Two’s Company and Karl Sydow in association with Master Media present the London premiere of THE FIFTH COLUMN BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY

programme Director Tricia Thorns Set Designer Alex Marker Costume Designer Emily Stuart Lighting Designer Neill Brinkworth Sound Designer Dominic Bilkey Guitarist Ruben de Guillen Fight Director Toby Spearpoint GUESTS AT THE HOTEL FLORIDA: Dorothy Bridges, war correspondent, Room 109 Alix Dunmore Production Manager Michael Ager Robert Preston, war correspondent, Room 110 Michael Shelford Stage Manager /Operator Remi Bruno Smith Philip Rawlings, Room 113 Simon Darwen Technical Stage Manager Paddy Brant STAFF OF THE HOTEL: Associate Sound Designer Joel Price Stephen Ventura Manager of the Hotel Florida Design Assistant Klara Beckers Hotel Electrician Joshua Jacob Costume Assistant Olwen Murray Petra, Hotel maid Catherine Cusack Production photography Philip Gammon Hotel Maid Elizabeth Jane Cassidy

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guarding Room 107 Marketing Clemmie Hill of Target Live Elliot Brett Comrade Wilkinson, Abraham Lincoln Battalion Poster and programme design Jon Bradfield Max, Thaelmann Battalion Michael Edwards Production insurance Gordon & Co REPUBLICAN POLICE AND SECURITY: Producer Graham Cowley Antonio, Head of Counter-Espionage Michael Shelford Assault Guard Harvey Steven Meneses BAR CHICOTE: Our grateful thanks to Professor Paul Preston, Carlos Garcia Santa Cecilia, Martin Minchom, historians and authors, for invaluable advice about Madrid and the Civil War; Simon Mullins, Waiter Joshua Jacob Lizzy Harvey and Kathryn Waring of the Opera Tavern for hosting a wonderful fundraising lunch; StageText for all the equipment for the captioned performance; Marilyn Harper for teaching NATIONALISTS: us to sing like revolutionaries; Imogen Ffion Brown, Emma Clegg for help on the fit-up; Lizzie Sentry Elliot Brett Hunter for additional costume; The Mint Theater, New York, Artistic Director Jonathan Bank, for contacts and advice; Miss Dunmore’s hair by Lynne @ Emslie Griffin at Stars; Rose Bruford School German General Carl Gilbey-McKenzie of Theatre and Performance for props; Out of Joint for rehearsal space; Harriet Parsonage and The Questors Theatre Ealing; Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives; the National Theatre; Tim and General’s Aide James El-Sharawy Susie Battle; Nick Hern; Jane Jones; Naomi Wood; Duncan Coombe. Civilian Joshua Jacob Lighting and other equipment supplied by DCLX www.dclx.co.uk Signaller Harvey Steven MenesesSpecial thanks to Guy Chapman for his generous help with marketing and in all sorts of other ways. Particular thanks to those who have contributed to the costs of this The play takes place in Madrid in the autumn of 1937, mainly in the Hotel production. The Fifth Column is generously supported by The Opera Tavern, The Florida, Plaza Callao; also in the Seguridad Headquarters, the Bar Chicote, Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation, the Mercer’s Company, the Royal Victoria Hall

THE FIFTH COLUMN Gran Via, and an artillery observation post on the Extremadura Road. 24 March - 16 April 2016. London Premiere. in association with Sydow and Karl Company Two’s Presented by Foundation, Sir David Hare, Amanda and Howard Jennings and Sally Joyce. ERNEST HEMINGWAY did more to change the style of English prose than In the fall of 1937 when I took up playwrighting, there any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded weren’t any top floors to the hotel anymore. Nobody that the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative was not crazy would go up there in a bombardment. But sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also the two rooms where we lived were in what is called by Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one artillerymen a dead angle. Any place else in the hotel of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. could be hit and was. But unless the position of the batteries on Garabitas hill were changed, or unless they As part of the expatriate community in the 1920’s Paris, the former journalist substituted howitzers for guns, our rooms could not and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international be hit because of the position of three different houses fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, and across the street and across the square. I was absolutely his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, sure of this after being in the hotel during twenty-two who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the heavy bombardments in which other parts of it were Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novelFor Whom the Bell struck. It seemed eminently more sensible to live in part Tolls and subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and of a hotel which you knew would not be struck by shell the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961. fire, because you knew where the shells lit, than to go In Hemingway’s words: to some other hotel further from the lines, the angles of which you had no data to figure and where you would From the preface to the printed script of The Fifth Column: maybe have a shell drop through the roof.

“The Play was written in the fall and early winter of 1937 while we were Well, I had great confidence in the Florida and when expecting an offensive.... Each day we were shelled by the guns beyond Leganès Franco finally entered Madrid, our rooms were still intact. and behind the folds of Garabitas Hill, and while I was writing the play the Hotel There was very little else that was though.” Florida was struck by more than thirty high explosive shells. So if it is not a good play perhaps that is what is the matter with it. If it is a good play, perhaps those Some geography: thirty some shells helped write it. … The Casa de Campo, formerly a royal hunting park, lies to the West of the city, behind the Royal Palace. By the The title refers to the Spanish rebel statement in the fall of 1936 that they had autumn of 1937 Republican troops held the ground four columns advancing on Madrid and a Fifth Column of sympathisers inside up to the lake in the Casa de Campo. Beyond that was the city to attack the defenders of the city from the rear. If many of the Fifth Nationalist territory and their artillery was on Garabitas Column are now dead, it must be realised that they were killed in a warfare Hill. The Hotel Florida was vulnerable as it was in the where they were as dangerous and as determined as any of those who died in direct line of fire; the Fascists were often aiming at the the other four columns.” Telefonica tower – at that time the second tallest building From a letter intended for the New York Times in 1940: in Europe – a few yards further down the Gran Via, near Chicote’s, the famous nightclub (still open today). The “The old Florida was a great hotel. When we first lived in her in the early winter Telefonica was where the war correspondents went to of 1937 she was just eleven hundred yards as no crows were flying it, from phone their copy to Paris or London and was a prime the first line trenches in the Casa de Campo. But the Government made a six target. day offensive starting April Fifth of that year, that ended up with around nine The front line was much less certain in Carabanchel, a thousand casualties and the Florida eighteen hundred yards from the first lines. poor suburb to the south of the centre. House to house There were those who said it wasn’t worth it. It was at the start of that offensive fighting meant that nobody quite knew whose territory that I was asleep one night with the window open knowing that it was alright they were in. to sleep because when you had to go down there the noise would let you know. What woke me, though, was the noise of glass breaking. It was a machine gun The Plaza Callao is still the same hub of activity as it bullet that had come in the open window and hit the mirror of the armoire. I was, and many of the buildings, including the Cinema moved the bed over to a more secluded angle in the corner of the room, being mentioned in the play, still stand. The Hotel Florida was careful not to waken any of my friends, and that is all there is to that story demolished in mysterious circumstances in 1964. except that the management put in a new armoire and apologized for the

ERNEST HEMINGWAY barbarousness of the fascists. … Members of the company in rehearsal THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR & MADRID defenceless Basque town was of Guernica destroyed bombers, by German Meanwhile the Nationalist of Spain. advance continued inotherparts The casualties. The siegecontinued for two years. thenext gainedonlyafewRepublic hundred yards, at thecost ofhugenumbers andgroundmore bombingofthecity aerial forces counter-attacked. The early In halted theNationalist advance. Communist andBritish PartGerman the T including leaving aJunta deDefensa incharge. 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Republican (Flick Features), Boxed (Fireproof At Southwark Playhouse: Jekyll Rose Theatre), Amir: The Lost Price of Films), The Lonely Passion of Judith and Hyde. Other Theatre includes: Persia (Theatre 503). Film includes: THE Hearne (HandMade Films) Bruises (Tabard Theatre), The False Assurance (ICAEW Short Film), Radio includes: Poetry Please, Emperor Self, The Dog the Night Evidence of Existence (Filmmaker at The Girl At The Lion D'Or, Fragile, and the Knife (Arcola Theatre), The Large) Something Understood, The Steward County (Camden Peoples Theatre), COMPANY Of Christendom (Radio 4) A Hard Rain (Above the Stag), Flight (Brockley Jack), Jekyll and Hyde (Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts), House of Bones, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Platform Theatre), Michael Jackson at the Gates of Heaven and Hell (Underbelly), The Rime of the Modern Mariner (The Dalston Old Boys CATHERINE CUSACK ALIX DUNMORE Club). Film includes: We Don’t Know Petra Dorothy Bridges Either (Guerrero Productions), Nearly Theatre includes: Judith: A Parting Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Always (RCA), Fifty Eight (YOCF), From The Body, Fragile, The Factory Theatre School. For Two’s Welcome to Nightvale (Redon Girls (Arcola), Dancing At Lughnasa, Company: What The Women Did Productions), L’eau (Nomentum The Crucible, How Many Miles To (Southwark Playhouse), London Productions), Tiger House (Strike SASHA FROST Babylon? (Lyric, Belfast), Ghosts Wall (Finborough and St James Films), Denousa (Venetsano Films). (New Vic, Stoke), All That Fall Theatres). Other theatre includes: Anita ELLIOT BRETT (Arts Theatre/ 59E59 New York), SIMON DARWEN Ben Hur (Tricycle Theatre), The 39 Trained at The Liverpool Institute Comrade Wilkinson and Sentry The Seagull (Headlong), Bingo Philip Rawlings Steps (Criterion, West End), Gaslight for Performing Arts (LIPA). Theatre This is Elliot’s professional debut. (Chichester/Young Vic), The Two For Two’s Company: What The (New Vic, Newcastle-Under-Lyme), includes: The Lightning Child Theatre includes: Verbatopolis, Ten Character Play (Jermyn St. Theatre), Women Did (Southwark Playhouse). Top Girls (Out of Joint), The Dead Guy (Shakespeare’s Globe), Gutted Pound Tale (C Venues, Edinburgh). The Early Bird (Natural Shocks, Other Theatre includes Flare Path (English Theatre Frankfurt), Nature (Theatre Royal Stratford East), London and Project, Dublin), What (UK tour), Our Country's Good (Out Adores a Vacuum (Soho Theatre), Suspension (Bristol Old Vic), Kick-off Fatima Did, Bold Girls (Hampstead), of Joint/Toronto/Tour), Lizzie Siddal Separate Tables (Mill at Sonning), (Riverside Studios), The Canterville King Lear (Second Age), Salt Meets (Arcola Theatre), The Armour/ A Winter of War (Cheltenham Ghost (Southwark Playhouse) Wound (Theatre 503), Uncle Vanya Hotel Plays (Defibrilator), atchC 22 Everyman), The Two Noble Kinsmen Television includes: Sunny D (BBC3), (Wilton's Music Hall), Mary Stuart (Northern Stage/Birmingham Rep/ (Bristol Old Vic). Television includes: Agatha Raisin (Sky1), Casualty, (National Theatre of Scotland), National Tour), Virgin (Watford Casualty, Doctors, Call The Midwife Frankie, Garrow’s Law, Holby City, The Mushroom Pickers (Southwark Palace), King Lear (Theatre Royal (BBC). Radio includes The Simon Doctors (BBC), Privates (BBC/ Playhouse), The Gigli Concert Bath), Mad About The Boy (Young Day Show, 49 Cedar Street (BBC). TwentyTwenty), Hollyoaks (Lime (Finborough), The Venetian Twins Vic), Sour Lips (Oval House), Love Film includes: London Wall (Master Pics), Beautality (6 Degree Media) (Watermill), Bronte, Mill On The Floss Love Love (Paines Plough/Drum Media). Alix is a founder member of Film includes: Star Wars: Episode (Shared Experience), Blood Red Theatre /national tour), Unrestless the Fitzrovia Radio Hour JAMES EL-SHARAWY VII- The Force Awakens (Lucas Film), Saffron Yellow(Drum, Plymouth), (Old Vic Tunnels), Accolade International Brigade Comrade, Remainder (Tigerlily Films), Anti- Our Lady Of Sligo (Out of Joint), (Finborough Theatre), Ramshackle General’s Aide Social (JRS Films), FIT (Stonewall) Measure For Measure (ETT), Prayers Heart (Public Theatre, New York) Trained at Rose Bruford School Of Sherkin (Old Vic), Phaedra's Love Arse, Shove (Theatre 503), Mad of Theatre and Performance. For Forest, The Wonder (BAC), The Two’s Company: The Cutting of ELIZABETH JANE CASSIDY (Gate), Mrs Warren's Profession Merchant of Venice, The Tragedy of the Cloth (Southwark Playhouse). Hotel Maid (Lyric Hammersmith), The Glass Thomas Hobbes, The Taming of the Other Theatre includes: Scattered Trains part-time at Anthony Menagerie (Bolton Octagon), Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Clywd Theatr Cymru/Good Chance Meindl's Acting School. Theatre Moonlight, The Seagull, You Never (Royal Shakespeare Company), 1 Theatre, Calais), Walaa (New includes Hearts (Tricycle Theatre), Can Tell (Gate Theatre Dublin), in 5 (Hampstead Theatre), Fanny Diorama/ St Martin in the Fields), Victim, Sidekick, Boyfriend and Lovers Meeting (Druid), Poor Beast & Faggot (Trafalgar Studios), A Hard Rain (Above the Stag), Me (Oxford Playhouse), Ailie and In The Rain (Bush) . TV includes: The Flamingoes, Nikolina, Bedtime for Psychopomp and Circumstance the Alien (Lyric). Film includes Mr. Last Days of Anne Boleyn, Doctors, Bastards (nabokov). Television (The Hen & Chickens), Tunnel (The Holmes, An Open Window, Your Jonathan Creek, Ballykissangel, includes Silent Witness, The Bletchley Nightingale Theatre), Portrait of a Move, Pulled Apart By My Own Sophia and Constance, Dr. Who Circle, The Bill. Film includes A Man (Victoria and Albert Museum), Hands, Lone. (BBC), The Bill, The Chief, Cadfael (ITV), Coronation Street (Granada). Simple Man, Howard Everyman. Qudz (The Yard Theatre), Masked MICHAEL EDWARDS Film includes: Finding Neverland (George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Max (Miramax), Conspiracy of Silence RADA), Days of Significance (Unicorn Trained at Drama Centre London. Theatre), Death of a Salesman (The Houdini & Doyle, Lewis, Mrs Biggs, Manchester), Macario (Tottering Edinburgh, Liverpool, Guildford, Theatres), Ex (Soho Theatre). Doctors. Radio includes: The Archers, Bipeds), Les Enfants Du Paradis Derby and many more. Her many Other theatre includes Robin Hood Hamlet, Dracula, Smiley’s People, The (David Glass Ensemble). Radio television and film appearances (The Theatre, Chipping Norton) White Devil, Slaughterhouse 5, The includes: Government Inspector, His include Dangerfield, A Touch of Antigone, (Southwark Playhouse), Secret Pilgrim (BBC Radio 4). Film Natural Life, Monsignor Quixote, The Frost, Keeping Up Appearances, Martine, Over The Bridge and Lingua includes: Mortdecai. Crystal Rooms, Kes (BBC), Dombey The Darling Buds of May, The Bill, Franca (Finborough Theatre), and Son (Worldwide Radio), (BBC). London’s Burning, Captives and The Natural Affection, First Episode, The Film includes: Emma (Miramax), Turn of the Screw. Living Room, Anyone Can Whistle Raindance Film Festival cinema and Bloody Poetry (Jermyn Street trailer (Infinity Productions) ALEX MARKER Theatre), Shiverman (Theatre503), TV includes: The Welcome Designer Flock (Northern Stage), Murder in Committee (Rocliffe Films),Alistair In his role as associate designer for The Cathedral (Oxford Playhouse). McGowan's Big Impression (BBC), Two’s Company Alex has designed Emily was the winner of the Best The Bill (Thames), Rough Justice all of their productions over the Costume Designer award at the (BBC), Downton Abbey (Carnival), last 11 years: Red Night (Finborough 2011 OffWestEnd Awards and again CARL GILBEY-MCKENZIE HARVEY STEVEN MENESES Holby City (BBC), Doc Martin (Buffalo Theatre), My Real War 1914 - ? in 2016. German General Assault Guard and Signaller Pictures). (Trafalgar Studios and 2 national This is Carl’s first professional Trained at Central de Cine Acting tours), The Searcher (Greenwich NEILL BRINKWORTH engagement since a three month School and Metodo Acting in TRICIA THORNS Theatre), Ex (Soho Theatre), London Lighting Designer stint at The Little Theatre Club, Madrid. Theatre includes: La Cueva Director Wall (Finborough and transfer to For Two’s Company: The Cutting of St Martin’s Lane in 1966. Theatre de Salamanca of Entremeses of Tricia began her career as an St James Theatre) and What the the Cloth (Southwark Playhouse) includes about 100 amateur roles Miguel de Cervantes. TV includes: actress in the West End as part Women Did and The Cutting of the Other recent Lighting Designs: The STEPHEN VENTURA (OUDS, Chelsea Centre and Michael Rocio Durcal. Film includes: Tiara de of John Neville’s company at Cloth (Southwark Playhouse). He Meeting (Hampstead Theatre), In the Hotel Manager Croft Theatre). Also Director of la Victoria (short film about Spanish the Fortune, after a Classics BA is also resident designer at the Night Garden Live (Minor/BBC), The Trained at Guildhall School of some fifty school productions war). Harvey moved from Madrid from Nottingham University. As Finborough Theatre, where he Divided Laing (Arcola Theatre), As Music and Drama, Ecole Philippe of plays, musicals and operas to London a year ago – this is his a director, her work includes The has designed over 35 productions Is (Trafalgar Studios), Sweat Factory Gaulier, Royal Holloway. Theatre (DCPS [now DPL] and The Hall, professional debut in England. Cutting of the Cloth (Southwark including: The White Carnation (and (YMT, Sadlers Wells), Dido & Aeneas includes: The One That Got Away Hampstead). Playhouse), Creation (with a cast of transfer to Jermyn Street), Dream (English Touring Opera), The White (Theatre Royal Bath), The Dog, the 40, (St Barnabas Church, Dulwich), of the Dog (and transfer to Trafalgar Feather (Union Theatre), Night and the Knife (Arcola), Boris A Hard Rain (Above the Stag), Studios) and Plague Over England Contact.Com (Park Theatre), In Godonov and The Orphan of Zhao London Wall (Finborough and St (and transfer to the Duchess Lambeth and Who Do We Think We (RSC), The 39 Steps (West End), James Theatres), My Real War 1914-? Theatre). At the Finborough Are? (Southwark Playhouse), Dessa Cav & Pag (ENO), Frankenstein (Trafalgar Studios and national he recently directed the first Rose (Trafalgar Studios), Café Chaos, (Northampton), The Ramayana tour), The Searcher (workshop production for over 60 years A Square of Sky (The Kosh), The (Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old production at Greenwich Theatre), of J. B. Priestley’s play: Summer Seagull (Arcola), An Enemy of the Vic and West Yorks Playhouse), Red Night (Finborough Theatre), Days Dream. Alex has designed People (Albany), Jephthe (English Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Royal What the Women Did (Southwark productions for many other Touring Opera), Strauss Gala Opera), Market Boy (National Playhouse and revived in 2014 theatres including most recently: (Raymond Gubbay), Bridgetower Theatre), Villette (Stephen Joseph for the Great War Centenary), The Meeting (Hampstead Theatre), (City of London Festival/ETO), Theatre Scarborough), The Coffee Forgotten Voices from the Great War Can’t Buy Me Love and London Vincent River (Old Vic productions), House, The Merchant of Venice, (Pleasance London), Ex and Black Calling (Salisbury Playhouse), The Step 9 of 12, Tape (both Trafalgar Seven Doors, Doctor Faustus & The ‘Ell (Soho Theatre), Twelfth Night Man Called Monkhouse (Edinburgh) Studios), Prometheus/The Frogs/ Government Inspector, Scapino (Dulwich Picture Gallery), Peer and Around the World in 80 Days Agamemnon (all Cambridge Arts MICHAEL SHELFORD the Trickster (Chichester Festival Gynt (Alleyn’s Theatre) and Passion (Chipping Norton and national Theatre), Accolade, Don Juan JOSHUA JACOB Antonio/Preston Theatre), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Play 2000, a huge community tour). He is also director of the Comes Back from the War, Fanta Electrician, Waiter and Civilian Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre Ui (Citizens Glasgow), The Taming of play which she also wrote. As an Questors Youth Theatre in West Orange (all Finborough Theatre), Trained with National Youth School. Theatre includes: Twelfth the Shrew (Nottingham Playhouse), actress, theatre includes End of London. Seven Pomegranate Seeds (Oxford Theatre, Tricycle Young Company Night, Journey’s End, Hobson’s The Chairs (RSAMD Glasgow), Les Story (Chelsea Theatre), Harry and www.alexmarker.com Playhouse). As Associate: Lohengrin and Southwark Playhouse Choice, Early One Morning (Bolton Justes (Gate Theatre), The Woman Me (Warehouse), Façade (Dingley (Warsaw National Opera) Ludd & Isis Young Company. This is Joshua’s Octagon), Events While Guarding Who Swallowed A Pin (The Lab/ and Dulwich Festivals), A Kind of EMILY STUART (ROH), Maria Stuarda (Opera North), professional debut. Theatre the Bofors Gun, Everyday Maps for Southwark Playhouse), King Lear Alaska (Edinburgh, tour and USA), Costume Designer Lohengrin (WNO), Symbionts includes: Switch (Tricycle Theatre), Everyday Use (Finborough Theatre), (RSC/Ninagawa Co), Measure for Time’s Up (Windsor), The Libertine Trained at Wimbledon School (Wayne MCcGregor, Estonia Lost Love (Chelsea Theatre), Virgin (Watford Palace) The Boy on Measure (Bite/Edinburgh Festival), and The Man of Mode (Royal Court of Art. Costume Designs for National Ballet) Humanity on the Edge (Stanley the Swing (Arcola), The Daughter in Maestro Impro Show (Improbable), and Out of Joint tour), Betrayal Two’s Company: The Cutting Of Halls). Law (The New Vic, Stoke,) Money A Midsummer Night's Dream (BAC and tour), Run For Your Wife The Cloth, What The Women Did DOMINIC BILKEY in the Vaults (Old Vic Tunnels). (Almeida), The Mill On The Floss, (West End) and leading roles in (Southwark Playhouse) London Sound Designer Television includes: Game of Waiting for Godot, You Used To & theatres in Salisbury, Ipswich, Wall (Finborough and St James Dominic is Head of Sound and Thrones, War & Peace, The Crown, Strange Attractors (Contact Theatre Video for the National Theatre by Simon McBurney with Katie (Olivier Award for Best Play); Red Night after previous appointments at Holmes; American Buffalo and Hysteria (Olivier Award for Best the NT and after 5 years as Head Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Comedy) and an adaptation of Sue of Sound for the Young Vic. He sits Wertenbaker (six Tony nominations, Townsend’s novel The Queen and I on the Board of the Association NY Critics’ Award for Best Foreign which was Out of Joint’s inaugural of Sound Designers and was last Play). North America: Backbeat production. Karl continues to serve year’s recipient of the TTA Award (Royal Alexandra, Toronto on the board of Out of Joint, the UK for Outstanding Achievement in and Ahmanson, Los Angeles). leading producer of new writing Sound. He trained with the Royal International Tours: The Last for the theatre. Karl also served Welsh College of Music and Drama. Confession with David Suchet, as a director of Renaissance Film Sound Designs for Two’s Company: the centennial production of Company. He continues to act as The Cutting of the Cloth, What The Under Milk Wood; and the Out an independent film producer; Women Did (Southwark Playhouse), of Joint revival of Our Country’s projects with David Parfitt, his London Wall (Finborough and St Good. London: Backbeat directed colleague from Renaissance for James Theatres). Other Sound by David Leveaux; A Dish of Tea Trademark Films, include A Bunch Designs include: Shadowlands with Dr Johnson directed by Max of Amateurs by Ian Hislop and Nick (Birdsong Productions), Jane Stafford-Clark; Triptych by Edna Newman featuring Sir Derek Jacobi, Eyre (Bristol Old Vic/National O’Brien; Memory directed by Imelda Staunton, Samantha Bond Theatre), Jack & the Beanstalk Terry Hands; The Line directed by and Burt Reynolds and My Week As a protest against the US/UK invasion was What The Women Did at Southwark (Towngate Basildon), Pinocchio Mathew Lloyd and Jenufa directed With Marilyn featuring Michelle of Iraq in 2003, Two’s Company quickly Playhouse, another triple bill, featuring Luck (Greenwich Theatre), Tommy (Aria by Irina Brown, both written by Williams, Dame Judi Dench & of War by Gwen John, Handmaidens of Death Entertainment, Guy James and Timberlake Wertenbaker (Arcola); Kenneth Branagh. mounted a production of Miles Malleson’s Szpiezak Productions), Birdsong Ring Round the Moon directed by Black ‘Ell at Soho Theatre. The play shows by Herbert Tremaine, both directed by Tricia (Original Theatre Company), Sean Mathias (Playhouse); Dirty GRAHAM COWLEY a young officer, returning from the front, Thorns, and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals Cinderella/Jack & the Beanstalk Dancing (Piccadilly, Aldwych, UK Producer decorated for bravery, but traumatised by by J.M. Barrie, directed by Ian Talbot. (Towngate, Basildon), The Best tour, Germany, France, Australia Has produced all of Two’s his experience and refusing to go back. We Christmas Present in the World and Italy); the spectacular Company’s shows, including his The third episode was Red Night by James (Nuffield, Southampton),War Horse multimedia production Sinatra at own translation of Véronique felt that this cry of pain and rage written in Prom (NT/BBC), The Private Ear/ the London Palladium, directed by Olmi’s End of Story. Producer for 1916 expressed better than anything the Lansdale Hodson at the Finborough Theatre in 2005, which showed the comradeship and The Public Eye (Yvonne Arnaud, David Leveaux with choreography Out of Joint for 15 years and now folly of starting another war. Guildford), Dr Marigold and Mr by Stephen Mear; And Then There Associate. Previously with the humour, fading to disillusion, of a platoon Chops and Masterclass (Theatre Were None with Tara Fitzgerald Theatre of Comedy Company, the facing misery and death in the trenches. Royal Bath), Wagstaffe the Wind-up (Gielgud); the London and Sydney Royal Court Theatre (on whose This play was the first in a series of what Boy and Rapunzel (Kneehigh), production of Dance of Death behalf he transferred Death and Two’s Company has become best known Velona Pilcher’s The Searcher, an Journey’s End (co-prod with Icarus with Sir Ian McKellen, Frances the Maiden, Oleanna, Six Degrees for: the rediscovery of plays about the First expressionist play with music by Edmund Theatre Collective), Twelfth Night, de la Tour and Owen Teale; Bea of Separation, My Night with Reg World War, written during the War or soon See How They Run and Dancing at Arthur (Savoy); Auntie and Me with and The Weir to the West End), Rubbra, about Red Cross nurses tasked with after. The first season,Forgotten Voices Lughnasa (UK tours for Original Alan Davies and Margaret Tyzack Paines Plough, the Half Moon finding what had happened to men missing Theatre Company). As Associate (Wyndham’s); Michael Moore, Live! Theatre, Joint Stock Theatre Group, from the Great War at Pleasance London, in battle, was presented as a workshop Sound Designer: Great Britain (Roundhouse); the West End revival Greenwich Theatre and the London consisted of three short plays, ‘D’ Company production as part of Greenwich Theatre’s (National Theatre), Public Enemy of Noël Coward’s Semi-Monde; Palladium. His origins as an actor by Miles Malleson, directed by Ian Talbot, and The Government Inspector Kevin Elyot’s Mouth to Mouth with are hidden in the mists of time. Musical Futures. (Young Vic), Wild Swans (Young Vic Lindsay Duncan and Michael and Brigade Exchange by Ernst Johannsen and A.R.T, Boston), Kafka’s Monkey Maloney (Albery); David Mamet’s and Black ‘Ell by Miles Malleson, both The finalForgotten Voices project was My (Young Vic and International Speed-the-Plow with Mark Strong, directed by Tricia Thorns. On publication in Real War 1914-?, adapted by Tricia Thorns Associates). Patrick Marber and Kimberly Williams; Drummers by Simon 1916, Malleson’s plays had been denounced from the letters home of Lt. Havilland le KARL SYDOW Bennet and Some Explicit Polaroids in the House of Commons as “a calumny on Mesurier, a young officer killed in 1916. It Producer by Mark Ravenhill – winner of the British soldier” and all copies were seized toured twice and played at the Trafalgar New York: NT’s Happy Days the Evening Standard Award by the police. Johannsen had served in the Studios in London. starring Fiona Shaw and directed as Most Promising Newcomer, by Deborah Warner (Brooklyn both directed by Max Stafford- German Army in the War. Written for radio, Academy of Music); Haunted Clark for Out of Joint; Macbeth his play had achieved international success The company departed from its main aim by Edna O’Brien; Terra Haute by with Rufus Sewell (Queen’s); A before being banned when the Nazis came of rediscovering the “new plays of the past” Edmond White; The Seagull with Swell Party – A Celebration Of Cole to power. with a new musical play, Ex by Rob Young Kristin Scott Thomas and Carey Porter (Vaudeville); Timberlake with music by Ross Lorraine, at the Soho Mulligan; All My Sons directed Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good The next in the Forgotten Voices series Theatre in 2011, before returning with London Wall at the Finborough Theatre. ‘Southwark Playhouse churn out arresting productions at Set in a solicitor’s office in 1931 and first a rate of knots’ Time Out produced that year, it shone a light on the lives of women working in offices, the Southwark Playhouse is all about telling stories and work they did, the money they earned (not inspiring the next generation of storytellers and theatre much) and the predatory attitude of their makers. It aims to facilitate the work of new and emerging male colleagues. It was so well received it theatre practitioners from early in their creative lives to the Patrons start of their professional careers. transferred to the St James Theatre. Sir Michael Caine Peter Gill OBE To mark the Great War Centenary there was Sir Simon Hughes Through our schools work we aim to introduce local people a revival in 2014 of What The Women Did in Andy Serkis at a young age to the possibilities of great drama and the the new Southwark Playhouse. benefits of using theatre skills to facilitate learning. Each Board of Trustees year we engage with over 5,000 school pupils through free Tim Wood, Sarah Hickson, The most recent production, also at Rodney Pearson, Joe Roberts, schools performances and long-term in school curriculum Southwark Playhouse, was the world Giles Semper, Kathryn Serkis, support. premiere of The Cutting of the Cloth by Glenn Wellman Michael Hastings. Based on the author’s Through our Young Company (YoCo), a youth-led theatre Artistic Director (CEO) youthful experience as a Savile Row tailor’s Chris Smyrnios company for local people between the ages of 14-25, we apprentice, it depicted the eternal struggle General Manager aim to introduce young people to the many and varied between dedication to craft and skill and Alys Mayer disciplines of running a semi-professional theatre company. the pressure to make money. Youth & Community Director YoCo provides a training ground to build confidence and David Workman inspire young people towards a career in the arts. Earlier productions include Betrayal by Technical & Production Harold Pinter (BAC and Tour), A Kind of Manager Our theatre programme aims to facilitate and showcase the Alaska by Harold Pinter (Edinburgh Festival Richard Seary work of some of the UK’s best up and coming talent with and tours of UK and USA), Harry and Me Front of House & Bar a focus on reinterpreting classic plays and contemporary Manager by Nigel Williams (Warehouse Theatre, Edward Land plays of note. Our two atmospheric theatre spaces enable Croydon) and End of Story by Véronique Press & PR Manager us to offer theatre artists and companies the opportunity Olmi (Chelsea Theatre). Susie Safavi to present their first fully realised productions. Over the Box Office & Sales past 22 years we have produced and presented early Two’s Company (Theatre) Ltd is a Company Limited Coordinator productions by many aspiring theatre practitioners many by Guarantee. Registered in England no 4978880, Alan Healy Registered Charity no 1105633. of whom are now enjoying flourishing careers. Production Assistant Directors: Lee Elston Graham Cowley, Ian Talbot OBE, Tricia Thorns. What People Say… Duty Managers 020 8299 3714 or [email protected] Joe Deighan, ‘High-achieving, life-giving spirit’ Two’s Company is grateful to the following for their Imogen Watson Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard support for previous productions: Arts Council Associate Director England, Ambassador Theatre Group, the Britten-Pears David Mercatali ‘The revitalised Southwark Playhouse’ Foundation, Ray Cooney, the Feminist Review Trust, the Foyle Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, Lyn Gardner, The Guardian the Garrick Charitable Trust, the Golsoncott Foundation, the Manifold Trust, Master Media Ltd, ‘I love that venue so much. It is, without doubt, one of the the Mercers’ Company, Karl Sydow, the Royal Victoria most exciting theatre venues in London.’ Hall Foundation, the Sylvia Waddilove Charitable Philip Ridley, Playwright Foundation, Vera Thorns, Unity Theatre Trust Pictures (this page): Support us online by Black ‘Ell; Ex; What The Women Did; London Wall; joining our Facebook and For more information about our forthcoming season and to My Real War 1914-?; The Cutting of the Cloth Twitter pages. book tickets visit www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk. Staff List and Karl Sydow present Out of Joint

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