The Bush Theatre and Sheffield Theatres in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre
2010 FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER
“If you haven’t met someone by the time you graduate, you’re going to marry some idiot from your work. It’s that simple. Do you know how they get animals to breed in captivity? They put them in the same cage.”
Office romances are tricky. One moment you’re colleagues, then a quick grope after Friday night drinks and suddenly you’re in a relationship. When Tom and Amy get together after an office social, they find themselves living in each other’s pockets. But it’s not their lack of chemistry that’s the problem: it’s that neither of them can quite get over their childhood sweethearts.
A brand new comedy about love, loss and laminating machines.
DC Jackson is a Glaswegian playwright. His plays include Out on the Wing (Òran Mór), Matinee Idol (Òran Mór), Drawing Bored (Òran Mór), The Wall (Tron Theatre) and The Ducky (Tron Theatre).
My Romantic History premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won a Scotsman Fringe First Award.
Chloe is winner of the 2007 Theatre Design Award from the TMA for Small Miracle (Colchester). Current theatre work includes Sus (Young Vic and tour) and Ghost Story, a new play by Mark Ravenshill (Sky Arts Live and Riverside studios).
Design credits includes: Antigone at Hell’s Mouth (Kneehigh Theatre and the National Youth Theatre at the Soho Theatre); War & Peace (RSAMD/Scottish Opera); The Magic Flute (English Touring Opera); Kreutzer Sonata (Gate Theatre); It Felt Empty (Arcola Theatre):This Wide Night (Soho Theatre for Clean Break); Good Woman of Sichuan (New Generation Festival, Birmingham).
DC Moore’s plays include Alaska (Royal Court), The Empire (Royal Court and Drum Theatre, Plymouth, winner of the TMA Award for Best Touring Production), Honest (Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Edinburgh Festival & Soho Theatre), Town (Royal & Derngate, Northampton) and The Swan (as part of Double Feature – National Theatre, Paintframe). In 2008 he won the inaugural Tom Erhardt Award for promising new playwrights and was the 2011 Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Royal Court Theatre. He adapted The Empire for Radio 3’s The Wire season and his television credits include Home for Channel 4/Touchpaper‘s 2011 Coming Up scheme.
Emma has been an Associate Artist of the Bush Theatre and her credits here include Three Birds, Where’s My Seat, Like A Fishbone, The Whiskey Taster, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, 2nd May 1997, Apologia, The Contingency Plan, Wrecks, Broken Space Season, 2000 Feet Away, My Romantic History and Tinderbox.
Theatre credits include Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Elizabeth (Royal Opera House), The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), The Oresteia (Home Theatre, Manchester), Wuthering Heights, The Merchant Of Venice, Consensual (NYT), The Effect (Sheffield Theatres), Henry The Fifth (Unicorn Theatre, Imaginate Festival), All My Sons (Talawa Theatre, UK Tour), Hello/Goodbye, The Blackest Black, #aiww: The Arrest Of Ai Wei Wei, Lay Down Your Cross, Blue Heart Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre), Each His Own Wilderness, Widower’s House (Orange Tree Theatre), Accolade (St James Theatre), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Royal Exchange, Royal And Derngate And Northern Stage), Pitcairn (Out of Joint, Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour), Saints (Nuffield), The Colby Sisters Of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Tricycle Theatre), Pests (Clean Break, Royal Exchange & Royal Court), Carthage (Finborough Theatre, Coriolanus, Berenice, The Physicists, Making Noise Quietly, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), All My Sons, A Doll’s House, Three Birds, The Accrington Pals, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Royal Exchange), Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic), Nut (National Theatre), OMG! (Sadlers Wells, The Place & Company Of Angels), There Are Mountains (Clean Break, HMP Askham Grange), The Promise (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), You Can Still Make A Killing (Southwark Playhouse), The Sacred Flame (English Touring Theatre), Black T-Shirt Collection (Fuel UK Tour and National Theatre), Invisible (Transport UK Tour & Luxemborg), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams Theatre, West End), Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios), Charged (Clean Break, Soho Theatre), Men Should Weep (National Theatre), Travels With My Aunt (Northampton Theatre Royal), Sisters (Sheffield Theatres), Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse and Tricycle Theatre), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (National Theatre), Europe (Dundee Rep, Barbican Pit).
Emma is the Associate Sound Designer for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse. She won the Falstaff Award for Best Sound Design/Original Score for her work on Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014.
Lyndsey is an Associate Director at Sheffield Theatres and London’s Gate Theatre.
Directing credits includes: Posh, A Miracle, Contractions (Royal Court); Nocturnal (Gate Theatre); The Lesson (Arcola Theatre); Still Breathing, Hymn, What’s Their Life Got? (Theatre 503); Dealer's Choice (Central); The Grace of Mary Traverse (LAMDA).
Shows include:
Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/ Royal Exchange) Origins (Pentabus) Terminus (Abbey & Tour) Once on this Island (Birmingham/Nottingham/Hackney) After Dido (English National Opera) Macbeth (Royal Exchange Manchester) Harvest (UK Tour) Amazonia, Ghosts, The Member of the Wedding & Festa! (Young Vic) Oedipus Rex (Royal Festival Hall) Oxford Street & Kebab (Royal Court) Il Trittico (Opera Zuid) Testing The Echo (Out Of Joint) Falstaff (Grange Park Opera) Blithe Spirit & Black Comedy (Watermill) Drowning On Dry Land (Salisbury Playhouse) Overspill, HOTBOI & Tape (Soho Theatre) Melody & In the Bag (Traverse) Mother Courage (Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour) Into the Woods, Macbeth & Way Up Stream (Derby Playhouse) The Bodies (Live Theatre) The Morris (Liverpool Everyman) Bread & Butter (Tricycle) Canterville Ghost (Peacock) Awakening & Another America (Sadler's Wells).
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Alison is currently reprising her leading regular role in the BBC’s Shetland series opposite Douglas Henshall.
Her theatre credits include Boys (Headlong), Yerma (Gate Theatre and Hull Truck Theatre), The Hard Man (Scottish Theatres Consortium), My Romantic History (Bush Theatre/Sheffield Crucible), Eigengrau (Bush Theatre), Dolls (National Theatre of Scotland), Lady Windermere's Fan (Oran Mor), The Assassination of Paris Hilton (Racked), Mad Funny Just (Creased), 1 in 5 (Hampstead Theatre Daring Pairings), Phaedre (Offstage), Barren (Old Vic New Voices - The 24 Hour Plays), The Ghost Sonata (Goat and Monkey) and Broken Road (Hush Productions).
Her television credits include Shetland (BBC), Holby City (BBC), Feel the Force (Catherine Bailey Productions).
Theatre includes: The Mysteries, The Winters Tale (National Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Citizens Theatre); The Slab Boy’s Trilogy (Traverse Theatre); Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Strangers Babies (Traverse Theatre); Small Craft Warnings (Arcola Theatre).
Film includes: Plunkett & Macleane, Basic Instinct II, Bramwell, The Debt Collector.
Television includes: Band of Brothers, Silent Witness, Kavanagh QC, Sea Of Souls, Rab C. Nesbitt.
Iain was awarded a Scottish Best Performance BAFTA for Small Faces & received an Ian Charleson award for Michael Grandage's The Tempest.
Iain trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School.
Theatre includes: Pobby and Dingan, Snow Baby, Cyrano (Catherine Wheels); Shopping For Shoes, Armchair War (Visible Fictions); Beggars Opera (Vanishing Point/Royal Lyceum/Belgrade Coventry); Subway (Vanishing Point/Tron/Lyric Hammersmith); Naked Neighbour, Twitching Blind (Nick Underwood); Molly Whuppie and Lickety-Leap (Lickety Spit Theatre Co); We Are Everywhere at Home (Cumbernauld/ Theatro Comedia, Bucharest); Peep (Starcatchers); Zarraberri and Limbo (Oran Mhor); The Littlest Christmas Tree (MacRobert); Broken Glass and It’s Your Turn to Clean the Stair (Rapture Theatre Co); Knives in Hens and King Lear (Tag).
Radio includes: Raven Black, Meryl The Mounted, Gondwannaland (BBC Radio 4).
Rosalind trained at RSAMD.
