Heggie - Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street

Iain Heggie

Vanishing Point presents

SAUCHIEHALL STREET

By Iain Heggie

Directed by Matthew Lenton

Designed by Kai Fischer

Sauchiehall Street was commissioned by Vanishing Point and opened at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on 12 March 2004 with the following cast:

Sauchiehall Street was developed with the help of the following students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama:

Gordon Brandie, Joanne Cummins, Bryony Harding, Kirsten Hazel-Smith, Emun Mohammadi, Ionia N Chrinn, Allan Sawers and Rebecca Sloyan.

The production runs approximately 2 hours.
There is a fifteen-minute interval.

Theatre: Regional Credits at Leicester, York, Chester, Manchester, Coventry, Watford, Pitlochry, Glasgow Citizens, Dundee Rep, Edinburgh Lyceum, including A Midsummer Nights Dream, Cyrano, Woyzeck, The Boyfriend, Stepping Out, Cabaret, Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Ride Down Mount Morgan, Slab Boys, The White Bird Passes, Macbeth and American Bagpipes. Tours include: Men Should Weep (7:84); The Guid Sisters (Tron); The Steamie (Best Actress Nomination); Sacred Hearts (Communicado); Sir Martin Mar-All and Liz Lochheads Medea (Theatre Babel). West End London: Perfect Days, The Hang of the Gaol, Evita (original cast) The Beggars Opera, Guys and Dolls and Square Rounds (R.N.T). Television includes: Cloud Howe, The Singing Detective, Sometime in August, Casualty, Great Expectations and River City (all BBC); Psychos, Brookside (CH4); Big Battalions; The Bill; Coronation Street; The Personal Touch; Cats Eyes and Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Films: Britannia Hospital, Pirates of Penzance and Bollywood Queen.

Lauren graduated from the RSAMD with a BA in Technical & Production Arts. Design includes The Man With The Flower In His Mouth (visiting artist RSAMD). She has worked as a scenic artist on Blindsight (Untitled Projects/Tramway) and The Slab Boys Trilogy (Traverse Theatre Company). Lauren has also worked as a technician on Living Cities (Working Party) and as an assistant prop maker on The Marriage of Figaro (for RSAMD).

Kai studied Audio-Visual Media at the HDM in Stuttgart. For Vanishing Point he recently co-directed and co-designed Stars Beneath the Sea, Invisible Man and A Brief History of Time. Earlier work for the company includes the set and lighting designs for Glimpse, Blackout and Last Stand. Outside Vanishing Point Kai works as a freelance lighting designer. He has lit productions for many Scottish companies including 7:84, Citizens Theatre, Dundee Rep, Glasgow-Nuremberg Dance Alliance, KtC, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, SweetScar, TAG, Theatre Babel and Tron Theatre Glasgow. With his work he has toured to Canada, France, Germany, India, Taiwan and the USA. As assistant lighting designer Kai recently worked on Rheingold and Walkre for Scottish Operas Ring Cycle.

Plays include Politics in the Park, A Wholly HealthyGlasgow, American Bagpipes, The Sex Comedies, An Experienced Woman Gives Advice, The Don, The King ofScotland, Wiping My Mothers Arse and Love Freaks. Radio plays include Funeral Catering in the 21st Century and Zeitgeist Man.

Sergey graduated with a BA in Technical and Production Arts from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2002, and is now developing his career of theatrical lighting and technical skills. Recent projects as Production/Technical Manager include Living Cities Event (Tory Glen), Stars Beneath the Sea (Vanishing Point), A Brief History of Time (Vanishing Point), Word for Word (Magnetic North). As Lighting Designer: The Crysalids (Tron Theatre), Rescuers Speaking (Birds of Paradise), Emerge (Architecture Exhibition), Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre Installation (Theatre Museum, London) The Dawn (Nomad) and Soul Pilots (ek performance). Other work includes interior lighting design for Bar Gandolfi in Glasgow and lighting technician for Without A Trace (Sounds of Progress).

Theatre includes seasons with the RSC (Stratford, London and NewYork), Shared Experience (Japan, Korea, Israel and UK tours), Citizens Theatre Glasgow and Birmingham Rep. In London he has appeared in MasterClass and Brothers Karamazov (also Edinburgh Festival, Moscow, Lenningrad). At the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh he has played leading roles in The Hardman and Walter. TV work includes A Touch of Frost, The Bill, Taggart, Eastenders, The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle. Film includes Welcome to Sarajevo, Surviving Picasso, The Tall Guy and The Virgin Soldiers. Recent theatre work includes If Only, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Royal Lyceum Theatre), Variety (Grid Iron/Edinburgh International Festival) and Without A Trace (Tron/Traverse).

Matthew is the founder of Vanishing Point and has directed or co-directed all - of the companys productions. He has worked with the company across the UK and internationally as director, writer and performer. Outside Vanishing Point, Matthew has directed for the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, the Traverse in Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where shows include The Visit, The Alchemist, The Mighty and The Three lives of Lucie Cabrol. As a writer he has been commissioned by LookOut Theatre Company.

Linda trained at Guildford. Theatre credits include Word for Word (Magnetic North), Antigone, Julius Caesar and Lanark (TAG), The Steamie (Oldham Coliseum), Piaf (Dundee Rep), Men Should Weep (Citizens) and Jive! Jive! Jive! (Take Two) but she has played all over the UK from the Orkney Islands to Plymouth. Film and TV includes Taggart (STV), The Key, Still Game, Monarch of the Glen, Murder Rooms, Bumping The Odds and Cardiac Arrest (all BBC), Bodyshifters and Alive and Kicking (C4) and she can be seen in the upcoming Solid Air (Momentum Films). This is her first show with Vanishing Point.