Snuff Box Theatre in association with Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents
The world premiere
WEALD
by Daniel Foxsmith
FINBOROUGH | THEATRE
First performance at the Finborough Theatre: Tuesday, 2 February 2016.
WEALD
by Daniel Foxsmith
Cast in order of speaking
| Samuel | David Crellin |
| Jim | Dan Parr |
The action takes place on a livery yard somewhere in rural England.
The performance lasts approximately 75 minutes.
There will be no interval.
| Director | Bryony Shanahan |
| Production Designer | Christopher Hone |
| Lighting Designer | Seth Rook Williams |
| Sound Designer | Peter Rice |
| Stage Manager | Louise Skaaning |
| Producer | Jake Orr |
| Assistant Producer | Sofia Stephanou |
| Artistic Collaborator | Charlotte Josephine |
| PR | Chloe Nelkin Consulting |
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.
David Crellin | Samuel
Theatre includes The Hoard Festival (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme), Hunger for Trade, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), The Seagull, Hard Times, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Audience, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Beyond Belief, Schweyk In the Second World War, A Christmas Carol, Time of My Life, Aladdin (Library Theatre, Manchester), Absent Friends (Coliseum Theatre, Oldham, and Harrogate Theatre) Kes (Liverpool Playhouse and Tour), Spring and Port Wine (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Get Ken Barlow (Watford Palace), The Trackers of Oxyrhincus (National Theatre), The Merry Wives (Tour for Northern Broadsides), The Revenger’s Tragedy and Three Girls In Blue (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Television includes Happy Valley, Home Fires, The Cops, Waterloo Road, Paradox, Accused, Doctors, North and South, Dalziel and Pascoe, Holby City, Strumpet, Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, HeartBeat, Fat Friends, Mysterious Creatures, The Girls Who Came To Stay, What We Did On Our Holidays, The Bill, Blood Strangers, Bob and Rose and Shameless.
Radio includes Craven.
Dan Parr | Jim
Theatre includes Hamlet (Barbican Theatre), Britannia Waves The Rules for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Manchester Theatre Awards (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Scuttlers, Pages From My Songbook (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Wanted! Robin Hood (Library Theatre, Manchester), and DNA (The Lowry, Salford).
Film includes The Rise of the Krays, The Fall of the Krays and Halcyon Heights.
Television includes The Musketeers, Rocket’s Island, Casualty, The Crimson Field and The Village.
Daniel Foxsmith | Playwright
Trained at East 15 Acting School and is an award-winning actor and writer.
Weald was shortlisted for both the inaugural Hodgkiss Award at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2013 and the Yale Drama Series prize in 2014. He was also long listed for Theatre503 Playwright’s Award in 2014.
Plays include The Observatory, winner of Scottish Daily Mail and Conference of Drama Schools Edinburgh Award and National Student Drama Festival and Methuen Drama Prize (The Underbelly, Edinburgh) and The Altitude Brothers (Ovalhouse and National Tour).
As an actor, Daniel has toured nationally and internationally as well as performing in the West End and winning several awards, including Best Performer at the Adelaide Fringe with Bound.
Daniel is founder and co-Artistic Director of Snuff Box Theatre.
Bryony Shanahan | Director Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Operation Crucible.
Trained on the National Theatre Studio Director’s Course and East 15 Acting School and is co-artistic director of Snuff Box Theatre. Direction includes Bitch Boxer (Soho Theatre National and International Tour), Chapel Street (National Tour), You and Me (Greenwich Theatre and National Tour), and The Altitude Brothers (Ovalhouse, Redbridge Drama Centre and National Tour).
Associate Direction includes The Skriker (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) and The Gruffalo’s Child (UK and North American Tour).
Staff Direction includes Our Country’s Good (National Theatre).
Assistant Direction includes Hamlet (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Around the World in 80 Days (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Lyme, and Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester). Bryony was nominated for an OffWestEnd award for Best Director and won a BBC Performing Arts Award to work at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
Charlotte Josephine | Artistic Collaborator
Trained on the Contemporary Theatre Course at East 15 Acting School and is co-artistic director of Snuff Box Theatre.
Acting includes Buckets (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), Secret Theatre Company (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Bitch Boxer (Soho Theatre, National and International Tour) and Perffection (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Writing includes Bitch Boxer (Soho Theatre, National and International Tour) and Perffection (Edinburgh Festival Fringe).
Bitch Boxer won the Soho Theatre Young Writers Award 2012, Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012, the Holden Street Theatres Award 2013 and the Adelaide Fringe Award 2013.
Christopher Hone | Production Designer
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Coyote Ugly and The Time of Your Life.
Trained in Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University. Theatre includes Big Time! (Theatre Royal, Stratford), The Boy Who Cried, Sochi 2014 and Fred and Madge (Hope Theatre), Tosca