THEATER B - 59E59 Theaters

IAN KELLY will be available after all performances to sign copies of his books.
His new book “Beau Brummell – The Ultimate Man of Style,” a biography of Beau Brummell, has
already been hailed in the British press as a ‘tour de force’ ‘magisterial’ ‘vibrant, witty, fast paced, superlative’,
‘sharp, sophisticated, worthy of Balzac’ ‘almost unbearably moving’ and ‘quite possibly the best book ever written
about London.’ ‘What makes this book so much more than a scrupulously researched and argued biography is the
way Kelly brings alive the period in which Brummell lived.’ The book was recently described by Stephen Fry as
‘touched with mastery.’ The first American review in Booklist has described the US version as ‘irresistibly entertaining.’
The book was immediately bought for film adaptation by BBC films and was shot in Bath this spring. The film, starring
Hugh Bonneville, Ian Kelly and James Purefoy is currently in post-production.
Beau Brummell is published in the US this May by Free Press-Simon & Schuster.
NEXT IN THEATER C MAY 23 – JUNE 11
Theatre Absolute presents
GRAEME HAWLEY in
cloud:burst
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
CHRIS O’CONNELL
A new play by Chris O’Connell (Frantic
Assembly, Paines Plough, RSC), cloud:burst
features a stunning performance by
Graeme Hawley. Dominic is an ordinary
man who is consumed by the glare of
the media after his daughter is murdered. When the press
attention moves elsewhere, he is left to pick up the pieces,
yet how can life ever be normal again when you’ve lost your
only child, and the person you blame is yourself? This play
originated at the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden. Playing in rep with Private Peaceful.
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BRISTOL OLD VIC and Scamp Theatre presents
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL in
PRIVATE PEACEFUL
BY MICHAEL MORPURGO
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY SIMON READE
Private Peaceful is a vivid tale of a young First
World War soldier’s final hours as he awaits
execution at dawn, adapted by Bristol Old Vic’s
Artistic Director, Simon Reade, from the book by
Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Laureate.
Award-winning actor Alexander Campbell arrives
direct from a successful run at the new Trafalgar
Studios in London’s West End. Recommended for
all ages by Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher
of children’s books. Playing in rep with cloud:burst.
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BILL THEATER B
The Ideas Foundry presents
IAN KELLY and
RYAN EARLYin
BEAU
BRUMMELL
BY RON HUTCHINSON
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY GEORGE TAYLOR
DESIGNED BY TOM RAND
DIRECTED BY SIMON GREEN
MAY 9 – JUNE 11

The Ideas Foundry presents
BEAU
BRUMMELL
BY RON HUTCHINSON
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY GEORGE TAYLOR
DESIGNED BY TOM RAND
DIRECTED BY SIMON GREEN
BEAU BRUMMELL IAN KELLY
AUSTIN RYAN EARLY
The action of the play is set in 1821, on the day King George IV,
formerly England's Prince Regent, was passing through Calais in
Northern France en route to Hanover. The events depicted are true.
Playwright RON HUTCHINSON
Director SIMON GREEN
Set and Costume Design TOM RAND
Lighting Design ADAM H. GREENE
Sound Design MIKE WALKER
Music GEORGE TAYLOR
AEA Stage Manager MANDY BERRY
Costumes Made and
Supplied By COSPROP LONDON
Shirts Made By CLAIRE RAMSELL
Dyeing By BETTY LEE
Historical Consultant CHRIS PRINS
Costume Supervisor SION ADAMSON
Props PROPS FOR TODAY and COSPROP
Set Built By GEST SCENIC CREATIONS
Set Painted By ERIN KIERNAN
EMBER SOBERMAN
Producer THE IDEAS FOUNDRY
Executive Producer PAUL SAVIDENT
Running Time: 80 minutes
RON HUTCHINSON (Playwright) Latest theatre work
includes Rat in the Skull (revival, Duke of York's Theatre
1995); an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's Flight at the
National Theatre 1997; Burning Issues, Hampstead Theatre
Club 1999, Beau!, Theatre Royal, Bath, national tour and
Haymarket, Leicester Square 2001; LAGS, national tours
2002-03; Believers, for Playbox Young People's Theatre,
2003; Head/Case, Royal Shakespeare Company 2004;
Moonlight and Magnolias, Goodman Theatre, Chicago
2004 and Manhattan Theatre Club 2005. Mr. Hutchinson
lives in Los Angeles where he is a writer/producer for
features and television. Winner of an Emmy for Ben
Kingsley's Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal
Story, 1989, his latest projects include Traffic, nominated
for three Emmys in 2004 and rewrites on Fox Pictures'
remake of Flight of the Phoenix.
SIMON GREEN (Director) trained at LAMDA. Directing
includes: Cooking For Kings (59E59 THEATERS, New
York), Fascinating Aida (59E59 THEATERS and Kirk
Theater, New York. Drama Desk Award nomination)
Associate Director for Auntie And Me (Wyndham’s); Split
(Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Resident Director
for The Phantom Of The Opera (Manchester Opera
House); Blithe Spirit (Welsh College of Music and
Drama); Nothing Like The Sun, Destination Anywhere,
High On Air and In Company With Sondheim (Edinburgh
Festival); Aspects Of Love, Babes In Arms, Starting Here-
Starting Now, Saturday Night and agents’ showcases
(Guildford School Of Acting); showcases for Central
School Of Speech and Drama, Italia Conti Academy of
Theatre Arts, London School of Musical Theatre and
Stockport College. Other producing/directing includes
the closing gala for Manchester’s year as the City Of
Drama (Opera House); The Young Vic’s 21st Birthday
Gala (Old Vic); Merrily We Roll Along directed by Julia
Mckenzie (Shaftesbury); Save The Young Vic Gala (Young
Vic); The Combe Manor Cabarets. Directly after the
openings of Beau Brummell and Cooking For Kings at
59E59 Simon will return to London’s West End to play
Jules in the new, award winning production of Sondheim’s
Sunday In The Park With George at the Wyndham’s
Theatre.
IAN KELLY’s (Beau Brummell) twin careers as actor and
writer have taken him to France, Russia, the United States
and South America. He has also written and presented
TV documentaries and is an award-nominated screenwriter.
His first book, Cooking for Kings, A Life of Antonin
Carême, the First Celebrity Chef, has been on bestseller
lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been translated
into five languages. It spawned a UK documentary series,
a radio serial and was suggested as a play concept by
no less than Tom Stoppard and Simon Russell Beale.
Cooking for Kings was hailed in the press as ‘magnificent’
‘absolutely irresistible’ and ‘required reading for anyone
who finds food and history relevant.’
Ian is widely known in the UK also for his regular
appearances as resident food-historian on the “Richard
and Judy show.”
Ian’s latest book, a biography of Beau Brummell, probably
the most important single figure in the history of fashion,
was universally acclaimed when it was published late last
year in the UK. Described as a ‘witty, vibrant’ ‘magisterial
and utterly gripping parable for modern times’ the book
has caught the Zeitgeist not just in terms of the current
‘dandy’ obsession on the international catwalks or the
current historical interest in the dawn of modernity in the
late 18th century. An exhibition on dandyism at the Costume
Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
opens in May following Anna Wintour’s Vogue party, also
themed as Anglomania, at the same venue. 600,000
viewers are expected though the exhibition, which features
Brummell and on which Kelly has collaborated with Met
curator Andrew Bolton. The book, meanwhile, published
in the US by Simon & Schuster this May was immediately
bought by BBC films, and Ian arrives in New York straight
from filming on location in Bath, England, an adaptation
of his book in which he also stars (along with HBO Rome’s
James Purefoy and Notting Hill’s Hugh Bonneville).
Ian studied history at Cambridge University, where he
acted with the famous Footlights comedy troupe, before
winning a scholarship to UCLA’s Film School to study for
an MA in Theater/Film/Television.
Film work includes the Russian-Chechen epic “Voina” for
which Ian was nominated for Best Actor at the Montreal
Film Festival, Richard Attenborough’s “In Love and War,”
and James Ivory’s “Howards End.”
Television work includes Dennis Potter’s last work, “Cold
Lazarus,” “Sensitive Skin,” “Drop the Dead Donkey,”
“Hetty Wainthropp,” “The Moth,” “Silent Witness” and
“Just William.”
Theatre work includes, in London’s West End, the 1800
comedy A Busy Day (which Ian championed from fringe
production to Shaftesbury Avenue. LWT Plays on Stage
Award) Arcadia (Best Actor Nomination, Manchester
Drama Awards) Henry in Henry V for the English
Shakespeare Company, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Arsenic
and Old Lace, Single Spies, Pygmalion, The Life and
Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and the Greatest Plays
of the 20th century season at the Royal National Theatre.
Ian has worked extensively in radio drama, including for
Peter Sellars on Mexico City Blues, on NPR and Voice of
America. Ian lives in London with his wife, the psychologist
Claire Davies and their son Oscar and daughter Celia,
who was born during rehearsals for these New York
productions. His next works include a major new biography
of Giacomo Casanova and a work on the Caucasus in
Russian literature.
RYAN EARLY (Austin) Ryan Early trained at Drama Centre
London. Theatre credits include: Wilson in Teeth 'N' Smiles
(Royal Court 50th Anniversary - Directed by Mark Ravenhill
and David Hare), Jasper in The Knight of the Burning
Pestle (Young Vic/Barbican), Quack in The Country Wife
(Watford Palace Theatre), Daniel in About Face (Almeida),
Ian Laidlaw in Miss Yesterday (Stephen Joseph Theatre
- Directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn), Charley Bates in Oliver
Twist (Lyric Hammersmith, National Tour), Robin Starvling
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Decuis in The Golden
Ass (Shakespeares' Globe), Mabel in The Servant (Lyric
Hammersmith), Wilfred Crompton in Spring and Port
Wine (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Dickon in The Secret
Garden (Nottingham Playhouse), Glen Garon in One Life
and Counting (The Bush and Channel 4). Film,television
and radio credits include: William Green in “Doctors”
(BBC), Kenny in “Love Soup” (BBC), Cpl. Andy Ford in
“The Bill “ (ITV), PC. Tom Nicholson in “Heartbeat” -
Series 10 (ITV), Koko in “Beseme Mucho” (Feature Film
- Partnership Productions. Winner Best Film: Tel Aviv Film
Festival, Best Cinematography: Berlin Film Festival) and
Mathsman in “Mathsman” (BBC Radio 4).
TOM RAND (Set and Costume Designer) began his
London based design career, as an assistant at the Royal
Court Theatre and at The National Theatre at The Old Vic
under Laurence Olivier. He worked on three plays directed
by John Gielgud and designed costumes for the Bluebell
Girls in Paris. After a period at BBC Television, he began
to work with many of the leading young British film directors.
His first major film as a Costume Designer was Ridley
Scott’s The Duelists. He designed the film of Joe Papp’s
Broadway hit The Pirates of Penzance with Kevin Kline,
The Shooting Party (the last film to star James Mason),
Elini and The Power of One among many others. With
Young Toscanini starring Elizabeth Taylor he became the
only Britton to design the costumes for a film directed by
Franco Zffirelli. For Karel Reisz’s film of The French
Lieutenant’s Woman starring Meryl Street and Jeremy
Irons, Tom Rand was nominated for an Oscar. Other
films include Princess Caraboo, A Business Affair, Un
Pont Entre Deux Rives directed by Gerard Depardieu
and The Count of Monte Cristo directed by Kevin
Reynolds. Since returning to the theatre with Holiday at
London’s Old Vic, directed by Lindsay Anderson, Tom
Rand has designed costumes in the West End for, among
many others, Burn This, What The Butler Saw, A Letter
of Resignation and Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women
starring Maggie Smith. Working with Harold Pinter, he
has designed the costumes for The Hothouse, Twelve
Angry Men, Taking Sides and Ashes to Ashes as well
as sets for costumes for A Kind of Alaska, The Lover, The
Collection and The Birthday Party. At the Royal Exchange
Theatre he has designed the sets and costumes for The
Moonstone, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of
Being Earnest. Most recently he has designed the costumes
for Media directed by Deborah Warner, Boston Marriage
by David Mamet directed by Phyllida Lloyd and The
Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic directed by Jerry Saks
and starring Jennifer Ehle and Kevin Spacey. Tom Rand
has been awarded the first prize at the Bandiero D’Argento
in Italy for his contribution to the art of design.
ADAM H. GREENE (Lighting Designer) Off-Broadway
- The Public Theater, NYC: Embedded (Written and
Directed by Tim Robbins). Los Angeles Credits - The
Actors’ Gang: Blood, Love, Madness (Director Brent
Hinkley), Little (Director Shira Pivens), Self Defense
(Director Beth Milles), Embedded, Orlando (Director
Joyce Pivens). Evidence Room: The Cherry Orchard
(Director Bart DeLorenzo) Flow My Tears, The Policeman
Said (DeLorenzo), Cringe (DeLorenzo), and 99¢ Dance
Extravaganza -2002 (Choreographer Ken Roht). The
Boston Court: Pera Pelas (Director Michael Michetti),
Garland Award. Resident Assistant: Mark Taper Forum.
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MIKE WALKER (Sound Designer) Mike first worked at
the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton before training at
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Sound designs include Carousel (NT, Shaftesbury Theatre
and Japan), Oliver! (London Palladium), The Graduate
(London and Australia), The Full Monty (London and UK
tour), Just Like That (Garrick Theatre and UK tour), Songs
My Mother Taught Me (Savoy Theatre), Bat Boy The
Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Shaftesbury
Theatre) and Jerry Springer The Opera (Edinburgh,
London and UK tour) for which he won the first Olivier
Award for Best Sound Design. For The Bush Theatre he
has worked on How Love Is Spelt and Mammals
(including UK tour). He was invited to Singapore 1994
to design Into The Woods and has designed over twenty
productions since including Little Shop of Horrors, Sing
to the Dawn, Hamlet, Art, They’re Playing Our Song
(Singapore and Manila), Chang & Eng (Singapore,
Bangkok and Manila) and Forbidden City which formed
part of the opening festival of the Esplanade - Theatres
on the Bay. Mike, with his company Loh Humm Audio
provide consultancy, project management and installation
services for theatres. Recent projects include work for
the national Theatre, Stratford East, Albany Theatre in
Deptford, Singapore Repertory Theatre and the Rose of
Kingston.
PAUL SAVIDENT (Executive Producer for The Ideas
Foundry) Paul is as a co-founder and Marketing Director
of The Ideas Foundry, a Director of Cloud Ten Productions
(current projects in hand - Weirdos, The Fall & Rise of
Lenny Smallman and A Good Place for Fishing), an
Associate of International Theatre and Musical Ltd
developing strategy and projects currently including a
spectacular new staging of Peter Pan The Musical and
the new musical Waiting for the Dawn. Paul is also co-
producer of a gala event of Stephen Sondheim’s Into
The Woods at the Royal Albert Hall in aid of the UK
charity The Children’s Society (October 2006). Future
producing projects include David Chisnell's sharp comedy
Elvis, Lennon and JFK and Tony Bishard's Goldman
Sacks!.
Previous producing credits include The Bush Theatre's
productions of Mammals directed by Anna Mackmin
(Spring 2006 national tour – Consultant Producer) and
Richard Cameron's The Glee Club (Autumn 2004 national
tour - Associate Producer), Marcus Markou's Age-Sex-
Location at Riverside Studios (Feb/March 2004 - Co-
Producer), Daniel Abineri's Money to Burn at The Venue,
London (October 2003 - Associate Producer) and Richard
Lumsden’s We Could Be Heroes (Bridewell).
GEORGE TAYLOR (Original Sound Designer) is best
known as a founding member of the fratelli brothers, who
for ten years have provided music scores for British film
and television, gaining a particular reputation for
documentary. Their many credits include Robert Hughes’s
Beyond the Fatal Shore, 1900 House, Anatomy of
Disgust, Omnibus: Rebuilding the Reichstag, and Seven
Industrial Wonders of the World. At his London studio
George continues to write for television, and is also
involved in various collaboration including a recording
project with Hans Joachim Roedelius, the ‘godfather of
trance.’ He also writes with James McNally from Afrocelts,
and produces for a number of contemporary artists.
MANDY BERRY (AEA Stage Manager) Having just
finished a season of touring with Alvin Ailey’s Ailey II,
Mandy is glad to be back in New York and back in
theater. Prior to this year she worked with The Juilliard
School, Yale Opera, Indianapolis Opera, The Santa Fe
Opera, The Invictous Theater Company, Women
Seeking…, and The Mint Theater Company. Not to
mention all the stuff at East Carolina University. Thank
you to Ryan, the most supportive person anyone could
ever ask for!
The Producer and Creative Team would like to give
special thanks, in no particular order, for help with the
writing and development of these two plays to:
Ivan Mulcahy, Ken McReddie and Roger Charteris,
Marcus Markou at Dynamis Plc for (www.dynamis.co.uk)
and Dennis Babcock of Triple Espresso LLC
(www.tripleespresso.com) for their constant support,
Ivan Day of Historic Foods (www.historicfood.com),
Jonathan Ebsworth and John Trotter of Bates, Wells and
Braithwaites (www.bateswells.co.uk), Sally Fischer PR,
Richard Leighton for his patience
(www.richardleightonlc.com), Andy Holland, Lady
Dunleath at Ballywalter Park, Charlotte Sewell, Caroline
Hunt, Mark Crick for the Cooking For Kings leaflet
images, Toby Merrit for the Beau Brummell leaflet
images, Frank Donovan for leaflet and poster design
(www.donovangraphics.com), Lauren Crowe, Mark
Kurlansky, Daniel Boulud, Francois Payard
(www.payard.com), Anthony Bourdain, Florence
Fabricant, Lisa Ekus, Carl Raymond, Geoff Drummond
and Arlyn Blake and Jane Rothchild.
Ian Kelly would especially like to thank:
Maya Baran at Walkers Books, New York and Leslie
Meredith, Andrew Paulson and Courtney Morrow at
Simon and Schuster and Ken Siman at Penguin and
Rupert Lancaster at Hodder & Stoughton UK.
Rina and Takis Anoussis, Arthur, Ellen and Erica Wagner.
Flashback Films and the cast and crew of the BBC’s
Beau Brummell. The late Chris Prins of Cosprop.
Claire, Oscar, Andrew, David, Don and Pat Kelly and
especially little Celia Kelly, born April 11 2006.