The first performance of this production was at The Bussey
Building, Peckham on 29 October 2013.
Juan Radrigán | Playwright Juan Radrigán Rojas was born in Antofagasta, Chile, in January 1937. He is self-taught. He never went to school because from a very young age he had to go out to work. He claims to have learned to read, and much else besides, in the endlessly sad eyes of his mother, in the magnificent, rain-soaked places of the South, in the dry lands of the North and in many hundreds of faces and bodies destroyed by unrelenting poverty. He has written forty-two plays and hopes to write many more for as long as he continues to keep death at bay. He says he has no idea where this need in him arose to set about joining together words that tell stories, words that protest or reflect about the time when he was fated to exist. For many years he was a textile worker and thanks to the education he was able to give himself, he became the president of several trade unions. From 1973 on, he had a wide variety of jobs including librarian, salesman, shop assistant, factory packer. In 1980 he wrote his first play, Testimonio de las muertes de Sabina. Productions of his plays have reached trade unions, villages, schools and communities traditionally considered marginal, as well as professional theatres. In October 2011 he was awarded the National Prize for the Performing Arts in Chile.
Siân Reese-Williams | Marta Siân Reese-Williams trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Television credits include the regular role of Genesis Walker in Emmerdale. Theatre credits include: Queenie in Be My Baby (New Vic Theatre); Phebe in As You Like It (Derby Playhouse), various roles in Future Perfect at the Globe; Freya in Coltan (Paines Plough); Sarah in Present Tense (Trafalgar Studios); Lucy in Sixty-Five Miles (Paines Plough) and Young Gladys in Diamond (King’s Head Theatre).
Dan MacLane | Emilio Dan’s recent theatre work includes Burnt Oak (Leicester Square Theatre); Talking in Bed, (Theatre503) and Eva and Hot! (Hightide 2013). His recorded work includes credits with the BBC, Independent Films and Partizan Productions.
Offue Okegbe | Miguel Offue Okegbe trained at LAMDA. Theatre credits include: Witch in Hansel and Gretel (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Mardian in Antony and Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jimmy in For Jimmy (Intraverse Productions); Malcolm in Macbeth (Custom/Practice); Kid Brother in Invasion! (Tooting Arts Club); Big Brother in Playlist: Christmas – The Riddler (Theatre503); Mardian in Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse); Garveyite/Student in Big White Fog (Almeida Theatre). Workshops/Readings include: Threshold (Collective Artistes); The New Voice of Home (AFTA conference) Let Me Go and Children of Fate (Inside Intelligence) Credits whilst training include: George Etherege in The Libertine, Barry in A Going Concern, Angie the Ox in Guys and Dolls, Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sam in Master Harold and the Boys, Sorin in The Seagull, Title role in King John, Creon in Antigone. Other credits include: Paul in Six Degrees of Separation (Tower Theatre); John Proctor in The Crucible and Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode (Brighton Dome).
Julia Tarnoky | Aurelio Julia trained in Drama at Birmingham University. Theatre credits include Deborah in A Kind Of Alaska directed by Esther Richardson, ‘A Pair Of Pinters’ for Derby Live, Knox in Found In The Ground (Riverside Studios), Hawelka in I Saw Myself (Jerwood Vanbrugh), Lindsay in A House Of Correction, Suede in HeStumbled, Supporta in Scenes From An Execution, Cynthia in Ursula and seven roles in The Ecstatic Bible (TWS/Adelaide Festival/Brink) all directed by Howard Barker with The Wrestling School, three new plays with Scene & Heard – as Hong Kong, Jessie the Olympic Symbol, and Polly Molly the Kite. Other roles include Amanda in Private Lives (dir. Greg Floy), Masha in Three Sisters (dir. David Hunt) at Mercury Theatre Colchester, Isabel in Richard II (dir. Steven Berkoff) Ludlow/Almagro Festivals, Lunch and The Bow Of Ulysses (dir. Selina Cartmell), Anne-Marie in Underdog (dir Sarah Frankcom), Eurydike/Sibyl in Orpheus (dir Nick Philippou) ATC, Sarah in Translations (dir. Ian Hastings) BOV, Helen in Corryvreckan (LFA Best Actress, dir. Janine Wunsche) and Sylvia Plath in Sylvia (dir Ralph Fiennes) first played at RSC Almeida Festival. Television Credits include, Buddha of Suburbia (dir Roger Michel), Wallis Simpson in The Abdication of Edward VIII, and Kate in Supper AtEmmaus. Recordings include Portia in Julius Caesar, and Ophelia in Hamlet (dir Phil Viner for Smart Pass) Film includes Tyu in Reema Sengupta’s award-winning short Tyu’s Company, Diaphanta in Middleton’s Changeling (dir Marcus Thompson), Vacuum, The Horse’s Mouth, Elly, and the Angel in HolyPhysic. Julia can be found online in 14 Poems written and directed by Howard Barker for his own and the Wrestling School websites, and in Jill Van Epps’ Objects Of Worship which has been screened at KINO London.
Robert Shaw | Director/Translator Robert graduated from Cambridge University. In May 1995 he founded inside intelligence. Theatre as director includes Tejas Verdes (St John’s Church, Edinburgh), Happy New (Trafalgar Studios), the British premieres of The Woods (Finborough Theatre) by David Mamet and his own translations of Ana in Love (Hackney Empire) by Paloma Pedrero and Fermín Cabal’s ¡shoot! (Jermyn Street Theatre). Other theatre includes One God, One Farinelli! (BAC) with Richard O’Brien, Three Women by Sylvia Plath (Jermyn Street Theatre, London; Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh; 59E59 Theaters, New York), his own adaptation of Some Gorgeous Accident (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh) by James Kennaway, his own adaptation of Up To Now (Edinburgh Festival), his own play Teddy and Topsy (Hill Street, Edinburgh and Old Red Lion Theatre, London), Anna Akhmatova’s Poem Without a Hero (Edinburgh Festival), As You Like It (Cambridge, Jermyn Street Theatre and Greenwich Festival), The Investigation by Peter Weiss (Richmond), Inferno XXXIII by Michele Celeste (Gate Theatre), Reunion by David Mamet (Duke’s Playhouse, Lancaster), Tell Me That I’m Dreaming by Mark Brennan (The Place), Measure for Measure (Chelsea Theatre), The Poker Session and The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes (Putney Arts Theatre), Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music
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