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8 - 30 August 2020
Welcome... The Comedy of Errors is one of only a tiny handful of live theatre performances you can see in the UK this summer. Conception to first night has taken us just two weeks. We did it because we know you love this wonderful space. But we also care deeply about the future of those working in our industry – the actors, stage managers, designers and technicians for whom, without shows, there can be no livelihood. We don’t want the UK’s theatres to stay closed, we think that, where possible, we should open to serve our communities and save jobs. You can read about how to help us both save and secure Storyhouse and Grosvenor Park for generations to come at storyhouse.com, in the meantime enjoy this stripped back and secure slice of summer. Storyhouse is open, come and visit us! Thank you so much for playing such a key part in our future. Andrew Bentley Alex Clifton Chief Executive, Artistic Director, Storyhouse Storyhouse
Directed by Designed by
Alex Clifton Jessica Curtis
Musical direction by
Jessica Dives
Wardrobe Supervisor Production Volunteer
Therese Denis Ellen Cammack
Cast
Danielle Bird
Antipholus of Ephesus
Nichole Bird
Antipholus of Syracuse
Lowri Izzard
Dromio of Ephesus
Mari Izzard
Dromio of Syracuse
Danielle Henry
Adriana
Jessica Dives
Duke / Balthazar / Barmaid / Officer
Anton Cross
Luciana / Officer
Simeon Truby
Egeon / Merchant Angelo / Pinch
In the
rehearsal zoom
This is a new way of making theatre. would normally treat as members of our
Everything is different. How we work, shared sports team (run amongst them,
where we work, when we work... jump on them, share food with them)
the only thing that’s remain we must now stand apart from at three
unchanged, is why we work. metres minimum.
The centre holds. Nevertheless, we are so, so happy
to be here - to gather together around
We are here to share a story. To gather this story.
together, in joy, and experience the
delight of emotions felt in unison. That The Ephesus of The Comedy of Errors is
simple, shared experience remains exactly where we want to meet you. It’s
unaltered and unrefined. a town full of clowns, stuck in the middle
of a play written by an arrogant young
But everything else is different. Actors writer, showing off and asserting his own
would normally rehearse together, eat nascent genius. It’s a play commissioned
together, drink together, get changed by a bunch of lawyers for their Christmas
together, play together. Now we rehearse party, first staged in Christmas 1594 at
online, meet only at distance - and only the Grays Inn as part of the festivities.
after we’ve had ourselves tested and our It was written for a bunch of very clever,
temperatures checked. A show we would very drunk people wanting an escape and
normally spend four weeks preparing, we a party... sounds perfect!
stage in two days. Our characters are
not allowed to stand face-to-face within Kick back and enjoy a short holiday from
two metres of each other for more than anything outside of our sunny Ephesus.
a matter of moments; we can only sing
away from each other. An audience we Alex Clifton, Director
Cast Nichole Bird
Antipholus of
Syracuse
Nichole trained at
Danielle Bird Mountview Academy of
Theatre Arts.
Antipholus
of Ephesus Theatre credits includes:
The Prince and The Pauper
Previously at Grosvenor (New Vic Theatre / The
Park Open Air Theatre: Unicorn), The Dutch Lady,
A Midsummer’s Night Look About You, The Wits (The Globe’s Read Not Dead),
Dream, Cyrano de Unmythable (Out of Chaos), The Rakes Progress (Complicité
Bergerac, Othello (2013), / DNO), Olivier nominated Alice’s Adventures Underground
The Comedy of Errors, (Waterloo Vaults /Les Enfant Terribles), Love’s Victory (Urania
Macbeth (2014) Theatre), Peter Pan, Cinderella (Winchester Theatre Royal),
James and the Giant Peach (Sell a Door/International Tour),
Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Immersion Theatre), After
Aladdin (Theatre Royal, the Blue (Jermyn Street Theatre), A Christmas Carol...More
Wakefield); The Hypocrite (Royal Shakespeare Company or Less (Bridge House Theatre), The Woman Before (Soho
/ Hull Truck); Macbeth (Shakespeares Globe); Notmoses Theatre), Arden of Faversham (Rose Theatre), The Real Horror
(Magnet Arts Theatre); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Show (Leicester Square Theatre), Death of a Salesman (TNT/
(Birmingham REP); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Les European Tour) You Me Bum Bum Train.
Enfants Terribles The Vaults); Father Christmas and The Icicle
Bicycle (Oxford Playhouse); Prince and The Pauper (Unicorn Film and Television Credits include; Now You See Me 2
Theatre); Colin Hoult’s Real Horror show (Leicester Square (Lionsgate), A Running Jump by Mike Leigh (Thin Man Films),
Theatre); You Me Bum Bum Train (YMBBT Productions); The Double Life of Morton Coyle, Holby City, Crimewatch
SLICK (National Youth Theatre); The Democratic Set (Wales (BBC), The Tree Fairy (Film4), The Wives Did It (Discovery ID),
Millennium Centre); Unity Festival (Wales Millennium Centre); Zoe (Ridley Scott Productions), Mousie (Kewhaven Picture),
As You Like It (Principal Theatre Company); Shakespeare Demons (James Morrison Music Video), What’s Jamie Up To?,
Showcase (Principal Theatre Company). Untold Stories (Media Trust).
Nichole is part of the Live Canon Ensemble, delivering poetry
Mari Izzard at Theatres, festivals and online including audio anthology
The Empty Horizon. She also performs with all female Circus
Dromio of Syracuse
Theatre company Circo Rum BaBa. She is delighted to be back
in Chester.
Mari trained at the Royal
Welsh College of Music
and Drama.
Lowri Izzard
Theatre credits include: Dromio of Ephesus
Lord of the Flies
(Sherman Theatre and
Lowi studied at RADA.
Theatr Clwyd); Pride &
Prejudice (Regent’s Park
Theatre credits include:
Open Air Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); My
Lord of the Flies (Sherman
Mate Pete (Old Red Lion); Mametz (National Theatre Wales);
Theatre and Theatr Clwyd);
Skyhawk (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Twelfth Night (Roverfront
Votes for Women (New Vic
Theatre); Blister (RWCMD / Paines Plough); Fe Ddaw’r
Theatre); I Capture The
Byd I Ben (RWCMD / Sherman Theatre).
Castle (Watford Palace /
Bolton Octagon / Oxford
Television and film credits include: Gwaith/Cartref;
Playhouse); The Tempest (Orange Tree Theatre); Much Ado
Ctrl+Alt_Delet; Gadael Sneggl
About Nothing (The Faction).
Radio credits include: Walk to Remember
Television and film credits include: Hidden/Craith, A Proper
Little Family; Tick Tock
Radio credits include: Alice’s Wonderland; Dombey and Son
Danielle
Henry
Adriana
Previously at Grosvenor
Jessica Dives Park Open Air Theatre:
As You Like It, Stig Of The
Duke / Balthazar
Dump, Two Gentlemen of
Barmaid / Officer Verona (2016) Romeo &
Juliet; Wind & The Willows;
Jessica is the production’s Merry Wives of Windsor
Musical Director. Jessica (2015).
has a BA from Royal
Holloway and trained at
Royal Central School of Theatre credits include: My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre);
Speech and Drama. Hidden (Manchester Camerata); A Christmas Carol (RSC);
Queens Of The Coal Age (Royal Exchange Manchester & New
Vic); Playhouse Creatures; Votes For Women (New Vic); The
Hypocrite (RSC); Mighty Atoms (Hull Truck Theatre); Miss
Julie (Et Cetera Theatre); B!RTH, Closer, Iron (Royal Exchange
Previously at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre: Manchester); Earl of Mo Bay (Nottingham Playhouse); Up
Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Borrowers (2019). Against the Wall (Bolton Octagon); Once Upon a Time
in Wigan (Riverside Studios/Tour); Blue (Nottingham Arts
Theatre credits include: Red Riding Hood (Liverpool Theatre); Andrew’s Angry Words (M6 Theatre Company); Little
Everyman); The Lost Ones (The Bush Theatre and TRSE); Guess Shop of Horrors (Zoo Nation).
How Much I Love You (Selladoor Worldwide); Hamlet (Young
Shakespeare Company); Newsrevue (Canal Cafe Theatre). Film and Television credits include: Soul Boy (Ipso Facto);
Emmerdale; Diamond Geezer (ITV); No Offence; Courtroom;
Jessica is also an accomplished Singer and Musician, Leah’s Trial (Channel 4); Moving On; Katy; Broken; Lost
performing with various vintage acts and bands Christmas; Doctors; Candy Cabs; Casualty; Survivors;
across the UK. Torchwood; Paradox; The Message (BBC).
Radio credits include: The Will; The Last Flag; Grand Designs
Of The Third Kind; Brief Lives; The Iron Curtain; Rooms; The
Anton Cross Joey; Stone; Look Sharp; Pattie’s Patties, Mary Shane; How to
remember the dead; The Autobiography of a Nobody; Lost in
Luciana / Officer
Liverpool and Westway (BBC Radio 4).
Anton studied at Lamda.
Previously at Grosvenor
Park Open Air Theatre:
The Secret Seven (2017)
Stig of the Dump, The Two
Gentlemen of Verona, As
You Like It (2016)
Theatre credits include: Romeo, Romeo And Juliet (The
Orange Tree Theatre); Celebinus, Tamburlaine (RSC);
Caphus, Timon Of Athens (RSC); Boy, Good Dog (Tiata
Fahodzi); Frank, No Villain (Old Red Lion); Robin, Stoney Fruit
(Fine Mess Theatre); Rehearsed Reading, Ethan, Elizabeth
(High Tide Theatre Festival); John Blanke, The Low Road
(Lamda); Louise Hill, Young Marlow, She Stoops To Conquer
(Lamda); Gordon, Rent, The Musical (Lamda); Earl Of
Worcester, Henry V, Part I (Lamda); Olly, The English Game
(Lamda); Aaron, The Moor, Titus Andronicus (Lamda);
Sorin, The Seagull (Lamda); You Are Me The Occupied Times,
Ensemble, Emperor And Galilean (Royal National Theatre).
Simeon Truby Dream, Summer Lightning, A Chorus of Disapproval, A
Christmas Carol, Our Country’s Good, The Recruiting Officer,
Egeon Cinderella, The Hired Man, The Wizard of Oz, The Snow Queen,
Romeo and Juliet and Charley’s Aunt (Theatre by the Lake,
Merchant Angelo
Keswick); Romeo & Juliet, David Copperfield, The Merchant of
Pinch Venice, A Christmas Carol, Oh What a Lovely War, Accidental
Death of an Anarchist, 8 Miles High, Two, The Wizard of
Previously at Storyhouse: Oz, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kes: The Musical (Bolton
A Little Night Music, The Crucible Octagon); Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Man
with Two Gaffers (Northern Broadsides); Much Ado About
Simeon trained at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. Nothing, Schweyk in the Second World War (Library Theatre,
Theatre credits include: Dr Dillamond/1st cover Wizard in Manchester); Jerusalem (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Wicked (Apollo Victoria) One Love – The Bob Marley Musical,
Pinocchio, The Red Balloon (Birmingham Rep); Warhorse - Television and film credits include: Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, The
International Tour (National Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Adelphi Street, The Royal, Island at War, A Touch of Frost: Fit to Bust,
Theatre, West End); Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mouse and Coronation Street, Boom Boom Clap, Love Thy Neighbour.
His Child (RSC); To Kill a Mockingbird, Antony & Cleopatra, As
You Like It, Bring me Sunshine (Manchester Royal Exchange); Radio: Dead Pan, The Citadel – Series 1 & 2,
The Red Balloon (The National Theatre), Olivier; Blood Brothers, Banged Up (BBC Radio 4)
Chess (UK Tour); Little Shop of Horrors, Rutherford & Son, The
Duchess of Malfi (Salisbury Playhouse); Sweeney Todd, Love As Musical Director/Composer: The Snow Queen, Cinderella,
Story (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Fulstow Boys, Grow Up Habeus Corpus (Theatre by the Lake); The Pitman Painters,
Grandad (Steelworks Theatre Co); The Pitman Painters, And a Kes (Oldham Coliseum); The Man with Two Gaffers (Northern
Nightingale Sang, The Glee Club (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle- Broadsides)
under-Lyne); Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty, Mother
Goose, The Pitman Painters, Kes, Dick Barton, The Ladykillers Alongside his wife they run their own Theatre School,
(Oldham Coliseum); The Crucible, My Family & Other Animals, Urban Stage School of Performing Arts, in Manchester.
Parlour Song (York Theatre Royal); A Midsummer Night’s
Creative Team
Alex Clifton Jessica Curtis
Director Designer
Jess trained on the Motley Theatre Design Course.
Alex is Artistic Director of Storyhouse and co-founded
She was nominated for the UK award for design in 2018.
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre. He’s a Cestrian, and a proud
alumnus of Christleton High School and the Chester Gateway
For Storyhouse and Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre:
Youth Theatre. After graduating with a first-class degree in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Cyrano de Bergerac
English from Oxford, Alex worked as Assistant Director for The
(2013) The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, The Secret Garden
National Theatre. He then became Resident Director at English
(2014) Merry Wives of Windsor, The Wind in the Willows, Romeo
National Opera for two years, assisting on major international
and Juliet (2015) The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Stig of the
productions and directing new operas with young offenders,
Dump, As You like It (2016) Alice in Wonderland, A Midsummer
local youth groups and with professional companies touring
Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar (2017), The Beggar’s Opera (2017)
London primary schools. Alex left this to run his own theatre
A Little Night Music, The Crucible (2018)
company, touring new plays across rural and disadvantaged
communities out of the back of a decommissioned ambulance.
Recent Work Includes: Genesis Inc. (Hampstead Theatre)
For seven years, Alex was a senior acting teacher at RADA,
Loosing Venice (The Orange Tree Theatre) Uncle Vanya
teaching and directing actors in training. This led to a
(The Almeida) Villette, Dangerous Corner (West Yorkshire
commission to write a book on acting for Bloomsbury, The
Playhouse), Kiss Me Quickstep, Haunting Julia (The Queen’s
Actor’s Workbook, which was published in 2016. He’s a Fellow
Theatre Hornchurch) One For The Road, Glass Cage,
of the Institute of Higher Education and has been heavily
Follies (Royal And Derngate, Northampton), The Holy
involved in community and education projects throughout his
Rosenbergs (National Theatre), Hotel Cerise (Theatre Royal,
career, making plays with children in Soweto, teenagers at
Stratford East) Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal Bath),
Theresienstadt concentration camp, parent asylum- seekers in
Endgame (Liverpool Everyman), Dangerous Corner
Surrey and elderly immigrant women in Hackney.
(West Yorkshire Playhouse And West End), Frankenstein
(Frantic Assembly, Northampton), Burial At Thebes
Theatre directing credits For Grosvenor Park Open Air
Theatre and Storyhouse: The Wizard of Oz, The Tempest, A (Nottingham Playhouse/Barbican/Us Tour) And Rhapsody,
Little Night Music (2018), The Beggar’s Opera, A Midsummer Fantasy (Royal Ballet At The Royal Opera House).
Night’s Dream, The Secret Seven (2017); The Two Gentleman of
Verona (2016); Romeo & Juliet, The Wind in the Willows (2015);
Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors (2014); A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Othello (2013); Twelfth Night (2012); Merlin and the
Woods of Time (2011); Hercules (2010)
For Storyhouse
EXECUTIVE PROGRAMMING Matthew Willars Kevin Thompson
Andrew Bentley Sam Bain Technician Housekeeper
Chief Executive Senior Programme Manager Michael Williams
Nicky Beaumont OPERATIONS Kitchen Porter
Alex Clifton
Film & Digital Oliver Hill
Artistic Director Stephen Wilde
Programme Manager Head of Operations
Ros Thomas Housekeeper
Eleanor Brick Ian Anderson
Head of Finance Sharon Wilson
Programme Manager Service Manager
Laura Anderton Head Housekeeper
Kim Curzon Matthew Byrne
IT Support Administrator
Youth Projects Officer Housekeeper SERVICE ASSISTANTS
Emmeline Coppock
Nicola Haigh Nassera Chaalane Isaac Brennan
HR Manager
Communities Manager Assistant Restaurant Joshua Browne
(Maternity Cover)
Manager (Maternity Leave) Luke Bush
Emma Hutt Hayley Lindley-Thornhill
Jack Docking
HR Manager Youth Projects Manager Donna Collings
Alex Goldsmith
(Maternity Leave) Si Poole Customer Service
Maeve Haggerty Kavanagh
Senior Lead in Cultural Operations Manager
Nicola Jackson Elisa Ippolito
HR Administrator Education & Research Matthew Cooke Billie-Joe Kelly
Alix Rawlinson Security Steward
Chelsie Jones Denise Oxton
Finance Assistant Youth Projects Coordinator Matt Cowell Katherine Rios Moncayo
Rhianne Stubbs Chef de Partie Aiden Smith
Jade Palmer
Executive Assistant Creative Learning Practitioner Dimitar Durchov Nicky Wood
Georgina West Chef de Partie Emily Yeardsley-Price
Amy Talbot
Communities Manager Sebastian Durko Grace Lindsay-Austin
Payroll & Finance
Commis Chef Mark Reed
Administrator Helen Redcliffe
Claire Prosser
Associate Producer Ian Fawson
Andrew Houghton
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Service Manager
Max Hutchinson
Professor Allan Owens PRODUCTION Hannah Fisher Charis Hayden
Amy Jones Nick Ashcroft Service Supervisor Emma Hall
Erik Boekesteijn Senior Technician (Lighting) Alison Francis Spencer Drummond
Geoff Clifton Tommy Biglin Housekeeper Jake Stewart
Jane Hyndman Deputy Technical Manager Ana Gjikopulli Tomaz van der Merwe
Katrina Kerr Ryan Bird Service Supervisor Maria Hughes
Louise Towers Technician David Bartley
Peter Mearns (Chair) Joel Hodgkinson
Sarah Clarke Housekeeper Iwona Tonia
Rio Matchett
Technician Robert Brookes
Sue Leech (Vice-Chair) Jez Houlbrook
Cath Cullinane Head Chef
Technician LIBRARY TEAM
DEVELOPMENT Mark Higgins Linda Tyson
Kate Mylchreest Therese Denis Service Manager Library Team Leader
Head of Development Wardrobe Nathan Houlbrook John Cooke
Emma Wallace Lee Hopkins Kitchen Porter David Fowler
Learning & Development Technician
Anna Jasinska Katie Gilliland
Assistant Liam O’Neill Service Manager Carol Hanson
Technician Emily Jones Adam Haycocks
SALES & MARKETING Andrew Patterson Security Manager Jane Hockenhull
Jen Chapman Technical Manager Nikki Jennerway
Head of Sales & Marketing Elliott Minshull
Oliver Price Service Supervisor Naomi Kelly
Alex Atkinson Lighting Programmer/ Rosie Marubbi
Group Sales Officer James Robinson
Technician Louise Nesbitt
Kitchen Porter
Nancy Davies Claire Oxley
James Roberts
Marketing & PR Manager Taylor Sanderson
Senior Technician Lucy Peake
Housekeeper
Ellie Franklin (Sound and AV) Cari Roberts
Digital Content Officer David Speed Janet Salisbury
Alec Stokes Kitchen/Service Assistant Jo Shepherd
Fiona Yates-Dutton Technician
Sales Administrator Noel Tegg Maike Schoeppner
Nathan Storm Annette Starmer
Venue Manager
Technician Jenny Stokes
Sean Thomas
Andrea Tynan Isabel Fielding-Walliss
Kitchen Porter
Technician
THANK YOU!
The amazing Storyhouse team of volunteers for their unflinching dedication.
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