Gail – Gillian Wright

Myra – Barbara Pierson

Written by Judith Jones and Beatrix Campbell

Director – Annie Castledine

Designer – Liz Cooke

Lighting Designer – Oliver Fenwick

Sound Designer – Shock Productions

Stage Manager – Anne Schuermans

Co-produced by – IDX Productions and New End Theatre

Gillian Wright (Gail) – Gill first played Gail in the premier production of And All The Children Cried at West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2002. She played Gail in the re-worked production at New End Theatre in 2003. Since then she has been working predominantly in film and television: Holby City; Doctors; Heartbeat; BAFTA nominated comedy-drama series Sir Gadabout; and Calendar Girls (Buena Vista International). Other theatre credits in London include: Tell Me (Donmar Warehouse); Undeveloped Land and The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe (RNT Studio); The Mother (National Tour, and at BAC); Lady Audley’s Secret (Lyric, Hammersmith); and the premier of The Gut Girls and Jack and the Beanstalk (Albany Empire). Outside London, Gill’s credits include: Something Blue (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); My Mother Said … (Chichester Festival Theatre); Two (opening season, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Romeo & Juliet and A Family Affair (Contact, Manchester); Jane Eyre (Sheffield Crucible); Jumping the Waves (Arc, Stockton); Blow Your House Down (Live, Newcastle); Bazaar & Rummage (Chester Gateway); Top Girls (Northampton); and The Children’s Hour, Gaslight, Tokens of Affection and Masterpieces (Derby Playhouse). Gill’s directing and movement credits include David Wood’s Babe – the Sheep Pig (Birmingham Hippodrome and National Tour); and the premier of Lord of the Flies (Pilot Theatre at Lyric, Hammersmith, and York Theatre Royal). She has been a regular visiting director and teacher at Bretton Hall, Mountview Conservatoire, Goldsmiths University and the Welsh College. [top]

Barbara Pierson (Myra) – Barbara trained at Manchester Poly School of Theatre. Theatre credits include: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe (RNT Studio); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Mercury Studio, Colchester); Pygmalion (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Blood Libel (Norwich Playhouse); The Enemies Within, Can’t Pay Won’t Pay and No Worries (Young Vic); Nora, in A Doll’s House, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Touched (Derby Playhouse); title role in Moll Flanders (Worcester Swan); Self Portrait (Theatr Clwyd); and Stags and Hens (Liverpool Everyman). TV and film credits include: Possession (dir. Neil Labute); Hope & Glory (dir. John Boorman); A Dinner of Herbs; Close Relations; Flowers of the Forrest; Our Friends in the North; Blind Justice; Mr. Wroe’s Virgins; Brookside; Grange Hill; The Mallens; Coronation Street; and Albion Market. [top]

Beatrix Campbell (Writer) – Beatrix Campbell is a writer and broadcaster. She is a regular contributor to Any Questions and Question Time, and her work also appears in The Guardian, The Independent, The Scotsman and academic journals. She is visiting Professor at Newcastle University, Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, and three universities have awarded her honorary doctorates for her literary achievements. [top]

Judith Jones (Writer) – Judith Jones trained as a social worker in the Seventies, working mainly in mental health with adults. Her work in the Eighties and Nineties in child protection brought her in contact with women and children who had experiences of various forms of violence. As a therapist she was confronted with womens' legacies of childhood trauma, both for victims and victimisers. In 1998 she was invited to become a Visiting Research fellow at the Leeds Metropolitan University in recognition of her contribution to feminist practice, activism and academic thinking. She in now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit of London Metropolitan University. She lectures widely both in Britain and abroad.

And All The Children Cried is Judith Jones and Beatrix Campbell's first play. They have just completed their first novel, are writing a new play, supported by Northern Stage and New Writing North, and recently received a commission from Sphinx Theatre Company. [top]

Annie Castledine (Director) – Annie is a freelance theatre director. From 1987 to 1990 she was Artistic Director of Derby Playhouse – an historic period in the development of regional theatre. Since 1990 much of her theatre work has been in collaboration with other directors: The Ingolstadt Plays by Maria Luisa Fleischer with Stephen Daldry (Gate Theatre); India Song by Marguerite Duras with Annabel Arden (Theatr Clwyd); Spoonface Steinberg with Marcello Magni; and different forms of collaboration with Theatre de Complicite: The Winter’s Tale, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Out of a House Walked a Man. Annie produced Henry IV, adapted by John Caird, for BBC television and enjoys her work on radio with Catherine Bailey Productions: Gaslight, Sorry Are You Asleep? by Jane Birkin, Lady Audley’s Secret, adapted by Bryony Lavery, A Small Good Thing by Raymond Carver adapted by Mark Wheatley, and One Small Step, an original play by Mark Wheatley. Wedding Story by Bryony Lavery for Sphinx Theatre Company (Birmingham Rep, Soho Theatre and National Tour).

Since And All The Children Cried at the New End Theatre, Annie has developed work in Brighton, directed Lovers of Viorne by Marguerite Duras and towards the end of January 2004 completed a project for Radio 3. Annie is looking forward to a renaissance. [top]

Liz Cooke (Designer) – Recent designs include Round the Horne Revisited (The Venue); The Birds (Royal National Theatre). [top]

Oliver Fenwick (Lighting Designer) – Recent work includes More Lies About Jerzy and Benchmark (New End Theatre, starring Jerry Hall and directed by Michael Rudman); Dancing at Lughnasa and Love in a Maze (Watermill Theatre); The Threepenny Opera (Richmond Theatre and UK Tour); Misconceptions (Derby and Salisbury Playhouses); The Three Sisters, Three Sisters II, Wild Wild Women and The Daughter in Law (Orange Tree); The School for Scandal (Derby and Nottingham Playhouses); Wrestling With Jacob's Angel (Guildhall); Bread & Butter (Southwark Playhouse); The Nose, A Shostakovitch Opera (Lyric Hammersmith, Salisbury and Buxton Theatres); The Clandestine Marriage (Watermill Theatre); The Wiz! (Hackney Empire); Faithful Dealing (Soho Studio); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Oxford Playhouse); The Dare (Bloomsbury Theatre); Poison (Tricycle Theatre); Postcards from Maupassant, The Dreamer (Watermill Tour); The Humourous Lieutenant (BAC); and Ghosts (Hackney Studio). Oliver was also Associate Lighting Designer for Blast! (Hammersmith Apollo and Boston USA) and Assistant Lighting Designer for The Witches of Eastwick (Drury Lane and Prince of Wales). He has also re-lit numberous national and international tours and West End tranfers for the RSC, including The Comedy of Errors (Young Vic); Cyrano de Bergerac (Lyric Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, Richard III (Savoy Theatre); The Dispute and Troilus & Cressida.

Since And All The Children Cried at the New End Theatre in 2003, Oliver has been lighting designer for Iphigenia (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Hysteria (Salisbury Playhouse); Triumph of Love (Watermill); Lohengrin (Royal Opera House); The Picture of Dorian Gray (UK tour); Special Relationship (UK tour); Old Ladies (UK tour); Bird Calls (Sheffield); Breaking the Code (Northampton); The Secret Rapture (Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue); Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic). [top]

Anne Schuermans (Stage Manager) – Anne trained at the Techinikon of Natal, South Africa, where she qualified in 1998 with distinction. She has since worked in the USA, Belgium, Holland and France. Besides stage managing, Anne is also a props buyer/maker/adviser and set designer. Stage Management credits include Arms and the Man (South Africa); The Merry Widow (USA tour); Moord (Belgium); Ring Around the Moon (Kings Head Theatre); Uncle Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol (BAC); and Sleeping Beauty in Newbury.

Since And All The Children Cried (New End Theatre, 2003) Anne has stage managed HMS Pinafore (UK tour); You Couldn't Make It Up, Playing Sinatra, This Story of Yours (New End Theatre); and Robin Hood (pantomime at Newbury Corn Exchange). [top]

IDX Productions is a young theatre production company dedicated to presenting entertaining and thought-provoking work. We believe that theatre can increase an audience's understanding of the problems which our society faces. We don't believe in easy answers. And All The Children Cried is a play that encourages us to understand more about the dark corners of human nature. The dialogue may be painful but is undoubtedly rewarding.

Since transferring And All The Children Cried with the New End Theatre last year, IDX Productions have presented The Provoked Wife (dir. Paul Jepson, Southwark Playhouse); Between the Crosses (commissioned and developed, Jermyn Street Theatre); and various showcase productions. Numerous stage and film projects are in development. If you would like to be involved with IDX Productions' future projects (artistically, financially or otherwise) please contact Trevor Brown.

IDX Productions would like to thank the following, without whose generous sponsorship this revival would not have been possible: Basil Alkazzi, Walter Aylen, Sir Michael Bett, Tony & Gisella Bloom, Myoung-Cheul Chung, Tony Elliott at Time Out Magazine, Lyn & Laurence Julius and Michael Mansfield. [top]