Timberlake Wertenbaker wrote The Break of Day specifically to accompany Chekhov’s Three Sisters and the two productions played at the Royal Court and on tour with the same company of actors. Out of Joint toured India with Three Sisters which also played a memorable season at Rossway Park, a large country house outside London. The Steward of Christendom won much praise for writer Sebastian Barry, actor Donal McCann and director Max Stafford-Clark. It ran for two seasons at both the Royal Court Theatre and The Gate Theatre in Dublin and toured internationally including a highly successful season at BAM in New York.

1996

Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking began life at the tiny Royal Court Theatre Upstairs where it was hailed as a serious and remarkable debut. It has since completed sell-out runs at the Royal Court and in the West End as well as touring nationally and internationally.

1997

Out of Joint co-produced April de Angelis’ witty and astute social comedy The Positive Hour with Hampstead Theatre and toured it to Leeds, Cambridge, Liverpool, Watford, Warwick and Newcastle. Caryl Churchill’s Blue Heart, marked the company’s ninth co-production with the Royal Court Theatre. The play won a coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival before playing in London, across the country and in Egypt,

1998

In Out of Joint’s busiest year to date, the company toured Blue Heart internationally whilst Shopping and Fucking undertook a further UK tour. Out of Joint commissioned Sebastian Barry to write Our Lady of Sligo for the company and this poetic memory play about the life of Mai O’Hara (Sinéad Cusack) played to full houses at the Royal National Theatre, at the Gate Theatre Dublin and on tour. Max Stafford-Clark’s revival of Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker was co-produced with the Young Vic Theatre and was enthusiastically received by critics and a very appreciative young audience.

1999

After Blue Heart’s New York premiere, Out of Joint embarked on a further tour of Our Country’s Good, taking the company from Cambridge to Brazil, Israel, Bulgaria and Lithuania. In addition to Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill, Out of Joint has also premiered Drummers by new writer Simon Bennett, in a production which has received critical acclaim at this year’s Edinburgh Festival and in the West End.

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SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS

BY MARK RAVENHILL

Cast in alphabetical order:

Tim

Russell Barr

Nick

Nick Dunning

Nadia

Fritha Goodey

Helen

Sally Rogers

Jonathan

David Sibley

Victor

Matthew Wait

Director

Max Stafford-Clark

Designer

Julian McGowan

Lighting Designer

Johanna Town

Sound Designer

Paul Arditti

Dialect Coach

Jeanette Nelson

Assistant Director

Joe White.

Casting Director

Toby Whale

Choreographer

Jeremy James

With special thanks to

Ann Pennington

Stephen Beresford

Pearce Quigley

Production Management

Phil Cameron

for Background Production Limited

Company and Stage Manager

Richard Blacksell

Deputy Stage Manager

Graham Michael

Assistant Stage Manager

Katherine Grant

Production Electricians

Matthew O’Connor, Tim Bray