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56 THEATER

MY COUSIN RACHEL BY ADAPTED BY JOSEPH O’CONNOR

Dock Street Theatre May 22 (preview), 23, 24, 26, 30, and June 1, 5, and 6 at 8:00pm May 24, 26, 30, and June 1, 5, 6, and 8 at 3:30pm May 28, 29, and June 2 and 3 at 7:30pm

SPONSORED BY FIRST CITIZENS

Director Toby Frow Set and Costume Designer Francis O’Connor Lighting Designer Mark Jonathan Sound Designer Denis Clohessy

CAST Nicholas Kendall Stephen Brennan Thomas Connors John Cronin Philip Ashley Louise Kendall Rachel Gleeson John Seecombe Bosco Hogan Guido Rainaldi Bryan Murray Rachel Coryn Ashley Hannah Yelland

PRODUCTION STAFF Stage Manager Miriam Duffy Wardrobe Eimear Farrell Production Manager Jim McConnell Manager Rachel Murray

PERFORMED WITH ONE INTERMISSION.

Additional support provided by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

The world premiere of My Cousin Rachel was performed at the Gate Theatre, . MY COUSIN RACHEL 57

ABOUT THE COMPANY MARK JONATHAN (lighting designer) has lit drama and musicals at many regional theaters in the United Kingdom, as well as the National Theatre in (where he was The Gate Theatre has been, artistically and architecturally, a Head of Lighting from 1993 to 2003), the Royal Shakespeare landmark building for over 250 years. Established as a theater Company, Royal Court, in the West End, and on Broadway. In company in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Michéal MacLiammóir, New York his lighting designs for Prometheus Bound at the the Gate offered Dublin audiences an introduction to the world Classic Stage received a Drama Desk Award nomination for of European and American theater and also to classics from the Outstanding Lighting. He also works extensively in both ballet modern and Irish repertoire. It was with the Gate that Orson and opera and has designed for many of the world’s leading Welles, James Mason, and began their prodigious acting careers. Today, in its 86th year, the Gate has companies, including Los Angeles Opera, Bavarian State Opera, become unique in that it has had only two artistic directorates. Washington National Opera, Theater an der Wien, Finnish In 1983, the directorship passed to Michael Colgan, under National Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Scottish Opera, Vlaamse whose guidance the theater continues to represent Opera, Israeli Opera, Opéra national du Rhin, The Royal Ballet, at the very highest level of artistic endeavor, receiving Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet, London Children’s numerous invitations each year to major festivals on every Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Capitole de Toulouse, continent. The Gate has a close association with the works of Staatsballett Berlin, Stuttgart Ballett, and The National Ballet of Samuel Beckett, the late , Brian Friel, and Conor Japan. McPherson, to name but a few. Having presented many major festivals, both internationally and at home, the Gate continues DENIS CLOHESSY’S (sound designer) theater credits include to develop, nurture, and promote the works of a diverse range , Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The of playwrights, and is committed to delivering the very highest Last Summer, A Woman of No Importance, Da, Watt, Hay quality productions that its audiences have come to expect. gatetheatre.ie Fever, Molly Sweeney, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, BPM, Death of a Salesman, , Present Laughter, All My Sons, Faith Healer, The Yalta Game, Sydney Festival ’09, The Real Thing, Festen, ARTISTIC TEAM Hedda Gabler (Gate Theatre); , Three Sisters, , , Julius Caesar, Burial at Thebes, Woman and Scarecrow (); The Importance of TOBY FROW’S (director) theater credits include The Last Being Earnest, Sodome My Love (Irish Times Theatre Award Summer, Da (Gate Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew winner), Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer, Life is a (Shakespeare’s , London); Happy Days in the Dream, Don Carlos, Dream of Autumn (Rough Magic Theatre Art World (Tramway Theatre, Glasgow; Skirball Center for Company); of Parnell Street (Fishamble: The New the Performing Arts, New York); Edward II, Dr. Faustus (Royal Play Company); (Lyric Theatre); The Shawshank Exchange Theatre, ); Les Liaisons Dangereuses Redemption (Lane Productions); Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus ( Playhouse); Pride & Prejudice (Bath Theatre Royal (Siren Productions). Clohessy’s film credits includeHis and and No. 1 Tour); Speaking in Tongues (Duke of York’s Theatre); Hers, Undressing My Mother, and Useless Dog (Venom Films). The Real Thing (Salisbury Playhouse); Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios; 59E59 Theaters, New York); Ship of Fools (); Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre); (National Theatre on Tour); Someone Who’ll Watch Over CAST Me (Northampton Theatre Royal); A View From The Bridge (Birmingham Rep & West Yorkshire Playhouse); and Peer Gynt STEPHEN BRENNAN’S (Nicholas (). Frow’s television credits also include Kendall) theater credits include Pride Crocodile by Frank McGuinness (Sky Arts TV). and Prejudice, , Bedroom Farce, A Woman of No FRANCIS O’CONNOR’S (set/costume designer) theater credits Importance, The Speckled People, Hay include An Ideal Husband, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Cat on a Fever (transferred to Spoleto Festival Hot Tin Roof, Afterplay ( Festival), The Weir, Crestfall USA 2012), Jane Eyre, Death of a (Gate Theatre); Druid Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Cripple of Salesman, Present Laughter (transferred Inishmaan (UK, New York, Spoleto Festival USA); My Beautiful to Spoleto Festival USA 2010), The Real Divorce (London); Sive, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (winner Thing, , Waiting for Godot of four Tony Awards on Broadway), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (national tour and worldwide), , Landscape, (Lincoln (The Pit, , London); The Taming of the Shrew, Center Festival, New York), , Jane Eyre, Art, Tartuffe, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labours Lost (Novello and Cyrano de Bergerac (Gate Theatre). He appeared in several Theatre, London); Written on the Heart (Royal Shakespeare musicals before becoming a member of the Abbey Theatre in Company); The Secret Garden (Festival Theatre, Edinburgh; 1975, playing a wide variety of roles in productions such as Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto); Enlightenment (Hampstead She Stoops To Conquer, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, A Life, Da, Theatre); Death of A Salesman (West Yorkshire Playhouse); and Hamlet. Brennan’s film and television credits include The Everyone (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); and Equivocation Tudors, Eat the Peach, The General, The Boys from Clare, A (Manhattan Theatre Club). O’Connor’s opera credits include Piece of Monologue, and Waiting for Godot for . Wut (Stadttheater Bern); Luisa Miller (Buxton Festival Opera); Manon, and The Adventures of Pinocchio (Opera North, Oper Chemnitz, and Minnesota Opera), which was nominated for a Faust Award. 58 MY COUSIN RACHEL

JOHN CRONIN’S (Thomas Connors) BOSCO HOGAN’S (John Seecombe) theater credits include The Speckled theater credits include The Threepenny People, (Gate Opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Theatre); I Am My Own Wife (Prime Cut Enemy of The People, Mrs. Warren’s Productions); Comedy of Errors, The Profession, Hedda Gabler, The Recruiting Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Romeo and Officer, Uncle Vanya, The Importance Juliet (Abbey Theatre); Saved (Peacock of Being Earnest, The Bread Man (Gate Theatre); Observe the Sons of Ulster Theatre); other theater credits include Marching Towards the Somme (Livin’ Borstal Boy, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Dred Theatre Company, Irish tour); The Ulysses in Nighttown, Exiles, The Anatomy of a Seagull (Loose Canon Theatre Company); , Aristocrats, The Sanctuary Lamp, The Secret Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange Theatre Company); Garden, Hamlet, King Lear, Tarry Flynn, The Glass Menagerie, and The Sit (nominated for Best Actor, Dublin Fringe Festival Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, 2010). His film and television credits include The Last Bus Home, and The Crucible. Hogan’s film and television credits include The Basketful of Wallpaper, The General, The Commitments, Count Dracula, Sense & Sensibility, A Taste for Death, Love Sunburn, 3Crosses, Insatiable, Trivia, Legend, (RTÉ); Lies Bleeding, Foreign Bodies, Act of , The Rockingham Jack Taylor (TV3); Family (BBC); and Haunted Venice (SKY). Shoot, Tales of the Unexpected, A Question of Guilt – Adelaide Bartlett, Prince Regent, The Chief, Ballykissangel, The Tudors, FRA FEE (Philip Ashley) was born in The Borgias, Porcelain, My Boy Jack, The General, Kidnapped, , , and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Some studied music at the University of Mother’s Son, In The Name of The Father, Taffin, Anne Devlin, Manchester before training at the Royal and Exposure. Academy of Music. Fee’s theater credits include Candide (Menier Chocolate BRYAN MURRAY’S (Guido Rainaldi) Factory); (The Opera, theater credits include Anna Karenina, France); Howard Goodall’s A Winter’s Tale Salomé, Great Expectations, The Deep (); Les Miserables (Queens Blue Sea, Celebration (Gate Theatre); Theatre); (Gaiety Theatre, other theater credits include The Hostage, Dublin); Fame The Musical (RTÉ Irish tour); Borstal Boy, The Morning After Optimism, ( Theatre); The Rakes Progress, Candide, Elixir of Love, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Silver Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Mikado Tassie, Deathwatch, The Devils, Saint and The Beggar’s Opera (Welsh National Opera, Grand Opera Joan, Blood Wedding, Philadelphia, House, ). Fee’s television credits include Ronan Tynan: Here I Come, The Rivals, Volunteers, The The Impossible Dream (RTÉ / PBS) and Heart & Soul (BBC Glass Menagerie, The Shadow of the Glen, The Whiteheaded NI). He also played the role of Courfeyrac in the 2012 film Les Boy, Fando and Lis, The Plebeians Rehearse The Uprising, The Miserables (Universal Studios). Happy Go Likeable Man, A Change of Mind, and Medea. His film and television credits include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young RACHEL GLEESON’S (Louise Kendall) Man, Mrs. Santa Claus, Boy Eats Girl, Love On The Line, and theater credits include Pride and 10 Arenas of Marwood. He played Fitz in Strumpet City, Flurry Prejudice, The Threepenny Opera, A Knox in The Irish RM, Shifty in Bread, Harry Cassidy in Perfect Christmas Carol (Gate Theatre); King Scoundrels, Trevor Jordache in , and Harry Fullerton John, Text Messages (); in , among others. This is the Day (Smock Alley Theatre Boys School); The Life and Sort of Death HANNAH YELLAND’S (Rachel Coryn of Eric Argyle ( Theatre, London); Ashley) theater credits include Laura Heroin(e) for Breakfast (Smock Alley Jesson in Brief Encounter (); The New Electric Ballroom, The Theatre; UK tour; American Conservatory Importance of Being Earnest, Doubt, The Wonderful World of Theater, San Francisco; St Ann’s Dissocia (Samuel Beckett Theatre); Moment (Tall Tales Theatre Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY; Guthrie Company); Fiddler on the Roof (Gaiety Theatre); Obama Mia! Theater, Minneapolis; Studio 54, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Little Shop of Horrors, Caravan Broadway), for which she received a (Players Theatre); Sonnets for an Old Century (The Back Loft); 2011 Tony Award Nomination for Best A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Empty Space); West Side Actress in a Leading Role; Kate Nickleby Story (Gaiety Theatre); Oliver, Annie, The Wizard of Oz, and The in The Life and Adventures of (Chichester King and I (National Concert Hall). Gleeson’s film and television Festival Theatre; UK tour; , West End; Toronto); credits include What Richard Did (Element Pictures); Stardust Vivie Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession (UK tour); French (RTÉ); The World of Tosh (Nickelodeon); and Ghost Stories Without Tears (English Touring Theatre, UK tour); The Linden (Swedish Television). Tree (, London); Bedroom Farce (UK tour); Daisy in (Lyric Theatre, West End); and Nora Helmer in Frank McGuinness’s acclaimed adaptation of A Doll’s House (Abbey Theatre). Her film and television credits include Method, AKA, Modern Love (Lifetime Network, USA), Catherine Cookson’s The Secret (TV Film, ITV); and (Hallmark), among others.