A Traverse Theatre Company, Theatre Royal Bath Ustinov Studio and Bush Theatre co-production
Right Now
by Catherine-Anne Toupin, translated by Chris Campbell
Directed by Michael Boyd
Right Now by Catherine-Anne Toupin,translated by Chris Campbell
COMPANY LIST
CAST
ALICE – Lindsey Campbell
BEN – Sean Biggerstaff
JULIETTE – Maureen Beattie
FRANÇOIS – Dyfan Dwyfor
GILLES – Guy Williams
CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright – CATHERINE-ANNE TOUPIN
Translator – CHRIS CAMPBELL
Director – MICHAEL BOYD
Designer – MADELEINE GIRLING
Lighting Designer – OLIVER FENWICK
Composer/Sound Designer – DAVID PAUL JONES
Casting Director – GINNY SCHILLER CDG
Casting Assistant – LIZ BICHARD / AMY BEADEL
Assistant Director – CHLOE MASTERTON
PRODUCTION TEAM
Production Manager – KEVIN MCCALLUM
Company Stage Manager – DAVID SNEDDON
Deputy Stage Manager – VICKY WILSON
Costume Supervisor – KAT SMITH
COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES
Maureen Beattie (JULIETTE)
Maureen trained at RSAMD and graduated with the James Bridie Gold Medal. Since then she has gone on to play many roles with companies across the UK including the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre of Great Britain, the Globe, and the RSC, as well as touring internationally.
Previous theatre credits include: The List, The Carousel, The Deliverance (Stellar Quines); Yer Granny, 27 and The Enquirer (National Theatre of Scotland); Romeo & Juliet (Rose Theatre Kingston); Dark Road, The Cherry Orchard (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Noises Off (The Old Vic Tour); No Quarter (Royal Court Theatre); The Skin of Our Teeth (Young Vic); Ghosts, Acting Up (Citizens Theatre); Medea, Oedipus, Electra (Theatre Babel); The Masterbuilder (Chichester); Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor (National Theatre) and The Histories Cycle, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, King Lear, The Constant Couple (Royal Shakespeare Company).
Maureen’s television and film credits include: Outlander, Doctor Who, Vera, Casualty, Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Taggart, Bramwell, The Bill, Hard to Get, The Worst Week of My Life, Doctors, Moving On, Ruffian Hearts and The Decoy Bride.
Sean Biggerstaff (BEN)
Sean obtained his first professional acting role at ten, playing the son of MacDuff in a Michael Boyd production of Macbeth at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Other theatre work includes: Solid Air (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Girl with the Red Hair (Lyceum/Bush/Hampstead Theatre); An Appointment with the Wicker Man (National Theatre of Scotland).
Sean’s film work includes: Whisky Galore, CASHBACK, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2) playing the part of Oliver Wood. His television work includes: Marple, Charles II, and Consenting Adults for which he won BAFTA Scotland’s Best Actor Award for his performance.
Michael Boyd (DIRECTOR)
Michael Boyd was Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2002 to 2012, where his productions included the twenty four hour RSC Histories Cycle, winner of four Olivier Awards. He led the £112 million reconstruction of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, as well as commissioning and producing the Complete Works Festival 2006-7, the World Shakespeare Festival for the London Olympics 2012, and Matilda the Musical. He took a repertoire of seven Shakespeare plays to the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, New York, in 2011. Prior to joining the RSC, he was founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow from 1985 to 1996, where his productions included The Guid Sisters and The Real World? by the Quebécois playwright Michel Tremblay, Ted Hughes’ Crow, The Trick Is To Keep Breathing (also Royal Court and World Stage Festival, Toronto), and Macbeth. In 2014/15 he staged both parts of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine in New York (Obie, Drama Desk, and Drama League Awards), and made his Royal Opera debut with Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Roundhouse (nominated, Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Olivier Awards).
He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, and the Cameron Mackintosh Professor of Contemporary Theatre at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College. He was knighted for services to drama in 2012.
Chris Campbell (TRANSLATOR)
Chris is currently Literary Manager of the Royal Court after being Deputy Literary Manager of the National Theatre for six years. He has translated plays by Philippe Minyana, David Lescot, Rémi de Vos, Adeline Picault, Magali Mougel, Launcelot Hamelin, Frédéric Blanchette, Catherine-Anne Toupin and Fabrice Roger-Lacan for the National, the Almeida, the Donmar, the Traverse, the Birmingham Rep and the Young Vic among others. In 2014, Chris was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. An actor for many years, Chris has worked at many theatres including the National, the Birmingham Rep, the Gate and the Traverse. He most recently appeared alongside Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady.
Lindsey Campbell (ALICE)
Lindsey trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 2013.
Previous stage credits include: Nights (White Bear Theatre); The Harvest (Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath/Soho Theatre); The Big Meal (Theatre Royal Bath/Hightide) and A Christmas Carol (Royal Lyceum Theatre).
Film and television credits include: Casualty, Doctor’s, Dani’s House, Blue Haven, Single Father, The Holly Kane Experiment and Intergalactic Kitchen.
Dyfan Dwyfor (FRANÇOIS)
Dyfan graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2007. He won the Richard Burton Award at the National Eisteddfod in 2004.
Most recently he has appeared in Candylion (National Theatre Wales). Other theatre credits include: The Harvest (Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath/Soho Theatre); Titus Andronicus (The Globe); Praxis Makes Perfect (National Theatre Wales); Too Clever by Half (Royal Exchange); Fortunes Fool (The Old Vic); Ahasverus, Hamlet, Little Eagles, Romeo & Juliet, The Drunks, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors (RSC).
Film and Television work includes: Yr Oedi, Hinterland, Caerdydd, A470, Y Llyfrgell, The Passing, I Know You Know and The Baker and Pride.
Oliver Fenwick (LIGHTING DESIGNER)
Theatre includes: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Jew of Malta,