Once A Catholic Programme

THE TRICYCLE THEATRE & THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE LIVERPOOL PRESENT

An hysterical comedy by

Mary O’Malley

Souvenir Programme

THE HIT SHOW IS BACK FOR 2014 “An exceptional production”

uuuuu whatsonstage.com

“A truly phenomenal show”

uuuuu Clickliverpool.com

“Utterly captivating from the first chord to the last”

uuuuu Liverpool Post

By kind permission of Yoko Ono Photograph by Iain McMillan © Yoko Ono

13 JUNE TO 19 JULY royalcourtliverpool.com /royalcourtliverpool @royalcourtliv

Welcome to this performance of

Once A Catholic Hi and welcome to the Royal Court and this production of Mary O’Malley’s Once A Catholic.

It was 35 years ago, back in 1979, that Once A Catholic took the Royal Court and Liverpool by storm. With this in mind, I read the play several years ago thinking that it might be an idea to do a revival. But the large cast size meant that it would not be financially viable. So when I got the phone call last summer offering the opportunity to co-produce the play with the Tricycle my answer was an immediate yes.

The Tricycle has a wonderful history of often ground-breaking theatre.

Under their current Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham they are going from strength to strength and we are honoured to be co-producing this show with them.

We are also delighted to welcome Kathy Burke to the Royal Court.

She is both a talented actress and

a renowned director. I know that she and the cast had a wonderful time both in rehearsals and throughout the run at the Tricycle and we are looking forward to continuing that with them here in Liverpool.

I believe you, the audience here in Liverpool, will be different to the one I watched it with at the Tricycle’s Press Night back in November. It is a great play and the cast are fantastic and together they create a piece of theatre that is crying out to be responded to.

And here at the Court that’s going to be cheering, booing and probably one or two folks walking out! You can’t beat live theatre.

So sit back, relax and bring on the nuns! Enjoy the show.

Kevin Fearon Chief Executive

Once A Catholic is presented by the Tricycle Theatre and Royal Court Liverpool.

Tricycle Theatre

Royal Court Liverpool

The Tricycle views the world through a variety of lenses, bringing unheard voices into the mainstream. It presents high quality and innovative work, which provokes debate and emotionally engages.

Located in Brent, the most diverse borough in London, the Tricycle is a local venue with an international vision.

The Royal Court Theatre has always been a landmark building in Liverpool and has seen truly legendary names perform over the last one hundred years. Vivien Leigh, John Gielgud, Lawrence Olivier, Margot Fonteyn, Ken Dodd and Ralph Richardson are just some of the names that appeared on stage during this period with Dame Judi Dench and Richard Burton making their acting debuts here.

Since opening in 1980, the Tricycle has established a reputation for world-class British and international work, reflecting the diversity of its local community.

Today, with Indhu Rubasingham as Artistic Director, it makes ambitious and entertaining theatre that is curious about the world, presenting at least six productions every year – either commissioned for the Tricycle or coproduced with national or international companies.

The theatre is committed to inspiring young people to express themselves creatively in a fun, safe and professional environment. Its Creative Learning programme reaches a large number of young people offering workshops, engagement with professional artists and opportunities to perform on stage.

Through all its work, the Tricycle is a hub where cultures connect and creativity can flourish. www.tricycle.co.uk

Since taking over the running of the building in 2005, the current operating company have developed a unique style of theatre for Liverpool audiences (and increasingly audiences from outside of the region). Theatre that is produced in Liverpool, starring Liverpool actors, written by Liverpool writers is proving a huge success with a unique cabaretstyle stalls seating, dinner offer and drinks before the show.

The company continues to expand their programming with a view to bring the best in theatre to Liverpool and they are delighted to be working with the Tricycle on their first major co-production. www.royalcourtliverpool.com

An Introduction to Royal Court Liverpool Trust Welcome back to the Royal Court.

If you have not been here since we renovated the theatre, we hope you like it! We have the Heritage Lottery Fund to thank for enabling us to spend £1.2 million to renovate the auditorium and make it more comfortable for you to enjoy.

We have now finished Act 1 of our £11.9 million production to transform the theatre. Now we need to concentrate our efforts to raise funds to begin Act 2.

Act 2 The Entrance

£3 million Act 3 Internal Improvements

£2.3 million Act 4 Finale

£5.5 million We are extremely grateful for all the support you have given us so far. £1 from every ticket you buy to see a show here goes towards the capital campaign.

You have helped us to raise over £200,000 to date which is fantastic.

There are more ways you can help us if you are able to.

You can: Adopt A Seat

in the Grand Circle £250

Join the Corporate Club From £1000

Join The Club From £35

Sponsor A Show Get in touch

Sponsor A Flybar From £500

You can find out more about the Trust at www.royalcourttrust.org and you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook too. Thanks again for your support and we hope you enjoy the show and the building!

Gillian Miller Chief Executive, Founder Royal Court Liverpool Trust

Royal Court Liverpool Trust Adopt a Seat The Royal Court Theatre Liverpool has an £11.9m plan to renovate the magnificent grade II listed theatre for future generations and

to improve access and comfort for current audiences. You can help us to renovate the theatre in Act 2 by adopting a seat in the Royal Court.

You may want to adopt a seat to:

When you adopt a seat, you will:

•

•

• • • •

Acknowledge a special date or other occasion Dedicate in memoriam to a friend, colleague or family member Be a part of the renovation Raise awareness of your community group or business To leave a legacy

• •

Have your name and message on a seat for 10 years Be acknowledged on the Royal Court Trust website and plasma screens in the auditorium Receive priority booking opportunities for shows at the Royal Court

Thank you to those who have already adopted a seat!

Alan and Julia Bleasdale Andrew Beeston Anfield Infant School Archbishop Blanch C.E Voluntary Aided High School Bryan and Lillias Miller Dame Heather Beattie Denise Cosgrove Elaine Taylor Evertaut Seating Fred Lawless Geni-i Creations Gillian Miller & Kevin Fearon Graham Gavin Heather Hoy Her Honour Elizabeth Steel DL Heritage Lottery Fund Joanna Hargreaves

Elizabeth Kenworthy Ken & Fiona Miller Ken Dodd OBE & Anne Jones LIPA Liverpool Society of Chartered Accountants Lousie Ellman MP Mark Featherstone-Witty Martyn Best Medicash Modero Limited Mr J.D Mitchell Esq. Nicholas & Sheena Barber Nobles Construction Ltd Paul Day Raeanne Miller Rice Lane Infant & Nursery School Richard McCullagh

Robb Miller & Ryan Carey Robert Nadler Stacey Lavery & Eddie Smithwick Sue & Jurgen Fenney The Earl of Derby West Derby Boys School Sir Richard Stilgoe Dame Judi Dench CH, DBE Andrew Pearce Alison Steadman Ann Jones Elizabeth Kenworthy John Entwistle Sylvia Lewis Andrew Pearce

Royal Court Liverpool Trust Community & Education Royal Court Variety Lunch Club Provides high quality, accessible, daytime activities for people aged 60+.

Ticket prices are subsidised with support from HLF, trust funds and foundations and Liverpool City Council. Since these events began in 2010 over 7000 people have taken part in activities and related workshop events.

Access All Areas Provides opportunities for young people and schools to perform on stage and work with the professional technical team from the theatre.

Over 250 young people have taken part and over 1200 young people have watched Access All Area performances since the project began.

Tours & Talks The Royal Court is a unique resource for the local community with a rich history and heritage. The Trust runs heritage tours on a regular basis for groups and individuals.

Full details of tours can be found on the website.

Open Forum All of the Trust’s Community & Education programmes are developed in consultation with young people, community partners, funders and other key stakeholders. If you would like to be part of our Open Forum events, please contact us at www.royalcourttrust.org

Royal Court Youth Theatre supporting and nurturing the next generation of Liverpool Talent The Trust started the first Royal Court Youth Theatre, which is open to all young people 11–25, in January 2011. There are weekly workshops in all aspects of musical theatre as well as opportunities to learn from the professionals who work in the theatre, both technical staff and actors, writers and directors. The Youth Theatre has been free to join from it’s formation.

For further information about the Youth Theatre visit www.royalcourttrust.org or call 0151 702 5892.

Royal Court Community Choir The Royal Court Trust invites you to take part in our Community Choir. Sessions are open to everyone aged 14+ so bring along the whole family!

Choir sessions are FREE to attend and open to all abilities. Come along, have a laugh, make new friends and enjoy yourself.

If you are interested in coming along, just turn up to a session and if you need more information, contact education@ royalcourttrust.org.

Royal Court Liverpool Youth Theatre

Royal Court Liverpool Trust Supporters

The Zochonis Charitable Trust

Hemby Trust

Ravensdale Charitable Trust

Kathy Burke’s Schooldays I think I must have been eighteen or so when I first read Once A Catholic as someone had suggested it contained great audition speeches for girls. I was dumb-struck. It was hilarious of course and full of wonderful characters and snappy dialogue but it evoked lockedaway memories of my unhappy school days at a Roman Catholic school headed by Nuns. I say unhappy, if I’m really honest about it I spent most of my time crying with laughter at nothing in particular with my mate, Mary [yes, Mary, there were at least five in my class

alone] and being a right royal pain in the arse to everyone around me. I was a ‘ninkanpook’ a ‘wretch’ and best of all ‘a fecking eejit’. I wasn’t academic and the school prided itself on being so. Maria Fidelis Convent School for Girls had just become comprehensive.

It still taught Latin and was trying to hold on to most of it old grammar school principals but sadly, with the likes of me and my kind now causing havoc in the corridors their hard work was falling on deaf ears. I remember one old Irish Nun, her face beetroot with temper screaming in my face with a breath thick with Old Holborn, ‘What’s the matter with you child, why are you always so bold?!’ My witty stock answer to this and everything else was despairingly, ‘I dunno, Sista!’

In the play the girls go to a retreat in Fatima, our mob went to Broadstairs.

I remember the endless praying, all the stories about the great female saints, drinking gallons of orange squash [Robinsons, posh!] and eating malted milk biscuits but the abiding memory for me was seeing our deputy head, Sister Fidelis, on the beach

in a swimming costume! Good God, it completely spun my head. These people weren’t women in swimming costumes, these people weren’t even human and look at her bold as brass showing off a tight little body in the latest offering from the C&A, shocking! From then on, whenever I was sent to her office for a telling off [which happened at least once a week] I pictured her with cheeks rosy raw from the sea air and skipping about on the sand like a little girl with NO F***ING CLOTHES ON! My relationship with God, Catholicism and rules in general has been a

rocky one. To be constantly told, as it shows in the play, that if you are bad or wicked you will burn in hell is, in my opinion, not a great way to start out in life. You should be good and cautious and empathetic, I agree but I don’t think a child should be terrified.

Putting ‘the fear of God into you’ can be dangerously stifling. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against faith, I believe in belief and at times I can even envy it but I’m glad I’m a one man band with my own rules and regulations and it’s women like Mary J O’Malley writing plays like Once A Catholic that have allowed me to be so.

RT LIVERPOOL PRESENT

THE TRICYCLE THEATRE & ROYAL COU

A comedy by

Mary J O’Malley

Cast Mr Emmanuelli Derek Father Mullarkey Mother Basil Cuthbert Mother Thomas Aquinas Mary Mooney Mary McGinty Mary Gallagher Mother Peter

Richard Bremmer Calum Callaghan Sean Campion Clare Cathcart Oliver Coopersmith Kate Lock Molly Logan Amy Morgan Katherine Rose Morley Cecilia Noble

Company Director Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Musical Director Casting Director Assistant Director Production Manager Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Wardrobe Supervisor Voice/Dialect Coach Press Representation Digital Drawing & Graphic Art Set Construction Head of sound Chief LX Board operator Costume makers Crew

Kathy Burke Paul Wills Tim Lutkin John Leonard Ian Townsend Sarah Bird Dempsey Bovell Lloyd Thomas Lizzie Chapman Maggie Tully Imogen Firth Devika Ramcharan Mary Charlton Zabarjad Salam Kate Morley PR Lucy Sierra Souvenir Scenic Solutions Mike Thacker Andy Furby Ben Jones Jane Gonin & Anna Kesteven James Haining, Elizabeth O’Sullivan & Matthew Weeks

Biographies KATHY BURKE DIRECTOR

Kathy Burke has worked extensively in theatre film and television for 30 years. She is best known as an actress working on diverse projects such as Harry Enfield and Chums, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Nil By Mouth, Elizabeth and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. As a theatre director her work includes Out In The Open, Born Bad, Blue Orange and The Stock Da’wa.

Recently she wrote her ‘autobiography’ for Sky Television, a four part mini-series called Walking and Talking. She is currently writing a new piece for TV called TwigBon.

RICHARD BREMMER MR EMMANUELLI Theatre includes: Macbeth, Mayor of Zalamea (Liverpool Everyman); A Kind of Alaska/Krapp’s Last Tape, Faith Healer (Bristol Old Vic) Bent, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Trafalgar Studios); Mongoose (Southwark); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre); Great Expectations, Henry IV, Henry V, King John (RSC); Dracula (No.1 Tour); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dreaming, Richard II (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Richard II (Salzburg Festival); Machine Wreckers, Richard III (National Theatre); Disappeared

(Leicester Haymarket & Tour); The Beaux Stratagem (English Touring Theatre); Walpurgis Night, The Lesson (Gate); The Tempest (Compass Theatre); Twelfth Night (Derby Playhouse).

Television includes: Richard II; Murder On The Home Front; Borgias; Kingdom III; Crusoe; Mr Loveday’s Little Outing; Miss Marple; Dead Man Weds; Coronation Street; Casualty; Dunkirk; Charles II; Twelfth Night; Peak Practice; Sharpes; Drop The Dead Donkey; The Bill; Persuasion; Without Walls; Romeo & Juliet; Scarlet & Black; Buddha Of Suburbia; Zastrossi.

Film includes: Heart of the Sea; Control; Aryan Couple; Viper in the Fist; Ripper II; Shanghai Knights; Sin Eaters; Lockdown; Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone; The Visitors; Crime & Punishment; The Thirteenth Warrior; Richard II; The Girl With Brains in Her Feet.

CALUM CALLAGHAN

SEAN CAMPION

DEREK

FATHER MULLARKEY

Theatre includes: Port, Citizenship (National Theatre); Saved (Lyric); Belongings (Hampstead); Danny’s Deal (Old Vic/New Voices); Over Gardens Out (Riverside Studios); White Riot (YOCA); The Long Road, Lieutenant of Inishmore (Curve); 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic); Animal Farm (West Yorkshire Playhouse); On The Middle Day (Old Vic/Imperial War Museam); The Baby & Fly Pie (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Country Music, Food Chain (Royal Court); The Straits (Paines Plough).

Theatre includes: The Dead School, Stones in his Pockets (Tricycle); King Lear, (Abbey, Dublin); Gods Are Fallen and All Safety Is Gone, Theatre Brothel (Almeida); Wittenberg, Lulu (Gate); Harmless Creatures (Hull Truck); Death and the Maiden, Othello (Salisbury Playhouse); Gambling (Soho); Wallace, Balfe And Mr Bunn (Tour, Ireland); Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park); Berlin Hannover Express (Hampstead); Lady From The Sea (Arcola); Food (Traverse); Phaedra (Donmar); Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre/ European Tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (Abbey Theatre); Bent, Translations (Red Kettle Theatre); Stones In His Pockets (West End/ Broadway) .

Television includes: Mr Selfridge; Verbatim Riots; Silk; Tracey Beaker Returns; Casualty; Torchwood; My Life as a Popat; The Bill; To the Ends of the Earth; Heartbeat; Wall of Silence; Making The Cut.

Television includes: Vera; The Borgias; Identity; Holby City; Eastenders.

Film includes: Blackwater Lightship; Timbuktu; Goldfish Memory, F2014.

Film includes: Dream On; Feast of the Goat; Cor Blimey; Breathtaking; Secret Society; Hotel Splendide; Up on the Roof; Salvage; Amazing Grace.

CLARE CATHCART MOTHER BASIL Theatre includes: Joyriders (The Tricycle); The Comedy of Errors (National Theatre); Truth and Reconciliation, Our Private Lives, Loyal Women (Royal Court); The Indian Boys (RSC); Aristocrats (Chichester Festival); Gone to L.A. (Hampstead); Sitcom Festival (Riverside Studios); Romeo & Juliet (Greenwich); After The Rain (Gate); The Party’s Over (Nottingham Playhouse); Translations (Donmar); Fooling About, Venetian Twins (Oxford Stage Company); Cloud Nine, The Duchess of Malfi (Contact); Same Old Moon (West End).

Television includes: Dani’s Castle; Call the Midwife; Waterloo Road; The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby; Doctors; Tracey Beaker (Series 2); The Little House; Ladies of Letters; Beautiful People; Cast Offs; Afterlife; Ultimate Force; Gimme, Gimme, Gimme; Attachments; Sins; Psychos; Sunny Ears; Accused; Kiss and Tell; Coronation Street; Safe and Sound; Casualty; Over Here; Searching; Father Ted; Goodnight Sweetheart; Paris; Inspector Alleyn; Lovejoy; Lost Belongings.

OLIVER COOPERSMITH CUTHBERT Theatre includes: Purple Heart (Gate); The History Boys (Crucible); The Physicists, The Cryptogram (Donmar); Cause Celebre (Old Vic); Henry IV Part 2, Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe); Blue Heaven (Finborough); The Ones That Flutter (Theatre 503); 2000 Feet Away (Bush); Macbeth (Regent’s Park); This is Progress (ICA).

Television includes: Case Histories; Grandma’s House.

Film includes: It’s Alive.

KATE LOCK MOTHER THOMAS AQUINAS In 1981 Kate played Mary Mooney at the Edinburgh Lyceum and in Mary O’Malley’s Talk of the Dead she played the lead at Watford Palace.

Theatre includes: Captain Oates’ Left Sock (Finborough); Nan, Tinker’s Wedding, The Playgoers (Orange Tree); Madras House, The Wool Gatherer (Lyric); Don Gil of the Green Breeches (Gate); Never In My Lifetime (Soho Poly); Kissing God (Hampstead); Tuesday’s Child (Stratford East); A Doll’s House (Mercury Colchester); The House of Bernarda Alba (Nuffield Southampton); Winter’s Tale (Watermill); Unsuitable for Adults (Liverpool); What The Butler Saw, The Beaux Stratagem, Black Comedy, The Browning Version (Bristol Old Vic); Hay Fever (Cambridge); Goosepimples (National Tour); Days Here So Dark, The Decameron (Paines Plough); Joking Apart, Whose Life is it Anyway (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Crime & Punishment, Dusa Fish Stas and Vi, Oliver (Leicester Haymarket); Five Finger Exercise, Hobson’s Choice (Plymouth).

Television includes: Tuesday’s Child, Coronation Street, The Brief, Portrait of Diana, Family Business, The Bill, Peak Practice, Imaginary Friends, Cribb, One Night, Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends, Ted Whitehead’s Sweet Nothings, The Dutch Train Hijack, Katy, The Other One, Life Without George, Bergerac, Penmarric, Angels, James and The Giant Peach, Casualty.

Film includes: Closed, Great Expectations, Venus, Land Girls, Beelezebub, The Russia House.

MOLLY LOGAN MARY MOONEY Theatre includes: Blue Stockings, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), Laugh Your Farce Off (Pleasance), 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic), Stephen Sondheim Student Of The Year Finalist (Queens Theatre).

Television includes: Spoof Or Die.

Television includes: Last Tango in Halifax (Series 2); The Mill; Thirty and Counting; The Week Before Christmas (Sharon Horgan’s Little Cracker).

Film Includes: The Caravan.

AMY MORGAN MARY MCGINTY Theatre includes: Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar); The Country Wife (Royal Exchange); Hay Fever (West End); Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse); The Taming Of The Shrew, Blackthorn, Flora’s War, To Kill A Mockingbird (Theatr Clwyd); Deepcut (Sherman Cymru); In My Mouth (Milan); 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic).

Television includes: Mr Selfridge; Love Matters; Live at the Electric; Father Brown, Holby City, Baker Boys, Crash; The Royal.

Film includes: A Way of Life; Big Font. Large Spacing.

CECILIA NOBLE MOTHER PETER Theatre includes: Detaining Justice (part of Not Black & White); Seize The Day (The Tricycle); The Amen Corner (Nomination for Evening Standard Award), Henry V, His Dark Materials (National Theatre); Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (RSC); Truth and Reconciliation, This Is A Chair, Sacred Heart, Blues For Mr Charlie, The Tempest, Philoctetes, The Vagina Monologues, A Raisin In The Sun (Young Vic).

Television includes: Our Girl; Coming Up; Eastenders; Waking The Dead; Silent Witness, The Bill, Holby City, Resnick, Casualty.

KATHERINE ROSE MORLEY MARY GALLAGHER Theatre includes: Khadija is 18 (Finborough).

Film includes: Of Mary, New Year’s Day, Native, Mrs Caldicott’s Cabbage.

Company Biographies PAUL WILLS DESIGNER Theatre include: The Field, Pornography (The Tricycle); Routes, Breathing Corpses (Royal Court); Anna Christie, Making Noise Quietly, The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Cut (Donmar); Dr. Faustus, The Lightning Child (Shakespeare’s Globe); My Fair Lady, Blue/Orange (Sheffield); Barnum (costume/ Chichester); Drum Belly (Abbey Dublin); Howie The Rookie (Dublin/Tour); Di and Viv and Rose, The Stock Da’wa (Hampstead); Punk Rock, Macbeth, 1984 (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Saved, Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith); Ben Hur (Watermill); Novecento (Trafalgar/Donmar); Waiting for Godot, Yerma (WYP); Serious Money (Birmingham Rep); Prometheus Bound (NYC).

Opera includes: Rusalka (ETO); Sweetness and Badness (WNO).

TIM LUTKIN LIGHTING DESIGNER Theatre includes: Chimerica (Almeida/ Pinter); Strangers On A Train (Gielgud); Candide and All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC); The Full Monty, Calendar Girls (National Tours); Ghost - The Musical (National Tour - co-design with Hugh Vanstone); Philadelphia Here I Come!

(Donmar); Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program, Alan Cumming I Bought a Blue Car Today (Vaudeville);

Party (Arts); The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs (Belgrade, Coventry); Our Brother David (Watford Palace); Wondershow (Roundhouse); The Go Between (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Bronte (Shared Experience); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Royal Festival Hall); My Dad’s a Birdman (Crucible); That Face (Tron, Glasgow); Restoration (Salisbury Playhouse); Fuchsia (White Bear); Lucky You (Assembly Rooms).

Opera includes: The Calling of Maisy Day (Welsh National Opera).

JOHN LEONARD SOUND DESIGNER John started work in theatre sound over 40 years ago and during that time he has provided soundtracks for theatres all over the world, written an acclaimed guide to theatre sound, won various awards and published several collections of sound effects.

Most recent theatre includes: Ghosts, Turn Of The Screw, The Dark Earth & The Light Sky (Almeida); The Duck House (UK tour/West End); Quartermaine’s Terms (West End); Cocktail Sticks (National Theatre/West-End); Detroit (National Theatre); Birthday, Tribes (Royal Court); Bully Boy (St. James/Northampton Theatre Royal), Ladies In Lavender (National Tour), Heresy Of Love (RSC).

SARAH BIRD CASTING DIRECTOR Sarah began her career in BBC Radio and Television Drama and instigated the BBC’s first in-house casting department.

Theatre includes: Fortune’s Fool, Sweet Bird of Youth, Hedda Gabler, Cause Célèbre (Old Vic); Race, Di & Viv & Rose (Hampstead); Perfect Nonsense, The Bodyguard, The Madness of George III, When We Are Married, God of Carnage, Brief Encounter, Equus, Heroes (West End); The Full Monty, The Ladykillers, Calendar Girls, Art, The Play What I Wrote (West End/UK tours); The Way of the World, Me and My Girl (Sheffield Crucible); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); Juliet and Her Romeo (Bristol Old Vic); Mrs Klein, Cloud Nine (Almeida).

DEMPSEY BOVELL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Theatre includes: As a director: Dog (Hampstead); as a facilitator: Minding The Gap; as an actor: Anna In The Tropics (Hampstead); Agamemnon (Red Lion) .

IAN TOWNSEND MUSICAL DIRECTOR Theatre includes: Musical Direction: That Day We Sang (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Lost Musicals: Noel Coward’s Words And Music (Sadler’s Wells); Dear World (Charing Cross Theatre, UK premiere), The Three Musketeers (Rose, Kingston), Chicago (Cambridge Theatre), Chicago 10th Anniversary Gala (Cambridge), The Trumpet-Major (NT Studio), Jumpers

(National Theatre), My One And Only (West End/Chichester Festival Theatre).

Associate Musical Direction: London Road, Anything Goes (National Theatre), Jerry Springer-the Opera (National Theatre/West End); Du Barry Was A Lady (West End); Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar).

Musical Supervision: Chicago (Moscow, Seoul, Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam).

Film includes: Piano Coach and Technical Adviser to Gary Oldman for Immortal Beloved; William McNamara for Something to Believe In, Ian Bannen for Taliesin Jones (aka Small Miracles) and Tim Roth for Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Legend Of 1900. www.iantownsend.net

ZABARJAD SALAM VOICE & DIALECT COACH Theatre includes: The Veil, Thirteen, Juno and the Paycock, The Comedy of Errors, The Last of the Haussmans, The Animals and Children Took to The Streets, Timon of Athens, This House (National Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, The Winters Tale, The Empress, Matilda the Musical (RSC); Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester Festival Theatre); Let It Be (Prince of Wales/Savoy Theatre); The Commitments (West End); Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Island (Young Vic); NSFW, Death Tax, Untitled Matriarch Play or Seven Sisters, The Djinns of Eidgah (Royal Court).

Television includes: Lapland.

Royal Court Liverpool Staff Chief Executive Artistic Director Finance Director Assistant Producer Marketing Manager Technical Director Head Chef Finance Officer Front Of House Manager Sales Manager Box Office Manager Costume Supervisor Resident Stage Manager

Kevin Fearon Ken Alexander Kevin Dunn Jess Bolger Iain Christie David Gordon Simon Collard Alison Ward Steve Smith Jamie Jenkin Louise Hurd Marie Jones Mick Bawden

Box Office Assistants Rachel Delaney, Stephen Gent, Laura Lees, John Mather, Sarah Randle and Rebecca Smith Front of House Stephen Briggs, Collette Burgess, Mary Cassidy, Hayley Clarke, Lewis Edwards, Peter Gornell, Kathryn Heffron, Jake Jones, Sven Key, Christopher Kidd, Ricci Kinsella, Leah Little, Charlene Lim, Melanie Lovett, Michael Maher. Hazel Patterson, Siobahn Spear, Adam Thompson, Jessica Vale, Sophy Vicary, Christina Wiggins, and Thomas Wright Kitchen David Assall, Billie Chisam, Carl Chisam, Alicia Harris, Robert Hughes, Eileen Lawless, George Schott, and Doreen Uber Stage Door Allen Dodd, John Evans Cleaners Billie Chisam, Debbie Chisam and Doreen Uber And a big thank you to all of our security staff for their hard work throughout the year

Royal Court Liverpool and Jamie Wilson present

A BRAND NEW COMEDY

Men, dating and finding Mr Right!

Starring

Claire Sweeney & Mandy Muden Directed by

Ken Alexander

9 May to 7 June TIckets from ÂŁ13 0870 787 1866 royalcourtliverpool.com /royalcourtliverpool

@royalcourtliv

L I V E R P O O L

YNWA

The Official History of

LIvERPooL FooTbALL CLub

by Nicky Allt

Friday 7 to Saturday 29 March 2014

royalcourtliverpool.com 0870 787 1866