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THE DOCTOR very freely adapted from ’s Professor Bernhardi by 10 August – 28 September 2019

CAST CREATIVE TEAM PRODUCTION TEAM Automation Operator Oliver Alvin-Wilson Direction Production Manager James Barbour Robert Icke Daniel Palmer Production Electrician Nathalie Armin Set and Costume Design Production Assistant Philip Burke Paul Higgins Hildegard Bechtler Lauren Young Production Carpenters Mariah Louca Light Company Stage Manager Gruff Carro Nat Lunn Pamela Nomvete Natasha Chivers Claire Sibley Set built by Daniel Rabin Sound and Composition Deputy Stage Manager Tom Gibbons Bethan McKnight Cardiff Theatrical Joy Richardson Services Casting Assistant Stage Manager Kirsty Rider Julia Horan CDG Beth Cotton Automation supplied by Weld-Fab Stage Associate Costume Head of Costume Engineering Ltd Designer Claire Wardroper Naomi Wirthner Deborah Andrews Practical Lighting Wardrobe Deputy Howard Eaton Ria Zmitrowicz Additional Composition Rebecca Goldstone Lighting Ltd Hannah Ledwidge Wardrobe Assistant Tech Week Runner Drums Resident Director Cáit Canavan Flora van Trotsenburg TD Moyo Hannah Ledwidge Costume Maker Technical Department Costume Supervision Maureen Cordwell Student Placement Megan Doyle Costume Placement Layla Bradbeer Costume Assistant Alys Young Bioethics Consultant Maybelle Laye Chief Technician Daniel Sokol Design Assistant Jason Wescombe Programme Design Michael Hankin Lighting Technician and Print Robin Fisher Cantate Communications Sound Technican Production and Rehearsal George Lumkin photos by Manuel Harlan Sound No.1 Johnny Edwards Sound No.2 Dylan de Buitléar

Cover: Juliet Stevenson photographed by Nadav Kander

1 CLARIFYING BEST INTERESTS

An extract from Tough Choices: Stories from the Front Line of Medical Ethics by Daniel Sokol, published by The Book Guild.

If from the lamp emerged a bioethics genie who granted Overall best interests me only one wish, I would ask for the ability to determine may legitimately differ what is in the best interests of a particular individual. With such insight I would resolve many of the thorniest from medical best dilemmas in clinical ethics, discerning immediately what is best for the patient. Should we withhold treatment interests, and the two from this severely disabled neonate? Should we repeatedly inform this woman with Alzheimer’s disease that her should not be confused. husband died 10 years ago? Should we respect the confidentiality of this sexually active 14 year old girl? Nowadays it is almost trite to say that “best interests” is a broader term than “medical best interests.” While important, health is one value among others that may, on occasion, be offset by those others. Hence a bon vivant might accept the life shortening effects of eating full fat brie daily in exchange for the pleasure he derives from it. Overall best interests may legitimately differ from medical best interests, and the two should not be confused. The philosopher Ronald Dworkin makes another useful distinction: between experiential interests and critical interests. Experiential interests concern our sensations of pain and pleasure. I have experiential interests in playing squash, performing magic, and writing this book. Under this conception, it makes no sense to talk of the experiential interests of patients in a persistent vegetative state. They have no such interests. They do, however, have critical interests. These concern the sort of things that give meaning to our lives, that © Abobe Stock/freshidea ultimately determine whether our lives are going well or badly. Friendship, the wellbeing of loved ones, and the respect of others are examples of critical interests. These can be frustrated or satisfied even in the absence of consciousness. Spreading malicious rumours behind someone’s back can harm their critical interests even if that person never finds out; so too can failing to discharge a promise to hand over a dead person’s savings to her children. Why? Because most people have critical interests in maintaining a good reputation and helping their family to flourish.

2 3 The philosopher Ronald Dworkin makes another useful distinction: between experiential interests and critical interests.

The existence of critical However, even when ground, a compromise her judgment clouded by The anencephalic baby interests explains why patients are autonomous solution; give the patient indifferent relatives and with no prospects of a clinicians should attempt most doctors strive to do more time or information the short lived experiential meaningful life has neither to uncover patients’ their best for their patients. to decide; and invite them interests of illicit drugs. experiential nor critical past and present wishes, In his book Resolving to speak to another doctor Her refusal to be treated interests in continued either by consulting the Ethical Dilemmas Bernard or other patients with signals a premature life. Where lies that patients themselves (or Lo offers a strategy to similar experiences. If death. Such is the price indeterminate threshold their relatives) or from promote a competent this strategy fails, accept of our liberal emphasis below which attempting written documents such patient’s best interests. This the patient’s refusal. This on respecting autonomy, to prolong survival is as advanced statements. strategy could also be used approach aims to protect whatever its undeniable no longer in a person’s What things are important by relatives and loved ones. patients from seemingly benefits. Although it is interests? This is where to this person? How can Firstly, try to understand unwise decisions, while legally obligatory in Britain the genie’s gift would be we respect his or her the patient’s perspective respecting their autonomy. and the United States, most helpful. Respecting critical values in our (“What worries you As we have privileged respecting a competent a competent refusal of clinical management? most about this illness/ access to our own interests, refusal of treatment is not treatment is not always in To paraphrase Professor treatment/ operation?”). respecting a person’s always in the patient’s best the patient’s best interests. Gillon, the trick is not Secondly, address autonomy tends to benefit interests. to put ourselves in the any concerns and them. One of the greatest When there is no Dr Daniel Sokol is the Bioethics patient’s shoes, but to misunderstandings. This tragedies in medicine is indication of a patient’s Consultant on . He is a imagine what it is like for bioethicist and barrister at 12 King's may be enough to resolve when respecting a patient’s values, how should we Bench Walk in , where he the patient to be in his or any initial disagreement autonomy has the opposite determine what is best? practises mainly in the areas of her shoes. This requires medical negligence and catastrophic about treatment. Thirdly, effect: when it goes against Clearly we should consider personal injury. He is an award- an appreciation of that if appropriate, try to their critical interests. experiential interests. winning columnist and has sat on person’s experiential and committees for the Ministry of Justice persuade the patient to Although formally having Yet critical interests also and the Ministry of Defence. In critical interests. When accept medically indicated capacity, we can sometimes a part, as all human October 2018, he published Tough patients are unable to Choices: Stories from the Front Line interventions. If persuasion be blind to our own good; beings share a common of Medical Ethics, his first book for make their own decisions, is unsuccessful, negotiate thus the seropositive 25 core of critical interests, members of the public. doctors should, on legal a plan that is mutually year old declines our such as the freedom from and ethical grounds, act in acceptable to both parties. outstretched hand at the indignity. their best interests. Try to find common edge of life’s precipice, To paraphrase Professor Gillon, the trick is not to put ourselves in the patient’s shoes, but to imagine what it is like for the patient to be in his or her shoes.

4 5 ARTHUR SCHNITZLER AND HIS MEDICAL DRAMA PROFESSOR BERNHARDI

by Judith Beniston

Arthur Schnitzler was in every sense a Viennese writer. Like the hyphenated He was born in the city in 1862 and it remained his compound “doctor-writer”, home until his death in 1931. The topography of Vienna and its distinctive landmarks feature prominently in his these juxtapositions speak writings, together with a broad cross-section of its late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century inhabitants. of complex and perhaps Other labels that one might attach to Schnitzler are less neat. He was a doctor-writer, ultimately choosing a literary conflicted private and over a medical career but unmistakably influenced by his medical training. And, as he put it in December 1914, he public identities. was “a Jew, an Austrian, a German”. Like the hyphenated compound “doctor-writer”, these juxtapositions speak of complex and perhaps conflicted private and public identities. The Schnitzlers were a medical family. Arthur’s maternal grandfather had been a doctor; his father, Johann Schnitzler, was an eminent laryngologist; his brother, Julius, became a surgeon; and his sister, Gisela, married her father’s successor, Markus Hajek, whose patients were to include Sigmund Freud and Franz Kafka. It was taken for granted that Arthur would study medicine, and he duly qualified in 1885, subsequently becoming his father’s assistant. However, hospital medicine exacerbated his tendency to hypochondria and he was never entirely committed to it or to medical research. Having started to publish poems and short prose in the 1880s, he wanted to be a professional writer, and after his father’s death in 1893 he resigned his post. As a doctor-writer Schnitzler brought a distinctive skill set to his literary work. Training in rational, evidence- based diagnosis can be applied to both literary characters and broader social ills, and writing medical case histories encourages clarity of expression and scrupulous attention to detail. As he admitted in his posthumously published autobiography, My Youth in Vienna, he was far more interested in afflictions of the mind than in those of the body, an interest rooted “not so much in medicine proper as in their poetic or literary character”. Indeed, the idea that literary diagnoses can be as insightful as medical ones was acknowledged by Freud, who in 1922

6 © Alamy Stock Photo/Lebrecht Music & Arts 7 He was far more interested in afflictions of the mind than in those of the body, an interest rooted “not so much in medicine proper as in their poetic or literary character”.

described Schnitzler as his a Jewish doctor, denies a left, and by the resulting use illness as a metaphor. Schnitzler’s cause, like Doppelgänger, a literary Catholic priest access to climate of intolerance Unlike in Ibsen’s An Enemy that of his title figure, was “It has always been in double who had achieved a patient who is dying of and intransigence; of the People (1882) – taken up, in parliament my nature not to walk in through intuition what he, sepsis following a botched political opportunism was another “doctor play” with and in the press, by liberal Freud, had accomplished abortion; the following four rife; political language which Professor Bernhardi and left-wing groups. step with others, even through painstaking acts explore the political was often divisive and has often been compared The irony was not lost on clinical research. and institutional fallout intemperate; and anti- – where the contaminated Schnitzler. In a letter of when I find myself sharing In his early work, of that action. The play Semitism permeated public water source is a rather October 1913 he admitted Schnitzler directed his not only explores what it life. Resolving in 1909 obvious metaphor for somewhat sheepishly: “it the path with friends”. diagnostic gaze primarily means to be an Austrian to continue writing his political corruption, the has always been in my towards the private sphere and a Jew but also asks “doctors play”, Schnitzler many references to syphilis nature not to walk in step and its social regulation. whether medicine can noted in his diary that in Professor Bernhardi with others, even when Plays and stories depict be the basis of a rational, he could work into it never become symptoms of I find myself sharing the love relationships and humanist world-view “a lot of his disgust” at broader social malaise, and path with friends”. Despite erotic encounters that within which biography contemporary public life. the young woman dying of their efforts, the Viennese frequently cut across is irrelevant, and answers Professor Bernhardi is not, sepsis – the word literally premiere had to wait until the boundaries of social by depicting an institution however, a straightforward means putrefaction – 21 December 1918, by class, notably in his torn apart by racial and “state-of-the-nation” play. remains an individual case, which point what it meant breakthrough play Liebelei religious difference, by Schnitzler was too much not a symbol of “something to be Austrian had radically (1896; most recently anti-Semitism, careerism of an individualist and saw rotten in the state of changed. As Schnitzler adapted by David Harrower and political intrigue. too many complexities Au s t r i a”. remarked in his diary: as Sweet Nothings) and in Although there are to write unequivocally in Professor Bernhardi may “Very gratifying – but the scandalous sexual daisy elements of Johann the service of any political stop short of being a somewhat costly: it has chain Reigen (1900, known Schnitzler’s biography cause. His title figure insists state-of-the-nation play, taken a World War and a internationally as La Ronde in his son’s play – like that he merely did what but the Viennese censor Revolution to make this and notably adapted by Bernhardi he co-founded he believed to be right in recognized the potential production possible”. as The Blue a charitably funded a particular circumstance and refused to licence Room). hospital in 1872 – the and rejects all attempts it for performance, Judith Beniston is Assistant Professor of German at University College London. Professor Bernhardi, depiction of Viennese to politicize his case. In with documentation completed in 1912, public life is more reflective his obstinacy, Bernhardi subsequently released confounded expectations. of the early twentieth becomes comic – indeed, citing Schnitzler’s The play has no love century, when Professor Schnitzler privately termed unflattering depiction of interest, one female Bernhardi took shape. the play a “comedy of Austrian public life as the character (in a minor role) By then parliamentary character”. Attempts to main reason. The play and only one moment of liberalism was a spent read Professor Bernhardi was first performed not dramatic action. At the end force, overwhelmed by as a state-of-the-nation in Vienna but in , of Act I, the title figure, the rise of radical mass play are also frustrated on 28 November 1912. parties on the right and by Schnitzler’s refusal to

8 9 RETHINKING IDENTITY

An extract from The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah, published by Profile Books.

In Naguib Mahfouz’s 1967 novel Miramar, an The existentialists were right: Alexandrian Greek, mistress of the eponymous existence precedes essence; pensione, reflects of her people, “They’re gone, every one of them.” Mr. Amer, an aging we are before we are Egyptian friend and tenant, tries to console her. “We are your people now,” he says. “That sort anything in particular. of thing is happening everywhere.” It is, indeed. But so, alas, is a move in the other direction: a choice for an imaginary purity, a clinging to an unreal essence, an insistence on a single significance for labels whose meanings need to be kept open and contestable. If essentialism is a misstep in the realms of creed, color, country, class, and culture, as it is in the domain of gender and sexuality, then it is never true that identity leaves us no choices. The existentialists were right: existence precedes essence; we are before we are anything in particular. But the fact that identities come without essences does not mean they come without entanglements. And the fact that they need interpreting and negotiating does not mean that each of us can do with them whatever we will. For these labels belong to communities; they are a social possession. And morality and political prudence require us to try to make them work for us all. Over the course of my lifetime, I have watched, learned from and participated in the reshaping of what it means to be women and men (and yes, sometimes neither) in the various interconnected places I have lived my life. Without the reshaping of gender that has increasingly liberated us all from old patriarchal assumptions, I could not have lived my life as a gay man, married to another man, making a life, in public and in private ways, together. © iStock/trenchcoates This life has been made possible through other people’s struggle, in ways both large and small, and by my taking small risks with friends, employers and family. If I had stayed in Ghana, where I grew up, I would, like other lesbian

10 11 ALMEIDA QUESTIONS

There is a liberal fantasy in which Photo: Robin Fisher identities are merely chosen, so we are all free to be what we choose to be.

and gay Ghanaians, have a long road with others inside and outside the Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include still to travel. But in the meanwhile, labelled group in order to reframe political and moral theory, the philosophy of women in Asante, who were always them so they fit you better; and you language and mind, and African-American and African intellectual history. He is Professor of more autonomous than in many can do that collective work only if you Philosophy and Law at New York University. other parts of the world, have seen recognize that the results must serve their options grow and prosper, in others as well. part by recognizing that much that In the poem “Walls,” Constantine P. DOCTOR VERSUS FAMILY: VASSA: UNDER ONE ROOF? was once assumed impossible for Cavafy writes: WHEN A PATIENT’S LIFE IS AT THE REALITY OF women, because they were women – RISK, WHO DECIDES WHAT’S MULTIGENERATIONAL LIVING because of what a woman essentially Without reflection, without sorrow, was – could be made possible; and without shame, BEST FOR THE PATIENT? Monday 28 October, 6pm that a world of empowered women is they’ve built around me great, enriching for men as well. high walls. Monday 2 September, 6pm Tickets £5 And I sit here now and despair. Tickets £5 Free to those aged 25 and under There is a liberal fantasy in which I think of nothing else: this fate Free to those aged 25 and under identities are merely chosen, so we consumes my mind: “Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself are all free to be what we choose to because I had so many things to do The family of a terminally ill baby contest the doctors’ in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it be. But identities without demands out there. decision to withdraw life-sustaining ventilation. in an impossible situation.” - Margaret Mead, anthropologist. would be useless to us. Identities work only because, once they get their grip We all have many things to “do out Parents take a hospital to court for the right for their son to on us, they command us, speaking there” in the world. And the problem undergo experimental treatment for his rare genetic condition. Adults boomeranging back to live with Mum and Dad. Garages converted into granny flats. As property prices soar, are there to us as an inner voice; and because is not walls as such but walls that Against the advice of doctors, a woman carrying benefits to multigenerational living? Does sharing a microwave others, seeing who they think we are, hedge us in; walls we played no part conjoined twins refuses an operation to save only one in designing, walls without doors and twin, due to her belief in the sanctity of life. with your nan spark tension or foster intimacy? And what might call on us, too. If you do not care for we learn from cultures with a strong tradition of multigenerational windows, walls that block our vision Inspired by The Doctor, the Almeida Questions panel the shapes your identities have taken, households? you cannot simply refuse them; they and obstruct out way, walls that will explores the ethical conundrums at heart of medicine. Inspired by Vassa, this Almeida Questions panel discusses are not yours alone. You have to work not let in fresh and enlivening air. TicketsTHEATRE on sale TOURS now at shackingTALKBACKS up with your extended family. Youalmeida.co.uk can find out more about the history of our These illuminating post-show Q&As with members of fascinating building on our tours. theTickets company on sale are now free at to same day ticket holders. Led by an experienced guide, the tours explore the depths of the almeida.co.uk If you do not care for the shapes your theatre, including our backstage, wardrobe and technical areas. The Hunt Your visit will also cover the history of the theatre, from Thursday 25 July identities have taken, you cannot simply lecture room to music hall and carnival novelties factory. Upcoming Tours: The Doctor refuse them; they are not yours alone. Thursday 19 September Saturday 6 July 11am Saturday 2 November 11am Vassa (£7/£6 concessions) Monday 4 November Tickets on sale now at Read transcripts of past conversations at almeida.co.uk almeida.co.uk/explore

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14 15 THE COMPANY

OLIVER ALVIN-WILSON Maigret’s Dead Man; The Lost Honour Of genres from punk rock, jazz to hip DANIEL RABIN Tree); Playboy of the West Indies (Tricycle IV, Parts 1 and 2; Once in a Lifetime; The For the Almeida: (also Christopher Jefferies; Rocket’s Island; Luther; hop and is the founder of the music For the Almeida: (also West Theatre); The Royal Family (Theatre Royal White Guard; Hippolytus; Anthony and West End). Little Crackers; The Fixer; The Omid Djalili company Adlib Music Ltd. Hannah End); (also West End). Haymarket); From the Mississippi Delta; Cleopatra; The Churchill Play (RSC); The Show; Being Human; The English Harem; is currently producing and playing A Midsummer ’s Dream (Young Duchess of Malfi (/ West Theatre includes: Nine Night (National Theatre includes: King (Duke of Spooks; Derailed; The Bill; William and music with various music and theatre Vic); S.A.B.; Downfall (Royal Court); End); Scenes from an Execution (Mark Theatre/ Trafalgar Studios); Genesis York’s Theatre); 1984 (West End); Pericles; Mary; Holby City; The Jury; Deep Secrets. companies including Streets Music. For Coloured Girls who have Considered Taper Forum, LA); Burn This ( Inc. (); Hamlet The Winter’s Tale; King John; ’Tis Pity Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf (Half Theatre/ West End); On The Verge (Sadler’s (HamletScenen); A Midsummer Night’s Film includes: Final Score; Earthy She’s a Whore; Anthony and Cleopatra; Moon Theatre). Wells). Dream (); The Red Barn; Encounters; Denial; Grow Your Own. MARIAH LOUCA Holy Warriors (Shakespeare’s Globe); Emperor and Galilean; All’s Well That Ends Theatre includes: Queer Upstairs (Royal Oedipus (Nottingham Playhouse/ Spoleto Television Includes: The Long Song; Television includes: Riviera; One of Us; Well (National Theatre); Othello (Stafford PAUL HIGGINS Court); All Mod Cons (Lyric Theatre, Festival); Ignorance (Hampstead Theatre); Casualty; Silent Witness; Mrs Wilson; The Enfield Haunting; Atlantis; The Village; Belfast); Julius Caesar; Playing for Time; Press; Legends of Tomorrow; Walliams and White Heat; The Hour; The Accused; Gatehouse Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s For the Almeida: ; Conversations Blue Remembered Hills (Chichester A Dream; The Sheffield Mysteries; 20 Tiny Friend; The Comic Strip Presents – Red Top; Lewis; Dustbin Baby; ; Dream; ; After a Burial. Festival Theatre); The Bomb(Tricycle (Propeller Theatre Company); Antigone Plays About Sheffield (Sheffield Crucible); Theatre); The Great Game (Tricycle Doctors; Holby City; Family Man; Trial And Place of Execution; Ten Days to War; Hear Theatre includes: Aristocrats; Temple; (Theatre Royal Stratford East/ Pilot Theatre The Interview (The Mono Box/ The Biscuit Theatre/ US Tour); Sixty Six Books (Bush Retribution; Judge John Deed; Mccready and the Silence; The Road From Coorain; The Luise Miller; The Cosmonaut's Last Message Company); Doctor Faustus (West Yorkshire Factory); The Vagina Monologues (Theatre Theatre); The Fever Chart (Trafalgar Daughter; The Bill; Agony Again; Bambino Pact; Trial By Fire; Cider with Rosie; Stone (); (Lyric Playhouse/ Citizens Theatre); Blue/Orange Deli/ SheFest). Studios/ York Theatre Royal); Enemy of Mio; Rhinoceros. Scissors Paper; The Politician’s Wife; Out Hammersmith); Twilight Song (Park (UK Tour); ; This Child Film includes: Re-displacement. the People (); All Quiet Film Includes: Children of Men; Ballet Neg; of Love; Stanley; A Doll’s House; Life Story; Theatre); Blackbird; (Citizens (Pilot Theatre); on the Western Front; Chicken Soup Tug of Love. Antigone; Aimée; Oedipus at Colonus; Theatre); Hope; Nightsongs; Conquest of Mariah recently graduated from (Nuffield Southampton ); To Kill with Barley (Nottingham Playhouse); Freud; Bazaar and Rummage; Maybury; the South Pole (Royal Court); Children of School of Acting. a Mockingbird (Theatr Clywd/ UK Tour); Madonna; Diamond; Jerusalem The Mallens. the Sun; The White Guard; Paul; An Enemy KIRSTY RIDER Pigeon Love (); Much Ado About Syndrome (); The Last Sortie Film includes: Let Me Go; Love Is Thicker of the People; The Hare Trilogy (National For the Almeida: . Nothing (Derby Live); The Gala (RSC). PAMELA NOMVETE (/ Hampstead Theatre); Than Water; Departure; The Letters; Theatre); (National Theatre For the Almeida: They Drink it in the Theatre includes: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Television includes: The Rebel S2; Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Lyric Diana; Triage; Desert Flower; The Secret Scotland); Damascus (Traverse Theatre/ Congo. Globe); The Great Wave; Saint George and Collateral; Lovesick; From Cradle to Grave; Hammersmith). of Moonacre; A Previous Engagement; Tricycle Theatre); (Tron the Dragon (National Theatre); Pride and Misfits; Hollyoaks; Casualty. Theatre includes: The Convert (Young Television includes: The Royals; Game of And When Did You Last See Your Theatre); Measure For Measure (RSC); A Prejudice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ Vic); Meet Me at Dawn; Nothing But The Thrones; Ambassadors; Doctors; Our Men; Father?; Breaking and Entering; Infamous; Film includes: Wonder Woman 1984; The Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s UK Tour/ nominated for Best Newcomer at Truth (Market Theatre, Johannesburg); Holby City; Murder on the Homefront; Pierrepoint; Being Julia; Mona Lisa ; Huntsman; Kerry; Karmic Compensation; Globe); Buried Alive (Hampstead Theatre); the 2017 Theatre Awards); The Teddy Ferrara (Donmar Warehouse); Spooks; Henry - Mind of a Tyrant; The Bill; Bend It Like Beckham; ; The Fields; Interview for Life; Dead End. The Slab Boys (Young Vic). Handmaiden (Secret Cinema); Banana in Belong (Royal Court); The Comedy of Casualty; The Roman Mysteries; EastEnders; Food for Love; The Search for John Gissing; Television includes: Cold Call; Line of Bruises (Woven Voices). Errors; Welcome to Thebes (National Money Can’t Buy You Love. Emma; The Secret Rapture; The Trial; NATHALIE ARMIN Duty; Raised by Wolves; Utopia; The Thick Theatre); Truth and Reconciliation; Now or Film includes: Hafu. Truly Madly Deeply; The March; Ladder of Film includes: Lilac’s Laughter; Mind the For the Almeida: Machinal. Of It; New Town; Low Winter Sun; The Last Later (Royal Court); Archbishop and the Swords; Drowning by Numbers. Gap; Two’s Company; The Penalty King; Audiobooks include: The Earthquake Bird. Enemy. Antichrist (Synergy); (RSC/ Theatre includes: Anna; Another World: Bury It; Susie Gold. Kirsty trained at Drama Centre London. Juliet has won the AACTA Award for Losing Our Children To Islamic State; The Film includes: Victoria and Abdul; Couple Duke of York’s Theatre). Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama. Motherf**ker with the Hat;; Dara; Behind In A Hole; In The Loop; The Red Road; Television includes: Avenue 5; Motherland; She won an Olivier Award and Time The Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre); Complicity; Bedrooms and Hallways. In The Long Run 2; Wild Bill; Noughts and JOY RICHARDSON JULIET STEVENSON Out Award for Best Actress for her role Ralegh: The Treason Trial (Shakespeare’s Crosses; The Widow; Lockdown; Coronation For the Almeida: Mr Puntila and his Man For the Almeida: Hamlet (also West End); in Death and the Maiden, and has been Globe); Limehouse (Donmar Warehouse); HANNAH LEDWIDGE Street; Lewis. Matti (also West End). Mary Stuart (also West End); The Odyssey; nominated for an Olivier Award for Best (also West End). The Complaint (Hampstead Theatre); The Drums/Additional Composition Film includes: The Forgiven; Kingmakers; Theatre Includes: The Winter’s Tale Actress for her roles in , Les Bomb/First Blast/Second Blast (Tricycle (); Henry V (Regent’s includes: Wings; Liaisons Dangereuses, and Duet for Hannah is a multi-instrumentalist (drums, The Special Relationship; Sometimes In Theatre); On The Record (Arcola Theatre); Open Air Theatre); Shakespeare In Love (Young Vic); The Heretic; Alice Trilogy; One, and Best Actress in a Revival for her bass guitar, guitar and keyboard), music April; Zulu Love Letter. The Tempest (Barbican); Lidless (Trafalgar (Noël Coward Theatre); Much Ado About The Country; Other Worlds (Royal Court); role in Measure For Measure. Juliet also producer and entrepreneur. She studied Pamela was nominated for Best Supporting Studios); Arabian Nights; Othello (RSC); Nothing; ; Macbeth; Death and the Maiden (Royal Court/ West won the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Music Performance and Production at Actress (SAFTA) for Lockdown Series 2, Damascus (Traverse Theatre/ Tricycle The Winter's Tale; The Maid's Tragedy; End); The Seagull; ; Hedda Best Actress for Measure For Measure. She the London Centre of Contemporary and a Naledi Award for Leading Female Theatre); Crazyblackmuthaf***inself; Local What You Will: Pop Up Shakespeare; Ghost Gabler; The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus; has been nominated for a BAFTA Film Music and Berklee Music College in Role in Meet Me At Dawn. (Royal Court); My Dad’s Corner Shop Of Lucrece (Shakespeare’s Globe); To Kill A Yerma (National Theatre); Caucasian Award and won an Evening Standard Boston USA. She has performed at (Birmingham Rep). Mockingbird; Riddley Walker; (Royal Chalk Circle (National Theatre/ UK tour); British Film Award for Best Actress for several top music venues including Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Song We Happy Few (); Not I/ her role in Truly, Madly, Deeply. She has Television includes: Home; Marcella; Wembley Stadium and Jazz Café. Her Of Songs (RSC); Welcome To Thebes; The Footfalls; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; As You also been nominated for three BAFTA Philip. K. Dick’s Electric Dreams - Human versatility has seen her play music Is; Unforgotten; Vera, Humans; Maigret: Observer; Citizenship/Burn; The ; Like It; ; Measure for TV awards for Best Actress for her roles ; Pericles; Fuente Ovejuna Measure; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; in A Doll’s House, The Politician’s Wife and (National Theatre); Greenwash (Orange The Witch of Edmonton; Money; Henry Accused.

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NAOMI WIRTHNER RIA ZMITROWICZ For the Almeida: Against. For the Almeida: ; Dance Theatre includes: An Evening at the Nation. Talkhouse; An Oak Tree; Marat Sade; Theatre includes: Gun Dog; Bad Roads; Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards X (Royal Court); Plastic (Theatre Royal (National Theatre); Blood Wedding (Metta Bath); (Royal Exchange Theatre); Splash Hatch on the E Going Theatre, Manchester); Arcadia (English Down (Donmar Warehouse); Madman of Touring Theatre/ Theatre Royal Brighton); the Balcony (); States of Shock Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Hampstead (Salisbury Playhouse); The Bite of the Night; Theatre/ Trafalgar Studios); Chapel Street Measure for Measure; Cymbeline; Have; The (/ Underbelly Taming of the Shrew (RSC); The Wizard Fringe/ Liverpool Everyman); God’s of Oz; Sunday’s Children (Derby Theatre); Property (Soho Theatre); Skanky (Arcola Top Girls (Sherman Theatre); Three Sisters Theatre). (Theatr Clywd); The Crucible; School for Television includes: Through the Gates; Scandal (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Kes Three Girls; Mr Selfridge; Youngers; (Contact Theatre, Manchester); Tokens of Nightshift; The Midnight Beast; Murder on Affection (Northern Studio). the Home Front; Whitechapel. Television includes: Fiona’s Story; Film includes: Teen Spirit; Entebbe; Babyfather; Wycliffe; Soldier Soldier; Jellyfish; Kill Your Friends. Between the Lines; El Cid. Radio includes: The Broughton Butchers; Ntombi: Morning Story; Travels in West Africa; Running Dogs; Anagonia; Caribbean Night. Naomi is the Artistic Director of The Barebones Project. Recent directing credits include: For the Barebones Project, The Seagull adapted by , and African Gothic by Reza de Wet. Above: The company of The Doctor. Naomi trained at the Theatre School.

18 19 Clockwise from top left: Kirsty Rider; Oliver Alvin-Wilson; Juliet Stevenson; Joy Richardson. Clockwise from top left: Nathalie Armin; Daniel Rabin; Mariah Louca; TD Moyo (Resident Director); Bethan McKnight (Deputy Stage Manager).

20 21 22 23 Clockwise from top left: Kirsty Rider; Paul Higgins; Oliver Alvin-Wilson; Ria Zmitrowicz; Mariah Louca; Pamela Nomvete. Clockwise from top left: Pamela Nomvete; Mariah Louca; Bethan McKnight (Deputy Stage Manager); Naomi Wirthner; Kirsty Rider; Daniel Rabin; Previous spread: The company of The Doctor. Juliet Stevenson; Oliver Alvin-Wilson; Nathalie Armin; Daniel Rabin.

24 25 CREATIVE TEAM

ROBERT ICKE Krapp’s Last Tape; Terrorism; Blasted (Royal Award nomination 2017 for 1984 (Best Direction Court); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Royal Lighting Design), an Olivier Award Court/ New York); The Crucible (RSC/ nomination 2016 for Oresteia (White Light For the Almeida: ; Mary West End); Electra (RSC); Good People; The Award for Best Lighting Design); UK Stuart (also West End); Hamlet (also West Sunshine Boys; Old Times; The Misanthrope; Theatre Award 2011 for Happy Days (Best End and BBC2); ; Oresteia ; Builder (West Design); Olivier Award 2007 for Sunday in (also West End); The Fever; Mr Burns; End); Top Hat (Olivier Award nomination; the Park with George (Best Lighting Design). 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan; West End/ World Tour); Arcadia (West also Broadway, West End, national and End/ Broadway). international tours). TOM GIBBONS includes: many productions around Theatre includes: Hexenjagd (Theater Sound and Composition the world, and most recently: the world Basel); Orestie (Schauspiel Stuttgart, premiere of The Exterminating Angel For the Almeida: The Wild Duck; Hamlet awarded Kurt-Hübner-Regiepreis); for Salzburg Festival, the Royal Opera (also West End); Oresteia (also West End); Oedipus (ITA/ Edinburgh International House and The Metropolitan Opera, Mr Burns; 1984 (also West End/ Broadway). Festival); The Red Barn (National Theatre); New York; The Damnation of Faust for Theatre includes: The End of History; Boys; Romeo and Juliet (Headlong). , also at the Berlin Pah-La; The Woods; Love Love Love (Royal This is Robert’s final production as Staatsoper (South Bank Show Award); and Court); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Associate Director of the Almeida. His La Traviata for Glyndebourne. Air Theatre); All About Eve (West End); future work includes (Schauspiel Film includes: Hamlet; Antony and Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); The Madness Stuttgart, 2019) and After Nora (ITA, Cleopatra; Primo; Krapp’s Last Tape; of George III (Nottingham Playhouse); 2020). He is a fellow of the Royal Society Richard II; Hedda Gabler. Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre/ of Literature, has won the UK Theatre, the Theatr Clwyd); Oedipus (Toneelgroep She received an Olivier Award for her Critics’ Circle and the Evening Standard Amsterdam); Fanny and Alexander; The design of After the Dance, and also won the Awards for Best Director, and is the Lorax (); Hedda Gabler; Sunset Australian Green Room Award for Best youngest ever winner of the Olivier Award at the Villa Thalia; The Red Barn; People; Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for Best Director. Places and Things (National Theatre/ at Sydney Opera House. West End); HILDEGARD BECHTLER (Young Vic/ West End); Life of Galileo; Set and Costume Design NATASHA CHIVERS Happy Days; A Season in the Congo; Light Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Les Miserables For the Almeida: Three Sisters; Hamlet (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Crucible For the Almeida: Hamlet; Oresteia. (also West End); Mary Stuart (also West (Broadway); Anna Karenina (Manchester End); Oresteia (Olivier Award nomination; Theatre includes: ; The Royal Exchange); The Moderate Soprano, also West End); The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Chalk Garden; The House They Grew Up In Elephants (Hampstead Theatre); White (also West End); Richard III; Uncle Vanya; (Chichester Festival Theatre); We Are Here Devil; As You Like It (RSC); Translations; . (La Mama New York); Allelujah! (Bridge (Crucible Theatre); The Absence of Theatre includes: Antony and Cleopatra; Theatre); The American Clock; Sylvia (Old War, Romeo and Juliet (Headlong); Lion Consent; Waste; A Taste of Honey; Scenes Vic); Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); Boy (Complicité); Henry IV; Julius Caesar from an Execution; After the Dance; (RSC); Belleville (Donmar Warehouse); Grounded (Gate Harper Regan; The Hour We Knew (Donmar Warehouse); The Cane; Bad Theatre); The Spire (Salisbury Playhouse); Nothing of Each Other; ; Roads; Mistress Contract; Fireworks (Royal London; The Angry Brigade; Wasted (Paines Therese Raquin; Exiles; Iphigenia at Aulis Court); 1984 (West End/ Broadway); Plough); Roundabout Season (Shoreditch (Evening Standard Award nomination); (Royal Ballet); Sunset at the Villa Town Hall/ Paines Plough); The Rover The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; King Thalia; Statement of Regret (National (Hampton Court Palace); Dead Heavy Lear (National Theatre); Primo (National Theatre); Happy Days (Sheffield Crucible); Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman). Green Snake (National Theatre of China); Clockwise from top left: Ria Zmitrowicz; Naomi Wirthner; Paul Higgins; Oliver Alvin-Wilson; Mariah Louca; Juliet Stevenson; Joy Richardson; Theatre/ Broadway); Consent (National Tom received the 2016 Olivier Award for The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning Daniel Rabin. Theatre/ West End); Oedipus (Toneelgroep Best Sound Design for People, Places and (National Theatre of Wales); Macbeth Amsterdam and Edinburgh International Things. Festival); Roots (Donmar Warehouse); (Broadway); 27; The Wolves in the Walls; The sound design is inspired by and Mood Music; Cause Celebre; All About My Home (National ); includes samples of Low and Ryuichi Mother; Richard II (Old Vic); The Seagull Sunday in the Park with George (West End). Sakamoto. (Royal Court/ Broadway); Now or Later; Natasha’s awards include a Drama Desk

26 27 JULIA HORAN CDG DEBORAH ANDREWS MEGAN DOYLE Casting Associate Costume Designer Costume Supervision ALMEIDA ALMEIDA For the Almeida: Three Sisters; The Wild For the Almeida: Medea; Ink; The Twilight For the Almeida: CAFÉ & BAR FOR HIRE Duck; Machinal; The Writer; Summer Zone; Filumena. As Costume Assistant: The Twilight Zone. and Smoke (also West End); The Twilight Theatre includes: Company (Gielgud Theatre includes: Zone (also West End); The Treatment; Theatre); The Birthday Party ( We offer simple, quality dishes prepared in our In the heart of , the As Costume Supervisor: Invisible Hamlet (also West End); Mary Stuart Theatre); ; ; Peter kitchen, a great wine list and fine coffees. is the ideal venue for your event. Cities (MIF/59 Productions/ Rambert); (also West End); Oil; Uncle Vanya; Medea; Gynt (National Theatre); Good People; Sweet Charity (Pimlico Opera/ HMP Oresteia (also West End); Game; Mr Burns; Wonderland; Hapgood; Jude (Hampstead Bronzefield); Genesis; Filthy Business (also West End); Before the Theatre); Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead (Hampstead Theatre); Sylvia (Latitude Party; The Turn of the Screw; King Lear; Theatre/ West End/ UK Tour); As You Festival/ The Old Vic); Fanny and Children’s Children; Filumena; The Knot of Desire Me (); King Lear; Alexander; The Divide (The Old Vic). the Heart; Through a Glass Darkly; Measure (Chichester Festival for Measure; When the Rain Stops Falling; Theatre); Shakespeare Trilogy; Closer; As Assistant Costume Supervisor: The In a Dark Dark House; ; Philadelphia Here I Come (Donmar Twilight Zone (West End); Company Nocturne; Awake and Sing!; Dying for It; Warehouse). (Gielgud Theatre); Out of the Fog. (Playhouse Theatre/ US and UK tours); Opera includes: Vanessa; The Rape of Oklahoma!; Don Carlo; Oliver! (Grange Theatre includes: Harry Potter and Lucretia; La Bohème; St Matthew Passion Park Opera); Ulisse; Albert Herring (The the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre/ Lyric (Glyndebourne); Agrippina; Orfeo; Salome; Grange Festival). Theatre Broadway); All About Eve (West Alcina; Child of our Time; Trojans; Ernani; End); The Inheritance (Young Vic/ West The Mikado; Don Giovanni (English Film includes: End); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ National Opera/ Basel/ Oslo); Cosi Fan As Costume Maker: Black Mirror: USS New York/ San Francisco); Yerma (Young Tutte (ENO – Barbican). Callister; The Great. Vic/ Park Ave Armory); A View from the Deborah studied Fashion Design at Bridge (Young Vic/ West End/ Broadway); Central St Martins College of Art and A Doll’s House (Young Vic/ West End/ MAYBELLE LAYE then worked in fashion before being lured BAM); Jesus Hopped the A Train; Fun Costume Assistant into the theatre. She has worked as a Home; Yellowman; Wings; Life of Galileo; Costume Designer, Associate Designer and Theatre includes: Small Island; Rutherford Once in a Lifetime; Blue/Orange; The Trial; and Son (National Theatre);Intimate Supervisor in both opera and theatre. Ah, Wilderness!; Man; Happy Days; Public Apparel; Rotterdam; Suddenly, Last Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; Wild Swans; Summer, Love and Information (RADA); Photo: Philip Vile After Miss Julie; ; TD MOYO Heathers (); The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Resident Director Saturday Night Fever (New Wimbledon We source our ingredients from small-scale, simple and Choose our auditorium as an exciting background Gone; Get Your Gun; In The Red and Theatre). Brown Water; Lost Highway (Young Vic); TD is a director, teacher, performer and sustainable suppliers. Our bread is baked across the road, for your conference, launch or film shoot. Our Film includes: The Kindness of Strangers; Obsession; Hamlet (Barbican); The Nether; South London activist with a Masters our beer is brewed locally – even our gin is distilled in North café, bar and foyer spaces are available to hire Eve; Mirror Mirror; Just Desserts. 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28 29 ALMEIDA THE HISTORY OF SUSTAINABILITY PARTICIPATION THE ALMEIDA

Built in 1837, originally home to the Islington From energy-efficient lighting and hand dryers Literary and Scientific Society, the building to reclaimed set materials, we are committed to has undergone many reincarnations. monitoring and improving the impact our productions, employees and audiences have on the environment.

Photo: Ali Wright

Shipwreck (2019). Photo: Marc Brenner

Our Participation FOR CHILDREN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Its uses have included a Victorian music hall, a Salvation Army citadel, This includes considerations about programme gives young Almeida Academy runs during term time, Almeida Participation delivers a when the balcony was most likely added, and a factory for carnival transport, administration, and the materials providing exciting theatre workshops for series of programmes aimed at novelties. we use in our productions, from our people opportunities to young people aged 5-14. Sessions aim to developing the skills of young actors, Converted and founded as a theatre in 1980 by , the stage to national tours and beyond. create theatre with some build confidence, creativity and social skills. critical thinkers and producers. Almeida rapidly built up a reputation for high quality drama, Follow our progress at particularly during the 1990s under the Artistic Directorship of of the most exciting artists Participants work with a variety almeida.co.uk/green of professional artists to learn new and Ian McDiarmid. The company relocated to King’s working in the industry FOR SCHOOLS Cross in 2001 whilst the building underwent major refurbishment. where you can find links to news stories skills, develop their talent and Our work with schools connects a diverse about sustainable initiatives, our latest green today. We run regular make exciting brave theatre. The Almeida continued to produce significant work on tour, and then range of young people throughout re-opened on Almeida Street in 2003 under the Artistic Directorship certification, our current Environmental sessions for young people We also run a number of projects that Islington and beyond with experienced of Michael Attenborough. The Almeida became known worldwide for Sustainability Policy and annual reports. develop youth leadership in the arts interested in producing, and innovative theatre makers from across producing adventurous British and international drama. the UK. From director-led Q&As and and the wider London community. reviewing and performing, began his Artistic Directorship in 2013 and during This programme is recyclable, workshops to explorative performance his tenure the Almeida has twice been named London Theatre of the using FSC certified paper. as well as creating bespoke projects, all of our opportunities are FIND OUT MORE Year by The Stage (2016 and 2018). Recent highlights have included projects that respond to designed to ignite and feed a curiosity To find out more about the West End transfers of James Graham’s Ink (also Broadway), Almeida about theatre and performance, whilst particular themes from ways you can get involved, Associate Director Robert Icke’s productions of Hamlet and Mary supporting those that we engage with call 020 7288 4916, email Stuart and Almeida Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall’s production Almeida productions, to realise their creative ambitions. [email protected] of (winner of Best Revival and Best Actress at 2019 connecting the theatre Olivier Awards). or visit with local organisations Other notable recent productions have included Richard III, which and communities. almeida.co.uk/participate was broadcast live to cinemas around the world, King Charles III (transferred to the West End and Broadway, won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, toured the UK and Sydney, and received a BBC television adaptation) and livestreamed marathons of more than 100 artists reading Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey as part of 2015’s Almeida Greeks festival, reaching tens of thousands across the world.

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