ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD TEACHING RESOURCES F E B 2 017–APR 2017 CONTENTS Company 3 Old Vic Education The Old Vic The Cut Creative team 5 London SE1 8NB Characters 7 E [email protected] @oldvictheatre Synopsis 9 © The Old Vic, 2017 All information is correct at the Themes 13 time of going to press, but may be subject to change Timeline: A brief history of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern 15 Teaching resources Are Dead Written by Anne Langford Design Alexander Parsonage & Matt Lane-Dixon Rehearsal room diary by Jason Lawson, Assistant Director 17 Rehearsal and production photography Manuel Harlan An interview with Anna Fleischle, Set and Costume Designer 19 Old Vic New Voices and Loren Elstein, Costume Designer and Associate Set Hannah Fosker Designer Education & Community Manager Liz Bate Education Manager An interview with Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire 23 Richard Knowles Stage Business Co-ordinator Shakespeare re-purposed: An exploration of the relationship 25 Poppy Walker Old Vic New Voices Intern between Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Hamlet Further details of this production Practical Exercises 28 oldvictheatre.com A day in the life of…Michael Peers, Digital Manager 33 Bibliography and further reading 34 The Old Vic Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead teaching resources 2 COMPANY HERMEILIO MIGUEL AQUINO MATTHEW DURKAN Courtier, u/s Polonius/Claudius Alfred, u/s Rosencrantz Theatre: Well (West End); One Night in Miami (Donmar); Theatre: Nell Gwynn (West End); The History Boys (UK Early Doors (Lowry/UK tour); A Midsummer Night’s tour); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Sherman Dream (Hive Theatre, Off Broadway); The Tempest Theatre). Short film:Dog . TV: #HoodDocumentary. (First Folio Shakespeare Theatre Festival Chicago); Snow Angels (Lincoln Center/Here Theatre). Short TIM VAN EYKEN film:Four Nine. TV: Doctor Who, Blue Bloods, Player, u/s Guildenstern Boardwalk Empire. Theatre: Shakespeare in Love (West End); The Little Match Girl (Sadler’s Wells); Easter Rising, Thereafter LOUISA BEADEL (Jermyn Street); Birdsong (UK tour); War Horse Player, u/s Player swing (National Theatre/West End); NT: 50 Years on Stage Theatre: Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Dick (National Theatre); The Ballad of Little Musgrave Whittington (Key Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (Aldeburgh Music); Ballroom of Joys and Sorrows (Mercury Theatre); La Lune (LAS Theatre/Wild Rumpus); (Watford Palace); Good (Royal Exchange Manchester); Three Sisters (Etch Theatre); Robin Hood & The Long Goodbye (Hampstead). Film: The Imitation the Babes in the Wood, Dick Whittington (City Varieties Game. TV: Foyle’s War. Radio: From Dots to Download, Music Hall); The Sunset Five (Pleasance London); Vital Mental Medicine, The Loving Ballad of Captain Wolf’s Child (Felbrigg Hall Norfolk); The Blonde Bateman, The Night Visiting. Awards include BBC Folk Bombshells of 1943 (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Tory Award 2007 for Best Traditional Track and BBC Audio Boyz, Prince of Denmark, Romeo and Juliet (National Drama Award 2014 for Best Radio Drama Script by a Youth Theatre Rep at the Ambassadors); Contractions new writer. (Bikeshed Theatre); Othello (Edinburgh Fringe). DAVID HAIG WILLIAM CHUBB The Player Polonius Theatre: Blue/Orange (Young Vic); Guys and Dolls Theatre: King Lear (The Old Vic); Waste, Great Britain, (West End); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Pressure Othello, Scenes From an Execution, The History Boys (Chichester); The Madness of George III, Yes Prime (National Theatre); The Sea, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Minister, Mary Poppins, Joumey’s End, Donkey’s Years, You Never Can Tell (West End); In the Depths of Dead Hitchcock Blonde (all West End); Our Country’s Good Love (Print Room); Lawrence After Arabia (Hampstead); - Olivier Award, Best Actor (Royal Court); Art (West Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); Yes, Prime Minister End and Broadway). TV: Witness for the Prosecution, (Chichester/West End). TV: Close to the Enemy, Penny Dreadful, The Thick of lt, Mo, My Boy Jack, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Silk. Film: 6 Days, Talking Heads, The Thin Blue Line. Film: Florence Foster Adrift in Soho, Veer, Milk. Jenkins, Four Weddings and a Funeral. Writing: My Boy Jack, The Good Samaritan, (Hampstead Theatre); JOSIE DUNN Pressure (Chichester and Edinburgh); My Boy Jack- Player, u/s The Player/Gertrude FIPA Award, Best Screenplay (lTV / Ecosse Films). Theatre: Backbeat (West End/Toronto/ Los Angeles); Desert Rats (West End); Snow White WIL JOHNSON and other Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Summer of Claudius Shakespeare (Creation Theatre); After Orlando (Theatre Theatre: Fuente Ovejuna (National Theatre); Redundant Royal Stratford East/The Vaults); Here Be Monsters (UK (Royal Court); A Mad World My Masters (Shakespeare’s tour); Alice in Wonderland (Watermill Newbury); Dark Globe); A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes (Tricycle); Torn Tourism (Park Theatre); James and the Giant Peach (Arcola); King Lear (Royal Exchange Manchester); (Colchester Mercury); The Story Giant (Shanty Theatre Serious Money (Birmingham Rep); Pow! (Paines Company); Occupied (Theatre 503); Faust (Greenwich). Plough); The Queen and I (Out of Joint); The Swallowing TV: Doctors, Playhouse Presents: Hey Diddly Dee. Dark (Liverpool Playhouse). Film: Macbeth, Adulthood, Dead End, In a Better World, Babymother, Anuvahood, Pimp. TV: Outlander, The Five, Lewis, Hollyoaks, Hetty Feather, Moving On, Emmerdale, Waking the Dead, Clocking Off, Babyfather, Cracker, Holby City, Waterloo Road, Buried Treasure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Old Vic Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead teaching resources 3 JOSHUA McGUIRE Fathers/Platonov, Uncle Vanya (Arcola); The Girl in the Guildenstern Yellow Dress (Market Theatre Johannesburg/international Theatre: Future Conditional (The Old Vic); The Ruling tour); An Inspector Calls (West End); Troilus and Class (West End); Posh (Royal Court/West End); Cressida (Cheek by Jowl); You Can Still Make a Killing Amadeus (Chichester); Privacy (Donmar); The Magistrate (Southwark Playhouse); The Real Thing, The Changeling (National Theatre); Hamlet (Globe/international tour); (ETT); Persuasion, Design for Living (Salisbury Hay Fever (Rose Kingston). Film: The Happy Prince, Mine, Playhouse); The Years Between (Royal & Derngate); Mad Old Boys, Get Santa, Cinderella, Mr Turner, About Time. Forest, JMK (BAC); Present Laughter (Theatre Royal TV: Lovesick: Series 1 & 2, Love Nina, Siblings: Series Bath/tour). TV: The Living and the Dead, Life in Squares, 1 & 2, You, Me & Them: Series 1 & 2, A Young Doctor’s The Musketeers: Series 2, The Crimson Field, WPC 56, Notebook: Series 1, The Hour: Series 1 & 2, Misfits. Foyles War. Film: Finding Your Feet, Absolutely Anything. LUKE MULLINS EVLYNE OYEDOKUN Hamlet Player, u/s Ophelia Theatre: Waiting for Godot (Sydney Theatre Company/ Theatre: Sapriya, E15 (Lung Theatre); Mya, Bricks and Barbican); The Glass Menagerie (Belvoir St/Malthouse Pieces (Latitude Festival); Ash (Park Theatre). Evlyne Theatres Sydney); Angels in America, Small and Tired, graduated from RADA in 2016. Death of a Salesman (Belvoir St Theatre); Night on Bald Mountain (Malthouse Theatre); Endgame, The History DANIEL RADCLIFFE Boys, Cloud 9 (Melbourne Theatre Company); Little Rosencrantz Mercy, Long Days Journey into Night, Citizens, Gallipoli, Theatre: Privacy (Broadway); The Cripple of Inishmaan, Soldiers, The Season at Sarsaparilla (Sydney Theatre Equus (West End/Broadway); How to Succeed in Company); The War of the Roses (Sydney Festival/Perth Business Without Really Trying (Broadway). Film: Now International Arts Festival); The Eisteddfod (New York You See Me 2, Swiss Army Man, Imperium, Horns, What Fringe Festival). Film: Holding the Man, The Wilding, If, Kill Your Darlings, The Woman in Black and the eight Neon Skin. TV: New Blood, Reef Doctors, Satisfaction, Harry Potter films. TV:The Gamechangers, A Young Blue Heelers, Medical Defence Australia. Doctor’s Notebook: Series 1 & 2, Extras and voice work in The Simpsons, Robot Chicken and BoJack Horseman. THEO OGUNDIPE Horatio/Soldier ALEX SAWYER Theatre: Julius Caesar (RSC/West End/Broadway); Player, u/s Hamlet/Horatio/Alfred Cymbeline, King Lear, Hamlet, Marat/Sade, A Theatre: Alice in Wonderland (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Brave New World Oliver! (Epsom Playhouse). Film: Fox Trap, Macbeth, (Royal & Derngate); The Tempest (Singapore Repertory The Touchstone of RA. TV: The White Princess, Father Theatre); Ragnarok (Eastern Angles); Drive, Ride, Walk Brown, Biopic: Michael Jackson, Eve, Biopic: Prince, (Filament Theatre); Snow Queen (Stephen Joseph Lost in the West, House of Anubis. Theatre Scarborough); Labour Exchange (South Street Theatre); Twelfth Night, Henry V (Orange Tree Richmond). HELENA WILSON Film: Julius Caesar, Stud Life. TV: Doctors, Eastenders. Ophelia Helena graduated from Oxford University in 2016. This is MARIANNE OLDHAM her professional theatre debut. Theatre while at Oxford: Gertrude The Alchemist (Arcola/Edinburgh Fringe); West Side Theatre: The Argument (Hampstead); The Boy in the Story (Oxford Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Southwark Striped Pyjamas (Chichester/UK tour); Sons Without Playhouse/Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre). The Old Vic Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead teaching resources 4 CREATIVE TEAM TOM STOPPARD HOWARD HARRISON Writer Lighting Designer Plays: The Hard Problem, The Real Inspector Hound, Theatre: The Playboy of the Western World, Inherit the After Magritte, Jumpers, Travesties, Every Good Boy Wind, Complicit (The Old Vic); The Truth,