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Alma Tavern, Bristol
Wednesday, 7 July 2004, 7.30pm
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Abraham
by Patrick Makin |
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CAST |
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NARRATOR ............................................................ John Colborn
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HARRY PHOENIX .......................................... Tony O'Callaghan
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BUCKLEY ........................................................... Richard Randall |
TV REPORTER ......................................................... Geoff Serle |
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TAMSIN ............................................................. .... Jennifer Wood |
MARY PHOENIX ................................................... Heather Lister |
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| Directed by Pete Rogers |
| Lighting/sound by Pete Rogers |
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| Patrick Makin (writer) works as a management consultant and has been writing screenplays for six years. He currently has a script in development with the UK Film Council. |
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| Pete Rogers (lighting/sound) has BTEC National Diplomas in both Performing Arts and Technical Theatre. He’s worked for the Actors’ Workshop since 2000 and a cted in their productions of Bleak House and Clara. He’s currently forming his own company, Beehive Productions. |
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| John Colborn (narrator) is a freelance advertising copywriter who sometimes takes his eye off the ball and finds himself designing and building new houses instead. His stage play Canute2 placed third in the Southwest Scriptwriters' New Writing Festival 2002. |
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Heather Lister (Mary Phoenix) began her acting career in the 1960s when she starred in the first British amateur production of West Side Story. Nowadays, her main interest is in writing for the stage, although she remains a keen reader for Southwest Scriptwriters. |
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Tony O'Callaghan (Harry Phoenix) has been acting since childhood. He has performed in a variety of plays, musicals and films and on TV. His acting roles include Fagin, Molina in Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Danforth in The Crucible and various Shakespearean roles - Macbeth, Mercutio, Benedick. Tony has also found directing rewarding with Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and The White Devil to his credit. He is also a painter and househusband, with two young sons. |
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| Richard Randall (Buckley) started acting in rep at Butlin’s and has appeared in 150 plays and musicals, including Not a Game for Boys at the Alma Tavern and The Un-American at Bristol Old Vic. He is a regular member of the touring Wessex Actors Company and recent television credits include playing Mr Evans in the Bristol-based documentary No 57: The History of a House for Channel 4. |
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Geoff Serle (TV reporter) trained at the London and International Drama School and has played a huge range of character parts in theatre, television and radio over the last 40 years. |
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| Peter Townsend (Reverend Zac Parks) trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the mid-1990s. He has recently toured Macedonia in the Theatre in the Dark production of The Watery Part of the World. Last January, he played Charles Dickens in a TV commercial for the Dickens Collection. He’ll soon be seen again on television as the Holby City/Casualty vicar. |
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| Jennifer Wood (Tamsin) has been acting in Bristol for ten years. Roles have included Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lesley in Her Big Chance, Sylvia Plath in Letters Home. |
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