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Presented by arrangement with Samuel French Limited and with the generous help of the Garrick Charitable Trust

Graham Cowley for Two’s Company in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough presents

LONDON WALL by John Van Druten

First performed at the Duke of York’s Theatre on Friday, 1 May 1931 First performance at the : Tuesday, 29 January 2013

LONDON WALL by John Van Druten Cast in order of appearance Birkinshaw Jake Davies Mr Brewer Alex Robertson Miss Hooper Emily Bowker Miss Janus Alix Dunmore Miss Milligan Maia Alexander Miss Willesden Marty Cruickshank Hec. Hammond Timothy O’Hara Miss Bufton Cara Theobold Mr Walker David Whitworth Act The general office of Messrs. Walker, Windermere and Co., solicitors, in London Wall. April 1931. Lunchtime. Act II Scene 1: Mr. Walker’s room in the office. 3 o’clock. Three weeks later. Scene 2: The general office. Quarter to six. The same day. Act III Scene 1: Mr. Walker’s room. 9.30 next morning. Scene 2: The general office. 3 o’clock. The same afternoon. The performance lasts approximately two hours and fifteen minutes. There will be an interval of fifteen minutes after Act II, Scene 1 Director Tricia Thorns Designer Alex Marker Costume Designer Emily Stuart Lighting Designer Duncan Coombe Sound Designer Dominic Bilkey Stage Manager Linda Hapgood Stage Manager Jude Malcomson Assistant to the Costume Designer Jenni Campbell Assistant to the Lighting Designer Laurence Russell Production Photography Philip Gammon Press Anne Mayer Producer Graham Cowley

Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members. We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress. Maia Alexander | Pat Milligan Trained at RADA. Theatre includes One Day When We Were Young (Paines Plough), The Sound Of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough), All About My Mother, , The Young Idea and Othello (Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre at RADA) and The Workroom (GBS Theatre at RADA).

Emily Bowker | Miss Hooper At the Finborough Theatre, Emily appeared in Too True to be Good (2009) and Somersaults (2013). Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre includes Our Country’s Good (National Tour), Daisy Pulls it Off (National Tour), Poor Cousin ( Theatre), Hay Fever (West Yorkshire Playhouse), 250 Words (), The Importance of Being Earnest and Travesties (Birmingham Rep), Present Laughter (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Antigone (Bristol Old Vic), Shakespeare and Co (Watermill Theatre, Newbury, and Tour), Mister Murdery (Nuffield Theatre, ), A Bigger Banner (Theatre Uncut at the Latitude Festival), Devon Country (The Tobacco Factory), Births, Marriages and Deaths (High-Hearted Theatre), A Great Undertaking in Little America (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham), Look Back in Anger and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (, Lichfield), Much Ado About Nothing (Ripley Castle, Harrogate), Noises Off (Torch Theatre, Milford Haven), Lie of the Land () and Reunion (). Film includes Tezz and City Rats. Television includes Upstairs Downstairs, Holby City, Torchwood, , Doctors, Shameless, Wire in the Blood and When Calls the . Radio includes High Table, Lower Orders, Swimming Lessons, Roundabout and Mortar. Marty Cruickshank | Miss Willesden Trained at Drama Centre. Theatre includes The Heresy of Love (Royal Shakespeare Company), Pygmalion (Chichester Festival Theatre and the Garrick Theatre), Gates of Gold (Library Theatre, Manchester), In Parenthesis (, Bromley), Charley’s Aunt (National Tour), Tartuffe (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Riders to the Sea, The Tinker’s Wedding (), Quartermaine’s Terms, Habeas Corpus, Summer Lightning (Royal and Derngate , Northampton), , Love in a Wood (Royal Shakespeare Company), Two Clouds over Eden (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) and Major Barbara (). Film includes I, Anna, The Fool. Television includes Lewis, Doctors, EastEnders, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Kavanagh QC and Unnatural Pursuits. Radio includes Up The Garden Path.

Jake Davies | Birkinshaw Trained at The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Theatre includes Something for the Winter (Southwark Playhouse), Foster (Lion and ), Overkill (, ), After the Storm ( and ), Peter Pan (Churchill Theatre, Bromley) and Guys and Dolls, Animal Farm, The Vackees (Bob Hope Theatre, ). Film includes Leave to Remain, Charlie Says and Volume. Television includes A Mother’s Son, Bad Education, Holby City and Call the Midwife.

Alix Dunmore | Miss Janus Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre includes The Two Noble Kinsmen (Bristol Old Vic), A Winter of War (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham), Separate Tables (The Mill at Sonning), Arrows ( Playhouse), After Liverpool (Edinburgh Festival), Nature Adores a Vacuum (), The Dead Guy (English Theatre, Frankfurt), Top Girls (National Tour for Out of Joint) and Happy Birthday Wanda June (Old Red Lion Theatre). Television includes Casualty and High Society’s Favourite Gigolo. Radio includes The Simon Day Show and 49 Cedar Street. Alix is a founder member of The Fitzrovia Radio Hour and has performed with them at Shakespeare’s Globe, the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Trafalgar Studios, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, and Theatre Royal York.

Timothy O’Hara | Hec. Hammond Trained at Webber Douglas Academy/The Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes Have I None and Chair (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Coffin (King’s Head Theatre), There Will Be More and The Pope’s Wedding (The Cock Tavern). Film includes Sherlock Holmes. Television includes Casualty and Clone.

Alex Robertson | Mr Brewer Trained at RADA. Theatre includes Horse Piss For Blood (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), Speechless (Shared Experience), Backbeat (Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow), Artist Descending A Staircase (LeNez Productions), Orestes (Shared Experience), By Parties Unknown (Sincera), Woman In Mind (Salisbury Playhouse), The School For Wives (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), Bear Hug () and The Soldier (Edinburgh Festival). Television includes First Light, Fanny Hill, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Quatermass Experiment and Vernon. Radio includes Armadale.

Cara Theobold | Miss Bufton Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Television includes Downton Abbey. David Whitworth | Mr Walker At the Finborough Theatre, David appeared in Rigor Mortis (2011). Theatre includes London Assurance (National Theatre), Vieux Carré (King’s Head Theatre and ), The Second Mrs Tanqueray (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Aladdin (), The Thunderbolt, Mary Goes First, Double Double, Trifles and (, Richmond), Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep), As You Like It (Nottingham Playhouse) and The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s Theatre). Film includes Love’s Kitchen and Little Dorrit. Television includes The Bill and Nicholas Nickleby. John Van Druten | Playwright Plays by John Van Druten at the Finborough Theatre include Young Woodley (2006). John Van Druten (1901-1957) was one of the most successful West End and Broadway playwrights of the 1930s and 1940s. He was known for his witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society. His first play Young Woodley was originally banned in London by the Lord Chamberlain, but went on to have successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. London Wall was first seen in the West End in 1931 staring , Frank Lawton and Nadine Marsh. This production – the first since 1931 – has been commissioned by the Finborough Theatre. John Van Druten later emigrated to America where his plays included The Voice of the Turtle (1943) which ran for three seasons in New York and was filmed with , while he also branched into theatre directing, directing the original production of ’s musical . He remains best known for his 1951 play , based on ’s short stories, which formed the basis of the musical .

Tricia Thorns | Director At the Finborough Theatre, Tricia directed Red Night (2005). Tricia began her career as an actor in the West End as part of John Neville’s company at the Fortune, after a Classics BA from Nottingham University. As a director, her work includes My Real War 1914-? (Trafalgar Studios and National Tour), The Searcher (Workshop production at ), What the Women Did (Southwark Playhouse), Forgotten Voices of the Great War (Pleasance London), Ex and Black ’Ell (Soho Theatre), Twelfth Night (Dulwich Picture Gallery), Peer Gynt (Alleyn’s Theatre) and Passion Play 2000, a huge community play which she also wrote. As an actress, her theatre credits include End of Story (), Harry and Me (Warehouse Theatre, Croydon), Façade (Dingley and Dulwich Festivals), A Kind of Alaska (Edinburgh, Tour and USA), Time’s Up (Theatre Royal Windsor), The Libertine and The Man of Mode (Royal Court and Out of Joint Tour), Betrayal (BAC and Tour), Run For Your Wife (West End) and leading roles in theatres in Salisbury, Ipswich, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Guildford, Derby and many more. Her many television and film appearances include Dangerfield, A Touch of Frost, Keeping Up Appearances, The Darling Buds of May, The Bill, London’s Burning, Captives and The Turn of the Screw. Alex Marker| Designer Alex has been Resident Designer of the Finborough Theatre since 2002 where he has designed thirty productions including Soldiers, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, Albert’s Boy, Lark Rise to Candleford, Eden’s Empire, Little Madam, Plague Over and its West End transfer to the , Hangover Square, Sons of York, Death of Long Pig, Molière or The League of Hypocrites, Dream of the Dog and its West End transfer to the Trafalgar Studios, Me and Juliet, Quality Street, Outward Bound, So Great a Crime and Saer Doliau. He has also directed at the Finborough Theatre including staged readings of Iain Finlay MacLeod’s Atman, starring Jasper Britton and Alan Cox, and Colleen Murphy’s Pig Girl as part of the Finborough’s Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2010 and 2012) and a sell-out revival of William Douglas Home’s Portraits (2011). As Associate Designer for Two’s Company, he has designed Ex (Soho Theatre), The Searcher (Greenwich Theatre), My Real War 1914-? (Trafalgar Studios and National Tour) and Red Night (Finborough Theatre). Trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art, he has designed many other productions including Tape (Trafalgar Studios), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Theatre at Chipping Norton), Rift (The Brewhouse, Taunton), Jus’ Like That – An Evening with Tommy Cooper (National Tour), The Schools’ Theatre Festival (Young Vic), Origin: Unknown (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Real McCoy – Reconnected ( and Broadway Theatre, ), The Viewing Room (), Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Oklahoma! () and Cooking With Elvis (Lyceum Theatre, Crewe). His work has been extensively featured in exhibitions, most recently as part of the Transformation and Revelation: UK Design for Performance in Cardiff. He is also Director of the Questors Youth Theatre, the largest youth theatre in London.

Duncan Coombe | Lighting Designer Lighting Designs includes Ex (Soho Theatre), Saucy Jack and Vixens (), My Real War 1914-? (Trafalgar Studios and National Tour) and A Woman Abroad (New York). He is also in-house lighting designer for the BFI IMAX. Music videos include Lighting Design/Lighting Director for Inverno by Asteria Strings, and Devil’s Advocate by Faith ‘n’ Fury. Corporate events and fashion shows include BP, Shell, , Ford, NASA, World Skills International 2011, and London Fashion Week including Nicole Fahri, Lyle and Scott and Paul Smith. He has worked as a lighting designer in Saudi Arabia for the National Sports Ceremony and a private party for the Saudi Arabian Royal Family. Regular lighting design and production work at the Saatchi Gallery. He has also worked extensively in Lighting Design and engineering for festivals – including Glastonbury Festival’s ‘Theatre Land’ and ‘Performing Arts’ stages, Glade Festival and GreenBelt Festival – and for nightclubs including Lighting Designer/operator for Wonderland, Elysian Project, and ‘ALAN’. Duncan is also the director of DCLX Ltd, lighting production and supplies company, and teaches lighting technologies on a voluntary basis at secondary schools in Kent. www.dclx.co.uk

Emily Stuart | Costume Designer At the Finborough Theatre, Emily was Costume Designer for Lingua Franca (2010) and Costume Supervisor for Miss Lily Gets Boned (2010). Trained at Wimbledon School of Art. Costume Designs include Shiverman (Theatre503), Bloody Poetry (), Ex (Soho Theatre), Antigone (Southwark Playhouse), Murder in The Cathedral (Oxford Playhouse) and Anyone Can Whistle (Jermyn Street Theatre). As Costume Supervisor, Guys and Dolls (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Cinderella (Hertford Theatre) and Aladdin (Hertford Theatre). Forthcoming productions in 2013 include Flock (Northern Stage) and The Living Room (Jermyn Street Theatre). Emily was the winner of the Best Costume Designer award at the 2011 OffWestEnd Awards.

Dominic Bilkey | Sound Designer Training: The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Dominic is currently Head of Sound for the Young Vic. Sound Designs include Birdsong (National Tour for Birdsong Productions), Dr Marigold and Mr Chops and Masterclass (Theatre Royal Bath), In The Solitude of Cotton Fields (Young Vic), Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy and Rapunzel (Kneehigh Theatre), Twelfth Night, See How They Run and Dancing At Lughnasa (National Tours for Original Theatre), Journey’s End (National Tours for Icarus Theatre Collective and Original Theatre), Pandora (Standing on the Shoulders of Giants), After Troy (Lifeblood Theatre), The Space Between My Head and My Body (Gin in the Tea), The Only Girl in the World (Fractured Venus), The Railway Children (Sevenoaks Playhouse) Carry On Down the River (New Theatre Works) and Souterrain (WildWorks). As Associate Sound Designer Wild Swans (Young Vic and A.R.T., Boston), Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic and International Associates), The Government Inspector (Young Vic), The Hound of the Baskervilles (National Tour for Ian Fricker) and A Voyage Round My Father (). Linda Hapgood | Stage Manager At the Finborough Theatre, Linda was Stage Manager for Khadija is 18 (2012). Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Stage management includes Deathtrap (Noël Coward Theatre), Tosca (New Diorama Theatre), , Bothered and Bewildered, The Art of Concealment and Mother Adam (Jermyn Street Theatre), Antony and Cleopatra (Central School of Speech and Drama), Less Than Kind (National Tour and Jermyn Street Theatre) and Play It Again Sam (Upstairs at the Gatehouse).

Jude Malcomson | Stage Manager At the Finborough Theatre, Jude was Stage Manager and Assistant Sound Designer for Fog (2012), Assistant Sound Designer for Don Juan Comes Back From the War (2012) and His Greatness (2012) and is currently Technical Manager. Trained at ALRA. Theatre includes as Technical Stage Manager for Lysistrata (Rose Theatre, Kingston), A Dickens of a Life (New Wimbledon Theatre), Stage Manager for Splendid Isolation (Pleasance Dome), Billy Chickens is a Psychopath Superstar, Only Human, MEAT (Theatre503), The Underhero (Camden People’s Theatre), The Malcontent, (), Summer, Bodies Unfinished ( Jack Theatre), Deputy Stage Manager for The Busy Body (Southwark Playhouse), Blast Off!, Terror 2012 (Soho Theatre), Assistant Stage Manager and Followspot for Dick Whittington and his Cat and Cinderella (Hertford Theatre), Assistant Sound Designer for The Winter’s Tale and Ignite (Old Vic Tunnels), and Venue Technician for TheSpaceUK.

Graham Cowley | Producer Graham is also Producer for Out of Joint. He was previously with the Theatre of Comedy Company, the Royal Court Theatre (on whose behalf he transferred a string of hit plays to the West End), the Half Moon Theatre and Joint Stock Theatre Group.

Production Acknowledgements Poster Design | Jon Bradfield Legal Consultant | Alec Atchison Hair by Lynne of Harold George, Dulwich Telephone switchboard supplied by the Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Costumes supplied by The Miller Centre, Caterham, and the Dulwich Players Tracing paper supplied by Art Stationers, Dulwich Our thanks to the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Jill Barnes, Brian Green, Jane Jones, Matt Noddings, Out of Joint, Nisha Oza, Ella Palmer, Jessica Patterson, Tina Pittock, and Emma Tilby. As a protest against the US/UK invasion of Iraq in 2003, Two’s Company quickly mounted a production of Miles Malleson’s Black ’Ell at Soho Theatre. The play shows a young officer, returning from the front, decorated for bravery, but traumatised by his experience and refusing to go back. We felt that this cry of pain and rage written in 1916 expressed better than anything the folly of starting another war. This play was the first in a series of what Two’s Company has become best known for: the rediscovery of plays about the First World War, written during the War or soon after. The first season,Forgotten Voices from the Great War at Pleasance London, consisted of three short plays, ‘D’ Company by Miles Malleson, directed by Ian Talbot, and Brigade Exchange by Ernst Johannsen and Black ’Ell by Miles Malleson, both directed by Tricia Thorns. On publication in 1916, Malleson’s plays had been denounced in the House of Commons as ‘a calumny on the British soldier’ and all copies were seized by the police. Johannsen had served in the German Army in the War. Written for radio, his play had achieved international success before being banned when the Nazis came to power.

Emma Callander Lisa Jackson, Peter Symonds, Daniel Weyman in Black ’Ell at Soho in Handmaidens of Death

The next in the Forgotten Voices series was What The Women Did at Southwark Playhouse, another triple bill, featuring Luck of War by Gwen John, Handmaidens of Death by Herbert Tremaine, both directed by Tricia Thorns, and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals by J.M. Barrie, directed by Ian Talbot. They showed the different ways in which the wives and mothers of soldiers, and the girls who, because of the slaughter of the men, would never marry, spent the wartime years. The third episode was Red Night by James Lansdale Hodson at the Finborough Theatre in 2005, which showed the comradeship and humour, fading to disillusion, of a platoon facing misery and death in the trenches.

Philip Desmeules Elliott Inglese, Jonathan Warde, Phil Sealey in Red Night in My Real War 1914-?

The last rediscovery was Velona Pilcher’s The Searcher, an expressionist play with music by Edmund Rubbra, about Red Cross nurses tasked with finding what had happened to men missing in battle. This was presented as a workshop production as part of Greenwich Theatre’s Musical Futures. The final Forgotten Voices project, My Real War 1914-?, was adapted by Tricia Thorns from the letters home of Lt. Havilland le Mesurier, a young officer killed in 1916. It toured twice and played at the Trafalgar Studios in London. The company’s most recent production was a new musical play, Ex by Rob Young with music by Ross Lorraine, at the Soho Theatre. Earlier productions include Betrayal by (BAC and Tour), A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter (Edinburgh Festival and tours of UK and USA), Harry and Me by Nigel Williams (Warehouse Theatre, Croydon) and End of Story by Véronique Olmi (Chelsea Theatre).

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Directors: Graham Cowley, Ian Talbot OBE, Tricia Thorns. 020 8299 4593 or [email protected]

Two’s Company is grateful to the following for their support over the years: Arts Council England, , the Britten-Pears Foundation, Ray Cooney, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Garrick Charitable Trust, the Golsoncott Foundation, the Manifold Trust, the Mercers’ Company, the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation, Karl Sydow, Vera Thorns and the Unity Theatre Trust. Winner – London Theatre Reviews’ The Empty Space Peter Brook Award 2012 “An even more audacious and successful programme than ever in 2012, West London’s tiny, unsubsidised Finborough Theatre is one of the best in the entire world. Its programme of new writing and obscure rediscoveries remains ‘jaw-droppingly good’.” Time Out / The Hospital Club “A disproportionately valuable component of the London theatre ecology. Its programme combines new writing and revivals, in selections intelligent and audacious.” “A blazing beacon of intelligent endeavour, nurturing new writers while finding and reviving neglected curiosities from home and abroad.” Founded in 1980, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre presents plays and music theatre, concentrated exclusively on new writing and genuine rediscoveries from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Finborough Theatre remains unfunded by any public body, and our most significant subsidy comes from the distinguished actors, directors, designers and production team who work with us for minimal remuneration. We aim to offer a stimulating and inclusive programme, appealing to theatregoers of all ages and from a broad spectrum of the population. Behind the scenes, we continue to discover and develop a new generation of theatre makers – through our vibrant Literary team, our internship programme, our Resident Assistant Director Programme, and our partnership with the National Theatre Studio providing a bursary for Emerging Directors. Despite remaining completely unsubsidised, the Finborough Theatre has an unparalleled track record of attracting the finest creative talent, as well as discovering new playwrights who go on to become leading voices in British theatre. Under Artistic Director Neil McPherson, it has discovered some of the UK’s most exciting new playwrights including Laura Wade, James Graham, Mike Bartlett, Sarah Grochala, Jack Thorne, Simon Vinnicombe, Alexandra Wood, Al Smith, Nicholas de Jongh and Anders Lustgarten. Artists working at the theatre in the 1980s included Clive Barker, Rory Bremner, Nica Burns, Kathy Burke, Ken Campbell, Jane Horrocks and Claire Dowie. In the 1990s, the Finborough Theatre became known for new writing including Naomi Wallace’s first play The War Boys; Rachel Weisz in David Farr’s Neville ’s Washbag; four plays by Anthony Neilson including Penetrator and The Censor, both of which transferred to the Royal Court Theatre; and new plays by Richard Bean, Lucinda Coxon, David Eldridge, Tony Marchant, Mark Ravenhill and Phil Willmott. New writing development included the premieres of modern classics such as Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and F***king, Conor McPherson’s This Lime Tree Bower, Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City and Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. Since 2000, new British plays have included Laura Wade’s London debut Young Emma, commissioned for the Finborough Theatre; James Graham’s Albert’s Boy with Victor Spinetti; Sarah Grochala’s S27; Peter Nichols’ Lingua Franca, which transferred Off-Broadway; Anders Lustgarten’s A Day at the Racists; Dawn King’s Foxfinder; and West End transfers for Joy Wilkinson’s Fair; Nicholas de Jongh’s Plague Over England; and Jack Thorne’s Fanny and Faggot. The late Miriam Karlin made her last stage appearance in Many Roads to Paradise in 2008. Many of the Finborough Theatre’s new plays have been published and are on sale from our website. UK premieres of foreign plays have included Brad Fraser’s Wolfboy; Lanford Wilson’s Sympathetic Magic; Larry Kramer’s The Destiny of Me; Tennessee Williams’ Something Cloudy, Something Clear; the English premiere of Robert McLellan’s Scots language classic, Jamie the Saxt; and three West End transfers – Frank McGuinness’ Gates of Gold with William Gaunt and , Joe DiPietro’s F***ing Men and Craig Higginson’s Dream of the Dog with Dame Janet Suzman. Rediscoveries of neglected work have included the first London revivals of Rolf Hochhuth’s Soldiers and The Representative; both parts of Keith Dewhurst’s Lark Rise to Candleford; The Women’s War, an evening of original suffragette plays; Etta Jenks with Clarke Peters and Daniela Nardini; Noël Coward’s first play, The Rat Trap; Charles Wood’s Jingo with Susannah Harker; Emlyn Williams’ Accolade with Aden Gillett and Graham Seed; Lennox Robinson’s Drama at Inish with Celia Imrie and Paul O’Grady; and J.B. Priestley’s Cornelius with Alan Cox. Music Theatre has included the new (premieres from Grant Olding, Charles Miller, Michael John LaChuisa, Adam Guettel, Andrew Lippa and Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days which transferred to the West End) and the old (the UK premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair which also transferred to the West End, and the acclaimed Celebrating British Music Theatre series, reviving forgotten British musicals including Gay’s The Word by with Sophie-Louise Dann, Helena Blackman and Elizabeth Seal). The Finborough Theatre won Fringe Theatre of the Year Award in 2011, won London Theatre Reviews’ Empty Space Peter Brook Award in 2010 and 2012, the Empty Space Peter Brook Award’s Dan Crawford Pub Theatre Award in 2005 and 2008, the Empty Space Peter Brook Mark Marvin Award in 2004, four awards in the inaugural 2011 OffWestEnd Awards and swept the board with eight awards at the 2012 OffWestEnd Awards including Best Artistic Director and Best Director for the second year running. Accolade was named Best Fringe Show of 2011 by Time Out. It is the only unsubsidised theatre to be awarded the Pearson Playwriting Award bursary for writers Chris Lee in 2000, Laura Wade in 2005, James Graham in 2006, Al Smith in 2007, Anders Lustgarten in 2009, Simon Vinnicombe in 2010 and Dawn King in 2011. Three bursary holders (Laura Wade, James Graham and Anders Lustgarten) have also won the Catherine Johnson Award for Pearson Best Play. www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED [email protected] www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk Artistic Director | Neil McPherson Resident Designer | Deputy Chief Executive | Alex Marker General Manager | Natasha Brown, Elf Lyons, Maddie Wilson Pearson Playwright-in-Residence | Shamser Sinha Playwrights-in-Residence | Bekah Brunstetter, James Graham, Dawn King, Anders Lustgarten, Colleen Murphy Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer facilitated by Mercury Musical Developments and Network UK | Craig Adams Literary Manager | Francis Grin Literary Associate Music Theatre | Max Pappenheim Technical Manager | Jude Malcomson Associate Designer | Philip Lindley Marketing | Gemma Bealing Resident Casting Directors | Lucy Casson, Hayley Kaimakliotis Resident Assistant Directors | Dan Pick (Dan Pick is on attachment from the MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London.) Resident Assistant Producer | Luke Holbrook And our many interns and volunteers. The Finborough Theatre has the support of the Pearson Playwrights’ Scheme. Sponsored by Pearson PLC. The Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Scheme is facilitated by Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network UK The Finborough Theatre is a member of the Independent Theatre Council, Musical Theatre Network UK and The Earl’s Court Society www.earlscourtsociety.org.uk Mailing Email [email protected] or give your details to our Box Office staff to join our free email list. If you would like to be sent a free season leaflet every three months, just include your postal address and postcode.

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