Proud Haddock in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents
The London premiere
A SUBJECT OF SCANDAL AND CONCERN
by John Osborne
First performed at the Finborough Theatre: Sunday, 22 May 2016
A SUBJECT OF SCANDAL AND CONCERN
by John Osborne
Cast in order of speaking
| Narrator | Doron Davidson |
| Mr Holyoake | Jamie Muscato |
| Mrs Holyoake | Caroline Moroney |
| Chairman | Richard Shanks |
| Maitland | Doron Davidson |
| Brother-in-law | Edmund Digby-Jones |
| Bubb | Ralph Birtwell |
| Magistrate | Richard Shanks |
| Lefroy | Doron Davidson |
| Pinching | Edmund Digby-Jones |
| Mason | Ralph Birtwell |
| Cooper | Richard Shanks |
| Jones | Doron Davidson |
| Clerk | Edmund Digby-Jones |
| Erskine | Ralph Birtwell |
| Alexander | Richard Shanks |
| Bartram | Doron Davidson |
| Jailer | Ralph Birtwell |
| Chaplain | Edmund Digby-Jones |
This action takes place in Cheltenham in 1842.
The performance lasts approximately 70 minutes.
There will be no interval.
| Director | Jimmy Walters |
| Designer | Philip Lindley |
| Lighting Designer | Simon Gethin-Thomas |
| Composer | Piers Sherwood-Roberts |
| Production Manager | Alexandra Evans |
| Lighting Operator | Isabella Kimpton |
| Stage Manager | Sophie Arnkil |
| Assistant Director | Katie Pesskin |
| Choreographer | Ste Clough |
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.
A Subject of Scandal and Concern is performed on the set of Stone Face designed by Loren Elstein, which plays Tuesday to Saturday evenings, and Saturday and Sunday matinees, until 11 June 2016.
Ralph Birtwell | Bubb / Mason / Erskine / Jailer
Trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes Macbeth (National Tour for Tara Arts), The Man of Mode, Market Boy and The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National Theatre), Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Stratford East), East Is East (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester), Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (The Theatre, Chipping Norton), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth (English Shakespeare Company), Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and The Relapse (Royal Shakespeare Company), Call Me Madam (Union Theatre), Aspire (Aspire Dome, Qatar), The Far Pavilions (Shaftsbury Theatre), Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (National Tour), and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Southwark Playhouse).
Film includes East Is East and Shooting Stars.
Television includes Coronation Street, Law and Order: UK, Harley Street, Crisis Command, Doctors, The Vice, Blood Strangers, The Cops, Clocking Off and Tales From Pleasure Beach.
Workshop includes Bombay Dreams, Free World and Bend It Like Beckham.
Doron Davidson | Narrator / Maitland / Lefroy / Jones / Bartram
Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre includes Romeo and Juliet (Holy Trinity Church, London), Execution of Justice (Southwark Playhouse), The Comedy of Errors and Richard II (The Tobacco Factory, Bristol) and Hedda Gabler (Riverside Studios).
Film includes Woman in Gold and World War Z.
Television includes Call The Midwife, Catastrophe and The Honourable Woman.
Edmund Digby-Jones | Brother-in-law / Pinching / Clerk / Chaplain
Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre includes Generation Y (Hen and Chickens Theatre), The Sunset Five (Greenwich Theatre, Hull Truck, and Pleasance London), The Daily Plays (Pleasance London), A Haunting (Southwark Playhouse), The Conquering Hero (The Tobacco Factory, Bristol), Love to Love to Love You (VAULT Festival), Play/Date (Theatre Delicatessen), Being As I Am (King’s Head Theatre), The Miser (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Sandwich Man (Etcetera Theatre), Hamlet (National Tour), Disco Pigs (Tristan Bates Theatre), and Phaedra’s Love (National Student Drama Festival).
Film includes Nevermore, Turn Me Online, Independence Day, No Win No Fee, Man Alive and No Smoking.
Television includes A Song for Jenny, Life in Squares, Outlander, Doctors and The Best of Men.
Caroline Moroney | Mrs Holyoake Trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre whilst training includes The Rover, Love(Sic), As You Like It, New Labour, Women of Twilight, Measure For Measure, Stasiland, The Busie Body, The Changeling, King Lear, Medea, August Osage County and Chicken Soup With Barley (RADA).
Rehearsed Readings include Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night.
Jamie Muscato | Mr Holyoake
Theatre includes Stay Awake Jake (VAULT Festival), Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera), House of Mirrors and Hearts (Arcola Theatre), Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), The Light Princess (National Theatre), Rock of Ages (Shaftsbury Theatre), Love Story (Chichester Festival Theatre and Duchess Theatre), Les Misérables (International Tour), Spring Awakening (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) and Lift (Trafalgar Studios).
Film includes Les Misérables, The Euphoria of Drowning and Wild Oats.
Television includes Cilla, Mega Bytes Café and My Parents Are Aliens.
Rehearsed Readings include Remote and Drama Baby (National Theatre