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by Chris Thompson
Cast in order of speaking
| Tommy Anderson | Jack McMullen |
| Anne Anderson | Claire-Louise Cordwell |
| Marcus Reeves | Toby Wharton |
| Sue Ruskin | Lisa Palfrey |
| Karin Francis | Elaine Claxton |
| Simon Gale/Lou Martel | Oliver Jackson |
| Alex Sutherland | Chinna Wodu |
The action takes place in London, 1998 to 2013.
The performance lasts approximately eighty minutes.
There will be no interval.
| Director | Robert Hastie |
| Designer | James Perkins |
| Lighting Designer | Gary Bowman |
| Casting Directors | Alastair Coomer CDG |
| Vicky Richardson | |
| Fight Director | Philip d’Orléans |
| Production Manager | Bernd Fauler |
| Stage Manager | Sophie Goody |
| Associate Designer | Sophia Simensky |
| Assistant Director | Hannah Jones |
| Assistant Lighting Designer | Jack Weir |
| Production Electrician/Programmer | Dan Street |
| Producer | Jim Zalles |
| Associate Producer | Lauren McGee |
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.
Elaine Claxton | Karin Francis
Theatre includes Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead Theatre), Nation, The Relapse, A Winter’s Tale, Richard II, The Relapse and The Children’s Hour (National Theatre).
Television includes Wire In The Blood, Doc Martin, A Dinner of Herbs and Waking The Dead.
Claire-Louise Cordwell | Anne Anderson Trained at RADA.
Theatre includes Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Beautiful Thing (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), The Swan (National Theatre), There is a War (National Theatre), Ecstasy (Hampstead Theatre and Duchess Theatre), Oleanna (Theatre Royal York), Orphans (Paines Plough), The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe), Othello (Frantic Assembly), Torn (Arcola Theatre), Dirty Butterfly (The Young Vic), Days of Significance (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Tricycle Theatre), Burn / Chatroom / Citizenship (National Theatre), Stoning Mary (Royal Court Theatre) and Compact Failure (Clean Break).
Film includes Snow in Paradise, Stuart: A Life Backwards and The Curry Club.
Television includes Line of Duty, The Honourable Woman, Holby City, Call the Midwife, Casualty, Doctors, The Bill, Law and Order UK, Day of the Triffids, EastEnders, Trial and Retribution, Jane Hall’s Big Bad Bus Ride and Bad Girls.
Oliver Jackson | Simon Gale / Lou Martel Theatre includes She Stoops To Conquer (National Theatre), The Glee Club (Bush Theatre and Duchess Theatre), Our House (Cambridge Theatre), Les Miserables (Palace Theatre), Erics (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich), Alice In Wonderland (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and two seasons at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park.
Film includes Redirected, Entity, Les Miserables and Unlawful Killing.
Television includes Law and Order UK, Murderland, He Kills Coppers, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Bill, Doctors, 2:4 Children and Peak Practice.
Jack McMullen | Tommy Anderson
Theatre includes The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Pilot Theatre at Theatre Royal York).
Film includes Seamonsters and The Hatching. Television includes Waterloo Road, Moving On, The Street and Casualty.
Lisa Palfrey | Sue Ruskin
Theatres includes Before It Rains (Bristol Old Vic and Sherman Cymru, Cardiff), Canvas (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Kitchen Sink (Bush Theatre), Red Bud (Royal Court Theatre), Ingredient X (Royal Court Theatre), Small Change (Sherman Cymru, Cardiff), Blink (Tour and Off-Broadway for FAB Theatre Company), Gathered Dust And Dead Skin (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Festen (Lyric Theatre and Almeida Theatre), Under The Blue Sky (Royal Court Theatre), The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre), Cardiff East (National Theatre), Under Milk Wood (National Theatre), Yerma (National Theatre Studio), The Story of an African Farm (National Theatre Studio), Ghosts (Sherman Cymru, Cardiff) and House of America (National Tour).
Film includes Pride, Maybe Baby, Guest House Paradiso, House of America, The Deadness of Dad and The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain.
Television includes Family Tree, Blodau, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Bill, Armadillo, Casualty, Green Eyed Monster, Magistrates, Mind Games and Split Second.
Toby Wharton | Marcus Reeves
At the Finborough Theatre, Toby co-wrote and appeared in Fog (2012) and appeared in His Greatness (2012) and Carthage as part of Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights.
Trained at RADA.
Theatre includes Home (National Theatre), Days of Significance (Royal Shakespeare Company), Fog (National Tour), Shalom Baby (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Ajax (Riverside Studios), and Transient (Pleasance Edinburgh and Shunt Vaults).
Film includes Absence, Echo Road, Postcode and Bashment. Television includes Gates, Silent Witness and The Bill.
Chinna Wodu | Alex Sutherland Theatre includes Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Noël Coward Theatre), Dr Faustus, Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe), Italian Dreams, Teach Me (Soho Theatre) and Macbeth (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester). Television includes Da Vinci’s Demons.
Chris Thompson | Playwright
Chris is the Channel 4 Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where he makes his professional debut with Carthage. The play has won Chris a Channel 4 Playwright’s Scheme bursary (formerly the Pearson Playwright Award), judged by a panel including Sir Richard Eyre CBE, Michael Billington OBE and Indhu Rubasingham. The Finborough Theatre premiered an earlier version of Carthage as part of Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, the Finborough Theatre’s annual festival of new writing. In 2013, Chris was invited to take part in the Royal Court Theatre’s Studio Writers’ Group and the Kudos/Bush Initiative. He is currently under commission to the Bush Theatre.
Robert Hastie | Director
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (2012), a staged reading of Photos of You Sleeping as part of the Papatango New Writing Prize (2012) and the original staged reading of Carthage as part of Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights.
Other directing includes the UK premiere of Sunburst by Tennessee Williams as part of The Hotel Plays at Holborn Grange Hotel, and as co-director, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Lamb Players. Associate Direction includes Coriolanus and the forthcoming Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse, Sixty-Six Books which opened the new Bush Theatre, where he directed world premieres including In The Land of Uz by Neil LaBute and The Middle Man by Anthony Weigh, and Much Ado About Nothing at the Wyndham’s Theatre.
Robert is Trainee Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse.
James Perkins | Designer
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Trying (2009), Foxfinder (2011) and Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (2012).
Other theatre includes Floyd Collins (Southwark Playhouse), The Girl in The Yellow Dress (Salisbury Playhouse), The Fantasist’s Waltz (Theatre Royal York), Matters of Life and Death (National Tour), Many Moons (Theatre503), Beowulf (Charles Court Opera), Stockwell (Tricycle Theatre), The Marriage of Figaro (Wilton’s Music Hall), Saraband (Jermyn Street Theatre), Girls and Dolls, Colourings (Old Red Lion Theatre), Iolanthe, Through The Woods (Pleasance London), The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore (Buxton Opera House), The Barber (Greenwich Theatre), The Wonder (BAC), The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), St John’s Night (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Lost in Yonkers (Watford Palace Theatre). James created Story Whores.
Gary Bowman | Lighting Designer
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Apart from George (2009), S-27 (2009), Foxfinder (2011) and A Life (2012). Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Gary has been Deputy Chief Electrician at the Donmar Warehouse, worked as an electrician on productions including Wicked, Rock of Ages, Chicago and he is currently on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda in the West End. Theatre includes Ciphers (Bush Theatre and National Tour), Mana (The Place and National Tour), Thark (Park Theatre), Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against A Brick Wall (Soho Theatre), Liar Liar, 1001 Nights (Unicorn Theatre), Feathers in the Snow, The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), The Disappearance of Sadie Jones (Bikeshed Theatre and National Tour), Angle at the Bush (Bush Theatre), Life for Beginners (Theatre503), Gotcha, Mary Rose, The Art of Concealment (Riverside Studios), Jest End (Jermyn Street Theatre), Leopoldville, Stuff (Tristan Bates Theatre), Present Laughter (Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich), Miss Julie (Attic Theatre, Stratford Upon-Avon), Angel, The Muse (Pleasance London) and Ordinary Lads (Etcetera Theatre).
Sophia Simensky | Assistant Designer
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Costume Designer for Events Whilst Guarding the Bofors Gun (2012) and Lost Boy (2014), and Set and Costume Designer for An Incident at the Border (2012) – and its subsequent transfer to Trafalgar Studios – and Operation Crucible (2013).
Trained at Wimbledon College of Art.
Theatre includes Cape (Unicorn Theatre), The Altitude Brothers (Redbridge Arts Centre), The Tailor-Made Man (Arts Theatre), Burning Bird (Unicorn Theatre), Oranges on the Brain (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford), and You and Me (Greenwich Theatre). Film includes Screaming Guns.
Philip d’Orléans | Fight Director
Philip is a member of the Equity Register of Fight Directors, and of the teaching and examining staff of the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. He has worked throughout Europe and America, alongside his regular teaching commitments for RADA, Drama Studio London and other drama schools and universities.
Theatre includes Henry IV, Parts I and II, God of Soho, The Mysteries, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, A New World and Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), Julius Caesar and I’ll Be The Devil (Royal Shakespeare Company), Simon Boccanegra, Faust and Ariodante (English National Opera), Veneziana, L’Isola Disabitata and Der Rosenkavalier (Royal Opera House), Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville Theatre), Cool Hand Luke (Aldwych Theatre), Carrie’s War (Apollo Theatre), Merlin, Robin Hood (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster), King Lear (Theatre Royal, Bath), The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, Far From The Madding Crowd, The Rivals, Desire Under The Elms, Bleak House and Humble Boy (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme), Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano de Bergerac, Masters Are You Mad?, Twelfth Night, Merlin (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester), L’Olympiade (Garsington Opera), A View From The Bridge, King David, The Grapes Of Wrath, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Lonesome West, IPH, Journey’s End and Aladdin (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Death and the Maiden, Arsenic and Old Lace, What the Butler Saw, People at Sea, The Herbal Bed, Robin Hood, Shadowlands, Sleeping Beauty, Two Cities, Playing For Time, To Kill A Mockingbird, Cinderella, Jamaica Inn, Aladdin and The Hired Man (Salisbury Playhouse),
Film includes The Knife That Killed Me (Universal Pictures).
Bernd Fauler | Production Manager
Trained in Stage Management at Rose Bruford College. Theatre includes The Roundabout Auditorium, Jumpers For Goalposts, Good With People, Wasted, 65 Miles (Paines Plough), No Place To Go, Dances Of Death, Purple Heart, The Trojan Women, Sunset Baby, The Prophet (Gate Theatre), SPILL Festival 2013 (Pacitti Company), Once Upon A Time In Wigan, Krapp’s Last Tape, Spoonface Steinberg (Hull Truck Theatre), Open East (Create London at the Barbican), The Fidget Project (London Arts in Health Forum and Wellcome Trust), Access All Areas, Performance Matters 2011 and 2012 (Live Art Development Agency), SACRED 2009 and 2010 (Chelsea Theatre), London via Lagos Season (Ovalhouse), Duckie Goes To The Gateways, Gross Indecency, Duckie (Latitude Festival), Hurts Given and Received, Slowly (The Wrestling School), and Where’s My Desi Soulmate?, It Ain’t All Bollywood, Meri Christmas, The Deranged Marriage (Rifco Arts).
Sophie Goody | Stage Manager
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun (2012) and Hard Feelings (2013). Theatre includes My Mother Is a Fish (Suspense Festival), Bloodshot (Canterbury Festival), Land Of Our Fathers (Theatre503), My Favourite Madman (Edinburgh Festival), Desolate Heaven (Theatre503), A Christmas Fair (English Touring Theatre), The Hotel Plays (Defibrillator), I Am A Camera (Paulden Hall Productions) and The Alchemist (Dunnico Theatre).
Hannah Jones | Assistant Director
Hannah is currently Resident Assistant Director at the Finborough Theatre where she has been Assistant Director for The White Carnation (2013), Fishskin Trousers (2013), The Precariat (2013) and The Pavilion as part of Vibrant 2013 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights.
Trained at The University of Winchester.
Theatre includes For a Look or a Touch (King’s Head Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mannequins and Playhouse Creatures (The Studio, Winchester).
