An Incident at the Border. Kieran Lynn

      First performance at the Finborough Theatre: Sunday, 22 July 2012

      AN INCIDENT AT THE BORDER

      by Kieran Lynn

       Cast in order of appearance

      The performance lasts approximately 80 minutes.

      There will be no interval.

      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.

      An Incident at the Border is performed in repertoire and on the set of The Fear of Breathing, designed by Philip Lindley, which plays Tuesday to Saturday evenings, and Saturday and Sunday matinees, until 11 August 2012.

      Tom Bennett| Arthur Trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Theatre includes Pushing Up Poppies (Theatre503), The Merry Wives Of Windsor, She Stoops To Conquer, Marat Sade, Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, Country Wife and For Services Rendered (GSA).

      Film includes Shadow Dancer, Breathe, Franklyn and Blessed. Television includes Phoneshop, Upstairs Downstairs, The Hunt For Tony Blair, Silent Witness, Doctors, Minder, Pulling, Holby Blue, Mistresses, Love Soup, Midsomer Murders, Booze Cruise, EastEnders, Foyle’s War, My Hero, Red Cap and The Worst Week Of My Life.

      Florence Hall | Olivia At the Finborough Theatre, Florence appeared in You May Go Now – A Marriage Play (2009). Trained at Drama Centre. Theatre includes Birdsong (Comedy Theatre), The Importance Of Being Earnest (Library Theatre, Manchester), Middlemarch (Richmond Theatre), The Kitchen, In A Foreign Bed, As You Like It, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, You Can’t Take It With You, The Changeling, The Prince of Homburg, Paradise Lost and Richard III (Drama Centre).

      Film includes Truth Or Dare and The Telemachy. Television includes Big Bad World, May Day, Holby City, Jonathan Creek and Doctors.

      Marc Pickering | Reiver Trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Theatre includes The Honeymoon Suite (Hull Truck Theatre), The Merchant Of Venice (Arcola Theatre), The Elephant Man (Trafalgar Studios), The Wizard Of Oz (Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton), The Glee Club (Hull Truck Theatre) and The Long And The Short And The Tall (Pleasance London).

      Film includes Sleepy Hollow, Calendar Girls, The Warning, Kill Keith, The Best Years, The Task, I Want Candy, Cashback, Secret Passage and The Queen Of Sheba’s Pearls. Television includes Cricklewood Greats, Fried Brain Sandwich, Britain’s Got The Pop Factor and Dalziel and Pascoe.

      Kieran Lynn | Playwright Trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and works as a director and playwright. He has been a member of the Royal Court Young Writers programme, the Playwrights Studio Scotland mentoring programme, the BBC Sparks Residential Course and the Old Vic 24 Hour Plays. He recently completed a year-long attachment at Hampstead Theatre. His plays include The Recurring Rise and Fall (Hampstead Theatre), An Advert for the Army (Òran Mór, Glasgow), A Volunteer from the Audience (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool) and Pushing Up Poppies (Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh, and Theatre503, London). Recent productions include The Last Dictator (Òran Mór, Glasgow), The Bicycle Thieves, a new play based on the Italian film of the same name (Create Festival, London, in the Olympic Park) and his latest play Bunnies, produced by the Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter, winner of a Peter Brook Empty Space Award, which will transfer to London later this year.

      Bruce Guthrie | Director Trained at the Guildford School of Acting (BA Hons in Acting) and on the National Theatre Directors Course. Directing includes Staff Director for Mother Courage and Her Children, The Observer and Burnt by the Sun (National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Fort Canning Park, Singapore), Hitchcock Blonde (Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff), Karen’s Wishes (Mayfair Theatre), Gloucestershire (Arcola Theatre), Stories by Heart (National Theatre), The Actresses Franchise League (Novello Theatre and Prince of Wales Theatre), The Long and the Short and the Tall (Pleasance London), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (The Venue, Leicester Square, and Gateway Studio Theatre, Edinburgh). Associate Direction includes The Bridge Project’s Richard III (Old Vic, BAM and International Tour), All My Sons (Apollo Theatre) and You Can’t Take It With You (Southwark Playhouse). Assistant Direction includes The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Theatre Royal Haymarket and Cambridge Arts Theatre) and The Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). Resident Direction includes Shadowlands (Novello Theatre). Bruce was Artistic Director of Creative First Theatre from 2004 to 2007, an Assistant Producer for Andrew Welch Ltd in 2008, and is currently Associate Artistic Director of PapaTango Theatre Company.

      Sophia Simensky | Designer At the Finborough Theatre, Sophia was Costume Designer for Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (2012)

      Trained in Design for Performance at Wimbledon College of Art. Theatre design includes You and Me (Rich Mix), Oranges on the Brain (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford), Ink (Chase the Crane at the Edinburgh Festival) and The Changeling (Underbelly, Edinburgh). Costume design for film includes Screaming Guns. As well as working in production design, Sophia has contributed to a number of visual arts projects including Showflat in 2010 and her current collaborations with Nastassja Simensky.

      Humphrey McDermott | Lighting Designer Humphrey has worked professionally within the entertainment lighting industry throughout the UK and Europe for over twenty years. Theatre includes Starlight Express, The Rocky Horror Show, Grease, Les Misérables, The Lion King, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Pushing Up Poppies and Mamma Mia!. Since he became involved with Mamma Mia! in 2004, Humphrey has helped produce ten international productions in seven different languages. Humphrey is currently the Associate Lighting Designer for Rock of Ages, and is proud to be the Lighting Designer for the new Beatles show Let It Be, opening at the Prince of Wales Theatre in the autumn. As well as being a supporter of the Make a Difference