The Comedy Of Errors

Illustration by Emily Chappell. Photo by Phill Sharp.

– A CITIZENS THEATRE PRODUCTION –

11 – 24 JULY 2021

CAST KAREN FISHWICK LUCIANA Karen trained at Motherwell College. Theatre credits include: Hansel & Gretel (Citizens Theatre); Wife (Kiln Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Royal Shakespeare Company); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland /Live Theatre Winner of the 2017 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and nominated for Best Supporting Actress); Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland/ Citizens Theatre); A Christmas Carol, A Caucasian Chalk Circle (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Overcoat (Ryhmäteatteri); Hello, Dolly!, Present Laughter, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Chorus of Disapproval, Yellow on the Broom, The Admirable Crichton, Mr Bolfry, Whiskey Kisses (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (PACE); Cinderella, Mother Goose (Adam Smith Theatre); Dirt Under the Carpet (Oran Mor). TV and radio credits include: Call the Midwife, Badults (BBC); Industry (HBO); James Kirk’s Comedy Blaps (The Comedy Unit); Coach Karen’s Half Time Team Talk, Hazel Tours (Sweet Talk/BBC); It’s Grimm (Ha-Hum-Ah).

MICHAEL GUEST DROMIO OF EPHESUS AND SYRACUSE Michael is a recent graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Credits while training include: Bad Roads, The Speculator, Hermia’s Dream, Hamlet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Uncle Vanya. He is one of this year’s Citizens Theatre Robertson Trust Graduate Actors.

JESSICA HARDWICK ADRIANA Jessica trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre credits include: Miss Julie (Citizens Theatre); Barefoot in The Park (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Meet Me at Dawn (Arcola Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (National Theatre of Scotland/New York Transfer); Knives in Hens (Perth Theatre); Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre/Liverpool Everyman/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Rivals (Bristol Old Vic/Citizens Theatre/Liverpool Everyman); Rhinoceros, The Venetian Twins (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Antipodes (Sam Wanamaker Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe). TV/Film Credits: Float (BBC/ Black Camel Pictures); The Lost King (Baby Cow). Jessica has worked extensively with BBC Radio. Some recent credits include: The Beautiful and Damned, This Thing of Darkness, The Vital Spark: Intelligence, Brothers and The Pillow Book. Winner of The Billy McColl Award for Most Promising Newcomer in Scottish Stage Acting, awarded by John Byrne in 2014 and Best Female Performance - Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2018 for Knives in Hens.

JOHN MACAULAY EGEON / ANGELO / DR PINCH Theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet, Richard III (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Company); August: Osage County, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil, The Witches, Great Expectations, Midsummer, Equus, Macbeth (Dundee Rep); Of Mice and Men, Alice in Wonderland, To Kill a Mockingbird (Royal Lyceum Theatre

Edinburgh); Horizontal Collaboration (Fire Exit); Peer Gynt (National Theatre of Scotland); A Streetcar Named Desire, The Snow Queen, Of Mice and Men (Perth Theatre); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The National Theatre); Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard in the Botanics); How to Steal a Diamond (Vox Motus); 8000 Metres (Suspect Culture); The Voices (Forced Entertainment); The Glass Slipper (Southwark Playhouse). Television and radio credits include: River City, Still Game, Gary Tank Commander, Single Father, Burnistoun, Rockface, On the Skids, A Second Life, All at Sea (BBC Scotland); The Vice (Carlton); Murder in Mind (Chrysalis).

LORRAINE M. MCINTOSH ABBESS / COURTESAN / DUKE SOLINUS / MERCHANT / LUCE Lorraine’s first foray into professional acting was in 1998, in Ken Loach’s award-winning film My Name is Joe. She is also a vocalist with band Deacon Blue. Theatre work includes: The Mistress Contract, Beowulf, God of Carnage (Tron Theatre); Gut (Traverse Theatre); Still Game at The Hydro (Phil McIntyre Entertainment); Mum’s The Word (Robert C Kelly Productions); Let the Right One In, Men Should Weep, Beautiful Burnout (National Theatre of Scotland); Sixteen (The Arches).

Television work includes: Outlander (Sony Pictures); Long Night at Blackstone; West Skerra Light (Hopscotch Productions for BBC); Scot Squad, River City, Life Support (BBC); Happy Holidays (Effingee Productions); West End Girls (Solus Productions); Hope Springs (Shed Productions); Psychos (Channel 4). Film work includes: Spores (Hopscotch Productions); Wilbur (Dogma/Sigma Films); Aberdeen (Freeway Films). Radio work includes: In Search of Highland Mary and Dan 50 (BBC Radio Scotland).

EWAN MILLER ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS AND SYRACUSE Ewan is an actor from the Scottish Highlands.

He recently graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is a three-time Dewar Arts Award Recipient and winner of the Duncan Macrae Competition Prize 2020.

Theatre credits include: The Speculator, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); The Dumb Waiter (Blackbird Theatre). Screen credits include: SKIN (Brutal Studios); Captain Powerman (Half Bank Productions); The Great Caverzago (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). Radio credits include: 365 Stories (Creative Consortium). He is one of this year’s Citizens Theatre Robertson Trust Graduate Actors.

SAMUEL PASHBY ACTOR MUSICIAN Samuel was performing in Celestial Bodies at Traverse/Oran Mor before theatre halted nationwide due to the pandemic. He also recently performed as Fred in A Christmas Carol, Pitlochry.

Samuel is a multi-instrumentalist writing, producing and performing as ‘mistral’. He holds an MA from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a BA (Hons) in Drama from the University of Winchester. Recent theatre credits include: Cinderella (Citizens Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Sleeping Beauty (Byre Theatre At Andrew’s); Macbeth (Shakespeare Festival, Stafford); Hamlet (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland/Bard in the Botanics); Brother, How to Stage a Drowning (On The Verge); Coriolanus (Bard in the Botanics); As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe Education).

CREATIVE TEAM DOMINIC HILL DIRECTOR

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Dominic joined the Citizens Theatre as Artistic Director in 2011. His productions at the Citizens have included Cyrano de Bergerac, A Christmas Carol, Oresteia: This Restless House (winner of Best Director, 2016 CATS Awards), Hamlet, Crime and Punishment (winner of Best Director and Best Production, 2014 CATS Awards), King Lear and Betrayal (winner of Best Director, 2012 CATS Awards). Before joining the Citizens, he was Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and Joint Artistic Director of Dundee Rep. Other credits include: Falstaff and Macbeth (Scottish Opera), The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

BENEDICTE SEIERUP AND LUCIEN MACDOUGALL MOVEMENT DIRECTORS

JESSICA WORRALL DESIGNER Recent work: Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe); After Edward, Edward II, The Treason Trial of Walter Raleigh (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Educating Rita (The Dukes); Quality Street (Northern Broadsides). Other theatre includes: Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Captive Queen (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); When We Are Married, She Stoops to Conquer, Love’s Labour’s Lost, We Are Three Sisters, Wars of the Roses, School for Scandal, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Northern Broadsides, National Tours); Rites (National Theatre of Scotland); Grit (Tramway, Glasgow – costume only); The Knitting Circle (Vital Xposure); Alice Through the Looking Glass (The Egg Theatre); Huxley’s Lab (Grid Iron). As a member of the performance group, People Show, Jessica has designed & devised over 30 productions, including The Last Straw no.130 (Summerhall & Ovalhouse), Hands Off no.127 (Toynbee Studios), Fallout no.124 (Centre for Contemporary Art), The Ghost Sonata no.119 (Sefton Park Glass House), The Birthday Show no.120 and Baby Jane no.113 (UK Tours).

LIZZIE POWELL LIGHTING DESIGNER Theatre designs include: Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Endgame, Hansel & Gretel, The Choir, The Libertine, Far Away/Seagulls, Krapp’s Last Tape/Footfalls (Citizens Theatre); Smile (Dundee Rep); Falstaff (Scottish Opera); Kes (Perth Theatre); King John, Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company); Cyrano de Bergerac (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/West End); Avalanche (Sydney Theatre Company/Barbican Theatre); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Mother Courage, The Mighty Walzer, Anna Karenina (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Red Dust Road, Adam, Glasgow Girls, In Time O’ Strife, Enquirer, Knives in Hens (National Theatre of Scotland); The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Victory Condition, B, Human Animals, Violence and Son (Royal Court); The Country Girls (Chichester Festival); What Girls Are Made Of (Traverse Theatre).

Benedicte and Lucien both trained at Guildford School of Acting and under Jacques Lecoq in Paris. They have worked as actors, devisers, movement tutors, directors and movement directors over several years and in many countries. They have written and devised four plays together, their favourite being The Nose (After Gogol). They are currently movement tutors at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Movement Directing work with Dominic Hill at the Citizens Theatre includes: Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol (2014 & 2018), Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty and Crime and Punishment. Lucien recently worked on the second series of Hitmen (Sky).

LAUREN MITCHELL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Lauren is a former member of the Citizens Theatre Young Co. and a graduate from the University of Glasgow in Theatre Studies and Music.

She is also the co-founder of Siren Theatre, a new multi-genre company based in Glasgow. Directing credits include: Scarfed for Life (Citizens Theatre Young Co). Assistant Director credits include: Adrift (Citizens Theatre Young Co.); #71 (A Play, A Pie and A Pint). This role is supported by a Federation of Scottish Theatre Director Placement Bursary with funding from Creative Scotland.

A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR The Comedy of Errors is our first live performance in over a year, and is a fun, feel-good story to bring us together and rediscover the magic of theatre. Written by William Shakespeare after two years of the plague, this joyous play has got plenty of slapstick humour, witty word play and cheering family reunions – which feels exactly what we need right now.

We were delighted to be invited by Scottish Opera to join the Live At No.40 festival, safely reuniting artists and audiences in a purpose built outdoor setting. While our building in the Gorbals continues to be redeveloped, it was a brilliant opportunity to stage a Citizens Theatre show this summer.

Many thanks to everyone at Scottish Opera for making this production possible.

I’ve really enjoyed working on The Comedy of Errors with this fantastic company, and I hope you enjoy watching the performance as much.

Thank you for your support.

Dominic Hill, Citizens Theatre Artistic Director

Nikola is one of the leading figures in the European music and stage avantgarde. Theatre credits include: Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Crime and Punishment, Hamlet, Hansel & Gretel (Citizens Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Oresteia: This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/ National Theatre of Scotland); La Suite (Fabien Prioville Dance Company/ Pina Bausch Foundation); Bacchai (National Theatre); Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic); Inkheart, Romeo and Juliet (HOME Manchester); Eyes of the Landscape, Sandpit, Scherzo for Piano and Stick, Insomnia (Riotous); Siege (Freedom Theatre Palestine); Scorched (Old Vic); Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse). Other notable scores include: La Biennale di Venezia (2004), BBC Singers (2010), Operaen i Midten Denmark (2019/20) as well as a

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NIKOLA KODJABASHIA COMPOSER

THE CITIZENS COMPANY Rebecca Addison Senior Trust & Foundations Manager Khaliq Ahmed Front of House Duty Manager Linda Allan Trust and Foundations Manager Esther Batterham Marketing Officer Fin Bain Learning Tutor Catherine Bird Payroll Officer Kirsty Black Front of House Ashleigh Blair Scenic Artist Alex Brady Box Office Supervisor / IT Suzanne Brady Box Office / Learning Tutor Louise Brown Creative Learning Officer Phillip Buchanan Front of House Andrea Cano Molina Learning Tutor Michelle Chambers Wig Stylist Lisa Corr Sullivan Learning Tutor Natalia Cortes Company Stage Manager Elaine G Coyle Head of Wardrobe Stephen Cunningham Stage Technician Lesley Davidson General Manager Saul Davidson Front of House Denise Differ Box Office Manager Louise Dingwall Press and Marketing Officer Logan Docherty Front of House Martin Docherty Front of House Miriam Sarah Doren Learning Tutor Jason Dyer Head of Development Elaine Ellis Front of House Catrin Evans Head of Creative Learning Barry Forde Assistant Stage Manager

Neil Francis Learning Tutor Tabitha Gardner Front of House Nikki Gillespie Front of House Elly Goodman Community Drama Artist Maddy Grant Deputy Stage Manager Michael Guest Robertson Trust Graduate Actor Daniel Hamilton Learning Tutor Jamie Hayes Stage Supervisor Dominic Hill Artistic Director Neil Hobbs Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Holly Howden Front of House Olivia Hughes Box Office Miles Jarvis Front of House Stuart Jenkins Head of Lighting & Sound Euan Jenkins Front of House / Stage Door Administrator Simon Jones Stage Door Administrator Amber Keating Digital Officer Jenny Knotts Box Office Jamie Leary Box Office Karen Lee-Barron Wardrobe Assistant / Dresser Ross Logan Front of House Alison MacKinnon Head of Marketing & Communications Keir Martin Sound Number 2 / Swing Technician Carly McCaig Community Drama Worker Niamh McCarron Learning Tutor Grant McDonald Front of House Morna McGeoch Learning Tutor Alex McGowan Executive Director Lawrie McInally Stage Door Administrator

Nicky McKean Wardrobe Cutter Claire McNeil Finance Manager Catriona McNicoll Learning Tutor Jon Meggat Stage Technician Ewan Miller Robertson Trust Graduate Actor Jim Morrison Front of House Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Jack Mullen Box Office Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Alfie Packham Front of House Neil Packham Community Drama Director Frances Poet Literary Associate Valerie Rickis Assistant Stage Manager Molly Ross Development Assistant Saffron Shearer Wardrobe Assistant Amir Sherhan Sound Supervisor / No.1 Mags Smillie Head of Finance Laura Smith Deputy Head of Production Cole Stewart Front of House Duty Manager Tiia Stevenson Front of House Graham Sutherland Head of Production Nicholas Taylor Front of House Sonia Tingali-Macrae Front of House Linsey Todd Learning Tutor Martin Travers Producer (Citizens Learning) Catherine Ward-Stoddard Front of House Colin White Learning Tutor Catherine Wyllie Front of House David Young Driver/Dayman

Board: April Chamberlain (Chair), Alex Reedijk (Vice Chair), Councillor Susan Aitken, Laurence Fraser, Dominic Hill, Ryan James, Jackie Kay, John McElwee, James Scanlon, Irene Tweedie and Louise Welsh.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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All costumes and props made by the Citizens Theatre workshop.

With thanks to Director and Designer Sir David McVicar for permission to present The Comedy of Errors on the set of Falstaff.

This production is part of the Live at No.40 festival, an outdoor celebration of theatre, music and opera at Scottish Opera’s Production Studios, 40 Edington Street, Glasgow.

Special thanks to: National Theatre of Scotland.

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