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Home , Ariadne (short story), Cochrane Theatre, Geraldine McEwan, Hamlet (Liszt), John Caird (director), Pam Gems

May 2001 BAMcinematek 2001 Spring Season 651 ARTS Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra

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Approximate BAM Howard Gilman Opera House running time: May 30 & 31; June 1 & 2,2001, at 7:30pm 3 hours and June 2 at 2pm 15 minutes with one intermission Director Designer Tim Hatley Lighting designer Music Fight director Terry King Sound designer Christopher Shutt Company voice work Patsy Rodenburg

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The in Hamlet appear Additional support: The Laura Pels Foundation with the special permission of Actors' Equity Association. The American stage managers are The U.S. tour is sponsored by The American Associates of members of Actors' Equity the Royal National Theatre and The British Council. Association. Design and costumes are generously supported by Alan and Jean Horan.

25 The Players

Horatio Simon Day

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Hamlet, his father Sylvester Morand Claudius, his uncle Peter McEnery , his Sara Kestelman

Polonius, Lord Chamberlain Peter Blythe Laertes, his son Guy Lankester , his daughter Cathryn Bradshaw Reynaldo, his servant Edward Gower

Rosencrantz Christopher Staines Guildenstern Paul Bazely

Player King Sylvester Morand Player Queen Janet Spencer-Turner Other Players Chloe Angharad , Michael Wildman

Francisco, a soldier Edward Gower Barnardo, an officer Ken Oxtoby Marcellus, an officer Martin Chamberlain

Osric , a courtier Michael Wildman Gentlewomen Chloe Angharad , Janet Spencer-Turner

The Gravedigger Peter Blythe The Priest Ken Oxtoby

Musicians Music director/keyboards Jonathan Cooper Viola/recorder Rebecca Brown Oboe/shawm/recorder Belinda Sykes

This production of Hamlet had its first performances in the National's Lyttelton Theatre on July 15, 2000, before visiting Malvern; Elsinore, Denmark; Brighton; Glasgow; Dublin, Ireland; , Sweden; Sheffield; Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Bath ; and Aberdeen . In the United States, Hamlet visits the Wilbur Theatre, Boston (April 11-29, 2001); Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (May 2-13); Temple of Music & Arts, Tucson (May 16-20); Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix (May 22-27); and Brooklyn Academy of Music (May 30-June 2). Hamlet returns to the National, to play in the Olivier Theatre, from June 11- July 5.

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Chloe Angharad (Player) trained at the Drama Centre. 0997 Royal Television Society Programme Award for Her theater credits include, at the National, Albert Best and 1997 BAFTA Best Actor Award}. Film: Speer, and elsewhere, Danton's Death at the Gate Hamlet, Schubert in The Temptation of Franz and at and on the U.K. tour. Schubert, An Ideal Husband, and Alice in Television: East Meets West and Dirty Work. Film: Wonderland. Radio: , Waiting for The Pleasure Principle. Godot, Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday's Child, Devout Sceptics, The True Services of Genius, Barchester Paul Bazely (Guildenstern) trained at Manchester Towers, The Sisterhood, The Sea, Berlioz, Full Score, Polytechnic. His theater credits include, for the Dombey & Son, The Trials of Oscar, War and Peace, National, Richard III, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, On Horseback, Art, The Ceremony of Innocence, and The Waiting Room; and elsewhere, The Big Heart Setting the World on Fire (Book at Bedtime), Rites of and Soldiers with Contact Theatre Company; Beauty Passage, Life After Death, Mercian Hymns, The Judas and the Beast and Brother Eichman at the Kiss, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Manchester Library Theatre; the title role in for the Full Theatre Company; Selling Out at the Old Peter Blythe ((The Gravedigger) has appeared Fire Station; Oxford, Tomfoolery, Selling Out, Bye Bye at the National in Flight, Pravda, The Government Blues, and Cigarettes and Chocolate at the Stephen Inspector, and Futurists. For the RSC: Graham Joseph Theatre, Scarborough; Peter Pan and Toad of Greene's The Return of AJ Raffles, a world tour of Toad Hall at Rep; A Servant of Two , and The Comedy of Errors. At Chichester: Masters at Sheffield Crucible; East is East and A Hedda Gabler and The Hothouse; and at the Tainted Dawn for Tamasha Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival: The Voysey Inheritance. In the Royal Court, Theatre Royal Stratford East, and on tour; West End: 's Absurd Person Singular and Last Dance at Dum Dum at the New at the Criterion and Woman in Mind at the Vaudeville; Ambassadors. Television: Heathcliff in Wuthering The Clandestine Marriage and Hayfever at the Savoy; Heights, Making Out, Resnick and Resnick II, The Chairman at the Globe (for which he received the Casualty, Medics, , Heartbeat, and New Clarence Derwent Award); The Living Room at the Voices-The Quiet Life. Film: See Red and Royalty; Make and Break at the Theatre Royal, Shadowscan. On radio his work includes No Problem, Haymarket; 's production of Mind Millie for Not All Angels Have Wings, Resnick, Westway, Me at the Globe; and again with Peter Hall at the Old Grease Monkeys, Postcards, and The Year of the Vic, Amadeus, Waste, , The Provoked Tiger, all for the BBC. Wife , and King Lear. At the Royal Court: the season. Television: Several series as Samuel Simon Russell Beale (Hamlet) trained at Gonville and ("Soapy Sam") Ballard Q.C. in 's Caius College Cambridge and Guildhall. His theater Rumpole of the Bailey, Bertie Stanhope in Barchester credits include, at the National, Mosca in Chronicles, Sword of Honour, Dalziel and Pascoe, (1996 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor); Between the Lines, Pie in the Sky, Goodnight Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Sweetheart, The Guilty, The High Life, and appear­ Dead; lago in (also on world tour, including ances in many other major series. Film: The Luzhin BAM in 1998); George, Prince of Wales in Battle Defense, Carrington, ID, The Bridge, Passion and Royal, Pangloss in 0999 Olivier Award for Paradise, A Challenge for Robin Hood, Anno Domini, Best Actor in a Musical}; Money; and . He Arthur the King, Alfred the Great, and Kaleidoscope. began his theater career at the Traverse, Edinburgh, Radio: Dracula, Jenkins' Ear, and Sherlock Holmes. and then played Osric in Hamlet at the Lyceum. He has spent many seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Cathryn Bradshaw (Ophelia) trained at Bristol Old Vic Company (RSC), where credits include A Winter's Theatre School. Her theater credits include, at the Tale , The Art of Success , Everyman in His Humour, National, Bourgeois Gentilhomme, War and Peace, The Fair Maid of the West, The Storm, Speculators, The Mysteries, Summerfolk, and Albert Speer. Restoration , The Constant Couple, The Man of Mode, Elsewhere, seasons at Bristol and Salisbury, The Tutor Some Americans Abroad, Mary and Lizzie, Playing at the Old Vic, The Last Waltz at Greenwich, Adam with Trains , Thersites in Troilus and Cressida , title Bede at the Orange Tree, Hamlet for , roles in Edward II and Richard III, The King in Love's Assassins at the Donmar, Search and Destroy at the Labour's Lost, The Seagull, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Royal Court, The Seagull at the Orange Tree, Man of Ghosts, Edgar in King Lear, and Ariel in . Mode and The Libertine for Out of Joint at the Royal Credits elsewhere include Women Beware Women at Court and on tour, The Misanthrope at the , the Royal Court and The Duchess of Malfi at The Admirable Crichton at Chichester, at Greenwich and Wyndham's. Television credits include the Savoy, and Roberto Zucco , Goodnight A Very Peculiar Practice , Playing with Fire, Downtown Everywhere , and Measure for Measure for the RSC. Lagos , The Mushroom Pickers, Persuasion , Rhyme Television: Storyteller, Inspector Morse, Yellow Brick and Reason, and A Dance to the Music of Time Road, Oranges are not the only Fruit, Chancer, Made 27 \A/bo'~ \A/ho

in Heaven, Boon, Poirot, Casualty, Black Daisies for Midsummer Night's Dream (Stratford, , and the Bride, A Skirt Through History, Frank Stubbs Broadway), The Hollow Crown, Troifus and Cressida, Promotes II, People Like Us, The Wifd House, The The Marquis of Keith, Goneril in King Lear and Bill, and History Fife. Film: Bert Rigby You're a Fool. Edward Bond's Lear, in Macbeth, Radio: Sense and Sensibility, Riding High, The Moscow Gold, Misha's Party, and Custom of the Country Wife, When We Are Married, and The Bell. Country. Also, The Way of the World and Point Valaine at the Chichester Festival Theatre; Squirrels Martin Chamberla in (Marcellus) trained at Rose and A Slight Ache at the King's Head; The Cherry Bruford. His theater credits include, for the National, Orchard at the Gate, Dublin; Sarrasine at the Lyric , Dragon, Macbeth, Mountain Giants, La ; Some Sunny Day at the Hampstead Grande Magia, The Way of the World, The Prince's Theatre; and Plunder at the Bristol Old Vic. West End Play, King Lear (also for television), Peter Pan, Troilus Theatre includes I, Claudius; Waste; Bussy D'Ambois; and Cressida, Money, Summerfolk, Battle Royal, and The Cabinet Minister; Another Time; ; Albert Speer. Also, nine seasons at the Chichester Lettice and Lovage with Geraldine McEwan; and Festival Theatre, playing, among others, Pompey in Three Tall Women with . Musicals: , , The Golde in at the Cherry Orchard, and Look After Lulu. West End cred­ and, for the , Nine and Fraulein its are Antony and Cleopatra, Hortensio in The Schneider in for which she received the Taming of The Shrew, and Teddy Luton in The Circle Clarence Derwent Award and an Olivier Award for at the Haymarket; Hamlet at the Old Vic and on world Best Supporting Performance in a Musical. Television tour; The Mitford Girls and A Personal Affair at the includes The Walls of Jericho, Shelley, Crown Court, Globe; No Sex Please We're British at the Garrick; A Casualty, Van der Valk, Kavanagh QC, Ruth Rendell Man for All Seasons at the ; Hamlet at Mystery-Going Wrong, The Last Romantics, Tom the Gielgud; Woman in Mind, Pickwick Papers, and Jones, Invasion Earth, Mindgames, and Anna Annie Get Your Gun at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich; Karenina. Film includes Zardoz, , Lady Macbeth and The from Syracuse at the Open Air Jane, and Break of Day. For the radio she adapted Theatre, Regent's Park; and Neville's Island at the Molly Keane's Full House and has broadcast numer­ Chester Gateway. Television includes A Man for All ous plays and short stories, including Jim Crace's Seasons, Inspector Morse, Van Der Valk, , Quarantine for Book at Bedtime. She recorded Fiddler EastEnders, and Kavanagh QC. on the Roof with Anthony Newley for BBC Radio 2 and has also recorded an album of Fiddler with Len Simon Day () studied drama at University of Carriou. A Two Hander, a collection of poems written East Anglia before training at the Bristol Old Vic. His by Sara Kestelman and Susan Penhaligon, was pub­ previous work for the National includes Rudi Wolters lished, which they also perform with songs written by in Albert Speer, Ajax in Troilus and Cressida, Sara Kestelman, arranged by Neil Rutherford, and first Maximilian in Candide, Sir Frederick Blount in Money, presented at Cliveden and the . On and Sir Henry Wilson in Dh What a Lovely War. Other the Hamlet tour she is hoping to perform her solo theater includes Gussie Fink-Nottle in By Jeeves at the show of Songs and Poems, which she has recently Lyric and Duke of York's and Angelo in Measure for recorded and which she first performed at the NT Measure for ACTER. Poetry Festival and last year in cabaret at the Firebird Cafe in New York. Edward Gower (Reynaldo/Player) trained at Mountview Theatre School. His theater credits are, for Guy Lankester (Laertes) trained at the Bristol Old Vic the National, Summerfolk, The Merchant of Venice, Theatre School. His theater credits include, for the and Honk! The Ugly Duckling; and elsewhere, Shame National, War and Peace; and elsewhere, at the Hen and Chickens, Let Him Have Justice at the at the Bristol Old Vic; The Go-Between at the Theatre , and on tour. Royal, Northampton; Flarepath at the Bristol Old Vic and Leatherhead; Son of Man for the RSC; True Brit Sara Kestelman (Gertrude) trained as a dancer at the and Three Sisters at the Birmingham Rep; Ghosts at Central School of Speech and Drama. Her theater Plymouth Theatre Royal; and The Deep Blue Sea at credits include, for the National, Copenhagen (also at Nottingham Playhouse. Television: For Valour, Soldier the ), Bedroom Farce, The Lady from Soldier IV, Under the Sun , Mr. White Goes to Maxim's, State of Revolution, Strife, Rosalind in As Westminster, McCallum II, Heaven Beneath the You Like It, Dorothy Parker in Men Seldom Make Desert, and The Bill. Film: The Cull and Pandemonium. Passes , Undiscovered Country, Dalliance , The Double Dealer, Love for Love , Mrs. Peachum in The Peter McEnery (Claudius) theater credits include, at , The American Clock, and Square National, The Elephant Man and Women of Troy; he Rounds . She has worked extensively with the RSC was a founder member and associate artist for the RSC doubling Titania and Hippolyta in 's A under Peter Hall. Roles included Laertes, Clarence, 28 \A/ho'~ \A/ho

Tybalt, Silvius, Patroclus, Bassanio, Orlando, Pericles, Philanthropist at Dundee Rep; Ashes, Stevie, in Henry VI, Brutus, Antipholus of Epheses, and Accounts, Rents, and Kevin Elyot's award-winning the title role in Lorenzaccio Story; also Afore Night Coming Clean at Dixon Studio; and The Naff Sex Come, The Devils, The Jew of Malta, Sons of Ught, and Guide at Canal Cafe and Edinburgh Festival. He has Jail Diary. In the West End , Look Homeward Angel, also toured in many major productions and worked at Next Time /'1/ Sing to You, Collaborators, Made in The Arts Festival in Malta. In London: There's a Girl in Bankok, A Uttle Night Music, The Seagull, and Ashes; My Soup at the Comedy and on national tour, The and elsewhere, Cider with Rosie at the Birmingham Dresser at The Queen's , The' Changing Room at The Rep; Summerfolk, A Uttle Night Music, A Doll's House, Globe, What the Butler Saw at Wyndham's, Dead and A Dangerous Corner at Chichester; and Heartbreak Funny at The Vaudeville, and 1953 at The Almeida. House at the Almeida. Television: Clayhanger, A Television includes The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Nightingale , You Never Can Tell, Spy (Camp Saga, The Collectors, The Mistress, Safari, Witchcraft, 020), No Appointment Necessary, All Creatures Boon VII, Berlin Break, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Great and Small, and EastEnders. Film : Seasong and and Reach for the Moon. Film : Tunes of Glory, Victim, a Lucky Man' Moonspinners, The Fighting Prince of Donegal, La Curee, J'ai Tue Rasputin, Negatives, Adventures of Janet Spencer-Turner's (Player Queen) theater Gerard, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Le Mur D'Atiantique, credits include, at the National, Antony and Clayhanger, The Cat and the Canary, and Wonderland. Cleopatra, Battle Royal, and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at the NT Studio. Elsewhere, Romeo and Juliet on Sylvester Morand (Hamlet's Father/Player King) trained national tour; What the Heart Feels , Sauce for the at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. His Goose, Love's a Luxury, Bye Bye Blues, and Journey theater credits include, at the National, Albert Speer, to London at the ; Gaslight at the and elsewhere, seasons at the Belgrade Coventry, Watermill, Newbury; Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Liverpool Playhouse, RSC, and Lyceum , Edinburgh; Dream, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Hero in also Drums in the Night and Blues, Whites, and Reds , and Luciana in A Comedy at the Birmingham Rep; The Norman Conquests at of Errors at Regent's Park; Dandy Dick on Compass Ipswich; Out on the Lawn at the Palace , Watford; Tour; Arms and the Man at Theatre Royal , York; Hamlet at Leicester; A Winter's Tale at Leatherhead; Golden Boy at , Sheffield; and seasons at Romeo and Juliet at Plymouth; Sleuth at the Oxford Theatre Royal Stratford East, Manchester Library Playhouse and on tour; Doolaly Days at the , and the Nottingham Playhouse. Television: Theatre and on tour; Forever Yours, Marie Lou at the Highlander, Casualty, The Bill, Hope it Rains, Toksvig, Leicester Haymarket; Turning Over at ; Eat Your Words, The Life of Shakespeare, The The Father at Bridge Lane Theatre; Electra, Don Juan, Foundation, and Dickens of London. Film: Sherlock and Troilus and Cressida at the RSC; As You Uke It at Holmes and Light Fantasy. the Old Vic; Hecuba and The Great Highway at the Gate; Long Day's Journey into Night with the Christopher Staines (Rosencrantz) trained at Bristol Co.; Venice Preserved at the Royal Old Vic Theatre School. His theater credits include, at Exchange, Manchester; No Man's Land with English the National , Amy's View (also in the West End) and Touring Theatre; Waterfall at the ; King elsewhere; Gross Indecency at the Theatre Royal Arthur at Centro Cultural de Belem ; The Wolves with Plymouth and in the West End; Leonce in Leonce and Paines Plough; Ufe Is a Dream at the Lyceum , Lena at the Gate; The Simpleton in The Simpleton of Edinburgh , the Barbican, and BAM; and The Storm at Unexpected Isles; Flora the Red Menace, The the Almeida. Television: The Troubleshooter, Callan, Memorandum, and Portrait of a Woman at the Man at the Top, The Brief, Bergerac, Uoyd George, The Orange Tree; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard Professionals, Humbolt, War and Peace, Squadron, III, and The Music Man at Regent's Park Open Air Toddler on the Run, Parachute, Twelfth Night , PQ17, Theatre and on tour; The Belle Vue with Actors Nelson , Circle of Deceit , Sharpe's Siege, Kavanagh QC, Touring Company; Cabaret at the Donmar Warehouse and Going Wrong. and An Evening with Gary Lineker at the Royal Theatre , Northampton. Television: Good Friday 1663, Ken Oxtoby (Barnardo) trained at Rose Bruford Pride and Prejudice , The Ruby Ring , The Queen's College of Speech and Drama. His theater credits Nose, This Life, Highlander, and The Student Prince. include, for the National, Othello (also world tour) and Film: Mrs. Dalloway Radio: Antigone , The Dealer's Choice (NT transfer at the Vaudeville and on Decameron , The Charm Factory, The Rose and the international tour); and elsewhere, extensive work in Ring, and Dossier Ronald Akkerman. repertory including Tom and Viv , Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Noises Off, One of Us, and Peter Pan at the Michael Wildman 's (Osric) theater credits include, at Palace, Westcliff; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for the National with the NT Ensemble, Troilus and Contact Theatre, Manchester; Tons of Money and The Cress ida , Candide , The Merchant of Venice , The

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Darker Face of the Earth , and The Villains' Opera ; Summer) the 1999 Evening Standard Award for Best and elsewhere, Ariel in Une Tempeste at the Gate , Stage Designer. Opera: , in the Hope Deferred at the Machine Room, Underworld, and The Return of Ulysses (Opera at Jermyn Street and the Prince Theatre, Micromania North); II trovatore, auf Naxos, and and Bartholomew Fair at , and Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Scottish Opera); Die several musicals at the Beck Theatre. Television Fledermaus, HMS Pinafore (D'Oyly Carte Opera), and includes Casualty, The Girls' Sketch Show, Comedy Les Miserables (Gothenburg Opera). Dance: Nation, Then, Planet Janet, and Douglas. Film: War Unrequited Moments (English National Ballet) , Games , Hypnotised, The Basketball Killer, and Bring Roughcut (Rambert Dance Co.) , and Cinderella Me the Head of Mavis Davis. (Northern Ballet Theatre). Recent other work includes designing Vivienne Westwood-a London Fashion John Caird's (director) previous work for the National (). includes Money and his own new version of Candide with the NT Ensemble; Peter Pan with , Paul Pyant (lighting designer) trained at Royal Trelawny of the Wells , and The Seagull, all in the Academy of Dramatic Arts. For the National his work Olivier; and Stanley by , which ran at the includes Single Spies (also West End) , The Wind in Cottesloe and then at Circle in the Square in New York. the Willows, The Sea, The Madness of George III He is an honorary associate director of the RSC, where (world tour), (also New York, Tokyo, he has directed more than 20 plays, including classic and U.S. tour), (also New York , Tokyo, and works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Farquhar, Gorky, U.S. tour), Othello (world tour), Troilus and Cressida, Strindberg, Brecht, and , among others, and Candide. Extensive theater credits elsewhere and new plays by , Pam Gems, include, for the Donmar Warehouse, Company, Into Jonathan Gems, and Nell Bielski , Richard the Woods, and How I Learned to Drive; for the RSC, Nelson, , Mary O'Malley, and Charles Richard III and The Tempest; for the Almeida , Lulu, Wood. His productions of Les Miserables and Nicholas Donna Rosita , and Cressida (at the Albery); in the Nickleby, both with Trevor Nunn, have won numerous West End: Alarms and Excursions , Talking Heads, awards around the world. Other work includes the and The Sisters Rosenzweig. Work in opera includes original production of 's Song Le nOlle di Figaro , Death in Venice, and Falstaff and Dance in the West End , Richard Nelson's Life (Glyndebourne Festival); Pique Dame (Metropolitan Sentences at Second Stage in New York, Mozart's Opera); Stiffelio (La Scala Milan); Rigoletto and Eugen Zaide at the Battignano Opera Festival, and his own Onegin (); Clemenza di Tilo (Dallas Opera); adaptation of the Henry IV plays for BBC Television . Fedora; Le nOlle di Figaro , and Stiffelio (Vienna State Recent published work includes a new version of John Opera); Hamlet and Gigi (Vienna Volksoper); Flying Gay's Beggar's Opera with the compcser Ilona Sekacz, Dutchman, Elixir of Love , Don Pasquale, and Children of Eden with composer Stephen Schwartz, II trovatore (L.A. Opera); Florencia en el Amazonas and a musical adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane and Tasca (); Eyre with the composer Paul Gordon. (Kirov Opera, St Petersburg); and Simon Boccenegra (New Zealand Festival). In the United Kingdom , Turn Tim Hatley (designer) trained at Central SI. Martin's of the Screw (WNO); Le nOlle di Figaro and The College of Art & Design. Theater: won the Linbury Magic Fountain (Scottish Opera); Genoveva (Opera Prize for stage design dance commission in 1989, North); a wide range of work for ENO, including Best Designer 1991-Plays and Players Critics' Khovanshina , Lear, Street Scene, Xerxes, Lady Awards, and a 1992 Time Out Award for the design Macbeth of Mtsensk , Orpheus and Eurydice, and of Damned for Despair (The Gate). Recent work ; and for House Gawain, includes Last Dance at Dum Dum (Ambassadors); Stiffelio, Le nOlle di Figaro , and Die Zauberf/ote. Suddenly Last Summer (Warehouse); The Three Lives Ballet work includes Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, of Lucie Cabrol (Complicite), Chatsky, Puntila and His Cinderella, and The Nutcracker (English National Man Multi, and The Play about the Baby (Almeida); Ballet) ; Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Dracula, and Moscow Stations (Traverse, West End , and New York); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Northern Ballet ( Dublin and , Theatre); Giselle (Norwegian Royal Ballet) ; and New York); and The Nose (Nottingham Playhouse). Cinderella (Boston Ballet). RSC: Richard III , Goodnight Children Everywhere, and Talk of the City. Previous work for the National: Out of John Cameron (music) was educated at Corpus a house walked a man ... (co-production with Christi College, Cambridge, where he studied history Complicite), Stanley 0997 Olivier Award for Best and music. While there he was was vice president Design), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Flight, Antony and musical director of Footlights. He wrote the and Cleopatra, Sleep with Me, and Darker Face of the orchestral score for Les Miserables and in 1979, he Earth , for which he won (with Suddenly Last arranged and conducted the original concept album in

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Paris and orchestrated the Paris version of the show. elsewhere includes The Fifteen Streets at Coventry He subsequently orchestrated and supervised the and in the West End, Peter Pan at Leeds, True West music for the RSC productions in London, and Fool for Love at the Donmar Warehouse, Death of Washington, and New York , for which he received the a Salesman at Bristol and in the West End, Lysistrata New York Drama Desk Award. He wrote the orchestra­ at the Old Vic, Blue Remembered Hills at Bristol, and tions for Honk' The Ugly Duckling at the National. Of Mice and Men at Nottingham. Opera and musi­ Other shows he has arranged and supervised include cals: Porgy and Bess, Otello, Carmen, Martin Guerre, The Goodbye Girl, Joseph and the Amazing Jesus Christ Superstar" Oliver', Saturday Night Fever, Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Card, Blondel, Mutiny!, Spend Spend Spend, West Side Story, and Lautrec. and Spend Spend Spend at the . Television: The Bill, Casualty, EastEnders , Broken His most recent composing for the theater includes Glass, A Kind of Innocence, Fell Tiger, The Scold's the music for Faust Parts I and 1/ (RSC) and his own Bridal, Fatal Inversion, Death of a Salesman, The musical Alfie which premiered in 1997. More than 40 Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, and Measure for Measure. feature film scores include A Touch of Class (Oscar nomination), Kes, The Ruling Class, The Mirror Christopher Shutt (sound designer) trained at the Crack'd, Night Watch, Lost and Found, Black Beauty, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He was the former Hawks, and Driftwood. Te levision film scores include head of sound at the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Frankenstein, Jack the Ripper, Jekyll and Hyde, Court, London, where shows included Serious Money Marlowe-Private Eye, Witness for the Prosecution, and Road. Sound designs elsewhere include, for and The Secret Garden. Besides the Grammy Theatre de Complicite, The Street of Crocodiles; The Award-winning New York cast album and symphonic Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, Caucasian Chalk Circle, album for Les Miserables and the 1991 version of and Mnemonic; and for the National, Machinal, The Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, he Homecoming, Death of a Salesman, Chips with also has worked with a wide range of recording Everything, Not About Nightingales , Haroun and the artists, including Heatwave, Hot Chocolate, Ella Sea of Stories, Sleep with Me, The Darker Face of the Fitzgerald, David Essex, Donovan, and his own band, Earth, and Albert Speer. He also has designed sound CCS. His songwriting credits include "If I Ever Thought for Mark Ravenhill's Handbag in London and Berlin You 'd Change Your Mind, " "Sweet Inspiration, " and for ATC, The Street of Crocodiles in the West End , and "Tap Turns on the Water." He was principal arranger Not About Nightingales in Houston, Texas , and on for the Jose Carreras albums Passion and Pure Broadway, for which he was awarded the 1999 New Passion and was awarded a silver disc for Lux York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Aeterna , his eight-part choral setting of Elgar's Design. Most recently: Mnemonic at Salzburg Festival Nimrod, featured on the best-selling classical album and Riverside Studios, and The Noise of Time off­ Agnus Dei. He conducted the English Chamber Broadway, both for Theatre de Complicite. He is cur­ Orchestra and the Choir of New College Oxford in a rently sound supervisor at the National. recording of his own work Missa Celtica. Patsy Rodenburg (company voice work) trained at the Terry King's (fight director) work in theater includes, Central School of Speech and Drama. She is head of for the National, Fool for Love, The Murderers, King voice at the Royal National Theatre and Guildhall Lear, The Sea, Othello, The Birthday Party, Carousel, School of Music and Drama, and was voice tutor at The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Riot, Chips with the Royal Shakespeare Company for nine years. She Everything, Battle Royal, The London Cuckolds, works extensively in theater, film , television, and radio , Ting Tang Mine , Three Men on a throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and Horse, Jacobowski and the Colonel, and The Asia. She has given lessons to many of the world's Homecoming. For the RSC: Troilus and Cressida, leading theater and opera companies, and maintains Richard 1/1, Romeo and Juliet, , Pericles, a continuous working relationship with Stratford , , Henry V, Hamlet, A Patriot Festival Theatre (Canada), Shared Experience, Cheek for Me, , The Comedy of Errors, by Jowl, Theatre de Complicite, Method and Twelfth Night, Othello, Henry IV 1 & 2, Bite of the Madness, , Donmar Warehouse, Night, Singer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The , and Michael Howard Studio, Broken Heart, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and New York. She is a director of the Voice and Speech Macbeth. For the Royal Court: Our Country's Good, Centre, London. Publications: The Right to Speak, The The Recruiting Officer, The Queen and I, King Lear, Need for Words, and The Actor Speaks, all published Soar Throats, Search and Destroy, Ashes and Sand, by Methuen. Video: A Voice of Your Own. Audio tape: Oleanna, Ourselves Alone, and Greenland. Theater The Right to Speak.

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For Hamlet on tour u. S. tour staff Staff director Stephen Wrentmore General management Production co-ordinator Matthew Gale SFX Theatrical Group-Boston / Sondra R. Katz Company stage manager Trish Montemuro Deputy stage manager Fiona Bardsley National press representative Assistant stage managers Valerie Fox, Andrew Speed BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN: Re-lighting for U.S. tour Pete Bull Adrian Bryan-Brown, Jim Byk Chief electrician Wayne Parry Boston press representation Broadway in Boston Senior operations assistant Ian Cahill Stage technicians David Hutchinson, Martin Mardon Technical supervision SFX Theatrical Group: Sound Adam Rudd Steven Ehrenberg, Sue Bartelt Wardrobe mistress Ashley Holtom Stage manager Rita D'Angelo Wigs Kelly Andrews Assistant stage manager Laurie Anne Palmer Tour associate Jennifer Lee For the Royal National Theatre on tour Production electrician Alix Lopes Head of touring Roger Chapman Counsel Kenneth David Burrows Assistant to head of touring Holly Kendrick Accountant Arthur Cohen, CPA / Cohen and Schaeffer Tour finance Lorne Cuthbert Banking JP Morgan / Barbara Van Borstel Tou r publicist Jenny Mann Exclusive tour directi on Royal National Th ea tre of Grea t Britain SFX Theatrical Group-Boston / Bill Conner Under the direction of Trevor Nunn, the National is a theater for all age groups from all communities. In its Hamlet production credits unique three-auditorium on the South Bank of Scenery constructed by Terry Murphy Scenery, the Thames in London, it offers the widest pcssible WeldFab Eningeering Ltd ., Scott Fleary. Scenic artist: range of plays, beth old and new, in repertoire, six Gordon Aldred. Chandeliers made by Souvenir. Cloths days a week all year round, presenting them to the supplied by Gerriets UK Ltd . Production draughting by highest standards. It also tours throughout the United Tim Overson, Gemma Gardner. Additional costumes Kingdom and abroad, hosts work from other theaters, made by Fran Bristow, Anna von Maltzahn, engages in education work, training, and develop­ Fran Alderson, Debbie Marcha nt, Robbie Gordon, ment, to celebrate the United Kingdom's unrivalled Dennis & Shirley Fitzgerald , Jane Johnson , contribution to world theater and to continue that tra­ Ba Higgins. Hats by Sandra Northend and dition for succeedi ng generations. Kirstie Buckland. Shoes by Baboucha. Sh irts made by the Costume Store. Recent work from the NT in the United States: Othello Add itional propmaker Nick Rushmer (at BAM in 1998), Carousel, Arcadia, An Inspector Keyboard programming Stuart Andrews Calls , Indiscretions, Racing Demon, Skylight, Stanley, Boy soprano Jake Arditti An Enemy of the People, Amy's View, Closer, Not Extracts from Orlando di Lasso's Regina Coeli from the About Nightingales, and Copenhagen. recording by Trinity College Chapel Choir; director, Richard Marlow (Conifer CDCF230l Chairman of the Board Sir Christopher Hogg Director of the Royal National Theatre Trevor Nunn u. S. production credits Executive Director Genista Mcintosh Lighting equipment High Output, Inc. and Varilite, Inc. Sound Sound Associates, Inc. Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 9PX. Freight Speed of S~und Worldwide Box Office: + 44 (0)20 7452 3000 Tru cking Clark Transfer Specialty rigging Scenic Technologies Registered Charity No. 224223 Funded by the Arts Council of www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

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