Primavera in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents
MARTINE
by Jean-Jacques Bernard Translated by John Fowles
FINBOROUGH | THEATRE
First performed by the Compagnons de la Chimère at the Théâtre des Mathurins, Paris: 9 May 1922.
First performed in the UK at the Gate Theatre Studio: 4 December 1929.
This translation first performed at the National Theatre: 20 April 1985.
First performed at the Finborough Theatre: Tuesday 22 April 2014.
MARTINE
by Jean-Jacques Bernard
Translated by John Fowles
Cast in order of appearance
| Martine | Hannah Murray |
| Julien | Barnaby Sax |
| Alfred | Chris Porter |
| Madame Mervan | Susan Penhaligon |
| Jeanne | Leila Crerar |
The action takes place in and around the village of Grandchin, not far from Paris, during 1920 and 1921.
Scene I – The road from Granchin to Bateux, July 1920
Scene II – Madame Mervan’s house, August 1920
Scene III – The road from Grandchin to Bateux, October 1920
Scene IV – Madame Mervan’s house, December 1920
Scene V – Alfred’s house, December 1921
The performance lasts approximately ninety minutes.
There will be no interval.
| Director | Tom Littler |
| Set Designer | Cherry Truluck |
| Lighting Designer | Tim Mascall |
| Costume Designer | Emily Stuart |
| Sound Designer and Composer | Max Pappenheim |
| Stage Manager | Maud Dromgoole |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Lauren Tata |
| Assistant Director | Philippa Douglas |
| Design Assistant | Holly Henshaw |
| Assistant Scenic Artist | Caitlin Lane |
| Costume Design Assistant | Katherine Chan |
| Dialect Coach | Nick Trumble |
| Casting Director | Alice Krijgsman |
| Press Representation | David Burns |
| General Manager | Grace Wessels for Primavera |
| Producer | Tom Littler for Primavera |
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.
Leila Crerar | Jeanne Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre includes Macbeth (Perth Theatre and Tron Theatre, Glasgow), Prophesy (Site Specific for Baz Productions), Odyssey (The Factory at the Bristol Old Vic), The Merchant of Venice (Creation Theatre Company), Decade (Headlong), Hamlet (The Factory at the Rose Theatre, Kingston), We Love You City (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), We Are One (Apollo Theatre), The Seagull (Factory at the Hampstead Theatre), Those Little Brown Backed Books (Arcola Theatre), Relatively Speaking, Rock ‘n’ Roll (Library Theatre, Manchester), Othello (Frantic Assembly), Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Sit and Shiver (Hackney Empire), Be My Baby (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster) and Emma (Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke). Film includes Confession, Mecca 3, Tales from Pleasure Beach, and Two Way Journey. Television includes EastEnders, Casualty, Torchwood, Doctors, and Belonging (three series).
Hannah Murray | Martine Read English at Cambridge University. Theatre includes That Face (Duke of York’s Theatre). Television includes Skins: Pure, Game of Thrones, Skins for which she received a Monte-Carlo Television Festival Golden Nymph Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series. Film includes Suburbs, Lily and Kat, God Help the Girl (Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Award), The Numbers Station, Dark Shadows, Womb and Chatroom.
Susan Penhaligon | Madame Mervan Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Hindle Wakes. Trained at Webber Douglas. Theatre includes The Real Thing (Strand Theatre), Three Sisters (Albery Theatre), The Mysterious Mr Love and The Maintenance Man (Harold Pinter Theatre) and Dangerous Corner (Whitehall Theatre and UK tour), Of Mice and Men (Mermaid Theatre), Having a Ball, Bedroom Farce, The Constant Wife, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Death Trap, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, Agatha Christie’s Verdict and The Madness of George III (UK Tours), The Complacent Lover, A Doll’s House; Time and the Conways, Lower Depths and The Cherry Orchard (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Broken Glass (West Yorkshire Playhouse), the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Misery (King’s Head Theatre). Film includes leading roles in Top Dog, The Uncanny, The Confessional, The Land that Time Forgot, No Sex Please We’re British, Leopard in the Snow, Nasty Habits, Patrick, Soldier of the Queen, Private Road and two short films, Citizen versus Kane and Say You Love Me. Television includes Upstairs Downstairs, Tales of the Unexpected, Bergerac, Remmington Steele, Casualty, Inspector Wycliffe and Doctor Who. She played Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew for the BBC’s Shakespeare season and Prue in A Bouquet of Barbed Wire. Other leading parts were in Fay Weldon’s Heart of the Country and Stan Barstow’s A Kind of Loving. She played Lucy in Dracula for the BBC and Judi Dench’s sister Helen in four series of the award winning sitcom A Fine Romance. She played the regular role of Jean Hope in Emmerdale for a year. Recently she has appeared in episodes of Casualty and Doctors. Susan has published her first novel, For the Love of Angel (Truran Books), a story set in Cornwall in the 1880s.
Chris Porter | Alfred Trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes Othello (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Joking Apart (UK Tour), What the Dickens (UK Tour), Aladdin (Creation Theatre Company), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Friend or Foe (Scamp and Watford Palace), The Hypochondriac (Liverpool Playhouse and English Touring Theatre), Victory (Arcola Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Red Shift), Hard Times (Compass), Onysos the Wild (Theatre503 and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Tartuffe (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Globe Theatre, Warsaw), Angels Among The Trees (Nottingham Playhouse), The Legend of King Arthur and Bartleby (Red Shift), Saints Day and The Road to Ruin (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), The Art of Success (Arcola Theatre), The Winter’s Tale and The Maid’s Tragedy (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Dwarfs, The Local Stigmatic and Lakeboat (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and Assembly Rooms). Film includes The Winslow Boy. Television includes Bad Girls, Footballers’ Wives, The Bill, Nail Bomber and The Genius of Mozart. Radio includes The Wild Asses Skin and Heart Transplant.