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Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 8pm Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8pm Friday, November 20, 2009, 8pm Saturday, November 21, 2009, 2pm & 8pm Sunday, November 22, 2009, 3pm Zellerbach Playhouse Druid The Walworth Farce by Robert Day Robert

c a s t Dinny Michael Glenn Murphy Sean Tadhg Murphy Blake Raymond Scannell Hayley Mercy Ojelade

c r e a t i v e t e a m Writer Enda Walsh Director Mikel Murfi Set and Costume Designer Sabine Dargent Lighting Designer Paul Keogan Casting Director Maureen Hughes Robert Day Robert

c r e w Artistic Director Production Manager Eamonn Fox Technical Manager Barry O’Brien

Druid is grant-aided by the Arts Council of Ireland and gratefully acknowledges the support of Company Stage Manager Sarah Lynch Culture Ireland for funding its international touring program. Druid wishes to express its Stage Manager Paula Tierney continuing gratitude to Thomas McDonogh & Company Ltd for their support of the company and to gratefully acknowledge the assistance of City Council and Galway County Council. Master Carpenter Gus Dewar Costume Supervisor Doreen McKenna Wigs and Make-up Val Sherlock

The Walworth Farce was commissioned by Druid and received its world Cal Performances’ 2009–2010 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. premiere at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, on March 20, 2006.

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THE WALWORTH FARCE STORY COMPANY • Through its new writing program, Druid nurtures and supports new play- ydney, australia, April 24, 2010. It will Since its founding in Galway in 1975 and right writing talents and consistently commis- Shave been 209 performances in 22 cities using up to the present day, Druid passionately be- sions, develops and produces new plays by 627 cans of beer, 418 packets of pink wafers and 41 lieves that audiences have a right to see first-class a wide range of emerging and established pints of Maureen’s “special blue sauce”—this is the professional theater without having to travel long writers both from Ireland and abroad. story of a Druid production. distances outside their own communities. The Druid was founded by graduates of the The Walworth Farce is currently on of the company has toured to every nook and cranny in National University of Ireland, Galway—Garry biggest world tours for a new play in recent theatre Ireland, and since 1982 has toured to key global Hynes, and —and has memory. This is the story so far: centers around the world, making it one of the best had two artistic directors: Garry Hynes (1975– 2003: The Walworth Farce is commissioned known theatre companies in the English-speaking 1991 and 1995 to date) and Maeliosa Stafford by Druid. world. Druid’s goal is to create electrifying theater (1991–1994). 2006: World premiere at the Town Hall experiences for every person, in every place and Druid’s performances of The Walworth Farce Theatre, Galway, on March 20, followed by a every time they perform, and in 2009 and 2010 are presented in association with David Eden short tour to and . The production the company will tour internationally to Australia, Productions, Ltd. receives remarkable Irish notices and work begins Canada, New Zealand, the and almost immediately to bring the production to the the United States. Edinburgh Festival the following year. Recent productions to have toured the United ACTORS 2007: Opens to critical acclaim at the Traverse States include The Playboy of the Western World Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Festival, winning by John Millington Synge (2008), The Cripple of Michael Glenn Murphy (Dinny) makes his the prestigious Fringe First Award. Plays to sold-out Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (2008) and The Druid debut in The Walworth Farce. His other houses and attracts the attention of international New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh (2009). theater credits include Shining City (Rapture presenters. The calls to tour the work begin and Here are some facts and figures you should Theatre, Scottish and U.K. tour); The Last Days plans are made to bring it to New York, know about Druid: of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange Theatre Co.); and back home to Ireland the following year. • by Martin The Flags, Up on Roof, (Hull 2008: American premiere at St. Ann’s McDonagh won five prestigious New Truck Theatre); Molly Sweeney (National Theatre Warehouse, New York, on April 17. In September, York theater awards in 2009 after it trans- of Scotland); The Shadow of a Gunman, Molly it joins the “rep” of the National Theatre, London, ferred from Galway to the Atlantic Theater Sweeney, Whistle in the Dark (Glasgow Citizens for a three-month run, becoming the sell-out in New York. It was also the best-selling Theatre); The Weir (Haymarket Theatre); Beauty hit of the season. In December, it returns home production up to that time at the award- and the Beast ( Theatre, );Playing to Galway, where it plays to a capacity crowd at winning theater. the Victim (Royal Court/Told by an Idiot); The the Town Hall Theatre before transferring to the Emperor and the Architect Zoo Story , Dublin. • In 1996, Druid premiered Martin , (, 2009: In September, The Walworth Farce starts McDonagh’s debut work, The Beauty London); The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (Told by out on one of the biggest world tours for a new play Queen of Leenane, in a co-production an Idiot/ Crucible Theatre); When We Are Rich, in recent theater memory. The production opens in with the , London. The Brothers of Brush (Southampton Nuffield); the United Kindgom, followed by a quick stopover It opened in Galway and subsequently Of Mice and Men (Bolton Octagon/York Theatre in Galway ahead of an extensive tour of Canada played in London, Sydney, Dublin and Royal and Middle East tour); The Lonesome West and the United States. on Broadway, where the production won (Bolton Octagon Theatre); A Midsummers Night’s 2010: Premieres in Australia and New Zealand four , including Best Director Dream, Kafka’s Dick, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and the curtain closes on a play that has wowed for Garry Hynes, the first woman to win (York Theatre Royal); The Playboy of the Western audiences all around the world for five years. the award. World (Leicester Haymarket Theatre; the Abbey Druid would like to acknowledge and thank • DruidSynge (Druid’s staging of all Theatre, Dublin; Bristol Old Vic);SVEJK (Notting Eugene Downes and his team at Culture Ireland six of Synge’s plays on the same day) was Hill Gate Theatre); Of Mice and Men (Centreline for their financial support and commitment to staged in the United States in 2006 and Productions U.K. tour); Woyzeck, A Midsummer bringing The Walworth Farce on this world tour. was described by Charles Isherwood of The Night’s Dream ( Company); Druid would also like to acknowledge the Arts New York Times as “a highlight, not just of (Custard Factory Theatre Co.); and The Council for their financial support towards the my theatergoing year but of my theater- Tinker’s Wedding (Kingshead Theatre London). original staging of this production. going life.” His film and television credits include Swansong

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(Florin Films); The Bill, Taggart, Like Father Like Co.); The Real Thing, A Christmas Carol (Gate Electric Ballroom (Perth International Arts Festival; directing credits include Diamonds in the Soil, The Son, Rough Treatment, Big Bad World II (ITV); Theatre, Dublin); The Divorcement of Figaro, , London; Edinburgh (2008 Lost Days of Ollie Deasy (Macnas); The Mysteries (co- Silent Witness, A Dinner of Herbs, Rope Trick (BBC Triumph of Love, New Morning (Samuel Beckett Fringe First Winner); Irish tour; Kammerspeil director, Macnas); Trad (Galway Arts Festival); and 10x10); and Colour Blind (Festival Film TV). His Centre); Oedipus (Players Theatre, TCD). His film Theatre Munich; winner of Theater Heute’s Best The Lonesome West (Lyric Theatre, Belfast). His radio credits include Smokes and Daggers and and television credits include Anseo (TG4); The Foreign Play 2005); two short plays, How These film and television acting credits include Ella Forgetting Curve (BBC Northern Ireland). Clinic, Pride and Joy (ARC Productions); Jelly Baby Men Talk (Zurich Shauspielehaus) and Lynndie’s Enchanted, The Last September, Sweety Barrett, The (Manifesto); Boy Eats Girl (Sitric Films); Alexander Gotta Gun (Artistas Unidos, Lisbon’s National Butcher Boy, Love and Rage, Guiltrip, Words upon Raymond Scannell (Blake) m a ke s h i s Dr u id debut (Intermedial); Good Man Danny (DIT); Hide and Theatre);Bedbound (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2000; the Window Pane, The Three Joes, The Commitments in The Walworth Farce. His other theater credits in- Seek (RTÉ/Accomplice Films); Love Is the Drug Edinburgh (2001 Fringe First Winner); Royal and, most recently, a short film, The Ballad of Kid clude Mimic (Galway and Kilkenny Arts Festivals, (RTÉ/West Street Films); and No Tears (One Court, London; New York; worldwide); Misterman Kanturk. His film and television directing cred- Cork Midsummer Festival); …touched… (UCC Films). His radio credits include numerous plays (Granary Theatre); Disco Pigs (Cork and Dublin, its include Druma, a short film for Macnas, and Drama Society, Edinburgh Fringe); Wanderings— for RTÉ Radio, including Plough and the Stars, The 1996; Edinburgh, 1997; West End, 1998 (Arts John Duffy’s Brother for Parkfilms, based on the Our Place, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The School Finnegans and The Colleen and the Cowboy. Mr. Council Playwrights Award, 1996), Best Fringe Flann O’Brien short story with a screenplay by for Wives, Various La Ronde (Granary Theatre); The Murphy received a nomination for Best Supporting Production, 1996; Stewart Parker and George Eoghan Nolan. Heights, Crave (Playgroup); The River, Mind That Actor for the feature filmBoy Eats Girl at the 2005 Devine Awards, 1997); and The Ginger Ale Boy ’Tis My Brother, Beats ’n’ Pieces, Knock Three Times Irish Film and Television Awards. (Corcadorca). His film credits include Disco Pigs Sabine Dargent (set and costume designer) de- (Meridian Theatre Co.); Wiley and the Hairyman, (Temple Films/Renaissance) and Hunger (Blast/ signed The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth The Lost Child, Striking Distance (Graffiti Theatre Mercy Ojelade (Hayley) graduated in 2008 from FILMFOUR, winner of the Camera d’Or and the Farce for Druid. Her other theater work includes Co.); Apocalypse…Then (Hammergrin); and Life the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, International Prize at Cannes, 2008). He is current- City Fusion (St. Patrick’s Parade); The Pride of Is a Dream (Rough Magic). He received the Best in the M.A. actor training and coaching course. ly shooting Chatroom (Ruby Films/FILMFOUR). Parnell St. (Dublin, London, New Haven); Circus Male Performer award at the 2008 Dublin Fringe Her Druid credits include The Walworth Farce Films in development include Island of the Aunts (Dublin); The Lonesome West (Ireland); The Bacchae Festival for his performance in Mimic, which he (National Theatre, London; New York, Dublin (an adaptation of Eva Ibbotson’s children’s novel of Baghdad, The Importance of Being Earnest (Abbey also wrote. Mr. Scannel was chosen to be part of and Galway 2008). Her other theater credits in- for Cuba Pictures) and Dusty Springfield: Goddess Theatre); Antigone, Hard to Believe (Storytellers Next Stage 2008, a Dublin Theatre Festival/Abbey clude The Container (, Fringe First and of the Sixties (Number 9 Films/FILMFOUR). His Theatre Co); Henry and Harriet (Belfast); To Theatre/Theatre Forum Ireland incentive, involv- Amnesty International award-winner, Edinburgh radio credits include Four Big Days in the Life of Have and to Hold (Old Museum Belfast); Days of ing daily workshops with visiting international Festival, 2007); The Lion and the Jewel (Barbican Pit Dessie Banks (RTÉ Radio, winner of the 2001 PPI Wine and Roses (Lyric); Dublin Carol (Everyman companies and talks with prominent industry and national tour); Eclipse (Sydney Opera House Award for Best Radio Drama) and The Monotonous Palace, Cork); Ghosts (ESB/Irish Times Best Set figures, such as Stephen Rea, Enda Walsh and Studio and ). Her film and Life of Little Miss P (BBC, commended in the Design Award, 2003), Monged, Pilgrims in the Deborah Warner. television credits include Ezra (Cinefacto, France; Berlin Prix Europa, 2003). Park, Tadhg Stray Wandered In (Fishamble); How FESPACO Award-winner); Incendiary (Archer Many Miles to Babylon? (Second Age); The Shadow Tadhg Murphy (Sean) trained at the Samuel Street Films/Film Four, directed by Sharon Mikel Murfi (director) hails from Sligo and trained of the Glen, The Tinker’s Wedding (Big Telly); Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin, from Maguire); City, Doctors (BBC); and Ørnen/ at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq Martha, Little Rudolf (Barnstorm); Jack Fell Down, which he received a bachelor’s degree in acting The Eagle (DR/Denmark). in Paris. His work with Druid includes, as an actor, Burning Dreams, Last Call (Team); The Tempest studies. His Druid credits include The Walworth The New Electric Ballroom, Lyndie’s Gotta Gun and (Blue Raincoat); Desert Lullaby (Gallowglass); and Farce (National Theatre, London; New York; The Increased Difficulty of Concentration and, as a di- Hysteria (b*spoke). Ms. Dargent has also worked Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Empress of India CREATIVE TEAM rector, The Walworth Farce. His theater acting cred- with Théâtre à Grande Vitesse (Paris), Théâtre à (Galway and Dublin Theatre Festival, 2006). His its include The Chairs (Blue Raincoat, Sligo); The Châtillon and L’Épée de Bois in France. She won other theater credits include MedEia (Corcodorca); Enda Walsh (writer) has written The Walworth Cure (Half Moon Theatre, Cork); The Clerk and the the 2006 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Set Three Sisters, Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Farce and The New Electric Ballroom for Druid. Clown, Playing a Round (Galway Arts Festival); The Design for The Walworth Farce. Ernest, Harold and Sophie (); Alice in His other theater credits include Delirium, an ad- Morning After Optimism, The Playboy of the Western Wonderland, The Goat (); aptation of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, World (); The Tempest, The Comedy Paul Keogan (lighting designer) studied drama at Dublin by Lamplight (Corn Exchange); Drive By for Theatre O (Abbey Theatre, Barbican); The of Errors (Abbey Theatre); Stokehauling, SickDying- the Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD and Glasgow (Performance Corporation); The Taming of the Walworth Farce (Galway, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh DeadBuriedOut, Half Eight Mass of a Tuesday, University. After graduating, he worked as Shrew (Rough Magic); Titus Andronicus (Siren (2007 Fringe First Winner), New York, London); Come Down from the Mountain John Clown John Production Manager for Project Arts Centre. His Productions); Shooting Gallery (Bedrock Theatre Chatroom (Cottesloe, Royal National Theatre, Clown, Macbeth, God’s Gift, The White Headed work with Druid includes The Spirit of Annie Ross. Co.); Deathtrap (Red Kettle); The Real Thing March 2006 and autumn 2007); The Small Things Boy (Barabbas); Studs, Melting Penguins (Passion His other theater credits include The Taming of the (Gúna Nua Theatre Co.); Fando and Lis (Project); (Paines Plough; , Machine); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Rough Magic); Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company); Tartuffe, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Second Age Theatre London; Galway Arts Festival 2005); The New and The Tender Trap (Pigsback). His theater Intemperance (Playhouse/Everyman Liverpool);

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Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Homeland, The The Shadow of the Glen and The Playboy of the Wild Duck, Baileganaire, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Western World and Batsheva Dance Company. In The Electrocution of Children, Amazing Grace, the past five years, DEP has been responsible for Living Quarters, Making History, Eden, The Map touring the State Ballet of Georgia, the Russian Maker’s Sorrow, Cúirt an Mheán Oíche, Down the Patriarchate Choir of Moscow, Gate Theatre Line, Portia Coughlan, Heavenly Bodies (Abbey Dublin’s , Declan Donnellan’s and Peacock theatres); Woyzeck, The Hairy Ape Twelfth Night, Propeller Theatre’sThe Winter’s Tale (Corcadorca); Blue/Orange (Crucible Theatre (directed by Edward Hall) and Piccolo Teatro di Sheffield);Harvest (Royal Court Theatre, London); Milano’s Arlecchino. In 2004, David Eden curated Trad (Galway Arts Festival); Quay West, Blasted, the Lincoln Center Festival’s Ashton Celebration, a Far Away (Bedrock Productions); The Sugar Wife, two-week retrospective at the Metropolitan Opera Down onto Blue, Danti Dan, Olga (Rough Magic); House in New York celebrating the 100th birthday Family Stories, Tejas Verdes (b*spoke); The Blind of Sir Frederick Ashton and featuring the master Fiddler (Lyric Belfast); Born Bad, In Arabia We’d choreographer’s ballets. All Be Kings (); Too Late for Other highlights include a 12-city premiere Logic (Edinburgh International Festival); Shimmer, tour of Rezo Gabriadze’s Forbidden Christmas, Olga (Traverse, Edinburgh); The Silver Tassie or The Doctor and the Patient starring Mikhail (Almeida); Titus Andronicus, La Musica, Shutter Baryshnikov (2004); the first national U.S. tour of (Siren Productions); The Tempest (Theatre Royal London’s Royal Court Theatre’s 4.48 Psychosis by Plymouth, U.K. tour); Antigone (Storytellers); Sarah Kane (2004); national tours of the Batsheva Passades, Here Lies, Angel Babel, Chair (Operating Dance Company (1998, 2004); and Declan Theatre); Performances, Festen, The Gates of Gold Donnellan’s Boris Godunov (2003); St. Petersburg and The Deep Blue Sea (Gate Theatre, Dublin). State Academic Capella national tour (2003); His opera and dance credits include Powder Her Bolshoi Ballet national tour (2000, 2002); Gate Face (Linbury Studio ); Der Theatre Dublin’s Beckett Festival (2000); John F. Silbersee, Rusalka, Pénélope, Susannah (Wexford Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Arts of the Opera); Der fliegende Holländer, Un ballo in United Kingdom (2001), Island: Arts from Ireland maschera, The Makropulos Case (Opera Zuid, the (2000) and Art of the State: Israel at 50 (1998); Lev Netherlands); The Queen of Spades, Lady Macbeth Dodin’s Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg’s of Mtsensk, The Silver Tassie, Jenůfa (Opera Ireland); Gaudeamus, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next The Lighthouse (Opera Theatre Company); The Rite Wave Festival/national tour (1994) and Brothers of Spring (CoisCéim); SAMO (Block & Steel, the and Sisters, Lincoln Center Festival (2000); Kirov Netherlands); Catalyst (a collaboration between Ballet/Vaganova Ballet Academy Project, BAM Rex Levitates and the National Ballet of China in (1998); and Russian Village Festival national tour Beijing). Mr. Keogan is an associate artist of the (1990, 1991, 1995, 1997). Abbey Theatre, Dublin. For David Eden Productions, Ltd.: For over 20 years, David Eden Productions, Production Manager Trevor Long Ltd. (DEP) has been one of the leading American General Manager Erica Charpentier organizations devoted to producing international Visa Coordinator Elise-Ann Konstantin work in the United States. Most recently, DEP Travel Agent Lori Harrison, has produced U.S. national tours of Druid’s Atlas Travel

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