March 2010
MARTIN COMPSTON WILLIAM RUANE BRYAN LARKIN	FILM Shooting: MARTIN COMPSTON is completing killer thriller FOUR co-starring Kierston Wareing (Fish Tank), Sean Pertwee (Mutant Chronicles) and Craig Conway (The Tournament) ~ BILLY RIDDOCH is leading the mob in the cameo dripping blood letting body snatching BURKE AND HARE (locations in Edinburgh) for Hollywood comic legend director John Landis ~ Wrapped: WILLIAM RUANE starrer FAST ROMANCE is in post production and returning from the Berlin Film Festival, producer Amanda Verlaque is full of confidence for Carter Ferguson's romcom featuring JULIET CADZOW, DAVE ANDERSON, ALISON PEEBLES and BRYAN LARKIN in supporting roles ~ Coming soon: MARTIN COMPSTON in THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED co-starring Gemma Arterton and Eddie Marsan on UK release from 30^th April www.alicecreed.com ~ KATE DICKIE in OUTCAST co-starring James Nesbitt and Karen Gillan premiering at the South by South West Film Festival, Austin, Texas USA before release later in the year ~	BILLY RIDDOCH JULIET CADZOW KATE DICKIE
EILEEN MCCALLUM KEIRA LUCCHESI ALISON PEEBLES JAMES ERSKINE MATTHEW WORKMAN	TV Shooting: EILEEN MCCALLUM (as Liz) and GORDON MCCORKELL (as Deke) are into the first block of 2010 filming on RIVER CITY for BBC Scotland and will be joined in their new Sheildinch adventures by BAFTA New Talent nominee KEIRA LUCCHESI (continuing as recently introduced regular Stella), JULIE HALE (guest heavyweight DI) and ALISON PEEBLES (Mrs Carrol – watch out, there's a snob about) between now and May ~ LINZI CAMPBELL raises temperatures as a student doctor in the Roger Lloyd Pack/Clive Swift/Jane Asher sicom THE OLD GUYS for BBC1 ~ Wrapped: KATE DICKIE and MARTIN COMPSTON have completed major roles in a major new three part drama for BBC1, led by Sarah Lancashire and Ian Hart, amongst other A-list Brits, in a sensitive and controversial portrait of families and lovers surrounding the discovery of five young women tragically murdered in Ipswich, UK, in 2006. Titled FIVE DAUGHTERS, the series is directed by Phillipa Lowthorpe (The Other Boleyn Girl) ~ Coming soon: KATE DICKIE in Dominic Savage coming of age sports drama DIVE on ITV1 and in multi star tv event mini series THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH worldwide - STARZ tv cable channel is breaking the series in the US in the summer – UK broadcast deal waited -www.the-pillars-of-the-earth.tv ~ LIP SERVICE on BBC3 includes in its supporting cast JAMES ERSKINE being gorgeous, STEWART ROBERTSON is hunky and MATTHEW WORKMAN is feral in this sexy original Lword dramcom c*ming soon? ~	GORDON MCCORKELL JULIE HALE LINZI CAMPBELL STEWART ROBERTSON
TONY MCGEEVER CHARLENE BOYD ANGELA HARDIE DAVE ANDERSON HELEN ARMES CLAIRE LAMONT KIRTSY MACKAY	Theatre TONY MCGEEVER is in DUNSINANE at the Hampstead Theatre (RSC) until 6^th March. Tony graduates from RSAMD in July ~ JENNY HULSE returns to the Royal Lyceum company in Jo Clifford's new play EVERYONE for dir. Mark Thomson (opens March 20^th) ~ SHABANA BAKHSH and CHARLENE BOYD in the NtoS EMPTY (teen novelist Cathy Forde's 1^st play) / MIRACLE MAN (Douglas Maxwell's up-ya teen comedy) double rep. opening16^th March Tron Glasgow then touring (www.nationaltheatrescotland.com) ~ ANGELA HARDIE opens as Jill in EQUUS (3^rd March) for Dundee Rep Ensemble, and then rehearses Joanna in SWEENEY TODD (opens 22^nd May) ~ DAVE ANDERSON is on tour as the Ghost and the Gravedigger in a contemporary Glasgow gangland HAMLET till April ~ SHONAGH PRICE is one of 3 HORMONAL HOUSEWIVES on a No. 1 tour of Scotland ~ HELEN ARMES is on tour in the south of England with THE LADY VANISHES for brand new theatre company Triode Productions ~ SCOTT HOATSON is in Italy touring (ROMEO AND JULIET) ARE DEAD for Charioteer Theatre ~ CLAIRE LAMONT is David Ireland's EVERYTHING BETWEEN US until 27^th March for Tinderbox Theatre from Belfast ~ IN REHEARSAL: JORDAN YOUNG joins the Old Vic in Tom Stoppard's THE REAL THING starring Toby Stephens and Hattie Moran for dir. Ann Mackmin, opening April 10^th (www.oldvictheatre.com) ~ KIRSTY MACKAY (who graduates RSAMD in 2011) is playing Wendy in the National Theatre of Scotland's eagerly awaited tour of David Greig's take on the kid who never grows up PETER PAN (opening Glasgow 23^rd April and London 12^th May at the Barbican) ~ BEN WINGER is developing nicely in HUXLEY'S LAB for Gridiron Theatre's site specific piece which opens at Edinburgh Uni on 1^st April (www.gridiron.org.uk) ~ And GREG POWRIE and DOUGAL LEE are confirmed for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre season 2010 in KISS ME KATE, NOISES OFF, AN IDEAL HUSBAND, BUS STOP and NANA ~	JENNY HULSE SHABANA BAKHSH SHONAGH PRICE SCOTT HOATSON BEN WINGER GREG POWRIE DOUGAL LEE