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THOMAS KiLrOY’S (AFTEr CHEKHOV)

1 Jack Gleeson in rehearsals for The Seagull . Photograph: Ste Murray.

THOMAS KiLrOY’S THE SEaGULL (AFTEr CHEKHOV)

COOLE PARK, 6–21 AUGUST 2021 ON DEMAND 5–12 SEPTEMBER 2021 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

2 3 CREATIVE TEAM Director Set and Costume Design Francis O’Connor Lighting Design James F. Ingalls Sound Design Gregory Clarke Music Conor Linehan Hair & Make-Up Gráinne Coughlan Associate Costume Designer Clíodhna Hallissey Assistant Director Sarah Baxter

Director of Photography Colm Hogan CAST Dr Hickey Brian Doherty John Olohan, Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray. Constantine Jack Gleeson James Liam Heslin TIME AND PLACE Peter Bosco Hogan Mary Bláithín MacGabhann The action takes place on the Desmond family estate in the Pauline Marie Mullen West of , in the 1880s. Lily Agnes O’Casey ACT I The lawn. Cousin Gregory John Olohan ACT II The garden, a week later. Mr Aston Marty Rea ACT III The dining room, a week later. Isobel Desmond Eileen Walsh ACT IV The study, two years later. Cook John McHugh

Maid Mary McHugh There will be an interval between Act II and Act III. Jack Peter Shine Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes (approximately) plus an interval.

4 5 THE SEAGULL REVISITED

This version was first performed forty student at Trinity in , Huston years ago at the Royal Court Theatre invited him down to St. Cleran’s in in . There have been other County Galway where the film director productions since then but this one by was living the life of a country squire. Druid is special not least because of Max loved it. He had the Anglo-Irish the extraordinary director Garry Hynes. gentry in mind when he read his That first production was a very English Chekhov. It just so happened that I had event with some brilliant English the same fascination myself. actors, including Alan Rickman, so then this one is a kind of response to it, a I have been asked more than once to bringing of the play home to the West adapt other plays of Chekhov and I’ve of Ireland and Coole Park. Certainly had to say no, I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t I had this setting in my mind when I find a personal route into the material, made this adaptation. Coole was one comparable to my fascination with of the models for the house in the play; the Anglo-Irish and I had exhausted Moore Hall in County Mayo, the home this with The Seagull. My fascination and Thomas Kilroy pictured at the Chekhov House-Museum, Yalta, on a visit in 2008. Photograph: Anne Friel. of George Moore, was another. was two-fold, partly my sense of Irish history but also my reading of Anglo- and the distant, big city, with its It was Max Stafford-Clark, the artistic , writers like Yeats and deceptive promise of escape. director of the Royal Court, who Synge, Shaw and Wilde. There were suggested that I might adapt The also the Anglo-Irish novels of the Revisiting the play now has had a Seagull to an Irish setting. He has a nineteenth century, particularly one curious effect as I now see a change passionate interest in Irish history and novel that lies behind this adaptation, in the main thrust of the play. Instead theatre. Indeed, I had already worked George Moore’s A Drama in Muslin. of the centrality of the Anglo-Irish, I with him on my play Tea and Sex and This book gives a vivid picture of life in now see the powerful theme of love. Shakespeare at the Abbey, some time the Anglo-Irish ‘Big House’ in the West Everyone seems to be in love but this before this, with Donal McCann. Max’s of Ireland during the period in which is a love that only releases destruction. suggestion that the new version be the plays of Chekhov are set. It catches If this is the result of love, can you set in a West of Ireland ‘Big House’ the confusion of the household on the really call it love? had a curious source. His father was eve of revolution, the constant traffic, a distinguished Freudian psychiatrist the mixing of people from different Thomas Kilroy who was advisor on the backgrounds, the complex relationship July 2021 film, Freud. So, when Max was a between the provincial, rural household

6 7 A STAGE UPON NATURE – KILROY’S CHEKHOV

The Seagull was very nearly Chekhov’s to explore moving the setting of the last play. First performed in St. play to the West of Ireland and to ask Petersburg in 1896, it was, in the if Kilroy would write the adaptation. playwright’s own words, ‘a complete Stafford-Clark’s father was a notable fiasco … The moral: one should not psychiatrist who was called on to write plays.’ Chekhov swore he would advise John Huston at his Galway write no more for the stage following home at St. Clerans when working that calamitous opening run of The on his 1962 film, Freud: The Secret Seagull. That changed when the Passion. Kilroy’s adaptation also brings Moscow Art Theatre staged a new a form of psychological exploration production two years later in 1898, to what he termed ‘the condition of directed by Konstantin Stanislavski the colonizer’, culminating in what he and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. described as his ‘fascination with the Cover of rehearsal script of Thomas Kilroy's The Seagull, Royal Court Manuscript draft of the opening scene of The Seagull by Thomas Kilroy. The immense success of The Seagull Anglo-Irish and by the place of the Big London, April 1981. Kilroy Archive, Hardiman Library, NUI Galway. Kilroy Archive, Hardiman Library, NUI Galway. would prove to be of vital importance House in Irish history, and the role of for establishing both Chekhov to the Anglo-Irish in our literature’. the lakeside home of the Desmonds. continued to reverberate after they Moscow audiences but also the Russian names are changed to Irish were finished being told, where families Moscow Art Theatre itself, and all it Kilroy’s literary archive is housed at the names. The original Irina Arkadina now and memories are in motion between would achieve and influence in modern Hardiman Library, NUI Galway, where becomes Isobel Desmond, the leading tradition and change, from The Cherry theatre globally. So much so, in fact, Kilroy was Professor of Modern English actress of the London stage ('Just Orchard to Three Sisters. was the Moscow Art Theatre so when he first worked on The Seagull mention Ellen Terry to her and all hell enthralled to the play’s success, that adaptation. The Kilroy archive, of over breaks loose'). Boris Trigorin changes The Russian peasantry endured much it adopted the white seagull as the fifty boxes of manuscripts, includes the to Mr. Aston and 'the Seagull’, Nina, of the same fate of the Irish tenant theatre’s emblem. first drafts of The Seagull adaptation, becomes Lily. farmers of the mid to late nineteenth which document the development of century – subjugated by a wasteful The play’s journey from Moscow to an idea and of Kilroy’s visualisation of The new setting of 1880s Galway landlord class and who existed through Galway was also quite circuitous. Chekhov’s Russia onto the landscape positions the play both in and traditional means of often subsistence The play was initially a commission of the fictionalised Desmond Estate approaching moments of great social agrarian practice. Yet, the balance of made to Thomas Kilroy from the in the West of Ireland. In Kilroy’s change. Chekhov had a gift of setting power was also becoming unsettled Royal Court Theatre in London. manuscripts we see the first mapping out action within a play that often leads in Ireland, politically and economically. The theatre’s artistic director, Max of characters as well as of landscape to a succession of enquiry long after The resulting financial and social Stafford-Clark, wrote to Kilroy in 1980 from Chekhov’s Russian provinces to the play’s ending. He knew stories decline of many landed families

8 9 Agnes O’Casey in rehearsals for The Seagull . Photograph: Ste Murray. affected their wealth, family ties, faith, darkness and the rising of the moon. and influence. For many of the landed Anglo-Irish gentry, a land clearing also Kilroy’s great achievement is in became a family clearing. capturing the lyrical sentiments of a family, with all its complexities, linked The punitive rents could not be paid by to its environment, class, relationships, impoverished tenants across Ireland of and the rhythms of the language the time. Political and agrarian agitation and memory of the land, rooted in would see the establishment of the what Kilroy described as the spaces Irish National Land League in 1879 between ‘the life of the imagination and in Co. Mayo. A national movement the world of daily living’: was now underway and its effects are mirrored in The Seagull through LILY: Can you see that house in the the ineffective estate management of distance, through the trees? Cousin Gregory. By the end of the ASTON: Yes nineteenth century, a wave of cultural LILY: That’s my home. It was my nationalism and the desire for a new mother’s home, too. I know every theatre of the poetic imagination, inch of this countryside. I know all the like that longed for by Constantine secrets of the lake. in the play, takes root in Coole Park, through Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, These reverberations of family lore, Edward Martyn and others. The links of whispers and secrets, across time to Gregory are dotted throughout the and through generations is perhaps play. The opening of the rickety theatre the most Irish of phenomena. Kilroy constructed on the house lawn is succeeds, not just by bringing aligned with lunar movements – the Chekhov into an Irish context, but darkening of the broad western night- by enabling us all to see outwards, time sky was in line with the title of into a universal and yet local world, one of Gregory’s own most celebrated populated by all the stories of place, plays. As Constantine, ‘the son of a and of the people who live there, as Galway merchant’, declares to Peter: Aston describes, ‘in communion with the stillness, the elements. Like a CONSTANTINE: Now, uncle! seagull.’ (Surveying the stage) Isn’t this what you might call a theatre! A stage, a Dr Barry Houlihan curtain and ‘Nature’s naked lovliness’. NUI Galway We’ll begin with the beginning of July 2021

10 DESIGNING THE SEAGULL

When Garry talked to me about playing The Seagull at Coole Park, it felt immediately like a great fit and the right play to make after DruidGregory. With DruidGregory, we performed the plays across the entire site at Coole. They worked really well as short plays performed in different places and allowed the audience to both discover the plays and the place. The journey between the different spaces became the essence of the design. As you reached each place, the audience was drawn by the light sculptures that Sketches of early set ideas. enhanced the natural setting of each play. of his stage. The side walls and stage A model of the breakfast room set from Act 3. provide focus and simple wing space Initially we thought of doing something left and right while the landscape of similar with The Seagull but, having the walled garden is revealed between they are made real. That making real it. I hope that’s what we’ve done for worked on some concepts which these wooden walls. involves huge effort from everyone in you as you settle in to watch this initially excited us, it became clear that the team: carpenters, painters, props production of The Seagull. it wouldn’t work. While we wanted The lake at Coole isn’t visible but it’s and costume. Druid is blessed with to embrace Coole Park, we felt the just beyond the stone wall in front of its own brilliant workshop and team of Francis O’Connor audience needed to be able to sit you. The lake is essential to the story technicians who have built the set and Set and Costume Designer and to listen to this play. We felt it and we’ve created an impression of our al fresco auditorium. July 2021 was important to acknowledge that water as a strip of light and glass we were doing The Seagull outdoors, bisecting the landscape. The challenge for designing outdoors open to the earth and sky, but we also is mainly about durability, wind and needed focus. Acts 3 and 4 are interiors and we rain - these are the limiting simply fill the gap in the walls to factors. The essential rule of making Given Constantine makes a create these spaces. I’m hoping Act a great space in which to tell a story rudimentary stage for his play-within- 4, which happens at night, will have remains the same: you hopefully a-play, the design for our actual stage a haunted beauty about it but you recognise the environment you have, takes its cue from the honest simplicity can only imagine these things until you embrace it, enjoy it then enhance

12 13 DESIGNING THE SEAGULL

For both DruidGregory and The Seagull, Francis’ set designs enhance the natural beauty of Coole, it frames the setting in which we find ourselves. It is then perhaps the task of costume to give us a few more clues, to define the era, to outline differences in status etc., as the actors reveal their characters to us. Costume colours inside the lines of Francis’ structures so to speak and, under his careful guidance, does so gracefully.

For DruidGregory, costume quick change boxes were hidden around the park with some actors having to Costume mood board for the male characters. underdress many layers in order for Costume design sketch with swatches for the character of Mary. changes to happen seamlessly. Francis designed beautiful hooded cloaks that and assisting the ease of changes of a character that a costume reveals year of zoom calls and online buying for we made in wax fabric so the actors is important. Other than that though, that I find the most exciting. live-streamed shows. It was necessary would have rain cover that fit the period design still remains character-led, you however as the Druid costume store if needed, although when it came to it, can’t always be thinking ‘what will As with every show, there will be has very little of this era in stock and most actors chose to brave the rain. we do if it rains?’ or you might scare costume challenges, particularly when so almost all of the women’s garments yourself off the beautiful embossed it comes to maintaining garments that were made from scratch by our It was such a treat getting to associate velvet that speaks so truly of Isobel’s see a lot of wear and tear throughout incredibly talented makers Marie, Denise design on a show of this particular character or shortening her skirts so the run and even as I write this I am and Esther. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of period. Many of the quick changes they don’t drag on the ground. Lily’s sure there are many challenges that I seeing how it all comes together - from that need to occur have been built costume features some beautiful Irish won’t discover until we begin to tech. choosing fabrics to final garment fittings. into the costumes to make transitions linen and some embroidery that was easier as in The Seagull we are dealing inspired by the pattern of a Galway For this show our costume team was Clíodhna Hallissey with period garments with more shawl. Peter’s frock coat gives a nod spread between Kerry, Galway and Associate Costume Designer complex construction for the women in to a life once richly lived and Isobel’s Dublin. Something that might have July 2021 particular. In terms of the practicalities opening ensemble introduces us to her seemed unthinkable pre-pandemic of designing for outdoors, durability flamboyant artistic flair. It’s the nuances didn’t seem quite as impossible after a

14 15 Bláithín MacGabhann in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray. RAY McBRIDE ‘Ray was an exceptional talent and one of the nicest and most generous of men. I'll miss him so much’ Garry Hynes Ray McBride (third from left) with fellow cast members Paul Brennan, Jane Brennan, Pat Leavy, Seán McGinley, Marie Mullen and Maelíosa Stafford in Conversations on a Homecoming (1985).

Druid mourns the recent death of actor As well as being a talented actor, Ray Brian Doherty in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray. and dancer, Ray McBride. was an extraordinary dancer with a gift of rhythm and an ability to express so He was celebrated in his native much through his dance. He worked Galway, across the country and on the movement and choreography of abroad. He will be fondly remembered many of our productions. by all of us who knew him. Our thoughts are with Ray's mother, 'Druid was first introduced to Ray by his his family and many friends. mother Kathleen who told us about her talented son. We invited him to audition Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. for us when he returned to Galway from a college scholarship in America and “And still they marvelled and the cast him without hesitation. His dozens wonder grew, that one big head of acting credits with Druid included could carry all he knew…fella” – Liam, The Wood of the Whispering (1983), Conversations on a Homecoming. Conversations on a Homecoming (1985) and (1987)' – Druid’s Artistic Director, Garry Hynes.

16 Liam Heslin in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray. PRODUCTION TEAM

Deputy Stage Manager Scenic Artist Sophie Flynn (from 5 July) Rachel Towey Emma Doyle (from 19 July) Scenic Assistant Stage Manager Matthew Guinnane Dylan Farrell Stage Crew Cathal Commins Costume Supervisor Gerry Mallon Clíodhna Hallissey Paul Murphy Costume Makers Denise Assas Musicians Marie Murray Cora Venus Lunny (Strings) Esther O’Connor Kenneth Edge (Woodwind) Costume Assistants Catherine Denning Filming and Post-Production Facilities Sorcha Ní Chróinín StationHouse Media Yvette Picque Vision Mixer Rachel Stout James Ryan Bosco Hogan in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray. Hair and Make-Up Assistant Recording Technician Niamh Lawless Johnathan Connolly

Camera Operators Site Manager Colm Hogan Frank Commins Martin Nee David Qualter Chief Electrician Alex Wulf Paul Kelly Production Assistant Master Carpenter Aaron Gannon Gus Dewar

Carpenters Simon Kennedy Rehearsal and Production Photography Keith Newman Ste Murray Lighting Programmer Graphic Design Susan Collins Gareth Jones Production Sound Publicity Frankie Pollard Bowe Communications Technicians Irish Sign Language Interpreter Richard Curwood Amanda Coogan Shannon Light

19 Garry Hynes in rehearsals for The Seagull . Photograph: Ste Murray. THANK YOU

Druid gratefully Niall O’Reilly and staff at Coole Park acknowledges the National Parks and Wildlife Service Cillian, Sarah and staff at Coole Park Tearooms support of many Cue One Lighting people who assisted Dr Barry Houlihan, NUIG with this production Alisha Finnerty and all those who Prof Patrick Lonergan, NUIG Arts & Disability Ireland helped after the Leo and Clare Hallissey programme went to Anne Friel print. Lorcan Mannion Leisure Domes This version of The Seagull was Trevor Price first performed at the Royal Atlantic Audio Court Theatre, London on 8 Eventrax April 1981, directed by Max Liam Allen Stafford-Clark. Event Power Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Mike Nestor Representation Ltd. Eventus www.alanbrodie.com Caterent GPT Plant & Tool Hire DH Farm Machinery

JAMES C. HARROLD

Druid wishes a very happy retirement to James C. Harrold who has served Galway as Arts Officer for Galway City Council and Galway County Council for over 30 years.

‘James has worked tirelessly for arts and culture in Galway, his contribution cannot be overestimated. I know I speak for many when I say how grateful we all are for his support over the years.’ Garry Hynes, Druid’s Artistic Director

20 21 (1860–1904) WRITER

Chekhov was born on 29 January Seagull premiered at the state-run 1860 in Taganrog, Russia. His Aleksandrisky Theatre in St Petersburg grandfather had been a serf and his in 1896 but received a famously father a grocer. In 1868, Chekhov hostile reception. Both the cast and was sent to the Taganrog school for the audience struggled to appreciate boys. His father declared bankruptcy and understand Chekhov’s work which in 1876 and the family moved to broke with theatrical conventions Moscow leaving Chekhov in Taganrog prevalent at the time in Russia. It was to finish his schooling. In 1879 not until Chekhov began an association Chekhov won a scholarship to study with Konstantin Stanislavsky and medicine at Moscow University. Under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko’s pseudonyms, he began writing comic Moscow Art Theatre that he achieved sketches for popular magazines in national success. The Moscow Art order to support his family. During the Theatre’s production of The Seagull mid 1880’s, Chekhov practised as a in 1898 was quickly followed by physician and began to publish works premieres of Uncle Vanya (1899), of fiction under his own name. Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904). In 1888 he was awarded the Pushkin Prize for his collection of short stories In 1896, Chekhov was diagnosed with In the Twilight. Chekhov wrote more tuberculosis. He married Olga Knipper, than 200 stories including The Kiss the Moscow Art Theatre’s lead actress, (1887), The Steppe (1888), Ward in 1901. He died in July 1904 in No. 6 (1892), The Lady with the Dog Badenweiler, Germany. (1899), In the Ravine (1900), and The Bishop (1902) on which his claim Other plays include: The Bear (1888), to pre-eminence in the genre rests. The Proposal (1889), The Wood During the 1880s Chekhov began Demon (1890). to write for theatre and in November 1887, Ivanov, his first full-length play to be staged, premiered in Moscow but received wildly mixed reviews. The

22 23 Photograph: Ste Murray.

24 25 THOMAS KILROY WRITER

Thomas Kilroy was born in 1934 Kyoto University Foundation Award, (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, at Callan, County . He was and Prix Nikki Commendation (TV). 2005). educated by the Christian Brothers, St Kieran’s College and University His plays include: The Death His play Christ Deliver Us!, inspired College Dublin where he gained an and Resurrection of Mr. Roche by Wedekind, premiered at the Abbey education degree and went on to (Dublin Theatre Festival, 1968 and Theatre, Dublin in 2010. In April 2011 became a teacher and a headmaster. Hampstead Theatre, London); The a public reading of his play Blake was In 1965 he was appointed senior O’Neill (Peacock Theatre, 1969); Tea given by the Company lecturer at UCD, lecturing on English, and Sex and Shakespeare (Abbey at the Samuel Becket Theatre, Trinity Anglo-Irish and 18th-century drama. Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival, College, Dublin. In 2016 he was He was also a visiting professor in 1976); Talbot’s Box (Abbey Theatre, awarded the Ulysses Medal of Dublin various American universities. Between Dublin Theatre Festival, 1977 and for his achievements in writing. 1973 and 1979 he took a break from Royal Court Theatre, London); Double his university career after the success Cross (Field Day Theatre, 1986 and of his novel, The Big Chapel (1971, Royal Court Theatre); The Madame shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the MacAdam Travelling Theatre (Field Guardian Fiction Prize). He was then Day Theatre, 1991 and Irish Repertory appointed professor at the National Theatre, New York); The Secret University of Ireland, Galway. He is Fall of Constance Wilde (Guthrie a member of the Royal Society for Theatre, Minneapolis, 2008; Bite 2000 Literature and of the Irish Academy of International Festival, Barbican Theatre, Letters. In March 2004 he received a London; Melbourne International lifetime achievement award at the Irish Festival, 1998; Abbey Theatre, 1997); Times/ESB Awards. He The Shape of Metal (Abbey Theatre, was recently made an Honorary Fellow Dublin, 2003 and Origin Theatre Co, of Trinity College, Dublin. New York, 2007). He has also done versions of Chekhov’s The Seagull His other awards are: Heinneman (Royal Court Theatre, 1981); Ibsen’s Award for Literature, AIB Literary Ghosts (Peacock Theatre, Dublin Prize, BBC Drama Prize, American- Theatre Festival, 1989); Pirandello’s Irish Foundation Prize for Literature, Six Characters in Search of an Author Rockefeller Foundation Residency, (Abbey Theatre, 1996) and Henry IV

26 27 CREATIVE TEAM GARRY HYNES COLM HOGAN DIRECTOR DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Garry Hynes co-founded Druid in 1975 Colm Hogan is a director of photography and has worked as its Artistic Director who has been working in the film and from 1975 to 1991 and from 1995 to television industry for over 20 years. His date. From 1991 to 1994 she was Artistic work has taken him throughout Europe and Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. the world.

Garry has also worked with the Gate Druid: Boland: Journey of a Poet. Theatre (Ireland); the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court (UK); Center Film and television credits include: Theatre Group, Second Stage, Signature Henry Glassie: Field Work, The Meeting, Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, the Foscadh, What We Leave in Our Wake, GARRY HYNES COLM HOGAN FRANCIS O’CONNOR Kennedy Center, the Mark Taper Forum and The Green Knight. Most recently, Colm has the Spoleto Festival (USA). worked on the Apple TV series Foundation.

Awards include: The Joe A. Callaway Award (New York) for Outstanding FRANCIS O’CONNOR Directing for SET AND COSTUME DESIGN (2009); a Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998); Francis is a regular collaborator with Garry Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards Hynes and Druid. His designs for plays, for Best Director for DruidShakespeare: musicals and have been seen in Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Ireland, the UK, throughout the US, Europe, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting and Asia and his work with the Gate for Godot and a Special Tribute Award in Theatre (Ireland) has frequently been seen 2005 for her contribution to Irish Theatre. at Spoleto Festival. JAMES F. INGALLS GREGORY CLARKE CONOR LINEHAN Garry has received Honorary Doctorates from University College Dublin, University Druid: Boland: Journey of a Poet, of Dublin, the National University of Ireland DruidGregory, The Cherry Orchard, The and the National Council for Education Beacon, Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Awards. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Richard III, Shelter, Furniture, Sive, King Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of and a member of the Honorary Council of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, Big Maggie, the Royal Hibernian Academy (HRHA). DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts In 2011, Garry was appointed Adjunct 1&2), Henry V, Brigit, Bailegangaire, The Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by NUI Galway. Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Gigli Concert, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Leaves, Empress GRÁINNE COUGHLAN CLÍODHNA HALLISSEY SARAH BAXTER of India, The Year of the Hiker, DruidSynge,

28 29 The Well of the Saints, The Tinker’s both directed by Garry Hynes at Spoleto London West End credits include: Awards include: Irish Times Irish Theatre Wedding, Sharon’s Grave, Sive, The Good Festival, USA. My Night With Reg, Goodnight Mr. Tom, Award, Best Sound Design (with Ben Father, My Brilliant Divorce, The Lonesome The Vortex, A Voyage Around My Father, Delaney); Irish Times Irish Theatre Judges’ West, A Skull in Connemara, The Leenane Designs for dance include: The And Then There Were None, Some Girls, Special Award nomination for ‘setting Trilogy, The Country Boy, The Way You Firebird (Miami City Ballet); Unbound (San Waiting for Godot, What The Butler Saw, the standard of theatre composition’; Look Tonight, Shadow and Substance, Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival); Journey’s End, Equus. PlayShakespeare website’s Falstaff Award, Wild Harvest. several pieces for Paul Taylor’s American Best Score Worldwide. Modern Dance; many pieces for Mark Awards include: Tony Award® Best Awards include: Five Irish Times Irish Morris Dance Group including Layla and Sound Design (Equus), Drama Desk Award Theatre Awards, three for Best Design, two Majnun, Mozart Dances, The Hard Nut and (Journey’s End). GRÁINNE COUGHLAN for Best Costume Design (with Doreen L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; and HAIR AND MAKE-UP McKenna); Boston Critics Circle; Dora Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary US Tour. Mavor Moore Award; and a nomination for CONOR LINEHAN Grainne studied fine art and painting after the Faust Prize, Germany. MUSIC leaving school but was always passionate GREGORY CLARKE about the art of make-up. When the SOUND DESIGN Conor is a pianist, composer and teacher opportunity arose, she returned to study JAMES F. INGALLS from Dublin. He is on the piano faculty of and completed a diploma in film and LIGHTING DESIGN Druid: The Cherry Orchard, The Beacon, the Royal Irish Academy of Music where media make-up. Thus began her career in DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Shelter, he also teaches courses in improvisation television, film and theatre. James trained at the Yale School of Drama Furniture, Sive, King of the Castle, The and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in and the University of Connecticut. He Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting Perfomance in association with Trinity Druid: Boland: Journey of a Poet, Once often collaborates with the Wooden Floor for Godot, DruidShakespeare: Richard College Dublin. Upon a Bridge. dancers, Santa Ana, California. II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Penelope, The New Electric Druid: Boland: Journey of a Poet, Film and television credits include: Druid: The Cherry Orchard, The Beacon, Ballroom, The Hackney Office. DruidGregory, The Cherry Orchard, Mary Coughlan at the Town Hall Theatre, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Sive, King of Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Mary Coughlan: Keys to Your Life, Vanilla the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Other theatre credits include: The Sive, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry (RTÉ); Creative Hearts, The Mighty Ocean Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: Twits, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. (TG4), I Am Patrick (Netflix). Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. Mastromas (Royal Court); Misterman (Galway International Arts Festival/ Other theatre credits include: The Designs for other theatre include: Pale Landmark Productions); Medea, The Patient Woman (INO 20 Shots of Opera); Sister (Gate Theatre); Ghosts (Williamston Doctor’s Dilemma, Twelfth Night, No The Great Hunger (Abbey Theatre); Theatre Festival). Man’s Land, Tristan & Yseult, The Emperor Woyzeck in Winter (Landmark Productions/ Jones, Earthquakes in London (National Galway International Arts Festival); Dublin Designs for opera include: Idomeneo Theatre, London); The Merchant Of Venice, by Lamplight (Corn Exchange/Abbey and La Clemenza di Tito (Salzburger Cloud Nine (Almeida); All’s Well That Theatre); The Wolf and Peter (CoisCéim); Festspiele); world premieres by John Ends Well, The Heart of Robin Hood, productions with the Abbey and Peacock Adams including Girls of the Golden West, Great Expectations, Coriolanus, The Merry theatres; the Gate Theatre, Dublin; the Lyric, Doctor Atomic and Nixon in China; world Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, Belfast; the Royal Shakespeare Company; premieres by Kaija Saariaho including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal the Gate Theatre; the National Theatre, Only the Sound Remains, Adriana Mater, Shakespeare Company). London; Liverpool Playhouse; Hampstead and L’Amour de Loin, all directed by Peter Theatre; Siren Productions, Dublin. Sellars; Il Farnace and Kat’a Kabanova,

30 31 Marty Rea in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray.

CLÍODHNA HALLISSEY SARAH BAXTER ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

A recent graduate of the BA in Drama, Sarah was a recipient of the Marie Mullen Theatre and Performance Studies and Bursary in 2020/2021, an award for female English at NUI Galway, Clíodhna was the theatre artists working in the fields of 2019/2020 recipient of Druid’s Marie design, directing and dramaturgy. She was Mullen Bursary for female theatre artists a member of Irish National Opera’s ABL working in the fields of design, directing, and Opera Studio 2018-2020 and trained at dramaturgy. London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA). She is a member of the artist Druid: Clíodhna was Costume Designer collective White Label. for Boland: Journey of a Poet and Once Upon a Bridge, Costume Supervisor for Druid: DruidGregory. DruidGregory, Costume Designer for On the Outside as part of DruidGregory, Director credits include: These Stupid Assistant Costume Designer and Dresser Things, Taboo (White Label); The Roaring for The Cherry Orchard, and Costume Banshees, The Hellfire Squad, Vehicle Dresser for DruidShakespeare: Richard III at (Devious Theatre); Personal Space Vol II the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. (Smock Alley); 24HourPlaysDublin 2018 (Dublin Youth Theatre); Dubliners Women Other theatre credits include: Costume (Witchwork Theatre Company); To Space Designer for Ar Ais Arís (Brú Theatre/ (Niamh Shaw). Galway 2020 and GIAF 2021); An Dara Réalt, Yummy Mummy (An Taibhdhearc); Director and co-creator credits: It’s Aisling? (Ealaín na Gaeltachta); BAOITE getting harder and harder for me and (An Taibhdhearc/Abbey Theatre); Jellyfish with Alice Malseed (Dublin Fringe Costume Assistant and Dresser for Grief 2015, 2017); Diary of a Martian Beekeeper is The Thing With Feathers (Landmark with Niamh Shaw. Productions); The Country Girls (Abbey Theatre).

Film and television credits include: Costume Designer for Living With a Fairy 2; Costume Assistant for Mr. Mender and The Chummyjiggers; Costume Trainee for Wild Mountain Thyme.

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BRIAN DOHERTY JACK GLEESON LIAM HESLIN JOHN OLOHAN MARTY REA EILEEN WALSH

BOSCO HOGAN BLÁITHÍN MACGABHANN MARIE MULLEN JOHN MCHUGH MARY MCHUGH PETER SHINE

AGNES O’CASEY John Olohan in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray. Eileen Walsh in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray.

34 35 Film and television credits include: BRIAN DOHERTY JACK GLEESON Dublin Oldschool, The Island of Evenings, BLÁITHÍN MACGABHANN DR HICKEY CONSTANTINE Kaleidoscope, . MARY

Druid: Sive, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Druid: The Seagull marks Jack’s debut Druid: The Seagull marks Bláithín’s debut Murphy. with the company. BOSCO HOGAN with the company. PETER Other theatre credits include: Other theatre credits include: To Be a Other theatre credits include: Our Common, Aristocrats (National Theatre); Machine (Dead Centre); Bears in Space, Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Sive, New Girl (Gate Theatre); Citysong (Abbey Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, Monster/Clock (Collapsing Horse); Great King of the Castle, DruidShakespeare: Theatre). Julius Caesar, King Lear, Little Eagles, Expectations (Gate Theatre). Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Drunks, Ahasverus, Macbeth, God Brigit. Film and television credits include: in Ruins and Great Expectations (Royal Film and television credits include: The Way Out, Penance, Normal People. Shakespeare Company); The Wake, Three Out of Her Mind (BBC); Other theatre credits include: One Sisters, Down the Line, Translations and (HBO); (Warner Bros.). Good Turn, Jimmy’s Hall, Observe the Tarry Flynn (Abbey Theatre); Hecuba, Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the MARIE MULLEN Pentecost, Improbable Frequency and Somme, Aristocrats, The House, The PAULINE Boomtown (Rough Magic); Evening Train LIAM HESLIN Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Abbey (Everyman ); The Father, From Here JAMES Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Druid: Marie co-founded Druid in 1975 To Eternity, Stones in his Pockets (West A View from the Bridge, Wuthering and has appeared in numerous productions End); Tomcat for Papatango (Southwark Druid: DruidGregory. Heights, My Cousin Rachel, The including DruidGregory, DruidShakespeare: Playhouse); Death of a Comedian (Soho Threepenny Opera, A Streetcar Named Richard III, Sive, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Theatre); A Steady Rain (Theatre Royal Other theatre credits include: 14 Desire, An Enemy of the People (Gate DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV Bath); Narratives (Royal Court); The Red Voices from the Bloodied Field (Abbey Theatre). (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, Iron, Happy Birthday Dear Alice, The Theatre); Asking For It (Landmark DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Crucible, Talbot’s Box (Red Kettle); STUDS Productions); A Skull in Connemara Film and television credits include: Cripple of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey (Passion Machine); Emma (Storytellers); (Oldham Coliseum); Zero Hour, Pals: The Last Duel, Valhalla, Miss Scarlett and Into Night, DruidSynge, The Beauty Queen Amphibians (Tin Drum); Car Show (Love The Irish at Gallipoli (ANU Productions); The Duke, Mirage, Citizen Lane, We Have of Leenane, The Playboy of the Western Me) (Corn Exchange). The Lost O’ Casey (Abbey Theatre/ANU Always Lived in the Castle, Vikings, The World. Productions); The Shaughraun (Smock Flag, Trial of the Century, The Inquiry, The Film and television credits include: Alley Theatre); Borgias. Other theatre credits include: The Dream Horse, Resistance, Trigonometry, (Lyric Hammersmith/Gaiety Theatre); The Children, Crestfall (Gate Theatre); Witless, Women on the Verge, Call the Good Father (Rise Productions); The Testament (Landmark Productions/Dublin Midwife, Casualty, Law & Order, Raw, Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre); Theatre Festival); The Man Who Came , Fair City, Doctors, The Clinic, On Corporation Street (ANU Productions/ To Dinner, King Lear, The Man of Mode , A Street Cat Named Bob, Home Manchester); King Lear (Second (RSC); The Last Days of a Reluctant Perrier’s Bounty and Garage. Age Theatre Company); East of Berlin Tyrant, The Power of Darkness, On (Brinkmanship/); A Raftery’s Hill, Big Maggie (Abbey Theatre). Awards include: Irish Times Irish Theatre Boy Called Nedd (Bitter Like a Lemon/ Awards, Best Actor (Hecuba and The Red Theatre Upstairs); Borstal Boy (Verdant Film and television credits include: Iron). Productions). Dorothy Mills, When Brendan met Trudy, Dancing at Lughnasa, Circle of Friends.

36 37 Awards include: 1998 Tony Award, Best of Inishmore, The Lonesome West, She Stoops To Conquer, The Hanging Broad Shadow, Liolà (National Theatre, Actress (The Beauty Queen of Leenane); (Town Hall Theatre Galway); Translations Gardens, Major Barbara, John Gabriel London); Little Eyolf (Almeida); Irish Theatre Awards, Lifetime (Oroboros); Ride On (Livin’ Dred); A Skull Borkman, The Rivals, Only An Apple, The Drowned World, Quiz Show (Traverse Achievement Award, Best Actress, Best in Connemara (Decadent Theatre); Fings Big House, Saved, The Importance of Theatre); The Believers (Frantic Assembly). Supporting Actress; Obie, Best Actress Ain’t Wot They Used T’be (Theatre Royal Being Earnest (Abbey Theatre); Hamlet Award. Stratford East); The Chastitute (Gaiety (Second Age). Film and television credits include: Theatre). Modern Love (Amazon); Wolf (Wildcat); Film and television credits include: The South Westerlies, On the Hemline, AGNES O’CASEY Film and television credits include: Strays (Arcade Film); Prisoners of the Can’t Cope Won’t Cope, Pure Mule (RTÉ); LILY The Country Girls, Rawhead Rex, War of Moon (Bandit Films); Citizen Lane, Made In Italy, Melrose, Delicious (Sky the Buttons, The Butcher Boy, The Clinic, Barbarians Rising! (October Films); The Atlantic); Catastrophe (Avalon/Channel Druid: The Seagull marks Agnes’ Single Handed, Amongst Women, Father Devil’s Pool (Vico Films); The Man Inside 4); Women on the Verge (Merman/RTÉ); professional theatre debut. Ted, Glenroe, Trial of the Century. (Broken Pictures Ltd.). Rialto, Maze, The Children Act, Morning, Eden, How Was Your Day?, Gold, Snap, Film and television credits include: Awards include: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards include: Irish Times Theatre The Ballad of Kid Kanturk, Triage, The Ridley Road (BBC); Dangerous Liaisons Award, Best Supporting Actor (Big Awards, Best Actor (Hamlet); Irish Magdalene Sisters, The Van. (Lionsgate). Maggie). Times Theatre Awards, Best Actor (DruidShakespeare); Irish Times Theatre Awards include: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Best Supporting Actor (King of Awards, Best Actress (Terminus); Irish JOHN OLOHAN MARTY REA the Castle and The Great Gatsby); Herald Times Irish Theatre Awards, Best Actress COUSIN GREGORY MR ASTON Angel Award, Edinburgh Festival (Waiting (The Same); Tribeca Film Festival, Best for Godot). Actress (Eden); Irish Film and Television Druid: The Cherry Orchard, Druid: DruidGregory, The Cherry Orchard, Awards, Best Actress (Eden). DruidShakespeare: Richard III, King of The Beacon, Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: the Castle, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Richard III, King of the Castle, The Beauty EILEEN WALSH Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Big Maggie, Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, ISOBEL DESMOND JOHN MCHUGH The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts COOK by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The 1&2), Henry V, Brigit, Be Infants In Evil, Druid: DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Playboy of the Western World. The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays Murphy, The Gigli Concert. A native of Headford, John began acting by Tom Murphy. in 1970 in St Mary’s College with Ray Other theatre credits include: Da, Tarry Other theatre credits include: Medea, McBride (Druid) and joined the Headford Flynn, The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Other theatre credits include: Happy Beginning, Crestfall (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Drama Group in 1974. In 1989 he became Roche, Sive, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Days (Landmark); Tiny Plays for Ireland The Plough and the Stars, Macbeth, a founding member of Pegasus Theatre The House, Dancing at Lughnasa, The (Fishamble); The Gifts You Gave to the Terminus, The Playboy of the Western Company and has just recently set up Silver Dollar Boys, At Swim Two Birds, The Dark (Irish Rep NY); The Glass Menagerie, World, Saved, Portia Coughlan, Ariel Headford Community Theatre to revive Duty Master, The Muesli Belt, A Little Like Beginning, The Great Gatsby, Juno and the (Abbey Theatre); The Same, Request theatre in his local area. Paradise, Savoy, The Remains of Maisie Paycock, The Importance of Being Earnest, Programme, The Merchant of Venice, Disco Duggan (Abbey Theatre); The Threepenny The Caretaker, An Ideal Husband, My Pigs (Corcadorca); Lippy (Dead Centre/ Druid: The Seagull marks John’s debut Opera, Aristocrats, Sharon’s Grave, Cousin Rachel, Little Women, Hay Fever, Young Vic); Medea (Siren Productions); with the company. Rough for Theatre I&II, A Christmas Carol Salomé, Arcadia (Gate Theatre); 14 Voices Danti Dan (Rough Magic); Aristocrats (Gate Theatre); Macbeth, Romeo and From the Bloodied Field, Dear Ireland (Donmar Warehouse); The Unknown, Other theatre credits include: The Juliet, Philadelphia, Here I come!, Hamlet (an unreliable ex-lover suddenly writes), The Internet is a Serious Business, Crave Field, Mick and Mick, The Year of the Hiker, (Second Age Theatre Co.); The Lieutenant Thirst (and other bits of Flann), Othello, (Royal Court Theatre); Absolute Hell, The Rain Maker, I Do Not Like Thee Dr.

38 39 Marie Mullen in rehearsals for The Seagull. Photograph: Ste Murray.

Fell, Happy as Larry, The Playboy of the Company); The Loves of Cass McGuire, Western World (Headford Drama Group); (KATS); Sive (Pegasus); The Playboy of the Sive, Macbeth, Brothers of the Brush, Western World (GB Shaw/Abbey Theatre). Amadeus, Le Médicin Malgré Lui, Dancing at Lughnasa, Run for your Wife, Lend Me a Film and television credits include: , A Bed Full of Foreigners (Pegasus The Presence, Fare is Fair, Angela Mooney Theatre Company); Madame MacAdam Dies Again, Jack Taylor. Travelling Theatre (Field Day Theatre Company). PETER SHINE Film credits include: Bloodfist 8 Trained JACK to Kill, Spectre (Corman Films); Angela Mooney Dies Again (Merlin Films). Originally from Roscommon, now based in Galway, Peter is a graduate of the BA Awards include: All Ireland Drama Arts with Theatre and Performance at NUI Festival, Best Actor (Joe Fell); International Galway. Theatre Festivals, Best Actor (Joe Fell), Best Actor (The Last Burning), Best Druid: The Cherry Orchard. Supporting Actor (The Playboy of the Western World). Other theatre credits include: Cross Street, You Could Be Us, Tape, Pleasure Ground (Fregoli Theatre Company); MARY MCHUGH The Thing about December, The Weir, MAID , Vernon God Little (Decadent Theatre Company); The Irish Based in Headford, County Galway, Mary Play (Jokerthief Theatre Company); Wit, trained with Galway Actors Workshop, Midsummer, School, The Galway Community Theatre and Core Adventures of Shay Mouse (Galway Youth Theatre College. Theatre); (Galway Community Theatre/Town Hall Theatre, Druid: The Cherry Orchard. Galway); The Shadow of Carmilla, No Way Out, The Merchant of Venice (ThereisBear! Other theatre credits include: The Theatre Company); At The Black Pig’s Thing about December, Doubt, Tribes Alive Dyke (MayFly Theatre Company); This (Decadent); Wit, Juno and the Paycock, Lime Tree Bower (Nyx Theatre Company) The Adventures of Shay Mouse, Frank Pig Macbeth, Twelfth Night (NUIG Dramsoc). Says Hello, Tarry Flynn (Galway Community Theatre); Cafe Poetry (Anam Theatre Film and television credits include: Company); Under Milk Wood (Galway Apparent Power, Up, Up and Away!, Actors Workshop); The Tale of Galway, Hooked, Sooner or Later, Wilde Night Out. Da (Town Hall Theatre, Galway); Measure for Measure, The Duchess of Malfi, (Theatrecorp); The Mai (Mephisto Theatre

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