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Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director CAST OF CHARACTERS JAMES TYRONE...........................................JEREMY IRONS in association with Fiery Angel and Pádraig Cusack MARY TYRONE.......................................LESLEY MANVILLE PRESENTS EDMUND TYRONE...................................MATTHEW BEARD The Bristol Old Vic Production of JAMES TYRONE JR.......................................RORY KEENAN CATHLEEN..................................................JESSICA REGAN UNDERSTUDIES JAMES TYRONE............................................PHILIP CHILDS MARY TYRONE & CATHLEEN.....................DEBORAH BLAKE EDMUND TYRONE & JAMES TYRONE JR.....................................JACK HARDWICK ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION TEAM CREDITS PRODUCERS COMPANY MANAGER Edward Snape, Jon Bath Laura Flowers and Chloé Elwood DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER GENERAL MANAGEMENT DIRECTED BY Sarah Hellicar Jon Bath and Hugh de la Bedoyere Richard Eyre AMERICAN STAGE MANAGER MARKETING & SALES MANAGER Sara Sahin Bonnie Royal HEAD OF WARDROBE & WIGS PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Megan Keegan Christabel Holmes PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT SET & COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER Helen Maddison Rob Howell Peter Mumford John Leonard ADDITIONAL DESIGN ASSISTANT CREATIVE TEAM Megan Huish ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ASSISTANT PROPS SUPERVISOR Katie Henry Mary Halliday ASSOCIATE DESIGNER SCENIC CONSTRUCTION AND PAINTING ORIGINAL CASTING DIRECTOR WEST END CASTING DIRECTOR Ben Davies Souvenir Scenic Studios Maggie Lunn, CDG Charlotte Sutton, CDG ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGNER CYCLORAMA PAINTED BY Irene Bohan Alistair Brotchie ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER COSTUME HIRES SUPPLIED BY Charlotte Burton Cosprop PROPS SUPERVISOR WIG MADE & SUPPLIED BY GENERAL MANAGEMENT PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Lisa Buckley Campbell Young VOICE AND DIALECT COACH WIGS CONSULTANT Fiery Angel Jim Leaver Penny Dyer Helen Keane FIGHT DIRECTOR MAKE UP SUPPLIED BY Kate Waters MAC REHEARSAL & PRODUCTION JUNE 8 - JULY 1, 2018 PHOTOGRAPHY Hugo Glendinning Bram Goldsmith Theater ARTWORK AND DESIGN Running Time: 3 hours and 25 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission SWD The Actors are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. by Hugo Glendinning Photo The American Stage Manager is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 About the Artists About the Artists JEREMY IRONS (James she won both the Olivier and Critics Circle Award RORY KEENAN (James DEBORAH BLAKE (U/S End); Antonio in The Tempest (Oxford Stage Cometh (1964) and Long Day’s Journey into Night, Tyrone) trained at the Bristol for Best Actress. Other theatre includes Grief, Tyrone Jr.) Previously for Richard Mary Tyrone & Cathleen) Helen Company); Killing For Company - a one-man play completed in 1941 but unproduced until three Old Vic Theatre School and directed by Mike Leigh for which she received an Eyre, Rory played the title role in Alving in Ghosts at the about the mass-murderer Dennis Nilsen (Hen & years after his death on November 27, 1953. joined the Company in 1969, Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress, Her Liola at the National Theatre. Other Greenwich Theatre. She covered Chickens); Sgt.Match in What The Butler Saw and staying three years. In the West Naked Skin, Pillars of the Community, The theatre credits include The the lead role of Maria Callas in Christopher Riley in Shadowlands (Coventry); Phil RICHARD EYRE (Director) Theatre includes End he played in Godspell and Alchemist and His Dark Materials (all National Kitchen, Damned By Despair (all Terence McNally’s Masterclass in Spear in The Ballroom (Attic, Wimbledon); Snoopy Hamlet, Kafka’s Dick, Edmond (Royal Court), Simon Gray’s The Rear Column Theatre); Six Degrees of Separation and All About National Theatre); Saint the Broadway transfer to the in You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Overground, Comedians, Guys and Dolls, The Beggar’s Opera, The (Clarence Derwent Award), and The Caretaker and My Mother (Old Vic), Top Girls (Royal Court/New Joan, Welcome Home Captain Fox! and Philadelphia West End's Vaudeville Theatre. She evolved the Kingston). Other West End credits include The Government Inspector, The Futurists, The Much Ado About Nothing at the Young Vic. He played York), Serious Money, The Popes’ Wedding, Saved, Here I Come! (all Donmar Warehouse) Dublin Carrol comedic role of Lady Virginia in Wilde’s last Hired Man, Casablanca and Arturo Ui. Television Changeling, The Voysey Inheritance, Racing Demon, in Wild Oats, The Rover, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale Rita, Sue and Bob Too, The Mother, How Now Green (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios), Someone Who’ll Watch attributed play, Constance at The Kings Head. credits includes: The pilot episode for a TV series Richard III, Night of the Iguana, White Chameleon, and the King in Richard II for the RSC. Over sixty film Cow, Falkland Sound, Three Sisters, American Over Me (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Shaughraun Comtesse de Saint Fond & Baronesse de Simiane, called The Trial, in which he portrays the prominent Skylight, Napoli Milionaria, Sweet Bird of Youth, The credits include The French Lieutenant’s Woman Bagpipes and Borderline (all Royal Court). The (Noel Coward Theatre), The Big Fellah (Lyric (covers) in Madame de Sade, for Michael Grandage’s barrister Michael Beloff, Emmerdale, Eastenders, Absence of War, John Gabriel Borkman, The Prince’s (1981); The Mission (1986); Dead Ringers (1988); Cherry Orchard and Some Girls (West End); Miss Hammersmith & UK Tour) and Lakeboat/Prairie du Donmar West End Season; Martha (cover), That Dream Team, Bernard’s Watch, The Bill, Woof, Play, Amy’s View, King Lear, The Invention of Love, Reversal of Fortune (Golden Globe, Emmy and the Julie (Greenwich); Les Liaisons Dangereuses, As You Chien (Arcola Theatre). Before moving to London he Face, Duke of York’s; Catriona, in The Ride and Betty Backup, Out of Sight, Into The Fire, 2 Point 4 Vincent in Brixton, The Reporter, The Observer, Academy Award for best Actor); Damage (1992); Like It, Philistines and The Wives’ Excuse (all had worked extensively in theatre in Ireland appearing Bell in Mary Bell by Mary Bell, at the White Bear, Children, Cracker, Peak Practice, Waiting For God, A Welcome to Thebes, Liolà (National Theatre), The M.Butterfly (1993) and Lolita (1997). He voiced Scar RSC). She has worked on numerous films with in many Abbey Theatre productions including Six Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Isabella Dark Adapted Eye, Minder, Inspector Morse, Sophia Crucible (Broadway), Mary Poppins (West End/ in The Lion King (1994), and played Simon Gruber Mike Leigh, most notably in Another Year, for which Characters in Search of an Author, The School For in Measure for Measure, Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Constance, Mile High, Murder City and Men Broadway), A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic), The Last of the in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995). His more she won the London Critics Circle Film Award for Scandal, She Stoops to Folly and Saved. Elsewhere in Queen in Cymbeline all for The Original Are Wonderful. Film credits include: Vera Drake Duchess (Hampstead Theatre), The Judas Kiss and recent film work includes Margin Call (2011); Night Best British Actress, National Board of Review Dublin he has played the title roles in Hamlet, Macbeth Shakespeare Company; Portia, The Merchant of directed by Mike Leigh and The Damned United. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, his own Train to Lisbon (2013); The Man Who Knew Infinity Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a and Don Carlos as well as many other leading roles in Venice, Pentameters Theatre & National Tour; Protoe adaptations of Les Mains Sales, Hedda Gabler, (2015) and Red Sparrow (2018). His television credits BAFTA and British Independent Film Award. Other The Gate Theatre, Olympia Theatre, and Gaiety Theatre in Pentheselia at The Gate Theatre, Miss Julie in JACK HARDWICK (U/S Ghosts, Little Eyolf (Almeida), Private Lives, Betty include Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited, and films with Leigh include All or Nothing, for which including Festen, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Miss Julie, Manchester tour; Kissinda, A Covent Edmund Tyrone & James Tyrone Blue Eyes, Quartermaine’s Terms, Stephen Ward, Mr Lord Dudley in Elizabeth I with Helen Mirren for she won the London Critics Circle Award for Best Taming of the Shrew, and The Seagull. TV credits Garden Tragedy, Tristan Bates Theatre; Sarah, Jr.) trained at the Bristol Old Foote’s Other Leg (West End), Long Day’s Journey which he won a SAG Award, his second Golden Globe British Actress, Mr. Turner, Vera Drake, Topsy Turvy, include:, Come Home, War & Peace, Peaky Blinders, Another World, Production Village Cricklewood; Vic Theatre School. Theatre Into Night (Bristol Old Vic), The Last Cigarette, The and Emmy. In The Borgias (2011) he played Pope Secrets and Lies and High Hopes. Other film credits Birdsong, and Aristocrats (all BBC) Versailles (Canal+/ Mason in An Ideal Husband also covering Gertrude credits include: Elyot Chase in Pajama Game, The Stepmother (Chichester), My Alexander, and portrayed Henry IV in the BBC’s The include Hampstead, Rupture, Maleficent, Romeo BBC), Striking Out, The Clinic, On Home Ground, & Mabel Chiltern, Westminster Theatre & No.1 Private Lives (UK tour); Peter in Name is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre). Opera Hollow Crown directed by Richard Eyre. In Europe he and Juliet, Molly Moon, A Five Star Life, Spike Showbands (all RTE), Lucky Man (SKY), Benedict Arnold National Tour; Mary, The Mysteries The Orchard The Railway Children (King's includes La Traviata