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May 2001 BAMcinematek 2001 Spring Season 651 ARTS Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra BAM Spring Season sponsor: PH il iP M ORRIS ~lAG(8Ill COMPANIES INC. 2001 Spring Broo Iyn Academy of Music Bruce C. Ratner Alan H. Fishman Chairman of the Board Chairman, Campaign for BAM Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer presents Royal National Theatre Hamlet by William Shakespeare 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 John Caird Designer Tim Hatley Lighting designer Paul Pyant Music John Cameron Fight director Terry King Sound designer Christopher Shutt Company voice work Patsy Rodenburg U.S . tour general management SFX Theatrical Group/Sondra R. Katz BAM Theater sponsors: AOL Time Warner In c. and Fleet Leadership support: The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; The Shubert Foundation, Inc.; and The Norman & Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc. Official airline for the BAM presentation of the Royal National Theatre in Hamlet British Airways The actors 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 Simon Russell Beale Hamlet, his father Sylvester Morand Claudius, his uncle Peter McEnery Gertrude, his mother Sara Kestelman Polonius, Lord Chamberlain Peter Blythe Laertes, his son Guy Lankester Ophelia, 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; Stockholm, 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. 26 \A/ho', \A/ho Chloe Angharad (Player) trained at the Drama Centre. 0997 Royal Television Society Programme Award for Her theater credits include, at the National, Albert Best Actor and 1997 BAFTA Best Actor Award}. Film: Speer, and elsewhere, Danton's Death at the Gate Hamlet, Schubert in The Temptation of Franz and Amadeus at the Old Vic and on the U.K. tour. Schubert, An Ideal Husband, and Alice in Television: East Meets West and Dirty Work. Film: Wonderland. Radio: Measure for Measure, 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 Macbeth for the Full Theatre Company; Selling Out at the Old Peter Blythe (Polonius(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 Birmingham Rep; A Servant of Two King Lear, 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: Alan Ayckbourn'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, Emmerdale, 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; Peter Hall'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 Seagull, The Provoked Tiger, all for the BBC. Wife , and King Lear. At the Royal Court: the Edward Bond season. Television: Several series as Samuel Simon Russell Beale (Hamlet) trained at Gonville and ("Soapy Sam") Ballard Q.C. in John Mortimer's Caius College Cambridge and Guildhall. His theater Rumpole of the Bailey, Bertie Stanhope in Barchester credits include, at the National, Mosca in Volpone 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 Othello (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 Candide 0999 Olivier Award for Paradise, A Challenge for Robin Hood, Anno Domini, Best Actor in a Musical}; Money; and Summerfolk. 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 Cheek by Jowl, 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 The Tempest. 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 Young Vic, the Royal Court and The Duchess of Malfi at The Admirable Crichton at Chichester, Hay Fever at Greenwich and Wyndham's. Television credits include the Savoy, and Roberto Zucco , Goodnight Children 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, London, 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, Lady Macbeth 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 Pygmalion, Dragon, Macbeth, Mountain Giants, La Hammersmith; 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; Three Sisters; 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 Maggie Smith.