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Silver Thread Productions was founded by Stephen Glover and Deborah Leveroy in 2008 with a specific remit to produce inventive revivals of the best contemporary British plays. Our long term aim is for Silver Thread to play a leading role in supporting, celebrating and producing the work of today’s best British playwrights.

In January 2009 our first production, The Dice House by Paul Lucas, played to sell-out audiences and four star reviews at the Hen & Chickens Theatre, .

‘The audience are roaring with laughter within the first two minutes.’ **** WhatsOnStage ‘Ambitious, polished, well cast and a joy to watch. Top fringe theatre.’ **** Fringe Review

One year on, we are delighted to be presenting the first British revival of Progress for almost 25 years. Doug Lucie’s writing remains powerful, relevant and often painfully funny. Progress is a prime example of a British play that deserves to be seen again.

I hope you enjoy the performance. Stephen Glover Artistic Director www.silver-thread.co.uk

Grateful thanks to: Richard Wilson, Eileen Atkins, Rachel Dale, Stewart Marquis, Toby Spearpoint, Sasha Regan and all at the Union Theatre, Georgina Alexander, The National Theatre, Michael Bradbury, Tariq Hussain, Mr and Mrs Spicknell, Tina Atkin and Rebecca Atkinson-Lord at Arch468 (www.arch468.com). Emma Pile (Set and Poster Designer) Progress Emma is an Assistant Design Associate at the . She recently graduated with a BA Hons in Design for Stage at Central School of Speech and Drama. By Doug Lucie Design credits include: The Dice House (Hen & Chickens Theatre), Potentials (Tristan Bates Theatre), Flights into Darkness (Croydon Warehouse), Macbeth (Limelight Theatre), 19 January to 6 February 2010, Union Theatre, Southwark The Grinch (Bigfoot Arts Tour), My Best Friend (Courtyard Theatre), The Women (Embassy Studio), The Real Inspector Hound, Doggs Hamlet (both ) and Grimms Fairytales (Minack Theatre). Design Associate and Assistant Design Associate credits: Nation Cast (in order of appearance) (Olivier, RNT), The Black Album, The Observer and Dido, Queen of Carthage (all Cottlesloe, Ronee Victoria Strachan RNT). Film Design: Music Video for Radar Film Festival. Event Design: ID1000 @ Rich Mix. Will Richard Crawley Oliver Gordon Ridout Abigail Pilkington-Wood (Costume Designer) Mark Lawrence Sheldon Abigail graduated with a BA Hons in Costume, Makeup and Technical Effects for Ange Amy Dawson Performance from the College of Fashion in 2008. She is currently working Lenny Martin Blakelock freelance in design and production roles for theatre, films and events. Previous and Bruce Shaun Stone current productions include: The Dice House (Hen & Chickens Theatre), The Lion King Martin Christopher Nabb (Lyceum Theatre), Macbeth (Pleasance Theatre), The Penguin Café (), Crawford Simplkanck's Participatory Freak Fest… (Secret Garden Party), Edward Gant's Production Team Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong), Checkout (), Je Sius Daddy (Black Director Stephen Glover Light Productions) and Tunnel 228 (Punchdrunk Theatre). Events include: Towards a Fluid Producer Emily Hickman State (The Tasting Sessions), Design Over-Time (Design Museum), Olympics Handover Set and Poster Designer Emma Pile Ceremony (Beijing), Tribee: Birds of a Feather (Notting Hill Carnival), and The Bangla Costume Designer Abigail Pilkington-Wood Queen (Kinetika). Abigail also works as an art and theatre workshop facilitator. Lighting Designer Jonas P A Fuglseth Sound Designer Alex Garfath Stefan Sloneczny (Production Assistant and Front of House Officer) Stage Manager Jacqueline Spicknell Stefan graduated from the University of Portsmouth last summer with a degree in Film Technician & Assistant Stage Manager India Harris Studies. Progress is the third production he has been involved in, having worked on 1867 Production Assistant & Front of House Officer Stefan Sloneczny and The Woman Before ( Jack Theatre). He has a passion for dark comedy and is enjoying gaining experience in theatre production at the start of his career. Stephen Glover, Artistic Director Deborah Leveroy, Associate Producer Jacqueline Spicknell (Stage Manager) Emma Pile, Associate Designer Jacqueline originally trained as a Theatre Designer at Wimbledon School of Art and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), where she gained a BA Hons in Theatre and Performance Design. Set design credits include: My Favourite Year and A…My Name is Alice (both LIPA). Stage Manager credits include: The Dice House (Hen & Chickens The play takes place in Will and Ronee’s living room. Theatre) and Sol Fest (Cumbria). Jacqueline now works primarily in television, film and Kilburn, 1983. music videos, where credits have included: Art Department Assistant for Beacon 77, Fired Act 1: Monday (features) and One Way Ticket (short). Set Dresser for Collectables (short) and The Act 2: Monday, a week later Molotovs in Come to Grief (music video). Art Director for Ali in Wonderland (feature) and Later (short). Production Designer for The Julian Tulk Band in Deceleration (music video), The play runs for approximately two hours and thirty minutes, including an interval. Untitled Love Story #1 (feature) and Distracted (BBC Pilot). Production Team Biographies Cast Biographies

Jonas P A Fuglseth (Lighting Designer) Martin Blakelock (Lenny) Jonas P A Fuglseth works as a lighting designer, programmer and production electrician in Martin graduated from Drama Centre London In 2007. His television London and Norway. He graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama in 2008 credits include: Tony Stanton in Off The Hook (BBC), Adam Charles in with a BA Hons in Theatre Practice (Lighting Design). Recent production credits as lighting Youth Justice (Illumina Digital for the BBC) and Anthony Luxton in designer include: Latissimus Productions’ Maresia at The Space, Naas Kalks’ Gruve Accidental Heroes (TalkBack Thames). Martin’s stage credits include: Opplevelser in Norway and The Dice House for Silver Thread Productions at the Hen & Duff in The Green Fields Beyond (The Linbury Studio), Sean in Street Chickens Theatre. As a programmer credits includes: British Fashion Awards 2009 for Wise (The Hazlitt Theatre Tour), Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Whitelight, Bollywood Steps at the V&A, Cassio Operatic Society’s Music Man at the Dream (Cochrane Theatre) and Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale Watford Palace and London Children’s Ballet’s Snow White at the . (Cochrane Theatre). His film credits include: Barking at Dogs and Jonas has also worked as Deputy Chief Electrician at Opera Holland Park and as a Stage Three and a Half Inches. Martin is represented by Shepherd Management. Electrician at the Welsh National Opera.

Alex Garfath (Sound Designer) Alexander Garfath graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama in 2007 with an MA in Sound Design and Music for Performance. Recent work has included designs for Central School of Speech and Drama, London College of Fashion, Netaudio 08/Shunt, LIFT Richard Crawley (Will) Festival, as well as working with Analogue on Mile End and Beachy Head. Alexander is Richard has just returned from a year studying at Ecole Philippe also the founder of Isolated Response, an installation project exploring artistic reactions Gaulier in Paris. Previously he trained at LAMDA after graduating from and interpretations to sound, and a member of Handheld Arts, an emerging collective of Cambridge University. His theatre work includes: Sam the Highest theatre and arts practitioners based in London and the South East. Jumper of Them All (), Young Woodley (Finborough Stephen Glover (Director) Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Lena and Stephen’s directing credits include: The Dice House for Silver Thread Productions (Hen & Leonce (), a Shakespeare tour of Morocco and The Chickens Theatre) and Lights Out (Old Red Lion Theatre). He is a member of the Tempest (Hobbs Shoes Factory). Film includes: Isabelle (NFTS) and Genesis Directors Project. Stephen originally trained as an actor at Arts Educational after Ampersand (Blackbarn Productions). graduating from Cambridge University. His acting credits include: Anorak of Fire ( and national tour), Twelfth Night (National tour), Puss in Boots (The Theatre Chipping Norton) and Me and My Girl (). www.stephenglover.net

India Harris (Technician and Assistant Stage Manager) India recently graduated from LAMDA, having studied on the two year stage management Amy Dawson (Ange) and technical theatre course. She has worked on numerous fringe productions including Amy’s theatre credits include: Edmond (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), O My Green Soap Box (Oval Theatre) and House of Goddess (Courtyard Theatre). The Real Thing (Osip at the Tabard Theatre), I’ll Leave It To You India specialises in Assistant Stage Managing and Theatrical Lighting. (), Abigail in The Crucible (Theatro Technis), Alice in Curiouser & Curiouser (Minack Theatre, Cornwall). Rehearsed Emily Hickman (Producer) Readings at RADA include: Perve (Vanbrugh Theatre), Love (directed by Emily’s producing credits include: Incisions and Excavations (Occurrent Glow, The Old Dan Rollings), Desert Storm (directed by Hanna Berrigan) and All the Operating Theatre), Endgame (Clifton Rocks Railway), Shakespeare in the Park (Bristol Daughters of War (Vanbrugh Theatre in a commission with the RSC). Spotlights) and a UK tour of The Taming of the Shrew (Bristol Spotlights with British Her television credits include: Doctors (BBC). Touring Shakespeare). Emily has worked in casting and development for The , and currently works with writers and directors at The Agency. Christopher Nabb (Martin) Shaun Stone (Bruce) Christopher trained at Rose Bruford College. Progress sees Shaun trained at The Poor School. Theatre includes: Stockwell (Landor Christopher return to the stage after a three year absence, during Theatre & Tricycle Theatre – Evening Standard Awards Nomination), which time he pursued a career in television. His television credits Twenty Twelve (), Tales From the Terraces (Kings Head include: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (BBC), Paradise Theatre), Faultlines (Union Theatre), Have You Seen My Cat? Heights (BBC), Kerching! (BBC), Peak Practice (Carlton), The Bill (Edinburgh International Festival), Throwing Stones (Greenwich (Talkback Thames) A Village on the Somme (BBC) and Eastenders Playhouse), Diary Of A Single Man and Money For Jam (Theatre Royal (BBC). Christopher has also appeared in a number of films including: Stratford East). Television includes: The Bill (Talkback Thames), Sleeping Dictionary with Jessica Alba, Shortage of Angels with Peter Murder City (Granada), Absolute Power, Holby City, Memsahib Rita, and Maggie Law, Hollybollypine, Happy Day (Summer House Productions), Five Card The Diary Of Rita Patel and She’s Been Away (all BBC). Film includes: It Was An Accident Shuffle and Silver Beach (Davis Films). (Pathe), The Viva Voce Virus (Cavotti Cave) and Is Harry On The Boat (Sky Pictures). Shaun also works as a voiceover artist. He is represented by Patrick Hambleton Management.

Gordon Ridout (Oliver) Victoria Strachan (Ronee) Theatre includes: Sam, The Highest Jumper Of Them All (Finborough Hailing from Glasgow, Victoria trained at the Poor School, graduating Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (National tour), A Midsummer in 2007. Recent theatre includes: 1867 (), Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (both Greenwich Park), Serpent's Wedding (), Reasons to Hide (Theatre Doctor Faustus (), The Good Old Days (Tour), Lab), Always So Free (, ), Rokeya's Dream Everywoman (/National Theatre Studio), The (Tara Arts/Touring) and Boston Marriage (Pacific Playhouse). Recent Rivals (Wimbledon Studio), Hamlet (Tour), All’s Well That Ends Well, Film and Television includes: Channel 6 (NFT), Crisis Control (BBC), As You Like It and Measure For Measure (all Cambridge Shakespeare Edward VIII: Nazi King (Channel 5) and Bad Science (Schemata Festival). Television includes: Next Of Kin, Breaking the Angel's Back, Productions). Victoria is represented by Sandra Griffin Management. An Actor's Life for Me (all BBC) and The Bill (Talkback Thames). Audio includes: Macbeth (Diversity FM) and The Complete Doctor Faustus (Lord Strange’s Men).

Lawrence Sheldon (Mark) Playwright Lawrence trained at Arts Educational. His theatre credits include: Doug Lucie is the acclaimed writer of plays that include: Progress (Bush and Lyric Let Me Know (The ), One in Five (The Kings Head), Hammersmith – winning the Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award), ART (Hampton Hill Playhouse), One for the Road (BAC), Five Kinds of Rough Trade (Oxford Playhouse), Hard Feelings (Oxford Playhouse), The Key to the World Silence (Tabard Theatre) and Mountain Language (BAC). Film credits (Paines Plough tour), Fashion (RSC), Doing the Business (Royal Court), Grace (Hampstead), include: A Bunch of Amateurs (Trademark Films), The Black Dinner Gaucho (Hampstead), The Shallow End (Royal Court), The Green Man (Plymouth Theatre (Skills Set), Skeletons Warming Themselves (MethodAct), Homicide: Royal and ) and Presence (Plymouth Theatre Royal). His television credits Division B (February Films) and The Stephen Lawrence Trial (Carlton). include: A Class of his Own, Hard Feelings, Headhunters and Eastenders (BBC). Credits for Lawrence has also appeared in numerous commercials including: radio include: Small Earthquake, Hard Times (adaptation), Gypsy (adaptation), Hold Back BBC News on your Mobile, Friends Reunited, Ann Summers, Citroen and Match.com. the Night (adaptation), Development and Sunny Afternoon (all for BBC Radio). His voiceover work includes: MTV, TMF, Churchill, Thomson TV, Novartis and Playboy.