The Mistress Contract (Oberon Modern Plays). Abi Morgan
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ROYAL COURT
The Royal Court Theatre presents
THE MISTRESS CONTRACT
by Abi Morgan
Inspired by the memoir THE MISTRESS CONTRACT by She and He
THE MISTRESS CONTRACT was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, on Thursday 30th January 2014.
THE MISTRESS CONTRACT
by Abi Morgan
Inspired by the memoir THE MISTRESS CONTRACT by She and He
Cast in alphabetical order She Saskia Reeves He Danny Webb
Director Vicky Featherstone
Designer Merle Hensel
Lighting Designer Natasha Chivers
Composer & Sound Designer Nick Powell
Casting Director Julia Horan CDG
Assistant Director Debbie Hannan
Production Manager Tariq Rifaat
Stage Manager Michael Dennis
Deputy Stage Manager Julia Slienger
Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Coates
Stage Management Work Placement Kit Fordham
Costume Supervisor Jackie Orton
Dialect Coach Penny Dyer
Set built by Miraculous Engineering
Set painted by Kerry Jarret
Scenic elements modelled by Luca Crestani
Cyclorama printed by Prompt Side
Digital Artist Emma Pile
The Royal Court and Stage Management wish to thank the following for their help with this production: Paul Gillieron at Gillieron Scott Acoustic, The Cactus Shop, Mike Hall at Dundee Rep, Keir Bosley, Heidi Mulvey at Cambridge University Press, James Lewis at HarperCollins UK, Thomas Walker at signature-gifts.co.uk, Jake Fordham, Random House, Oberon, Margaret at YMCA King’s Road.
THE COMPANY
ABI MORGAN (Writer)
THEATRE INCLUDES: Skinned (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Splendour, Tiny Dynamite, Sleeping Around (Paines Plough); Lovesong (Frantic Assembly); Tender (Hampstead); Fugee (National); 27 (National Theatre of Scotland).
TELEVISION INCLUDES; My Fragile Heart, Murder, Sex Traffic, Tsunami – The Aftermath, White Girl, Royal Wedding, Birdsong, The Hour.
FILM INCLUDES: The Invisible Woman, Suffragette, The Iron Lady, Shame, Brick Lane.
NATASHA CHIVERS (Lighting Designer)
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Gastronauts, The Djinns of Eidgah, That Face (&West End).
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Othello, Pool (No Water), Peepshow, Tiny Dynamite, Hymns, Sell-Out (Frantic Assembly); Macbeth (Tramway/Lincoln Centre Festival); Happy Days (Sheffield Crucible Studio); The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (National Theatre of Wales); The Wheel (Traverse/National Theatre of Scotland); 27 (Lyceum, Edinburgh/National Theatre of Scotland); The Motor Show (Brighton Festival/GDIF); Cinderella, Love (Lyric Hammersmith); The Glass Cage (Theatre Royal Northampton); Statement of Regret (National); Beyond Belief (Legs on the Wall); The Wolves in the Walls (Improbable/National Theatre of Scotland); Mercury Fur (Paines Plough/Plymouth Drum); Pyrenees (Paines Plough/Tron); Small Things (Paines Plough); The Lizzie Play (National Tour/Hong Kong Festival); The Straits (Hampstead/East 59 East); The Kindness of Strangers (Liverpool Everyman); Home (Glasgow) (National Theatre of Scotland); Run! (The Queen’s House); Palace Dreams (Crystal Palace); Renaissance (Three Mills Island).
DANCE INCLUDES: Electric Hotel (Fuel/Saddler’s Wells); Scattered (Motionhouse); Electric Counterpoint (Royal Opera House); Ballet for the People (Royal Festival Hall); Encore (Sadler’s Wells/Tour).
OPERA INCLUDES: Zaide (Sadler’s Wells/Tour); Trouble in Tahiti, Mahagonny Songspiel (The Opera Group).
PENNY DYER (Dialect Coach)
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Circle Mirror Transformation, The Low Road, Choir Boy, In Basildon, Posh (& West End), Clybourne Park (& West End), The Faith Machine, The Girlfriend Experience, Chicken Soup with Barley, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, Tusk Tusk, Wig Out! The Pride, Now or Later, The Vertical Hour, Redundant, Plasticine, Spinning into Butter, Fireface, Other People, Mojo.
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Henry V, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Peter & Alice, Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company); This House, Blood & Gifts (National); Sweet Bird of Youth, Hedda Gabler, Speed-the-Plow (Old Vic); The Commitments, The Book of Mormon, Abigail’s Party, Absent Friends, Legally Blond, Long Day’s Journey into Night (West End); Desire Under the Elms, Saved, Spring Awakening (Lyric, Hammersmith); Good People, Rupture Blister Burn, Longing, 55 Days (Hampstead), Julius Caesar (RSC); Reasons to Be Pretty, A Delicate Balance, Becky Shaw (Almeida); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (CFT/West End); Kiss Me, Kate (CFT/Old Vic); Roots, The Promise, Making Noise Quietly, Salt, Root & Roe, Inadmissible Evidence, Anna Christie, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Passion, A Streetcar Named Desire, Parade, Piaf, Frost/Nixon (Donmar); How To Succeed In Business (Broadway).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Tubby & Enid, Tommy Cooper, The Great Train Robbery, The Girl, Mrs Biggs, The Job Lot, The Café, The Slap, Downton Abbey, Gracie, Small Island, Margaret, Most Sincerely, Fantabuloso, The Deal.
FILM INCLUDES: Pride, Philomena, Sunshine on Leith, The Double, Kill Your Darlings, My Week with Marilyn, Tamara Drewe, Nowhere Boy, Cheri, The Damned United, The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Infamous, Dirty Pretty Things, Ladies in Lavender, Elizabeth.
VICKY FEATHERSTONE (Director)
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; Talk Show, Untitled Matriarch Play, The President Has Come to See You (Open Court Weekly Rep).
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Enquirer (co-director), Appointment with The Wicker Man, 27, The Wheel, Somersaults, Wall of Death:A Way of Life (co-director), The Miracle Man, Empty, Long Gone Lonesome (National Theatre of Scotland); Cockroach (National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse); 356 (National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival); Mary Stuart (NTS/Citizens/Glasgow/Royal Lyceum);The Wolves in the Walls (co-director) (NTS/Tramway/Lyric/UK Tour/New Victory, New York); The Small Things, Pyrenees, On Blindness, The Drowned World, Tiny Dynamite, Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco, Splendour, Riddance, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Crave (Paines Plough).
CREATED FOR TELEVISION: Where the Heart Is, Silent Witness.
Vicky was Artistic Director of Paines Plough 1997-2005 and Artistic Director of The National Theatre of Scotland 2005-2012.
Vicky is the Artistic Director of the Royal Court.
DEBBIE HANNAN (Assistant Director)
AS DIRECTOR, FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Peckham: The Soap Opera (co-director).
AS DIRECTOR, OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Notes from the Underground (Citizens); Panorama, Roses Are Dead, You Cannot Call it Love (Arches); Yellow Pears (Swept Up); liberty, equality, fraternity (Tron/Traverse); Grimm Tales, Nights at the Circus (Paradok).
AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, THEATRE INCLUDES: A Doll’s House, Enquirer (National Theatre of Scotland/Lyceum); The Maids, Beauty & the Beast (Citizens); Kurt Weill: Double Bill (Scottish Opera); War of the Roses Trilogy (Bard in the Botanics); Hamlet (Globe Education).
Debbie