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LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS Landmark Productions was founded by Anne Clarke in 2003 to produce work in Ireland and to tour Irish work abroad.

In the two years since then, it has become a considerable force in Irish theatre. It has managed four international tours for two theatres on three continents, and produced two Irish premieres and one world premiere in Dublin. David Hare’s Skylight won outstanding critical acclaim and broke box office records at the Project. It was followed earlier this year by the Irish premiere of Edward Albee’s Tony-Award winning play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, which attracted similarly outstanding reviews. Skylight was presented in partnership with the British Council; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? was made possible by single production funding from the Arts Council. In November, the company presented the world premiere of Fiona Looney’s first play, Dandelions, which enjoyed a sell-out extended run at the Olympia Theatre.

LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS75 BATH AVENUE. DUBLIN 4tel (+3531) 667-4684 • fax (+3531) 668-2089email: info@landmarkproductions.net

THE HELIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Helix is a multi-venue arts centre serving the people and audiences of North Dublin and beyond with a mixture of high quality music, drama and entertainment. If you would like to receive information on our seasonal programmes you can join our mailing list by phoning 01-7007000 or by logging on to www.thehelix.ie.

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THE HELIX STAFF

Left to Right: Owen Roe as Tom & Cathy Belton as Kyra in SkylightBryan Murray as Martin & Susan FitzGerald as Stevie in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?Pauline McLynn as Noirin & Deirdre O’Kane as Jean in Dandelions

KARL ARGUE Front of HouseROBERT BARTON Box OfficeVINCENT BELL TechnicianBEATA ANNA BIELEC Cleaning FINTAN BOLAND TechnicianMICHELE BRADY Box Office SupervisorTIMOTHY BUCKLEY Technical & Maintenance ManagerWILLIAM BYRNE Front of HouseEMMA CANAVAN BartenderUNA CARMODY CEOWILLIAM CARRAHER TechnicianALANNA CHERRY-BUCKETT Front of HouseLYNNE COMISKEY Admin-istrationJOSEPH CURRAN TechnicianALISTER DOYLE Front of HouseAOIFE DUNICAN Marketing Manager (Temp)GRAINNE FARRELL TechnicianIAN FITZGERALD Box Office MARY GERAGHTY Front of HouseDEIRDRE HANNIGAN Box OfficeJOHN HAYES Front of House

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JENNIFER O’CONNOR TechnicianBRIAN O’REILLY Senior TechnicianDANIEL PERSSE Senior TechnicianAISLING PHELAN Marketing OfficerPASCHAL QUINN Cleaning SupervisorSHEELAGH RAFTER Duty Manager / Volunteer Co-ordina-torDONAL REILLY TechnicianJOHN REYNOLDS TechnicianUNA RYAN Duty ManagerDENISE SCOTT Bar SupervisorSHANE SKERRITT BartenderBARBARA TIER Box OfficeDARADH TONER Senior TechnicianDEIRDRE VANN-BOURKE House ManagerBERNARD WALSH Mainte-nance ManagerDERMOT WALSH BartenderKATHY WANG CleaningCOLIN WILLIAMS TechnicianMICHAEL WILLIAMS Stage Door KeeperGARY WOODS Technican

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THE SECRET GARDEN When I was a girl, I ventured far into the woods behind my house in search of a secret place for myself. I imagined that I would find a place no one had ever been before, and foraged through dense leafy trees, twisting vines and the plumage of ferns in search of that elusive haven. In that way that everything seems so vast and monumental when you are little and young, I thought I had travelled for miles into unknown forest. A few years later, when I was approaching adolescence, builders came and flattened the entire area stretching behind our back garden into an estate. The place I had discovered – sadly, much closer than I thought – was now in plain view by the side of a tarmacked street flanked by bland new houses, protected – and barred – by a wire fence.

Every child longs for a haven, a special place made safe by their fantasy, a comfort zone where life touches them indulgently yet emboldens them for adventure and the challenges of their intimidating environment. Mary Lennox, in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, is the quintessence of this longing.

Snubbed by her parents and turning her hurt outward as bile and disdain for everyone else, Mary suddenly finds herself completely alone and in alien surroundings. Yet the mysterious Misselthwaite Manor and desolate Yorkshire moors, much like Mary’s inner life, harbour hidden life and passion. “What a strange house this is. Everything’s locked up and hidden away,” remarks Mary, her symbolic discovery of what happens when we feel pain, disappointment and rejection.

Helped along by her new-found friend Dickon, who has unnatural skill with natural things, Mary gets her hands dirty and helps a forgotten garden to come alive – and with it bringing back life and love to herself and everyone around her. She discovers that there is

magic in the world, and how to harness that magic to resurrect feelings and an interest in life that had long been considered dead. The eternal hope for renewal reaches us not through hollow platitudes but a vivid parable of experiences every child can identify with.

What makes this story particularly appealing to children is the fact that it is the children, not the adults, who work the magic. Grownups frequently, unknowingly, let not only their children, but also themselves down as they get older. Often emotionally crippled through their own life experiences or the misguided attempt to become ‘rational adults’, they shut down and hide ‘wick’, growing things away, locking up gardens and bringing upon themselves and their environment a barren, perpetual winter. Although adults seem to be stronger, wiser and in control, The Secret Garden reveals that it is children who in fact have the power and innate, symbolic wisdom to set things right. For children, to learn by example of their own potential and ability to help themselves despite the odds (and despite the grownups) is enormously liberating.

Voltaire finished his satirical novel Candide with the sardonic remark that one should tend one’s garden. One hundred years later, when Burnett wrote her classic, she gives us the same image, but with a much more optimistic and positive sentiment. Children need to know there is always a secret garden somewhere waiting for them, and as they prune, plant and water, lavish their energy, time and care to make it thrive, it generates energy and love in its turn. Even when silly grownups think they have locked up the garden in the mistaken effort to protect themselves from pain, or thoughtlessly paved over and destroyed it in pursuit of material wealth, children have the potential to discover it again and bring it back to life.

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Christine MaddenDecember 2005

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FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT . . . . . . . . .AUTHOR : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England, on November 24, 1849. In 1865, after her father’s death, the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee and shortly afterwards she began writing for magazines.

Her first short stories were published in Godey’s Lady’s Book in 1868. Her first widely known work was a dialect story ‘Surly Tim’s Trouble’, which appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in

1872. Her reputation as a novelist was made with her story of Lancashire life, That Lass o’ Lowrie’s, which was published in 1877. A number of other works followed, including Through One Administration (1883) and a play, Esmeralda (1881), written with William Gillette.

But it is her children’s books for which she is widely remembered today. In 1886 she published Little Lord Fauntleroy, which gave its name to an entire style of dress and sold more than half a million copies. Sara Crew was later rewritten to become A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1888) is one of the best-loved children’s novels of all time.

Frances married Dr. Swan M. Burnett of Washington D.C. in 1873 and their first son, Lionel, died of consumption in 1890. They divorced in 1898 and two years later she married her business manager, Stephen Townsend. This second marriage lasted less than two years. From the mid 1890s she lived mainly in England, but in 1909 she moved back to the United States, having become a U.S. citizen in 1905. Frances Hodgson Burnett died in New York on October 29, 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery nearby, next to her son Vivian. A life-size figure of Lionel stands at their feet.

NEIL DUFFIELD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DRAMATIST : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Neil Duffield lives in Bolton in the north of England and has written more than fifty stage plays, mainly for children and young people. Recent work includes The Lost Warrior (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster), The Minotaur (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), The Devil at Coventry (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), The Emperor and the Nightingale (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), The Firebird (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Talking with Angels (Quicksilver Theatre, London), From Rotherham with Love (Rotherham Rep), The Arabian Nights (New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth), The Emperor’s New Clothes (Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham) and The Jungle Book (Arden Theatre, Philadelphia). The Secret Garden is the first production of his work in Ireland.

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MICHAEL CAVEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DIRECTOR : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Michael Caven’s previous work for Landmark includes the sell-out Irish premiere of Skylight by David Hare and the acclaimed production of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee, both at the Project Arts Centre, and the hugely successful world premiere of Dandelions by Fiona Looney, at the Olympia Theatre.Credits at the Gate Theatre, where Michael was Head of Creative Development from

2002-2003, include The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute (nominated Best Director 2002 Irish Times Theatre Awards), Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola and Old Times by Harold Pinter, during the 2005 Dublin Theatre Festival as part of the playwright’s 75th birthday celebrations.For The Theatreworks Company, for whom Michael was Artistic Director between 1995 and 2004, credits include Amadeus by Peter Shaffer, Tales From Ovid by Ted Hughes (nominated Special Judges Award 2002 Irish Times Theatre Awards); the Irish Premiere of Mutabilitie by Frank McGuinness; Anna Karenina by Helen Edmundson (nominated Best Director 1998 Irish Times Theatre Awards); The Fetishist by Michel Tournier; and Macbeth (in association with Second Age), Richard III (nominated Best Director 2001 Irish Theatre Awards), Troilus & Cressida and Venus and Adonis, all by William Shakespeare. Other credits include Moll by John B. Keane at the Gaiety Theatre for E Farrell Productions/The Gaiety.

MONICA FRAWLEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DESIGNER : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Monica is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London. Her designs have been seen throughout Ireland and the UK and in France, Spain, Germany, Canada, USA and Australia. Her work for the Abbey and Peacock Theatres includes Tom Murphy’s The Gigli Concert, The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Translations by Brian Friel (including a European tour), By the Bog

of Cats by Marina Carr, Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey and, for the Abbey’s centenary year, Stewart Parker’s Heavenly Bodies, for which she won the ESB/Irish Times 2004 award for Best Set Design. Work with Druid includes the award-winning At the Black Pig’s Dyke by Vincent Woods, The Ointment Blue by George Fitzmaurice and costume design for Marina Carr’s On Raftery’s Hill. She designed Da for the Guthrie Theatre Minneapolis, USA, Tom Murphy’s Conversations on a Homecoming for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, costumes for John Banville’s Dublin 1742 at the Ark and she won the 2003 Irish Times/ESB Theatre Best Costume Design Award for b*spoke’s production of The Drunkard by Tom Murphy. She was Design Consultant for the Special Olympics opening ceremony in 2003. In 2004 her designs included Linda McLean’s Shimmer for the Traverse Theatre’s Edinburgh Festival programme and the acclaimed Orfeo Ed Euridice for Opera Ireland. Work in 2005 includes Out of Harm’s Way, a dance piece for Theater Freiburg in Germany, Opera Ireland’s Imeneo and costumes for Titus Andronicus for Siren Productions. Monica’s television work includes Black Day at Black Rock by Gerrard Stembridge.

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RUPERT MURRAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LIGHTING DESIGNER : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Rupert Murray is a freelance lighting designer and producer.He is delighted to be designing the lighting for The Secret Garden, having previously designed David Hare’s Skylight, Edward Albee’s The Goat and Fiona Looney’s Dandelions for Landmark Productions.As a lighting designer he has over one hundred and fifty credits around the world to his name and currently has shows

running in Ireland, Europe and the USA. His most recent designs for the Gate Theatre include Bernard Farrell’s Many Happy Returns, Billy Roche’s Poor Beast in the Rain and Old Times and Betrayal for Pinter 75. For the Abbey and Peacock Theatres, his designs include Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars, Dion Boucicault’s The Shaughraun and Shelagh Stephenson’s Enlightenment; for Druid Theatre Company Christian O’Reilly’s The Good Father; for b*spoke theatre company Tom Murphy’s adaptation of The Drunkard; and for Rough Magic Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo. He is the lighting designer for the international hit, Riverdance - The Show. Rupert was Festival Director of the St. Patrick’s Festival from 1995 to 1999 and was a key member of the team which transformed Ireland’s national celebrations. He has been responsible for directing the opening festivities at the Wexford Festival Opera for the past six years and was the Creative Director of the Opening Ceremony for the Special Olympics World Summer Games held in Croke Park in June 2003. He was recently appointed Creative Director of the entertainment and ceremonies surrounding Ireland’s staging of the Ryder Cup in September 2006.

LIZ ROCHE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHOREOGRAPHER : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Awarded the Bonnie Bird Choreographic Award 2001 (UK) and the Peter Darrell Award 2000 (UK), Liz has choreographed for the Abbey Theatre, Scottish Dance Theatre, Cois Ceim, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Opera Ireland and The Ark. In 1999, she co-founded Rex Levitates Dance Company (Jayne Snow Award 2002) and has choreographed seven full-length works to date for the company, performing in

festivals in Ireland, Europe and Asia. In 2004, Liz was invited to make a new full length choreography for The National Ballet of China in collaboration with Rex Levitates, performing in the Meet in Beijing Festival. Future productions include ‘Sweet Apollo’ for Rex Levitates in January 2006 in Project Cube.Recent opera choreographies include Aida for the National Opera of Korea in Seoul, Semiramide for the Gran Teatre Liceu Barcelona and Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy and Lucio Silla and Axur Re d’Ormus for the Opernhaus Zurich.Theatre choreographies include the Abbey Theatre’s productions of The House of Bernarda Alba, The Cherry Orchard and Burial At Thebes, and Dublin 1742, The Carolling Corcorans and The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish (nominated for Best Production Irish Theatre Awards 2003) for The Ark.As a dancer, she has worked with all major Irish dance companies and abroad with John Jasperse Company, New York; Les Carnets Bagouet, Cathala & Ramalingom, France; and Christine Gaigg 2nd Nature, Vienna, performing at all the major European festivals.

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DECLAN CONLON . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . .MR CRAVEN : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Declan Conlon’s appearances at the Abbey and Peacock Theatres include All My Sons, Henry IV, A Whistle in The Dark, Famine, The Hamlet Project, The Last Ones and The Patriot Game. Other theatre work includes The Walls, The Ends of The Earth, The Machine Wreckers (Royal National Theatre), As You Like It, La Lupa, The Mysteries, The Spanish Tragedy, Henry VI Part III (RSC), Macbeth

(West End), Our Country’s Good (Young Vic), Juno and The Paycock (Gaiety), Decadence, Hamlet, Endgame (Naked Theatre Company), Copenhagen (Rough Magic), The Book of Evidence (Kilkenny Arts Festival/Gate Theatre) and True West (Lyric, Belfast). His television appearances include Proof, Anytime Now, Bachelor’s Walk, Hot House, Dangerfield and The Family, and film includes All Souls’ Day and Bite. Declan recently appeared as Dion Boucicault in the Peacock Theatre production of Heavenly Bodies directed by Lynne Parker, and in Martin Crimp’sThe Country at the Project Arts Centre. He most recently appeared in Rough Magic’s new production Improbable Frequency for the Dublin Theatre Festival (2004) which transferred to the Abbey Theatre in 2005.

KEITH BURKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DICKON: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Originally from Kildare, Keith started his career with Kildare Youth Theatre and Crooked House Theatre company in Newbridge, most recently appearing for that company as the lead character Jake in Totally Over You which was chosen to travel to the Royal National Theatre, London as Ireland’s contribution to NT Shell Connections 2003. Since making his professional debut in Fallen Angels (Michael

Kinnirons), Keith has played a leading role in Eilis Kirwan’s short Nostradamus and Me which won Best First Short at the 2004 Galway Film Fleadh and appeared in the leading role of Jez in a controversial five part mini-series special of Fair City (RTE). Most recently Keith appeared as Hansel in two productions of Storytellers Theatre Co. production of Hansel and Gretel directed by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght. Keith has recently completed filming on a new TV series Love is A Drug (Rough Magic Films/RTE) as well as completing filming the role of Liam in Stephen Bradley’s new feature film Boy Eats Girl.

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LUCY DUNDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DANCER / SQUIRREL : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Lucy Dundon discovered dance at the age of seven at Wexford Arts Centre in Wexford town. She became a member of Barefoot Youth Dance Company in her early teens and from there went on to full time training at the Laban Centre in London. Lucy was selected as a member of Transitions Dance Company, a training company for young dancers, with whom she toured the UK, Japan, Korea, USA, Greece and Ireland.

Since returning to Ireland in 1995 Lucy has performed with Dance Theatre Of Ireland, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Daghda Dance Company, Rex Levitates, Michael Foley Dance (New York), Dance Theatre Etcetera (New York) and, most recently, with Fluxusdance.Her work with Fluxusdance includes working as a teaching artist in education, youth dance and community contexts. She also works with Counterbalance, developing integrated dance practices in Ireland.

JUSTINE DOSWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DANCER / DOE : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Justine Doswell trained at Central School of Ballet in the UK, after which she joined the Belgian company Charleroi Danses. In 1997 she moved to Ireland and since then she has performed with Dance Theatre of Ireland, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Cois Ceim Dance Theatre, Opera Ireland, New Balance Dance Company, The Ballet Boys (UK) and, most recently, Rex Levitates Dance Company. Justine has also appeared

in the Abbey Theatre’s productions of The Tempest and Tarry Flynn.

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Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . Production Co-ordinator . . . . . .Stage Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ASM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wardrobe Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . Production Electrician . . . . . . . . .

Sound Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Voice Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Set Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . .Masks / Puppets. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Prop Construction. . . . . . . . . . . .

Costume Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Producers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Associate Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Publicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Photography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Graphic Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Michael CavenMonica FrawleyRupert Murray Liz Roche

Marie TierneyDanny PersseAisling MooneySinead O’NeillSarah KingSinead Wallace

Michael CavenCathal QuinnTPSGabby DowlingMaree Kearns Eimer MurphyMatthias AshauerMonica EnnisLiz Barker

Una Carmody Anne Clarke Colin BairdAoife DunicanAisling PhelanKate Bowe PRPat RedmondGareth Jones

THE ACTION TAKES PLACE IN INDIA AND THEN TRAVELS TO YORKSHIRE, TO THE HOUSE AND GROUNDS OF MISSELTHWAITE MANOR, IN 1911.

e performance runs for just under two hours, including a 15-minute interval.

CAST Mary Lennox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dancer/Squirrel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dancer/Rabbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dancer/Doe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs Medlock/Narrator . . . . . . . .Ben Weatherstaff/Photographer .Mr Craven/Father . . . . . . . . . . . . .Martha/Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Colin/Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dickon/Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ailish Symons Lucy DundonKatherine O’Malley Justine Doswell Susan FitzGerald Bosco Hogan Declan Conlon Simone Kirby Ciaran Fitzgerald Keith Burke

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CIARAN FITZGERALD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .COLIN : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

At the age of three, Ciaran Fitzgerald joined the Gladys Sheehan School of Acting where he took part in many stage productions and played extra parts in films such as My Left Foot and Far And Away. Ciaran’s stage credits include One for the Road for The Pinter Festival at the Gate Theatre. His film credits include Into the West (Mike Newell), All Things Bright and Beautiful (Barry Devlin), The Canterville Ghost, Some

Mother’s Son (Terry George), The Boxer (Jim Sheridan), The General (John Boorman), Last of the High Kings and Nothing Personal. Having graduated from college, where he studied Drama, Ciaran became a founding member of the Holyshow Theatre Company, which travelled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with its debut show After Anderson. Most recently, Ciaran appeared as Finn in the Fair City Special and is delighted with the chance to continue his acting career with Landmark Productions and The Helix.

SUSAN FITZGERALD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MRS MEDLOCK : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Susan FitzGerald has recently finished highly successful runs at the Project playing Stevie in The Goat by Edward Albee for Landmark Productions and The Friend and Informer in Tejas Verdes by Fermin Cabal for b*spoke theatre company. She has just finished playing Mrs Synott in Shooting Gallery by Arthur Riordan and Des Bishop. Her most recent appearances at the Gate Theatre include Lady Bracknell in The Importance

of Being Earnest, Mrs Higgins in Pygmalion and a tour to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina playing Mrs Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. The previous year at the Gate she appeared with Lia Williams in Eccentricities of a Nightingale, directed by Dominic Cooke, in Martin Crimp’s adaptation of The Misanthrope, and in Jane Eyre, adapted and directed by Alan Stanford. At the same time she appeared in Trouble With Sex by Fintan Connolly, Bachelor’s Walk (Accomplice/RTE), Proof, (Subotica/RTE), and The Big Bow Wow, (GPK/RTE). Susan’s association with the Gate Theatre began after she graduated from Trinity College in the 1970’s. Since then she has played leads in plays by Shaw, Shakespeare, Wilde, Coward, Ibsen, Beckett, Ayckbourn, Williams, Russell, Hampton, Frank McGuinness and Brian Friel, and in adaptations from Dickens and Austen. She played May in Footfalls in the Gate’s celebrated Beckett Festival in New York and London, and filmed Footfalls for the Beckett on Film project. Her work for the Abbey includes Six Characters in Search of an Author, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hedda Gabler and The Duty Master. She played Jocasta in Oedipus for Storytellers at the Gaiety and on tour. Other television work includes Nora Clancy in Fair City, many one-off dramas and the mini-series Rebel Heart for the BBC.

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BOSCO HOGAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BEN WEATHERSTAFF : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Bosco Hogan began his acting career with the RTE Radio Repertory Company before joining the Abbey Theatre for a four-year stay, playing countless characters in everything from Strindberg to Shakespeare. Recent Abbey appearances include A Doll’s House and A Cry From Heaven. Many appearances on British television include Count Dracula, Sense and Sensibility, A Taste For Death, Love Lies Bleeding, Act Of

Betrayal, The Rockingham Shoot, A Question of Guilt, Prince Regent and The Chief. He played Dr. Michael Ryan in Ballykissangel and Detective Inspector Gerry Cody in RTE’s DDU. London stage roles include Edmund in King Lear, Delio in The Duchess of Malfi and Richard Greatham in Hay Fever. His films include Tara Road, King Arthur, The Magnificent Ambersons, The General, Sweeney Todd, Some Mother’s Son, Kidnapped, In The Name Of The Father, Anne Devlin, The Outsider, Exposure, Zardoz and Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man. In his one-man show I Am of Ireland, a magnificent portrayal of W.B.Yeats, Bosco has toured Ireland, England, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and the USA. I Am of Ireland is available on video.

SIMONE KIRBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARTHA : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Originally from Ennis, Simone Kirby trained at the Gaiety School of Acting and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford. Her theatre credits includeThe Tinkers Wedding (DruidSynge), Mind Your Fingers (Giddy Productions; winner of the Jayne Snow award, Dublin Fringe Festival 2005), The Well of The Saints, The Playboy of the Western World (Druid Theatre Company), Amadeus (Ouroboros Theatre Company),

Mud (Best Actress nominee in The Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards 2003), Living On Air (Corn Exchange), Slaughter, Ten (Semper Fi), Women In Arms (Storytellers/Cork Opera House), Getting 2 Level 10 (Calipo Theatre & Picture Co.), Miss Julie (Dionysos), The Deadman’s Beard (Everyman Palace), The Countrywoman (Upstate Live), The Little Mermaid (Riverbank Arts Centre), Strawberries in December (National Youth Theatre) and numerous shows with GYT. Her film and TV credits include Pure Mule (Accomplice Films/RTE), Hamlet (Derry Film Initiative), Remote Control (Spudnik Productions), An Drumadóir (John’s Well Productions), Bump and Bananas and a Lawnmower (Rorican Productions).

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AILISH SYMONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARY LENNOX : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Ailish Symons is a graduate of LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts). Her theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet (Second Age), Hamlet (Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork), Bad Seed and Eclipsed (Cork Arts Theatre), To Kill a Mocking Bird (Everyman Palace), Ding Dong (Half Moon Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Gate Theatre), The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish (The Ark), Stuck in the Mud

(Barnstorm) and, most recently, Pondlife Angels (Cork Midsummer Festival). Her film and TV credits include Bachelors Walk (RTE), Beauty Queen (Brendan Muldowney) and Starfish (Stephen Kane – Irish Film Board).

KATHERINE O’MALLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DANCER / RABBIT : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Katherine O’Malley enjoys a double life, working and performing in Ireland whilst indolently sipping milch kaffees in Berlin. After training in Russia at the Perm State Choreographic Institute, Katherine began her professional career with the Tatarstan State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan, performing throughout Russia and Europe. Following a further year of study at

London Contemporary Dance School she returned home in 1999 to work with Liz and Jenny Roche’s newly founded Rex Levitates Dance Company and since then she has worked extensively with the company. Katherine has also performed with Pan Pan Theatre, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Cois Ceim Dance Theatre, Catapult Dance Company, Rubato Ballet, New Balance Dance Company, RunDance Initiatives, Bedrock Theatre, the Abbey Theatre and Opera Ireland.Last year, with musician Roy Carroll, Katherine directed 8 weeks of research into dance and music improvisation (funded by an Arts Council project award). This year Rebecca Walter and she have been commissioned by Berlin-based band, Double Adaptor, to choreograph a piece for a video production, funded by the Arts Council. In 2006 Katherine will perform with Rex Levitates in Sweet Apollo, and will tour Europe in Rebecca Walter’s interpretation of Thomas Lehman’s Schreibstück.

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AISLING MOONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .STAGE DIRECTOR : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Aisling Mooney has been working as Stage Director, Company Manager, Stage Manager, Deputy Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Manager for a number of years. Her work in theatre includes Skylight (SM), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (SD) and Dandelions, all for Landmark Productions; Old Times (SD) for the Gate Theatre; Take Me Away (SD Dublin, Edinburgh and London), Improbable Frequency (SM), The Life of Galileo (SD) and The Sugar Wife (SD), all for Rough Magic Theatre Company; and Troilus and Cressida (SM), Venus and Adonis (SM), Tales from Ovid (SM rehearsals), Amadeus (SM) and Making History (SD) for Theatreworks (now Ouroboros). Other theatre work includes Sive (DSM) for Druid, The Woman who Walked into Doors (SM) for Up Beat Productions; Macbeth (ASM) and Romeo and Juliet (SM), for Second Age Theatre Company; and The Drunkard (SM) and Tejas Verdes (SM) for b*spoke theatre company. She has also been SD on the launch of The Ha’penny Bridge musical for Dublin. Working with Opera Theatre Company for four years, productions included The Marriage of Figaro (ASM), The Kiss (ASM), The Love Potion (ASM), The Magic Flute (ASM and SM), Erismena (ASM and SM), Cinderella (SM) and La Bohème (CM), with which she toured Ireland and worked in Buxton.

COLIN BAIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ASSOCIATE PRODUCER : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Since graduating in the Performing Arts, Colin Baird’s professional career has centred around international theatre programming and producing. He has worked at London’s ‘Art Powerhouse’, the Barbican Centre, as part of the team who brought the award-winning BITE (Barbican International Theatre Event). Staying in London, he moved to the UK’s premier dance-house Sadler’s Wells, programming their West End venue The Peacock Theatre. Relocating to Dublin he became Producer at the SFX City Theatre/The Machine Theatre Company (2002-2004), where he was responsible for bringing Raymond Briggs’ Christmas classic The Snowman to Dublin and touring John B. Keane’s The Matchmaker to Scotland for a sell-out national tour. In 2004 Colin became a freelance Programmer/Producer. Credits include: Interim Artistic Director of The Palace Complex in Scotland, a 1,000 seat concert hall, 500 seat theatre and 120 space performance space; Tour Arranger and Creative Director for the new production from the producers of Shaolin Wheel of Life; and Line Producer for 55° and Rising, a series of Scottish readings for Fishamble Theatre Company at the Project.

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MARIE TIERNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PRODUCTION MANAGER : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Marie Tierney has worked extensively both as designer and production manager. She has designed costumes for a number of films, including Hard Shoulder; Ailsa; The Bargain Shop; Guiltrip; The Sun, The Moon and The Stars; The Last Bus Home; Crushproof; Pete’s Meteor; Borstal Boy, directed by Peter Sheridan, Mapmaker, directed by Johnny Gogan and the second series of On Home Ground for RTE.

Production management credits include tours with Barabbas, Calypso, Rough Magic and Fishamble. Recent work includes I have before me a remarkable document given to me by a young lady from Rwanda for Calypso Productions, Family Plot for Tinderbox and the long running epic that is I, Keano. She was also production design co-ordinator on the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics. She previously worked with Landmark on Skylight.

SINEAD O’NEILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ASM : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Sinéad O’Neill has just returned from her third season at Wexford Festival Opera, where she stage-managed Hansel und Gretel (2003) and The Medium (2005), as well as assisting on various shows, from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2002) to Le Docteur Miracle (2005). For The Performance Corporation she worked on Dr. Ledbetter’s Experiment (2004) and The Yokohama Delegation (2005). She is delighted to be returning to The Helix, where she was Box Office Assistant early in 2004, and ASM on All’s Well That Ends Well with Classic Stage Ireland. Sinéad is very happy to be working with Landmark Productions for the first time.

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THANKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Landmark Productions and The Helix are grateful for the support of many people and organisations, including the following :

Abbey Theatre, John Brogan, Cois Ceim, Paolo Foley, Fishamble Theatre Company, Eamonn Fox, Gaiety Theatre, Gate Theatre, Aoife Hester, Paul Keogan, Val Keogh, Tom Lawlor, Jim McConnell, Stephen Molloy, Olympia Theatre, Rex Levitates, Rough Magic, Samuel Beckett Centre, Paula Tierney, Brian Treacy, Wexford Opera Festival, Eleanor White and Jonathan White.

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