The Iphigenia Quartet. Caroline Bird

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      Gate Theatre presents

      The Iphigenia

      Quartet

      By Caroline Bird, Suhayla El-Bushra,

      Lulu Raczka & Chris Thorpe

       THE IPHIGENIA QUARTET

      Agamemnon by Caroline Bird

      Iphigenia by Suhayla El-Bushra

      Clytemnestra by Lulu Raczka

      Chorus by Chris Thorpe

       CAST

Agamemnon & Chorus
(in alphabetical order)
Menelaus & Voice	Nigel Barrett
Clytemnestra & Voice	Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Agamemnon & Voice	Andrew French
Messenger & Voice	Louise McMenemy
Iphigenia & Clytemnestra
(in alphabetical order)
Agamemnon & Director	Anthony Barclay
Iphigenia & Maid	Shannon Tarbet
Clytemnestra & Professor	Susie Trayling
Achilles & Maid	Dwane Walcott
CREATIVE TEAM
Director (Agamemnon)	Christopher Haydon
Director (Clytemnestra)	Jennifer Tang
Director (Iphigenia)	Rebecca Hill
Director (Chorus)	Elayce Ismail
Designer	Cécile Trémolières
Lighting Designer	Joshua Pharo
Sound Designer	Elena Peña
Movement Director	Aline David
Dialect Coach	Hazel Holder
Fight Choreographer	Yarit Dor
Production Manager	Heather Doole
Stage Manager	Katy Munroe Farlie
Stage Manager	Charlotte McBrearty
Assistant Director	Jade Lewis
Assistant Director	Ed Madden
Design Assistant	Bex Kemp
Production Electrician	Sarah Readman
Press	Kate Morley for Kate Morley PR([email protected] | 07970 465648)

      The Gate would also like to thank the following people for their help with the development of this production: Adam Nelson, Helen Murray, Bobette Kenge, Lucy Ellinson, Stefan Adegbola, William Gaminara, David Calvitto, and the team at Omnibus Clapham.

      The Iphigenia Quartet was developed, in part, with assistance from the Orchard Project, a program of The Exchange (www.exchangenyc.org).

      Ari Edelson, Artistic Director. Barbara Toy, Executive Director.

      The Iphigenia Quartet is kindly supported by:

      David and Linda Lakhdhir

      Matthew Bannister and Kate McGuire

      Robert Devereux

      Eric Fellner

      Lucy Morris

      Fenton Arts Trust

      Unity Theatre Trust

       CAST

       AGAMEMNON & CHORUS

       NIGEL BARRETT – MENELAUS & VOICE

      Theatre credits include: Every One (Battersea Arts Centre/Chris Goode & Co.); The Body (Barbican); UR (Festival des Ecrivains du Monde, Paris); Monument (wiretapper); Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage); The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Face (Shunt); Praxis Makes Perfect (National Theatre Wales, Berliner Festspiele); Mad Man (Theatre Royal Plymouth); There Has Possibly Been an Incident (Royal Exchange Manchester/Soho Theatre); A Conversation (The Yard); Ring (Fuel); The Architects and Money (Shunt); Get Stuff Break Free (Made in China/National Theatre); Babel and The Passion (WildWorks); Pericles (Regents Park); Shelf Life (National Theatre of Wales); Richard III – An Arab Tragedy (Royal Shakespeare Company/Bouffes du Nord); Contains Violence (Lyric Hammersmith); The Unconquered (Traverse Theatre); Hide (Royal Festival Hall); The High Road (Clod Ensemble); Amato Saltone (National Theatre/ Shunt); The Mirror for Princes (Barbican); Tropicana (National Theatre/Shunt); The Al-Hamlet Summit (Zaoum/Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic); Melting the Ice (Zaoum/ Sulayman Al-Bassam); Single Spies (Theatre Royal Bath); Playing with Fire (White Bear); Miss Julie (Someone Else Theatre); Incarcerator (Battersea Arts Centre); Tennis Show (Shunt); Macbeth (Zaoum / Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre); Cymbeline (Bear Gardens); Cami (Gate Theatre) and Everyman (Sulayman Al-Bassam/Cochrane Theatre).

      Film and television credits include: Doctors; Cycles (Toynbee film); The Gospel of Us (Michael Sheen); The Boat, Hello You, Casualty, Crimewatch, Meet the Piltdowns, Hairy Eyeball, Dawson’s Creek Special, The Mysteries, Deadline, The Lens, Sexual Healing and England My England.

      Radio credits include: The Letters of Pliny, The Liberty Cap, Richard Tyrone Jones’ Big Heart and The Influence and The Life of Edmund Shakespeare (Radio 4).

       SHARON DUNCAN-BREWSTER – CLYTEMNESTRA & VOICE

      Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman); Hope, Babies (Royal Court Theatre); The El Train (Hoxton Hall); Yerma (The Gate Theatre); The Swan, There Is A War (National Theatre); Tiger Country, Keepers (Hampstead Theatre); Detaining Justice, Seize The Day, Category B, Let There Be Love, Fabulation, Playboy Of The West Indies (Tricycle Theatre); The Horse Marines (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Bacchae (National Theatre Scotland/Lincoln Centre, New York); Black Crows (Clean Break/ Arcola Theatre); The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith); Blues For Mr Charlie (Tricycle/New Wolsey); Dirty Butterfly (Soho Theatre); Peepshow (Frantic Assembly/Plymouth/Lyric Theatre); Crave (Paines Plough); So Special (Royal Exchange); Yard Gal (Clean Break/Royal Court/Mcc Theatre, New York) and The No Boys Cricket Club (Stratford East Theatre Royal).

      Television credits include: Unforgotten, Cucumber, Top Boy, The Mimic (Channel 4); The Bible (Channel 4/History Channel) The Bill (Thames); Going Forward, Cuffs, Holby City, Doctor Who, Eastenders, Doctors, Shoot The Messenger, Waking The Dead, Baby Father, Bad Girls and Casualty (BBC).

      Short film credits include: A Blues For Nia (Bbc/Eclipse) and The Child (BBC Film).

       ANDREW FRENCH – AGAMEMNON & VOICE

      Theatre credits include: Bully Boy (Mercury Theatre Colchester); Boi Boi is Dead (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Roundabout Season (Paines Plough); Refugee Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Aquila Theatre USA); Measure for Measure (Almeida Theatre); Monster (Royal Exchange