Act I
Property list
Dor keys (p1)
Bottoles on table (p2)
Mirror (p2)
Settee (p3)
Platter on coffee table (p4)
Glass of water (p2)
“Chicken fillets” from bra (p5)
Ugly support pants (p5)
Breakfast (p9)
Television and remote control (p9)
Glass of water (p9)
Bin bags (p10)
Julie’s black dress (p11)
Plastic bag containing provisions (p12)
Cotton wool pads/lotion (p17)
Tea things and biscuits (p19)
Dirty plates and cups on the table (p23)
Post and junk mail lies on the mat (p23)
Plastic supermarket carrier bag (p23)
Squishy package (p25)
Brightly patterned cardigan (p25)
Bag (p27)
Bottle of tablets (p30)
Phone (p32)
The plated up meals are on the dinner table and a bottle of wine (p38)
Newspaper (p40)
Small pencil like the ones you steal from Ikea (p40)
Pair of reading glasses (p440)
Mini cheesecakes on a plate (p45)
Child’s drawing (p49)
Parcel (p555)
Outer packaging reveals a cardboard box. She opens it and pulls out some packing foam (p56)
Glass jar – through cloudy liquid we can see there is an eyeball floating inside (p56)
Costume
Julie– smart black dress and heels (p1)
Gerry – smart too, but not a suit (p1)
Gerry – Coat (p5)
Ruby – dressing gown over pyjamas. Eye-patch (p7)
Gerry – same clothes from the night before (p12)
Julie – coat (p23)
Ruby – back of joggers are wet (p30)
Julie – wearing her new cardigan (p39)
Lighting
Room is in darkness (p1)
Julie turns the light on (p2)
Late afternoon (p23)
Curtains are drawn (p23)
Sound/Effects
Julie starts ringing on the doorbell (p6)
Julie leans on the bell – it rings unrelentingly (p6)
Telly is on – something loud and obnoxious (p9)
Julie finds the remote – reduces the volume (p9)
Turned the telly volume back up (p9)
Turns the telly back down (p9)
Ruby ups the telly volume louder still (p10)
Turns the telly off (p10)
Fumble of keys (p12)
The telly is on loud (p23)
We hear keys in the front door (P23)
Turns the telly off (p23)
Julie’s phone beeps (p32)
Julie tries to take a mirror down….it drops and breaks (p55)
Act II
Property list
Empty frame of the broken mirror is propped against the wall (p59)
Gerry’s camera bag (p59)
Two mugs of tea (p59)
Bloody tissues (p59)
Plastic carrier bag full of the broken mirror bits (p59)
Tiny shard of glass from the mirror (p59)
Camera (p60)
Cardboard box and thick manila envelope (p66)
Glass jar (p66)
Documents (p66)
Official looking letter (p70)
Mobile (p70)
Febreze (p70)
Printed out photo (p72)
Photo album (p72)
Sewing box (p72)
Button and a thread/needle (p72)
Handbag, phone, purse etc. (p75)
Cloth and bowl of water (p75)
Money (p75)
Freezer bag with a frozen eyeball inside (p77)
Shard of the mirror (p81)
Towel (p83)
Neat piles of paperwork (p86)
Photo album (p86)
Photo of Ruby (p87)
Suitcase (p88)
Fresh top (p89)
Purse (p95)
Glass of wine (p95)
Bottle of lotion and some cotton wool pads (p95)
Costume
Ruby – dressing gown. One of her feet has plasters on it (p659)
Gerry – dressed in a smart suit (p59)
Ruby – clean clothes, socks and slippers. Drying her damp hair with a towel (p70)
Julie – dressed in the same clothes as last time we saw her. She has slept in the (p74)
Julie – still has Ruby’s dry blood on her clothes (p84)
Gerry – in his crime screen biohazard coverall and face- mask. He has his clean-up kit (p93)
Ruby – bloodied clothes and slippers we last saw her in. Her wrist is bandaged (p103)
Lighting
Very early hours of the following morning. It is still dark out. The lights are on (p84)
Turns the lights off (p93)
Sound/Effects
Doorbell rings (p73)
Gerry’s phone rings (p76)
Keys in the front door (p84)
Doorbell rings (p93)
A knock on the door (p94)
Julie Katy Cavanagh
Ruby Sam Neale
Gerry Joe Caffrey
Writer Alison Carr
Director Max Roberts
Designer Patrick Connellan
Lighting Design Drummond Orr
Sound Design Dave Flynn
Production Manager Drummond Orr
Creative Producer Graeme Thompson
Stage Manager Adam Johnston
Deputy Stage Manager Heather Robertson
Technical Manager Dave Flynn
Technician Craig Spence
Costume Supervisor Lou Duffy
Professional Casting Lucy Jenkins CDG & Sooki McShane
CDG
Prop Maker Paul Aziz
Thanks
Chris Auld, photography, Cathy Gillespie, design and Ian McLaughlin, filming
Chief Executive Jim Beirne
Artistic Director Max Roberts
Operations Director Wendy Barnfather
Administrator to the Director Clare Gowens
Finance, Events & Venue Hire
Finance Manager Antony Robertson
Finance Officer Catherine Moody
Finance Assistant Helen Tuffnell
Events & Venue Hire Administrator Chris Foley
Marketing
Marketing Manager Cait Read
Marketing Manager (Maternity Leave) Claire Cockroft
Marketing & Press Officer Lisa Campbell
Marketing & Press Officer Melanie Rashbrooke
Box Office Administrator Amy Foley
Development
Director of Enterprise & Development Lucy Bird
Development Manager Lizzy Skingley
Education & Participation
Director of Education & Engagement Helen Moore
Associate Director Paul James
Resident Drama Worker Jon Luke McKie
Resident Drama Worker Toni McElhatton
Resident Drama Worker Christina Castling
Administrator Roisin Crowley Linton
Literary
Literary Manager Gez Casey
Creative Producer Graeme Thompson
Administrator Degna Stone
Production & Technical
Production Manager Drummond Orr
Technical Manager Dave Flynn
Technician Craig Spence
House Management
House Manager Carole Wears
Deputy House Manager Michael Davies
Duty House Manager Ben Young
Duty House Manager Mark Gerrens
Duty House Manager Lewis Jobson
Duty House Manager Sarah Matthews
Front of House & Box Office Staff
Glace Blamire, Nina Berry, Danielle Burn, Camille Burridge, Lewis Gray, Claire Henderson, Caroline Liversidge, Alicia Meehan, Arthur Roberts and Anna Ryder.
Friends of Live Theatre
Iris is the third production supported by the friends of Live Theatre. Through regular financial contributions the friends play a key role in helping us to nurture and develop new writing talent and deliver plays of world-class quality.
Our Best Friends are:
Noreen Bates
Jim Beirne
Michael and Pat Brown
Dorothy Braithwaite and Paul Callaghan
George Caulkin
Michael and Susan Chaplin
Sue and Simon Clugston
Helen Coyne
Chris Foy
Stephen Garbutt
Robson Green
Lee Hall
John Jordan
John Josephs
Annette Marlowe
Madelaine Newton
Elaine Orrick
Ian and Christine Shepherdson
Margaret and John Shipley
Shelagh Stephenson
Sting
Alan Tailford
Graeme and Aly Thompson
Paul and Julie Tomlinson
Nick and Melanie Tulip
Alison Walton
Kevin Whately
Lucy Winskell
For more information about the Friends scheme please contact Lizzy Skingley on (0191) 269 3499 or lizzy@live.org.uk or visit www.live.org.uk/friends
KATY CAVANAGH Julie
Katy trained at RADA. She recently bid a fond farewell to Weatherfield where she spent seven years playing much loved knicker-stitcher Julie Carp in Coronation Street. She is delighted to be making her debut at Live Theatre.
Katy’s theatre credits include: Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance (Oxford Stage Company), Two and Two/2 (Bolton Octagon); Ghosts, Mad For It (Manchester Royal Exchange), Romeo and Juliet (English Shakespeare Company).
Her television appearances include: Birds of a Feather series III (BBC); Wired (ITV); The Bill (ITV); The Street (BBC); Blue Murder: Crisis (ITV); Bodies (BBC); Cracker (ITV); The Family Man, Shameless (C4); The Royal, The Golden Hour, Burn It, Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC); Ted & Alice (BBC), A Line in the Sand, Bob & Rose (ITV); The Cops I, II & III, A Likeness in Stone (BBC); Holby City (BBC); Peak Practice (ITV); Sex ‘n’ Death (BBC); Where the Heart Is (ITV); Walter: The Secret Life, Wycliffe (ITV); and A Dance to the Music of Time (Channel 4).
Her films include: Rehab; Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise; and short film Bradford Halifax London.
Katy has worked extensively on BBC Radio 4, most recently as Grusha in The Brothers Karamazov and Amelia in Vanity Fair.
SAM NEALE Ruby
Sam’s theatre credits include: Nativities and The Girls from Poppyfield Close (Live Theatre); Continuum (Theatre Cap-a-Pie) and A Bit of Respect (Operating Theatre); Present Tense, The Big Society and most recently her own play with her new company Flaming Barstool Productions.
Her television credits include: Married, Single, Other, (Left Bank Pictures); Vera (ITV); Eternal Law (ITV); Holby City (BBC); Wolfblood (BBC) and Doctors (BBC).
Film credits include: Interview with a Hitman and Frank.
JOE CAFFREY Gerry
Joe trained at LAMDA. He won Performer of the Year at the 2013 Journal Culture Awards for his roles in the Live Theatre productions Cooking with Elvis and Wet House.
Theatre credits include: The Girls (Leeds Grand / Lowry Theatre); Light Shining In Buckinghamshire (National Theatre); Cooking with Elvis (Live Theatre); Wet House (Live Theatre/Soho Theatre); The Pitmen Painters (Live Theatre/National Theatre/Bill Kenwright Ltd, West End and National Tour); A Walk On Part (Live Theatre/Arts Theatre, West End), Much Ado About Nothing, The Globe Mysteries, Loves Labours Lost and We the People (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); Billy Elliot The Musical (Victoria Palace Theatre); Keepers of the Flame (RSC/Live Theatre); Black and White Shorts (Live Theatre/Paines Plough); Studs (Hull Truck Theatre); Cooking with Elvis (Live Theatre West End/National Tour) and many other Live Theatre productions over the last 27 years.
Television and film credits include: Wolfblood, Clay, Doctors, Holby City (BBC); The Bill (ITV); Heartbeat (ITV); Badger (BBC); Spender (BBC); Hetty Wainthrope Investigates (BBC); Attachments (BBC); Byker Grove (BBC); Distant Shores (ITV); Catherine Cookson’s Colour Blind (ITV); Quayside (ITV); Waiters, The Last Musketeer (ITV); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (BBC) and Soldier, Soldier (ITV); In Fading Light (Amber Films); The One and Only (Assassin Films) and Bridget Jones – The Edge of Reason (Working Title Films).