Trainspotting programme 2016

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TRAINSPOTTING

Artwork by Freight Design

BY IRVINE WELSH ADAPTED BY HARRY GIBSON

14 SEP – 8 OCT 2016

THE CAST LORN MACDONALD | MARK RENTON Lorn graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2015 and works as an actor and independent film-maker. Theatre credits include: This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); The Seagull, The Merchant of Venice, Mother Goose, Charlie Sonata (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland/Tron Theatre); Boys (Soho Theatre/Nuffield Theatre/Headlong & Hightide Festival Theatre); What We Know (Traverse Theatre); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh/Citizens Theatre). TV credits include: A Dream of Death, World’s End, Mighty Midge (BBC), Neverland (Sky Movies/Syfy).

ANGUS MILLER | TOMMY/SICK BOY Angus Miller trained at Drama Centre London. Theatre credits include: Let The Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland, UK and International Tour); Macbeth (Perth Theatre/Tron Theatre); Fleeto (VAMP Productions). TV credits include: Teacup Travels (Plum Films, CBeebies).

CHLOE-ANN TYLOR | ALISON/DIANNE Chloe-Ann graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2016. She is currently The Robertson Trust Actor Intern. Theatre credits include: Circle of Fifths, Dick McWhittington, The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde, As You Like It, Three Sisters (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Titus Andronicus (Dundee Rep); The Merchant of Venice (Bard in the Botanics). On graduating, Chloe-Ann was awarded the James Bridie Gold Medal.

OWEN WHITELAW | BEGBIE/MOTHER SUPERIOR Owen trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). Theatre credits include: King Lear, Sleeping Beauty (Citizens Theatre); The Skriker (Manchester Royal Exchange/Manchester International Festival); Slope (untitled projects); Unfaithful (Traverse Theatre) Paul Bright’s Confessions Of A Justified Sinner (National Theatre of Scotland/ Untitled Projects); In Time O’ Strife, Knives In Hens, Peter Pan, Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s A Troll, Cockroach, 365, Rupture (National Theatre Of Scotland); The Life Of Stuff, Cotton Wool, Nowheresville (Theatre 503); Wonderland (Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/ Tramway/Edinburgh International Festival); A Puff Of Smoke (Tristan Bates Theatre); About A Goth, 10,000 Metres Deep (Paines Plough) Romeo and Juliet (Òran Mór). Television and film credits include: One of Us, Dying Light, What Would Ridley Do, Scoring. Radio credits include: King Lear, McLevy, The Second Mr. Bailey, Blindness (BBC).

GAVIN JON WRIGHT | SPUD Gavin trained at Coatbridge College. Theatre credits include: The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Titus (Macrobert Arts Centre); Cinderella, Potterrow (Cumbernauld Theatre); Whisky Galore! - A Musical, The Servant O’ Twa Maisters, The Life of Stuff, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Decky Does a Bronco (Grid Iron); A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity (Grid Iron/ Traverse Traverse/59E59 New York); Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland), Dragon (Vox Motus/National Theatre of Scotland); A Miracle on 34 Parnie Street, Ulysses (Tron Theatre); News Just In (Random Accomplice); Titus (Red Bridge Arts, US Tour) and several productions at Òran Mór’s A Play, A Pie and A Pint season. Television work includes: Still Game, Taggart, Lip Service, Muncie, Dear Green Place.

WITH Rebecca Bell, Ryan Brown, Lavinia Carpenter, Nicola Clark, Jack Deeney, Euan Ferguson, Luke Gallagher, Amy Gilbrook, Michelle Grant, Kimberley Guthrie, Lynsay Holmes, Georgia Ireland, Sophie Keenan, Amy Kennedy, Elliot Linden, April Luke, Ross Martin, Kirstie Mathison, Keren McGill, Xaviera McLaughlin, Rachel McVicar, Demi Morran, Ruth Morrison, Chris Mullen, Carolina Perez, Rebecca Riddell, Rose Sharkey, Abbi Stevenson, Dannielle Stevenson, Tiia Stevenson, Fraser Walker.

TRAINSPOTTING BY IRVINE WELSH ADAPTED BY HARRY GIBSON Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting was published by Secker & Warburg (now Harvill Secker) in 1993.

Nine months later, Harry Gibson had adapted the novel for the Citizens Theatre’s Stalls Studio. The new production starred Ewen Bremner, who went on to play ‘Spud’ in Danny Boyle’s film version.

The adaptation was a huge success and was remounted the following year at the Citizens before going on to tour the globe. Its explicit content and shocking violence made it a commonly-cited prime example of ’in-yer-face theatre’, a term used to categorise the work of young writers in the 1990s including Sarah Kane, Philip Ridley and Jez Butterworth. Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting found global notoriety through Danny Boyle’s 1996 film starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd and Johnny Lee Miller. Welsh’s sequel to Trainspotting, Porno, was published in 2012. A film adaptation, again directed by Danny Boyle, was filmed in 2016, and is expected to be released in early 2017 as T2.

CREATIVE TEAM GARETH NICHOLLS | DIRECTOR Gareth is currently the Main Stage Director in Residence at the Citizens Theatre supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Directing credits include: Blackbird by David Harrower, Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny adapted by Robert David MacDonald, Vanya by Sam Holcroft (Citizens Theatre); Donald Robertson Is Not A Stand-Up Comedian by Gary McNair (Traverse Theatre); The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot by Oliver Emanuel (Macrobert Arts Centre); Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (Tron Theatre); Voices From The Black That I Am by Karl O’Brian Williams, Moby Dick

by Herman Melville, Crunch by Gary McNair and Prom by Oliver Emanuel (Òran Mór). Gareth has won two Fringe Firsts for A Gambler’s Guide To Dying (2015) and Educating Ronnie (Utter, 2012).

MAX JONES | DESIGNER Recent design credits include: True West (UK Theatre Award nomination for Best Design), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The Caretaker (Citizens Theatre); Pride and Prejudice, The Winter’s Tale (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The York Mystery Plays (York Minster); Little Shop of Horrors, Educating Rita, Glengary Glen Ross, Bruised, A Doll’s House, Dancing At Lughnasa, Blackthorn, A Small Family Business, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Two Princes, The Grapes of Wrath (Theatre Clywd); The Crucible, Brilliant Adventures, Miss Julie (Royal Exchange); Orpheus Descending (Bunkamura, Japan); The Lady From the Sea (Theatre Genedlaethol Cymru); Blasted (The Other Room); The Broken Heart, The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); Queen Coal (Sheffield Theatres); The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Merry Wives of Windsor (Royal Shakespeare Company); Play Strindberg (Ustinov, Bath); Much Ado About Nothing (Nameless Media & Productions, Japan Tour); Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Time To Reap, Spur of the Moment (Royal Court); Così fan tutte (Welsh National Opera & UK Tour).

PHILIP GLADWELL | LIGHTING DESIGNER Recent theatre credits include: Cymbeline (Royal Shakespeare Company); The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland/National Theatre of Great Britain, International Tour); The World of Extreme Happiness, Love the Sinner (National Theatre); After Miss Julie (Theatre Royal Bath, UK Tour); Mr. Burns, Before The Party (Almeida); Fraulein Julie (Die Schaubühne, Barbican); Blanc de Blanc (Strut & Fret, Sydney Opera House, London Hippodrome); The Seagull (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Twits, Liberian Girl, God Bless The Child, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, No Quarter, Kebab (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic/Handspring Puppet Company, Barbican); First Love is the Revolution, The Boy Who Fell into A Book, Pastoral (Soho Theatre); Limbo (London/ International Tour); The Member of the Wedding (Young Vic); Testing The Echo (Out Of Joint); Milk, Swallow, Ciara, I’m With the Band, The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society, In the Bag, Melody (Traverse); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mogadishu, Punk Rock (The Lyric Hammersmith); One For the Road, Hedda Gabler, The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Theatre Northampton); The Fahrenheit Twins, Low Pay? Don’t Pay! (Told by an Idiot); If Only (Chichester); 1984, Macbeth, Too Clever by Half, You Can’t Take it With You (Royal Exchange Theatre); Terminus (Abbey Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Irish and Australian Tour, USA Tour). Recent credits for musicals include: Hairspray (UK Tour), Jackie the Musical (UK Tour), The Sound of Music, Gypsy, Chicago (Curve Leicester), Laila (UK Tour), Happy Days (UK Tour), The Infidel (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The King and I (UK Tour).

MICHAEL JOHN MCCARTHY | COMPOSER Michael John is a Cork-born, Glasgow-based composer & musician. Work for performance includes: Rapunzel, Into That Darkness, Fever Dream: Southside, Sports Day (Citizens Theatre); The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The BFG, Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); Light Boxes, Letters Home, The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); In Time O’ Strife, Blabbermouth, The Tin Forest, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (National Theatre of Scotland); A Gambler’s Guide to Dying (Gary McNair with Show and Tell); Right Now (Traverse); Bondagers (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre), Glory (Janice Parker Projects); The Winter’s Tale (People’s Light and Theatre Company, Philadelphia). Other companies he has worked with include The Arches, Lung Ha’s, Macrobert Arts Centre, Platform, Playgroup, Theatre Uncut, Utter, Vox Motus and Youth Music Theatre UK. He has toured internationally with Zoey Van Goey, Aidan Moffat and Lord Cut-Glass and played on records

by RM Hubbert, Jo Mango, Alasdair Roberts and Trembling Bells/Bonnie Prince Billy.

EJ BOYLE | MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Theatre and film credits include: This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland), Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens Theatre/Edinburgh International Festival); The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil, Great Expectations, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Victoria (Dundee Rep); Forest Boy (New York Musical Festival/Arcola); Richard III (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Hedda Gabler, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Not About Heroes (Eden Court); Still Game: Live (Glasgow Hydro); Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel, Tommy (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); God Help the Girl (Sundance Special Jury Prize); Muncie (ITV); The Crown (Netflix). Other work includes: Creative Associate and Choreographer, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Ceremonies; Choreographer, Baku 2015 European Games; Director, Queen’s Patrons’ Lunch Parade; Under the Ground (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). EJ’s performance career included the Royal Shakespeare Company, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and work in film, television, radio and several West End productions. She was previously Lecturer in Dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she wrote the MA in Musical Theatre Choreography.

IZZIE TURNER | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Izzie is currently on placement at the Citizens Theatre as part of her MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck University. She is a regular collaborator with London-based theatre companies Changing Face and Scram. Directing credits include: Pool (No Water) by Mark Ravenhill and The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey. She has also directed cabarets and movement pieces, and composed music for theatre.

Trainspotting in rehearsal. L-R Lorn Macdonald, Gavin Jon Wright.

Photo by Shiona Walker.

THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Thomas Abela Neil Anderson Amy Angus Fin Bain Paul C Bassett Catherine Bird Ashleigh Blair Marissa Bonnar Alex Brady Suzanne Brady Laura Briggs Marion Brochard Louise Brown Andrew Bunton Tess Campbell Theo Cherry Lisa Corr Natalia Cortes Anthony Costello Elaine G Coyle Carol Cull Stephen Cunningham Caroline Darke Lesley Davidson Saul Davidson Denise Differ Miriam Sarah Doren Michael Dorrance Ann Dundas Lisa Dundas Paul Dundas Archie Fisher Robyn Ferguson Sophie Fernie Barry Forde Neil Francis Jacky Gardiner Harvey Gardner Anne Gillan Elly Goodman Jessica Griffiths Davy Harrop Stephen Harrop Jamie Hayes Neil Haynes Jill Henderson Dominic Hill Guy Hollands Olivia Hughes Caroline James Miles Jarvis Euan Jenkins Stuart Jenkins Arthur Johnston Debbie Jones Simon Jones Niamh Kane Judith Kilvington Sarah Kinsey Jenny Knotts

Front of House Technician/Electrician Drama Class Tutor Front of House Assistant to the Directors Payroll Officer Scenic Artist Front of House Box Office Supervisor/IT Box Office/Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House Creative Learning Officer Front of House Development Manager Front of House Drama Class Tutor Company Stage Manager Stage Management Placement Head of Wardrobe Housekeeper Stage Technician Trusts & Foundations Manager General Manager Front of House Box Office Manager Drama Class Tutor Deputy Head of Workshop Housekeeper Finance Assistant Front of House Manager Front of House Front of House Front of House Assistant Stage Manager Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House Finance Officer Community Drama Artist Wardrobe Assistant Front of House/Stage Door Administrator Front of House Duty Manager/Carpenter Head of Stage Head Scenic Artist Drama Class Tutor Artistic Director Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Front of House Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House Head of Lighting & Sound Front of House Front of House Stage Door Administrator Front of House Executive Director Wardrobe Assistant Box Office

Jonathan Laidlow Campbell Lawrie

Jamie Leary Karen Lee-Barron Alison MacKinnon Rose Manson Collette Marshall Carly McCaig Erin McCardie Michael McGurk Rachel McGurk Hazel McIlwraith Lawrie McInally Hannah McLean Jason McQuaide Jon Meggat Shaun Miller Debbie Montgomery Declan Mooney Christina Morrison Jim Morrison Jacqueline Muir Jack Mullen Denis Murphy Emily Murphy Gareth Nicholls Keren Nicol Petriece O’Donnell Cathy O’Neill Neil Packham Sam Packham Frances Poet Marion Quinn Sarah Rankin Valerie Rickis Mo Serpehri Doust Sal Shah Jatinder Singh Mags Smillie Andy Smith Angela Smith Ann Smith Laura Smith Lorna Stallard Andy Stuart Colin Sutherland Graham Sutherland Nicky Taylor Erin Tighe Chris Traquair Martin Travers Andrew Turner Izzie Turner Chloe-Ann Tylor Shiona Walker Colin White Ross Williamson Emma Louise Wyllie

Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Paul Hamlyn Club Co-ordinator/ Drama Class Supervisor Front of House/Box Office Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Head of Marketing and Communications Front of House Front of House Creative Learning Assistant Front of House Front of House Front of House Head of Development Stage Door Administrator Drama Class Tutor Deputy Head of Stage Electrician/Operator Actor Intern Drama Class Tutor Apprentice Carpenter Development Assistant Front of House Production Administrator Box Office Head of Workshop Front of House Main Stage Director in Residence Marketing & Communications Manager Front of House Deputy Stage Manager Community Drama Director Front of House Literary Associate Front of House Drama Class Tutor Assistant Stage Manager Front of House Carpenter/Scenic Front of House Head of Finance Housekeeper Education Officer Housekeeper Deputy Head of Production Front of House Technician/Sound Scenic Head of Production Front of House Drama Class Tutor Head Flyman/Technician Producer (Citizens Learning) Stage Door Administrator Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Robertson Trust Actor Intern Digital Officer Drama Class Tutor/Supervisor Building Supervisor Front of House

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

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

Opening night drinks generously provided by Belhaven and Alliance Wines.

Special Thanks to: Graeme Taylor at the Glasgow Angling Centre, The Millennium Hotel, Co-op Funeral Care, Richmonds, Perfect Glazing, Matthew and Alex Jenkins, The Tron Theatre.

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