IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE CHARLOTTE MOORE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CIARÁN O’REILLY, PRODUCING DIRECTOR A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN Irish Repertory Theatre Presents In association with Bonnie Timmermann THE CORDELIA DREAM BY MARINA CARR DIRECTED BY JOE O'BYRNE STARRING STEPHEN BRENNAN AND DANIELLE RYAN cinematography & editor set design costume design sound design & original music NICK ROBERT JESSICA DAVID RYAN BALLAGH CASHIN DOWNES production manager stage manager press representatives general manager LEO AIDAN MATT ROSS LISA MCKENNA DOHENY PUBLIC RELATIONS FANE TIME & PLACE The Present - Dublin, Ireland Running Time: 90 minutes, no intermission SPECIAL THANKS Anthony Fox, Eva Walsh, Rhona Gouldson, Archie Chen, and a very special thanks to the Howard Gilman Foundation for their support of our digital initiatives. The Cordelia Dream was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Wilton’s Music Hall on December 11, 2008. THIS PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, AND OTHER PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS, AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE MANY GENEROUS MEMBERS OF IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE’S PATRON’S CIRCLE. WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST STEPHEN BRENNAN the Paycock (Guthrie Theatre, (Man) Stephen was a Minneapolis), Sorin in The Seagull member of the Abbey (Dublin Festival), John Bosco in The Theatre company from Chastitute (Gaiety, Dublin), The Captain 1975, playing a wide in Woyzeck in Winter (Galway Festival/ variety of roles including Barbican) and Hornby in A Kind of Joe Dowling's production Alaska (Pinter Festival, Lincoln Centre). of A Life (Irish Times Awards Best Film / Television includes "The Tudors;" Supporting Actor), and was the Abbey's "Eat the Peach;" "The General;" "The first Hamlet in 1983. He spent a year at Boys from Clare;" "A Piece of Monologue;" the Royal National Theatre in London in "Waiting for Godot;" "Twice Shy;" "El 1984, and since then has done a large Cid;" "Ballykissangel;" "Father Ted;" body of work at the Gate Theatre Dublin, and "Bachelor’s Walk." recently as Mr Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Port Authority, The Threepenny DANIELLE RYAN (Woman) Opera, Bedroom Farce, My Cousin Danielle Ryan is currently Rachel, A Woman of No Importance, Hay in production on the Fever, Jane Eyre, and Death of a television series "Harry Salesman. Stephen played Garry Wild" directed by Rob Essendine in Present Laughter (which Burke and Ronan Burke transferred to Spoleto Festival, for Acorn TV. Recent Charleston), The Real Thing, Private feature credits include "Vivarium" for Lives, Waiting for Godot (National Tour Fantastic Films, "Mr Malcolm's List" and worldwide), Old Times, The Pinter directed by Emma Holly, "The Silencing" Landscape (Lincoln Centre, New York), directed by Robin Pront, the role of Higgins in Pygmalion, Serge in Art, and Maeve in John Patrick Shanley's feature title roles in Tartuffe and Cyrano "Wild Mountain Thyme," and "How About de Bergerac. Leading parts in Plaza You" directed by Anthony Byrne. Recent Suite & Phaedra (Rough Magic); TV credits include "Magpie Murders" Blackbird (Landmark Productions); The directed by Peter Cattaneo, the role of Shaughraun (Albery Theatre, London); Agent Sophia Elias in "The Professionals," The Life of Galileo (Project); The Rocky "The Tudors" directed by Jeremy Horror Show, The Taming of the Shrew Podeswa, and "The Trial of Tony Blair" and Oedipus at the Gaiety. Recent directed by Simon Cellan Jones. She appearances include Captain Boyle in also played the role of Cordelia / Brigitte Joe Dowling’s production of Juno and in the stage production Food, directed WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST by Christopher Heimann, which toured Blue Hand, 2007. Future projects the UK. Danielle trained at RADA. She include the premiere of Marina’s is based in Dublin. new play The Boy at the Abbey Theatre and a new adaptation of SOFIA FORAN (Young Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse Girl) Sofia is a 6 year produced by Hatch Theatre Company old from Dublin. She and The Everyman in association started piano lessons with Pavilion Theatre and Cork with her mother Midsummer Festival. Her work has around six months been produced by The Abbey Theatre, ago and since has The Gate, Druid, Landmark, The completed a Preliminary grade with Royal Court, Wyndhams Theatre, the Royal Irish Academy of Music. The RSC, The Tricycle, The MacCarter She also took part and received a Theatre, San Diego Rep, Milwaukee silver medal in the Under 6 Rep. She is translated into many category in the Piano Academy of languages and produced around Ireland National Piano Festival. Her the world. She wrote a new, hobbies include singing, drawing, contemporary translation of doing accents, and keeping her Rigoletto for Opera Theatre baby sister out of trouble. Company, which toured Ireland in 2015, and wrote an original oratorio MARINA CARR (Playwright) Marina Mary Gordon as part of a Carr’s plays to date are Ullaloo, commission for Wicklow County 1989; Low in the Dark, 1991; The Council that brought together choirs Mai 1994; Portia Coughlan, 1996; from throughout County Wicklow By the Bog of Cats, 1998; On with solo singers and the RTÉ Raferty's Hill, 1999; Ariel, 2000; National Symphony Orchestra in Woman and Scarecrow, 2004; The November 2016. Prizes include Cordelia Dream, 2006; Marble, Windham-Campbell Prize 2017 for her 2007; 16 Possible Glimpses, 2009; body of work, The Susan Smith Hecuba, 2015; Adaptations are Blackburn Prize, The American/Ireland Anna Karenina (adapted from Fund Award, The E.M Forster Award Tolstoy’s novel), 2016 and Blood from the American Academy of the Arts Wedding (a new version of Lorca’s and Letters, The Macauly Fellowship, play), 2019; Plays for children are The Puterbaugh Fellowship. She is a Meat and Salt, 2003 and The Giant member of Aosdána. WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST JOE O'BYRNE (Director) His plays documentary ‘The Summit’ about the include Departed, The Ghost of Saint August 2008 tragedy on K2. The film Joan, The Sinking of the Titanic and opened theatrically both in the US Other Matters, It Come up Sun, En and worldwide in October 2013, Suite (Abbey/ Peacock), and The garnering multiple awards and Article (Altes Schauspielhaus, critical acclaim. His most recent film Stuttgart). He has directed many is the multi-award-winning feature "I plays and adaptations including Am Not A Serial Killer," starring Max Frank Pig Says Hello, adapted by Pat Records ("Where the Wild Things Are") McCabe from his novel; The Butcher and Christopher Lloyd ("Back to the Boy; Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Future"), which he produced for Dorian Gray at Irish Repertory Theatre, director Billy O’Brien. In other work, New York, and The Woman Who Walked Nick has directed several feature into Doors by Roddy Doyle. At the Gate length music documentaries about Theatre, Dublin, he directed The Dumb the Electric Picnic festival featuring Waiter by Harold Pinter as part of the acts such as Kraftwerk, Nick Cave, first Pinter Festival. Most recently he Arcade Fire, and The Flaming Lips. He has directed Nighttown by James was brought in by The Beastie Boys to Joyce, his own play McKeague and film their phenomenal 2007 O’Brien present ‘The Rising’, The performance there. Nick also wrote Leaves of Heaven by Pat McCabe, and and directed the award-winning short his own play Enough. as well as film ‘The German’ starring Toby directing his own adaptation of J.M. Kebbell and produced several award- Synge’s The Aran Islands, which winning shorts for Oscar nominated toured widely, including at the Irish director Ruairi Robinson – "The Silent Rep, for whom he also transformed it City "(2006), "BLINKY™" (2010) and into a performance on screen. Film "Corporate Monster" (2019.) and television work include “Korea,” “Pete’s Meteor,” and “An Brontanas/ ROBERT BALLAGH (Set Design) The Gift,” and for radio, Old Punks Robert Ballagh studied architecture Rule, The Blue Hyacinth and Yardstick. and worked as a musician and a postman before taking up painting NICK RYAN (Cinematographer & in 1969. He represented Ireland at Editor) Award winning director Nick the Paris Biennale in 1969. Major produced and directed the Sundance survey exhibitions of his work have Film Festival award-winning feature taken place in Lund, Warsaw, Sofia, WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST and Moscow. In 2006, the RHA "Vikings." Other productions include Gallery staged a career retrospective "Dublin Murders" DMS productions, in Dublin. As a graphic designer he "Little Women" BBC Drama, "Dawn" has produced over seventy stamps pilot series, "Blood" TV3 series, and for An Post (the Irish Postal Service) "Cold Courage" series. Jess is and he designed the Irish banknotes delighted to be part of this incredible before the introduction of the Euro. team working on The Cordelia Dream. His notable work for the theatre includes Steven Berkoff’s production DAVID DOWNES (Original Music & of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé at the Gate Sound Design) David has worked as a Theatre, Dublin (1988); the staging composer, orchestrator, producer, for the opening ceremony of the and performer for over 25 years. A Special Olympics in Croke Park, graduate of music and composition Dublin (2003); and he designed the from Trinity College, Dublin, where he set for Riverdance. He is also the studied with Kevin O’Connell, he founding chairman of the Irish spent much of his professional career Visual Rights Organisation. working between the areas of orchestral and contemporary music JESSICA CASHIN (Costume Design) as composer or orchestrator, and in a Jessica studied Ballet and Acting more commercial arena in theatrical from a very young age. She has and stage projects that have brought performed in productions such as him international recognition, Swan Lake, Show Boat, Cinderella, including a Primetime Emmy and annual pantomimes.