The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - Almeida Theatre
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
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European Premiere<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong><br />
<strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
By Stephen Adly Guirgis<br />
In a co-production with Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre
Coutts has a very special partnership with<br />
the <strong>Almeida</strong> that has flourished over the last<br />
four years. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> is an innovative<br />
and respected theatre, which continues to<br />
surprise and delight us and our clients with<br />
its ground-breaking productions.<br />
Passion and dedication are evident in<br />
everything that the <strong>Almeida</strong> produces and<br />
it is these attributes which are at the heart<br />
<strong>of</strong> our relationship. I am thrilled that we are<br />
now in our fifth year as Principal Sponsor.<br />
As Principal Sponsor, our relationship with the<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> has become much more than just a<br />
sponsorship initiative. Not only are we helping<br />
to support the rich diversity <strong>of</strong> productions on<br />
the London stage, we are also using the <strong>Almeida</strong>’s<br />
creative expertise to develop imaginative and<br />
inspirational training workshops for our staff and<br />
have created a brand identity video bringing out the<br />
Coutts story using innovative film techniques and<br />
personal recollections.<br />
Our relationship with the <strong>Almeida</strong> has now<br />
become one <strong>of</strong> our foremost arts sponsorships<br />
and it continues a long tradition <strong>of</strong> supporting<br />
the performing arts. Indeed, from the late 18th<br />
century, Thomas Coutts and his second wife<br />
Harriot, herself a former actress and later Duchess<br />
<strong>of</strong> St Albans, supported many <strong>of</strong> London’s theatres<br />
through charitable donations and contributed to a<br />
fund “for the relief <strong>of</strong> performers who by age or infirmities<br />
shall be oblig’d to retire from the stage”*. Many famous<br />
artists, including Frederic Chopin, Sir Henry Irving<br />
and Charles Dickens were Coutts clients.<br />
Today, Coutts continues this 300-year tradition, not<br />
only through its ongoing support <strong>of</strong> the performing<br />
arts, but also through its relationship with many <strong>of</strong><br />
the UK’s top figures in the world <strong>of</strong> entertainment.<br />
On behalf <strong>of</strong> everyone at Coutts, I wish the<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre every success with this production<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong>.<br />
Sarah Deaves, Chief Executive, Coutts & Co<br />
*Letter from Thomas Hull, on behalf <strong>of</strong> the fund’s organising committee, thanking Thomas Coutts for his liberal donation,<br />
1786 (in possession <strong>of</strong> the Coutts Archives, 440 Strand London)<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
By Stephen Adly Guirgis<br />
Cast in order <strong>of</strong> appearance:<br />
Henrietta <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
Gloria/Mother <strong>The</strong>resa<br />
Judge/Saint Peter<br />
Bailiff/Simon the Zealot<br />
Fabiana Aziza Cunningham<br />
Yusef El-Fayoumy<br />
Saint Monica<br />
Loretta/Sister Glenna/<br />
Mary Magdalene<br />
Uncle Pino/Pontius Pilate<br />
Butch Honeywell<br />
<strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
Matthias <strong>of</strong> Galilee/<br />
Sigmund Freud/<br />
Saint Thomas<br />
Saint Matthew/<br />
Caiaphas the Elder<br />
Satan<br />
Jesus <strong>of</strong> Nazareth<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be one interval<br />
Amanda Boxer<br />
Dona Croll<br />
Corey Johnson<br />
John Macmillan<br />
Susan Lynch<br />
Mark Lockyer<br />
Jessika Williams<br />
Poppy Miller<br />
Ron Cephas Jones<br />
Shane Attwooll<br />
Joseph Mawle<br />
Josh Cohen<br />
Gawn Grainger<br />
Douglas Henshall<br />
Edward Hogg<br />
Director<br />
Design<br />
Lighting<br />
Composer & Sound<br />
Video & Projection Design<br />
Casting Director<br />
Casting Assistant<br />
Dialect Coach<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Production Manager<br />
Company Manager<br />
Stage Managers<br />
Deputy Stage Manager<br />
Assistant Stage Manager<br />
Costume Supervisor<br />
Wardrobe Supervisor<br />
Wardrobe Deputy<br />
Hair & Make-up Supervisor<br />
Dresser<br />
Chief Technician<br />
Lighting Technician<br />
Sound Technician<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Technician<br />
Production Carpenter<br />
Set built by<br />
Set painted by<br />
Production photography<br />
Wardrobe Work Placement<br />
Rupert Goold<br />
Anthony Ward<br />
Howard Harrison<br />
Adam Cork<br />
Lorna Heavey<br />
Joyce Nettles<br />
Vivienne Storry<br />
Penny Dyer<br />
Vik Sivalingam<br />
James Crout<br />
Rupert Carlile<br />
Suzanne Bourke<br />
Harry Niland<br />
Helen Bowen<br />
Laura Draper<br />
Iona Kenrick<br />
Catrina Richardson<br />
Eleanor Dolan<br />
Anna Morena<br />
Charlie Stidwill<br />
Jason Wescombe<br />
Robin Fisher<br />
Howard Wood<br />
Mark Jenkins<br />
Craig Emerson<br />
Scott Fleary Ltd<br />
Charlotte Gainey<br />
Natasha Shepherd<br />
Jodie Pritchard<br />
Hugo Glendinning<br />
Fran Jones<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Evolution <strong>of</strong><br />
When Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Jesus Hopped the ‘A’<br />
Train transferred from the Edinburgh Festival to<br />
the Donmar Warehouse in 2002, it applied a jolt <strong>of</strong><br />
New York energy to British theatre. As audiences<br />
quickly realised, here was a writer whose dramatic<br />
voice was muscular, anarchic and allied to a rich<br />
poetic imagination. <strong>The</strong> subsequent production <strong>of</strong><br />
In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, at Hampstead<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre, secured Adly Guirgis’ reputation as a<br />
theatrical maverick.<br />
Adly Guirgis’ relationship with actor/director<br />
Philip Seymour H<strong>of</strong>fman has developed over the<br />
last decade into a rich creative partnership and the<br />
series <strong>of</strong> plays which began with Jesus Hopped the<br />
‘A’ Train is the result <strong>of</strong> that collaboration and <strong>of</strong><br />
the remarkable ensemble nature <strong>of</strong> New York’s<br />
LAByrinth <strong>The</strong>ater Company. It is a partnership<br />
which, in 2005, led to Adly Guirgis’ most<br />
experimental play to date, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong>.<br />
Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre’s Artistic Director Rupert Goold<br />
was amongst those who saw Jesus Hopped the ‘A’<br />
Train in 2002, and he has followed Adly Guirgis’ work<br />
ever since. When he read <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong><br />
<strong>Iscariot</strong>, published to coincide with Seymour<br />
H<strong>of</strong>fman’s world premiere production, he recognised<br />
the piece as clear development for the writer in terms<br />
<strong>of</strong> scale and, most obviously, as the first piece he has<br />
set outside contemporary New York.<br />
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Headlong has been working over the last two years<br />
to develop a programme <strong>of</strong> theatre which<br />
challenges and redefines our notion <strong>of</strong> the ‘epic’.<br />
<strong>The</strong> company’s adaptations <strong>of</strong> Paradise Lost and<br />
Faustus have explored questions <strong>of</strong> faith in a<br />
secular age and Rupert Goold recognised <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong><br />
<strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong> as a potential element <strong>of</strong><br />
that continuing investigation. Having secured the<br />
rights to the European premiere, he approached<br />
the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre’s Artistic Director Michael<br />
Attenborough to become an artistic partner. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre’s rich tradition <strong>of</strong> presenting<br />
American drama, and its reputation for producing<br />
large-scale new work, made it a natural home for<br />
the play. This show marks the first co-production<br />
during Michael’s tenure at the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
and a chance for London audiences to again<br />
experience Stephen Adly Guirgis’ work.<br />
Ben Power<br />
Literary Associate, Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
March 2008<br />
Photo © Barry Dawson from Street Graphics New York, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London
<strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
James Martin, a senior Jesuit priest, was involved as theological advisor<br />
during the writing, rehearsals and performance <strong>of</strong> LAByrinth <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
Company’s original production <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong>:<br />
When the playwright Stephen<br />
Adly Guirgis and the actor Sam<br />
Rockwell contacted me to help<br />
with a new Off-Broadway play<br />
called <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong><br />
<strong>Iscariot</strong>, I wondered how much<br />
I could contribute to their<br />
production. On the other hand,<br />
after sixteen years as a Jesuit, I<br />
thought that I might be able to<br />
help the two learn something<br />
about what happened in firstcentury<br />
Palestine to the<br />
itinerant preacher and the man<br />
who betrayed him.<br />
I didn’t know that I was about<br />
to learn quite a lot myself —<br />
about acting, about the<br />
theater, about hard work, and<br />
even about the spiritual life.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong><br />
<strong>Iscariot</strong>, which ended a soldout<br />
run at the Public <strong>The</strong>ater in<br />
New York City in April 2005,<br />
examines the fate <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
most reviled men in history.<br />
Adly Guirgis provided a<br />
sophisticated theological<br />
treatment <strong>of</strong> the issue, in all<br />
the slangy (and sometimes<br />
foul-mouthed) urban argot for<br />
which he is known amongst<br />
theater aficionados. In this<br />
case, the streetwise lingo<br />
represented the playwright’s<br />
attempt at what theologians<br />
call an “inculturation” <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Bible — that is, a translation <strong>of</strong><br />
the Gospel texts not simply<br />
into a different language but<br />
for a specific culture.<br />
For Adly Guirgis, that culture is<br />
contemporary urban life.<br />
Hence, his saints and apostles<br />
speak (and <strong>of</strong>ten shout) as if<br />
they were standing on a<br />
crowded subway platform at<br />
rush hour. Freed from the<br />
need to provide historically<br />
accurate quotations for his<br />
characters, Adly Guirgis<br />
deploys such language to reveal<br />
the essential nature <strong>of</strong> his<br />
characters in surprising ways.<br />
Photo by Eugene Martin<br />
Photo by Bakari Chavanu<br />
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Photo by Stéphane Bérubé<br />
Before my first meeting with<br />
Stephen [Adly Guirgis], his<br />
new play already had a long<br />
history. In a way, it had begun<br />
when Stephen was in third<br />
grade. That year, one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Dominican sisters teaching at<br />
Corpus Christi told his class<br />
the story <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong>. Stephen<br />
was horrified. He believed in a<br />
loving God, and the idea that<br />
God had consigned <strong>Judas</strong> to a<br />
place called hell “just stopped<br />
me in my tracks”. How could<br />
God not feel sorry for <strong>Judas</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> third grader had stumbled<br />
upon a theological conundrum<br />
that has challenged<br />
theologians, philosophers,<br />
and saints for centuries.<br />
Doesn’t God, who is kind and<br />
merciful, forgive every sin<br />
How could a merciful God<br />
create hell<br />
<strong>The</strong>ological questions were<br />
foremost in the playwright’s<br />
mind, and our conversations<br />
ranged from the broader<br />
questions about grace,<br />
forgiveness, and despair to<br />
more detailed inquiries into<br />
the history <strong>of</strong> the individual<br />
characters in the drama.<br />
After all his research, Stephen<br />
wanted to hear what I thought<br />
about who killed Jesus. <strong>The</strong><br />
responsibility for Jesus’ death<br />
was the underlying theme <strong>of</strong><br />
his play, and the answer to the<br />
question <strong>of</strong> who was<br />
responsible would help us<br />
unlock the riddle <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong><br />
<strong>Iscariot</strong>.<br />
But the Gospels are murky<br />
about precisely what lay<br />
behind the death <strong>of</strong> Jesus. For<br />
the evangelists were not as<br />
concerned with providing a<br />
historically accurate picture as<br />
modern readers might<br />
assume. What [they] were<br />
intent on providing was not<br />
historical truth but something<br />
more elusive, and far more<br />
important for the early<br />
Christians: the religious<br />
meaning <strong>of</strong> the events in<br />
question.<br />
Unfortunately, phrases such as<br />
the Jews in the Gospel <strong>of</strong> John<br />
have been used to foster anti-<br />
Semitism. That particular<br />
phrase has been used to<br />
blame all Jews for the<br />
decisions <strong>of</strong> a few specific<br />
religious leaders who have<br />
been dead for almost two<br />
millennia.<br />
So controversial was this<br />
question <strong>of</strong> responsibility that<br />
Jeffrey DeMunn, who would<br />
play Caiaphas [in the original<br />
LAByrinth production], said<br />
that taking on the role scared<br />
him, though he had worked as<br />
an actor for more than thirty<br />
years.<br />
Stephen’s use <strong>of</strong> the trial<br />
device would show the<br />
audience not only how but<br />
also why the death <strong>of</strong> Jesus<br />
occurred, shedding light on a<br />
notoriously dark topic. As I<br />
watched Stephen deal with<br />
the demands placed upon<br />
these scenes — the<br />
requirement to sort through so<br />
much history, the artistic need<br />
to keep the interest <strong>of</strong> the<br />
audience, and the sordid<br />
history <strong>of</strong> the Passion plays<br />
always lurking in the<br />
background — I was<br />
impressed with what he was<br />
able to accomplish.
Photo by Abbey Hambright<br />
<strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong>: the historical character<br />
Very little is known about <strong>Judas</strong> [beyond] two<br />
basic things: Jesus chose him as one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
twelve apostles, and he handed Jesus over to the<br />
Jewish authorities. Many <strong>of</strong> the standard traits <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>Judas</strong> who appears in films and on stage,<br />
such as his reddish hair color and his fiery<br />
disposition, are almost purely speculative,<br />
invented primarily for artistic purposes. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
representations have influenced how Western<br />
culture has come to think about the man and his<br />
actions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> writers <strong>of</strong> the four gospels were also good<br />
storytellers who knew that, for simple dramatic<br />
effect, the story <strong>of</strong> Jesus required an arch-villain:<br />
a divine protagonist needs the wickedest <strong>of</strong><br />
opponents. Later Christian traditions built on<br />
such presentations were, unfortunately, also<br />
influenced by nascent anti-Semitism, [using]<br />
<strong>Judas</strong> as an example <strong>of</strong> the wickedness <strong>of</strong> Jews<br />
in general.<br />
[In fact] <strong>Judas</strong> was not always as villainous as he<br />
has appeared historically in art and literature.<br />
<strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong> was, after all, chosen to be one <strong>of</strong><br />
the twelve apostles. How could someone so<br />
irredeemably evil decide to give up everything to<br />
become a follower <strong>of</strong> Jesus<br />
Edited excerpts from A Jesuit Off-Broadway: Center<br />
Stage with Jesus, <strong>Judas</strong>, and Life’s Big Questions by<br />
James Martin, SJ (Loyola Press 2007). Reprinted with<br />
permission <strong>of</strong> Loyola Press. To order copies <strong>of</strong> this<br />
book contact Columba Bookservice at +353 1 294 2556<br />
or visit www.columba.ie<br />
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CAST<br />
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE<br />
Amanda Boxer<br />
Henrietta <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: <strong>The</strong> Pain And <strong>The</strong> Itch;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Strip (Royal Court); Dis-<br />
Orientations (Riverside Studios); An<br />
Ideal Husband; <strong>The</strong> Rivals (<strong>The</strong>atr<br />
Clywd); <strong>The</strong> Arab Israeli Cookbook<br />
(Gate <strong>The</strong>atre/Tricycle <strong>The</strong>atre); Come<br />
Blow Your Horn; <strong>The</strong> Fall Guy; Present<br />
Laughter; Absurd Person Singular<br />
(Manchester Royal Exchange); One <strong>Last</strong><br />
Card Trick (Watford Palace <strong>The</strong>atre); A<br />
Small Family Business (West Yorkshire<br />
Playhouse); <strong>The</strong> Destiny <strong>of</strong> Me<br />
(Finborough <strong>The</strong>atre); Macbeth (Arcola<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Yiddish Queen Lear<br />
(Southwark Playhouse/Bridewell<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Graduate (Gielgud<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> House <strong>of</strong> Bernada Alba<br />
(Globe <strong>The</strong>atre); A Touch <strong>of</strong> the Poet<br />
(Young Vic/Comedy <strong>The</strong>atre); A State <strong>of</strong><br />
Affairs (Duchess <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong><br />
Misanthrope (Manchester Royal<br />
Exchange/Roundhouse <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Crimes <strong>of</strong> the Heart (King’s Head<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Propaganda Fide (Old Red<br />
Lion <strong>The</strong>atre); Strange Snow (<strong>The</strong>atro<br />
Technis); <strong>The</strong> Pixie-Led (Judith<br />
Anderson <strong>The</strong>ater, New York); <strong>The</strong><br />
Importance <strong>of</strong> Being Earnest, <strong>The</strong><br />
Merchant <strong>of</strong> Venice; Othello; All My<br />
Sons (Young Vic); <strong>The</strong> Holocaust<br />
Trilogy (New End <strong>The</strong>atre).<br />
Television includes: Bodies 3; <strong>The</strong> Shell<br />
Seekers; Casualty; Trial and Retribution<br />
(Nos III & VII); Down To Earth; Cider<br />
With Rosie; Ruth Rendell’s Road Rage<br />
and Put on by Cunning; Miss Marple’s<br />
Sleeping Murder; Tales <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Unexpected; Lizzie’s Pictures; Sense<br />
and Sensibility; Chalk; <strong>The</strong> Fall Out Guy;<br />
Goodbye My Love; In Suspicious<br />
Circumstances; Between <strong>The</strong> Lines;<br />
Inspector Alleyn’s Death in a White Tie;<br />
Unnatural Pursuits; Hold <strong>The</strong> Dream;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gentle Touch; <strong>The</strong> Lost Tribe.<br />
Film includes: United 93; Les Poupées<br />
Russes; Saving Private Ryan; Bad<br />
Behaviour.<br />
Radio includes: Mr Sweet Talk<br />
8<br />
Dona Croll<br />
Gloria/Mother <strong>The</strong>resa<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: Christ <strong>of</strong><br />
Coldharbour Lane (Soho <strong>The</strong>atre); Two<br />
Step (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); Elmina’s<br />
Kitchen (National <strong>The</strong>atre), Henry V<br />
(RSC/Tour); Back Pay; God’s Second In<br />
Command (Royal Court); No Boys<br />
Cricket Club; Hansel and Gretel; Basin<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atre Royal, Stratford East); Victor<br />
& <strong>The</strong> Ladies; Smile Orange; Joe<br />
Turner’s Come and Gone; <strong>The</strong> City<br />
Wives’ Confederacy (Tricycle <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Anthony and Cleopatra (Talawa <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Company); Othello (Greenwich<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Serious Money (Wyndhams<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Merchant <strong>of</strong> Venice<br />
(Manchester Royal Exchange); A<br />
Mouthful <strong>of</strong> Birds (Joint Stock/Royal<br />
Court); Golden Girls (West Yorkshire<br />
Playhouse); Back to Methuselah; Polly<br />
(Cambridge <strong>The</strong>atre Company); <strong>The</strong><br />
Relapse (Lyric Hammersmith); <strong>The</strong> Old<br />
Order (Birmingham Rep); Jericho; Gin<br />
Trap (Young Vic); Nine Night (Bush<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre).<br />
Television includes: Silent Witness;<br />
Doctors; EastEnders; <strong>The</strong> Shadow in<br />
the North; Time Trumpet; Little Miss<br />
Jocelyn; <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> Will and Testament <strong>of</strong><br />
Billy Two Sheds; Doctor Who, Bremner,<br />
Bird and Fortune; William and Mary;<br />
Treasure; Family Affairs; <strong>The</strong> Murder <strong>of</strong><br />
Stephen Lawrence; Gimme Gimme<br />
Gimme; <strong>The</strong> Bill; Brothers and Sisters;<br />
Loving Hazel; Chandler & Co; Birds <strong>of</strong> a<br />
Feather; Casualty; Between <strong>The</strong> Lines;<br />
Us Girls; Desmonds; Surgical Spirit;<br />
Rides; <strong>The</strong> Bill; Troublemakers; <strong>The</strong><br />
Paradise Club.<br />
Film includes: Kill Kill Faster Faster;<br />
Mammoth; Eastern Promise;<br />
Manderlay; I Could Never Be Your<br />
Woman; Tube Tales: Rosebud.
Corey Johnson<br />
Judge/Saint Peter<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: A Prayer for my<br />
Daughter (Young Vic); Frost/Nixon<br />
(Donmar Warehouse/West<br />
End/Broadway); Clever Dick; Sunday<br />
Father (Hampstead <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atre Royal, Northampton); Double<br />
Cross (Windsor <strong>The</strong>atre/West End); A<br />
View from the Bridge (Birmingham<br />
Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Stop<br />
Kiss (Soho <strong>The</strong>atre); Aunt Dan &<br />
Lemon (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); Popcorn<br />
(Apollo <strong>The</strong>atre); Death <strong>of</strong> a Salesman;<br />
Absolute Hell (National <strong>The</strong>atre); Birdy<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atre Royal, Plymouth/Lyric<br />
Hammersmith); Abundance (Riverside<br />
Studios); <strong>The</strong> Tempest; Awake And<br />
Sing! (Birmingham Rep); Desire Under<br />
<strong>The</strong> Elms (Watford Palace <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Toys in the Attic (Watermill <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
States <strong>of</strong> Shock (Salisbury<br />
Playhouse/Salberg Studio/National<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Prisoners <strong>of</strong> War (New End<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); A Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream (Lisbon Coliseum); Veronica’s<br />
Room (Mill At Sonning); Arsenic and<br />
Old Lace (Chichester Festival <strong>The</strong>atre).<br />
Television includes: Sex, <strong>The</strong> City &<br />
Me; Spooks; Foyle’s War; Doctor Who;<br />
Celeb; Auf Wiedersehen Pet; Impact;<br />
Nash Brides; Band <strong>of</strong> Brothers;<br />
Kavanagh QC; Over Here; Casualty;<br />
Under <strong>The</strong> Hammer.<br />
Film includes: <strong>The</strong> Code; Bourne<br />
Ultimatum; United 93; <strong>The</strong> Contract;<br />
<strong>The</strong> All Together; Seven Seconds;<br />
Hellboy; Out For a Kill; Sound <strong>of</strong><br />
Thunder; Second Coming; Black Hawk<br />
Down; End Game; <strong>Last</strong> Run; Harrison’s<br />
Flowers; Do Not Disturb; <strong>The</strong> Mummy;<br />
Saving Private Ryan; <strong>The</strong> Innocent; A<br />
Dangerous Man; Never <strong>The</strong> Sinner.<br />
John Macmillan<br />
Bailiff/Simon the Zealot<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: <strong>The</strong> Member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Wedding (Young Vic); Cymbeline<br />
(Cheek By Jowl world tour); Titus<br />
Andronicus (National Drama<br />
Festival); Dream Weaver (Hull Truck);<br />
Sympathy for a Psychopath<br />
(Edinburgh Festival).<br />
Film includes: Don Juan.<br />
Susan Lynch<br />
Fabiana Aziza<br />
Cunningham<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: Translations<br />
(Princeton <strong>The</strong>ater, Broadway); O Go<br />
My Man (Royal Court/Out <strong>of</strong> Joint);<br />
<strong>The</strong> Night Season; Pericles; El Cid<br />
(National <strong>The</strong>atre); Mnemonic<br />
(Complicite); <strong>The</strong> Storm (<strong>Almeida</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Miss Julie (Young Vic); Ashes<br />
and Sand; Berlin Bertie (Royal Court);<br />
<strong>The</strong> Clearing (Bush <strong>The</strong>atre/National<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre).<br />
Television includes: <strong>The</strong> Robber Bride;<br />
Soundpro<strong>of</strong>; <strong>The</strong> Ten<br />
Commandments; Bodies; Any Time<br />
Now; Sweet Revenge; Amongst<br />
Women; Dangerous Lady; Cracker.<br />
Film includes: Within; City Rats; <strong>The</strong><br />
Golden Age; Duane Hopwood;<br />
Someone Else; Mickeybo and Me;<br />
Enduring Love; Bye Child; Roses and<br />
Petrol; Casa de los Babys; 16 Years <strong>of</strong><br />
Alcohol; From Hell; Beautiful<br />
Creatures; Nora; Waking Ned; Secret<br />
<strong>of</strong> Roan Inish.<br />
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Mark Lockyer<br />
Yusef El-Fayoumy<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: Vernon God Little;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Adventures <strong>of</strong> Tin Tin; Peribanez;<br />
Outbreak <strong>of</strong> God in Area 9 (Young<br />
Vic); <strong>The</strong> Ugly One (Royal Court);<br />
Cinderella (Old Vic); <strong>The</strong>atre <strong>of</strong> Blood<br />
(National <strong>The</strong>atre/Improbable);<br />
Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic);<br />
Othello; Romeo and Juliet; King Lear;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cherry Orchard; <strong>The</strong> Taming <strong>of</strong><br />
the Shrew; <strong>The</strong> Tempest; <strong>The</strong><br />
Merchant <strong>of</strong> Venice (RSC); Ion (Gate<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Antipodes; Hamlet<br />
(Globe <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Madness <strong>of</strong><br />
George III; Ghetto; Fuente Ovejune;<br />
Bartholomew Fair; <strong>The</strong> Changeling<br />
(National <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Prisoner <strong>of</strong><br />
Zenda (Greenwich <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Restoration (Headlong tour); Faustus<br />
(Headlong at Hampstead <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ragged Trousered Philanthropist<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atre Royal, Stratford East).<br />
Television includes: <strong>The</strong> Fall <strong>of</strong> Rome;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Great Kandinsky; Joking Apart;<br />
Maigret; <strong>The</strong> Bill; Chancer; Out <strong>of</strong><br />
Order; Maxwell.<br />
Film includes: Harry Potter and the<br />
Half Blood Prince.<br />
Jessika Williams<br />
Saint Monica<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: <strong>The</strong> Bacchae (King’s<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre, Edinburgh/<strong>The</strong>atre Royal,<br />
Glasgow/Lyric Hammersmith); Such is<br />
Nature (Cat in a Cup <strong>The</strong>atre tour in<br />
Ireland); Beowulf (<strong>The</strong> Arches <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
<strong>The</strong>rese Raquin (Citizens <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Glasgow).<br />
Television includes: Taggart; Doctor<br />
Who (season 4)<br />
Film includes: Contorted Hazel.<br />
Poppy Miller<br />
Loretta/Mary<br />
Magdalene/Sister Glenna<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: White People<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atre 503); Twelfth Night (Filter);<br />
<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World; Hamlet<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atre Royal, Northampton);<br />
Switchback (Tron <strong>The</strong>atre, Glasgow);<br />
Amy’s View (Salisbury Playhouse); <strong>The</strong><br />
Jew <strong>of</strong> Malta (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); Don<br />
Juan (English Touring <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Bartholemew Fair; Two Gentlemen <strong>of</strong><br />
Verona (RSC); Villette; Blue<br />
Remembered Hills (Crucible <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Sheffield); Kind Hearts and Coronets<br />
(Watford Palace <strong>The</strong>atre); Mansfield<br />
Park (Chichester Festival <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Blood Libel (Norwich Playhouse);<br />
Agamemnon’s Children (Gate<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre).<br />
Television includes: <strong>The</strong> Fixer;<br />
Kingdom II; Torn; Goldplated; New<br />
Tricks III; If I Had You; <strong>The</strong><br />
Commander I & II; Red Cap II; Buried;<br />
Heartbeat; Doctors; In Deep;<br />
Attachments (2 series); Casualty; <strong>The</strong><br />
Knock.<br />
Film includes: <strong>The</strong> Flood; A Changed<br />
Man; Room 11; Daniel Cares.<br />
Radio includes: Mary Hayes In Love;<br />
Fossils; Agnes Gray; <strong>The</strong> Delayneys;<br />
Crime and Punishment; Smokers; Mill<br />
on the Floss; <strong>The</strong> Glittering Prizes;<br />
Fame and Fortune.<br />
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Ron Cephas Jones<br />
Uncle Pino/Pontius Pilate<br />
LAByrinth <strong>The</strong>ater Company member<br />
(LAB CAT “99”)<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: <strong>The</strong> Overwhelming<br />
(Roundabout <strong>The</strong>atre); Two Trains<br />
Running (Signature <strong>The</strong>atre); Satellites<br />
(Public <strong>The</strong>ater); <strong>The</strong> Wooden Breeks<br />
(MCC); Massacre: Sing to Your<br />
Children (LAByrinth); Our Lady <strong>of</strong><br />
121st Street (LAByrinth/Union Square<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Heart is a Lonely Hunter<br />
(Alliance <strong>The</strong>atre); Gem <strong>of</strong> the Ocean<br />
(Walter Kerr <strong>The</strong>atre); Richard III<br />
(NYSF Public <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Exonerated<br />
(Bleecker 45 <strong>The</strong>atre); Othello (<strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Royal, Northampton); Jesus Hopped<br />
the ‘A’ Train (LAByrinth/CSC<br />
Rep/Donmar Warehouse/West<br />
End/Broadway); Pork Pie (Denver<br />
Center <strong>The</strong>ater); Much Ado About<br />
Nothing (Long Wharf); Black Codes<br />
From <strong>The</strong> Underground (2nd Stage);<br />
Everybody’s Ruby (Public <strong>The</strong>ater);<br />
House Arrest: First Edition (Arena<br />
Stage); Thunder Knocking on the Door<br />
(Yale Rep); Firedance (Rapp Arts);<br />
Black Star Line (Goodman <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Holiday Heart (MTC/tour/Arena<br />
Stage); Don’t Explain (Nuyorican<br />
Poets’ Café); Such Sweet Thunder<br />
(Knitting Factory); Romeo and Juliet<br />
(Williamstown <strong>The</strong>atre Festival).<br />
Television includes: Lipstick Jungle;<br />
Raisin in the Sun; Word <strong>of</strong> Honor;<br />
NYPD Blue; FEDS; Law & Order; NY<br />
Undercover.<br />
Film includes: Across <strong>The</strong> Universe;<br />
Half Nelson; Carlito’s Way; On the<br />
One; Little Senegal; Sweet & Lowdown;<br />
A Day in Black and White; He Got<br />
Game; Murder and Magic; Bachelor’s<br />
Club; Real Men, Sex & Friendship;<br />
Naked Acts.<br />
Shane Attwooll<br />
Butch Honeywell<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: Glengarry Glen Ross<br />
(Apollo <strong>The</strong>atre); Death <strong>of</strong> a Salesman<br />
(Lyric <strong>The</strong>atre); Franco’s Bastard; Past<br />
Away (Sgript Cymru); Tittle Tattle<br />
(Tour); Nana (Albany Empire); Taken<br />
Out (Tour); I Was Looking at the<br />
Ceiling and <strong>The</strong>n I Saw the Sky<br />
(Southwark Playhouse); <strong>The</strong> Buddy<br />
Holly Story (Victoria Palace/UK tour);<br />
Stand By Your Man (UK Tour); Happy<br />
<strong>Days</strong> (UK Tour); Porgy and Bess (Royal<br />
Opera House); Snapshots and<br />
Illuminations (Battersea Arts Centre).<br />
Television includes: Foyle’s War; <strong>The</strong><br />
Bill; Aberfan; Ghost Squad; Midsomer<br />
Murders; <strong>The</strong> Commander III; <strong>The</strong><br />
Brief; Dose; Spooks; Nuts and Bolts;<br />
Without Motive.<br />
Film includes: Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Heaven;<br />
This Filthy Earth; Clean Sheets; Porgy<br />
and Bess; Manolo; Tears.<br />
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Joseph Mawle<br />
<strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: Time for the Good<br />
Looking Boy; Anthony and Cleopatra<br />
(Manchester Royal Exchange); Love<br />
and Understanding (Battersea Arts<br />
Centre); Hamlet (Southampton<br />
Nuffield); Troilus and Cressida; As You<br />
Like It (Tobacco Factory).<br />
Television includes: <strong>The</strong> Passion;<br />
Clapham Junction; Foyle’s War;<br />
Persuasion; <strong>The</strong> History <strong>of</strong> Miss Polly;<br />
Soundpro<strong>of</strong>; <strong>The</strong> Secret Life <strong>of</strong> Mrs<br />
Beeton; Dalziel and Pascoe; Silent<br />
Witness; Dunkirk; Sir Gadabout; Lorna<br />
Doone; Merlin.<br />
Film includes: Lecture 21; Merlin.<br />
Gawn Grainger<br />
Saint Matthew/Caiaphas<br />
the Elder<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: You Can’t Take It<br />
With You (Southwark Playhouse); Amy’s<br />
View (<strong>The</strong>atre Royal, Bath); <strong>The</strong> Seagull;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Passion; Sing Yer Heart Out for the<br />
Lads (National <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong><br />
Misanthrope (National <strong>The</strong>atre/New<br />
York); <strong>The</strong> Crucible (Comedy <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
<strong>The</strong> Devil’s Disciple (<strong>The</strong>atre Royal,<br />
Bristol); <strong>The</strong> Give Away (West End);<br />
Party Time; Mountain Language; No<br />
Man’s Land (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); A<br />
Month in the Country (Albery <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Uncle Vanya (<strong>The</strong>atr Clywd); Taking<br />
Sides (Minerva <strong>The</strong>atre Chichester/<br />
West End); Fool for Love; Tales From<br />
Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse);<br />
Wishbones (Bush <strong>The</strong>atre); Give Me<br />
Your Answer Do (Hampstead<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre/New York); Aristocrats<br />
(Chichester Festival <strong>The</strong>atre); Absolutely<br />
Perhaps (Wyndhams <strong>The</strong>atre).<br />
Television includes: Midsomer<br />
Murders; Foyle’s War; Family Business;<br />
Dalziel and Pascoe; Hetty Wainthrop<br />
Investigates; Crime Traveller; Darling<br />
Buds <strong>of</strong> May; Rumpole <strong>of</strong> the Bailey;<br />
Misterioso; Merlin; Growing Rich;<br />
Poirot; Gentlemen and Players; <strong>The</strong> Bill;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Contractor; Chelworth; Men<br />
Behaving Badly; When We Are Married;<br />
Running Wild; <strong>The</strong> Party; Taggart; Black<br />
Tower; <strong>The</strong> Travelling Man; Heart <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Country; Big Deal; Occupation<br />
Democrat; Strangers and Brothers;<br />
Missing From Home; Juliet Bravo;<br />
Cockles; A Beggar’s Opera; Macbeth;<br />
Mitch; Muck and Brass; Private Schultz;<br />
Bavarian Nights; Elizabeth Alone; <strong>The</strong><br />
Marriage; <strong>The</strong> Expert; <strong>The</strong> Onedin Line;<br />
Hail Caesar; Helping Hand; Three Piece<br />
Suite; S<strong>of</strong>tly, S<strong>of</strong>tly; Crown Court; Man<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tower; Son <strong>of</strong> Man; She Stoops to<br />
Conquer.<br />
Film includes: Sixty Six; Christmas<br />
Carol; Janice Beard 45wpm; Raggedy<br />
Rawney; Blood Royal; <strong>The</strong> Little<br />
Drummer Girl.<br />
Radio includes: <strong>The</strong> Pickwick Papers.<br />
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Douglas Henshall<br />
Satan<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: <strong>The</strong> Cryptogram; <strong>The</strong><br />
Life <strong>of</strong> Stuff (Donmar Warehouse);<br />
Death <strong>of</strong> a Salesman (Lyric <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Darwin In Malibu (Hampstead<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Crucible (Crucible<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre, Sheffield); <strong>The</strong> Coast <strong>of</strong><br />
Utopia (National <strong>The</strong>atre); American<br />
Buffalo (Young Vic); <strong>The</strong> Devil is an<br />
Ass; <strong>The</strong> Relapse; <strong>The</strong> Painter <strong>of</strong><br />
Dishonour (RSC); 900 Oneonta (Lyric<br />
Hammersmith); Macbeth (Watermill,<br />
Newbury/world tour); Green Fingers<br />
(King’s Head <strong>The</strong>atre); Otherwise<br />
Engaged (Windsor <strong>The</strong>atre); Evil Doers<br />
(Bush <strong>The</strong>atre); Crow (Tron <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Glasgow); Nae Problem, Clyde<br />
Nouveau; Road; <strong>The</strong> Sash; No Mean<br />
City (7:84); <strong>The</strong> Comedians; Slab Boys<br />
(Edinburgh Lyceum); Lucy and the<br />
Christmas Treasure (Borderline<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Glass Menagerie (Belfast<br />
Civic Arts <strong>The</strong>atre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a<br />
Whore (Citizens <strong>The</strong>atre Glasgow).<br />
Television includes: Primeval; <strong>The</strong><br />
Strange Case <strong>of</strong> Sherlock Holmes &<br />
Arthur Conan Doyle; Dalziel & Pascoe;<br />
Frances Tuesday; Loving You;<br />
Gentlemen’s Relish; Anna Karenina;<br />
Kid In <strong>The</strong> Corner; Psychos; Sharpe’s<br />
Justice; Crossing <strong>The</strong> Floor; Thief<br />
Takers; Common As Muck; Firm<br />
Friends I & II; <strong>The</strong> Bill; Down Among<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bad Boys; Young Indiana II;<br />
Lipstick On Your Collar; Boon VI; Jute<br />
City; Underbelly; Van Der Valk; At the<br />
End <strong>of</strong> Alex Cording; She Play Dancing<br />
In <strong>The</strong> Dark; Justice Game; Taggart.<br />
Film includes: <strong>The</strong> French Film; Flying<br />
Lessons; Dead Long Enough; Ripley<br />
Underground; It’s All About Love;<br />
Silent Cry; <strong>The</strong> Lawless Heart; This<br />
Year’s Love; If Only; Orphans; Fast<br />
Food; Kull the Conqueror; Angels &<br />
Insects; Rose Red; <strong>The</strong> Big Man.<br />
Josh Cohen<br />
Matthias <strong>of</strong><br />
Galilee/Sigmund<br />
Freud/Saint Thomas<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: Into the Hoods<br />
(Novello <strong>The</strong>atre); What We Did to<br />
Weinstein (Menier Chocolate<br />
Factory); Phallacy (King’s Head<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Quartermaine’s Terms<br />
(Salisbury Playhouse); A Chaste Maid<br />
in Cheapside (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong><br />
Graduate (Gielgud <strong>The</strong>atre); Rent<br />
(West End).<br />
Television and Film includes: <strong>The</strong><br />
Murder Rooms; <strong>The</strong> Campaign; Fire;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lost Batallion.<br />
Edward Hogg<br />
Jesus <strong>of</strong> Nazareth<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: <strong>The</strong> Dybbuk (King’s<br />
Head <strong>The</strong>atre); Noises Off; Cressida;<br />
Our Country’s Good (Young Vic);<br />
Woyzeck (Gate <strong>The</strong>atre/St Ann’s<br />
Warehouse, Brooklyn); Rock ‘n’ Roll<br />
(Royal Court/West End); Desire Under<br />
<strong>The</strong> Elms (Young Vic/Jerwood Charity<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Measure for Measure; <strong>The</strong><br />
Tempest; <strong>The</strong> Storm (Globe <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pillowman (National <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Loot (Bristol Old Vic); <strong>The</strong> Silver Sword<br />
(Nottingham Playhouse); <strong>The</strong><br />
Firework-Maker’s Daughter (Told By An<br />
Idiot/Crucible <strong>The</strong>atre, Sheffield); King<br />
Lear (RSC Academy); My Father’s Son<br />
(Crucible <strong>The</strong>atre, Sheffield).<br />
Television includes: Doctors; <strong>The</strong><br />
Bermuda Triangle: Beneath <strong>The</strong> Waves;<br />
Celeb; Heartbeat.<br />
Film includes: White Lightnin’;<br />
Brothers <strong>of</strong> the Head; Song <strong>of</strong> Songs;<br />
Alfie; Nicholas Nickleby.<br />
Radio includes: Metropolis; Boxing<br />
Clever; Sgt. Musgrave’s Dance.<br />
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CREATIVES<br />
Stephen Adly Guirgis<br />
Writer<br />
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a member <strong>of</strong><br />
New York’s LAByrinth <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
Company. His new play, <strong>The</strong> Little<br />
Flower <strong>of</strong> East Orange, is currently<br />
running in New York. His other plays<br />
include Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train<br />
(Edinburgh Festival/Donmar<br />
Warehouse/Arts <strong>The</strong>atre West End);<br />
In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings<br />
(Hampstead <strong>The</strong>atre); Our Lady <strong>of</strong><br />
121st Street; and Den <strong>of</strong> Thieves. All<br />
his plays were initially produced by<br />
LAByrinth and directed by Philip<br />
Seymour H<strong>of</strong>fman. In the UK he has<br />
received a Fringe First Award in<br />
Rupert Goold<br />
Director<br />
Rupert Goold is Artistic Director <strong>of</strong><br />
Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre. Productions for<br />
Headlong include Rough Crossings,<br />
Faustus, Restoration and Paradise<br />
Lost. From 2002-05 Rupert was<br />
Artistic Director <strong>of</strong> the Royal and<br />
Derngate <strong>The</strong>atres in Northampton<br />
where productions included Hamlet,<br />
Othello, Waiting for Godot,<br />
Insignificance, <strong>The</strong> Weir, Betrayal,<br />
Arcadia and Summer Lightning. He<br />
was Associate Artist at Salisbury<br />
Playhouse from 1996-97 during its<br />
reopening under Jonathan Church<br />
where he directed <strong>The</strong> End <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Affair, Dancing at Lughnasa and the<br />
national tour <strong>of</strong> Travels With My<br />
Aunt. He was a Trainee Director<br />
under Sam Mendes at the Donmar<br />
Warehouse 1995-96.<br />
His work as a freelance director<br />
includes Macbeth with Patrick<br />
Stewart (Chichester Festival<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre/West End/Broadway - 2008<br />
Olivier Award for Best Director and<br />
Best Director Evening Standard and<br />
Critics’ Circle Awards); <strong>The</strong> Tempest<br />
(RSC/West End); <strong>The</strong> Glass<br />
Edinburgh and was nominated for an<br />
Olivier Award for Best New Play. He<br />
is also an actor.<br />
Menagerie with Jessica Lange (West<br />
End); the world premiere <strong>of</strong> Speaking<br />
Like Magpies, a new play by Frank<br />
McGuinness for the RSC; and a<br />
national and international tour <strong>of</strong><br />
Scaramouche Jones with Pete<br />
Postlethwaite. His opera work<br />
includes Le Comte Ory (Garsington<br />
Opera) and L’Opera Seria, Gli<br />
Equivoci and Il Pomo D’Oro<br />
(Batignano).<br />
In 2008 Rupert will direct King Lear<br />
with Pete Postlethwaite, and Six<br />
Characters in Search <strong>of</strong> an Author by<br />
Luigi Pirandello for Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre.<br />
Anthony Ward<br />
Design<br />
For the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre: <strong>The</strong><br />
Rehearsal; A Hard Heart; Dona Rosita;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Novice and Marianne Dreams.<br />
West End and Broadway theatre<br />
credits include: Macbeth (Gielgud<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre/Chichester Festival <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Dying City (Lincoln Center, New<br />
York); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang<br />
(London Palladium/Broadway);<br />
Gypsy (Broadway); Oliver! (London<br />
Palladium); Oklahoma! (Lyceum<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre/Broadway); <strong>The</strong> Royal Family<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atre Royal, Haymarket); and <strong>The</strong><br />
Night <strong>of</strong> the Iguana (Lyric <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue).<br />
Other theatre includes: Napoli<br />
Milionaria; Sweet Bird <strong>of</strong> Youth; John<br />
Gabriel Borkman; <strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the<br />
World; La Grande Magia; Othello; <strong>The</strong><br />
Invention <strong>of</strong> Love; Remember This;<br />
Oklahoma! <strong>The</strong> Royal Hunt <strong>of</strong> the Sun<br />
(National <strong>The</strong>atre); My Fair Lady<br />
(National <strong>The</strong>atre/<strong>The</strong>atre Royal Drury<br />
Lane); A Midsummer Night’s Dream;<br />
King Lear; <strong>The</strong> Tempest; Artists and<br />
Admirers; <strong>The</strong> Winter’s Tale; <strong>The</strong><br />
Alchemist; <strong>The</strong> Virtuoso; Troilus and<br />
Cressida; Cymbeline; Twelfth Night;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lion, the Witch, and the<br />
Wardrobe; <strong>The</strong> Secret Garden (RSC);<br />
Assassins; Nine; To <strong>The</strong> Green Fields<br />
Beyond (Donmar Warehouse); Mary<br />
Stuart (Donmar Warehouse/Apollo<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Uncle Vanya and Twelfth<br />
Night (Donmar Warehouse/Brooklyn<br />
Academy <strong>of</strong> Music); Rhinoceros; <strong>The</strong><br />
Arsonists (Royal Court); Burning<br />
Issues (Hampstead <strong>The</strong>atre).<br />
Opera credits include:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Makropulos Case (Metropolitan<br />
Opera NY); Tosca (De Vlaamse<br />
Opera, Antwerp); L’Etoile; Yollande;<br />
La Boheme; Peter Grimes;<br />
Gloriana (Opera North); Macbeth<br />
(Royal Opera House); Manon<br />
Lescaut (Royal Opera House/Opera<br />
de Paris, Bastille/De Vlaamse<br />
Opera); Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria<br />
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(Festival d’Aix-en-Provence); <strong>The</strong><br />
Magic Flute (Glyndebourne) and <strong>The</strong><br />
Carmelites (English National<br />
Opera/Welsh National Opera).<br />
Ballet & Dance credits include:<br />
Masquerade; Les Rendez-vous;<br />
Dance Variations (Royal Ballet);<br />
Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!<br />
(Sadler’s Wells/UK Tour).<br />
Awards include:<br />
2003 OBIE Award for Set Design<br />
Uncle Vanya; 1996 Olivier Award for<br />
Costume Design Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream, La Grande Magia and <strong>The</strong><br />
Way <strong>of</strong> the World; 1999 Olivier Award<br />
for Set Design Oklahoma!<br />
Howard Harrison<br />
Lighting<br />
Most recent work includes: Mary<br />
Poppins (West End/Broadway);<br />
Mamma Mia! (West End/Broadway<br />
/Las Vegas/Hamburg/Japan/<br />
Stockholm/Australia/US Tour); Tom<br />
Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll; Macbeth<br />
(West End/New York); Glengarry Glen<br />
Ross; Macbeth; Love Song; Guys and<br />
Dolls; Donkeys’ Years; Heroes (West<br />
End); <strong>The</strong> Vertical Hour (Royal<br />
Court); Twelfth Night; Macbeth<br />
(Chichester Festival <strong>The</strong>atre, 2008<br />
Olivier Award for Best Lighting<br />
Design); Nutcracker!; Edward<br />
Scissorhands (Sadler’s Wells/UK<br />
tour/US tour).<br />
Opera and Dance work includes: Il<br />
Trovatore; Aida, I Masnadieri; Otello<br />
(Royal Opera); Beatrice and Benedict;<br />
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacce (Welsh<br />
National Opera/Opera Australia); Swan<br />
Lake; Romeo and Juliet (English<br />
National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall);<br />
Albert Herring (Opera North); <strong>The</strong> Elixir<br />
<strong>of</strong> Love (English National Opera); <strong>The</strong><br />
Makropulos Case; Nabucco<br />
(Metropolitan Opera, New York).<br />
Howard has been nominated 7 times<br />
as Best Lighting Designer in the<br />
Laurence Olivier Awards and was the<br />
recipient <strong>of</strong> the 2001 Australian<br />
Green Room Award for his work on<br />
Mamma Mia! He received a Tony<br />
Award Nomination in 2007 for his<br />
work on Mary Poppins on Broadway.<br />
Adam Cork<br />
Composer & Sound<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre includes: Scores and sound<br />
designs for Macbeth (Gielgud<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre/Broadway); Frost/Nixon<br />
(Donmar Warehouse/ Gielgud<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre/Broadway); Suddenly <strong>Last</strong><br />
Summer (Albery <strong>The</strong>atre); Don Carlos<br />
(Gielgud <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Glass<br />
Menagerie (Apollo <strong>The</strong>atre); Speaking<br />
Like Magpies (RSC); <strong>The</strong> Tempest<br />
(RSC/Michigan/Novello <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Macbeth (Gielgud <strong>The</strong>atre/Chichester<br />
Festival <strong>The</strong>atre); Caligula; <strong>The</strong> Wild<br />
Duck; Don Juan in Soho; John Gabriel<br />
Borkman; Othello (Donmar<br />
Warehouse); <strong>The</strong> Late Henry Moss;<br />
Tom and Viv (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); On<br />
the Third Day (New Ambassadors,<br />
subject <strong>of</strong> Channel 4 documentary<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> Play’s the Thing’); Underneath<br />
the Lintel (Duchess <strong>The</strong>atre); On<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ceiling (Garrick <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Scaramouche Jones (Riverside<br />
Studios/World Tour); Troilus and<br />
Cressida (Old Vic); Faustus<br />
(Headlong at Hampstead <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Paradise Lost (Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Nine Parts <strong>of</strong> Desire (Wilma <strong>The</strong>ater,<br />
Philadelphia); Lear; <strong>The</strong> Cherry<br />
Orchard (Crucible <strong>The</strong>atre, Sheffield);<br />
Romeo and Juliet (Manchester Royal<br />
Exchange); <strong>The</strong> Government<br />
Inspector (Chichester Festival<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); King Lear (Minerva <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Chichester); My Uncle Arly (Royal<br />
Opera House Linbury); <strong>The</strong> Field<br />
(Tricycle <strong>The</strong>atre); Alice’s Adventures<br />
in Wonderland (Bristol Old Vic - 2005<br />
TMA Award Best Show for Young<br />
People).<br />
Adam was nominated for the 2005<br />
Olivier Award for Best Sound Design<br />
for Suddenly <strong>Last</strong> Summer (Albery<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre). He also received a 2007<br />
‘Outstanding Music for a Play’<br />
Drama Desk Award nomination, for<br />
the Broadway production <strong>of</strong><br />
Frost/Nixon.<br />
Film/TV includes: Frances Tuesday;<br />
Re-ignited; Imprints; Bust; <strong>The</strong> Three<br />
Rules <strong>of</strong> Infidelity; Sexdrive;<br />
Tripletake.<br />
Radio includes: Losing Rosalind; <strong>The</strong><br />
Luneberg Variation; <strong>The</strong> Colonel-Bird;<br />
Don Carlos.<br />
Lorna Heavey<br />
Video & Projection<br />
Design<br />
Design credits for theatre, opera &<br />
film include:<br />
Marianne Dreams (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Macbeth (Chichester Festival <strong>The</strong>atre/<br />
Gielgud <strong>The</strong>atre/Broadway -<br />
nomination for Olivier Award 2008 for<br />
Best Set Design); <strong>The</strong> Tempest<br />
(RSC/West End); Speaking Like<br />
Magpies (RSC/West End); <strong>The</strong> Glass<br />
Menagerie (West End); <strong>The</strong> Caucasian<br />
Chalk Circle (National <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Phaedra (Donmar Warehouse);<br />
Vanishing Point; Genoa 01<br />
(Complicite/Royal Court); Cooped<br />
(Purcell Rooms & international tour);<br />
I Am Shakespeare (Minerva <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Chichester); Rough Crossings;<br />
Faustus; Paradise Lost (Headlong<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Cleansed (Oxford Stage<br />
Company); Betrayal (<strong>The</strong>atre Royal,<br />
Northampton); Tall Phoenix (Belgrade<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Mahabharata (Sadler’s<br />
Wells); Dido and Aeneas (Opera<br />
North); Very Opera (Cologne);<br />
Newsnight the Opera (Battersea Arts<br />
Centre).<br />
Set, costume & video design includes:<br />
Branded (Old Vic); Hamlet Machine<br />
(KunstHalle Berlin/Battersea Arts<br />
Centre); Titus Andronicus; A Stitch In<br />
Time (Headfirst/Battersea Arts<br />
Centre); Beautiful Beginnings<br />
(Headfirst/<strong>The</strong>atre 503).<br />
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Writing & directing includes:<br />
For theatre: A Stitch In Time; Beautiful<br />
Beginnings; Hamlet Machine;<br />
Murdered Sleep.<br />
For film: Several Words; Timed<br />
Existence; <strong>The</strong> Global Conditioned; Duet<br />
for One Voice; Interior/Exterior, shown<br />
at numerous international film festivals.<br />
Television includes:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mighty Boosh; <strong>The</strong> Bendix Report.<br />
Art shows include:<br />
Exhibitions at the Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
Contemporary Art, Royal Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
British Architects, Dada Dandies Berlin,<br />
and Budapest Academy.<br />
Lorna was elected Fellow <strong>of</strong> the Royal<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> Arts in recognition <strong>of</strong> her<br />
contribution to the arts in 2004. Lorna<br />
trained in Fine Art (Düsseldorf<br />
Academy, class <strong>of</strong> Nam June Paik &<br />
Nan Hoover, Kingston and Chelsea<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Art). She is founder <strong>of</strong><br />
Headfirst Foundation, a cross-platform,<br />
multi disciplinary artists collective.<br />
Joyce Nettles<br />
Casting Director<br />
Joyce Nettles was Head <strong>of</strong> Casting at<br />
the RSC for ten years under the<br />
Artistic Directorship <strong>of</strong> Trevor Nunn.<br />
She worked on a regular basis with<br />
Jonathan Kent when he was Artistic<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Almeida</strong>. She cast three<br />
productions with the great German<br />
director Peter Stein: <strong>The</strong> Seagull,<br />
Blackbird and Troilus and Cressida all<br />
for the Edinburgh International<br />
Festival, and has also worked with Sir<br />
Peter Hall and Peter Brook.<br />
Recent theatre credits include: <strong>The</strong><br />
Cherry Orchard (Crucible <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Sheffield); Death <strong>of</strong> a Salesman; And<br />
<strong>The</strong>n <strong>The</strong>re Were None; As You<br />
Desire Me; <strong>The</strong> Country Wife;<br />
Glengarry Glen Ross; <strong>The</strong> Sea (West<br />
End).<br />
Television credits include: Midsomer<br />
Murders; Foyle’s War; Kavanagh QC;<br />
Inspector Morse, Goodnight Mister<br />
Tom.<br />
Film credits include: several films for<br />
HBO, including RKO 281 for which<br />
she won an Emmy; Zeffirelli’s Hamlet<br />
and several films with Lars von Trier<br />
including Breaking the Waves.<br />
Penny Dyer<br />
Dialect Coach<br />
Recent theatre: <strong>The</strong> Man Who Had All<br />
<strong>The</strong> Luck (Donmar Warehouse);<br />
Speed <strong>The</strong> Plow (Old Vic); Gone With<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wind (New London <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Noughts and Crosses (RSC); A Prayer<br />
for my Daughter (Young Vic); <strong>The</strong><br />
Vertical Hour (Royal Court);<br />
Shadowlands (Wyndhams <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Three Sisters on Hope Street<br />
(Hampstead <strong>The</strong>atre); Fiddler on the<br />
Ro<strong>of</strong> (Savoy <strong>The</strong>atre); Cloud Nine<br />
(<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); Doubt (Tricycle<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Boeing, Boeing (Comedy<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); King Lear (RSC); Parade<br />
(Donmar Warehouse); Swimming<br />
with Sharks (Vaudeville <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Awake and Sing! (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
I Am Shakespeare (Minerva <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Chichester/Tour); Moonlight and<br />
Magnolias (Tricycle <strong>The</strong>atre); Vernon<br />
God Little (Young Vic); Big White Fog<br />
(<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); Someone Else’s<br />
Shoes (Soho <strong>The</strong>atre/ETT );<br />
Frost/Nixon (Donmar<br />
Warehouse/Gielgud <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong>re<br />
Came a Gypsy Riding (<strong>Almeida</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); Porgy and Bess (Savoy<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Winter’s Tale (RSC); <strong>The</strong><br />
Cryptogram (Donmar Warehouse);<br />
Summer and Smoke (Nottingham<br />
Playhouse/Apollo <strong>The</strong>atre); Tom and<br />
Viv (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Crucible<br />
(RSC); Royal Hunt <strong>of</strong> the Sun<br />
(National <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong> Late Henry<br />
Moss (<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre); Philadelphia<br />
Story (Old Vic).<br />
Recent TV: Merlin; Biog Trio;<br />
Fantabuloso; <strong>The</strong> Deal; <strong>The</strong> Shadow in<br />
the North; Blackpool; North and South;<br />
Pierrepoint; Crocodiles and Masters.<br />
Film includes: <strong>The</strong> Queen; <strong>The</strong> Edge <strong>of</strong><br />
Love; <strong>The</strong> Boy in the Striped Pyjamas;<br />
Frost/Nixon; <strong>The</strong> Golden Age;<br />
Infamous; Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution;<br />
Nanny McPhee; <strong>The</strong> Da Vinci Code;<br />
Mrs Henderson Presents; Dirty Pretty<br />
Things; Ladies in Lavender; <strong>The</strong><br />
Importance <strong>of</strong> Being Earnest; Heaven;<br />
RKO 281; Felicia’s Journey; <strong>The</strong> War<br />
Zone; Elizabeth; Oscar and Lucinda.<br />
Vik Sivalingam<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Directing credits include: Jack & <strong>The</strong><br />
Beanstalk (Stafford Gatehouse<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre); When <strong>The</strong> Lights Went Out<br />
(Tara Arts); Broom; Just Say No;<br />
Parklife; Achieving Liberty; Head Over<br />
Heels (Pulse Festival, Ipswich); Travels<br />
To Myself (Teatro Technis); Please Find<br />
Attached (King’s Head <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong><br />
Waiting Line (Birmingham Arts<br />
Festival); <strong>The</strong> Hard Way (Soho <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Studio); Human Rights (Sir John Mills<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre, Ipswich); Blue/Orange (New<br />
Wolsey <strong>The</strong>atre Studio); Girlfriends (codirected<br />
with Pete Rowe, Battersea Arts<br />
Centre); Day Trippers (New Wolsey<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre, Ipswich & <strong>The</strong>atr Clwyd);<br />
Swingin’ In Mid- Dream! (Albany<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre).<br />
Assistant Directing credits include:<br />
Free Outgoing (Royal Court); Rough<br />
Crossings (Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre); <strong>The</strong><br />
Soldiers’ Fortune (Young Vic); <strong>The</strong><br />
Price; Private Lives; <strong>The</strong> Tempest;<br />
Sugar (New Wolsey <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Ipswich); Troilus and Cressida.<br />
PRODUCTION<br />
THANK YOUS<br />
Nicola Boyce Hypnotherapy<br />
Tim Mitchell<br />
Lesley Vann at Mother Plucker Feather Co.<br />
Ron Cephas Jones is appearing with the<br />
permission <strong>of</strong> UK Equity incorporating the<br />
Variety Artites’ Federation.
15 May – 5 July 2008<br />
Rosmersholm<br />
By Henrik Ibsen<br />
In a new version by Mike Poulton<br />
Cast: Paul Hilton, Helen McCrory, Paul Moriarty,<br />
Veronica Quilligan, Malcolm Sinclair, Peter Sullivan<br />
Director Anthony Page, Design Hildegard Bechtler,<br />
Costume Design Amy Roberts, Lighting Peter Mumford,<br />
Sound Gareth Fry<br />
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Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre is dedicated<br />
to new ways <strong>of</strong> making theatre.<br />
By exploring revolutionary<br />
writers and practitioners <strong>of</strong> the<br />
past and commissioning new<br />
work from artists from a wide<br />
variety <strong>of</strong> backgrounds we aim<br />
constantly to push the<br />
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stage. Under the Artistic<br />
Directorship <strong>of</strong> Rupert Goold<br />
(Olivier Award winner for Best<br />
Director, 2008), Headlong<br />
makes exhilarating,<br />
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new work to take around the<br />
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Headlong’s 2006-7 season played for 47<br />
weeks to more than 80,000 people in<br />
theatres across the UK, from Glasgow to<br />
Exeter, London to Liverpool. We are<br />
delighted to be presenting <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong> in the first coproduction<br />
the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre has<br />
undertaken during Michael<br />
Attenborough’s tenure as Artistic<br />
Director.<br />
‘Rupert Goold is one <strong>of</strong> the most exciting<br />
young talents in British theatre today’<br />
Times<br />
‘Wild, mad and deeply intelligent theatre’<br />
Sunday Times<br />
Photos by Manuel Harlan<br />
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‘Tackling issues with extraordinary<br />
theatrical audacity… a company that<br />
clearly intends to continue boldly…’<br />
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COMING SOON FROM<br />
HEADLONG:<br />
THE ENGLISH GAME by Richard<br />
Bean, directed by Sean Holmes.<br />
On tour from 7th May – 28th June<br />
2008<br />
… SISTERS by Anton Chekhov,<br />
adapted and directed by<br />
Chris Goode.<br />
At the Gate <strong>The</strong>atre from 5th June -<br />
5th July 2008<br />
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF<br />
AN AUTHOR by Luigi Pirandello,<br />
adapted by Rupert Goold and Ben<br />
Power, directed by Rupert Goold.<br />
At the Minerva <strong>The</strong>atre Chichester<br />
from 28th June – 30th August 2008<br />
Faustus<br />
EDWARD GANT’S AMAZING FEATS<br />
OF LONELINESS by Anthony<br />
Neilson, directed by Steve Marmion.<br />
On tour from September –<br />
November 2008<br />
KING LEAR by William Shakespeare,<br />
directed by Rupert Goold.<br />
Featuring Pete Postlethwaite<br />
At the Everyman <strong>The</strong>atre Liverpool<br />
from 30th October – 29th November<br />
2008<br />
Headlong <strong>The</strong>atre is…<br />
Artistic Director: Rupert Goold<br />
Executive Producer: Henny Finch<br />
Finance Manager: Julie Renwick<br />
Literary Associate: Ben Power<br />
Assistant Producer: Jenni Kershaw<br />
Administrative Assistant: Lindsey Alvis<br />
Angels in America<br />
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Glendinning<br />
2003<br />
THE LADY FROM THE SEA<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Islington powerhouse opens with this<br />
tremendous production by Trevor Nunn…<br />
electrifying… leaves you reeling.”<br />
Daily Telegraph<br />
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“A riveting production… full <strong>of</strong> wonderful<br />
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THE MERCY SEAT<br />
“Michael Attenborough’s production has a<br />
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moment. This play plumbs the depths and<br />
deserves to be seen.”<br />
Daily Telegraph<br />
FIVE GOLD RINGS<br />
“Bold, elegant, lyrical, finely wraught…<br />
gorgeously staged and beautifully<br />
performed.”<br />
Time Out<br />
<strong>The</strong> cast <strong>of</strong> Enemies, photo by Hugo Glendinning<br />
2004<br />
THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA<br />
“Superbly written … brilliant… flawless<br />
production; you won’t find more blazing<br />
acting anywhere… see it if you see nothing<br />
else.”<br />
Mail on Sunday<br />
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FESTEN<br />
“Electrifying, shocking and pr<strong>of</strong>oundly<br />
moving… such talent, such skill, such<br />
humanity. Something to celebrate.”<br />
Sunday Times<br />
WHISTLING PSYCHE<br />
“An intense, haunting and beautiful play…<br />
two remarkable performances...<br />
marvellously rewarding.”<br />
Mail on Sunday<br />
BRIGHTON ROCK<br />
“An intelligent, edgy, adult musical which<br />
gives you something to think about...<br />
Hooray for that... a production <strong>of</strong> brilliant<br />
clarity... crackles with energy and evil.”<br />
Daily Express<br />
THE EARTHLY PARADISE<br />
“Gorgeous writing… very compelling, lovely<br />
and tragic. My play <strong>of</strong> the year.”<br />
New Statesman<br />
Sponsored by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP<br />
2005<br />
MACBETH<br />
“<strong>The</strong> most powerful, chilling, evil – feeling<br />
Macbeth since McKellen and Dench.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Times<br />
Sponsored by Aspen Re<br />
HEDDA GABLER<br />
“An electrifying hit… a wonderful<br />
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Daily Telegraph<br />
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BLOOD WEDDING<br />
“Brilliantly directed by Rufus Norris.<br />
Another indication <strong>of</strong> how well Michael<br />
Attenborough’s management is doing at<br />
the Islington playhouse.”<br />
Daily Express<br />
ROMANCE<br />
“You laugh uproariously... it’s a silly person<br />
who doesn’t.”<br />
Financial Times<br />
THE HYPOCHONDRIAC<br />
“Lindsay Posner’s exuberant, superbly<br />
acted production is riotously entertaining...<br />
has you laughing like a drain.”<br />
Daily Telegraph<br />
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Kenneth Cranham (Max) in <strong>The</strong> Homecoming, photo by Hugo Glendinning.<br />
2006<br />
THE LATE HENRY MOSS<br />
“A thrilling new play... acted up to the hilt by<br />
a remarkable company... an astonishingly<br />
wrought, high drama”<br />
Evening Standard<br />
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PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT<br />
“You must see this play: it’s like a diamond<br />
cut with its own stardust.”<br />
Sunday Times<br />
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ENEMIES<br />
“A superb theatrical achievement...an<br />
excellent cast...Michael Attenborough’s<br />
admirable staging...this is a major event in<br />
our theatre”<br />
Financial Times<br />
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2007<br />
Eileen Atkins (Bridget) and Imelda<br />
Staunton (Margaret) in <strong>The</strong>re Came A<br />
Gypsy Riding, photo by Mark Ellidge<br />
THERE CAME A GYPSY RIDING<br />
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“Unmissable” <strong>The</strong> Observer<br />
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"Desperately funny... beautifully written”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Observer<br />
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BIG WHITE FOG<br />
“For strong gripping drama and splendid,<br />
heartfelt acting, the show is hard to beat...<br />
outstanding” Daily Telegraph<br />
“A long-lost gem…an excellent company…<br />
a riveting production” Daily Mail<br />
Danny Sapani (Victor Mason), Ayesha Antoine<br />
(Caroline Mason) and Kedar Williams-Stirling<br />
(Phillip Mason) in Big White Fog, photo by<br />
Catherine Ashmore<br />
2008<br />
THE HOMECOMING<br />
“A masterly production” Sunday Times<br />
“Exemplary…pitch perfect” <strong>The</strong> Observer<br />
“Michael Attenborough’s production sparkles<br />
like a 100-carat diamond…great theatre”<br />
Sunday Telegraph<br />
Sponsored by Aspen Re<br />
Eve Best (Hedda) in Hedda Gabler,<br />
photo by John Haynes<br />
TOM AND VIV<br />
“A magnificent and superbly acted piece <strong>of</strong><br />
theatre...the play so powerfully succeeds...a<br />
sublime tragedy”<br />
Sunday Times<br />
THE LIGHTNING PLAY<br />
“Funny, touching and consistently<br />
entertaining”<br />
Daily Telegraph<br />
Sponsored by Pinsent Masons<br />
AWAKE AND SING!<br />
“Stirring and fabulously well performed”<br />
Mail On Sunday<br />
“Richly rewarding” Independent<br />
CLOUD NINE<br />
“An absolute treat…wholly heavenly”Daily<br />
Telegraph<br />
“Scorching stuff, and more entertaining then<br />
anything on in the West End” Sunday Telegraph<br />
MARIANNE DREAMS<br />
“A great Christmas show…beautiful and funny”<br />
Independent<br />
“Inspired, potent theatre” Mail on Sunday<br />
Sponsored by Pinsent Masons<br />
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ALMEIDA PROJECTS<br />
Photos: Bridget Jones<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> Projects creates opportunities to<br />
take ideas directly from the <strong>Almeida</strong><br />
rehearsal room into local schools and<br />
community groups. Since our launch in<br />
September 2003, we have created two full<br />
productions in part devised by young<br />
people, a festival <strong>of</strong> new writing for local<br />
first-time writers, and countless original<br />
pieces devised and performed by young<br />
people and members <strong>of</strong> the local<br />
community in response to the theatre’s<br />
productions.<br />
We place the community and the<br />
“ensemble” at the centre <strong>of</strong> what we do,<br />
creating a genuine collaborative<br />
atmosphere for everyone involved – from<br />
people new to the arts to the<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essionals they work with. In our<br />
projects everyone is learning, and<br />
everyone is challenging themselves to<br />
discover something new: about<br />
themselves, each other, and the work<br />
they are doing.<br />
Alongside our projects, we <strong>of</strong>fer<br />
subsidised ticket programmes and<br />
workshops allowing both local young<br />
people and students from across the<br />
country to experience our productions.<br />
Marianne Dreams:<br />
Play in a Day<br />
In February, three months <strong>of</strong> work with<br />
thousands <strong>of</strong> students across Islington,<br />
inspired by Marianne Dreams, culminated<br />
in a unique and ambitious project with the<br />
entire Year 7 <strong>of</strong> Highbury Grove School.<br />
On Tuesday 12 February, from 8.30am to<br />
3pm, the classrooms reverberated with<br />
dreams and hopes, nightmares and fears,<br />
scribbling magic pencils, dancing feet and<br />
group chants.<br />
Led by a team <strong>of</strong> twenty theatre<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essionals, directors, designers,<br />
choreographers and actors, each class<br />
took what most inspired them in<br />
Marianne Dreams and used it to create an<br />
entirely new piece <strong>of</strong> theatre.<br />
Bridge <strong>of</strong> Dreams<br />
In January 80 students from <strong>The</strong> Bridge<br />
School, a school for students with<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>ound, severe and multiple learning<br />
difficulties came to see a performance <strong>of</strong><br />
Marianne Dreams. Since then, 25 <strong>of</strong> the<br />
students have been working on a new<br />
version <strong>of</strong> the play, with the help <strong>of</strong> a<br />
director, designer, a team <strong>of</strong> actors and<br />
volunteers from our principal supporter,<br />
Lehman Brothers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> multi-sensory performance will<br />
transform the school’s new drama studio<br />
into a world <strong>of</strong> dreams. With bright lights<br />
and vibrant sounds, the students and their<br />
audience will embark on an extraordinary<br />
journey through the world <strong>of</strong> their wildest<br />
imagination.<br />
“Excellent workshop, great leaders,<br />
great ideas, excellent fun!”<br />
Secondary school teacher after an introductory workshop<br />
for Marianne Dreams<br />
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For more information visit www.almeida.co.uk, email projects@almeida.co.uk or call 020 7288 4916
Homecoming<br />
Inspired by the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre’s production <strong>of</strong> Harold Pinter’s <strong>The</strong> Homecoming Year 10<br />
GCSE Drama and BTEC Performing Arts students at Highbury Grove School have been<br />
working with a director, a choreographer, and the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre’s Artistic Associate<br />
Jenny Worton to devise their own performances about the experience <strong>of</strong> ‘homecoming’.<br />
Over six weeks <strong>of</strong> workshops the students have been exploring the idea <strong>of</strong> coming home:<br />
to places familiar and new, on journeys that take them away from loved ones, or back to<br />
them again. <strong>The</strong>ir starting points are the stories that immigrants to Britain bring with<br />
them, their reasons for leaving their old home and their reaction to what must suddenly<br />
become their new one.<br />
Coming up<br />
King’s Corner Project<br />
In May 2008, young people taking part in<br />
the King’s Corner Project’s <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Industry course will be working with<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> Projects to devise a piece <strong>of</strong><br />
theatre inspired by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong><br />
<strong>Iscariot</strong>. Six weeks <strong>of</strong> devising and<br />
rehearsal will culminate in a presentation<br />
on the <strong>Almeida</strong> stage. A further series <strong>of</strong><br />
workshops ranging from marketing to<br />
costume design will build participants’<br />
knowledge <strong>of</strong> the wider workings <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre and give insight into<br />
alternative careers in the arts.<br />
“Whatchu know about what’s a lie and what’s the truth<br />
Whatchu know about my history”<br />
Pontius Pilate in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Days</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Judas</strong> <strong>Iscariot</strong><br />
Projects Online<br />
Resources, images and information from our current and<br />
previous project work can be viewed and downloaded<br />
from our website. www.almeida.co.uk/projects<br />
For more information about our work,<br />
subsidised tickets schemes for students<br />
groups and forthcoming projects visit<br />
www.almeida.co.uk/projects<br />
Principal Supporter<br />
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ASSISTED PERFORMANCES<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre schedules assisted performances in order to make<br />
theatre more accessible and enjoyable for people who may find it difficult to<br />
see or hear everything that takes place on stage.<br />
Captioned performances feature<br />
an electronic screen which<br />
displays the words being spoken<br />
on stage in time with the<br />
performance, much like the<br />
subtitles you would see on<br />
television.<br />
As part <strong>of</strong> the theatre's on-going<br />
access programme the <strong>Almeida</strong><br />
will be captioning performances in<br />
house. Having now completed<br />
Stagetext captioning training, the<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> now has a team <strong>of</strong> three<br />
CACDP (Council for Advancement<br />
<strong>of</strong> Communication with Deaf<br />
People) qualified captioners, as<br />
well as our own caption box and<br />
equipment.<br />
Audio described performances<br />
are ideal for audience members<br />
with visual impairment. We<br />
provide a discreet headset, which<br />
allows you to listen to information<br />
about the set, costumes, body<br />
language and facial expressions<br />
<strong>of</strong> the performers, during pauses<br />
in the action on-stage.<br />
Prior to the performance patrons<br />
receive CDs giving details <strong>of</strong> the<br />
set, characters and costumes and<br />
on the day <strong>of</strong> the performance<br />
can attend a free touch tour<br />
where they get a chance to<br />
explore the set and costumes and<br />
meet some <strong>of</strong> the cast.<br />
Our sign language interpreted<br />
performances are presented by a<br />
variety <strong>of</strong> highly experienced<br />
interpreters who use British Sign<br />
Language.<br />
THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT<br />
Tue 29 April 7.30 pm Sat 3 May 3 pm Thu 24 April 7.30 pm<br />
Captioned in house Audio Described by Vocaleyes Sign Language Interpreted by<br />
(Touch Tour 1.30 pm)<br />
Russ Aldersson<br />
ROSMERSHOLM ROSMERSHOLM ROSMERSHOLM<br />
Tue 1 July 7.30 pm Sat 28 June 3 pm Thu 19 June 7.30 pm<br />
Captioned in house Audio Described by Vocaleyes Sign Language Interpreted by<br />
(Touch Tour 1.30 pm)<br />
Jeni Draper<br />
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GET IN TOUCH<br />
If you would like any more information<br />
about assisted performances or access,<br />
or to book for an assisted performance,<br />
please contact us:<br />
020 7288 4999<br />
email access@almeida.co.uk<br />
or visit www.almeida.co.uk<br />
If you would like a large print<br />
copy <strong>of</strong> this programme please<br />
contact us using the details<br />
listed.<br />
Thanks to Vocaleyes and all our interpreters.
THE ALMEIDA THEATRE<br />
COMPANY<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> Board<br />
Richard Haythornthwaite<br />
Chair<br />
Mary Francis CBE Linden Ife<br />
(Treasurer)<br />
Rosemary Leith<br />
Anupam Ganguli Ray O’Connell<br />
Michael Gwinnell Rufus Olins<br />
A. Michael H<strong>of</strong>fman Nigel Pantling<br />
<strong>The</strong>lma Holt CBE<br />
Artistic Directors<br />
1980 – 1990 Pierre Audi (Founder)<br />
1990 – 2002 Jonathan Kent<br />
Ian McDiarmid<br />
2002 – Michael Attenborough<br />
Development Board<br />
A. Michael H<strong>of</strong>fman<br />
Chair<br />
Rosemary Leith<br />
Vice Chair<br />
Jamie Arkell<br />
Sue Baring<br />
Jonathan Blake<br />
Georgiana Boothby<br />
Rick Gildea<br />
Christophe Gollut<br />
Lord Hart <strong>of</strong> Chilton<br />
Matthew Hurlock<br />
John Kinder<br />
Judith Loose<br />
Nicky Manby<br />
Ray O'Connell<br />
Lady Rayne<br />
Martha Tack<br />
Andrew Wilkinson<br />
Hilary Williams<br />
Andrea Wilson<br />
Artistic Director<br />
Michael Attenborough<br />
Executive Director<br />
Neil Constable<br />
Artistic Associate<br />
Jenny Worton<br />
Associate Director<br />
Howard Davies<br />
Writer in Residence<br />
Roy Williams<br />
Music Advisor<br />
Jonathan Dove<br />
Lighting Advisor<br />
Mark Henderson<br />
Sound Advisor<br />
John Leonard<br />
ADMINISTRATION<br />
General Manager<br />
Emma Rees<br />
Assistant to the<br />
Directorate<br />
Suli Majithia<br />
Administrative<br />
Assistant<br />
David Swain<br />
ALMEIDA OPERA<br />
Aldeburgh <strong>Almeida</strong> Opera<br />
Jonathan Reekie<br />
Chelsea Lawrence<br />
Music Director<br />
David Parry<br />
Concert Directors<br />
Richard Bernas<br />
John Woolrich<br />
ALMEIDA PROJECTS<br />
Projects Director<br />
Samantha Lane<br />
Projects Administrator<br />
Charlie Payne<br />
Projects Workshop Team<br />
Ayesha Antoine<br />
Dan Ayling<br />
Kate Budgen<br />
Charlotte Damigos<br />
Ned Glasier<br />
Curtis Jordan<br />
Nicholas Khan<br />
Imogen Knight<br />
Debbie Korley<br />
Amaka Okafor<br />
Freddie Opuko Addaie<br />
BAR<br />
Bar Manager<br />
Hannah Woolhouse<br />
Deputy Bar Manager<br />
Lanre Bankole<br />
Bar Staff<br />
Natalie Bartle<br />
Carolina Cadavid<br />
Irene Cioni<br />
Dominique Edwards<br />
Emmeline Ham<br />
Andrew Hladky<br />
Hywel John<br />
Neil Jones<br />
Margherita Malanchini<br />
Santi Rieser<br />
Lara Rossi*<br />
Harriet Shillito*<br />
Melissa Smith*<br />
Luis Valentine<br />
*Also occasional Duty<br />
Managers<br />
BOX OFFICE<br />
Box Office Manager<br />
Tina Farguson<br />
Box Office Assistants<br />
Curtis Jordan<br />
Guy Newman<br />
Francesca Silveri<br />
Jonathan Speer<br />
Ruth Varley<br />
Suzanne Walker**<br />
Miranda Yates**<br />
** Also Access Officers<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> Development<br />
Kirsten Holmes<br />
Sponsorship Manager<br />
Katya Evans<br />
Development Manager<br />
Nadia Boujo<br />
Development Officer<br />
(Individual Giving)<br />
Susie Parker<br />
Development Intern<br />
Amelie Lambert<br />
FINANCE<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> Finance<br />
Fraser Jopp<br />
Finance Manager<br />
Jenny Patterson<br />
Finance Officer<br />
Joy Aitchison<br />
FRONT OF HOUSE<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Manager<br />
Helen Cooles<br />
Duty Managers<br />
Nick Durant<br />
Jonathan Speer<br />
Dervla Whiteside<br />
Head Ushers<br />
Geraldine Caulfield<br />
Imogen Cooper<br />
Chris Corby<br />
Sylvie Gallant<br />
Aglaia Gelpke<br />
Vida Harrison<br />
Hannah Lee<br />
David Weinberg<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>f White<br />
Ushers<br />
Immanuel Von<br />
Bennigsen<br />
Jessica Carroll<br />
Ono Dafedjaiye<br />
Andrew Howard<br />
Janice Howard<br />
Florence Keith-Roach<br />
Richard Lawne<br />
Camilla Mars<br />
Nic McQuillan<br />
Mary Okeke<br />
Anne Sheasby<br />
Jeany Spark<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Tour Guide<br />
Jenny Hargreaves<br />
Cleaning Staff<br />
Excell Cleaning Services<br />
Ltd<br />
MARKETING<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> Marketing<br />
& Sales<br />
Jane Macpherson<br />
Marketing Officer<br />
Helen Bennett<br />
Interim Marketing<br />
Officer<br />
Louise Glover<br />
Marketing Intern<br />
Nicola Fisher<br />
PRESS<br />
Press Representative<br />
Janine Shalom at<br />
Premier PR<br />
020 7292 8330<br />
PRODUCTION<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> Production<br />
James Crout<br />
Company Manager<br />
Rupert Carlile<br />
Stage Manager<br />
Suzanne Bourke<br />
Chief Technician<br />
Jason Wescombe<br />
Lighting Technician<br />
Robin Fisher<br />
Sound Technician<br />
Howard Wood<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Technician<br />
Mark Jenkins<br />
Wardrobe Supervisor<br />
Catrina Richardson<br />
Wardrobe Deputy<br />
Eleanor Dolan<br />
CONSULTANTS<br />
Scripts Advisor<br />
Barry McCarthy<br />
Structural Engineering<br />
Consultants<br />
Alan Conisbee Associates<br />
Surveyor to the <strong>Almeida</strong><br />
Hedley Merriman<br />
Auditors<br />
Haysmacintyre<br />
Solicitors<br />
Cumberland & Ellis<br />
Mishcon de Reya<br />
Wedlake Saint<br />
Production Insurance<br />
Giles Insurance Brokers<br />
Security<br />
Umair Jamil for<br />
McKenzie Arnold<br />
Security Ltd<br />
Access Consultant Group<br />
Mandy Colleran<br />
Wendy Haslam<br />
Ian Jentle<br />
Lois Keith<br />
Deborah Neve<br />
Caroline Parker<br />
Graphic Design<br />
Sarah Hyndman<br />
Dave Roberts for Cantate<br />
Programme Print<br />
Cantate<br />
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YOUR VISIT<br />
Welcome to the<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre.<br />
IN THE FOYER<br />
<strong>The</strong> box <strong>of</strong>fice, bar, kiosk and toilets<br />
are all accessible from the foyer.<br />
Access to the Circle is upstairs<br />
through the doors on <strong>Almeida</strong> Street.<br />
Access to the stalls is through the<br />
doors in the foyer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following are available to buy<br />
from the kiosk in the foyer:<br />
• Playscripts, past & present<br />
• Programmes<br />
• Posters<br />
• Loseley Ice Creams<br />
• <strong>Almeida</strong> T-shirts<br />
• <strong>Almeida</strong> umbrellas<br />
Infrared headsets are also available at<br />
the kiosk for a small deposit.<br />
DURING THE<br />
PERFORMANCE<br />
Please take your seats in good<br />
time. <strong>The</strong>re will be a three minute<br />
bell before the start <strong>of</strong> the<br />
performance.<br />
To avoid distracting the performers<br />
and spoiling the performance for<br />
other audience members we ask<br />
that you keep noise to a minimum<br />
in the auditorium and please<br />
switch <strong>of</strong>f mobile phones. We<br />
kindly request no photography or<br />
recording equipment be used in the<br />
auditorium.<br />
Plastic cups are available at the bar<br />
and from ushers to enable you to<br />
take drinks into the auditorium. We<br />
request that you do not take food<br />
into the auditorium.<br />
Please do not cause any undue<br />
alarm by leaving your bags<br />
unattended.<br />
We appreciate your consideration<br />
for local residents when leaving the<br />
theatre.<br />
In accordance with the<br />
requirements <strong>of</strong> the Council <strong>of</strong> the<br />
London Borough <strong>of</strong> Islington,<br />
persons shall not be permitted to<br />
stand or sit in any <strong>of</strong> the gangways<br />
intersecting the seating or to sit in<br />
any <strong>of</strong> the other gangways.<br />
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EATING AND<br />
DRINKING<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre Bar <strong>of</strong>fers<br />
tasty homemade dishes, a<br />
great wine list, fine c<strong>of</strong>fees and<br />
a relaxed atmosphere, and in<br />
the evening becomes a lively<br />
bar for audiences, actors and<br />
public alike.<br />
To beat the rush we recommend that<br />
you pre-order your interval drinks at<br />
the bar before the performance.<br />
Remember the café bar is open to all.<br />
You can visit us from 11.30am-11pm,<br />
Mon-Sat for drinks and light meals.<br />
We use organic products wherever<br />
possible, and locally sourced produce<br />
from Covent Garden and Billingsgate<br />
Markets, making it an ideal place to<br />
meet friends for lunch, or just to relax<br />
and read the papers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bar is also available for private hire.<br />
For further information please see<br />
www.almeida.co.uk<br />
or email bar@almeida.co.uk<br />
EXPLORE<br />
THE ALMEIDA<br />
You can find out more about the<br />
history <strong>of</strong> this fascinating building on<br />
our theatre tours.<br />
Led by an experienced guide they <strong>of</strong>fer<br />
the opportunity to explore the depths<br />
<strong>of</strong> the theatre including backstage,<br />
wardrobe, and technical departments.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tours also look at the history <strong>of</strong><br />
the building through its many<br />
incarnations from lecture hall to<br />
Victorian music hall, to carnival<br />
novelties factory, up until the new<br />
building you see today.<br />
We finish the tours with a<br />
complimentary tea or c<strong>of</strong>fee in the bar.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> building in 1840<br />
For more information see<br />
www.almeida.co.uk or to book a<br />
place on a tour contact box <strong>of</strong>fice on<br />
020 7359 4404.<br />
We welcome any suggestions<br />
or comments you may have<br />
about your visit to the <strong>Almeida</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>atre.<br />
Please get in touch with us by<br />
emailing info@almeida.co.uk<br />
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“<strong>The</strong> country’s<br />
hottest theatre”<br />
Daily Telegraph<br />
JOIN THE<br />
ALMEIDA’S<br />
CIRCLE OF<br />
SUPPORTERS<br />
Every donation made through our Circle <strong>of</strong><br />
Supporters scheme is vital to ensuring<br />
that the <strong>Almeida</strong> can continue to mount<br />
productions <strong>of</strong> outstanding quality in our<br />
beautifully refurbished theatre.<br />
IN ADDITION YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM:<br />
• Priority booking<br />
• Advance mailing<br />
• Exclusive events<br />
• Quarterly newsletter<br />
• Special <strong>of</strong>fers<br />
• Programme accreditation<br />
• Personalised booking<br />
• Access to sold out shows<br />
See overleaf for more details.<br />
(Benefits depend on level <strong>of</strong> support)<br />
If you would like to help us and become<br />
more involved with the theatre and its<br />
work, please join our Circle <strong>of</strong> Supporters<br />
today.<br />
For further information please call<br />
020 7288 4930 or email Susie Parker at<br />
sparker@almeida.co.uk<br />
Jonathan Pryce in Edward Albee’s <strong>The</strong> Goat, or Who is Sylvia<br />
Photographer: John Haynes
PLEASE SUPPORT THE ALMEIDA AT<br />
ONE OF THE FOLLOWING LEVELS:<br />
ALMEIDA FRIENDS (£50+)<br />
For a suggested donation <strong>of</strong> £50 or more we may<br />
extend the following:<br />
• Advance mailing and priority booking<br />
• Regular information about <strong>Almeida</strong> news and events<br />
• Invitations to Supporters’ evenings<br />
• Ticket <strong>of</strong>fers when available<br />
DESIGNERS’ CIRCLE (£120+)<br />
For a suggested donation <strong>of</strong> £120 or more we may<br />
extend the above and the following:<br />
• Accreditation in <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre programmes<br />
• Advance notice <strong>of</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> Galas<br />
I would like to join the <strong>Almeida</strong>’s Circle <strong>of</strong><br />
Supporters at the following level:<br />
(<strong>The</strong> amounts listed are suggested donations only)<br />
ALMEIDA FRIENDS (£50+)<br />
DESIGNERS’ CIRCLE (£120+)<br />
ACTORS’ CIRCLE (£300+)<br />
DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE (£500+)<br />
PATRONS (£1,000+)<br />
BENEFACTORS (£2,500+)<br />
PRODUCTION CIRCLE (£5,000+)<br />
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S INNER CIRCLE (£10,000+)<br />
Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss<br />
ACTORS’ CIRCLE (£300+)<br />
For a suggested donation <strong>of</strong> £300 or more we may<br />
extend the above and the following:<br />
• Personalised booking service through the Development Office<br />
Address<br />
Postcode<br />
DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE (£500+)<br />
For a suggested donation <strong>of</strong> £500 or more we may<br />
extend the above and the following:<br />
• Regular press release mailings, including latest<br />
casting updates<br />
• Opportunity <strong>of</strong> hiring the <strong>Almeida</strong> Bar for<br />
private functions (subject to availability)<br />
• Invitation to annual Directors’ Circle reception<br />
PATRONS (£1,000+)<br />
For a suggested donation <strong>of</strong> £1,000 or more we may<br />
extend the above and the following:<br />
• Invitations to selected Press Nights<br />
• Invitations to private post-show discussions with cast<br />
and creative teams<br />
• Invitation to Patrons’ lunch with the <strong>Almeida</strong>’s<br />
Artistic Director<br />
• Access to house seats when a production is<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficially sold-out (subject to availability)<br />
BENEFACTORS (£2,500+)<br />
For a suggested donation <strong>of</strong> £2,500 or more we may extend the<br />
above and the following:<br />
• Invitations to every Press Night<br />
• Acknowledgement on the Benefactors’ Board in<br />
the <strong>The</strong>atre Foyer<br />
• Private Backstage Tour<br />
PRODUCTION CIRCLE (£5,000+)<br />
For a suggested donation <strong>of</strong> £5,000 or more we may extend the<br />
above and the following:<br />
• Invitations to selected dress or technical rehearsals<br />
• Draft scripts when rehearsals for productions begin<br />
• Published scripts signed by cast or creative teams<br />
(subject to availability)<br />
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S INNER CIRCLE (£10,000+)<br />
For a suggested donation <strong>of</strong> £10,000 or more we may extend the<br />
above and the following:<br />
A unique opportunity for a small team <strong>of</strong> individuals to become<br />
closely involved at the heart <strong>of</strong> the theatre company. Forming an<br />
exclusive partnership with the Artistic Director, members will play a<br />
crucial and active role in enabling the theatre’s programme and the<br />
artistic standards for which the <strong>Almeida</strong> is renowned.<br />
Tel (day)<br />
Tel (eve)<br />
Please acknowledge me/us in the <strong>Almeida</strong> Programmes as:<br />
(for gifts over £120)<br />
1. BY CHEQUE<br />
I enclose a cheque made payable to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre for<br />
£<br />
2. BY CREDIT CARD<br />
(You can also pay by calling Susie Parker in the Development Office<br />
between 10am and 6pm Monday to Friday on 020 7288 4930)<br />
Please charge my credit card with<br />
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GIFT AID<br />
I am a UK taxpayer and would like the enclosed donation and any<br />
further donations I may make to the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre to be tax<br />
effective under the Gift Aid scheme until I notify you otherwise.<br />
Signature<br />
PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM TO:<br />
ALMEIDA CIRCLE OF SUPPORTERS, FREEPOST LON18195, N1 1BR<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> is a registered charity no. 282167. Inland Revenue number XN 64354<br />
£<br />
Date
ALMEIDA SUPPORTERS<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> is a truly unique theatre. <strong>The</strong> world’s finest acting, writing, designing and directing talents produce<br />
some <strong>of</strong> their best work in our very particular and much loved space, ensuring that the theatre is alive each night<br />
with performances that inspire and excite our audiences.<br />
However, the freedom and the means whereby we can be bold, risk-taking and distinctive and able to produce<br />
work <strong>of</strong> the highest quality, costs money. £3.3m per annum to be precise. Every year we raise £1.2m <strong>of</strong> that<br />
ourselves – more than box <strong>of</strong>fice income or subsidy from Arts Council England.<br />
We are, therefore, hugely reliant upon the financial commitment <strong>of</strong> a group <strong>of</strong> very special individuals, trusts and<br />
companies who choose to become involved at the heart <strong>of</strong> our theatre. <strong>The</strong>ir support ensures that we can plan<br />
ambitiously for the future with security and confidence, whilst keeping ticket prices affordable (with over 40 seats<br />
sold each night for just £6). It also means we can continue to deliver <strong>Almeida</strong> Projects - our inspirational<br />
programme <strong>of</strong> work with young people and the local community.<br />
Accordingly, we owe immense thanks to a collection <strong>of</strong> committed and enthusiastic supporters - many <strong>of</strong> whom<br />
are listed below and without whose kindness we simply could not exist. I do hope that you too might consider<br />
becoming involved with our wonderful theatre, at whatever level - helping us to continue turning our dreams into<br />
realitiy.<br />
Michael Attenborough<br />
Artistic Director<br />
Major Donors<br />
Ormonde & Mildred Duveen Trust<br />
<strong>The</strong> Esmée Fairbairn Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Genesis Foundation<br />
Christophe Gollut<br />
<strong>The</strong> Hon. Daphne Guinness<br />
Niarchos<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ingram Trust<br />
Harvey & Allison McGrath<br />
Georgia Oetker<br />
<strong>The</strong> Laura Pels Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Rose Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tara Ulemek Foundation<br />
Roger Wingate<br />
Legacy Gifts<br />
Arthur Donald Fleming<br />
Clare Hope<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> Opera Supporters<br />
Columbia Foundation, San<br />
Francisco<br />
<strong>The</strong> Peter Moores Foundation<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> Projects Supporters<br />
Principal Supporter:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lehman Brothers Foundation<br />
Europe<br />
Raymond Cazalet Charitable<br />
Trust<br />
<strong>The</strong> Worshipful Company <strong>of</strong><br />
Grocers<br />
<strong>The</strong> Paul Hamlyn Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Peter Harrison Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Kreitman Foundation<br />
Kyte broking<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wates Foundation<br />
Artistic Director’s Inner Circle<br />
Eric Abraham & Sigrid Rausing<br />
Anonymous<br />
Mrs Claus von Bulow<br />
Mercedes & Michael H<strong>of</strong>fman<br />
Jack & Linda Keenan<br />
John Kinder & Geraldine Downey<br />
Rosemary Leith<br />
Midge & Simon Palley<br />
David Robbie<br />
Jon & NoraLee Sedmak<br />
Stuart & Hilary Williams<br />
Production Circle<br />
K L Breuss & G P Burgess<br />
Stamos J Fafalios<br />
Joachim Fleury<br />
Cathy & Guy Gronquist<br />
<strong>The</strong> Marina Kleinwort Trust<br />
Paul & Elizabeth O’Hanlon<br />
Sarah & Alastair Ross Goobey<br />
Carl & Martha Tack<br />
Rachel & Anthony Williams<br />
Benefactors<br />
Arimathea Charitable Trust<br />
Mr & Mrs JC Carter-Meggs<br />
Clyde Cooper<br />
Ian & Caroline Cormack<br />
Sarah & Louis Elson<br />
Celeste Fenichel<br />
Tim Fosberry<br />
Mr & Mrs A Geczy<br />
Beth Glynn<br />
Lydia & Manfred Gorvy<br />
Barbara & Michael Gwinnell<br />
Matthew & Severa Hurlock<br />
Stephanie & Carter McClelland<br />
<strong>The</strong> Noël Coward Foundation<br />
Wayne Rapozo<br />
Lady Jane Rayne<br />
Lord & Lady Simon<br />
Nicola Stanhope<br />
Christian & Sarah Thun-Hohenstein<br />
Jan & Michael Topham<br />
Roderick & Melanie Vere Nicoll<br />
Andrew & Juliet Wilkinson<br />
Patrons<br />
Anonymous<br />
Jeffrey Archer<br />
Jamie Arkell<br />
Jane Attias<br />
Keith & Barbara Bain<br />
Derek & Bonnie Bandeen<br />
Sue Baring & Andre Newburg<br />
Steve Barnett & Alexandra Marks<br />
Cornelius Barry<br />
Lord & Lady Bernstein<br />
Kate & Colin Birss<br />
Jonathan & Isabel Blake<br />
Tony & Gisela Bloom<br />
Mr & Mrs Benjamin Bonas<br />
Georgiana Boothby<br />
Miriam Borchard<br />
Steven & Ellen Bowman<br />
Katie Bradford<br />
Richard & Robin Chapman<br />
Mr William Claxton-Smith<br />
Mrs Denise Cohen<br />
Coline Covington<br />
Mr & Mrs Stephen Cox<br />
Felicia Crystal<br />
Mr & Mrs Karl Dannenbaum<br />
Angus Deayton<br />
Mr Robert H.F. Devereux<br />
James & Erica Dickson<br />
Robyn Durie<br />
Richard & Linda Ely<br />
Mr Peter Englander<br />
John & Tawna Farmer<br />
Joachim Fleury<br />
Daniel Friel<br />
Robert & Pirjo Gardiner<br />
Jackie & Michael Gee<br />
Jacqueline & Jonathan Gestetner<br />
Richard Gildea<br />
Michael Goddard<br />
David Graham<br />
Nick Gray<br />
Byron Grote & Susan Miller<br />
Susan Hahn & Duncan Moore<br />
Andrew Haigh<br />
Pamela, Lady Harlech<br />
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Alisdair & Sophie Haythornthwaite<br />
Michael & Morven Heller<br />
Dorothy Henderson<br />
Jerry & Barbara Hines<br />
Michael Holland<br />
Clare & Bernard Horn<br />
Christopher Hyder<br />
Linden Ife<br />
Nicholas & Maria Jones<br />
Nicholas Josefowitz<br />
Mary Kallaher and Matteo Perale<br />
Dr and Dr C Kaplanis<br />
Mr & Mrs Philip Kingsley<br />
Christian Kwek & David Hodges<br />
Mr & Mrs David Lakhdhir<br />
Marsha & Alan Lee<br />
Kathryn Ludlow<br />
Anthony Mackintosh<br />
Charles & Nicky Manby<br />
Mr Raul Margara<br />
Elizabeth Meyer<br />
Jeremy Miles<br />
Mr Julian Mills<br />
Diana & Alan Morgenthau<br />
Matthew Nicklin<br />
Christopher Nugee & Emily<br />
Thornberry<br />
Ray & Sarah O’Connell<br />
Harald Orneberg<br />
<strong>The</strong> Oyster Foundation<br />
Desmond Page & Asun Gelardin<br />
J Francis Palamara<br />
Barrie Pearson<br />
Mr & Mrs William Plapinger<br />
Andrea & Hilary Ponti<br />
<strong>The</strong> Posgate Charitable Trust<br />
<strong>The</strong> David & Elaine Potter<br />
Foundation<br />
Michele Ragazzi<br />
Clare Rich<br />
Timothy & Judith Ritchie<br />
Sue & Tony Rosner<br />
Jill Ruddock<br />
William & Julie Ryan<br />
Dr Mortimer & <strong>The</strong>resa<br />
Sackler Foundation<br />
Susie Sainsbury<br />
Mr & Mrs Richard J Schwartz<br />
Mrs Carol Sellars<br />
Jennifer Sevaux<br />
Norma & David Smith<br />
Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer<br />
David & Tanya Steyn<br />
Adam & Sheri Stipewich<br />
Richard Sykes & Penny Mason<br />
Mr R D Szpiro<br />
Eileen Taylor<br />
Sarka Tourres<br />
Lord & Lady Tugendhat<br />
Judith Unwin<br />
Mr P Voyce<br />
Edgar & Judith Wallner<br />
Eric & Katharina Walters<br />
Bob & India Wardrop<br />
Lady Alexander <strong>of</strong> Weedon<br />
Simon & Glennie Weil<br />
George & Patricia White<br />
Martha & David Winfield<br />
Jack & Lina Wood<br />
Mr Neil Woodgate<br />
Mr CC Wright<br />
Michael & Kate Yates<br />
Directors’ Circle<br />
Cliff & Fiona Atkins<br />
Lorraine Baldry<br />
Leslie Balfour-Lynn<br />
J & A Benard<br />
Neil & Ann Benson<br />
Mrs Rosalie Berwin<br />
Nicholas Berwin<br />
Martin Black<br />
Sally A Bourne<br />
Ms Diana Brant<br />
Anthony Bunker<br />
Barry Burland & Tim den Dekker<br />
Sir Ge<strong>of</strong>frey and Lady Cass<br />
Mr Simon Clark<br />
Carole & Neville Conrad<br />
Kay Ellen Consolver<br />
John Crisp<br />
Mr George Dragonas<br />
Mort & Frannie Fleishhacker<br />
Margaret Ford & John Stewart<br />
Anupam Ganguli<br />
David Gestetner &<br />
Angela Howard<br />
Mr Farzin S Ghandchi<br />
Mrs Alison Gray<br />
Mimi & Peter Haas<br />
Neville & Veronika Harris<br />
Mr Charles Henderson<br />
Sir Robin & Lady Jacob<br />
David Kaskel &<br />
Christopher Teano<br />
Peter & Maria Kellner<br />
Muriel Lambert<br />
London Arts Discovery Tours<br />
Brenda Meldrum<br />
Maggie Mills<br />
Ms Barbara Minto<br />
Asha & Trevor Phillips<br />
John & Laurel Rafter<br />
Diane Raposio<br />
Anthony Regan<br />
Mr Charles Russell<br />
Mr & Mrs Anthony Salz<br />
Mr Brian D Smith<br />
Tim & Sophia Steel<br />
Dr Miriam Stoppard<br />
Izak & Freda Uziyel<br />
Sally Walden<br />
Marilyn & Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Wilson<br />
Mr & Mrs Roger Wyand<br />
Jonathan Yudkin<br />
Actors’ Circle<br />
Brian Abbs<br />
J Aldred<br />
Mr Simon Aldridge<br />
Nicola Allpress<br />
Alexander Balcombe<br />
Brian & Ruth Barclay<br />
Mr & Mrs Andrew Barnett<br />
Mr Dean Barrett<br />
Susan Barty<br />
David & Primrose Bell<br />
Michael & Lesley Bennett<br />
Mr & Mrs Anthony Blee<br />
Lord and Lady Brown <strong>of</strong> Eaton-<br />
Under-Heywood<br />
Ossi & Paul Burger<br />
Felicity Callinan<br />
Peter & Diana Cawdron<br />
Frances Cloud<br />
Rosamund Shelley, Lady Cox<br />
Robert & Lynette Craig<br />
Paul Cullington<br />
Gill Cutbill & Ged Davies<br />
David Day<br />
Jose and David Dent<br />
Yvonne Destribats<br />
Mr R J Dormer<br />
Jim & Maureen Elton<br />
Jane Epstein<br />
Brian Gitlin<br />
Robert & Clare Gray<br />
Brian and Rosita Green<br />
Nick & Fiona Green<br />
Graeme & Fiona Griffiths<br />
Sheila & John Harvey<br />
Ms Clodagh Hayes<br />
Ms Sioban Healy<br />
Martin & Alicia Herbert<br />
Michael Holter<br />
Rob & Sally Hull<br />
Mr Roger Jospe<br />
<strong>The</strong> JP Morgan Fleming Foundation<br />
Mr & Mrs Roger Lambert<br />
Mr & Mrs B Lesslie<br />
Mr Charles Lister<br />
Janet Martin<br />
Stephen & Nan-Yeong Matthews<br />
<strong>The</strong> Morris-Jones Family<br />
Despina Moschos<br />
Michael & Mimi Naughton<br />
Mr Philip Noel<br />
Ms Jane Norbury<br />
Mr C D Organ<br />
Jeremy & Mary Vere Parr<br />
Cindy Polemis & Rick Wells<br />
Mr Richard Polo<br />
Ana Pozzi<br />
John & Christine Preston<br />
Mary Robey<br />
David Rocksavage<br />
Mr G C Rodopoulos<br />
Julian & Catherine Roskill<br />
James Richard Rowe<br />
Samuel French Ltd<br />
Barry Serjent<br />
Dasha Shenkman<br />
Sue and Stuart Stradling<br />
Mr Philip Talbot<br />
Christoph & Marion Trestler<br />
Mr William Underhill<br />
Kersti & Louis Urvois<br />
Mrs Bonnie J Ward<br />
Nicholas Watkinson<br />
Frank & Denie Weil<br />
Mr & Mrs R A M Welsford<br />
Designers’ Circle<br />
Raymond A Adams<br />
D J <strong>Almeida</strong><br />
Mrs Carole J Armstrong<br />
Stephen Artus<br />
Zac & Lucy Barratt<br />
Christopher Benson<br />
Rita & Ian Binder<br />
Mr & Mrs Boesch<br />
Mr M R Bowley<br />
Mandy Bridger<br />
Rob Brooks<br />
John & Dianne Browning<br />
Mr C L Bulford<br />
Dr Nigel Burton<br />
Mrs R J A Carawan<br />
Tiana Everett del Castillo<br />
Geraldine Caulfield<br />
Lady Cazalet<br />
Mrs Gay Christie<br />
Mr S J Clayman<br />
Mr T Coldrey<br />
John & Rosemary Coldwell<br />
Claire & Ivor Connick<br />
Ms Kate Crehan<br />
Jonathan Crow<br />
Anthony Croxford<br />
Mrs Pamela Curwen<br />
Timothy & Patricia Daunt<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Philip David<br />
Dr Sheilagh Davies<br />
Graham & Christine Dawson<br />
Justin & Emma Dowley<br />
Mr Kendall Duesbury<br />
Ms Jo Dutch<br />
Caroline Duthy<br />
Miss Sally England<br />
Mrs Joy Eve<br />
Mark Everett<br />
Lindy Fletcher<br />
Tony & Jane Fogg<br />
Mr P L Folmer<br />
Judith Foy<br />
Dr K Garrow<br />
Jonathan Glasson & Jamie Lake<br />
Michael Godbee<br />
Mr Michael Godfrey<br />
Janine Goedert<br />
Andrew & Karen Goldstone<br />
Ms S J Goodman<br />
Ms Eleanor Gordon<br />
Mr Ian Grant<br />
Grouse Investment<br />
Nerissa Guest<br />
Debby Guthrie<br />
Maurice & Valerie Halperin<br />
Mrs Isobel Hancock<br />
Sophie Hanscombe<br />
Rosemary Hanson<br />
Andrew and Anita Harper<br />
Crawford & Mary Harris<br />
Maureen and Derek Harte<br />
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Sarah Havens & Gregg Sando<br />
Jonathan and Hélène Haw<br />
Douglas Hawkins<br />
Mr Robert J Henderson<br />
Polly Hester<br />
Andy & Janelle Hill<br />
Jane Hill<br />
Caroline Hoare & Charles Hebbert<br />
Andrew Hochhauser QC<br />
& Graham Marchant<br />
Mr Lew Hodges<br />
Madeleine Hodgkin<br />
Mrs Rosemary Hood<br />
Jacky Hyer<br />
Tamara Ingram<br />
Mr Michael Jacob<br />
Christine Jay<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Norman Joels<br />
Mrs M Johnston<br />
Mr Simon Jones<br />
Brian & Janet King<br />
David & Gisela Kingsley<br />
Sarah & Christopher Knight<br />
Ruth & Peter Kraus<br />
Kudos Film and Television<br />
Mr & Mrs Harald Lamotte<br />
Mrs A Lampert<br />
Mr David Lanch<br />
David John Langrish<br />
Mr Roger Lascelles<br />
Jacqui Lavy<br />
Alan Leibowitz & Barbara Weiss<br />
Mrs Joan R Levine<br />
Colette & Peter Levy<br />
Mr Dennis M Levy<br />
Madeleine Lightfoot<br />
Mr & Mrs LE Linaker<br />
Tim & <strong>The</strong>resa Lloyd<br />
Paul & Brigitta Lock<br />
Mr Simon MacLachlan<br />
C & I Maggs<br />
Donald & Sally Main<br />
John McGinley<br />
Lynette & Willie McKechnie<br />
Ms A Millar<br />
Ms Tessa Moloney<br />
Paula Morris<br />
Sean Murphy<br />
Mrs VG Murray<br />
Mr & Mrs Myddleton<br />
Dr Venetia Newall<br />
James Nicol<br />
Clive & Annie Norton<br />
Mr & Mrs M O’Farrell<br />
Ellie Packer & Bob Freidus<br />
Mr Marcelo Paes De Mello<br />
Nigel Pantling<br />
Ms Sara Parkin<br />
Mrs Joyce Parsons<br />
Mr & Mrs Pedro del Castillo<br />
Nick Perry<br />
Orion Peterson<br />
Ms G A Piergies<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Brice Pitt<br />
Mrs Barbara Pollard<br />
Preben & Annie Prebenson<br />
Mrs Caroline Price<br />
Sue Prickett<br />
Jane Pritchard<br />
Jack Pryde<br />
Mrs E E Randall<br />
Dr Susan Rankine<br />
Ms Ruth Rattenbury<br />
Liz & Nick Reeve<br />
Christopher Marek Rencki<br />
Mrs Mary Rendall<br />
Anthony Rhodes<br />
Robin Roads<br />
Anthony Rudd<br />
Mrs Susan Rudel<strong>of</strong>f<br />
Dr & Mrs Saggar<br />
Christopher & Alison Samuel<br />
Simon & Abigail Sargent<br />
Beth Schneider<br />
Schon Family Charitable Trust<br />
Gilly Schuster<br />
Babara Scott<br />
Mr & Mrs Colin Scott-Malden<br />
Lucie Seaton<br />
Dr Martin Seifert & Dr Jackie Morris<br />
Mr Naveed Shah<br />
Mrs Susan Shammas<br />
Mr T W Sharp<br />
Mr M Shenfield<br />
Justin Shinebourne & Laurence<br />
Chaussinand<br />
Elaine & English Showalter<br />
Jonathan Silver<br />
Mark Silverstein<br />
Sir Peter & Lady Singer<br />
Peter & Moira Smith<br />
Mr A P & Mrs M T Stirling<br />
Mr D A Thomas<br />
Anne & Robert Van Gieson<br />
Mr Andrew Wales<br />
Lady Ward<br />
Mrs Carolyn Ware<br />
Sue & Alan Warner<br />
Mr Tim Watson<br />
Mr John Welz<br />
Miss Lisa Whiffen<br />
Mr Widdis<br />
Dr Peter Willis<br />
Janine Wills<br />
Ms Ann E F Wingate<br />
Mr & Mrs D Woolf<br />
Richard Worts & Nicola Shackelton<br />
Jeffrey & Fenella Young<br />
We would also like to thank the<br />
many generous Friends <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre, whom we are<br />
unable to list individually<br />
We would like to thank the following individuals for their dedication and support.<br />
Gala Committee Chairs<br />
Juliet Wilkinson<br />
Chain Play II<br />
Martha Tack<br />
A Chain Play<br />
Saffron Burrows & Sydney Finch<br />
<strong>The</strong> Hypochondriac<br />
<strong>The</strong>lma Holt & Damian Lewis<br />
Macbeth<br />
Christophe Gollut<br />
Awake and Sing!<br />
Blood Wedding<br />
Love Counts<br />
Corporate Council<br />
Rosemary Leith<br />
Chair<br />
Andrew Grant<br />
Jeremy Hall<br />
Carol Lake<br />
Henry Timms<br />
Local Liaison Committee<br />
Nicky Manby<br />
Chair<br />
Milly Ayliffe<br />
Jenny Black<br />
Katie Bradford<br />
Annie Edge<br />
Susan Hahn<br />
Caroline Hoare<br />
Linden Ife<br />
Rod Smith<br />
Sarah Whitehead<br />
Rachel Williams<br />
Ambassadors<br />
Sarah Elson<br />
Jack Keenan<br />
Georgia Oetker<br />
Jessica de Rothschild<br />
Stamos J. Fafalios<br />
Jessica de Rothschild<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lady From <strong>The</strong> Sea<br />
Have you ever thought about supporting the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre with a legacy<br />
Leaving a legacy is a very special way <strong>of</strong> ensuring that your tradition <strong>of</strong><br />
support for the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre continues for years to come, allowing<br />
us to provide enriching theatrical experiences which will engage future<br />
generations.<br />
You can include the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre in your Will by directing your gift<br />
to the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre Company Limited, registered charity number<br />
282167.<br />
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For any information concerning legacies please contact Nadia Boujo at nboujo@almeida.co.uk or 020 7288 4934.
ALMEIDA CORPORATE<br />
SUPPORTERS<br />
“A small stage where giants play” <strong>The</strong> Times<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre’s Corporate Supporters benefit from<br />
bespoke, mutually beneficial partnerships with the theatre<br />
that include the following:<br />
• Unique entertaining opportunities with the <strong>Almeida</strong>’s<br />
first-class casts and creative teams<br />
• Branding, marketing and pr<strong>of</strong>iling opportunities<br />
• Staff training and employee involvement initiatives<br />
<strong>The</strong> theatre’s name is associated with critically acclaimed,<br />
award-winning productions. Actors, directors, writers and<br />
designers <strong>of</strong> the highest calibre have produced some <strong>of</strong> their<br />
finest work at the <strong>Almeida</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> theatre is particularly grateful to Principal Sponsor Coutts<br />
& Co who is currently enjoying a fifth year <strong>of</strong> support. In<br />
partnership with the <strong>Almeida</strong>, Coutts & Co has benefited from<br />
exclusive client hospitality opportunities, pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
development for staff and the creation <strong>of</strong> a unique film,<br />
Portrait <strong>of</strong> a Bank.<br />
To find out how the <strong>Almeida</strong> can help your business, please<br />
contact Kirsten Holmes, Head <strong>of</strong> Development, who will be<br />
pleased to discuss your specific requirements.<br />
Telephone: 020 7288 4930<br />
Email: development@almeida.co.uk<br />
Principal Sponsor<br />
Corporate Partners<br />
Local<br />
Corporate Partners<br />
Major Sponsors<br />
<strong>Almeida</strong> Projects<br />
Principal Supporter<br />
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1 April - 3 May only<br />
10 APRIL - 31 MAY 2008<br />
SMALL<br />
CHANGE<br />
<br />
A BRILLIANT PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT:<br />
CRISP, FUNNY, SCEPTICAL & GENEROUS<br />
John Peter, <strong>The</strong> Sunday Times<br />
<br />
CLEVER, INTELLIGENT AND WITTY<br />
Natalie Anglesey, Manchester Evening News<br />
AN HOUR AND THREE QUARTERS OF<br />
PROVACATIVE, WITTY, VIRTUOSO<br />
THEATRE - RIVETING PERFORMANCES<br />
AND MOMENTS OF REAL PATHOS<br />
Graham Gurrin, <strong>The</strong> Stage<br />
MAKE SURE YOU SEE THIS - A POWERFUL<br />
NEW PLAY... RIVETING<br />
Joyce Macmillan, <strong>The</strong> Scotsman<br />
BY PETER GILL<br />
Cast LINDSEY COULSON, LUKE EVANS,<br />
SUE JOHNSTON, MATT RYAN<br />
Director PETER GILL Designer ANTHONY WARD<br />
Lighting Designer HUGH VANSTONE<br />
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LEGAL ADVICE<br />
IN THE SPOTLIGHT<br />
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© Pinsent Masons LLP 2008
We’ve always been happy to<br />
be less famous than our clients<br />
Throughout our long history, Coutts has always been<br />
happy to be less famous than our clients. Clients such as<br />
Sir Henry Irving, Phineas Barnum, Bram Stoker, Charles<br />
Dickens and Frédéric Chopin to name but a few.<br />
Coutts has a long and rich association with the performing<br />
arts, and we are still privileged to have many individuals<br />
from this arena amongst our clients. As a leading sponsor<br />
<strong>of</strong> the performing arts, Coutts is pleased and proud to<br />
support the <strong>Almeida</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre.<br />
For more information about Coutts, call Helen Campbell-Watt<br />
on 020 7753 1984 or visit our website www.coutts.com<br />
Sir Henry Irving was considered to be one <strong>of</strong><br />
the greatest actors <strong>of</strong> his day. He played a wide<br />
range <strong>of</strong> Shakespearean roles and was a good<br />
friend <strong>of</strong> Thomas Coutts’ granddaughter.<br />
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