Edward Albee's
Three Tall Women
Cast Biographies
MARJORIE
YATES
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Marjorie’s
theatre work includes: Honeymoon Suite (English Touring Theatre &
Royal Court); Romeo and Juliet (English Touring Theatre); The
Daughter in Law, All My Sons, The Price and Anna Christie (Young
Vic); Star Quality (Tour & West End); An Inspector Calls (Garrick,
West End and Tour); Electra (Chichester, Donmar & Tour); Death of
a Salesman, Stages, Inner Voices, Undiscovered Country and As You
Like It (National Theatre); The Blue Macuschia (Druid Theatre
Company); The Brutality of Fact (New End); The Glass Menagerie
(Bristol Old Vic); Richard II, The Master Builder, Richard III and
Outskirts (Royal Shakespeare Company); Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare
Company & Tour); Good (Royal Shakespeare Company New York); Children
of the Dust (Soho Poly); Huis Clos (Omerta Co); Red Riding Hood
and This Jockey Drives Late Nights (Stratford East); Night Mother (Hampstead
Theatre); When She Danced (Guildford); Killing of Sister George (Cambridge
Theatre Company); Thatcher’s Women (Paines Plough); The
Daughter in Law
(Birmingham Rep); Small Change, Touched,
Inadmissable Evidence, Sea Anchor and The Merry Go Round (Royal
Court) and Miss Julie (Greenwich).
Marjorie has worked in
Rep at Liverpool, Bristol Old Vic and Birmingham.
Film credits include: Bin Liners,
The Long Day Closes, Stardust, Dead Men’s Folly, Optimists, Albert’s Memorial,
Legend of the Werewolf and Wetherby.
Marjorie’s television credits
include: Carol in Channel 4’s Shameless,
Doctors, Dalziel and Pascoe, No Angels, The Bill, Sons and Lovers,
Heartbeat, Danny’s Story, Where The Heart Is, Wycliffe, Annie’s Bar, Guardians,
The Governer, Fighting for Gemma, The Speaker of Mandarin, Leaving of
Liverpool, Underbelly, Boon, June, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, A Very British Coup,
Suffer the Little Children, Morgan’s Boy, Forever, Marks, Mitch, Great
Expectations, A Change in Time, Life for Christine, Passmore, Connie, All Day
on the Sand, The Cost of Loving, The Sweeney, Couples, Against the Crowd, It’s
A Lovely Day Tomorrow, Suspicion, Justice, Better than the Movies, Villains,
Bouncing Boy and Kisses at Fifty.
DIANE FLETCHER
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Diane has just finished playing Mrs Lintott in the National
Theatre’s production of The History Boys by Alan Bennett. Diane’s other work in theatre includes Half
Life (National Theatre, also Duke of Yorks). West End productions include An Ideal Husband (Old Vic); An
Inspector Calls (National Theatre at the Playhouse); Why Me (The
Strand); Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (The Mayfair); Edward II (Piccadilly);
Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Arms and the Man
(Regent’s Park). Work for the RSC
includes Cordelia in King Lear, As You Like It, Troilus and Cressida and
Doctor Faustus (all Stratford) and The Bite of the Night, Some
Americans Abroad and Hess is Dead (all at the Barbican).
Other theatre includes Madame Arkadina (Orange
Tree); The Winslow Boy and Cause Célèbre (Lyric Hammersmith); Slag (Hampstead) and The
Love of a Good Man (Royal Court).
Regional theatre includes: Heartbreak House (Royal Exchange); The
Daughter in Law and The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (Nottingham) and Lady
Bracknell (Birmingham Rep). She has
toured extensively including: Little Foxes, King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Strangers on a Train, Shadowlands (Joy Davidman) and most recently Gertrude
in Hamlet (Calixto Bieto at Edinburgh Festival) and Judith Bliss in Hay
Fever (Clywd Theatr Cymru).
Diane was a founder member of Cambridge Theatre Company with
Richard Cottrell, performing Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer
and French without Tears.
Film credits include
It’s Good to Talk, Greystroke, Red Hot,
The Secret Rapture, Who’s Harriet and Roman Polanski’s Macbeth.
Diane’s television credits include: House of Cards I,II &
III, Fairly Secret Army I & II, Poirot, Inspector Morse,
Aristocrats, Heartbeat, Midsomer Murders, The Chamber and Angela in Coronation
Street.
ANNA-LOUISE PLOWMAN
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Anna-Louise trained at LAMDA, Ecole Internationale de
Theatre Jacques Lecoq and Laboritoire d’Etudes du Movement.
Theatre
credits include: Thirst (Provinctown
Playhouse New York); 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress (Vital Theatre Company,
New York); A Celtic Journey (Barbican); Salome (Canal Café
Theatre); Desire Caught by the Tail (Landor Theatre) and Musical
Scenes (The Clod Ensemble).
Film and
television credits include: Ultimate
Force, Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder, Survivors, Dr Who, These Foolish Things,
My Life in Film, He Knew He Was Right, Melinda in Cambridge Spies,
Shanghai Knights, The Foreigner, Seven Days, Sarah/Osiris in Stargate
SG-1, The Adulterer, Fairytale-A True Story, Flick, Statue’s Refugee, Watusi
Style, Seriously Funny, Faith in the Future, Angels of Mercy and Vienna.
SAM CURTIS
BOY
Sam has just
graduated from the Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre.
Sam’s
theatre credits whilst training include: Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, The
Blacks and The Good Person of Szechwan.Sam recently took part in the Sam Wannamaker Festival at
Shakespeare’s Globe where he played the role of De Flores in a scene from The
Changeling.
Other
theatre includes: Outright Terror, Bold and Brilliant (Soho &
National Youth Theatre, also Assistant Director) and Kes (Royal Exchange
Theatre).Sam is also a performer with
Aqueous Humour, the Manchester based street theatre company and has taught
drama at Proud and Loud Arts, the Salford based theatre company for young
disabled actors.He has also performed
his own monologue It Don’t Mean a Thing in ‘Slamchester’ as part of
Manchester’s Queer up North festival at Contact Theatre.
EDWARD
ALBEE
PLAYWRIGHT
Edward
Albee was born on 12 March 1928 and began writing plays 30 years later.
His
plays include: The Zoo Story (1958); The American Dream (1960); Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1961-2, Tony Award); Tiny Alice (1964); A
Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award); All Over (1971);
Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize); The Lady From Dubuque (1977-78);
The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981); Finding the Sun (1982);Marriage Play(1986-87); Three Tall
Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize); Fragments (1993); The Play About
the Baby (1997); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia (200, 2002 Tony Award); Occupant
(2001) and Peter and Jerry (Act 1: Homelife, Act 2: The
Zoo Story) (2004).
He
is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and president of the Edward F Albee
Foundation.Mr Albee was awarded the
Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
in 1980 and in 1996 received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal
of Arts.
IRINA BROWN
DIRECTOR
Irina was born and educated in
Leningrad (St Petersburg) in Russia. She started her work in the theatre as an
assistant director to Yuri Lubimov, Andrei Tarkovsky and Anatoly Vassiliev.
Since 1978 she has been living and
working in Britain, establishing a versatile career as an internationally
acclaimed stage director. Her work spans the experimental and the popular,
classical drama and new writing, opera and musicals.
From 1996 - 2000, Irina was Artistic
Director of the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.Her productions for the Tron Theatre Company include The Cosmonaut’s
Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union by David
Greig, The Tempest Dream after William Shakespeare, Speedrun by
Isabel Wright, Sea Urchins by Sharman Macdonald, Mate in Three by
Vittorio Franceschi and Lavochkin-5 by Alexie Shipenko (translated by
Iain Heggie and Irina Brown).Her other
work at the Tron includes The Writer’s Lab, the Tron Summer School of Theatre
and Film Design, an extensive Education and Outreach programme and an
international PLAY:GROUND series of play readings translated by Scottish
writers.
Irina’s theatre credits for the
National Theatre include: Further Than The Furthest Thing by Zinnie
Harris, Critics Pass Judgement on the School for Wives by Moliere and Poet
In Prison, Twist of the Knife and Marina Tsvetaeva. Poet. Outcast
all devised by Irina Brown.
Other theatre includes: The Parents’ Evening by Bathsheba
Doran (Cherry Lane Theatre, New York); The Vagina Monolgues by Eve
Ensler (Wyndham’s Theatre, Arts Theatre, New Ambassadors Theatre and national
tour); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Granada
Artist-in-Residence at UC Davis, USA); Filler Up! by Deb Filler (Drill
Hall); Blood Libel by Arnold Wesker (Norwich Playhouse); A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Southern Shakespeare Festival, Florida); A Doll’s House by
Henrik Ibsen (Birmingham Rep); Romeo and Juliet (Contact Theatre,
Manchester); Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Tabakov
Theatre, Moscow); The Misunderstanding by Camus and Dear Elena
Sergeevna by Razumovskaya (Gate Theatre, London); The Sound of Music (West
Yorkshire Playhouse) and West Side Story (Cambridge Festival Productions
and national tour).
Opera credits include: Dido and
Aeneas (Royal Academy of Music), Boris Godunov (Royal Opera House
& the Kirov Opera) and the translation of the libretto of Donnerstag Aus
Licht
Film credits include: as Associate
Director for Zinky Boys Go Underground (BAFTA Award winning Short).
