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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 (kate@katemorleypr.com \| 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.

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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 Manchester); I Like Mine With a Kiss (Bush Theatre); As You Like It (Wyndhams Theatre London); Reference to Salvador Dali (Arcola Theatre/Young Vic); The Taming of the Shrew (Nottingham Playhouse); The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre); Troilus and Cressida (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Globe Theatre); Things Fall Apart (West Yorkshire/ Royal Court Theatre); The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre) and The Tempest (Shared Experience).

Film credits include: Artificial Horizon (Artificial Horizon Limited); Breaking the Bank (Black Hangar Studios); Song for Marion (WH Films); Exorcist: The Beginning (Morgan Creek); Exorcist: Dominion (Morgan Creek USA); The Merchant of Venice (BBC Films); Doctor Sleep (Kismet Films) and Tailor of Panama (Columbia Pictures).

Television credits include: Capital (Kudos for BBC 1); Eastenders (BBC); Holby City (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Perfect Parents (Granada Television/ITV); Primeval (Impossible Pictures/ITV); Soundproof, Blast! (Films/BBC2); The Bill (Thames Television); Trust (Box TV); In Deep (Valentine Productions); A Touch of Frost (Yorkshire Television); Casualty (BBC); Family Affairs (Pearson Television); Burnside (Thames Television); The Bill (Thames Television) and Tough Love (Granada Television).

Radio credits include: The Mother of… (BBC Radio 4) and The Last Supper (BBC Radio 3).

LOUISE MCMENEMY – MESSENGER & VOICE

Louise is a Scottish Actor and trained at the Italia Conti Academy on the 3 Year BA (Hons) Acting programme.

Theatre credits include: See Bob Run (Bread and Roses Theatre); All Things Nice (White Bear Theatre); Boris Godunov and The Ghost Train (The Jack Studio Theatre).

IPHIGENIA & CLYTEMNESTRA

ANTHONY BARCLAY – AGAMEMNON & DIRECTOR

Theatre credits include: Anna Karenina (The Royal Exchange Theatre); Religion & Anarchy: Line Up and Gas (Jermyn Street Theatre); Dear World (Charing Cross Theatre); Oedipus (Spoleto Festival, USA; Nottingham Playhouse; Liverpool Everyman, and Edinburgh Festival); Coalition/Shotgun Civil Partnership in the Rose Garden (Theatre 503); Biblical Tales (New End Hampstead); Road (Lyric Hammersmith); Twelfth Night (Manchester Royal Exchange); Kiss of the Spiderwoman (York Theatre Royal); Credible Witness (Royal Court Theatre); Vurt (Manchester Contact Theatre); La Strada (National Theatre Studio); The Taming of the Shrew (English Touring Theatre); The Iron Man (Young Vic); Assasins (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar (Regent’s Park) and The Fantastics (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

Television credits include: Vera (BBC); New Tricks (BBC); Judge John Deed (BBC); Coronation Street (Granada); Mersey Beat (BBC); Lock, Stock (Channel 4); Smack the Pony (Channel 4); Casualty (BBC); Birds of a Feather (BBC); Sorry about Last Night (BBC); Common as Muck (BBC); Love Hurts (BBC) and Screaming (BBC).

Film credits include: The Life of Jimmy Horton (Harbourmaster Films); No Humans Involved (SFilms); Job’s Dinner (Caravanserai Productions); A Price Worth Paying (Area 17 Films); Devil in Your Details (Rolling Media/Roll 7); Road (Cheeky Pictures); Prix de Rome (PDR Productions); Citizen vs Kane (Streetlight Films) and Red Black (Booblah, Brick and Pin).

SHANNON TARBET – IPHIGENIA & MAID

Theatre credits include: The Edge of Our Bodies (Gate Theatre); Hotel (National Theatre); A View from the Bridge (Liverpool Everyman Playhouse); Circle Mirror Transformation (Royal Court/Rose Lipman Centre); To Kill A Mockingbird (Manchester Royal Exchange); Spur of the Moment (Royal Court Theatre); 66 Books – When You Left I Thought I’d Die But Now I’m Fine (Bush Theatre); The Flooded Grave (Bush Theatre/Latitude Festival); Mary Shelley (Shared Experience); Mogadishu (Manchester Royal Exchange/Lyric Hammersmith); Rapture, Blister, Burn and Skane (Hampstead Theatre).

Her television credits include: Virtuoso, River, Lewis, Inspector George Gently, Monroe and Silk.

Her film credits include: Leavey, Look Away, Winter Song and A Promise.

SUSIE TRAYLING – CLYTEMNESTRA & PROFESSOR

Susie trained at Drama Studio London, & St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

Theatre credits include: The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead (Liverpool Everyman/ETT Tour); Arthur Miller’s The Hook (Northampton Theatre Royal/ Liverpool Everyman); Vast White Stillness (Brighton Festival); The Crucible, Twelfth Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Thomas Tallis (Globe); Idomeneus, Vanya (Gate Theatre); The Seagull (Manchester Library Theatre); Sons Without Fathers (Platonov) (Belgrade Theatre/Arcola); King John, Richard III, A Soldier in Every Son (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Constant Wife, Private Lives, The Waters of the Moon (Salisbury Playhouse); Anthony & Cleopatra (Nuffield Theatre); Mary Goes First, The Mob (Orange Tree); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre); A Doll’s House, The Portrait of a Lady, Habeus Corpus, Measure for Measure (The Peter Hall Company); Women of Troy, Dream Play, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Forest (National Theatre); Don’t Look Now (Sheffield Lyceum & Lyric Hammersmith); Skylight (Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Closer (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Camera Obscura (Almeida); Hamlet (Northcott Theatre); Edward II (Sheffield Crucible) and Anna Karenina – nominated, Best Actress, Manchester Evening News Awards (Bolton Octagon).

Film and television credits include: Midsomer Murders – A Christmas Haunting (ITV); Holby City (BBC); We’ll Take Manhattan (BBC); Vera – The Crow Trap (ITV); Doctors (BBC); Emma (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Heartbeat (ITV); Inspector Lynley Mysteries (BBC); The Bill (ITV); Fragile (Just Films); Fog Bound (Mullholland Films) and All The Queen’s Men (Streamline Productions).

DWANE WALCOTT – ACHILLES & SOLDIER

Dwane trained at the Italia Conti Academy.

Theatre credits include: Hamlet (Barbican); The Twits (Royal Court); Venice Preserv’d (Spectators Guild); Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Titus Andronius, A Mad World My Masters, Candide (Royal Shakespeare Company); Damned by Despair (National Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Castle).

Television credits include: Tut (Spike TV) and Doctors (BBC).

Film credits include: Mindhorn (Scottfree/ BBC).