The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution. Paul Wood
With film footage shot by Syrian activists.
Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members.
We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.
Scott Ainslie | Muhummad | Adnan At the Finborough Theatre, Scott appeared in A Letter to England (2007), Witchcraft (2008) and The Captive (2010).
Theatre includes The Old Wives’ Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe), Seven Deadly Sins and Measure for Measure (Arcola Theatre), Song of Deborah (The Lowry, Manchester), Escape Stories (Soho Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Original Shakespeare Company National Tours), Bring Me Sunshine (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh), Medea and This to This (Union Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Shaw Theatre), Les Misérables (Palace Theatre), Great Expectations, Evita and Aspects of Love (National Tours), A Light Gathering of Dust (Edinburgh Festival) and Twelfth Night (National Tour). Film includes Citizen V Kane (winner of the Prix Canal Plus-Clermont-Ferrand 2009), There’s No ‘I’ in Team, Little Deaths, 500 Miles North and Zombie Diaries.
Television includes Stockwell, Son of Sam, EastEnders and Much Ado About Something.
David Broughton-Davies | Peter
At the Finborough Theatre, David appeared in The Druid’s Rest (2009).
Trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Royal Shakespeare Company), Romeo and Juliet (The Young Vic), The Devil Inside Him (White Bear Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Oldham Coliseum Theatre), The Devils (Union Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English Shakespeare Company). David has also worked extensively with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Film includes Lovely Monster, The House of Angelo, The Calling, the forthcoming The Manual OXV and Shoot Me. Television includes Shameless, Go Greek for a Week, Londoners and Casualty.
Paul Cawley | Photographer
At the Finborough Theatre, Paul appeared in The Potting Shed (2010 and 2011). Trained at the Drama Studio.
Theatre includes The Bohemians (Etcetera Theatre), Once in a Lifetime (National Theatre), Troy (National Theatre Studio), The Wideness of the Sea (Arcola Theatre), No Shame, No Fear (Jermyn Street Theatre), Electra (Gate Theatre), Partytime and One for the Road (BAC), Have I None (Southwark Playhouse), Humble Boy (Gielgud Theatre), Arsenic and Old Lace (Strand Theatre), The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Recruiting Officer (Chichester Festival Theatre), Lovers and Songs from the Left Bank (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), Journey’s End (King’s Head Theatre), Dicing with Death (Edinburgh Festival and Lyric Hammersmith Studio) and Guards, Guards (National Tour). Film includes Swinging with the Finkels, Stitched, Black Circle and Problem.
Television includes The Wrong Mans, EastEnders, Spooks, My Family, The Bill, Babes in the Wood, Frank Stubbs Promotes and Numbertime.
Gareth Glen | Ahmad | Qais
At the Finborough Theatre, Gareth appeared in Jamie the Saxt (2007), What Every Woman Knows (2010) and The Captive (2010).
Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes The Real Thing (Bristol Old Vic), A View from the Bridge and Romeo and Juliet (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The Riot Act (Gate Theatre) and Supply (Paines Plough).
Film includes Don’t Be a Victim.
Television includes Casualty, River City, Low Winter Sun, Sea of Souls, Ghost Squad, Taggart, Foyle’s War, Holby City and Rockface.
Nicholas Karimi | Omar
At the Finborough Theatre, Nicholas appeared in I Was a Beautiful Day (2009) and Outward Bound (2012).
Trained at Rose Bruford College.
Theatre includes Damascus, Aleppo (National Theatre of Scotland at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), War Horse (National Theatre and West End), Macbeth (National Theatre), Nova Scotia and The Pearlfisher (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Mother Courage (BenchTours), Mountain Language (BAC), The Dead Fiddler (New End Theatre, Hampstead) and The Emperor Jones (Gate Theatre).
Sirine Saba | Faha | Mother
Trained at RADA.
Theatre includes Scorched (Old Vic Tunnels), Nation and Sparkleshark (National Theatre), Testing the Echo (Out of Joint and Tricycle Theatre), Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre), Midnight’s Children, Pericles, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Beauty and the Beast, Tales from Ovid, A Warwickshire Testimony and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park) and Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic).
Television includes I am Slave, Doctors, Silent Witness, Footballers’ Wives and The Bill.
Radio includes Marley is Dead, My Daughter the Racist, From Fact to Fiction, Arabian Afternoons, English in Afghanistan, The Locust and The Bird, Beirut Days, Baghdad Wedding and Love and Loss.
John Wark | Idris | Ismail
At the Finborough Theatre, John played the title role in Jamie The Saxt (2007).
Trained at RADA.
Theatre includes Dog in the Manger, Tamar’s Revenge and Pedro, the Great Pretender (Royal Shakespeare Company), Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic and Barbican Theatre), Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us (National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), The Winter Guest (Almeida Theatre), Torch Song Trilogy (Tron Theatre, Glasgow) and The Only Girl in the World – A Play of Jack The Ripper (Arcola Theatre).
Film includes Breaking the Waves, The Oxford Murders, Late Night Shopping and Within the Woods.
Television includes Robin Hood, Taggart, The Ten Commandments and G-Force.