ANTON CHEKHOV’S

In a version by TOM MURPHY Directed by GARRY HYNES

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Kinvara Inis Meáin 19 – 20 JUNE Portumna 4 – 5 JUNE 27 – 28 JUNE 2 ANTON CHEKHOV’S

In a version by TOM MURPHY

Black Box Theatre, Galway 22 February – 7 March Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin 8 – 11 April Thursday 5 March Live in Cinemas

Creatives Cast Company Director Ranyevskaya Séamus Hughes Garry Hynes Derbhle Crotty Delia Keane Set and Costume Design Yasha Mary McHugh Francis O’Connor Ian-Lloyd Anderson Seán T. Ó’Meallaigh Co-Costume Design Varya Michael Rooney Doreen McKenna Siobhán Cullen Peter Shine Lighting Design Dunyasha Ambre Shoneff James F. Ingalls Megan Cusack Sound Design Yepikhodov Gregory Clarke Peter Daly Act One May Movement Director Anya Act Two 8 weeks later David Bolger Rachel Feeney Act Three August Inishbo n 4 – 5 JULY Glenamaddy Music Boris Act Four Short time after 15 – 16 MAY Letterfrack Conor Linehan Garrett Lombard 2 JULY Tuam Assistant Lopakhin Clifden 22 – 23 MAY Ballygar 7 – 9 MAY 14 MAY Costume Design Aaron Monaghan 1 JULY Oughterard Clíodhna Hallissey 30 May Gayev Rory Nolan Ballinasloe Athenry 12 – 13 JUNE Charlotta Galway 29 MAY Helen Norton 11 – 25 JULY Firs John Olohan Kinvara Petya Inis Meáin 19 – 20 JUNE Portumna 4 – 5 JUNE 27 – 28 JUNE Marty Rea 3 A Kind of Farewell A Note on The Cherry Orchard by Marina Carr

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, born in 1860, at Melikhovo had been cut down after he died in 1904 at the age of forty-four from sold the estate. And in his prose poem the dreaded ‘White Death’, consumption, The Steppe, he has the young Egorushka tuberculosis, fatal before penicillin. remember; Chekhov, a doctor himself, long refused to name his disease and wrote right up to ‘White crosses and gravestones. And when the end which occurred in the spa town of the cherry trees blossomed, white blobs Badenweiler, Germany. merged with the white cherry blossom to become a white sea. And when they The Cherry Orchard, his final play, was ripened, the white gravestones and crosses written in 1903 and is considered one of were spattered with crimson clots like the masterpieces of Modernist Theatre blood.’ alongside Ibsen and Strindberg. Chekhov called it a comedy in four acts, but it is hard It is hard not to think of the tubercular to read or see it as such from the distance Chekhov spitting red blobs of lung tissue of over one hundred years. Yes, it has discreetly into his white handkerchief or many comic elements but the overriding that in the writing of The Cherry Orchard, symbol of The Cherry Orchard seems to he was writing some sort of valediction, be at variance with Comedy unless we a kind of farewell. And something there assume he means by Comedy, Balzacian too of being cut down before his time like Human Comedy; namely that since the Ranyevskaya’s orchard. removal of the Divine from the equation, we are all lost, abandoned, ridiculous, And what do we make of that mysterious absurd. The Cherry Orchard is in a sense mournful sound ‘that seems to fall from the the primal scene where Ranyevskaya and sky, like a harp string breaking far away’? her brother Gayev played as children, Difficult not to read these images and where Ranyevskaya can still see the ghost motifs as Chekhov’s private commentary of her mother and it is the backdrop where, on his impending death and indeed on all through emotional paralysis and ineptitude who are cut down before their time. and grief, they will allow that Eden, that past, that primal site, be destroyed. And the feckless Ranyevskaya? A tragic figure to my mind. Fleeing her past, Also trees, and cherry trees in particular, her drowned son, her abusive lover. figure large in Chekhov’s own personal Ranyevskaya, who gives away all her memory table. He was an inveterate money, who lives on a diet of coffee and planter of trees. He was distressed to pills, who screams at Petya; hear that the cherry orchard he planted

4 ‘You should fall in love! A man of your age! Superman? All his hopes seem to reside And maybe you’d understand something… in the future. ‘Humanity’, Petya says, ‘is You’re not above love…’ moving forward towards a higher truth’. One can only hope. One has to believe in Or Firs? Firs who hates his freedom and Time, in Teleology, that we are getting reminisces nostalgically about the good old better. This from the most humane of days of serfdom. Or Gayev, sucking sweets, Artists for whom time ran out. still being dressed by Firs, waxing eloquent over bookcases while being obnoxious to The final image of the play is sound. Two the help. sounds. The string breaking and the axe chopping. The string and the axe. It leaves As Petya says to Anya; us wondering many things. Like all great writing the possibilities of meaning unfold ‘Owning living souls: that has changed endlessly. A haunting. And prophetic in its you all.’ way when we consider the tragic trajectory of Russian history. And still Chekhov deals gently with them as he does with all his characters. He sees It is very exciting to watch Garry Hynes the absurdity and the desperation in all take on another master in Druid’s first our hearts, but his hand is gentle and his outing with a major Chekhov play. And eye forgiving as he points all this out. He that it is Tom Murphy’s version we are was the grandson of a serf and knew in seeing is an added attraction given his own his bones the cost of servitude, the price unique mastery and the long and fruitful extracted from the vanquished by the collaboration between Garry and Tom and triumphant and this thread runs through Druid down the long decades. A fitting all his work. It is impossible not to root for celebration and tribute to two great writers Lopakhin when he buys the cherry orchard who have mapped the consternation, and ousts his family’s oppressors. But it is desperation and absurdity of the human a testament to Chekhov’s writing that we heart in its search for meaning and that can be happy for Lopakhin and still feel the elusive thing – happiness. loss that Ranyevskaya feels. February 2020 So what is Chekhov saying in his final play? That ‘All of Russia is an orchard ’? Acknowledgement to Rosamund Bartlett’s biography Chekhov: Scenes from a Life. That humanity as we are now is merely the Nietzschean bridge from Beast to

5 The World of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard

Within less than a month after Chekhov’s Further reforms in law, education, finance, The Cherry Orchard opened in Moscow and administration, and investment in in January 1904, Russia found itself at infrastructure and the media, meant that war with Japan. The war’s incompetent Russia became one of the most rapidly prosecution and the humiliating defeats developing economies of the late 19th inflicted on the Tsar’s forces helped to century. New social groups emerged precipitate the 1905 revolution. It was a alongside the old castes: entrepreneurs; year in which the country was convulsed by industrial workers; and the middle classes, protests, strikes and rebellion that nearly often drawn from the déclassé minor toppled Tsar Nicolas II. 1905 ushered nobility, many of whom were indebted Russia into the modern era politically and and lost their money and estates after showed how far the country had changed in emancipation. the preceding half century. Ranyevskaya and her family belong to an In 1855, when the Tsar’s grandfather, old patriarchal gentry family, who cannot Alexander II, ascended the throne, Russia adapt to the world of modern capitalism. was still a caste society. Most people Her brother Gayev, who has found remained in the estate (or social station) employment in a bank, is, in social terms, into which they had been born. This more middle class than aristocratic. And applied above all to Russia’s approximately Lopakhin, the enterprising and hardheaded 33.4 million serfs (peasants), approximately businessman (a familiar figure in early 20th 23 million of whom were owned by the century Russia) is the son of a serf. His landed gentry. They were tied to the land plan to ‘develop’ the cherry orchard with and to their master who disposed of their holiday cottages for the new urban middle lives as he saw fit. They were not free men, classes is thoroughly contemporary. In could not own property or even contract The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov captured a marriage without their master’s approval society in transition from the ancien régime and were under the legal authority of to a more brash modernity – an order that their master (who could inflict brutal itself, as we know, was soon swept away by corporal punishment on them). Many the destructive violence of war. educated Russians deplored serfdom but only in 1861 was it finally abolished. Tsar Alexander pushed emancipation through Professor Emerita to enable the economic modernization on which Russia’s great power status Judith Devlin ultimately depended. UCD School of History

6 The Cherry Orchard Live in Cinema In a first for an Irish The Cherry Orchard will be seen live in 30 cinemas across theatre company, Ireland and the UK, followed by a year-long programme of Druid and Element live-recorded showings internationally, reinforcing Druid’s vision of Irish performance for the world. Pictures join forces to bring The Cherry Kindly supported by Galway City Council and the Poetry Orchard to cinemas Foundation of the Sidney E Frank Foundation, this project around the world. is rooted in Druid’s passionate belief that audiences have a right to see first class theatre in their own communities. This platform will allow Druid to reach new audiences nationally and internationally, shining a spotlight on Galway and Irish theatre.

Druid will collaborate with Serpent Productions and NEP Broadcasting Group to broadcast The Cherry Orchard to the world direct from the Black Box Theatre on Thursday 5 March at 7pm.

You can book tickets for participating cinemas now at Druid.ie Aaron Monaghan (Photograph: Matthew Thompson)

7 Production Team

Thank You Deputy Stage Manager Sophie Flynn Assistant Stage Managers Olivia Drennan Druid gratefully Martina Kavanagh acknowledges the Stage Management Intern Fiona Cradock support of many people who assisted with this Costume Supervisor Róisín Lennon production and all those Costume Assistant Jingyi Zhang who helped after the Dresser Jade Gavin Goodfellow programme went to print. Hair & Make Up Val Sherlock Denise Assas, Jane Technical Manager Shannon Light Brennan, Cue One Lighting, Master Carpenter Gus Dewar Andrew Lowe, Dave Reid, Ruth Hurl and all Carpenters Des Burke at Element Pictures, the Pete Nelson team at Galway 2020, Tony O’Reilly Deirdre Grandi, Fiona Lighting Programmer Susan Collins Hurley, Eoin Kilkenny, Fergal McGrath and all Production Sound Richard Curwood at the Town Hall Theatre Technicians Ronan Gallagher Galway, Gerry Mallon, Paul Blue Hanley Murphy, Paul O’Connor, Dmitri McEvoy Pálás Cinema Galway, Emma O’Grady Trevor Price Transport, Dr Scenic Artist Rachel Towey Rose Whyman, University of Birmingham, Brian Scenic Painter Angeline Byrne Woods, Donna Andrews Gill Christie and Czecha the dog, Matt Guinnane Bernadette Quinn and Site Manager Keith Newman Heidi the dog. Magic Consultant Pat Fallon For all enquiries regarding Publicity Photography Matthew Thompson performance rights of this Production Photography Robbie Jack play contact Alexandra Cann Representation at Rehearsal Photography Boyd Challenger [email protected] Graphic Design Gareth Jones Video Myles Shelly PR Bowe Communications

8 Rory Nolan and Derbhle Crotty in rehearsal for The Cherry Orchard (Photograph: Boyd Challenger)

9 ANTON CHEKHOV TOM MURPHY PATRICK MILES

his first full-length play to be staged, (1860 – 1904) Anton Chekhov premiered in Moscow but received wildly Writer mixed reviews. The Seagull premiered at the state-run Aleksandrisky Theatre in St Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 Petersburg in 1896 but received a famously in Taganrog, Russia. His grandfather had hostile reception. Both the cast and the been a serf and his father a grocer. In audience struggled to appreciate and 1868, Chekhov was sent to the Taganrog understand Chekhov’s work which broke school for boys. His father declared with theatrical conventions prevalent at the bankruptcy in 1876 and the family moved time in Russia. It was not until Chekhov to Moscow leaving Chekhov in Taganrog began an association with Konstantin to finish his schooling. In 1879 Chekhov Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich- won a scholarship to study medicine at Danchenko’s Moscow Art Theatre that he Moscow University. Under pseudonyms, he achieved national success. The Moscow Art began writing comic sketches for popular Theatre’s production of The Seagull in 1898 magazines in order to support his family. was quickly followed by premieres of Uncle During the mid 1880’s, Chekhov practised Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The as a physician and began to publish works Cherry Orchard (1904). of fiction under his own name. In 1896, Chekhov was diagnosed with In 1888 he was awarded the Pushkin Prize tuberculosis. He married Olga Knipper, the for his collection of short stories In the Moscow Art Theatre’s lead actress, in 1901. Twilight. Chekhov wrote more than 200 The Cherry Orchard was written slowly stories including The Kiss (1887), The from 1902 and premièred in January 1904 Steppe (1888), Ward No. 6 (1892), The on Chekhov’s forty-fourth birthday. He died Lady with the Dog (1899), In the Ravine in July that year in Badenweiler, Germany. (1900), and The Bishop (1902) on which his claim to pre-eminence in the genre rests. Other plays include: The Bear (1888), The During the 1880s Chekhov began to write Proposal (1889), The Wood Demon (1890). for theatre and in November 1887, Ivanov,

10 Bailegangaire, The House, Alice Trilogy all (1935 – 2018) Tom Murphy won the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Writer Best Play. Other awards include the Irish Times/ESB inaugural Lifetime Achievement Tom Murphy was born in Tuam, Co. Galway. Award and Irish Academy of letters Award. He died in Dublin May 2018. He holds honorary doctorates from Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway. In 2013 Plays include: On the Outside (w. Noel he was awarded The Ulysses Medal, the O’Donoghue), A Whistle in the Dark, A highest honour that University College Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Dublin bestows. In 2017 President Michael Assistant, Famine, The Morning After D Higgins presented Tom Murphy with the Optimism, On the Inside, The Sanctuary gold torc and the title of Saoi, Aosdána’s Lamp, Epitaph Under Ether (a compilation highest honour. from the works of J M Synge), The Blue Macushla, The Informer (from the novel by Liam O’Flaherty), Conversations on a Homecoming, The Gigli Concert, Patrick Miles Bailegangaire, A Thief of a Christmas, Too Literal Translator Late for Logic, The Patriot Game, She Stoops to Folly (from The Vicar of Wakefield), The The Cherry Orchard, in a version by Tom Wake, The House, The Drunkard, Alice Murphy is based on a literal translation Trilogy, and The Last Days of a Reluctant by Patrick Miles. The first performance of Tyrant. His last play Brigit was produced by the play took place at the Abbey Theatre, Druid in 2014. The novel The Seduction of Dublin on 17th February 2004. Morality was published in 1994. Patrick is one of the U.K.’s foremost The Abbey Theatre presented a six play translators of Russian literature. He spent Season in 2001 – Tom Murphy at The two and a half years in Russia in the 1970s Abbey – in celebration of his work. and 1980s and was made persona non grata by the Communist regime. He has In 2012 Druid produced DruidMurphy – directed his own translations of Ivanov and Plays by Tom Murphy (A Whistle in the Chekhov’s vaudevilles at the Edinburgh Dark, Conversations On a Homecoming, Fringe, and translated Turgenev, Bulgakov, Famine) – performing it to great acclaim, in Vampilov and Rozovskiy for the Royal Ireland, UK and USA. The series received National Theatre, where he was Russian a number of awards, including an Irish literary consultant for three years. He is Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Production also editor of Chekhov on the British Stage (2012). In the same year the Abbey produced (CUP, 1993) and author of Brief Lives: The House. Anton Chekhov (Hesperus Press, 2008).

Tom Murphy was a multi-award winning playwright whose plays are performed throughout the world. The Gigli Concert,

11 Creatives

GARRY HYNES FRANCIS O’CONNOR DOREEN MCKENNA

JAMES F. INGALLS GREGORY CLARKE DAVID BOLGER

CONOR LINEHAN CLÍODHNA HALLISSEY

12 Garry Hynes Francis O’Connor Director Set and Costume Design

Garry Hynes co-founded Druid in 1975 and Francis is a regular collaborator with Garry has worked as its Artistic Director from Hynes and Druid. His designs for plays, 1975 to 1991 and from 1995 to date. From musicals and opera have been seen in 1991 to 1994 she was Artistic Director of Ireland, the UK, throughout the US, Europe, the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. and Asia and his work with the Gate Theatre (Ireland) has frequently been seen Garry has also worked with the Gate at Spoleto Festival. Theatre (Ireland); the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court (UK), Center Druid: The Beacon, Epiphany, Theatre Group, Second Stage, Signature DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Shelter, Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, the Furniture, Sive, King of the Castle, The Kennedy Center, the Mark Taper Forum and Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for the Spoleto Festival (USA). Godot, Big Maggie, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry Awards include: The Joe A. Callaway Award V, Brigit, Bailegangaire, The Colleen Bawn, (New York) for Outstanding Directing DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The for The Cripple of Inishmaan (2009); a Silver Tassie, The Gigli Concert, The Cripple Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey Into Queen of Leenane (1998 ); other theatre Night, Leaves, Empress of India, The Year awards, including Irish Times/ESB of the Hiker, DruidSynge, The Well of the Irish Theatre Awards, Best Director for Saints, The Tinker’s Wedding, Sharon’s DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV Grave, Sive, The Good Father, My Brilliant (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Beauty Queen of Divorce, The Lonesome West, A Skull in Leenane, Waiting for Godot and a Special Connemara, The Leenane Trilogy, The Tribute Award for her contribution to Country Boy, The Way You Look Irish Theatre (2005). Garry has received Tonight, Shadow and Substance, Wild Honorary Doctorates from University Harvest. College Dublin, University of Dublin, the National University of Ireland and the Awards include: Five Irish Times Irish National Council for Education Awards. Theatre Awards, three for Best Design, She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal two for Best Costume Design (with Doreen College of Physicians in Ireland, and a McKenna); Boston Critics Circle; Dora member of the Honorary Council of the Mavor Moore Award; and a nomination for Royal Hibernian Academy (HRHA). In 2011, the Faust Prize, Germany. Garry was appointed Adjunct Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway.

13 Doreen McKenna James F. Ingalls Co-Costume Design Lighting Design

Doreen has worked as Druid’s Costume James trained at the Yale School of Drama Supervisor since 2003. and the University of Connecticut. He often collaborates with the Wooden Floor Druid: Doreen was Costume Designer dancers, Santa Ana, California. for Crestfall and Helen & I, Co-Costume Designer for Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Druid: The Beacon, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Richard III, Sive, King of the Castle, The Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V and Costume Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Supervisor for The Beacon, Furniture, Godot, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry Shelter, Sive, King of the Castle, Waiting IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. for Godot, Big Maggie, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Be Infants Designs for other theatre includes: Pale in Evil, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy Sister (Gate Theatre); Ghosts (Williamston – Plays by Tom Murphy, Big Maggie, The Theatre Festival). Silver Tassie, Penelope, The Gigli Concert, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The New Electric Designs for opera includes: Idomeneo Ballroom, My Brilliant Divorce, Long and La Clemenza di Tito (Salzburger Day’s Journey Into Night, Empress of Festspiele); world premieres by John India, The Year of the Hiker, The Walworth Adams including Girls of the Golden West, Farce, DruidSynge, The Playboy of the Doctor Atomic and Nixon in China; world Western World, The Tinker’s Wedding, The premieres by Kaija Saariaho including Well of the Saints, Sharon’s Grave. Only the Sound Remains, Adriana Mater, and L’Amour de Loin, all directed by Peter Awards: Two Irish Times Irish Theatre Sellars; Il Farnace and Kat’a Kabanova, Awards, Best Costume Design (with Francis both directed by Garry Hynes at Spoleto O’Connor). Festival, USA.

Designs for dance includes: The Firebird (Miami City Ballet); Unbound (San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival); several pieces for Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance; many pieces for Mark Morris Dance Group including Layla and Majnun, Mozart Dances, The Hard Nut and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; and Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary US Tour.

14 Gregory Clarke David Bolger Sound Design Movement Director

Druid: The Beacon, DruidShakespeare: David is Artistic Director of CoisCéim Richard III, Shelter, Furniture, Sive, King of Dance Theatre. He has choreographed the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, more than 21 productions for the company, Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: including Body Language, Agnes, Pageant, Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry Touch Me, Swimming With My Mother V, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Penelope, The New and The Wolf and Peter (which played at Electric Ballroom, The Hackney Office. the Sydney Opera House in Australia), and most recently Francis Footwork, which Other theatre includes: The Twits, The premiered at Baboró International Arts Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas Festival for Children 2019. He is a member (Royal Court); Misterman (Galway of Aosdána. International Arts Festival/Landmark Productions); Medea, The Doctor’s Druid: Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Dilemma, Twelfth Night, No Man’s Land, Richard III, Sive, King of the Castle, Tristan & Yseult, The Emperor Jones, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV Earthquakes in London (National Theatre, (pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, London); The Merchant Of Venice, Cloud DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Nine (Almeida); All’s Well That Ends Well, Silver Tassie, DruidSynge, The Year of the The Heart of Robin Hood, Great Hiker, Sharon’s Grave, The Playboy of the Expectations, Coriolanus, The Merry Western World. Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Other theatre, opera & musical theatre: Shakespeare Company). As a freelance choreographer and director, David has worked for the Abbey Theatre, London West End credits include: My Night Opera Ireland, the Royal Opera House, With Reg, Goodnight Mr. Tom, The Vortex, English National Opera, the Guthrie Theater A Voyage Around My Father, And Then and the National Theatre, London. There Were None, Some Girls, Waiting for Godot, What The Butler Saw, Journey’s Film includes: His short dance film, Deep End, Equus. End Dance, which has been screened internationally at a number of festivals Awards: Tony Award® Best Sound and has won awards including Best Short Design (Equus), Drama Desk Award Film (Irish Film Festival, Boston; Celtic (Journey’s End). Media Festival; Fastnet Film Festival) and a Special Jury Prize (Idill), Hit and Run, Flatbed, Michael Collins and Dancing at Lughnasa. David also directed How to Sink a Boat.

15 Conor Linehan Clíodhna Hallissey Music Assistant Costume Design

Conor is a pianist, composer and teacher A recent graduate of the BA in Drama, from Dublin. He is on the piano faculty of Theatre and Performance Studies and the Royal Irish Academy of Music where English at NUI Galway, Clíodhna is the he also teaches courses in improvisation 2019/2020 recipient of Druid’s Marie and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Mullen Bursary for female theatre artists Perfomance in association with Trinity working in the fields of design, directing, College Dublin. and dramaturgy.

Druid: Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Druid: Clíodhna was Costume Dresser for Richard III, Sive, DruidShakespeare: DruidShakespeare: Richard III at the Abbey Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. Theatre, Dublin.

Other theatre includes: Woyzeck in Other theatre includes: Costume Designer Winter (Landmark Productions/Galway for Aisling? (Ealaín na Gaeltachta); Yummy International Arts Festival); Dublin Mummy (An Taibhdhearc); BAOITE (An by Lamplight (Corn Exchange/Abbey Taibhdhearc/Abbey Theatre); Costume Theatre); The Wolf and Peter (CoisCéim); Assistant and Dresser for Grief is The Thing productions with the Abbey and Peacock With Feathers (Landmark Productions); The theatres; the Gate Theatre, Dublin; the Country Girls (Abbey Theatre). Lyric, Belfast; the Royal Shakespeare Company; the Gate Theatre; the National Film & TV includes: Costume Designer for Theatre, London; Liverpool Playhouse; Living With a Fairy 2 ; Costume Assistant Hampstead Theatre; Siren Productions, for Mr. Mender and The Chummyjiggers. Dublin.

Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Sound Design (with Ben Delaney); Irish Times Irish Theatre Judges’ Special Award nomination for ‘setting the standard of theatre composition’; PlayShakespeare website’s Falstaff Award, Best Score Worldwide.

We wish to remember our great friend and colleague Monica Frawley, a distinguished theatre designer, who passed away recently. We will miss Monica’s humour, intelligence and sparkling talent.

16 Rory Nolan in rehearsal for The Cherry Orchard (Photograph: Boyd Challenger.)

17 Rachel Feeney, Helen Norton, Derbhle Crotty and Megan Cusack in rehearsal for The Cherry Orchard (Photograph: Boyd Challenger)

18 19 Cast

DERBHLE CROTTY IAN-LLOYD ANDERSON SIOBHÁN CULLEN

MEGAN CUSACK PETER DALY RACHEL FEENEY

GARRETT LOMBARD AARON MONAGHAN RORY NOLAN

HELEN NORTON JOHN OLOHAN MARTY REA 20 Derbhle Crotty Ranyevskaya Awards include: Two Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Best Actress (DruidShakespeare: Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Silver Tassie, and Three Sisters); Ian Charleson/Sunday The Playboy of the Western World, The Gigli Times Award (Little Eyolf ). Concert, Sive, The Good Father, Gaslight.

Other theatre includes: Anna Karenina, The Ian-Lloyd Anderson Yasha Dead, Sive, Marble, Tales of Ballycumber, An Ideal Husband, Three Sisters, A Month Druid: The Beacon in the Country, The Plough and the Stars, Bailegangaire, The Well of the Saints, Katie Other theatre includes: Dublin Old School Roche, The Mai (Abbey Theatre); Afterplay, (Project Arts Centre/National Theatre, Juno and the Paycock, Dancing at Lughnasa London); Come on Home, Our Few and (Gate Theatre); Hecuba, I’ll be the Devil, Evil Days, Sive, The Risen People, Major Macbeth, Penelopiad, Hamlet, Camino Real, Barbara, Shibari, Alice in Funderland, Little Eyolf (Royal Shakespeare Company); Macbeth, The Rivals, The Resistable Rise The Playboy of the Western World, The of Arturo Ui (Abbey Theatre); In Our Veins Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk (National (Abbey Theatre/Bitter Like a Lemon); Theatre, London); The Approach (Landmark Evening Train (Everyman Theatre); The Productions); The Mai (Decadent Theatre); Night Alive (Dublin Theatre Festival/Lyric Richard III (Headlong Theatre Company); Theatre); Common (National Theatre); The Hamlet (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Events Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre/ (ATC); Thirteen (Anu Productions); Best Lyric Hammersmith); Every Doris Has His Man (Everyman Theatre/Project Arts Day, Big Ole Piece of Cake, The Bruising of Centre); Seagull, Dubliners, Everyday (Corn Clouds (Fishamble); Richard III (Fast and Exchange); The Beauty Queen of Leenane Loose Theatre Company); Ride On!, Observe (Young Vic); The Field (Gaiety Theatre); the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the The Winter’s Tale (Corcadorca); The Alice Somme (Livin’ Dred); End Time (Project Trilogy, The Weir (Royal Court); Portia Arts Centre); Danti Dan (Galloglass Theatre Coughlan (Abbey Theatre/Royal Court); The Company); The Colleen Bawn (Bedrock Home Place (Gate Theatre, Dublin/Comedy Productions/Project Arts Centre). Theatre, London); Miss Julie (Vesuvius). Film & television includes: Blood, Film & television includes: Dead Happy, Headcases, Herself, Wastewater, Dublin My Mother’s Shoes, Rosie, Come Home, Old School, Vikings, Love/Hate, Game of Citizen Lane, Paula, Noble, Stella Days, Joy, Thrones, The Clinic, Raw, The Wild Colonial The Clinic, Notes on a Scandal, Inside I’m Boy, Dorothy Mills, Shadow Dancer, They Dancing, The Merchant of Venice, Any Time Shoot People, Standby, Scratch, Leave, Now, Poorhouse, Gold in the Streets. Honest.

21 Siobhán Cullen Varya Peter Daly Yepikhodov

Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard III, King Crestfall. of The Castle, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. Other theatre includes: The Plough and the Stars (National Theatre, London); An Other theatre includes: Money Ideal Husband, An Enemy of the People, A (ThisisPopBaby); This Lime Tree Bower Woman of No Importance, Jane Eyre (Gate (Eoin Kilkenny); Bailed Out!, Guaranteed!, Theatre); By the Bog of Cats, Ariel (Abbey Tiny Plays for Ireland I & II (Fishamble); Theatre); The Effect, Assassins (Rough The Critic, Jezebel, Travesties, Peer Gynt, Magic); Our Island (Mirari Productions); The Importance of Being Earnest, Life Othello (Mill Productions); The Life and is a Dream, Attempts on her life, Don Sort of Death of Eric Argyle (15th Oak); Carlos, The Taming of the Shrew, Woyzeck MONSTER/CLOCK (Collapsing Horse). (Rough Magic); The Government Inspector, Arrah na Pogue, The Comedy of Errors, Film & television includes: The Split, Dead The Shaughraun, The Cherry Orchard Happy, Origin, Paula, The Clinic, Fair City, (Abbey Theatre); Hamlet (Second Age The Limehouse Golem, Jimi: All Is By My Theatre Co.); Death of a Salesman (Gate Side. Theatre); The Dead School, Conversations on a Homecoming (Livin’ Dred); The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Calypso); Megan Cusack Dunyasha Candide, Seven Deadly Sins (Performance Corporation); Jack Fell Down, Dark Horse Megan is a recent graduate of London (TEAM); Kevin’s Story (Barnstorm). Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Film & television includes: The Bailout, Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Megan’s Trivia, The Clinic, Fair City, Love is the debut with the company. Drug, Turning Green.

Other theatre includes: The Country Girls (Abbey Theatre); We Are Three Sisters, Rachel Feeney Anya Cabaret, The Taming Of The Shrew, The Children’s Hour, Fallen Angels, Twelfth Rachel is a recent graduate of the Royal Night, Lads Lads Lads, A New Brain, The Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Duchess of Malfi, Summerfolk, The Man of Mode, Serving It Up, The Flick (LAMDA); Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Rachel’s Chatroom (Cat Club). debut with the company. ​ Film & television includes: Doctors. Other theatre includes: Sink (Dublin Fringe Festival); Woman and Scarecrow, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Love and Money (RADA). 22 Film & Television includes: Death on Western World, The Cripple of Inishmaan, the Nile. Empress of India, The Year of the Hiker, The Walworth Farce, DruidSynge.

Garrett Lombard Boris Other theatre includes: Stones in his Pockets (McCarter Theatre); The Second Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard Violinist (Landmark Productions); King III, Furniture, Waiting for Godot, Lear, Translations, 16 Possible Glimpses, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts Arrah na Pogue, Christ Deliver Us, Romeo 1&2), Henry V, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom & Juliet, Drama at Inish, The Shaughraun, Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Walworth She Stoops to Conquer, The Burial at Farce, The Year of the Hiker. Thebes, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Fell, The Wolf of Winter, Finders Keepers (Abbey Other theatre includes: Stones in his Theatre). Pockets (McCarter Theatre); Ulysses, Cavalcaders, The Recruiting Officer (Abbey Film & television includes: Redemption of Theatre); The Dumb Waiter, A Streetcar a Rogue, Maze, The Foreigner, Assassin’s Named Desire, Bedroom Farce, An Ideal Creed, Pan, Vikings, Inspector Jury, Clean Husband, The Caretaker, All My Sons, Death Break, Sacrifice, The Other Side of Sleep, of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie (Gate Single-Handed, Jack Taylor, Love/Hate, Theatre); Dusk (Red Iron Productions); The Little Foxes, The Tudors, Ella Enchanted, Rehearsal, Playing the Dane (Pan Pan); LSD:73. Alone It Stands (Lane Productions); Playing from the Heart (The Ark); The Field (Scott- Awards: OBIE, Lucille Lortel, Manchester Rellis Productions); The Winter’s Tale Evening News, Best Actor Awards (The (Corcadorca). Cripple of Inishmaan); Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actor Film & television includes: Looks Like Rain, (Conversations on a Homecoming in Quirke, Rough Diamond, Fair City, Love is DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy). the Drug, Pure Mule, Alexander, Frontline, Stella Days. Rory Nolan Gayev

Aaron Monaghan Lopakhin Druid: Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Shelter, Waiting for Godot, Druid: Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV Richard III, Shelter, The Beauty (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy. DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, Other theatre includes: The Alternative DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The (Fishamble), Northern Star, The Critic, Peer Silver Tassie, Penelope, The Playboy of the Gynt, The Importance of Being Earnest,

23 Don Carlos, The Taming of the Shrew, Hot Tin Roof (Corn Exchange); Midsummer Improbable Frequency, Is This About Night’s Dream (Barabbas); The Sunshine Sex? (Rough Magic); Chekhov’s First Play Boys, Ruby Tuesday, Roman Fever (Dead Centre); Postcards from the Ledge, (Bewley’s Cafe Theatre); Wired To The Breaking Dad, Between Foxrock and a Hard Moon (Fishamble); Slattery’s Sago Saga Place, The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, (Performance Corporation). Sleeping Beauty (Landmark Productions); The Importance of Being Earnest, Bedroom Film & television includes: Miss Scarlet Farce, A Christmas Carol, Death of a and the Duke, Resistance, Bailout, Fair City, Salesman (Gate Theatre); She Stoops to Crisis Eile, Penny Dreadful, The Borgias, Conquer, Aristocrats, The Government Val Falvey TD, Wide Open Spaces, Roy, Inspector, Translations, Arrah Na Pogue, Cracks, Raw, Dorothy, Showbands II, Proof, Macbeth, The Rivals, The Last Days of a Veronica Guerin, Ella Enchanted, Goldfish Reluctant Tyrant, The Comedy of Errors, Memory, How Harry Became a Tree, Paths Heavenly Bodies, Big Love (Abbey Theatre); to Freedom, Custer’s Last Stand Up, Dillusc, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Dallocain, Durango, A Love Divided, Angela’s Towards the Somme (Livin’Dred/Nomad); Ashes, Maigret, The Old Curiosity Shop. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Corn Exchange); The Evils of Tobacco (Mangiare Theatre). John Olohan Firs Film & television includes: Hair Raisers, Acceptable Risk, The Delinquent Season, Druid: DruidShakespeare: Richard III, King WILD, Charlie, Fair City, A Thousand Times of the Castle, DruidShakespeare: Richard Goodnight, The Baker Street Irregulars, II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Big Maggie, Trouble in Paradise, Nothing Personal. The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Playboy of the Western World. Best Supporting Actor (Waiting for Godot). Other theatre includes: Da, Tarry Flynn, The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche, Helen Norton Charlotta Sive, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The House, Dancing at Lughnasa; The Silver Druid: Furniture, As You Like it. Dollar Boys, At Swim Two Birds, The Duty Master, The Muesli Belt, A Little Like Other theatre includes: Drama at Inish, Paradise, Savoy, The Remains of Maisie Unmanageable Sisters, Porcelain, Oedipus, Duggan (Abbey Theatre); The Threepenny The Comedy of Errors, Tarry Flynn, Men Opera, Aristocrats, Sharon’s Grave, Rough to the Right, Women to the Left (Abbey for Theatre I&II, A Christmas Carol (Gate Theatre); To Hell in a Handbag (Fishamble/ Theatre); Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Irish Theatre Institute/Dublin Fringe Philadelphia, Here I come!, Hamlet (Second Festival); Assassins, As You Like It, The Age Theatre Co.); The Lieutenant of Heiress (Gate Theatre); The Taming of the Inishmore, The Lonesome West, (Town Hall Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Cat on A Theatre Galway); Translations (Oroboros);

24 Ride On (Livin’ Dred); A Skull in Connemara Nomad); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Decadent Theatre); Fings Ain’t Wot They (ART NI). Used T’be (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Chastitute (Gaiety Theatre). Film & television includes: Prisoners of the Moon, Strays, Citizen Lane, Barbarians Film and television includes: The Country Rising!, The Devils Pool, The Man Inside. Girls, Rawhead Rex, War of the Buttons, The Butcher Boy, The Clinic, Single Handed, Awards: Two Irish Times Irish Theatre Amongst Women, Father Ted, Glenroe, Trial Awards, Best Actor (Hamlet and of the Century. DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V); Two Irish Times Irish Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actor (Big Maggie). (King of the Castle and The Great Gatsby).

Marty Rea Petya

Druid: The Beacon, Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, King of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Brigit, Be Infants In Evil, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy –Plays by Tom Murphy.

Other theatre includes: The Glass Menagerie, Beginning, The Great Gatsby, Juno and the Paycock, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Caretaker, An Ideal Husband, My Cousin Rachel, Little Women, Hay Fever, Arcadia, Salomé (Gate Theatre); Othello, She Stoops To Conquer, The Hanging Gardens, Major Barbara, John Gabriel Borkman, The Rivals, Only An Apple, An Ideal Husband, The Big House, Saved, The Importance of Being Earnest (Abbey Theatre); Improbable Frequency (59E59 Street Theatre, New York); Pentecost, Spokesong (The Lyric Theatre/Rough Magic); Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Hamlet (Second Age Theatre Co.); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Livin’Dred/

25 SÉAMUS HUGHES DELIA KEANE MARY MCHUGH SEÁN T. O’MEALLAIGH Company Séamus Hughes Delia Keane

A Galway native and former Artistic A native of Loughrea, County Galway, Delia Director of An Taibhdhearc Theatre in is currently studying Drama, Theatre and Galway, Séamus is a professional actor and Performance at NUI Galway. the founding Artistic Director of Lunchtime Theatre London. Séamus has also worked Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Delia’s with Passion Machine, Fíbín, and An debut with the company. Grianán Theatre among others. Other theatre includes: Star Child, Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Séamus’ Chatroom, Wit (Galway Youth Theatre); The debut with the company. Thing About December (Decadent Theatre Company); Spring Awakening, Machinal Other theatre includes. Zorro-Forgotten (NUI Galway); Twelfth Night, The Tempest Son of Ireland (A Rising Tide); The Playboy (NUIG DramSoc); Sive, On the Outside, The of the Western World (Justin McCarthy); Playboy of the Western World (Seumas Lone Star (LTL Arts Theatre London); O’Kelly Players). Rogue – A True Story About a Dog, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Theatre 503, London); An Enemy of the People (Moonfish); P Mary McHugh (Passion Machine). Based in Headford, County Galway, Mary Film & Television includes: Jimmy’s Hall, trained with Galway Actors Workshop, An Klondike, Making It, Lost and Found. Galway Community Theatre and Core Theatre College.

26 MICHAEL ROONEY PETER SHINE AMBRE SHONEFF

Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Mary’s Theatre and then at the Oxford School of debut with the company. Drama.

Other theatre includes: The Thing about Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Seán’s December, Doubt, Tribes Alive (Decadent); debut with the company. Wit, Juno and the Paycock, The Adventures of Shay Mouse, Frank Pig Says Hello, Tarry Other theatre includes: Redemption Falls, Flynn (Galway Community Theatre); Cafe Star of The Sea (Moonfish); Baoite (An Poetry (Anam Theatre Company); Under Milk Taibhdhearc/Galway International Wood (Galway Actors Workshop); The Tale Arts Festival); Waiting For Godot, The of Galway, Da (Town Hall Theatre, Galway); Glass Menagerie, Measure For Measure Measure for Measure, The Duchess of Malfi, (Theatrecorp); Spring Awakening, Animal (Theatrecorp); The Mai (Mephisto Theatre Farm, Philadelphia, Here I come! (Galway Company); The Loves of Cass McGuire, Youth Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s (KATS); Sive (Pegasus); The Playboy of the Dream (Oxford School of Drama); Trigger Western World (GB Show/Abbey Theatre). Martin, Sétanta, Tóraíocht (Fíbín).

Film & television includes: The Presence, Film and television includes: An Klondike, I Fare is Fair, Angela Mooney Dies Again, am Patrick, Vikings, Charlie, 1916: Seachtar Jack Taylor. na Cásca, Wrecking The Rising, Na Cloigne, Rásaí na Gaillimhe, A Terrible Beauty, Saol Faoi Shráid, Corp & Anam, Seacht, An Seán T. Ó’Meallaigh Crisis, Love is a Sting, Gustav, A Better You, Kings, Jimmy’s Hall, Arracht, The Callback A Donegal native, now based in Galway, Queen. Sean trained as an actor with Galway Youth

27 Michael Rooney Company); The Irish Play (Jokerthief Theatre Company); Wit, Midsummer, The A Dubliner, living in Galway, Michael Dead School, The Adventures of Shay started his acting career in Dublin in Mouse (Galway Youth Theatre); Juno and the 1970’s with the Guinness Players the Paycock (Galway Community Theatre/ performing in many drama festivals around Town Hall Theatre, Galway); You Could Be Ireland. Us, Tape, Pleasure Ground (Fregoli Theatre Company); The Shadow of Carmilla, No Way Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Michael’s Out, The Merchant of Venice (ThereisBear! debut with the company. Theatre Company); At The Black Pig’s Dyke (MayFly Theatre Company); This Lime Tree Other theatre includes: Rashomon, The Bower (Nyx Theatre Company) Macbeth, Loves of Cass McGuire, A View from the Twelfth Night (NUIG Dramsoc). Bridge (KATS); Da (Tungsten Theatre Company); Tarry Flynn, Juno and the Film & Television includes: Apparent Paycock, The Playboy of the Western World, Power, Up, Up and Away!, Hooked, Sooner The Plough and the Stars, Come Blow Your or Later, Wilde Night Out. Horn, Dangerous Corner, Happiest Days of Your Life, Shadow of a Gunman (Guinness Players); The Only Jealousy of Emer (Cork Ambre Shoneff Little Theatre Group). A Californian native, now based in Galway, Film and Television: Prey Alone, Marú, Ambre completed actor training at Pacific Uncle Max. Conservatory Theatre and holds an M.F.A in Devising from The Ohio State University. Awards: All Ireland Drama Festival, Best Actor (Rashomon). Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Ambre’s debut with the company.

Peter Shine Other theatre includes: The Penelopiad, Our Town, My Fair Lady, The San Patricios, Originally from Roscommon, now based Christmas is Here Again, Wizard of Oz, The in Galway, Peter is a graduate of the BA Tempest, Tomas & the Library Lady (PCPA); Arts with Theatre and Performance at NUI Romeo and Juliet, An Enemy of the People, Galway. Coast of Illyria (Ohio State University).

Druid: The Cherry Orchard marks Peter’s debut with the company.

Other theatre includes: The Thing about December, The Weir, The Pillowman, Vernon God Little (Decadent Theatre

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