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  Berislav Juraic for CTCo Theatre Productions and

  Heritage Productions UK presents

  Only

  Our

  Own

  by Ann Henning Jocelyn

  The world premiere of Only Our Own by Ann Henning

  Jocelyn was first performed at Arts Theatre, London on

  10 January 2014 (previews from 8 January 2014).

  Arts Theatre, London

  8 January – 1 February 2014

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  Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, Galway

  5 – 9 February 2014

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  The Mill Theatre, Dundrum

  11 – 15 February 2014

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  Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin

  18 – 22 February 2014

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  ONLY OUR OWN

  by Ann Henning Jocelyn

  CAST

  Meg

  Maev Alexander

  Andrew

  Cornelius Garrett

  Titania

  Alex Gilbert

  Lady Eliza

  Elaine Montgomerie

  CREATIVE TEAM

  Director: Lars Harald Gathe

  Designer: Christopher Faulds

  Producer: Berislav Juraic

  Casting Director: Ben Newsome

  Composer: James Jones

  Lighting and Sound Designer: Benji Fox

  Stage Manager: Jessica Thanki

  Assistant Stage Manager: Chris Grogan

  Assistant Director: Michael Cole

  Production: CTCo Theatre Productions and Heritage Productions UK

  Supported by

  ANN HENNING JOCELYN

  Ann Henning Jocelyn grew up in her native Sweden and finished her education in England. She had an early playwright debut in Sweden while completing a degree in Drama, Art History and English. After two years at drama school Studio 68 in London, she worked as assistant to legendary director Charles Marowitz and appeared in a number of productions at his Open Space Theatre in London.

  Naturally bi-lingual, she subsequently went on to translate plays, films and books, working with authors such as Ruth Rendell, Kazuo Ishiguro and Joanna Trollope. She also spent the best part of a year collaborating with film star Ingrid Bergman on the autobiography My Life. She became the Chairman of the Translators’ Association in England and served several terms on the Society of Authors’ Committee of Management. In Ireland, she was on the board of the Society of Playwrights.

  Since the mid 1980s, after marrying fellow-author the Earl of Roden, she has been based mainly in the West of Ireland, where her home Doonreagan has provided the inspiration to write eight books and three more stage plays. Her interest in horses soon brought her into close contact with the people of Connemara, and her Connemara Whirlwind Trilogy, featuring her own stallion Cuaifeach, hit the bestseller list in 1990. Still selling in Irish bookshops, the trilogy is well established as a classic and remains a popular exam project in Irish schools. It represents Ireland in the UNESCO International Youth Library.

  Ann Henning Jocelyn always kept up her ties with the theatre: in 1996 she was appointed Artistic Director of the International Women Playwrights’ Conference at University College Galway, and the following year she became writer-in-residence of the newly founded Connemara Theatre Co., which produced her plays Baptism of Fire, The Alternative and Becoming The Tree. Baptism of Fire travelled as far as Pernik, Bulgaria, and The Alternative was seen around Ireland and at the Belfast Fringe Festival. For many years she was an adjudicator of The O.Z. Whitehead national playwriting competition. Her more recent translations into English of internationally renowned playwrights like the Norwegian Jon Fosse and Swedish Henning Mankell have won much acclaim.

  In Sweden and Ireland, she is also well known for her career as a broadcaster, writing and presenting her own material. Keylines and Keylines for Living, compilations of her inspirational ‘thoughts for the day’, broadcast regularly in both countries, have been published in nine countries to date, including India and China. Extracts have appeared in numerous anthologies.

  Her play Doonreagan, about Ted Hughes and his lover Assia Wevill has been performed at Jermyn Street Theatre and ADC Theatre in September/October 2013.

  CAST

  Maev Alexander (Meg)

  Maev Alexander trained at the Royal Scottish Academy and after a year at The Citizens’ Theatre in Glasgow joined The Royal Shakespeare Company to play Perdita in The Winter’s Tale, Susan in Arden of Faversham and to understudy Dame Judi Dench. Television credits include Jasmine Bligh in Jack Rosenthal’s The Fools on the Hill, Polly Cockpurse in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and Mrs. Fred in the Sir Michael Horden Christmas Carol. She played Christine Russell in two series of Sutherland’s Law, Jen-Jen Quilly in three series of Holding the Fort and WPC Sandra Williams in many episodes of The Gentle Touch and sidestepped her acting career to present the news desk on That’s Life. Maev has also been seen guesting in episodes of many TV series including EastEnders and most recently played a psychopath in Doctors. Her feature films include Charles Rennie McIntosh, Comfort and Joy and Death Defying Acts with Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce. Her radio work includes Mrs. Elton in Emma, Janet Ilchester in The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Arabella Logan in Confessions of a Justified Sinner and most recently Mother in two series of The Emma Stories. In regional theatre the length and breadth of Britain she has played everything from Cleopatra to a French poodle. Recent work includes Miss Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Mother in Eurydice, Mrs. Alving in Ghosts and Maud Gonne in a new play about WB Yeats. She has toured extensively for Bill Kenwright, in the Sir Peter Hall production of An Ideal Husband, The Chalk Garden and The Constant Wife and transferred to The West End in the Martin Shaw Man for all Seasons. Maev also holds the record as the longest serving Mollie in the world’s longest-running production, The Mouse Trap.

  Cornelius Garrett (Andrew)

  Cornelius has worked in theatres up and down the country. Productions include Macbeth, Tamburlaine, Twelfth Night, The Government Inspector, Arden of Faversham at Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre; Romeo and Juliet at Newcastle; Afore Night Come with the RSC; Merchant of Venice and Marino Faliero at The Young Vic, London; Time and the Conways, The Winter’s Tale, Duchess of Malfi, Loves Labours’ Lost, Aladdin, The Winslow Boy, Room with a View and many others at the Bristol Old Vic; several seasons at The Alma Tavern Theatre in Bristol; and Panto and Summer Rep at Sheringham in Norfolk. In 2010 he worked with Lars Harald Gathe in a production of Visits by Jon Fosse. Television includes three years of the fashion designer serial Gems, Casualty, Emmerdale, The Bill and Heartlands, as well as several of the BBC TV Shakespeare plays. Films include Artemis’ 81, James Bond – For Your Eyes Only and The White Lady. He has recorded dozens of Audio Books for the BBC and Radio dramas, with classic serials such as Lorna Doone and Joseph Andrews.

  Alex Gilbert (Titania)

  Alex trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include: Winnie, Daisy Pulls It Off (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Player Queen/Fortenbras, Hamlet (Northern Broadsides); Laura Sanderson, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (The Mill at Sonning); Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (Young Shakespeare Company); Dijana, It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It’s All Right Now (Cockpit Theatre); Nurse, Romeo and Juliet (Tucked In Productions/Bristol Old Vic); Gwendolyn, The Importance of Being Earnest (Redgrave Theatre); Michelle, DEBRIS and Miss Fitzpatrick, Remarkable Trees (Juncture Productions); Mary, The Long Road (Bath Literature Festival); Hortensio, Who’s Shrew (Lucky Stuff Productions); Creon, Medea (Lost Theatre); Maid, What Every Wom
an Knows (Finborough Theatre). TV credits include: Rebecca, Acting Up (Talkback Thames).

  Elaine Montgomerie (Lady Eliza)

  Dame Elaine Montgomerie is a veteran actress who has played leading roles in major companies throughout Britain and Australia. In recent years, as Madame Pompadour in her one-woman show I Shall Be Remembered, she has toured Australia and the U.K., including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012. Elaine has toured the major cities of Australia as leading lady for the J.C. Williamson Shakespeare company playing roles which included Portia, Queen Hermione, Helena and Viola. She speaks fluent Italian and translated Italian classic, La Locandiera by Goldoni (1757) and has played the lead role with several companies. Some favourite roles include; Amanda in Private Lives, Maria in When we are Married, Mrs Bennett in Pride and Prejudice.

  CREATIVE TEAM

  Lars Harald Gathe (Director)

  Lars Harald Gathe is an award-winning director and writer for theatre, film and television. Originally from Oslo, Norway he is best known for his productions of the plays of Jon Fosse, one of the world’s most performed contemporary playwrights. Lars’ directing credits include UK premieres of Visits by Jon Fosse, Theatre Delicatessen, London (2010), Winter by Jon Fosse, The Alma Tavern, Bristol (2009) and The Gaelic Teacher by Paolo Chianta, London Fringe Show at the Etcetera Theatre (2008). Assistant director credits include Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, the Tobacco Factory, Bristol (2009), Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, The Tobacco Factory, Bristol (2009). Writing credits include 0% Inspiration, the Hive (2010), 1% Inspiration, Upstairs at the Lansdown (2009). Lars won Best Feature Film for Ulysses Road at Realheart International Film Festival and a Special Mention for Move Your Body at the Cambridge International Super-8 Festival.

  Christopher Faulds (Designer)

  Following an MA in Theatre Design at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Chris received the 2009 Jocelyn Herbert Award and was a 2009 Linbury Prize finalist. Since then he has designed and made for live performance both in the UK and abroad but has also given artistic direction to both still and moving image and coordinated large-scale, creative works and live event productions. Selected performance design credits include: The Art Of Defining Me by Seeta Patel & Kamela Devam, Arts Council England Commission, première at RichMix, London, June 2013; Kalashnikov; in the woods by the lake by Fraser Grace, A PBAB production, directed by Helena Bell, SE England tour Oct/Nov 2011; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, directed by Rosamunde Hutt, at the Unicorn Theatre, London, April 2011; Minor Sonata, choreographed by Viacheslav Samodrov, at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, St Petersburg and the London Coliseum, July 2010; Visits by Jon Fosse, directed by Lars Harald Gathe, at Theatre Delicatessen, London, September 2010; Unspoken Voices, choreographed by Seeta Patel, at the Arnolfini, Bristol, November 2010.

  Berislav Juraic (Producer)

  Recent producing credits include: the world premiere of Ann Henning Jocelyn’s Doonreagan (Jermyn Street Theatre), the English language premiere of Elfriede Jelinek’s Sports Play (National Tour, Chelsea Theatre & Soho Theatre, 2012, revival at Camden People’s Theatre in 2013 and international tour to three continents in 2013/2014), Peer Gynt Recharged (Riverside Studios, London), the UK premiere of Woman Bomb by Croatian playwright Ivana Sajko (Tristan Bates Theatre, selected for 2011 Havana International Theatre Festival in Cuba) and the UK premiere of It’s Raining in Barcelona by leading Catalan playwright Pau Miró. He also produced the critically acclaimed Edward Bond Season (including a world premiere, two first revivals and two UK premieres). Other London credits include: the UK Premiere of Jon Fosse’s Visits (Theatre Delicatessen) and Hedda (Riverside Studios, 2010). Credits abroad include: J.L. Lagarce’s Just the End of the World (Croatia, France); B.M. Koltès’ Tabataba (Croatia, France); Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (Croatia, France, S. Korea, Japan); El-Harrag, a contemporary dance and circus project (Algeria, Croatia, Palestine, Jordan). In addition to producing for other companies, he co-founded Just a Must company with director Vanda Butkovic to introduce postdramatic theatre in translation to British and international audiences.

  Ben Newsome (Casting Director)

  Theatre credits include The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (The Arts Theatre, West End), Search For A Twitter Star (The Lyric Theatre, West End), I Do! I Do! (Riverside Studios), Crazy For You The Musical (Upstairs At The Gatehouse), The Mark Of Lia (The Brockley Jack), Pop Factor (UK Tour), Old Goat Song (The Lion & Unicorn), The Boy Who Was Woody Allen (The Pleasance), The Route To Happiness, Next Thing You Know, A Class Act, Sleeping Arrangements, Title Of Show, That Face & Meet Me In St Louis (Landor Theatre), One Touch Of Venus, Phantom, Little Me, Days Of Hope (Ye Olde Rose & Crown), The Secret Garden In Concert (The Kings Head & UK Tour), A Body To Diet For (Etcetera Theatre), ROOMS – A Rock Romance, Armstrongs War, As Is (The Finborough), The Raft (The London Theatre), RENT (Tabard Theatre), Where’s Ellie (The Rag Factory), Blood Wedding (The Courtyard), Passing By (Tristan Bates Theatre), Ushers: The Front Of House Musical (The Hope Theatre), Walk Like A Man (World Tour), Santaphrenia (Leicester Square Theatre) & Only Our Own (The Arts Theatre, West End). Workshops include Meangirls The Musical (Battersea Barge) & Golden Age (Etcetera Theatre). Pantomime credits include: Jack & The Beanstalk 2013 in Dorset featuring BGT Finalist Kai Widdrington & Hollyoaks actress Tamaryn Payne. Puss In Boots 2013 (Greenwich Theatre), Cinderella Boom Or Bust (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, West End). Edinburgh Fringe festival credits include The Road To Qatar, 35mm, A Body To Diet For. Film credits include Neil, Post It & Moments with new feature film Disorientated to hit screens 2016. Internet virals include Hostel Advisor and Youtube hit 20 Dancing Vicars having also cast music videos for John Galea and The Majnoons.

  James Jones (Composer)

  James Jones is a London-based composer working in TV, film and theatre. His most recent work includes scoring the Three Day Nanny for Channel 4; a natural history documentary, Touching the Wild, for Passion Planet Pictures and incidental music for Gavin McAlinden’s production of David Edgar’s Pentecost, performed at St Leonard’s church, Shoreditch. Other theatre credits include The Seagull (dir. Gavin McAlinden at the Cockpit Theatre), Reclining Nude With Black Stockings (dir. Al Gilmour at the Arcola Theatre) and Wife To James Whelan (dir. Gavin McAlinden at the New Diorama Theatre). James studied composition with Sir Harrison Birtwistle at King’s College London and with Dario Marianelli at the Royal College of Music.

  Jessica Thanki (Stage Manger)

  Jessica’s stage managing credits include: Double Dutch Espresso (Theatre Waah/Tristan Bates), Maybe Father (Talawa/Young Vic), Behna (Kali/Birmingham Rep), Squid (Theatre Royal Stratford East School Tour), Brixton Rocks (Tara Arts Tour), Tagore’s Women (Kali/Southwark Playhouse), Sports Play (Just a Must UK and International tour). She had also Company Stage Managed Black-i (Kali/Oval House), Gandhi and Coconuts (Kali/Arcola & Tour), Mustafa (Kali/Birmingham Rep tour). Jessica was shortlisted for Stage Manager of the Year 2011 by the Stage Management Association. When not working in theatre, Jessica is a venue technician for Parkdean Holidays. Jessica holds a BA in Theatre Production.

  Chris Grogan (Assistant Stage Manager)

  Since leaving education at Huddersfield Technical College, Chris has spent most of the last decade working overseas creating and performing in shows in Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and Portugal. Chris has also over the last few years taken a keen interest backstage, operating sound and lights on countless shows. Chris first took the role of Assistant Stage Manager in 2011 on the National tour of Gandhi and Coconuts for Kali Theatre. Since then he has helped with many scene constructions. In between shows Chris works on holiday parks around the country as an Entertainment Manager.

  Michael Cole (Assistant Director)

  Michael is primarily an actor and studied a Postgraduate Diploma in acting at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Originally from Sheffield he also has a BA Theatre Studies degree from Lancaster University. Theatre credits include: The Victim/Chorus Member/Chorus Leader in Sports Play (UK and international tour)
directed by Vanda Butkovic, Father/Son in This Child at the Bridewell Theatre directed by Max Key, Hamlet in Hamlet directed by Irina Brown, Simon in Salt directed by Lilach Yosiphon, Various in Love and Information directed by Jay Villiers, Ferdinand in Malfi at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011 directed by Robin Peters, R.P Mcmurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest directed by Olly Trumble and Rachel Clutterbuck. Film and TV credits include: John/Eric/Will’s Friend/Harry in ITVs Our Story: The Great War directed by Izzy Charman, You Get What You Need? and A Fear of Parenthood directed by Stuart Parkins.

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