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The Theatre Royal Plymouth is the largest and best attended regional producing theatre in the UK and the leading promoter of theatre in the South West. There are two distinctive performance spaces; the Theatre Royal and the Drum Theatre, as well as TR2, an award-winning theatre production and education centre containing unrivalled set, costume, prop-making and rehearsal facilities.
The Drum Theatre produces and presents new plays. It has built a national reputation for the quality of its programme and innovative work, winning the prestigious Peter Brook Empty Space Award. As well producing its own plays, the Drum Theatre regularly collaborates with leading theatres and companies in the UK.
“At Plymouth they are maximising the potential of those who could be the great theatre-makers of tomorrow...You only have to look around British theatre to see the Drum’s fingerprints everywhere.”
THE GUARDIAN
“Now, under Simon Stokes, Plymouth has become a magnet for talent.”
THE OBSERVER
Our recent work includes:
Grand Guignol by Carl Grose
The Empire by DC Moore in co-production with The Royal Court
Teenage Riot in co-production with Ontroerend Goed
Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett in co-production with Paines Plough
Chekhov in Hell by Dan Rebellato
And the Horse You Rode In On in co-production with Told by an Idiot
The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig in co-production with ATC
Lovesong by Abi Morgan in co-production with Frantic Assembly
Audience in co-production with Ontroerend Goed
Keep Breathing by Chris Goode
A Drum Theatre Plymouth Production
Horse Piss For Blood by Carl Grose
CAST (in alphabetical order)
| Dusty | Philip Brodie | |
| Levine | Gregory Gudgeon | |
| Iris | Amy McAllister | |
| Gertrude | Veronica Roberts | |
| Virgil | Alex Robertson | |
| CREATIVE TEAM | ||
| Director | Simon Stokes | |
| Set & Costume Designer | Francis O’Connor | |
| Lighting Designer | Colin Grenfell | |
| Sound Designer | Adrienne Quartly | |
| Casting | Lucy Jenkins CDG & Sooki McShane CDG | |
| Accent Coach | Mary Howland | |
| Fight Director | Kev McCurdy | |
| PRODUCTION | ||
| Set, Props and Costumes | TR2, Theatre Royal Production and Education Centre | |
| Production Manager | Nick Soper | |
| Stage Manager | Sarah Alford-Smith | |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Caroline Meer | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Dan Shearing | |
| Drum Theatre Technician | Matt Hoyle | |
| Wardrobe Mistress | Cheryl Hill | |
Horse Piss For Blood was first performed on 24th February 2012 at the Drum Theatre Plymouth
CHARACTERS IN THE PRESENT
VIRGIL PLOY (late 20s)
GERTRUDE PLOY, his mother (50s)
DUSTY ST. DAY, her husband (late 20s)
IRIS ROSCROW, a Nancekuke woman (late 20s)
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