Uncle Varick

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.

Jessica completed a post-graduate diploma in Theatre Design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2005.

Design work includes: The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler (Costumes/National Theatre of Scotland/Vanishing Point/UK Tour), Cured (Glasgay!/The Arches), The Gates: Love, Liberation and Respect (ConFAB), A Man Came to a Woman (Fittings Multimedia Arts/Sharmanka/ALEKO Theatre St. Petersburg); A Slow Air (also Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Tricycle Theatre London, 59e59 New York & UK Tour), The Government Inspector (also Aberystwyth Arts Centre and UK Tour), Mish Gorecki Goes Missing, Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot, Suddenly Last Summer and Defender of the Faith, all for the Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Federer vs Murray (Communicado/Assembly Theatre & Theater 59e59 New York); The Threepenny Opera (RCS); Dracula (Firefly Youth Theatre); Falling/Flying (Handover Heart Theatre Company); Roadkill (2012 Olivier Award Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2011 CATS Award for Best Production) and Loves Times Beggar (Ankur Productions); Monaciello (Napoli Festival); The Lasses ‘O’, Ragged Lion (Rowan Tree); Can We Live Without You? (Lung Ha’s); The Other, Martial Dance (Macrobert); The Glass Menagerie (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); costumes for Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland and National/International Tour); Aye Fond Kiss, Price Of A Fish Supper, Excuse My Dust (Oran Mor Glasgow); Into The Woods, After Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Chrysalids (Lyceum YT); City Madame, The Front Page, Krapp’s Last Tape (Bristol Old Vic); Fierce (Grid Iron/Tour); A Piece of Cake (Wee Stories) and Wizard of Oz (Macrobert).

Malcolm was Technical Manager for the Tron Theatre from 1997 until 2011, seeing it through several re-developments and many successful productions.

Some of his many Lighting Designs for the Tron include: Peter Pan, The City, Mish Gorecki Goes Missing, Suddenly Last Summer (One of five Tennessee Williams productions as a festival) and Cooking with Elvis.

Other work includes: The Gates and Glasgay’s Cured.

He has just returned from a second successful Northern Italian tour of Treasure Island and To Be or Note for Charioteer Theatre.

Recent projects include Scottish Ballet, Theatre Cryptic, Traverse Theatre and ongoing commitment to educational work with Firefly Arts in Livingston.

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.