By special arrangement with Tony Scotland,
Giles Chiplin Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the
Finborough Theatre presents
The first production in 60 years
QUAINT HONOUR
by Roger Gellert
FINBOROUGH | THEATRE
First performance at the Arts Theatre: Thursday, 1 May 1958.
First performance at the Finborough Theatre: Sunday, 29 October 2017.
QUAINT HONOUR
by Roger Gellert
Cast in order of speaking
Hallowes | Simon Butteriss |
Park | Oliver Gully |
Turner | Jacques Miche |
Hamilton | Jack Archer |
Tully | Harley Viveash |
An English Public School. The 1950s.
Act One
Scene One
Hallowes study, on a summer evening.
Scene Two
Tullys study.
Act Two
Tullys study, that afternoon.
Act Three
Scene One
Tullys study. Sunday morning, four days later.
Scene Two
Hallowes study, immediately afterwards.
Scene Three
Tullys study, a few minutes later.
The performance lasts approximately two hours.
There will be one interval of fifteen minutes.
Director | Christian Durham |
Designer | Tim McQuillen-Wright |
Lighting Designer | Jamie Platt |
Sound Designer | Gareth Evans |
Casting Director | Harry Blumenau |
Casting Associate | Shaun McCourt |
Associate Director | Roxy Joy Cook |
Assistant Designer | Marieke Bernard Berkel |
Costume Supervisor | Ugne Dainiute |
Stage Manager | Stine Tveito |
Producer | Giles Chiplin |
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.
Quaint Honour is performed in repertoire and on the set of The Busy World Is Hushed, designed by Marco Turcich, which plays Tuesday to Saturday evenings, and Saturday and Sunday matinees, until 25 November 2017.
Interval drinks may be ordered in advance from the bar.
Jack Archer | Hamilton
Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes Nivellis War for which he received a Best Actor nomination in The Stage Debut Awards (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, and New Victory Theater, New York) and Confessional (Southwark Playhouse). Theatre whilst training includes Alls Well That Ends Well, Blue and One Man, Two Guvnors.
Television includes Lalas Ladiez.
Simon Butteriss | Hallowes
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Florodora and Princess Ida.
Theatre includes The Winslow Boy (Nol Coward Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), The Relapse (The Old Vic), Cats (New London Theatre), An Italian Straw Hat (Shaftesbury Theatre), The Mikado (Savoy Theatre), The White Guard, Peter Pan and Shakespeare Live! (Royal Shakespeare Company), Valmouth, Goodbye Mr Chips, Henry V, Forty Years On and Divorce Me, Darling (Chichester Festival Theatre), A Winters Tale (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Eugene Onegin and Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), My Fair Lady (Paris, Cologne, Muscat), Candide (London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Cologne) and Hay Fever and The Phantom of the Opera (National Tours).
Opera includes principal roles at La Scala, Milan, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Liceu Barcelona, Oper Kln, Muscat Royal Opera, Paris Chtelet, Welsh National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Garsington Opera, Alde-burgh Opera and in Vienna, Rome, Bregenz, Beijing, Tokyo, Venice and Amsterdam. He has been a guest principal with English National Opera since 2008. He has sung the Gilbert and Sullivan patter roles at the Savoy Theatre, the BBC Proms and throughout the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Film includes Topsy-Turvy, Chasing Liberty, Peter Warlock, Some Little Joy, Falstaff and Draw On Sweet Night.
Television includes By the Sword Divided, Stalky and Co, The Silver Buckle, She Stoops to Conquer, Goodbye Mr Chips, Let Them Eat Cake, The Lenny Henry Show, After the War and Spitting Image.
He wrote and presented A Motley Pair, A Salaried Wit and A Gooseberry Fool for Sky Arts.
He has written, translated and directed for stage, screen, radio and opera.
Future engagements include A Midsummer Nights Dream (English National Opera).
Oliver Gully | Park
Trained at Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre includes The Mousetrap (National Tour), Re:Act (St. James Theatre), Hamlet, Behind the Garden Wall and Ring of Fire (Courtyard Theatre), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Immersion Theatre), Into No Mans Land (The Unseen Hour), The Backward Fall (Penny Productions) and Timebomb (Poleroid Theatre).
Television includes Im Nathan.
Jacques Miche | Turner
Theatre includes Faust X2 (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Saving Jason (Park Theatre), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Beauty and the Beast (National Tour) and A Christmas Carol (Royal Northern Ballet Company).
Film includes The Silent.
Television includes The Revolting World of Stanley Brown.
Harley Viveash | Tully
Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where he was the winner of a Laurence Olivier Bursary and the Erika Newman Special Prize in memory of Tim Pigott-Smith.
Theatre includes Julius Caesar (Bristol Old Vic), Our Town (Circomedia, Bristol) and The Comedy of Errors (Southwark Playhouse and Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre).
Theatre whilst training includes