The Cast

Cathy Barker Marlene

Sabina van Steenderen Waitress/Kit/Shona

Elizabeth Shaw Isabella Bird/Joyce

Eleanor Low LadyNijo/Win

Anouk Dutruit Dull Gret/Angie

Miriam Cohn Pope Joan/Louise

Stephanie Chuah  Patient Griselda/Nell/Jeanine

Alison Bolton  Mrs Kidd

Production Crew 

Director Richard Brown 

Technical director Heather Genini 

Production manager Peter Hilton 

Stage manager Kirsten Gräser 

Stage hands Tanja Spichty, Isabell Buttron, Ana Branco, Susanne Hillier, Gurpreet Singh Gill 

Set design and build Ash Chumber, Peter Nixon, Richard Brown 

Lighting design Jerome Salyers 

Sound design Richard Brown 

Light & sound board Gabi Solomon Props manager Scott Holland 

Costumes Claudia Ott, Natalya Goldbach 

Make-up Valentina D'Alessandro and others 

Rehearsal prompt Susan Aeschbach Tickets Georgina Rotter 

Publicity Beatrix Castellote-Iselin, Georgina Rotter 

Artwork design Ruth Lowe 

Programme Georgina Rotter, Cathy Barker 

Photography © Ralf Pfaff 2018 

Front of house & bar Peter Hilton, Chris Jones, Jan Hawley, Billy Gilbert 

Box office Sue Aeschbach, Wendy Monard, Danielle Zammit, Catherine Matter 

Ushers Edward Atkinson, Valerie Walder, Zuzana Cox 

Special thanks... .... goes to all family members of the committee, and of the cast and crew – without their support and patience this production would not have come to the stage. Thanks also to David Laurie for publicity advice. 

A very special and warm thanks goes to our former President, Sue Newstead, who incorporated the soul of Semi-Circle and carried a multitude of responsibilities in the finest manner in recent years, and to whom we would like to wish the very best for her future. 

About Caryl Churchill 

Caryl Churchill is a playwright known for addressing politically challenging subjects and for her use of non-naturalistic dramatic techniques. She has written 49 plays and received 12 major awards. Born in London in 1938 to a fashion model and a political cartoonist, Churchill emigrated with her family to Montreal in 1948 and later returned to England to attend Oxford University; since then she has lived in London. While raising her own family, she began to write short radio dramas and television plays. Her first stage play to receive wide recognition was Cloud Nine (1979), a farce about Victorian colonial sexual politics. She went on to write Top Girls (1982). Churchill collaborated with composer Orlando Gough to produce operas called Hotel (1997) and A ring, a lamp a thing (2010) at the Royal Opera House, London. 

She continues to write politically controversial pieces such as Drunk Enough To Say I Love You (2006) and Seven Jewish Children (2009). Love and information (2012) gained great critical and popular acclaim. 

Never far from controversy, Caryl Churchill is arguably Britain’s greatest living playwright.