THE DEAD DOGS
BY JON FOSSE
Translated from the Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt
The Dead Dogs received its UK premiere on 15 March 2014 at The Print Room, London.
The Dead Dogs received its world premiere at Rogaland Theatre on 30 April 2004.
The Dead Dogs
by Jon Fosse
Translated from the Norwegian
by May-Brit Akerholt
| The Mother | Valerie Gogan |
| The Young Man | Danny Horn |
| The Friend | William Troughton |
| The Brother-in-law | Sam Redford |
| The Sister | Jennie Gruner |
| Director | Simon Usher |
| Set and Costume Designer | Libby Watson |
| Lighting Designer | Simon Bennison |
| Sound Designer | Paul Bull |
| Production Manager | Andy Beardmore |
| Stage Manager | Emma Tooze |
| Set Builders | Scenic Productions Ltd |
| Scenic Painter | Tash Shepherd |
| Costume Assistant | Amity MacDonnell |
| Wardrobe Supervisor | Grace Quin |
Special Thanks to:
Paolo and Aud Cuniberti, Luke Holbrook,
Mel Kenyon, William Lavelle, The Norwegian Embassy, Anne Ulset,
Toby Whale
VALERIE GOGAN
The Mother
Valerie trained at LAMDA and has worked extensively in theatre, film and television.
Theatre credits include The Secret Rapture, He Who Saw Everything (National Theatre), Worlds Apart (Royal Shakespeare Company), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Manchester Royal Exchange), A Doll’s House and Abigail’s Party (Theatre Clwyd), When is A Clock (Grey Light Prods.), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale and Clothe The Naked (Leicester Haymarket), Widowers’ Houses (Palace Theatre, Watford), In Flame (Bush Theatre), Arden of Faversham (Old Red Lion), Warm (Theatre503) and Hamlet (Rapture Theatre). In the West End she has appeared in Les Liasons dangereuses (Ambassadors Theatre) and The Rehearsal (Almeida/Garrick Theatre). She was in N.F. Simpson’s final play, If So, Then Yes (Jermyn Street Theatre), and most recently in Catherine Johnson’s Shang-A-Lang (King’s Theatre, Glasgow).
Her films include Dangerous Liasons, One More Kiss, As You Like It, The Jealous Sister, I Am Dead, Animal, Honey and Razorblades and Junkhearts.
Leading roles on television include Hamish MacBeth, Heart of the High Country, David Copperfield, Gawain and The Green Knight, Arriverderci Millwall, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Silent Witness, Gertrude in the BBC’s Prefaces to Shakespeare and most recently 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover.
DANNY HORN
The Young Man
Danny trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.
His theatre credits include Junior in The Revenger’s Tragedy (Hoxton Hall). Film and television includes the lead role of Luke in feature film Scar Tissue (Sterling Pictures), Legend of the Boogeyman (UFO Films), MI
High (CBBC) and a guest lead in A Christmas Carol, the 2010 Christmas special episode of Doctor Who (BBC) in which he played a young Michael Gambon.
Short films include Perimeter Fence (Shudder Films) and Catalyst.
WILLIAM TROUGHTON
The Friend
Theatre credits include: The Ladykillers (West End and UK Tour), The Woman in Black (West End), Happy New (Trafalgar Studios), When Darkness Falls (Beau Sejour).
TV: Silk (BBC) and Crimson Field (BBC).
Film: Armistice
SAM REDFORD
The Brother-in-law
Theatre credits include: Hedda Gabler (Hartford Stage), The 39 Steps (City Theatre, Pittsburgh), The Belle of Belfast (Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC), Rock N Roll (PICT, Pittsburgh), The History Boys (PICT, Pittsburgh), The Seafarer (City Theatre, Pittsburgh), Mother Teresa is Dead (City Theatre, Pittsburgh), The Willis Girls (Show of Strength), Twelfth Night (Southwark Playhouse). Film: The Warehouse, Deadtime Stories 2, The Slammin’ Salmon, The Hurt Locker, Color me Kubrick, K-19 The Widowmaker.
TV: Casualty, One Life to Live, The Mayflower, Dirt War, Foyle’s War, Doctors, Second Sight.
JENNIE GRUNER
The Sister
Jennie Gruner studied at The Central School of Speech & Drama. Whilst training she was cast as ‘Julia’ in feature film Zero (Sterling Pictures, Dir. David Barrouk, Exec Prod. Nicolas Roeg), due to be released later this year.
Other credits include Petal in Above & Beyond (Corinthia Hotel, Look Left Look Right, 2013), Dogs (Tristan Bates Theatre, 2013), Press Pass (Bush Theatre, 2012), London: Four Corners One Heart (Theatre503, 2012), Seduced (Dir. Michael Kingsbury) and most recently appeared in A Tale of Two Cities (King’s Head), Terms & Conditions (Stepping Out Theatre). She shot the role of Ellie in Television Comedy Pilot This is Steve, and the lead in LSFF short film winner Come Clean. Jennie has just shot the film 120 Days and will next film The Great Fire (ITV).
She was voted one of the ‘Rising Stars of 2013’ by The London Magazine.
JON FOSSE
Playwright
Jon Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently divides his time between Olso, Austria and Bergen. Jon has written novels, short stories, poetry, children’s books, essays and numerous plays. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and his plays are performed all over the world. Jon Fosse has been the recipient of numerous awards including Hedda’s Prize of Honour, the most prestigious award in Norwegian theatre and Austria’s Nestroy Prize for Best Author. In 2005 Jon Fosse was made a Commander in the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and in 2007 he was made a Knight in France’s National Order of Merit. Jon Fosse was awarded the International Ibsen Award, 2010. In 2011, Fosse was granted the Grotten, an honorary residence located on the premises of the Royal Palace in Oslo; an honour which is specially bestowed by the King of Norway for contributions to Norwegian arts and culture.
Oberon Books publishes Plays One (Someone Is Going to Come, The Name, The Guitar Man, The Child), Plays Two (A Summer’s Day, Dream of Autumn and Winter), Plays Three (Mother and Child, Sleep my Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, Death Variations), Plays Four (And We’ll Never Be Parted, The Son, Visits, Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black), Plays Five (Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly’s Wing, Warm, Telemakos, Sleep), Nightsongs, The Girl on the Sofa and I Am