Misterman programme

Landmark Productions and Galway Arts Festival
present
Cillian Murphy in
Misterman
Written and Directed by
Enda Walsh
Landmark Productions and Galway Arts Festival
present
Cillian Murphy
in the world premiere of a new version of
Misterman
by Enda Walsh
Director
Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Composer
Enda Walsh
Jamie Vartan
Adam Silverman
Gregory Clarke
Donnacha Dennehy
Black Box Theatre
Monday 11 July 2011
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Landmark Productions
GalwayArts Festival
was established by Anne Clarke in 2003 to produce work in Ireland and to tour
Founded in 1978 Galway Arts Festival is one of Ireland’s flagship cultural events and one
Irish work abroad.
of Europe’s leading international arts festivals. The Festival celebrates the very best of the
Since then, the company has managed four international tours for two theatres on
three continents, and produced six Irish premieres and four world premieres in Dublin.
performing and visual arts from Ireland and around the world and enjoys a national and
international reputation for contemporary, intelligent and popular programming.
David Hare’s Skylight won outstanding critical acclaim and broke box office records
Galway Arts Festival has brought many leading international theatre and dance companies
at the Project in 2004. It was followed by Edward Albee’s Tony Award–winning play
to Galway including The National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Manchester Royal
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, which attracted similarly outstanding reviews; by the
Exchange, Michael Clark Dance Company; Hofesh Shechter Dance Company and
world premiere of Dandelions, which enjoyed two sell–out runs at the Olympia and
National Theatre of Scotland, (UK); Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Stephen Petronio
introduced Fiona Looney as ‘a new voice in the theatre’ (The Irish Times); by Glen
Dance Company; New York Theatre Workshop and Hubbard Street Dance USA; Canada’s
Berger’s existential detective story, Underneath the Lintel, which was nominated for
Robert Lepage; Australia’s Circa; and works regularly with leading Irish companies including
Best Actor and Best Production during the Dublin Fringe Festival and subsequently
Galway’s Druid Theatre Company. The Festival’s multi–award winning production of Trad
undertook a national tour; by David Harrower’s Olivier Award–winning play Blackbird,
by Mark Doherty was presented at the 2008 Perth International Arts Festival, Australia,
at the Project; by the stage incarnation of Ross O’Carroll–Kelly, The Last Days of
having previously enjoyed runs in Edinburgh, Adelaide and London.
the Celtic Tiger, and Fiona Looney’s October, both at the Olympia; and by Frank
McGuinness’ version of one of the great classics of world theatre, Miss Julie, at
the Project. Most recently, the company presented David Harrower’s Knives in Hens,
directed by Alan Gilsenan, to exceptional critical acclaim at the Smock Alley Theatre,
brought Underneath the Lintel to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the support of
Culture Ireland, and presented Paul Howard’s Between Foxrock and a Hard Place
at the Olympia, Gaiety and on tour to the Cork Opera House.
Plans for the next year include three world premieres, including a co–production with
the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, shortly to be announced; and the premiere
of a new play by Fiona Looney, Greener.
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In recent years the Festival has worked with seminal artists across the artforms including
Joni Mitchell; Bill Viola; David Byrne, T Bone Burnett, David Hockney; Tom Murphy,
Kronos Quartet, Larry Gelbart, Alan Rickman, John Mahoney, Steven Isserlis and Philip
Glass amongst many others. Later in 2011 the Festival will present a major exhibition,
The Road (currently running at the Absolut Festival Gallery), by the artist Hughie
O’Donoghue in Prague.
Galway Arts Festival’s principal funding agents are The Arts Council and Fáilte Ireland with the
Festival Leadership Partner Programme supported by NUI Galway and Absolut. The Festival’s
key executive staff are Artistic Director Paul Fahy and Chief Executive John Crumlish.
Galway Arts Festival, Black Box Theatre, Dyke Road, Galway, Ireland
+353 91 509700
info@galwayartsfestival.com
www.galwayartsfestival.com
In Association With
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Photo (Patrick Redmond): Catherine Walker in Miss Julie.
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CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Enda Walsh
Writer / Director
Second Edition
Enda Walsh is a multi–award winning Irish playwright.
He lives in London. His work has been translated
into over 20 languages and has been performed
PART ONE
internationally since 1998.
Section Two: Chapter One: Article 1
Paragraph 5: Heaven and Earth
His recent plays include Penelope (Druid Theatre
Company), which has been presented in Ireland,
331 Christ is the center of the angelic
351 The angels surround Christ their
America and Britain, from 2010–2011. Other plays for
world. They are his angels: “When the
Lord. They serve him especially in the
Druid include The New Electric Ballroom, which played
Son of man comes in his glory, and all
accomplishment of his saving mission
Ireland, Australia, Edinburgh, London, New York and
the angels with him.”191 They belong to
to men.
him because they were created through
LA from 2008–2009, and The Walworth Farce, which
played Ireland, Edinburgh, London and New York,
and for him: “for in him all things were
352 The Church venerates the angels
as well as an American and Australian tour, from
created in heaven and on earth, visible
who help her on her earthly pilgrimage
2007–2010.
and invisible, whether thrones or
and protect every human being.
dominions or principalities or authorities
His other plays include Delirium (Theatre O/Barbican),
– all things were created through him
353 God willed the diversity of his
which played Dublin and a British tour in 2008;
and for him.”192 They belong to him still
creatures and their own particular
Chatroom (Royal National Theatre), which played at
more because he has made them
goodness, their interdependence and
the RNT and on tour in Britain and Asia (2006–2007);
messengers of his saving plan: “Are
their order. He destined all material
and The Small Things (Paines Plough), which played
they not all ministering spirits sent forth
creatures for the good of the human
London and Ireland (2005).
to serve, for the sake of those who are
race. Man, and through him all creation,
to obtain salvation?”193
is destined for the glory of God.
350 Angels are spiritual creatures
354 Respect for laws inscribed in
who glorify God without ceasing and
creation and the relations which derive
who serve his saving plans for other
from the nature of things is a principle
His film work includes Disco Pigs (Temple
creatures: “The angels work together
of wisdom and a foundation for
Films/Renaissance) and Hunger (Blast/FILM4).
for the benefit of us all” (St. Thomas
morality.
His early plays include Bedbound (Dublin Theatre
Festival) and Misterman, Disco Pigs and The Ginger
Ale Boy (Corcadorca).
Aquinas, STh I, 114, 3, ad 3).
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Cillian Murphy
Cillian also starred opposite Brendan Gleeson
Thomas Magill
and Jim Broadbent in Ian Fitzgibbon’s Perrier’s
Bounty, a dark comedy that follows three
Cillian Murphy made his mark on stage with a stunning
unlikely fugitives on the run from a gangster
performance in Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs. After
kingpin in Dublin. He first garnered international
receiving commendations for Best Fringe Show at the
attention for his performance as the reluctant
1996 Dublin Theatre Festival and the Fringe First
survivor Jim in Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later.
Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1997, Disco Pigs
Following Batman Begins, he starred opposite
went on to tour extensively in Ireland, the UK, Canada
Rachel McAdams in Wes Craven’s hit thriller
and Australia. He later starred in the film version
Red Eye and garnered a Golden Globe
directed by Kirsten Sheridan. In 2006, he made his
nomination for his performance as Patrick
West End debut at the New Ambassador Theatre
“Kitten” Brady in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on
in John Kolvenbach’s Love Song, directed by John
Pluto.
Crowley.
In Ken Loach’s 2006 Cannes Film Festival
Cillian’s stage collaborations with Tony Award–winning
Palme d’Or winner The Wind that Shakes the
director Garry Hynes include The Country Boy, Juno
Barley, he portrayed a guerilla fighter who
and the Paycock and The Playboy of the Western
battles the British Black and Tan squads that
World at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. He also starred
attempt to thwart Ireland’s bid for Independence.
as Konstantin in the Edinburgh Festival production of
He re–teamed with Boyle and writer Alex
The Seagull directed by Peter Stein, as Adam in Neil
Garland (28 Days Later) on Sunshine (2007),
LaBute’s The Shape of Things at the Gate Theatre in
a thriller in which a group of scientists attempt
Dublin and as Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing
to re–ignite a dying sun.
at Kilkenny Castle.
His screen credits also include John Maybury’s
Cillian recently appeared in Inception (Warner Bros.),
Edge of Love, John Crowley’s Intermission,
a contemporary sci–fi thriller set within the architecture
Peter Webber’s Girl with a Pearl Earring,
of the mind (2009). The film, which also starred
Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain, How Harry
Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard and Ellen Page,
Became a Tree, On the Edge and Sunburn.
marked his third collaboration with director Christopher
Nolan.
In 2005, he made an indelible impression as Dr.
Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow in Batman Begins and
he subsequently reprised the role in The Dark Knight.
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Landmark Productions and Galway Arts Festival
Movement Director
Mikel Murfi
Prop Buyer
Lizzie Chapman
Costume Assistant
Emily Ní Bhroin
Misterman
Production Sound Engineer
Helen Atkinson
by
Production Manager
Eamonn Fox
Company Stage Manager
Rachel Murray
Stage Manager
Ashley Smyth
Chief Electrician
Thomas Rohan
Crew
Frank Cummins, Alan Cuddy, Keith Newman
Lighting Crew
Michael Byrne, Shannon Light, Pat O’Reilly
Carpenters
Gus Dewar, Tony Cording
Set Construction
TPS
present
Enda Walsh
Thomas Magill
Cillian Murphy
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Voices:
Mammy
Edel
Other Voices
Director
Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Composer
Marcella Riordan
Alice Sykes
Eanna Breathnach, Niall Buggy, JD Kelleher,
Simone Kirby, Mikel Murfi, Morna Regan,
Eileen Walsh, Barry Ward
Enda Walsh
Jamie Vartan
Adam Silverman
Gregory Clarke
Donnacha Dennehy
Transport
Trevor Price
Scenic Artists
Sandra Butler, Jason McCaffrey,
Dympna Tate, Noel Tate
Hair & Make-Up
Val Sherlock
Producers
Anne Clarke
Paul Fahy
Festival Chief Executive
John Crumlish
Publicity
Gwen O’Sullivan
Nik Quaife
Kathy Scott
Finance Director
Gerry Cleary
Administrator
Elizabeth Duffy
Photographers
Rich Gilligan
Colm Hogan
The performance runs for approximately 1 hour 20 minutes without an interval.
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Graphic Design
Hilda Reid
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Donnacha Dennehy
Composer
Jamie Vartan
Designer
Born in Dublin in 1970, Donnacha Dennehy has received
Jamie Vartan has worked extensively as a designer in opera,
commissions from Dawn Upshaw, the Kronos Quartet,
theatre and dance in the UK and Europe and has represented
Bang On A Can, Icebreaker, Joanna MacGregor, Percussion
the UK at the Prague Quadrennials in 1999, 2007 and 2011.
Group of the Hague, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra,
BBC Ulster Orchestra and the San Francisco Contemporary
Designs for theatre include several productions at the Abbey
Music Players among others.
Theatre (Abbey and Peacock stages), including The Playboy
of the Western World and Mrs Warren’s Profession (nominated
In 2010 his large single–movement orchestral piece,
for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Production). For Blue
Crane was ‘recommended’ by the International Rostrum of
Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo, he has designed The Chairs,
Composers. His work has featured in festivals such as
The Third Policeman, The Last Mile, At Swim Two Birds and
ISCM World Music Days, Bang On A Can in New York, the
The Poor Mouth. He was involved for three years as designer
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, WNYC’s New
and artist–in residence with the David Glass Ensemble on
Sounds Live, Sonic Evolutions Festival at Lincoln Center,
The Lost Child Trilogy, with residencies in Vietnam, Indonesia,
EXPO, the Ultima Festival in Oslo, the Saarbrucken Festival,
China, the Philippines and Colombia, and the Young Vic,
the Schleswig–Holstein Festival, the State of the Nation at
London, followed by an installation at the October Gallery,
the South Bank in London and the Gaudeamus Festival in
London based on the work from the overseas residencies.
Amsterdam (both Junk Box Fraud and Traces of A Revolutionary
Song were shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Prize in 1999).
Designs for opera include Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg
Festspielhaus), The Queen of Spades (La Scala, Milan), Albert
Returning to Ireland after studies abroad in the USA, France
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Herring and Death In Venice (Salzburg Landestheater), Don
and Holland, he founded the Crash Ensemble, Dublin’s
Giovanni, Romeo et Juliette (Varna), Manon Lescaut (Teatro
now–renowned new music group, in 1997. Crash Ensemble
Regio, Parma), A Village Romeo and Juliet, Aida and Carmen
is very much associated with the performance of many of
(Premio Abbiati Award for Best Production 2006, Teatro Lirico
Dennehy’s landmark works, including the pieces That The Night
di Cagliari, Sardinia), La Statira (Teatro San Carlo, Naples), Der
Come (with Dawn Upshaw) and Grá Agus Bás (with Iarla Ó
Zwerg (Teatro Comunale, Florence), La Traviata (Malmö Opera,
Lionáird) which feature on Dennehy’s recent release with
Sweden), Manon (ETO), La Vestale (Wexford), May Night
Nonesuch Records (May 2011). The Guardian in its 5–star
(Garsington), The Saint of Bleecker Street (Opera Marseille),
review of that disc referred to the music’s ‘startling freshness’.
and L’isola disabitata (Royal Opera House).
Upcoming commissions include works for the Kronos Quartet,
His designs for dance with choreographer Darshan Singh
Dawn Upshaw and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Alarm
Bhuller include Requiem for Phoenix Dance Company (Sadlers
Will Sound.
Wells and UK tour) and Recall (Linbury Studio and UK tour).
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Adam Silverman
Lighting Designer
Gregory Clarke
Sound Designer
Adam works as a lighting designer in opera, theatre and
Credits include Penelope, The Hackney Office and
dance.
The New Electric Ballroom (Druid), Journey’s End
(London and Broadway, New York Drama Desk Award
Recent productions include My Fair Lady at the Chatelet;
winner for Outstanding Sound Design); Equus (London
Adriana Lecouvre for the Royal Opera; A Midsummer Night’s
and Broadway, Tony Award winner for Best Sound
Dream, Peter Grimes and The Turn of the Screw for English
Design); Pygmalion and The Philanthropist (American
National Opera; and l’Ercole Amante for De Nederlandse
Airlines, Broadway), Twelfth Night, No Man’s Land,
Opera.
Tristan and Yseult, The Emperor Jones and Earthquakes in
London (National Theatre), Great Expectations,
Adam has also lit Aida for the Deutsche Oper Berlin;
Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tantalus,
Tannhäuser for San Francisco Opera; Das Schatzgraber
Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer
for Oper Frankfurt; Pique Dame for Bayerische Staatsoper;
Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company), Peter Pan
Dido Queen of Carthage at the National; the premiere of the
(Kensington Gardens and US tour), The Changeling,
play Five Gold Rings for the Almeida Theatre; the musical
Troilus and Cressida (Barbican); A Month in the Country,
Beauty and the Beast for the Royal Shakespeare Company;
Seven Doors, Semi–Detached, Pal Joey, Heartbreak
and the play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg on Broadway.
House, A Small Family Business, I Caught My Death In
Venice, Nathan The Wise, Song Of Singapore and Nymph
Adam’s work In Ireland includes Cyrano de Bergerac and
Errant (Chichester); Pygmalion, Measure For Measure,
A Tale of Two Cities for the Gate Theatre; Macbeth, Julius
Habeas Corpus, Private Lives, Much Ado About Nothing,
Caesar, Don Carlo and Die Fledermaus for Opera Ireland;
Design for Living, As You Like It (The Peter Hall
and Giselle, The Bull, James Son of James, Flowerbed and
Company); Bay and My Dad’s a Birdman (Young Vic).
The Rite of Spring for Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre.
In the West End his productions include A Voyage Round
My Father, The Vortex, Cloud Nine, The Philanthropist,
And Then There Were None, Some Girls, Waiting For
Godot, What the Butler Saw, The Dresser, Amy’s View,
You Never Can Tell, A Flea In Her Ear, National Anthems,
Six Degrees of Separation, Betrayal, Abigail’s Party and
Bedroom Farce.
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THANK YOU
Fund It
We are grateful for the support of many people and organisations, including the
Fund it (www.fundit.ie) is a new crowdfunding website for Ireland’s creative projects,
following:
created by Business to Arts.
Abbey Theatre, Archie and Clem, The Arts Council, Pete Ashton, Rosarie Barrett,
115 extraordinarily generous people supported this production of Misterman.
Caroline Breslin, Mary Breslin, Linda Buckley, Business to Arts, CC Hellenic Ireland,
We are grateful to each and every one:
Joseph Collins, Barry Conway, Richard Cook, Fergus Cronin, Jane Daly, Eugene
Downes, Druid Theatre Company, East Galway Fire Prevention, Neva Elliott, Kate
Tom Allen, C Appleby, Tania Banotti, Michael Barker-Caven, Ann Brehony, Una
Ellis, Jo Ellison, Breege Fahy, Jack Fitzgerald, Adam Fitzsimons, Syl Harty, Andrew
Carmody, Breda Cashe, Caroline Grace Cassidy, Maurice Cassidy, Shirley Chance,
Hetherington, HSS Galway, PJ King, Marina Levitina, Nick Marston, Trish McElhill and
John A Clarke, Pat Collins, Tom Creed, Sara Cregan, Colm Cullinane, Teenagh
all at the Tricycle Theatre, Fergal McGrath, Yvonne McGuinness, Martin McNicholl,
Cunningham, Padraig Cusack, @darraghdoyle, Tanya Dean, Loughlin Deegan,
Anne McNulty, Sinead McPhillips, Sheila Meaney, Rebecca Morgan, Malachy and
Elaine Dobbyn, Moya Doherty, Eimear Dolan, Sarah Durcan, Brian Benjamin Dwyer,
Aran Murphy, Rowena Neville, Paul Noble, Barry O’Brien, Brendan and Deirdre
Margaret Edgill, Sean Egan, Julian Erskine, Maria Fahy, Jimmy Fay, Tracey Ferguson,
O’Connor, Odessa Club, Pat O’Grady, Julie O’Leary, Liam Parkinson, Project Arts
Ciarán Ferrie Architects, Paula Fitzmaurice Hanney, Aoife Flynn, Eamonn Fox,
Centre, David Parnell, Radisson Blu Hotel, Vicky Richardson, Screentime Shinawil,
Trish Forde, Bernadette Glynn, Roise Goan, Ruth Gordon, Deirdre Halloran,
Tim Smith, Kate Syke, Emily Thyne, Dawn Upshaw, Rob Usher, Ada Walsh, Eleanor
Hammergrin, Liz Hannon, Matthew Harrison, Laura Harte, Padraig Heneghan,
and Emily White, Jonathan White, Tom Wilcox, Alan Woodhouse and all the staff
Mary Hickson, Colm Hogan, Kim Kaliszewski, Fiona Kearney, Sara Keating, Fiona
of the Galway Arts Festival and Black Box Theatre.
Kelleher, Declan Kelly, Alice Kennelly, Éamon Kenny, Eoin Kilkenny, Claire Layton,
Patrick Lonergan, Fiona Looney, Cathy Lynch, Gillian Marron, R John McBratney,
Thank you also to Rich Gilligan for the use of his photographs throughout the
John McColgan, Fergal McGrath, Maeve McGrath, Sinead McGrath, Anne Marie
programme. www.richgilligan.com.
McKee, Belinda McKeon, Irma McLoughlin, Laura MacNaughton, Sinead McPhillips,
Hazel Moloney, Pat Moylan, Sarah Murphy, Sarah Ní Riain, Rachel Nohilly,
Katie O’Brien, Colm O’Callaghan, Niamh O’Donnell, Sharon O’Grady, Julie O’Leary,
Louise O’Reilly, Pauleile, Nik Quaife, Colin Quirke, Laura Rigney, Maria Lola Roche,
Denise Rush, Annie Ryan, Kathy Scott, Enda Sheridan, Fernando Soares, Elaine
Sullivan, THISISPOPBABY, Karen Tierney, Ted Turton, Joseph Vanek, Peter Walsh
and Frank Winstan
as well as to 19 others who supported the project anonymously.
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Eamonn Fox
Production Manager
Eamonn Fox, a Galway native, is delighted to be working again
with Landmark on Misterman. He is a freelance Production
Manager/Event Controller, plying his trade in the theatre, arts,
television and entertainment world as an escape from reality.
He has worked on the Galway Arts Festival, the Dublin Theatre
Festival, St. Patrick’s Festival, The China/Ireland Cultural Exchange
in China and Ireland, the Volvo Ocean Race 2009 and The Tall
Ships 2011. He works extensively with Druid Theatre Company
on a continuous basis.
Rachel Murray
Company Stage Manager
Rachel has worked with Landmark Productions as both Company
Manager and as Stage Manager for the last three years.
She has also worked with many of Ireland’s leading production
companies in a stage management capacity, including the Abbey
Theatre and Rough Magic. She was a Production Assistant for the
Ryder Cup Opening and Closing Ceremonies with Long Road
Productions.
For the last four years she has toured with Riverdance the Show as
both Production Stage Manager and Assistant Company Manager.
In 2010 she worked as Production Co–Ordinator for Long Road
Productions, co–ordinating Riverdance Flying Squad events at
home and abroad.
Rachel worked with Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival from
2007–2009 as Programme and Production Assisstant.
She is delighted to be working with Landmark and the Galway Arts
Festival on this production.
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THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
by William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee–loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a–glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
1892