Carthage. Chris Thompson
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Theatre Bench in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents
The World Premiere
CARTHAGE
by Chris Thompson
FINBOROUGH | THEATRE
First performed at the Finborough Theatre as a staged reading as part of Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights: Thursday, 15 November 2012.
First performed at the Finborough Theatre: Tuesday, 28 January 2014.
Chris Thompson is the Channel 4 Playwrights Scheme
Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre,
sponsored by Channel 4 Television and supported by
The Peggy Ramsay Foundation.
CARTHAGE
by Chris Thompson
Cast in order of speaking
| Tommy Anderson | Jack McMullen |
| Anne Anderson | Claire-Louise Cordwell |
| Marcus Reeves | Toby Wharton |
| Sue Ruskin | Lisa Palfrey |
| Karin Francis | Elaine Claxton |
| Simon Gale/Lou Martel | Oliver Jackson |
| Alex Sutherland | Chinna Wodu |
The action takes place in London, 1998 to 2013.
The performance lasts approximately eighty minutes.
There will be no interval.
| Director | Robert Hastie |
| Designer | James Perkins |
| Lighting Designer | Gary Bowman |
| Casting Directors | Alastair Coomer CDG |
| Vicky Richardson | |
| Fight Director | Philip d’Orléans |
| Production Manager | Bernd Fauler |
| Stage Manager | Sophie Goody |
| Associate Designer | Sophia Simensky |
| Assistant Director | Hannah Jones |
| Assistant Lighting Designer | Jack Weir |
| Production Electrician/Programmer | Dan Street |
| Producer | Jim Zalles |
| Associate Producer | Lauren McGee |
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.
Elaine Claxton | Karin Francis
Theatre includes Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead Theatre), Nation, The Relapse, A Winter’s Tale, Richard II, The Relapse and The Children’s Hour (National Theatre).
Television includes Wire In The Blood, Doc Martin, A Dinner of Herbs and Waking The Dead.
Claire-Louise Cordwell | Anne Anderson Trained at RADA.
Theatre includes Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Beautiful Thing (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), The Swan (National Theatre), There is a War (National Theatre), Ecstasy (Hampstead Theatre and Duchess Theatre), Oleanna (Theatre Royal York), Orphans (Paines Plough), The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe), Othello (Frantic Assembly), Torn (Arcola Theatre), Dirty Butterfly (The Young Vic), Days of Significance (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Tricycle Theatre), Burn / Chatroom / Citizenship (National Theatre), Stoning Mary (Royal Court Theatre) and Compact Failure (Clean Break).
Film includes Snow in Paradise, Stuart: A Life Backwards and The Curry Club.
Television includes Line of Duty, The Honourable Woman, Holby City, Call the Midwife, Casualty, Doctors, The Bill, Law and Order UK, Day of the Triffids, EastEnders, Trial and Retribution, Jane Hall’s Big Bad Bus Ride and Bad Girls.
Oliver Jackson | Simon Gale / Lou Martel Theatre includes She Stoops To Conquer (National Theatre), The Glee Club (Bush Theatre and Duchess Theatre), Our House (Cambridge Theatre), Les Miserables (Palace Theatre), Erics (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich), Alice In Wonderland (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and two seasons at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park.
Film includes Redirected, Entity, Les Miserables and Unlawful Killing.
Television includes Law and Order UK, Murderland, He Kills Coppers, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Bill, Doctors, 2:4 Children and Peak Practice.
Jack McMullen | Tommy Anderson
Theatre includes The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Pilot Theatre at Theatre Royal York).
Film includes Seamonsters and The Hatching. Television includes Waterloo Road, Moving On, The Street and Casualty.
Lisa Palfrey | Sue Ruskin
Theatres includes Before It Rains (Bristol Old Vic and Sherman Cymru, Cardiff), Canvas (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Kitchen Sink (Bush Theatre), Red Bud (Royal Court Theatre), Ingredient X (Royal Court Theatre), Small Change (Sherman Cymru, Cardiff), Blink (Tour and Off-Broadway for FAB Theatre Company), Gathered Dust And Dead Skin (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Festen (Lyric Theatre and Almeida Theatre), Under The Blue Sky (Royal Court Theatre), The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre), Cardiff East (National Theatre), Under Milk Wood (National Theatre), Yerma (National Theatre Studio), The Story of an African Farm (National Theatre Studio), Ghosts (Sherman Cymru, Cardiff) and House of America (National Tour).
Film includes Pride, Maybe Baby, Guest House Paradiso, House of America, The Deadness of Dad and The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain.
Television includes Family Tree, Blodau, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Bill, Armadillo, Casualty, Green Eyed Monster, Magistrates, Mind Games and Split Second.
Toby Wharton | Marcus Reeves
At the Finborough Theatre, Toby co-wrote and appeared in Fog (2012) and appeared in His Greatness (2012) and Carthage as part of Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights.
Trained at RADA.
Theatre includes Home (National Theatre), Days of Significance (Royal Shakespeare