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The Company The production 2009

BY BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Evil Angel/Helen of Troy Chorus/Wrath Beatrice Curnew Devil/Pride/Duchess of Vanholt Amy Rockson Vintner/Envy/Paramour Angel/Old Man Jonathan Battersby Wagner/Lucifer/Beelzebub Guy Burgess Valdes/Rafe/Devil/Covetousness Samuel Collings Lawman/Gluttony/Cardinal/Emperor Mark Extance Faustus Gareth Kennerley Cornelius/Robin/Lechery Adam Redmore Mephistopheles Tim Treloar Priest/Devil/Sloth/Pope/Alexander/Duke of Vanholt Conrad Westmaas All other parts played by members of the company

Director Elizabeth Freestone Set and Costume Designer Neil Irish Lighting Designer Wayne Dowdeswell Sound Designer/Composer Adrienne Quartly Associate Director/Movement Stuart Angell Producers James Haddrell and Tim Sawers Wardrobe Supervisor Sades Robinson Costume Assistants Hadar Vandar and Keeley Scothern Dresser Pippa Mawbey Wig Stylist Rebecca Jenkins Production Manager Peter Williams Company Stage Manager Penny Foxley Deputy Stage Manager Craig Almond Assistant Stage Manager Ben Brayshaw Production Electrician Oliver Kipling Technical Assistant Daniel Leman Sound Production Marc Cohen Production Carpenter Rae George The Company

Jonathan Battersby (), Poison (Tricycle Theatre), Jonathan trained at RADA where he A Fool And His Money (Nottingham Playhouse), won the Emile Littler Award for Best Ariadne Auf Naxos (Festival Theatre Edinburgh), Comedy Performance. Antony And Cleopatra, (), (), , Recent work includes Gavrila in the Donmar Romeo And Juliet, The Taming Of The Shrew West End (Wyndhams) production of Ivanov (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Josephine directed by , Smithson/ (), Hiawatha (Crucible, Millburn at the National Theatre in Never So Sheffield),The Merchant Of Venice, Volpone Good directed by , and the (English Shakespeare Company), A Midsummer Harwood double bill Taking Sides/Collaboration Night’s Dream (Derby Playhouse), The at the directed by Philip Franks. Revenger’s Tragedy, Godspell, Hair, (Theatre Other credits at the National Theatre include Clwyd), Abigail’s Party, Peter Pan, Mystery Of Tamburlaine and Volpone directed by , Edwin Drood (York Theatre Royal) Gypsy (Library Julius Caesar directed by John Schlesinger, Tales Theatre Manchester), Amadeus, A Taste Of From The Vienna Woods directed by Maximillian Honey (Bolton Octagon theatre). Schell and Il Campiello directed by . At the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh he appeared in Television includes , Doctors, Abigail’s Party, and Dial M For Murder. Eastenders and Pushkin and the Bronze Other theatre credits include seasons at Pitlochry Horseman. Film includes Looking for Langston. in Chimneys, Further Than The Furthest Thing, Guy will go into rehearsals shortly with the Man Of The Moment, Summer Lightning, transfer of Grapes of Wrath, Engaged, Lend Me A Tenor, playing Lacy. The production will open at the The Government Inspector, , The in December. Tempest, Storm In A Teacup and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Credits at the Byre Theatre St Joanna Christie Andrews include Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, How Joanna trained at Mountview Joanna The Other Half Loves and Blythe Spirit; credits at trained at Mountview Academy of Dundee Rep include Last of the Hot Lovers, Theatre Arts and was a member of For King And Country, Sleuth and What The the . Theatre Butler Saw. includes One Night In November (Belgrade Theatre TV credits include , Robert The Bruce, Coventry), Equus (), A Course In My Wymi, The Houseman’s Tale, Strathblair, The A Restaurant (Old Vic/24 Hour Plays), Be My Baby Advocates, , Cardiac Arrest, (Hull Truck Theatre), Immaculate Conceit (NYT, Crowdie and Cream and FOT. Recent TV credits Lyric Hammersmith), Golden Prospects include , Secret Diary Of A Call Girl (Skullduggery/Edinburgh Festival), Carcinoma and . () and Alice’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (City Palace). Credits whilst at Mountview include Saved, Uncle Vanya and . Guy Burgess Guy trained at LAMDA. Theatre credits Television includes Lewis (series 2, ITV), Small include Coriolanus (RSC), Twelfth Dark Places (BBC Short), Holby City (BBC1) and Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse), No Angels (World Productions/C4). Radio The Tempest, (Actors includes Fabulous Flops (BBC Radio 4). From The Stage), Titus Andronicus

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Ref: Qd13709 File: Qd13507m (p8) Date: 29.09.2009 Samuel Collings Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest Theatre includes The Big Break/ (Green Room Theatre Co), Much Ado About Script-In-Hand (), Nothing (Jermyn St Theatre). Doorbells of Florence (Vivid Dreams), The Garden (Riverside Studios), An Gareth Kennerley Inspector Calls (Dukes Lancaster), News Gareth trained at the Guildhall School Revue, Without Laughing (Theatre 503), The of Music and Drama. Previous theatre Alice Project (BAC/Sprint), Dr Faustus (Liverpool productions include War Horse and Playhouse), Hanging Around (Kneehigh), Fiddler on the Roof (West End), War Misper/Dido & Aeneas (Glyndebourne), Murder Horse and Saint Joan (National Theatre), The In The Cathedral (NYT), Curse of the Egyptian Pendulum (Mephisto Productions), Under Milk Mummy (Regent’s Park). Wood (Tricycle Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof TV/Film includes Holby City, The Insiders (series), (Sheffield Crucible), Arden of Faversham (Skin Doctors, Hex II (series), Dan Clark’s Guide and Bone), (Creation Theatre to Work, 1940’s Fable, A Tale of Two Girls, The Company), In the Red (G&M Brand), Company Briefcase and Message in a Bottle. Radio and Assassins (Eyebrow Productions), A includes various productions for BBC, Holy Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry V (Bright Mountain & live broadcasts for London Angel Productions), A Soldier’s Tale and Living Resonance/BBC New Writing. With Stalin (Connecting Arts), The Grapes of Wrath (Only Connect) and A Drawer Marked Pyjamas (Dylan Thomas Centre). He has been Beatrice Curnew involved with numerous developmental Theatre includes About Tommy workshops and rehearsed readings for the (), Hippolytus National Theatre Studios, BAC, The Orange Tree (Riverside Studios, Tour), Waiting for Theatre, Commute and Blue Riot. He was the Romeo (The Pleasance), Burial At recipient of the Michael Bryant Verse Speaking Thebes (Nottingham Playhouse/US Tour/The Award 2005. Rose Kingston), Out of Chaos (Sophiensaele, Berlin), Friends Uninvited (Esk Valley), Ladies In Retirement (National Tour),The Madras House, Adam Redmore Scenes From A Separation, Macbeth and Much Adam trained at The Royal Welsh Ado About Nothing (Orange Tree), Improbable College of Music and Drama. Theatre Fiction, (Stephen Joseph), Jump (24 Hour Plays, credits include Follow (Finborough), Old Vic), Veronika Sessions (Arcola), The Macbeth, , West Side Importance of Being Earnest (National Tour), Story, Kindertransport, Hobson’s Choice, Dying Cyrano De Bergerac (Minack), The Principle Of For It (RWCMD) and Billy and the BWCA Motion (Edinburgh) and A Midsummer Night’s (Edinburgh Fringe Theatre). Dream (National Theatre; Platform). Television includes Silent Witness (BBC1) and Television includes Emmerdale (ITV), Emergency (Talkback). Radio includes Under Milk Rescue (Talkback Thames) and Glamour (LWT). Wood (RWCMD). Short Films include Therapy, Paranoia, Art and BP.

Mark Extance Theatre credits include And Then There Were None, (Old Vic & Hong Kong Arts Festival), Uncle Vanya (English Touring Theatre), Old Times (Theatre Royal Bath), Waiting For Godot (New Ambassadors), You Never Can Tell (Garrick

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Ref: Qd13709 File: Qd13507m (p9) Date: 29.09.2009 Amy Rockson Married, Romeo and Juliet, Playboy Of The Asian Theatre credits include Funny Girl World (Leicester Haymarket), Airport 2000 (Chichester Festival Theatre), The (Rifco), Exodus (Tara Arts), Staying On (Theatre Comedy of Errors (RSC/tour), Under of Comedy), Bravely Fought The Queen (Border Pressure (Jermyn Street), The Resistible Crossings), Magic Mirrors (Quicksilver) and Rise of Arturo Ui, Henry VIII (Bridewell), Romeo and Juliet (Soapbox Theatre). Oedipus, Agamemnon and Androcles and the Television includes Casualty, , Lion (Scoop Amphitheatre), Made in Spain Britz, Holby City, Murphy’s Law, Doctors, (Etcetera), If I Should Fall (Off Broadway Cherished, Whose Baby?, Rose and Maloney, Theatre), Six Geese A Laying () and Hear the Silence, Boohbah, The House Across Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse). The Street, Staying Alive and The Bill. Film Television credits include Switch, The Godsend. includes Swinging With The Finkels, No Honour, Films include London Voodoo, Panchreston, No Choice, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, Mad, Going Nowhere. Sad & Bad, Brick Lane, Venus, The Blue Tower, It Could Be You, Mistress of Spices, Bride and Prejudice, Thunderbirds, Bend It Like Beckham, Tim Treloar Anita and Me, Gran, Seven. Radio includes Tim trained at Lamda. Theatre credits Inheritance of Loss, (BBC World include Macbeth (Broadway/West Service), Zubeda, , Legacy, Singh End), (Chichester), Tangos, Shakti, Dancing Girls of Lahore, Thomas More, Sejanus, Believe What A Yearning, Samsara (all for BBC Radio 4). You Will, Richard The Second, Romeo and Juliet, Back To Methuselah (RSC), Henry V (National), Mountain Language (Royal Court), Sing Yer Conrad Westmaas Heart Out For The Lads (No1 Tour), Rose Rage Conrad trained at The Poor School, (West End, Tour) and Beggars (Orange London. Theatre credits include Tree). Romeo & Juliet (Globe Theatre/tour), The Travels of 3 English Brothers and TV and film includes Framed, Silent Witness, The Observer (National Theatre Studio), Othello Lewis, The Bill, Touch of Frost, Casualty, and Taming the Tempest (Salisbury Playhouse), Bombshell, Doctors, Midsomer Murders, The Glass Menagerie and Geek Love (Young The Brief, Mine All Mine, Single, Foyle’s War, Vic), Donkeys’ Years (Comedy Theatre), A State The Bench, Bomber, Wondrous Oblivion and of Innocence (Theatre 503), Abigail’s Party Morning Was Broken. Radio includes BBC (Hampstead Theatre/tour), Skyscraping (Soho Carleton Hobbs Winner. Theatre), Thriller Season (Nottingham Theatre Royal), Scopa! and Elegies for Angels, Punks & Harvey Virdi Raging Queens (Bridewell Theatre), A Time to Harvey trained at The Academy Drama Speak and Charlie Sexboots (), School. Her theatre credits include Royal Variety (Man in the Moon Theatre). England People Very Nice (National Film credits include The Visitor (UK Film Council/ Theatre), There’s Something About Spool Films), In a Day (NW3 Films) and Asylum Simmy (Rifco Arts), Meri Christmas (Rifco Arts), (21st Century Films). On radio Conrad played The Deranged Marriage (Rifco Arts, a companion to Paul McGann’s Doctor for 2005/2006), Behzti (Kali Theatre & Birmingham five years in the Doctor Who audio series Rep), Twelfth Night (Albery Theatre), Calcutta (BBC/Big Finish). Kosher (Kali Theatre), The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre), Higra (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral, A Tainted Dawn and A Yearning (Tamasha), Two Old Ladies, When We Are

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Ref: Qd13709 File: Qd13507m (p10) Date: 29.09.2009 Stuart Angell Dream, Piaf, The Coventry Mysteries, The Associate Director – Movement Birthday Party, Not the End of the World, The Stuart was recently Movement/Assistant Director Truth About Lies, , The for A Respectable Wedding for ONO Theatre Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Life of Stuff, (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). In this he also played Whisky Galore! His designs for Opera include the part of the Groom. As an actor his other Eugene Onegin, The Mikado, Rinaldo (Grange theatre credits include Puppeteer/Ensemble in Park Opera), The Mikado, (D’Oyly Carte, Savoy Anthony Mingella’s Madam Butterfly for ENO Theatre), The Cunning Little Vixen, A (), Puppeteer in Low Life for Midsummer Night’s Dream (Longborough Blind Summit Theatre (International Tour), Swing Festival Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor, (Scottish in Will Tuckett’s The Thief Of Baghdad for ROH2 Opera 2007 and Mariinsky Theatre, St. (, The Egg Theatre, Bath), Petersburg 2009). Wayne received Olivier Award Gluck in Will Tuckett’s Faeries for ROH2 (Royal nominations for Edward II, Tamburlaine the Opera House), Puppeteer in An Odde Angel for Great and Medea. Blind Summit Theatre (BAC), Gregor in Metamorphosis for ONO Theatre (Tour), Elizabeth Freestone Ensemble/Swing in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Director (European Tour) and, for television, Adventures The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbes (Royal On Orsum Island for Pineapple Squared Shakespeare Company at Wilton’s ), Entertainment. Here Lies Mary Spindler (RSC @ Latitude Festival), Romeo and Juliet (Globe Theatre UK Wayne Dowdeswell and European tour), The Water Harvest (Theatre Lighting Designer 503), Skellig (tour), The Travels of Three English Wayne trained at Theatre School Brothers (British Museum), Top Girls and Three and spent several seasons at Contact Theatre, Sisters (Royal Welsh College of Music and Manchester before moving to the Royal Drama), Six Characters Looking for an Author Shakespeare Company (1978-2007). There he lit (Central School), Lock the Gates (Lyric many notable productions for The Other Place, Hammersmith), Left on Church Street (Bridewell) The Pit and Barbican . He was Lighting and The Comedy of Errors (RSC). She was Supervisor for the Swan Theatre where designs Associate Director on The Caucasian Chalk Circle include: The Rover, The Fair Maid of the West, at the National Theatre and was Staff Director Titus Andronicus, The Jew of Malta, Doctor on Market Boy (National Theatre) and Speaking Faustus, , Edward II, The Like Magpies, A New Way to Please You and Seagull, Tamburlaine the Great, The Country Believe What You Will (RSC). Wife. In the West End lighting designs include Elizabeth was literary associate at Soho Theatre The Shakespeare Revue, , and has worked as an assistant director at the The ‘Jacobethan’ Season (Edward III, Eastward Royal Court and Hampstead, including several Ho!, The Roman Actor, The Island Princess, The rehearsed readings of new plays. She trained Malcontent), The Tamer Tamed, The at Rose Bruford College and at the National ‘Gunpowder’ Season (Thomas More, A New Theatre Studio. Way to Please You, Believe What You Will,

Sejanus, Speaking like Magpies), Breakfast with Neil Irish Mugabe, The Canterbury Tales. Designer Other Theatre productions include: Chasing Neil trained in Birmingham and later at The Fate, Cat and Mouse, Not About Heroes, Slade. Recent productions include Pelleas and Macbeth, Educating Rita, The Vanek Plays, Mellasande (Opera Theatre Co Dublin for Dublin (London & Prague), Sweeny Todd, The and Belfast Festivals), The Prime of Miss Jean Caucasian Chalk Circle, Present Laughter, Medea Brodie (Northampton Theatres and Edinburgh (West End and Broadway) A Midsummer Night’s Festival) Rigged (Theatre Centre), The Cunning

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Ref: Qd13709 File: Qd13507m (p11) Date: 29.09.2009 Little Vixen (Czech National Theatre and Opera Theatre of ), 93.2FM (Royal Court in Brno), The Shape of Things (Atac Theatre Theatre), Private Fears and Public Places, Just Istanbul), the new Opera Confuisus Says (HMDT Between Ourselves (Royal and Derngate, at , Winner of a Royal Northampton), Small Change (Sherman Cymru), Philamonic Award 2009) and Woyzeck (Gate Lighter Than Air (Pleasance, Edinburgh 09), London). Also productions for West Yorkshire Nostalgia (Drum Theatre, Plymouth), Woyzeck (St Playhouse, Watford Palace, Nottingham Ann’s Warehouse, New York), My Real War Playhouse, Birmingham Rep , Stephen Joseph (Trafalgar Studios),Torn, An Enemy of the People, Theatre Scarborough , Hull Truck, Gate Dublin , Silver Birch House, (), The Last Waltz Bolton Octagon, Royal Lyceum Season (Oxford Stage Company), Reykjavik (The Edinburgh, Arcola London, St Anne’s New York. Junction, Cambridge), The Stage Coach (Dublin), Operatic productions include those for Opera Was He Anyone? (Union Theatre), Amedee North, English Touring Opera , Opera Theatre Co (), A Touch of the Sun (Salisbury Dublin, Holland Park Opera, Mid Wales Opera, Playhouse/Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford), Opera Comique Paris, BAM New York, National Hysteria (Mime Festival & International Touring), Opera Studio and Almeida ENO Festival. Neil has Tejas Verdes, Woyzeck (The ), Playing designed many touring shows for both Compass For Time, A Touch of the Sun (Salisbury and Red Shift Theatre Companies, and has also Playhouse), Lucy Porter: Lady Luck (Assembly worked for both Set and Costume Departments Rooms, Edinburgh), Mercy Fine (Clean Break for BBC Birmingham. Theatre Company), 3 Women, Jarman Garden (Riverside Studios), Hideaway (Edinburgh),

Forgotten Voices (Southwark Playhouse), Attempts Adrienne Quartly On Her Life (BAC), Habeas Corpus, Quartermaine’s Sound Designer/Composer Terms (Royal Theatre, Northampton), Inflated Theatre includes: The Fastest Clock in the Universe Ideas (Riverside Studios). Musical Director/Cellist (Hampstead),The Container (Young Vic), Here Lies on National Alien Office (Riverside Studios). Mary Spindler, The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes Composer on Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC), (Royal Shakespeare Company), 365 (National Lighter than Air (Edinburgh 09).

Production acknowledgements: Books – Richard Booth, Hay-on-Wye; Cue One – Susie Payne, Gary Giles; Set construction – Topshow; Lighting – PRG; Costumes – Angels; Wigs – National Theatre; Driver – Jay Tyson; Drapes – Lynda Shell Textiles; Production Photography – Robert Day : Executive Director – James Haddrell; Technical Manager – Neil Fulcher; Operations Manager – Simon Francis; Finance Director – Tim Sawers; Projects Co-ordinator – Susan Winter; Marketing Manager – Louisa Beer; Box Office Manager – Daniel Swan; Front of House Manager – Ryan Tyler-Smith Stage on Screen: Directors – Richard Adams, Peter Eyles and Phil Rees Stage on Screen would like to thank: Julian Gleek; Robert Rees; Pete Wise; Robin Wells; John Francis; Sue Dale; Deborah Lawrenson; Mark Jenkyns; Mike Wadding; Anne Owen; Merlin John; Tom Barnes; Matthew O’Neil; Richard Cook Design; Gem Limited

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