IDX Productions

THE PROVOKED WIFE

CAST:
JANE GALLOWAY
IONA GRANT
MIKE HAYLEY
EDWARD MACLIAM
DAVID MARSHALLSEA
SIMON MERRELLS
ESTELLE MORGAN
JANE ROBBINS

JANE GALLOWAY – LADY FANCIFUL
"But is it possible my eyes can be
so languishing, and so very full of fire?"
Jane's theatre work includes: Duchess of Malfi (tour and West End); Care (Royal Court); Hidden Laughter by Simon Gray (tour and West End); Dr. Faustus (Greenwich Theatre); and seasons at Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Cambridge Theatre Company, and Royal Shakespeare Company. Television work includes: Bull Week; The Borgias; The History Man; The Bill; Casualty; Doctors; and Metropolis. Extensive radio work includes The Archers. Jane was a Masterchef semi-finalist in 2000 and lives in South London with her partner David Haig and their five children. [top]

IONA GRANT – BELINDA
"Women must have frolics, you see,
whatever they cost them."
Iona graduated from LAMDA in 1997. Theatre includes: Kirsten in Gasping (Palace Theatre, Watford and Number One tour); Zabina in Tamburlaine (Cochrane Theatre); and The Rivals (national tour and West End). Film includes: Cat in Big Trouble (Working Title, Michael McHugh); A Face in the Dark (London Film Festival, 1998); Anna in Room 36 (Metrodome Productions). Television work includes: Lorna Merriman in Casualty (BBC) and Ryvita 2002 Campaign (all networks). Radio includes: A Walk on the Milky Way presented by Brian Patten; Janice Llewellyn-Gerard in Ruth Rendell's Going Wrong; and Tolstoy's Resurrection (all for BBC Radio 4). [top]

MIKE HAYLEY – LOVEWELL, TAILOR, CONSTABLE, JUSTICE, RAZOR, etc.
"Do you think, to oblige you, he would speak scandal?"
Mike has spent many years as a stand up comedian performing regularly at The Comedy Store, Jongleurs, etc. Theatre work includes: Captain Firebrand in The Bassett Table (Bristol Old Vic); Stephano in Une Tempête (Gate Theatre); Max in Anatol (Nottingham Playhouse); and, also as author, Jeffrey Dahmer is Unwell at Hampstead Theatre. Television includes: Spaced 2; World of Pub; The Strangerers (sic); and Dark Ages. Mike's films include 102 Dalmations. [top]

EDWARD MACLIAM – HEARTFREE
"Upon a very limited encouragement on your side,
you shall find an extended impudence on his."
Edward graduated from RADA in 2001. Theatre work includes: David Hare's adaptation of Chekhov's Platonov (Almeida); and The Split (Edinburgh Festival 2002). TV work includes: Holby City. Film work includes: Conspiracy of Silence; and Jasna. [top]

DAVID MARSHALLSEA – CONSTANT
"I wear a sword, sir, and so good b'ye."
David graduated from East 15 in 2002. Stage appearances include Royal Variety Performance, 2001 (Dominion Theatre); and various Variety Evenings at the Theatre Royal, Stratford. The Provoked Wife is David's stage debut since graduating. TV work inlcudes: Eastenders; and the Orange Mobile advertisement. [top]

SIMON MERRELLS – SIR JOHN BRUTE
"Sirrah, I am Bonduca, Queen of the Welshmen;
and with a leek as long as my pedigree, I will
destroy your Roman legions in an instant."
Simon's theatre work includes: the title role in Henry VIII (Bridewell Theatre); Burton in Burn This, Dan in Closer, Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Valvert in Cyrano de Bergerac (Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster); Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (Perth); Henry III in Ritual in Blood (Nottingham Playhouse); ensemble company in Steven Berkoff's Coriolanus world tour; Krogstad in A Doll's House (Salisbury Playhouse); Beast in Beauty and the Beast (Unicorn Theatre Company); Tyrell in Richard III (Derby Playhouse); Abanazar in Alladin (Shrewsbury); Laertes in Hamlet (Vital Theatre Company); The Tiger and the Typists (Brighton Actors Theatre Company); The Master in Jacques and his Master (Nightingale Theatre, Brighton); Prospero in The Tempest (Reaction Theatre Company); and Paris/Escalus for the English Shakespeare Company's Romeo and Juliet. TV work includes: a series of Mersey Beat (BBC); a series of Dream Team (Sky 1); two series of London's Burning (LWT); Casualty; Doctors; Heartbeat; The Murder Game; The New Adventures of Robin Hood; The Six Wives of Henry VIII (docudrama); and The Bill. [top]

ESTELLE MORGAN – MADEMOISELLE
"The French are the prettiest, obliging things."
Estelle graduated from RSAMD in 2000 with the James Bridie Gold Medal. Her theatre credits include: Judith in The Dance of Death, Linda in Pal Joey, Adelize in The Mysterious Mother, and Edmee in Cheri (all at Citizens Theatre); and Debbie in The Real Thing (Bristol Old Vic). [top]

JANE ROBBINS – LADY BRUTE
"I'm afraid I shall lose your good opinion of me."
Jane trained at RADA after being awarded the Dalziel Scholarship. She was the female lead in 2003's critically acclaimed Miramax/Buena Vista International film, Heartlands, dir. Damien O'Donell (East is East). She has also recently been seen in the cult series I'm Alan Partridge (BBC) and Believe Nothing with Rik Mayall (ITV). Theatre work includes: This is Where We Came In and My Very Own Story (written & dir. Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre); Henceforward, The Changeling and The Glass Menagerie (Harrogate Theatre); Arsenic and Old Lace (Salisbury Playhouse); Punishment Without Revenge (Actors Touring Company); All Manner of Means (The White Bear, Kennington); It Can Damage Your Health (Theatre of Comedy, Churchill Theatre Bromley, tour of Middle and Far East, and national tour); The Warm Up Tour with Chris Barrie; Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (dir. Ned Sherrin, national tour); The Confidential Clerk (Greenwich); Sweet Dreams (Sphinx Theatre Company); Private Lives (tour of Middle and Far East); and Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (national tour). Television includes: Pirates; Dad; The Bill; Casualty; Trust Me I'm a Doctor; Beyond Reason; In the Picture; The Frank Skinner Show; In Suspicious Circumstances; The Good Guys; Headhunters; and As Time Goes By. Films include: First Knight (with Sean Connery and Richard Gere); The Safe House; and The Hollow Reed. [top]