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by Chris Dunkley

Cast in order of speaking

Sarah	Tilly Gaunt
Phil	Simon Bubb
Poppy	Abigail Cole Jarvie
Poppy	Carmelina Meoli
Lucy	Siubhan Harrison
Mick	Sean Murray

The play takes place in Northampton and moves backwards in time between 2012 and 2011.

The performance lasts approximately ninety minutes.

There will be no interval.

Director	Ola Ince
Designer	Daniel Harvey
Lighting Designer	Elliot Griggs
Sound Designer	Max Pappenheim
Movement Director	Jenny Ogilvie
Fight Director	Kevin McCurdy
Stage Manager	Ben Karakashian
Assistant Director	Suzanne West
Producer	Georgina Ratnatunga for Franklin Productions Ltd
Associate Producer	Alan Sharpington for Ground Rush Productions

Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members.

We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.

The Soft of Her Palm is performed in repertoire and on the set of A Life, designed by James Turner, which plays Tuesday to Saturday evenings, and Saturday and Sunday matinees, until 27 October 2012

Simon Bubb | Phil Trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Theatre includes The Habit of Art, War Horse and Saint Joan (National Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and King John (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse), 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic New Voices), Hay Fever (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Unless (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Stealing Sweets and Punching People (Theatre503) and The Edge of the Land (Eastern Angles). Television includes EastEnders.

Radio includes The Archers, Clare in the Community, A Tale of Two Cities, My One and Only, Pilgrim, Blurred, Life and Fate, The Haunted Hotel, The Spy, Disconnected and Nightingale Wood.

Tilly Gaunt | Sarah Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre includes Translations (Curve Theatre, Leicester), The Yellow Wallpaper (Royal Festival Hall), The Count of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Peter Pan, A Doll's House and Ruby Moon (Northern Stage, Newcastle), Noises Off (National Theatre Tour and Piccadilly Theatre), Charley's Aunt (National Tour for Bill Kenwright Ltd), Twelfth Night (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), The Memory of Water (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and Guildford), The Real Thing, Lovers and War (Strindberg Intima Theatre, Stockholm) and Silence (National Theatre Studio). Television includes several episodes of Holby City, The South Bank Show, The Bill, People Like Us and the BBC comedy Moonmonkeys.

For Radio, Tilly won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award and has performed in over one hundred radio productions.

Siubhan Harrison | Lucy At the Finborough Theatre, Siubhan appeared in In Quest of Conscience (2011). Trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Theatre includes Earthquakes in London (National Tour and National Theatre for Headlong), Rich Isn't Easy (Tristan Bates Theatre), Grease (Piccadilly Theatre), The Stripper (National Tour), Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Marianne Dreams (Almeida Theatre), We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre), Bad Girls the Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Les Misérables (Queen's Theatre), Carmen (New Vic and Regional Tour) Castaway Café (Edinburgh Festival), Whale Music (Medena Theatre) and a special concert version of Les Misérables performed at Windsor Castle for the Entente Cordiale.

Film includes the Cannes-nominated film The Man Who Met Himself, Well Prepared and Little Deaths which opened the Glasgow Fright Fest last year.

Television includes Al Murray's Happy Hour, Saturday Night Takeaway, This Morning, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and The Song of Lunch.

Abigail Cole Jarvie | Poppy Abigail trains at Phoenix Theatre School. Theatre includes Annie, Christmas Production and Fairytale Mashup! (Phoenix Theatre School).

Carmelina Meoli | Poppy Carmelina trains at Stagecoach Fulham and is part of the street dance group at GEMS Hampshire School. She has previously trained at Chelsea Ballet School and Dance Attic Ballet. Theatre includes On the Roof and a number of open-air performances for Stagecoach Fulham.

Sean Murray | Mick At the Finborough Theatre, Sean appeared in Death of Long Pig (2009). Other theatre includes The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Bath), Kes (Catherine Wheels Theatre), Romeo and Juliet and The Importance of Being Earnest (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The English Game (Headlong), The Home Place (Comedy Theatre), Buried Child (National Theatre), Jane Eyre (Shared Experience), The Crucible (The Touring Consortium), The Terrible Voice of Satan (Royal Court Theatre), The Cherry Orchard, The Phoenician Women, The Virtuoso, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, A Woman Killed with Kindness and Amphibians (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Fairy Queen (Aix-en-Provence), Androcles and the Lion, Judy, Tartuffe, The Life of Galileo, The School for Scandal, The Rivals, The Comedy of Errors and Othello (Bristol Old Vic Theatre), For King and Country (Greenwich Theatre), The Misanthrope (Cambridge Theatre Company), Loot (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Peter Pan (Redgrave Theatre, Farnham) and Murder on the Nile (Worthing Theatre).

Film includes The Truth, Finding Mallory, A Rather English Marriage and Hamlet.

Television includes Robin Hood, Casualty, Judge John Deed, Dunkirk, Holby City, Serious and Organised, Silent Witness, Without Motive, Berkeley Square, Seaforth, The Bill, The March, A Wing and a Prayer, Peak Practice, Smokescreen, The Advocates, South of the Border, The Country Boy and EastEnders.

Chris Dunkley | Playwright Chris is currently commissioned by the Arts Council to research and write The Precariat, a new play that will premiere as part of the Finborough Theatre's Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights in November 2012. His play Mirita premiered at the Finborough Theatre in 2001, was named Time Out Critics’ Choice, and transferred Off Broadway to the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, alongside his short play Lisa Says. An earlier version of The Soft of Her Palm was performed at the Finborough Theatre as a staged reading as part of Vibrant – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2010), directed by Tim Luscombe.

Other plays include Almost Blue (Riverside Studios), How to Tell the Truth (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Lucy is a Minger (Spinney Hill Theatre, Northampton) and The Festival (Wimbledon Studio Theatre). Radio includes The All Colour Vegetarian Cookbook and The Architects, both for the BBC. Chris has been Writer in Residence at Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton, and Writer on Attachment at the Royal Court Theatre. He was the 2002 winner of the International Student Playscript Competition and winner of the PMA writers’ award in 2001.

Ola Ince | Director Ola is a former Resident Assistant Director and Senior Reader at the Finborough Theatre where she directed Namaskar as part of 2011’s Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights. Trained at Rose Bruford College with a First Class Honours BA in Theatre Directing. Directing includes Pets Corner (Arcola Theatre), One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Clare Theatre at The Young Vic), Games (Pleasance Theatre), Far Away (The Studio, Rose Bruford College), The Inconvenient Store (Tooting Hub), The Frame (Unicorn Theatre), The Island (Unicorn Theatre) and Pop (Warehouse Theatre). Ola has worked as an Assistant Director for the The Young Vic, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Tristan Bates Theatre, National Theatre Studio, King's Head Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company Fringe Festival. Most recently, she was Assistant Director to Sacha Wares on Wild Swans (The Young Vic).

Daniel Harvey | Designer Trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Set Designs include Hedda Gabler (The International Ibsen Stage at Hoxton Hall), O Brave New World – based on The Tempest (Retz London). Costume Designs include the Australian premiere of Xanadu: The Musical (Australian Tour). Set and Costume Designs include Back from the Dead Red, which received a nominated for Best Design in the Green Room Awards (Melbourne Fringe Festival), Two Weeks with the Queen (Black Apple Theatre at the Midsumma Festival). Daniel has worked as Assistant to Paul Wills on My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible), Drumbelly (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), as Assistant to Chloe Lamford on Disco Pigs (The Young Vic), Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), An Appointment with the Wickerman (National Theatre of Scotland), Boys (Headlong at Soho Theatre) and The Little Sweep (Malmo Opera House), as Assistant to Christopher Oram on Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre), Privates on Parade (Noël Coward Theatre) and The Marriage of Figaro (Glyndebourne Festival Opera) and as Assistant to Anna Tregloan on the Australian premiere of Spring Awakening: A New Musical (Sydney Theatre Company). Wardrobe includes Priscilla – Queen of the Desert: The Musical (Palace Theatre) and the Melbourne seasons for both The Australian Ballet and Opera Australia.

Elliot Griggs | Lighting Designer At the Finborough Theatre, Elliot has been the Lighting Designer for Crush (2011), Perchance to Dream (2011), Portraits (2011), And I and Silence (2011) and Northern Star (2011).

Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Recent theatre includes The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (The Lowry, Manchester), MEAT (Theatre503), Belleville Rendez-Vous (Greenwich Theatre), Lagan (Oval House Theatre), Folk Contraption (Southbank Centre), Bitter Pleasures for a Sour Generation (Soho Theatre), The Custard Boys (Tabard Theatre), Brightest and Best (Half Moon Theatre), Dealing With Clair, One Minute, Nocturnal, dirty butterfly, Our Town (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), The Mercy Seat (Royal Shakespeare Company Capital Centre, Warwick), The Lady's Not For Burning, West Side Story, By the Bog of Cats, ’Tis Pity She's a Whore, Elephant's Graveyard (Warwick Arts Centre), Much Ado About Nothing (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) and Dido and Aeneas (St. Paul's Church, London, and Tour). His awards for lighting design include the Francis Reid Award from the Association of Lighting Designers and the ShowLight Award at the National Student Drama Festival.

Max Pappenheim | Sound Designer At the Finborough Theatre, Max designed the sound for Hindle Wakes, Barrow Hill and The Fear of Breathing (2012) and directed Perchance to Dream (2011).

Sound Designs include Borderland, Kafka v Kafka (Brockley Jack Studio Theatre), Being Tommy Cooper (Old Red Lion Theatre), Four Corners One Heart (Theatre503), Tangent (New Diorama Theatre) and Werther's Sorrows and Salome (Edinburgh Festival and Etcetera Theatre). Directing includes San Giuda (Southwark Cathedral), The Charmed Life (King's Head Theatre), Finchley Road (LOST Theatre) and Quid Pro Quo (Riverside Studios).

Max was nominated for an OffWestEnd Award 2012 for Best Sound Design.

Jenny Ogilvie | Movement Director At the Finborough Theatre, Jenny appeared in Wolfboy/Treatment (1999) and Beating Heart Cadaver as part of Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2010).

Trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and as a Movement Director at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Movement Direction includes Sweeney Todd and Paul Bunyan workshops (Welsh National Opera), Vernon God Little (Guildford School of Acting), Three Sisters/Swan Song, which she co-directed with Ben Naylor, Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra (Central School of Speech and Drama). As an actor, theatre includes What Every Woman Knows (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) for which she was nominated for the TMA Award for Best Performance in a Play, Noughts and Crosses (Royal Shakespeare Company), I Have Been Here Before (Watford Palace Theatre), Peter Pan and The Diary of Anne Frank (Birmingham Rep and National Tour), Our Country's Good (National Tour), Rebecca and Deadlock (Vienna's English Theatre) and Miss Julie (Theatre Royal, Haymarket). Film includes A Cock and Bull Story and The Clap. Television includes Law and Order, Torn, Five Days and Poirot.

Kevin McCurdy | Fight Director Trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is an Equity professional First Director in Wales. He gained his Combat Teacher status in 1993 and Professional Fight Directors status in 1996. Theatre includes Mogadishu (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, and National Tour), Romeo and Juliet (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), The Three Musketeers (Cardiff Castle), Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), House and Garden, Things We Do For Love, Sleeping Beauty, Dick Whittington (Harrogate Theatre), Taboo (National Tour), Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, The Birthday Party, It's Not The End Of The World, Suspension, Cyrano De Bergerac (Bristol Old Vic), Beauty and The Beast (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Quadrophenia (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Cysgod Y Cryman (Theatr Genedlaethol), We The People, The Frontline, As You Like It, Troilus and Cressida, Bedlam, Helen, Macbeth (Shakespeare's Globe), Treasure Island (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Cause Célèbre (The Old Vic),The Heart of Robin Hood, Twelfth Night, Marat Sade, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company). Feature Films include John Carter of Mars, Season of the Witch, Hunky Dory, Panic Button, Flick, Summer Scars and A World Apart. Film and Television includes The Chosen, Doctor Who Christmas Special, Torchwood, Becoming Human, Belonging, Being Human, High Hopes, The Story of Tracy Beaker, Hearts of Gold, Carrie's War, Pobol Y Cwm, Rhyw a Dinosaurs, Jara, Y Pris, Caerdydd, Pen Taler, Gwaith Cyntaf, Alys, CCTV, Camelot, Baker Boys, Switch, Hollyoaks After Dark, Arthurs’ Dyke and Arwyr and Colonial Gods. Opera includes Wozzeck, Die Fledermaus, Rigoletto, Tristan Und Isolde, Don Giovanni (Welsh National Opera) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Glyndebourne Opera). Kevin has been Resident Fight Master at the Royal Welsh Colleges’ since 2005.

Ben Karakashian | Stage Manager At the Finborough Theatre, Ben was Stage Manager on Perchance to Dream (2011), The Grand Duke (2012) and Hindle Wakes (2012).

Trained at Royal Holloway University of London with BA Honours in Drama and Theatre Studies. Stage Management includes The Folk Contraption (Old Vic Tunnels), Someone to Blame (King's Head Theatre), The Mikado (Rosemary Branch Theatre and King's Head Theatre), Susanna's Secret (King's Head Theatre) and Beowulf: The Panto (Rosemary Branch Theatre).

Suzanne West | Assistant Director Trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and recently completed an MA in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University. As an actor, performances include The School for Scandal (Harrogate Theatre), On The Piste (Harrogate Theatre) and Hamlet (Theatre Du Jour, Argen, France as part of the International Theatre Festival). As a director, she is currently developing Losing It with writer Fran Perillo for a tour in 2013.

Georgina Ratnatunga for Franklin Productions Ltd | Producer At the Finborough Theatre, Georgina was formerly General Manager. She was Producer for Portraits (2011), Associate Producer for Perchance to Dream (2011) and – for Franklin Productions Ltd – she produced The American Clock (2012). Franklin Productions Ltd was formed in 2010 to produce plays and musicals in London, touring the UK and internationally.

Producer | Neil Franklin

Associate Producer | Georgina Ratnatunga

www.franklinproductions.co.uk

Alan Sharpington for Ground Rush Productions | Associate Producer Alan's producing and directing work includes The Dark Entry (Canterbury Festival), The Yellow Wallpaper (Royal Festival Hall) and The Case (Oubliette Arthouse), all in site-specific productions for Donkeywork where he is Co-Artistic Director, Romeo and Juliet (New Zealand Tour), Tales of the Black Hand (Tricycle Theatre) and The Wake (Soho Theatre Studio). As an actor, he has worked at the Tricycle Theatre, the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Soho Theatre Studio, Arcola Theatre and many tours and site-specific shows. Ground Rush Productions was founded to produce the very best in new writing and to revive neglected classics.

Production Acknowledgements

Chaperones | Kidist Admasu, Sarah Jarvie, Carmine Meoli

Assistant Stage Manager | Ine De Baerdemaeker

Operator | Anna Braybrooke

Production Image | David Armstrong

Thanks to

Rob Crouch, Marian Elizabeth, Nabil Elouahabi, Emily Lim, Charlotte Mafham, Claire Owens, Julia Stenton, Ros Terry, Islington Community Theatre, and the Princess Victoria, Shepherd's Bush.