Gate Theatre presents
The Iphigenia
Quartet
By Caroline Bird, Suhayla El-Bushra,
Lulu Raczka & Chris Thorpe
THE IPHIGENIA QUARTET
Agamemnon by Caroline Bird
Iphigenia by Suhayla El-Bushra
Clytemnestra by Lulu Raczka
Chorus by Chris Thorpe
CAST
| Agamemnon & Chorus | |
| (in alphabetical order) | |
| Menelaus & Voice | Nigel Barrett |
| Clytemnestra & Voice | Sharon Duncan-Brewster |
| Agamemnon & Voice | Andrew French |
| Messenger & Voice | Louise McMenemy |
| Iphigenia & Clytemnestra | |
| (in alphabetical order) | |
| Agamemnon & Director | Anthony Barclay |
| Iphigenia & Maid | Shannon Tarbet |
| Clytemnestra & Professor | Susie Trayling |
| Achilles & Maid | Dwane Walcott |
| CREATIVE TEAM | |
| Director (Agamemnon) | Christopher Haydon |
| Director (Clytemnestra) | Jennifer Tang |
| Director (Iphigenia) | Rebecca Hill |
| Director (Chorus) | Elayce Ismail |
| Designer | Cécile Trémolières |
| Lighting Designer | Joshua Pharo |
| Sound Designer | Elena Peña |
| Movement Director | Aline David |
| Dialect Coach | Hazel Holder |
| Fight Choreographer | Yarit Dor |
| Production Manager | Heather Doole |
| Stage Manager | Katy Munroe Farlie |
| Stage Manager | Charlotte McBrearty |
| Assistant Director | Jade Lewis |
| Assistant Director | Ed Madden |
| Design Assistant | Bex Kemp |
| Production Electrician | Sarah Readman |
| Press | Kate Morley for Kate Morley PR([email protected] | 07970 465648) |
The Gate would also like to thank the following people for their help with the development of this production: Adam Nelson, Helen Murray, Bobette Kenge, Lucy Ellinson, Stefan Adegbola, William Gaminara, David Calvitto, and the team at Omnibus Clapham.
The Iphigenia Quartet was developed, in part, with assistance from the Orchard Project, a program of The Exchange (www.exchangenyc.org).
Ari Edelson, Artistic Director. Barbara Toy, Executive Director.
The Iphigenia Quartet is kindly supported by:
David and Linda Lakhdhir
Matthew Bannister and Kate McGuire
Robert Devereux
Eric Fellner
Lucy Morris
Fenton Arts Trust
Unity Theatre Trust
CAST
AGAMEMNON & CHORUS
NIGEL BARRETT – MENELAUS & VOICE
Theatre credits include: Every One (Battersea Arts Centre/Chris Goode & Co.); The Body (Barbican); UR (Festival des Ecrivains du Monde, Paris); Monument (wiretapper); Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage); The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Face (Shunt); Praxis Makes Perfect (National Theatre Wales, Berliner Festspiele); Mad Man (Theatre Royal Plymouth); There Has Possibly Been an Incident (Royal Exchange Manchester/Soho Theatre); A Conversation (The Yard); Ring (Fuel); The Architects and Money (Shunt); Get Stuff Break Free (Made in China/National Theatre); Babel and The Passion (WildWorks); Pericles (Regents Park); Shelf Life (National Theatre of Wales); Richard III – An Arab Tragedy (Royal Shakespeare Company/Bouffes du Nord); Contains Violence (Lyric Hammersmith); The Unconquered (Traverse Theatre); Hide (Royal Festival Hall); The High Road (Clod Ensemble); Amato Saltone (National Theatre/ Shunt); The Mirror for Princes (Barbican); Tropicana (National Theatre/Shunt); The Al-Hamlet Summit (Zaoum/Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic); Melting the Ice (Zaoum/ Sulayman Al-Bassam); Single Spies (Theatre Royal Bath); Playing with Fire (White Bear); Miss Julie (Someone Else Theatre); Incarcerator (Battersea Arts Centre); Tennis Show (Shunt); Macbeth (Zaoum / Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre); Cymbeline (Bear Gardens); Cami (Gate Theatre) and Everyman (Sulayman Al-Bassam/Cochrane Theatre).
Film and television credits include: Doctors; Cycles (Toynbee film); The Gospel of Us (Michael Sheen); The Boat, Hello You, Casualty, Crimewatch, Meet the Piltdowns, Hairy Eyeball, Dawson’s Creek Special, The Mysteries, Deadline, The Lens, Sexual Healing and England My England.
Radio credits include: The Letters of Pliny, The Liberty Cap, Richard Tyrone Jones’ Big Heart and The Influence and The Life of Edmund Shakespeare (Radio 4).
SHARON DUNCAN-BREWSTER – CLYTEMNESTRA & VOICE
Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman); Hope, Babies (Royal Court Theatre); The El Train (Hoxton Hall); Yerma (The Gate Theatre); The Swan, There Is A War (National Theatre); Tiger Country, Keepers (Hampstead Theatre); Detaining Justice, Seize The Day, Category B, Let There Be Love, Fabulation, Playboy Of The West Indies (Tricycle Theatre); The Horse Marines (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Bacchae (National Theatre Scotland/Lincoln Centre, New York); Black Crows (Clean Break/ Arcola Theatre); The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith); Blues For Mr Charlie (Tricycle/New Wolsey); Dirty Butterfly (Soho Theatre); Peepshow (Frantic Assembly/Plymouth/Lyric Theatre); Crave (Paines Plough); So Special (Royal Exchange); Yard Gal (Clean Break/Royal Court/Mcc Theatre, New York) and The No Boys Cricket Club (Stratford East Theatre Royal).
Television credits include: Unforgotten, Cucumber, Top Boy, The Mimic (Channel 4); The Bible (Channel 4/History Channel) The Bill (Thames); Going Forward, Cuffs, Holby City, Doctor Who, Eastenders, Doctors, Shoot The Messenger, Waking The Dead, Baby Father, Bad Girls and Casualty (BBC).
Short film credits include: A Blues For Nia (Bbc/Eclipse) and The Child (BBC Film).
ANDREW FRENCH – AGAMEMNON & VOICE
Theatre credits include: Bully Boy (Mercury Theatre Colchester); Boi Boi is Dead (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Roundabout Season (Paines Plough); Refugee Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Aquila Theatre USA); Measure for Measure (Almeida Theatre); Monster (Royal Exchange