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Luther
by John Osborne
Royal National Theatre
Olivier Theatre, 5 October 2001
- Act I
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- Scene 1
- The Convent of The Augustinian Order of Eremites at Erfurt, Thuringia. 1506
- Scene 2
- The Same. A Year Later
- Scene 3
- Two Hours Later
- Act II
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- Scene 1
- The Market Place. Jütebog. 1517
- Scene 2
- The Eremite Cloister. Wittenberg. 1517
- Scene 3
- The Steps of the Castle Church. Wittenberg. Eve of All Saints. 1517
- Scene 4
- The Fugger Palace. Augsburg. October 1518
- Scene 5
- A Hunting Lodge. Magliana, Italy. 1519
- Scene 6
- The Elster Gate. Wittenberg. 1520
- Act III
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- Scene 1
- The Diet of Worms. 1521
- Scene 2
- Wittenberg. 1525
- Scene 3
- The Eremite Cloister. Wittenberg. 1530
Length: about 3 hours 20 minutes, including 20-minute interval
See also
- dramaturgical links relating to John Osborne's Luther
- Luther's Reformation
- The Holy Roman Emporer and the Diet of Worms
- Beyond the Reformation Century: The "British Archipelago"
- Times interview with Peter Gill, 3 October 2001
- Evening Standard preview, 5 October 2001
- Evening Standard interview with Rufus Sewell, 4 October 2001
- Financial Times interview with Peter Gill, 6 October 2001
- Reviews:
- Times, 8 October 2001
- Guardian, 8 October 2001
- Evening Standard review, 8 October 2001
- Whatsonstage review, 8 October 2001
- Daily Telegraph, 8 October 2001
- Financial Times, 9 October 2001
- Independent, 10 October 2001
- Time Out, 10 October 2001
- What's On in London, 10 October 2001
- The Stage, 11 October 2001
- Sunday Telegraph, 14 October 2001
- Sunday Times, 14 October 2001
- Independent on Sunday, 14 October 2001
- Observer, 14 October 2001
- Spectator, 20 October 2001
| The Prior: The head of Erfurt's house of Augustinian Eremites presided over a well-filled monastery of 52 inmates. He was responsible for Luther's reception into the monastery and for inducting him into its necessary hardships, putting him in the care of a senior, experienced brother. | Ralph Nossek |
Ralph Nossek's theatre credits include The Prince of Hamburg,
Danton's Death, Major Barbara, Venice Preserv'd, Antigone and An Enemy of
the People at the National, Freud and Schism in
England at the NT's Studio. Also Scenes from an Execution
at the Almeida, Made in England at the Soho Poly, Comedians
at Nottingham Playhouse and Curtains at Hampstead Theatre,
for which he won the 1987 Drama Magazine award for Best Supporting Actor.
TV includes 3 series of That's Love, Maigret, Inspector Morse,
Kinsey, A Touch of Frost, The Bill, Mr Pye, Under the Hammer, House of Elliot,
Peak Practice, The Writing Game, The Life and Crimes of William Palmer,
Urban Gothic, Big Bad World and Micawber. Film
includes Chicago Joe and the Showgirl, The Strauss Dynasty, Les Miserables,
Brazil, Murderers Among Us, Citizen X, The Secret Agent, Jane Eyre
and The Tichbourne Claimant. |
| Martin Luther (1483-1546): Monk, scholar, theologian, university professor, excommunicated heretic, political outlaw, church reformer. Out of his despair of achieving salvation through his own unceasing efforts as a monk, Martin Luther edged towards the discovery, from St Paul's Epistle to the Romans, that sinners were forgiven -made acceptable, "justified" - not through their own actions, but passively, through their reception in faith of Christ's redemption won on the Cross. Catholicism's elaborate structures of aids to salvation including, crucially, indulgences, could not sit with this discovery, and from late 1517 Luther moved into an unavoidable split with the Roman Church. From the early 1520s he turned from destroyer to builder, and began, in Electoral Saxony, constructing the first model of the reformed Luther church. | Rufus Sewell |
 Rufus
Sewell's theatre credits include Arcadia at the National,
Royal Hunt of the Sun and Comedians for Compass
Theatre Co., The Lost Domain at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury,
Peter and the Captain at BAC, Pride and Prejudice
at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, The Government Inspector,
The Seagull and As You Like It for the Sheffield Crucible,
Making It Better (London Critics' Circle Award for Best Newcomer)
at Hampstead and the Criterion, Translations (Theatre World
Award - Outstanding Broadway Debut) at Plymouth Theatre, New York,
Rat in the Skull for the Royal Court and Macbeth at
Queen's Theatre. TV: The Last Romantics, Gone to Seed, Middlemarch,
Dirty Something, Citizen Locke, Henry IV and Arabian Nights.
Film: Twenty-One, Dirty Weekend, A Man of No Importance, Carrington,
Cold Comfort Farm, Victory, Hamlet, The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark
City, Martha Meet Frank Daniel and Laurence, Illuminata, At Satchem Farm,
In a Savage Land, Bless the Child, A Knight's Tale and The
Extremists. |
| Hans, Martin's father: (d.1530). Peasant, entrepreneur. Luther senior paid for Martin's education and hoped to see him a successful lawyer, not a monk. There was recurrent conflict between these two powerful personalities, and the extent to which Luther's initially fearful attitude to God was grounded in friction with his earthly father is open to speculation. | Geoffrey Hutchings |
Geoffrey Hutchings trained at RADA. His theatre credits include,
at the National, the title role Jacobowsky and the Colonel, Three
Men on a Horse (also at the Vaudeville), The Shaughraun, Mother
Courage and her Children, Flight, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick
and The Riot. An Associate Artist of the RSC, his work there
includes The Merry Wives of Windsor, Julius Caesar, Indians, Section
Nine, The Duchess of Malfi, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, Cymbeline, The Comedy
of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry V (Fluellen and Dauphin),
All's Well that End's Well, Twelfth Night (Feste), The
Winter's Tale (Autolycus), The Two Gentleman of Verona
(Launce), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom), Poppy
(Lady Dodo -SWET Award for Best Comedy Performance) and The Desert
Air. Musicals include No Strings at Her Majesty's
Jack of Spades at the Everyman, Liverpool, Oh Kay at
Chichester, and Ziegfetd and Showboat, both at
the London Palladium. Other: An Absolute Turkey (Peter Hall
Company). TV includes The Pirate Prince, Filipina Dreamgirls,
The Bill, Casualty, Bye Bye Baby, Minder, A Year in Provence, Maigret
(Lucas), The Bullion Boys, Cracker, Drop the Dead Donkey, Bergerac,
Degrees of Error, Our Friends in the North, Henry IV, Accused, The Famous
Five, Midsomer Murders, Mortimer's Law, Peak Practice, Duck Patrol
(Sarge), Goodnight Mr Tom, Monsignor Renard, Cor Blimey, Bad
Girls and The Safe House. Films include
Mike Bassett - Football Manager, It's All About Love, Longitude, The Bench,
Topsy Turvy, Wish You Were Here, Clockwise, White Hunter, Black Heart, On
The Black Hill, Henry V, Heart of Darkness and The Affair of
the Necklace. Radio includes The Archers. |
| Lucas: The character of Lucas has no historical counterpart. Along with Hans, he represents the entrepreneur class emerging from the peasantry at that time. | John Burgess (actor) |
John Burgess trained at RADA. His theatre credits include Romeo
and Juliet, Remembrance of Things Past and The Relapse
at the National, Othello, The Great White Hope, Richard II, Sarcophagus,
The Desert Air, Money, The Witch of Edmonton, A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Children of the Sun, As You Like It, The Women Pirates,
Queen Christina, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, The Lorenzaccio Story, Coriolanus
and Henry VI Parts 1 & 2 for the RSC, The Day You'll
Love Me at Hampstead, A Shayna Maidel at the King's
Head and Ambassadors Theatre, Hamlet and King Lear
on US tour, Medea at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Naked in
the Bull Ring and Death of a Salesman at the Birmingham
Rep, The One O'clock World at the Tricycle, Body and
Soul at Watford Palace, The Tempest and Made in
Britain at the Oxford Playhouse and a season at Canterbury. TV
includes Coriolanus, Love's Labour's Lost, Murphy's Mob, The Bill,
First Among Equals, Big Deal, Christabel, EastEnders, Wiesenthal, Hale and
Pace, Albert Campion, Casualty, Chancer, Grange Hill, The Green Man, Poirot,
Ruth Rendell, Lovejoy, Sam Saturday, The House of Elliot, Brookside
and Trust. Film: Rozencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead, Sakharov and Give My Regards to Broad Street. |
| Reader: A member of Martin Luther's order appointed, in accordance with the 'Rule of Saint Augustine', to read while the other monks eat in order that the monks may focus upon their spiritual hunger for the word of God as well as their physical hunger. | Stephen Rashbrook |
Stephen Rashbrook trained at Guildhall. His theatre credits include,
at the National, The Winter's Tale and Hamlet;
at the RSC, Nicholas Nickleby (also on Broadway), Twelfth
Night, Othello, Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Knight of
the Burning Pestle, and Peter Pan; in the West End,
The Lady In The Van, Forty Years On, Jackie - An American Life
and Hamlet; at Birmingham Rep and Nottingham Playhouse,
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; at Bristol Old Vic, Talk of
the Devil; at Chichester Robert and Elizabeth; at Watford
A Private Treason; at the Belgrade, Coventry, The Sound
of Music; and at the Lisbon Coliseum, The Fairy Queen.
TV includes Androcles and The Lion, Emmerdale, Dreamteam, Urban
Gothic and numerous documentaries including Station X, Hitler's
Holocaust and Living Proof. Radio includes Radio
Drama Company and World Service. Directing credits include
Die Fledermaus, HMS Pinafore, La Vie Parisienne and The Mikado
as Associate Director at the D'Oyly Carte, and Orpheus and Eurydice
as Assistant Director at English Touring Opera. |
| Augustinians: The Augustinian Order to which the monk Luther
belonged was incorporated by Pope Innocent IV in 1243 and by 1450 was grouped
in a thousand "chapters" or divisional sections throughout Europe. The Augustinians
had a brief of preaching, pastoral and parish work, as well as of contemplation
and prayer. Attempts to head off laxity in the Order led to the establishment
of the "Observant" wing to which Luther belonged by virtue of joining the
Erfurt house. His fellow German Augustinians showed sympathy in 1518 with
Luther's theological stand, but in that same year his Augustinian superior,
Staupitz, released him from his monk's vows. The Dominican Order, or "Order of Preachers" was founded by the Spaniard Dominican de Guzman (1170-1221) in order to counter heresy and broadcast Catholic doctrine. They established a reputation for intellectual distinction (the great Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas [d.1274] was of this order) and for unyielding defence of Catholic orthodoxy. Luther's foes Tetzel and Cajetan were Dominicans. |
Peter Bygott |
Peter Bygott's theatre credits include Flight and
Antony and Cleopatra at the National, The Tempest
for Touchstone Theatre Company, King Lear, The Venetian Twins, Elgar's
Rondo, Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar,
Henry IV Parts I & 2, Moscow Gold and Adam for the RSC,
Macbeth on UK tour, Paradise Lost at Jackson's
Lane, and his one-man show War Music on UK tour. TV
includes The Bill, EastEnders, The Knock, Class Act, London's Burning,
Measure for Measure, Every Inch a King and A Year with the
RSC. Film: Hamlet. |
| Dylan Charles | Dylan Charles graduated from Guildhall in July 2001. This is his first professional appearance. | |
| Phillip Edgerley | Phillip Edgerley trained at the London Centre for Theatre Studies and The Actors Company. His theatre credits include King Lear, The Crucible and Recording: Two Nudes Bathing (film sound track) and Unexpected Song, Bookworms on the Fringe, Another Country at Brockley Jack Theatre, On the Razzle and A Day Well Spent at Chichester Festival Theatre, Dancing at Lughnasa and Showcase at Jermyn Street Theatre and A Bedful of Foreigners at New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth. TV: The Bill, EastEnders and Other Animals. Film: Chicane. | |
| Scott Frazer |
Scott Frazer trained at LAMDA. His theatre credits include
Twelfth Night at the Liverpool Everyman, And Then They Came
For Me on national tour, Homefront at the Wimbledon
Studio Theatre, Antigone at the Old Vie, Pidgin Macbeth
at the Scarborough Theatre Festival, They Shoot Horses Don't They?
for Northern Stage and Il Capeletti ei Montecchi at the ROM,
Covent Garden. TV: Pirates!, The Girl, Byker Grove and
The Fifteen Streets. Film: Wasted. |
|
| Paul Imbusch |
Paul Imbusch's theatre credits include Jean Seberg, Animal
Farm, Tales from Hollywood and As I Lay Dying at the
National, Henry V, Coriolanus, Henry VI Part 3, As You Like It, 'Tis
Pity She's a Whore, Othello and Saratoga for the RSC,
Detective Story at the Manchester Royal Exchange, Theatre
Royal, As You Like It, Hobson's Choice and Death of a Salesman
at the Birmingham Rep, Threepenny Opera, Pygmalion, Canterbury Tales,
Plunder, When We Are Married, Jumpers, The Cherry Orchard, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead and Cowardy Custard at the Bristol
Old Vic, Delicate Balance at Leicester, Mary Rose
at Greenwich, My Wife Whatsername at the Watermill, Newbury,
The Winter's Tale at Northampton, Case of the Frightened
Lady at Watford, Twelve Angry Men at Westcliff,
Tonight at Eight Thirty and Pride and Prejudice
at Perth. On tour: The Play's the Thing, School for Scandal
and The Changeling for the Cambridge Theatre Co., School
for Scandal and Henry IV Parts 7 & 2 for ETT and at
the Old Vie, and Penny for a Song for the Oxford Stage Co.
TV: Love in a Cold Climate, Prometheus, Cat's Eyes, Reilly, Not a
Penny Less, Dombey & Son, The Bill and 99 to 7. Film:
Monsignor Quixote, Personal Services, Sporting Club Dinner
and Caleb Williams. |
|
| David Lucas | David Lucas trained at Guildford School of Acting. His theatre credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, Where's Charley? and Desires of Frankenstein, at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Merrily We Roll Along at the Donmar Warehouse, Zastrozzi at the Cockpit Theatre, Teechers for Eye Theatre, Singin' in the Rain at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and at the National, Oklahoma! at the Lyceum (NT transfer), Cats at the New London Theatre, Beauty and the Beast at the Dominion, Pirates of Penzance at Theatre on the Lake, Bromley and Dancin' in the Street at the Oldham Coliseum. | |
| Ian McLarnon | Ian McLarnon trained at Guildford. His theatre credits include The Relapse at the National, Troilus and Cressida and A Midsummer Night's Dream (also in Dubai) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (also on tour) at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Sondheim's Passion on tour and at the Queen's Theatre, Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre, The Magic Flute at the New Vic, Stoke, The Mikado at the Stephen Joseph, Scarborough, Cavalcade at Sadler's Wells and on tour, Fiddler on the Roof at the London Palladium, Forever Plaid at the Apollo, Next! The Sondheim Tribute at the Bridewell, Charlotte's Web at the Watermill, Newbury, The Railway Children at the Charter Theatre, Preston, The Sound of Music at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, Yusupov (workshop) at the Donmar Warehouse, and The Beautiful Game (workshop) at the Cambridge Theatre. TV: Bomb at the Grand and A History of Britain. | |
| Tom Marshall |
Tom Marshall's theatre credits include The Spanish Tragedy,
Antigone, Danton's Death and Venice Preserved at the
National, Sex Spangles and Sensible Shoes at Peterborough,
Bond Season and Karate Billy Comes Home at the
Royal Court, Mandrake at the Criterion, Snap at
the Vaudeville, No Man's Land at Wyndham's, Passion of
Dracula at Queen's Theatre, When Did You Last See Your Trousers?
at the Garrick, Rosmersholm at Southwark Playhouse, The
Wuffings for Eastern Angles Theatre Co., Plenty at the
Albery, Passion Play at the Comedy and Accomplices
at the Sheffield Crucible. Also seasons at Glasgow, Lincoln, Canterbury,
Bristol, Cardiff, Watford, Oxford, Edinburgh Lyceum and Sheffield Crucible.
TV: Upstairs Downstairs, Please Sir, Doctor at Large, Coronation Street,
World's End, The Thin End of the Wedge, Juliet Bravo, Blind Justice, Joint
Account, The Bill, Casualty, Mornin' Sarge, March on Europe, Paradise Club,
Trouble with Christine, Woof, The Biz and Dream Team.
Film: Oh What a Lovely War, There's a Girl in My Soup, Revenge,
Killer's Moon and Feast of July. |
|
| Ken Oxtoby |
Ken Oxtoby trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. His theatre
credits include, at the National, Othello (also world tour),
Dealer's Choice (NT transfer at the Vaudeville and on international
tour) and Hamlet (also world tour); extensive work in repertory
including Tom and Viv, Whose Life is it Anyway?, Noises Off, One of
Us and Peter Pan at the Palace, Westcliff, The
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for Contact Theatre, Manchester,
Tons of Money and The Philanthropist at Dundee
Rep, Ashes, Stevie, Accounts, Rents, and Kevin Elyot's award-winning
Coming Clean at Dixon Studio, and The Naff Sex Guide
at Canal Cafe and Edinburgh Festival. He has also toured in many major productions,
and worked at The Arts Festival in Malta. In London: There's a Girl
in My Soup at the Comedy and on national tour, The Dresser
at The Queen's, The Changing Room at The Globe, What
the Butler Saw at Wyndham's, Dead Funny at The Vaudeville,
and 1953 at The Almeida. TV includes The Mrs Bradley
Mysteries, Coronation Street, You Never Can Tell, Spy (Camp 020), No Appointment
Necessary, All Creatures Great and Small and EastEnders.
Film: Seasong and O Lucky Man! |
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| Nicholas Prideaux | Nicholas Prideaux trained at LAMDA. His theatre credits include The Winter's Tale and The Relapse at the National, A House by the Sea at the BAC, The Grapes of Wrath for the Steam Industry and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside at the Old Red Lion. | |
| Daniel Riste |
Daniel Riste trained with the Court Theatre Training Company. Since graduating
this summer, he has appeared in Titus Andronicus at the BAC. |
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| Bryan Robson |
Bryan Robson's theatre credits include An Enemy of the People,
Peter Pan, The Homecoming (understudy) and Hallisinia, or Money
Talks (an opera co-production with the Tate Gallery) for the National,
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Measure for Measure (both also on
tour in USA/Israel), The Devils and The Two Gentlemen
of Verona at the Bristol Old Vic, King Lear, As You Like It,
Doctor Faustus, The Silver Tassie, Waiting For Godot and Troilus
and Cressida for the RSC, The Crucible for the Touring
Consortium, Lonely Lives for the BAC, The Rivals
and Hamlet at the Northcott, Exeter, and Moving Susan
at the Haymarket, Basingstoke and Greenwich. Recent TV: A Woman's
Place and Psychic Pets. Recent film: Table
Help, Mindgame and Geriatrica. |
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| Brother Weinand: The composite figure of Weinand represents the mixture of sympathy and puzzlement that the intensely self-preoccupied "brother Martin" aroused in the monastery. | Pip Donaghy |
Pip Donaghy trained at the London Drama Centre. His theatre credits
include, for the National, Jesus Christ in The Passion, Clytemnestra
in The Oresteia, Napoleon Pig in Animal Farm,
Creon in The Oedipus Plays, The Rivals, The Wandering Jew, Countrymania,
An Enemy of the People, Albert Speer and, most recently, Sartorius
in Widowers' Houses. At the RSC, The Constant Couple,
Man of Mode, The Plain Dealer and Hess is Dead. At the
Royal Exchange, Manchester, Private Lives and Little
Murders. He has toured extensively with Joint Stock, 7:84, Cambridge
Theatre Co., English Touring Theatre and most recently with Shared Experience
in Mill on the Floss. For the Royal Court The Foursome,
Eye Winker Tarn Tinker, Remember the Truth Dentist, Devil's Island, Trees
in the Wind, Marie and Bruce, Blasted and most recently, Neverland.
For the Bush, Coming Clean, Loving Reno and Caravan.
At the Lyric, Hammersmith, Having A Ball, No Remission and
Lady From the Sea. In the West End he played the title role
in An Inspector Calls at the Garrick and Resenberg in
Amadeus at the Old Vic (both NT transfers). He started in Rep in
1969 playing seasons at Sheffield, Nottingham and Watford, and two years
at the Liverpool Everyman. Recent TV includes: Dalziet & Pascoe,
Coronation Street and This is Personal. Recent radio:
Furriers and The Publicist's Tale. |
| Johann Tetzel (c.1465-1519): Dominican friar, preacher. Tetzel's shameless promotion of indulgence sales, retailing forgiveness of guilt, formed an easy target for Luther's critique of indulgences in 1517. | Richard Griffiths |
Richard Griffiths' theatre credits include Verdi's Messiah
at the Old Vie, Red Star, Volpone, Henry VIII, Once in a Lifetime
and The White Guard with the RSC, Rules of the Games,
Galileo and Heartbreak House at the Almeida, Art
at Wyndham's and Katherine Howard and The Man Who Came
to Dinner at Chichester. TV: Mr Wakefield's Crusade,
El Cid, The Good Guys, Perfect Scoundrels, A Wanted Man, A Kind of Living,
The Marksman, Ffizz, Anything Legal Considered, The Merry Wives of Windsor,
The Cleopatras, The World Cup - A Captain's Tale, Whoops Apocalypse, Bird
of Prey, Amnesty, Nobody's Perfect, Ted and Ralph, In the Red, Pie in the
Sky, Inspector Morse, Hope and Glory I & II, Gormenghast and
History of Britain. Film: Chariots of Fire, Ragtime,
The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ghandi, Greystoke, Gorky Park, A Private
Function, Shanghai Surprise, Withnail and I, Goldeneye, King Ralph, Naked
Gun 2, Blame it on the Bellboy, Funny Bones, Britannia Hospital, Superman
II, Guarding Jess, Sleepy Hollow, Vatel and Harry Potter. |
| Johann von Staupitz, Vicar General of the Augustinian Order (c.1460-1524): Monk, spiritual adviser. Staupitz was the senior figure in Luther's Augustinian Order in Germany and the leading light in the strict or "Observant" wing of it. Luther frequently praised the spiritual comfort Staupitz had given him, though the older man did not join Luther's movement. | Timothy West |
Timothy West first appeared in London in Caught Napping at
the Piccadilly in 1959. Since then, his performances on the London stage
have included, for the National, James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey
into Night and Gloucester in King Lear, also leading
roles in The Trigon, Gentle Jack, The Italian Girl, Abelard and Heloise,
Exiles, The Constant Couple, Laughter, The Homecoming, Beecham, Master Class,
The War at Home, When We Are Married, The Sneeze, It's Ralph and
Twelve Angry Men. RSC: first appearance in 1962 in Nil
Carborundum and Afore Night Come, and in seasons at
the Aldwych and Stratford until 1966; then in 1975 Hedda Gabler
(also touring Australia, Canada and the USA). For the Prospect Theatre Company,
in the UK and abroad, he has played King Lear, Prospero, Holofernes, Claudius,
Enobarbus, Shylock, Bolingbroke in Richard II and Mortimer
in Edward II, Shpigelsky in A Month in the Country,
Emerson in A Room with a View and two plays about Samuel
Johnson. For the Bristol Old Vic: Trelawny, Falstaff in both
parts of Henry IV, Widowers' Houses, The Master Builder, The Clandestine
Marriage and title role in Uncle Vanya. More recently
he has played King Lear in Dublin, Death of a Salesman and
Macbeth for Theatr Clwyd, Brian Phelan's Himself on
tour for the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, The Rivals at Chichester,
Mail Order Bride and Getting On at the West Yorkshire
Playhouse, Falstaff for English Touring Theatre, The Birthday Party
at the Piccadilly, The Master Builder on .tour for English
Touring Theatre and The External at Greenwich Theatre and on
tour. TV includes Edward VII, Horatio Bottomley, Hard Times, Crime
and Punishment, Churchill and the Generals, Brass, The Monocled Mutineer,
A Very Peculiar Practice, Murder Most Horrid, What the Butler Saw, Harry's
Kingdom, When We Are Married, Breakthrough at Reykjavik, Strife, A Shadow
on the Sun, The Contractor, Blore MP, Beecham, Survival of the Fittest,
Why Lockerbie?, Framed, Reith to the Nation, Smokescreen, Eleven Men Against
Eleven, The Place of the Dead, Cuts, Goodnight Sweetheart and most
recently, King Lear, Bramwell, Murder in Mind, Station Jim
and Bedtime. Films include Nicholas and Alexandra, The
Day of the Jackal, Oliver Twist, Hedda, Joseph Andrews, Agatha, Masada,
The Thirty Nine Steps, Rough Cut, Cry Freedom, Ever After, Luc Besson's
Joan of Arc, 102 Dalmatians, Villa of Roses, Iris and
The Fourth Angel. His book, I'm Here I Think, Where are You?
is published by Coronet, and his autobiography A Moment Towards the
End of the Play is published by Nick Hern Books. He was made CBE
in 1984. |
| Cajetan, Tommaso di Vio, Cardinal of San Sisto General of the Dominican Order (1468-1534): Senior Churchman. This Italian minister-general of the Dominican order of Preachers was one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the early sixteenth century. | Malcolm Sinclair |
Malcolm Sinclair studied at the University of Hull and trained at the Bristol
Old Vic Theatre School. His theatre credits include Richard
III, Racing Demon, The Misanthrope and House/Garden
(for which he won the Clarence Derwent Award) at the National, Cressida
for the Almeida at the Albery, Heartbreak House at the Almeida,
By Jeeves at the Duke of York's, Uncle Vanya at
the Young Vic, Twelfth Night at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield,
Hay Fever on tour and at the Savoy, Little Lies
at Wyndham's, The London Cuckolds, Facades and Splendids
at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Anatole at the Gate, The Millionairess
at Greenwich, Dark River and The Case of Rebellious Susan
at the Orange Tree, and Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors
for the RSC. TV: Esther Waters, Byron - A Personal Tour, Prisoner
of Zenda, Me and the Girls, Everyone a Winner, Rumpole of the Bailey, Poirot,
The Bill, Hancock, Big Battalions, A Question of Guilt, The Scarlet and
the Black, Scarlett, Pie in the Sky, Writing on the Wall, McLibel, Casualty,
Kavanagh QC, Midsomer Murders, Fish, Anna Karenina, Victoria and Albert,
Murder Rooms, Relic Hunter, A & E and Anybody's Nightmare.
Film: Success is the Best Revenge, Now That It's Morning, God
on the Rocks, Young Poisoner's Handbook, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
and Secret Passage. Radio: By Jeeves and
Design for Murder. Concerts: Schoenberg's A Survivor
in Warsaw in Boston and London, Bliss's Morning Heroes
in Liverpool, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream in Boston
and New York, Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale with the Nash Ensemble
(Radio 3) and Ivor Gurney, Poet and Soldier of a Sort in the
Purcell Room at the Festival Hall. Records: Life and Works
- Tchaikovsky (Naxos Records). |
| Pope Leo X: Leo Giovanni de'Medici (1475-1521). Of the Florentine family of Medici, Giovanni was created cardinal at the age of thirteen and elected pope as Leo X in 1513. A generous patron of the arts, he took up the building of Rome's St Peter's basilica, to fund which he sponsored the indulgence sale which aroused Luther's protest in 1517. | Mark Tandy |
Mark Tandy's theatre credits include Major Barbara and
Mountain Giants at the National, Othello, The Merry Wives
of Windsor, Julius Caesar and Nicholas Nickleby (also
in New York) for the RSC, The Lucky Chance and Beside
Herself at the Royal Court, Beauty and the Beast at
the Old Vic, Lady Windermere's Fan at Watford, Balmoral
and The Clandestine Marriage at the Bristol Old Vic,
Siblings at the Lyric, Hammersmith, A Study in Scarlet
at Greenwich, Reflected Glory at the Vaudeville, A Voyage
Round My Father at Oxford Playhouse and Sweet Panic
at Hampstead. TV includes Aubrey Beardsley, Nicholas Nickleby, Jewel
in the Crown, Hedgehog Wedding, Catherine, Inspector Morse, A Vote for Hitler,
Gibraltar Inquest, Saracen, Portrait of a Marriage, Fall from Grace, Poirot,
The Chess Sultan, A Small World, A Time to Dance, Eye of the Storm, As Time
Goes By, Absolutely Fabulous, A Touch of Frost, The Buccaneers, Kiss and
Tell, Killer Net, The Waiting Time, Longitude, Darwin and Shackleton.
Film includes Defence of the Realm, Captive, Maurice, Loser
Takes All, Wings of Fame, Duel of Hearts, Railway Station Man, Howard's
End, Food of Love, Mrs Dalloway, Sophie's World, The Biographer and
The Luzhin Defence. |
| Karl von Miltitz, Chamberlain of the Pope's Household (1490-1529): Papal diplomat. The high point in Miltitz's career was his mission in 1518 to present Luther's overlord and protector, Frederick the Wise [Frederick III, Elector of Saxony], with the papal decoration of the Golden Rose, a strategy aimed at silencing the reformer. ECK Johannes Maier von Eck (1486-1543). Academic, disputant, author. The chancellor of the University of Ingolstadt, with whom Luther debated doctrine at Leipzig in 1519, Eck moved the papal excommunication of Martin Luther in 1520. | Gyuri Sarossy |
Gyuri Sarossy trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His theatre
credits include the title role in Coriolanus for Shakespeare
at the Tobacco Factory, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Leicester
Haymarket, Ferdinand in The Tempest at Nuffield Theatre, Southampton,
A Christmas Carol and The Bald Prima Donna at
the Bristol Old Vic, The Big Book for Girls at the Edinburgh
Assembly Rooms, and Summer in the City at the BAC. TV:
Blue Dove, Belfry Witches, Kavanagh QC, Up Rising and
McCallum. Film: Another Life, Catflap and
Jean. Radio: The Chronicles of Narnia, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Silas Marner and The Father Gilbert Mysteries. |
| Johannes von Eck, Secretary to the Archbishop of Trier | Neil Stacy |
Neil Stacy's theatre includes, most recently Lord Chesterfield in
A Perfect Gentleman at the King's Head, Cause Célèbre,
Mrs Warren's Profession and The Letter at the Lyric,
Hammersmith, Canaries Sometimes Sing at the Albery, The
Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy in the West End, national tours
of Blithe Spirit and Holiday Snap for Theatre
of Comedy and Gasping, The Second Mrs Tanqueray at the National,
A Patriot for Me at Chichester, Captain Carvallo
at Greenwich, Much Ado About Nothing at the Sheffield Crucible,
The Importance of Being Earnest, Howards End, A Room with a View
and Richard II for Prospect Productions; and work for the Bristol
Old Vic including The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet, Travesties, The Norman
Conquests, The Recruiting Officer and Betrayal. TV includes
leading roles in many series and classic serials including War and
Peace, The Pallisers, Strangers and Brothers, Shackleton, To Serve Them
All My Days, Barlow at Large, The Standard, The Fourth Arm, and the
comedy series Duty Free, Three Up Two Down, The House of Windsor,
and most recently, Get Well Soon. |
| The Knight: Osborne's anonymous figure of the embittered knight successfully typifies a large class of men of noble rank, "left over men, impoverish'd, who'd seen better days" lacking a clear function in a changing German Reich. | Andrew Woodall |
Andrew Woodall's theatre credits include Racing Demon, Abingdon Square,
The Shape of the Table and Murmuring Judges at the National,
The Art of Success for Paines Plough, Wetdon Rising,
Search and Destroy, Disappeared and Our Late Night for
the Royal Court, Butterfly Kiss and Peter Gill's Certain
Young Men at the Almeida, Vieux Carre at the Nottingham
Playhouse, Don Carlos at the Glasgow Citizens' and Edinburgh
Festival, Waste, Cloud Nine, The Provok'd Wife and King
Lear at the Old Vic, A Letter of Resignation at the
Savoy Theatre and Burning Issues at Hampstead. TV: Wish
Me Luck, Underbelly, Between the Lines, Prime Suspect III, Seaforth, Degrees
of Error, Sharman, Kavanagh QC, Nature Boy, Gimme Gimme Gimme II, Hearts
and Bones, Roy Dance is Dead, Murder Rooms, Heartbeat and Table
12. Film: Dr Sleep, Regeneration and Count of
Monte Cristo. |
| Katherine von Bora: The Cistercian nun Katharina von Bora (1499-1552) was converted to Luther's doctrines in the early 1520s and left her convent in 1523, marrying Luther in 1525. Their son Hans, the eldest of six children born between 1526 and 1534, is an apt reminder of the former celibate monk Luther's enthusiastic adoption of family domesticity. | Maxine Peake |
Maxine Peake trained at RADA. Her theatre credits include The
Cherry Orchard and The Relapse at the National,
Early One Morning at the Bolton Octagon and Miss Julie
at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. TV: Hetty Wainthrop Investigates,
Jonathan Creek, Clocking Off, Dinner Ladies, The Way We Live Now
and Victoria Wood and all the Trimmings. Film:
Girls Night. Radio: Much Ado About Nothing and
Smiles of a Summer Night. |
| Attendants and servants | Peter Bygott | |
| Dylan Charles | ||
| Phillip Edgerley | ||
| Scott Frazer | ||
| Paul Imbusch | ||
| Joanna van Kampen |
Joanna van Kampen trained at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include
The Pierglass at the Edinburgh Festival, Concierto Barroco
at Central Saint Martins, The Insatiate Countess for the William
Poel Festival at the National, Sweet Love Remembered at Shakespeare's
Globe, The Suppliants at the Gate, Spot's Birthday Party
at the Oxford Playhouse and on tour, The Roaring Girl
at the Finborough Theatre and Low Level Panic at the ICA.
Film: I am Woman and The Trial. Radio:
The Archers. |
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| David Lucas | ||
| Ian McLarnon | ||
| Tom Marshall | ||
| Ken Oxtoby | ||
| Nicholas Prideaux | ||
| Daniel Riste | ||
| Bryan Robson | ||
| Boy | Freddie Hale | Freddie Hale attends The Jackie Palmer Stage School. His acting credits include The Playboy of the Western World at the National and Magic of the Musicals at the Swan Theatre, High Wycombe. |
| Benedict Smith | Benedict Smith attends the Jackie Palmer Stage School. His theatre credits include Howard Katz at the National, An Inspector Calls at the Garrick, Jack and the Beanstalk at the Palace Theatre, Watford, Joesph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Bill Kenwright and Dick Whittington at Sadler's Wells. TV: Big Kids and Victoria and Albert. | |
| Hans the Younger | Jonathan Thomas-Davies | Matthew Thomas-Davies attends the Jackie Palmer Stage School. His theatre credits include The Duchess of Malfi for the RSC, and The Jury on TV. |
| Matthew Thomas-Davies | ||
| Keyboard/music director | Ian Macpherson | |
| Trumpet | Benjamin Gant | |
| Colin Rae | ||
| Percussion | Corrina Silvester | |
| Curtal/bagpipes | Belinda Sykes | |
| Director | Peter Gill |
Peter Gill began his career as an actor. In 1964 he became Assistant Director
at the Royal Court and, in 1970, Associate Director. He was Founder Director
of the Riverside Studios from 1976. He was Associate Director of the National
Theatre 1980-1997, and was the Founding Director of the National Theatre
Studio. His directing credits include, for the National: A Month in
the Country, Don Juan, Much Ado About Nothing, Danton's Death, Major Barbara,
Tales from Hollywood, Small Change, Kick for Touch, Antigone, Venice Preserv'd,
Fool for Love, The Murderers, As I Lay Dying, A Twist of Lemon, In the Blue,
Bouncing, Up for None, The Garden of England, Show Songs, Mean Tears, Mrs
Klein, Juno and the Paycock, Cardiff East. For the Royal Court:
A Collier's Friday Night, The Local Stigmatic, The Ruffian on the
Stair, A Provincial Life, The Soldier's Fortune, The Daughter-in-Law, The
Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Life Price, The Sleepers Den, Over Gardens Out,
The Duchess ofMalfi, Crete and Sergeant Pepper, The Merry-Go-Round, The
Fool, Small Change. For Riverside Studios: The Cherry Orchard,
The Changeling, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Scrape off the Black.
For the RSC: Twelfth Night, New England, A Patriot for Me.
Other credits include Bow Down, Down by the Greenwood Tree
at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Marriage of Figaro for Opera
North, The Way of the World at the Lyric, Hammersmith,
Uncle Vanya for Field Day, Tongue of a Bird, Certain
Young Men at the Almeida, Speed-the-Plow at New Ambassadors.
His plays include The Sleepers Den, Over Gardens Out, Small Change,
Kick for Touch, In the Blue, Mean Tears, Cardiff East, Certain Young Men,
Friendly Fire, The Look Across the Eyes, Lovely Evening. Adaptations
and Versions: A Provincial Life, The Merry-Go-Round, The Cherry Orchard,
Touch and Go, As I Lay Dying, The Seagull. |
| Designer | Alison Chitty | Alison Chitty trained at St Martin's School of Art and at Central School of Art and Design. Work for the National includes A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Danton's Death, Venice Preserv'd (British Drama Award), Tales from Hollywood, Fool for Love (West End), Antony and Cleopatra, The Late Shakespeares and Remembrance of Things Past (Olivier Award for Best Costume Designer); and elsewhere, Ecstasy and Uncle Vanya (Hampstead Theatre), Measure for Measure and Julius Caesar (Riverside Studios), Tartuffe and Volpone (RSC), Orpheus Descending (Haymarket and Broadway). Work in opera includes New Year (Houston and Glyndebourne), Gawain and Arianna (ROH), Jenufa (Dallas), Billy Budd (Geneva, Paris, LA, ROH - Olivier Award), Khovanschina (ENO - Olivier Award), Meistersinger (Copenhagen), Turandot (Paris), The Flying Dutchman and Julius Caesar (Bordeaux), Tristan and Isolde (Seattle and Chicago), Otello (Munich), Dialogues of the Carmelites (Santa Fe), Aida (Geneva) and The Last Supper (Berlin and Glyndebourne). Film work includes Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, Naked and Secrets and Lies (Palm D'Or, Cannes). She is Director of Motley Theatre Design Course. |
| Lighting Designer | Peter Mumford | Recent work as a lighting designer includes Redundant (Royal Court); Iphigenia (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); God Only Knows (Vaudeville); Medea (Queen's Theatre); // Corsaro (Athens Concert Hall); Don Pasquale (Opera Zuid, Holland), The Coronation of Poppea (ENO); Of Oil and Water (Siobhan Davies Dance Co.); Irek Mukhamedov and Dancers (Sadler's Wells); The Dispute and The Critic (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Arthur (Birmingham Royal Ballet); The Crucible, Hidden Variables, A Stranger's Taste, This House Will Bum/Ashley Page (Royal Ballet); Sounding, Unrest, The Celebrated Soubrette (Rambert Dance Co.); Lautrec (Shaftesbury Theatre); / Laskarina (Acropol Theatre, Athens); Eugene Onegin, Madame Butterfly (Opera North); Guilio Cesare (Opera de Bordeaux); Summerfolk, The Merchant Of Venice, Money, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre); Hamlet, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); A Long Day's Journey Into Night, An Ideal Husband, Oliver Twist, Therese Raquin (Gate Theatre, Dublin). He directed and designed the European Premiere of Earth and the Great Weather (by John Luther Adams) for the Almeida Opera 2000 Season. Recently designed sets and lighting for Un Ballo In Maschera (Vilnius Festival). Film/TV work includes directing 24 short films for the BBC2 series Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues (J S Bach), and he was lighting director for the other 24 films in the series. He was also director of photography for a new TV film version of Jenufa (Dir. Katie Mitchell) for BBC. His work as a TV/film director has won the Opera Screen and Dance Screen Awards and his TV adaptation of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake was nominated for an Emmy. He was the winner of the 1995 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for his work on The Glass Blew In (Siobhan Davies) and Fearful Symmetries (Royal Ballet) and nominated Best Lighting Designer in 2000. |
| Music | Terry Davies | Terry Davies' compositions for theatre include Tales from Hollywood, Antigone, The Festival of New Plays, Hamlet (NT Education tour), Neaptide, The Misanthrope, Schism in England (NT Studio tour), and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the National, Richard III at the Icelandic National Theatre, Coriolanus, New England, A Patriot for Me for the RSC, The Way of the World at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Uncle Vanya for Field Day, The School for Scandal for English Touring Theatre, The Snow Queen at Theatr Clwyd, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and Love's Labour's Lost at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Tongue of a Bird at the Almeida, Alarms and Excursions at the Gielgud Theatre, Hushabye Mountain at English Touring Theatre and Hampstead Theatre, A Penny for a Song for the Oxford Stage Company, Speed-the-Plow at the Ambassadors and Duke of York's, and The Lady in the Van at the Birmingham Rep. He has directed and orchestrated music for over 100 theatres nationally and internationally. He created The Car Man with Matthew Bourne, winning an Evening Standard Award for Best Musical Event, 2000; also Kes! - The Musical for the Bolton Octagon and the Theatre Royal, York and The Birds for Istanbul City Theatre. He has conducted the music for 18 feature films including Shakespeare in Love (Oscar-winning score), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Kevin Kline/Michelle Pfeiffer version) and The House of Mirth. |
| Music Director | Ian Macpherson | lan Macpherson studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. While still a student he became Musical Director of a West End musical, and has since conducted many shows including Divorce Me Darling, Matchgirls, Two Cities, Promises Promises, Thomas and the King, I Do! I Do!, Robert and Elizabeth (in Canada), Privates on Parade, Annie and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance. He orchestrated and conducted Kiss Me Kate and Poppy (for the RSC), and Pickwick. He directed the music for Derek Jacobi's Richard II and Richard III at the Phoenix, and Suitcase Four starring Cleo Laine and Jaqui Dankworth at the Stable Theatre, Wavenden, and arranged music for John Dankworth's 'Symphony Pops' programs in the USA and Britain. Other work as musical arranger and orchestrator includes the musicals, Windy City, Pinocchio, Oh Kay, Metropolis, Rage of the Heart, Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes and conducting and arranging music for many films, TV and commercial recordings. |
| Music Consultant | Andrew Carwood | Andrew Carwood works as a solo and consort singer, as well as directing his own group at an international level. He was a choral scholar at St. John's College, Cambridge, a lay clerk at Christ Church, Oxford and Westminster Cathedral before holding the post of Director of Music at the Brompton Oratory in London for five years. As a consort singer he has performed with all the British ensembles both on disc and in concert throughout the world, including The Tallis Scholars, The Orlando Consort, The Oxford Camerata, The Parley of Instruments and Pro Cantione Antiqua, and has performed solo roles with Roger Norrington, Harry Christophers, Richard Hickox, Paul McCreesh, Phillipe Herreweghe, Robert King and Christopher Hogwood. His discography includes works by Hassler, Vivaldi, Haydn, Warlock, Howells and Christopher Headington. Recent solo performances include Bach's St Matthew Passion for Roger Norrington throughout Europe, Purcell's Fairy Queen in Ravenna, Schubert's Mass in E flat with the National Orchestra of Wales, Monteverdi's Vespers (1610) for Harry Christophers, and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. As a conductor his recordings include the works of Robert Fayrfax, Nicholas Ludford, William Cornysh, Tomas Luis da Victoria and Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina all with the ensemble The Cardinall's Musick. They are currently recording the works of William Byrd, the recording of the Three Masses having become the most widely recommended version. The Cardinall's Musick perform a wide range of music, have their own period instrument ensemble and also promote contemporary music, having received commissions from Michael Finnissey and Simon Whalley. Andrew Carwood has been guest conductor for a number of ensembles in Spain and the USA. In 1995, he received the Gramophone Award for Early Music (and was runner-up in the same category in 2000) and subsequently a French Prix du Disque, a German Schallplatten Kritik Preis and the Schallplatten Echo Award. |
| Sound Designer | Paul Groothuis | Paul Groothuis was born in Holland and came to the UK in 1979 to study Stage Management at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He then toured the UK as the Sound Operator for David Wood's play The Ideal Gnome Expedition. In 1982 he started working at a recording studio as a tape operator, later becoming the studios resident engineer. He has been a member of the National Theatre's Sound Department since 1984 where he has designed the sound for over 100 productions across the National's three auditoriums. Productions include The Shaughraun (Howard Davies, 1988), The Wind in the Willows (Nicholas Hytner, 1990), The Night of the Iguana (Richard Eyre, 1992), Under Milk Wood (Roger Michell, 1995), Flight (Howard Davies, 1998), Antony and Cleopatra (Sean Mathias, 1998), Summerfolk (Trevor Nunn, 1999), All My Sons (Howard Davies, 2000 & 2001), The Cherry Orchard (Trevor Nunn, 2000) and The Winter's Tale (Nicholas Hytner, 2001). He has also designed the sound for musicals such as Sunday in the Park With George (Steven Pimlott, 1990), Sweeney Todd (Declan Donnellan, 1993), A Little Night Music (Sean Mathias, 1996), Lady in the Dark (Francesca Zambello, 1997), Richard Eyre's 1997 revival of Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! (Trevor Nunn, 1998; NT and West End), Candide (John Caird, 1999) and My Fair Lady (Trevor Nunn, 2001; NT and West End). He co-designed the sound for the National's production of Carousel (Nicholas Hytner) with Mike Walker, as well as for its transfer for Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, to the West End and Tokyo. Also for Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, he co-designed, with Mike Walker, Sam Mendes' production of Oliver! at the London Palladium. Most recently, he was sound designer on Christopher Renshaw's production of The King and I, also at the Palladium. He was voted Sound Designer of the Year by Live! magazine, 1998. |
| Assistant Director | Josie Rourke | As an assistant director, Josie Rourke has worked on Dangerous Corner (Watford Palace Theatre) directed by Laurie Sansom, Passion Play (Donmar Warehouse and Comedy Theatre) and Merrily We Roll Along directed by Michael Grandage, Orpheus Descending directed by Nicholas Hytner To the Green Fields Beyond directed by Sam Mendes and Boston Marriage directed by Phyllida Lloyd all at the Donmar Warehouse. Work as a director includes the English language premiere of Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas (Dario Fo Festival) Henry IV Part 1, (Edinburgh Fringe) and The Wrong Side of the Rainbow (Donmar Warehouse). Forthcoming projects as a director include Kick For Touch by Peter Gill for Sheffield Theatres. She was Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse under the Carlton Bursary Scheme. |
| Company Voice Work | Patsy Rodenburg | Patsy Rodenburg trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She is Head of Voice at the Royal National Theatre and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and was voice tutor at the Royal Shakespeare Company for nine years. She works extensively in theatre, film, TV and radio throughout Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. She has given lessons to many of the world's leading theatre and opera companies, and maintains a continuous working relationship with Stratford Festival Theatre (Canada), Shared Experience, Cheek by Jowl, Theatre de Complicite, Method and Madness, the Almeida Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court Theatre, and Michael Howard Studio, New York. She is a Director of the Voice and Speech Centre, London. Publications: The Right to Speak, The Need for Words and The Actor Speaks, all published by Methuen. Video: A Voice of Your Own. Audio tape: The Right to Speak. |
| Staff Director | Sarah Wooley | Sarah Wooley trained at RSAMD. Previously for the National: Staff Director for Romeo and Juliet and Remembrance of Things Past. She was Trainee Director for the Tron Theatre, Glasgow and Assistant Director at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. Her directing credits include Sladek and A Sexual Congress at the National (Platforms), Venus and Adonis at Regent's Park, Thirteenth Night at Southwark Playhouse and Arches Theatre, Glasgow, Skinless for CCA, Glasgow, Scott of the Antarctic at Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow and Talk Radio and Kennedy's Children at Arches Theatre. As assistant director, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Twelfth Night at Regent's Park, Sacco and Vanzetti, The Plaza and Endgame at the Tron Theatre, The Trick is to Keep Breathing at the Tron and the Royal Court, The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, Babes in the Wood at King's Theatre, Glasgow and Away for the Traverse Theatre Company. |
| Production Manager | Annie Gosney | |
| Stage Manager | Lesley Walmsley | |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Sue Millin | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Gemma Bodley | |
| Peter Gregory | ||
| Assistant to the Designer | Mark Friend | |
| Delia Peel | ||
| Assistant to the Lighting Designer | Pete Bull | |
| Deputy Production Manager | Tom Richardson | |
| Tim Blazdell | ||
| Assistant Voice Coach | Jeannette Nelson | |
| Costume Supervisor | Jane Hamilton | |
| Production credits | National's workshops | Armoury; Costume; Props & furniture; Scenic construction; Scenic painting; Wigs |
| Souvenir Scenic Studios | Archway, gates, crucifix, pillars and doors | |
| Theme Tech | Wall arch, pulpit, Papal arms and Tetzel cross | |
| Clear Water | Stage engineering | |
| Ken Creasy Ltd | Fugga Palace drape | |
| Gerriets GB Ltd | Scenic softs | |
| Thanks to | Kartäuserbau Museumsforum in Nuremberg, Germany | |
| Additional costumes made by | Henriette and Edith Webb | |
| Jo Hall | ||
| Andrew Short | ||
| Charles White | ||
| Mr Baboo | ||
| Fran Bristow | ||
| Paul Manning | ||
| Ba Higgins | ||
| Mark Costello | ||
| Roxy Cressy | ||
| Denis Fitzgerald | ||
| David McMurray | ||
| Hats, headdresses and jewellery by | Sean Barrett | |
| Simon Dawes | ||
| Robert Allsop | ||
| Martin Adams | ||
| Shoes by | Gamba and Epoca | |
| Assistants | Ushi Parekh | |
| Carrie Bayliss | ||
| Thanks to | Alistair Plant | |
| Dogs | Lilly and Bracken | Courtesy of Ros Cramphorn, owner and handler |
| The director would like to thank | Paul Miller | |
| Programme researched and compiled by | Lyn Haill | |
| Dinah Wood | ||
| Programme designed by | Stephen Cummiskey | |
| Programme thanks | Josie Rourke | |
| Helen Osborne |