LogoS~ presents SCAPIN'S TRICKS MOLIERE'S LIGHTEST AND LIVELIEST COMEDY (HONESTLY!)

New translation by Kenneth McClellan Directed by Melissa Holston Design by Gabriella Csanyi-Wills

Tuesday 23rd September -Saturday 11th October 1997 Wimbledon Studio Theatre 1 03 The Broadway LONDON SW19 1QG Jonathan Ashley Jonathan trained at the Webber Douglas Academy. He appeared for Logos last year SCAPIN'S TRICKS as Cornwall in King Lear at the Courtyard Theatre. Other Theatre includes Mansfield Park (Redgrave Theatre, Farnham), Arms and the Man (Cambridge MOLIERE'S LIGHTEST AND LIVELIEST COMEDY Theatre Company) Ladies in Retirement, Hay Fever, and Salad Days (Southwold New translation by Kenneth McClellan Repertory Theatre), Hansel and Gretel (Cochrane Theatre and tour), 1953 (Greenwich Studio Theatre), The Secret of Theodore Brown (Unicorn Theatre), COMPANY Waiting for Godot and The Dumb Waiter (Albany Empire), Hooligan Clown (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), and played Scaramouche at the Brighton Festival. Film and TV include The Score, Divine Magic, The People's Game and Flying Colours. NERINA VALERIE VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Writing: Jonathan's black comedy thriller Stiffs will be premiered at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in Spring '98. SILVESTRO ANTONY HAMPTON 0TTAVIO TRISTAN LANGLOIS David Forest SCAPIN }ONATHAN ASHLEY Theatre includes: Jungle Book, The Adventures of Venice and Who Cares? (Kings HYACINTH EMMA OwEN SMITH Head), Hamlet (Wimbledon Studio) The Chimes (White Bear), King John (Tabard), ARGANTE CuvE FRYDE The Comedy of Errors (Eye), Switching Tracks (Lyric Studio), Pinocchio (Brockley Jack), The Last Bus to Bradford (Chelsea Centre), In the Jungle of Cities GERONTE DAVID FOREST (Southwark Playhouse), The Cradle Will Rock (BA C), and his one man show LEANDRO PAUL WILLCOCKS Entertaining Changes (New End and Edinburgh and Dublin Fringes). Radio ZERBINETTA SARAH R EEVES includes Dearest Chris, a life of Christopher Hassall, which he wrote and presented CARLA VALERIE VAUGHAN WILLIAMS on Radio 2, and Four on a Tour (Radio 4).

Clive Fryde Clive came to these shores "out of Africa" in 1965, serving his apprenticeship in THE ACTION TAKES PLACE IN NAPLES 1671 three years of rep after his training at the University of Cape Town. He has been in innumerable productions from Shakespeare to farce. Theatre roles include Alfonso THERE WILL BE AN INTERVAL OF 20 MINUTES in The Tempest, Ballested in Lady From The Sea, Diggory in She Stoops to Conquer. T.V. credits include Mr Shine in EastEnders, Clarkie in The Bullion Boys for the BBC, Uncle Sam in The Tomorrow People for ITV. Clive also does voice overs and corporate videos.

Antony Hampton Trained at Bretton Hall College. Theatre includes Groping For Words (Theatre DIRECTOR - MELISSA HOLSTON Colwyn, Conwy), Humpty Dumpty (Pantomime tour), Cabaret (Neptune Theatre, Liverpool), Endgame (Grange Court Theatre), Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice DESIGN - GABRIELLA CSANYI-WILLS (Open Hand Productions, Oxford), The Yorkshire Mysteries (Stephen Joseph COSTUME - DIDI CHAPMAN Theatre in the Round), Demon Barber (West Yorkshire tour), The Merry Wives of LIGHTING DESIGN - }AMES ASHLEY DOWN Windsor (New Shakespeare Company, Arundel Castle), The Good Doctor, Forty AssiSTANT DIRECTOR - TRACY RussELL Years On, Macbeth, Goodbye Mr. Chips (Chichester Festival Theatre). Opera: Die STAGE MANAGER - AMANDA TAIT Meistersinger van Nurnberg (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Mahagonny Songspiel (Barons Court Theatre). PROPS BUYER - FIONA GEORGE ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER - MICHELLE BURKE Tristan Langlois Melissa Holston Tristan graduated from Cambridge University in 1993 where he participated in Melissa has a BA hons. degree in Classics from London University. She was more than a score of shows from Bent (Rudy) to As You Like It (Touchstone), from Associate Director for Cafe Theatre before forming COMYNS CARR Theatre Company the Edinburgh Fringe to Prague. Since then Tristan has worked for Counterpoint at the beginning of 1995. In1996 She directed Logos's highly acclaimed production Theatre Company (Punch Junkies, The Streets of Dublin) and has helped manage of King Lear. Her next project with COMYNS CARR will be the Gothic hit The Castle the heritage theatre company Past Pleasures, presenting shows and storytelling at Spectre by M.G. "Monk" Lewis (opens 17th November, The Grace Theatre). historic sites nation-wide. Kenneth McClellan Emma Owen Smith Kenneth is a veteran of some 86 Shakespearean roles and has enjoyed a Emma trained at Mountview Theatre School. Theatre: Teenage Vitriol (Finborough distinguished career as both actor and author. Last year he became one of the oldest Theatre), Top Girls (Millfield Theatre), The Kissing Game (Tristan Bates Theatre), l King Lears at the age of 78. His translations of comedies by de Musset and Labiche Essex Girls and Corner Boys (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and Northern Ireland ~t have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. His book Whatever Happened to tour), Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (White Bear), Bleat (Finborough Theatre), One For Shakespeare? made him many enemies and he hopes his new one, Prospero's The Road (Ralph Richardson Memorial Studios), The Good Doctor, Annie Get Wand, will make him many more. Your Gun (Chichester Festival Theatre). Television: The Bill (Thames). Radio: Bleat (BBC). Gabriella Csanyi Wills Having gained a degree in History of Art, Gabriella trained at the Central school of Sarah Reeves Speech and Drama achieving a BA hons. degree in Theatre Studies/Design. Her Sarah trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama. Theatre work credits this year include designs for Moliere's Amphitryon (Etcetera Theatre), One includes Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (Image Theatre Company), O'Clock Out of The House (Lost Theatre), Between the Lines (Wimbledon Studio) Catherine in Wuthering Heights, Alithea in The Country Wife, Rirette in After and All Manner of Means (The White Bear). Future projects: If Mr. Frollo Finds Intimacy, and Hamlet at the Old Rep, Birmingham. T.V. credits include Get Real Out, The Castle Spectre (The Grace Theatre). for Carlton, Hollyoaks and Au Pairs. Sarah is currently filming Parting Shots, Michael Winner's new film. Didi Chapman Amongst a myriad of other projects, Didi has produced the costumes for Paul Willcocks productions as diverse as Into the Woods, Guys and Dolls, Follies, Once a Paul recently donned high heels and earrings for Lady Haughty in Ben Jonson's Catholic, Dracula Spectacular, Annie, Sweeny Todd, The Boyfriend, Sweet Epicoene at the Tristan Bates Theatre. Other roles have included: Pavel in The Charity, Pirates of Penzance, Daisy Pulls it Off, Bedroom Farce, School for Mother (Prince Theatre, Greenwich), Sebastian in The Tempest (Kings Head, Scandal, Steel Magnolias, Habeas Corpus and for Logos King Lear and Life is a Islington), and Gaveston in Edward 11 (on tour and at Berkeley Castle.) In Dream, her creations for the last receiving unanimous critical acclaim. Future Copenhagen, Ginger You're Balmy! was one of Paul's many musical highlights of projects: The Threepenny Opera, The Castle Spectre. Happy Days, whilst Zippo's Circus has been infiltrated by his zany clown creations. Forthcoming appearances include Father Bear joins a rock'n'roll band in Goldilocks. James Ashley-Down Watch out for an amazing trapeze routine in Norwich. Design credits (Theatre): Six Characters in Search of an Author (Teatro Centrale, Rome), The Troubled Man (Dazz Dean Productions), La Traviata (Hackney Valerie Vaughan Williams f Empire), The Art of Seduction (Fallen Angels), Life is a Dream (Logos), Valerie trained in Dance and Drama and has an MA in Contemporary Theatre ~ Amusement (Cinderella Presents ... ), All the King's Men (ENO & BYMT). As a Practice. She spent many years teaching before returning to the profession. Her roles Technician his credits include: The Black Spider (Kent Opera & BYMT), King Lear include Hecuba in The Women of Troy, various characters in Six Short Plays by (Logos), What Shakespeare Missed (Comyns Carr), Macbeth (Felis Sapiens). Samuel Beckett - both at the Lakeside Theatre, Colchester, five dance roles with Film & TV: (Lighting design and operation) A little Rain Must Fall (Mynfel Flipside Productions (Project Theatre, Dublin) and Dr. Zobova in Lickers and Productions) Evelyn Glennie concert (Puffin Productions for Japanese Television). Kickers at The Etcetera Theatre, Camden. Tracy Russell This is Tracy's third production with Logos, having appeared as Regan in King Lear (Courtyard Theatre) and Chekhov's Summer of the Eclipse (Wandsworth PERIOD MOVEMENT ADVISOR - TRISTAN LANGLOIS Festival). Other recent theatre work includes: Lady Capulet in Bahaar Theatre Company's touring production of Romeo and Juliet, Abigail's Party, Billy Liar, PUBLICITY DESIGN - MELISSA HOLSTON Diary of a Madman and Great Expectations. Touring has taken her to Germany for six months in Ayckbourn's Confusions. She has worked in a number of productions with Lifers in Wormwood Scrubs and so is ideally suited to the post WEAPONS LOANED BY TRISTAN LANGLOIS of Assistant Director. Radio work includes: The Mark Steel Solution, The Treatment, and Broadcast Toast.

Amanda Tait Received her training at Bellevue Community College Carlson Theatre. Work in Seattle, Washington, USA includes: two seasons with' A' Contemporary Theatre, Stage Production Manager on Camelot (Tacoma Little Theatre), two seasons with Ballet Petite. LOGOS WOULD LIKE TO THANK London work includes: Stage Manager on Life is a Dream for Logos and Company Stage Manager on Philoctetes for Inigo Theatre Company. }ONATHAN KENNEDY Fiona George AND THE WIMBLEDON STUDIO THEATRE Before training at RADA, Fiona was a teacher. While graduating from college, Fiona also worked on A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Music Man (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park). For television, Fiona's work includes making and BILL, HAYLEY & Jo buying props for London's Burning. AT INPUT-OUTPUT CENTRE, MARYLEBONE Fiona has recently been taken up with supporting her two teenage daughters through their exams, but somehow seems to manage to find time to landscape her MORDEN HALL GARDEN CENTRE garden, listen to plays on the radio and get confused trying to operate her MORDEN HALL ROAD husband's computer. SM4 5JD

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