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JARRAD
A self-made man who has sacrificed his personal life to get to the top. Brusque, all knowing but sometimes ham fisted, sly, strong, a good storyteller with a love of ships and the sea. A man’s man who believes in ‘tough love’. In his dying days he embarks on a quest to change the lives of his three employees, his quasi sons, so they won’t continue to make the same mistakes he has in his life. Think Spencer Tracey maybe.

McBRIDE
In his forties, slap bang in the midst of a mid-life crisis and barely in control of his out of control life. Loud, hyperactive, vulgar and bloody funny. High blood pressure, low self esteem. Immature, as one of the other characters says of him, he’s going through puberty every ten years. A ‘serial husband’ with a string of failed marriages behind him and on the verge of running away from the latest one. Has battled his way up the corporate ladder, a position that’s now looking decidedly precarious.

ALEX
On the surface, a neat, cheerful, intelligent, organised executive in his early forties. Beneath this exterior hides a closet drinker, a man full of rage at his dominating wife, constantly fighting an uphill battle with the demands of his work and family with a troubling notion that ‘there’s got to be something better than this’. Not without a biting sense of humour, he is however, politically correct, sexually repressed, anally retentive and wears clothes from British Home Stores.

HOWARD
Young, slick, stylish, ambitious, cunning, vain, highly educated, self-possessed and with a heart as cold as the stainless steel fridge in his minimalist apartment. A beautifully dressed liar with a weakness for one night stands, designer drugs and mum’s home cooking. Possibly a Middlesborough fal.

2007 UK Cast:

Les Dennis
Les Is acknowledged as one of Britain`s most popular entertainers as well as being well-known to TV viewers through top ITV game show Family Fortunes, He has a long list of theatre, film and television credits to his name. He starred in Marlon Brandon`s Corset at the Edinburgh Festival and Greenwich.

Simon Gleeson
Simon graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). His theatre credits include: Silver Lake for Wexford Opera, Southwark Fair at The National Theatre, London The Far Pavilions at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London. Cameron Mackintosh’s 10th Anniversary production of Les Miserable, Jolson (John Nichols Productions), Australian premiers of Putting It Together and Songs For A New World (Chapel off chapel), Shout! – The story of Johnny O’Keefe (Jacobsen Entertainment), Fame! (Jacobsen Entertainment) and Mamma Mia! (Littlestar) – in which he was nominated for a Helpmann Award. Simon co-wrote and performed in Get Here, commissioned for the York theatre in New York. Television credits include: Series regular in Kombat Opera for the BBC, Sid in EastEnders for The BBC, Blue Heelers (Southern Cross Australia), Seachange (ABC Australia) and Neighbours (Grundy’s). Simon has been in a number of new Australian plays including Harbour and The Republic of Myopia with the Sydney Theatre Company and finally Eureka (Esgee) under the direction of Gale Edwards.

Roger Alborough
Roger trained at the Central School Of Speech & Drama. His theatre credits include LOOT and DRY ROT at the Theatre Royal, York; national tours of THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S and POLLY; LAST SUMMER IN CHULIMSK for Birmingham Repertory Theatre; and UP 'N' UNDER, CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF and ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? at the Queens Theatre, Hornchurch. He also appeared in WAY UPSTREAM and UP IN THE GALLERY at St Andrews, played Jonnie Rice in a national tour of SPIVS, Eddie Carbone in A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE at Sheffield Crucible Theatre, Widow Twankey in ALADDIN at Liverpool Everyman Theatre and Dr Prospero in RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET. Roger has recently concluded a national tour of AFRICAN SNOW, in which he played John Newton