The Divided Laing (eBook)

Stepping Out Theatre

Formed in 1997, based in Bristol, and with forty-eight productions to its credit, Stepping Out Theatre is the country’s leading mental health theatre group. It has produced a wide range of work on mental health themes and is open to people who have used mental health services and their allies.

‘Stepping Out understands and does not shy away from the possibility that theatre is a transformative and healing activity which brings joy into people’s lives. If you want to hear something true, go and hear what Stepping Out Theatre is saying.’

– Mark Rylance, Patron of Stepping Out Theatre

Cabinet of Cynics

Cabinet of Cynics is a production company formed by Michael Kingsbury and Patrick Marmion for the development and staging of new writing.

Cast (in order of appearance)

Mary Barnes

Joe Berke

Ronnie Laing

Journalist/Ulrike Engel (Ronnie’s imaginary partner)

Aaron Esterson

David Cooper

Laura-Kate Gordon

James Russell

Alan Cox

Amiera Darwish

Kevin McMonagle

Oscar Pearce

Creatives

Director

Designer (set & costume)

Lighting Designer

Sound

Fight Director

Assistant Director

Design Assistants

Stage Manager

Costume Supervisor

Prop Maker (phrenological head)

General Manager & Associate Producer

Production Manager

Casting

Press & PR

Michael Kingsbury

Nicolai Hart-Hansen

Neill Brinkworth

Lex Kosanke

David Broughton-Davies

Lucy Curtis

Sarah Buller Anna Kezia Williams

Alistair Warr

Anna Bonomelli

Paul Mann

Jonathan Woodhouse

Ben Karakashian

Lucy Jenkins CDG Sooki McShane CDG

Anna Arthur Bethany Arnold

Thanks

Lloyd Trott, Reshmi Marmion, Daniel Tench, Simon Inkpen (poster), Simon Usher, Margaret Clunie, Hamish Clark, William Houston, Lorna Nickson Brown, Cameron Jack, Ralph Aiken, Mark Oosterveen, David Lemberg, David, Alice and Sharon at Kingsley Hall, Nat at FEEL (Friends of East End Loonies), Rosemary Moore, all the staff of the Arcola Theatre, Adam Bennett (photographer), Blair Mowat (video trailer), Toby Burbidge (set construction), Sparks Theatrical Hire, Max Pappenheim, Rose Bruford Props Department, Georgina Richards and Emily Dolan at E15 and all our hugely generous sponsors who have made this event possible.

Biographies

Alan Cox (RD Laing)

Since leaving LAMDA, Alan has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Chichester Festival Theatre. He has performed in the London premieres of Longing (Hampstead), Found in The Ground (Wrestling School), The Earthly Paradise (Almeida) and The Rubinstein Kiss (Hampstead) and his West End appearances include Strange Interlude (Duke of York’s), The Creeper (Playhouse) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Haymarket). He has appeared on Broadway in Translations (MTC) and toured the US in The Caretaker and Frost/Nixon. Other theatre: Impossible (Pleasance, Edinburgh), Kingmaker (Arts Theatre), City Stories (St James Theatre) The Tempest (Minack), The Seagull (Culture Project, NY), Cornelius (Finborough, 59E59). Film and TV work: The Auteur Theory, Mrs. Dalloway, An Awfully Big Adventure, Young Sherlock Holmes, A Voyage Around My Father, Not Only But Always, Housewife 49, John Adams, Margaret, The Good Wife and Lucan. He is a regular improviser with Ken Campbell’s School of Night.

Amiera Darwish (Ulrike Engel, Ronnie’s imaginary partner)

Amiera’s theatre credits include: Bakkhai (The Almeida), The Absence of War (Headlong), Unfaithful (Traverse), Crime & Punishment (Citizens Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse and Royal Lyceum Theatre) and Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland). Her film and television credits include Waterloo Road, The Tunnel, Scots Squad, Casualty and The Pursuit.

Laura-Kate Gordon (Mary Barnes)

Theatre credits include: A Doll’s House and Miss Julie (UK Touring Theatre), Pins and Needles (Cock Tavern), Macbeth (National Theatre); Jason and the Argonauts (Warwick Arts Centre) and Tartuffe (Arcola Theatre).

Kevin McMonagle (Aaron Esterson)

Kevin was recently seen in People, Places and Things (National Theatre) which can be seen at the Wyndham’s Theatre from March 2016. Other stage credits include: Further Than the Furthest Thing (National Theatre), as well as seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Citizens Theatre Glasgow among others.

Oscar Pearce (David Cooper)

This is Oscar’s second time at the Arcola and he was recently seen in Stratford-Upon-Avon and the West End in Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies. London appearances include the RSC, Donmar Warehouse, Almeida, West End and Regent’s Park. International: Broadway, Rome, Paris, Edinburgh, Dublin, Madrid, Tokyo. Regional: Stratford-Upon-Avon, Birmingham Rep, Oxford Playhouse, Sheffield, Plymouth, Bath and the Bolton Octagon (Best Supporting Actor, Manchester Evening News Award for All My Sons). He will be in the BBC TV adaptation of War and Peace broadcast early next year.

James Russell (Joseph Berke)

Acting credits include The Country Wife (Royal Exchange), Celebrity Night at Café Red (Trafalgar Studios), Perchance to Dream, Quality Street & Miss Lily Gets Boned – nominated for Best Actor at The Offies (Finborough Theatre) and All Mouth (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Creatives

Anna Arthur and Bethany Arnold (Press and PR)

For further information please contact Anna or Bethany at Arthur Leone PR on 020-7836 7660 or email anna@arthurleone.com or bethany@arthurleone.com.

Anna Bonomelli (Costume Supervisor)

Anna graduated in Design before completing a Masters in Theatre Studies in Venice, where she trained alongside Paul Brown, Set and Costume Designer. Her credits as a designer include: La chiave dell’ascensore (Como, Italy), King Lear (London), The Love Shack (London) and The Love for Three Oranges (Venice, Italy). She has worked as an assistant costume and set designer for a number of international productions including Don Giovanni (Como, Italy), West Side Story (Manchester, NYMT production), Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Goteborg Opera, Sweden) and Otello (Zurich Opernhaus, Switzerland). Recently Anna has worked as model maker for The Little Mermaid ballet (Finnish National Opera, Helsinki), and as assistant set and costume designer to Stuart Nunn in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Italy).

Neill Brinkworth (Lighting Designer)

Recent theatre: In the Night Garden Live (Minor/BBC), As Is (Trafalgar Studios), Sweat Factory (YMT, Sadlers Wells), The White Feather (Union Theatre), Contact.com (Park Theatre), The Cutting of the Cloth, In Lambeth and Who Do We Think We Are? (all Southwark Playhouse), Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios), Café Chaos (The Kosh), Dido & Aeneas (English Touring Opera), The Seagull (Arcola), An Enemy of the People (Albany), Jephthe (ETO), Strauss Gala (Raymond Gubbay), Bridgetower (City of London Festival/ETO), Vincent River (Old Vic Productions), Step 9 of 12 and Tape (both Trafalgar Studios), Variété and Burnt Out Souls (Youth Music Theatre UK), The Tin Solider (Peut-être), Dick Whittington (Hertford Theatre), Lean (Tristan Bates); Prometheus, The Frogs and Agamemnon (all Cambridge Arts Theatre), Accolade, Don Juan Comes Back from the War and Fanta Orange (all Finborough Theatre), Seven Pomegranate Seeds (Oxford Playhouse) and Six Men & A Poker Game (Gridiron).

David Broughton-Davies (Fight Director)

David’s most recent stage appearances have been at The Watermill Theatre Newbury in RC Sheriff’s Journey’s End and Ashtar Theatre, Ramallah and in London, where he portrayed King Agememnon in Brian Woolland’s This Flesh is Mine, the White Bear, Kennington with John Osbourne’s The Devil Inside Him and the Finborough Theatre in Zoe Lafferty’s The Fear of Breathing. In the past year David’s TV CV has included the Holby City special, Eastenders, Stella for Sky 1 and the Prime Minister in the outrageous Lionsgate series The Royals opposite Liz Hurley’s Queen Helena. David has just completed filming on a four part drama for screening spring 2016 titled 6 Queens, where he will be seen ‘giving it large’ as Henry VIII. David’s fight choreography this year has included commando knife fights for The Two Noble Kinsmen at the White Bear and domestic violence at the Park Theatre in Hatched and Despatched. Previous bouts of ‘Designer Violence’ have included The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe for the RSC with Malcolm Ransom, Tu I Teraz at the Hampstead Theatre and Sh*t M*x and Snowbound at the Trafalgar Studios, all for Sam Potter. Also Beautiful Thing for Peter Darnley at the...