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Ratner Chairman of the Board Harvey Lichtenstein President & Executive Producer presents the Out of Joint production of The Steward of Christendom by Sebastian Barry Running time: BAM Majestic Theater approximately two and January 18, 1997 at 7pm one half hours, January 19 & 26 at 3pm including intermission January 20, 21, 23-25 & 28-31 at 8pm February 1, 4-8, 11-15 & 18- 22 at 8pm February 2, 9, 16 & 23 at 3pm Director Max Stafford-Clark Design Julian McGowan Lighting Design Johanna Town Music Shaun Davey Sound Design Paul Arditti Production Manager Rob Young Company Stage Manager Rob Young Deputy Stage Manager Sally McKenna American Stage Manager Robert Bennett Costume Supervisor Jenny Cook Production Assistant Sally Pearson Child Chaperon Jan Widger Press (for Out of Joint) Cameron Duncan Production Photographer John Haynes Producer (for Out of Joint) Sonia Friedman Original Co-production by Out of Joint and the Royal Cou rt Theatre Major Corporate Sponsor: TIME WARNER Special support provided by European American Bank British Ai rways-Official Airline BAM wishes to thank Theatre Development Fund for its support of this presentation. Out of Joint is the London based touring company founded by Max Stafford-Clark and Sonia Friedman in 1993. Max Stafford-Clark comes to Out of Joint from The Royal Court Theatre where he was Artistic Director from 1979 to 1993. Prior to this he founded Joint Stock Theatre Group with William Gaskill and Out of Joint's name celebrates this link. The company's aim has been to generate and produce new writing for the stage and to tour this work both nationally and internationally. On occasion a classic ha~ been paired with a new play and both have been performed in repertory. Out of Joint's inaugural production was Sue Townsend's The Queen and I, initially produced with Jim Cartwright's 1980s classic, Road. The Queen and I toured and played in the West End before touring Australia extensively earlier last year. Stephen Jeffreys' new play on the life of the Restoration rake and poet Earl of Rochester was called The Ubertine and played with a revival of Etherege's Restoration classic, The Man of Mode. Last year Timberlake Wertenbaker wrote The Break of Day which was produced in repertoire with Chekhov's Three Sisters. Three Sisters also played a memorable season in promenade at Rossway Park, a large country house outside London. The Steward of Christendom won much praise for Sebastian Barry, for Donal McCann and for the company. It has already run for two seasons at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Gate Theatre in Dublin. It has played to acclaim in Luxembourg, Australia and New Zealand. Out of Joint's most recent production, Shopping And Fucking, began life at the Royal Court in September 1996. It has already toured England and become a focus of national interest. It is currently being revived in the West End. Later this year it will embark on a world tour. Further ahead Out of Joint's production plans include new plays by Caryl Churchill, Sebastian Barry, April de Angelis and Mark Ravenhill. Out of Joint is a new voice in English theater, but has already become an · important producer of new writing and has shown that radical work generates animated audiences on tour as well as in London. Out of Joint: 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996- 1997 The Productions The Queen and I: The Steward of Shopping And Fucking: S. Townsend Christendom: S. Barry M. Ravenhill Road: J. Cartwright Three Sisters: The Positive Hour: The Ubertine: A. Chekhov A. de Angelis S. Jeffreys The Break of Day: Blue Heart: The Man of Mode: T. Wertenbaker C. Churchill G. Etherege Board of Directors For Out of Joint: Director Max Stafford-Clark Producer Sonia Friedman Linda Bassett, John Blackmore, Production Manager Rob Young Graham Cowley, Stephen Jeffreys, Administrative Assistant Sally Pearson Paul Jesson, Karl Sydow Literary Advisor Lee White Press Cameron Duncan Out of Joint Registered Charity number: 1033059 The Cast Thomas Dunne Donal McCann His daughters Maud Ali White Annie Tina Kellegher Dolly Aislin McGuckin Willie, his son Carl Brennan Matt, his son-in-law Rory Murray Mrs. O'Dea Maggie McCarthy Smith Kieran Ahern Recruit Rory Murray The play is set in the county home in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, Ireland, in about 1932 . photo: John Haynes Out of Joint first performed The Steward of Christendom at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs 30 March, 1995 First performed on tour 25 April, 1995 First performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs 2 September, 1995 Copyright agent for the play: The Agency (London) Ltd. The ACTORS in The Steward of Christendom appear with the permission of Actors' Equity Association. The American Stage Manager is a member of Actors' Equity Association. From the Playwright The Steward of Christendom is the fifth in a series of plays looking for the lost, hidden or seldom mentioned people in one Irish family. The other plays are Boss Grady's Boys, Prayers of Sherkin, White Woman Street and The Only True History of Uzzie Finn. In a way, the approach to my great-grand­ father Thomas Dunne was the most worrying, because he was, according to whispered family history, the last Catholic head of the Dublin Metropolitan Police before its change in regime in 1922. In the folklore of Dublin working­ class life and Trades Union history he hardly holds an enviable place. He was the man with responsibility for Dublin Castle, the very hea rt of British rule in Ireland. Yet he was a cou ntryman, whose father was the steward of an old estate in Wicklow. His tastes were simple. He was a big strong person in his heyday. It was only when I began to think of him as an old man, alone in the county home in Baltinglass, boggy in the head and thinner and unpredictable enough to have his grandchildren kept away from him, that I was able to overcome a certain fear of his life and reach the man himself. I've had to recreate him from hints and largely imagine him. He is never going to be a comfortable ancestor. But he could not be denied his place among the plays for all that. - Sebastian Barry, 1995 Background Robert Emmet was an Irish revolutionary hero who inspired the abortive rising of 1803. He was the youngest son of the physician to the Lord Lieutenant and had a distinguished career as a student at Trinity College, Dublin before he became prominent in United Irishmen's activities. Emmet led the Dublin rising in 1803 which led to the murder of the Lord Chief Justice but, rec­ ognizing the rising was a fiasco, lived in hiding in the Wicklow mountains and, before being able to flee the country, was captured, tried for treason, found guilty and hanged in September 1803.