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I March 2007 2007 Spring Season

MeIora Kuhn, C4/"pse, 2006

BAM 2007 Sprilll Season Is sponsond by: Bloomberg ENCOREThe Performing Arta Magazine 2007 Spring Season

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 / by

Approximate BAM Howard Gilman Opera House running time The Taming of the Shrew: Mar 20,22,27 & 29 at 7:30pm; for each: Mar 17, 18,24,25,31 & April 1 at 2:30pm two hours and 40 Twelfth Night: Mar 17,18,21,23,24,25,28,30,31 & April 1 at 7:30pm minutes, including The (UK) and productions intermission by Propeller

Directed by Design by Michael Pavelka Lighting design by Mark Howland and Ben Ormerod (Shrew); Ben Ormerod (Twelfth Night) Music by Propeller Text adapted by Edward Hall and Roger Warren

American stage manager R. Michael Blanco

The Taming of the Shrew was presented as part of the RSC Complete Works Festival 2006.

BAM 2007 Spring Season is sponsored by Bloomberg.

The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night are part of Classics at BAM presented by Bank of America.

Leadership support for BAM Theater is provided by Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, Inc., The Norman & Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc. , The SHS Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust, with major support from Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust; and additional support from British Council USA, Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, and Billy Rose Foundation, Inc.

Support for Twelfth Night is provided by David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation.

IN:NYC® Card from American Express is the presenting sponsor for BAMfans young donors club. Casting

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

CHR ISTOPHER SLY, a drunken tinker Dugald Bruce-Lockhart LUCENTIO, a young gentleman of Pisa Tam Williams TRANIO, Lucentio's servant Tony Bell BIONDELLO, Lucentio's servant Alasdair Craig BAPTISTA, a wealthy gentleman of Padua KATH ERINE, Baptista's daughter Simon Scardifield BIANCA, Baptista 's daughter Jon Trenchard GREMIO, Bianca's suitor Chris Myles HORTENSIO, Bianca's suitor Jack Tarlton PETRUCHIO, from Verona Dugald Bruce-Lockhart GRUMIO, Petruchio's servant Jason Baughan CURTIS, Petruchio's servant Joe Flynn A PEDANT Jason Baughan THE TAILOR Dominic Tighe VI NCENTIO, Lucentio's father Chris Myles THE WIDOW Dominic Tighe UNDERSTUDY Tom McDonald

Other parts played by members of the Company

TWELFTH NIGHT

FESTE Tony Bell ORSINO, Duke of Illyria Jack Tarlton CURIO, his servant Jon Trenchard VIO LA, later Cesario Tam Williams SEBASTIAN, her twin brother Joe Flynn CAPTAIN OF A SHIP Dominic Tighe OLIVIA Dugald Bruce-Lockhart MALVOLlO, her steward Bob Barrett SIR TOBY BELCH , her uncle Jason Baughan MARIA, her gentlewoman Chris Myles SIR ANDREW AGUCHEEK, suitor to Olivia Simon Scardifield ANTONIO, a sea captain Alasdair Craig A PRIEST Jon Trenchard ENSEMBLE/UNDERSTUDY Tom McDonald

Other parts played by members of the Company

The actors in The Taming of the Shrew/Twelfth Night appear with the spec ial permission of Actors' Equity Association . The American stage manager is a member of Actors' Equity Association. The Taming of the Shrew/Twelfth Night

Production Team on Tour Associate director Tom Daley Lighting designer Mark Howland Tour company manager Anthony Field Tour production manager Jen Shepherd Deputy stage manager Jenefer Ta it Assistant stage manager Holly Handel Wardrobe mistress Carley Marsh

For Watermill Productions by Propeller Executive director James Sargant Associate artistic directors John Doyle & Edward Hall Production manager Lawrence T. Doyle Tour co-ordinator Caro MacKay General manager Clare Lindsay Stage manager Rebecca Emery Assistant production manager Jen Shepherd Wardrobe supervisor Carley Marsh Outreach Ade Morris, Will Wollen Marketing Jan Ferrer , Steve Gibbs Administration Michele Tubman , Ellen McKevitt, Monique Thompson

Production acknowledgements Set construction Laura Martin , Robert Knight Production photographer Ph ilip Tull & Manuel Harlan Chandelier by Howard Eaton Lighting Special thanks to Angie Kendall , The National Youth Music Theatre , Stage Electrics Tour sponsored by Coutts & Co.

www.propeller.org.uk/ www.watermill.org.uk

THE WATERMILL AND PROPELLER

Jill Fraser MBE (April 15, 1946-February 10, 2006) became the Artistic and Executive Director of The Watermill Theatre in 1981. Her strength and vision made the theater what it is today.

Ed Hall first worked at the Watermill in 1995 when he directed at the invitation of Jill Fraser. in 1997 was the first time he worked with an all male company which subsequently became known as Propeller. Since then all Propeller productions have been produced and toured and transferred to by the Watermill.

The existence of a mill at is recorded in the Domesday Book and the building has served as a corn mill and fulling mill for hundreds of years with its beautiful tithe barn alongside. It was converted into a theater in the early 1960s and the first professional season opened in 1967.

In recent years the Watermill has progressed into the top league of British regional theater and many shows produced by the company have had their full potential realized by transferring to London, or touring throughout the UK or overseas-to more than 25 countries worldwide. The Taming of the Shrew/Twelfth Night

The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, probably written in 1590-1 or before. It interweaves three narratives. The principal one, the taming of a shrewish woman by violent means, was common in folklore and popular drama . The secondary story of Bianca and her various suitors derives from George Gascoigne's play Supposes ("Deceptions"), itself a version of a comedy by Ariosto. But these two plots are set inside a framework story in which a drunken tinker, Christopher Sly, is persuaded that he is in fact a lord. This, like the shrew-taming, has a long history, going back as far as The Arabian Nights, where the Caliph Haroun AI Raschid plays a similar trick on the drunken Abu Hassan. One version of the story is called The Waking Man's Dream , which usefully focuses Shakespeare's treatment.

An especially interesting aspect of the play's presentation of Christopher Sly and his world is that Shakespeare is clearly drawing on his own earlier life and experiences, for the Sly scenes are full of very specific references to Warwickshire places and people. Sly says that he is "old Sly's son of Burton Heath," adding "Ask Marian Hacket, the fat alewife of Wincot, if she know me not. " Burton Heath is Barton-on-the-Heath , where Shakespeare's aunt Joan Lambert lived; parish registers reveal that there were Hackets living at Wincot, then a just south of Stratford, in 1591; Sly himself may allude to a Stephen Sly who lived in Stratford, also mentioned in the play; and in his recent book Will in the World Stephen Greenblatt makes the intriguing suggestion that the drunken Sly may owe something to Shakespeare's own father, once a pillar of Stratford society but fallen on hard times and taken to drink. However that may be , the Sly framework raises an interesting textual issue.

The Taming of the Shrew was first published in the First Folio of Shakespeare's works, 1623. But in 1594 a play called The Taming of A Shrew had appeared. It was shorter and simpler than The Shrew, and most of the characters have different names. The relation between the two plays has been endlessly debated, and is still unresolved: which derives from the other, or do both derive from a common original? The main significance of A Shrew for modern performance is that, whereas in the Folio Sly disappears once the shrew-taming gets going, A Shrew contains episodes in which Sly comments on or intervenes in the action, and a final scene in which he awakes from his dream. It is likely that these reflect episodes that were originally written by Shakespeare but for whatever reason were not printed in the Folio text. The text for the present production, while largely based on the Folio, incorporates some lines from A Shrew, since the Sly framework is crucial to this interpretation of the play.

The earliest surviving reference to Twelfth Night comes in the diary of John Manningham, a lawyer of the Middle Temple in London. On February 2, 1602, he says "At our feast, we had a play called Twelfth Night or What You Will, much like or Menaechmi in Plautus, but most like and near to that in Italian called Inganni. A good practice in it to make the steward believe his lady widow was in love with him, by counterfeiting a letter as from his lady, in general terms telling him what she liked best in him, and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his apparel, etc. , and then when he came to practice, making him believe they took him to be mad. "

Manningham identifies several possible origins of Shakespeare's main plot. There are various 16th - century Italian comedies called G/'Inganni ("The Mistakes") or Gl'lngannati ("The Deceived") which use the central situation in Twelfth Night: a girl disguised as a page is sent by her master whom she loves to woo another lady who then falls in love with the "page, " but so does Shakespeare's own earliest surviving play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590 or earlier), and its principal source, the Diana of the Portuguese writer Jorge de Montemayor. In none of these plays does the name Orsino occur; but on Twelfth Night 1601, Shakespeare's company performed an unspecified comedy before Queen Elizabeth I and her chief guest, the Italian nobleman Don Virginio Orsino, at Whitehall. This occasion may have suggested both the name of Shakespeare's Duke and the title of his play, which was probably written later that year. The Taming of the Shrew/Twelfth Night

Manningham also notices the play's debt to Shakespeare's own earlier work The Comedy of Errors (ca. 1594), which features not one pair of twins, but two. Shakespeare was the father of twins, Judith and Hamnet. Judith lost her brother in 1596 at the age of eleven, and Shakespeare may have known what modern research into bereaved twins has demonstrated: that the death of a twin seems to cause a sense of desolation different in kind from other bereavements, and the surviving twin often tries to "compensate" for the loss by attempting to assume the other's identity, as in Viola's decision to assume her brother's persona for her disguise:

Even such and so In favor was my brother, and he went Still in this fashion, color, ornament, For him I imitate.

Shakespeare had already touched on a twin's sense of lost identity when separated from a brother in The Comedy of Errors, and in Twelfth Night he uses this to intensify the psychological implications of Viola's disguise: "I am not what I am." The play was first published in the First Folio of Shakespeare's work in 1623.

-Roger Warren

PROPELLER

Propeller is an all male Shakespeare company which mixes a rigorous approach to the text with a modern physical aesthetic. We look for as many ways as possible to inform the physical life of the production with the poetry of the text, and we give as much control as possible to the actor in the telling of the story.

The company is as all companies should be: defined by the people in it and not owned by an individual. Indeed, I find it hard to describe Propeller when we are in between shows, as I become aware of our identity only when looking at our work, which I hope changes all the time.

We want to rediscover Shakespeare simply by doing the plays as we believe they should be done: with great clarity, speed, and full of as much imagination in the staging as possible. We don't want to make the plays "accessi ble," as this implies that they need "dumbing down" in order to be understood, which they don't. We want to continue to take our work to as many different kinds of audiences as possible, and so to grow as artists and people. We are hungry for more opportunity to explore the richness of Shakespeare's plays and, if we keep doing this with rigor and invention, then I believe the company, and I hope our audiences too, will continue to grow.

In 2006-07, we are bringing together two Shakespearian comedies in a co-production between The Watermill and The Old Vic theater, The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night. We began at The Watermill with The Shrew, and to Stratford-upon-Avon as part of their Complete Works Season, Girona's Festival Temporada Alta, and on tour. During this, the company rehearsed Twelfth Night (which will be at the Watermill in the summer of 2007). The two productions were given in repertory at the Old Vic, London , from Jan 5-Feb 17, 2007, after which they tour nationally and internationally, including (in addition to BAM) to Perth Festival , Hong Kong Arts Festival , Teatro Grassi in Milan, and Neuss (Germany). We hope that staging the two plays together will help to shed fresh light on each.

- Edward Hall Synopsis

The Taming of the Shrew

In the Induction, the drunken tinker Christopher Sly is persuaded that he is a lord and agrees to watch players perform a comedy.

Baptista, a rich gentleman of Padua, has two daughters. The younger one, Bianca, is much sought after while the other, sharp-tongued, willfu l Katherine, has no suitors. Baptista is determined that Bianca may not marry before her sister.

Petruch io, an adventurer from Verona, undertakes to woo Ka theri ne for her dowry while Hortensio, his friend, disguises himself as a music teacher to woo Bianca.

Meanwhi le, Lucentio, a young gentleman travelling from Pisa, has fallen in love with Bianca and follows his manservant Tranio's plan to disguise himself as a schoolmaster and court her, while Tranio assumes his master's identity and woos her on his behalf.

Petruchio marries Katherine and takes her off to his country house where she is subjected to his "taming" process. Baptista agrees to allow the supposed Lucentio to marry Bianca and, needing to produce a father to sanction the match, Tranio persuades a stranger to impersonate him. Meanwhile the real Lucentio has married Bianca in secret. Hortensio consoles himself with a wea lthy widow.

After some confusion when Lucentio's real father, Vincentio, arrives unexpectedly, the th ree marriages are celebrated with a feast. The three new husbands place a wager on the obedience of their respective wives. Katherine is the only one of the three wives who comes when summoned and so, to everyone's astonishment, Petruchio wins his wager and Katherine lectures Bianca, the Widow, and the assembled company about the duty women owe their husbands. Synopsis

Twelfth Night

Shipwrecked in a violent storm off the coast of IIlyria, Viola disguises herself as a boy, assumes the name Cesario and becomes a page in the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino is courting Olivia who, in mourning for the deaths of her father and brother, refuses him. As Orsino's proxy, Viola is sent to Olivia with love letters. Denied entry, Viola refuses to leave until she meets Olivia. Intrigued by the "boy," Olivia contrives Viola's return by sending her steward, , after "him" with a ring. Viola realizes Olivia has fallen for her, rather than Orsino, while Viola realizes she is falling in love with Orsino.

Sebastian (Viola's twin, presumed dead in the shipwreck) is rescued by Antonio and believes Viola has drowned. Antonio aids i ~ Sebastian at some risk .c to himself, having once ~ ~ fought the Duke. In .s Olivia's house, Sir Toby ! Belch (her uncle) has ~ E hoodwinked Sir Andrew ~ Agucheek into thinking ~ he could be a suitor to to §~ Olivia. There is a feud gi.L --'>- between Malvolio and B.2' C 2c Sir Toby: with the help .c and Feste , Sir Toby 0"- plots to humiliate Malvolio. Maria forges a love letter to Malvolio as though the letter were from Olivia. Malvolio falls for the trick and is confined as a madman.

Olivia is now entirely smitten with Viola, even though Viola continues to press Orsino's suit. Seeing this, Sir Toby eggs Sir Andrew into a duel with Viola. Antonio enters, as Viola and Sir Andrew prepare for a duel that neither wants. Believing Viola to be Sebastian, Antonio intervenes and is arrested. Sir Toby and Sir Andrew encounter Sebastian and, thinking him to be Viola, Sir Andrew is forced to challenge him and is beaten. Olivia arrives and, mistaking Sebastian for "Cesario," presses her suit and Sebastian agrees to marry her.

Antonio is brought before the Duke and Viola relates the events of the duel. Antonio, deeply hurt, tells how he saved his life. Olivia enters searching for Sebastian, seeing Viola she runs to "him" and is rebuffed . Sir Toby and Sir Andrew arrive, claiming Viola has violently assaulted them. In the midst of Viola's denials, Sebastian appears. The brother and sister recognise one another, are reunited and Sebastian helps to clear the confusion. Orsino and Viola pledge their love; Olivia rebukes Sir Toby for his abuse of Malvolio, who vows revenge. Sir Toby agrees to wed Maria. Finally Viola and Orsino, and Olivia and Sebastian celebrate their love. Who's Who

Bob Barrett (Baptista/ Malvolio) trained at Tony Bell's (Tranio/ Feste) theater credits include Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Recent The Bee (); A Man for All Seasons theater includes John Browdie/ Lord Verisopht in (Haymarket/West End); Breakfast with Jonny Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre); Wilkinson () ; Winter's Camillo in The Winter's Tale (Propeller, UK, Tale, Midsummer Nights Dream , Rose Rage, and International Tour); Horatio in Hamlet Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Henry V (Thelma Holt Productions-Bite '04, Barbican, (Propeller Company World Tours and West End); and tour); the Colonel in Journey's End (West Red Demon (Tokyo); (Acter); Ghostward End); John Reid in After the Dance (Oxford (Almeida); Up 'n' Under, Travels with My Aunt, Stage Company-nominated Best Supporting Far from the Madding Crowd (Newbury); Perfect Actor 2003 TMA Regional Theatre Awards). Days , A Christmas Carol, and Twelfth Night Other theater includes Victory, Guys and Dolls, (Basingstoke); The Dolls House (Harrogate Dancing at Lughnasa , Recruiting Officer, Of Theatre) ; The Mysteries (Bolton); Bouncers (Hull Mice and Men (Royal Lyceum , Edinburgh); Truck) ; Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and , The Castle, Hated Nightfall (the The Promised Land (Sheffield); Angels Among Wrestling School); Hamlet (Greenwich); St. the Trees, Derek and Celebration (Nottingham); Joan (Birmingham Rep); Comedians (Belgrade, The Blind Man and the Cripple (Leicester); and Coventry); Cyrano de Bergerac (West End) ; Class Enemy (Dukes, Lancaster). Television (Royal Exchange, credits include East Enders, City, Trail and Manchester); and Damned for Despair (Gate). Guilt and Doctors (BBC); Trial and Retribution (La Television includes Eastenders, Absolutely Plante/lTV); (Thames); and Peak Practice Fabulous, , The Cazalet Chronicles, (Central) and (Granada). Radio Invasion: Earth , Inspector Alleyn Mysteries credits include Tales from Italy, Love Among series (BBC); The 10Ih Kingdom, Wonderful You the Haystacks, White Peacock (BBC-DH (Hartswood); Rich Tea and Sympathy (YTV); Lawrence). Writing credits in clude Cades Rap The Bill, Bad Girls, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, (Rose Rage), Caretakers Concert (Scarborough). Unsuitable Jobs for Women (lTV). Film includes Bell also directs at ALRA, National Youth Theatre, Shakespeare in Love. and the Globe.

Jason Baughan (Grumio, A Pedant/Sir Toby Dugald Bruce-Lockhart (Christopher Sly, Belch) trained at the Welsh College of Music Petruchio/O livia) trained at Royal Academy of and Drama. Theater includes The Winter's Tale Dramatic Arts. Theater experience includes (Propeller UK and International tour), Blood Val mont in Dangerous Liaisons (Royal Lyceum Wedding (Almeida), Festen (Lyric), Season's Theatre); Mephistopheles in Faust (Royal Greetings (Stephen Joseph and UK tour), Love 's Lyceum Theatre); Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof A Luxury (Orange Tree) , Peribanez (), (Nottingham Playhouse/Coventry Belgrade/Roya l (London Stage), The Lyceu m); Florizel/Antigonus in The Winter's Tale Three Sisters, Have You Anything to Declare, (Propeller/Watermill Theatre) ; Orsino in Twelfth The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Orange Tree), Night (English Touring Theatre); Lysander in A Clockwatching, Whisper Along the Patio (Stephen Midsummer Night's Dream (Watermill, BAM , Joseph), Twelfth Night, , Measure and Comedy Theatre, London); Edward IV/Talbot for Measure (RSC), Winner Takes All (Orange in Rose Rage (Propeller/Watermill Theatre) ; Tree) , The Dove (Croydon Warehouse), Tales Dauphin in Henry V and Dromio of Ephesus in from the Magic Story Bowl (Bolton Octagon), A Comedy of Errors (Propeller/Watermill Theatre, Midsummer Night's Dream, UK, and International Tour); Sir Percival Dillon (Orange Tree), Love in a Wood (New End), in The Prince's Play (); Macbeth (Angels Theatre Co.), A Midsummer Enrique Morales/Nick in Reader (Traverse Theatre Night's Dream (Mappa Mundi), and The Edinburgh); Northumberland in Henry VI Part Woolgatherer (RSC) . Television and film includes 11/ (RSC/ Stratford/UK and International Tour). The Bill (Thames), The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Television appearances include Foyle's War; Trust; Doctors (BBC), and Life Boat (B BC Wa les). Midsomer Murders; Brookside; Rockface; The Who's Who

Bill; The Demon Headmaster; Wycliffe; Bugs II; The Bright & Bold Design, and /Starveling and Hotel Babylon, and on film in Hart's War in A Midsummer Night's Dream. (MGM); Deserter (US Indep.); Alive and Kicking (Channel 4 Films); and Plunge (Longboard Chris Myles (Gremio, Vicentio/Maria) trained at Entertainment). the Central School of Speech and Drama. Theater experience includes, for Propeller-The Winter 's Alasdai r Craig (Biondello/Antonio) trained at Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rose Rage, Webber Douglas Academy. Theater work includes Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, and Henry Brindsley Miller in Black Comedy (Colorado V; in London-Marieluise, Coffee, Epitaph for Festival of World Theatre) ; The Winter's Tale the Whales, Ballad of Wolves, and The Tenth (Watermill Theatre/National/International Tour); Man; at the Watermill-Neville's Island and The Madness of George Dubya (New Players' The Adventures of Mr. Toad ; for Michael Friend Theatre); A Weapon Inspector Calls (Theatro Productions-The Devil's Disciple , The Applecart, Technis); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Cock of the Walk, Shaw Cornered, Mrs. Warren's Theatre, West End, and BAM); The Rivals Profession, People in Cages, Cold Comfort Farm; (Theatre Royal Bath); Voices (Oxford Playhouse); for Wildcard Insignificance-Hamlet, Dr. Faustus, Df Bright and Dark (); The Romeo and Juliet, , Critique (White Bear Theatre); and Getting Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. TV Attention (Tristan Bates Theatre). Film and work includes Hands Together, 15 to 1, and television includes Po. V (feature), Lawless Heart Countdown. Film appearances-Vigo, Lip Up (feature), Dreaming Will (BBC2), Bad Pear Day, Fatty, Cocktail Nation, The Score, Little Joe's Bad and Big Fat Zero. Trip , and My Lovely Singapore Lady. Myles is a local councillor in Hackney, East London. Joe Flynn (Curtis/Sebastian) trained at the Webber Douglas Academy where his roles Simon Scardifield (Katherine/Sir Andrew included Richard III , Hildy in The Front Page, Agucheek) studied Modern Languages at and Firs in The Cherry Drchard. Other theater Cambridge University, and then trained at includes Creation with the National Youth Music Guildhall and with Philippe Gaulier. During his Theatre, and Trinculo in The Tempest at Cliveden sentence with Propeller he has been in Rose Open Air Theatre. Television appearances Rage , A Midsummer Night's Dream , and The include Murder in Suburbia and , and Winter's Tale. Other roles include Romeo at the on film in Crusade in Jeans (Kasandar Films) . Contact Theatre, Manchester; Eric in Stephen Flynn began his musical career as a Quirister in Daldry's An Inspector Calls at the Garrick; Winchester and has since played and sung with a Goodnight Children Everywhere and Sebastian number of orchestras and choirs. He now enjoys in Twelfth Night at the RSC; A Passage to India writing and performing with his own band , and with Shared Experience; The Kiss at Hamsptead playing a variety of instruments for several other Theatre; Yasha in The Cherry Drchard for ED; musical projects. Spring Awakening at BAC ; Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi at the New Vic; Paradise Lost Tom McDonald (Understudy/Ensemble, at the Bristol Old Vic. Screen credits include Understudy) recently completed a three-year Broken News, the film High Heels and Low Lifes , training at LAMDA where he was awarded the Monsignor Renard, and the usual smattering of Snipe Bursary by and Prunella hospital , police, and army-based dramas. On Scales. Professional credits include The Linden the radio: Peter Pan in Scarlet, The Constant Tree at the , The Emperor Prince , , The Pyramid, The Jones at the Gate and various readings for Weight of Water, and The Marseilles Trilogy . In Theatre 503 and the Old Vic. LAMDA credits the summer of 2004 Scardifield directed The include Andrey in The Three Sisters, Argan in The Bearded Ladies on the Edinburgh fringe. He Hypochondriac , Kav in Stags and Hens , Dr. Jerry also translates for the Royal Court, the National Gerstein in The People's Temple , Ulik Devlin in Theatre, the , the Almeida , and the Young Vic. 33 Who's Who

Jack Tarlton (Hortensio/Orsino) trained at in the feature film, The Da Vinci Code (Columbia LAMDA. His work in theater includes She Stoops Pictures) directed by Ron Howard. Trenchard to Conquer at Manchester Royal Exchange, has played flute, piccolo, and piano since his Coram Boy and Once in a Lifetime at The schooldays. He was a choral scholar at St. John's National Theatre, The Man Who at The Orange College, Oxford, then a Lay Clerk at Peterborough Tree , Beasts and Beauties at Bristol Old Vic, Cathedral , and now sings professionally at the Gagarin Way for Prime Cut, Romeo and Juliet Carmelite Church in Kensington .He is delighted at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Howie the to be joining Propeller and to be working with Rookie for Fourth Road, Afore Night Come for The Watermill again. the Young Vic, An Inspector Calls in the West End, and Troilus and Cressida and A Month in Tam Williams (LucentioNiola) trained at the Country for the RSC. TV includes The Golden Guildford School of Acting. His theater credits Hour, , Doctor Who, The Genius include Doublecut, Mill at Sonning; Barnaby in of MOlart, Swivel on the Tip, Hearts and Bones, The Matchmaker, Chichester Festival Theatre; Life Support, Wings of Angels, and The Cater Rutland , Jack Vyner in Henry VI The Battle for Street Hangman. Film includes The Unscarred; The Throne and , both for the RSC; and radio, The Teahouse Detective. Granillo in Rope at Sa lisbury Playhouse; Young Birdy in Birdy (West End); Prince Hal in Chimes Dominic Tighe (The Tailor, The Widow/Captain at Midnight, Chichester Festival Theatre; Jimmy of a Ship) graduated from Central Scholl of in Remember This , RNT; Claudio in Much Ado Speech and Drama in 2005. Theater includes About Nothing and Lysander in A Midsummer Arden of Faversham (White Bear), Jean de Night's Dream at Regent's Park Open Air; Harev Florette (The Venue) , and Orvin (Stephen Joseph in Gamblers (King's Head/ BAC); Kit in French Theatre) directed by . Television Without Tears (Northcott Theatre); Desmond appearances include Hotel Babylon (BBC) and in Dark Corners (Windsor Theatre Royal); Footballer's Wives (lTV). He has been seen Donalbain!Young Siward in Macbeth (West End) ; on film in The Donor (UK Film Council/BDF) Robin Conway in Time & The Con ways (UK and heard on the radio in Kit and the Widow 's Tour); Perdita and Mamillius in The Winter's Tale Cocktails (BBC). Tighe was a member of the (Propeller, Watermill , UK and International Tour). National Youth Music Theatre performing Curley Film and television includes Backwaters , in Oklahoma! (Peacock, London), The Dreaming The Trench, BBC Films; A Time To Love; (Linbury, ), and Whistle Down Unforgettable; War Poem; Martin Chuzzlewit; the Wind (). Lynda La Plante's Killer Net, Casualty; Silent Witness; Dance to the Music of Time; Cold Jon Trenchard (Bianca/Curio, Priest) trained at Enough for Snow; Anorak; Starhunter 2300, the London Academy of Performing Arts. His Heartbeat, Rosemary and Thyme, and Doctors. theater credits since then include Mack & Mabel (The Watermill/National TourlThe Criterion); the Edward Hall (director) has directed theater title role in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, including Once in a Lifetime (National Theatre) , Aged 13-3/4 ( Festival) ; Peter Pan (Oxford A Streetcar Named Desire (Roundabout Playhouse); Todd! The Demon Barber of Fleet Theatre, New York) , The Winter's Tale (Watermill Street (Kabosh Theatre, Irish Tour); Leonardo's Theatre Newbury & World Tour), A Funny Last Supper (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) ; Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum La Ronde (); Lear (Baron's (National Theatre-Olivier Award Nomination Court Theatre); several Pantomimes for New for Outstanding Musical Production) , Calico World and Jordan Productions; Hold Tight, It's (Duke of York's) , Edmond (National Theatre) , A 60s Night! (David Graham ProductionslDutch Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Theatre; Tour); The 'ouses in Between (Menuhin Theatre, Watermill Theatre Newbury; UK Tour-TMA Portsmouth); and the role of in Benjamin Award for Best Touring Production), The Hinge of Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream at the World (Guildford), Macbeth (Albery Theatre) , London's . He also appeared Rose Rage adapted with Roger Warren from 31 Who's Who Henry VI Parts I, II, and III (Haymarket Theatre; Michael Pavelka (production designer) trained Watermill Theatre Newbury; UK/International at Wimbledon School of Art, where he has since Tour and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Duke's returned to lead the Design for Performance Theatre, New York-Olivier Award Nomination (www.wimbledon.ac.uk) course. Pavelka has for Best Director and TMA Award for Best designed some 150 productions, most of which Touring Production), The Constant Wife (Apollo), have been new plays or new musicals. He has Putting It Together (Chichester) , Julius Caesar most recently designed Revelations with Liam (RSC), Tantalus (Denver Centre and UK Tour) , Steel and physical theater company Stan Won 't Henry V (RSC-The Show Award Dance. His theater work includes two plays for Theatre for The Histories) , Twelfth Night for the late Lindsey Anderson: The Fishing Trip (Watermill Theatre Newbury-Winner of the and Holiday, Old Vic Theatre. His work with TMNBarclays Theatre Best Director Award), Edward Hall and the Propeller Company includes Sacred Heart ( Upstairs), productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Celaine ( Theatre), The Two Henry V. The Winter's Tale, and the adaptation Gentlemen of Verona (RSC), The Comedy of of Henry VI plays, Rose Rage, at the Watermill Errors and Henry V (Watermill Theatre, Newbury; Theatre, at the and Pleasance Theatre London; RSC-The Other new production at the Chicago Shakespeare Place, Stratford and International Tour), That Theatre which transferred to New York and Good Night (Yvonne Arnaud Tour), Othello earned him the Best Costume Design nomination (Watermill Theatre Newbury and the Tokyo at Chicago's Jeff Awards and The Winter's Tale Globe), Richard III (Tokyo Globe) , and Cain world tour. At the Library Theatre Manchester (Minerva Studio, Chichester). His production of designs include The Life of Galileo (Best Design A Midsummer Night's Dream which played in Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards), London at the Comedy Theatre in 2003 went on A Midsummer Night's Dream (winner Best to play at BAM in early 2004, where both he and Production MEN Awards) , also The Resistible the production were nominated for Drama Desk Rise of Arturo Ui, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Awards. His production of Rose Rage, which he Angels in America, and most recently with Liam directed for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in Steel, Oliver Twist. Pavelka co-produced a Young 2003, transferred to the Duke's Theatre in New People's Shakespeare Festival in Ulaanbaatar, York in September 2004, where it won four Jeff Mongolia and designed the first African language Awards including Best Play, Best Director, and Mother Courage and Her Children in Kampala, Best Ensemble Cast. His recent production of The then playing the Kennedy Center (Washington, Winter's Tale with his Propeller company toured DC) and Grahamstown Festival (South Africa). the world visiting Dublin, Madrid, Girona, New Other productions in the West End include The York, San Francisco, Washington, and China. Constant Wife; How the Other Loves; Other Television credits include Trial and Retribution People's Money; Leonardo; Blues in the Night (La Plante Productions), -Sleeping performed in Dublin, New York , Tokyo after two Murder starring Geraldine McEwan, Cutting West End seasons; Macbeth starring Sean Bean; Edge: Safari Strife (Channel 4), and Richard III and A Few Good Men with Rob Lowe at the (NHK in Japan). His radio productions include Theatre Royal Haymarket. Designs for the Royal Dear , Eveline, and Into Exile (all Radio 4). Shakespeare Company include The Odyssey, Current and future work includes Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, and Julius and The Taming of the Shrew with his Propeller Caesar and for the National Theatre in the Olivier, company, which opened at the Watermill Theatre and Edmond starring . in Newbury with a subsequent world tour including BAM and a short season at London's Mark Howland (lighting designer) embarked Old Vic; Dick Whittington adapted by Mark on a degree at Oxford University, but theater Ravenhill at the Barbican for the end of the year; work was far from Howland's mind . However, and For Services Rendered by W. Somerset after stumbling across the Oxford Playhouse Maugham opening in March 2007 at the and having lit many student productions, he Watermill Theatre. went on to study Stage Lighting at RADA. This Who's Who is Howland's second production with Propeller Roger Wa rren's (text editor) numerous and the Watermill, following on from the touring publications include books about A Midsummer re-light of The Winter's Tale. His other lighting Night's Dream and Shakespeare's Late Plays designs include To Hell with Love (Jet Theatre) ; in performance, and editions of Twelfth Night, Jeff Koons (ACT) ; Problem Child (Suspect , Henry VI Part Two , and Pericles for Package); and Bash , Latterday Plays (true/fiction the Oxford Shakespeare series. His theater work theatre). He has also toured and re-lit shows includes extensive collaboration with at for English Touring Opera, ATC, and Opera 21 the National Theatre, at Stratford-upon-Avon , at and worked as assistant lighting designer and the new Rose theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames, production electrician on numerous projects. and for his American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles. His collaborations with Edward Ben Ormerod's (lighting designer) current Hall include Julius Caesar at Stratford in 2001 , designs include (Bristol Old Vic), The and both A Midsummer Night's Dream and a Rivals (UK tour), See How They Run (UK tour/ two-play adaptation of the Henry VI cycle, Rose West End), Mark Ravenhill 's Dick Whittington Rage , at the Watermill , Newbury, on tour, and in (Barbican), An Ideal Husband (Theatr Clwyd), the West End. The Old Country (English Touring Theatre/ Trafalgar Studios), and La Traviata (English Tom Da ley (associate director) has directed National Opera). Other recent credits include A productions including Invisible Mountains Midsummer Night's Dream (Watermill , New York (Royal National Theatre), The School of Night & UK tour) and Rose Rage (Watermill Theatre, (RSC Fringe) , The Ash Girl (RADA), Casanova West End, Chicago, New York) ; The Winter's (RWCMD), A&R (Gilded Balloon/Latchmere Tale (Watermill, USA & UK tour) ; Calico (Duke of Theatre), A Good One is a Dead One (St Yorks); Sean Bean's Macbeth and The Constant Andrew's Lane Theatre), Mojo (Edinburgh Wife (West End); The Spanish Golden Age, Fringe). He was assistant director at Citizens Trade , Julius Caesar, Henry V, Two Gentlemen of Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, and Royal Verona , The Revenger's Tragedy (RSC); The Best Shakespeare Company (2003-04). He is the of Friends (Hampstead/UK Tour) ; Remembrance recipient of the 2005 Bulldog Bursary, Director­ of Things Past , Uncle Vanya , Accidental Death of on-Attachment, Royal National Theatre Studio. an Anarchist, Bent, At Our Table, The Winter's Short films include Duet, The Killing , The Tale, The Colleen Bawn (National Theatre); Meeting , and Observer (Fortune Films). Daley (Bristol Old Vic); Rosencrantz and will direct The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Guildenstern Are Dead (ETT); The Leenane Watermill Theatre, Newbury in April 2007. Trilogy (Royal Court/Druid Theatre); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid , Broadway, Sydney, R. Michael Blanco (American stage manager) Toronto, West End) ; and The Wake (Abbey has worked in radio on WNYE-FM's "Music in Theatre, Dublin/Edinburgh Festival). Ormerod's the Morning with Blanco & Blanco"; at BAM on opera and dance credits include Baa Baa Black Royal Shakespeare Company's Hecuba , Don Sheep (Opera North/BBC 2); /I Trovatore and Carlos, A Midsummer Night's Dream ; Watermil l/ Cosf fan Tutte (Scottish Opera); The Coronation of Propeller's The Winter's Tale; Laurie Anderson's Poppea (Purcell Quartet, Japan) ; Tender Hooks The End of the Moon; and Jonathan Miller's (Skanes Dansteater and Ballet Gulbenkian); St. Matthew Passion. At the Metropolitan Opera The Journey (CandoCo Dance); See Blue House, he has worked with the Bolshoi Ballet, Through (Introdans, Phoenix Dance and Ballet the Kirov Ballet, and Ennosuke's Kabuki. Gulbenkian) and Essence (Walker Dance Park Music ROH & UK tour); A Streetcar Named Desire (Northern Ballet Theatre) ; and God's Plenty (Rambert Dance Company). Ormerod has also directed Dimetos ( London) and Macbeth and Four Tales from the Decalogue (East 15).