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Welcome To

Hello and welcome to Liverpool’s Royal Court and this performance of Haunted Scouse When you work in a big, old theatre like the Royal Court one of the things that you need to get used to are the theatre ghosts.

We’ve got spectres in the stalls, phantoms in the foyer and banshees behind the bars. Now we can finally give them their moment in the limelight thanks to Haunted Scouse!

Gerry Linford came up with the idea of a dearly departed husband who wouldn’t depart. As usual, his script is full of big laughs and some really touching moments. It’s great to have him back for 2024.

The main roles were made for Mickey Starke and Lynn Francis who are both great Liverpool actors. A married couple in real life, they certainly enjoyed the bickering and name calling that was required in the script. There were real tears in the rehearsal room in parts as well. We are blessed with a fantastic cast throughout.

You will all know Helen and Paul from plenty of past shows here and Julie is back for her second run out on the main stage. They are all experts in getting every last bit of comedy out of a script that is overflowing with it.

the first time and I think you’ll agree that it looks stunning. Ian Scott and Kate Harvey are, as usual, our shining light and totally sound.

I’ve said before that Liverpool is a city full of stories and storytellers and since we announced this show we have been approached by actors, staff and members of the public who all have a ghost story to tell. I don’t know if there is anything out there but plenty believe in ghosties and ghoulies. I hope you get through the show without getting snatched up by the ghosties or grabbed by the… never mind.

Now it’s time for you to settle down and watch the show. I hope that you love what we have done here and remember to tell your friends so they don’t miss out. Who they gonna call? Box Office!

Enjoy the show!

Kevin Fearon Executive Producer Liverpool’s Royal Court

On the creative team, Emma Bird takes the helm as our Director.

With a long history in improv and physical comedy, she has done a great job with the show. Ellie Light designed the set for us for

Liverpool’s Royal Court presents Haunted Scouse

by Gerry Linford Starring Helen Carter, Paul Duckworth, Lynn Francis, Julie Glover and Michael Starke Directed by Emma Bird • Designed By Ellie Light Lighting Design by Ian Scott • Sound Design by Kate Harvey • Video Design by Jamie Jenkin

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Talent Development

Liverpool’s Royal Court continues on its journey to work towards talent development across the city

Maurice Bessman

Music Access All Areas

Boisterous Stage Write

There is no doubt Liverpool is renowned for its wealth of talent but we, along with the rest of our city’s theatre organisations and institutions, recognise we need to do more to ensure we are accessible, engaging and aspirational if we are to be truly representative and inclusive of the communities we serve. It is a long-term continuing process and funding is key as is working together with the theatres across the region.

Over the past three years we have laid down the foundations, initiating our plans for meaningful and real change. This includes the theatre’s programming, engagement, accessibility and relationships with artistes, communities, creatives, individuals, institutions, organisations, Schools/FE. We are working towards ensuring our talent development programmes are applicable, realistic and robust.

Listening and engaging in the first instance to a wide cross section of creatives and communities – recognising and taking ownership of our failure to be fully inclusive and to take a proactive approach to ensure there is inclusivity and diversity across the sector A brief look at a few of our talent development projects so far:

Community Music AAA (Access All Areas) is a partnership project together with three grassroots organisations: Positive Impact, Capoeira For All, and Catalyst performing arts supported by funding from Youth Music. Children and young people aged 6 – 25 can access free musical instruments, musical theatre, hip hop, dance, singing, drama and performance

Raw Talent Young people from our youth theatre continue to have access to auditions and employment opportunities – during the past 3 years, 6 young people have been cast in Terriers, written by Maurice Bessman touring to schools and venues across the country.

More recently working with Fury films, 120 young people aged 15 – 25 from across the city took part in audition workshops for the film of Terriers at Fire Fit in South Liverpool, MYA’s Space in Bootle and The Vibe in Huyton. 8 young people will be working with the Director to support the script development.

Mentoring This is a pilot programme supported by PH Holt Trust and Curious Minds – eight mentors from the creative industries have been paired with mentees – providing support, guidance and shadowing opportunities in acting, marketing, production, directing, writing, set design, and music skills. This talent development initiative will support eight young black, asian and minority artistes and creatives develop their skills as they progress through the industry.

Programming Our Boisterous Theatre strand of programming brought us a main house production of Bouncers, in August and September introducing four new actors to the main house stage – and new audiences to the theatre.

The Alternative Black Cabaret Showcase – now a regular bi-monthly show presenting some of the best black comedians and singers on the circuit and with a platform to showcase emerging and existing local talent.

Co-production with Red Ladder in September/October, with a cast of professional actors and 20 members of our community choir.

Stagewrite – our new writing classes/workshops to encourage and support new writers to develop their work to full production.

We continue on our journey with a number of other talent development initiatives in progress as a matter of priority to ensure we remain accessible, adaptable and continually listen and learn. It will take time and investment and with your continuing support for all we do. We will make a difference.

Royal Court Ghost Stories

The Royal Court is an old building with many spirits, phantoms and phantasmagoria! Here are just some of the scariest and most definitely real ethereal encounters from over the years

We have, in order of appearance: 1. Les

Les Joynson caretaker who died on the roof in the early 1970s. Cat called Napoleon. Friendly, opens and closes doors. Smell of cat wee whenever he appears. He is a friendly ghost but if anything goes missing backstage then it is always down to Les!

2. Lady In Red

One of our staff saw an old woman in a red cardigan in the downstairs bar. After the Liverpool Echo put the story in a piece about theatre ghosts a man phoned up the next day. He was the licensee here in the 1980s and after a Motorhead gig he saw an old lady in a red cardigan appear at the back of the stalls, walk the length of the room and then disappear. He had never told a soul!

3. Woman In Smock

After a teachers’ event in the basement one of the teachers went to the ladies. She came out asking where the woman in the smock had gone. She had been talking to her in the mirror about the theatre before she walked out of the door. A member of staff had been waiting outside the door the whole time and nobody had come out!

An artist’s impression of what Les the Cleaner and his ghostly cat Napoleon may look like

4. The Grim Reaper

On Debbie the cleaner’s first day she was in the circle with Christine the cleaner when she saw the Grim Reaper himself! She went to say something to Christine but thought better of it. Christine asked her if she had seen something because she had seen the Grim Reaper too!

5. Cavalier On The Fly Floor

Tommy the stagehand and his big mate were up on the fly floor working on a show in the 1970s when they saw a man dressed in a Cavalier costume come through the wall, walk towards them then turn and walk through the same wall further up. They got very frightened and ran away!

What the cavalier looked like

6. The Stairs On The Far Side Of The Circle

None of the staff like going down these stairs. They will take a long diversion to go around them but when you ask them why, they don’t remember doing it. They don’t know why they are scared!

7. Crying Usher

In the balcony several people have seen a figure in a 1920s dress sitting in seat D12 crying. We believe it to be an ex usher from the 1920s who haunts the area where she previously worked. Nobody books that seat, even when they are booking online!

8. The Backstage Lift

One night in 2006 the burglar alarm went off and Andy the building manager came in to check it out with one of the techs. They couldn’t see anything wrong until they realised that the lift had moved up from the 3rd to the 4th floor.

There was no power going to the lift!

A picture of a real ghost, yesterday

9. Ghostly Time Stop

When a member of staff took a bunch of students around the theatre on a ghost tour his watch stopped about 20 minutes in. It started up again about 10 minutes after the tour had finished, some 2 hours later. The watch has not lost any time before or since!

10. Marie’s Phone

Marie the wardrobe mistress was watching from the side of stage. She took her phone out to film some of the show but didn’t get much footage. When she played it back there was silence then a voice hissed “Maarrrieeeeee”. There was nobody else on that side of the stage!

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Cast Helen Carter Paul Duckworth Lynn Francis Julie Glover Michael Starke

Peggy Gordon Molly Linda Charlie

Company Gerry Linford Emma Bird Ellie Light Ian Scott Kate Harvey Jamie Jenkin Marie Jones Sean Gannon Stephen Petit Andrew Lock Amy Wildgoose Steph Carter Rebecca Maguire Jamie Haining Martyn Case Helena Harvey Lloyd Smith

Writer Director Set & Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Video Designer Wardrobe Supervisor Production Manager Production Assistant Technical Stage Manager Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager LX Programmer LX & AV Op AV Programmer Sound Op

Workshop Workshop Manager John Kavanagh Scenic Art Manager Jen Baron

Carpenters Mick Gunnigle Jonathan Defty Mike Gray David Davies

Scenic Artists Abbie Jones Chris McCourt Hannah Dimelow

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Cast Biographies

Helen Carter Peggy Helen trained at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include: Bingo Star, The Scousetrap, (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool) Offered Up (Liverpool Royal Court Studio), Love Liverpool, A Christmas Carol (Liverpool Playhouse Theatre) Merry Christmas, Carol (Royal Court Liverpool Studio) My Fairfield Lady (Royal Court Liverpool); The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (Hull Truck Theatre) The Star (The Liverpool Playhouse Theatre); Father O’Flaherty Save Our Souls (Royal Court Liverpool); Mam I’m ‘Ere (Royal Court Liverpool) ; The Sunshine Boys (Epstein Theatre;/Life in Theatre Productions); Word: Play Tour (Box of Tricks Theatre Company); The Last 5 Years (Life in Theatre Productions); The Gatekeeper (The Royal Exchange Theatre); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman); No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); Hatch (Bolton Octogon/24:7 Theatre Festival); Dad’s Army Marches On (Calibre Productions Tour); Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Liverpool Playhouse); The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse) Top Girls (Royal Court Theatre London 50th Anniversary performance); The Honest Whore (William Poel Prize; The Globe Theatre; London).

TV Credits include: G’wed (ITV) Ruby Speaking (BBC Television),The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (BBC Television); Wallander (Left Bank Pictures); Doctors (BBC Television); Beaten (Coastal Productions); Judge John Deed (BBC Television); A470 (S4C) Film: Through the Dunes (Empire Street Productions), 96 Ways to Say I Love You (Daisy Aitkens and Georgia Moffet)

Julie Glover Linda Julie has worked with the Royal Court in Hey Bunny Get Loose, Masquerade, My Fairfield Lady and Stage Write Nights.

She is delighted to be back playing Linda and feels so lucky to be involved with such a great creative team. Julie has worked in theatre, film and television for over twenty years.

Theatre credits include:

King of Edge Hill (Unity Theatre); Crying In The Chapel (Contact Theatre); Waltz To The Music Of Death (Vienna’s English Theatre).

TV credits include: Emmerdale (ITV); Waterloo Road (BBC); Coronation Street (ITV); The Royal (ITV).

Film credits include: Rose Gold (53 Degrees North); Splintered (Splintered Films) and His Wake (Jamie Noel) which was screened at London Film Festival then internationally and ended up at Cannes.

Lynn Francis Molly Liverpool born Lynn trained at Sandown College.

Since leaving college she has worked continually in theatre, television and film. Theatre credits include: Desperate Scousewives 1 & 2, Psychic Sybal (Theatre Royal St Helens), Four Girls In A Caravan (Theatre Royal St Helens), Waiting For Gateaux (touring), Tuppence to Cross the Mersey (Liverpool Empire, 2005 and 2007), By The Waters Of Liverpool (Liverpool Empire and touring), What Was it Like in the War Nan? (Unity Theatre), Oliver (Neptune Theatre Liverpool), Ebony’s Album (Neptune Theatre Liverpool), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Bluecoat Theatre), Her Benny (Liverpool Empire), Midsummer Nights Dream (touring), My Fair Lady (touring), The Royal, The Salon, Reds And Blues - The Musical, Ladies Day and Hitchhikers Guide To Fazakerly (Royal Court Liverpool), Lennon’s Banjo (Epstein Liverpool).

Television and Film credits include: Reds and Blues: The Ballad Of Dixie and Kenny (Miracle Productions UK), Colour Blind, a film directed by Lenny Henry, Charlie Noades RIP (film), The Lie is Dead (feature film), One Fine Sunday (short film), Dead Drunk (short film), Dave Dot, Demo Man (BBC), No Marks (Channel 4), I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This (Haphazard Productions) Lynn has appeared in various pantos across the country including Empress of China: Aladdin (Southampton and Runcorn), Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Southport), Genie of the Lamp in Aladdin (York), and the Wicked Queen in Snow White (Torquay and Runcorn).

Michael Starke Charlie Michael began his professional career at Liverpool Playhouse in the 1984 production of Cavern of Dreams by Carol Ann Duffy.

The next few years saw him appearing almost exclusively at the Everyman in Liverpool, where he appeared in such shows as The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, She Stoops to Conquer, Three Sisters, and No Holds Bard. Michael was the first ‘guest star’ in the Olivier Award winning The Play What I Wrote, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Other theatre work includes Be Bop A Lula, Blood Brothers (Leicester Haymarket) Anything Goes (National Tour).

Film work includes: No Surrender by Alan Bleasdale, Distant Voices, written and directed by Terrence Davies, The 51st State directed by Ronny Yu and starring Samuel L Jackson. Michael is probably best known to TV viewers as Sinbad, a role he played for fifteen years in Channel 4’s Brookside. He then spent six years playing Ken Hopkirk in Yorkshire TV’s The Royal and Jerry Morton in Coronation Street. Michael was in the Christmas episode of Casualty. Michael also featured in the Channel 4 series The Virtues.

In 2010 Michael was one of the three Edna Turnblads in the national tour of Hairspray with Michael Ball and Brian Conley. He followed that with the role of Monsignor O’Hara in the Whoopi Goldberg produced national tour of Sister Act. His recent roles here have included A Nightmare On Lime Street, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Fazakerley, Scouse Of The Antarctic, Special Measures and Shed. He has also completed two films: Jack Ryan directed by Kenneth Branagh and a British film, Longtails, produced and directed by Elizabeth Arends.

Paul Duckworth Gordon Theatre credits include: Grand Old Lady (Epstein Theatre); The Big I Am, Othello, Paint Your Wagon (Everyman Rep Company); Beating Berlusconi, Twelfth Night, Bright Phoenix, The May Queen, Urban Legend, Sweeney Todd (Everyman Theatre Liverpool); A Barry White Christmas (Liverpool Echo Arena); Sink or Swim, Baron Munchhausen, Backwater, Jason & the Argonauts, The Man Who Cracked (Spike Theatre Company); Mam I’m Ere (Life in Theatre Productions); Reds And Blues The Musical, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Scouse Pacific, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Down The Dock Road, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, The Lonesome West, The Scouse Nativity, The Scouse Cinderella, Yellow Breck Road, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery and Bingo Star (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Family Business (M6 Theatre Company); The Quiet Little Englishman (ZHO Productions); Microdots (Contact Theatre Manchester); The Corrupted Angel, The Golden Boy (Base Chorus); River Fever (Unity Theatre Liverpool); My Bit of Sky (M.Y.P.T) and Horrible Histories (Christmas 2019, Blackpool Opera House).

Television credits include: The Courtroom (Lime Pictures); Brookside (Mersey Television), The 4 O’Clock Club (CBBC).

Film credits include: I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This, Donohue, Reds and Blues, Backbeat, To Know Him (short film).

Company Biographies

Gerry Linford

Ellie Light

Writer

Set & Costume Designer

Since making his debut at the Royal Court with the acclaimed comedy drama Miracle of Great Homer Street in 2018, Gerry has become a regular here. Plays such as Ellen & Rigby, Yellow Breck Road, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery and Macca & Beth have proven to be big hits with critics and audiences alike.

Ellie is a designer for theatre and screen, based in Liverpool and trained at LIPA. Professional credits include Light Falls (Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU); Beyond Caring (Durham Gala Theatre); Of All The Beautiful Things In The World (HOME Manchester); Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Masquerade (Epstein Theatre/Bill Elms Productions); A Very Odd Birthday Party (Hawkseed Theatre/UK Tour); Dogs (New Step Theatre/Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Cherry Jezebel (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Against (Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU); On The Shore of the Wide World (Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU); Pig (Liverpool Royal Court Studio).

In addition to his theatre work Gerry is also the writer of the award winning BBC Wales film Buddha Boy and the author of a short story collection Where Will You Go When You Can’t Go There?. Married with five daughters, Gerry is also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire.

Emma Bird Director Emma has directed critically acclaimed productions at Brighton, Manchester and Liverpool Fringe Festivals. Notable recent productions are New Dawn Fades: A Play about Joy Division and Manchester by Brian Gorman, (Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester 2018); King of the World by Brian Coyle (Liverpool & Manchester Fringe Festivals, 2018); Two by Jim Cartwright (Manchester Fringe Festival 2018); Bleeding with Mother by Sarah Cassidy (53Two, Manchester 2017); We Apologise for the Inconvenience by Mark Griffiths, (3MT, Manchester, 2017); A Passion for Rationals (Sara Harris, Brighton Fringe Festival 2014); Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo; Hey Bunny Get Loose and Stocking Fillers (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio)..

Emma began her acting career in 1990. Featuring in a lead role alongside Pete Postlethwaite, in BBC screenplay, Needle.

Written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Gillies MacKinnon.

She was series regular Maxine Price in Casualty (1992). Short films and features followed through her work with director Sandra Goldbacher in Seventeen (with Rachel Weisz, 1996), Piccadilly Circus by Night and The Governess (with Minnie Driver, 1997).

Notable theatre work includes The Good Hope alongside Frances de la Tour at The Royal National Theatre and UK tour, (2002); David Mamet’s Oleanna (Norwich Playhouse) and The Woods (The Finborough Theatre); Educating Rita (Norwich Playhouse) and Terms of Abuse (Hampstead Theatre).

Emma founded Liverpool Comedy Improv in 2015 teaching improvisation to all. www.liverpoolcomedyimprov.co.uk

Ian Scott Lighting Designer Trained at Mountview.

Productions for the Royal Court include: Scouse Pacific, Maggie May, The Miracle of Great Homer Street, The Royal, The Scouse Nativity, Lonesome West, Down The Dock Road and in co-production with Lodestar and the Liverpool Shakespeare Festival; Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Other theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible and Ramps On The Moon); ¡Carpa!, The Hooley and Xanadu (Giffords Circus); By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records); Up ‘n’ Under and Frozen (fingersmiths); Reasons To Be Cheerful, Peeling and Blasted (Graeae); Duet for One (Birmingham Rep; Lee Dean & Daniel Schumann); A Skull in Connemara and All My Sons (Nottingham Playhouse); Marco Polo and Messiah (Bergen National Opera); Fish Eye (Theatre Alibi); The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae; Theatre Royal, Plymouth; National Theatre); Owen Wingrave and Where The Wild Things Are (Aldeburgh Festival); Fawlty Towers Live (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney); Flat Stanley (Polka; West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Drummer Boy of Waterloo and The Happy Prince (Jubilee Opera); The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); Our Friends Up North (Northern Stage); The Joke, The Summer House and The Victorian in the Wall (Will Adamsdale; Fuel); My Name is… (Tamasha); Oh! What a Lovely War and Frogs (National Theatre); Curlew River (White Light Festival, New York; UCLA Berkeley; St. Giles, Barbican); Animal Farm (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre, Dublin).

Kate Harvey

Jamie Jenkin

Sound Designer

Video Designer

A list of sound credits include:

Jamie is the in-house graphic and video designer at Liverpool’s Royal Court. Starting as marketing assistant at the theatre in 2005, he has been part of the Royal Court since it’s rebirth as a theatre in 2006.

He now designs artwork for all Royal Court productions alongside working on video content for the Royal Court stage and beyond.

Corporate/Outdoor : Labour, Conservative, NUT, TUC and many more conferences. Various exhibitions. Symphony in the Park (Hoghton Tower) Liverpool Theatre Festival (Bill Elms Productions).

TV: Stan James World Match Dartsplay (Sky Sports), Strictly Ballroom (ITV), Danny La Rue (BBC), Spirit of Shankly (Granada DVD).

Cruises : P&O World Cruises, Island Cruises, Celebrity.

Arena : Hot Ice (Stageworks Worldwide Productions); You’ll Never Walk Alone (Alterean Media and Liverpool FC).

Music: The Christians, Chesney Hawkes, Sinita, Slade, Bad Manners, Toyah, Limahl, Cream UK Tour, Petula Clarke, Bobby Crush, East 17, Liberty X, Jane McDonald, Coldplay.

Comedy: Jason Mansford, Peter Kay, Roy Walker, Norman Wisdom, Jim Bowen, Brian Conley, Brendan O’Carroll, Paddy McGuiness.

Live Theatre: Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty (King Georges Hall, Blackburn); Mystique (Stageworks); Original TV Comedians (Blackpool Opera House); Paul Zerdin (Paradise Room Blackpool); Flags (Manchester Exchange); Mam I’m ’Ere (Life in Theatre); Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Bouncers, Night Collar, Our Day Out, Shirley Valentine, Reds and Blues, Lennon, Noises Off, Canoeing for Beginners, Lost Soul, Golden Oldies, The Royal, Scouse Nativity, Girls Don’t Play Guitars (Royal Court Liverpool); Twopence To Cross The Mersey and By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records); Shout! (Max Emmerson Productions); Out of Order and It Runs In The Family (Ray Cooney Comedy Company); Bang Bang (A production for John Cleese at Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Omnibus (Unity Theatre); Judy & Liza National Tour (Produced by Royal Court Liverpool); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Filter Theatre Company/Lyric Hammersmith); Grimm Tales (Dukes Theatre Lancaster).

Video Designs for Theatre include: Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff by James Graham, A Thong For Europe, Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, A Fistful Of Collars, Lennon, Ladies Day, Hitchhikers Guide to Fazakerley, Ladies Night, Canoeing for Beginners, The Scouse Nativity, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, A Miracle On Great Homer Street, Home, Going Halves, The Royal, The Scouse Cinderella, My Fairfield Lady, Bingo Star, Two Of Us, Royal Court Selection Box, Macca & Beth, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery, The Scousetrap, The Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk, The Scouse Dick Whittington and Girls Don’t Play Guitars (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Masquerade, Knee Deep In Promises, Hey Bunny Get Loose, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio); Cured (Liverpool’s Royal Court in association with DaDaFest & Unlimited); The Dream Team and VR Family (Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Shakespeare Festival); Scouse: A Comedy Of Terrors (Dome Liverpool); Judy & Liza (National Tour); YNWA (Alterean Productions, international tour); The Big I Am (Liverpool Everyman); Celtic The Musical (Alterean Productions, Pavilion Theatre Glasgow and SEC Glasgow); Something About George (Something About Productions, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and national tour); The Salford Docker (Salford Community Theatre, Lighthouse Salford); Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre); and Peter Pan (Storyhouse Chester). Jamie was also Sound Designer on Hey Bunny Get Loose, Offered Up, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) and Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre).

Company Biographies

Marie Jones Wardrobe Supervisor Marie studied fashion and then moved on to theatre costume interpretation at Mabel Fletcher College. Marie’s work as a freelance costumier has included costumes for Oldham Coliseum, The Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Jimmy McGovern’s film Liam, Beyond Friendship for Mersey Television and the many pantomime dames who have appeared on the Everyman stage.

She has worked extensively at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and has recently been employed as full time Wardrobe Supervisor at the Royal Court. Most recently Marie’s work at the Everyman and Playhouse has included: Much Ado About Nothing, The Electric Hills, The Flint Street Nativity, The Tempest, Unprotected, Billy Liar, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Urban Legend, Fly, Breezeblock Park, The Entertainer, Still Life And The Astonished Heart, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Anniversary, Dr Faustus, The May Queen, Cruel Sea and All My Sons.

Marie’s other credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Stags and Hens - The Remix, On The Ledge, Misery, Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Night Collar, Dirty Dusting, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out - The Musical, The Salon, Funny Money, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistul Of Collars, Lucky Numbers, Lennon, Scouse Pacific, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Reds And Blues - The Musical, Ladies Day, Bouncers, Scouse Of The Antarctic, Pharaoh ‘Cross The Mersey and Down The Dock Road for Royal Court Liverpool, Brouhaha International Street Festival, Working Class Hero on the recent Imagine DVD, Costume Supervisor for many shows at LIPA, The Splash Project at MYPT and Twopence To Cross The Mersey at the Liverpool Empire.

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Royal Court Staff Executive Producer Kevin Fearon Chief Executive Gillian Miller Head of Finance & Administration Gary O’Connor Creative Producer Jess Bolger Head of Marketing Iain Christie Executive Chef David Assall Finance Officer Alison Ward Graphic Designer & Brand Manager Jamie Jenkin Assistant Producer Clare Carlucci Marketing Manager Kofi Ohene-Djan Workshop Manager John Kavanagh Social Media Officer Clara Mbirimi Head of Technical & Production Sean Gannon Resident Stage Manager Andrew Lock Scenic Art Manager Jen Baron Chief LX Jamie Haining Box Office & Sales Manager Lauren Macauley Assistant Box Office Manager Laura Lees Head of Theatre Engagement Miriam Mussa HR & Wellness Officer Maria Schumann Participation Project(s) Manager Uma Ramanathan Costume Supervisor Marie Jones Finance Administrator Izzie Litwin Venue Administrator Phil McLoughlin Production Assistant Stephen Petit Youth Theatre Leader Zain Salim Youth Theatre Coordinator Vannessa Park Later Life Coordinator Jay McWinen Assistant Producer - Talent Development Harvey Robinson Daytime Technician Gary Currin Studio Technician Phil Dickinson Lighting Technician Martyn Case HR & Payroll Administrator Abishek Devadas Box Office Assistants Erica Drummond, Finn Goulden-Jennings, Carl Lees, Scarlet Lees, Amelia Maguire, Anna Miller, Joe Morris, Pat O’Neill, Susan Segar, and Angela Simms Fire Officer Sven Key Stage Door Allan Dodd & John Evans

Kitchen Head Chefs Kyle Wardale, Daniel Awotwi Chefs Thomas Alexander, Daniel Ambrose, Billie Chisam, Jay Quinn, Josh Eglin, Harrison Mclaughlin, Jake Stephenson, Jack While and Nick Watson Kitchen Porters Hezekiah Abramson, Ryan Charnock, Debbie Chisam, Louise Dodd, Luke Dunn, Jackie Kirton, Harry Lawlor and Ellis McNeil Front of House House Manager Kathryn Heffron Assistant Manager Kathy Hutson Supervisors Megan Franey amd Calum Norbury Bar Supervisor Joe Woods Courtyard Manager Emma Keig Assistant Courtyard Manager Paul Imrie Courtyard Supervisor Aimee Kelly Front of House Staff Beth Baccino, Nicola Barnes, Hazel Bawden, Jacob Bee, Salem Blata, Cameron Brown, Natalie Brown, Colette Burgess, Denise Byrne, Louis Carney-Smith, Abbie Caskie, Madeline Cooper, Azize Dia, Paige Dunne, Holly Evans, Kieran Foster, Charlotte Freyne, Bethany Fry, Michael Hall, Michael Hardy, Jennifer Heffron, Lauren Heywood, Aisling Jenkin, Leighton Jenkins, Callum Johnstone, Dylan Jones, Jake Jones, Oliver Kelly, Elizabeth Kendrick, Charlotte Kendrick Jones, Abbie Kenworthy, Raia Kiernan, Cherry Kim, Takunda Kudzunga, Julia Kustosz, Phil Lyne, Amelia Maguire, Sam Massen, Amy McCutcheon, Faye McCutcheon, Phil McLoughlin, Eve Mobey, Alison Myers, Brea O’Donnell, Matthew O’Keefe, Joseph O’Neil, Jamie Peacock, Emma Phythian, Declan Redmond, Sally Robinson, Katie Sherman, Charis Stead, Millie Tucker, Annie Wardale, Leah Whitty-Massey, Amy Wright and Hannah Wright Courtyard Staff Jordan Barkley, Challen Bellamey, Macy Burns, Sinead CullenBarret, Stephen Dixon, Faith Dawson, Olivia Harrison, Bradley Richards, Chloe Thorpe, Millie Quayle, Keira Tann and Jasmin Ward Cleaners Cleaning Supervisor: Debbie Chisam, Billie Chisam and Joanne Kinsella And a big thank you to all of our security staff for their hard work throughout the year.

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19 April to 11 May Tickets from £20

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