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3 LyricTheatre Welcome pentecost Hello and a very warm welcome to this performance All of these works, Punk Rock amongst them, explore art parker of Punk Rock. the tension between the fantasy and the reality of By stew ay adolescence, and between the many varied attempts Our aim in the Lyric is to present a programme to exalt or capture this fugitive and transitory state - of theatre that has a wide range of appeal for our how youth melts the rules established by adults and Directed by jimmy f audience; theatre that is vibrant, entertaining and demands to be heard on its own terms. occasionally provocative. In this season, titled Northern Soul, I trust you will find work that is of We eventually dismiss the rebellious state of interest to you and your adventurous spirit. adolescence as a phase we go through. The adults establish constant tests in schools, at home, in love, I chose Punk Rock to appeal to a younger audience on TV as a form of guidance or a way of asserting not just in years but also in outlook. It is not an easy control on this strange growth period. Both play and requires a degree of concentration that some mentally and physically we expand at a faster rate may find trying on a late summer evening looking than we ever will again. No wonder so many young for “safe” entertainment. Be warned there are scenes people feel miserable and put upon, aggressive and of an adolescent nature in this performance and misunderstood. It’s a constant period of transition, some people may find cause for upset. Despite this everything is constantly shifting. “I fancy her but she somewhat dour warning I want to point out that fancies him, she fancies him but he fancies the other Simon Stephens’ play is one of the most successful fella’. Life is strange, life is boring, today’s music is British plays in recent years. It has been critically shit, I wish I was dead.” Sooner or later, if we survive, acclaimed, won awards and, the big test, achieved we all conform or change the landscape and try to world-wide success. Since it opened at the Lyric scrape a way into adulthood. Hammersmith in 2009 Punk Rock has been performed in places as far afield as Berlin, Tokyo and Sydney. In Jon Savage’s brilliant book Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875 - 1945, he states “By its very nature, youth Simon Stephens’ work has echoes of Edward has long been charged with representing the future: Bond, Caryl Churchill and, perhaps surprisingly, the perennial mass-media typecasting of the adolescent the Yeats of the Second Coming but his voice is all as a genius or a monster continues to encode adult his own. His characters complex and surprising. fears about what will happen. To ignore those who The landscape of his plays ever shifting. Punk stand out as harbingers in favour of those who cleave Rock may start (and stay) as a school common to the status quo is to refuse engagement with the room but there’s mystery in the library, an arena future if not to misunderstand the nature of youth for flirtation, a slaughterhouse in the shadows. itself”. To anyone young or still feeling young I say ignore the status quo, go look for adventure, you can The teenager, or more precisely the nature of those meet adulthood headlong and in your own good time, awkward, pimply, moody, creative years we all pass create your own future. through, has long fascinated artists. There is no such thing as pop music, punk music, rock n’ roll in Selina Cartmell has been at the helm of this general without the enthusiasm of youth looking for production. She is an extraordinarily gifted director a soundtrack to explain itself to itself. Bob Dylan has with a highly visual style and a fearless gaze. Her said he wrote all his best songs during that period work has engaged with violence and love, outsiders he only re-worked them as he got older. Same with and loners; her style has been surreal, imaginative, the troubled lead singer of The Libertines. Even challenging, rigorous and deeply personal. A lot of y funny play” today there are brilliant adolescence songsmiths/ directors hide behind a plain reading of the text, poets scribbling furiously deep into the night in their Selina’s approach has been to explode it and see what ve and harshl bedrooms ready to take over the world in a year or pieces are left. I am really honoured to have her on “A bra two. Major films are based on the rebellion of youth, this as she is really one of the very best visionary Lindsay Anderson’s If..., Kubrick’s A Clockwork directors working today. The Observer Orange, Jean Vigo’s Zéro de conduite, Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without A Cause, Gus Van Sant’s chilling And I am delighted we have a cast so young, so new, Elephant. In theatre you have Edward Bond’s seminal so fresh and exuberantly talented. At the very least you yet terrifying Saved. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the can say you saw them here first, on the Lyric stage. Rye is one of the talismanic texts of the 20th century, wed 24 SEPT – Sat 18 oct 2014 its protagonist Holden Caulfield, a vastly influential character in youth rebellion. JIMMY FAY Previews: Sat 20, sun 21 & tues 23 sept EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BOX OFFICE / 028 9038 1081 BOOK ONLINE / WWW.LYRICTHEATRE.CO.UK 5 LyricTheatre A NOTE FROM THE WRITER

Punk Rock is a play about violence. It’s also a play about It is, therefore, inspiring to me that Punk Rock should love and about sex. It’s a play about education and come to Belfast. It is a city I have never been to. But it is ambition and the chaotic destabilising nature of money. a city, as much as any other, that defined who I am. My It’s a play about fear and optimism. It’s also a play about mother was raised here in the fifties. My grandmother home. was born here and grew up in a family of seven sisters on Sunnyside Street. Her family were here for generations. All my plays are about home it seems to me. For a long Her father, like many of his generation, working on the time I was fascinated by characters who were driven to try Titanic before leaving to fight in the Great War. to leave home – then about characters struggling to return home. I’ve written characters defined by an absence of ever Belfast is a city I’ve heard stories about all my life. I feeling at home and about characters rich in their sense was sung Belfast lullabies as a baby. I have gazed at of belonging somewhere or having that sense taken away photographs on my grandma’s wall. It is a city I have from them. It fascinates me. How we can leave home, imagined, and in this imagination it has defined my own and having left home, how we can ever return, are the sense of belonging and my own sense of home. It is questions I return to more than any others. astonishing to me then that my play about a generation’s response to their home should move to live in Belfast for a The characters in Punk Rock are defined, as much as while and that I should get over there to see it. My play is anything else by their relationship to their home town, going to live in my hometown I’ve never been to. I can’t Stockport, which happens to be my home town too. wait to come and see it there. Cissy keens to leave the place. Bennett feels defined by his superiority to it. Tanya has an understanding of the L’esprit d’escalier. dignity of the place. Chadwick sees the world with a larger perspective. Lilly has never really been at home anywhere. William feels the place is driving him insane. simon stephens writer I recognise these emotional responses in myself when I think about my home. I think many of us do.

The human being is a remarkable animal. We have an extraordinary understanding of time. We are defined by our memories and more by our desires. We have an extraordinary understanding of place. We recognise the places we have been to before with an instinctive emotional shudder. We have the capacity to imagine places we have never been to in our lives. In this sense our relationship to our homes defines our humanity. We constantly wonder, we constantly wander, we know when we are where we came from.

6 LyricTheatre 7 LyricTheatre THE SOUND OF ADOLESCENCE

In musical terms, punk rock is many things to many There’s a scene in Punk Rock where one character people: Weird no wave noise. Catchy new wave tunes. uses another’s lack of musical knowledge about the Screamy slowcore sludge. Bratty nursery-rhyme pop. early career of a popular group to mark them out as Gruff tales rising up from the gutter on anthemic a fairweather fan. The kids in the play are discussing gang vocals. All combinations thereof and others The White Stripes, but they could just as easily be still yet undefined. Basically, if it’s loud and it annoys talking about Nirvana, Green Day or Biffy Clyro, your parents, you’re probably on the right track. all acts who spent a time as underground heroes before enjoying a sudden commercial breakthrough Pretty much all of the music featured in Punk Rock which quadrupled their fan-base in the space of fits that bill - although the frighteningly fast passage one key album. It’s punk rock elitism in action, a of time means it’s now entirely possible that some phenomenon pretty much every music lover will have younger audience members may actually have been experienced (perhaps even perpetrated) at one point conceived to the priapic fuzz of Mudhoney’s Touch or another, in all likelihood while whiling away a Me I’m Sick. It’s probably best that you don’t ask. wet Wednesday lunch break with schoolmates as the spectre of double maths looms ever closer. Still, this “Punk rock should mean freedom - liking is music fueled by the kind of disaffection, alienation, and accepting anything that you like. Playing boredom, frustration and hormonal urges that anyone whatever you want, as sloppy as you want. As who’s ever endured the existential agony of being long as it’s good and it has passion.” So said Kurt 15 will be only too familiar with. Little wonder then Cobain, a confirmed Mudhoney fan with the that actual teenagers have been responsible for some guts to admit that he loved poppier bands like of the best punk rock ever made, as any fan of The ABBA and The Beatles as much as Black Flag Undertones will be only too happy to explain. and other ‘peer approved’ musical selections. When you first hearTeenage Kicks, Beat on The Naturally, by the time people around the world Brat, Anarchy In The UK, Alternative Ulster, were actually paying attention to what this small Girl From Mars, Screamager, I Wanna Be Your town punk rocker and gifted songwriter had to Dog, Waiting Room, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Rebel say, he was already being dismissed as a ‘sell-out’ Girl or whatever number happens to be blasting by self-appointed judges. Yes, punk rock music out of the right speakers at the right moment, it might be noisy, anarchic and seemingly engineered connects on a gut level and generally results in a to scare your granny, but it’s also a subculture lot of spontaneous jumping around. That’s the with its own set of rules and regulations. best bit, the raw power of punk as a visceral force - something you were always yearning for, maybe At its best, the punk rock scene can foster free without even knowing it. It’s a release, it’s an escape, thinking, social consciousness, self-reliance, it’s fun. The sniping and snobbery come later. co-operation and generosity of spirit. At its worst, it’s just like any other mainstream social The bands may come and go, but so long as hierarchy, riddled with cliques, cattiness and the there are teens in search of a soundtrack to their occasional bully. Kurt Cobain even wrote a song adolescent confusion, punk rock will never die. noting that the bitchiness Nirvana encountered in Seattle’s supposedly ‘alternative’ music scene was akin to being back in high school again DAVID ROY - only this time, there was “no recess!” JOURNALIST SPECIALISING IN MUSIC FOR THE IRISH NEWS.

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10 LyricTheatre 11 LyricTheatre PUNKROCK BY SIMON STEPHENS Credits

DIRECTED BY SELINA CARTMELL CREATIVE TEAM WRITER Simon Stephens Director Selina Cartmell Set and Costume Designer Monica Frawley Lighting Designer Chahine Yavroyan Sound Designer Fergus O’Hare Assistant Director Patsy Hughes Movement Director David Bolger Fight Director Alison de Burgh Dialect Coach Brendan Gunn Design Trainees Katie Davenport Ciara Cramer

CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) William Carlisle Rhys Dunlop Lilly Cahill Lauren Coe Bennett Francis Ian Toner Cissy Franks Aisha Fabienne Ross Nicholas Chatman Jonah Hauer-King Tanya Gleason Laura Smithers Chadwick Meade Rory Corcoran Lucy Francis Niamh Edgar Carmen Kidd Mollie Quinn

PRODUCTION TEAM Production & Technical Manager Keith Ginty Technicians Michael Harpur, Damian Cox, Anne Marie Langan production assistant Sean Paul O’Rawe Company Stage Manager Kate Miller Deputy Stage Manager Tracey Lindsay Assistant Stage Manager Stephen Dix Wardrobe Supervisor Pat Musgrave Wardrobe Assistant Erin Charteris Costume Care Sylvia McMaster Set Build & Scenic PainterS Vincent Bell Principal Tom Lawton Funder Ciara Cramer Set Transport Trevor Price

THE LYRIC THEATRE WOULD LIKE TO THANK Sarah Spears, The Irish News, Alanna Kierans, Audrey McKenna & CAMHS, Newtownbreda High School, Hazelwood Integrated College, Belfast Education and Library Board, Stephanie Dale, Sarah Mellotte, Belfast Metropolitan College, Oxfam Books-Rosemary Street Belfast, Orangefield HIGH School., MORE JUNK, QUEEN’S First presented at the Lyric Hammersmith on 3 September UNIVERSITY BELFAST, CONSTANCE McGRATH, NEIL O’DRISCOLL 2009 in a co-production between the Lyric Hammersmith and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

12 LyricTheatre 13 LyricTheatre CREATIVE TEAM Biographies

Simon Stephens Selina Cartmell Monica Frawley Chahine Yavroyan Fergus O’ Hare Patsy Hughes Writer Director Set and Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Assistant Director

Simon is an award-winning Selina took a First in Drama and An award-winning scenographer, Previous Lyric Theatre credits Fergus has sound designed over 250 Patsy Hughes received a Bachelor of playwright whose work includes History of Art from Trinity College, Monica trained at Dun Laoghaire include: Molly Sweeney. productions throughout the UK and Arts Honours degree in Drama from Bluebird, Herons, Country Music, Dublin and Glasgow University and School of Art and Design, the US. Queen’s University in 2007. Motortown, Wastwater and Birdland graduated with an MA (Distinction) National College of Art and Design, Other theatre credits include: (Royal Court); Blindsided and in Directing from Central School Dublin, and Central St Martin’s Khandan (Birmingham Rep/Royal Most recent work includes: Young Previous Lyric Theatre credits as Port (Manchester Royal Exchange, of Speech and Drama, London in School of Art and Design, London. Court); The Pass, Let The Right One Writers Festival (Pentabus); Kafka’s Associate Director includes: Molly 2002 - Pearson Award for Best Advanced Theatre Practice. She She has worked for all the major In (Birmingham Rep/Royal Court Dick (Theatre Royal Bath); Hope Sweeney. As Assistant Director: How New Play); On The Shore of the Wide makes her Lyric Theatre debut with theatre companies in Ireland and for & West End); Narrative, Get Santa, Place and Twelfth Night (Liverpool Many Miles to Babylon? and The World (Manchester Royal Exchange the Irish Premiere of Punk Rock. many in Britain, the U.S. and other Wig Out!, Relocated, The Lying Everyman); Daytona (Theatre Absence of Women, which also toured / National Theatre, 2005 - Olivier parts of Europe, designing set and Kind, Almost Nothing, At The Table, Royal Haymarket/Park Theatre); to the Tricycle Theatre, London. Award for Best New Play); Harper She is currently Artistic Director of costume and at times directing. Bazaar, Another Year Wasted (Royal Pygmalion (Theatre Royal Bath/ Regan (National Theatre); Sea the multi-award winning company Court); King Lear, The House, Tour); Relative Values (Pinter Directorial credits include: After Wall (Bush Theatre / Traverse Siren Productions based in Dublin. Previous Lyric Theatre credits Major Barbara (Abbey Theatre); Theatre); Another Country (Trafalgar the Bell Jar, Frankenstein, Hedda, Theatre); Pornography (Deutsches Selina was protégé to Julie Taymor include: The Playboy of the Western A Soldier In Every Son, Measure for Studios); King Lear (Chichester/ Normal, 1984, Doll, Faustus (Green Schauspielhaus, Hanover and as part of the Rolex Mentor and World. Measure, Marat/Sade, Dunsinane BAM); Jungle Book (West Yorkshire Room Productions); Herons Edinburgh Festival / Birmingham Protégé Arts Initiative. Between (Abbey Theatre & National Theatre Playhouse); In The Next Room (Pintsized Productions); Under Rep and Tricycle Theatre); Punk 2010 – 2012 she was Artist in Other theatre credits include: By the of Scotland); God in Ruins, Little (Ustinov/St. James); The Winslow Nine Horse Wood (Ash Green Youth Rock (Lyric Hammersmith / Residence at the Samuel Beckett Bog of Cats, Juno and the Paycock, Eagles (RSC); Farewell, Half a Glass Boy (Old Vic/Roundabout); Passion Theatre); A Slice of Saturday Night, Manchester Royal Exchange); The Theatre, Dublin. The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, of Water (Field Day); Uncle Vanya Play (Duke of York’s); Macbeth Titanic Shipyards/Docks (Music Trial of UBU (Schauspielhaus, The Silver Tassie’ Translations, (Minerva); The Lady from the Sea, (National Theatre of Scotland/ Theatre 4 Youth); Earth Hour at Essen / Toneelgroep Amsterdam Directing credits with Siren Gigli Concert, Too Late for Logic, The Comedy of Errors, Three Sisters Barrymore Theatre, Drama Desk Stormont (WWF); When the While and Hampstead Theatre); A Productions include A Tender Thing, The Playboy of the Western World (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Nominee, BroadwayWorld.com Wile Men Came (Ulster Scots Thousand Stars Explode in the The Making of Tis Pity She’s A Whore, (Abbey Theatre); Heavenly Bodies, The Vortex (Gate Theatre); Scorched Award); Street Scene (Chatelet, Paris Agency); Not a Game for Boys (C21 Sky, written in collaboration Fando & Lis and Titus Andronicus Sheeps Milk on the Boil (Peacock (Old Vic Tunnels); Fuente Ovejuna, and Liceu, Barcelona); A Chorus Theatre Company); Flush (Cre8 with David Eldridge and Robert (Winner of Best Director and Best Theatre); Dracula, At the Black Punishment Without Revenge, Dr. of Disapproval (Pinter); Noises Off Belfast) and Crave (See U Next Holman (Lyric Hammersmith); Production, Irish Times Theatre Pigs Dyke, A Crucial Week in the Faustus (Madrid); Elizabeth Gordon (Old Vic/Novello); No Quarter Tuesday Theatre Company). Marine Parade, a play with songs, Awards) (Project Arts Centre); Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (Druid Quinn, Calendonia, Realism, (Royal Court); Glasgow Girls written with Mark Eitzel (Brighton Medea (Samuel Beckett Theatre, Theatre Company); Da, Macbeth, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (NTS/Stratford East); Uncle Vanya Associate Director credits include: Festival); T5 (Traverse Theatre); Winner of Best Director, Irish Times The Home Place, The Burial at Thebes (National Theatre of Scotland); (Chichester) and The Opening Teenage Kicks (Millennium an adaptation of Jon Fosse’s I am Theatre Awards); The Lulu House (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis); Out Orphans, Dallas Sweetman, Long Ceremony of the London 2012 Forum) and Over The Bridge (GBL the Wind (Young Vic Theatre); (International Dublin Theatre of Harms Way, Touch Me I’m Sick Time Dead (Paines Plough); Dr Paralympic Games. Productions). Three Kingdoms (NO99 Theatre, Festival); Macbeth (The Empty (Cois Ceim Dance Theatre); The Marigold & Mr Chops (Riverside Estonia / Munich Playhouse / Lyric Space) and La Musica (Smock Alley, Drunkard, Sanctuary Lamp (Arcola, Studios); Jane Eyre, Someone Who’ll Assistant Director credits include: Theatre, Hammersmith); Morning Winner of Best Production in Dublin London); The Taming of the Shrew Watch Over Me (Perth); Il Tempo Del The Return of Colmcille (Derry- (Lyric Theatre / Traverse Theatre, Fringe Festival). (Rough Magic); Immeneo, Orfeo and Postino (Manchester International Londonderry City of Culture); Edinburgh Festival, 2012); a new Euridice, A Streetcar Named Desire, Festival) and How to Live (Barbican). Transparency (Ransom); The version of A Doll’s House (Young Vic Other theatre credits include: King A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Chosen Room (YMT, London); The Theatre, Duke of York’s Theatre); Lear, Woman and Scarecrow, Only Ireland); I Puritani (Staatstheater Dance credits include work with Library for Lives, Times Centenary an adaptation of Mark Haddon’s an Apple, Big Love (Abbey Theatre); Nurenberg); A Tender Thing for Jasmin Vardimon Dance, Bock Project (Queen’s University) and novel The Curious Incident of the Dog Override (Watford Palace Theatre, Siren Productions, directed by Selina & Vincenzi, Fraule Reequardt, PlayRIGHTS 24hr plays (25 Theatre in the Night-Time (Royal National London); The Prince and the Pauper Cartmell (Project Arts Centre), and Colin Poole, Candoco, Ricochet, Company at The Lyric). Theatre, Apollo Theatre. 2013 – (Unicorn Theatre, London); The most recently The Invader, an opera Rosemary Lee and Arthur Pita. Olivier Award for Best New Play); Broken Heart (Theatre For A by Eric Sweeney directed by Ben Carmen Disruption (Deutsches New Audience, New York); Molly Barnes for Theatre Royal Waterford Music work includes: XX Scharnhorst Schauspielhaus, Hamburg). Sweeney (Curve Theatre, Leicester); and Wexford Theatre Opera. (HMS Belfast); Sevastopol, Home, Catastrophe, Festen, Sweeney Todd Dalston Songs (ROH2); Plague Songs TV credits include: Cargese for (Winner of Best Opera Production, Monica is a lecturer on the ‘Design (Barbican); The Death of Klinghoffer Sprout Pictures (Sky Arts); an Irish Times Theatre Awards – Gate for Stage and Screen’ programme (Scottish Opera); Jocelyn Pook adaptation of Pornography for Theatre); Pornography (London at The Institute of Art Design and Ensemble and Diamanda Galas Coming Up (Channel 4) and DIVE Academy of Music and Drama); Technology, Dun Laoghaire and (International). (Granada / BBC). The Gospel According to Judas is Resident Designer to The Lir, (National Theatre Studio); Bold Girls Academy of Dramatic Arts Dublin. Site-specific work includes:Focal (The Lir); Here Lies and Passades Point (Rochester Harbour); (Operating Theatre); My Romantic Enchanted Parks (Newcastle); History (Royal Court Theatre); Some Dreams of a Winter Night (Belsay Explicit Polaroids (London Academy Hall); Deep End (Marshall St Baths) of Music and Drama); Catastrophe and Ghost Sonata (Sefton Park, (Gate Theatre and Barbican); The Palmhouse). Giant Blue Hand (The Ark) and The Cordelia Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company).

14 LyricTheatre 15 LyricTheatre cast Biographies

David Bolger Alison de Burgh Brendan Gunn Movement Director Fight Director Dialect Coach

David Bolger is the Artistic Director Previous Lyric Theatre credits Brendan Gunn holds an MA and and co-founder of CoisCéim Dance include: Macbeth, The Civilization a PhD in linguistics. He began Theatre. His work has been seen Game and The Painkiller. working as a dialogue and dialect by millions of people world-wide coach in 1986 after leaving the and has received prestigious awards Other theatre credits include: University of Ulster where he was for its innovation, performance and Strangers on a Train, The Prince a Lecturer in Linguistics. From the choreography. of Denmark, What The Butler initial project which took him into Saw, The Ladykillers, Private Lives, the world of film, television and Over the last two decades, David Speaking in Tongues, The Dumb theatre - A Prayer for the Dying has directed and choreographed Waiter, Peter Pan, Bent, The Plays starring Mickey Rourke - Brendan over 20 original productions for The Thing, Donkey’s Years, The has gone on to become one of the CoisCéim, including the award- Anniversary, As You Like It (West most ‘in demand’ vocal coaches winning Swimming with my Mother, End); A Small Family Business, The around, especially after his work on Touch Me, Pageant, Missing and most Black Album, Harper Regan; Therese the Jim Sheridan filmIn the Name RHYS DUNLOP LAUREN COE IAN TONER recently Agnes. He has also written Raquin, Coram Boy, Pillars of the of the Father which earned Oscar WILLIAM CARLISLE LILLY CAHILL BENNETT FRANCIS and choreographed extensively for Community, Tales From the Vienna nominations for Daniel Day-Lewis Rhys was born and raised in Belfast Lauren is from Dublin, and at the Ian is from Dublin and graduated film most notably the multi-award- Woods (National Theatre); Gobbo and and Pete Postlethwaite in their lead where he was a member of Youth age of 18 was accepted into the from University College Dublin in winning dance films,Hit and Run the Watchmaker (National Theatre roles. Action’s Rainbow Factory for inaugural Bachelor of Arts in Acting 2010 with a degree in English with (CoisCéim/Rough Magic Films) and of Scotland); The Devil Inside Him many years. He recently graduated course at The Lir, National Academy Film Studies before training at the Deep End Dance (Wildfire Films). (National Theatre of Wales); A Recent productions involving from The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art, Trinity College Gaiety School of Acting. This is his Mad World My Masters, Romeo and Brendan cover a wide range of of Dramatic Art, Trinity College Dublin in association with The first time performing at the Lyric. David has received numerous Juliet, The Penelopiad, As You Like subjects: During the City of Culture Dublin in association with The Royal Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She choreographic commissions It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream year in Derry/Londonderry he Academy of Dramatic Art. completed her three year degree in Theatre credits include: The Vortex including Tanztheater Freiburg/ (RSC); The King and I (Royal Albert worked on the musical Teenage July 2014. (Gate Theatre); Gaslights (Theatre Heidelberg, Fidget Feet Aerial Hall); Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Kicks inspired by the Undertones’ Other theatre credits include: Pains Upstairs); Town/Country, The Lark Dance Company, Druid Theatre Under The Black Flag (Shakespeare’s song and A Particle of Dread, the of Youth, Into the Woods, Twelfth Theatre credits at The Lir include: (Smock Alley); The Ladder and Company, Cameron Mackintosh, Globe); Woman Falling Over, Lady third play written by Sam Shepard Night, Mary Stuart, Scenes from the Scenes from The Big Picture, Bold the Moon (C Venues, Edinburgh The National Theatre, The Guthrie Boxers (National Theatre Studio); specifically with actor Stephen Rea Big Picture, The Rover, Antigone and Girls, Twelfth Night, Into the Woods Fringe 2010); The Witches (The Theatre in Minneapolis, Abbey The Scottsboro Boys, The Changeling, in mind and premiered in Derry. Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Lir); Shoot and Pains of Youth. Civic); Attempts on Her Life Theatre, Spoleto Festival and The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, Brendan also worked on the other the Crow (Primecut Productions); (Project Theatre); A Whistle in Riverdream’s Heartbeat of Home. Container, Suss (Young Vic); Snake two in the trilogy – Kicking a Dead A Cock and Bull Story (Pintsize TV and film credits include: the Dark, Dancing at Lughnasa, He made his opera direction debut in the Grass, A Trip to Scarborough, Horse and Ages of the Moon. Productions); Mojo Mickybo, Lord of Camelot (Starz Originals); Primeval Philadelphia, Here I Come!, King in 2004 with Gluck’s Orfeo, which The Swing of Things (Stephen The Flies and A Midsummer Night’s (Impossible Pictures); the IFTA Lear and Glengarry Glen Ross (UCD received an Irish Times/ESB Theatre Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Recent films include: TV and Dream (The Company, Rainbow award-winning mini-series The Dramsoc). Award and became the first Irish The Real Inspector Hound, The features versions of Starred Factory). Importance of Being Whatever (RTÉ) Opera to be invited to the State Critic (Chichester Festival Theatre) Up (Film4); Dracula Untold and the short filmsThe Pool and He will soon appear in Citizen Theatre (Wiesbaden). and Peter Pan (Lyceum Theatre, (Universal); and Child 44 (Summit TV, film and radio credits include: Homemade (The Lir). Charlie opposite Aidan Gillen in a Edinburgh). Entertainment, based on the best- Homemade (The Lir); Maru (Stirling three part mini-series produced by Other opera work includes Imeneo, selling novel written by Tom Rob Film and Television Productions); This is Lauren’s professional stage Touchpaper Films/RTE, as well as A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Opera credits include: Don Smith.) He also established the vocal The Queen’s Nose and The DeLorean debut. the mini-series Klondike for Abu Ireland), La Traviata (ENO) and Giovanni, Knight Crew, Euryanthe style for the new TV series Fortitude (BBC Radio). Media (dir. Daithi Keane) in the role Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice (Royal (Glyndbourne Festival Opera); starring Belfast actor Richard of JJ Hopkins. Opera House, London). Cavelleria Rusticana, Pagliachi, Dormer. Currently he is involved This is Rhys’ first professional stage Carmen, Tosca, Macbeth (Opera with the cast of Brooklyn, a feature appearance since graduating from David has been a member of Holland Park); Florentine Tragedy/ film based on the novel by Colm drama school. Aosdana since 2007. Gianni Schicci (Greek National Toibin and scripted by Nick Hornby. Opera); American Lulu, Varjak Paw (The Opera Group); Carousel, Romeo and Juliet, Don Giovanni (Opera North); Sweetness and Badness (Welsh National Opera); La Boheme (Scottish Opera); The Trojans at Carthage; The Handmaid’s Tale; The Trojans; Lulu and Morning to Midnight (English National Opera).

16 LyricTheatre 17 LyricTheatre MISTLETOE & CRIME SLEEPING BEAUTY BY MARIE JONES BY DEREK O’CONNOR DIRECTED BY DAN GORDON DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY DEBORAH MAGUIRE

AISHA FABIENNE ROSS JONAH HAUER-KING LAURA SMITHERS CISSY FRANKS NICHOLAS CHATMAN TANYA GLEASON

Aisha was born in Scotland but grew Jonah was born and raised in Laura travelled from Surrey to up mainly in Brunei and Australia London. His theatre credits during Belfast to attend the Bachelor of Arts before moving to London to school include: the titular character three year drama course at Queen’s undertake the three year Bachelor in Macbeth, Cymbeline and Arthur University, and graduated in 2013. of Arts in acting at The London Miller’s Broken Glass. She then went on to audition for Academy of Music and Dramatic Art the Drama Studio programme at (LAMDA). Jonah also studied as a jazz vocalist the Lyric Theatre which, after nine playing a leading role in The months of training, concluded with Theatre credits at LAMDA include: Edinburgh fringe hit Flames Over a production of Mark Brenton’s Romeo and Juliet, Some Explicit New Jersey at the Underbelly, a jazz 55 Days, performed in the Lyric’s Polaroids, The Duchess of Malfi and musical which also ran at London’s Naughton Studio, directed by Philip THIS ENCHANTING TALE Women of Troy. Crazy Coqs Cabaret. Crawford. Laura hopes to continue THERE’S SHOPPIN’ AND GURNIN’ WILL DELIGHT PRINCES AND her training after this project, TV and film credits includeDownton TV and film credits include:Blue studying for a Master of Arts degree AND DRINKIN’ AND THIEVIN’ PRINCESSES ALIKE! Abbey (BBC); The Last Photograph (NFS short), Holding On For A Good in Acting at Drama School. (Warner Bros. Pictures) and Drama Time (NFYU short) and the lead (dir. Sophie Mathisen). role in Try Hard Productions’ film This is Laura’s professional stage The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, debut. FRI 5 DEC – SUN 4 JAN This is Aisha’s professional stage based on the Rudyard Kipling story SAT 22 NOV – SUN 11 JAN debut. of the same title. TICKETS: £14 - £22.50 TICKETS: £12.50 - £18 This is Jonah’s professional stage BOX OFFICE / 028 9038 1081 BOX OFFICE / 028 9038 1081 debut. BOOK ONLINE / WWW.LYRICTHEATRE.CO.UK BOOK ONLINE / WWW.LYRICTHEATRE.CO.UK

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Planning your Christmas night out and The Christmas pre-theatre package want to make a special occasion of it? costs just £45 per person and can be booked for a minimum of 8 and a RORY CORCORAN The stunning Lyric Theatre on the banks maximum of 40 people in a group. CHADWICK MEADE of the river Lagan is the perfect setting Hailing from Dublin, Rory Corcoran to celebrate Christmas with a top class Available dates: Thursday, Friday and is a member of the first graduating seasonal show and delicious pre- Saturday nights – 11, 12, 13, 19 and 20 class of the three year Bachelor in theatre meal. December only. Acting course at The Lir Academy. Expect a fun-filled night out at With limited availability don’t delay, Theatre credits at The Lir include: Marie Jones’ new Christmas comedy, book today. For more information or to Love’s Labours Lost, The Rover, Mistletoe & Crime, directed by Dan book contact [email protected] Antigone, The Sin Eaters, Scenes Gordon, on the Danske Bank Stage. or call 028 9038 5697. From the Big Picture, Mary Stuart,

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It’s the second night of Youth Music Theatre This year it was all about Elements, inspired by UK’s production of Macbeth here at the Lyric. the current exhibition at the Ulster Museum. It’s I’ve just had supper with three young actresses about developing creativity and imagination which, looking for advice on getting into Drama School. Two arguably, are somewhat stifled by prescriptive curricula of them are eager to report that they are applying to and exam pressure during term-time. Drama, with as many different schools as they can afford. They a bit of Science thrown in for good measure: how exchange stories about where to find audition pieces, inspiring to see six year old electrons whizzing what they think panels are looking for, horror stories around a carbon nucleus while the 16 year olds put and reassuring accounts from previous applicants. Oppenheimer on trial for his work on uranium!

It’s a serious business getting into Drama School But we understand the pressure on those who – the figures back up their concerns: around want to take it further. The Lyric Drama Studio 2500 students apply for 25 places at The Royal offers intensive training to prepare young Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). The odds are people for Drama School auditions. There’s similar at the Royal Welsh College of Music and also an open offer to schools across the country Drama. And it’s not just the competition that to access advice and support for their students. makes life difficult – funding can be a nightmare. While most are filling in UCAS forms, CUKAS Student loans don’t cover Masters courses and applications (to Conservatoires in the UK) Career Development Loans don’t come cheap. occupy the minds of these aspiring thespians.

It’s very refreshing to hear the third girl from In the last three years, we’ve helped secure 17 YMT say that she’s never done anything offers from major Drama Schools across the UK like this before and may not ever again, and Ireland. Great good luck to those who are but she’s had a great time doing it! setting off this September to begin their training for, we hope, successful careers on the stage! The Creative Learning Department offers a variety of options to young people to engage with theatre. In our annual Summer School we run four week- Philip Crawford long courses, and are passionate about the fact Creative Learning Coordinator they are not about the pressurised production of a ‘show’ at the end of the week. In short, we care far too much about the quality of learning to go down that route. Young actors explore a theme and in the process enhance skills in writing, vocal work, acting technique, improvisation and prop-making.

: Charles Laughton, On why he wanted to be an actoR “Because people don’t know what they’re like and I think I can show them”

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