Stembridge - That Was Then

That Was ThenThat Was ThenGerard StembridgeMethuen Drama Published by Methuen 2002 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 First published in 2002 by Methuen Publishing Limited, 215 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SWIV 1EJ Copyright Gerard Stembridge 2002 Gerard Stembridge has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the authorof this work Methuen Publishing Limited Reg. No. 3543167 A CIP catalogue record is available from the British Library eISBN: 978-1-40811-767-5 Typeset by SX Composing DTP, Rayleigh, Essex Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire Caution All rights whatsoever in this play are strictly reserved and application for performances etc. should be made to: ICM Limited,Oxford House, 76 Oxford Road, London WC1N 0AX. No performance may be given unless a licence has been obtained. That was Then By Gerard StembridgeThat was Then By Gerard Stembridge That was Then by Gerard Stembridge was first performed at the Abbey Theatre on Thursday 16 May 2002. That was Then By Gerard StembridgeThat was Then By Gerard Stembridge That was Then by Gerard Stembridge was first performed at the Abbey Theatre on Thursday 16 May 2002.

Press night was 21 May 2002. The play is set somewhat in the past and slightly in the future There will be one interval of 15 minutes Please note that the text of the play which appears in this volume may be changed during the rehearsal process and appearin a slightly altered form in performance. Gerard StembridgeAuthor and Director Gerard Stembridge is a writer and director. He has written theatre plays, Lovechild, The Gay Detective and Denis and Rose, television dramas, The Truth about Claire and Black Day at Black Rock and radio plays, Daisy the Cow who Talked and Daylight Robbery. His films are Guiltrip and About Adam and his screen plays are Ordinary DecentCriminal and Nora (co-written with Pat Murphy). Es DevlinDesigner Es trained at Bristol University, Central Saint Martins and Motley Theatre Design Course. Theatre designs include Hinterland, Abbey Theatre, Royal National Theatre, Out of Joint, Anthony and Cleopatra, RSC, Arabian Night, Soho Theatre, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, New Ambassadors, The Prisoner's Dilemma, RSC, Meat, Theatre Royal, Plymouth (Nominated for TMA 2001 Best Design Award), Howie theRookie, Bush Theatre (Winner of TMA 1999 Best Design Award), HenryIV, RSC, Betrayal, RNT, Rita, Sue and Bob Too/A State Affair, Out of Joint/Soho Theatre, Hamlet, Young Vic, Tokyo Globe, Credible Witness,Yard Gal, Royal Court, Snake in the Grass, Old Vic, Piano, TPT, Tokyo, Love and Understanding, Love You Too, One Life and Counting, Drink,Dance, Laugh, Lie, Bush Theatre, Perapalas, Gate Theatre, The Death ofCool, Hampstead Theatre, Closer to Heaven, Arts Theatre, Edward II, Bolton Octagon, (Winner of the 1995 Linbury Prize for Stage Design).

Opera designs include Hansel and Gretel, Scottish Opera Go Round, Fidelio, English Touring Opera, Powder Her Face, Ystad Festival, Sweden, Don Giovanni, British Youth Opera. Designs for dance include A Streetcar Named Desire, Northern Ballet Theatre, God's Plenty and Four Scenes both for Rambert Dance Company. Designs for film include Brilliant!, Ten by Ten for BBC2, A Tale of Two Heads, Beggars Belief,Snow on Saturday (winner of the Kino Best British Short Rim 2001). Paul KeoganLighting Designer Born in Dublin Paul studied Drama at The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin and at Glasgow University. After graduatingPaul worked as Production Manager for Project Arts Centre. Stephen BrennanNoel Stephen's most recent appearances at the Abbey Theatre were as Harry in The Sanctuary Lamp, Kearns in A Life and Henry in The Wake. He spent several years in musicals before joining the Abbey Theatre in 1976, where he played more than sixty leading and supportingroles, including the title role in Hamlet. He joined the Royal National Theatre, London in 1983 and apart from Frank'n'Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, has worked almost exclusively at the Gate since 1988, where roles include Lord Goring in AnIdeal Husband, Elyot in Private Lives, Lucky in Waiting for Godot, the title role in Moliere's Tartuffe, Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night'sDream, Serge in Art, Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac and the title role of Oedipus at the Gaiety. Stephen BrennanNoel Stephen's most recent appearances at the Abbey Theatre were as Harry in The Sanctuary Lamp, Kearns in A Life and Henry in The Wake. He spent several years in musicals before joining the Abbey Theatre in 1976, where he played more than sixty leading and supportingroles, including the title role in Hamlet. He joined the Royal National Theatre, London in 1983 and apart from Frank'n'Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, has worked almost exclusively at the Gate since 1988, where roles include Lord Goring in AnIdeal Husband, Elyot in Private Lives, Lucky in Waiting for Godot, the title role in Moliere's Tartuffe, Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night'sDream, Serge in Art, Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac and the title role of Oedipus at the Gaiety.

Film work includes Eat the Peach and TheGeneral. His television work includes El Cid, the second series of Ballykissangel, Father Ted, DDU, Mystic Knights, A Piece ofMonologue and Waiting for Godot for the Beckett Film Project. He most recently appeared at the Gate Theatre in Two Plays by Brian Friel Nick DunningJulian Nick's previous appearances at the Abbey and Peacock Theatres include Mrs Warren's Profession, The Marriage of Figaro and The Last Ones. Recently he appeared in The Homecoming by Pinter at the Gate Theatre also in New York at the Lincoln Center, Pinter Festival and a long run in London's West End.Other theatre work includes The Strongest Man in the World, Lincoln Center, New York, Some Explicit Polaroids, Out of Joint, No Man's Land, Gate Theatre, A Handful of Dust, Comedy without a Title, Marriage, Successful Stratagems, False Admissions, Shared Experience, Othello, Lyric Hammersmith, TheTaming of the Shrew, The Happy End, Royal Shakespeare Company, TheWandering Jew, Countrymania, Richard II, Royal National Theatre,