The Approach

LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS

Artistic Team

Writer/Director Mark O’Rowe Set and Lighting Designer Sinéad McKenna Costume Designer Joan O’Clery Sound Designer Philip Stewart

Cast

Denise Derbhle Crotty

Anna Aisling O’Sullivan

Cora Catherine Walker

Associate Lighting Designer Susan Collins Associate Costume Designer Ciara Fleming

Associate Sound Designer Sinéad Diskin Production Manager Eamonn Fox Stage Manager Sophie Flynn Company Manager Jack Farrell Producer Anne Clarke

DOCK STREET THEATRE

May 26, 8:00pm; May 27, 8:00pm; May 28, 3:30pm; May 30, 8:00pm, May 31, 7:30pm; June 2, 8:00pm; June 4, 3:30pm; June 5, 8:00pm; June 7 – 9, 7:30pm; June 10, 8:00pm; June 11, 8:00pm; June 12, 3:30pm

1 hour, 5 minutes Performed without an intermission

About the Company

LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS Led by Anne Clarke since the company’s foundation in 2003, its productions—including 27 world premieres by major Irish writers, such as Mark O’Rowe and Enda Walsh—have received multiple awards and have been seen in leading theaters in London, New York, and beyond. The company has received numerous awards, including the Judges’ Special Award (Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards) in recognition of “sustained excellence in programming, and for developing imaginative partnerships to bring quality theatre to the Irish and international stage,” and a Special Tribute Award for Anne Clarke for her work as a “producer of world-class theatre in the independent sector in Ireland.”

Sponsored by SouthState Bank

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

CBS News journalist Martha Teichner hosts a Conversation with Mark O’Rowe and the cast of The Approach at 3:30pm on Monday, May 30, at Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St.

MARK O’ROWE (writer/director) plays include The Approach (Landmark Productions); From Both Hips (Fishamble Theatre Company); Howie the Rookie (Bush Theatre); Made in China (Peacock Theatre); Crestfall (Gate Theatre); Terminus (Peacock Theatre), and Our Few and Evil Days (Best New Play, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards) (Abbey Theatre). He has also adapted several works, including Hedda Gabler (Abbey Theatre) and DruidShakespeare, an amalgamation of four of Shakespeare’s history plays (Druid). Screenplays include Intermission, Boy A, Perrier’s Bounty, Broken, and The Delinquent Season, which he also directed.

SINÉAD MCKENNA (set and lighting designer) is an internationally renowned designer working across theater, opera, dance, and film. She has won two Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Lighting Design for a Musical. Her previous designs for Landmark Productions include Walking with Ghosts (set and lighting), Straight to Video, The Approach (set and lighting), Asking for It, Howie the Rookie, Greener, October, The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, and Blackbird. Sinéad has designed for many other major Irish companies including Fishamble, CoisCéim, Gúna Nua, Decadent, Gare Saint Lazare, Corn Exchange, and Semper Fi.

JOAN O’CLERY (costume designer) is a costume designer working in both stage and screen. She is a three-time winner of Best Costume Design at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards and has been nominated three times for Best Costume Design at the Irish Film and Television Awards. She has originated the costumes for several world premieres by major Irish writers including Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Marina Carr, and Frank McGuinness. Recent theater credits include Walking with Ghosts, The Saviour, and The Approach (Landmark Productions); and Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe). Screen work includes the television series Kin and Finding Joy (RTÉ). Feature film credits include Dating Amber, King of the Travellers, Swansong, Snap, Out of Innocence, I, Dolours, Rose Plays Julie, and The Delinquent Season.

PHILIP STEWART (sound designer) has written music and sound design for a broad range of media including theater, sculptural and sound installations, dance, film shorts, and documentaries. He studied composition under Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle. Theater credits include Asking for It, The Approach, Howie the Rookie (Landmark); The Book of Names (ANU and Landmark); Neptune Calling (RedBear); To the Lighthouse (Hatch and Everyman Theatre); Helen and I and Crestfall (Druid); and Quietly (Abbey Theatre). He has been nominated for an Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for his work on The Early Bird (Natural Shocks) and An Enemy of the People (Gate Theatre). DERBHLE CROTTY (Denise) is an associate artist of Druid Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Theater credits include The Approach (Landmark Productions); Theatre for One (Landmark Productions and Octopus Theatricals); To the Lighthouse (Hatch and Everyman Theatre); Portia Coughlan, The Great Hunger, Anna Karenina, The Dead, Marble, Three Sisters (Best Actress, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), The Plough and the Stars, Bailegangaire, Portia Coughlan, Katie Roche, and The Mai (Abbey Theatre); and The Cherry Orchard, DruidShakespeare (Best Actress, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards). Film and television credits include Mandrake, Come Home, Paula, Citizen Lane, Joy, Noble, Stella Days, Notes on a Scandal, and Inside I’m Dancing.

AISLING O’SULLIVAN (Anna) is an associate artist with Druid Theatre Company. Theater credits include The Approach (Landmark Productions); King Lear (Cort Theatre, Broadway); Furniture, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Drama League nomination), Henry V (Lincoln Center Festival), Big Maggie, Bailegangaire, and The Playboy of the Western World (Best Supporting Actress, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards) (Druid); The Wake, The Cripple of Inishmaan (National Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Shakespeare Company); Miss Julie (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Hysteria (Royal Court). Film credits include Joyride, Sparrow, Snap, Dark Lies the Island, The Secret Scripture, The Butcher Boy, and Six Shooter (Best Short Film, Oscars). Television credits include Frank of Ireland, The Clinic (Best Actress, Irish Film and Television Awards), and Raw.

CATHERINE WALKER (Cora) has theater credits that include Talk of the Town (Best Actress, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), Miss Julie and Blackbird (Landmark Productions); Hedda Gabler, The House, Terminus (Abbey Theatre); Our New Girl, A Streetcar Named Desire (Best Supporting Actress, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards) (Gate Theatre); and Fanny and Alexander (The Old Vic). Film and television credits include House of Gucci; Cursed; The Deceived; Versailles; Dark Song (Best Actress, Oporto International Film Festival; Best Actress nomination, Irish Film and Television Awards); Patrick’s Day (Best Support Actress nomination, Irish Film and Television Awards); Critical (Best Actress nomination, Irish Film and Television Awards). Walker trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin.