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PRESS RELEASE
FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 2016
ROYAL COURT THEATRE CASTING ANNOUNCEMENT: TORN AND FATHER
COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3)
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FRANC ASHMAN, LORNA BROWN, KIRSTY BUSHELL, ROGER GRIFFITHS,
JAMES HILLIER, OSY IKHILE, ADELLE LEONCE, INDRA OVÉ, and JAMAEL
WESTMAN cast in Torn by Nathaniel Martello-White.
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JIMMY AKINGBOLA, TOM BATEMAN, DEX LEE, SIBUSISO MAMBA, NADINE
MARSHALL, SARAH NILES, JASON PENNYCOOKE, JOHN STAHL, STEVE
TOUSSAINT and LEO WRINGER cast in Father Comes Home From The Wars
(Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks.
Torn cast
Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) cast
Torn and Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) will play at the Royal Court
Theatre in September 2016. Torn explores a family broken by secrets and the scars left of
things left unsaid. Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) tackles the legacy of
slavery in the US and its influence on the African-American experience.
Franc Ashman, Lorna Brown, Kirsty Bushell, Roger Griffiths, James Hillier, Osy Ikhile, Adelle
Leonce, Indra Ové and Jamael Westman have been cast in Nathaniel Martello-White’s
Royal Court debut play Torn. The play runs Wednesday 7 September to Saturday 15
October 2016 in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Press night is on Tuesday 13 September
2016.
Artistic Director at English Touring Theatre and former Royal Court Associate Director
(International) Richard Twyman directs. With design by Ultz, lighting by Charles Balfour,
sound by Gareth Fry and movement direction by Patricia Okenwa.
Jimmy Akingbola, Tom Bateman, Dex Lee, Sibusiso Mamba, Nadine Marshall, Sarah Niles,
Jason Pennycooke, John Stahl, Steve Toussaint and Leo Wringer have been cast in the
Royal Court’s production of Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by SuzanLori Parks. Rehearsals start on Monday 15 August 2016. The play runs from Thursday 15
September to Saturday 22 October 2016 in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. Press night is
on Thursday 22 September 2016, 7pm.
Jo Bonney directs. With set design by Neil Patel, costume design by Emilio Sosa, lighting by
Tim Mitchell, sound design by David McSeveney, songs and additional music by SLP and
music direction by Steven Bargonetti.
Also announced: Big Ideas
The Big Idea Torn: Time Pieces
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Tuesday 20 September, post-show
Humans use many different clocks to measure their lives, from the muscle inside our chests
to the journey of the earth around the sun. But these clocks are all measuring slightly
different things. If we can’t trust that time is one coherent entity, how can we trust what we
perceive about our existence? Dr Bryan W. Roberts talks about how we perceive the
universe and what it means for how humans construct time in their worlds.
Free with a ticket to that evening’s performance.
Bryan W. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at
LSE. His research deals with the philosophical and mathematical foundations of modern
physics. His interests include the concept of "time reversal", which modern physics uses to
distinguish between the past and the future, classical and quantum time observables, the
history of physics, and the relationship between quantum mechanics and other scientific
theories.
The Big Idea Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3): Suzan-Lori Parks in
Conversation
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Friday 23 September, post-show
Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) playwright Suzan-Lori Parks talks with
Royal Court Associate Director Hamish Pirie.
Free with a ticket to that evening’s performance.
The Big Idea Torn: Nathaniel Martello-White in conversation
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Tuesday 27 September, Post-show
Torn playwright Nathaniel Martello White talks with Royal Court Associate Director Hamish
Pirie.
Free with a ticket to that evening’s performance.
Throughout September and October the Royal Court will also be hosting a series of
conversations curated in collaboration with Black Cultural Archives exploring questions of
identity, culture and race.
The Big Idea: What Does Black Mean?
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Friday 30 September 2016, 6.15pm
A conversation on the shifting meanings of ethnic identity. Speakers to be announced.
£5 or free with a ticket to either show.
The Big Idea: What Does British Mean?
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Friday 7 October, 6.15pm
A conversation on the idea of Britishness. Speakers to be announced.
£5 or free with a ticket to either show.
The Big Idea: What Does Freedom Mean?
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Friday 14 October 2016, 6.15pm
A conversation on the nature of freedom across history and the world. Speakers to be
announced.
£5 or free with a ticket to either show.
Full listings and biography information below.
ENDS
Notes to Editors:
For more information or images please contact Anoushka Hay on 0207 565 5063 /
[email protected]
The Big Idea is a strand of work launched during Open Court, offering audiences radical
thinking and provocative discussion inspired by the work on stage. The Big Idea seeks to
foster debate and collaboration, bringing together leading thinkers and artists from all walks of
life to engage with the big ideas of our times, through a series of debates and events.
Press Nights:
Tuesday 13 September, 7pm
Thursday 22 September, 7pm
Torn Biographies:
Torn by Nathaniel Martello-White
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Father Comes Home From The Wars Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
(Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks
Nathaniel Martello-White
Blackta (Young Vic) was Nathaniel’s first play.
As an actor, for the Royal Court: Who Cares; Teh Internet is Serious Business;
Gastronauts and Oxford Street.
Other acting credits include: People, Places and Things; Edward II (National), City
Madame; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Marat/Sade (RSC), Innocence (Arcola), Joe
Turner’s Come and Gone; The Brothers Size (Young Vic).
Richard Twyman
As Director for the Royal Court: Told From The Inside – Goats and The Final Return, You
For Me For You, Fireworks, The Djinns of Eidgah, Phil in Space, PIIGS and A New
Song.
As Director, theatre includes: Harrogate (HighTide), Henry IV Pt II (RSC), Ditch (Old Vic
Tunnels / HighTide), Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre) and Give Me Your Hand (the Irish
Rep, New York).
Richard is Artistic Director at English Touring Theatre. He was previously Associate
Director (International) at the Royal Court.
Franc Ashman (2nd Twin)
For the Royal Court: Bang Bang Bang (& Out of Joint).
Theatre includes: The Royale, Perseverance Drive (Bush); Hopelessly Devoted (Paines
Plough); This May Hurt A Bit (Out of Joint); Our Ajax (Southwark); People (National);
After the Accident (Soho/The Brewery); In the Blood (Finborough); Pornography
(Tricycle/Traverse/Birmingham Rep); Cockroach (NTS); Macbett, Macbeth, The
Winter’s Tale, Pericles (RSC).
Television includes: Tennison, Apple Tree Yard, Wagstaff, DCI Banks, The Windsors,
Peep Show, Birds of a Feather, Mayday, The Reckoning, Dr Who, Law & Order: UK,
Missing, Trial & Retribution, Gunrush.
Film includes: A Street Cat Named Bob, The Ones Below.
Radio includes: Behind Closed Doors: Excluded.
Lorna Brown (Aunty L)
For the Royal Court: Clybourne Park, 93.2FM.
Other theatre includes: The Oresteia (Almeida/West End); Little Light (Orange Tree);
Medea, Blurred Lines, Damned by Despair, The Cry of the Cricket (National);
Crowning Glory, The Big Life, Da Boyz, Funny Black Women on the Edge, Shoot to
Win, One Dance Will Do (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Fear (Bush); Short Fuses
(Bristol Old Vic); Once on this Island (Hackney Empire/National Tour); Things of Dry
Hours (Royal Exchange, Manchester/Gate); Trade (RSC); The Hommage Behind (West
End), Mass Carib (Tour); The Weave (Soho); Anasi Steals (Talawa); Up Against the
Wall (Tricycle); Othello (New Vic); Zumbi (National Tour); Once on This Island (&
Birmingham Rep).
Television includes: Chewing Gum, Holby City, True Love, Outnumbered, Catherine
Tate, Doctors, The Bill, The Vivienne Vyle Show, The Ronnie Ancona Show, Much Ado
About Nothing, French & Saunders, Family Business, Rough Treatment, Bad Girls,
Casualty, Anna Lee.
Film includes: The Lady in the Van, Taking Stock, Les Miserables, World War Z,
Gambit, Little Soldier.
Kirsty Bushell (Aunty J)
Theatre includes: Boys Will Be Boys (& Headlong), Disgraced, 2000 Feet Away (Bush);
Hedda Gabler (Salisbury Playhouse); Antigone (Barbican); The Big Meal (Theatre
Royal, Bath); Edward II, New Views, Danton’s Death, The Voysey Inheritance, An
Inspector Calls (& West End), Two Gentlemen of Verona, 13, Edgar & Annabel, There
is a War (National); I Know How I Feel About Eve, Belongings (Hampstead); The White
Devil, Twelfth Night (& Filter), The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest (RSC); Plenty, The
Comedy of Errors, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Fen/Far Away (Crucible, Sheffield); 1000
Stars Explode in the Sky, Angels in America, Don Juan (Lyric Hammersmith); Peter &
Vandy (503); Pornography (Tricycle); Serious Money (Birmingham Rep); Blue Heart (&
World Tour), Testing the Echo (Out of Joint); Be My Baby (Soho); The Day That Kevin
Came (Nottingham Playhouse); The Seagull (Theatre Royal, Northampton); The
Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill); Antigone, Macbeth (Nuffield).
Television includes: Silk, Frankie, True Love, Silent Witness, Injustice, FM, Law & Order,
Pornography, Pulling, Talk to Me, Midsomer Murders, Family Man, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha
Hee Hee, Roger Roger.
Film includes: The Carrot.
Roger Griffiths (Brian)
Theatre includes: All My Sons (Royal Exchange, Manchester); One Monkey Don’t Stop
No Show (Tricycle); The Graft (Theatre Royal, Stratford); Macbeth, Black Poppies
(National); Job Rocking, O Babylon! (Riverside Studios).
Television includes: Death in Paradise, Vexed, Doctors, Casualty, Rock & Chips, Hustle,
Doctor Who, Holby City, Dubplate Drama, My Family, EastEnders, French & Saunders,
Family Affairs, Paradise Heights, Dr. Terrible’s House of Horrible, Heartbeat, Casualty,
Lenny Henry in Pieces, A Brand Spanking New Show, Trust, The Bill, Comin’ Acha!,
Forgive & Forget, Mike & Angelo, Chef, Thief Takers, Ruth Rendell, Desmond’s.
Film includes: Hard Time Bus, Communion, Dead Meat, Batman Begins, Buffalo
Soldiers.
James Hillier (Steve)
Theatre includes: Venice Preserv’d (The Spectator’s Guild); Pick One, Church…
(Theatre Uncut for The Young Vic); I'm With The Band (Traverse Theatre/Edinburgh
and UK Tour); Casablanca (Future Cinema); Sluts Of Sutton Drive, Blue Surge,
Something Cloudy Something Clear (Finborough); Titanic (MAC Theatre); 66 Books
(Bush); The Water Engine (Old Vic); Clockwork Orange (Citizens); A Map Of The
Region (NT Studio); Closer (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Through The Glass
(National); Recruiting Officer (Litchfield); The Homecoming (Royal Exchange,
Manchester); Lulu (Almeida); Journey’s End (Drill Hall); Trips (Birmingham Rep); Le
Bourgeois Gentlehomme (Upstairs at The Gatehouse).
Television includes: The Crown, Tennison, Frontier, Casualty, Survivors, Holby Blue,
Eastenders, Goldplated, The Bill, The Rise and Fall of Rome: Revolution, Holby City,
Stagknight, Tomorrow’s Forecast, Silent Witness, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries,
Long Time Dead, Running Time, All The Kings Men, Great Expectations, Unsuitable
Job For A Woman.
Film includes: My Horrible Love, Fired!, The British, London’s Burning, The King’s
Head, Locock, Simon’s Making A Film, Blackbeard, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
(Carnival Films), ), Sex And Lies, Four Feathers, The Brother.
James is Artistic Director for Defibrillator theatre company with directing
credits including, The Armour by Ben Ellis, The Hotel Plays by Tennessee Williams
and Hard Feelings by Doug Lucie.
Osy Ikhile (Couzin)
Theatre includes: Sweet Love Remembered (Globe); Your Number’s Up (Roundhouse).
Television includes: Childhood’s End, The Fear, Fresh Meat, Twenty Twelve, Blackout,
Tom & Jenny, Misfits, Phone Shop.
Film includes: Daphne, Sand Castle, Beautiful Devils, Tarzan, Mission: Impossible –
Rogue Nation, Kill Your Friends, Jet Trash, In the Heart of the Sea, Victim, The
Anomaly.
Adelle Leonce (Angel)
Theatre includes: In the Night Time (Gate); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
(National); Tipping the Velvet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Woyzeck, Chamber Piece,
Glitterland, A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts (& Tricycle), A Stab in the Dark
(Lyric Hammersmith).
Television includes: Ordinary Lies, DCI Banks, Shameless, Vera, In the Garden.
Indra Ové (1st Twin)
Theatre includes: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Seagull,
Blinded by the Sun, A Midsumer Night’s Dream (National); Twelve Women
(Ovalhouse); Yes Prime Minister (West End/Tour); Twelve Angry Women (Gutted/Lion
& Unicorn); Etta Jenks (Finborough); Under One Roof (Kings, Glasgow/V&A); Peer
Gynt (Arcola); 900 Oneota (Pangloss); Timon of Athens (Young Vic).
Television includes: Holby City, Glue, Dumping Ground, Topsy & Tim, Casualty,
Doctors, Midsomer Murders, Best Man, The New Worst Witch, Attachments, Bugs,
Space Island One, She’s Out.
Film includes: Jurassic, Second Spring, Dubois, Still, Wonder, Mr Invisible, Hellhounds,
My One & Only, Blinding Lights, Cold Dead Hands, Other, Club Le Monde, It’s All
About Love, Resident Evil, The Dreamer, Cleopatra, More is Less, The Fifth Element,
Othello, Interview With a Vampire.
Radio includes: Community Flock, Madame Butterfly, The Wide Sargasso, The
Audition.
Jamael Westman (Brotha)
Theatre includes: Bricks & Pieces (tiata fahodzi); Take a Deep Breath & Breathe (CLF
Art Cafe); Stop Kiss (Leicester Square Theatre); Othello (Brockley Jack); Romeo
& Juliet (Ovalhouse); Our Boys (South London Theatre).
Television includes: Casualty.
Film includes: Kebab, Identicals.
Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts I, II & III) Biographies
Suzan-Lori Parks
For the Royal Court: Topdog/Underdog.
Other work includes: Watch Me Work; The Book of Grace (Public Theater); 365
Days/365 Plays (New Dance Group Arts Center), Fucking A; In the Blood; Venus; The
America Play; Betting on the Dust Commander; The Sinner’s Place (Amherst).
Awards include: the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog. She has also
won two Obies (Vensus and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom), a
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for In the Blood (1999).
Father Comes From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) premiered in the Public Theater and was
later staged at Center Theatre Group.
Jo Bonney
As Director, theatre includes Small Engine Repair, (Lucille Lortel Theatre), The Mound
Builder; Emotional Creature (Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre), An Early History of
Fire (Arcon Theater), By the Way; Meet Vera Stark; Suburbia; A Soldier’s Play; Living
Out (Second Stage Theatre), The Break of Noon; Some Girl(s); Fat Pig (Music Box
Theatre), Beast; All That I Will Ever Be; The Seven (New York Theatre Workshop),
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot; House Arrest (Joseph Papp Public
Theater), Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (Jane Street Theatre), Look Back in Anger
(East 13th Street/CSC Theatre), Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (Orpheum Theatre).
She is the recipient of a 1998 Obie Award and is the editor of Extreme Exposure: An
Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century.
Jo Bonney directed Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) at the Public
Theater and Center Theatre Group.
Jimmy Akingbola (Homer)
Theatre includes: The Island (Young Vic); Detaining Justice, Category B (Tricycle);
Othello (Lyric Hammersmith/Frantic Assembly); Look Back in Anger (Jermyn Street);
Henry VIII (RSC/A&BC); The Cut (Donmar); After the End (Paines Plough); The Prayer
Room (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh/Birmingham Rep); Blue/Orange (Crucible,
Sheffield/Tour); People Next Door (Traverse); Ready or Not Raw (Theatre Royal,
Stratford East); Everything Must Go!, Three Days in July, Playing Fields, White Open
Spaces (& Pentabus), The Christ of Coldharbour Lane (Soho); The Estate (Cheltenham
Literary Festival); Naked Justice (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Tour); Baby Doll (& West
End), The Changeling (National); Nativity, The Shooky, Ramayana (& National), Behzti
(Birmingham Rep).
Television includes: Arrow, Fungus the Bogeyman, Very British Problems, Ballot
Monkeys, Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot, Sons of Liberty, Big School, Death in Paradise, Rev,
Holby City, Silk, Doctors, Twenty Twelve, Hominid, The Bill, New Tricks, Holby Blue,
Comedy Lab: Driving Me Crazy, Longford, Blackbeard, The Royal, Who Killed PC
Blakelock, The Crouches, Stupid, Roger Roger, The Slightly Filthy Show, The
Southbank Show.
Film includes: Spectral, Full Dress, Blood Cells, Hero, Out of Darkness, Rage, Habibti,
The Car, Anansi, The Dimples Cry.
Awards include: TMA Award for Best Supporting Actor (Blue/Orange); MViSA Award for
Best Comedy Performance (Rev) & Best Male TV Actor (Holby City); BEFFTA Award
for Best TV Actor (Rev) & Best Film Actor (Habibti); Screen Nation Best TV Actor
(Holby City).
Tom Bateman (Smith)
Theatre includes: Shakespeare in Love, The Winter’s Tale/Harlequinade, The Lion in
Winter, Much Ado About Nothing (West End); Lizzie Siddal (Arcola); Dutchess of Malfi
(Old Vic).
Television includes: Jekyll & Hyde, The Honourable Woman, The Tunnel, Da Vinci’s
Demons, Parade’s End, Spooks, Helicopter Missions.
Film includes: B&B, The Creditors.
Dex Lee (Fourth/Odyssey Dog)
Theatre includes: In The Heights (& Kings Cross Theatre), Carrie (Southwark
Playhouse); Hairspray (National tour); The Scottsboro Boys (West End).
Dex graduated from The Arts Educational School in 2014.
Sibusiso Mamba (Leader/First Runaway)
For the Royal Court: I See You (& Market, Johannesburg/Fugard, Cape Town)
As writer & performer, theatre includes: Train to 2010 (University of Missouri Kansas
City), Holiday Jubilee (Crossroads Theatre, New Jersey).
As performer, theatre includes: The Taming of the Shrew (Friargate); Sizwe Banzi is
Dead (Young Vic/Eclipse); Adventures of Nhamo (Tiata Delights, Africa Centre); The
Lady from Dubuque, A Taste of Honey (Lewes Little Theatre/Love & Madness);
Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest (QM2); Julius Caesar (Civic Theatre,
Johannesburg); Nongogo (Market, Johannesburg); Romeo & Juliet (Chichester
Festival); Big Boys (Croydon Warehouse); Tartuffe, The Rocky Horror (Swaziland
Theatre Club).
Television Includes: Doctors, Society, Isidingo, Soul City.
Film includes: Coronation Street: Out of Africa, Crime, Wah-Wah.
Radio includes: When The Laughter Stops, Mandida’s Shoes, 49 Donkeys Hanged,
Sagila, Banana Republic, Taxi.
Sibusiso Mamba is an actor, playwright, director, screenwriter & producer. He has cocreated and written for many television series in South Africa. Sibusiso is Script
Editor on the South African television show Skeem Saam and is International
Associate Artist at Crossroads Theatre in New Jersey, USA.
Nadine Marshall (Penny)
For the Royal Court: Random.
Other theatre includes: NUT (National), Trade (Soho/RSC); Born Bad (Hampstead);
Shoot to Win (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); The Last Valentine (Almeida); Oroonoko,
Timon of Athens, Henry VIII, Spanish Tragedy, Camino Real (RSC); Kids, Christine
(Scarborough Festival).
Television includes: Death in Paradise, National Treasure, New Tricks, Vera, Waterloo
Road, Chasing Shadows, Old Jack’s Boat, The Spa, The Gates, Random, Rick & Peter,
Excluded, The Shadow Line, Casualty, Hounded, Criminal Justice, Me & All the Other
Mothers, The Commander, Judge John Deed, Spoil, Trial & Retribution, Jackanory,
Little Miss Jocelyn, The Smoking Room, The Bill, Family Affairs.
Film includes: A Street Cat Named Bob, Moving Cities: Moving Southwark, Second
Coming, Leave to Remain, Love at First Sight, Heat, Shish, It’s a Free World, Club Le
Monde.
Sarah Niles (Third/Third Runaway)
For the Royal Court: Truth & Reconciliation.
Theatre includes: Boy (Almeida); The Crucible (Old Vic); Anthony & Cleopatra (RSC/Off
Broadway); Table, Mrs Affleck (National); A Question of Freedom (Feelgood); The
Long Road (Curve, Leicester); The Quiet Little Englishman (Zho Visual); Play Size
(ATC/Young Vic); Bones (Bush); The Bogus Woman, The Lion the Witch & the
Wardrobe, To Kill a Mockingbird (Haymarket, Leicester); Entarete Musik (Amazonia
Theatre Company); Lowdown High Notes (Red Ladder); Black Love (Black Arts
Development Project); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Manchester Library).
Television includes: Marley’s Ghosts, Lucky Man, My Baby, Catastrophe, Spotless,
Death in Paradise, Waterloo Road, Being Human, Thorne: Sleepyhead, Beautiful
People, Mister Eleven, Doctor Who, Peep Show, Touch of Frost.
Film includes: Still, Austenland, Cuban Fury, Now Is Good, London Boulevard, Games
Men Play, Happy-Go-Lucky.
Jason Pennycooke (Second/Second Runaway)
Theatre includes: Guys & Dolls, Memphis the Musical, The Rat Pack, The Big Life,
Stomp, Hey Mr Producer!, Rent, Starlight Express, Five Guys Names Moe, Cats (West
End); Kiss Me Kate (Old Vic/Chichester Festival); Forever Young (Nottingham
Playhouse); La Cage Aux Folles (Menier/West End); Golden Boy (Greenwich); Simply
Heavenly (Young Vic); Sammy (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); White Folks (Tricycle).
Opera includes: Time Flows (Streetwise).
Television includes: All About the McKenzies.
Film includes: Mister Lonely, Shopping.
Radio includes: The Big Life.
John Stahl (Colonel)
For the Royal Court: Alice Trilogy, The Weir.
Theatre includes: The James Plays, Mary Stuart (NTS); The Crucible, Ghosts (Bristol
Old Vic); Uncle Varick (Rapture); Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It,
King John, Richard III, A Soldier in Every Son, The Crucible, Tamar’s Revenge, Dog in
the Manger, Pedro: The Great Pretender (RSC); Much Ado About Nothing, The Globe
Mysteries, Troilus & Cressida, The Frontline, We The People, Othello (Globe);
Frankenstein (National); Memory Cells (Pleasance); The Gods Weep
(RSC/Hampstead); The Whisky Taster (Bush); Macbeth (Royal Exchange,
Manchester); Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Theatre Royal, Bath); Blue Eyes & Heels,
Angels & Saints (Soho); The Found Man, Mr Placebo (& Plymouth), Gagarin Way, The
Meeting, Anna Weiss, Shining Souls, The Architect (Traverse); Professor Bernhardi (&
Dumbfounded), Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance, Bread & Butter (Oxford Stage Company);
Crave (Paines Plough); The Magic Toyshop (Shared Experience); All My Sons (Theatre
Royal, Plymouth); The Jock Stein Story (Pavilion, Glasgow); Hamlet (Belgrade);
Cinderella (Dundee Rep); The Real World, Sleeping Beauty, Gamblers, Macbeth
(Tron); The Snow Queen, Death of a Salesman (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Beneath
One Banner (7:84); Commedia (Crucible, Sheffield/Lyric Hammersmith/Scottish
Theatre Co.); The Midas Plays (Brian Way’s); Two, The Glass Menagerie, The
Caretaker, What The Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Zoo Story, School for
Clowns (Cumbernauld).
Television includes: Shetland, Game of Thrones, Holby City, Being Human, The Darien
Venture, Doctors, Murder Rooms, Glasgow Kiss, Life of Jolly, Para Handy, Dr Finlay,
Resort to Murder, Crime Story, Taggart, High Road, Albert & the Lion, Sense of
Freedom, Garnock Way.
Film includes: Loch Ness.
Radio includes: Mr Standfast, Professor Bernhardi, Gagarin Way, Mclevy, The
Laughing Policeman.
Steve Toussaint (Hero)
Theatre includes: A Doll’s House (Young Vic/West End/Off-Broadway); The Riots
(Tricycle); Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Twelfth Night (Nottingham
Playhouse); Ruined (Almeida); Hapgood (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Last
Carnival (Birmingham Rep); Fix Up (National); Urban Afro-Saxons (Talawa); 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea, The No Boys Cricket Club (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); A
Servant to Two Masters (Ambassadors & RSC), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (West
End); To Kill a Mockingbird (Everyman Palace, Cork); Amen Corner (Bristol Old Vic);
Skin, Sex & Power (Oval House); Viva Detroit (Black Theatre Co-op); Othello, Twelfth
Night (Tower Hamlets Company); Under My Skin (Fingers in Pies); A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Classic Prods).
Television includes: Fortitude, Berlin Station, Lewis, Grantchester, Midsomer Murders,
DCI Banks, A.D., Tut, Scott & Bailey, Banana, Silent Witness, Line of Duty, Spooks,
Doctors, Skins, New Tricks, Holby City, CSI Miami, Them, Silent Witness, Life Begins,
Broken News, The Bill, My Dad’s the Prime Minister, Family Affairs, England Expects,
Star, Rosemary & Thyme, Murder in Mind, Murphy’s Law, Waking the Dead, Casualty,
Maisie Raine, Jack of Hearts, Doomwatch, Dangerfield, Spiders & Flies, Backup, The
Knock, Sherlock Holmes, Rides.
Film includes: Point Break, Asylum, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Broken Lines,
Mutant Chronicles, Flight of Fury, Shooting Dogs, The Sin Eater, Dog Eat Dog, Circus,
Macbeth, Judge Dredd, I.D., Bye
Leo Winger (The Oldest Old Man)
For the Royal Court: Search & Destroy.
Theatre includes: Soul (Theatre Royal, Northampton/Hackney Empire); As You Like It,
Sanctuary, Anthony & Cleopatra, Trojan Women (National); Perseverance Drive, 66
Books, Two Horsemen (Bush); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (west end); Blackta,
Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors (& RSC Tour), More Grimm Tales, As I
Lay Dying, Rosmersholm (Young Vic); The Wheel (NTS); The Snow Queen (Royal
Lyceum, Edinburgh); While You Lie, The Struggle of the Dogs & The Black (Traverse);
Julius Caesar, Othello, Titus Andronicus (Tobacco Factory)
Television includes: The Moonstone, Gangsta Granny, Law & Order, Silent Witness, The
Bill, Rebus, Doctors, Rough Crossings, Judge John Deed, Casualty, Canterbury Tales.
Film includes: The Kitchen Toto, The Changeling.
Listings Information:
Torn
By Nathaniel Martello-White
Directed by Richard Twyman
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Wednesday 7 September – Saturday 15 October 2016
Monday – Saturday 7.45pm
Thursday & Saturday matinees 3pm (from 15 September)
Captioned Performance 12 October 7.45pm
Press Night Tuesday 13 September, 7pm
Age Guidance 14+
Tickets £20 (Mondays all seats £10 available from 9am online on the day of performance)
Concessions* £15 (available in advance for previews and all matinees)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
*ID required. All discounts subject to availability.
Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Jo Bonney
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Thursday 15 September – Saturday 22 October 2016
Monday – Saturday 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday matinees 2.30pm (from 24 September)
Captioned Performance 11 October 7.30pm
Audio Described 8 October 2.30pm (Touch Tour 1pm)
Press Night Thursday 22 September 7pm
Age Guidance 14+
Tickets £12, £16, £25, £35 (Mondays all seats £10 available from 9am online on the day of
performance)
Concessions* £5 off top two prices. 25s and under £12 (available in advance for previews
and all matinees)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
*ID required. All discounts subject to availability.
Torn is part of the Royal Court’s Jerwood New Playwrights programme, supported by the
Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Jerwood New Playwrights is a longstanding partnership between Jerwood Charitable
Foundation and the Royal Court. Each year, Jerwood New Playwrights supports the
production of three new works by emerging writers, all of whom are in the first 10 years of their
career. The Royal Court carefully identifies playwrights whose careers would benefit from the
challenge and profile of being fully produced either in the Jerwood Downsatirs or Jerwood
Upstairs Theatres at the Royal Court.
Jerwood Charitable Foundation supports the Jerwood New Playwrights programme and is
dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting emerging
artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers. The aim of its funding is to
allow artists and arts organisations to thrive; to continue to develop their skills, imagination
and creativity with integrity. It works with artists across art forms, from dance and theatre to
literature,
music
and
the
visual
arts.
For
more
information
visit
www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org