The Painter

75 Pages·2011·1.938 MB·English

by  Rebecca Lenkiewicz

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Production Team
Director Mehmet Ergen
Set and Costumes Ben Stones
Lighting Emma Chapman
Music and Sound Adrienne Quartly
Production Manager Stuart Farnell
Stage Manager Martha Mamo
Assistant Director Katharine Armitage
Assistant Stage Manager Amelia Hankin
Fight Director Chris Jenkins
Press Jennifer Reynolds for
Target Live (020 3372 0950)
Production Photography Simon Annand
www.simonannand.com
Thanks to:
Nina Segal at Donmar Warehouse,
Mela Yerka (www.melayerka.com).
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theatre
Over the last 10 years Arcola Theatre has taken thousands of
theatregoers on atheatrical journey by producing and presenting
some of the most diverse and challenging work for the London
stage. We have presented plays and opera that have rarely
seen the light of day as well as revisiting more contemporary
playwrights and presenting the finest international work.
Arcola Theatre has championed new writers and emerging
directors and offered acontinuing platform with which to
continue their journey. We look forward to continuing
the journey at our new home in Ashwin Street.
ForArcolaTheatre
Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen
Executive Producer Leyla Nazli
Executive Director Ben Todd
General Manager catherine Thornborrow
Youth andCommunity
Projects Manager OWencalvert-Lyons
Projects Assistant Nadia Gasper
Sustainability
Projects Manager Feimatta Conteh
Marketing
Marketing Manager Barry Wilson
Marketing Assistants SelviAkyildiz, Venessa Howell
Technical
Technical Manager David Salter
Technical Assistant Amelia Hankin
Finance
Finance Manager Helen Hillman
Finance Assistant Amanda Koch-Schick
FrontofHouseand BoxOffice
Managers Charlotte Croft, Harriet Warnock
Box Office Assistants Archie Backhouse, Stephen Mccann,
Jacidene Silwano
BarSupervisor Haydar Koyel
BarStaff Pauline Hoare
Arcola Energy
Associate Technologist Matthew Venn
Engineers Simon Mylius, Rajvinder Malhi
Marketing Assistant Amanda Bicott
ArcolaTheatre Ambassadors
Archie Backhouse, RowanThomas Cliff,Jodiese DaViS,
EllaGarrard, PJMathison, Jake Morgan-Stead, Esme Kirk,
Connor Sanderson, Zehra Vas
With thanks to allour dedicated volunteers and interns
Cast
in alphabetical order
Amanda Boxer (Mary Marshall Turner)
Theatre includes: ThePrisoner of Second Avenue
(Vaudeville Theatre); Cling to Me LikeIvy (Birmingham
Rep/ Tour); Many Roads to Paradise (Finborough /
Jermyn St); TheLast Days OfJudas Iscariot (Almeida);
ThePainand the Itch, TheStrip (both RoyalCourt);
An Ideal Husband, TheRivals(both Theatre Clywd);
Dis-Orientations (Riverside Studios); TheArab Israeli
Cookbook (Gate Theatre / Tricycle); ASmall Family Business (West Yorkshire
Playhouse); TheDestiny of Me(Finborough); Macbeth (Arcola Theatre); The
Graduate (Gielgud); The Yiddish Queen Lear(Bridewell); Iphigenla atAulis
(Southwark Playhouse); A Touch of the Poet (Young Vic/ Comedy Theatre);
TheHouse of Bernarda Alba (The Globe); All MySons, TheMerchant of
Venice, Othello, TheImportance of Being Earnest (all YoungVic); Come Blow
YourHorn, TheFallGuy, TheMisanthrope, Absurd Person Smgular, Present
Laughter (all RoyalExchange); Secret Rapture, Death and the Maiden (Library
Theatre Manchester). Best Actress inthe 1992 London FringeAwards for
Martha inStrange Snow. '
Television includes: Bodies 3, TheShell Seakers, casualty, Tria:!and
Retribution, Chalk, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Unnatural Pursuits, Inspector Alleyn
Mysteries, Cider with Rosie, Goodbye MyLove, In SUspicious Circumstances.
Filmsinclude: Malice in Wonderland, Chatroom, United 93,LesPoupiks
Russes,Saving Private Ryan.
lim Bywater (William Turner)
Theatre includes: Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith);
Uncle Vanya(YoungVic); Ghosts, Ladyfrom thesea,
An Enemy of the People, AMidsummer Night's Dream
(all Arcola Theatre Theatre); Only WhenI Laugh
(Arcola Theatre andTour); Chasing the Moment (Arcola
Theatre/National Studio/Southwark Playhouse and
Israel Tour); The Trackers of Oxyrhynccus (National
Theatre, Scandinavia andAustria Tours); TheMerchant of Venice, Two
Gentlemen of Verona (both Shakespeare's Globeand NewYork); Dracula, Blitz,
TheImportance of Being Earnest, Face, Oh What aLovely war, Sleeping
Beauty, The Tempest, Mother Goose(all Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch);
Oedipus Tyrranos, Macbeth (both Battersea Arts Centre).
Television includes: Coronation Street, Dalziel and Pascoe,Accidental Death of
anAnarchist.
Niamh Cusack (Sarah Danby)
Theatre indudes: Women, Power & Politics (Tricycle
Theatre); Andersen's English (Hampstead / UKTour);
Dandng atLughnasa (The Old Vic); Portrait of aLady
(Theatre Royal Bath); Crestfall (TheatreS03); The
Enchantment (National Theatre); The Way of the World
(Northampton); Ghosts (Gate Theatre); Mammals
(Bush Theatre); Merchant of Venice (Chichester);
Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre); His Darks Materials (National
Theatre); As YouUke It, Romeo +Juliet, Othello (all RSC); Three Sisters
(Gate Theatre / Royal Court).
Television includes: Midsummer Murders, Fallen Angel, Uttle Bird, Loving You,
MissMarple - 4.50 from Paddington, Too Good to be True.
Film Includes: Hereafter, The Closer YouGet, Playboys, TheKid, Paris by
Night, Lucky Sunil, Fools of Fortune.
Denise Gough (Jenny Cole)
Theatre includes: ThePlough and the Stars (Abbey
Theatre); Jesus Hopped theA Train (Trafalgar Studios);
The Birds (Gate Theatre, Dublin); SixCharacters in
Search ofanAuthor (West End / Chichester); The
Grouch (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Someone Else's
Shoes(Soho Theatre); Everything isflluminated
(Hampstead Theatre); OhGoMyMan (Royal Court
cats
Theatre); As YouUke It (Wyndhams, West End); Bythe Bog of the
(Wyndhams, West End); TheKindess ofStrangers (Uverpool Everyman).
Film includes: TheKid, Robin Hood, Desire, Lecture 21, TheShooting of
Thomas Humdall.
Television includes: casualty, The Bill, Silent Witness, Waking the Dead,
Messiah, Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Toby Jones (Turner)
Theatre includes: Every Good BoyDeserves Favour
(National Theatre); Parlour Song (Almeida); Dumb
Waiter and other Pinter Pieces(Trafalgar Studios):
ThePlay What I Wrote (New York / West End -
Olivier Award Best Supporting Actor); TheNativity
(young Vic).
Film Includes: captain America, My Week with Marilyn,
Tinker, Tinker, Sokiier, Spy, TheRite, Christopher and HisKind, Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows, What's Wrong with Virginia, YourHighness, Sex,
Drugs &Rock n Roll, Tin Tin, Creation, W,Frost/Nixon, City of Ember,
St Trinians, The Mist, Night Watching, Amazing Grace, Infamous, ThePainted
Veil, Mrs Henderson Presents, Ladies in Lavender, Finding Neverland, Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Television includes: Doctor Who, Mo, 10Days to War, TheOld Curiosity Shop,
TheHarlot's Progress, Elizabeth 1,The Way WeUve Now.
Ian Midlane (Hereford, Man)
Theatre includes: TheCradle WillRock(Arcola Theatre);
Dr Faustus (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Anthony &
Cleopatra (Nuffield Theatre); Nineteen Eighty-four
(RoyalExchange); TheRivals(Theatre RoyalBath - tour);
My Own Show (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Humble
Boy(Manchester Ubrary Theatre); Thirteenth Night
(Southwark Playhouse); Measure for Measure, Macbeth,
I CanGetIt For You Wholesale (all Arcola Theatre).
Television includes: TheSarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen
(BBC); Messiah IV: TheHarrowing (BBC/Paramount); Doctors (BBC); Wire in
the Blood 4(Coastal Productions); Fingersmith (Sally Head Productions); My
Dad's the Prime Minister (BBC); Hunter (BBC); TheLast Detective (Meridian);
Manhunt (BBC); TheBill(Talkback/Thames).
Creatives
RebeccaLenkiewicz (Playwright)
Forthe stage: TheLioness (Tricycle); The Typist (Sky Arts); Stars Over Kabul
(NYT/Traverse); ThatAlmost Unnameable Lust (Clean Break / Soho Theatre);
Ghosts (Ibsen adaptation - Arcola Theatre / ATC); Her Naked Skin (National
Theatre); Faeries (Unbury Studio ROH); An Enemy ofthe People (Ibsen
adaptation - Arcola Theatre); Justitia (Sadler's Wells); Invisible Mountains
(National Theatre Edocation tour); Blue Moon Over Poplar (NYT/Soho
Theatre); TheSoldier's Tale, 24 Hour Plays(Old Vic); Shoredltch Madonna
(Soho Theatre); TheNight Season (National Theatre); Soho -A Taleof Tabie
Dancers (Pleasance Edinburgh - Fringe First/Israel Tour/Arcola Theatre).
Rebecca iscurrently under commission to the National Theatre and Manhattan
Theatre Club, New York.
RadiOplays: Blue Moon Over Poplar, Caravan of Desire (BBC), Fighting for
Words (BBC).
Mehmet Ergen(Director)
Founder and Artistic Director of the Arcola Theatre; Founder and Artistic
Director of the Talimhane Theatre in Istanbul; Co-founder and the first Artistic
Director of the Southwark Playhouse (1993-1999). Founder of the new writing
festival: Oyun Yaz.
Directing work includes: Dumb Show byJoe Renhall, Afterplay by Brian Friel,
Noises Offby Michael Frayn, Lieutenant ofInishmore, Pillowman by Martin
McDonagh, TheBetrayal, Ashes toAshes, One for the Roadby Harold Pinter,
TheShape of Things by Neil LaBute, Fool for Loveby Sam Shepard, TheNest
by Kroetz, Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear byW.Shakespeare, Roots
byArnold Wesker, Of Miceand Men by john Steinbeck, TheProtagonist by
Georg Kaiser;In the Jungle of the Gties, Informer, Exception and the Rule by
Bertold Brecht, Mandragola by Machievelli.
ForArcola: An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Siiver Birch House by Leyla
Nazli, Chasing the Moment byJack Shepherd, The Plebeians Rehearse the
Uprising byGunter Grass,Jitterbug by Bonnie Greer,AMidsummer Night's
Dream and Macbeth byW.Shakespeare (both witn JackShepherd).
Operas and Musicals include: TheCradle WillRockby MarcBlitzstein, Seven
Deadly Sinsby Brecht IWeill, I CanGetIt For YouWholesale by JWeidman I
Harold Rome(all for the Arcola Theatre), Dorian (Arts Theatre, West End),
Treemonisha byScott Joplin, Lost intheStars by KurtWeill (both at BAC).
Translations include works byIbsen, Pinter,Shepard, LaBute, McDonagh and
EndaWalsh.
Ben Stones (Set and Costumes)
Bentrained instage design at Central Saint Martins College ofArt and Design
and went onto win aLinbury prize commission to design Paradise Lostfor
Rupert Goold.
Designs include: Creditors (Donmar Warehouse, Harvey Theatre BAMNew
York); KissOf TheSpider Woman (Donmar Warehouse, National Tour); Lower
Ninth (Donmar Trafalgar season); NoIdea (Improbable Theatre at Young Vic);
ParadiseLost (Headlong Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre, Leicester
Square); Humble Boy, Paradise Lost, Someone Wh071Watdl Over Me,Just
Between Ourselves (Theatre RoyalNorthampton); TheArab Israeli Cookbook
(Tricycle Theatre); TheMighty 8oosh, Mitchell and WebbLive!, Pappys Fun
Gub (Phil Mdntyre national tour); The Vegemite Tales(The Venue Leicester
Sq); When Five YearsPass(Arcola Theatre); TheHerbal Bed, The Real Thing
(both Salisbury Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe); My
Mother SaidI Never Should (Watford Palace); MyDad's aBirdman (Sheffield
Crudble); Speaking in Tongues (Duke of Yorks, West End); Crocodile (Frank
McGuinness premiere for SkyArts); Ingredient X(RoyalCourt Theatre); Doctor
Faustus, Taste of Honey, Salt(Royalexchange Manchester); Inheritance (Live
Theatre Newcastle); An Enemy of the People(Sheffield Crucible).
Emma Chapman (Lighting)
Emmatrained at Bristol OldVicTheatre School.
Theatre credits in2010 Include: Blowing (Cambridge and tour); TheMaddening
Rain(Old RedLion); Frantic Assembly at artsdepot; The YoungVicSchools'
Theatre Festival; Lulu (Gate); TheComedians (Bolton Octagon); Summerfolk
(Guildhall School); Wet Weather Cover(King's Headand Arts Theatre).
Earlier productions: TheHostage (Soutnwark Playhouse); Public Property
(Trafalgar Studios); TheSpanish Tragedy (Arcola Theatre); TheOnes That
Flutter (Theatre 503); The Mountaintop (Theatre 503and Trafalgar Studios);
TheLifesavers (Theatre 503and Mercury Theatre, Colchester); 50Waysto
Leave your Lover at Christmas (The Bush); YouCanSeeTheHills(StudiO,
Manchester RoyalExchange and YoungVic); Cherry Docs (Kings Head
Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Middle Temple Hail); Mules(Young Vic); Semi-
Monde (Guildhall School of Musicand Drama); TheGood Soulof Szechuan,
Senora Carrar's Rifles (both Young People'sPartldpation Programme, Young
Vic); Some Kind of Bliss(Trafalgar Studios); Ctoser(Royal&Derngate,
Northampton); Not aGameForBoys(Library Theatre, Manchester); The
Importance of Being Earnest (Derby Playhouse); Bash: Latterday Plays
(Trafalgar Studios); TheMusical of Musicals, Beautiful Thing (both Sound
Theatre); Richard III (cambridge ArtsTheatre); ThePiedPiper(Opera North);
Phaedra's Love(Bristol OldVicandThe Barbican); Smilin' Through
(Birmingham Rep&Contact Theatre, Manchester); Twelfth Night (Associate
LD,EnglishTOuringTheatre); Attempts OnHer Life(BAC); High Society
(Aberystwyth Arts Centre &SwanseaGrand).
In preparation: Carmen (Royal Northern College); BusStop(Stoke and
scarborough); TheMachine Gunners (PolkaTheatre); Dangerous Comer (Bury
StEdmunds); Cosifan Tutte (RoyalCollege of Music).
www.emmachapman.eo.uk
Adrienne Quartly (Music and Sound)
ForArcola Theatre: Tom, Enemy of the People, Silver Birch House, Last Waltz
Season, Bintou.
Other theatre includes: MissJulie(Katie Mitchell at Schaiibuhne, Berlin);
Chekov inHell(Drum, Plymouth); Stockholm (FrantiCAssembly/Sydney
Theatre Company); TheContainer (Young Vic); Here LiesMary Spindler,
Thomas Hobbes (both RSC);365 (National Theatre of Scotland); j3.2FM
(RoyalCourt Theatre); Woyzeck(StAnn's Warehouse, NewYork.);Reykjavik
(Shams, Edinburgh 10); MyZinc Bed, Private Fearsand Public Places, Just
Between Ourselves (all Royaland Derngate, Northampton); TheGrand Guignol
(Drum Plymouth); TheFastest Clockinthe Universe (Hampstead); Mrs
Reynolds and the Ruffian (Watford Palace); My Real War(Trafalgar
I
Studios); Small Change (Sherman Cymru); Balloon Gardener (Oree
Ridiculoso); Hysteria (Inspector Sands); Tejas Verdes(Gate Theatre); Playing
For Time, A Touch of the Sun(both Salisbury Playhouse); Jarman Garden
(Riverside Studlos),
Composer on Thomas Hobbes (RSC); Lighter than Air (CireoRidlculoso);
Faustus/School for ScandaljVolpone/Duchess Malfi (Stage onScreen/
Greenwich); AChristmas Carol(Sherman Cymru).
www.adriennequartly.eom.
Stuart Farnell (Production Manager)
After studying theatre atYorkStJohn University, Stuart went onto work inthe
YorkTheatre Royalasacasualstage technician. Hewent onto tour with Pilot
Theatre asTechnical Manager onshows suchasLord of the Ries, EastisEast,
Sing Yerheart Out For TheLadsand Fungus the Bogey Man.
After moving to London, Stuart worked asaDeputy Technical Manager at
Hampstead Theatre for ayear and half and asDeputy Technical Manager for
Regents ParkOpenAirTheatre for the 2010 Summer Season.
Stuart currently owns and runs asmall but busy production company called
Upstaged Scenery,which hesetup inSeptember this year.Upstaged Scenery
hasworked on projects at Arcola, SohoTheatre and Drill HallTheatre to name
afew.
Martha Mamo (Stage Manager)
Martha completed apostgraduate course in stage management at the Royal
Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2005. Theatre credits include: Ivan and
the Dogs(Soho Theatre); Piecesof Vincent, Ught Shining inBuckinghamshire
(both Arcola Theatre); Kursk(Fuel, Sound &Fury, Young Vic ); Kreutzer
Sonata, Breathing Irregular (both Gate Theatre); Duet ForOne(Almeida); A
Miracle, ThePride(both Royal Court Theatre); A2K(Celebrations Global);
Chessin Concert (Heartache Production); Presidents Holiday (Hampstead
Theatre); Parade(Donmar Warehouse); OneFlewOVerTheCuckoo's Nest
(Nimax); TheChangeling (Cheek ByJowl); Aladdin (Old Vic); The Bull,
Flowerbed (both Fabulous Beast); Julius Caesar(BITE); PamAnn Wants You,
How to LoseFriendsAndAlienate People(both Soho Theatre).
Katharine Armitage (Assistant Director)
Katharine recently graduated from the University of Manchester. She previously
worked asAssistant Director on TheCradle WillRock(Arcola Theatre).
Directing includes: ThePillowman (University of Manchester); TheLoveof the
Nightingale (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); As YouLikeIt, TheTempest, A
Midsummer Night's Dream (Blue Hutch Theatre Company) and for radio The
Hearing and Happy New Year(Fuse FM).