin when he buys the cherry orchard who have mapped the consternation, of her and it is the backdrop where, on his impending death and indeed on all and ousts his family’s oppressors. But it is desperation and absurdity of the human through emotional paralysis and ineptitude who are cut down before their time. a testament to Chekhov’s writing that we heart in its search for meaning and that and grief, they will allow that Eden, that can be happy for Lopakhin and still feel the elusive thing – . past, that primal site, be destroyed. And the feckless Ranyevskaya? A tragic loss that Ranyevskaya feels. figure to my mind. Fleeing her past, February 2020 Also trees, and cherry trees in particular, her drowned son, her abusive lover. So what is Chekhov saying in his final figure large in Chekhov’s own personal Ranyevskaya, who gives away all her play? That ‘All of is an orchard ’? Acknowledgement to Rosamund Bartlett’s biography Chekhov: Scenes from a Life. memory table. He was an inveterate money, who lives on a diet of coffee and That humanity as we are now is merely planter of trees. He was distressed to pills, who screams at Petya; the Nietzschean bridge from Beast to hear that the cherry orchard he planted

4 5 The World of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard The Cherry Orchard Live in Cinema

Within less than a month after Chekhov’s Further reforms in law, education, finance, In a first for an In a first for an Irish theatre company, Druid and Element Pictures The Cherry Orchard opened in and administration, and investment in Irish theatre joined forces to bring The Cherry Orchard to cinemas around the infrastructure and the media, meant that in January 1904, Russia found itself at company, Druid world. war with Japan. The war’s incompetent Russia became one of the most rapidly prosecution and the humiliating defeats developing economies of the late 19th and Element In March 2020, The Cherry Orchard was seen live in 30 cinemas inflicted on the Tsar’s forces helped to century. New social groups emerged Pictures joined across Ireland and the UK. A planned year-long programme of precipitate the 1905 revolution. It was a alongside the old castes: entrepreneurs; forces to bring live-recorded showings internationally was to follow, as well as a industrial workers; and the middle classes, year in which the country was convulsed by The Cherry run in ’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. With the arrival of the protests, strikes and that nearly often drawn from the déclassé minor coronavirus, these plans were postponed. toppled Tsar Nicolas II. 1905 ushered nobility, many of whom were indebted Orchard to Russia into the modern era politically and and lost their money and estates after cinemas around Kindly supported by Galway City Council and the Adrian showed how far the country had changed in emancipation. the world. Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation of the Sidney E Frank Foundation, the preceding half century. this project is rooted in Druid’s passionate belief that audiences Ranyevskaya and her family belong to an have a right to see first class theatre in their own communities. In 1855, when the Tsar’s grandfather, old patriarchal gentry family, who cannot This platform allows Druid to reach new audiences nationally and Alexander II, ascended the throne, Russia adapt to the world of modern capitalism. internationally, shining a spotlight on Galway and Irish theatre. was still a caste society. Most people Her brother Gayev, who has found remained in the estate (or social station) employment in a bank, is, in social terms, Druid collaborated with Serpent Productions and NEP into which they had been born. This more than aristocratic. And Broadcasting Group to broadcast The Cherry Orchard direct from applied above all to Russia’s approximately Lopakhin, the enterprising and hardheaded the Black Box Theatre on Thursday 5 March 2020. 33.4 million serfs (), approximately businessman (a familiar figure in early 20th

23 million of whom were owned by the century Russia) is the son of a serf. His Aaron Monaghan (Photograph: Matthew Thompson) landed gentry. They were tied to the land plan to ‘develop’ the cherry orchard with and to their master who disposed of their holiday cottages for the new urban middle lives as he saw fit. They were not free men, classes is thoroughly contemporary. In could not own property or even contract The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov captured a marriage without their master’s approval society in transition from the ancien régime and were under the legal authority of to a more brash – an order that their master (who could inflict brutal itself, as we know, was soon swept away by corporal punishment on them). Many the destructive violence of war. educated deplored serfdom but only in 1861 was it finally abolished. Tsar Alexander pushed emancipation through Professor Emerita to enable the economic modernization on which Russia’s great power status Judith Devlin ultimately depended. UCD School of History

6 7 Rory Nolan and Derbhle Crotty in rehearsal for The Cherry Orchard (Photograph: Boyd Challenger) Production Team

Thank You Deputy Stage Manager Sophie Flynn Assistant Stage Managers Olivia Drennan Druid gratefully Martina Kavanagh acknowledges the Stage Management Intern Fiona Cradock support of many people who assisted with this Costume Supervisor Róisín Lennon production and all those Costume Assistant Jingyi Zhang who helped after the Dresser Jade Gavin Goodfellow programme went to print. Hair & Make Up Val Sherlock Denise Assas, Jane Technical Manager Shannon Light Brennan, Cue One Lighting, Master Carpenter Gus Dewar Andrew Lowe, Dave Reid, Ruth Hurl and all Carpenters Des Burke at Element Pictures, the Pete Nelson team at Galway 2020, Tony O’Reilly Deirdre Grandi, Fiona Lighting Programmer Susan Collins Hurley, Eoin Kilkenny, Fergal McGrath and all Production Sound Richard Curwood at the Town Hall Theatre Technicians Ronan Gallagher Galway, Gerry Mallon, Paul Blue Hanley Murphy, Paul O’Connor, Dmitri McEvoy Pálás Cinema Galway, Emma O’Grady Trevor Price Transport, Dr Scenic Artist Rachel Towey Rose Whyman, University of Birmingham, Brian Scenic Painter Angeline Byrne Woods, Donna Andrews Gill Christie and Czecha the dog, Matt Guinnane Bernadette Quinn and Site Manager Keith Newman Heidi the dog. Magic Consultant Pat Fallon For all enquiries regarding Publicity Photography Matthew Thompson performance rights of this Production Photography Robbie Jack play contact Alexandra Cann Representation at Rehearsal Photography Boyd Challenger [email protected] Graphic Design Gareth Jones Video Myles Shelly PR Bowe Communications

8 9 Bailegangaire, The House, Alice Trilogy all (1935 – 2018) Tom Murphy won Irish Theatre Awards: Best Play. Other awards include the Irish Times/ESB inaugural Lifetime Achievement Tom Murphy was born in Tuam, Co. Galway. Award and Irish Academy of letters Award. He died in Dublin May 2018. He holds honorary doctorates from Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway. In 2013 Plays include: On the Outside (w. Noel he was awarded The Medal, the O’Donoghue), A Whistle in the Dark, A highest honour that University College Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Dublin bestows. In 2017 President Michael Assistant, Famine, The Morning After D Higgins presented Tom Murphy with the ANTON CHEKHOV TOM MURPHY PATRICK MILES Optimism, On the Inside, The Sanctuary gold torc and the title of Saoi, Aosdána’s Lamp, Epitaph Under Ether (a compilation highest honour. his first full-length play to be staged, from the works of J M Synge), The Blue Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) premiered in Moscow but received wildly Macushla, The Informer (from the novel Writer mixed reviews. premiered at by Liam O’Flaherty), Conversations the state-run Aleksandrisky Theatre in St on a Homecoming, The Gigli Concert, Patrick Miles Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 Petersburg in 1896 but received a famously Bailegangaire, A Thief of a Christmas, Too Literal Translator in , Russia. His grandfather had hostile reception. Both the cast and the Late for Logic, The Patriot Game, She Stoops been a serf and his father a grocer. In audience struggled to appreciate and to Folly (from The Vicar of Wakefield), The The Cherry Orchard, in a version by Tom 1868, Chekhov was sent to the Taganrog understand Chekhov’s work which broke Wake, The House, The Drunkard, Alice Murphy is based on a literal school for . His father declared with theatrical conventions prevalent at the Trilogy, and The Last Days of a Reluctant by Patrick Miles. The first performance of bankruptcy in 1876 and the family moved time in Russia. It was not until Chekhov Tyrant. His last play Brigit was produced by the play took place at the , to Moscow leaving Chekhov in Taganrog began an association with Konstantin Druid in 2014. The novel The Seduction of Dublin on 17th February 2004. to finish his schooling. In 1879 Chekhov Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich- Morality was published in 1994. won a scholarship to study medicine at Danchenko’s that he Patrick is one of the U.K.’s foremost Moscow University. Under pseudonyms, he achieved national success. The Moscow Art The Abbey Theatre presented a six play translators of . He spent began writing comic sketches for popular Theatre’s production of The Seagull in 1898 Season in 2001 – Tom Murphy at The two and a half years in Russia in the 1970s magazines in order to support his family. was quickly followed by premieres of Uncle Abbey – in celebration of his work. and 1980s and was made persona non During the mid 1880’s, Chekhov practised Vanya (1899), (1901) and The grata by the Communist regime. He has as a physician and began to publish works Cherry Orchard (1904). In 2012 Druid produced DruidMurphy – directed his own of and of fiction under his own name. Plays by Tom Murphy (A Whistle in the Chekhov’s vaudevilles at the Edinburgh In 1896, Chekhov was diagnosed with Dark, Conversations On a Homecoming, Fringe, and translated Turgenev, Bulgakov, In 1888 he was awarded the Pushkin Prize tuberculosis. He married , the Famine) – performing it to great acclaim, in Vampilov and Rozovskiy for the Royal for his collection of short stories In the Moscow Art Theatre’s lead actress, in 1901. Ireland, UK and USA. The series received National Theatre, where he was Russian Twilight. Chekhov wrote more than 200 The Cherry Orchard was written slowly a number of awards, including an Irish literary consultant for . He is stories including The Kiss (1887), The from 1902 and premièred in January 1904 Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Production also editor of Chekhov on the British Stage Steppe (1888), Ward No. 6 (1892), The on Chekhov’s forty-fourth birthday. He died (2012). In the same year the Abbey produced (CUP, 1993) and author of Brief Lives: Lady with the Dog (1899), in July that year in Badenweiler, Germany. The House. Anton Chekhov (Hesperus Press, 2008). (1900), and (1902) on which his claim to pre-eminence in the genre rests. Other plays include: (1888), The Tom Murphy was a multi-award winning During the 1880s Chekhov began to write Proposal (1889), (1890). playwright whose plays are performed for theatre and in November 1887, Ivanov, throughout the world. The Gigli Concert,

10 11 Creatives Garry Hynes Francis O’Connor Director Set and Costume Design

Garry Hynes co-founded Druid in 1975 and Francis is a regular collaborator with Garry has worked as its Artistic Director from Hynes and Druid. His designs for plays, 1975 to 1991 and from 1995 to date. From musicals and have been seen in 1991 to 1994 she was Artistic Director of Ireland, the UK, throughout the US, Europe, the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. and Asia and his work with the (Ireland) has frequently been seen Garry has also worked with the Gate at Spoleto Festival. Theatre (Ireland); the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court (UK), Center Druid: The Beacon, Epiphany, Theatre Group, Second Stage, Signature DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Shelter, Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, the Furniture, Sive, King of the Castle, The GARRY HYNES FRANCIS O’CONNOR DOREEN MCKENNA Kennedy Center, the Mark Taper Forum and Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for the Spoleto Festival (USA). Godot, Big Maggie, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry Awards include: The Joe A. Callaway Award V, Brigit, Bailegangaire, The Colleen Bawn, (New York) for Outstanding Directing DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The for (2009); a Silver Tassie, The Gigli Concert, The Cripple Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey Into Queen of Leenane (1998 ); other theatre Night, Leaves, Empress of India, The Year awards, including Irish Times/ESB of the Hiker, DruidSynge, The Well of the Irish Theatre Awards, Best Director for Saints, The Tinker’s Wedding, Sharon’s DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV Grave, Sive, The Good Father, My Brilliant (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Beauty Queen of Divorce, , A Skull in Leenane, and a Special Connemara, The Leenane Trilogy, The JAMES F. INGALLS GREGORY CLARKE DAVID BOLGER Tribute Award for her contribution to Country Boy, The Way You Look Irish Theatre (2005). Garry has received Tonight, Shadow and Substance, Wild Honorary Doctorates from University Harvest. College Dublin, University of Dublin, the National University of Ireland and the Awards include: Five Irish Times Irish National Council for Education Awards. Theatre Awards, three for Best Design, She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal two for Best Costume Design (with Doreen College of Physicians in Ireland, and a McKenna); Boston Critics Circle; Dora member of the Honorary Council of the Mavor Moore Award; and a nomination for Royal Hibernian Academy (HRHA). In 2011, the Faust Prize, Germany. Garry was appointed Adjunct Professor of and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway.

CONOR LINEHAN CLÍODHNA HALLISSEY

12 13 Doreen McKenna James F. Ingalls Gregory Clarke David Bolger Co-Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Movement Director

Doreen has worked as Druid’s Costume James trained at the Yale School of Drama Druid: The Beacon, DruidShakespeare: David is Artistic Director of CoisCéim Supervisor since 2003. and the University of Connecticut. He Richard III, Shelter, Furniture, Sive, King of Theatre. He has choreographed often collaborates with the Wooden Floor the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, more than 21 productions for the company, Druid: Doreen was Costume Designer dancers, Santa Ana, California. Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: including Body Language, Agnes, Pageant, for Crestfall and Helen & I, Co-Costume Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry Touch Me, Swimming With My Mother Designer for Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Druid: The Beacon, DruidShakespeare: V, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Penelope, The New and The Wolf and Peter (which played at Richard III, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Richard III, Sive, King of the Castle, The Electric Ballroom, The Hackney Office. the Sydney Opera House in Australia), and Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V and Costume Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for most recently Francis Footwork, which Supervisor for The Beacon, Furniture, Godot, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry Other theatre includes: The Twits, The premiered at Baboró International Arts Shelter, Sive, King of the Castle, Waiting IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas Festival for Children 2019. He is a member for Godot, Big Maggie, The Beauty Queen of (Royal Court); Misterman (Galway of Aosdána. Leenane, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Be Infants Designs for other theatre includes: Pale International Arts Festival/Landmark in Evil, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy Sister (Gate Theatre); Ghosts (Williamston Productions); Medea, The Doctor’s Druid: Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: – Plays by Tom Murphy, Big Maggie, The Theatre Festival). Dilemma, Twelfth Night, No Man’s Land, Richard III, Sive, King of the Castle, Silver Tassie, Penelope, The Gigli Concert, Tristan & Yseult, The Emperor Jones, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV The Cripple of Inishmaan, The New Electric Designs for opera includes: Idomeneo Earthquakes in (National Theatre, (pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, Ballroom, My Brilliant Divorce, Long and La Clemenza di Tito (Salzburger London); The Merchant Of Venice, Cloud DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Day’s Journey Into Night, Empress of Festspiele); world premieres by John Nine (Almeida); All’s Well That Ends Well, Silver Tassie, DruidSynge, The Year of the India, The Year of the Hiker, The Walworth Adams including Girls of the Golden West, The Heart of Robin Hood, Great Hiker, Sharon’s Grave, The Playboy of the Farce, DruidSynge, The Playboy of the Doctor Atomic and Nixon in China; world Expectations, Coriolanus, The Merry Western World. Western World, The Tinker’s Wedding, The premieres by Kaija Saariaho including Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, Well of the Saints, Sharon’s Grave. Only the Sound Remains, Adriana Mater, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Other theatre, opera & musical theatre: and L’Amour de Loin, all directed by Peter Shakespeare Company). As a freelance choreographer and director, Awards: Two Irish Times Irish Theatre Sellars; Il Farnace and Kat’a Kabanova, David has worked for the Abbey Theatre, Awards, Best Costume Design (with Francis both directed by Garry Hynes at Spoleto London West End credits include: My Night Opera Ireland, the , O’Connor). Festival, USA. With Reg, Goodnight Mr. Tom, The Vortex, English National Opera, the A Voyage Around My Father, And Then and the National Theatre, London. Designs for dance includes: There Were None, Some Girls, Waiting for (Miami City Ballet); Unbound (San Godot, What The Butler Saw, Journey’s Film includes: His short dance film, Deep Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival); End, Equus. End Dance, which has been screened several pieces for Paul Taylor’s American internationally at a number of festivals ; many pieces for Mark Awards: Tony Award® Best Sound and has won awards including Best Short Morris Dance Group including Layla and Design (Equus), Drama Desk Award Film (Irish Film Festival, Boston; Celtic Majnun, Mozart Dances, The Hard Nut (Journey’s End). Media Festival; Fastnet Film Festival) and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; and a Special Jury Prize (Idill), Hit and and Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary US Tour. Run, Flatbed, Michael Collins and Dancing at Lughnasa. David also directed How to Sink a Boat.

14 15 Megan Cusack and Rachel Feeney in rehearsal for The Cherry Orchard (Photograph: Boyd Challenger)

Conor Linehan Clíodhna Hallissey Music Assistant Costume Design

Conor is a pianist, composer and teacher A recent graduate of the BA in Drama, from Dublin. He is on the piano faculty of Theatre and Performance Studies and the Royal Irish Academy of Music where English at NUI Galway, Clíodhna is the he also teaches courses in improvisation 2019/2020 recipient of Druid’s Marie and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Mullen Bursary for female theatre artists Perfomance in association with Trinity working in the fields of design, directing, College Dublin. and dramaturgy.

Druid: Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Druid: Clíodhna was Costume Dresser for Richard III, Sive, DruidShakespeare: DruidShakespeare: Richard III at the Abbey Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. Theatre, Dublin.

Other theatre includes: Woyzeck in Other theatre includes: Costume Designer Winter (Landmark Productions/Galway for Aisling? (Ealaín na Gaeltachta); Yummy International Arts Festival); Dublin Mummy (An Taibhdhearc); BAOITE (An by Lamplight (Corn Exchange/Abbey Taibhdhearc/Abbey Theatre); Costume Theatre); The Wolf and Peter (CoisCéim); Assistant and Dresser for Grief is The Thing productions with the Abbey and Peacock With Feathers (Landmark Productions); The ; the Gate Theatre, Dublin; the Country Girls (Abbey Theatre). Lyric, ; the Royal Shakespeare Company; the Gate Theatre; the National Film & TV includes: Costume Designer for Theatre, London; Liverpool Playhouse; Living With a Fairy 2 ; Costume Assistant ; Siren Productions, for Mr. Mender and The Chummyjiggers. Dublin.

Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Sound Design (with Ben Delaney); Irish Times Irish Theatre Judges’ Special Award nomination for ‘setting the standard of theatre composition’; PlayShakespeare website’s Falstaff Award, Best Score Worldwide.

We wish to remember our great friend and colleague Monica Frawley, a distinguished theatre designer, who passed away recently. We will miss Monica’s humour, intelligence and sparkling talent.

16 17 Rachel Feeney, Helen Norton, Derbhle Crotty and Megan Cusack in rehearsal for The Cherry Orchard (Photograph: Boyd Challenger)

18 19 Derbhle Crotty Ranyevskaya Awards include: Two Irish Times Irish Theatre Cast Awards, Best Actress (DruidShakespeare: Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Silver Tassie, and Three Sisters); Ian Charleson/Sunday The Playboy of the Western World, The Gigli Times Award (Little Eyolf ). Concert, Sive, The Good Father, Gaslight.

Other theatre includes: Anna Karenina, The Ian-Lloyd Anderson Yasha Dead, Sive, Marble, Tales of Ballycumber, An Ideal Husband, Three Sisters, A Month Druid: The Beacon in the Country, The Plough and the Stars, DERBHLE CROTTY IAN-LLOYD ANDERSON SIOBHÁN CULLEN Bailegangaire, The Well of the Saints, Katie Other theatre includes: Dublin Old School Roche, The Mai (Abbey Theatre); Afterplay, (Project Arts Centre/National Theatre, Juno and the Paycock, Dancing at Lughnasa London); Come on , Our Few and (Gate Theatre); Hecuba, I’ll be the Devil, Evil Days, Sive, The Risen People, Major Macbeth, Penelopiad, , Camino Real, Barbara, Shibari, Alice in Funderland, Little Eyolf (Royal Shakespeare Company); Macbeth, The Rivals, The Resistable Rise The Playboy of the Western World, The of Arturo Ui (Abbey Theatre); In Our Veins Merchant of Venice, (National (Abbey Theatre/Bitter Like a Lemon); Theatre, London); The Approach (Landmark Evening Train (Everyman Theatre); The Productions); The Mai (Decadent Theatre); Night Alive (Dublin Theatre Festival/Lyric MEGAN CUSACK PETER DALY RACHEL FEENEY Richard III (Headlong Theatre Company); Theatre); Common (National Theatre); The Hamlet (); The Events Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre/ (ATC); Thirteen (Anu Productions); Best Lyric Hammersmith); Every Doris Has His Man (Everyman Theatre/Project Arts Day, Big Ole Piece of Cake, The Bruising of Centre); Seagull, Dubliners, Everyday (Corn Clouds (Fishamble); Richard III (Fast and Exchange); The Beauty Queen of Leenane Loose Theatre Company); Ride On!, Observe (); The Field (Gaiety Theatre); the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the The Winter’s Tale (Corcadorca); The Alice Somme (Livin’ Dred); End Time (Project Trilogy, The Weir (Royal Court); Portia Arts Centre); Danti Dan (Galloglass Theatre Coughlan (Abbey Theatre/Royal Court); The Company); The Colleen Bawn (Bedrock Home Place (Gate Theatre, Dublin/Comedy Productions/Project Arts Centre). GARRETT LOMBARD AARON MONAGHAN RORY NOLAN Theatre, London); Miss Julie (Vesuvius). Film & television includes: Blood, Film & television includes: Dead Happy, Headcases, Herself, Wastewater, Dublin My Mother’s Shoes, Rosie, Come Home, Old School, Vikings, Love/Hate, Game of Citizen Lane, Paula, Noble, Stella Days, Joy, Thrones, The Clinic, Raw, The Wild Colonial The Clinic, Notes on a Scandal, Inside I’m Boy, Dorothy Mills, Shadow Dancer, They Dancing, The Merchant of Venice, Any Time Shoot People, Standby, Scratch, Leave, Now, Poorhouse, Gold in the Streets. Honest.

HELEN NORTON JOHN OLOHAN MARTY REA 20 21 Siobhán Cullen Varya Peter Daly Yepikhodov Film & Television includes: Death on Western World, The Cripple of Inishmaan, the Nile. Empress of India, The Year of the Hiker, The Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard III, King Walworth Farce, DruidSynge. Crestfall. of The Castle, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. Garrett Lombard Boris Other theatre includes: Stones in his Other theatre includes: The Plough and Pockets (McCarter Theatre); The Second the Stars (National Theatre, London); An Other theatre includes: Money Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard Violinist (Landmark Productions); King Ideal Husband, An Enemy of the People, A (ThisisPopBaby); This Lime Tree Bower III, Furniture, Waiting for Godot, Lear, Translations, 16 Possible Glimpses, Woman of No Importance, Jane Eyre (Gate (Eoin Kilkenny); Bailed Out!, Guaranteed!, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts Arrah na Pogue, Christ Deliver Us, Romeo Theatre); By the Bog of Cats, Ariel (Abbey Tiny Plays for Ireland I & II (Fishamble); 1&2), Henry V, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom & Juliet, Drama at Inish, The Shaughraun, Theatre); The Effect, Assassins (Rough The Critic, Jezebel, Travesties, Peer Gynt, Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Walworth She Stoops to Conquer, The Burial at Magic); Our Island (Mirari Productions); The Importance of Being Earnest, Life Farce, The Year of the Hiker. Thebes, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Fell, The Othello (Mill Productions); The Life and is a Dream, Attempts on her life, Don Wolf of Winter, Finders Keepers (Abbey Sort of Death of Eric Argyle (15th Oak); Carlos, The Taming of the Shrew, Woyzeck Other theatre includes: Stones in his Theatre). MONSTER/CLOCK (Collapsing Horse). (Rough Magic); The Government Inspector, Pockets (McCarter Theatre); Ulysses, Arrah na Pogue, The Comedy of Errors, Cavalcaders, The Recruiting Officer (Abbey Film & television includes: Redemption of Film & television includes: The Split, Dead The Shaughraun, The Cherry Orchard Theatre); The Dumb Waiter, A Streetcar a Rogue, Maze, The Foreigner, Assassin’s Happy, Origin, Paula, The Clinic, , (Abbey Theatre); Hamlet (Second Age Named Desire, Bedroom Farce, An Ideal Creed, Pan, Vikings, Inspector Jury, Clean The Limehouse Golem, Jimi: All Is By My Theatre Co.); Death of a Salesman (Gate Husband, The Caretaker, All My Sons, Death Break, Sacrifice, The Other Side of Sleep, Side. Theatre); The Dead School, Conversations of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie (Gate Single-Handed, Jack Taylor, Love/Hate, on a Homecoming (Livin’ Dred); The Theatre); Dusk (Red Iron Productions); The Little Foxes, The Tudors, Ella Enchanted, Wonderful World of Dissocia (Calypso); Rehearsal, Playing the Dane (Pan Pan); LSD:73. Megan Cusack Dunyasha Candide, Seven Deadly Sins (Performance Alone It Stands (Lane Productions); Playing Corporation); Jack Fell Down, Dark Horse from the Heart (The Ark); The Field (Scott- Awards: OBIE, Lucille Lortel, Manchester Megan is a recent graduate of London (TEAM); Kevin’s Story (Barnstorm). Rellis Productions); The Winter’s Tale Evening News, Best Actor Awards (The Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. (Corcadorca). Cripple of Inishmaan); Irish Times Irish Film & television includes: The Bailout, Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actor Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Megan’s Trivia, The Clinic, Fair City, Love is the Film & television includes: Looks Like Rain, (Conversations on a Homecoming in debut with the company. Drug, Turning Green. Quirke, Rough Diamond, Fair City, Love is DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy). the Drug, , Alexander, Frontline, Other theatre includes: The Country Girls Stella Days. (Abbey Theatre); We Are Three Sisters, Rachel Feeney Anya Rory Nolan Gayev Cabaret, The Taming Of The Shrew, The Children’s Hour, Fallen Angels, Twelfth Rachel is a recent graduate of the Royal Aaron Monaghan Lopakhin Druid: Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Night, Lads Lads Lads, A New Brain, The Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Richard III, Shelter, Waiting for Godot, Duchess of Malfi, Summerfolk, The Man of Druid: Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV Mode, Serving It Up, The Flick (LAMDA); Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Rachel’s Richard III, Shelter, The Beauty (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, Chatroom (Cat Club). debut with the company. Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy. ​ DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV Film & television includes: Doctors. Other theatre includes: Sink (Dublin Fringe (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, Other theatre includes: The Alternative Festival); Woman and Scarecrow, The Last DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The (Fishamble), Northern Star, The Critic, Peer Days of Judas Iscariot, Love and Money Silver Tassie, Penelope, The Playboy of the Gynt, The Importance of Being Earnest, (RADA). 22 23 Don Carlos, The Taming of the Shrew, Hot Tin Roof (Corn Exchange); Midsummer Ride On (Livin’ Dred); A Skull in Connemara Nomad); Philadelphia, Here I Come! Improbable Frequency, Is This About Night’s Dream (Barabbas); The Sunshine (Decadent Theatre); Fings Ain’t Wot They (ART NI). Sex? (Rough Magic); Chekhov’s First Play Boys, Ruby Tuesday, Roman Fever Used T’be (Theatre Royal Stratford East); (Dead Centre); Postcards from the Ledge, (Bewley’s Cafe Theatre); Wired To The The Chastitute (Gaiety Theatre). Film & television includes: Prisoners of Breaking Dad, Between Foxrock and a Hard Moon (Fishamble); Slattery’s Sago Saga the Moon, Strays, Citizen Lane, Place, The Last Days of the , (Performance Corporation). Film and television includes: The Country Rising!, The Devils Pool, The Man Inside. Sleeping Beauty (Landmark Productions); Girls, Rawhead Rex, War of the Buttons, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bedroom Film & television includes: Miss Scarlet The Butcher Boy, The Clinic, Single Handed, Awards: Two Irish Times Irish Theatre Farce, A Christmas Carol, Death of a and the Duke, , Bailout, Fair City, Amongst Women, Father Ted, , Trial Awards, Best Actor (Hamlet and Salesman (Gate Theatre); She Stoops to Crisis Eile, Penny Dreadful, The Borgias, of the Century. DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV Conquer, Aristocrats, The Government Val Falvey TD, Wide Open Spaces, Roy, (Pts 1&2), Henry V); Two Irish Times Irish Inspector, Translations, Arrah Na Pogue, Cracks, Raw, Dorothy, Showbands II, Proof, Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actor Macbeth, The Rivals, The Last Days of a Veronica Guerin, Ella Enchanted, Goldfish Best Supporting Actor (Big Maggie). (King of the Castle and The Great Gatsby). Reluctant Tyrant, The Comedy of Errors, Memory, How Harry Became a Tree, Paths Heavenly Bodies, Big Love (Abbey Theatre); to Freedom, Custer’s Last Stand Up, Dillusc, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Dallocain, Durango, A Love Divided, Angela’s Marty Rea Petya Towards the Somme (Livin’Dred/Nomad); Ashes, Maigret, The Old Curiosity Shop. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Corn Exchange); The Druid: The Beacon, Epiphany, Evils of Tobacco (Mangiare Theatre). DruidShakespeare: Richard III, King of John Olohan Firs the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Film & television includes: Hair Raisers, Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: Acceptable Risk, The Delinquent Season, Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard III, King Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry WILD, Charlie, Fair City, A Thousand Times of the Castle, DruidShakespeare: Richard V, Brigit, Be Infants In Evil, The Colleen Goodnight, The Baker Street Irregulars, II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Big Maggie, Bawn, DruidMurphy –Plays by Tom Murphy. Trouble in Paradise, Nothing Personal. The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Other theatre includes: The Glass Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Playboy of the Western World. Menagerie, Beginning, The Great Gatsby, Best Supporting Actor (Waiting for Godot). Juno and the Paycock, The Importance Other theatre includes: Da, Tarry Flynn, of Being Earnest, The Caretaker, An The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche, Ideal Husband, My Cousin Rachel, Little Helen Norton Charlotta Sive, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Women, Hay Fever, Arcadia, Salomé (Gate House, Dancing at Lughnasa; The Silver Theatre); Othello, She Stoops To Conquer, Druid: Furniture, As You Like it. Dollar Boys, At Swim Two Birds, The The Hanging Gardens, Major Barbara, Duty Master, The Muesli Belt, A Little Like John Gabriel Borkman, The Rivals, Only Other theatre includes: Drama at Inish, Paradise, Savoy, The Remains of Maisie An Apple, An Ideal Husband, The Big Unmanageable Sisters, Porcelain, Oedipus, Duggan (Abbey Theatre); The Threepenny House, Saved, The Importance of Being The Comedy of Errors, Tarry Flynn, Men Opera, Aristocrats, Sharon’s Grave, Rough Earnest (Abbey Theatre); Improbable to the Right, Women to the Left (Abbey for Theatre I&II, A Christmas Carol (Gate Frequency (59E59 Street Theatre, New Theatre); To Hell in a Handbag (Fishamble/ Theatre); Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, York); Pentecost, Spokesong (The Lyric Irish Theatre Institute/Dublin Fringe Philadelphia, Here I come!, Hamlet (Second Theatre/Rough Magic); Philadelphia, Festival); Assassins, As You Like It, The Age Theatre Co.); The Lieutenant of Here I Come!, Hamlet (Second Age Heiress (Gate Theatre); The Taming of the Inishmore, The Lonesome West, (Town Hall Theatre Co.); Observe the Sons of Ulster Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Cat on A Theatre Galway); Translations (Oroboros); Marching Towards the Somme (Livin’Dred/

24 25 SÉAMUS HUGHES DELIA KEANE MARY MCHUGH SEÁN T. O’MEALLAIGH MICHAEL ROONEY PETER SHINE AMBRE SHONEFF Company

Séamus Hughes Delia Keane Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Mary’s Theatre and then at the Oxford School of debut with the company. Drama. A Galway native and former Artistic A native of Loughrea, County Galway, Delia Director of An Taibhdhearc Theatre in is currently studying Drama, Theatre and Other theatre includes: The Thing about Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Seán’s Galway, Séamus is a professional actor and Performance at NUI Galway. December, Doubt, Tribes Alive (Decadent); debut with the company. the founding Artistic Director of Lunchtime Wit, Juno and the Paycock, The Adventures Theatre London. Séamus has also worked Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Delia’s of Shay Mouse, Frank Pig Says Hello, Tarry Other theatre includes: Redemption Falls, with Passion Machine, Fíbín, and An debut with the company. Flynn (Galway Community Theatre); Cafe Star of The Sea (Moonfish); Baoite (An Grianán Theatre among others. Poetry (Anam Theatre Company); Under Milk Taibhdhearc/Galway International Other theatre includes: Star Child, Wood (Galway Actors Workshop); The Tale Arts Festival); Waiting For Godot, The Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Séamus’ Chatroom, Wit (Galway Youth Theatre); The of Galway, Da (Town Hall Theatre, Galway); Glass Menagerie, Measure For Measure debut with the company. Thing About December (Decadent Theatre Measure for Measure, The Duchess of Malfi, (Theatrecorp); Spring Awakening, Animal Company); Spring Awakening, Machinal (Theatrecorp); The Mai (Mephisto Theatre Farm, Philadelphia, Here I come! (Galway Other theatre includes. Zorro-Forgotten (NUI Galway); Twelfth Night, The Tempest Company); The Loves of Cass McGuire, Youth Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Son of Ireland (A Rising Tide); The Playboy (NUIG DramSoc); Sive, On the Outside, The (KATS); Sive (Pegasus); The Playboy of the Dream (Oxford School of Drama); Trigger of the Western World (Justin McCarthy); Playboy of the Western World (Seumas Western World (GB Show/Abbey Theatre). Martin, Sétanta, Tóraíocht (Fíbín). Lone Star (LTL London); O’Kelly Players). Rogue – A True Story About a Dog, For Film & television includes: The Presence, Film and television includes: An Klondike, I Whom the Bell Tolls (Theatre 503, London); Fare is Fair, Angela Mooney Dies Again, am Patrick, Vikings, Charlie, 1916: Seachtar An Enemy of the People (Moonfish); P Mary McHugh Jack Taylor. na Cásca, Wrecking The Rising, Na Cloigne, (Passion Machine). Rásaí na Gaillimhe, A Terrible Beauty, Saol Based in Headford, County Galway, Mary Faoi Shráid, Corp & Anam, Seacht, An Film & Television includes: Jimmy’s Hall, trained with Galway Actors Workshop, Seán T. Ó’Meallaigh Crisis, Love is a Sting, Gustav, A Better You, An Klondike, Making It, Lost and Found. Galway Community Theatre and Core Kings, Jimmy’s Hall, Arracht, The Callback Theatre College. A Donegal native, now based in Galway, Queen. Sean trained as an actor with Galway Youth

26 27 Michael Rooney Company); The Irish Play (Jokerthief Theatre Company); Wit, Midsummer, The Druid Staff A Dubliner, living in Galway, Michael Dead School, The Adventures of Shay started his acting career in Dublin in Mouse (Galway Youth Theatre); Juno and Founders Board the 1970’s with the Guinness Players the Paycock (Galway Community Theatre/ Garry Hynes Tom Joyce (chairman) performing in many drama festivals around Town Hall Theatre, Galway); You Could Be Ireland. Us, Tape, Pleasure Ground (Fregoli Theatre (1945–2010) Anne Anderson Company); The Shadow of Carmilla, No Way Helen Ryan Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Michael’s Out, The Merchant of Venice (ThereisBear! Cilian Fennell debut with the company. Theatre Company); At The Black Pig’s Dyke Druid Staff Padraic Ferry (MayFly Theatre Company); This Lime Tree Other theatre includes: Rashomon, The Bower (Nyx Theatre Company) Macbeth, Warehouse Manager* Mary Apied Loves of Cass McGuire, A View from the Twelfth Night (NUIG Dramsoc). Frank Commins Seán O’Rourke Bridge (KATS); Da (Tungsten Theatre Office Manager Bernadette Murtagh Company); Tarry Flynn, Juno and the Film & Television includes: Apparent Niamh Dolan (company secretary) Paycock, The Playboy of the Western World, Power, Up, Up and Away!, Hooked, Sooner The Plough and the Stars, Come Blow Your or Later, Wilde Night Out. Financial Controller* Horn, Dangerous Corner, Happiest Days of Brian Duffy Druid Ensemble Your Life, Shadow of a Gunman (Guinness Producer Derbhle Crotty Players); The Only Jealousy of Emer (Cork Ambre Shoneff Brian Fenton Garrett Lombard Little Theatre Group). A Californian native, now based in Galway, Company Manager Aaron Monaghan Film and Television: Prey Alone, Marú, Ambre completed actor training at Pacific Jean Hally Marie Mullen Uncle Max. Conservatory Theatre and holds an M.F.A in Executive Director Rory Nolan Devising from The Ohio State University. Feargal Hynes Aisling O’Sullivan Awards: All Ireland Drama Festival, Best Actor (Rashomon). Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Ambre’s Artistic Director Marty Rea debut with the company. Garry Hynes Development & Marketing Peter Shine Other theatre includes: The Penelopiad, John McEvoy Our Town, My Fair Lady, The San Patricios, Originally from Roscommon, now based Christmas is Here Again, Wizard of Oz, The Marketing & Communications Lead in Galway, Peter is a graduate of the BA Tempest, Tomas & the Library Lady (PCPA); David Mullane Arts with Theatre and Performance at NUI Romeo and Juliet, An Enemy of the People, Venue Manager Galway. Coast of Illyria (Ohio State University). Síomha Nee

Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Peter’s Financial Administrator debut with the company. Lisa Nolan Production Manager Other theatre includes: The Thing about Barry O’Brien December, The Weir, , Vernon God Little (Decadent Theatre *part time position

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