The Cast: UK Tour
RICHARD BRAINE: Man 1
DUGALD BRUCE-LOCKHART: Richard Hannay
KATHERINE KINGSLEY: Annabella Schmidt/Pamela/Margaret
DAN STARKEY: Man 2
Richard Braine
Training: National Youth Theatre and Webber Douglas Academy.
Theatre: Richard is delighted to be back at the Playhouse having been here in the spring with JB Priestley's When We Are Married.
He has worked in theatres all over the country. Favourite roles include Wicksteed in Habeas Corpus (Royal Northampton), Ratty in Wind in the Willows (Bristol Old Vic) and Peter Sellers in his own Being There With Sellers (London, Edinburgh and tour). Seasons at Chichester, Scarborough, Regents Park Open Air, Manchester Library, Palace Theatre Westcliffe, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Watford and Polka Children's Theatre.
Television: Includes Foyle's War, EastEnders, Holby City, Doctors, Spooks, Goodbye Mr Chips (Dr Merrivale), As Time Goes By (The Vicar), Only Fools and Horses, Murder Most Horrid (Rev. Stoop), My Uncle Silas (St.John) , Poirot, Without Motive, Chucklevision, Bodger and Badger, Bernard's Watch, Radio Roo, Jackanory, Goodnight Sweetheart, S Club 7, Minder, Keen Eddie, Polterguests (Squiffy), Harry Enfield (Dick Nice but thick), Ben Elton:The Man from Auntie, Lovejoy, Gas and Candles, Vanity Fair, Robin Hood, Believe Nothing, Casualty, The Experimenter (XP-24 Eps), House of Cards (Spence), The Brittas Empire (Horatio Brittas), Chambers and Jeeves and Wooster (Gussie Fink Nottle).
Film: Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason, Calendar Girls, Finding Neverland, Stiff Upper Lips.
Other: Richard directed the UK and European premiere of Steve Martin/Carl Sternheim's The Underpants and has appeared inover 100 commercials filmed all over the world.
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Training: Dugald trained at RADA.
Theatre: Most recently Dugald played Teddy Lloyd in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Edinburgh Festival (Assembly/Northampton Royal & Derngate).
Other work includes For King and Country (Plymouth Theatre Royal/ACT); The Deep Blue Sea (Bath Theatre Royal & Vaudeville Theatre); Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night (Old Vic/Propeller & BAM New York); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Theatre/Propeller), The Winter's Tale, Rose Rage, Henry V and Comedy of Errors (Propeller, UK & International Tour); Faust, Dangerous Liaisons (The Royal Lyceum); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Royal Lyceum/Coventry Belgrade & Nottingham Playhouse); Twelfth Night (ETT); Reader (Traverse Theatre); The Prince's Play (Royal National Theatre) and Henry VI Part Three (RSC, UK & International Tour).
Television: Walter's War, Alien Western, Foyle's War, Hotel Babylon, Trust, Midsummer Murders, Brookside, The Bill, Rockface, The Demon Headmaster, Bugs II, Wycliffe.
Film: From Time to Time (Fragile Films/Julian Fellowes); Hart's War (MGM); Simon an English Legionnaire (US Independent) and Alive and Kicking (Channel 4 Films).
Katherine Kingsley
In 2009, Katherine was nominated for an Olivier Award for her role as Marlene Dietrich in The Donmar Warehouse production of Piaf.
Training: She trained with the English National Opera, Mountview Theatre School (1 year scholarship) and The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre: Credits include Sylvia Hamilton/Shell/Edward R Murrow in The Truth Will Out (Old Vic US/UK exchange); Marlene/Madeleine in Piaf (Donmar Warehouse/Vaudeville Theatre); Suzanne Allingham in The Black and White Ball (King's Head); Alice Hobson in Hobson's Choice (Chichester Festival Theatre); Helen of Troy in The Trojan Women (Tristan Bates Theatre); Tracy Lord in High Society (Shaftesbury Theatre/National Tour), Felicity Rumpers in Habeas Corpus (Northcote Theatre, Exeter); The Prioress in The Canterbury Tales and Mary in Memory of Water (Bristol Old Vic); Ruth Bechler in Suddenly At Home (Theatre Royal, Windsor); Carla/Caroline in Go Back For Murder, Veronica Craye in The Hollow, Helen Rollander in Verdict and Vera Claythorne in And Then There Were None (Palace Theatre, Westcliff).
Television: Credits include The Bill (Talkback Thames); Hollyoaks (Channel Four); Jane Hall (Red Television); Telephone Detectives (Thames Television); Casualty (BBC) and Operation Good Guys (BBC).
Film: Credits include Weekend, Days of the Siren and 100 Second Marriage (Universal Pictures).
Other: Katherine is also a very busy voiceover artist having done campaigns for Nokia, Nintendo and Capital Radio to name but a few.
In 2007, she recorded an EP of Jazz, Soul and Blues standards with musicians from The London Philarmonic Orchestra (recorded in Angel Studios, Islington, London).
Dan Starkey
Training: Dan studied at Cambridge University and later went on to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he won the Peter Ackerman Prize for Comedy, graduating in 2006. Notable roles whilst training included Trapdoor in The Roaring Girl, Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Mog Edwards in Under Milk Wood.
Theatre: Since graduation credits include the nameless leading man in Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre); Grumio in Taming of the Shrew and the Wandering Musician in Three Sisters (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); Humphrey Devize in The Lady's Not for Burning (Finborough Theatre); Quince and Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Polonius and the Gravedigger in Hamlet, and Autolycusin The Winter's Tale (Red Rose Chain Theatre Company); Aggro in Santa Claus: the Musical (Michael Rose Productions) and Hans in Push Up (Rosemary Branch Theatre). He is a visiting artist to and occasional writer for the Fitzrovia Radio Hour (Fitzrovia Productions).
Television: Credits include Commander Skorr and Commander Jask in Doctor Who (BBC).
Film: He has also appeared in the short film Fix for Dynamo Films.
Radio: Having been a finalist in the BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award in 2006, Dan has been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, and has appeared in over 80 radio plays and broadcasts. Notable appearances include The Archers, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Wordsmith, The Incomparable Witness, Dickens Confidential, The Late Mr. Shakespeare, Scoop, Miranda Hart's Joke Shop and Henry VIII.