Schimmelpfennig Roland - Idomeneus

GATE THEATRE PRESENTS UK PREMIERE IDOMENEUS by Roland Schimmelpfennig Translated by David Tushingham Premiered in the UK at the Gate Theatre on 19 June 2014

---

Contents CAST Alex AustinJon FosterMark MoneroSusie TraylingOny Uhiara CREATIVE TEAM

Writer	Roland Schimmelpfennig
Translator	David Tushingham
Director	Ellen McDougall
Design	Ana Ines Jabares Pita
Lighting	Lizzie Powell
Composer and Sound Designer	Jon Nicholls
Assistant Director	Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
Movement Director	Joe Wild
Design Assistant	Maria Koutsouna
Production Manager	Bernd Fauler
Deputy Stage Managers	Natasha Jenkins Sarah Stott
Stage Management intern Press	Lina Maria Osorno Maldonado Kate Morley for Kate Morley PR ( / 07970 465648)
Dramaturg	Clare Slater
Casting Assistant	Cameron Slater
Photographer	Bill Knight
Artist in Residence	Rosie Farrell

The Gate would also like to thank the following people for their help with the development of this production: Bijan Sheibani and Hannah Bentley IDOMENEUS was given its world premiere on 15 June 2008 at the Munich, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel (Cuvillistheater), directed by Dieter Dorn. The Gate Theatres licence to present Roland Schimmelpfennigs play IDOMENEUS is granted by Rosica Colin Limited, London, working in conjunction with S Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt. Alex Austin Cast Alex will shortly be filming The Interceptor for the BBC, directed by Farren Blackburn. Hes recently appeared in the Royal Courts production of Pigeons, directed by Ned Bennett; The Musketeers for the BBC, directed by Toby Haynes; New Tricks for the BBC, directed by Brian Grant and a role in the film Legacy directed by Marc Small. He has just been seen in an episode of Misfits, directed by Jonathan Van Tulleken and can currently be seen in the films The Worlds End, directed by Edgar Wright, The Hooligan Factory, directed by Nick Nevern and The Christmas Candle, directed by John Stephenson. His other recent credits include Hope, Light And Nowhere directed by Suba Das at the Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival; The Swarm, a short directed by Tom Harper (The Scouting Book for Boys, Misfits, The Borrowers); Holby City for the BBC; Ancient Greek, a Radio 4 afternoon play directed by Lu Kemp; The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot and How To Think The Unthinkable at the Unicorn Theatre, directed by Ellen McDougall.

Hes Walthamstow born and bred and in the summer of 2011 took part in the Young Friends of the Almeida scheme. As part of this he appeared in John Donnellys Encourage The Others, directed by Lu Kemp on the Almeida stage. Rosie Farrell Artist in Residence Rosie Farrell is an artist working with sound, moving image, and performance. Her work focuses on the rituals, repetitions and rhythms of everyday contexts, looking at how the mechanics of storytelling, musicality and performance can be used to search for a thing, an image or phenomenon. She attended Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2012. She was awarded the neo:art prize 2013, and in the same year was a recipient of a six-month research residency at Lionel Dobie Project.

She was also the recipient of a Chelsea Arts Club Trust Special Projects Award in 2012. Recent presentations of her work include: Presents at Rogue Projects Space (2013), Carter Presents (2013), We Can Elude Control at Bold Tendencies (2012), Moving Image Screening at South London Gallery (2012), Ideal Home at Chelsea Space (2011), and Gone with the Wind at Raven Row (2011). Bernd Fauler Production Manager Bernd works as a freelance Production Manager on a variety of projects including theatre, contemporary performance and live art as well as outdoor and site specific performances. He graduated with a First Class degree in Stage Management from Rose Bruford College. For the Gate Theatre, London: Grounded (2014), No Place To Go, Dances of Death, Purple Heart, The Trojan Women, Sunset Baby, The Prophet. For Paines Plough: The Roundabout Auditorium (development and build management), The Roundabout Seasons Sheffield & London, Jumpers For Goalposts, Good With People, Wasted, 65 Miles. Other credits include: Gloria, A Pigtale, The Mahogany Opera Group / Buxton & Bregenz Festivals; Production Supervisor and Visiting Tutor, Rose Bruford College; Glasshouse, Cardboard Citizens; Open East, Create London / Barbican; SPILL Festival 2013, Pacitti Company; Once Upon A Time In Wigan, Krapps Last Tape, Spoonface Steinberg, Hull Truck Theatre; The Fidget Project, London Arts in Health Forum, Wellcome Trust; The Bee Detective, Tin Bath Theatre; Access all Areas, Performance Matters 2011 & 2012, Live Art Development Agency; SACRED 2009 &10, Chelsea Theatre; London via Lagos Season, Oval House Theatre; Gay Shame 2014, Duckies 18th; Duckie Goes Gateways 2013, Gross Indecency, Duckie @ Latitude 2010-14, Duckie LTD; Hurts Given and Received, Slowly, Wrestling School; Wheres My Desi Soulmate, It Aint All Bollywood, Meri Christmas, The Deranged Marriage, Rifco Arts. Jon Foster Cast Jon Foster returns to the Gate where he previously appeared in Trojan Women, Tenet, Dream Story and Mud.

His other theatre work includes A Beginning, A Middle and An End (Greyscale tour); Cheese (Fanshen, Barbican); Invisible (European tour); How To Tell the Monsters From the Misfits (Birmingham Rep); Food and Long Time Dead (Traverse Theatre) and for the RSC, Little Eagles, A New Way to Please You, Speaking Like Magpies, Sejanus His Fall and Thomas More. For television, his credits include Rev, The Smoke, The Town, Southcliffe, Mrs Biggs, Come Rain or Come Shine, Law and Order UK, The IT Crowd, Clone, New Tricks and The Great Fire; and for film, Expectation Management, Nice Guy, Loves Kitchen and Abroad. Ana Ines Jabares Pita Designer Ana Ines is a graduate from MA Scenography at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama 2012. Her work crosses a range of genres: opera, ballet, theatre, experimental, site-specific and film. She had previously trained at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, specialising in painting and in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo where she first came into contact with Scenography. In parallel she has an extensive grounding in music which made her become interested in sound as a fundamental part of the scenography.

She finds that theatre is the perfect fusion between her biggest passions: art, music and sound. Her work includes an award-winning play