The Maids Programme.pdf - Citizens Theatre

THE CAST
SAMUEL KEEFE | MISTRESS
Samuel graduated from the
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
in July 2012. His Radio and TV
credits include: 44 Scotland
Street (BBC Radio 4), Zombie
Rule No.9 (BBC Scotland/Solus
Productions) and Burnistoun
(Comedy Unit). Credits whilst
training include: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching
Towards the Somme, Medea, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and Sweet Bird Of Youth. Samuel is making his
professional stage debut in The Maids.
ROSS MANN | CLAIRE
Ross graduated from the Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland in
2012. Theatre credits include:
The Inventor’s Story (Ankur
Productions), Cain’s Book
(Untitled Projects), Kasimir and
Karoline (NTS Rehearsed
Reading) and Train to Xi’An (The
Arches). Credits at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
include: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards
the Somme, Much Ado About Nothing, Medea, The
Sunbeam and Sweet Bird of Youth. Ross is making his
professional stage debut in The Maids.
SCOTT REID | SOLANGE
Scott is in his third and final
year at the Royal Conservatoire
of Scotland. Theatre credits
include: King Lear (Citizens),
Passion (Old Red Lion), The
Martyr (Theatre 503), Fit for a
King (The Arches). Credits at the
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
include: The Importance of Being Earnest, Romeo &
Juliet, Uncle Vanya and Lie of the Mind. Later in the
year Scott is on a national tour with Paddy Cunneen’s
play Fleeto, where he will play the part of Mackie.
BY JEAN GENET
IN A TRANSLATION BY MARTIN CRIMP
PRODUCTION TEAM
MARTIN CRIMP | TRANSLATOR
Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for
theatre in the 1980’s. His plays include The City (2008),
Fewer Emergencies (2005), Cruel and Tender (2004),
Face to the Wall (2002), The Country (2000), Attempts
On Her Life (1997), The Treatment (1993), Getting
Attention (1992), No One Sees the Video (1991), Play
with Repeats (1989), Dealing with Clair (1988), and
Definitely the Bahamas (1987). He has close
relationships with the Royal Court Theatre, where he
was writer-in-residence in 1997, The Young Vic, and
the National Theatre, which in 2007 produced the UK’s
first major revival of Attempts on her Life. His work is
widely translated and has been seen on numerous
European stages including the Bouffes du Nord and
Théâtre de la Colline in Paris, the Vienna Festwochen
and Berlin’s Schaubühne. The Treatment (winner of
the John Whiting award) was produced by New York’s
Public Theater in the same year as the Royal Court
premiere, and in 1998 his translation of Ionesco’s The
Chairs won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. He
has also translated works by Koltès, Genet, Marivaux,
Molière, Chekhov and most recently Gross und Klein
by Botho Strauss.
STEWART LAING | DIRECTOR & DESIGNER
Stewart Laing is Artistic Director of Untitled Projects
which he formed in 1998. The Company’s large-scale
theatre, blending landscape, biography, novel, video,
lecture, music, documentary, installation, interview,
science and playwriting includes: The Salon Project
(2011), An Argument About Sex (2009), Slope (2006),
blind_sight (2004) and Myths of the Near Future (1998–
2000). As a director and designer, Stewart has created
productions for the Citizens Theatre, Dundee Rep,
National Theatre of Scotland, Traverse Theatre, Scottish
Opera, Grange Park Opera, Norrlandsoperan, Malmö
Opera, Bavarian State Opera. He has also designed for
the West End and Broadway, winning a Tony Award in
1997 for outstanding set design on the musical, Titanic.
In 2002 Stewart received a Creative Scotland Award to
research digital imagery in live performance. Untitled
Projects has received recognition of its exceptional
vision with significant three year funding from the Paul
Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Fund.
STUART JENKINS | LIGHTING DESIGNER
Stuart Jenkins has been working in professional
theatre for over 25 years and has worked for Theatr
Clwyd, Citizens Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre
Edinburgh, Traverse Theatre, Wildcat, Tron Theatre,
Lung Ha’s, TAG and the National Theatre of Scotland
amongst others. Lighting credits include: Molly
Sweeney (Citizens Theatre/NTS), Blasted, The Human
Voice, Vernon God Little, Ten Rillington Place, Smoking
with Lulu, Krapp’s Last Tape, The Shadow of a
Gunman (Citizens Theatre), Suddenly, Last Summer
(Theatr Clwyd), Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto (Opera on
a Shoestring), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Tron
Theatre), Dr. Ferret’s Bad Medicine Roadshow and On
the Rim of the World, Temptations of Tam (Scottish
Opera/Citizens Theatre). He lives in Glasgow with his
partner and three children.
SCOTT PATERSON | GUITAR COACH
Scott Paterson has been writing and performing as
lead guitarist with the rock band Sons & Daughters for
the last decade and has released 4 albums on Domino
Records. He has also performed and toured as part of
Franz Ferdinand and The Kills. In addition he has
worked on composition pieces for short films most
recently Scott Graham’s ‘Native Son’ as part of Sons &
Daughters.
DEBBIE HANNAN | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Debbie trained in directing at the Royal Conservatoire
of Scotland, where she developed and directed Pamela
Carter’s liberty, equality, fraternity (Tron, Traverse,
Cockpit). She previously assisted John Tiffany and
Vicky Featherstone on National Theatre of Scotland’s
Enquirer, and most recently assisted Dominic Hill on
Sleeping Beauty. Recent directing work includes:
Roses are Dead (Arches Live!) and Yellow Pears (Bruce
Millar Award 2012).
EMMACLAIRE BRIGHTLYN | FIGHT DIRECTOR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Actor Intern positions are supported by The
Robertson Trust.
All scenery, costumes and properties made in the
Citizens Theatre workshops.
Thanks to Alan McKendrick for dramaturgical support.
Special thanks to: Diane Karcher-Mourgues,
Timorous Beasties, Richmond’s Plumbing & Heating,
Merchants, Strung Out, Lush, Megan Reid, The Cooperative
and Gary McCluskey.
THE MAIDS by Jean Genet, in a translation by Martin
Crimp was first performed at the Young Vic Theatre on
1st July 1999. The Glasgow Citizens Theatre’s licence
to present Jean Genet’s play THE MAIDS is granted by
Rosica Colin Limited, London.
17 Jan – 2 Feb 2013

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