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The Last Days of 

Judas Iscariot 

By Stephen Adly Guirgis

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European Premiere 

The Last 

Days of 


By Stephen Adly Guirgis 

In a co-production with Headlong Theatre

Coutts has a very special partnership with 

the Almeida that has flourished over the last 

four years. The Almeida is an innovative 

and respected theatre, which continues to 

surprise and delight us and our clients with 

its ground-breaking productions. 

Passion and dedication are evident in 

everything that the Almeida produces and 

it is these attributes which are at the heart 

of our relationship. I am thrilled that we are 

now in our fifth year as Principal Sponsor. 

As Principal Sponsor, our relationship with the 

Almeida has become much more than just a 

sponsorship initiative. Not only are we helping 

to support the rich diversity of productions on 

the London stage, we are also using the Almeida’s 

creative expertise to develop imaginative and 

inspirational training workshops for our staff and 

have created a brand identity video bringing out the 

Coutts story using innovative film techniques and 

personal recollections. 

Our relationship with the Almeida has now 

become one of our foremost arts sponsorships 

and it continues a long tradition of supporting 

the performing arts. Indeed, from the late 18th 

century, Thomas Coutts and his second wife 

Harriot, herself a former actress and later Duchess 

of St Albans, supported many of London’s theatres 

through charitable donations and contributed to a 

fund “for the relief of performers who by age or infirmities 

shall be oblig’d to retire from the stage”*. Many famous 

artists, including Frederic Chopin, Sir Henry Irving 

and Charles Dickens were Coutts clients. 

Today, Coutts continues this 300-year tradition, not 

only through its ongoing support of the performing 

arts, but also through its relationship with many of 

the UK’s top figures in the world of entertainment. 

On behalf of everyone at Coutts, I wish the 

Almeida Theatre every success with this production 

of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. 

Sarah Deaves, Chief Executive, Coutts & Co 

*Letter from Thomas Hull, on behalf of the fund’s organising committee, thanking Thomas Coutts for his liberal donation, 

1786 (in possession of the Coutts Archives, 440 Strand London) 

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The Last Days 

of Judas Iscariot 

By Stephen Adly Guirgis 

Cast in order of appearance: 

Henrietta Iscariot 

Gloria/Mother Theresa 

Judge/Saint Peter 

Bailiff/Simon the Zealot 

Fabiana Aziza Cunningham 

Yusef El-Fayoumy 

Saint Monica 

Loretta/Sister Glenna/ 

Mary Magdalene 

Uncle Pino/Pontius Pilate 

Butch Honeywell 


Matthias of Galilee/ 

Sigmund Freud/ 

Saint Thomas 

Saint Matthew/ 

Caiaphas the Elder 

Satan 

Jesus of Nazareth 

There will be one interval 

Amanda Boxer 

Dona Croll 

Corey Johnson 

John Macmillan 

Susan Lynch 

Mark Lockyer 

Jessika Williams 

Poppy Miller 

Ron Cephas Jones 

Shane Attwooll 

Joseph Mawle 

Josh Cohen 

Gawn Grainger 

Douglas Henshall 

Edward Hogg 

Director 

Design 

Lighting 

Composer & Sound 

Video & Projection Design 

Casting Director 

Casting Assistant 

Dialect Coach 

Assistant Director 

Production Manager 

Company Manager 

Stage Managers 

Deputy Stage Manager 

Assistant Stage Manager 

Costume Supervisor 

Wardrobe Supervisor 

Wardrobe Deputy 

Hair & Make-up Supervisor 

Dresser 

Chief Technician 

Lighting Technician 

Sound Technician 

Theatre Technician 

Production Carpenter 

Set built by 

Set painted by 

Production photography 

Wardrobe Work Placement 

Rupert Goold 

Anthony Ward 

Howard Harrison 

Adam Cork 

Lorna Heavey 

Joyce Nettles 

Vivienne Storry 

Penny Dyer 

Vik Sivalingam 

James Crout 

Rupert Carlile 

Suzanne Bourke 

Harry Niland 

Helen Bowen 

Laura Draper 

Iona Kenrick 

Catrina Richardson 

Eleanor Dolan 

Anna Morena 

Charlie Stidwill 

Jason Wescombe 

Robin Fisher 

Howard Wood 

Mark Jenkins 

Craig Emerson 

Scott Fleary Ltd 

Charlotte Gainey 

Natasha Shepherd 

Jodie Pritchard 

Hugo Glendinning 

Fran Jones 

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The Evolution of 

When Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ 

Train transferred from the Edinburgh Festival to 

the Donmar Warehouse in 2002, it applied a jolt of 

New York energy to British theatre. As audiences 

quickly realised, here was a writer whose dramatic 

voice was muscular, anarchic and allied to a rich 

poetic imagination. The subsequent production of 

In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, at Hampstead 

Theatre, secured Adly Guirgis’ reputation as a 

theatrical maverick. 

Adly Guirgis’ relationship with actor/director 

Philip Seymour Hoffman has developed over the 

last decade into a rich creative partnership and the 

series of plays which began with Jesus Hopped the 

‘A’ Train is the result of that collaboration and of 

the remarkable ensemble nature of New York’s 

LAByrinth Theater Company. It is a partnership 

which, in 2005, led to Adly Guirgis’ most 

experimental play to date, The Last Days of 

Judas Iscariot. 

Headlong Theatre’s Artistic Director Rupert Goold 

was amongst those who saw Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ 

Train in 2002, and he has followed Adly Guirgis’ work 

ever since. When he read The Last Days of Judas 

Iscariot, published to coincide with Seymour 

Hoffman’s world premiere production, he recognised 

the piece as clear development for the writer in terms 

of scale and, most obviously, as the first piece he has 

set outside contemporary New York. 

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Headlong has been working over the last two years 

to develop a programme of theatre which 

challenges and redefines our notion of the ‘epic’. 

The company’s adaptations of Paradise Lost and 

Faustus have explored questions of faith in a 

secular age and Rupert Goold recognised The Last 

Days of Judas Iscariot as a potential element of 

that continuing investigation. Having secured the 

rights to the European premiere, he approached 

the Almeida Theatre’s Artistic Director Michael 

Attenborough to become an artistic partner. The 

Almeida Theatre’s rich tradition of presenting 

American drama, and its reputation for producing 

large-scale new work, made it a natural home for 

the play. This show marks the first co-production 

during Michael’s tenure at the Almeida Theatre 

and a chance for London audiences to again 

experience Stephen Adly Guirgis’ work. 

Ben Power 

Literary Associate, Headlong Theatre 

March 2008 

Photo © Barry Dawson from Street Graphics New York, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London


James Martin, a senior Jesuit priest, was involved as theological advisor 

during the writing, rehearsals and performance of LAByrinth Theater 

Company’s original production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: 

When the playwright Stephen 

Adly Guirgis and the actor Sam 

Rockwell contacted me to help 

with a new Off-Broadway play 

called The Last Days of Judas 

Iscariot, I wondered how much 

I could contribute to their 

production. On the other hand, 

after sixteen years as a Jesuit, I 

thought that I might be able to 

help the two learn something 

about what happened in firstcentury 

Palestine to the 

itinerant preacher and the man 

who betrayed him. 

I didn’t know that I was about 

to learn quite a lot myself — 

about acting, about the 

theater, about hard work, and 

even about the spiritual life. 

The Last Days of Judas 

Iscariot, which ended a soldout 

run at the Public Theater in 

New York City in April 2005, 

examines the fate of one of the 

most reviled men in history. 

Adly Guirgis provided a 

sophisticated theological 

treatment of the issue, in all 

the slangy (and sometimes 

foul-mouthed) urban argot for 

which he is known amongst 

theater aficionados. In this 

case, the streetwise lingo 

represented the playwright’s 

attempt at what theologians 

call an “inculturation” of the 

Bible — that is, a translation of 

the Gospel texts not simply 

into a different language but 

for a specific culture. 

For Adly Guirgis, that culture is 

contemporary urban life. 

Hence, his saints and apostles 

speak (and often shout) as if 

they were standing on a 

crowded subway platform at 

rush hour. Freed from the 

need to provide historically 

accurate quotations for his 

characters, Adly Guirgis 

deploys such language to reveal 

the essential nature of his 

characters in surprising ways. 

Photo by Eugene Martin 

Photo by Bakari Chavanu 

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Photo by Stéphane Bérubé 

Before my first meeting with 

Stephen [Adly Guirgis], his 

new play already had a long 

history. In a way, it had begun 

when Stephen was in third 

grade. That year, one of the 

Dominican sisters teaching at 

Corpus Christi told his class 

the story of Judas. Stephen 

was horrified. He believed in a 

loving God, and the idea that 

God had consigned Judas to a 

place called hell “just stopped 

me in my tracks”. How could 

God not feel sorry for Judas 

The third grader had stumbled 

upon a theological conundrum 

that has challenged 

theologians, philosophers, 

and saints for centuries. 

Doesn’t God, who is kind and 

merciful, forgive every sin 

How could a merciful God 

create hell 

Theological questions were 

foremost in the playwright’s 

mind, and our conversations 

ranged from the broader 

questions about grace, 

forgiveness, and despair to 

more detailed inquiries into 

the history of the individual 

characters in the drama. 

After all his research, Stephen 

wanted to hear what I thought 

about who killed Jesus. The 

responsibility for Jesus’ death 

was the underlying theme of 

his play, and the answer to the 

question of who was 

responsible would help us 

unlock the riddle of Judas 

Iscariot. 

But the Gospels are murky 

about precisely what lay 

behind the death of Jesus. For 

the evangelists were not as 

concerned with providing a 

historically accurate picture as 

modern readers might 

assume. What [they] were 

intent on providing was not 

historical truth but something 

more elusive, and far more 

important for the early 

Christians: the religious 

meaning of the events in 

question. 

Unfortunately, phrases such as 

the Jews in the Gospel of John 

have been used to foster anti- 

Semitism. That particular 

phrase has been used to 

blame all Jews for the 

decisions of a few specific 

religious leaders who have 

been dead for almost two 

millennia. 

So controversial was this 

question of responsibility that 

Jeffrey DeMunn, who would 

play Caiaphas [in the original 

LAByrinth production], said 

that taking on the role scared 

him, though he had worked as 

an actor for more than thirty 

years. 

Stephen’s use of the trial 

device would show the 

audience not only how but 

also why the death of Jesus 

occurred, shedding light on a 

notoriously dark topic. As I 

watched Stephen deal with 

the demands placed upon 

these scenes — the 

requirement to sort through so 

much history, the artistic need 

to keep the interest of the 

audience, and the sordid 

history of the Passion plays 

always lurking in the 

background — I was 

impressed with what he was 

able to accomplish.

Photo by Abbey Hambright 

Judas Iscariot: the historical character 

Very little is known about Judas [beyond] two 

basic things: Jesus chose him as one of the 

twelve apostles, and he handed Jesus over to the 

Jewish authorities. Many of the standard traits of 

the Judas who appears in films and on stage, 

such as his reddish hair color and his fiery 

disposition, are almost purely speculative, 

invented primarily for artistic purposes. These 

representations have influenced how Western 

culture has come to think about the man and his 

actions. 

The writers of the four gospels were also good 

storytellers who knew that, for simple dramatic 

effect, the story of Jesus required an arch-villain: 

a divine protagonist needs the wickedest of 

opponents. Later Christian traditions built on 

such presentations were, unfortunately, also 

influenced by nascent anti-Semitism, [using] 

Judas as an example of the wickedness of Jews 

in general. 

[In fact] Judas was not always as villainous as he 

has appeared historically in art and literature. 

Judas Iscariot was, after all, chosen to be one of 

the twelve apostles. How could someone so 

irredeemably evil decide to give up everything to 

become a follower of Jesus 

Edited excerpts from A Jesuit Off-Broadway: Center 

Stage with Jesus, Judas, and Life’s Big Questions by 

James Martin, SJ (Loyola Press 2007). Reprinted with 

permission of Loyola Press. To order copies of this 

book contact Columba Bookservice at +353 1 294 2556 

or visit www.columba.ie 

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CAST 

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE 

Amanda Boxer 

Henrietta Iscariot 

Theatre includes: The Pain And The Itch; 

The Strip (Royal Court); Dis- 

Orientations (Riverside Studios); An 

Ideal Husband; The Rivals (Theatr 

Clywd); The Arab Israeli Cookbook 

(Gate Theatre/Tricycle Theatre); Come 

Blow Your Horn; The Fall Guy; Present 

Laughter; Absurd Person Singular 

(Manchester Royal Exchange); One Last 

Card Trick (Watford Palace Theatre); A 

Small Family Business (West Yorkshire 

Playhouse); The Destiny of Me 

(Finborough Theatre); Macbeth (Arcola 

Theatre); The Yiddish Queen Lear 

(Southwark Playhouse/Bridewell 

Theatre); The Graduate (Gielgud 

Theatre); The House of Bernada Alba 

(Globe Theatre); A Touch of the Poet 

(Young Vic/Comedy Theatre); A State of 

Affairs (Duchess Theatre); The 

Misanthrope (Manchester Royal 

Exchange/Roundhouse Theatre); 

Crimes of the Heart (King’s Head 

Theatre); Propaganda Fide (Old Red 

Lion Theatre); Strange Snow (Theatro 

Technis); The Pixie-Led (Judith 

Anderson Theater, New York); The 

Importance of Being Earnest, The 

Merchant of Venice; Othello; All My 

Sons (Young Vic); The Holocaust 

Trilogy (New End Theatre). 

Television includes: Bodies 3; The Shell 

Seekers; Casualty; Trial and Retribution 

(Nos III & VII); Down To Earth; Cider 

With Rosie; Ruth Rendell’s Road Rage 

and Put on by Cunning; Miss Marple’s 

Sleeping Murder; Tales of the 

Unexpected; Lizzie’s Pictures; Sense 

and Sensibility; Chalk; The Fall Out Guy; 

Goodbye My Love; In Suspicious 

Circumstances; Between The Lines; 

Inspector Alleyn’s Death in a White Tie; 

Unnatural Pursuits; Hold The Dream; 

The Gentle Touch; The Lost Tribe. 

Film includes: United 93; Les Poupées 

Russes; Saving Private Ryan; Bad 

Behaviour. 

Radio includes: Mr Sweet Talk 

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Dona Croll 

Gloria/Mother Theresa 

Theatre includes: Christ of 

Coldharbour Lane (Soho Theatre); Two 

Step (Almeida Theatre); Elmina’s 

Kitchen (National Theatre), Henry V 

(RSC/Tour); Back Pay; God’s Second In 

Command (Royal Court); No Boys 

Cricket Club; Hansel and Gretel; Basin 

(Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Victor 

& The Ladies; Smile Orange; Joe 

Turner’s Come and Gone; The City 

Wives’ Confederacy (Tricycle Theatre); 

Anthony and Cleopatra (Talawa Theatre 

Company); Othello (Greenwich 

Theatre); Serious Money (Wyndhams 

Theatre); Merchant of Venice 

(Manchester Royal Exchange); A 

Mouthful of Birds (Joint Stock/Royal 

Court); Golden Girls (West Yorkshire 

Playhouse); Back to Methuselah; Polly 

(Cambridge Theatre Company); The 

Relapse (Lyric Hammersmith); The Old 

Order (Birmingham Rep); Jericho; Gin 

Trap (Young Vic); Nine Night (Bush 

Theatre). 

Television includes: Silent Witness; 

Doctors; EastEnders; The Shadow in 

the North; Time Trumpet; Little Miss 

Jocelyn; The Last Will and Testament of 

Billy Two Sheds; Doctor Who, Bremner, 

Bird and Fortune; William and Mary; 

Treasure; Family Affairs; The Murder of 

Stephen Lawrence; Gimme Gimme 

Gimme; The Bill; Brothers and Sisters; 

Loving Hazel; Chandler & Co; Birds of a 

Feather; Casualty; Between The Lines; 

Us Girls; Desmonds; Surgical Spirit; 

Rides; The Bill; Troublemakers; The 

Paradise Club. 

Film includes: Kill Kill Faster Faster; 

Mammoth; Eastern Promise; 

Manderlay; I Could Never Be Your 

Woman; Tube Tales: Rosebud.

Corey Johnson 

Judge/Saint Peter 

Theatre includes: A Prayer for my 

Daughter (Young Vic); Frost/Nixon 

(Donmar Warehouse/West 

End/Broadway); Clever Dick; Sunday 

Father (Hampstead Theatre); 

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me 

(Theatre Royal, Northampton); Double 

Cross (Windsor Theatre/West End); A 

View from the Bridge (Birmingham 

Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Stop 

Kiss (Soho Theatre); Aunt Dan & 

Lemon (Almeida Theatre); Popcorn 

(Apollo Theatre); Death of a Salesman; 

Absolute Hell (National Theatre); Birdy 

(Theatre Royal, Plymouth/Lyric 

Hammersmith); Abundance (Riverside 

Studios); The Tempest; Awake And 

Sing! (Birmingham Rep); Desire Under 

The Elms (Watford Palace Theatre); 

Toys in the Attic (Watermill Theatre); 

States of Shock (Salisbury 

Playhouse/Salberg Studio/National 

Theatre); Prisoners of War (New End 

Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s 

Dream (Lisbon Coliseum); Veronica’s 

Room (Mill At Sonning); Arsenic and 

Old Lace (Chichester Festival Theatre). 

Television includes: Sex, The City & 

Me; Spooks; Foyle’s War; Doctor Who; 

Celeb; Auf Wiedersehen Pet; Impact; 

Nash Brides; Band of Brothers; 

Kavanagh QC; Over Here; Casualty; 

Under The Hammer. 

Film includes: The Code; Bourne 

Ultimatum; United 93; The Contract; 

The All Together; Seven Seconds; 

Hellboy; Out For a Kill; Sound of 

Thunder; Second Coming; Black Hawk 

Down; End Game; Last Run; Harrison’s 

Flowers; Do Not Disturb; The Mummy; 

Saving Private Ryan; The Innocent; A 

Dangerous Man; Never The Sinner. 

John Macmillan 

Bailiff/Simon the Zealot 

Theatre includes: The Member of the 

Wedding (Young Vic); Cymbeline 

(Cheek By Jowl world tour); Titus 

Andronicus (National Drama 

Festival); Dream Weaver (Hull Truck); 

Sympathy for a Psychopath 

(Edinburgh Festival). 

Film includes: Don Juan. 

Susan Lynch 

Fabiana Aziza 

Cunningham 

Theatre includes: Translations 

(Princeton Theater, Broadway); O Go 

My Man (Royal Court/Out of Joint); 

The Night Season; Pericles; El Cid 

(National Theatre); Mnemonic 

(Complicite); The Storm (Almeida 

Theatre); Miss Julie (Young Vic); Ashes 

and Sand; Berlin Bertie (Royal Court); 

The Clearing (Bush Theatre/National 


Television includes: The Robber Bride; 

Soundproof; The Ten 

Commandments; Bodies; Any Time 

Now; Sweet Revenge; Amongst 

Women; Dangerous Lady; Cracker. 

Film includes: Within; City Rats; The 

Golden Age; Duane Hopwood; 

Someone Else; Mickeybo and Me; 

Enduring Love; Bye Child; Roses and 

Petrol; Casa de los Babys; 16 Years of 

Alcohol; From Hell; Beautiful 

Creatures; Nora; Waking Ned; Secret 

of Roan Inish. 

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Mark Lockyer 

Yusef El-Fayoumy 

Theatre includes: Vernon God Little; 

The Adventures of Tin Tin; Peribanez; 

Outbreak of God in Area 9 (Young 

Vic); The Ugly One (Royal Court); 

Cinderella (Old Vic); Theatre of Blood 

(National Theatre/Improbable); 

Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic); 

Othello; Romeo and Juliet; King Lear; 

The Cherry Orchard; The Taming of 

the Shrew; The Tempest; The 

Merchant of Venice (RSC); Ion (Gate 

Theatre); The Antipodes; Hamlet 

(Globe Theatre); The Madness of 

George III; Ghetto; Fuente Ovejune; 

Bartholomew Fair; The Changeling 

(National Theatre); The Prisoner of 

Zenda (Greenwich Theatre); 

Restoration (Headlong tour); Faustus 

(Headlong at Hampstead Theatre); 

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist 

(Theatre Royal, Stratford East). 

Television includes: The Fall of Rome; 

The Great Kandinsky; Joking Apart; 

Maigret; The Bill; Chancer; Out of 

Order; Maxwell. 

Film includes: Harry Potter and the 

Half Blood Prince. 

Jessika Williams 

Saint Monica 

Theatre includes: The Bacchae (King’s 

Theatre, Edinburgh/Theatre Royal, 

Glasgow/Lyric Hammersmith); Such is 

Nature (Cat in a Cup Theatre tour in 

Ireland); Beowulf (The Arches Theatre); 

Therese Raquin (Citizens Theatre, 

Glasgow). 

Television includes: Taggart; Doctor 

Who (season 4) 

Film includes: Contorted Hazel. 

Poppy Miller 

Loretta/Mary 

Magdalene/Sister Glenna 

Theatre includes: White People 

(Theatre 503); Twelfth Night (Filter); 

The Way of the World; Hamlet 

(Theatre Royal, Northampton); 

Switchback (Tron Theatre, Glasgow); 

Amy’s View (Salisbury Playhouse); The 

Jew of Malta (Almeida Theatre); Don 

Juan (English Touring Theatre); 

Bartholemew Fair; Two Gentlemen of 

Verona (RSC); Villette; Blue 

Remembered Hills (Crucible Theatre, 

Sheffield); Kind Hearts and Coronets 

(Watford Palace Theatre); Mansfield 

Park (Chichester Festival Theatre); 

Blood Libel (Norwich Playhouse); 

Agamemnon’s Children (Gate 


Television includes: The Fixer; 

Kingdom II; Torn; Goldplated; New 

Tricks III; If I Had You; The 

Commander I & II; Red Cap II; Buried; 

Heartbeat; Doctors; In Deep; 

Attachments (2 series); Casualty; The 

Knock. 

Film includes: The Flood; A Changed 

Man; Room 11; Daniel Cares. 

Radio includes: Mary Hayes In Love; 

Fossils; Agnes Gray; The Delayneys; 

Crime and Punishment; Smokers; Mill 

on the Floss; The Glittering Prizes; 

Fame and Fortune. 

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Ron Cephas Jones 

Uncle Pino/Pontius Pilate 

LAByrinth Theater Company member 

(LAB CAT “99”) 

Theatre includes: The Overwhelming 

(Roundabout Theatre); Two Trains 

Running (Signature Theatre); Satellites 

(Public Theater); The Wooden Breeks 

(MCC); Massacre: Sing to Your 

Children (LAByrinth); Our Lady of 

121st Street (LAByrinth/Union Square 

Theatre); The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 

(Alliance Theatre); Gem of the Ocean 

(Walter Kerr Theatre); Richard III 

(NYSF Public Theatre); The Exonerated 

(Bleecker 45 Theatre); Othello (Theatre 

Royal, Northampton); Jesus Hopped 

the ‘A’ Train (LAByrinth/CSC 

Rep/Donmar Warehouse/West 

End/Broadway); Pork Pie (Denver 

Center Theater); Much Ado About 

Nothing (Long Wharf); Black Codes 

From The Underground (2nd Stage); 

Everybody’s Ruby (Public Theater); 

House Arrest: First Edition (Arena 

Stage); Thunder Knocking on the Door 

(Yale Rep); Firedance (Rapp Arts); 

Black Star Line (Goodman Theatre); 

Holiday Heart (MTC/tour/Arena 

Stage); Don’t Explain (Nuyorican 

Poets’ Café); Such Sweet Thunder 

(Knitting Factory); Romeo and Juliet 

(Williamstown Theatre Festival). 

Television includes: Lipstick Jungle; 

Raisin in the Sun; Word of Honor; 

NYPD Blue; FEDS; Law & Order; NY 

Undercover. 

Film includes: Across The Universe; 

Half Nelson; Carlito’s Way; On the 

One; Little Senegal; Sweet & Lowdown; 

A Day in Black and White; He Got 

Game; Murder and Magic; Bachelor’s 

Club; Real Men, Sex & Friendship; 

Naked Acts. 

Shane Attwooll 

Butch Honeywell 

Theatre includes: Glengarry Glen Ross 

(Apollo Theatre); Death of a Salesman 

(Lyric Theatre); Franco’s Bastard; Past 

Away (Sgript Cymru); Tittle Tattle 

(Tour); Nana (Albany Empire); Taken 

Out (Tour); I Was Looking at the 

Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky 

(Southwark Playhouse); The Buddy 

Holly Story (Victoria Palace/UK tour); 

Stand By Your Man (UK Tour); Happy 

Days (UK Tour); Porgy and Bess (Royal 

Opera House); Snapshots and 

Illuminations (Battersea Arts Centre). 

Television includes: Foyle’s War; The 

Bill; Aberfan; Ghost Squad; Midsomer 

Murders; The Commander III; The 

Brief; Dose; Spooks; Nuts and Bolts; 

Without Motive. 

Film includes: Kingdom of Heaven; 

This Filthy Earth; Clean Sheets; Porgy 

and Bess; Manolo; Tears. 

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Joseph Mawle 


Theatre includes: Time for the Good 

Looking Boy; Anthony and Cleopatra 

(Manchester Royal Exchange); Love 

and Understanding (Battersea Arts 

Centre); Hamlet (Southampton 

Nuffield); Troilus and Cressida; As You 

Like It (Tobacco Factory). 

Television includes: The Passion; 

Clapham Junction; Foyle’s War; 

Persuasion; The History of Miss Polly; 

Soundproof; The Secret Life of Mrs 

Beeton; Dalziel and Pascoe; Silent 

Witness; Dunkirk; Sir Gadabout; Lorna 

Doone; Merlin. 

Film includes: Lecture 21; Merlin. 

Gawn Grainger 

Saint Matthew/Caiaphas 

the Elder 

Theatre includes: You Can’t Take It 

With You (Southwark Playhouse); Amy’s 

View (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Seagull; 

The Passion; Sing Yer Heart Out for the 

Lads (National Theatre); The 

Misanthrope (National Theatre/New 

York); The Crucible (Comedy Theatre); 

The Devil’s Disciple (Theatre Royal, 

Bristol); The Give Away (West End); 

Party Time; Mountain Language; No 

Man’s Land (Almeida Theatre); A 

Month in the Country (Albery Theatre); 

Uncle Vanya (Theatr Clywd); Taking 

Sides (Minerva Theatre Chichester/ 

West End); Fool for Love; Tales From 

Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse); 

Wishbones (Bush Theatre); Give Me 

Your Answer Do (Hampstead 

Theatre/New York); Aristocrats 

(Chichester Festival Theatre); Absolutely 

Perhaps (Wyndhams Theatre). 

Television includes: Midsomer 

Murders; Foyle’s War; Family Business; 

Dalziel and Pascoe; Hetty Wainthrop 

Investigates; Crime Traveller; Darling 

Buds of May; Rumpole of the Bailey; 

Misterioso; Merlin; Growing Rich; 

Poirot; Gentlemen and Players; The Bill; 

The Contractor; Chelworth; Men 

Behaving Badly; When We Are Married; 

Running Wild; The Party; Taggart; Black 

Tower; The Travelling Man; Heart of the 

Country; Big Deal; Occupation 

Democrat; Strangers and Brothers; 

Missing From Home; Juliet Bravo; 

Cockles; A Beggar’s Opera; Macbeth; 

Mitch; Muck and Brass; Private Schultz; 

Bavarian Nights; Elizabeth Alone; The 

Marriage; The Expert; The Onedin Line; 

Hail Caesar; Helping Hand; Three Piece 

Suite; Softly, Softly; Crown Court; Man 

The Tower; Son of Man; She Stoops to 

Conquer. 

Film includes: Sixty Six; Christmas 

Carol; Janice Beard 45wpm; Raggedy 

Rawney; Blood Royal; The Little 

Drummer Girl. 

Radio includes: The Pickwick Papers. 

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Douglas Henshall 

Satan 

Theatre includes: The Cryptogram; The 

Life of Stuff (Donmar Warehouse); 

Death of a Salesman (Lyric Theatre); 

Darwin In Malibu (Hampstead 

Theatre); The Crucible (Crucible 

Theatre, Sheffield); The Coast of 

Utopia (National Theatre); American 

Buffalo (Young Vic); The Devil is an 

Ass; The Relapse; The Painter of 

Dishonour (RSC); 900 Oneonta (Lyric 

Hammersmith); Macbeth (Watermill, 

Newbury/world tour); Green Fingers 

(King’s Head Theatre); Otherwise 

Engaged (Windsor Theatre); Evil Doers 

(Bush Theatre); Crow (Tron Theatre, 

Glasgow); Nae Problem, Clyde 

Nouveau; Road; The Sash; No Mean 

City (7:84); The Comedians; Slab Boys 

(Edinburgh Lyceum); Lucy and the 

Christmas Treasure (Borderline 

Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Belfast 

Civic Arts Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a 

Whore (Citizens Theatre Glasgow). 

Television includes: Primeval; The 

Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & 

Arthur Conan Doyle; Dalziel & Pascoe; 

Frances Tuesday; Loving You; 

Gentlemen’s Relish; Anna Karenina; 

Kid In The Corner; Psychos; Sharpe’s 

Justice; Crossing The Floor; Thief 

Takers; Common As Muck; Firm 

Friends I & II; The Bill; Down Among 

The Bad Boys; Young Indiana II; 

Lipstick On Your Collar; Boon VI; Jute 

City; Underbelly; Van Der Valk; At the 

End of Alex Cording; She Play Dancing 

In The Dark; Justice Game; Taggart. 

Film includes: The French Film; Flying 

Lessons; Dead Long Enough; Ripley 

Underground; It’s All About Love; 

Silent Cry; The Lawless Heart; This 

Year’s Love; If Only; Orphans; Fast 

Food; Kull the Conqueror; Angels & 

Insects; Rose Red; The Big Man. 

Josh Cohen 

Matthias of 

Galilee/Sigmund 

Freud/Saint Thomas 

Theatre includes: Into the Hoods 

(Novello Theatre); What We Did to 

Weinstein (Menier Chocolate 

Factory); Phallacy (King’s Head 

Theatre); Quartermaine’s Terms 

(Salisbury Playhouse); A Chaste Maid 

in Cheapside (Almeida Theatre); The 

Graduate (Gielgud Theatre); Rent 

(West End). 

Television and Film includes: The 

Murder Rooms; The Campaign; Fire; 

The Lost Batallion. 

Edward Hogg 

Jesus of Nazareth 

Theatre includes: The Dybbuk (King’s 

Head Theatre); Noises Off; Cressida; 

Our Country’s Good (Young Vic); 

Woyzeck (Gate Theatre/St Ann’s 

Warehouse, Brooklyn); Rock ‘n’ Roll 

(Royal Court/West End); Desire Under 

The Elms (Young Vic/Jerwood Charity 

Theatre); Measure for Measure; The 

Tempest; The Storm (Globe Theatre); 

The Pillowman (National Theatre); 

Loot (Bristol Old Vic); The Silver Sword 

(Nottingham Playhouse); The 

Firework-Maker’s Daughter (Told By An 

Idiot/Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); King 

Lear (RSC Academy); My Father’s Son 

(Crucible Theatre, Sheffield). 

Television includes: Doctors; The 

Bermuda Triangle: Beneath The Waves; 

Celeb; Heartbeat. 

Film includes: White Lightnin’; 

Brothers of the Head; Song of Songs; 

Alfie; Nicholas Nickleby. 

Radio includes: Metropolis; Boxing 

Clever; Sgt. Musgrave’s Dance. 

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CREATIVES 

Stephen Adly Guirgis 

Writer 

Stephen Adly Guirgis is a member of 

New York’s LAByrinth Theater 

Company. His new play, The Little 

Flower of East Orange, is currently 

running in New York. His other plays 

include Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train 

(Edinburgh Festival/Donmar 

Warehouse/Arts Theatre West End); 

In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings 

(Hampstead Theatre); Our Lady of 

121st Street; and Den of Thieves. All 

his plays were initially produced by 

LAByrinth and directed by Philip 

Seymour Hoffman. In the UK he has 

received a Fringe First Award in 

Rupert Goold 

Director 

Rupert Goold is Artistic Director of 

Headlong Theatre. Productions for 

Headlong include Rough Crossings, 

Faustus, Restoration and Paradise 

Lost. From 2002-05 Rupert was 

Artistic Director of the Royal and 

Derngate Theatres in Northampton 

where productions included Hamlet, 

Othello, Waiting for Godot, 

Insignificance, The Weir, Betrayal, 

Arcadia and Summer Lightning. He 

was Associate Artist at Salisbury 

Playhouse from 1996-97 during its 

reopening under Jonathan Church 

where he directed The End of the 

Affair, Dancing at Lughnasa and the 

national tour of Travels With My 

Aunt. He was a Trainee Director 

under Sam Mendes at the Donmar 

Warehouse 1995-96. 

His work as a freelance director 

includes Macbeth with Patrick 

Stewart (Chichester Festival 

Theatre/West End/Broadway - 2008 

Olivier Award for Best Director and 

Best Director Evening Standard and 

Critics’ Circle Awards); The Tempest 

(RSC/West End); The Glass 

Edinburgh and was nominated for an 

Olivier Award for Best New Play. He 

is also an actor. 

Menagerie with Jessica Lange (West 

End); the world premiere of Speaking 

Like Magpies, a new play by Frank 

McGuinness for the RSC; and a 

national and international tour of 

Scaramouche Jones with Pete 

Postlethwaite. His opera work 

includes Le Comte Ory (Garsington 

Opera) and L’Opera Seria, Gli 

Equivoci and Il Pomo D’Oro 

(Batignano). 

In 2008 Rupert will direct King Lear 

with Pete Postlethwaite, and Six 

Characters in Search of an Author by 

Luigi Pirandello for Headlong Theatre. 

Anthony Ward 

Design 

For the Almeida Theatre: The 

Rehearsal; A Hard Heart; Dona Rosita; 

The Novice and Marianne Dreams. 

West End and Broadway theatre 

credits include: Macbeth (Gielgud 

Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre); 

Dying City (Lincoln Center, New 

York); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 

(London Palladium/Broadway); 

Gypsy (Broadway); Oliver! (London 

Palladium); Oklahoma! (Lyceum 

Theatre/Broadway); The Royal Family 

(Theatre Royal, Haymarket); and The 

Night of the Iguana (Lyric Theatre, 

Shaftesbury Avenue). 

Other theatre includes: Napoli 

Milionaria; Sweet Bird of Youth; John 

Gabriel Borkman; The Way of the 

World; La Grande Magia; Othello; The 

Invention of Love; Remember This; 

Oklahoma! The Royal Hunt of the Sun 

(National Theatre); My Fair Lady 

(National Theatre/Theatre Royal Drury 

Lane); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; 

King Lear; The Tempest; Artists and 

Admirers; The Winter’s Tale; The 

Alchemist; The Virtuoso; Troilus and 

Cressida; Cymbeline; Twelfth Night; 

The Lion, the Witch, and the 

Wardrobe; The Secret Garden (RSC); 

Assassins; Nine; To The Green Fields 

Beyond (Donmar Warehouse); Mary 

Stuart (Donmar Warehouse/Apollo 

Theatre); Uncle Vanya and Twelfth 

Night (Donmar Warehouse/Brooklyn 

Academy of Music); Rhinoceros; The 

Arsonists (Royal Court); Burning 

Issues (Hampstead Theatre). 

Opera credits include: 

The Makropulos Case (Metropolitan 

Opera NY); Tosca (De Vlaamse 

Opera, Antwerp); L’Etoile; Yollande; 

La Boheme; Peter Grimes; 

Gloriana (Opera North); Macbeth 

(Royal Opera House); Manon 

Lescaut (Royal Opera House/Opera 

de Paris, Bastille/De Vlaamse 

Opera); Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria 

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(Festival d’Aix-en-Provence); The 

Magic Flute (Glyndebourne) and The 

Carmelites (English National 

Opera/Welsh National Opera). 

Ballet & Dance credits include: 

Masquerade; Les Rendez-vous; 

Dance Variations (Royal Ballet); 

Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! 

(Sadler’s Wells/UK Tour). 

Awards include: 

2003 OBIE Award for Set Design 

Uncle Vanya; 1996 Olivier Award for 

Costume Design Midsummer Night’s 

Dream, La Grande Magia and The 

Way of the World; 1999 Olivier Award 

for Set Design Oklahoma! 

Howard Harrison 

Lighting 

Most recent work includes: Mary 

Poppins (West End/Broadway); 

Mamma Mia! (West End/Broadway 

/Las Vegas/Hamburg/Japan/ 

Stockholm/Australia/US Tour); Tom 

Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll; Macbeth 

(West End/New York); Glengarry Glen 

Ross; Macbeth; Love Song; Guys and 

Dolls; Donkeys’ Years; Heroes (West 

End); The Vertical Hour (Royal 

Court); Twelfth Night; Macbeth 

(Chichester Festival Theatre, 2008 

Olivier Award for Best Lighting 

Design); Nutcracker!; Edward 

Scissorhands (Sadler’s Wells/UK 

tour/US tour). 

Opera and Dance work includes: Il 

Trovatore; Aida, I Masnadieri; Otello 

(Royal Opera); Beatrice and Benedict; 

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacce (Welsh 

National Opera/Opera Australia); Swan 

Lake; Romeo and Juliet (English 

National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall); 

Albert Herring (Opera North); The Elixir 

of Love (English National Opera); The 

Makropulos Case; Nabucco 

(Metropolitan Opera, New York). 

Howard has been nominated 7 times 

as Best Lighting Designer in the 

Laurence Olivier Awards and was the 

recipient of the 2001 Australian 

Green Room Award for his work on 

Mamma Mia! He received a Tony 

Award Nomination in 2007 for his 

work on Mary Poppins on Broadway. 

Adam Cork 

Composer & Sound 

Theatre includes: Scores and sound 

designs for Macbeth (Gielgud 

Theatre/Broadway); Frost/Nixon 

(Donmar Warehouse/ Gielgud 

Theatre/Broadway); Suddenly Last 

Summer (Albery Theatre); Don Carlos 

(Gielgud Theatre); The Glass 

Menagerie (Apollo Theatre); Speaking 

Like Magpies (RSC); The Tempest 

(RSC/Michigan/Novello Theatre); 

Macbeth (Gielgud Theatre/Chichester 

Festival Theatre); Caligula; The Wild 

Duck; Don Juan in Soho; John Gabriel 

Borkman; Othello (Donmar 

Warehouse); The Late Henry Moss; 

Tom and Viv (Almeida Theatre); On 

the Third Day (New Ambassadors, 

subject of Channel 4 documentary 

‘The Play’s the Thing’); Underneath 

the Lintel (Duchess Theatre); On 

The Ceiling (Garrick Theatre); 

Scaramouche Jones (Riverside 

Studios/World Tour); Troilus and 

Cressida (Old Vic); Faustus 

(Headlong at Hampstead Theatre); 

Paradise Lost (Headlong Theatre); 

Nine Parts of Desire (Wilma Theater, 

Philadelphia); Lear; The Cherry 

Orchard (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); 

Romeo and Juliet (Manchester Royal 

Exchange); The Government 

Inspector (Chichester Festival 

Theatre); King Lear (Minerva Theatre, 

Chichester); My Uncle Arly (Royal 

Opera House Linbury); The Field 

(Tricycle Theatre); Alice’s Adventures 

in Wonderland (Bristol Old Vic - 2005 

TMA Award Best Show for Young 

People). 

Adam was nominated for the 2005 

Olivier Award for Best Sound Design 

for Suddenly Last Summer (Albery 

Theatre). He also received a 2007 

‘Outstanding Music for a Play’ 

Drama Desk Award nomination, for 

the Broadway production of 

Frost/Nixon. 

Film/TV includes: Frances Tuesday; 

Re-ignited; Imprints; Bust; The Three 

Rules of Infidelity; Sexdrive; 

Tripletake. 

Radio includes: Losing Rosalind; The 

Luneberg Variation; The Colonel-Bird; 

Don Carlos. 

Lorna Heavey 

Video & Projection 

Design 

Design credits for theatre, opera & 

film include: 

Marianne Dreams (Almeida Theatre); 

Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre/ 

Gielgud Theatre/Broadway - 

nomination for Olivier Award 2008 for 

Best Set Design); The Tempest 

(RSC/West End); Speaking Like 

Magpies (RSC/West End); The Glass 

Menagerie (West End); The Caucasian 

Chalk Circle (National Theatre); 

Phaedra (Donmar Warehouse); 

Vanishing Point; Genoa 01 

(Complicite/Royal Court); Cooped 

(Purcell Rooms & international tour); 

I Am Shakespeare (Minerva Theatre 

Chichester); Rough Crossings; 

Faustus; Paradise Lost (Headlong 

Theatre); Cleansed (Oxford Stage 

Company); Betrayal (Theatre Royal, 

Northampton); Tall Phoenix (Belgrade 

Theatre); Mahabharata (Sadler’s 

Wells); Dido and Aeneas (Opera 

North); Very Opera (Cologne); 

Newsnight the Opera (Battersea Arts 

Centre). 

Set, costume & video design includes: 

Branded (Old Vic); Hamlet Machine 

(KunstHalle Berlin/Battersea Arts 

Centre); Titus Andronicus; A Stitch In 

Time (Headfirst/Battersea Arts 

Centre); Beautiful Beginnings 

(Headfirst/Theatre 503). 

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Writing & directing includes: 

For theatre: A Stitch In Time; Beautiful 

Beginnings; Hamlet Machine; 

Murdered Sleep. 

For film: Several Words; Timed 

Existence; The Global Conditioned; Duet 

for One Voice; Interior/Exterior, shown 

at numerous international film festivals. 

Television includes: 

The Mighty Boosh; The Bendix Report. 

Art shows include: 

Exhibitions at the Institute of 

Contemporary Art, Royal Institute of 

British Architects, Dada Dandies Berlin, 

and Budapest Academy. 

Lorna was elected Fellow of the Royal 

Society of Arts in recognition of her 

contribution to the arts in 2004. Lorna 

trained in Fine Art (Düsseldorf 

Academy, class of Nam June Paik & 

Nan Hoover, Kingston and Chelsea 

School of Art). She is founder of 

Headfirst Foundation, a cross-platform, 

multi disciplinary artists collective. 

Joyce Nettles 

Casting Director 

Joyce Nettles was Head of Casting at 

the RSC for ten years under the 

Artistic Directorship of Trevor Nunn. 

She worked on a regular basis with 

Jonathan Kent when he was Artistic 

Director of the Almeida. She cast three 

productions with the great German 

director Peter Stein: The Seagull, 

Blackbird and Troilus and Cressida all 

for the Edinburgh International 

Festival, and has also worked with Sir 

Peter Hall and Peter Brook. 

Recent theatre credits include: The 

Cherry Orchard (Crucible Theatre, 

Sheffield); Death of a Salesman; And 

Then There Were None; As You 

Desire Me; The Country Wife; 

Glengarry Glen Ross; The Sea (West 

End). 

Television credits include: Midsomer 

Murders; Foyle’s War; Kavanagh QC; 

Inspector Morse, Goodnight Mister 

Tom. 

Film credits include: several films for 

HBO, including RKO 281 for which 

she won an Emmy; Zeffirelli’s Hamlet 

and several films with Lars von Trier 

including Breaking the Waves. 

Penny Dyer 

Dialect Coach 

Recent theatre: The Man Who Had All 

The Luck (Donmar Warehouse); 

Speed The Plow (Old Vic); Gone With 

The Wind (New London Theatre); 

Noughts and Crosses (RSC); A Prayer 

for my Daughter (Young Vic); The 

Vertical Hour (Royal Court); 

Shadowlands (Wyndhams Theatre); 

Three Sisters on Hope Street 

(Hampstead Theatre); Fiddler on the 

Roof (Savoy Theatre); Cloud Nine 

(Almeida Theatre); Doubt (Tricycle 

Theatre); Boeing, Boeing (Comedy 

Theatre); King Lear (RSC); Parade 

(Donmar Warehouse); Swimming 

with Sharks (Vaudeville Theatre); 

Awake and Sing! (Almeida Theatre); 

I Am Shakespeare (Minerva Theatre, 

Chichester/Tour); Moonlight and 

Magnolias (Tricycle Theatre); Vernon 

God Little (Young Vic); Big White Fog 

(Almeida Theatre); Someone Else’s 

Shoes (Soho Theatre/ETT ); 

Frost/Nixon (Donmar 

Warehouse/Gielgud Theatre); There 

Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida 

Theatre); Porgy and Bess (Savoy 

Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (RSC); The 

Cryptogram (Donmar Warehouse); 

Summer and Smoke (Nottingham 

Playhouse/Apollo Theatre); Tom and 

Viv (Almeida Theatre); The Crucible 

(RSC); Royal Hunt of the Sun 

(National Theatre); The Late Henry 

Moss (Almeida Theatre); Philadelphia 

Story (Old Vic). 

Recent TV: Merlin; Biog Trio; 

Fantabuloso; The Deal; The Shadow in 

the North; Blackpool; North and South; 

Pierrepoint; Crocodiles and Masters. 

Film includes: The Queen; The Edge of 

Love; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; 

Frost/Nixon; The Golden Age; 

Infamous; Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution; 

Nanny McPhee; The Da Vinci Code; 

Mrs Henderson Presents; Dirty Pretty 

Things; Ladies in Lavender; The 

Importance of Being Earnest; Heaven; 

RKO 281; Felicia’s Journey; The War 

Zone; Elizabeth; Oscar and Lucinda. 

Vik Sivalingam 

Assistant Director 

Directing credits include: Jack & The 

Beanstalk (Stafford Gatehouse 

Theatre); When The Lights Went Out 

(Tara Arts); Broom; Just Say No; 

Parklife; Achieving Liberty; Head Over 

Heels (Pulse Festival, Ipswich); Travels 

To Myself (Teatro Technis); Please Find 

Attached (King’s Head Theatre); The 

Waiting Line (Birmingham Arts 

Festival); The Hard Way (Soho Theatre 

Studio); Human Rights (Sir John Mills 

Theatre, Ipswich); Blue/Orange (New 

Wolsey Theatre Studio); Girlfriends (codirected 

with Pete Rowe, Battersea Arts 

Centre); Day Trippers (New Wolsey 

Theatre, Ipswich & Theatr Clwyd); 

Swingin’ In Mid- Dream! (Albany 


Assistant Directing credits include: 

Free Outgoing (Royal Court); Rough 

Crossings (Headlong Theatre); The 

Soldiers’ Fortune (Young Vic); The 

Price; Private Lives; The Tempest; 

Sugar (New Wolsey Theatre, 

Ipswich); Troilus and Cressida. 

PRODUCTION 

THANK YOUS 

Nicola Boyce Hypnotherapy 

Tim Mitchell 

Lesley Vann at Mother Plucker Feather Co. 

Ron Cephas Jones is appearing with the 

permission of UK Equity incorporating the 

Variety Artites’ Federation.

15 May – 5 July 2008 

Rosmersholm 

By Henrik Ibsen 

In a new version by Mike Poulton 

Cast: Paul Hilton, Helen McCrory, Paul Moriarty, 

Veronica Quilligan, Malcolm Sinclair, Peter Sullivan 

Director Anthony Page, Design Hildegard Bechtler, 

Costume Design Amy Roberts, Lighting Peter Mumford, 

Sound Gareth Fry 

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HEADLONG: /hedl’ong/ noun 1. with head first, 

2. starting boldly, 3. to approach with speed and vigour 

Headlong Theatre is dedicated 

to new ways of making theatre. 

By exploring revolutionary 

writers and practitioners of the 

past and commissioning new 

work from artists from a wide 

variety of backgrounds we aim 

constantly to push the 

imaginative boundaries of the 

stage. Under the Artistic 

Directorship of Rupert Goold 

(Olivier Award winner for Best 

Director, 2008), Headlong 

makes exhilarating, 

provocative and spectacular 

new work to take around the 

country and around the world. 

Headlong’s 2006-7 season played for 47 

weeks to more than 80,000 people in 

theatres across the UK, from Glasgow to 

Exeter, London to Liverpool. We are 

delighted to be presenting The Last Days 

of Judas Iscariot in the first coproduction 

the Almeida Theatre has 

undertaken during Michael 

Attenborough’s tenure as Artistic 

Director. 

‘Rupert Goold is one of the most exciting 

young talents in British theatre today’ 

Times 

‘Wild, mad and deeply intelligent theatre’ 

Sunday Times 

Photos by Manuel Harlan 

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‘Tackling issues with extraordinary 

theatrical audacity… a company that 

clearly intends to continue boldly…’ 

Financial Times 

For more information or to join our 

mailing list, please go to 

www.headlongtheatre.co.uk. 

You can also contact us on 

info@headlongtheatre.co.uk or 

call 020 7438 9940 

Rough Crossings

COMING SOON FROM 

HEADLONG: 

THE ENGLISH GAME by Richard 

Bean, directed by Sean Holmes. 

On tour from 7th May – 28th June 

2008 

… SISTERS by Anton Chekhov, 

adapted and directed by 

Chris Goode. 

At the Gate Theatre from 5th June - 

5th July 2008 

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF 

AN AUTHOR by Luigi Pirandello, 

adapted by Rupert Goold and Ben 

Power, directed by Rupert Goold. 

At the Minerva Theatre Chichester 

from 28th June – 30th August 2008 

Faustus 

EDWARD GANT’S AMAZING FEATS 

OF LONELINESS by Anthony 

Neilson, directed by Steve Marmion. 

On tour from September – 

November 2008 

KING LEAR by William Shakespeare, 

directed by Rupert Goold. 

Featuring Pete Postlethwaite 

At the Everyman Theatre Liverpool 

from 30th October – 29th November 

2008 

Headlong Theatre is… 

Artistic Director: Rupert Goold 

Executive Producer: Henny Finch 

Finance Manager: Julie Renwick 

Literary Associate: Ben Power 

Assistant Producer: Jenni Kershaw 

Administrative Assistant: Lindsey Alvis 

Angels in America 

www.headlongtheatre.co.uk 

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RECENT ALMEIDA 

PRODUCTIONS 

Stockard Channing (Bessie Berger) and Nigel Lindsay 

(Moe Axelrod) in Awake and Sing!, photo by Hugo 

Glendinning 

2003 

THE LADY FROM THE SEA 

“The Islington powerhouse opens with this 

tremendous production by Trevor Nunn… 

electrifying… leaves you reeling.” 

Daily Telegraph 

Sponsored by Hydro 

I.D. 

“A riveting production… full of wonderful 

theatrical invention… a rich and shameful 

period of history and how memorably it is 

evoked.” 

Daily Mail 

Sponsored by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 

THE MERCY SEAT 

“Michael Attenborough’s production has a 

high voltage charge that never dips for a 

moment. This play plumbs the depths and 

deserves to be seen.” 


FIVE GOLD RINGS 

“Bold, elegant, lyrical, finely wraught… 

gorgeously staged and beautifully 

performed.” 

Time Out 

The cast of Enemies, photo by Hugo Glendinning 

2004 

THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA 

“Superbly written … brilliant… flawless 

production; you won’t find more blazing 

acting anywhere… see it if you see nothing 

else.” 

Mail on Sunday 

Sponsored by Aspen Re 

FESTEN 

“Electrifying, shocking and profoundly 

moving… such talent, such skill, such 

humanity. Something to celebrate.” 

Sunday Times 

WHISTLING PSYCHE 

“An intense, haunting and beautiful play… 

two remarkable performances... 

marvellously rewarding.” 

Mail on Sunday 

BRIGHTON ROCK 

“An intelligent, edgy, adult musical which 

gives you something to think about... 

Hooray for that... a production of brilliant 

clarity... crackles with energy and evil.” 

Daily Express 

THE EARTHLY PARADISE 

“Gorgeous writing… very compelling, lovely 

and tragic. My play of the year.” 

New Statesman 


2005 

MACBETH 

“The most powerful, chilling, evil – feeling 

Macbeth since McKellen and Dench.” 

The Times 


HEDDA GABLER 

“An electrifying hit… a wonderful 

production by Richard Eyre” 


Sponsored by Hydro 

BLOOD WEDDING 

“Brilliantly directed by Rufus Norris. 

Another indication of how well Michael 

Attenborough’s management is doing at 

the Islington playhouse.” 

Daily Express 

ROMANCE 

“You laugh uproariously... it’s a silly person 

who doesn’t.” 


THE HYPOCHONDRIAC 

“Lindsay Posner’s exuberant, superbly 

acted production is riotously entertaining... 

has you laughing like a drain.” 


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Kenneth Cranham (Max) in The Homecoming, photo by Hugo Glendinning. 

2006 

THE LATE HENRY MOSS 

“A thrilling new play... acted up to the hilt by 

a remarkable company... an astonishingly 

wrought, high drama” 

Evening Standard 

Sponsored by Pinsent Masons 

PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT 

“You must see this play: it’s like a diamond 

cut with its own stardust.” 

Sunday Times 


ENEMIES 

“A superb theatrical achievement...an 

excellent cast...Michael Attenborough’s 

admirable staging...this is a major event in 

our theatre” 



2007 

Eileen Atkins (Bridget) and Imelda 

Staunton (Margaret) in There Came A 

Gypsy Riding, photo by Mark Ellidge 

THERE CAME A GYPSY RIDING 

“A magnificent and harrowing play” The Spectator 

“Unmissable” The Observer 


Season Sponsor Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 

DYING FOR IT 

“The rediscovery of a subversive Soviet classic: 

deserves a permanent place in the British 

repertory” The Guardian 

"Desperately funny... beautifully written” 

The Observer 

Season Sponsor Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 

BIG WHITE FOG 

“For strong gripping drama and splendid, 

heartfelt acting, the show is hard to beat... 

outstanding” Daily Telegraph 

“A long-lost gem…an excellent company… 

a riveting production” Daily Mail 

Danny Sapani (Victor Mason), Ayesha Antoine 

(Caroline Mason) and Kedar Williams-Stirling 

(Phillip Mason) in Big White Fog, photo by 

Catherine Ashmore 

2008 

THE HOMECOMING 

“A masterly production” Sunday Times 

“Exemplary…pitch perfect” The Observer 

“Michael Attenborough’s production sparkles 

like a 100-carat diamond…great theatre” 

Sunday Telegraph 


Eve Best (Hedda) in Hedda Gabler, 

photo by John Haynes 

TOM AND VIV 

“A magnificent and superbly acted piece of 

theatre...the play so powerfully succeeds...a 

sublime tragedy” 

Sunday Times 

THE LIGHTNING PLAY 

“Funny, touching and consistently 

entertaining” 



AWAKE AND SING! 

“Stirring and fabulously well performed” 

Mail On Sunday 

“Richly rewarding” Independent 

CLOUD NINE 

“An absolute treat…wholly heavenly”Daily 

Telegraph 

“Scorching stuff, and more entertaining then 

anything on in the West End” Sunday Telegraph 

MARIANNE DREAMS 

“A great Christmas show…beautiful and funny” 

Independent 

“Inspired, potent theatre” Mail on Sunday 


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ALMEIDA PROJECTS 

Photos: Bridget Jones 

Almeida Projects creates opportunities to 

take ideas directly from the Almeida 

rehearsal room into local schools and 

community groups. Since our launch in 

September 2003, we have created two full 

productions in part devised by young 

people, a festival of new writing for local 

first-time writers, and countless original 

pieces devised and performed by young 

people and members of the local 

community in response to the theatre’s 

productions. 

We place the community and the 

“ensemble” at the centre of what we do, 

creating a genuine collaborative 

atmosphere for everyone involved – from 

people new to the arts to the 

professionals they work with. In our 

projects everyone is learning, and 

everyone is challenging themselves to 

discover something new: about 

themselves, each other, and the work 

they are doing. 

Alongside our projects, we offer 

subsidised ticket programmes and 

workshops allowing both local young 

people and students from across the 

country to experience our productions. 

Marianne Dreams: 

Play in a Day 

In February, three months of work with 

thousands of students across Islington, 

inspired by Marianne Dreams, culminated 

in a unique and ambitious project with the 

entire Year 7 of Highbury Grove School. 

On Tuesday 12 February, from 8.30am to 

3pm, the classrooms reverberated with 

dreams and hopes, nightmares and fears, 

scribbling magic pencils, dancing feet and 

group chants. 

Led by a team of twenty theatre 

professionals, directors, designers, 

choreographers and actors, each class 

took what most inspired them in 

Marianne Dreams and used it to create an 

entirely new piece of theatre. 

Bridge of Dreams 

In January 80 students from The Bridge 

School, a school for students with 

profound, severe and multiple learning 

difficulties came to see a performance of 

Marianne Dreams. Since then, 25 of the 

students have been working on a new 

version of the play, with the help of a 

director, designer, a team of actors and 

volunteers from our principal supporter, 

Lehman Brothers. 

The multi-sensory performance will 

transform the school’s new drama studio 

into a world of dreams. With bright lights 

and vibrant sounds, the students and their 

audience will embark on an extraordinary 

journey through the world of their wildest 

imagination. 

“Excellent workshop, great leaders, 

great ideas, excellent fun!” 

Secondary school teacher after an introductory workshop 

for Marianne Dreams 

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For more information visit www.almeida.co.uk, email projects@almeida.co.uk or call 020 7288 4916

Homecoming 

Inspired by the Almeida Theatre’s production of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming Year 10 

GCSE Drama and BTEC Performing Arts students at Highbury Grove School have been 

working with a director, a choreographer, and the Almeida Theatre’s Artistic Associate 

Jenny Worton to devise their own performances about the experience of ‘homecoming’. 

Over six weeks of workshops the students have been exploring the idea of coming home: 

to places familiar and new, on journeys that take them away from loved ones, or back to 

them again. Their starting points are the stories that immigrants to Britain bring with 

them, their reasons for leaving their old home and their reaction to what must suddenly 

become their new one. 

Coming up 

King’s Corner Project 

In May 2008, young people taking part in 

the King’s Corner Project’s Theatre 

Industry course will be working with 

Almeida Projects to devise a piece of 

theatre inspired by The Last Days of Judas 

Iscariot. Six weeks of devising and 

rehearsal will culminate in a presentation 

on the Almeida stage. A further series of 

workshops ranging from marketing to 

costume design will build participants’ 

knowledge of the wider workings of the 

Almeida Theatre and give insight into 

alternative careers in the arts. 

“Whatchu know about what’s a lie and what’s the truth 

Whatchu know about my history” 

Pontius Pilate in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot 

Projects Online 

Resources, images and information from our current and 

previous project work can be viewed and downloaded 

from our website. www.almeida.co.uk/projects 

For more information about our work, 

subsidised tickets schemes for students 

groups and forthcoming projects visit 

www.almeida.co.uk/projects 

Principal Supporter 

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ASSISTED PERFORMANCES 

The Almeida Theatre schedules assisted performances in order to make 

theatre more accessible and enjoyable for people who may find it difficult to 

see or hear everything that takes place on stage. 

Captioned performances feature 

an electronic screen which 

displays the words being spoken 

on stage in time with the 

performance, much like the 

subtitles you would see on 

television. 

As part of the theatre's on-going 

access programme the Almeida 

will be captioning performances in 

house. Having now completed 

Stagetext captioning training, the 

Almeida now has a team of three 

CACDP (Council for Advancement 

of Communication with Deaf 

People) qualified captioners, as 

well as our own caption box and 

equipment. 

Audio described performances 

are ideal for audience members 

with visual impairment. We 

provide a discreet headset, which 

allows you to listen to information 

about the set, costumes, body 

language and facial expressions 

of the performers, during pauses 

in the action on-stage. 

Prior to the performance patrons 

receive CDs giving details of the 

set, characters and costumes and 

on the day of the performance 

can attend a free touch tour 

where they get a chance to 

explore the set and costumes and 

meet some of the cast. 

Our sign language interpreted 

performances are presented by a 

variety of highly experienced 

interpreters who use British Sign 

Language. 

THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT 

Tue 29 April 7.30 pm Sat 3 May 3 pm Thu 24 April 7.30 pm 

Captioned in house Audio Described by Vocaleyes Sign Language Interpreted by 

(Touch Tour 1.30 pm) 

Russ Aldersson 

ROSMERSHOLM ROSMERSHOLM ROSMERSHOLM 

Tue 1 July 7.30 pm Sat 28 June 3 pm Thu 19 June 7.30 pm 

Captioned in house Audio Described by Vocaleyes Sign Language Interpreted by 

(Touch Tour 1.30 pm) 

Jeni Draper 

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GET IN TOUCH 

If you would like any more information 

about assisted performances or access, 

or to book for an assisted performance, 

please contact us: 

020 7288 4999 

email access@almeida.co.uk 

or visit www.almeida.co.uk 

If you would like a large print 

copy of this programme please 

contact us using the details 

listed. 

Thanks to Vocaleyes and all our interpreters.

THE ALMEIDA THEATRE 

COMPANY 

The Almeida Board 

Richard Haythornthwaite 

Chair 

Mary Francis CBE Linden Ife 

(Treasurer) 

Rosemary Leith 

Anupam Ganguli Ray O’Connell 

Michael Gwinnell Rufus Olins 

A. Michael Hoffman Nigel Pantling 

Thelma Holt CBE 

Artistic Directors 

1980 – 1990 Pierre Audi (Founder) 

1990 – 2002 Jonathan Kent 

Ian McDiarmid 

2002 – Michael Attenborough 

Development Board 

A. Michael Hoffman 

Chair 


Vice Chair 

Jamie Arkell 

Sue Baring 

Jonathan Blake 

Georgiana Boothby 

Rick Gildea 

Christophe Gollut 

Lord Hart of Chilton 

Matthew Hurlock 

John Kinder 

Judith Loose 

Nicky Manby 

Ray O'Connell 

Lady Rayne 

Martha Tack 

Andrew Wilkinson 

Hilary Williams 

Andrea Wilson 

Artistic Director 

Michael Attenborough 

Executive Director 

Neil Constable 

Artistic Associate 

Jenny Worton 

Associate Director 

Howard Davies 

Writer in Residence 

Roy Williams 

Music Advisor 

Jonathan Dove 

Lighting Advisor 

Mark Henderson 

Sound Advisor 

John Leonard 

ADMINISTRATION 

General Manager 

Emma Rees 

Assistant to the 

Directorate 

Suli Majithia 

Administrative 

Assistant 

David Swain 

ALMEIDA OPERA 

Aldeburgh Almeida Opera 

Jonathan Reekie 

Chelsea Lawrence 

Music Director 

David Parry 

Concert Directors 

Richard Bernas 

John Woolrich 

ALMEIDA PROJECTS 

Projects Director 

Samantha Lane 

Projects Administrator 

Charlie Payne 

Projects Workshop Team 

Ayesha Antoine 

Dan Ayling 

Kate Budgen 

Charlotte Damigos 

Ned Glasier 

Curtis Jordan 

Nicholas Khan 

Imogen Knight 

Debbie Korley 

Amaka Okafor 

Freddie Opuko Addaie 

BAR 

Bar Manager 

Hannah Woolhouse 

Deputy Bar Manager 

Lanre Bankole 

Bar Staff 

Natalie Bartle 

Carolina Cadavid 

Irene Cioni 

Dominique Edwards 

Emmeline Ham 

Andrew Hladky 

Hywel John 

Neil Jones 

Margherita Malanchini 

Santi Rieser 

Lara Rossi* 

Harriet Shillito* 

Melissa Smith* 

Luis Valentine 

*Also occasional Duty 

Managers 

BOX OFFICE 

Box Office Manager 

Tina Farguson 

Box Office Assistants 

Curtis Jordan 

Guy Newman 

Francesca Silveri 

Jonathan Speer 

Ruth Varley 

Suzanne Walker** 

Miranda Yates** 

** Also Access Officers 

DEVELOPMENT 

Head of Development 

Kirsten Holmes 

Sponsorship Manager 

Katya Evans 

Development Manager 

Nadia Boujo 

Development Officer 

(Individual Giving) 

Susie Parker 

Development Intern 

Amelie Lambert 

FINANCE 

Head of Finance 

Fraser Jopp 

Finance Manager 

Jenny Patterson 

Finance Officer 

Joy Aitchison 

FRONT OF HOUSE 

Theatre Manager 

Helen Cooles 

Duty Managers 

Nick Durant 

Jonathan Speer 

Dervla Whiteside 

Head Ushers 

Geraldine Caulfield 

Imogen Cooper 

Chris Corby 

Sylvie Gallant 

Aglaia Gelpke 

Vida Harrison 

Hannah Lee 

David Weinberg 

Geoff White 

Ushers 

Immanuel Von 

Bennigsen 

Jessica Carroll 

Ono Dafedjaiye 

Andrew Howard 

Janice Howard 

Florence Keith-Roach 

Richard Lawne 

Camilla Mars 

Nic McQuillan 

Mary Okeke 

Anne Sheasby 

Jeany Spark 

Theatre Tour Guide 

Jenny Hargreaves 

Cleaning Staff 

Excell Cleaning Services 

Ltd 

MARKETING 

Head of Marketing 

& Sales 

Jane Macpherson 

Marketing Officer 

Helen Bennett 

Interim Marketing 

Officer 

Louise Glover 

Marketing Intern 

Nicola Fisher 

PRESS 

Press Representative 

Janine Shalom at 

Premier PR 

020 7292 8330 

PRODUCTION 

Head of Production 

James Crout 

Company Manager 

Rupert Carlile 

Stage Manager 

Suzanne Bourke 

Chief Technician 

Jason Wescombe 

Lighting Technician 

Robin Fisher 

Sound Technician 

Howard Wood 

Theatre Technician 

Mark Jenkins 

Wardrobe Supervisor 

Catrina Richardson 

Wardrobe Deputy 

Eleanor Dolan 

CONSULTANTS 

Scripts Advisor 

Barry McCarthy 

Structural Engineering 

Consultants 

Alan Conisbee Associates 

Surveyor to the Almeida 

Hedley Merriman 

Auditors 

Haysmacintyre 

Solicitors 

Cumberland & Ellis 

Mishcon de Reya 

Wedlake Saint 

Production Insurance 

Giles Insurance Brokers 

Security 

Umair Jamil for 

McKenzie Arnold 

Security Ltd 

Access Consultant Group 

Mandy Colleran 

Wendy Haslam 

Ian Jentle 

Lois Keith 

Deborah Neve 

Caroline Parker 

Graphic Design 

Sarah Hyndman 

Dave Roberts for Cantate 

Programme Print 

Cantate 

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YOUR VISIT 

Welcome to the 

Almeida Theatre. 

IN THE FOYER 

The box office, bar, kiosk and toilets 

are all accessible from the foyer. 

Access to the Circle is upstairs 

through the doors on Almeida Street. 

Access to the stalls is through the 

doors in the foyer. 

The following are available to buy 

from the kiosk in the foyer: 

• Playscripts, past & present 

• Programmes 

• Posters 

• Loseley Ice Creams 

• Almeida T-shirts 

• Almeida umbrellas 

Infrared headsets are also available at 

the kiosk for a small deposit. 

DURING THE 

PERFORMANCE 

Please take your seats in good 

time. There will be a three minute 

bell before the start of the 

performance. 

To avoid distracting the performers 

and spoiling the performance for 

other audience members we ask 

that you keep noise to a minimum 

in the auditorium and please 

switch off mobile phones. We 

kindly request no photography or 

recording equipment be used in the 

auditorium. 

Plastic cups are available at the bar 

and from ushers to enable you to 

take drinks into the auditorium. We 

request that you do not take food 

into the auditorium. 

Please do not cause any undue 

alarm by leaving your bags 

unattended. 

We appreciate your consideration 

for local residents when leaving the 

theatre. 

In accordance with the 

requirements of the Council of the 

London Borough of Islington, 

persons shall not be permitted to 

stand or sit in any of the gangways 

intersecting the seating or to sit in 

any of the other gangways. 

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EATING AND 

DRINKING 

The Almeida Theatre Bar offers 

tasty homemade dishes, a 

great wine list, fine coffees and 

a relaxed atmosphere, and in 

the evening becomes a lively 

bar for audiences, actors and 

public alike. 

To beat the rush we recommend that 

you pre-order your interval drinks at 

the bar before the performance. 

Remember the café bar is open to all. 

You can visit us from 11.30am-11pm, 

Mon-Sat for drinks and light meals. 

We use organic products wherever 

possible, and locally sourced produce 

from Covent Garden and Billingsgate 

Markets, making it an ideal place to 

meet friends for lunch, or just to relax 

and read the papers. 

The bar is also available for private hire. 

For further information please see 

www.almeida.co.uk 

or email bar@almeida.co.uk 

EXPLORE 

THE ALMEIDA 

You can find out more about the 

history of this fascinating building on 

our theatre tours. 

Led by an experienced guide they offer 

the opportunity to explore the depths 

of the theatre including backstage, 

wardrobe, and technical departments. 

The tours also look at the history of 

the building through its many 

incarnations from lecture hall to 

Victorian music hall, to carnival 

novelties factory, up until the new 

building you see today. 

We finish the tours with a 

complimentary tea or coffee in the bar. 

The Almeida building in 1840 

For more information see 

www.almeida.co.uk or to book a 

place on a tour contact box office on 

020 7359 4404. 

We welcome any suggestions 

or comments you may have 

about your visit to the Almeida 

Theatre. 

Please get in touch with us by 

emailing info@almeida.co.uk 

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“The country’s 

hottest theatre” 


JOIN THE 

ALMEIDA’S 

CIRCLE OF 

SUPPORTERS 

Every donation made through our Circle of 

Supporters scheme is vital to ensuring 

that the Almeida can continue to mount 

productions of outstanding quality in our 

beautifully refurbished theatre. 

IN ADDITION YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM: 

• Priority booking 

• Advance mailing 

• Exclusive events 

• Quarterly newsletter 

• Special offers 

• Programme accreditation 

• Personalised booking 

• Access to sold out shows 

See overleaf for more details. 

(Benefits depend on level of support) 

If you would like to help us and become 

more involved with the theatre and its 

work, please join our Circle of Supporters 

today. 

For further information please call 

020 7288 4930 or email Susie Parker at 

sparker@almeida.co.uk 

Jonathan Pryce in Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia 

Photographer: John Haynes

PLEASE SUPPORT THE ALMEIDA AT 

ONE OF THE FOLLOWING LEVELS: 

ALMEIDA FRIENDS (£50+) 

For a suggested donation of £50 or more we may 

extend the following: 

• Advance mailing and priority booking 

• Regular information about Almeida news and events 

• Invitations to Supporters’ evenings 

• Ticket offers when available 

DESIGNERS’ CIRCLE (£120+) 


extend the above and the following: 

• Accreditation in Almeida Theatre programmes 

• Advance notice of Almeida Galas 

I would like to join the Almeida’s Circle of 

Supporters at the following level: 

(The amounts listed are suggested donations only) 

ALMEIDA FRIENDS (£50+) 

DESIGNERS’ CIRCLE (£120+) 

ACTORS’ CIRCLE (£300+) 

DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE (£500+) 

PATRONS (£1,000+) 

BENEFACTORS (£2,500+) 

PRODUCTION CIRCLE (£5,000+) 

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S INNER CIRCLE (£10,000+) 

Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss 

ACTORS’ CIRCLE (£300+) 



• Personalised booking service through the Development Office 

Address 

Postcode 

DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE (£500+) 



• Regular press release mailings, including latest 

casting updates 

• Opportunity of hiring the Almeida Bar for 

private functions (subject to availability) 

• Invitation to annual Directors’ Circle reception 

PATRONS (£1,000+) 

For a suggested donation of £1,000 or more we may 


• Invitations to selected Press Nights 

• Invitations to private post-show discussions with cast 

and creative teams 

• Invitation to Patrons’ lunch with the Almeida’s 


• Access to house seats when a production is 

officially sold-out (subject to availability) 

BENEFACTORS (£2,500+) 

For a suggested donation of £2,500 or more we may extend the 

above and the following: 

• Invitations to every Press Night 

• Acknowledgement on the Benefactors’ Board in 

the Theatre Foyer 

• Private Backstage Tour 

PRODUCTION CIRCLE (£5,000+) 



• Invitations to selected dress or technical rehearsals 

• Draft scripts when rehearsals for productions begin 

• Published scripts signed by cast or creative teams 

(subject to availability) 

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S INNER CIRCLE (£10,000+) 



A unique opportunity for a small team of individuals to become 

closely involved at the heart of the theatre company. Forming an 

exclusive partnership with the Artistic Director, members will play a 

crucial and active role in enabling the theatre’s programme and the 

artistic standards for which the Almeida is renowned. 

Tel (day) 

Tel (eve) 

Please acknowledge me/us in the Almeida Programmes as: 

(for gifts over £120) 

1. BY CHEQUE 

I enclose a cheque made payable to The Almeida Theatre for 

£ 

2. BY CREDIT CARD 

(You can also pay by calling Susie Parker in the Development Office 

between 10am and 6pm Monday to Friday on 020 7288 4930) 

Please charge my credit card with 

Card No 

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(please delete as appropriate) 

GIFT AID 

I am a UK taxpayer and would like the enclosed donation and any 

further donations I may make to the Almeida Theatre to be tax 

effective under the Gift Aid scheme until I notify you otherwise. 

Signature 

PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM TO: 

ALMEIDA CIRCLE OF SUPPORTERS, FREEPOST LON18195, N1 1BR 

The Almeida is a registered charity no. 282167. Inland Revenue number XN 64354 

£ 

Date

ALMEIDA SUPPORTERS 

The Almeida is a truly unique theatre. The world’s finest acting, writing, designing and directing talents produce 

some of their best work in our very particular and much loved space, ensuring that the theatre is alive each night 

with performances that inspire and excite our audiences. 

However, the freedom and the means whereby we can be bold, risk-taking and distinctive and able to produce 

work of the highest quality, costs money. £3.3m per annum to be precise. Every year we raise £1.2m of that 

ourselves – more than box office income or subsidy from Arts Council England. 

We are, therefore, hugely reliant upon the financial commitment of a group of very special individuals, trusts and 

companies who choose to become involved at the heart of our theatre. Their support ensures that we can plan 

ambitiously for the future with security and confidence, whilst keeping ticket prices affordable (with over 40 seats 

sold each night for just £6). It also means we can continue to deliver Almeida Projects - our inspirational 

programme of work with young people and the local community. 

Accordingly, we owe immense thanks to a collection of committed and enthusiastic supporters - many of whom 

are listed below and without whose kindness we simply could not exist. I do hope that you too might consider 

becoming involved with our wonderful theatre, at whatever level - helping us to continue turning our dreams into 

realitiy. 

Michael Attenborough 


Major Donors 

Ormonde & Mildred Duveen Trust 

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 

The Genesis Foundation 


The Hon. Daphne Guinness 

Niarchos 

The Ingram Trust 

Harvey & Allison McGrath 

Georgia Oetker 

The Laura Pels Foundation 

The Rose Foundation 

The Tara Ulemek Foundation 

Roger Wingate 

Legacy Gifts 

Arthur Donald Fleming 

Clare Hope 

Almeida Opera Supporters 

Columbia Foundation, San 

Francisco 

The Peter Moores Foundation 

Almeida Projects Supporters 

Principal Supporter: 

The Lehman Brothers Foundation 

Europe 

Raymond Cazalet Charitable 

Trust 

The Worshipful Company of 

Grocers 

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation 

The Peter Harrison Foundation 

The Kreitman Foundation 

Kyte broking 

The Wates Foundation 

Artistic Director’s Inner Circle 

Eric Abraham & Sigrid Rausing 

Anonymous 

Mrs Claus von Bulow 

Mercedes & Michael Hoffman 

Jack & Linda Keenan 

John Kinder & Geraldine Downey 


Midge & Simon Palley 

David Robbie 

Jon & NoraLee Sedmak 

Stuart & Hilary Williams 

Production Circle 

K L Breuss & G P Burgess 

Stamos J Fafalios 

Joachim Fleury 

Cathy & Guy Gronquist 

The Marina Kleinwort Trust 

Paul & Elizabeth O’Hanlon 

Sarah & Alastair Ross Goobey 

Carl & Martha Tack 

Rachel & Anthony Williams 

Benefactors 

Arimathea Charitable Trust 

Mr & Mrs JC Carter-Meggs 

Clyde Cooper 

Ian & Caroline Cormack 

Sarah & Louis Elson 

Celeste Fenichel 

Tim Fosberry 

Mr & Mrs A Geczy 

Beth Glynn 

Lydia & Manfred Gorvy 

Barbara & Michael Gwinnell 

Matthew & Severa Hurlock 

Stephanie & Carter McClelland 

The Noël Coward Foundation 

Wayne Rapozo 

Lady Jane Rayne 

Lord & Lady Simon 

Nicola Stanhope 

Christian & Sarah Thun-Hohenstein 

Jan & Michael Topham 

Roderick & Melanie Vere Nicoll 

Andrew & Juliet Wilkinson 

Patrons 

Anonymous 

Jeffrey Archer 

Jamie Arkell 

Jane Attias 

Keith & Barbara Bain 

Derek & Bonnie Bandeen 

Sue Baring & Andre Newburg 

Steve Barnett & Alexandra Marks 

Cornelius Barry 

Lord & Lady Bernstein 

Kate & Colin Birss 

Jonathan & Isabel Blake 

Tony & Gisela Bloom 

Mr & Mrs Benjamin Bonas 

Georgiana Boothby 

Miriam Borchard 

Steven & Ellen Bowman 

Katie Bradford 

Richard & Robin Chapman 

Mr William Claxton-Smith 

Mrs Denise Cohen 

Coline Covington 

Mr & Mrs Stephen Cox 

Felicia Crystal 

Mr & Mrs Karl Dannenbaum 

Angus Deayton 

Mr Robert H.F. Devereux 

James & Erica Dickson 

Robyn Durie 

Richard & Linda Ely 

Mr Peter Englander 

John & Tawna Farmer 

Joachim Fleury 

Daniel Friel 

Robert & Pirjo Gardiner 

Jackie & Michael Gee 

Jacqueline & Jonathan Gestetner 

Richard Gildea 

Michael Goddard 

David Graham 

Nick Gray 

Byron Grote & Susan Miller 

Susan Hahn & Duncan Moore 

Andrew Haigh 

Pamela, Lady Harlech 

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Alisdair & Sophie Haythornthwaite 

Michael & Morven Heller 

Dorothy Henderson 

Jerry & Barbara Hines 

Michael Holland 

Clare & Bernard Horn 

Christopher Hyder 

Linden Ife 

Nicholas & Maria Jones 

Nicholas Josefowitz 

Mary Kallaher and Matteo Perale 

Dr and Dr C Kaplanis 

Mr & Mrs Philip Kingsley 

Christian Kwek & David Hodges 

Mr & Mrs David Lakhdhir 

Marsha & Alan Lee 

Kathryn Ludlow 

Anthony Mackintosh 

Charles & Nicky Manby 

Mr Raul Margara 

Elizabeth Meyer 

Jeremy Miles 

Mr Julian Mills 

Diana & Alan Morgenthau 

Matthew Nicklin 

Christopher Nugee & Emily 

Thornberry 

Ray & Sarah O’Connell 

Harald Orneberg 

The Oyster Foundation 

Desmond Page & Asun Gelardin 

J Francis Palamara 

Barrie Pearson 

Mr & Mrs William Plapinger 

Andrea & Hilary Ponti 

The Posgate Charitable Trust 

The David & Elaine Potter 

Foundation 

Michele Ragazzi 

Clare Rich 

Timothy & Judith Ritchie 

Sue & Tony Rosner 

Jill Ruddock 

William & Julie Ryan 

Dr Mortimer & Theresa 

Sackler Foundation 

Susie Sainsbury 

Mr & Mrs Richard J Schwartz 

Mrs Carol Sellars 

Jennifer Sevaux 

Norma & David Smith 

Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer 

David & Tanya Steyn 

Adam & Sheri Stipewich 

Richard Sykes & Penny Mason 

Mr R D Szpiro 

Eileen Taylor 

Sarka Tourres 

Lord & Lady Tugendhat 

Judith Unwin 

Mr P Voyce 

Edgar & Judith Wallner 

Eric & Katharina Walters 

Bob & India Wardrop 

Lady Alexander of Weedon 

Simon & Glennie Weil 

George & Patricia White 

Martha & David Winfield 

Jack & Lina Wood 

Mr Neil Woodgate 

Mr CC Wright 

Michael & Kate Yates 

Directors’ Circle 

Cliff & Fiona Atkins 

Lorraine Baldry 

Leslie Balfour-Lynn 

J & A Benard 

Neil & Ann Benson 

Mrs Rosalie Berwin 

Nicholas Berwin 

Martin Black 

Sally A Bourne 

Ms Diana Brant 

Anthony Bunker 

Barry Burland & Tim den Dekker 

Sir Geoffrey and Lady Cass 

Mr Simon Clark 

Carole & Neville Conrad 

Kay Ellen Consolver 

John Crisp 

Mr George Dragonas 

Mort & Frannie Fleishhacker 

Margaret Ford & John Stewart 

Anupam Ganguli 

David Gestetner & 

Angela Howard 

Mr Farzin S Ghandchi 

Mrs Alison Gray 

Mimi & Peter Haas 

Neville & Veronika Harris 

Mr Charles Henderson 

Sir Robin & Lady Jacob 

David Kaskel & 

Christopher Teano 

Peter & Maria Kellner 

Muriel Lambert 

London Arts Discovery Tours 

Brenda Meldrum 

Maggie Mills 

Ms Barbara Minto 

Asha & Trevor Phillips 

John & Laurel Rafter 

Diane Raposio 

Anthony Regan 

Mr Charles Russell 

Mr & Mrs Anthony Salz 

Mr Brian D Smith 

Tim & Sophia Steel 

Dr Miriam Stoppard 

Izak & Freda Uziyel 

Sally Walden 

Marilyn & Geoffrey Wilson 

Mr & Mrs Roger Wyand 

Jonathan Yudkin 

Actors’ Circle 

Brian Abbs 

J Aldred 

Mr Simon Aldridge 

Nicola Allpress 

Alexander Balcombe 

Brian & Ruth Barclay 

Mr & Mrs Andrew Barnett 

Mr Dean Barrett 

Susan Barty 

David & Primrose Bell 

Michael & Lesley Bennett 

Mr & Mrs Anthony Blee 

Lord and Lady Brown of Eaton- 

Under-Heywood 

Ossi & Paul Burger 

Felicity Callinan 

Peter & Diana Cawdron 

Frances Cloud 

Rosamund Shelley, Lady Cox 

Robert & Lynette Craig 

Paul Cullington 

Gill Cutbill & Ged Davies 

David Day 

Jose and David Dent 

Yvonne Destribats 

Mr R J Dormer 

Jim & Maureen Elton 

Jane Epstein 

Brian Gitlin 

Robert & Clare Gray 

Brian and Rosita Green 

Nick & Fiona Green 

Graeme & Fiona Griffiths 

Sheila & John Harvey 

Ms Clodagh Hayes 

Ms Sioban Healy 

Martin & Alicia Herbert 

Michael Holter 

Rob & Sally Hull 

Mr Roger Jospe 

The JP Morgan Fleming Foundation 

Mr & Mrs Roger Lambert 

Mr & Mrs B Lesslie 

Mr Charles Lister 

Janet Martin 

Stephen & Nan-Yeong Matthews 

The Morris-Jones Family 

Despina Moschos 

Michael & Mimi Naughton 

Mr Philip Noel 

Ms Jane Norbury 

Mr C D Organ 

Jeremy & Mary Vere Parr 

Cindy Polemis & Rick Wells 

Mr Richard Polo 

Ana Pozzi 

John & Christine Preston 

Mary Robey 

David Rocksavage 

Mr G C Rodopoulos 

Julian & Catherine Roskill 

James Richard Rowe 

Samuel French Ltd 

Barry Serjent 

Dasha Shenkman 

Sue and Stuart Stradling 

Mr Philip Talbot 

Christoph & Marion Trestler 

Mr William Underhill 

Kersti & Louis Urvois 

Mrs Bonnie J Ward 

Nicholas Watkinson 

Frank & Denie Weil 

Mr & Mrs R A M Welsford 

Designers’ Circle 

Raymond A Adams 

D J Almeida 

Mrs Carole J Armstrong 

Stephen Artus 

Zac & Lucy Barratt 

Christopher Benson 

Rita & Ian Binder 

Mr & Mrs Boesch 

Mr M R Bowley 

Mandy Bridger 

Rob Brooks 

John & Dianne Browning 

Mr C L Bulford 

Dr Nigel Burton 

Mrs R J A Carawan 

Tiana Everett del Castillo 

Geraldine Caulfield 

Lady Cazalet 

Mrs Gay Christie 

Mr S J Clayman 

Mr T Coldrey 

John & Rosemary Coldwell 

Claire & Ivor Connick 

Ms Kate Crehan 

Jonathan Crow 

Anthony Croxford 

Mrs Pamela Curwen 

Timothy & Patricia Daunt 

Professor Philip David 

Dr Sheilagh Davies 

Graham & Christine Dawson 

Justin & Emma Dowley 

Mr Kendall Duesbury 

Ms Jo Dutch 

Caroline Duthy 

Miss Sally England 

Mrs Joy Eve 

Mark Everett 

Lindy Fletcher 

Tony & Jane Fogg 

Mr P L Folmer 

Judith Foy 

Dr K Garrow 

Jonathan Glasson & Jamie Lake 

Michael Godbee 

Mr Michael Godfrey 

Janine Goedert 

Andrew & Karen Goldstone 

Ms S J Goodman 

Ms Eleanor Gordon 

Mr Ian Grant 

Grouse Investment 

Nerissa Guest 

Debby Guthrie 

Maurice & Valerie Halperin 

Mrs Isobel Hancock 

Sophie Hanscombe 

Rosemary Hanson 

Andrew and Anita Harper 

Crawford & Mary Harris 

Maureen and Derek Harte 

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Sarah Havens & Gregg Sando 

Jonathan and Hélène Haw 

Douglas Hawkins 

Mr Robert J Henderson 

Polly Hester 

Andy & Janelle Hill 

Jane Hill 

Caroline Hoare & Charles Hebbert 

Andrew Hochhauser QC 

& Graham Marchant 

Mr Lew Hodges 

Madeleine Hodgkin 

Mrs Rosemary Hood 

Jacky Hyer 

Tamara Ingram 

Mr Michael Jacob 

Christine Jay 

Professor Norman Joels 

Mrs M Johnston 

Mr Simon Jones 

Brian & Janet King 

David & Gisela Kingsley 

Sarah & Christopher Knight 

Ruth & Peter Kraus 

Kudos Film and Television 

Mr & Mrs Harald Lamotte 

Mrs A Lampert 

Mr David Lanch 

David John Langrish 

Mr Roger Lascelles 

Jacqui Lavy 

Alan Leibowitz & Barbara Weiss 

Mrs Joan R Levine 

Colette & Peter Levy 

Mr Dennis M Levy 

Madeleine Lightfoot 

Mr & Mrs LE Linaker 

Tim & Theresa Lloyd 

Paul & Brigitta Lock 

Mr Simon MacLachlan 

C & I Maggs 

Donald & Sally Main 

John McGinley 

Lynette & Willie McKechnie 

Ms A Millar 

Ms Tessa Moloney 

Paula Morris 

Sean Murphy 

Mrs VG Murray 

Mr & Mrs Myddleton 

Dr Venetia Newall 

James Nicol 

Clive & Annie Norton 

Mr & Mrs M O’Farrell 

Ellie Packer & Bob Freidus 

Mr Marcelo Paes De Mello 

Nigel Pantling 

Ms Sara Parkin 

Mrs Joyce Parsons 

Mr & Mrs Pedro del Castillo 

Nick Perry 

Orion Peterson 

Ms G A Piergies 

Professor Brice Pitt 

Mrs Barbara Pollard 

Preben & Annie Prebenson 

Mrs Caroline Price 

Sue Prickett 

Jane Pritchard 

Jack Pryde 

Mrs E E Randall 

Dr Susan Rankine 

Ms Ruth Rattenbury 

Liz & Nick Reeve 

Christopher Marek Rencki 

Mrs Mary Rendall 

Anthony Rhodes 

Robin Roads 

Anthony Rudd 

Mrs Susan Rudeloff 

Dr & Mrs Saggar 

Christopher & Alison Samuel 

Simon & Abigail Sargent 

Beth Schneider 

Schon Family Charitable Trust 

Gilly Schuster 

Babara Scott 

Mr & Mrs Colin Scott-Malden 

Lucie Seaton 

Dr Martin Seifert & Dr Jackie Morris 

Mr Naveed Shah 

Mrs Susan Shammas 

Mr T W Sharp 

Mr M Shenfield 

Justin Shinebourne & Laurence 

Chaussinand 

Elaine & English Showalter 

Jonathan Silver 

Mark Silverstein 

Sir Peter & Lady Singer 

Peter & Moira Smith 

Mr A P & Mrs M T Stirling 

Mr D A Thomas 

Anne & Robert Van Gieson 

Mr Andrew Wales 

Lady Ward 

Mrs Carolyn Ware 

Sue & Alan Warner 

Mr Tim Watson 

Mr John Welz 

Miss Lisa Whiffen 

Mr Widdis 

Dr Peter Willis 

Janine Wills 

Ms Ann E F Wingate 

Mr & Mrs D Woolf 

Richard Worts & Nicola Shackelton 

Jeffrey & Fenella Young 

We would also like to thank the 

many generous Friends of the 

Almeida Theatre, whom we are 

unable to list individually 

We would like to thank the following individuals for their dedication and support. 

Gala Committee Chairs 

Juliet Wilkinson 

Chain Play II 

Martha Tack 

A Chain Play 

Saffron Burrows & Sydney Finch 

The Hypochondriac 

Thelma Holt & Damian Lewis 

Macbeth 


Awake and Sing! 

Blood Wedding 

Love Counts 

Corporate Council 


Chair 

Andrew Grant 

Jeremy Hall 

Carol Lake 

Henry Timms 

Local Liaison Committee 

Nicky Manby 

Chair 

Milly Ayliffe 

Jenny Black 

Katie Bradford 

Annie Edge 

Susan Hahn 

Caroline Hoare 

Linden Ife 

Rod Smith 

Sarah Whitehead 

Rachel Williams 

Ambassadors 

Sarah Elson 

Jack Keenan 

Georgia Oetker 

Jessica de Rothschild 

Stamos J. Fafalios 

Jessica de Rothschild 

The Lady From The Sea 

Have you ever thought about supporting the Almeida Theatre with a legacy 

Leaving a legacy is a very special way of ensuring that your tradition of 

support for the Almeida Theatre continues for years to come, allowing 

us to provide enriching theatrical experiences which will engage future 

generations. 

You can include the Almeida Theatre in your Will by directing your gift 

to the Almeida Theatre Company Limited, registered charity number 

282167. 

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For any information concerning legacies please contact Nadia Boujo at nboujo@almeida.co.uk or 020 7288 4934.

ALMEIDA CORPORATE 

SUPPORTERS 

“A small stage where giants play” The Times 

The Almeida Theatre’s Corporate Supporters benefit from 

bespoke, mutually beneficial partnerships with the theatre 

that include the following: 

• Unique entertaining opportunities with the Almeida’s 

first-class casts and creative teams 

• Branding, marketing and profiling opportunities 

• Staff training and employee involvement initiatives 

The theatre’s name is associated with critically acclaimed, 

award-winning productions. Actors, directors, writers and 

designers of the highest calibre have produced some of their 

finest work at the Almeida. 

The theatre is particularly grateful to Principal Sponsor Coutts 

& Co who is currently enjoying a fifth year of support. In 

partnership with the Almeida, Coutts & Co has benefited from 

exclusive client hospitality opportunities, professional 

development for staff and the creation of a unique film, 

Portrait of a Bank. 

To find out how the Almeida can help your business, please 

contact Kirsten Holmes, Head of Development, who will be 

pleased to discuss your specific requirements. 

Telephone: 020 7288 4930 

Email: development@almeida.co.uk 

Principal Sponsor 

Corporate Partners 

Local 

Corporate Partners 

Major Sponsors 

Almeida Projects 

Principal Supporter 

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1 April - 3 May only 

10 APRIL - 31 MAY 2008 

SMALL 

CHANGE 

 

A BRILLIANT PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT: 

CRISP, FUNNY, SCEPTICAL & GENEROUS 

John Peter, The Sunday Times 

 

CLEVER, INTELLIGENT AND WITTY 

Natalie Anglesey, Manchester Evening News 

AN HOUR AND THREE QUARTERS OF 

PROVACATIVE, WITTY, VIRTUOSO 

THEATRE - RIVETING PERFORMANCES 

AND MOMENTS OF REAL PATHOS 

Graham Gurrin, The Stage 

MAKE SURE YOU SEE THIS - A POWERFUL 

NEW PLAY... RIVETING 

Joyce Macmillan, The Scotsman 

BY PETER GILL 

Cast LINDSEY COULSON, LUKE EVANS, 

SUE JOHNSTON, MATT RYAN 

Director PETER GILL Designer ANTHONY WARD 

Lighting Designer HUGH VANSTONE 

BOX OFFICE 0870 060 6624 

EARLHAM STREET, SEVEN DIALS, LONDON WC2 

www.donmarwarehouse.com 

PRINCIPAL SPONSOR 

Out of Joint presents 

TESTING THE 

ECHO 

A play about people becoming British 

By DAVID EDGAR 

269 Kilburn High Road 

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020 7328 1000 | www.tricycle.co.uk

“ANOTHER LIFESTYLE REVOLUTION” 

TIME MAGAZINE 

GRAMERCY PARK HOTEL 

2 LEXINGTON AVENUE NEW YORK NY 10010 

RESERVATIONS 866 784 1300 / 212 475 4320 

WWW.GRAMERCYPARKHOTEL.COM 

SJ Berwin is delighted to be a Corporate Partner 

of the Almeida Theatre 

The European Law Firm 

www.sjberwin.com 

Berlin Brussels Frankfurt London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Turin 

©2008 SJ Berwin LLP 

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LEGAL ADVICE 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT 

PROUD PARTNER OF THE ALMEIDA THEATRE 

www.pinsentmasons.com 

© Pinsent Masons LLP 2008

We’ve always been happy to 

be less famous than our clients 

Throughout our long history, Coutts has always been 

happy to be less famous than our clients. Clients such as 

Sir Henry Irving, Phineas Barnum, Bram Stoker, Charles 

Dickens and Frédéric Chopin to name but a few. 

Coutts has a long and rich association with the performing 

arts, and we are still privileged to have many individuals 

from this arena amongst our clients. As a leading sponsor 

of the performing arts, Coutts is pleased and proud to 

support the Almeida Theatre. 

For more information about Coutts, call Helen Campbell-Watt 

on 020 7753 1984 or visit our website www.coutts.com 

Sir Henry Irving was considered to be one of 

the greatest actors of his day. He played a wide 

range of Shakespearean roles and was a good 

friend of Thomas Coutts’ granddaughter. 

Bath, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Eton, 

Guildford, Hampshire, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, 

Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading,Tunbridge Wells. 

CALLS MAY BE RECORDED

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