FRI 29 OCT - SAT 13 NOV 2021 PROGRAMME

TRON THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

DEVISED AND DIRECTED BY ANDY ARNOLD

CAST LISTProspero .................................................................... Nicole Cooper Sebastian ...................................................................Catriona Faint Trinculo ....................................................................Taylor GoodwinCaliban ................................................................................ Liz Kettle Gonzalo .................................................................. Megan McGuire Stephano ..................................................... Ariana Ferris McLean Ariel ............................................................................ Itxaso Moreno Antonio ..................................................................... Katya Morrison Miranda ...................................................................... Titana Muthui Alonso ........................................................................... Ninon Noiret Ferdinand ........................................................................ Elle Watson

CREATIVE TEAMWritten by ......................................................William ShakespeareDevised & Directed by ................................................ Andy ArnoldSet Design .................................................................... Jenny BoothCostume Design ......................................................Victoria BrownLighting Design .................................................... Benny GoodmanMovement Director .......................................... Kerieva McCormickSound Designer/Composer .............................. Niroshini Thambar

PRODUCTIONProduction Manager .................................................. Laura WalsheTechnical Stage Manager .................................. Jason McQuaide Technical Manager ..................................................... Mark HughesVenue Technician .................................................... Dylan HodgsonStage Manager ................................................. Suzanne GoldbergDeputy Stage Manager ....................... Babette Wickham-RiddickAssistant Stage Manager .................................... Astrid RothmeierWardrobe Assistant ........................................ Laura MontgomeryStage Management Placement ......................... Rebecca GormanPrint Design ................................................. Joe Connolly/JamhotProduction Photography & Videography ...............Tiu MakkonenBSL Performance Interpreter .................................. Catherine King

WITH THANKS TO: Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Salvage, Scottish Opera, Stewart Jenkins and Summerhall.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTEFirst, I have to say that it’s a joy to be making live theatre again, playing to audiences who are physically (not virtually) in Tron Theatre. We have been working with a cast of eleven Scottish-based female/female identifying actors, none of whom have been cast in a Tron production before. I wanted us to stage this particular production during the COP26 summit in a way that embraces a more environmentally friendly approach to producing work (minimalist staging with set, prop and costume recycled from stock) and capitalising on the extraordinary atmosphere of the Tron’s stripped-back main auditorium.

Historically, this piece was scheduled to be staged in early 2021 as part of an Actors Only season, alongside a piece with an all-male cast (now scheduled for our Spring-Summer 2022 season). Trying to find ways to stage large cast productions has been our response to an open audition call-out I set up last year, where I met over 400 actors from the West of Scotland that I’d not met before and who, between them, had been offered very few professional acting opportunities. That these and so many other talented artists in Scotland are denied opportunities to practice their craft is an indictment on the Scottish theatre industry. I strongly believe that the Tron should play its part in redressing a dire situation. I’m delighted to say that some of The Tempest cast are actors I first met through that call-out process.

At once dreamlike, surreal, magical, romantic and cruel, The Tempest is essentially a play about the exploitation of male power and greed, and the colonisation of other lands and their indigenous inhabitants. Introducing an exclusively female voice to the stage subverts this interpretation, bringing a new energy and nuance to the language. It’s a play I’ve been fortunate enough to stage twice before – once with students from RCS, another time with Chinese actors in Beijing. This production is different from the other two. The beauty of this surreal and metaphorical play – Shakespeare’s last – is that any interpretation is possible and it’s been a joy to explore it with this particular group of theatre artists.

Andy Arnold Director

BIOGRAPHIESANDY ARNOLD Andy became Artistic Director of Tron Theatre in 2008 following many years as Artistic Director of The Arches, a venue and theatre company he personally established in 1991. Productions Andy has staged for Tron Theatre Company include The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, the Scottish premiere of That Face by Polly Stenham, Valhalla by Paul Rudnick (UK premiere), and world premieres of Sea and Land and Sky by Abigail Docherty, Plume by J.C. Marshall, and Edwin Morgan’s Dreams and Other Nightmares by Liz Lochhead.

Most recently he has directed Gary McNair’s adaptation of The Alchemist, Enda Walsh’s Ballyturk, Martin McCormick’s Ma, Pa and the Little Mouths, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherfucker with the Hat, Anthony Neilson’s The Lying Kind, Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West, Peter Arnott’s Shall Roger Casement Hang?, Megan Barker’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts, Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, starring Karen Dunbar, a new adaptation by John Byrne of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, another Byrne work Colquhoun and MacBryde, as well as the first stage production of James Joyce’s Ulysses adapted by Dermot Bolger, which toured to Ireland after its premiere at the Tron. Ulysses was revived in 2015 to perform in four cities in China. While in China, Andy also staged a devised piece with Chinese actors entitled A Journey Round James Joyce, translated into Mandarin, and has recently returned to direct The Selfish Giant for Beijing Children’s Theatre Company.

During lockdown Andy devised and directed a promenade show, high man pen meander for digital release as a tribute to Edwin Morgan, as well as reprising his Christmas show for young children Ali the Magic Elf for digital consumption.

JENNY BOOTHJenny Booth is a freelance set designer and illustrator living and working in Glasgow. Her current work focuses on a resourceful design approach that makes use of sustainable and recycled materials. Recent work includes: Ali the Magic Elf (Tron Theatre); Our Kitchen (Standing Tall Arts/Scottish Refugee Council) and Puss in Boots (Hopscotch Theatre Company).

VICTORIA BROWNVictoria graduated from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh with a BA Stage Management and Theatre Production, before gaining a European Multimedia Master (EMM) with the Master Europeo in Gestioni di Impresa Cinematografica e Audiovisiva (MAGICA) programme. She has since gained numerous theatre, film and television credits for costume, writing and/or directing with BBC, ITV, Netflix, Discovery Channel and independent companies. Victoria has also enjoyed working within wardrobe with many theatre companies including Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and of course, the Tron Theatre, creating costumes for numerous productions there since 2015.

NICOLE COOPERNicole is of Zambian and Greek heritage, growing up in Zambia before moving to Glasgow to train at the RSAMD (now RCS), graduating with a BA Acting in 2003. Nicole won Best Female Performance in the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2017 for her performance in the title role of Coriolanus with Bard in the Botanics.

She was also nominated in the same category in their awards in 2020 for the title role in Hamlet. Nicole has extensive Shakespeare experience with leading roles in As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Anthony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Measure for Measure, Othello and Macbeth, working with directors Gordon Barr and Jennifer Dick. Further theatre credits include: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Pimpernel Productions); Sleeping Beauty (Byre Theatre); How to Fix a Broken Wing (Catherine Wheels); Pleading (Òran Mór) and Horizontal Collaboration (FireExit). Nicole’s screen credits include: The Nest (Studio Lambert/BBC); The Novels That Shaped Us (IWC Media/BBC); Getting Close (National Theatre of Scotland); Where Did He Go? (Traverse Theatre); Jonathan Creek (BBC) and Fried (Bwark Productions Ltd).

CATRIONA FAINTCatriona is a recent Mountview graduate, where her credits included: Lord Henry Carey in Emilia and Alex in A Clockwork Orange. Catriona was also asked to represent Mountview on the Globe stage, in the Sam Wanamaker Festival. Since then her credits include: Erica in Hand to Mouth research and development. Sebastian in The Tempest will be her professional debut.

BENNY GOODMANBenny Goodman is a freelance lighting designer and creative collaborator, based in Glasgow. He has worked in theatres across the UK in a variety of projects and productions and is a creative collaborator with theatre company Wonder Fools.

Selected credits include: Meet Jan Black (Ayr Gaiety); Maim (Theatre Gu Leòr/Tron Theatre); I Can Go Anywhere (Traverse Theatre); The Drift (National Theatre of Scotland); The Afflicted (Summerhall); Act of Repair (Scottish Youth Theatre National Tour); Country Music (Omnibus Theatre); 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War (UK Tour); The Mistress Contract (Tron Theatre); Daddy Drag (Assembly Roxy); Where We Are: The Mosque (Arcola Theatre, London); Sorella Mia (The Place, London); Disarming Reverberations (St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh); Heroines (Theatre Gu Leòr, Stornoway); Humbug (Tramway, Glasgow); Snow Queen (Associate - Dundee Rep Theatre); Like Animals (Tron Theatre); Ayanfe Opera (Bridewell Theatre, London); Lampedusa (Citizens Theatre) and Circle of Fifths (RCS/Tron Theatre/Cockpit Theatre, London).

TAYLOR GOODWINTaylor Goodwin recently graduated from West College Scotland where she studied HNC and HND Acting and Performance for two years. During this time, she performed in A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Since then she has appeared as Femi in the crime drama Annika on Alibi Channel.

LIZ KETTLELiz first played Caliban over thirty years ago in London, and more recently Antonio in a multilingual/multinational production of The Tempest in Germany (Der Sturm Karin Beier/Köln Schauspielhaus). She has also played Laertes in Hamlet (Women’s Theatre Group/Sphinx), Caesar in Anthony and Cleopatra (Neil Bartlett/1982 Co.) and Edward IV and Ely in Richard III (Phyllida Lloyd/The Globe).

Other theatre includes: Truth (Stephen Hoggett/Helen Chadwick/ Song Theatre); Catch 22 (Northern Stage); Waves, Attempts On Her Life, The Seagull (Katie Mitchell/National Theatre); Henry VI: The Battle for the Throne (Katie Mitchell/RSC Stratford/World Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC Cultural Olympiad); Iphigenia At Aulis (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Girl On The Sofa (Thomas Ostermeier/Berlin Schaubühne); Plasticine (Dominic Cooke/Royal Court); The House of Bernada Alba (Katie Mitchell/Gate); The Clink (Paines Plough); War Dance (Hilary Westlake/Lumiere and Son); Alice In Wonderland (Theatre de Complicité) and A Girl Skipping (Graeme Miller/The Place).

Recently seen in Series 4 of Unforgotten (Andy Wilson/Mainstreet/ITV) other TV includes Inspector Morse, Jeeves and Wooster, Poirot, Rosemary and Thyme, Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, Drop The Dead Donkey, The Bill, Doctors, Diana, The Final Journey (John Strickland/Working Title) and Paris (Alexeii Sayle/Talkback).

Audio work from under a duvet during lockdown included The Servant (Wils Wilson/Lepus Productions), Solway – the poems of Elizabeth Burns (Big Lit Festival, Dumfries and Galloway) and Pearl (BBC Radio4 Drama Anthology/Rural Media).

KERIEVA MCCORMICK Kerieva McCormick is the founder and Artistic Director of KAM-RI DANCE THEATRE. Her work as a theatre director, choreographer, and trained practitioner in dance/theatre/musical composition, plus over fifteen years of experience of performance academic research and public speaking, has meant a continually interwoven interdisciplinary career; an artist who is able to utilise theoretical understandings and deep nuance in her creative work.

From 2005 she engaged fully in her professional performing career as a composer/multi-instrumentalist, as a dancer/choreographer developing practice in Contemporary and Flamenco dance, and as a choreographer/director developing dance theatre in Scotland that interweaves all those elements with historical narrative, contemporary dance and film.

Her performance record is extensive having performed professionally at Sadler’s Wells, the Royal Festival Hall, the National Portrait Gallery London, with National Theatre of Scotland, and internationally. She has also conducted and coordinated transnational projects with simultaneous partners and donors, including as lead choreographer on a world dance project involving 14 dancers from Spain and India, performer and facilitator at AWID Brazil involving 2,000 participants, and producing for the British Council and Canada Hub on transatlantic projects for Edinburgh Festival 2019.

Kerieva was previously with stadium band Asian Dub Foundation and session musician (multi-instrumentalist and vocalist) for many major labels and producers, including legendary producer Adrian Sherwood where she is part of the label ON-U Sound family. She maintains her connections in the record industry, in underground music scenes, and in the Trad community in both Irish and Romany/i traditional music.

Kerieva is currently in the writing and research phase of KAM-RI’s next full production and is an Honorary Research Fellow of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

MEGAN MCGUIREMegan McGuire is from Glasgow and a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Credits include: Mabel in Outlander (Starz); Pinocchio and Sinbad (tours of the UAE with Kevali Productions); Treasure Island (Motherwell Theatre) and What Teaching Taught Me (advert for the Scottish Government). She is also a singer and clarinettist and is delighted to be joining The Tempest cast for her debut production at the Tron.

ARIANA FERRIS MCLEANAriana is an actor, poet and theatre-maker from Glasgow. Whilst training at Acting Coach Scotland to gain a Professional Diploma in Stage and Screen Acting, she co-founded SKELF Theatre Co. Ariana’s roles at SKELF are myriad, allowing her to take an active interest in different areas of production. She was last seen playing Connie in a physicalised version of The Effect by Lucy Pebble which the company staged in 2019.

Whilst training, she performed a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in an original play Я, снайпер. She later went on to qualify in both armed and unarmed stage combat. Since completing the course she has featured in Scottish short films Suds (2020) and Blonde Beach (2020). The Tempest is her first performance since theatres closed in 2020 and the prospect of a new season on stage has her thrilled.

ITXASO MORENOItxaso trained at BAI (Bizkaiko Antzerki Ikastegia) in Bilbao, Basque Country. Credits include: The Secret Garden (Red Bridge Arts); The Tempest (Creation Theatre); Low Pay? Don’t Pay! (Glasgow Life/Tron Theatre); Shetland (ITV Studios); Oresteia: This Restless House (Citizens/National Theatre of Scotland); Out Of This World (V-Tol); Everyman, Nation (National Theatre); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Peter Pan (360 Entertainment); Doppler: The Story So Far, Crude, Once Upon A Dragon, Roam (Grid Iron); Yarn (Grid Iron/Dundee Rep); The Tale Of Fanny Cha Cha (Òran Mór); Home (National Theatre of Scotland); Arabian Nights (Tricycle Theatre); Lost Ones, Starts Beneath The Sea, Invisible Man (Vanishing Point); Mouth Of Silence, Beneath You (Birds Of Paradise); Horizontal Collaboration (FireExit); Rebus (ITV), Trojan Women (Theatre Cryptic); Little Light (Starcatchers); Perch (Conflux); Green Whale (Licketyspit) and Amada, Horses, Horses, Coming In In All Directions (The Arches).

KATYA MORRISONTheatre credits include: Living Newspaper Edition 4 (The Royal Court); Macbeth, Tales From The Vienna Woods, Keffiyeh/Made in China (Rada) and DNA, The Fall (The National Youth Theatre). Katya graduated the BA(Hons) in Acting course from Rada in 2020.

TITANA MUTHUIBorn in Kenya, Titana grew up in South Africa and moved to the UK to begin her acting training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she graduated in 2018. Theatre credits include: Them! (National Theatre of Scotland); The Angry Brigade, Balm in Gilead, The Jungle Book, The Cherry Orchard, Macbeth and All My Sons (RCS). Film and television credits include the Netflix feature A Princess Switch: Switched Again; Dinosaur (Two Brothers Pictures); Shetland: Series 5, The Novels That Shaped Us, I Wonder If She Smiles (BBC) and the short film Contenders.

NINON NOIRETNinon made her first steps on stage with ballet and modern jazz. Years later she discovered acting, and practiced it in conservatory in Rennes, Brittany. She moved to Paris to attend acting school and continued to dance. Alongside training at the National School of Drama of Bordeaux, she began circus, acrodance, tumbling and Chinese pole. She graduated in 2013 and performed at the TNBA in a play from Yann-Joel Collin and at the Sibfest Festival in Romania with Vlad Massaci.

Ninon created her own show A Sorpresa de Chiclete, a duet that toured the south of France between 2013 and 2015. She worked as an actress with the Théâtre du Rivage on the show #JAHM, les jeux de l’amour et du hasard from a Marivaux play, danced and did acrobatics on the show Auprès de mon arbre from the company Rêve de Singe, and worked with Groupe Noces on Punky Marie. In 2016 she worked for Philippe Decouflé’s well-known dance company DCA on Nouvelles Pièces courtes. She performed with Theatre du Phare in a new play Un furieux désir de bonheur in 2019/2020.

She made a short film Neeps and Tatties in creative collaboration with Sam McFarlane and Gabriel Stella that was included in the official selection of the Scottish Short Film Festival and won the Most Creative/Original Award. Ninon is training for the British stunt register and is creating her first solo show, The Raft of the Crab with two puppets and a Chinese pole for Manipulate Festival 2022.

NIROSHINI THAMBARNiroshini is a musician, composer and sound designer collaborating with a range of companies and artists across Scotland and beyond on productions and residencies.

She works across live theatre, audio drama, installation, and film, and has previously been a session musician on violin and keyboards, performing on the UK live circuit and on album recordings. Recent work includes Composer/Sound Designer for Ghosts (National Theatre of Scotland), Composer for the documentary film in development The Album (Sana Bilgrami/BofA Productions), Series Composer for United Kingdoms (a BBC Radio 4 commission) and Associate Director for the outdoor audio-led production Niqabi Ninja (Independent Arts Projects).

ELLE WATSONElle is a performer from Glasgow. She trained at RCS, Scottish Ballet and Acting Coach Scotland alongside studying Theatre and Film+TV at Glasgow University. During lockdown she began devising her first spoken word show Allergies which she hopes to perform in 2022. She is currently producing a short film Cab Fare with Dark Avenue Film. Previous theatre work includes: Smells Like Cheap Spirit, Susan Ferrier’s Society of Moral Ladies (Short Attention Span Theatre) and The Edge of You (Off Kilter). Previous TV work includes: The Mummy (Very Nice TV/Channel 4); The Investigation of Jenny James (Sonorous Films) and Scot Squad (BBC).

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