Friday 18th March

Catstrand Theatre, Main Street, New Galloway

01644 420 374  www.thebooth.co.uk

 Tickets £10/£8

Saturday 19th March
The Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
7.30pm, £11/£9 conc/£6 under 18s Tel: 0131 665 2240 www.bruntontheatre.co.uk

Tuesday 22nd March - Saturday 26th March
Tron Theatre (Changing House), Glasgow
8pm, £9 / £7 Tel: 0141 552 4267 www.tron.co.uk

Monday 28th March
Corran Halls, Oban
7.30pm, £8/£6 conc Tel: 01631 567 333 www.argyll-bute.gov.uk

Tuesday 29th March
Mull Theatre, Druimfin nr Tobermory, Isle of Mull
8pm, £12 / £10 conc Tel: 01688 302 828  www.mulltheatre.com

Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd April
Buxton Opera House (Pavilion Arts Centre Studio)
7.45pm, £10 (conc. available) Tel: 0845 127 2190  www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk

Tuesday 5th - Saturday 9th April
Greenwich Theatre, London
7.30pm (Sat matinee 2.30pm) £17.50/£15/£12.50Tel: 020 8858 7755  www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk

Cast Biogs

Dave Anderson  -- Frank

This is Dave’s second show for Rapture – he performed in “Hamlet” this time last year. Dave has also been a regular

writer/performer  in “A Play, a Pie and a Pint” at the Oran Mor in Glasgow’s West End, and has just finished the panto and “ A Bottle of Wine and Patsy Cline” at that venue. Films include “Gregory’s Girl” , “Heavenly Pursuits” and “Orphans”. He’s probably best known as the bank manager in BBC’s “City Lights”. Look out for his cabaret show this spring !!!!.

Jimmy Chisholm -- Gary

This is Jimmy’s third appearance with Rapture, the other two being “Blue/Orange” and “The Collection”.

From Inverness , Jimmy trained at Queen Margaret Drama College and is a well known face to theatre audiences in Scotland and indeed Britain having appeared in theatres such as The Lyceum, The Citizens, Perth, Pitlochry, Eden Court Inverness, His Majesty’s Aberdeen, Dundee Rep, The Festival Edinburgh and The Kings in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He has also worked with companies including The National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company.

Jimmy has also worked extensively in film, tv and radio

Finn Den Hertog -- Tom

Finn trained at RSAMD, graduating in 2007. Recent theatre credits include Spring Awakening (Grid Iron/Traverse) Decky Does A Bronco (Grid Iron) Soup (Oran Mor/Traverse) The Silver Darlings, Sunset Song (HMT Aberdeen) Beauty and the Beast (Dundee Rep) The Tempest, Saint Joan (AandBC) The Ducky and The Wall (Borderline) - winner of the 2008 CATS Award for Best Ensemble. Television credits include Taggart, Rebus (SMG) How Not To Live Your Life (BBC) Burnistoun (BBC/Comedy Unit) and for radio The Three Knots, The Island With No Name, Do You Know Where I Am?, Sunset Song, The Summer Walking, Lost in Plain Sight (all BBC Radio 4) He is a member of the Poorboy Ensemble and co-founder of The Atlas Company.
  

Jordan Young -- Eddie

The Real Thing (The Old Vic) The Chooky Brae (Borderline theatre) Curse of the starving class, Taming of the shrew, The comedy of errors and Beauty and the beast (Royal Lyceum) Black watch, original cast member and U.S.A 2007 Tour (National theatre of Scotland) Cinderella, Peter Pan and Aladdin (His Majestys Aberdeen) Slick (Vox motus) Angels wings and Rain (Oran Mor) Aladdin (Macrobert theatre) The Seagll (Edinburgh international festival/Russian drama centre Riga) Midsummer nights dream, Lachlans choice hotel (Brunton theatre) Cyrano(Catherine wheels) Cinderella, Mother goose and Sleeping beauty(Kings glasgow) Cinderella (take two) Television credits include- Chris in new series Rab C nesbitt Jan 2010 (BBC two) Whiteout (Constantin films, for German television) Rab C nesbitt xmas special 2009 (BBC two) New town (Pirate Productions, BBC two) Legit, Still game, Only an excuse Hogmanay 2007 and Only an excuse 2006 world cup special (All Comedy unit for BBC scotland) Rebus (SMG) The strange case of sherlock holmes (BBC one) Film credits include- Driving lessons(Rubber tree plat prod) Wild Country(Gabriel films) Radio credits include- My romantic history(BBC radio four) Bloodbus, Jiggidy, Fags mags and bags and The wedding (All comedy unit for BBC radio Scotland) Black watch (BBC radio four) Mclevey(bbc radio four) Cats crime and Shellshocked(BBC radio Scotland)

 

 

 

Creative Team

  

MICHAEL EMANS  (Director)

 

Trained: Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.

 

Previous Theatre Includes: Over the Mountain

(Creek Road Studio Theatre), Tom Jones (Lillian Bayliss Theatre), The Finishing School (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton)

 

For Rapture Theatre, Michael has directed: Death and the Maiden, The Dumb Waiter, Some Kind of Love Story, Shadowlands, Taking Sides, Clara, An Evening with Gary Lineker,  Boys’ Life, Grace,  Death of a Salesman, A Kind of Alaska, Habeas Corpus, Rat in the Skull, Oleanna, Macbeth, Perfect Days, Bold Girls, Shang a lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Mr.Peters’ Connections, Insignificance, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Your Turn to Clean the Stair, The Old Neighborhood, The Sailmaker, Richard III, Double Top, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Iune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange ,Damages, The Collection ,Frozen ,Broken Glass , Shining City ,Betrayal 2008, Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Hamlet

 

Michael assisted Mark Thomson at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on “Uncle Varick” and “Six Black Candles”  .Michael has also directed at the Oran Mor the winner of the Orange Playwriting Award “Magnum Opus” and more recently the acclaimed “Burns on the Solway”

 

Michael recently directed acclaimed Scottish actors, John Stahl, Sandy Morton and Kenneth Bryans in the short film “God’s Favourite Son ?”

 

 

 

LYN MCANDREW (Designer)

 

Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University

 

Previous Theatre Includes:

The High School, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, A Night in the Ukraine,

Teechers, The Steamie, Men Should Weep, The Cemetery Club

The London Vertigo, The Orchestra, Play it again Sam.

 

For Rapture Theatre as actress: Macbeth, Perfect Days, Shang a Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Bold Girls, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Proof

 

For Rapture Theatre as designer: Macbeth, Perfect Days, Assassins, Insignificance, Simpatico, Old Neighborhood, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Frankie and Johnny, Proof , Misery, Blue/Orange ,Damages and The Collection ,Broken Glass and Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Hamlet

 

 

 Andrew Wilson -- Lighting Designer

Andrew has worked as a Lighting Designer for many years – on productions of all sizes from the tiniest theatre in the land to the largest stage in Europe. Recent credits include: “The Lasses, O” and “The Ragged Lion” for Rowantree Theatre (Scottish Tours), “Lanza” for Cast Theatre (UK Tour), “Love's Time's Beggar” for Ankur Productions, “Fugee” and “Blackout” for RSAMD Dramaworks, “The Emotional Life of Furniture” for Spartan Productions and “Beating the Drum for Africa” for the Usher Hall. He is looking forward to “Gagarin Way” - his first production with Rapture Theatre.

 

 

Jools Walls ---Production Manager

Jools graduated from Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh and has worked in theatre and events since 1993. She has toured Britain extensively with various theatre companies, such as Traverse Theatre, Borderline Theatre, Cumbernauld Theatre Company, English Touring Theatre, Visible Fictions, SNAP People’s Theatre and TAG. She was Company Manager on the very first ‘Balamory, Live’ Arena Tour. Jools was Production Manager for Fringe Sunday for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 7 years. Event experience includes, Edinburgh & Glasgow Hogmanay, BIG in Falkirk, Glasgow Art Fair and The Gathering Clan Pageant. Jools secretly wants to be a stunt driver!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£10 / £9 • Groups 10+ £7.50