Hamlet
Grant O’Rourke
Grant trained at the RSAMD. Theatre work includes The Slab Boys Trilogy [Traverse], Into The Dark [Visible Fictions], The Memorandum [Communicado], Hermiston [Rowan Tree], Flours O’ Edinburgh, The Philadelphia Story, Taking Sides, Wild Honey, Arcadia, Habeas Corpus and Outlying Islands [PFT], After Mary Rose [Magnetic North], Richard III, Taming of the Shrew [Bard in the Botanics] and Othello [Citizens]. TV/Film credits include Crying With Laughter, Taggart, Still Game, Feel the Force, High Times, How Not To Live Your Life, Around Scotland, See You See Me. He has appeared in numerous plays and readings on radio 4, among others; Look Back In Anger, Almost Blue, The Voyage of The Demeter, Raven Black and several Woman’s Hour serials.
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Old Hamlet/ Osric/Gravedigger
Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson has been Gregory’s dad in “Gregory’s Girl”, Tom Conti and Helen Mirren’s Headmaster in “Heavenly Pursuits”, Charlie Sheen’s sparring partner in “Obit” amongst many other films.
He was the bank manager in BBC’s “City Lights”, various cops, suspects and “red herrings” in “Taggart” over the years, a French Diplomat and a cowboy on “Rab C. Nesbit”, and many other characters on TV.
His songs for “The Steamie” are being performed, somewhere, right now. His musical, “Tir na nOg”, won “Best New Musical” award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007, and he continues to write musical shows, and to present his cabaret of songs and story.
In a long and varied career, this is his first Shakespeare!
Ophelia / Gravedigger Emily Jane Boyle
Theatre: Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray (Sadlers Wells/European Tour); Imagine This (New London); Faith Crombie in Noel Coward’s I’ll Leave It To You (Pentameters); Rosie in Cabaret (Lyric), where she was also Assistant Choreographer; Morag Sinclair in Tunes of Glory (Middle Ground Theatre); The Likes of Us (Sydmonton Festival); On The Town (London Coliseum); The Seven Deadly Sins and Petrushka (Opera North); Night 1000 Voices:A Tribute to Trevor Nunn (Royal Albert Hall)
Television: Mari in Cracked (Scottish Television); Young Judy Garland in Death by Excess (Sky 1); A Tongue in yer Heid (BBC Scotland); T In The Park (BBC campaign); Commercials for Kit Kat, Radox, Ebay and Doritos
Radio/Recordings: The Verb, Finders Keepers (BBC Radio 2);
Original Cast Recordings of Imagine This and The Likes of Us
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Barnardo /Laertes/ Rosencrantz
Ali Craig
Ali trained at Mountview Academy of Performing Art.
Theatre works include: Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland), Rocky Horror Show (European Tour), Waterproof (Oran Mor), College performances of Closer, A Slight Ache.
Television works include: Monarch of the Glen (BBC), Sea of Souls (BBC), Black Watch (BBC), A Soldiers Story (BBC)
Radio works include: Black Watch (BBC Radio 3)
Film works include: The Good Times Are Killing Me (Shaftsbury Films), Pelican Blood (Ecosse Films/Icon Entertainment)
Gertrude Valerie Gogan
Valerie Gogan has worked extensively in the theatre, playing leading roles at the National, RSC and in the West End and Repertory. Highlights include Nora in Ibsen's 'A Doll's House', Hermoine/Perdita in 'The Winter's Tale', Emilie in 'Les Liasions Dangereuses', and Lucile in 'The Rehearsal'. New plays include Charlotte Jones's hit 'In Flame' and most recently the UK premiere of Jon Fosse’s “Warm” and at Hampstead Theatre 'The Water When It Burns'. A distinguished TV career includes playing Alex, one of the two female leads in the popular BBC series, 'Hamish MacBeth', and Emily in BBC's 'David Copperfield'. Feature films include 'Dangerous Liasions', 'One More Kiss', and 'As You Like It'. Valerie will soon be seen in award-winning director Tinge Krishnan's debut feature 'Honey and Razorblades', and Sam Moon's 'Animal'. She also recently narrated Val McDairmid's, latest crime novel 'A Darker Domain', for Harper Collins.
Horatio Donald Munro
A founder member of Fizzgig & Grubb Theatre Company, who specialise in dinner theatre and site specific indoor and outdoor events, shows have included:
Babes in the Wood Panto, The Woman who Cooked Her Husband, Chekhov’s The Proposal & The Bear, Nightmare with Clocks, The Problem, The Canterbury Ghost.
With Goodnight Out Theatre Company – appeared in Memory of Water and Twelfth Night.
With TheatreFusion: The Office Party, Blue Remembered Hills, 12 Angry Men, Baby & the Bathwater.
At Edinburgh Festival Fringe, various productions including: Loot, Backstage at the Pussy Kat Club, Live Bed Show.
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Polonius /Marcellus/Doctor
Alan Steele
Trained at RSAMD, Alan has worked extensively in theatre throughout the UK. Productions include Macbeth, Art and Kidnapped (Mull Theatre) , Dracula (Courtyard Hereford) , Confessions Of A Justified Sinner (Rowan Tree) , A Taste Of Honey and The Crucible ( Tag/ NTS) , Taking Sides, Good Things, Whisky Galore and The Life Of Stuff (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and The Emperors New Kilt (Wee Stories/NTS) .
Television appearances include Taggart -of course ! (STV) and How Not To Live Your Life , The Sword And The Cross and The Age Of Enlightenment (BBC) .
Radio includes Confessions Of A Justified Sinner (BBC Radio 4) .
Claudius/ Francisco David Tarkenter
This is a return to Rapture for David after appearing in “Betrayal” at St. Andrews in 2008.
His other theatre credits include: Treasure Island for Northern broadsides, two summer seasons and a spring season at Theatre by the Lake , Keswick where he appeared in The Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Frozen, The Birthday Party among others. He has performed in over a dozen plays at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester including Two, Twelfth Night, Of Mice and Men, Coriolanus, Lonesome West and Dick Whittington to name a few.
There have also been numerous shows for NTC Touring, several for Cleveland Theatre Company and three pantos at The Sands Centre, Carlisle.
Tv Inc: Harry, Heartbeat, Rebus and Byker Gove
Player King
Mike Tibbetts
“Hamlet” is Mike’s thirteenth production with Rapture Theatre. Previous work with Rapture has included the title role in “Richard III”, Malvolio in “Twelfth Night” and roles in plays by David Mamet, Sam Shepard and Harold Pinter. Other recent roles has included Creon in Anouilh’s “Antigone” at the Ramshorn Theatre in Glasgow. Previously Mike has worked with a number of companies across Scotland and the North of England. Mike is also an award-winning playwright, with a number of plays in publication.
Creative Team
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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 and Last of the Red Hot Lovers
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
Davy Cunnigham (Lighting Designer)
Davy Cunningham was born in Scotland and studied philosophy at Stirling University.
He has designed the lighting for more than two hundred opera productions throughout Britain and for most major European opera companies from Antwerp to Zürich as well as in Australia and North America. His work encompasses huge lighting installations on the lake at the Bregenz Festival as well as the intimacy of Mozart at Schönbrunn Palace. Several of the productions he has lit in recent years have been taken up by opera companies all over Europe and beyond.
In spoken theatre he has lit productions for Druid in Galway and the USA, The Abbey and The Gate, major West End productions and plays on Broadway, at the Royal Shakespeare Company, for the National Theatre, the Old Vic and British regional companies.
In 2010 he lights plays and operas in Frankfurt, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Hamburg, Galway, Lille and Berlin.
Anne E Page Production Manager
Anne is a graduate of the RSAMD, Glasgow. For her BA in Technical and Production Arts, Anne specialised in Stage Management, Set and Costume Design, Costume and Props Making and Scenic Art. She has worked with several Scottish-based companies Borderline Theatre Company, 7:84, Heather Fulton/Complete Productions Ltd., Toonspeak, Alyson Orr Ltd and Vox Motus. She worked as Company Manager for Imagine Theatre at the Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock over the festive season.
Molly Stoker --- Relighter
Molly was trained in technical theatre at The Oldham College gaining an HND in Lighting and Sound Design in 2002. After leaving college, she spent time working abroad and community touring in the north of England. She worked at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre in its opening season. She has spent four years at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, first as Assistant then as Deputy Head of Lighting and Sound, and has done two seasons with Scottish Opera.
