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Photo: Sam Taylor The four short plays are presented by special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. WELCOME TO NORTHERN BROADSIDES ... and to Beyond These Walls! This show was made possible thanks to the Cultural Recovery Fund and the generosity of Sheffield Theatres, who have allowed us to take over their studio for the past month to stage our first indoor performance since J.M. Barrie’s Quality Street in March 2020. During the last year, we have been keeping the company busy and engaging with our audiences online through various digital projects, including the creation of 21 short films in the first lockdown, an outdoor dance theatre piece, a short film of that dance theatre piece, and a series of Christmas podcasts! Quality Street (2020) ABOUT US We’re a touring theatre company based in Halifax. Our celebration of the diversity of the Northern voice makes us stand apart. We adapt our work to any space on the venues we visit, both traditional theatres and non- velvet spaces. Our bold, accessible, unpretentious productions that have been playing to packed housed across the country (and internationally!) for 29 years give us a strong identity which has allowed us to form an The Aftermath (2020) unbreakable bond with our audiences. The Northern Voice is not a singular dialect or accent. The classics don’t belong to any one region, or voice – they’re part of our common culture. Using regional voices, in all of their forms, makes our performances engaging and immediate, allowing audiences to hear and appreciate the words like never before. Our work brings words to life by celebrating the poetry of language and creates a rapport between actor and audience. The texts have a timeless resonance, no matter when or where they were first written. Digital Squad (2020) ABOUT THE PLAYS The Lady of Larkspur Lotion Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen... Mrs Hardwick-Moore is a long-standing tenant in a A young couple are trapped in a crumbling relationship cockroach-infested hostel. The landlady is demanding in their city centre bedsit. As the rain batters the her missed rent payments when they are interrupted window, he tries to piece together his lost hours as by The Writer, clutching a bottle of whisky and ready she dreams of dissolving into a new life by the coast. to set the world to rights. Every Twenty Minutes The Case of the Crushed Petunias A well-to-do couple drink highballs in their city centre Miss Dorothy Simple, owner of Simple Notions, an penthouse, trapped in an endless cycle of bitter banter. upcycling store in Primanproper, has barricaded her Maybe this time, things have gone too far? shop (and heart) behind a double row of petunias. A young man arrives from out of town to suggest an escape route... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire and in 1955 for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Baby Doll, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, The Night of Photo by Angus McBean, London, courtesy of New Directions. the Iguana, Sweet Bird of Youth and The Two-Character Play. Tennessee Williams died in 1983. Back, left to right: Ricardo Vilela, Hallam Breen, Laurie Sansom, Christine Entwisle, Emilia Stoddart, Lucy Bradford, Chris Peterson Front, left to right: Guy Rhys, Rose Revitt, Arian Nik, Jack Goodison, Brianna Douglas Photo: Sam Taylor Cast Production Photographer Sam Taylor Show Image Photographer Sara Teresa Mrs Wire, Woman, Dorothy Brianna Douglas Mrs Hardwick-Moore, Woman, Mrs Dull Christine Entwisle “Rain Rain Go Away” singing by Jack & Sam Alston, Albert Hannah, Emerald Man, Young Man Arian Nik Clarke, Felicity & Sammy Holman, Connie Renwick and Freya Smith. The Writer, Man, Officer Guy Rhys Northern Broadsides Creative Team Artistic Director / CEO Laurie Sansom Writer Tennessee Williams Executive Director Kay Packwood Director Laurie Sansom Marketing & Communications Manager Jess Rooney Set and Costume Designer Rose Revitt Finance and Friends Co-ordinator Katie English Lighting Designer Tim Skelly Creative Engagement Producer Shabina Aslam Composer and Sound Designer Matthew Herbert Resident Assistant Director Hallam Breen Associate Sound Designer Ed Clarke Casting Director Sarah Hughes The four short plays are presented by special arrangement with the Assistant Director Hallam Breen University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Film Co-Director Ricardo Vilela & Director of Photography Thanks to Arts Council England and the Department for Digital, Assistant Director of Photography Olugbenga Afolabi Culture, Media and Sport for supporting this project through the Cultural & Camera Recovery Fund. This performance could not have taken place without the support and Production Team generosity of Sheffield Theatres. Producer Henri Duckworth Additional thanks to: Production Manager Jack Goodison Costume Supervisor Fi Carrington Rob Hastie and Dan Bates Company Stage Manager Chris Peterson Emma Davies and Ben Merrick at KSpace Apartments Deputy Stage Manager Lucy Bradford P J Taste for Film Week Catering Assistant Stage Manager Emilia Stoddart Mel Kenyon at Casarotto Ramsay Ltd Make-up Supervisor Valerie Atkinson The Studios at Key West Harpist Cevanne Horrocks- Thomas Keith Mike Gillespie and The Sunday Club Hopayian Sheffield Theatres, Leeds Playhouse and Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Composer’s Assistant Dan Pollard for allowing us to borrow from their props stores. Lighting Technician / Gaffer Jonathan Payne Theatre Technician Neil Franklin Sound Recordists Waqar Shah Lubos Jurik Thank you to all the staff at Sheffield Theatres. THE CAST BRIANNA DOUGLAS CHRISTINE ENTWISLE Mrs Wire, Woman, Dorothy Mrs Hardwick-Moore, Woman, Mrs Dull Brianna graduated from ALRA North in 2016. Theatre includes: The Effect (Boulevard Theatre), Sense and Sensibility, Bold Girls, Rails (Theatre by the Since then, she has had the pleasure to work, learn Lake, Keswick), The Twits, Hope, Primetime, Narrative and develop on various projects around the North (Royal Court), Billy the Girl (Clean Break/Soho), As You including: Dead Certain. (Turn On Fest, Hopemill Like it, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Morte Theatre) Pure (Her Productions, Turn On Fest, D’Arthur (RSC), Six Characters in Search of an Author Hopemill Theatre) Consent (Roots Theatre (Gielgud Theatre/Headlong/Chichester), Half Life Company), Hamlet (Hopemill Theatre), Flirty (National Theatre of Scotland), The Wonderful World Dancing (Kings Arms), A Christmas Carol (Bolton of Dissocia (Royal Court /Edinburgh International Octagon), Spank, Mixtape Mind (Tamasha), 37 Festival), C’est Vauxhall! (Barbican), Genetics for Blondes (Manchester ADP, Lowry Theatre), Threads, (Soho Theatre), The Wedding (Southwark Playhouse), Damsel in Distress (Manchester ADP) and Vassa (Almeida/The Albery), A Family Affair (Theatr Emmerdale (ITV). Clwyd), Wonderhorse (Edinburgh Festival/ICA/BAC), Edward Gant (Theatre Royal Plymouth), I Am Dandy (Purcell Rooms/BAC), Ubu Kunst, Missing Jesus and Fine (Young Vic). Television and Film: Vera, Doctors, Attachments, Holby City, Mothers & Daughters, At Dawning, Where the Heart Is, Dalziel & Pascoe, Storm Damage and Deeper Still. Radio: Murmuration, Doyouwishtocontinue, Secret Kebabs, Idle Hands, The Effect, Remorse and Heredity. ARIAN NIK GUY RHYS Man, Young Man The Writer, Man, Officer Arian graduated from Mountview Academy with a Guy trained at The Drama Centre. BA Honours in Acting. Theatre includes: 24 Hours Of Peace (Royal Theatre includes: The Village (Theatre Royal Exchange), Aesop’s Fables, Grimm Tales, Not Now, Stratford East), The Ugly One (Park Theatre), The Last Bernard, My Father, Odysseus (Unicorn Theatre), Testament of Lillian Bilocca (Hull Truck) and Pufferfish Mother Courage and her Children (Headlong/Royal (The Vaults). Exchange), Mrs Dalloway (Arcola Theatre), The Resistible Rise Of Arturo UI, St Joan (Donmar Television includes: Still So Awkward (BBC), Doctors Warehouse), Jason & The Argonauts (Dancing Brick/ (BBC), The Bay (ITV), Van Der Valk (ITV), Ackley Bridge Unicorn Theatre), Bird (Sherman Cymru/Royal (Channel 4) and Killing Eve (BBC). Exchange), Pomona (Orange Tree/National Theatre /Royal Exchange), Wendy & Peter Pan (RSC), Radio includes: Doctor Who: Absolute Power (Big Mother Courage and her Children, The Powerbook Finish) and Hal (BBC Radio 4). (National Theatre) and A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatr Clywd). Film includes: Artemis Fowl (Disney) and Dating Amber (Amazon Original). Television includes: The Ipcress File, The First Team, Motherfatherson, The Crimson Field, Emmerdale, Fallout, Sorted, Doctors and Fat Friends. Radio includes: Emile Zola: Sex, Blood And Money and Schreber (BBC). Film includes: Mary, Queen of Scots (Working Title/ Universal) The Festival and How To Build a Girl (Film4). CREATIVES LAURIE SANSOM ROSE REVITT Director Set and Costume Designer Between 2012-2016, Laurie was Artistic Director Rose Revitt is a performance designer for theatre, and Chief Executive of the National Theatre of opera, dance and installation in both traditional and Scotland for whom he directed The James Plays unconventional spaces. trilogy by Rona Munro. She won The Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2019 Also for NTS he directed his own adaptation of and ‘Best Designer’ at The Stage Debut Awards 2020 Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat, and The 306:Dawn. for her site-specific sculptural set for Dr Korczak’s Previously he was Artistic Director of Royal & Example at Leeds Playhouse.