Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts and Morna Young present LOSTatSEA SPRING SEASON 2019 THU 25 APR - FRI 24 MAY By Morna Young Directed by Ian Brown “The untold war o man versus the elements. The tale o the fishermen fightin the ocean. Ye’v stirred the watters, opened the dam. There’ll be a hearty tempest the nicht.”

Writer’s Note Morna Young Those we have lost live on through the stories we share. Every story begins with an inciting incident, a moment I hope, in some small way, that this work helps honours when the balance is tipped, an event or turning point that their memory. sets everything into motion. My moment was an accident. A fishing accident on 10th April 1989. For on that day, my Director’s Note - Ian Brown dad – Daniel ‘Donnie’ Young – was lost at sea. His body Lost at Sea is an ambitious play. I admire and love it for was never recovered. that. It has a large cast, it demands movement and sound. My story is not unusual in fishing communities. Men and It has live music and rich language celebrating the Doric boats from all around the coast have been lost, every language of Northeast of Scotland. It plays with theatrical village scarred by these losses. We’re forever bound by form. We move backwards and forwards in time. There the salt in our blood. Writing this play was my opportunity are ghosts. There is a chorus. to pay tribute. I wanted to create a fictional story but to Lost at Sea is about many things. The power of the sea, use ‘real voices’ within it, and I am honoured that so many it’s unpredictability and its indifference to humankind. It’s people put their trust in me. Though the story itself is about the resoluteness of fisherfolk and the sheer hard imagined and infused with artistic licence, the truth behind graft and danger they face every day. It’s a play about it is not. These voices exist all around us. family and rivalry. It’s about relationships and betrayal - Early in my research, a fisherman sent me the following unspoken love and the ties that bind. email: “The ‘glory years’ of the fishing. 75-95. Boats from The play is about an unexplained death. It is Shona’s the villages started working further afield, catching vast story, her attempt to open up the past so she can face amounts of fish and earning, at that time, fantastic money. her future. A sense of mortality and loss pervades the They were crazy days with big money, big cars, bigger landscape - the ghosts of those lost at sea. It is a search houses, long hours, short times at home. Work hard, live for meaning of the lives taken; the enduring constancy of hard. But there was now what I see to be deemed as an love, land and sea. The ghosts that haunt us. acceptable risk that only became unacceptable when you were directly involved. It was like Russian roulette as to For Information who lived and who died. I lost some friends... which could Lost at Sea features verbatim text from interviews with have been me if I took different choices. Not good choices, fishermen, their families and the local communities of the just lucky ones. Every village lost a boat or two with all Northeast, conducted throughout 2011-2012. These ‘real crew over this period plus the individuals lost overboard. voices’ have been woven into a fictional central story. The It was like a war - men go away but not all come back and ‘in tribute’ list of names are fishermen and boats lost from this was accepted as part of the price to pay for earning Moray during the timeframe of the play (1970 to 2012). the money and keeping the villages alive.” The audio memorial was recorded in 2019 with families of This email set the story of the play in motion. It showed those lost with support from Lossiemouth High School and the personal intertwining with the political, the economics Hopeman Primary School. This is not an exclusive list and and the culture. This voice is one of many I have tried has been pieced together from a range of resources. Any to capture within the play. I cannot express my gratitude inaccuracies are solely the responsibility of the author. enough to those who shared their stories. I thank them for the bravery and kindness. Personal narratives don’t end with a revelation and a resolution. This play has a finale but there is no end to the grief experienced by coastal communities. I once heard someone on the radio say ‘when you die, you become the subject of stories’ and the sentiment has stayed with me. Cast He previously worked with director Ian Brown in Hardie and Jennifer Black Meg Baird: The Last Days, Stones and Ashes (Traverse Theatre) Jennifer’s recent theatre credits include: Arctic Oil; One Good and Irvine Welsh’s You’ll Have Had Your Hole (West Yorkshire Beating; Kill The Old Torture Their Young; House Among the Playhouse and London Astoria).Film credits include: Local Stars,The Bench (Traverse); The Iliad, Tartuffe, Six Black Hero in 1983 and most recently Outlaw King. His television Candles, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peter Pan, Macbeth, roles include several years as the gangster McCabe in River An Experienced Woman Gives Advice, Dead Funny, On City and in the recent BBC shows The Victim and Trust Me. Golden Pond, Blithe Spirit (Lyceum); The Cone Gatherers Following the Lost at Sea tour he travels to New York with the (Aberdeen Performing Arts); Safe Place, 10,000 Metres Scottish National Jazz Orchestra to perform Liz Lochhead’s Deep, Leather Bound (Òran Mór); A Taste of Honey (TAG version of Peter and the Wolf. Theatre); Three Thousand Troubled Threads,The Memory Thoren Ferguson Mate/musician of Water (Stellar Quines);Thebans (Theatre Babel); Falling, Thoren is a Scottish actor, musician and composer. This year Buried Treasure (Bush Theatre); Too Late for Logic (King’s he can be seen in the principal role of David Fairbairn in the Theatre); Stiff – The Musical (Diva Productions); Lavotch- independent feature horror/thriller Matriarch. In 2018 Thoren ikin, Ashes to Ashes, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Good, became the face of global whisky giant Johnnie Walker, The Baby (The Tron); Sacred Hearts (Communicado TC). making nine commercials for worldwide distribution. Thoren Film and television credits include: Doctors, River City, Hol- collaborated with film-maker/director Charlotte Wells on her by City, Half Moon Investigations, Still Game, Why do They 2018 Sundance selected and Grand Jury nominated short film Call It Good Friday, A View of Things, Ploughman’s (BBC); Blue Christmas, playing the role of Johnny. He also featured Rebus (SMG); Tinsel Town, Taggart, Out in the Open, Ugly in screen roles in the BBC TV series Clique, BBC iPlayer Sisters (STV); I Saw You (Channel 4); The Bill (Thames series Logan High and game drama Armchair Detectives. In Television); Local Hero (Goldcrest Films); Connect (Angel 2018 he returned to his stage acting roots to tour Scotland Face Productions); Heavenly Pursuits (Skebo Films). Radio in the male lead role of Arnaud in Eden Court Theatre’s credits include: Under the Skin, Week Ending,The Trick is to The Return. Thoren leads the ceilidh band The Jacobites, Keep Breathing (BBC Radio 4). founders of The Edinburgh Street Ceilidh. He composed Andy Clark Kevin Armistice, to commemorate the centenary of the signing of Originally from Blairgowrie, Andy studied at Dundee College the Armistice. This was played by an international orchestra and RSAMD (now RCS). Theatre credits include: Tartuffe of 40 ensembles across the world. Thoren has played as (Òran Mór); A Christmas Carol (Citizens); The Buke of the a soloist at events across the country; to HRH Princess Howlat (Findhorn Bay Arts); Antony & Cleopatra, Edward II Anne at the opening of Dreghorn commemorative wood, (Bard in the Botanics); The Deep (10ft Tall); Stand By (Utter); with the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, and he’s also won fiddle Music Is Torture (Tromolo/Tron); The Winter’s Tale (Lyce- competitions across Scotland. His published compositions um). Other theatre includes A Steady Rain (Theatre Jezeb- are Armistice, The Lads of Quintinshill, 1915, The Somme, el/Tron); Dance of Death (Candice Edmunds/Citizens); La- and Wilfred Owen. In 2018 he played at the graveside of nark (Citizens/Lyceum/EIF); Little Sure Shot (West Yorkshire Wilfred Owen as part of the official commemoration of the Playhouse/The Egg); Gastronauts (Royal Court); I’m With the centenary of the poet’s death. Band (Traverse Theatre); Mince, The Duchess of Malfi, The Kim Gerard Eve Seagull (Dundee Rep); Lampedusa, The Libertine, Hamlet, Kim has appeared on stage in Sense (Frozen Charlotte Othello, Peter Pan, Vernon God Little and A Handful of Dust Theatre Company); Peter Pan, The Man Who Had All The (Citizens Theatre). Television and film credits include: The Luck, Mary Rose, Vanity Fair and Living Quarters (Royal Da Vinci Code (Rose Line) River City, Bob Servant (BBC Lyceum Theatre); Call It Sleep, Elf Analysis (Òran Mór); Scotland); Rebus, Taggart (STV); Rubenesque (Kudos). Ra- Sunshine On Leith, Hansel and Gretel, Sweet Bird Of Youth, dio includes Killing Kate, Boswell At Large, Big Sky, Five of Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dundee Rep); Romeo and Juliet Spades, Rebus (BBC Radio 4). Andy is delighted to be back (Shakespeare’s Globe, Sam Wanamaker Festival). Radio at Perth Theatre having first appeared here over 30 years credits include: Words and Music Free Thinking Festival, ago as a pirate in a concert for the Boys’ Brigade. Writing The Century, Solitary Bird, Care, Striptease, Mclevy, Ali Craig Jock Legacy (BBC). Short film credits: Stay Awake (Bombito Ali trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Productions); Harder (Greenroom Films). London. His theatre credits include: The James Plays Helen McAlpine Kath (National Theatre); The 306, The Making of Us, Macbeth, Helen trained at QMUC.Theatre credits include: The Last Beautiful Burnout (Frantic Assembly); Black Watch (National Bordello (Fire Exit); Sleeping Cutie, Chick Whittington, Weans Theatre Scotland); Into That Darkness (Citizens Theatre); in the Wood, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Peter Pan, The The BFG, Hecuba, Victoria (Dundee Rep); The Secret Happy Prince, Snow White of the Seven De’Wharffs, Jackie Garden (Footlights Productions); Hamlet (Greenwich & The Beanstalk (Macrobert); Beowulf (Tron Theatre/Home Theatre); Waterproof (Òran Mór). Television credits include: Place); Peter Panto & The Incredible Stinkerbell, Cannibal Armchair Detectives, Trust Me, Outlander, Shetland, River, Women of Mars, Aganeza Scrooge, The Tempest (Tron The Monarch of the Glen, Sea of Souls, Black Watch.Film Theatre); Ice Cream Dreams, The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella credits include: Ribbons, May I Kill U?, The Making of Us, (Citizens Theatre); Rough Island, Whisky Galore, Singing Outpost: Black Sun, Weekender, Pelican Blood, The Good Far into the Night, Swindle & Death (Mull Theatre Company); Times Are Killing Me. Short film credits include: And Repeat The Steamie (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Girl With Red (Richard Poet). Radio credits include: Keeping Mum, Topaz, Hair (Royal Lyceum/Bush); Doris, Dolly & the Dressing Room McLevy, Immaculate and Black Watch (BBC Radio). Divas’ (Òran Mór/Gilded Balloon); The Last Picture Show, We Tam Dean Burn Skipper Can All Agree To Pretend This Never Happened (Òran Mór). Tam began his acting career at Perth Theatre as acting Television and film credits include: The Sopranos (In A Big assistant stage manager for season 1980-81 under Joan Country Films); Trust Me (Red Productions/BBC); Rillington Knight and Patrick Sandford. His one appearance in Perth Place (Bandit/BBC); Waterloo Road (BBC); Field of Blood since was in Rapture’s The Collection in 2013. In the same (Slate North/BBC); Rab C Nesbitt, The Limmy Show (The year he took part in the first rehearsed reading ofLost at Sea Comedy Unit); Taggart (SMG); Intergalactic Kitchen, Stacey in Lossiemouth. Stone (CBBC). Sophia McLean Shona He introduced Brad Fraser’s work to the UK and transferred Originally frae Aberdeen, Sophia graduated from Drama Love and Human Remains and Poor Super Man to Studio London in July 2018. In 2017 Sophia was nominated Hampstead Theatre. for Society of London Theatre’s Laurence Olivier Bursary Brown’s production of Moscow Stations with Tom Courtenay Award and was a 2018 finalist of The Spotlight Prize. transferred to The Garrick Theatre. He oversaw the Currently she is nominated for ‘Best Female Performance in successful move from The Grassmarket to Cambridge Street. a Radio Drama’ at the OneVoice Awards for her work as The During this time, he directed the original stage production of Porter in Almost Tangible’s Macbeth. Recent theatre credits Trainspotting. His production of Bondagers by Sue Glover include: The Last Days of Mankind (Leith Theatre); Scribble toured Scotland and played a season at London’s Donmar (Assembly Roxy); Theatre Uncut: The Power Plays (Braw Theatre. It was also part of the Toronto New Stages Festival. Fox Theatre). Brown trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, Gerry Mulgrew Billy became a drama teacher in a comprehensive school in Gerry was awarded Best Male Performance at the CATS Stoke Newington. He later ran the Cockpit Youth Theatre, 2007, for his role as Old Peer in Peer Gynt (Dundee Rep/ commissioning new plays and large-scale musicals. After National Theatre Scotland). Gerry’s extensive theatre credits a spell as Philip Hedley’s Associate Director at Theatre include: Ma, Pa and the Little Mouths (The Tron); Krapp’s Royal, Stratford East, he was appointed Artistic Director of Last Tape (The Tron/Blood of the Young); Losing the Rag, Tag Theatre Company at the Citizens’ Theatre Glasgow. The Last Dictator, The Above, Federer vs Murray (Òran His production of Jo Clifford’s Great Expectations toured to Mór); Ay! Carmela! (Out of the Box); My Name is Ben, The India, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Visit, Ubu the King (Dundee Rep); Peer Gynt (Dundee Rep/ After leaving Scotland Brown was behind an impressive NTS); Waiting for Godot (Citizens Theatre); Lanark (Citizens series of freelance productions including two new plays for Theatre/Edinburgh International Festival); Nova Scotia, Tree The Royal Shakespeare Company (Richard Nelson and of Knowledge (Traverse Theatre); Ane Satyre of the Three David Greig). He then became Associate Director, and Estates (Staging for the Scottish Court). subsequently Artistic Director, of West Yorkshire Playhouse. Gerry is a founding member and the Artistic Director of Major productions included Hamlet with Christopher Communicado Theatre Company, where his credits include: Eccleston, Pretending to be Me with Tom Courtenay The Government Inspector, The Memorandum, The Suicide, (transferred to Comedy Theatre); Twelfth Night with Hattie A Place with the Pigs, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Cone Morahan, Hay Fever with Maggie Steed, Waiting for Godot Gatherers, Mary Queen of Scots, Carmen, The Hunchback with Jeffery Kissoon and Patrick Robinson and King Lear of Notre Dame, The House with the Green Shutters. with Tim Pigott Smith. Now based in London, Brown regularly directs and teaches Creative Team at Lamda, Rose Bruford College and E15 Acting School and Morna Young Writer Guildhall School. He recently directed two plays at Park Morna is a playwright, actress and musician from a wee Theatre – Contact.com by Michael Kingsbury and Bryony fishing village in the North East of Scotland. She was Lavery’s Frozen for Blueprint Theatre Company. Last year he recipient of the 2017 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship (hosted directed Lonely Planet by Steven Dietz at Trafalgar Studios. by Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council) where she explored the theme ‘the Folk, the Language and the Rosa Duncan Associate Director Landscape of the North East’. Other accolades include: (supported by the Federation of Scottish Theatre’s Director the Tomorrow at Noon award for female playwrights 2018 Bursary). Rosa trained at the Lancaster Institute of (Jermyn Street Theatre) and the New Playwrights Award Contemporary Arts. Her directing credits include: Learning 2014 (Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland). She was playwright- to Read Labels (Horsecross Arts/ Women of the World in-residence for BATS Theatre and Toi Põneke Arts Centre Festival); After Words (Edinburgh International Science in Wellington, New Zealand in 2018 as part of an ongoing Festival Scratch); Berlin (the music video for Scarlett international exchange between Scotland and New Zealand Randle); Shopping Hungover (BBC Comedy Short Stuff). (Playmarket and Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland). Assistant Director credits include: The View from Castle Lost at Sea was her first full-length play, written in 2012. Rock (Stellar Quines/Edinburgh International Book Festival); Other plays include: Aye, Elvis (A Play, A Pie and A Pint/ The Lonesome West (Tron Theatre); Great Expectations Gilded Balloon at Edinburgh Fringe); The Buke of the Howlat (Horsecross Arts/Dundee Rep); The Glass Menagerie (Findhorn Bay Arts); Smite (Jermyn Street Theatre); Netting (Dundee Rep). Rosa is currently directing Which Wires What (A Play, A Pie and A Pint’ / Scotland-wide tour with Woodend (Imaginate/The Weather Channel) which will showcase at Barn); She of the Sea (Paines Plough ‘Come to Where I’m the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival. From’ at the Lemon Tree); B-Roads (Play Pieces); Never Karen Tennent Designer Land (Eden Court) and two short plays for the National Karen is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art. Recent Theatre of Scotland’s Great Yes, No, Don’t Know Show. designs include: First Snow (NTS/Theatre PAP Montreal); Morna has performed extracts of her work at the Scottish We are All Just Little Creatures (Curious Seed /Lung Ha/ Parliament, The European Author’s Festival (Czech Lyra); Lots and Not Lots (NTS FutureProof); Glory on Earth, Republic, Slovakia, Poland); National Poetry Month (France) The Iliad, Caucasian Chalk Circle (Royal Lyceum) Emma and Edinburgh International Book Festival. Morna primarily and Gill, Eddie and the Slumber Sisters, The Voice Thief, writes in Doric and is a proud Scots Language Ambassador Lifeboat (Catherine Wheels); Lost in Music, Our Fathers (Education Scotland). (Magnetic North) Teenage Trilogy, Chalk About (Curious Seed); Crumbles Search for Christmas (West Yorkshire Ian Brown Director Playhouse); God of Carnage, This Wide Night (The Tron); Lost at Sea marks a welcome return to Scotland by Ian ThingammyBob, The Three Sisters ( Lung Ha). Karen also Brown who was Artistic Director of The Traverse Theatre in co-directed Sonata for a Man and a Boy (Greg Sinclair) Edinburgh for eight years. During that time, he directed and winner of CATS best Children’s Theatre. She also won produced a wide range of new writing notably plays by Jo CATS best design and was nominated for the New York Clifford, Anne Marie Di Mambro, Chris Hannan, Sue Glover, Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Design for Hansel and David Greig and David Harrower. Gretel (Catherine Wheels). Katharine Williams Lighting Designer Creative Team Katharine recently designed lighting for Hole (RashDash at Writer Morna Young the Royal Court); Gagarin Way (Dundee Rep); Women in Director Ian Brown Power (Nuffield, Southampton); Status (China Plate); All of Composer and Sound Design Pippa Murphy Me (China Plate); The Rivals (Watermill); The Department Designer Karen Tennent of Distractions and Partus (Third Angel); Flood – Part Lighting Designer Katharine Williams Four (SlungLow); Two Man Show, The Darkest Corners Movement Director Jim Manganello (RashDash); Instructions for Border Crossings, Going Viral, Associate Director Rosa Duncan Error 404 (Daniel Bye); Big Guns (Yard Theatre); Medea Voice and Dialect Ros Steen (Bristol Old Vic); An Injury (Permanent Red); Am I Dead Cast Yet? (Unlimited); Ode To Leeds (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Shona Sophia McLean and was lead artist on the Love Letters to the Home Office Skipper Tam Dean Burn project as well as being the founder of Crew for Calais. Mate/Musician Thoren Ferguson Pippa Murphy Composer and Sound Design Billy Gerry Mulgrew Pippa Murphy is an award-winning composer and sound Meg Jennifer Black designer who writes for theatre, dance, film, choirs and Kevin Andy Clark orchestras. She has written music for BBC 2, BBC Radio 4, Kath Helen McAlpine BBC Radio 3, Scottish Opera, SCO, BBCSSO, Edinburgh’s Jock Ali Craig Hogmanay and numerous theatre companies including The Eve Kim Gerard Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Dundee Rep, Birmingham Rep, All chorus parts are played by the company Grid Iron, Stellar Quines, Rapture Theatre, Traverse Theatre, 7:84. Her sound design for Karine Polwart’s Wind Resistance Produced by Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts, in the Edinburgh International Festival won the CATS Awards Scotland for Best Music & Sound 2018. Their album Pocket of Wind Artistic Director Lu Kemp Resistance was nominated for BBC Folk Album of the Year Producer Anna Beedham 2018. Her music to POPUP Duets for Janis Claxton Dance Production Manager Gavin Johnston has been awarded 5-star reviews and been on an extensive Company Stage Manager Sandra Grieve world tour. Pippa was classically trained on piano, violin and Production Stage Manager Michael Heasman percussion from an early age and completed her BMus, MA Deputy Stage Manager Jessica Ward and PhD composition at The University of Birmingham. She Assistant Stage Manager Dayna Cumming lectures at Edinburgh University and was Artist in Residence Head of Stage David Freeburn at the Scottish Parliament (2014). Stage Carpenter Zach Allen Workshop Assistant Greg Powrie Jim Manganello Movement Director Head of Lighting Karin Anderson Jim is a director, movement director and performer based Senior Lighting Technician Fee Dalgleish in Glasgow. He recently founded physical theatre company Head of Sound Ritchie Young Shotput with Lucy Ireland. Their first piece, Ferguson and Seasonal Sound Gabe Kemp Barton, recently premiered at Platform. As director: Lucia Head of Costume Louise Robertson di Lammermoor (Fulham Opera); The Mute Quire, String Costume Assistant Pat Jastrzebska Up the Moon, The Judge (Fratellanza); War and Peace Scenic Artist Martha Steed (Viaduct, Chicago). As movement director: Aladdin (Perth); The Enchanted Bullets (Blackheath Halls); Elixir of Love With thanks to: (Scottish Opera); Medea (Festival Sortileges, Belgium); Full Muriel Romanes, Mike Griffiths, Tina McGeever, Karen Dick, Metal Jacket (auQuai, Belgium). Training: École Lassaâd, Peter Arnott, Alex Fthenakis, Shane Strachan, Colin Marr, Brussels. Kate Gillies, Sandy Thomson / Poorboy, Duncan Hendry, Ros Steen Voice and Dialect Liz Carruthers, Stellar Quines, Out of the Darkness Theatre, Perth Theatre credits: Richard III, Knives in Hens, And Then Moray Council, Creative Scotland, Playwrights’ Studio, Come The Nightjars. Recent theatre credits: Our Ladies of Scotland, Finborough Theatre, Richard Lochhead MSP, Perpetual Succour, The James Plays (tour); Glasgow Girls, Fishermen’s Mission, Eden Court. Macbeth, Black Watch (NTS); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum/Old Stage Management placement: David Bain Vic); Cockpit, Hedda Gabler, Bondagers (Royal Lyceum); Script developed with support from Playwrights’ Studio, What Girls are Made of, Meet Me at Dawn, Ciara (Traverse); Scotland Travels with my Aunt, True West (Citizens Theatre); Hamlet, Kenny Hutchison, Accordion, Dundee Rep, Richard Price, Romeo and Juliet (Leeds Playhouse); All My Sons, Death of National Theatre Scotland, Stuart Jenkins, Citzens Theatre, a Salesman, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil Glasgow (Dundee Rep); Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage/Royal and Derngate). Television, film and radio credits include: Photography by Corey Arnold Limbo (GMac films); Monarch of the Glen, 2,000 Acres of Sky (TV) Ros is Emeritus Professor of Voice and Editor of Growing Voices. Touring Scotland Thu 25 Apr - Sat 4 May, Perth Theatre Mon 6 + Tue 7 May Dundee Rep Theatre Thu 9 – Sat 11 May His Majesty’s Theatre, 01738 621031 | horsecross.co.uk Aberdeen Tue 14 May Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock Thu 16 – Sat 18 May Eden Court, Inverness Mon 20 – Wed 22 May Kings Theatre, Edinburgh Fri 24 May D&G Arts Festival, Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries Horsecross Arts Ltd is a registered Scottish charity, number SC022400 and a compnay, number SC301328.