The Jungle Book (30 Nov 2013 - 5 Jan 2014)

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A CITIZENS THEATRE PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH KENNY WAX LTD & ARTFIELD

STAGE ADAPTATION STUART

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MUSIC BB COOPER LYRICS BARB JUNGR

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STUART PATERSON - WRITER Stuart’s many stage plays include King of the Fields and new versions of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull and Three Sisters. He has recently completed an adaptation of Chekhov’s story The Black Monk. A new play Cars and Boys will be performed in Spring 2014 at Dundee Repertory Theatre. He is currenly working on a screen adaptation of Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg, and an original screenplay Body and Soul. His children’s plays, first performed at the Citizens Theatre, have since been staged throughout the UK, and recently in the USA, Finland, Holland, Sweden and by Den Nationale Scene in Norway, the theatre founded by Ibsen, and by Theater Der Jugend in Vienna. A new narrated version of The Snow Queen for music by Savourna Stevenson will be premiered by the RSNO this December.

BB COOPER - MUSIC Musical theatre in the UK: Brontë (book and lyrics by Peter Spafford); Goblins Don’t Scare Us (book and lyrics by Nigel Osner); The Beast with Two Brains (book and lyrics by Ken Hill); Birmingham Stage Company’s The Jungle Book (book by Stuart Paterson and lyrics by Barb Jungr) and Devilish (book and lyrics by Chris Burgess, orchestrations by Sarah Travis). Song cycles: It’s a Wonderful Life (lyrics by Drey Shepperd) and Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Contemporary Dance in Prague: Ghetto 1577 and La Bohème in collaboration with choreographer, Pavel Strouhal and orchestrator, Martin Kumžák. BB is a founder member of MMD (Mercury Musical Developments), a writer-based organisation in Britain dedicated to the development and presentation of new musical theatre.

BARB JUNGR - LYRICS Barb Jungr is a highly acclaimed internationally known singer and writer based in London. She has written lyrics and music for We’re Going on a Bear Hunt for the Little Angel Theatre for whom she also wrote The Fabulous Flutterbys, a song cycle for Corby, Deep Roots, Tall Trees (now in its second year), two musicals: Mabel Stark: Tiger Tiger and The Ballad of Norah’s Ark and is the lyricist for Birmingham Stage Company’s The Jungle Book.

Inside The Jungle Book rehearsal room (left to right: Obioma Ugoala, Jake Davies and Jorell Coiffic-Kamall).

Photo by Tim Morozzo.

THE CAST HENRY BAUCKHAM | TABAQUI Henry graduated this year as an Actor Musician from Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance, London. Theatre credits whilst training include: Lady In The Dark (Greenwich Theatre); Sjt. Musgrave’s Dance, Women Beware Women, The Baby (Rose Theatre); Dig and Delve (Half Moon Theatre). Henry is also a founding member of Blackheath Youth Theatre in London.

Productions with BYT as an actor include Uncle Vanya (Bakehouse Theatre); The Crucible, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Grapes Of Wrath (Drill Hall) and as director A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Port (Blackheath Halls). The Jungle Book is Henry’s professional acting debut.

JORELL COIFFIC-KAMALL | BAGHEERA Jorell trained at Pineapple Studios, London. Theatre includes: Little Shop Of Horrors (Hertford Regional); Connect ’05 (Sadlers Wells); Move It (Olympia); Street Dance Weekend UK vs USA (Wembley Arena); Y@P-Breakin’ Out (The Unicon Theatre/UK tour); Jackson 5 Alive (UK Tour); Jack & The Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Warriors (Barbican); The Harder They Come (Olympic Park). Television includes: Ahead Of The Class, Top Of The Pops, Blue Peter, The Queens Jubilee, Proms In The Park, Basil Brush, DJ Ironik -‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, MTV Sweet 16, MOBO Music Awards. Film includes: When I’m Gone. Jorell and his dance crew Y@P were nominated for Best Dance Crew in the UK 2007 Dance Off Awards.

JAKE DAVIES | MOWGLI Jake trained at The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology, Croydon.

Theatre includes: The Good Person of Sichuan (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Beautiful Thing (West End/UK Tour); London Wall (Finborough Theatre); Something for the Winter (Southwark Playhouse); Foster (Lion and Unicorn Theatre); Overkill (The Warehouse Theatre); After the Storm (Fairfield Halls and Bloomsbury Theatre); Peter Pan (The Churchill Theatre). Television includes: A Mother’s Son (ITV); Bad Education (BBC3); Holby City, Call the Midwife (BBC). Film includes: X Plus Y (BBC Films); Leave to Remain (Indefinite Films); Charlie Says, Volume (NFTS).

CHRIS DONALD | BAN Chris is currently Actor Intern at the Citizens Theatre and a recent graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre includes: Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre/Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse/Royal Lyceum); King Lear, The Land of the Great Big Dogs (Citizens Theatre); Eight (Tron Theatre); Fleeto (Tramway). Theatre credits whilst training include: The Possibilities, Beauty and the Beast, Tartuffe, Romeo and Juliet, Mourning Becomes Electra, Three Sisters (RCS). Film includes: The Students of Springfield Street (Futurist Film Ltd). Chris was recently awarded the James Bridie Medal from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2013.

JACK LORD | AKELA Theatre includes: Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre/Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse/Royal Lyceum); Cooking with Elvis (Derby Theatre); Wind In The Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Royal Court Liverpool); Twelfth Night (Chester Performs); Our Country’s Good (Original Theatre Company); Dick Turpin’s Last Ride (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Hobson’s Choice, King Lear, Anthony & Cleopatra, Major Barbara, A Moon For The Misbegotten, Pictures of Clay, Quids ‘n’ Dimps (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Grimm Tales, A Christmas Carol, The Glee Club (Library Theatre, Manchester); Get Carter (Red Shift Theatre Company); The Wizard of Oz (Lowry Theatre); Absurd Person Singular (Bolton Octagon).

TV: Eternal Law (Kudos); The Street, Coronation Street, Cold Feet (Granada TV); Waterloo Road (BBC); Emmerdale (Yorkshire TV); North Square (Channel 4); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures). Film: Pierrepoint (Granada Films). Radio: Flutterby, Legacy (BBC Radio 4).

LANRE MALAOLU | SHERE KHAN Lanre trained at Drama Centre London. Theatre includes: Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Andrew Zondo (BAFTA); Burying Your Brother in the Pavement (Arcola); Upper Street (King’s Head); Citizenship (Young Actors Theatre); What’s So Funny (Roundhouse); Tashan (Hackney Empire); The Woods (Company Of Angels).

Television includes: The Bill (ITV), The Armstrong and Miller Show (Hat Trick), Harley’s Angels, Driving Me Mad, Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor. Film includes: Fallout (Company Pictures); Inkheart, Forever Friends, Casey’s Story, The List, Cherries, Five Pound Hollywood, The Escort. Radio: St Christopher Campaign.

LOREN O’DAIR | RAKSHA Loren trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Theatre includes: Robin Hood (Dukes, Lancaster); The Johnny Eck and Dave Toole Show (Slung Low/ West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (New Vic); Bloom (Forest Forge); Celebrity Night at Café Red (Trafalgar Studios); Dick Turpin’s Last Ride (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds/UK tour); Sexing The Cherry (Southbank Centre); Hamlet (UK tour); Before I Sleep (dreamthinkspeak/Brighton Festival); Othello (UK tour); Ur-Hamlet, The Marriage of Medea (Odin Teatret, Denmark/ Poland); The Turn of The Screw (UK tour); The Fence (The Wrestling School/Birmingham Rep).

Radio includes: Economus Wrecked (Actors of Dionysus/BBC Radio 4). Film includes: Squat (Scanner-Rhodes Productions) and the title role in Medea (Dromos Films).

OBIOMA UGOALA | BALOO Obioma graduated from Drama Centre London in 2012. Theatre credits include: Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre/Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse/Royal Lyceum); The Physicists (Donmar Warehouse); The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mouse and His Child (RSC); Neighbors (HighTide/ Nuffield). TV credits include: High Society’s Favourite Gigolo (Channel 4/ Maroon Productions).

ELEXI WALKER | KAA Theatre credits include: Europa (ZKM, Croatia/Dresden Staatsschauspiel/ Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz/Birmingham Rep); You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse); DNA (Hull Truck Theatre/UK Tour); The Taming of the Shrew (Southwark Playhouse); To Kill A Mockingbird (York Theatre Royal); The Vagina Monologues (Mark Goucher Ltd.). TV and Radio Credits include: Rhiannon in Doctors (BBC); Reality Check (BBC Asian Network). Elexi was also a Norman Beaton Fellowship finalist in 2010.

CREATIVE TEAM NIKOLAI FOSTER | DIRECTOR Nikolai Foster was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and grew up in North Yorkshire. He trained at Drama Centre London and at the Crucible, Sheffield. His work has been seen in many of the UK’s leading regional theatres, touring houses and internationally. Foster has been director on attachment at the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre Studio and an Associate Director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. Nikolai dedicates this production to Gerard Murphy (1948 2013), a great friend, magnificent actor and citizen of this theatre. www.nikolaifoster.com

TAKIS | DESIGNER takis studied Costume and Set Design at the Romanian National University of Arts, Bucharest and Theatre Technical Arts at RADA. He undertook practice based research at London College of Fashion and he is currently completing his PhD at Aalto University, Finland. His work has been seen both nationally and internationally. takis has been nominated for Off West End Awards for Set Design in 2009 for the production Stovepipe, in 2011 for His Teeth and in 2012 for Fear with Bafta winner Dominic Savage. From 2007-2011 as Designer in Residence for HighTide, he designed diverse productions to great acclaim including the successful Stovepipe in collaboration with the National Theatre, Ditch with the Old Vic and Lidless (Fringe First Award winner, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010). www.takis.info

JAMES WHITESIDE | LIGHTING DESIGNER West End includes: Midnight Tango (Aldwych); Never Forget (Savoy); Storm In A Flower Vase (Arts); Footloose (Novello); Holding The Man (Trafalgar Studios); The Female Of The Species (Vaudeville).

Recent: April In Paris (Tron); The Odd Couple, Moonlight And Magnolias, Twelfth Night (Perth Theatre); A Marvellous Year For Plums, Funny Girl, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Good Person Of Sichuan (Mercury, Colchester); James And The Giant Peach (Birmingham Stage); Disgraced, Fear (Bush); Salonika (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom, The Snail And The Whale (Tall Stories). Forthcoming: The Witches (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dance ’til Dawn (UK tour); The Water Babies (Leicester Curve).

CRESSIDA CARRÉ | CHOREOGRAPHER Training: Northern Ballet School. Credits include: Titanic (Southwark Playhouse); Sweeney Todd, Cats (Centrepoint, Dubai); Spend Spend Spend (Cockpit, London); Seussical (Arts); A Winter’s Tale (Landor); Marguerite (Tabard); Bright Lights Big City, The Fix (Albany); Songs Of My Life (Garrick); Burlesque (Jermyn St); Britain’s Got Bhangra (Palace, Watford/UK tour); FRESHER The Musical (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); The Hired Man (Landor); Merlin And The Woods Of Time, As You Like It (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Spring Awakening (UK tour); The Great British Musical (Criterion); Great Expectations (Palace, Watford/UK tour); Wind In The Willows (Derby); Departure Lounge (Waterloo East Theatre); Cinderella (Devonshire Park, Eastbourne); Elegies For Angels Punks And Raging Queens (The Black Box, Belfast); A... My Name Is Alice (Charing Cross Theatre); A Chorus Line, West Side Story (BAC); Steel Pier (Chelsea Theatre); Jack And The Beanstalk (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds); Into The Woods (Greenwich); Lucky Stiff (New Wimbledon Studio); Jesus Christ Superstar (Kings, Portsmouth)

SARAH TRAVIS | ORCHESTRATOR / MUSICAL SUPERVISOR Recent credits as Orchestrator and Musical Supervisor include: Fiddler On the Roof (Current Music And Lyrics UK tour); Dear World (Charing Cross Theatre); Chess (UK tour); Spend Spend Spend, Copacabana, Martin Guerre, Hot Mikado, Ten Cents A Dance, Carmen (The Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Sunset Boulevard (Pinter Theatre); Mack And Mabel (Criterion); Gondoliers (Apollo Shaftesbury Ave). She won a Tony and Drama Desk Award for her orchestrations on 2005/6 Production of Sweeney Todd (Watermill Theatre, Newbury). She has composed music for many pantomimes at Chipping Norton Theatre. Other composing credits include: Tales My Lover Told Me (Kings Head); The Last Fattybottypuss In The World (Regents Park); Peter Pan (Oxford Playhouse). As pianist she has worked with Julian Clary, Lily Savage, Fascinating Aida, Issy van Randwyck, Barb Jungr, Alvin Stardust and The Drop Dead Divas.

TERESA BARLOW | MUSICAL SUPERVISOR Teresa started playing the piano at the age of three and went on to study with Professor John Byrne.

Musical Director Theatre credits include: Canterbury Tales, HMS Pinafore swing arrangement, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, The Show Must Go On, Christmas Crooners and Strictly Swing, Aladdin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella. Musical Supervision: Over The Rainbow, Popstar the Musical. Youth Theatre Projects include Summer Holiday, Oliver! and Little Shop of Horrors. Youth Music Theatre UK (Assistant MD). She was involved as an arranger for Coronation Street of Dreams project and was recently regular dep on the King & I UK tour. Teresa was also vocal coach at Carol Godby Theatre School in Manchester, Jennifer Ellison Fame Academy in Liverpool and Centre Pointe School of Dance in Denton.

JUSTIN WILSON | PUPPET MAKER AND DESIGNER Justin Wilson (AKA Justin Illusions Creative Studio) works from a converted farm just outside Glasgow, near Kilmarnock. Originally from an arty family, he trained in fine art at Hornsey College of Art in the mid 80s. He has worked under the name of Justin Illusions for stage, exhibition, TV and feature films as a designer, model maker, sculptor and puppet maker. Originally from London, Justin moved to Ayrshire 14 years ago to bring up his son and build a studio base in Scotland.

Some of his most recent work includes the giant Dragon and clouds for Dragon (NTS/Vox Motus); statues for Scottish Opera’s Don Giovani; dead bodies for drama Shetland (ITV) and set designs for The Borderline Theatre.

DANIELLE MCILVEN | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Danielle is currently on the Theatre Directing MFA at Birkbeck, University of London. She was seconded to Drama Centre London and has recently taken up a placement at the Citizens Theatre.

KAY MAGSON | CASTING DIRECTOR

THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Neil Anderson Amy Angus Jackie Arbuthnott Tom Arnott Lorraine Barclay Isabella Basset Omar Bhahr David Black Harriet Bolwell Alex Brady Suzanne Brady Neil Bratchpiece Jessica Brettle Laura Briggs Marion Brochard Louise Brown Andrew Bunton Lara Carter Guy Coletta Lisa Corr Natalia Cortes Elaine G Coyle Carol Cull Maureen Dalton Kate Dalzell Lesley Davidson Denise Differ Chris Donald Miriam Sarah Doren Michael Dorrance Ann Dundas Lisa Dundas Paul Dundas Julia Easton Sophie Fernie Gillian Firth Sarah Amy Fishlock Barry Forde Neil Francis Frazer Fyfe Jacky Gardiner Harvey Gardner Vasso Georgiadou Anne Gillan Elly Goodman Mirren Green Jessica Hardwick John Haughian Eleanor Harris Jamie Hayes Neil Haynes Jill Henderson Dominic Hill Guy Hollands Stuart Jenkins

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Debbie Jones Front of House Judith Kilvington Executive Director Jennifer Knotts Front of House Carmen Lam Development Assistant Kylie Langford Wardrobe Assistant Campbell Lawrie Box Office/Drama Class Supervisor Karen Lee Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Robert MacFarlane Wardobe Cutter Alison MacKinnon Head of Marketing & Communications Lauren Macluskie Front of House Catherine Major Drama Class Assistant Sophie Martin Scenic Artist Carly McCaig Creative Learning Assistant Morna McGeoch Drama Class Tutor Amy McGregor Front of House Mark McGrory Front of House Michael McGurk Front of House Danielle McIlven Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Lawrie McInally Stage Door Administrator Jason McQuaide Welder/Stage Technician Sian Mitchel MacGregor Assistant Stage Manager Debbie Montgomery Drama Class Tutor Jim Morrison Bar Supervisor Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Catriona Mullen Front of House Jack Mullen Box Office Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Emily Murphy Front of House Keren Nicol Senior Marketing and Press Officer Petriece O’Donnell Front of House Neil Packham Community Drama Director Marion Quinn Front of House Sarah Scarlett Deputy Stage Manager Sal Shah Carpenter Sami Sharif Front of House Claire Sharp Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Greg Sinclair Artist in Residence Andy Smith Housekeeper Angela Smith Education Officer Ann Smith Housekeeper Laura Smith Deputy Head of LX & Sound Marte Spiekermann Wardrobe Intern Lorna Stallard Front of House Cecilia Stamp Marketing Assistant Graham Sutherland Head of Production Marc Thompson Digital Marketing Officer Chris Traquair Head Flyman/Technician Martin Travers Producer (Citizens Learning) Andrew Turner Stage Door Administrator/

Front of House Duty Manager Colin White Drama Class Tutor/Supervisor Ross Williamson Building Supervisor David Young Prop Maker Richard Young Studio Technician

Board: Professor Adrienne Scullion (Chair), April Chamberlain, Laurence Fraser, Colum Halforty, Edward Harkins, Ryan James, Alex Reedijk and Bailie James Scanlon.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Actor Intern positions are supported by The Robertson Trust.

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

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

The first performance of this play was given by the Birmingham Stage Company at the Birmingham Old Rep in November 2004.

The Jungle Book adaptation Š2007 Stuart Paterson.

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