Gagarin Way
By Gregory Burke
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Scotland’s foremost touring theatre company Rapture celebrate their tenth anniversary with an unmissable tour of Gregory Burke’s modern classic.
A pair of Fife factory workers kidnap their visiting boss to make a point… but what exactly is their point? And do they all have the same agenda? The jokes come thick and fast in this politically charged satirical thriller about a human heist that goes wrong. Very wrong.
First performed in 2001, Gagarin Way was the breakthrough play from Dunfermline-born Gregory Burke (writer of the phenomenally successful Black Watch) and has been produced all over the world. Rapture Theatre are delighted to celebrate both their and the play’s tenth anniversary with an unmissable UK tour of Burke’s modern classic.
Earthy adult language and high comedy combine to make for a wickedly cruel and deliciously funny night at the theatre with an all-star Scottish cast.
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Cast & Creatives
Jordan Young
Theatre includes: The Real Thing (The Old Vic) The Chooky Brae (Borderline Theatre) Curse of the Starving Class, Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors and Beauty and the Beast (Royal Lyceum) Black Watch, original cast member and U.S.A 2007 Tour (National Theatre of Scotland) Cinderella, Peter Pan and Aladdin (His Majestys Aberdeen) Slick (Vox Motus) Angels Wings and Rain (Oran Mor) Aladdin (Macrobert Theatre) The Seagull (Edinburgh International Festival/ Russian drama centre Riga) Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lachlan’s Choice Hotel (Brunton Theatre) Cyrano (Catherine Wheels), Cinderella, Mother Goose and Sleeping Beauty(Kings Glasgow) Cinderella (Take Two).
Television includes: Chris in new series Rab C Nesbitt Jan 2010 (BBC 2) Whiteout (Constantin Films, for German television) Rab C Nesbitt Xmas special 2009 (BBC 2) New Town (Pirate Productions, BBC 2) Legit, Still Game, Only An Excuse Hogmanay 2007 and Only An Excuse 2006 World Cup Special (All Comedy Unit for BBC Scotland) Rebus (SMG) The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes (BBC 1)
Film includes: Driving Lessons (Rubber Tree Plant Productions) Wild Country (Gabriel Films)
Radio includes: My Romantic History (BBC Radio 4) Bloodbus, Jiggidy, Fags Mags and Bags and The Wedding (All Comedy Unit for BBC Radio Scotland) Black Watch (BBC Radio 4) Mclevey (BBC Radio 4) Cats Crime and Shellshocked (BBC Radio Scotland).
Finn Den Hertog
Finn trained at RSAMD, graduating in 2007.
Theatre includes: Spring Awakening (Grid Iron/Traverse) Decky Does A Bronco (Grid Iron) Soup (Oran Mor/Traverse) The Silver Darlings, Sunset Song (HMT Aberdeen) Beauty and the Beast (Dundee Rep) The Tempest, Saint Joan (AandBC) The Ducky and The Wall (Borderline) - winner of the 2008 CATS Award for Best Ensemble.
Television includes: Taggart, Rebus (SMG) How Not To Live Your Life (BBC) Burnistoun (BBC/Comedy Unit) and for radio The Three Knots, The Island With No Name, Do You Know Where I Am?, Sunset Song, The Summer Walking, Lost in Plain Sight (all BBC Radio 4).
He is a member of the Poorboy Ensemble and co-founder of The Atlas Company.
Dave Anderson
For Rapture: Uncle Varick, Hamlet and Gagrin Way.
Dave really enjoys touring, having cut his teeth with 7:84 and Wildcat, with whom he was musical director.
In recent years Dave's been concentrating on writing wee musicals, one of which, Tir an nOg, won Best New Musical in Edinburgh in 2007. His songs for The Steamie are being sung, somewhere, right now.
If your memory's good, you may have seen him in Gregory's Girl, City Lights and a fair few other films and tellies over the years.
Jimmy Chisholm
Jimmy is a well-known face to regular theatre-goers in Scotland, as during his forty year career, he has appeared in almost every Scottish theatre in existence and a few which are, sadly, no more. An Inverness boy, Jimmy trained at Queen Margaret College in Edinburgh before going on to enjoy an extensive career in Theatre, TV, Film, and Radio. His love of acting has never diminished.
For Rapture: Uncle Varick, Blue Orange, Gagarin Way and The Collection (2013, 2006).
Michael Emans
In his training at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, Michael received a BA Hons in Theatre Directing, and spent his third year assisting Patrick Sandford at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton working on a range of work from classic Tom Stoppard to new writing to Panto!
After leaving drama school Michael assisted Mark Thomson at the Royal Lyceum Theatre for a season. Michael has also directed at the Oran Mor with the winner of the Orange Playwriting Award, “Magnum Opus” and the acclaimed “Burns on the Solway”.
Other previous theatre includes: Over the Mountain by Roy Williams (Creek Road Studio Theatre), Tom Jones (Lillian Bayliss Theatre), The Finishing School by Claire Luckham (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton).
For Rapture Theatre, Michael has directed: Death and the Maiden, The Dumb Waiter, Some Kind of Love Story, Shadowlands, Taking Sides, Clara, An Evening with Gary Lineker, Boys’ Life, Grace, Death of a Salesman, A Kind of Alaska, Habeas Corpus, Rat in the Skull, Oleanna, Macbeth, Perfect Days, Bold Girls, Shang-a-Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Mr. Peters’ Connections, Insignificance, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Your Turn to Clean the Stair, The Old Neighborhood, The Sailmaker, Richard III, Double Top, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange, Damages, The Collection, Frozen, Broken Glass, Shining City, Betrayal 2008, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Hamlet, Gagarin Way, The Sash, The Collection, Shang-a-Lang 2013, Uncle Varick., All My Sons , The Last Yankee , Democracy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , A Streetcar Named Desire, The Ten Pound Look, The Browning Version , A Kind of Alaska ( 2019) , The Red Lion and Clybourne Park.
Lyn McAndrew
Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University
For Rapture Theatre as designer: Macbeth, Perfect Days, Assassins, Insignificance, Simpatico, Old Neighborhood, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange, Damages,The Collection, Broken Glass, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Hamlet, Gagarin Way and The Sash.
Andrew Wilson
Calum Weir
Show Information
1 hour 30 minutes
Suitable for 14+ years