Wednesday through Friday, March 22 –24, 2017, 8pm Saturday, March 25, 2017, 2pm and 8pm Sunday, March 26, 2017, 3pm Zellerbach Playhouse

In association with the Royal Shakespeare Company Filter Theatre Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Created by Filter Theatre Directed by Sean Holmes Music and Sound by Tom Haines and Ross Hughes Oliver Dimsdale and Ferdy Roberts, associate directors Olivia Francesca Zoutewelle Feste/Maria Gemma Saunders Orsino/Sir Andrew Aguecheek Jonathan Broadbent Viola/Sebastian Amy Marchant Malvolio Ferdy Roberts Sir Toby Belch Oliver Dimsdale Musician (Drummer) Alan Pagan Musician Ross Hughes Stage Manager Christie DuBois US Tour Producer Andrew Hamingson and Tim Smith for Pemberley Productions

Twelfth Night will be performed without an intermission and will last approximately 90 minutes.

The performances on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday evening will be followed by an onstage talk with the artists.

Above: (l-r) Ferdy Roberts, Oliver Dimsdale, Gemma Saunders, Jonathan Broadbent, and Victoria Moseley in Filter Theatre’s Twelfth Night . Photo by Robert Day.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Filter Theatre , which is led by actors Oliver change (2012); and Shakespeare’s Macbeth for Dimsdale and Ferdy Roberts and composer the Tobacco Factory (2014 and for a 2015 UK Tim Phillips, has been creating innovative, ex - tour). These projects aspired to pinpoint the citing theatrical work since 2003. Filter’s unique very heart of the plays by uncovering the light collaborative language explores the interaction and darkness of the language and the lyricism between sound, music, text, and movement in of the text. With Caucasian Chalk Circle, Filter’s a desire to make stories that awaken the imagi - approach created a modern and playful pro - native senses of an audience. Working out of duction out of Brecht’s didacticism, while staying a real sense of trust, and retaining robust emo - true to the playwright’s original vision. Three tional honesty and playfulness, the company Sisters dusted off cobwebs often found in English creates new works of original theater as well as Chekhov productions, with a stripped-away dynamic incarnations of existing texts. design and ensemble acting that served to Filter is at the forefront of contemporary highlight the timelessness of the writing; A Mid - theater as a deviser of new work. The company’s summer Night’s Dream was a joyous, riotous first original production, Faster , inspired by interpretation of a beloved classic; Macbeth was James Gleick’s book about the acceleration of a bold sonic experiment, the wayward sisters everyday life in the modern world, was devel - delving into the dark recesses of the characters’ oped and first performed at the Battersea Arts minds through sound alone; and Filter’s radical Centre in 2003, where it was a runaway hit with interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night re - audiences. Faster also played Soho Theatre and flects the anarchic energy running throughout the Lyric Hammersmith, toured the UK, and the beloved play. was staged in Germany and New York. Water , There are many new works in the pipeline directed by David Farr for the Lyric Hammer - for Filter. Among them are Broken Pine: A smith, became one of the most talked about Western , directed by Michael Boyd and written productions of 2007, was revived for The Tri- by David Greig, which explores how a Euro - cycle Theatre in 2011, and played at the Sydney pean odyssey and various cultural collisions Theatre Company in 2012 and New York’s combined to create the United States of Amer - Next Wave Festival (BAM) in 2013. An inti - ica. All Filter work tours the UK, Europe, and mate, multi sensory and highly charged piece of beyond, reaching a wide and diverse audience. theatrical storytelling, it explores deeply per - To learn more, visit www.filtertheatre.com or sonal narratives centering on two very different email [email protected]. issues—the bonds and ties of fathers and sons, and the legacy of global warming. The second Jonathan Broadbent (Orsino/Aguecheek ) stud - collaboration between Filter and Farr, Silence , ied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. premiered in 2011. Commis sioned and pro - He received the Clarence Derwent Award for duced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, it his performance of Guy in the Donmar Ware - is a gripping modern thriller with a complex house production of My Night With Reg, which narrative, moving from Russia to the UK with transferred to London’s West End. As a Filter cinematic bravura, exploring urban noise, rural associate artist he has collaborated on the emptiness, rationalism, spirituality, and love. company’s productions of A Midsummer Night’s Alongside its original work, Filter has pro - Dream , Three Sisters , and Twelfth Night . For the duced dynamic and innovative interpretations RSC he has appeared in The Tempest , Queen of classic texts: Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Anne, and Love For Love . Other theater includes Circle for the National Theatre (2006); Shakes - Peter Pan (National Theatre), Grand Guignol peare’s Twelfth Night for the RSC and The (Theatre Royal Plymouth and Southwark Play - Tri cycle (2007); Chekhov’s Three Sisters for house), Hamlet (Rose Theatre), Ghost Stories the Lyric Hammersmith (2010); Shakespeare’s (West End), Chekhov in Hell (Soho Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream for a UK tour and The Dumb Waiter , The Turn of the Screw, and the Lyric Hammersmith/Manchester Royal Ex- Master Harold and the Boys (Bristol Old Vic).

Opposite: Oliver Dimsdale in Filter Theatre’s Twelfth Night . Photo by Robert Day. ABOUT THE ARTISTS

On television, he has been seen in Silent Wit - Mid summer Night’s Dream , Three Sisters (Lyric ness , Eastenders , Gimme Gimme Gimme, Ham mersmith), Water (Lyric and BAM NYC) Cold War (all BBC), and Alice in Wonderland Twelfth Night (Tricycle), The Caucasian Chalk (Hall mark/Channel 4). Film credits include Circle (National Theatre), and Faster (London The Magic Flute and As You Like It , directed by and New York). Other theater includes Plaques Kenneth Branagh for HBO and Shakespeare and Tangles (Royal Court), Shakespeare in Love Film Company. Broadbent also voices the char - (West End), Open Court , If You Don’t Let Us acters of Bill and Ben in the popular animated Dream We Won’t Let You Sleep (Royal Court), series Thomas the Tank Engine . In 2010 he was Three King doms (Lyric/Munich Kammerspiel), the recipient of the Fox Foun dation Fellow - Wallenstein (Chichester), The Birthday Party , ship. Broadbent is represented by Independent The Dumb Waiter (Bristol Old Vic), Franken- Talent Group. stein (Derby Playhouse), Another Country (West End), The Changeling, Beautiful Thing Oliver Dimsdale (Sir Toby Belc h, associate di - (Salis bury Play house). Television: Dark Angel, rector ) trained at the Guildhall School of Music Foyle’s War, Whistleblower, The Bill, Goldplated, and Drama. As co-founder and co-artistic Your Mother Should Know , Holby City . Film: director he has worked on all of Filter’s projects. What You Will (Fluidity Films) , Mr. Nice, Sex & Other theater includes The Argument (Hamp - Drugs & Rock & Roll . stead), A Tale of Two Cities (Northampton Royal Theatre), The Creeper (Playhouse Thea - Gemma Saunders (Feste/Maria ) is an associate tre), The Comedy of Errors (Sheffield Crucible), artist for Filter Theatre. Her recent credits in - Pravda (Chichester Festival Theatre), The clude Hermia and Titania in Filter’s A Midsum - Tempest (RSC), Great Expectations, and The mer Night’s Dream (on tour in the UK and Dead Wait (Manchester Royal Exchange), for Europe), Feste/Maria in Filter’s Twelfth Night which he won a Manchester Evening News (on tour, RSC, and The Tricycle), Natasha in Award for Best Actor. He has worked exten - Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith), Ludovica/ sively in television, with roles in Ransom , Mother in The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Na - Grant chester , Mr. Selfridge , Downton Abbey , tional Theatre), Catherine in Proof (English Ambas sadors, Utopia, He Knew He Was Right, Theatre Frankfurt), Faster for Filter (BAC and Byron, Fallen Angel, Breaking the Mould, and Soho Theatre). Television: Peak Practice, The Harley Street . Film credits include Journey’s Inno cents, Law and Order UK. Film: What You End, Good People, Rocknrolla , First Night , and Will . Radio: over 100 plays for the BBC Radio Nostradamus . Drama Company.

Amy Marchant (Viola ) studied English liter a - Francesca Zoutewelle (Olivia ) trained at ture at the University of Leeds before training RADA, graduating in 2013. She has previously as an actor at LAMDA, graduating in 2013. worked with Filter, appearing in A Midsummer She is an associate artist of the Willow Globe Night’s Dream in Brisbane and Dublin. Theater Theatre and Vamp Theatre Company. Her the - credits include Hamlet (Trafalgar Studios), ater credits include Filter’s Twelfth Night (India, All My Sons (Rose Theatre), Who’s There (Park US, and UK tours), Shakespeare in Love (West Theatre and European tour), Into the Woods , End), and To Sir, With Love (UK tour). Film Britannia Waves the Rules , Them Last Days of credits include Confection (Misfit Studios) and Troy (all Royal Exchange Manchester), Merlin Big Day (Teng Teng Films). (Royal and Derngate), and A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep). She has been seen often Ferdy Roberts (Malvolio, associate director ) is on television, with roles in Lewis , Poirot, Mid - co-artistic director of Filter Theatre and an somer Murders , Holby City , and Agatha Raisin associate artist of the Lyric Hammersmith. (Sky). Film credits include The Head Hunter For Filter he has performed in Macbeth , A and Mr. Turner .

PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sean Holmes (director ) is artistic director of Big Tones, and Ben Huws. Pagan’s music studio the Lyric Hammersmith. Productions include is used for composing, supplying drum tracks, Bugsy Malone, Cinderella, Desire Under the Elms, and private teaching. www.alanpagan.com. Morning, Have I None, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Saved, Blasted , A Thousand Stars Ex - christie DuBois (stage manager ) is originally plode in the Sky, Ghost Stories, Three Sisters, and from Alaska. Her stage managing credits in - Comedians. Other theater includes The Plough clude Home Chat (Finborough Theatre), Romeo and the Stars, Drumbelly (Abbey Theatre, Dub - and Juliet (Rose Playhouse), Twelfth Night lin), Loot (Tricycle), Treasure Island (Theatre (Fil ter Theatre tour of India/US/UK), No Sex, Royal, Haymarket), Twelfth Night with Filter Please—We’re British (British Theatre Play - (London and on tour), Porno graphy by Simon house, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur), The Eighth Stephens (Traverse and Bir mingham Rep), Wonder of the World (Brunel Tunnels), The Devil The English Game by Richard Bean (Headlong), to Pay on Brook Street (Handel House), Twelfth The Man Who Had All The Luck by Arthur Night (Rudolf Steiner Theatre), Where Late the Miller (Donmar Ware house), The Entertainer Sweet Birds Sang (Rose Playhouse), Regarding X by John Osborne (Old Vic), Julius Caesar, The (Hackney Attic and Vauxhall Tavern), and As Roman Actor, Richard III, and Measure for You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Measure (RSC), Moonlight and Magnolias, The (Ru dolf Steiner Theatre). DuBois co-produced Price (also for Tricycle). He was an associate and co-directed As You Like It and A Midsum - director of the Oxford Stage Com pany from mer Night’s Dream and she has also been the 2001 to 2006 and has worked for the National stage manager for various musical concerts and Theatre and RSC as well as the Royal Court opera per formances. Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, and Chich ester Festival Theatre. Pemberley Productions (US tour producer ). Run by Andrew Hamingson and Tim Smith, Ross Hughes (composer, sound designer, musi - Pemberley Productions is a producing com - cian ) trained at Guildhall School of Music and pany dedicated to bringing European drama Drama. His theater credits include Mrs. Hud - to North America and North American drama son’s Christmas Corker (Wilton’s Music Hall), to Europe. Previous projects include the 2015 Treasure Island (dir. Sean Holmes, Hay market/ nine-week US tour of Filter’s Twelfth Night ; a UK West End), and The Grinning Man (Bristol Old and US tour of Paterson Joseph’s one-man play Vic). Television and film credits include Jazz - Sancho ; the 2016 US tour of Ensemble Basiani Duck (Amazon), Free Fire (directed by Ben from Tbilisi, Georgia (co-produced with David Wheat ley), What You Will . Pro duc tion music Eden Productions); the European tour of The composer (various libraries) usage includes Public Theater’s Apple Family Plays, written and Horizon, Louis Theroux, The Great British Bake directed by Richard Nelson (also co-produced Off, Portlandia, Big Brother, Made In Chelsea, with David Eden Productions); and the Irish and The One Show . Radio: The Great Scott tour of American Players Theatre’s production and The Purple Land . Bands: The London of In Acting Shakespeare by James DeVita. Snorkelling Team, Portishead, Will Gregory’s Moog Ensemble. Studio: Goldfrapp, Perfume Genius, Scarlet Rascal, Brains & Hunch. Filter Theatre Oliver Dimsdale, Tim Phillips, Ferdy Roberts, Alan Pagan (musician, drummer ) is a freelance artistic directors multi-instrumentalist specializing in drums Jonathan Broadbent, Tom Haines, and percussion. He has toured nationally and Gemma Saunders, artistic associates internationally with acts and companies such Tim Smith, producer as Filter Theatre, Charlie Winston (supporting Daniel Morgenstern, finance manager Peter Gabriel) Vashti, Punch Drunk, The Little Martin Shippen, marketing