Hamlet

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.

Valerie Gogan trained at LAMDA and has worked extensively in theatre, film and television.

For Raptue: Shang-a-Lang and Hamlet.

Theatre includes: The Secret Rapture, He Who Saw Everything (National Theatre), Worlds Apart (Royal Shakespeare Company), Love’s Labours Lost (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Dolls House and Abigail’s Party (Theatre Clwyd), When Is a Clock (Grey Light Prods.), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale and Clothe the Naked (Leicester Haymarket), Widowers’ Houses (Palace Theatre, Watford), In Flame (Bush Theatre), Arden of Faversham (Old Red Lion ), Warm (Theatre 503). In the West End she has appeared in Les Liasons Dangereuses (Ambassadors Theatre) and The Rehearsal (Almeida/The Garrick Theatre). Most recently she was in N.F. Simpson’s final play, If So, Then Yes (Jermyn Street Theatre).

Films include: Dangerous Liasons, One More Kiss, As You Like it, The Jealous Sister, I am Dead, Animal, Honey and Razorblades and Junkhearts.

Television includes: Hamish MacBeth, Heart of the High Country, David Copperfield, Gawain and the Green Knight, Arriverderci Millwall, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Silent Witness, Gertrude in the BBC’s Prefaces to Shakespeare and most recently 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover.

Alan has worked extensively in theatres including the Royal Lyceum, Glasgow Citizens and Perth Rep.

Theatre includes: Dracula (Courtyard, Hereford), appeared in Pilate and the one man show Backstage at the Pussykat Club (The Arches, Glasgow), 54% Acrylic (Firebrand), Taking Sides, Dr Angelus and Good Things (Leon Sinden Award at Pitlochry Festival Theatre), A Taste Of Honey and The Crucible (NTS), Hamlet (Rapture) and toured the highlands and islands in several shows including Art, The Weir, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, The Lonesome West and the title roles in Macbeth and Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde (Mull Theatre). He has also played Gil Martin, the devil, in a highly acclaimed production of Confessions Of A Justified Sinner (Rowan Tree), a role he reprised on BBC Radio 4.

Most recently Alan appeared in The Angel And The Manse (Oran Mhor), Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant Of Venice and Coriolanus (Bard In The Botanics) and Cinderella at The Byre, St Andrews.

Television includes: Taggart, River City, and the title role of John Knox in the BBC’s The Sword And The Cross.

For Rapture: All My Sons, The Last Yankee, Betrayal, Hamlet and The Collection.

Theatre includes: The Knight of the Burning Pestle (The Globe Theatre Company), The 39 Steps (Vienna), Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, Arsenic and Old Lace, Absent Friends, The Rivals and The Winter’s Tale. David has a long association with the Mercury Theatre having previously appeared for the company as Abanazar in Aladdin, Muley in The Grapes of Wrath and in the title role of King David, amongst countless others.
Television and film credits include: Falling, Harry, Quayside, Heartbeat, Micawber, Inspector Rebus, Byker Grove and, most recently, 55 Degrees North and Lawless.

David has also worked extensively as a voiceover artist, including recording numerous audio books, commercials and radio plays.

Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University

For Rapture: All My Sons, Macbeth, Perfect Days, Shang-a-Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Bold Girls, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Proof and Hamlet.

Theatre Includes: The High School, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, A Night in the Ukraine, Teechers, The Steamie, Men Should Weep, The Cemetery Club, The London Vertigo, The Orchestra and Play it Again Sam.