Creative

Written by
Tennessee Williams
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Directed by
Adrian Noble
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Set Design by
Peter McKintosh
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Costume Design by
Deidre Clancy
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Lighting Design by
Peter Mumford
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John Leonard
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Produced by
Stanhope Productions
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Bulldog Theatrical
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Janet Robinson & Edward H. Richard
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Fast Track Pictures
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In association with
Nottingham Playhouse present
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Cast

Rosamund Pike Alma Rosamund won Best Supporting Actress at the British Independent Film Awards in 2005 for her role in The Libertine opposite Johnny Depp. Theatre: Hitchcock Blonde for the Royal Court and the Lyric Theatre West End. Television: Love in a Cold Climate, Wives and Daughters and Foyle's War. Film: Fracture, Fugitive Pieces, Devil You Know, Doom, Pride and Prejudice, The Libertine, Promised Land and Die Another Day.

Chris Carmack John Buchanan Chris attended New York University as a theatre student in the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Theatre: Entertaining Mr Sloane (Roundabout Theatre), The Day I Stood Still (Lillian Theatre), Lament for the Moths: The Compiled Poetry of Tennessee Williams (Laurel Grove Theatre), Small Days (Working Stage). Film: The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Marc Klein, dir), Lovewrecked (Randal Kleiser, dir), Just My Luck (Donald Petrie, dir). Television: Strangers With Candy, The OC, The Last Ride, Smallville, BeachGirls, Related.

Sebastian Abineri Papa Gonzales Sebastian has been an actor for over 30 years. He started in the theatre at the age of 16 and then went on to work with Lindsay Anderson in the Lyric Theatre Company. Since then he has worked extensively in film, television and theatre. Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley Kowalski), I Am a Camera (Christopher Isherwood), Oliver! (Bill Sykes), Arms and the Man (Captain Bluntschli), When We Are Married (Joe Helliwell), The Sunshine Boys (Willie Clarke). Sebastian has also played many leading theatrical roles around the country at such venues as the Library Theatre, Manchester, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatr Clwyd and the Plymouth Theatre Company. Television: Willy Russell’s Death of a Young Man (Benny) as part of the BBC Play for Today series, Out of the Battle (Siegfried Sassoon) for the BBC, Buses (Jim Stone). Sebastian has also appeared in EastEnders, The Bill, Coronation Street, Cadfael, Bramwell and Casualty. Sebastian is perhaps best known for his performance as Dick in Flambards for Yorkshire Television. Film: A Bridge Too Far.

Michael Brown Dusty/Vernon/Archie Kramer Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew for the Bristol Old Vic, Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night both at the Globe Theatre and a USA tour, Doctor Faustus for the Liverpool Playhouse, Richard II, Edward II and The Golden Ass for the Globe Theatre. Television: McReady and Daughter, Doctors, The Vice. Film: Mr Firecul.

Angela Down Mrs Winemiller Angela trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre: Bristol Old Vic: Irina in Three Sisters, Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (directed by Jonathan Miller); Octavia in All for Love, Praxis in A Hard Heart, Duchess of Gloucester in Richard II, Valeria in Coriolanus (Almeida Theatre Company); Murder by Misadventure (Vaudeville Theatre); Judith Bliss in Hay Fever; Cerimon and the Bawd in Pericles (directed by Neil Bartlett, Lyric Hammersmith); Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Southampton and Barbados). Television: Avril in Take Three Girls, Maria Bolkonsky in War and Peace, Sylvia Pankhurst in Shoulder to Shoulder, Joyce in Glittering Prizes, Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well, Hercule Poirot, Casualty, Chekov in Yalta, Midsomer Murders. Film: Mahler and Emma. Radio: Poetry Please, Time for Verse, and With Great Pleasure.

David Killick Dr Buchanan Theatre: several seasons with the RSC in which he has appeared in Richard III, Measure for Measure, Peer Gynt, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Edward II, The Comedy of Errors, Don Juan, Sarcophagus, Macbeth, Worlds Apart, Art of Success, Waste, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, and Julius Caesar. Other theatre includes Neverland at the Royal Court Upstairs, Hedda Gabler on tour and at the Donmar Warehouse, Going Concern at Hampstead, Translations at the Donmar Warehouse, Life is a Dream at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, The Servant of Two Masters for the RSC in the West End, The Wind in the Willows at Birmingham Rep, Coriolanus/The Merry Wives of Windsor for the RSC at Stratford, on tour and at the Old Vic, The Madness of George III at the West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep, The Master and Margarita and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chichester, His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, As You Like It at Wyndham’s Theatre, The Hypochondriac at The Almeida Theatre and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the RSC and the City of London Sinfonia. Television: Without Motive II, Midsomer Murders, The Bill, Moving Story, Lovejoy, A Touch of Frost, True Tilda, Home Cooking, The Return of the Saint and UFO. Films: The History Boys, Mojo, The Grotesque and Bye Bye Baby. He has also recorded CDs of Pericles and Measure for Measure for Riverrun Productions.

Tom Lawrence Roger Doremus Tom trained at RADA, graduating in 2003 having gained a First in Drama at Exeter University.Work at RADA included Quartermaine in Quartermaine’s Terms, Franz in Schiller's The Robbers, Giovanni in ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, Feste in Twelfth Night, M. Martin in Feydeau's Hotel Paradiso and Mr Pinchwife in The Country Wife. Theatre: Alan Aykbourn's House and Garden at Salisbury Playhouse, Oliver Twist at Manchester Library Theatre and Biloxi Blues at the Vanbrugh theatre – produced by Couch Potato Productions of which he is a Council Member. Tom has also continued his practice in dance, performing the role of Mercutio in Punchdrunk's acclaimed site specific production The Firebird Ball last winter. Previous work with Punchdrunk includes Oedipus in Oedipus Rex, Yasha in The Cherry Orchard and Woyzeck in Woyzeck. Film: Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty and Jack & Jill, a short film by Ashtar Alkhirsan, currently under representation of the British Film Council. Television: Silent Witness IX, Inspector Lynley III for the BBC and The Rating Game and Ingham Investigates for Channel 4. Radio: plays and serials for BBC R3, 4, 5 and World Service. Credits include Night of the Hunter (Sony Award Winner) and most recently To Sicken and So Die with Bill Nighy, Dixon of Dock Green with David Calder, Like an Angel with Freddie Jones and Sean Hughes and Made in China with Ken Hom, recorded via live linkup to BBC Vancouver, Canada. Other voice work includes the forthcoming Collected Works of John Betjeman recorded for BBC Audiobooks. Tom has a keen interest in new writing and has had a continued involvement in rehearsed readings and workshops at the Royal Court, RNT Studio, Shakespeare's Globe and RADA including two workshop productions for On:Theatre with Mic Gordan and Rob Tannion.

Kate O’Toole Mrs Bassett Kate studied at the Yale School of Drama and Circle in the Square, New York. She received the Barclays/TMA Best Actress award for her performance as B in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and was nominated Best Actress at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for her role as Eleanor in Terry Johnson’s Dead Funny at the Rough Magic Theatre Company. Theatre: The Barbaric Comedies and Drama at Inish at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Double Cross at Brian Friel’s Field Day Theatre Company, and also at the Royal Court, Reflected Glory at the Vaudeville, Don Juan at Manchester Royal Exchange, The Provok’d Wife on a UK tour, The House of Bernarda Alba at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, The Mercy Seat at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Dancing at Lughnasa on an Irish tour, Macbeth for Second Age Theatre Company, John Bull’s Other Island at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, Hamlet at the Project Theatre, Dublin, A Little Like Drowning, The Blue Maculshla, Private Dick, The Donoghue Sisters and The Increased Difficulty of Concentration all for the Druid Theatre Company, Stage Door for Circle in the Square, Vanderbilts for the Hyde Park Festival, New York, The Hostage for the Irish Arts Centre, New York, Candida for the Heritage Theatre, New York. Film and television: Karaoke, Get Well Soon, Glenroe, Malice Afterthought, Stand By Your Man, No Tears, Proof 2, Foreign Exchange, Tales From the Darkside, The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, Dancing at Lughnasa and John Huston’s last film The Dead.

Christopher Ravenscroft Rev Winemiller Christopher trained at Bristol Old Vic. Stage: The Tempest (Liverpool Playhouse), The Invention of Love (Salisbury Playhouse), The Maths Tutor (Hampstead Theatre), Educating Rita (Derby Playhouse), Jumpers, Absurd Person Singular and The Winslow Boy (Birmingham Rep), Landslide at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Broken Glass (New Victoria Theatre, Stoke). West End includes The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre), Sitting Pretty (Chelsea Centre) plus several seasons for the RSC where his credits include Banquo in Macbeth, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, Buckingham in Richard III, Howard Barker’s Crimes in Hot Countries and the original RSC production of Nicholas Nickleby. Television: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The Shell Seekers, Dream Team, Courtroom, Mile High, Brookside, Midsomer Murders, Holby City, Family Affairs, The Hound of the Baskervilles, John Halifax Gentleman, Pericles, Secret Army, The Levels, Twelfth Night, PD James: Mind To Murder and Coronation Street. Film: Tom and Thomas, The Football Factory and Henry V directed by Kenneth Branagh. Numerous radio plays, narrations and readings including many of the Ruth Rendell Mysteries. Chris also gives recitals with the English Piano Trio.

Talulah Riley Nellie Theatre: Dinah Lord in The Philadelphia Story, Old Vic Theatre. Film: Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, directed by Joe Wright. Television: Megan in The Moving Finger, Young Angela in Five Little Pigs.

Hanne Steen Rosa Hanne trained at the Arts Educational School of Acting. Theatre: Educating Rita (Rita), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) and Hamletmachine (Ophelia), The Tempest (Miranda), Open Ground (Ruth; rehearsed reading at Hampstead Theatre), The King and I (Tuptim), The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy). Television: Love Soup for BBC1 and Ideal (Carmel) for BBC3. Film: Measure for Measure (Mistress Overdone), Unmasked, London Eye, Sphere of Influence.

Hannah Stokely Pearl/Rosemary Hannah trained at Webber Douglas. Theatre: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare in Schools, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Creation Theatre and The Glass Slipper at Southwark Playhouse. Hannah is also part of Woman, a comedy show that performed at the Edinburgh and London comedy festivals. Television: Holby City, The Golden Hour, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and The Family Man. Film: Bright Young Things and Chromophobia.