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David Richenthal and Mary Beth O’Connor in association with Nica Burns & Max Weitzenhoffer Present SOPHIE THOMPSON in

a new by JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH

also starring CON O’NEILL PAUL CHAHIDI and SAM KELLY

Set & Costume Design MARK THOMPSON

Lighting Design Sound Design JAMES WHITESIDE MATT McKENZIE

Fight Director Resident Director Casting Director TERRY KING DAVID SALTER JOYCE NETTLES

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Associate Producer Production Management General Management TOBY SIMKIN CROSBIE MARLOW ASSOCIATES COLE KITCHENN

Directed by

The fi rst performance of The Female of the Species was presented by the on August 30th 2006.

www.thefemaleofthespecies.co.uk

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE Strand, WC2 Proprietors: Nica Burns • Max Weitzenhoffer

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 10-11 15/7/08 11:55:14 JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH Author Joanna Murray-Smith has written many plays, including Honour, which was produced at the National with Dame Eileen Atkins and in the West End with Dame , Bombshells produced at the and (adapted from Bergman) at the Belgrade Theatre in , directed by Sir and soon to transfer to the West End. Her other plays include Rapture, Redemption (adapted for BBC Radio), Nightfall, Love Child and the upcoming Ninety, amongst others. Her plays have been produced around the world. Joanna has also written three novels, including Sunnyside, published by Viking UK.

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 12-13 15/7/08 11:55:16 Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 14-15 15/7/08 11:55:17 EILEEN ATKINS Margot

Eileen was born in London and was a student at the Guildhall at the Lyttelton Theatre. She played Gunhild Borkman . 2006 saw Eileen Sister Aloysius in Doubt, School of Music and . She made her first appearance in opposite Paul Scofi eld and in the hugely successful which enjoyed a successful run on Broadway at the Walter Kerr London as Jaquenetta in Love’s Labour’s Lost for at John Gabriel Borkman – again directed by Richard Eyre. Theatre, directed by . In 2007 Eileen appeared at the the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park. Seasons in repertory followed, as Bridget in There Came a Gypsy Riding by including two years with the RSC at Stratford-upon-Avon. She went In 1989 Eileen received great critical acclaim when she appeared as Frank McGuinness, directed by Michael Attenborough. on to work at , where her roles included the Queen in Virginia Woolf in her one-woman show A Room of One’s Own at Richard II, Miranda in and Viola in in the Lamb’s Theatre in New York, where she received the Drama Desk Her film credits include: , , Jack and Sarah, 1962. Award for Best Solo Performance and a special Citation in a Wolf, , Cold Mountain and Vanity Fair and, in 2007, practically unanimous vote from the New York Drama Critics’ Evening with Vanessa Redgrave and Meryl Streep. In the contemporary theatre, Eileen’s credits include Semi Circle. Eileen then took the show on a short nationwide tour of the Detached with , Exit the King with , USA. She also recreated the role for Thames Television in a version Her television credits are many, the latest this year being Waking and The Restoration of Arnold Middleton. She won the 1965 filmed on location at Girton College, Cambridge, the venue of the Dead, Ballet Shoes and Miss Jenkins in Cranford for which she Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her performance as Mrs Woolf’s original lecture. Most recently she revived the play at won a Bafta. Childie in The Killing of Sister George and made her New York the Theatre. In 1992 Eileen premiered her own play, debut in this play. She returned to New York in 1967 to appear in Vita and Virginia, at the Chichester Festival Theatre – as Her writing credits, apart from Vita and Virginia, include The Promise. In 1968 she appeared in at Virginia Woolf opposite ’s Vita Sackville-West – the Mrs Dalloway for which she won the Evening Standard Award. Chichester, which subsequently transferred to the West End, and in show played a season at the Ambassadors Theatre. She then played She also co-created with Jean Marsh Upstairs Downstairs and The ’s The Sleepers Den at the Upstairs. it at the Union Square Theatre in New York to great acclaim with House of Elliot. Eileen won a Variety Club Award for her role as Elizabeth in Vanessa Redgrave, and in 1995 received her fourth Tony Award ’s Vivat! Vivat! Regina at the 1970 Chichester Festival nomination for Indiscretions with . She appeared and later at the Theatre, a performance she repeated in in ’s A Delicate Balance with at the New York. Haymarket, directed by , for which she won the Evening Standard Award and played the Woman in the RSC’s The Other London theatre credits include the title roles in Suzanna Unexpected Man with for which she won an Andler at the Theatre, St Joan at the Old Vic and at Olivier Award for Best Actress. Eileen went on to enjoy success with the . She played Nell in Passion Play for the Royal this role on Broadway with . Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych. For the National Theatre, Eileen played Hesione in John Schlesinger’s acclaimed production In 2003 Eileen appeared with in Honour by of and leading roles in productions of Joanna Murray-Smith at the National Theatre, directed by and Pinter’s Mountain Language. She received an Roger Michell, for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress. Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in ’s production She appeared on Broadway in William Nicholson’s Retreat from of The Winter’s Tale and won the Critics’ Award for Hanna Jelkes in which was her fourth Tony nomination. In 2005 Eileen ’ , directed by appeared as Meg in ’s play The Birthday Party at the

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 16-17 15/7/08 11:55:20 SOPHIE ANNA THOMPSON MAXWELL MARTIN Tess Molly

Theatre includes: Baker’s Wife in directed by Film includes: Glenda in Morris: A Life With Bells On, Tracey in Fat Theatre includes: Sally Bowles in directed by (, Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Slags, Dorothy in Gosford Park, Dora Moxton in Relative Values (Lyric), Other Hands directed by Bijan Musical), Amy in Company directed by (Donmar (Films Critics’ Circle Award nomination), Rose in Dancing at Sheibani (), directed by Warehouse/Albery, Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Lughnasa, Miss Bates in Emma and Lydia in Four Weddings and a (Royal Court, 50th anniversary season), Dumb Performance, Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Funeral. Show directed by Terry Johnson(Royal Court), Lyra in His Musical), Marcie Banks in Wildest Dreams directed by Dark Materials directed by (NT, 2005 (RSC, Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress), Helena in Television includes: May Contain Nuts, , Olivier Award nomination), Irina in The All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Peter Hall (RSC), Rosalind in As EastEnders (Inside Soap Awards – Best Bitch), Magnolia, A Harlot’s Katie Michell (NT), Honour directed by Roger Michell You Like It directed by (RSC), Ophelia in directed by Progress, Lee Evans – So What Now?, Persuasion, The Railway (NT), directed by Trevor Nunn (NT) (Renaissance), Margaret in ChildrenFEMALE and Nelson’s Column. and Little Foxes directed by Marianne Elliott (Donmar directed by (Renaissance) and Celia in Warehouse). directed by Geraldine McEwan (Renaissance). Film includes: Poppy Shakespeare, Madonna in I Really Hate My Job, , The Other Man (short), Enduring Love and The Hours.

Television includes: White Girl, The Wind in the Willows, Esther Summerson in (Best Actress Award at the 2006 BAFTAS), , North and South and Midsomer Murders.

Radio includes: , The Raj Quartet and Portrait of a Lady.

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 18-19 15/7/08 11:55:20 Director ROGER MICHELL Set and Costume Designer MARK THOMPSON Lighting Designer JAMES WHITESIDE Sound Designer MATT MCKENZIE Resident Director DAVID SALTER Photographer MANUEL HARLAN Casting Director JOYCE NETTLES CAST Fight Director TERRY KING in order of appearance Wardrobe Supervisor JOHANNA COE Consultant LINDA MCKNIGHT Margot EILEEN ATKINS TIME: The present Wardrobe Mistress ABIGAIL MORRIS Molly ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN Wardrobe Assistant SAYERS Tess SOPHIE THOMPSON SETTING: A charming house in the country Props Supervisor LISA BUCKLEY Bryan PAUL CHAHIDI Props Assistant LIZZIE FRANKL Frank CON O’NEILL Running time: 100 minutes without interval Theo SAM KELLY First performance at this theatre: 10 July 2008 General Management COLE KITCHENN Press night: 16 July 2008 Assistant to EMMA KINGABY UNDERSTUDIES The Female of the Species was commissioned by the Melbourne Margot KATHERINE STARK Company Manager ANDY RALPH Molly/Tess MELISSA WOODBRIDGE Theatre Company, which presented the fi rst performance on 30 August 2006 at the Playhouse, the Arts Center, Melbourne, Australia. Deputy Stage Manager BLAIR HALLIDAY Bryan/Frank MATT ADDIS Artistic Director: Simon Phillips, General Manager: Ann Tonks Assistant Stage Manager KERSLAKE Theo PETER YAPP

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 20-21 15/7/08 11:55:22 CON PAUL O’NEILL CHAHIDI Frank Bryan

Theatre includes: directed by Theatre includes: (Chichester Festival Film includes: Venus, The Libertine, Notting Hill and Stella does (Sheffi eld/Tricycle Theatre), Midnight Cowboy directed by Theatre), and The Arsonists (Royal Court), The American Tricks. John Clancy (Assembly Theatre, Edinburgh), Fair Pilot, As You Like It, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Nicholas Hytner (NT), Telstar directed by Merry Wives – The Musical, , The Tamer Television includes: Oliver Twist, Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Paul Jepson (tour/West End, Laurence Olivier Award Tamed, The Devil Is an Ass, Faust, and Woyzeck (RSC), Story, Fear of Fanny, Blackpool, Murder in Mind, Murder Most nomination), Mother Clap’s Molly House directed by Faustus (Northampton), Twelfth Night (Middle Temple Hall/original Horrid, Blonde Bombshell, Bliss and . Nick Hytner (NT/Aldwych), Featuring Loretta directed by Globe production), , Two Noble Kinsman, The Comedy of Robin Le Fevre (Hampstead), Blasted directed by Sarah Kane Errors, Augustine’s Oak (Shakespeare’s Globe), (Orange Radio includes: The Mel and Sue Project (writer and performer), (NT), The Flight into Eygpt directed by John Dove (Hampstead), Tree), Arabian Nights (Young Vic), All’s Well That Ends Well (Oxford Felix Holt the Radical, The Charterhouse of Parma and The Change. A Tribute to the Blues Brothers directed by David Leland Stage Company), Misalliance (Theatr Clwyd/ Rep), (), The Fastest Clock directed by Matthew Lloyd George Dandin and The Jungle Book (Redgrave, ), Stiff (Hampstead), Woyzeck directed by John Godber (Hull Truck), (Pleasance) and The Next Director General of the BBC (Simon Block). The Awakening directed by John Dove (Hampstead), directed by Willy Russell (West End – Laurence Olivier Award, Broadway – Tony Award nomination) and Ridley Walker directed by (Royal Exchange).

Film includes: Telstar directed by Nick Moran, What’s Your Name 41?, The Last Seduction II directed by Terry Marcel, Bedrooms and Hallways directed by Rose Troche, A Perfect Match directed by Nick Hurran, Three Steps to Heaven directed by Constantine Gianarris, Scarborough Ahoy! directed by Tania Diez, The Lilac Bus directed by Giles Foster and Dancin’ Thru the Dark directed by Mike Ockrent.

Television includes: Criminal Justice, Learners, The Stepfather, My Hero, Ultimate Force, Murder Squad, The Illustrated Mum, In Deep, Trial and Retribution VI, Waking the Dead, Real Women II, Always and Everyone, Cider with Rosie, Heartbeat, Macbeth, , Wycliffe, Peak Practice, Soldier Soldier, Moving Story (series 1 and 2), Inspector Morse, Casualty, Pie in the Sky, The Riff Raff Element, Amongst Barbarians, One Summer and Norbert Smith.

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 22-23 15/7/08 11:55:24 SAM KELLY MATT KATHERINE MELISSA PETER Theo ADDIS STARK WOODBRIDGE YAPP Understudy Understudy Understudy Understudy Bryan/Frank Margot Molly/Tess Theo

Theatre includes: Boeing- Theatre includes: Katherine Theatre includes: Theatre includes: recently, Chichester Boeing (Comedy), Charlie in has had a long career with theatre Entertaining Angels (Theatre Festival Theatre’s Hobson’s Choice (tour). Stones in his Pockets, seasons including the RSC and the Royal, Bath), An Act of Twisting Much regional theatre since he joined the Michael Dara in Shadow of the Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre as well (King’s Head), Straight Talking Library Theatre Company in Glen, Guildenstern in as appearances in the West End in (Soho Theatre), Five Songs of 1967 include, most recently, repertoire at Theatre includes: the 1971 season at the Young Vic directed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern As You Desire Me and The Prime Grace and Redemption (Liminal Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake in Habeas by and playing in London and touring Europe, are Dead and Willy in The Sea of Miss Jean Brodie. She appeared Theatre), Laundry and Bourbon Corpus, , The Real The Two Ronnies ( and Australia), Pericles, (), Faulkland in in Centreline’s tour of A View from and The Broken Heart (White Inspector Hound and Mrs Warren’s , and A Funny Thing The Rivivals, Henry in , the Bridge and in TAG’s Scottish Bear). She is also a member of Profession. In London: Kean (Globe/ Happened on the Way to the Forum (NT), Dead Funny and and Nicholas and Aleyn in The tour of The Birthday Party. Touchstone Shakespeare Theatre. Gielgud), Rosencrantz and HMS Pinafore (Savoy), Toast and Under the Whaleback (Royal Canterbury Tales. Guildenstern are Dead (Piccadilly), The Court) and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and The Madras Film includes: The Last Supper, Film includes: Framed and The Black Prince (Aldwych), The Cabinet House (Edinburgh Festival). Television includes: Prince Winter Solstice, A Small Deposit, Miscellaneous Story of My Life. Minister (Albery), The Forest (NT) and Albert in ’s Men. Murder By Decree, The Hiding The Mousetrap (St Martin’s). Also, among Film includes: two movies, Blue Ice with Place and Peter Hall’s 1968 several West End experiences in the , Arthur’s Hallowed Ground, Honest and Radio includes: A Byrne in version of A Midsummer Night’s understudy underground, he played when ’s Topsy-Turvy and All or Nothing. Hell, ’s Night Watch Dream. needed in The Rehearsal (Garrick) and and in Good Television includes: (Albery). Television includes: among numerous appearances, Evening. Heartbeat, , Taggart, Porridge, Allo, Allo!, The Dave Allen Show, The Two Ronnies, Midsomer Murders, Rumpole of Film includes: Mister Jerico and Sin The Dick Emery Show, The Strauss Family, The Liver Birds, the Bailey, Within These Walls, Noticias de Dios (Don’t Tempt Me). Alan Bleasdale’s Oliver Twist and Boys from the Blackstuff, Angels, Just a Boy’s Game, All , Life Begins, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Passion Spent, Down Where the Television includes: The Prince ’s Professional Foul, Alan Bennett’s The Buffalo Go, Ghostwatch and Regent, A Master of Marionettes, Insurance Man, Christabel by , and Mike Leigh’s Down Among the Boys. Keeping Up Appearances, House of television fi lms Who’s Who and Grown-Ups. Eliott, Castles, Peak Practice, Cor Blimey, A Bunch of Hippies, Poirot, Life Begins, and drama- documentaries About Noah, Tolkien and John Wyndham.

Radio and recordings include: more than 100 broadcasts, including a year with the BBC Radio Drama Company and, for Naxos, Dracula, The Phantom of the , Twelfth Night, Henry V, Hamlet and other Shakespeare recordings.

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 24-25 15/7/08 11:55:25 ROGER MICHELL MARK THOMPSON JAMES WHITESIDE Musicals include: Love Off the Shelf (Nuffi eld), The Bells Are Ringing Director Designer Lighting Designer and Talk of the Steamie (Greenwich), Tess, Forbidden Broadway and Theatre includes: , (Donmar Warehouse), Mark Thompson read drama and theatre at Birmingham University. James Whiteside graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1999. Blues in the Night (West End), ’s Car Man, Putting It with Weapon, Honour, Blue/Orange, The Homecoming, Theatre includes: recently, Henry IV Parts I & II, , Once Theatre includes: recently, Funny Girl (Chichester Festival), Salonika Together, The Gondoliers, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Under Milk Wood, The Coup (NT), Redevelopment, Restoration, Two in a Lifetime and The Rose Tattoo (NT), Funny Girl (Chichester (West Playhouse), Never Forget (Savoy), Trying, Carousel, Babes in Arms, Funny Girl and The Music Man Shakespearean Actors, Kissing the Pope, Some Americans Abroad, Festival Theatre), The God of Carnage (Gielgud) and And Then There (Peter Hall season, Bath Theatre Royal), Footloose (Novello and (Chichester), Oh What a Lovely War, Sweeney Todd, Company, Into The Constant Couple, Hamlet, Temptation, Were None (Gielgud). For the Royal Court: Wild East, The Woman Playhouse), This Piece of Earth and The Early Bird (), the Woods, Merrily We Roll Along and Moon Landing (Derby and The Dead Monkey (RSC), My Night with Reg (Royal Court and Before and Piano/Forte. Also, Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria and and (Watermill, Newbury), Vanity Fair, Grimm Nights Playhouse), Mark Ravenhill’s Dick Whittington (Barbican) and co- West End), The Key Tag, The Catch and The Morning Show (Royal Broadway), Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith and Everafter Days and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Chicken sound on Alice in Wonderland (RSC). Court), Some Sunny Day (Hampstead), Some Americans Abroad (Queen’s), Blast! (Apollo, , Broadway and USA tour), Shed Theatre), ’s Corset (Yvonne Arnaud, ), ( and Broadway), Marya (Old Vic) Macbeth (Nuffi eld, and Twelfth Night (costumes only, Donmar Warehouse), Poor Mrs Pepys (New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme), Fen and Five Kinds TERRY KING Southampton), The White Glove (Lyric, Hammersmith), Romeo and (set only, Broadway), Mouth to Mouth (Royal Court and Albery), of (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury), The Fight Director (Young Vic), Private Dick (Lyric, Hammersmith, and West End) Life x 3 (NT and Old Vic), Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales, Toronto, Gruffalo, and The Gruffalo’s Child (Tall Stories Theatre Theatre includes: for the RSC, , Richard III and Archangel Michael (Crucible, Sheffi eld). Broadway, Las Vegas, Japan, Holland, Germany, Spain, Sweden and USA, Company) and tours of Donkeys’ Years, Heroes and . Also, (Sam Mendes), , Cymbeline (), Pericles, Film includes: Venus, Enduring Love, The Mother, Changing Lanes, Australasian and international tours), Doctor Dolittle (Apollo, productions for the Croydon Warehouse, BAC, King’s Head, Finborough, Julius Caesar, (), Henry V, Hamlet Persuasion, My Night with Reg, Titanic Town and Notting Hill. Hammersmith, and tour), The Blue Room (Donmar Warehouse and New End and Chelsea in London and for Princess Cruises. As (), (Gale Edwards), The Comedy of Television includes: The Buddha of Suburbia, Downtown Lagos, and Broadway), The Front Page (Donmar Warehouse) Never Land (Royal assistant lighting designer, Desperately Seeking Susan, Mary Stuart, Errors, Twelfth Night (Ian Judge), , Henry IV Parts I & II two fi lms for Omnibus, : My Father and Ready Court), Art (Wyndham’s and Whitehall, UK tour, Australia, Buenos Aires, and in the West End, relighting Guys (Michael Attenborough), Bite of the Night (), Singer When You Are Mr Patel. , Los Angeles and Broadway), Insignifi cance and Company and Dolls on tour and in Australia, and This Is How It Goes on tour. (), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Greg Doran), The (Donmar Warehouse and Albery), The Kitchen (Royal Court), Hysteria Opera includes: Maria de Buenos Aires (Theatre Royal, Bath), HMS Jacobean Season (Swan) and Coriolanus (David Farr). For the NT: Fool DAVID SALTER (Royal Court and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles), Six Degrees of Pinafore (Carl Rosa Opera) and Madame Butterfl y (London City for Love, The Murderers, Scenes from the Big Picture (Peter Gill), King Resident Director Separation (Royal Court and Comedy), Joseph and the Amazing Opera USA tour). As assistant lighting designer, ’s I Lear (David Hare), Othello (Sam Mendes), Carousel, Henry V, His Dark David wrote and directed Broadway in the Shadows (Grand Theatre, Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium, Canadian, Australian and Masnadieri at the Teatro Comunale, Bologna. Materials (Nicolas Hytner), The Riot (Mike Shepard), Battle Royal, The Luxembourg, and Arcola, London) and has directed shows including USA tours), Shadowlands (Queen’s and Broadway), A Little Night Forthcoming productions include Love’s Labour’s Lost for the Rose Talking Cure (), London Cuckolds (Terry Johnson), Ting Hamlet, Twelfth Night and (Cambridge Music (Piccadilly), Ivanov and Much Ado About Nothing (Strand), Theatre, Kingston. Tang Mine (), Duchess of Malfi (Phyllida Lloyd), The Shakespeare Festival), Life of Galileo ( and Studio The Sneeze (Aldwych), Cabaret (Strand) and Homecoming (Roger Michell), Jerry Springer – The Opera (Stewart Theatre, Washington, DC, Award for Best Lead Actor), (Chichester Festival Theatre and Her Majesty’s). For the RSC: Measure MATT MCKENZIE Lee), Elmina’s Kitchen (Angus Jackson) and Edmund (). Playing Sinatra (New End), Hansel and Gretel (Old Bull Arts Centre), for Measure, The Wizard of Oz, Much Ado About Nothing, The Sound Designer For the Royal Court: Our Country’s Good, The Recruiting Offi cer, The (Cockpit Theatre) and Ghetto (Warwick Arts Comedy of Errors, Hamlet and The Unexpected Man (also Off- Matt McKenzie came to the UK from New Zealand in 1978. Queen and I, , Duck (Max Stafford-Clark), Soar Throats Centre, Pleasance, London and Edinburgh, Guardian International Broadway and Los Angeles). For the Almeida: , Betrayal, Party Theatre includes: touring with Paines Plough before joining the staff at (Nancy Duguid), Search and Destroy (), Ashes and Student Drama Award). David was associate director on at Time and Butterfl y Kiss. For the NT: The Wind in the Willows, The the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1979 where he designed the sound Sand (), Oleanna (Harold Pinter), Berlin Berty (Danny the Albery and previously worked as assistant director at the Almeida. He Madness of George III, (Haymarket and Lincoln Center for several of their productions. Since joining Autograph in 1984, Matt Boyle), Ourselves Alone and Greenland (Simon Curtis). Also, The has directed numerous productions at drama schools including Theater, New York), Pericles, What the Butler Saw, The Day I Stood has been responsible for the sound design for many shows in UK, Fifteen Streets (Coventry/West End), (Leeds), True West and Manchester School of Theatre, RADA and the Drama Centre. Still and The Duchess of Malfi . Awards: 1995 Critics’ Circle Award for including (in the West End) Made in Bangkok, The House of Fool for Love (Donmar Warehouse), (), The Kitchen; 1994 Olivier Award for Set Design for Hysteria; 1992 Bernarda Alba, A Piece of My Mind, Journey’s End, A Madhouse in Lysistrata (Old Vic), Of Mice and Men (), On an Average Olivier Awards for Set Design and Costume Design for Joseph and the Goa, Gasping, Tango Argentino, When She Danced, , The Odd Day (John Crowly), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Bristol), Caligula and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and The Comedy of Errors; 1990-91 Couple, , Things We Do for Love, Long Day’s Journey into Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Donmar Warehouse), Peribanez Olivier Award, 1991 Plays and Players’ Award and 1991 Critics’ Circle Night, Macbeth, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Calico, A Life in the (Young Vic) and Macbeth (Edward Hall). Award for The Wind in the Willows. Theatre, Swimming with Sharks, , The Deep Blue Opera and musicals include: (Trevor Nunn), Othello Ballet includes: Don Quixote (Royal Ballet, ). Sea and, for Sir Peter Hall, Lysistrata, The Master Builder, School for (), (David Poutney), Martin Guerre Opera includes: Macbeth (, New York), Falstaff Wives, Mind Millie for Me, , Three of a Kind (), Jesus Christ Superstar (Gale Edwards), Oliver! (Scottish Opera), Peter Grimes (), Ariadne auf Naxos and , the opening season at the new Soho Theatre and several (Sam Mendes), Saturday Night Fever (Arlene Phillips), Spend, Spend, (Salzburg), Il Viaggio a Reims (, Covent Garden), subsequent productions including Baghdad Wedding. He was sound Spend (Jeremy Sams), West Side Story (West End), Lautrec Hansel and Gretel ( Opera House), The Two Widows (English supervisor for the Peter Hall seasons at the Old Vic and the Piccadilly. (Rob Bettinson), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Adrian Noble) and Our National Opera), Queen of Spades (Metropolitan, New York) and For the RSC: Family Reunion, Henry V, The Duchess of Mafl i, House (Matthew Warchus). costume design for Montag aus Licht (La Scala, Milan). Hamlet, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Television includes: The Bill, Casualty, EastEnders, Broken Glass, A Film includes: costumes for The Madness of King George. Night’s Dream and The Indian Boy. Kind of Innocence, Fell Tiger, Scold’s Bridal, Fatal Inversion, Nerys

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 26-27 15/7/08 11:55:26 Glas, Death of a Salesman, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Measure ; Mrs. Klein by Nicholas Wright, starring ; MAX WEITZENHOFFER Previous London credits include: Blood Brothers, Temptation, for Measure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Lucky Jim, Blue Dove and Remembrance, starring Milo O’Shea and Frances Sternhagen; and Producer Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees, Rent and Sideman. An award-winning Rock Face. Conor McPherson’s Carol by special arrangement with the Max Weitzenhoffer has been involved in numerous shows, including internet pioneer, Toby is credited with leading the theatre industry into Atlantic Theater Company. He and Mary Beth O’Connor, are Executive , Equus, The Elephant Man, Rose, Timbuktu, Mass Appeal, cyberspace in the early 1990s. Toby is a consultant to Music Theatre JOYCE NETTLES Producers of the upcoming motion picture The Other Man and both are Passion and the RSC’s production of . He co-produced Off- International and is currently living in Shanghai, , developing Casting Director co-chief executives of Gotham Productions. Broadway Tickles by Tucholsky, The Good Parts, Three Guys Naked new opportunities for British and American theatre. Joyce Nettles was head of casting at the RSC for ten years under the from the Waist Down and Road to Mecca. www.TobySimkin.com artistic directorship of Trevor Nunn. She worked on a regular basis with MARY BETH O’CONNOR On Broadway his work includes the international Tony Award-winning Jonathan Kent when he was artistic director of the Almeida and cast the Producer hit Dracula, Going Up, Harold and Maude, Pump Boys and COLE KITCHENN Almeida’s recent acclaimed production of The Last Days of Judas Mary Beth O’Connor is the co-executive producer with David Richenthal Dinettes, ’s Song & Dance, Blood Knot, Burn General Management Iscariot, directed by . of the motion picture The Other Man directed by Richard Eyre and This, Largely New York and the Tony Award-winning musical The Will David Cole and Guy Kitchenn have managed and/or produced more Theatre includes: casting three productions with the great German starring , and Laura Linney. Rogers Follies. In the West End: Budgie, Burn This. In 1999 he started than 60 productions in the West-End over the last 25 years. In 2006, director Peter Stein – , Blackbird and Troilus and Mary Beth O’Connor is an actress and voiceover artist. co-producing with Nica Burns. Productions include: Scissor Happy, they general managed for David Richenthal the London production of Cressida, all for the Edinburgh International Festival, and she has also Defending the Caveman (2000 Oliver Award), Medea starring the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Death of a Salesman worked with Peter Hall and . Other recent theatre includes: NICA BURNS directed by (2001 Evening Standard starring and (Lyric), The Countess ’s 2007 production of The Cherry Orchard (Sheffi eld Producer Awards for Best Actress and Best Director), Feelgood (2001 Evening (Criterion) and the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Crucible), Death of a Salesman, And Then There Were None, As You Artistic director, Donmar Warehouse, 1983-89; director and producer, Standard Award for Best Comedy), My Brilliant Divorce (Apollo), One Wife (Duke of York’s). Other quality plays they have represented include Desire Me, , Glengarry Glen Ross and The Sea (all Intelligent Finance Comedy Awards (formerly the Perrier Awards), the Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Gielgud and Garrick), Who’s Afraid of John Obsorne’s The Entertainer starring (Shaftsbury), West End). UK’s leading live comedy awards, 1984 to the present day; production Virginia Woolf? (Apollo), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic and Other People’s Money starring and Maria Aitken (Lyric), A Television includes: several series of Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s director of Really Useful Theatres, 1993-2005; owner and chief executive Broadway), Swimming with Sharks (Vaudeville) and The Deep Blue Christmas Carol starring (Old Vic), Life of the World to War, episodes of Kavanagh QC and Inspector Morse, the award- of Ltd, from 2005. Sea (Vaudeville). Come (Almeida) and The Colour of Justice (Tricycle/Victoria Palace), winning Goodnight Mister Tom and several fi lms for HBO, including In 2001 her productions won four Evening Standard Awards: Medea, In January 2001 he became the owner of London’s and they acted as executive producers for ’s The RKO 281 for which she won an Emmy. starring Fiona Shaw directed by Deborah Warner, won Best Actress and and in September 2005 Max bought the Lyric, Apollo, Garrick and Unexpected Man starring Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins Film includes: Zeffi relli’s Hamlet and several fi lms with Lars von Trier, Best Director (Queen’s and Broadway), Feelgood by Alistair Beaton, a Duchess Theatres with his business partner Nica Burns, forming Nimax (Duchess). They have also produced a number of musicals which won including Breaking the Waves. play Nica commissioned, won Best Comedy (Garrick), and Kiss Me, Theatres Ltd. the Evening Standard or Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical of the Kate won Best Musical (Victoria Palace). Other productions include: Year: (Adelphi), Kiss of the Spider Woman DAVID RICHENTHAL Dawn French in My Brilliant Divorce (Apollo, 2004), Sitting Pretty by GOTHAM PRODUCTIONS (Shaftesbury), Mack and Mabel (Piccadilly), Disney’s Beauty and the Producer Amy Rosenthal (tour, 2005), Christian Slater in One Flew Over the Gotham Productions is a company incorporated in New York State, Beast (Dominion) and Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace). Their other In the West End, Mr. Richenthal produced Death of Salesman starring Cuckoo’s Nest (Gielgud, 2004), in Man and Boy owned and controlled by its founders and co-chief executives, musicals include (Queen’s), The Secret Garden (RSC/ Brian Dennehy and Clare Higgins; I Am My Own Wife starring (Duchess, 2005), Who’s the Daddy? by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans David Richenthal and Mary Beth O’Connor. Gotham was founded for Aldwych), Notre Dame de (Dominion), Snoopy! (New Players), Jefferson Mays; and co-produced the world premiere of ’s (King’s Head, 2005) and David Schwimmer in Some Girl(s) by the purpose of producing small, high-quality motion pictures and The Beautiful and Damned (Lyric) and Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury and The Cryptogram and Katherine Burger’s Morphic Resonance. On Neil LaBute (Gielgud, 2005). In 2006: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? theatre productions with the best writing, directing and acting talent Berlin). Future productions include the West End transfer of he produced I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony, Pulitzer and (Apollo), the reprise of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest starring available in the USA and the UK. The Female of the Species is Gotham’s Belgrade Theatre’s production of Scenes from a Marriage directed by Drama Desk Awards for Best New Play); Marc Salem’s Mind Games on Christian Slater and Alex Kingston (Garrick), Breakfast with Mugabe fi rst theatre project. Gotham’s fi rst fi lm project is The Other Man; Trevor Nunn, Churchill at Bay, a new play by Robin Glendinning, and Broadway; Long Day’s Journey Into Night, directed by , by Fraser Grace directed by Anthony Sher (Duchess), Fool for Love by Gotham is co-producing it with Rainmark Films (Tracy Scoffi eld, the eagerly awaited Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam musical Moonshadow. starring Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, Sam Shepard starring Juliette Lewis (Apollo) and See How They Run Frank Doelger and Michael Dreyer); it is directed by Richard Eyre and and (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best (Duchess). In 2007: A Moon for the Misbegotten starring stars Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and Antonio Banderas. Revival of a Play); ’s , directed by (Old Vic and Broadway) and Swimming with Sharks starring Richard Eyre, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney; Arthur Miller’s Christian Slater (Vaudeville). In 2008: The Deep Blue Sea starring TOBY SIMKIN , directed by James Naughton, starring Harris Yulin and (Vaudeville). Associate Producer Jeffrey DeMunn; Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, directed by In September 2005, Nica bought four of London’s most beautiful Toby is enjoying his ninth collaboration with David Richenthal – I Am Robert Falls, starring Brian Dennehy (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for playhouses, the Lyric, Apollo, Garrick and Duchess Theatres, from My Own Wife (West End, Broadway and USA tour), Death of a Best Revival of a Play; for Mr. Falls and for Mr. Dennehy); Andrew Lloyd Webber with her business partner Max Weitzenhoffer, Salesman (West End and Broadway), Marc Salem’s Mind Games Noël Coward’s , starring ; the Pulitzer forming Nimax Theatres Ltd which she runs as chief executive. (Broadway), Long Days Journey into Night (Broadway), The Crucible Prize winner The Young Man From Atlanta by , directed (Broadway) and The Price (Broadway). In North America, the UK, by Robert Falls, starring Rip Torn and ; the Pulitzer Prize Russia, Australia and oceans between, Toby’s credits include over 120 winner The Kentucky Cycle, directed by Warner Shook, starring Broadway/West End shows and tours from Annie to Victor/Victoria.

Female of the Species JUNE 08.indd 28-29 15/7/08 11:55:26 For COLE KITCHENN Celebrating 020 7427 5862 General Management GUY KITCHENN 100 years of JON BATH Production Administrator JON BATH London’s Production Assistants EMMA KINGABY ANNIE RUTHERFORD LUTZ Theatreland ISABELLA JAVOR Directors DAVID COLE February 2008 marks 100 years since GUY KITCHENN the creation of the Society of London MARCIAL DAVILA Theatre, effectively the birth of LUCY HAMILTON Bird College Chairman L P MARSH dance,music and theatre performance London’s Theatreland.

BA (Hons) in Dance and Theatre Performance To mark the occasion, special events Associate Producer TOBY SIMKIN Foundation Degree in Creative Industries: Acting and activities will take place Press Representative JANINE SHALOM for PREMIER PR National Diploma in throughout the year. 020 7292 8330 MA by Research: Dance and Musical Theatre Press Assistants for Premier PR NICKI PLOWMAN, EMMA HOLLAND, Pre Vocational Foundation Year in ESTHER BEAUMONT Dance and Theatre Performance For more information, visit www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk Advertising/Marketing TARGET LIVE Official music and dance providers Promotions CHRIS McGILL for MILKTWOSUGARS for the London Borough of Bexley regularly, where all centenary news Production Photographer MANUEL HARLAN www.birdcollege.co.uk and events will be covered. Accountant STEVE PENNINGTON and LOUISE MANSFIELD for ANDERSON and PENNINGTON Production Insurance WALTON AND PARKINSON Casting Assistant VIVIENNE STORRY Production Managers STEWART CROSBIE & SIMON MARLOW for CROSBIE MARLOW ASSOCIATES

Production Carpenters MICKY MURRAY, DAVID THAYERS, MICKEY DRISCOLL Production Electrician PETER LAMBERT Scenery made by MIRACULOUS ENGINEERING Landscape SOUVENIR SCENIC WORKSHOPS Painting LUCA CRESTANI Sound Hire AUTOGRAPH Lighting Hire WHITE LIGHT Special Effects MDM Lighting Programmer DAVID SADLER Makeup supplied by

THANKS TO: Nick Hern (publisher of the play script), Richard Lexton, Paul Robinson, Suzi Nutton, Stuart Wiseman and Elliot Wiseman of Lansdowne Partners (Hedge Funds), David Feldman, Able Cabs of Diss, , Leah Middleton (Germaine Greer’s agent), Lynn Goh for Chinese pronunciation, John Richardson of the Old Vic, Skoob Books, London, and Factory Settings.

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