Vicky Graham Productions in association with Arch 468 and Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents
The World Premiere
THE SLUTS OF
SUTTON DRIVE
by Joshua Conkel
FINBOROUGH | THEATRE
First performance at the Finborough Theatre: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Vicky Graham Productions was established by Vicky Graham in May 2012 with the support of the Stage One Bursary for New Producers. The Sluts of Sutton Drive is its inaugural production. www.vickygrahamproductions.com
Arch468
Arch 468 explores new ways to make and think about theatre. We help emerging artists of all ages to explore and refine their own best practice by giving them the resources and freedom to flop or fly. Arch 468 aims to celebrate new theatre and the headstrong courage of young artists and provide a hub where emerging artists can meet to develop their work, challenge themselves and find bold new audiences. Since opening in 2008, Arch 468 has provided more than £80,000 worth of free development time, space and resources to emerging theatre makers and continues to be a key venue supporting the burgeoning new-theatre scene. www.arch468.com
The Sluts of Sutton Drive was developed by Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, NY.
This production is supported by Old Vic New Voices.
THE SLUTS OF SUTTON DRIVE
by Joshua Conkel
Cast in order of appearance
| Stephanie Schwartz | Georgia Buchanan |
| Sharice Hildebrand | Kelly Burke |
| The Mailman | Matt Steinberg |
| Jayden | Eric Kofi Abrefa |
| Will | James Hillier |
Small-town Washington State. The present-ish.
There will be one interval of fifteen minutes.
The performance lasts approximately two hours.
| Director | Rebecca Atkinson-Lord |
| Designer | James Turner |
| Lighting Designer | Tom Cooper |
| Sound Designer | Edward Lewis |
| Production and Stage Manager | Ian Wooldridge |
| Design Assistant | Helen Richardson |
| Costume Assistant | Stephanie Psarros |
| Casting Director/Choreographer | Lucy Casson |
| Fight Director | Mathew McKay |
| Assistant Director | Celeste Dring |
| Producer | Vicky Graham |
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.
The Sluts of Sutton Drive is performed in repertoire and on the set of The Drawer Boy, designed by Molly Einchcomb, which plays Tuesday to Saturday evenings, and Saturday and Sunday matinees, until 14 July 2012.
Georgia Buchanan | Stephanie Schwartz Trained at East 15 Acting School and Syracuse University. London theatre includes Execution of Justice (Southwark Playhouse) and Enter A Gentleman (National Portrait Gallery). US theatre includes Lysistrata, The Tamer Tamed (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ensemble Studio Theater), such small hands (Syracuse Stage) and Love Letters, Translations and The Importance of Being Earnest (Keegan Theatre). Roles in training included lead roles in The Rose Tattoo, Woyzeck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Dream Play (Soho Theatre), And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Airswimming. Film includes Mindset and The Hard Place.
Kelly Burke | Sharice Hildebrand At the Finborough Theatre, Kelly appeared in Green and In World, both part of Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2009 and 2011) and Blue Surge (2011). Trained at RADA. Theatre includes Zelda for which she was nominated and shortlisted for an OffWestEnd Award for Best Female Performer (New End Theatre), Avocado (King’s Head Theatre), Marie and Bruce (Wallace Shawn Festival at the Royal Court Theatre), Inherit the Wind (Bug Theatre, Denver) and Agnes of God (Federal Theatre, Denver). Television includes Doctors. Radio includes The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, These Are the Times (BBC Radio 4).
James Hillier | Will At the Finborough Theatre, James appeared in the leading role in the sell-out UK premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Something Cloudy, Something Clear, directed by Tamara Harvey (2003), and Che Walker’s sell-out production of Rebecca Gilman’s Blue Surge (2011) for which he was nominated for an OffWestEnd Award for Best Male Performance. Trained at RADA. Other theatre includes Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912) (MAC, Belfast), The Land Of Uz as part of 66 Books (Bush Theatre), The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels), The Recruiting Officer (Garrick Theatre, Lichfield), Journey’s End (Drill Hall), Trips (Birmingham Rep), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Gatehouse), Lulu (Almeida Theatre), The Homecoming (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Closer (Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton) and A Clockwork Orange (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow). Television and Film includes City on Fire, Casualty, Holby Blue, Great Expectations, Survivors, The Four Feathers, Blackbeard, Fired and Silent Witness.
Eric Kofi Abrefa | Jayden Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre includes Clybourne Park, The Merchant of Venice, Harper Regan, Philistines, The Cherry Orchard (all at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Khadija is 18 (Angle Theatre at Hackney Empire), Sexy Buffting (Metal Mouth Theatre) and Richard III (BBC Shakespeare Festival). Film includes Tight Jeans and Shoot the Messenger. Television includes Tati’s Hotel, The Bill, Holby City and Psychic Roadshow.
Matt Steinberg | The Mailman Trained at HB Studio, New York, and with the Shakespeare’s Globe International Actors’ Fellowship, London. London theatre includes A Respectable Wedding (Waterloo East Theatre). Canadian Theatre includes Bartholomew Fair, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, The Provok’d Wife (Stratford Festival), Art is a Cupboard (Sweat Company, Toronto), The Goat (Neptune Theatre, Halifax), Waiting (Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto). New York City theatre includes Richard III, Volpone, Arden of Faversham (Classic Stage Company), Donna Morelli (Ensemble Studio Theater), Loud (Threshold Theater Company), Have You Met My Brother?, King John (Doppelganger), King Lear, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens (York Shakespeare Company). Film and Television includes The Best Years, True Confessions of A Hollywood Starlet,