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CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS

David Eden Productions, Ltd. and Baryshnikov Dance Foundation present Royal Court Th eatre Wednesday through Sunday, November 10-14, 2004 Zellerbach Playhouse

4.48 PSYCHOSIS by

Cast Jason Hughes Marin Ireland Jo McInnes

Director James Macdonald Designer Jeremy Herbert Lighting Designer/Supervisor Nigel Edwards Sound Designer Paul Arditti Casting Director Lisa Makin Production Manager Paul Handley Company/Technical Manager Sue Bird Production Carpenter Stephen Stickler Audio Visual Technician Ian Dickinson Lighting Supervisor Heidi Riley Costume Supervisor Iona Kenrick

4.48 PSYCHOSIS has received generous support from the British Council

Th e Royal Court would particularly like to thank Simon Kane and Mel Kenyon. First performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Th eatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, on 23 June 2000.

Th is performance has been made possible in part by members of the Cal Performances Producers Circle.

Cal Performances thanks the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Th e Wallace Foundation, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation for their generous support.

33 CAL PERFORMANCES PROGRAM NOTES

In the course of a tragically short career—having committed suicide in 1999 at the age of 28— Sarah Kane wrote five plays: (1995), Phaedra’s Love (1996), Cleansed (April 1998), Crave (September 1998) and 4.48 Psychosis (2000). Of these, 4.48 Psychosis sees the ultimate focus of her work. In it she continued her transcendent mapping of the darkest internal landscapes: violation, loneliness, power, mental collapse and, almost always, love. Through her plays, the struggle of the individual to remain intact moves from instances of civil war to the dynamics of family, the dynamics of couples, and finally into the mind itself in 4.48 Psychosis. “And my mind is the subject of these bewildered fragments,” the play’s voice tells us. Even so, we should pause before assuming whose mind drives the play. Readers and audiences should be cautious about conflating the life of any author with the action of their work. It is true that Kane wrote this play while affected by depression sometime before her suicide in 1999. It’s also true35 that the body of Kane’s work studies the fluid and problematic qualities of the self and transformation. But it’s prudent to remember 4.48 Psychosis that in order to succeed as an artwork the play has to be more than the mind of the playwright. demanding the impossible of his apothecary: Its purpose is to involve the audience, and as “sweeten my imagination.” such, to bring the audience to recognize the very Those trapped in the regions of the mind transitive qualities of all minds. explored by 4.48 Psychosis rarely have the voice Kane’s long-time collaborator, James to tell others about their condition—either Macdonald, helped to bring 4.48 Psychosis to the because of physical or cultural limitations. Sarah stage in June 2000 at the Royal Court Jerwood Kane’s exploration of this area as an artist was Theatre Upstairs. As director, he decided to split a generous, even heroic act. Her contributions the play’s single voice into three, consisting of to theatre were significant and will be well two women and one man. The three voices partly remembered. represent the division of an individual into the three personas that Kane continually visited in her work: victim/perpetrator/bystander. In her hands, these three figures serve as an honest and compassionate anatomy of the human experience of pain. The voice of the play, led through therapy and endless medication, neither of which is able to alleviate the suffering, talks to the doctor with a sardonic wit. In his preface to “Sarah Kane: Complete Plays,” likened the dark comedy in the description of the drugs and their negligible effects to on the heath

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Th e English Stage Company at the Royal Queen of Leenane. Court opened in 1956 as a subsidized theatre Since 1994 the Royal Court’s artistic producing new British plays, international plays policy has again been vigorously directed to and some classical revivals. fi nding and producing a new generation of Th e fi rst artistic director, , playwrights. Th e writers include , aimed to create a writers’ theatre, “a place Michael Wynne, Nick Grosso, Sarah Kane, where the dramatist is acknowledged as the Anthony Neilson, Jez Butterworth, Marina fundamental creative force in the theatre and Carr, Phyllis Nagy, Martin McDonagh, where the play is more important than the , Conor McPherson, Simon actors, the director, the designer.” Th e urgent Stephens, Richard Bean, Roy Williams, Gary need was to fi nd a contemporary style in which Mitchell, Rebecca Gilman, Christopher Shinn, the play, the acting, direction and design were Kia Corthron, David Gieselmann, Marius von all combined. He believed that “the battle will Mayenburg, David Eldridge, , be a long one to continue to create the right Enda Walsh, Roland Schimmelpfennig, conditions for writers to work in.” DeObia Oparei, Vassily Sigarev, the Presnyakov Devine searched for “hard-hitting, Brothers, Marcos Barbosa and Lucy Prebble. uncompromising writers whose plays are Th is expanded program of new plays has been stimulating, provocative and exciting.” Th e made possible through the support of A.S.K Royal Court production of ’s Th eater Projects and the Skirball Foundation, the in May 1956 is now seen Jerwood Charitable Foundation, the American as the decisive starting point of modern British Friends of the Royal Court Th eatre and many in , and the policy Devine instituted created association with the National Th eatre Studio. a new generation of British playwrights. Th e In recent years there have been record- 35 fi rst wave included Osborne, , breaking productions at the box offi ce, with , , N.F. Simpson and capacity houses for Roy Williams’ Fallout, Terry . Early seasons included new Johnson’s Hitchcock Blonde, Caryl Churchill’s international plays by , Eugène A Number, Jez Butterworth’s Th e Night Heron, Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, Kevin Elyot’s Marguerite Duras. Mouth to Mouth, David Hare’s My Zinc Bed and Th e theatre started with the 400-seat Conor McPherson’s Th e Weir, which transferred proscenium arch Jerwood Th eatre Downstairs, to the West End in October 1998 and ran for and then in 1969 opened a second theatre, the nearly two years at the Duke of York’s Th eatre. 80-seat studio Jerwood Th eatre Upstairs. Many Th e refurbished theatre in Sloane productions transfer to the West End, among Square re-opened in February 2000 and the them Terry Johnson’s Hitchcock Blonde, Caryl Royal Court continues as an international Churchill’s Far Away, Conor McPherson’s venue for new playwrights, and as such shapes Th e Weir, Kevin Elyot’s Mouth to Mouth and contemporary drama in Britain and overseas. . Th e Royal Court also co- produces plays, several of which have transferred to the West End or toured internationally, such Marin Ireland (act- as Sebastian Barry’s Th e Steward of Christendom, or) Th eatre includes: Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking (with Th e Triple Happiness Out of Joint), Martin McDonagh’s Th e (Second Stage);Th e Beauty Queen Of Leenane (with Druid Th eatre Harlequin Studies Company), Ayub Khan-Din’s East is East (with (Signature Th ea- Tamasha Th eatre Company, and now a feature tre); Where We Are fi lm). Recent transfers to Broadway include Th e (Rattlestick Th ea- Chairs by Eugene Ionesco in a co-production tre); Savannah Bay with Th eatre de Complicite, David Hare’s Via (Classic Stage Co); Dolorosa, as well as Th e Weir and Th e Beauty Far Away (NYTW);

CAL PERFORMANCES 35 Rdo includes: Radio Night . Saturday of Slice A Communication, Ill House, Shooters, Falling, of Film includes: ThCastles, e Bill Peak London’sPractice, Burning. King Girl, Casualty, Th Life, Strangers In Th Adults, is Mature e Night, Cyw Haul, Chums, Loggy Flint Street Nativity, Th in Air, Harry Enfi eldTh EnfiJane, Yule ePlain Harry Show, Dead, eld Th e Th eatre). Language (ThTelevision in includes: Pay To Nothing Vic); (RSC/WestEnd); Bed End); (Soho); ItLikeYou Mean Badfinger (Donmar); Caligula, (Th Bath); Royal, eatre Living, for Barbara eTh Fight For Design Other theatre includes: About includes: Film Intent. Criminal Order: Television includes: ThSummer Holyoke (Mt. Ah Wilderness eatre). Century Th eatre); (New Business Show in Anton Earnest, Being of Th Botanicum); Geer eatricum City Public); (Th eatrEclipse); Lysistrata Th eatre); Century (New Door Next The Boys Th Century eatre); Co); Th eatre (Foothills ao Hughes Jason Clockwork Orange Th eatre); Gala); Actors Dramatists); Company); Octoberfest); NYTW); & (A.R.T. Fighting WordsTh(Underwood eatre); C includes: theatre Cincinnati); o McInnes Jo ls Wud 44 Pyhss Bluebird Psychosis, 4.48 Wound, Flesh Ra Cas Affair Classy Real A Court: Royal the For Shorts (Th e MarketTh eatre); AL P Th e Illusion (Royal Exchange, ); . ERFORMANCES (RNT); (RNT); Anger In Back Look James and Annie (Ensemble Th eatre of What the Moon SawMoon the What Proof A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Will is Me Kiss (National Retirement in Ladies Jimmy Fizz, Killing Me Softly, Fear ( (Th e LITE (Th Monk e Black Th ) For the Royal Court: Court: Royal the For actor) (Goodman House Heartbreak ( actor (Bush); M.A.D . (Delaware Th eatre Co); Th e Fall of the House of Usher, Itrc Th (Interact eatre); Jambulu Mine All Mine,All Mine WakingTh e Th e & Law Report, Webster ) . Snake In ThIn Snake (Old e Grass (EST Mountain Glass (Bush/WestFlame In (New Rules Shiloh Th e Glass Menagerie (Culver Iphigenia The Importance (InterArt/New n Blindness On The Herbal Nocturne . Casting Other Shel’s A

oiain. te tete includes: theatre Other Desk nomination). Drama – (Royal Court/Complicite/Broadway e Chairs Th , Reg, With Night ThBroadway), on e (and Dolorosa Weir, Via Mouth, to ThA Chair, Mouth Life, Her On Is is ThCarol, Some Attempts , e Kitchen, Voices, Th e of Glory Living, Blasted, Th Clubland, e Force of Change, Dublin Heron, The Night Friendly, (Druid/Broadway), As a director theatre includes: ( Kane Sarah Tape (New Venture Th eatre). Alturist, Night on the Town, Scars, Uncertainty Town,Scars, the on Night Alturist, Girl, Gangster No. 1. Radio includes: Birthday Actress, an is MyWife Romantics, New includes: d Cene, Crave Cleansed, ed, Blast- Psychosis, 4.48 Court: Royal the For Tpo Steele/ (Tapson Skin (Gate). Film includes: director: As includes: Phaedra’s(Gate). Love theatre er with Bright Ltd). Oth- association in Plough Paines by (produced Nomination 2003), Away (West End/New York-Lucille Royal Lortel Award the For Court: More than 40 productions including ) designer (sound Arditti Paul ). (Basingstoke); Playhouse); (Salisbury . FilmSoldier, Casualty. Soldier Field, the Playing includes: Television A Billy’sThPaperBag,Brown Out, Day e BOUT Woyzeck writer Medea Th e Beauty Queen of Leenane Plasticine, Th e People Are e People Th Plasticine, ) T h e Playground, Th eBill, The Playground,

Dks ed Th Head eatre). (Dukes es f h D’Urbervilles the of Tess THE (RNT); (RNT); Hour (RSC); e Children’s As Th It Like America, You from e General Th Bed, bal ThVanya,Uncle e Her- Company); land Sea (Oxford Stage Th eatre); (Soho Plough); Th eatre/Paines (Soho II Cuil Th (Crucible eatre); Christmas (Bush); A Dirty Dirty Butterfl y ioi Blues Biloxi RTISTS Death of an Edward Billy Far My In- 3 7 .

Jane Black ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Elliott (West End); Festen (Almeida/West End); Opera); Th e Maids (Lyric); Hansel and Gretel Duck, Th e Steward of Christendom, Shopping (Opera North). and Fucking, Blue Heart, Our Lady of Sligo, Some Explicit Polaroids, Hinterland (Out of Jeremy Herbert (designer) is an international Joint); Th e Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet multi-media artist specializing in theatre design. (Chichester); Crestfall (Gate, Dublin); Peribanez, For the Royal Court: 4.48 Psychosis (Sitges/ Sleeping Beauty, Afore Night Come (); Bonn), Th yestes, Ashes and Sand, Th e Lights, Th ree Sisters, My Brilliant Divorce, Auntie and Cleansed. Other recent theatre design: Up for Me, Cyrano de Bergerac, Doctor Doolittle, Piaf Grabs, Th is Is Our Youth, Sexual Perversity in (West End); Dirty Butterfl y (Soho); Accidental Chicago (West End); Roberto Zucco (RSC); Death of an Anarchist, Tales From Hollywood, Attempts On Her Life (Piccolo Teatro, Milan); Th e Th reepenny Opera (Donmar); Twelfth Night, Th e Triumph of Love (Almeida). Recent Uncle Vanya (Donmar/Brooklyn Academy of sculpture/installations/performance projects in- Music); Homebody/Kabul (Young Vic/Cheek clude: Imber Event (for Artangel); Pond Live By Jowl); As You Like It, Th e Merry Wives of (Aldeburgh Festival, Channel 4); Beulah Land Windsor, Hamlet, Th e Tempest (RSC); Orpheus (ICA); and a Glass Maze on the South Bank. Descending (West End & Broadway); St Joan Awards include Barclays Th eatre Award for Best (West End & Australia); Marathon (Gate); Th e Designer for 4.48 Psychosis. He is currently the Illusion (Manchester Royal Exchange); Light recipient of a NESTA Felllowship for a project (Complicite). Awards include: Drama Desk called Dream Time. Award for Outstanding Sound Design 1992 for the music theatre piece Four Baboons Adoring James Macdonald the Sun (Broadway). (director) has been Associate Director Nigel Edwards (lighting designer) For the of the Royal Court Royal Court: Fallout, 4.48 Psychosis, Cleansed, since 1992. He Crave (Paines Plough and Bright Ltd tour); is currently on a Bailengangaire (at the Ambassadors). Other NESTA Fellowship. theatre includes: Sexual Perversity in Chicago For the Royal (Comedy); One Minute (Crucible Studio, Court: Lucky Dog, Sheffi eld); Th e Oresteia (RNT); Th e Tempest Blood, Blasted, 4.48 (European/UK tour); Victoria, Robeto Zucco, Th e Psychosis, Hard Fruit, Real Classy Aff air, Cleansed, Mysteries, Shadows (RSC); Splendour, Riddance, Bailegangaire, Harry and Me, Th e Changing Sleeping Around (with Salisbury Playhouse); Th e Room, Simpatico, Peaches, Th yestes, Th e Terrible Cosmonaut’s Last Message (Paines Plough); Th e Voice of Satan, Hammett’s Apprentice, Putting Triumph of Love (Almeida & UK tour); Th e Two and Two Together. Other theatre includes: Maids, Dreamtime, Counting of Years (Young Die Kopien (Berlin Schaubühne); 4.48 Psychose Vic); Dirty Butterfl y (Soho); Arabian Night (Vienna Burgtheater); Th e Tempest, Roberto (Soho and UK tour); Th e Misanthrope (Gate, Zucco (RSC); Th e Triumph of Love (Almeida); Dublin); Romeo and Juliet (Cork/Athlone/ Love’s Labour’s Lost, Richard II (Manchester Dublin); Inconceivable, Mister Heracles (West Royal Exchan-ge); Th e Rivals (Nottingham Yorkshire Playhouse); Th e Boy Who Left Home Playhouse); Th e Crackwalker (Gate);Th e Seagull (Actors Touring Company); King Arthur (Shef-fi eld Crucible); Neon Gravy (RNT Studio); (Lip Service); Peer Gynt (National Th eatre Miss Julie (Old-ham Coliseum); Juno and the of Macedonia, Skopje); Pleasure, Showtime, Paycock, Ice Cream & Hot Fudge, Romeo and Speak Bitterness, Hidden J., Club of No Regrets, Juliet, Fool for Love, Savage/Love, Master Harold Emmanuelle, Enchanted, Mania and Lee (Forced and the Boys (Contact Th eatre); Prem (BAC, Entertainment); Hold Me Down, Baldy Hopkins, Soho Poly). Opera includes: Eugene Onegin, Penny Dreadful, Waiting for Godot (Tottering Rigoletto (WNO); Die Zauberfl öte (Garsington); Bipeds). Opera includes: Jenufa (Welsh National Night Banquet (Almeida Opera); Oedipus Rex;

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Survivor from Warsaw (Royal Exchange/Halle); Company national tour (1998 and 2004); Declan Lives of the Great Poisoners (Second Stride). Donnellan’s Boris Godunov national tour (2003); St. Petersburg State Academic Capella national For the Royal Court: tour (2003); Bolshoi Ballet national tour (2000 Artistic Director, and 2002); Gate Theatre Dublin’s Beckett Festival General Manager, Diane Borger (2000); Rezo Gabriadze’s American debut: Finance Director, Sarah Preece The Battle of Stalingrad at the John F. Kennedy Literary Manager, Graham Whybrow Center for the Performing Arts (2000) and Head of Development, Helen Salmon the Lincoln Center Festival (2002); John F. Head of Marketing, Penny Mills Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Arts Head of Press, Ewan Thomson of the United Kingdom (2001), Island: Arts Artistic Assistant, Polly Wines from Ireland (2000), and of the State: Israel at 50 (1998); Lev Dodin’s Maly Drama Theater For David Eden Productions, Ltd.: of St. Petersburg’s Gaudeamus, BAM Next Wave US Production Supervision, Christopher Festival/national tour (1994); Brothers and Buckley Production and Performance Facility Sisters, Lincoln Center Festival (2000); Kirov Consulting Ballet/Vaganova Ballet Academy Project, BAM (1998); and Russian Village Festival national tour Project Coordinator, Erica Charpentier (1990, 1991, 1995, and 1997); among others. Visa Coordinator, Stonie Darling Executive Producer, David Eden Baryshnikov Dance Foundation (co-executive producer) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization David Eden Productions, Ltd. would like to dedicated to foster the development of new thank Sarah Frankland, Sally Cowling, Molly and experimental work. Under Baryshnikov’s Michal, Christina Sterner, Huong Hoang, Kim active artistic leadership, an international center Mach, and Barbara Matthews for all their help. for interdisciplinary experimentation and collaboration will come to life in January 2005. Acknowledgements Located in the new performing arts complex, 37th Street Arts, the Baryshnikov Arts Center will David Eden Productions, Ltd. (executive provide a unique opportunity for the professional producer) has been a leading American development of emerging and mid-career artists organization devoted to producing across disciplines, as well as accomplished international work in the United States for international artists whose work is lesser known more than 15 years. 2004 credits: The Ashton in the United States. The Foundation’s $30 Celebration, a two-week Frederick Ashton million capital and endowment campaign for retrospective for the Lincoln Center Festival the Baryshnikov Arts Center is now underway. at the Metropolitan Opera House; 12-city If you would like to make a tax-deductible tour of Rezo Gabriadze’s Forbidden Christmas contribution to the Foundation or to find out or The Doctor and The Patient, co-produced more information about the Center, please with Baryshnikov Dance Foundation. visit www.baryshnikovdancefoundation.org. Other highlights include: Batsheva Dance

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