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Two’s Company and Karl Sydow in association with Master Media present A DAY BY THE SEA by N. C. Hunter programme A DAY BY THE SEA by N. C. HUNTER Cast in order of speaking Director Tricia Thorns Miss Mathieson Stephanie Willson Set Designer Alex Marker governess to the children Costume Designer Emily Stuart Elinor Eddison Tatum Smith-Sperling or Lighting Designer Neill Brinkworth daughter of Frances by her first marriage Beatrix Taylor Sound Designer Candice Weaver Toby Eddison Jack Swiftor Production Manager Owen Donkin Elinor’s brother George Taylor Stage Manager /Operator Remi Bruno Smith Doctor Farley David Acton Rehearsal Stage Manager Naomi Buchanan Brooks Doctor to David Performance Stage Manager Lauren Burns David Anson David Whitworth Design Assistant Natalie Furnell Calvert Laura’s brother-in-law Costume Assistant Samina Sattar Laura Anson Susan Tracy Assistants to the production Elizabeth Holden and Jan Rae a widow Production photography Philip Gammon Frances Farrar Alix Dunmore Press Anne Mayer (020 3659 8482) recently divorced from her second husband Marketing Mel Cox, Target Live William Gregson David Gooderson a solicitor Poster & programme design Jon Bradfield Producer Graham Cowley Julian Anson John Sackville Laura’s son, in the Foreign Office Our grateful thanks to: Duncan Coombe; Paul Grimwood; Humphrey Caldwell Hugh Sachs Miller Centre Theatre for costumes; Ladies’ hair by Lynne of an official in the Foreign Office Emslie Griffin at Stars; Guy Chapman for extra marketing help; Out of Joint for rehearsal space; Phil Gammon and Tony Pescod for the boat; Jenny and Peter Parker and the Bottom Act I Group for props; Ian Black, Sadie Crowder, Angus Duke, The garden of Laura Anson’s house in Dorset. Mariella Neubauer, Esther O’ Loughlin, Oliver Potter, Andrew A morning in early May 1953 Quick, Victoria Smith, Abena Weston, Fengfan Zhou for help with set building and painting; The Questors Theatre Ealing. Act II, Scene 1 Lighting and other equipment supplied by DCLX: A beach nearby, the same afternoon www.dclx.co.uk INTERVAL Particular thanks to those who have contributed to the costs of this production. A Day by the Sea is generously supported by Act II, Scene 2 Backstage Trust, The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation and The beach, an hour later the Leche Trust. Act III The garden again. Next morning EastEnders, Silent Witness, Cedar Street. Lovejoy, Rumpole of the Bailey, Family, Trexx And Flipside, City Television: Genius: Einstein, THE COMPANY Passage, Hollyoaks, Tchaikovsky, Film: London Wall (Master Tenko. Bluebell, Mr Sloane and Of Vice, The Catherine Tate The Crown (Series 1 and 2), The Bill, Blair on Trial, Class of Media) Cuffs. Show, Him And Us, Housewife, Royal Wives At War, Doctors, ’76, Casanova’s Love Letters, 49, Midsomer Murders, Foyles Casualty, House Of Anubis, Alix is a founder member of the Film: Limited Edition. Fooling Hitler, The Wyvern War, Riot At The Ritz, Rome, The Secret of Crickley Hall, Fitzrovia Radio Hour. Radio includes two long stints Mystery, Randall and Hopkirk Dark Matters, Young John Paul on the BBC Radio Drama The Shell Seekers, Murder (Deceased), Casualty. II, The Sunday Night Project, Company. Investigation Team, Prime David was a member of the BBC Suspect 6, Perfect Strangers, Brief Encounter of an Ordinary Writing includes The Wind in Radio Drama Company 2014-15. Aristocrats, Giving Tongue. Woman, Rosemary & Thyme, the Willows (Vaudeville Theatre), Midsomer Murders, The Royal, Film: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Kolbe’s Gift (Leicester Square Heartbeat, The Bill. Theatre), Hector (National Stranger, The Nutcracker: The Film: Lost & Found (Dean Street Tour), The Killing of Mr Toad Untold Story, Like Minds, The Productions), The Hoarder (Finborough Theatre) and Walk Libertine, Love, Honor and Obey. (Atlantic Picture Company/ or Die, Death of a Village (BBC Lionsgate), Fossil (Brickwall Radio 4). Films), The Lost City Of Z (Plan B/Studio Canal), Hampstead DAVID ACTON (Ecosse Films/Motion Picture Doctor Farley Capital), The Wedding Date Theatre includes The Woman (Universal). in Black (Fortune Theatre and DAVID GOODERSON Awards: The McEuen Rosebowl national tour); Jane Wenham William Gregson for Acting for the title role in the Witch of Walkern (Out For Two’s Company: A Kind of Hamlet, at the Scottish Student of Joint/Watford Palace/ Alaska (Pleasance, Edinburgh). Drama Festival. Arcola); Richard II (Palace of ALIX DUNMORE Other theatre includes The Westminster and Arcola). A Frances Farrar Potting Shed, Portraits, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Trained at the Bristol Old Vic TATUM SMITH-SPERLING The Flouers O’Edinburgh Elinor Comedy of Errors, Henry V and Theatre School. (Finborough Theatre), The After- Theatre includes: lead roles in a Twelfth Night (Propeller); Anjin: For Two’s Company: The Fifth Dinner Joke, The Conquering JOHN SACKVILLE number of school & Stagecoach The Shogun and the Samurai Column and What The Women Hero, The Woman Hater, De Julian Anson productions. Tatum has taken (Tokyo and Sadler’s Wells); Did (Southwark Playhouse), Monfort, Saint’s Day, The Road HUGH SACHS Theatre includes: the title LAMDA exams in acting, verse The League of Youth, Vertigo, London Wall (Finborough to Ruin, The Good Woman Humphrey Caldwell role in William Wordsworth Burial at Thebes and I Have and prose. and St James Theatre). Other of Setzuan, A Penny for a Theatre includes: The (English Touring Theatre), The Been Here Before (Nottingham theatre includes: King Kong, Song (Orange Tree Theatre, Roundabout (Park Theatre Trial of Jane Fonda (Assembly Film: extra work in Swimming Playhouse); Relatively Speaking A Comedy and A Christmas Richmond), The Importance and 59e59 Theater, New York), Rooms, Edinburgh Festival), With Men. and Copenhagen (Newbury Carol (Vaults); Ben Hur (Tricycle of Being Earnest (national Amadeus, One Man Two An Inspector Calls (National This is Tatum’s first professional Watermill); The Dark Things Theatre), The 39 Steps (Criterion, tour), A Midsummer Night’s Guvnors, A Woman Killed With Theatre/PW Productions), stage production. (Edinburgh Traverse); Richard West End), Gaslight (New Vic, Dream, Ariadne on Naxos, Die Kindness, Peter Pan (National The Winslow Boy (Rose II (Old Vic Company); Much Newcastle-Under-Lyme), Top Fledermaus (English Touring Theatre), Anything Goes, The Theatre, Kingston), A Man JACK SWIFT Ado About Nothing (Peter Hall Girls (Out of Joint), The Dead Opera), The Taming of the Shrew, Cherry Orchard, The Country For All Seasons (Theatre Royal Toby Company); Hamlet, The Comedy Guy (English Theatre Frankfurt), Richard III, King Lear (Ludlow Wife (Sheffield Crucible), See Haymarket), Othello and Volpone of Errors, The Constant Couple, Nature Adores a Vacuum (Soho Festival), A Midsummer Night’s How They Run (Royal Exchange, (RSC), A Cloud in Trousers (York For Two’s Company: What The Man of Mode, The Love of Theatre), Separate Tables (Mill Dream, Macbeth, The Boys from Manchester), Humble Boy (tour), Theatre Royal & Southwark the Women Did (Southwark the Nightingale, King Lear, As at Sonning), A Winter of War Syracuse, Lady be Good (Open Privates On Parade (Donmar Playhouse), Plunder, Lone Flyer, Playhouse). Other theatre You Like It, Henry V, Edward III, (Cheltenham Everyman), The Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), The Warehouse), One Flew Over Witch, Dust (Watermill Theatre), includes: Creation Mystery Two Noble Kinsmen (Bristol Old Play (St Barnabas Church) and Eastward Ho!, The Roman Actor Taming of the Shrew (Middle The Cuckoo’s Nest (Touring Our Country’s Good and Vic). a number of Stagecoach and (RSC). East tour) and Romeo and Juliet Consortium), Peter Pan (West Cyrano de Bergerac (Nuffield school plays. Television: Diaries of the Great Television: Casualty, Doctors, (Singapore). Yorkshire Playhouse). Theatre, Southampton), Party War, Downton Abbey, Doctors, Call The Midwife, Television: Doctor Who, A Television: The Interceptor, (Arts Theatre, London), Hamlet Hostage (Fire in the Desert), Radio: The Simon Day Show, 49 Touch of Frost, Mapp and Lucia, Family Tree, Benidorm, My (Oxford Stage Company). BEATRIX TAYLOR Theatre Northampton), Mrs Tree), In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel the Cloth (Southwark Playhouse), over the last 12 years: Red Night Elinor Moore in A Passage to India (Charing Cross Theatre), Aladdin her own plays Breakfast (Finborough Theatre), My Real For Two’s Company: What (Lyric, Hammersmith and New (Aylesbury, Milton Keynes on the Beach and Creation War 1914 - ? (Trafalgar Studios the Women Did (Southwark York), Evangeline Harcourt and Bristol Hippodrome), (with casts of 40, St Barnabas and 2 national tours), The Playhouse). Other theatre in Anything Goes (National Sleeping Beauty (Waterside, Church, Dulwich), A Hard Searcher (Greenwich Theatre), includes: a Munchkin in the Theatre and Theatre Royal Aylesbury), The Woman in Black Rain (Above the Stag), London Ex (Soho Theatre), London Wizard of Oz and acting, singing Drury Lane), Mary Tyrone in (Gothenburg English Studio Wall (Finborough and St James Wall (Finborough and transfer and dancing in school events. Long Day’s Journey into Night, Theatre and Stadsteater in Theatres), My Real War 1914-? to St James Theatre), What the She is also studying LAMDA (Cambridge Theatre Company), Stockholm), The Widowing of (Trafalgar Studios and national Women Did, The Cutting of the and voice at Italia Conti. Beatrice in Much Ado about Mrs Holroyd, The Thunderbolt, tour), The Searcher (workshop Cloth and The Fifth Column Nothing (Regent’s Park Theatre), Mary Goes First, A Journey to production