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The Royal Court Theatre and ATC presentCOUNTRY MUSICby Simon Stephens First performance at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Sloane Square, London on 24 June 2004. Supported by Jerwood New Playwrights COUNTRY MUSICby Simon Stephens Cast Jamie Carris Lee Ross
Matty Carris Calum Callaghan
Emma Carris Laura Elphinstone
Lynsey Sergeant Sally Hawkins Director Gordon Anderson Designer Soutra Gilmour Lighting Designer Charles Balfour Composer Julian Swales Assistant Director Steve Marmion Casting Lisa Makin Production Manager Sue Bird Stage Managers Kieran Dicker, Marius Ronning Costume Supervisor lona Kenrick Company Voice Work Patsy RodenburgTHE COMPANYSimon Stephens (writer) For the Royal Court Herons, Bluebird (Choice Festival 1998). Other theatre includes: Christmas (Bush); One Minute (ATC); Port (Royal Exchange, Manchester). Radio includes: Five Letters Home to Elizabeth, Digging. Awards include: Pearson Award for Best Play 2001 (Port) Pearson Bursary at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Arts Council Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court in 2000. Gordon Anderson (director) For the Royal Court: Bluebird. Gordon Anderson (director) For the Royal Court: Bluebird.

Other theatre includes: One Minute, Out of Our Heads. Arabian Night, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (ATC); Great Expectations (Old Vic, Bristol); The Threesome, The Reckless are Dying Out, The Grand Ceremonial (Lyric, Hammersmith); Rib Cage (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Outside on the Street (Gate). Opera includes: Manon (ETO); Hansel & Gretel (Scottish Opera); The Mikado (Grange Park Opera); The Silver Lake (Broomhill Opera). Comedy includes: Catherine Tate, The League of Gentlemen, Navelgazing, Susan & Janice, Conversations with my Agent and projects for the Channel 4 Sitcom Festival. Television: The Catherine Tate Show. Charles Balfour (lighting designer) Theatre includes: Bash (Glasgow Citizens); Cake & Grace (Jade TC/BAC/Birmingham Rep);Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse/Duchess); Ghost City (Sgript Cymru/Arcola); Witness, Happy Yet (Gate). Charles Balfour (lighting designer) Theatre includes: Bash (Glasgow Citizens); Cake & Grace (Jade TC/BAC/Birmingham Rep);Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse/Duchess); Ghost City (Sgript Cymru/Arcola); Witness, Happy Yet (Gate).

Opera includes: Hagoromo, Thimble Rigging (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Jerwood Jazz Solos with Light (Wapping Power Station); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Broomhill Opera). Dance includes: eight-year collaboration with Richard Alston (Sadlers Wells & tour); Matthew Hawkins (Linbury Studio, ROH); Rosemary Butcher (Queen Elizabeth Hall & European tour); Aletta Collins (Tour); Martin Lawrance (The Place). Caium Callaghan For the Royal Court: Food Chain, Young Writers Festival. Other theatre includes: The Straits (Paines Plough/Traverse/Hampstead); Whistle Down the Wind (Sydmonton Festival); Oliver (Palladium); Les Miserables (Palace); Hey Mr Producer (Lyceum). Television includes: Heartbeat, Stitch Up, Wall of Silence, The Bill, The Tiny Living Channel, I am a Rat, Gypsy Girl, Writing & Pictures, Black Hearts in Battersea, Children in Need, Hale & Pace. Film includes: Love Honour & Obey.

Radio includes: The Parting, The Pool. Emma Dunton (ATC executive producer) Since joining ATC in 2001 Emma has produced In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltes, Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Out of Our Heads by Susan Earl and Janice Phayre, One Minute by Simon Stephens and Excuses! by Joan Joel and Jordi Sanchez. Emma has also worked at Volcano Theatre Company producing and managing the national and international tours of Macbeth Directors Cut, The Town That Went Mad and Private Lives. Previously she has worked at the British Council and on low-budget feature films in Los Angeles. Laura Elphinstone Laura has just graduated from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Soutra Gilmour (designer) Theatre includes: Antigone (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Peter Pan (Tramway, Glasgow);The Birthday Party (Crucible, Sheffield);The Mayor of Zalamea (Everyman, Liverpool); Fool For Love (ETT); Macbeth (English Shakespeare Co); Hand in Hand (Hampstead); Modern Dance for Beginners (Soho); Animal (The Red Room); Tear from a Glass Eye, Les Justes, Ion, Witness and the Flu Season (Gate); Sun is Shining (BAC Critics Choice Season, 59E59, NY); The Women who Swallowed a Pin, Winters Tale (Southwark Playhouse); When the World was Green (Young Vic); Ghost City (59E59, NY);The Shadow of a Boy (RNT); Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse/Duchess). Soutra Gilmour (designer) Theatre includes: Antigone (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Peter Pan (Tramway, Glasgow);The Birthday Party (Crucible, Sheffield);The Mayor of Zalamea (Everyman, Liverpool); Fool For Love (ETT); Macbeth (English Shakespeare Co); Hand in Hand (Hampstead); Modern Dance for Beginners (Soho); Animal (The Red Room); Tear from a Glass Eye, Les Justes, Ion, Witness and the Flu Season (Gate); Sun is Shining (BAC Critics Choice Season, 59E59, NY); The Women who Swallowed a Pin, Winters Tale (Southwark Playhouse); When the World was Green (Young Vic); Ghost City (59E59, NY);The Shadow of a Boy (RNT); Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse/Duchess).

Opera includes: Coker, Weill, Bernstein (Opera Group, Buxton); Girl of Sand (Almeida Opera); Everyman (Norwich Festival); Eight Songs for a Mad King (world tour); El Cimmaron (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Twice Through the Heart (Cheltenham Festival); Bathtime (ENO); A Better Place (ENO, London Coliseum). Sally Hawkins Theatre includes: The Way of the World (Wilton Music Hall); Misconceptions (Octagon, Bolton); A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (Regents Park); Pera Palas (NT Studio); The Cherry Orchard, Romeo & Juliet (Theatre Royal, York); The Dybbuk, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (BAC); Svejk (Gate, London); The Whore of Babylon (Globe Education Centre); As You Like It (Buckingham Palace Gala). Television includes: The Young Visitors, Little Britain, Bunk Bed Boys, Byron, Promoted to Glory Tipping the Velvet, Casualty. Film includes: Vera Drake, Layer Cake, All or Nothing. Steve Marmion (assistant director) Theatre includes: Edward Gants Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); The Horrible History of Christmas (Sherman Theatre). Lee Ross For the Royal Court: Hammetts Apprentice, Some Voices, The Lights, Childrens Day. Lee Ross For the Royal Court: Hammetts Apprentice, Some Voices, The Lights, Childrens Day.

Other theatre includes: M.A.D., Christmas (Bush); Bugsy Malone (Her Majestys); Spookhouse (Hampstead); The Neighbour (RNT); Tape (New Venture, Brighton). Television includes: The Hustle, Dunkirk, The Catherine Tate Show, Trial & Retribution, Amongst Barbarians, The Guilty, Shine on Harvey Moon, The Negotiator, Pressgang, Playing the Field. Film includes: Secrets & Lies, The English Patient, Rogue Trader, Metroland, Dreaming of Joseph Lees, Vigo - A Passion for Life, ID, Hard Men, Dockers, Sweet Nothing, Island on Bird Street, Secret Society.

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