Prebble - The Sugar Syndrome

byLucy PrebbleBloomsbury Methuen Drama An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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by Lucy PrebbleFirst performance at the Rayal Court Jerwood Theater Upstairs
Sloane Square, London on 16 October 2003.Supported by the Royal Courts PRODUCTION SYNDICATE scheme. by Lucy Prebble Cast in order of appearance Dani Stephanie Leonidas Lewis Will Ash Tim Andrew Woodall Jan Kate Duchene Director Marianne Elliott Designer Jonathan Fensom Lighting Designer Chris Davey Sound Designer Ian Dickinson Assistant Director Maria Aberg Casting Lisa Makin, Amy Ball Production Manager Sue Bird Stage Managers Amy Almond, Jason Benterman Costume Supervisor Randa Abuzaid Company Voice Work Patsy Rodenburg The Royal Court Theatre would like to thank the following for their help with this production: Sarah Coles, Theresa Hughes at Stop it Now! Alice Newman at the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. Lucy Prebble (writer) Theatre includes: Liquid (Sheffield University Theatre Company) for which Lucy won the Sunday Times Most Promising Playwright Award 2002 at the 2002 National Student Drama Festival.

The Sugar Syndrome is her first full-length professional production. Maria Aberg (assistant director) As assistant director, theatre includes: Shakespeare Love Songs (Globe Theater, Neuss, Germany); Romeo and Juliet (Malmo Dramatiska Teater, Sweden); Laughing Wild (Friends of Italian Opera, Berlin); In the Summerhouse (Intima Teatern Malmo, Sweden). As a director, theatre includes: Duff Luck (Areola); My Best Friend (Central Station); A Handful of Dust (Institute of Choreography and Dance, Cork); The Maids (Judi Dench Theatre) and The Lover (Mountview Studio). Maria is also a senior script reader for the Royal Court Will Ash For the Royal Court: Presence. Other theatre includes: Port (Royal Exchange, Manchester): Juno and the Paycock (Donmar): View from the Bridge (Increasingly Important Theatre Company). Television includes: Burn It, Daddys Girl, Having it Off, Clocking Off, Frightmares.

All the Kings Men, Anorak of Fire, Where the Heart Is, Born to Run, Beck, Bare Necessities, Heartbeat, Soldier Soldier, Raining Stones, Childrens ward, Making Out, How We Used to Live, Sherlock Holmes. Film includes: Nicholas Nickleby, Fanny and Elvis, Mad about Mambo. Chris Dravey (lighting designer) For the Royal Court: Crazyblackmuthal***inself, The Force of Change. For the RSC: Cymbeline, Alice in Wonderland, Night of the Soul, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Everyman (New York), A Month in the Country, Troilus and Cressida, The Comedy of Errors (world tour), Mysteria, Easter. Other theatre includes: Madame Bovary (Shared Experience); The Taming of the Shrew, The Deep Blue Sea (national tour); After Mrs Rochester (Shared Experience/Duke of Yorks): Sunday Father (Hampstead); Romeo and Juliet (Chichester Festival): The Vagina Monologues (national tour): My One and Only (Piccadilly/Chichester): Dangerous Corner (Garrick): The Car Man (AMP): Honk! (national tour); Closer (Abbey, Dublin); Baby Doll (Albery/RNT/Birmingham Rep): Shining Souls (Old Vic); In a Little World of Our Own, Endgarne (Donmar); Blood Wedding, Grimm Tales (Young Vic). Tuscany). Tuscany).

Dance includes: 2l(Rambert Dance Company), Jekyll and Hyde (Northem Ballet Theatre). Ian Dickinson (sound designer) For the Royal Court: Blood, Playing the Victim, Fallout, Flesh Wound, Hitchcock Blonde (& Lyric), Black Milk, Crazyblackmuthafuckinself, Caryl Churchill Shorts, Imprint, Mother Teresa is Dead, Push Up, Workers Writes, Fucking Games, Herons Cutting Through the Carnival. Other theatre includes: Port (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Night of the Soul (RSC Barbican); Eyes of the Kappa (Gate); Crime and Punishment in Dalston (Arcola Theatre);Search and Destroy (New End, Hampstead); Phaedra, Three Sisters, The Shaughraun, Writers Cramp (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Whores Dream (RSC Fringe, Edinburgh); As You Like It, An Experienced Woman Gives Advice, Present Laughter. The Philadelphia Story, Wolks World, Poor Superman, Martin Yesterday, Fast Food, Coyote Ugly, Prizenight (Royal Exchange, Manchester). Ian is Head of Sound at the Royal Court. Kate Duchene For the Royal Court: Caryl Churchill Shorts.

Other theatre includes: The Inland Sea (Oxford Stage Company/Wiltons); Iphigenia at Aulis (Abbey, Dublin); Small Craft Warning (Pleasance); The Herbal Bed, Faust Parts I & 2, The Relapse, The Cherry Orchard, The Country Wife, Murder in the Cathedral, The Merchant of Venice (RSC Stratford/Barbican); Hated Nightfall (The Wrestling School); Richard III (RSC tour); The Rivals (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep; The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The Miser (RNT); Kean (Old Vic & tour); The Cherry Orchard (Aldwych); Cloud Nine, The Triumph of Love, Summerfolk, Loves Labours Lost (Chichester Festival); The Sea (Playhouse, Leeds); Klimkov, Lukys Play, Kathy, & the Hippopotamus (Traverse); Dead Men (Traverse & tour); White Rose (Traverse/Almeida); Losing Venice (Traverse/Almeida & tour). Television includes: Midsomer Murders, The Bill, The Worst Witch, Out of Hours, Wing & A Prayer, A Sense of Guilt, Miss Marple - At Bertrams Hotel. Films include: Monsieour N, The Tall Guy. Radio includes: Lessons in Italian, Grosse Fugue, Citizens, lvy Who, Losing Venice, Blokada, The Wish House.