Michael Hastings - Lee Harvey Oswald: A Far Mean Streak of Independence Brought On By Negleck

Rosie Clark in association with Neil McPherson
for the Finborough Theatre presents

A Finborough Theatre commission

The first London production in over 40 years

LEE HARVEY

OSWALD

A Far Mean Streak of Independence Brought on by Negleck
by Michael Hastings

First performance at the Hampstead Theatre: Wednesday, 23 November 1966.

First performed at the Finborough Theatre: Sunday, 3 November 2013.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

A Far Mean Streak of Independence Brought on by Negleck by Michael Hastings

Cast in order of speaking

The action takes place in Dallas etc to. The action takes place in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961 1963

The performance lasts approximately two hours.

There will be one interval of fifteen minutes.

Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members.

We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.

Lee Harvey Oswald is performed in repertoire and on the set of Unscorched, designed by Georgia Lowe, which plays Tuesday to Saturday evenings, and Saturday and Sunday matinees, until 23 November 2013.

Adam Gillen | Lee

Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Theatre includes The Five Wives Of Maurice Pinder (National Theatre), The School for Scandal (Barbican Theatre), The Door Never Closes (Almeida Theatre), For King And Country (National Tour), A Taste Of Honey (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Proper Clever (Liverpool Playhouse), War and Peace (Royal Court Theatre and Latitude Festival), The Good Soul of Szechuan (The Young Vic) and Rough Cuts: The Lions Mouth (Royal Court Theatre).

Film includes We Are The Freaks, Age Of Heroes, 4,3,2,1 and Hippie Hippie Shake.

Television includes Benidorm, Prisoners Wives, Prisoners Wives 2, Miss Wright (Love Matters), Way To Go and Fresh Meat.

Gemma Lawrence | Marina

Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre includes Children of the Sun (National Theatre), XY: Hopelessly Devoted to You (Theatre503 and Pleasance Edinburgh), The Cherry Orchard (Tobacco Factory and Rose Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Redgrave Theatre) and Rough Cuts: The Lions Mouth (Royal Court Theatre). Film includes Frail and A Bunch of Amateurs.

Television includes Luther, Misfits, 1066, The Bill, Casualty, Waking the Dead and Time of Your Life.

Patrick Poletti | Commission

Productions at the Finborough Theatre include F***king Men (2008) which subsequently transferred to the Kings Head Theatre, the Arts Theatre and The Lowry, Manchester; The American Clock (2012) and Summer Days Dream (2013).

Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre includes Of Mice and Men and All My Sons (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), A Few Good Men (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Baby Doll (National Theatre and Albery Theatre), On Golden Pond (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), Broken Glass (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Someone Wholl Watch Over Me (National Tour), A View From The Bridge (Harrogate Theatre and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) and Earth And Sky (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton). Film includes Summer Solstice, The Tailor of Panama, Brideshead Revisited and Knife Edge.

Television includes The Honourable Woman to be broadcast in 2014, Derren Brown: The Guilt Trip, Moonshot, Jonathan Creek Christmas Special, Mind Games and A Wing and a Prayer.

Radio includes Empire Of Liberty, Some Kind of Accident, Other Voices and Poor Pen.

Hilary Tones | Marguerite

Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre includes Blue Stockings, Pericles, Measure for Measure and Macbeth (Shakespeares Globe), The Thrill of Love (St James Theatre), Swallows and Amazons (West End and National Tour), A Small Family Business (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Original Sin (Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke), Mary Stuart and Shirley Valentine (Derby Playhouse), Absolutely! (Perhaps) (Wyndhams Theatre), The Magistrate and Shes in Your Hands (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Twelfth Night (Oxford Stage Company), The Visit (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Fireraisers and Liberation of Skopje (Riverside Studios), Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead (Theatre Skopje, Macedonia), The Three Musketeers (Sheffield Theatres), An Ideal Husband (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Private View (Theatre Rokoko, Prague), Salt of the Earth and Woyzeck (Hull Truck Theatre) and Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Film includes Volume, Unlawful Killing and The Great Expectation of Robert Carmichael.

Television includes Wire in the Blood, Criminal Justice, Casualty, The Bill, Holby City, Doctors, Judge John Deed, Tenth Kingdom, Body Story, Silent Witness, Persuasion, Coronation Street and Gaudy Night