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Alma Tavern, Bristol
Friday, 9 July 2004, 7.30pm and 9.00pm

If Possible, Make a U-Turn
by Linda Ewles

 
 
CAST
 
MARILYN ....................................................... Trish Ferguson-Jay
PHYLLIS (THE COUNSELLOR)/MISS ............ Jennifer Wood
SALESMAN/GEOFF ...................................... Tony O'Callaghan
 
Directed by Vicky Vatcher
Lighting/sound by Pete Rogers
 
 
Linda Ewles (writer) is a published writer and editor on public health, but turned her hand to fiction about ten years ago. She has been shortlisted and commended in national short story competitions, including those run by the National Association of Writers' Groups and the Arvon Foundation. She was awarded an MA in Creative Writing in 2001, having specialised in writing for radio. This is the first public performance of one of her radio plays.
 

Vicky Vatcher (director) trained as a director and performer in this country and America. She has directed and performed in various fringe venues and teaches drama and theatre part-time at Bath Spa University College and at the University of the West of England.
Email vickyvatcher@btinternet.com

 

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.

 
Trish Ferguson-Jay (Marilyn) trained at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and has worked as an actor, director and teacher. Trish is a founder-member of the Bristol-based Actors’ Workshop company and its current Artistic Director. Recent theatre credits include: Under Milk Wood (First Voice); Beowulf (Poet); Bleak House (Lady Dedlock); The Bear (Mrs Popov); Lady Bracknell’s Confinement (Director); Playhouse Creatures (Mrs Betterton); Taming of the Shrew (Katherine); Broken Glass (Sylvia); Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (The Jewish Wife); A Bed Among the Lentils (Director); The Crucible (Elizabeth Proctor).
 
Tony O'Callaghan Tony  O'Callaghan (Salesman/Geoff) 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.
 
Jennifer Wood (Phyllis (the counsellor)/Miss) 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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