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FEVER DREAM: SOUTHSIDE

BY DOUGLAS MAXWELL

23 Apr - 9 May 2015

THE CAST CHARLENE BOYD | JULIA Charlene trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre credits include: Bondagers (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Letters Home, Barflies (Grid Iron); Men Should Weep, Empty, The Miracle Man (National Theatre of Scotland); Hannah and Hanna (Catherine Wheels); The Snow Queen (The Arches); Sleeping Beauty (Macrobert Arts Centre). Screen credits include: Sketchland, Bob Servant Independent, River City, Scot Squad (BBC Scotland); Only An Excuse (Comedy Unit); Garrow’s Law (Shed Media); Taggart (SMG Productions); RBS Commercial (Saatchi & Saatchi).

MARTIN DONAGHY | JOE 1 Martin trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is currently Citizens Theatre Actor Intern. He has so far starred in the one-man show Rum and Vodka, played Bob Cratchit in Dominic Hill’s production of A Christmas Carol and Horatio in Hill’s production of Hamlet. Theatre credits in training include: Claudius in Hamlet, Dame Daisy in Jack and the Beanstalk, Foigard in The Beaux’ Stratagem, Ross in Macbeth and Robert in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? He has recently appeared in two short films: Letter from an Old Boy and The Watchman.

UMAR MALIK | KULDEV Umar trained at Manchester Metropolitan University. Theatre credits include: Road, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pains Of Youth (Manchester School of Theatre); Aladdin (Oldham Coliseum); Wanted! Robin Hood (The Lowry, Library Theatre Company). Screen credits include: Coronation Street (ITV); Young Dracula (CBBC); Out Of Body (Superplex Pictures). Umar has recently completed shooting on Take Down (Pinewood Pictures) which will be released in the UK later this year.

MARTIN MCCORMICK | PETER Martin graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD) in 2007. His acting credits include work with National Theatre of Scotland; Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; Dundee Rep Theatre; Tron Theatre; VoxMotus; Macrobert Arts Centre; Visible Fictions; Grid Iron; A Play, A Pie, and A Pint; The Arches; Magnetic North; Random Accomplice; Ramesh Meyyappan; Eden Court; Manchester Royal Exchange and Paines Plough. Screen credits include: Taggart (SMG Productions); Hollyoaks Later (Lime Pictures); Shetland (BBC Scotland). Martin is also a playwright and is currently under commission to Grid Iron to write their 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show. Other writing credits include: Squash and The Day the Pope Emptied Croy (both Traverse Theatre/A Play, A Pie and A Pint); Potterrow (Cumbernauld Theatre); co-writer on News Just In (Random Accomplice); Tristan Nightaway (A Play, A Pie and A Pint - Five Minute Thursday).

DHARMESH PATEL | RAJ Dharmesh trained at Hope Street Physical Theatre School. His theatre credits include: Albion (Bush Theatre); England Away (Mo and Alf national tour); Too Clever by Half (Manchester Exchange); The Snow Queen (Trestle Theatre Company); King Lear, Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, American Trade, The Grain Store, Morte Arthur (RSC); Happy and Married?

(Freedom Studios); Satyagraha (New York, Improbable Theatre Company); Beauty and the Beast (Lyric Hammersmith); Satygraha (Improbable/ENO); Coast (Contact); Too Close to Home (Lyric Hammersmith and tour); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Slow Time (National Theatre); Silent Cry (Red Ladder Theatre Company); The Happy Prince (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester).

SCOTT REID | JOE 2 Scott is delighted to be back at the Citizens two years since his performance in The Maids directed by Stewart Laing. His other theatre credits include: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Sherman Cymru); Hamlet (Òran Mór); Fleeto/Wee Andy (Tumult in the Clouds); Passion (Old Red Lion); Fit for a King (The Arches); The Martyr (Theatre 503); King Lear (Citizens Theatre); A Perfect Stroke (Traverse Theatre/A Play, A Pie and A Pint) for which he was nominated for Best Actor in the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland. He was also nominated for John Byrne’s Billy Award for young actors at the 2014 CATS Awards. Scott trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Screen credits include: Waterloo’s Warriors, What’s Funny About the IndyRef? (BBC Scotland) and new BBC comedy Sketchland: Leaving Home.

KIRSTY STUART | DEMI Kirsty trained at Drama Centre London. Theatre credits include: Molly Whuppie and Licketyleap (Licketyspit); Tristan Nightaway (A Play, A Pie and A Pint - Five Minute Thursday); Silence of the Bees (The Arches); The Infamous Brothers Davenport (Vox Motus/Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Hunted (Visible Fictions); Romeo and Juliet (Open Book); Spring Awakening (Grid Iron/Traverse Theatre); I Was a Beautiful Day (Tron Theatre/Finborough Theatre); Fast Labour (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Hampstead Theatre). Screen credits include: Lip Service (Kudos); Closing the Ring (CTR/Premiere Picture); Doctors, Sea of Souls (BBC). Radio credit: Cry Babies (BBC Radio 4).

HARRY WARD | TERRY Harry is an actor and musician from Glasgow who has worked with various theatre companies throughout Britain including: National Theatre of Scotland; Òran Mór; Vox Motus; Pitlochry Festival Theatre; Company Chordelia; Cumbernauld Theatre; Scottish Opera; Opera North; English National Opera; Mull Theatre; Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; The Arches; Tron Theatre; Perth Theatre; Visible Fictions; Citizens Theatre and Eden Court. Screen credits include: Taggart, High Times (SMG Productions); Still Game, Snoddy, Waterloo Road (BBC). Radio credits include: Dr Findlay’s Casebook, Confessions of a Justified Sinner (BBC Radio 4).

DAVE BLACK | DRUMS & PERCUSSION Dave is an actor and musician who comes from a theatrical backgroud. He began acting with Scottish Youth Theatre and has since worked with a number of theatre companies and bands throughout the UK. He has worked as a Front of House team member at the Citizens Theatre for over 10 years and has appeared in a number of plays at the Citizens Theatre as well as appearing in several TV and film productions and adverts.

CREATIVE TEAM DOUGLAS MAXWELL | WRITER Douglas Maxwell has written many plays including Decky Does a Bronco, Mancub, Promises Promises and A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity. His plays have been translated and performed in Germany, Norway, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Holland, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Wales, Japan, France and South Korea, where his debut play Our Bad Magnet has been running for over ten years. His plays are published by Oberon Books, including a collection of his award-winning work for young people. His next show is an adaptation of the Argentinean play La Nona – re-titled Yer Granny – which will be staged by the National Theatre of Scotland from May - July 2015. He lives on the Southside of Glasgow with his wife and two daughters.

DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre. Since joining the Citizens in 2011, he has directed A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Libertine, Miss Julie, Crime and Punishment (winner of Best Director and Best Production, 2014 CATS Awards), Far Away, Seagulls, Doctor Faustus, Sleeping Beauty, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls, King Lear and Betrayal (winner of Best Director, 2012 CATS Award). 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) and The City Madam (RSC). He has directed in theatres in London and throughout the UK.

NEIL WARMINGTON | DESIGNER Neil graduated in Fine Art Painting from Maidstone College of Art before attending the Motley Theatre Design Course in London. Theatre credits include: The Missing, Mary Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (National Theatre of Scotland); Victoria, Further Than The Furthest Thing (Dundee Rep); The Straits, The Drowned World, Helmet (Paines Plough); King Lear (English Touring Theatre/Old Vic); Ghosts, Don Juan (English Touring Theatre); The Vortex (Rose Theatre Kingston); Woyzeck, The Glass Menagerie (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); I’m With the Band, The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre); Angels in America (7:84); Life’s a Dream, Fiddler on the Roof (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Too Much Pressure (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Henry V (RSC); Much Ado About Nothing (Queen’s Theatre London); Sunset Song (Prime Productions); The Life of Stuff (Donmar Warehouse); Waiting for Godot (Liverpool Everyman); The Tempest (Contact); Jane Eyre (Shared Experience); Troilus & Cressida (Opera North); Oedipus Rex (Connecticut State Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (Garsington Opera); Knives in Hens, The Birthday Party (TAG). Neil has also won four TMA awards and a CATS award for best design, been part of numerous Edinburgh Fringe First productions and has been awarded The Linbury Prize for Stage Design and the Sir Alfred Munnings Florence Prize for Painting.

LIZZIE POWELL | LIGHTING DESIGNER Lizzie trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Her lighting designs for the Citizens Theatre include A Christmas Carol, The Libertine, Far Away, Seagulls, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls. Other theatre credits include: Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); Glasgow Girls, In Time O’ Strife, My Shrinking Life, Enquirer, An Appointment with the Wicker Man, Knives in Hens, Girl X, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s a Troll, Venus As A Boy (National Theatre of Scotland); Debuts (National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse Theatre); Woyzeck, A Streetcar Named Desire, Show 3, Glitterland, A Series of Impossible Tasks, Show 6, Stab In The Dark (Secret Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith); Weekly Rep (Royal Court); Any Given Day, While You Lie, The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre); First Light (Imaginate Festival); Pangaa (Ankur Productions); Treasure Island (Wee Stories); Huxley’s Lab, Spring Awakening (Grid Iron/Lung Ha’s); Caged, Pobby and Dingan, The Book of Beasts (Catherine Wheels); Under Milk Wood (Theatre Royal, Northampton); The Wasp Factory (Cumbernauld Theatre); The Wall (Tron Theatre); Great Expectations (Byre Theatre/Prime Productions); Making History (Ouroboros); Travels With My Aunt (New Wolsey).

MICHAEL JOHN MCCARTHY | COMPOSER / MUSICAL DIRECTOR Michael John is a Cork-born, Glasgow-based composer and musician. Work for performance includes: In Time O’ Strife, Blabbermouth, The Tin Forest, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Truant and Dolls (National Theatre of Scotland); Letters Home, The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); The BFG, Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); Bright Black, The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo (Vox Motus); Bondagers (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre); Sports Day (Citizens Theatre); Glory (Janice Parker Projects); The Winter’s Tale (People’s Light & Theatre, Philadelphia).

Other companies he has worked with include The Arches, Lung Ha’s, Macrobert Arts Centre, Platform, Playgroup, Theatre Uncut, Utter and Youth Music Theatre UK. He has toured internationally with Zoey Van Goey, Aidan Moffat and Lord Cut-Glass. He has played on records by RM Hubbert, Jo Mango, Alasdair Roberts and Trembling Bells/Bonnie Prince Billy.

GAVIN GLOVER | PUPPET DESIGNER / MAKER Gavin Glover is well known as the founder member of Faulty Optic Theatre of Animation who toured their surreal and unique adult puppet shows around the world from 1988. In 2011 he became a freelance Theatre Director, Performer, Designer and Maker specialising in puppetry and visual theatre for an adult audience. Now he makes and helps to create performance works which explore the mixture of puppets, acting, clowning, video, movement and dance. He recently worked alongside Graham McLaren and the National Theatre of Scotland as Associate Designer and Associate Director on Tin Forest (2014) at the South Rotunda during the Commonwealth Games. He also worked alongside McLaren on the NTS production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (2011-12). Other recent work includes: Director and Designer on the Christmas show Beauty and the Beast at Norwich Puppet Theatre and What’s Opera Wagner? - a film commission for Bozar in Brussels.

LAURA FISHER | MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Laura trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was recipient of GCC Australian Exchange Dance Scholarship. Choreographic credits include Rum and Vodka (Citizens Theatre); The Fall (film by Alexandra Hall); an SQA Commendation for The Other Side of Gitmo and Audience Choice Award for co-devised Auditory Hallucinations (STOFF).

GUY COLETTA | SOUND DESIGNER Previous designs and productions Guy has worked on include JOHN (DV8, Touring Sound Engineer); A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, King Lear (Citizens Theatre, Sound Engineer); The Libertine (Citizens Theatre, Sound Design); The James Plays, Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland, Sound Technician) and Leaving Planet Earth (Grid Iron, Sound Programmer).

FRANCES POET | DRAMATURG STEPHEN DARCY | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR GRETCHEN MAYNARD-HAHN | PUPPET MAKER

THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Amy Angus Drama Class Tutor Tom Arnott Front of House Jamie Barbour Front of House Paul Bassett Front of House Lorraine Barclay Stage Door Administrator/Box Office Omar Bhatia Front of House Catherine Bird Payroll Officer David Black Front of House Harriet Bolwell Front of House Alex Brady Box Office Supervisor/IT Suzanne Brady Box Office/Drama Class Tutor Laura Briggs Front of House Marion Brochard Front of House Louise Brown Creative Learning Officer Andrew Bunton Front of House Tess Campbell Development Manager Theo Cherry Front of House Guy Coletta Sound Technician Sally Conroy Finance Consultant Lisa Corr Drama Class Tutor Natalia Cortes Company Stage Manager Elaine G Coyle Head of Wardrobe Carol Cull Housekeeper Kirstie Cusick Head of Marketing & Communications

(Maternity Cover) Stephen Darcy Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Caroline Darke Trusts & Foundations Manager Lesley Davidson General Manager Denise Differ Box Office Manager Martin Donaghy Actor Internship Miriam Sarah Doren Drama Class Tutor Michael Dorrance Deputy Head of Workshop Ann Dundas Housekeeper Lisa Dundas Box Office Paul Dundas FOH Duty Manager Sophie Fernie Front of House Gillian Firth Director of Development Barry Forde Assistant Stage Manager Neil Francis Drama Class Tutor Conner Gallagher RCS Carpentry Placement Jacky Gardiner Front of House Harvey Gardner Front of House Anne Gillan Finance Officer Elly Goodman Community Drama Artist Stephen Hamilton Front of House Stephen Harrop FOH Duty Manager/Stage Door Administrator Jamie Hayes Head of Stage Neil Haynes Head Scenic Artist Jill Henderson Drama Class Tutor Dominic Hill Artistic Director Guy Hollands Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Olivia Hughes Front of House Stuart Jenkins Head of Lighting & Sound Arthur Johnston Front of House

Debbie Jones Front of House Simon Jones Stage Door Administrator Judith Kilvington Executive Director Campbell Lawrie Paul Hamlyn Club Co-ordinator/

Drama Class Supervisor Jamie Leary Front of House Karen Lee-Barron Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Arianne Liakeas Cutter/Wardrobe Assistant Jonathan Laidlow Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Claire Lowney Marketing & Communications Officer Alison MacKinnon Head of Marketing & Communications Lauren Macluskie Front of House Thierry Mabonga Front of House Rose Manson Front of House Collette Marshall Front of House Carly McCaig Creative Learning Assistant Erin McCardie Front of House Hannah McLean Drama Class Tutor Michael McGurk Front of House Lawrie McInally Stage Door Administrator Jason McQuaide Welder/Stage Technician Debbie Montgomery Drama Class Tutor Christina Morrison Development Assistant Jim Morrison Bar Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Jack Mullen Box Office Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Emily Murphy Front of House Gareth Nicholls Main Stage Director in Residence Keren Nicol Marketing & Communications Manager Petriece O’Donnell Front of House Neil Packham Community Drama Director Sam Packham Front of House Frances Poet Literary Associate Marion Quinn Front of House Sarah Scarlett Deputy Stage Manager Mags Smillie Head of Finance Andy Smith Housekeeper Angela Smith Education Officer Ann Smith Housekeeper Laura Smith Deputy Head of Production Lorna Stallard Front of House Ros Steen Voice and Dialect Coach Graham Sutherland Head of Production Benjamin Szili Front of House Anna Thompson Front of House Erin Tighe Drama Class Tutor Chris Traquair Head Flyman/Technician Martin Travers Producer (Citizens Learning) Andrew Turner FOH Duty Manager/Stage Door Administrator Colin White Drama Class Tutor/Supervisor Isaac Wilcox Assistant Puppet Maker Ross Williamson Building Supervisor Richard Young Lighting and Sound Technician

Board: Professor Adrienne Scullion (Chair), April Chamberlain (Vice Chair), Laurence Fraser, Alex Gaffney, Dominic Hill, Ryan James, Alex Reedijk and Bailie James Scanlon.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ross Steen - Voice and Dialect Coach, Isaac Wilcox - Assistant Puppet Maker.

All scenery, costumes and props made in the Citizens Theatre workshops.

Opening Night drinks generously provided by Belhaven Brewery and Alliance Wines.

Special Thanks to: Philip G Burke, Guy Coletta, Amy Conway, Jeremy Crawford, Cindy Derby, Kammy Dharweish, Lisa Dundas, Scott Fletcher, Amanda Gaughan, Guy Hollands, David Ireland, Bhav Joshi, Claire McKenzie, Matthew McVarish, Kenny Stewart, Barbara Sullivan, Rosalind Sydney, Ruby Warmington, Gavin Jon Wright, Atta Yaqub, Flashlite Technical Services, Lee’s of Scotland, Newsquest, The Playwrights Studio Scotland and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

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