The Browning Version
By Terrence Rattigan
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Rapture presents a timeless masterpiece of love and regret and the human capacity for change. The Browning Version is set after the Second World War, at a boys’ public school and on the eve of Greek Classics teacher, Andrew Crocker Harris’, retirement.
Moving, humorous and displaying a profound understanding of the human heart, only those made of steel will be able to sit through this play dry-eyed.
Performed as part of Rapture Bites – Lunchtime Theatre. A short season of three classic one-act plays written by some of the most influential, groundbreaking and highly-regarded writers of the last 100 years. Spanning the 20th century with themes, characters and situations that resonate today, these are timeless plays for a modern audience.
Enjoy a spot of lunch with a scrummy slice of quality theatre, as these productions will be performed at lunchtime, with venues providing a light lunch as part of the ticket price.
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Cast & Creatives
Dylan Blore
Dylan graduated from Motherwell College in 2017 with a 1st Class Honours in Acting. His professional debut came in the same year, playing Lucius in Timon of Athens with Bard in the Botanics. He has since returned to the company to play the title role in Romeo and Juliet, and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing.
Other credits include Hopscotch Theatre’s tour of Aladdin, the STARZ series Outlander, BBC One’s Armchair Detectives and various short film developments with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Paul Albertson
After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Paul became a leading actor for the Glasgow Citizens Theatre over a period of ten years, playing such roles as Jimmy Porter, Jean in Miss Julie, Lenny in the Homecoming, Nero in Britannicus and Joey in Pal Joey.
For Rapture: The Browning Version, Betrayal and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Other theatre roles include: Beauty Smith in White Fang, Bert Barricune in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Both at the Park Theatre); Don Antonio in The Rover (Hampton Court); Phil in The People Next Door (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Baz in Damages (The Bush Theatre); Carl in Carver (The Arcola) and Daniel in The Little Pony (Cervantes Theatre).
Recent Screen work include Extras with Ricky Gervais, Sherlock, Love Soup, Holby City, Heartbeat, Coronation Street, All at Sea and feature films The Honourable Rebel, Excalibur Rising, The Great Director and Radioactive.
He is also a voice actor and recently won Best Male Performance in a Radio Drama at the 2018 One Voice Awards.
Pandora Clifford
Shortly to be seen playing Lady Palmerston in Season 3 of ITV’s Victoria.
Theatre includes: Nell Gwynn (The Globe and National Tour); The Railway Children (Waterloo Station); Private Lives (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Romeo & Juliet (BAC); Noises Off (Harold Pinter Theatre, West End); Look Back in Anger (Tour); Ride Down Mt Morgan (Derby Playhouse); Frankenstein (York Theatre Royal); King Lear (National Youth Theatre) etc.
Film and TV includes: Three Acts, Telstar; Two Days Nine Lives, Sympathy with the Devil. Press, Fearless, Asylum, Dracula, Eastenders, Midsomer Murders, New Tricks, Wallander, Taggart, Family Affairs, Family, Chambers, Poirot Murder in Mesopotamia, Casualty, Doctors and People of the Forest.
Radio includes: Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables and Britannia’s Women both for BBC Radio 4.
Robin Kingsland
For Rapture: The Browning Version and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Recent Theatre includes: The Effect, Fiddler on the Roof, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Cherry Orchard.
Theatre includes: Storm (Jermyn Street Theatre, London); Private Lives (Mercury Theatre; Colchester); Romeo & Juliet (Sheffield Crucible); Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse); Hamlet (Secret Theatre; Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Other Place (RADA); Witness for the Prosecution (Vienna English Theatre); Engaging Shaw (Vienna English Theatre); League of Youth, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uri, Garage Band, The Price by Arthur Miller, I Have Been Here Before, Rat Pack Confidential, The Secret Garden (Nottingham Playhouse); Inherited Risk Factors (Writebites New Writing Festival); The “Lost Shakespeare” (Croydon Warehouse); Dick Barton and The Quantum of Porridge (Croydon Warehouse); On The Waterfront (Hong Kong Festival/Nottingham Playhouse/Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Century Plays (Worcester Swan Theatre); Shakespeare and His World (Southwark Literary Festival); The Light and the Dark (Southwark Literary Festival); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ipswich Wolsey Theatre); Blood Brothers (Bill Kenwright Ltd); Rookery Nook, The Return of the Naïve, She Stoops To Conquer (Colchester Mercury Theatre); Speed The Plow, The Secret Rapture (Royal National Theatre); The Cabinet Minister (Duncan C Weldon Productions Ltd) and High Society (Noel Gray Ltd).
Television and Film credits include: Chameleon (October Films); Dance of a Killer (October Films)l The Sparticles Mystery (CBBC); The Bill (Pearson Thames) and Call the Midwife, Casualty (BBC).
Audio Work Includes: Deceit of Angels (BBC R4) and Animal Ark and Enid Blyton Mysteries (Hodder Audio Books).
Michael Mackenzie
For Rapture: The Browning Version
Michael has earned his living as an actor for over 50 years. Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he moved back to Scotland in 1974 for the first of many seasons at Pitlochry, and has played leading roles there and at most Scottish theatre ever since. He has appeared in films, on radio and on television, starting in 1970 as Tarot in Ace of Wands, and more recently as the pathologist Dr. Magnus Baird in Taggart and as Alasdair Quinn in River City. He now lives in Biggar, 3 miles from where he was first brought up and near his son James, also an actor, and his family.
Steven Scott Fitzgerald
For Rapture: A Streetcar Named Desire, Democracy, All My Sons, Shang-a–Lang and Uncle Varick.
Theatre includes: Aladdin (Kings Theatre, Glasgow); Birdsong (Birdsong Productions); Sleeping Beauty (Towngate Theatre); Shadowlands (Birdsong Productions), Jack and The Beanstalk (Towngate Theatre) and Jack and The Beanstalk (Webster Theatre).
He is a graduate of Langside College in Glasgow.
Natalie Clark
For Rapture: The Last Yankee and A Streetcar Named Desire.
Glasgow based actress Natalie Clark has had a varied career with experience in radio drama, audio description, film and has been the face of various TV ads over the years.
Other credits include: Britannia Rules (Paisley Arts Centre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Ramshorn Theatre) and The Crucible (Cottiers Theatre).
Recent credits include: Wired (InMotion Theatre Company); Love or Money (CCA); Waiting For Gabriel (East Kilbride Arts Centre); and Still Game (BBC). Natalie can also be seen in the upcoming rom-com Perfect Strangers (Magic Money Films).
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.
Show Information
Suitable for 14+ years
Any refreshments will be served prior to the performance starting. See venue website for details.