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Home , Annie Horniman, Deborah Warner, Frederic Raphael, Jonathan Cake, Laurence Olivier Awards

Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer

presents The Abbey

Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: Oct 1-5, 8-12, 2002 at 7:30pm 1 hour and 25 Oct 5 & 12 at 2pm; Oct 6 at 3pm minutes with no Produced in association with intermission Max Weitzenhoffer, Roger Berlind, Old Vic Productions, Nica Burns for Really Useful Theaters, and Jedediah Wheeler Directed by Deborah Warner Written by Translated by Kenneth McLeish & Frederic Raphael Set designer Tom Pye Costume designer Jacqueline Durran Original lighting designer Peter Mumford Associate lighting designer Michael Gunning Sou ndsca pe Mel Mercier Sound designer David Meschter Cast as Medea Kirsten Campbell, Joyce Henderson, Derek Hutchinson, Rachel Isaac, Robin Laing, Pauline Lynch, Siobhan McCarthy, Joseph Mydell, Struan Rodger, Susan Salmon with Jonathan Cake as Jason

Line Producer Really Useful / Donna Munday General Management Luna Group / Jill Dombrowski Tour Management Extremetaste, Ltd. / Jedediah Wheeler The Ben Barnes, Artistic Director BAM 20th Next Wave Festival and Kick-off Party are sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc.

Leadership support is provided by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; The Shubert Foundation, Inc.; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust; and Rose M. Badgeley Charitable Trust.

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Cast Nurse Siobhan McCarthy in order of Tutor Robin Laing appearance Chorus Kirsten Campbell; Joyce Henderson, Rachel Isaac, Pauline Lynch, Susan Salmon Medea Fiona Shaw Kreon Struan Rodger Jason Jonathan Cake Aegeus Joseph Mydell Messenger Derek Hutchinson Luna Group Production supervision Christopher D. Buckley Production staff Production manager Greg Rowland manager Jill Dombrowski Deputy stage manager Samantha Lambourne Assistant stage manager Patricia McGregor Lighting supervisor David J. Lander Sound engineer Michael Van Sleen Wardrobe mistress Heather Patton Really Useful Theatres General manager Donna Munday production department Production assistants Briony Goodliffe, Stephanie Creed production staff Children's director & casting director Jo Davies Production manager Jim Leaver Rehearsal company manager Rosalind Morgan-Jones Costume supervisor Sabine Lemaitre Assistant to the set designer Alan Bain For The Abbey Theatre Managing director Brian Jackson General manager Martin Fahy Executive secretary Marie Kelly P.A. secretary Ciara Flynn Production credits Additional casting Jodi Collins, C.S.A.; Carol Blanco Scenery Scott Fleary, Ltd.; PL Parsons and Company; Top of the Bill; Precision Glass & Mirror Paintshops John Campbell Scenic Studios, Paddy Scenic Studios Original London production costume design Tom Rand Recorded vocals Celia Faherty Additional scenery Showman Fabricators Special effects equipment Jauchem & Meeh, Inc. Walkie talkies provided by Motorola Jonathan Cake's wedding shoes by Oliver Sweeney Special thanks Alison McArdle, Jonathan Ginsburg, Brian H. Goldstein

Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw first created Medea for The Abbey Theatre in in May of 2000. A further expansion of this work was produced in London's West End in January of 2001 by Max Weitzenhoffer, Roger Berlind, Old Vic Productions, and Nica Burns for Really Useful Theaters.

The current production was organized by Jedediah Wheeler for presentation by BAM's Next Wave Festival; The University Musical Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ClearChannel Entertainment, Boston, MA; The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; CAL Performances, University of California, Berkeley; and Le Theatre National de Chaillot, Paris, France.

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Euripides (author) born in Attica in 484 BC, was Frederic Raphael (translation), an American-born, one of the figures-with Aeschylus and British-educated writer, is the author of 19 novels Sophocles-who made fifth century Athens pre­ and four short story collections including Richard's eminent in the history of world . He was a Things, Glittering Prizes, Oxbridge Blues, and prol ific writer whose plays were performed at the most recently Coast to Coast, as well as screen­ Great Dionysia, the Athenians' major drama festi­ plays for 's Darling, for which he val. Described by Aristotle as lithe most tragic of won an Academy Award, and Donen's Two poets," Euripides is best known for his tragedies. for the Road. He has adapted for the screen the His continuing popularity and influence is attested works of (Far from the Madding to by the survival of 17 of his plays, among them Crowd), Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head), Henry Medea, The Trojan Women, Hippolytus, Iphigenia James (Daisy Miller), and in Tauris, Orestes, The Bacchae, and Electra. In (Traumnovelle, which was filmed as Eyes Wide his lifetime, however, Euripides elicited great oppo­ Shut). Raphael has also co-translated several sition and controversy with his unorthodox por­ works for the stage with Kenneth McLeish, includ­ traits of women and his focus on the individual, ing Medea. He divides his time between England rather than the community, in an age which ven­ and France. erated the ideal of civic duty and public office. His unpopularity among his contemporary writers is Fiona Shaw (Medea) was born and educated in clear from the attacks made on him in the come­ Ireland. After a degree in philosophy at the dies of Aristophanes. In 408 BC, he left Athens University College Cork, she went to R.A.D.A. and and went into voluntary exile at the court of was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal. Theater Archelaus in Macedonia where he died in 406 credits at RNT include Julia in The Rivals, Shen Te BC. Sophocles, who outlived him by only a few Shui in The Good Person of Sichuan (Olivier months, was said to have dressed his next chorus Award for Best Actress), the Woman in in mourning as a mark of respect. (Evening Standard and Awards for Best Actress), Millamant in The Way of the World, Kenneth McLeish (translation) was born in 1940 the title roles in the controversial Richard /I and and educated at Bradford Grammar School and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and The Power Worcester College, Oxford. He began his career as Book by . For the RSC her work a schoolmaster at Watford Grammar School include Philistines, , Les Liasons (1963-7) and also taught at Bedales (1969­ Dangereuses, Mephisto, Beatrice in Much Ado 73) before becoming a full-time writer in 1975. About Nothing, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, He died in 1997. McLeish was an author, transla­ Mistress Carol in Hyde Park, Katharine in The tor, and playwright. His published works (over 80) Taming of the Shrew, and Electra (Laurence include The Good Reading Guide, Shakespeare's Olivier and London Critics' Awards). At Old Vic People, The Theatre of Aristophanes, Companion Theatre, Shaw performed Rosalind in As You Like to the Arts in the Twentieth Century, Myth, The It (Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress); at Listener's Guide to Classical Music, Crucial Greenwich Theatre, the title role in Mary Stewart; Classics (both with Valerie McLeish), and The at , Footfalls; at Abbey Theatre, Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought (General Dublin and , London, Hedda Editor). McLeish's translations have been pub­ Gabler (London Critics' Award); Jeanne d'Arc au lished and widely performed. They include almost Bucher at BBC Proms, and at Lincoln Center, the whole of Ancient Greek drama (47 plays), a Robert Wilson's 003. She has performed T.S. dozen farces by Feydeau and Labiche, six plays by Eliot's in Europe, North America, Ibsen, and works by Horvath, Jarry, Holberg, and Australia (New York Drama Desk Award for Moliere, and Strindberg. In the U.K. his transla­ Best Actress). Films include My Left Foot, tions have been performed by the RNT and many Mountains of the Moon-, Three other companies. His original plays include Men and a Little Lady-Disney, Undercover Omma, Orpheus, Iliad, I Will if You Will, Just Do Blues-Herbert Ross, The Last September dir. It, One for the Money, and Vice at the Vicarage Deborah Warner, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers (written for Frankie Howerd). Stone-Warner Brothers. Shaw has been awarded an honorary D.UTT Trinity College Dublin, in 2001, and an honorary LLD National University of Ireland 1999. In 2002 Shaw was awarded

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LOfficier des Artes et des Lettres by the French (Fidelia), and recently directed Untitled and government, and was awarded a C.B.E. Arigato Zaisho for the Circus Space and Tea for (Commander of the British Empire) in the New Two, One for Me with Kicking the Moon. Years honours list. Derek Hutchinson (The Messenger) has been Jonathan Cake (Jason) has performed roles involved in numerous productions directed by including Jason in Medea at the Queens Theatre Deborah Warner: (Kent), in the West End, and in Baby Doll at the RNT and (Cominius), (Lucius) at RSC, and in the West End (Best Actor Barclays Theatre Electra (Pylades) with Fiona Shaw, and King Lear Awards 2000). Other productions include Mill on (Edgar) at RNT. Other work at the RNT include the Floss (Shared Experience) dirs. Nancy Meckler Richard III, , Under Milk Wood, and and , and One Over the Eight Napoli Milianaria , and for RSC: Measure for (Scarborough) dir. . For the RSC, Measure, , Taming of the Shrew, The Cake has performed in Wallenstein, , Churchill Play, The Family Reunion, A The Odyssey, As You Like It, and The Beggars Warwickshire Testimony, and Prince of Hamberg. Opera. Leading television roles include Dr. He recently played Lord Robert Cecil in Elizabeth Mengele in Gisella Perl for Showtime, Wellington Rex at Birmingham Rep. He has made numerous in The American Embassy for Fox, Nero in appearances on television in the U.K. and his film Riverworld for Alliance Atlantis, The Swap, Mosley, credits include The Cormorant and Iris. Dance to the Music of Time, Noah's Ark, Rebecca, The Jump, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Rachel Isaac (chorus) trained at Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus, and Eddie Izzard's Metropolitan Univerity School of Theatre. Theater Cows. Cake appears in the upcoming film The One work includes Happy Birthday Brecht (University & Only by Simon Cellan-Jones, and was in Dave of California); for Manchester: Camille, Vassa, The Stewart's Honest, True Blue, and First Knight. Merchant of Venice, Innocent as Charged, The Beau Defeated, The Good Person of Szechuan, Kirsten Campbell (chorus) trained at The Royal and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Film appear­ Scottish Academy. Theater experience includes ances include The Low Down, Very AnnieMary, The Odd Couple (Cottier Theatre), and for Tron and Mike's House Night; and on television, The Theatre, In a Cold Place, Outsiders, and Office (BBC), Man and Boy (BBC), I Saw You Heartland. Film includes Liv & Amy, Split Second, (Granada), Fun at the Funeral Parlour (BBC Katy's Story, Struggle, Thicker Than Water, and Choice), The Bench (BBC), I Saw You, Tales from Breath of Angels. On radio for BBC Scotland, Pleasure Beach, The Secret World of Michael Fry, Campbell's work includes The Eagle of the Ninth and Dirty Work. and Tam O'Shanter. Robin Laing (The Tutor) began acting at age eight Joyce Henderson (chorus) trained with Jacques at the Angus Children's Theatre and then the Lecoq. Her theater work includes One Snowy Carnoustie Theatre Club. Two individual years of Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), Medea study, undertaken at Dundee and Fife Colleges, (Queen's Theatre), Macbeth (BAC), The Prime of coupled with a chance meeting in a pub led to his Miss Jean Brodie (RNT), Wallace and Gromit in a first role as Mark Renton in the play Trainspotting Grand Night Out (Sadler's Wells), (RNT), (U.K. national tour and London West End). Other The Street of Crocodiles (Theatre de stage work includes Kevin, The Mill Lavvies Complicite/RNT), Paper Walls (Scarlet Theatre), (Dundee Rep); Edward, 's The Servant of Two Masters (Belgrade, Coventry), (Perth Rep); Hal, Joe Orton's Loot; and Puck, A The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (7:84), and Flight Midsummer Night's Dream (both Manchester to Finland (The Right Size). Television/film work Royal Exchange). TV work includes Joey, The includes The Insiders, The Many Cinderellas, Peak Lakes I& II (BBC); Mark, Taggart-Out of Bounds Practice, Peter and the Wolf (Spitting Image), and (Scottish Television); Timothy, Heaven on Earth for Glory Box (Fat Fish Films), Stella Does Tricks, and Channel 4 (U.K.); Sulien, Cadfael-The Potters About a Boy. She designed company movement Field for lTV (U.K.); Brian, Relative Strangers for for RNT (Jean Brodie), RNT Studio, Early Opera RTE (Ireland); Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. Bell and Company, UCL Opera, and Glyndebourne Festival Mr. Doyle (BBC); and Edward 'Babe' Heffron,

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HBO's miniseries Band of Brothers. Laing has Dark (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Price of appeared on the big screen as Phil McCann in Experience (Edinburgh Traverse), Jelly Roll Soul John Byrne's The Slab Boys; Jock in Peter (Edinburgh Festival); Lyrics of the Hearthside Sheridan's Borstal Boy; Alisdair in Beautiful (Edinburgh Fringe, Fringe First Award for Best Creatures; and Ferg in the yet-to-be-released Two. One-Man Show). He has been seen on television in Dinatopia , The Bill, Space Precinct, The March Pauline Lynch (chorus), born in Glasgow, began on Europe, , The Care of Time, acti ng with the Glasgow Schools Youth Theatre in Bergerac, and Boon. musicals. She studied at Langside College and the Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama in Struan Rodger (Kreon) has appeared in theater London. Lynch has worked with Deborah Warner productions including Royal Court Theatre's Within on the West End production of Medea and The Two Shadows (Evening Standard Award), The Power Book with Fiona Shaw and Removalists, A Pagan Place, and Lear (RNT); Ted (RNT). Other theater work includes The Hughes' Gaudette, Various Works by Ben Decameron (Gate, London); My Mother Said I Johnson, and 's Love Story; RNT's Never Should (Oxford Stage Company); Sun is Richard II-dir. Deborah Warner (Paris, Salzburg Shining (King's Head, London); and The Prime of Festival); 'Tis A Pity She's A Whore-dir. Alan Miss Jean Brodie and Finding the Sun (RNT). TV Ayckbourn; Tales from the Vienna Woods; work includes A Mug's Game and Rockface (BBC) Tamburlaine the Great and Hamlet-dir. Peter and Grafters (Granada), Soldier, Soldier (Carlton); Hall; Other: Waiting For Godot (The Piccadilly); USA 's mini-series Atti/a (dir. Dick Lowrie). The Moonstone and A Doll's House (Manchester On film she was in Beautiful Creatures and played Royal Exchange); The Crucible (Leicester Lizzy in Trainspotting. Haymarket); The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest (Almeida); Progress (Lyric Hammersmith/ Siobhan McCarthy (The Nurse) has performed in Bush); The Shadow of a Gunman (Nottingham theater including Medea (Queen's Theatre); Playhouse); Troilus and Cressida (); The Mamma Mia, , and Jeanne (Prince Edward Bacchae (Prospect Tour); and The Speakers (Joint Theatre); , , Stock Theatre, British, and Dutch Tour). Television and (Palace Theatre); , Les appearances include The Waiting Time; The Vice; Miserables (Phoenix Theatre); Dancing at Moll Flanders; Highlander; Lovejoy; Faith; Prime Lughnasa (Theatre Royal Stratford); Zarro-The Suspect III; Christopher Columbus; Bergerac; and Musical (Liverpool Playhouse); and No Trams to Edge of Darkness; and on film in The Innocent Lime Street. TV includes Bad Girls, Horse Opera, Sleep; The Madness of King George; Four The Big Battalions, Lovejoy, All Or Nothing At All, Weddings and a Funeral; Reunion; Hitler-a and AllIn The Game. Portrait of Evil; The Mannions of America; Chariots of Fire; and Les Miserables. Joseph Mydell (Aegeus) tra ined at New York University School of the Arts. Theater includes, in Susan Salmon (chorus) trained at RADA and London, : Millennium Drama at Bristol University. Theater includes Approaches and Perestroika (Olivier Award, Best Shoot to Win (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), The Actor in a Supporting Role), The Rape of the Lock Office (Soho Theatre), A Midsummer Night's (RNT); Alice's Adventures Underground; Twelfth Dream (RNT), Arms and The Man (Orange Tree, Night, The Prisoner's Dilemma, The Great White Richmond), The House of Bernarda Alba (The Hope, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Macbeth, Brix), Party Girls (Stratford East), and Low Level Everyman (title role), The Mysteries (RSC); The Panic (Bristol). Television includes Rockface 2, On Boys Next Door, After the Gods (Hampstead); The the Edge, Grange Hill, and Cone Zone. Great White Hope (Tricycle), The Treatment (Royal Court). In repertory-As You Like It, Tobaccoland Deborah Warner (director) trained at the Central (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Government School of Speech and Drama. Theater credits Inspector, , As You Like It (Sheffield include The Good Person of Szeckwan; Woyzeck; Crucible); The Life of Galileo, Master Harold and ; Measure for Measure; King Lear the Boys (Manchester Contact); In the Talking and Coriolanus (Kick Theatre Company); Titus

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Andronicus (Laurence Olivier and Evening Richard /I. Feature film credits include Christie Standard Awards); and Electra (RSC); Malry's Own Double Entry (Kassander Films) and The Good Person of Sichuan, King Lear, and Maua: King and Emperor (Samba Films). Richard /I (French Critic's Best Foreign Production) (RNT); ( for Mel Mercier (soundscape) is a lecturer in Music at Best Direction and Production) (Abbey Theatre, University College Cork, Ireland. Born in Dublin in Dublin); Samuel Beckett's Footfalls (run foreshort­ 1959, Mel received his first bodhran and bones ened by Samuel Beckett's Estate; Garrick Theatre, lessons from his father, Peadar Mercier, a member London); Coriolan with Bruno Ganz (Salzburg of the Chieftains until 1976. He has performed Festival); Une Maison de Poupee (Odeon, Paris) and recorded with many Irish traditional musicians three devised installation pieces-The St. Pancras and ensembles, including Liam 0 Flynn, Mfcheal Project; The Tower Project (LIFT) and The Angel 6 Suilleabhain, De Danann, Stockton's Wing, Project (Perth International Arts Festival), and Nomos and Altan. Mercier has also performed Jeanette Winterson's The Power Book for RNT. Her with Riverdance, John Cage and the Merce production of The Waste Land with Fiona Shaw Cunningham Dance Co. (Roaratorio, Inlets 2, visited Brussels, Dublin, Paris, Montreal, Toronto, Duets), Alan Stivell, and Evelyn Glennie. Mercier Brighton, Cork, Adelaide, Bergen, Perth, London­ composes music for TV, contemporary dance, and at Wilton's Music Hall (where it was the first live the theater. In addition to this production of theater event since the hall closed in the 19th Medea (Dublin and London-2000), he co-com­ century) and The (New York) posed the music for the Abbey Outreach produc­ where it won two Drama Desk Awards (Best Solo tion of Harold and Sophie (Galway, Milan, and Performance, and Unique Theatrical Experience). Dublin-2001), and Cordadorca's production of A Opera credits include (); Don Midsummer Night's Dream (Cork). In April 2002 Giovanni (Glyndebourne); Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher he composed the music for Jeanette Winterson's (BBC Proms); The Turn of the Screw (ROH­ The Powerbook at RNT, directed by Deborah Evening Standard and South Bank Show Awards); Warner. He also directs the UCC Javanese Gamelan. The Diary of One Who Vanished (ENO/Dublin Festival, Bobigny, and RNT) St. John Jacqueline Curran (costume design) initially stud­ (ENO), and Fidelio (Glyndebourne). Film credits ied philosophy and went on to complete her post include The Waste Land (Un Certain Regard, graduate studies in the History of Design at Royal Cannes Film Festival) and The Last September College of Art. She has worked in film for the past (Official Selection Director's Fortnight, Cannes, 10 years. This is her first costume design for the Toronto, and Edinburgh Film Festivals). Warner was stage. Film design work includes All or Nothing awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des (dir. ) and Young Adam (dir. David Lettres by the French Government (1992) and Mackenzie). Film work as primary costume design ~Officier des Arts et des Lettres (2000). assistant includes (dir. ); Topsy Turvy (dir. Mike Leigh); 007: The Tom Pye (set designer) has worked internationally World is Not Enough; 007: Die Another Day; in theater, opera, television, and film. Work with Tomb Raider; Star Wars Episode 2; and The Man Deborah Warner includes The Turn of the Screw Who Cried (dir. Sally Potter). (ROH), Medea (Queen's Theatre, West End, Abbey Theatre), St. John Passion, The Diary of One Who Michael Gunning (associate lighting designer) has Vanished (ENO, RNT), and Jeanne d'Arc au worked in theater including The York Millenium Bucher (BBC Proms). Pye designed for The Tower Mystery Plays in Yorkminster, The Jew Of Malta Project (LIFT) and The Angel Project Perth and Aunt Dan and Lemon (the Almeida), Take the International Arts Festival, Australia. Other credits Fire (Lyric Hammersmith), Broken Journey (Toye include In Flame (New Ambassadors) and Peter productions), Measure for Measure (RSC at Brook's (Aix Festival & tour). theYoung Vic), Scenes From an Execution and Television credits include production design for the Gertrude the Cry (Wrestl ing School), Rose Rage Emmy Award-winning opera Gloriana, Twelfth (Ed Hall/Watermill) , and Scaramouche Jones Night directed by Tim Supple, and the recent (Rebbeck/Penny). Opera work includes original Helen West series for lTV. He was art director on lighting for II Trovatore at ENO, Tamerlano for Just William Series Two and Deborah Warner's /English Concert and Michael

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Nyman's Facing Goya; lighting for television of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for ENO production of Semele; lighting designer for The Glass Blew In for Siobhan Davies, and Fearful the ENO revivals of Rigoletto, Diary of one who Symmetries for . Vanished, St. Johns Passion, and La Boheme. Max Weitzenhoffer has produced and co-pro­ David Meschter (sound design) sound designer duced Sleuth; Equus; The Elephant Man; Rose; and composer, received a degree in Audio Timbuktu; Mass Appeal; Passion; the RSC's ; Technology from American University in Tickles By Tucholsky; The Good Parts; The Three Washington, DC. He was the sound consultant Guys Naked from the Waist Down; Road to and repertory musician with the Merce Mecca; the Tony Award hit Dracula; Going Up; Cunningham Dance Company from 1981 to Harold and Maude; Pump Boys and Dinettes; 1988, and created sound designs for a variety of Song & Dance; Blood Knot; Burn This; Largely organizations and artists including John Cage, New York; the Tony Award-winning The Will LaMonte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, the Kronos Rogers ; and in the West End, Medea (Best Quartet, American Ballet Theater, Lincoln Center, Actress, Best Director, 2001 Evening Standard and Houston Grand Opera. His recent sound Awards); Feelgood (Best Play, 2001 designs include The Peony Pavilion the epic 18­ Evening Standard Awards); Dangerous Corner; hour opera revived and reconstructed by Chen Shi­ Budgie; Burn This; Scissor Happy; and Defending Zheng and Lincoln Center, Kwaidan, Edda: Viking the Caveman (2000 Olivier Award for Best Tales of Lust, Revenge and Family, and Obon: Entertainment). In January 2001 he became the Tales of Rain & Moonlight directed by Ping Chong, owner of London's . as well as Atlas, The Politics of Quiet, Magic Frequencies, and mercy (in BAM's 20th Next Roger Berlind has produced and co-produced Wave Festival) by Meredith Monk. He is also the more than 35 plays and musicals on Broadway. sound supervisor for the Lincoln Center Festivals. Since 1990 his Broadway productions are (Tony Award, Best Musical); Lettice and Peter Mumford (lighting designer) works as a Lovage; Death and the Maiden; lighting and set designer, and as a director in the­ (Tony Award, Best Musical Revival); Indiscretions; ater and televison. His extensive theater and dance Getting Away with Murder; Skylight; A Funny lighting work includes in the West Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Steel End and on Broadway; Hamlet and for Pier; The Life; The Judas Kiss; A View from the RSC; Luther, Richard /I and for RNT; Bridge (Tony Award, Best Revival of a Play); The Iphigenia at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Of Oil and Blue Room; Amy's View; ; The Wild Party Water for the Siobhan Davies Dance Company; (NYSF); Kiss Me Kate (Tony Award, Best Musical Arthur for Birmingham Royal Ballet; The Crucible Revival); Copenhagen (Tony Award, Best Play); for The Royal Ballet, and productions for the Royal and Proof (Tony Award, Best Play). Court, Manchester Royal Exchange, Rambert Dance Company, and Abbey and Gate Theatres, Old Vic Productions, PLC was launched in 1993 Dublin. His recent lighting designs for opera by Richard Attenborough and Sally Greene under include Siegfried for Scottish Opera at the the name Criterion Productions to give theater­ Edinburgh Festival; Don Pasquale for Opera Zuid; lovers from across the country the opportunity to The Coronation of Poppea for ENO; Eugene participate in theatrical production. The company Onegin and Madama Butterfly for Opera North; has produced or participated in over 40 produc­ and Giulio Cesare for Opera de Bordeaux. He tions. Recent productions include Cyrano de directed and designed John Luther Adams' Earth Bergerac with , The Reduced and the Great Weather for the Almeida Opera and Shakespeare Company, The Weir, Dublin Carol, designed sets and lighting for Un Ballo in Speed-the-Plow, The Island, The Vagina Maschera in Vilnius. His extensive film and televi­ Monologues, , Macbeth, and Elaine sion work includes directing 24 short films for the Stritch at Liberty. In 2000, , Dame BBC series Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues. He , and Jeremy Irons joined the board and was the winner of the 1995 Laurence Olivier the company was re-Iaunched as Old Vic Produc­ tions PLC, with Kevin Spacey as a consultant.

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Nica Burns (Producer for Really Useful Theatres) The repertoire of The Abbey Theatre extends back was artistic director, Donmar Warehouse Theatre to the early 20th century and includes 1983-1989; counts a number of productions as the drama of Synge, Yeats and 0' Casey. More producer including Hedda Gabler, dir. Deborah contemporary work is represented by, among oth­ Warner, starring Fiona Shaw (Best Director, Best ers, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, John B. Keane, Acress Olivier Awards); and A Whistle in the Dark, Hugh Leonard, Tom Kilroy, Bernard Farrell, Frank dir. Garry Hynes. In 1993 she became the first Mc Guinness, Sebastian Barry, and Marina Carr. head of production for London's largest theater owner, now Really Useful Theatres, responsible for The Abbey is renowned as a writers theater but programming, commissioning, and developing pro­ the greatest Irish actors of th is and previous gener­ ductions for its twelve theaters. Productions as ations have graced its boards. The role call lead producer in 2001 were Medea (Best Actress, includes F.J. Mc Cormick, Sara Allgood, Harry Best Director, Evening Standard Awards); Brogan, Ray Mc Anally, Donal Mc Cann, Cyril Feelgood, a commission (Best Comedy Play, Cusack, Siobhan Mc Kenna, Ray Mc Anally, Evening Standard Awards), Dangerous Corner; Donal Mc Cann, Brenda Fricker, Liam Neeson, and associate producer for London's Kiss Me Kate. Gabriel Byrne, Sinead Cusack, Fiona Shaw, and John Kavanagh. Jedediah Wheeler has worked as a manager, pro­ ducer, agent, and presenter in the presenti ng field Under the artistic direction of Ben Ba rnes The since 1976. Notable past productions include the Abbey is forging new links internationally through­ Knee Plays by Robert Wilson and David Byrne; out Europe and in North America. The theater is 1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philip Glass, engaged in a series of international production David Henry Hwang and Jerome Sirlin; Serious and personnel exchanges and cross-cultural new Fun! At Lincoln Center (OBIE); Einstein on the writing commissions. Beach; The Mysteries and What's So Funny? by David Gordon and Red Grooms; The Waste Land The Abbey Theatre has entered an exciting stage performed by Fiona Shaw and directed by of its development at home The Irish Govern ment Deborah Warner (Drama Desk Award); Monsters has committed itself to developing a new theatre of Grace (a digital opera in three dimensions) by for the Abbey at its historic site on the corner of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass. Current projects Abbey and Marlborough Street. include Madison's Descent, from the story and paintings by Page Allen, music/lyrics by Micheal The Abbey Theatre celebrates its centena ry in OSuilleabhain, direction by Conall Morrison, chore­ 2004. Plans include a major tour of the U.S., a ography by David Bolger and production design by festival of Classic Abbey plays, and a gala per­ Michael Curry. Wheeler is Vice Chair of The formance on December 27th to mark the 100th Association of Performing Arts Presenters. anniversary of the opening of the very first night.

The Abbey Theatre was founded by W.B. Yeats The Abbey is appreciative of the patronage of the and Lady Augusta Gregory. With the help of their many thousands of American visitors it receives patron, Horniman, the theater opened its every year at its home base in Dublin and is doors to the public for the first time on December pleased to present this production of Medea at 27, 1904. The Abbey Theatre became the first BAM and throughout the United States. theater in the world to receive state subsidy and has been a central part of Irish cultural life for almost a century. Abbreviation key:

On average the company puts on 600 performanc­ ENO = es a year in its two theaters and on tour, and the RADA = Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts core work is supported by committed outreach, RNT = education and literary programs which serve to ROH = , Covent Garden broaden audience engagement and foster an atmos­ RSC = Royal Shakespeare Company phere of social and intellectual inclusiveness.

28 Medea additional casting pairs alternate performances

Corey Devlin & Alex Scheitinger

Dylan Denton & Michael Tammer