Casting Announcement: Cyprus Avenue

• CHRIS CORRIGAN, JULIA DEARDEN, AMY MOLLOY and WUNMI MOSAKU join previously announced STEPHEN REA in Cyprus Avenue by David Ireland.

The full cast has been announced for the Royal Court Theatre and the Abbey Theatre production of David Ireland’s new play Cyprus Avenue. Chris Corrigan, Julia Dearden, Amy Molloy, Wunmi Mosaku and Stephen Rea have been cast in this Abbey Theatre commission.

Vicky Featherstone directs. Cyprus Avenue runs from Tuesday 5 April 2016 – Saturday 7 May 2016 in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Prior to its run at the Royal Court, Cyprus Avenue will premiere at the Abbey Theatre Dublin Thursday 11 February 2016 – Saturday 19 March 2016 on the Peacock Stage.

“Without prejudice we’re nothing! If we don’t discriminate, we don’t survive!”

Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams.

His family keep telling him to stop living in the past and fighting old battles that nobody cares about anymore but his cultural heritage is under siege. He must act.

The story of one man struggling with the past and terrified of the future.

“Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a new-born baby and successfully infiltrated my family home.”

Design by Lizzie Clachan, Lighting by Paul Keogan and Sound by David McSeveney.
Cyprus Avenue is a Royal Court Theatre and Abbey Theatre production.
It is an Abbey Theatre Commission.
Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a donor-advised fund of London Community Foundation.
Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme.

Full listings and biography information below.

The Big Idea:

David Ireland in conversation
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Tuesday 26 April 2016, Post-show

David Ireland talks with Royal Court’s Associate Director Hamish Pirie.

The Big Idea is a strand of work launched during Open Court, offering audiences radical thinking and provocative discussion inspired by the work on stage. The Big Idea seeks to foster debate and collaboration, bringing together leading thinkers and artists from all walks of life to engage with the big ideas of our times, through a series of debates and events. AlixPartners support The Big Idea at the Royal Court Theatre.

Listings Information:
Cyprus Avenue
By David Ireland
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Tuesday 5 April – Saturday 7 May 2016
A Royal Court Theatre and Abbey Theatre production
Monday – Saturday 7.45pm
Saturday Matinees 3pm (from 9 April)
Captioned Performance 27 April 7.45pm
Press Night Thursday 7 April 7pm
Age Guidance 14+
Tickets £20 (Mondays all seats £10 available from 9am online on the day of performance)
Concessions* £15 (available in advance for previews and all matinees)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
*ID required. All discounts subject to availability.

David Ireland’s work includes Summertime (Tinderbox); Trouble and Shame, Most Favoured, The End of Desire (Ã’ran Mór); Can’t Forget About You (Lyric, Belfast) and Half a Glass of Water (Abbey Theatre). David is the former Playwright-in-Residence at the Lyric Theatre Belfast, and is a recent winner of the Stewart Parker BBC Radio Drama Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award.

Vicky Featherstone is Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre. Her work for the Royal Court includes How To Hold Your Breath; God Bless The Child; Maidan: Voices From The Uprising; The Mistress Contract; The Ritual Slaughter Of Gorge Mastromas; Untitled Matriarch Play and The President Has Come To See You. Her other work includes Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour; Enquirer; An Appointment With The Wicker Man; 27; The Wheel; Somersaults (National Theatre of Scotland); The Small Things; Pyrenees; On Blindness; Tiny Dynamite; Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco; Splendour; Crave (Paines Plough). Vicky was Artistic Director of Paines Plough 1997-2005 and Artistic Director of The National Theatre of Scotland 2005-2012. Later this year Vicky will also direct X by Alistair McDowall.

Chris Corrigan will make his debut at the Royal Court with Cyprus Avenue. His theatre credits include Re-Energize (Derry Playhouse), The Titanic Boys (Grand Opera House), Dockers (Lyric Belfast), Chronicles of Long Kesh (Tricycle/Waterfront Hall/CQAF/NI Tour), Antigone, Scenes from The Big Picture (Waterfront Hall/National), The Duke of Hope (Tinderbox/National Tour), Don Juan in Soho (Donmar Warehouse), The Wrong Man (New Strung/ Pleasance Dome Edinburgh Fringe), Group The Musical (Pleasance Dome Edinburgh Fringe Festival/ Lyric Belfast), Mojo Mickybo (National Tour), Militiaman (Crescent Arts/Partisan), La Chunga (Lyric Belfast), Energy (Derry Playhouse/ National Tour) and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Kabosh/An Granian). His film credits include Accelerator, Jonjo Mickybo and The Goldfish Bowl. His television credits include The Rack Pack, The Musketeers, The Fall, Doctors, The Bill, Sunday and Eureka Street.

Julia Dearden’s credits at the Royal Court include Loyal Women. Other theatre credits include Electra (Old Vic), The Homeplace (Opera House Belfast), The Crucible (Lyric Belfast), Antigone, Scenes from The Big Picture (Waterfront Belfast), Shadows of a Gunman (Citizens Glasgow), Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible), Da, Mrs. Prynne (Irish Tour), Bloody Sunday, Una Pooka, Una, The Mai (Tricycle), The Blind Fiddler (The Assembly Rooms Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Caught Red Handed, Ruby, Pentecost (Tinderbox), The Winter’s Tale, The Crucible, Camille (RSC), The Shaughraun (National), Bold Girls (7:84), The Silver Tassie (Almeida), She Stoops to Conquer, Miss Julie (Salisbury Playhouse) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Lyric). Her film credits include The Most Fertile Man In Ireland, Wild About Harry, Titanic Town, Cal, Oranges and Lemons and The Wayfarer. Her television credits include The Fall, Dani’s Castle, Northanger Abbey, The Billy Plays, Troubles, Family, The Nation’s Health, Clarissa, The Gravy Train, Lost Belongings, The Rag Nymph, The Knock and A Game of Soldiers.

Amy Molloy will make her Royal Court debut with Cyprus Avenue. Her Abbey Theatre credits include John Gabriel Borkman (B.A.M Harvey Theater/Abbey). Other theatre credits include TeaSet (Pleasance Courtyard Edinburgh Fringe/Barons Court & White Bear London), Disco Pigs (Young Vic/ UK Tour), Playhouse Creatures (Bruiser/MAC Belfast), Rock Paper Scissors (Brockley Jack Studio London), Tejas Verdes, Villa (PrimeCut/MAC Belfast), Over The Bridge (Finborough), My Cousin Rachel (Gate Dublin), Big Maggie (Druid), Belfast Girls (King’s Head), Lieutenant of Inishmore (Curve Leicester), Black Milk (PrimeCut), Kitty and Damnation (The Lion and Unicorn), Once a Catholic (Lost/ Upstairs at the Gate House), The Seagull (Chelsea) and Come On Over (Tristan Bates). Her film credits include Black Ice, The Sea and ’71. Her television credits include Call The Midwife, 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover and The Fall.

Wunmi Mosaku’s credits at the Royal Court include Truth and Reconciliation and The Vertical Hour. Other theatre credits include Tiger Country (Hampstead), Mr Burns (Almeida), Playlist (Theatre 503), Katrina (Jericho House), Ugly Shy Girls (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Mules (Young Vic), Rough Crossings (Headlong) and The Great Theatre of The World (Arcola). Her film credits include Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Philomena, Music’s in My Bones, Citadel, Stolen, Honeymooner, I Am Slave and Womb. Her television credits include Capital, In The Flesh, My Baby, Dancing on The Edge, Jo Legrand, Truckers, Black Out, Vera, Body Farm, Stolen, Father and Son, Law & Order, Moses Jones and Silent Witness.

Stephen Rea’s credits at the Royal Court include Ashes to Ashes, Captain Oates Left Stock, Doublecross, Endgame, Freedom of the City and Geography of a Horse Dreamer. His credits at the Abbey Theatre include Ages of the Moon, Tales of Ballycumber, Kicking a Dead Horse, Aristocrats, and The Blue Macushla. Other theatre credits include A Particle Of Dread (Derry and New York), Ballyturk (Galway and National Theatre), The Shadow of a Gunman (Mermaid), Action, Ecstasy, Buried Child, Communication Cord Translation, Kingdom of the Earth, Saint Oscar, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Hampstead), Crete and Sergeant Pepper, Piano, Strawberry Fields, Tales of Vienna Woods (National), High Society (Victoria Palace), Play, That Time (Gate) and The White Devil (Nottingham Playhouse). His film credits include Nothing Personal, Stuck, V for Vendetta, Breakfast on Pluto, The River Queen, Control, Ulysses, Evelyn, The End of the Affair, Guinevere, Still Crazy, In Dreams, The Butcher Boy, Fever Pitch, Trojan Eddie, Michael Collins, The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, Prêt a Porter, Interview with a Vampire, Princess Caraboo, Angie, Bad Behaviour, The Crying Game, Life is Sweet, The Company of Wolves, Loose Connections, Citizen X and Angel. His television credits include War & Peace, Dickensian, The Honourable Woman, Utopia, The Shadow Line, Single-Handed, Law & Order, Father and Son and 10 Days to War. Awards include a BAFTA and an Irish Television and Film Award for The Honourable Woman; and a Cairo International Film Festival Award for Citizen X.

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