CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS CAST Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 8pm The Walworth Farce Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8pm Friday, November 20, 2009, 8pm Saturday, November 21, 2009, 2pm & 8pm Sunday, November 22, 2009, 3pm Zellerbach Playhouse Druid Ireland The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh Robert Day Robert CAST Dinny Michael Glenn Murphy Sean Tadhg Murphy Blake Raymond Scannell Hayley Mercy Ojelade CREATIVE TEAM Writer Enda Walsh Director Mikel Murfi Set and Costume Designer Sabine Dargent Lighting Designer Paul Keogan Casting Director Maureen Hughes Robert Day Robert CREW Artistic Director Garry Hynes 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 Galway 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. 4 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 5 PROGRAM NOTES ABOUT THE ARTISTS 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 one 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, Mick Lally and Marie Mullen—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 Cork and Dublin. The production the company will tour internationally to Australia, Productions, Ltd. receives remarkable Irish notices and work begins Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom 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, London know about Druid: of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange Theatre Co.); and back home to Ireland the following year. • The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin The Flags, Up on Roof, The Lonesome West (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 (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry);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 Project Arts Centre, Dublin. • In 1996, Druid premiered Martin , (Gate Theatre, 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 Royal Court Theatre, 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 Tony Awards, 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 (Compass Theatre Company); Druid would also like to acknowledge the Arts New York Times as “a highlight, not just of Othello (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 6 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 7 ABOUT THE ARTISTS ABOUT THE ARTISTS (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, Riverside Studios, 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.