PRESS RELEASE
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The Production Exchange presents
CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR
LADY ANNA: ALL AT SEA
A NEW PLAY BY CRAIG BAXTER
INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE
COMMISSIONED BY THE TROLLOPE SOCIETY
AS PART OF THE TROLLOPE BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS
Casting has been announced for the world premiere of LADY ANNA: ALL AT SEA, a new play by Craig
Baxter, inspired by the work of Anthony Trollope, directed by Colin Blumenau and designed by Libby
Watson, at Park Theatre from Wednesday 19 August – Saturday 19 September, with a press night on
Thursday 20 August.
Anthony Trollope finds himself in uncharted waters as he pens the very Victorian scandal Lady Anna…
It's 1871, and celebrated novelist Anthony Trollope is Australia-bound aboard the steamship Great Britain.
Accompanied by his wife Rose and her maid Isabella, Trollope passes the time by writing his latest tale,
Lady Anna. The story, full of intrigue, rebellion and social politics, proves divisive among his fellow
passengers – and it's not long before fact and fiction overlap in a dramatic and witty fashion. Is Trollope
himself a surprising radical pitted against the status quo - or are his characters to blame for the
controversy?
This abundantly British business involves a disputed title, fraud, bigamy, a legal case, madness and even
attempted murder. An extraordinary set of circumstances finds both Lady Anna and Trollope facing some
very difficult questions indeed – but will they follow their hearts and risk being disgraced?
Caroline Langrishe will play ‘Countess Lovel / Rose Trollope’, Antonia Kinlay will play ‘Lady Anna /
Isabella’, Andy Rush will play ‘Daniel Twaite / Bore / Anna’s Maid’, Adam Scott-Rowley will play ‘Frederic
/ Pedant’, Julie Teal will play ‘Aunt Jane / Lady Fitzwarren’, Edward Halsted will play ‘Mr Flick / Rector’
and Tim Frances will play ‘Anthony Trollope / Sir William Patterson’.
Lady Anna: All at Sea was commissioned by the Trollope Society as part of the Trollope Bicentennial
Celebrations.
Celebrated novelist and family member Joanna Trollope said, “This year is the bi-centenary of Anthony
Trollope’s birth, so what could celebrate it better than a play inspired by his novel about one of the great
themes of our own times - that of defying convention and convenience to follow one’s heart. Even the title
of this play - “Lady Anna at Sea” - is apt, since Trollope WAS at sea when he wrote it, on his way to
Australia. If he were still alive, he’d be thrilled, and as eager to see the play as I am….”
Michael Williamson, Chairman of the Trollope Society said, “With 47 novels to choose from, there were
many possibilities but we ultimately chose ‘Lady Anna’ because it contained a relatively straightforward,
yet interesting, central plot that we thought would dramatise well. We also liked the fact that it had been
written on the SS Great Britain while Trollope and his wife were sailing to Australia to visit their younger
son Frederic who had recently emigrated. We were very pleased that, in constructing the script, Craig
Baxter was able to include both the core story of Lady Anna within a framework of the voyage itself. We
are really delighted that Production Exchange are now preparing to present the premiere of this exciting
work later this year and we would like to wish everybody invovled a very successful production.”
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LISTINGS
Preview: Wednesday 19 August
Press night: Thursday 20 August
Performances 19 August – 19 September
Running Time: TBC
Booking: www.parktheatre.co.uk 020 7870 6876
Prices:
Preview £15
Full £20 / £25
Concs £18
£15 Tuesdays Residents with N. London postcode or Under 25s
Pay What You Can on any matinee. Bookable from one hour before the performance, in person at the
box office. One ticket per person. Subject to availability.
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM BIOGRAPHIES
CRAIG BAXTER
Craig’s work includes St James and the Tattoo Man, Taking Liberties, The Animals, Monogamy, Big Bang, Relics,
Spearcarriers, Hard Sell, The Ministry of Pleasure, Re: Design, Somniloquy, Let Newton Be!, and adaptations of The Man
Who Walked Through Walls, The Snow Queen and The CV of Aurora Ortiz. His play The Altruists won the 4th Stage Script
Competition for plays about science or technology.
COLIN BLUMENAU
Colin had an early freelance career as an actor working in television, on stage and on the radio. He is probably best
remembered for playing PC ‘Taffy’ Edwards in The Bill. Over the last 25 years he has been Artistic Director of three different
regional theatres, latterly as Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds which he left in 2012 to resume a
freelance career as director and writer.
LIBBY WATSON
Libby has worked extensively in the UK at Birmingham Rep, The Crucible, The Wolsey, Nottingham Playhouse, Trafalgar
Studios West End, Soho Theatre, Royal Court, Northcott Exeter, Bristol Old Vic, Bolton Octagon, Salisbury Playhouse, West
Yorkshire Playhouse, Riverside Studios, Hampstead Theatre, Tricycle, Stratford East, Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal,
Belgrade Coventry, Bush Theatre and Manahattan Theatre Club New York. Libby designed The Mountaintop at Trafalgar
Studios West End which wa the winner of 2011 Olivier Award Best Play.
Recent design credits include: Fences, Theatre Royal Bath, tour and West End, The Dead Dogs Print Room, Break the
Floorboards, Watford Palace and Tour , Rudy’s Rare Records, Birmingham Rep and Hackney Empire, Propoganda Swing
Belgrade and Nottingham Playhouse, Frankie and Johnny, Chichester Festival Theatre History Boys UK tour, Play Mas
Orange Tree. Feed the Beast Birmingham Rep, Deranged Marriage, UK tour. Future Projects include:
Sweet Charity, Wolsey Theatre, Les Femmes Savantes, Belgrade Theatre
ADAM SCOTT-ROWLEY
Adam graduated from LAMDA in 2014. Credits whilst at LAMDA include Rigadoon in Love and a Bottle directed by Max
Stafford-Clark, Christopher Marlowe in The School of Night directed by John Bashford. Recent stage credits include Deeley
in Old Times directed by Stephen Middleton. Recent film credits include Macbeth's Messenger in Macbeth directed by Kit
Monkman.
ANTONIA KINLAY
Theatre Credits include: THE THREE LIONS (St James Theatre & tour); A HISTORY OF FALLING THINGS (New Vic Theatre);
ARMS AND THE MAN (Theatre Clwyd); MR WHATNOT (Northampton Royal Theatre); AS YOU LIKE IT (Theatre Clwyd);
WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY MOTHER? (Trafalgar Studios); CARROT (Theatre 503); MOLIÈRE (National Theatre Studio /
Finborough); THE ETERNAL NOT(National Theatre).
Television Credits include: EMMERDALE (ITV) MI HIGH, CONSUMING PASSION, DOCTORS (BBC Television); BROADSIDE
(Doccema LLC); TOUCH (WINNER OF VIRGIN MEDIA SHORTS 2013); THE ETERNAL NOT and WLTM.
Rehearsed Readings & Workshops include: GAMES FOR LOVERS AND NON-LOVERS (Park Theatre); BLOODY POETRY
(National Theatre); TELL MARK I CAN'T DRINK VODKA, THE BEAUTY MANIFESTO and PRINCE OF DENMARK (National
Theatre Studio), THE DUGOUT (Bristol Old Vic); ELECTRICITY (Young Vic).
CAROLINE LANGRISHE
Caroline trained at Elmhurst Ballet School, and is probably best known for her roles in television series - Charlotte
Cavendish in ‘Lovejoy’, Georgina Channing in ‘Judge John Deed’, and Marilyn Fox in ‘Casualty’.
Theatre Includes: First Episode (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes (Arcola Theatre), The Memory of
Water (New Vic Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Handyman (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Tour), Country (Southwark
Playhouse), Hay Fever (Chichester), Tons of Money (National tour), Marrying the Mistress (Tour), Murderer (The Menier
Chocolate Factory), The Way of the World (Manchester Royal Exchange), Our Song (Tour), An Ideal Husband (National
Tour), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Young Vic), Olivia in Twelfth Night (Riverside Studios, director Kenneth Branagh), Present
Laughter (Aldwych Theatre, Wyndams Theatre), Talk of The Devil (Watford Palace Theatre), The Philanderer (Hampstead
Theatre), The Knickers (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith), Dog Days (Windsor Theatre Royal), A Portrait of Dora (New End
Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Riverside Studios, director Peter Gill), A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Much Ado about
Nothing, Danton’s Death (National Theatre).
Television Includes: Agatha Rasin (Sky One), Death in Paradise (BBC), The Case (Channel 4), Outnumbered (BBC), Pete
Versus Life (Channel 4), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Marilyn Fox in Casualty (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Hollyoaks (Channel 4),
Georgina Channing in Judge John Deed (BBC), Tripping Over (Channel 5), Lady Canarvon in Egypt (BBC), Charlotte Cavendish
in Lovejoy (BBC), Sons Daughters and Lovers (BBC), As If (Channel 4), Brotherly Love (BBC), Lady Anne Carmoynes in
Sharpe’s Return and Sharpe’s Justice (ITV), Mosley (Channel4), Poirot (ITV), Heartbeat (ITV), Peak Practice (ITV), Exchange of
Fire (Channel 4), The Fortunes of War (BBC), Chancer (ITV), Bombay Blue (Channel4), Pulaski (BBC), Jane in The Flipside of
Dominick Hide and Another Flip for Dominick (BBC), Wuthering Heights (BBC), Anna Karenina (BBC),The Glittering Prizes
(BBC)
Film Includes: Aleeza and Harriet, Plastic, Love’s Kitchen, Second Son, Bonobo, David Rose, Memorablis, Kisna, Rogue
Trader, Newborn, Parting Shots, Crimetime, Twelfth Night, Hawks, Cleopatra, Dead Man’s Folly, A Christmas Carol, Les
Miserables, Death Watch, Mistral’s Daughter and The Eagle’s Wing.
JULIE TEAL
Julie Trained at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
THEATRE: Julie has previously performed in Mansfield Park (Theatre Royal, Bury and tour), Confusions, Just Between
Ourselves, Framed, There Goes The Bride (Mill at Sonning)
The Thunderbolt, Diana of Dobsons and Skin Game (Orange Tree Theatre) Hayfever and Abandonment (York Theatre Royal)
Don’t Dress For Dinner (Royal and Derngate, Northampton) Death and The Maiden, Ashes, Dial M For Murder, Bedfull of
Foreigners (Palace Theatre, Westcliff) Tons of Money (Liverpool Playhouse and Tour) Grandma’s Shoes (Kings Head) Bare
Necessities (Belgrade, Coventry) Hayfever (National Tour) One For The Pot (No.1 Tour) Turkey Time (Bristol Old Vic) You
Never Can Tell and A Voyage Round My Father (Dundee Rep).
MUSICALS: Includes The KING and I (Everyman, Cheltenham) Three Men In A Boat and The Wizard of Oz (Theatr Clwyd)
Hans Christian Andersen (Theatre Royal, Harrogate)
and Scrooge (New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham).
TV and FILM: Includes Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions) Doctors (BBC) Honest (BBC) Hustle (BBC) Casualty (BBC) 20
Things To DO Before You’re 30 (Tiger Aspect) Touch of Frost (Yorkshire Television) Footballers Wives (Shed Productions ITV)
The Bill (Thames Television) Touching Evil (ITV) Eastenders (BBC) Food of Love (Intrinsica Films)
Holding On (BBC) She’s Out (Cinema Verity) Class Act (Cinema Verity) The Chief (Anglia Television).
Julie also does a great deal of audio work, including radio, dubbing, commercials and numerous audio books.
ANDY RUSH
Trained at Birmingham School of Acting.
Theatre: Anna Karenina,-Arcola Theatre, Sense- Made By Brick, The Kitchen Sink - Bush Theatre, Hello/Goodbye Hampstead Theatre, Love's Labour's Lost & Midsummer Night's Dream - The Lamb Players, Jumpers For Goalposts - Paines
Plough, Unidentified Item In Bagging Area - Old Red Lion, Dick Whittington - Lyric Hammersmith
TV: Tommy Cooper - Not Like That, Like This. Waterloo Road, Doctors, Wizards vs Aliens, Holby City, New Tricks, Casualty.
Film: Here & Now, will soon be appearing in ID2: Shadwell Army.
TIM FRANCES
THEATRE includes: THE 39 STEPS (West End); ETERNAL LOVE (ETT/ The Globe Tour); The role of Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS
CAROL (The Bridge House Theatre); THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park); READ NOT DEAD SERIES: TWO
MAIDS OF MORE – CLACKE and ANNE BOLEYN (Shakespeare’s Globe/Tour); THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPIST
(Liverpool/Chichester Festival Theatre); NEVER SO GOOD, MARAT-SADE (Royal National Theatre); CHRONIC (Royal Court
Theatre, Rough cuts season); A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, AN INSPECTOR CALLS (West End); A GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
(Northern Broadsides); 1936 (Lillian Bayliss Theatre); KING LEAR (West Yorkshire Playhouse); OLIVER TWIST (Bolton
Octagon); PETER PAN (Qdos Entertainment); HE’S MUCH TO BLAME, TWELFTH NIGHT, RELATIVELY SPEAKING and WIVES AS
THEY WERE (Bury St Edmunds); THE GLEE CLUB (New Vic Theatre); PRODIGAL SON, PURVIS (Stephen Joseph Theatre); MAP
OF THE HEART, HABEAS CORPUS (Salisbury Playhouse); FEMME FATALE (Warehouse Croydon); PROVING MR JENNINGS
(Court Yard Theatre); SLEEPING BEAUTY (Northampton Royal); AN INSPECTOR CALLS (UK Tour); ROMEO AND JULIET
(Greenwich & UK Tour); ALADDIN (Liverpool Everyman); CABERET, A COMEDY OF ERRORS and A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Duke’s
Playhouse); FORTINBRAS GETS DRUNK (Timepiece Productions); GOOD ROCKIN’ TONITE (Vaudeville Theatre); JUNE MOON
(Theatre of Comedy, West End); KING LEAR (Compass Theatre); CORIOLAUS (USA & Canada).
FILM & TELEVISION includes:
BIG SCHOOL: GANGSTA GRANNY; LAND GIRLS, THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, MY DADS THE PRIME MINISTER; RAPTURE:
CROMWELL; THE POWER OF ART; THE DEATH OF MARAT, HOLBY CITY, THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, DOCTORS,
EASTENDERS, SEARCH, TO HELL AND BACK and FORTUNES OF WAR (BBC TV); BAD GIRLS (Shed Prods/ITV); OLIVER
CROMWELL (BBC Scotland); THE BILL (Pearson TV); 3 MEN IN A RESTAURANT (Electric Theatre Co); LEXX (Silver Light);
OTHELLO, FOXES IN THE WOODS (LWT); THAT DEADWOOD FEELING (Electric Theatre Co).