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The Love of A Good Woman (Working Title)

By Andy Muir

2012. A bedsit in East London. Outside the Olympic games are starting, inside Roy Cuff’s life is about to change forever.

Roy Cuff is an old man living alone, dependent on his TV for a link to the outside world, and who is suddenly cut off from that world. In the silence that follows, he remembers the one girl he fell in love with and we watch through his eyes as that girl learns to love him and eventually helps him sleep forever, safe in the knowledge that he is no longer alone.

Love of a Good Woman explores the effect that something as massive as the Olympic Games might have on something as small as the existence of a lonely old man. The character is in conflict with the outside world. The world into which he was born and has lived for decades is one he no longer recognises and it scares him. The catalyst is the sudden loss of his beloved TV signal and the resolution will be this old man taking his life into his own hands, but first he will make one last ditch effort in his search for some kind of meaning in his life.

The piece uses multi media and puppetry to create a world in a bedsit that comes to life one night and helps take the audience on a journey through this man’s life, culminating in his tragic end.

Creative Team_

SUE SCOTT DAVISON (Producer)

Sue became a producer in 2003. She established Scott Davison Productions and its sister company Lifeblood Theatre Company with the aim of producing high quality commissioned and established texts for both commercial and subsidised theatre.

Sue commissioned and developed Liberty by Glyn Maxwell, which was co-produced with the world renowned Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in 2008, after the run at the Globe, the production went on to a national tour. She has also produced The Lifeblood (Edinburgh & Riverside), which was voted best performance and play by The British Theatre Guide 2004, Two Way Mirror (Theatre Museum), Future Me (Theatre 503), which was revived in Spring 2009.

Upcoming productions include Glyn Maxwell’s newest work, Blind Eye Crying in 2009/2010, as well as his adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s, The Gambler in the near future.

Sue was awarded a Stage One New Producer’ s Bursary in support of her work with Lifeblood Theatre Company, and has won a Meridian Theatre Interact Award for the development and production of Liberty.

ANDREW MUIR (Writer)

Andrew studied drama at Mountview Theatre School in London where he graduated with a 3 year Acting Diploma. He has worked extensively as an actor in London and the regions in work including; Six Degrees of Separation, Royal Court and West End; King Lear, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; Richard III, Pleasance Theatre, London. He has toured both the UK and Europe in various productions and was also involved in a British Council funded tour of South America.

As a writer Andrew has had plays produced throughout the UK. ‘Anniversary Sweet’ was produced at the Finborough Theatre in London where he was referred to as a “writer to watch” by the Independent. His next play, ‘Push’ was given ‘Critic’s Choice’ and was subsequently offered a six week extended run at the Shaftesbury Theatre. In 2009, a new play called ‘Green Grass’ was produced in London (“A luminous production” – Time Out), as well as ‘Gaugleprixtown’, which was produced by Studio 42 at The Kirk on Theatre Row, 42^nd Street, New York.

Andrew has written many short plays for various companies including Shared Experience, Hampstead Theatre and Menagerie Theatre Company and is currently under commission with Deafinitely Theatre Company, for a new play, which will be produced at Soho Theatre, September 2009.

His short film, ‘Family Man’, was produced by JUJU Films and officially selected for the Manchester Film Festival as well as the Tarragona Film Festival, Spain.

Andrew is a lecturer in Performing Arts at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Further Education. He is Dramaturg for Deafinitely Theatre Company and most recently was workshop facilitator for the Old Vic New Voices Programme.

MICHAEL CAHILL (Director)

Michael trained as an actor, and has worked extensively in London’s West End, regional theatre and television. He has incorporated directing and choreography to his list of credits, and has most recently staged a series of open air concerts around British Stately Homes. He directed Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down, and was assistant director on the UK Premiere of Songs For A new World (The Bridewell). He has staged Les Miserable and Miss Saigon in Taiwan, and The Music Of Broadway in Russia. Choreographic work includes The Wizard Of Oz (Birminham Rep), and Our Benny (Liverpool Empire).

MAX HUMPHRIES (Showtographer)

Max formed his first company, Jungle Puppet Theatre, at the age of six, and nineteen years later he’s still going strong. After graduating in Theatre Design from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama he served an apprenticeship at Green Ginger, and has since split his time between designing shows in his head and in the real world. The most important constant collaborator in his work, and oldest friend, is mechanical science. His work includes Rust, Green Ginger; Houdini’s suitcase, Pickled Image; Varjak Paw, the Opera Group; Edward Gant’s Incredible Feats of Loneliness, Headlong; Hunger, Tinkerting/ Figurentheater Nordland; The Lost World, Bristol Old Vic; How to build a rocket, Farham Maltings; After Miss Julie, Salisbury Playhouse, Jack and the Beanstalk, Lyric Hammersmith.

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TIM BARLOW (Actor)

Tim trained at Bristol Old Vic & Ecole Jacques Lecoq.

His theatre credits include: Ferapont in Three Sisters at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The B.F.G. in The B.F.G. for Polka Theatre; The Infinite Pleasures Of The Great Unknown for Inteatro Polverigi, Italy; Wasted (Y)ears (One Man Show) at B.A.C. & Edinburgh Festival; Herman in Kafka’s Dick at Derby Playhouse; Corporal Brewster in Waterloo and The Alcoholic in Year Of The Family at the Finborough; Soothsayer in Cymbeline and Adam in As You Like It at the R.S.C.; Twitch in Wild Oats at the R.S.C. & the Aldwych; Death in Death & The Plowman and The Father in Damned For Despair at the Gate; Fool in King Lear at Bristol Old Vic; King Lear in King Lear at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; Porter & Hecate in Macbeth at Greenwich & Tour; Gibbet in Beaux Strategem and Rainmaker (One Man Show) at the Lyric, Hammersmith; General Kroutitsky in Too Clever By Half at the Old Vic; Devised in More Bigger Snacks Now (Perrier Award Winner Edinburgh Festival) and Alice in Alice In Wonderland for Compicite; The Steward in The Miser at Oxford Playhouse; My Army (One Man Show) at the Almeida & Tour (Complicite); Gebb in Gebb – National Tour; Rance in What The Butler Saw at University Theatre, Newcastle.

Tim’s television credits include: Wire In The Blood for Coastal Productions; Rome for H.B.O./B.B.C.; Mike Bassett, Manager for I.T.V.; My Life in Film, Gentleman Thief, Gormenghast, Heath & Efficiency and The Grass Arena all for the BBC; Blue Murder for LWT; The Bill for Talkback Thames; Nicholas Nickleby for Company Pictures; Tom Jones for A & E TV Networks; My Uncle Silas for Yorkshire Television; Cracker for Granada Television.