THE MASSACRE AT PARIS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Charles IX, King of France - Peter Burke
Henry, Duke of Anjou - Joel Davey
Duke of Guise- Myles Tankle
Cardinal of Lorraine - Christopher Lawrence Talbot
Duke of Dumaine - Giuseppe Mauceri
Son to the Duke of Guise - Bethany Simons
Gonzago - Bryony Wilson
Retes - Alex McQueen
Mount Sorell - Pablo Calero
Epernon - Alex McQueen
Mugeroun - Giuseppe Mauceri
Joyeux - Christopher Lawrence Talbot
Cossin, Captain of the Guard - Christopher Lawrence Talbot
King of Navarre - Pablo Calero
Prince of Condé - Alex McQueen
Lord High Admiral - Jeff Hood
The Admiral's Man - Alex McQueen
Pleshé - Jeff Hood
Bartus - Peter Burke
Loreine - Georgina Andrews
Seroune - Giuseppe Mauceri
Ramus - Christopher Lawrence Talbot
Taleus - Georgina Andrews
Catherine de’ Medici, Queen-Mother of France - Jenny Lovell
Joan, Old Queen of Navarre - Bryony Wilson
Margaret, Queen of Navarre - Bethany Simons
Duchess of Guise - Georgina Andrews
Wife to Seroune - Bethany Simons
Maid to the Duchess of Guise - Bethany Simons
Apothecary - Giuseppe Mauceri
Two Lords of Poland - Jeff Hood, Giuseppe Mauceri
Cutpurse -Bryony Wilson
Friar - Jeff Hood
Surgeon - Christopher Lawrence Talbot
The English Agent - Bryony Wilson
Three Murderers -
Bryony Wilson, Giuseppe Mauceri, Peter Burke
Petit Jacques - Bryony Wilson
Protestants - Bethany Simons, Giuseppe Mauceri, Jeff Hood
Attendant - Georgina Andrews
Schoolmasters - Georgina Andrews, Bethany Simons
Messengers - Bryony Wilson, Georgina Andrews
Tall Soldier - Bethany Simons
Guise Men - Bethany Simons, Bryony Wilson
Georgina Andrews - Duchess of Guise
Georgina’s acting training includes The Arts Academy, St Martins Theatre and The Melbourne Acting Studio with Bruce Alexander. She was also in London working with acting teacher Paul Gregory. Her stage work includes Dreamweavers at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Season of New International Writing and London Bites. She has been in various short films such as Seven-Thirty, Smacked out Kisses and the Independent Short Feature A Fifth of Love, a Bottle of Whiskey. Her television credits include Blue Heelers and most recently a guest role on Neighbours playing Heather Pryor. She has only recently returned from shooting the Feature Film The Sculptor where she plays the one of the lead roles Nat.
Peter Burke - Charles the Ninth, King of France
Peter is excited to be working with a fresh young company on an old, violent play. Peter has recently been working with Project Respect devising the work Prostitute...Who Is She? exploring trafficking of women for the sex trade. This is Peter's first work with Doorslam Productions.
Pablo Calero - King of Navarre
Pablo’s primary training was with the St Martins Performance Ensemble and VCA Actors Tour in 2002. Previous Theatre credits include; McCain and Heat Proof Man in Four Rouges (Pete and the Tar Gang/Next Wave); Macduff in Macbeth Re-arisen, (White Whale/Edinburgh Fringe); Zeus in Live Acts on Stage and Whistler in Scattergun Project (St Martins) and as an ensemble member of Phaedra’s Love (Store Room) and co devisor of Trialect (VCA Animateurs). Pablo has worked as a director; Hide and Seek ( Playbox Education) and Assistant Director; Macbeth, Don Coyote Man of the Mallee, Seal Wife, Midsummer Nights Dreaming, Mildura 1956 (Old Van); When Sand Becomes Glass (St Martins) and is a founder and co Creative Director of Fairly Lucid Productions with Ben Noble and Lucy Stewart.
Joel Davey - Duke of Anjou
Joel Davey recently played Richard III with Thinking Theatre under the direction of Rebecca Anderson. Other highlights include: a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet as a Switzer; and a tour of Macbeth to L'Abbaye de Pontlevoy. He also works for the Flying Bookworm Theatre Company acting in schools around Victoria. Joel trained at Rose Bruford College and MA Classical Acting at The Central School of Speech and Drama.
Jenny Lovell - Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother of France
Jenny has been performing on stage, screen and TV for over 20 years. TV includes Prisoner, Blue Heelers, MDA and Sensing Murder. Film work includes Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli and Darkness Falls. Theatre includes Iron, Dead Tragic and Rabbit Hole as well as a long career in improvisation, performing in Sydney, Melbourne and overseas. Jenny is also a teacher of Shakespeare, contemporary text and performance making with Monash University, VCA and St Martins and has directed productions of Comedy of Errors, Our Country’s Good and Grimm Tales. She was an International Fellow with the Globe Theatre, London in 2002.
Alex McQueen - Prince of Conde and Epernoun
Alex McQueen has been performing on stage for a number of years with many memorable roles. These include a dancing rubbish bin, Earnest Worthing from The Importance of Being Earnest and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing. His career highlight is performing at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in White Whale Theatres Macbeth Re-arisen and his most recent performances have included the 2007 Short and Sweet Festival and the 2008 Next Wave Festival.
Giuseppe Mauceri - Duke of Dumaine and Mugeroun
Giuseppe Mauceri has been involved in the Melbourne theatre scene for the past 7 years and has been performing in some capacity for as long as he can remember.After completing his training at St. Martin’s Youth Arts Centre, he has been trying to strike the perfect balance between his work life and the pursuit of his passion. Giuseppe’s most recent stage credits include Blackrock, Get Smart, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Write Where it Hurts and Enchanted April for which received a Lyrebird nomination.
Bethany Simons - Margaret Queen of Navarre and Tall Soldier
Bethany Simons is a graduate of the BA (Acting for Screen and Stage) and Honours at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. Her University Theatre Ensemble (UTE) credits include Macbeth, Three Sisters, Patience and Stage Door. Other performance credits include Progress and Melancholy, Secret Bridesmaids’ Business and University screen projects. Bethany assistant directed UTE’s Little Women, The Boys and Macbeth in which she worked alongside director John Bolton. Her original one-act play the weather, and your health premiered at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival and has enjoyed extended seasons throughout NSW. Bethany is thrilled to be part of the ensemble for The Massacre at Paris.
Christopher Lawrence Talbot - Cardinal of Lorraine
Christopher Lawrence Talbot has just recently completed a year intensive under the coaching of Peter Oyston at the Monash Academy of Performing arts. During this year he had the honour of playing Hamlet (Hamlet), Vershinin (Three Sisters), Proctor (The Crucible), the Messenger/Shepherd (The Bacchae), and Campbell/Arscott (Our Country’s Good). He had joy of acting in the ensemble with John Flous, David Gould, and Dennis Cord, and working with Fiona Batersby, Debra Lawrence, and Kate Cherry. Most recently he played the role of Paul in Doorslam Production's The Underwood.
Myles Tankle - Duke of Guise
Myles has most recently been working with the Brighton Theatre Compay on their production of Disposing of the Body. He has also appeared on television in a T.A.C commercial advocating responsible drinking. A recent arrival to Melbourne, Myles hold a Ba Perf Arts from the UNITEC School of Performing Arts in Auckland, New Zealand. In New Zealand he appeared in plays such as The Three Sisters, Marat/Sade, Blackrock, Coram Boy and In the Shape of a Square's production of Hushabye Mountain. He is very excited to be working on such a challenging piece with the Doorslam team and looks forward to getting back out on stage.
Bryony Wilson - Joan, Queen Mother of Navarre
Bryony completed her BA majoring in Performance at Monash University in 2005. Her interest in exposing the human condition was ignited through school productions and made stronger with each subsequent performance. Most recently returning from an Australian educational theatre tour, Bryony has played roles from Anna in The King and I, to a filthy beggar in Brecht's Threepenny Opera, to the ditsy Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, to the rebellious heroine Antigone in an adaptation of Sophocles' Greek Tragedy. Bryony has proven herself to be a finely nuanced performer and it is with pride that Bryony joins Doorsalm Productions - the mutual fostering of the delight of textual analysis and a commitment to quality theatre in the world.
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