BY ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY

SAT 16 NOVEMBER 2019 – SAT 25 JANUARY 2020 CAST DAVID AHMAD THE HERO (MILES HENDON / MINSTREL) DANIELLE BIRD APPRENTICE HERO (EDWARD) NICHOLE BIRD APPRENTICE FOOL (TOM) KIERAN BUCKERIDGE PLAYER MANAGER (FIRST LORD OF EVERYTHING / MINSTREL) GARETH CASSIDY PLAYER QUEEN (MARY TUDOR / BEEFEATER) MATTHEW GANLEY FOOL (PA CANTY / MINSTREL) ELLIOT GOOCH APPRENTICE PLAYER (UNDERSTUDY / MINSTREL) JASMIN HINDS PLAYER PRINCESS (ELIZABETH I) SUFIA MANYA DAME (MA CANTY / MINSTREL) FAZ SHAH PLAYER (SHOW MUSICAL DIRECTOR / MINSTREL) TOM RICHARDSON PLAYER KING (HENRY VIII / BEEFEATER) MARGIT VAN DER ZWAN PLAYER (MINSTREL) BY JOSS WYRE APPRENTICE PLAYER (UNDERSTUDY)

Set and made props by the New Vic Workshop WITH THANKS FOR THIS Costumes by the New Vic Costume Department PRODUCTION TO: Lighting and sound operated by Aaron Batley, Daniella Pippa Church for puppetry tuition Beattie, Alex Day, James Earls-Davis, Sam Eccles Roger Bartlett for associate Fight Direction and Peter Morgan Dave Culling for music direction for Summer School The New Vic’s production of The Prince and The Pauper opened on 16 November 2019 CREATIVE TEAM

THERESA HESKINS ADAPTER AND DIRECTOR JAMES ATHERTON COMPOSER & MUSICAL DIRECTOR LAURA WILLSTEAD SET AND PUPPET DESIGNER LIS EVANS COSTUME DESIGNER DANIELLA BEATTIE LIGHTING DESIGNER BEVERLEY NORRIS-EDMUNDS CHOREOGRAPHER ALEX DAY CO-SOUND DESIGNER JAMES EARLS-DAVIS CO-SOUND DESIGNER PHILIP D'ORLÉANS FIGHT DIRECTOR ANJI CARROLL CDG CASTING ASSOCIATE DAN HUTTON ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ABIGAIL MIDDLETON ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER

STEVE HALL COMPANY STAGE MANAGER ASHLEIGH GERMAN DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER KAYLEIGH COOPER & TRACEY BOOTH ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS AARON BATLEY ASSISTANT STAGE TECHNICIAN

YOUNG COMPANY TEAM FORTUNES ELLA BRADSHAW, ISOBEL BURKE, MOLLY CLEWES, CALLUM DAY, MOLLY FERNEYHOUGH, MARTHA GLOVER-EDGE, MAI MCGREGOR, ANYA SNAPE TEAM ROSES LILY BOWERS, BEATRICE BOWERY-TAYLOR, HOLLY EDWARDS, GEORGE FORSYTH, EVANGELINE GIANNITTO, JESSICA LELLO, MILES LESNIAK, EMILY MARSHALL ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY TEAM SWANS THEA BAILEY, JACQUE BOWEN, OLIVIA CLIFFE, ETA CULLEN-CORNES, ELIZABETH DAILY-HUNT, MARIKA OAKES, JAROM SHERRARD, EMILIA WILDMAN

CHAPERONES INTERPRETED PERFORMANCES: MARIA BOONE – LEAD CHAPERONE Sign Language Interpreted Performance: Thu 28 Nov 10.30am LOUISE GRATTAGE, WILL HENSHALL Audio Described: Wed 8 Jan 10.30am, Sat 11 Jan 2.15pm PATRICK JERVIS, MATT JONES Captioned: Tue 14 Jan 2.15pm, Sat 18 Jan 2.15pm PETER LOWE, MELANIE OSBOURNE Relaxed Performance: Mon 13 Jan 6.00pm GILL POLLARD IN REHEARSAL Photos by Andrew Billington

A Note from the Director...

I’ve written the New Vic’s festive show every year together the first rough draft, but some subjects are since 2009. It’s a huge privilege to make a production so big that you can find yourself drowning in research, that’s seen by the equivalent of 1 in 10 of the Potteries so doing it this way round allowed me to focus on population, with many of being children solving problems and enhancing scenes. I needed to having their first ever trip to the theatre or families out know more about the historical characters themselves: for their Christmas treat. That’s quite a responsibility. Edward VI, Henry VIII, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I. I read I start writing in January, and spend pretty much the up on banquets, including dishes of swan and peacock; whole year thinking of Christmas! Here’s how I go how Royalty would demonstrate their majesty to the about it. general public, in the form of processions and river pageants. I visited Westminster Abbey and the Globe One: the idea Theatre, and found Bruegel’s paintings Children’s Games I start by pondering what stories are brimming with and The Fight Between Carnival and Lent to be useful in Christmas spirit. Am I inspired to adapt a particular getting a sense of life for the poorer sort. story? What is on at a nearby theatre? How do teachers and schoolchildren respond when we consult The next two steps, four and five, are better the other them? These factors all contribute to the decision. way round, but I was busy transferring Around The World In 80 Days to New York and The Worst Witch to I knew the concept of The Prince and The Pauper well, the West End, so the design team had to do their work both from the BBC TV version in the mid-70s, starring before I could find time to complete the script. Nicholas Lyndhurst prior to Only Fools & Horses fame, but also from other films and versions that use the Four: the design process trope, from Trading Places through Blood Brothers to The Tudor period was new to us as a creative team. Mickey Mouse and even an episode of Blackadder. I visited Coventry’s Spon Street for inspiration: this More recently, Barbie has starred in her own movie, fascinating street is a collection of all the medieval The Princess and the Popstar; Sega created a console buildings that survived second world war bombing game; and Netflix’s The Princess Switch was a seasonal campaigns. It is especially well recorded in diagrams and movie. I knew it was a popular idea that can fuel a drawings, so we’ve been able to use it as our model compelling story. of a Tudor street. Set designer Laura Willstead went to research the structure of an Elizabethan playhouse, Two: the crash edit accompanying a tour group around ’s Globe But what would that story be? The novel, and the Errol Theatre (I enjoyed imagining her as the only person Flynn film, contain a lot of court intrigue. Whilst fur- bending down to take photos of how the walls sit robed men whispering in candlelit corridors can make upon their brick foundation so that she could replicate a thrilling Wolf Hall, I didn’t feel that would make the this in the set). With costume designer Lis Evans we cut for family audiences at the New Vic festive show. learned about the Sumptuary Laws which restricted I knew that I wanted to focus more on the adventure the wearing of certain types of cloth and fur to certain side of the story, and that I might replace characters ranks of nobility (with the notable exception of actors) like scheming Lord Hertford (played by Claude Rains and were dazzled by the accounts of the Master of in the ‘30s movie) with historical figures who are more the Revels, including itemisation of expenditure on widely known, yet who might serve a similar plot costumes for the players performing during coronation function. I felt that the repetitive nature of the prince’s pageants, which helped me resolve a plot wrinkle that journey outside the palace would need to be modified; I knew needed to be reached more satisfyingly than in and that the pauper’s experiences inside the palace Mark Twain’s original. would need to be equally important. Five: writing a detailed draft Three: a shed load of research This one was quite a remarkable experience, as it It seems counter-intuitive to do this after putting mainly took place whilst floating on a lilo in a Florida The Fight Between Carnival and Len by Pieter Bruegel the Elder pool. I stayed there for a holiday after opening Around it undergoes the next big change. The first day, when The World In 80 Days in Sarasota, and it’s only now that we sit in a big circle with all the craft and production I realise that quite a lot of the spirit of that production and marketing and education departments and read it has made its way into this one. aloud for the first time, is an anxious experience for us all. But then as the actors start to interrogate the text Another theatrical influence crept in at this point, too. and put it on its feet in the rehearsal room, the magic Mark Twain was massively inspired by Shakespeare, starts to happen. This is my favorite bit of the writing so perhaps it’s not surprising that I have been as process. It’s when the words really start to come well. Whether it be his exhortation to the audience to life: the characters become vivid, and the actors to use their imagination; his vivid interest in bring their special brand of charisma and energy and and witches; his focus on how clothes maketh the ingenuity to the play. man (or woman), and how easily they can provide an impenetrable disguise. And he can always be relied upon for a choice insult. Opening night! Finally, having been lost in the world of the play for Six: working with the Composer months, I get to see the play as if for the first time, all Composer James Atherton and I took a deep breath the moments where I’ve completely missed essential and delved into the world of hautboys, crumhorns pieces of plot; or a moment that’s potentially confusing and psalteries, listening to composers such as John but none of us had spotted. It’s also the moment Dowland, Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons and even where the play gets to meet its most important Henry VIII himself, whose song book has inspired two character: the audience. of the songs in this production. We were delighted to Finally... stumble across the suggestion that the nursery rhyme Of course, I’m already thinking about what next year’s three blind mice had perhaps been inspired by Mary festive show will be, and plan to sit down and start Tudor. writing it just a few weeks from now… Seven: rehearsal Getting the play script into the rehearsal room is when By Artistic Director Theresa Heskins NEW VIC BUILDS TUDOR LONDON TOWN! Designer Laura Willstead’s stunning wrap-around line drawn on the card and a “cut” which will cut design of miniature Tudor houses looked striking on all the way through the card. The drawings were her model box but how could we practically produce then uploaded on to the computer at Wavemaker, 110 handmade 3D houses whilst still building all the downloaded into the laser cutter and the first test other props and set for cuts were done! The Prince and The Pauper? STEP THREE The houses aren’t the With some editing and refining of the designs we first time the New Vic were able to get the laser cutter to cut out a house has made use of the in just over 5 minutes! And so the cutting of houses exciting equipment and began… expertise at Wavemaker, STEP FOUR a digital technology They then returned back to the workshop where specialist based in Hanley. Scenic Artist Denise painted and textured them. You may remember the beautiful willows hanging from the balcony for last STEP FIVE year’s The Wind In The Willows and the vinyl cuts for The houses returned to the technical team who The Snow Queen chandeliers; they were all laser cut installed internal LED lighting to give the houses life. at Wavemaker. So we were lucky to be able to make STEP SIX use of Wavemaker’s equipment and technology again. The houses SO HOW DID WE MAKE THE HOUSES? were mounted and attached STEP ONE to the balcony Designer Laura hand drew four designs which balustrade Melissa from the Workshop team and Danni our where you Chief Electrician digitally converted into Inkscape can see them Software so it could be exported as a file which can twinkling be read by the laser cutter. during the STEP TWO show. By drawing in The whole process was a real team effort which different colours the would have been impossible without the equipment team differentiated at Wavemaker. between a “kiss cut” which looks like a

initiative, we provide digital For younger learners studying Wavemaker is a digital inclusion upskilling workshops, activities at Key Stage 2 and 3 levels, we and engagement specialist and talks that teach key digital offer digital future skills – which offers opportunities to skills around enabling people to a programme of activities to grow skills in all areas of digital become more confident and enable students to interact, technologies. competent with digital learn and engage with the With our digital inclusion technology. creative and digital sectors. Colour us in... Design by Lis Evans Spot the Difference! Can you find the five differences in the pictures below?

Word Grid Fill in the words to complete the grid! 3 LETTERS 7 LETTERS TOM THEATRE 5 LETTERS MA CANTY ROUND PA CANTY HENRY FESTIVE MUSIC DANCE 8 LETTERS ACTOR MARY TUDOR 6 LETTERS CHRISTMAS EDWARD ELIZABETH PRINCE PAUPER NEW VIC PALACE

ANSWERS ON PAGE 22! Find the Crown Can you help Edward find his crown?

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C Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) Mark Twain is a celebrated author of major literary were not immune to tragedy either, as two of his classics from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and siblings died in childhood and his father died in 1847 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to The Prince and The when Twain was just 13 years old. Pauper . In 1850 he became a typesetter for his elder brother He was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in the at the Hannibal Journal, where he would start to village of Florida, Missouri on 30 November 1835. write and draw sketches. It was during the American The sixth child to John and Jan Clemens he was in Civil War when Twain went to work as a reporter ill health as a child and some of his early years of at the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise that he sickliness and time spent with his mother he would took the pen name Mark Twain. A riverboat pilot later incorporate into his novels, but very often called Isaiah Sellers would sign off as Mark Twain, a through rose-tinted glasses. In 1839, his family moved reference to the boating term of ‘marking the twain’; east to the town of Hannibal on the Mississippi River he liked this, took the name and set about forging his where his father believed that their fortune could writing career. be made; here he would be influenced by these By 1869, due to his successful travelling trips surroundings to write the stories about Tom Sawyer lecturing and his career as a journalist, Twain was and Huckleberry Finn. now one of the most famous writers in America. In As a young boy he was imaginative and adventuring. 1876 his most famous works were published: The He and his friends would often play pirates and other Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the sequel, Adventures make believe stories or spend their time fishing, of Huckleberry Finn. swimming and picnicking. Throughout his later life Twain married Olivia Langdon in 1870 who was he was still drawn to the river as he was a keen the daughter of a rich New York merchant. He felt riverboat pilot, as well as a journalist, lecturer and that this would raise his social standing. Though he novelist. had huge success as a writer he had severe financial His youth failings, which consequently would have serious was peppered implications on his life and mental health. with tragedy, It was in 1881 that he wrote his fanciful novel about hardship Tudor : The Prince and The Pauper. He said it and a very was written for ‘young people of all ages.’ challenging social During his later years, death and grief would fill his environment. world again, as he lost 3 of his 4 children to illness, He was but his work would see him honoured with degrees witness to from Universities on both sides of the Atlantic. crime and Twain died on 21 April 1910 at the age of 74 and murder in the is buried in Elmira, New York. He is remembered town over his for his tales of American life in the south, as a time there humourist, a novelist, a political philosopher. and his family CAST

DAVID AHMAD DANIELLE THE HERO (MILES BIRD HENDON / MINSTREL) APPRENTICE HERO For the New Vic: Jago’s Box. (EDWARD) Theatre credits include: The Kite For the New Vic: Astley’s Runner (, West Astounding Adventures. End); The Game’s Afoot (Les Enfants Theatre credits include: Terribles & EBP); Romeo & Juliet The Worst Witch (Vaudeville (Orange Tree, Richmond); The Man Theatre); Aladdin (Theatre Royal, Without A Past (New Perspectives); Eyecatcher (Sheffield Wakefield); The Hypocrite (Hull Truck / Royal Shakespeare Crucible); Potted Potter (Little Shubert Theater, New Company); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); Not York / Melbourne International Comedy Festival); Potted Moses (); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Pirates (Pleasance, Edinburgh); Ernest & The Pale Moon (Les (Birmingham REP); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Enfants Terribles); Sleeping Beauty (Colchester Mercury); Terribles); Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s The Good Soul of Szechuan, Fear & Misery in The Third Dream, Othello, Cyrano De Bergerac. (Chester Performs / Reich (Watford Palace); A Christmas Carol (TNT / ADGE); Grosvenor Open Air Theatre); Princess and The Pea (York Ideomotor (London Horror and Vaults Festivals); George’s Theatre Royal); Father Christmas and The Icicle Bicycle, Marvellous Medicine, Tom’s Midnight Garden (Birmingham Stage Tea Time (Oxford Playhouse); The Prince and The Pauper Company); Romeo & Juliet (Akademie der Kunst, Berlin). (); Colin Hoult’s Real Horror Show (Leicester Television and film credits include: Kat and The Square Theatre); No Ball Games (New Wolsey Theatre); Band (Boudica Films); Doctors (BBC); Apple Tree (Principal Theatre); Slick (Scarabeus Theatre Yard (Kudos); The Show (Avalon). Dance Company); , Hamlet (Young Shakespeare Company); You Me Bum Bum Train (YMBBT). Danielle also performs stilt walking, puppetry and storytelling shows with the circus theatre company Circo Rum Ba Ba. Television credits include: Vengeance (Light Films); The Investigator (ITV / Netflix) The Wives Did It (Discovery); Holby City (BBC); The Double Life of Morton Coyle (The Comedy Unit / BBC). Film credits include: Now You See Me 2 (Lionsgate); A Running Jump, ’s Olympic film (BBC Films / Film4). NICHOLE KIERAN BIRD BUCKERIDGE APPRENTICE FOOL (TOM) PLAYER MANAGER (FIRST LORD This is Nichole’s first appearance OF EVERYTHING / MINSTREL) at the New Vic. For the New Vic: By Jeeves and Theatre credits include: The Wind in the Willows. The Dutch Lady, Look About Him, Theatre credits include: Swallows The Wits (Shakespeare’s’ Globe and Amazons (York Theatre Royal); / ); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (London Classic Theatre); Up Down Man, Can’t (Immersion Theatre); Unmythable (Out of Chaos); Love’s Buy Me Love, Mother Goose, Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty Victory (Urania Theatre); The Rakes Progress (Theatre de (Salisbury Playhouse); The Secret Adversary, Pinafore Swing Complicité / DNO); Peter Pan, Cinderella (Theatre Royal, (Watermill Theatre); Elektra, The Rivals, , Winchester); James And The Giant Peach (Sell A Door); Our Country’s Good, The Recruiting Officer, Private Lives, After The (GSP Studios); A Christmas Carol – More Or The Deep Blue Sea, Loot, The Woman in Black, The Good Less! (Climar Productions); Alice’s Adventures Underground Companions, All My Sons (Keswick Theatre by the Lake); (Les Enfant Terribles / Scarabeus); Dylan Thomas In Fiztrovia Two, Merlin (The Dukes, Lancaster); , Festival; Comedy Of Errors, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Moonlight and Magnolias, Dream, Cyrano De Bergerac, Othello (Storyhouse); The Prince The Mikado (Stephen Joseph Theatre); David Copperfield, And The Pauper (Unicorn Theatre); The Real Horror Show Travels with my Aunt, Return to the Forbidden Planet, (); You Me Bum Bum Train; Death Dick Barton (Oldham Coliseum); Hamlet, Alice in Of A Salesman (TNT / AGD Europe); Arden Of Faversham Wonderland (The Nuffield Theatre, Southampton). (Em-Lou Productions); The Woman Before (); As You Like It (Principal Theatre Company). Television and film credits include: Traitors (); Darkest Hour (Working Title); Dementamania (Ronin Film credits include: A Running Jump (Thin Man Films); Pictures); Ye Olde Dragon’s Den, Moving On, Pearly Gates, Zoe (RSA Productions); Now You See Me 2 (Lionsgate / Worried about the Boy (BBC); Heartbeat and Emmerdale (ITV); NYSM2 Ltd); Mousie (Smart Films) (Granada). Television credits include: The Wives Did It (Discovery ID); Kieran is a composer and was recipient of a Cameron Holby City (BBC); The Tree Fairy (Remark! Media); The Double Mackintosh bursary resulting in a 6 month residency Life Of Morton Coyle (BBC). at . He has written for Northern Broadsides, Other credits include: Welsh Tourist in National Trust – Stephen Joseph Theatre, Salisbury Playhouse, Tobacco Podcast (National Trust); Geraldine Clarkson Anthology, The Factory, Dukes Theatre, Mikron Theatre Company and Empty Horizon Poetry Anthology (Live Canon); Bose Sound York Theatre Royal. Touch Animation (Minivegas) (Audio / Voice Over); The Life And Opinions Of Mary Read, Lady Percy (Queynte Ladies); Payback The Musical (Milton Productions); Wounds To The Face (Constellation Creatives) Nichole also performs with Street and Circus Theatre Company Circo Rum Ba Ba. Nichole graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, BA Hons in Performance. GARETH MATTHEW CASSIDY GANLEY PLAYER QUEEN (MARY FOOL (PA CANTY / MINSTREL) TUDOR / BEEFEATER) For the New Vic: Around The World For the New Vic: Treasure In 80 Days, The Snow Queen and Our Island, Astley’s Astounding Gracie (co-production with Oldham Adventures and . Coliseum). Theatre credits include: Theatre credits include: Wonderful Spring & Port Wine (Oldham Coliseum); Cinderella (LBT Wizard Of Oz (Octagon Theatre); Maggie May (Liverpool’s Huddersfield); The Hobbit, Beauty & The Beast, Hansel & Royal Court); Bread and Roses, The Ladykillers (Oldham Gretel, The Life & Times Of Mitchell And Kenynon, Christmas Coliseum); Beryl (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Once – the Carol, Pierre Point – A Hangman’s Tale, Peter Pan, Treasure Musical (the Phoenix Theatre, London); Blonde Bombshells of Island (The Dukes, Lancaster); Beauty And The Beast, ‘Tis 1943 (number one national tour); Much Ado About Nothing Pity She’s A Whore, Vincent On Brixton and She Stoops To (Lancaster Castle); Aladdin (Everyman Playhouse, Liverpool); Conquer (Keswick Theatre by the Lake); Little Shop Of The Winter’s Tale (the Brindley Theatre, Runcorn); Word:Play Horrors (Salisbury Playhouse); Heidi, We Are Three Sisters tour (Box of Tricks Theatre); The Crypt Project (Happystorm (Northern Broadsides); Crying In The Chapel (Contact Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (Shakespeare’s Globe / Sam Theatre Manchester); In The Picture (M6 Theatre); Hard Times Wanamaker Festival); Once in a House on Fire (Monkeywood (Library Theatre Manchester); Around The World In 80 Days Theatre); The Play That Killed Me, The Lonely Clouds of (Chipping Norton Theatre & Tour); Exchange Your Talent Guernica, God Wept and the Devil Laughed (Come As You Arts (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Wild Adventures Of Robin – winner of the Manchester Theatre Award for Best Studio Hood (Sticks Theatre); Hamlet, The Merchant Of Venice (Demi Performance); Macbeth (Pendley Shakespeare Festival); Romeo Paradise Theatre at Lancaster Castle); Pinocchio (Oldham and Juliet (the Royal Armouries); The Laramie Project (Hope Children’s Theatre) Cell (24 / 7 and Re:Play Festivals). Theatre Company). Television credits include: South Riding (BBC); The Great Television credits include: Prey – series two, Emmerdale Train Robbery (World Productions); Curfew (Tiger Aspect (ITV); Accused – series two (RSJ Films); Waterloo Road (BBC); for Sky); 7 Days That Rocked Elton (ITV for Channel 5). Shameless, Hollyoaks, Riots (Channel 4). Gareth has extensive Radio and Audio Book Credits Film credits include: The Violators (Red Union Films); Block, including: Keep The Home Fires Burning, And Is There Honey The Lane (Silent Productions). Still For Tea (BBC Radio 4) and he is the voice of all the Radio credits include: Rock (Dark Smile Productions); Meerkat Madness Audio Books. Dreaming of Foxes (BBC). A graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University, Matthew trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. ELLIOT GOOCH SUFIA APPRENTICE PLAYER MANYA (UNDERSTUDY / MINSTREL) DAME (MA CANTY / This is Elliot’s first appearance MINSTREL) at the New Vic. This is Sufia’s first appearance Theatre credits include: Once on at the New Vic. This Island (); Theatre credits include: The Hired West Side Story (New Alexandra Man (Queens Theatre Hornchuch Birmingham); Boogie Nights (New / Hull Truck Theatre / Oldham Colesium); The Wonderful Alexandra Birmingham); 42nd Street (Wyvern Theatre); Brit Wizard of Oz (Bolton Octagon Theatre); Miss Littlewood Awards (02 Arena). (Royal Shakespeare Company); 101 Dalmatians (Birmingham Film credits include: All Those Things (AOD); The Interview Repertory Theatre); Ragtime (); (Mystery Pictures). Venice Preserv’d (The Spectator’s Guild); The Smartest Giant In Town (Folksy Theatre UK Tour); Love; Lies And Lust (Queens Workshops: Bess: A Pop Musical. Theatre Hornchurch); Consider This (Guildford Electric Credits at Bird College: Jesus Christ Superstar, Legally Blonde, Theatre); Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Artix Theatre Love’s Labour’s Lost, People Places & Things, Promises Promises, – Bromsgrove); The Wizard Of Oz (Stafford Gatehouse Anything Goes, Little Revolution. Theatre); Urinetown (Derby Guildhall Theatre); The Dark Entry (Canterbury Festival); No Exit (Hexagon Theatre; Credits at National Youth Music Theatre: Brass, Encore. Birmingham); Les Mains Sales (Crescent Theatre; Birmingham) Other: Soloist / Principle Trumpet (New York International As Musical Director: Return to the Forbidden Planet, Lights Music Festival – Carnegie Hall), 1st Trumpet (Music For Youth Up! (Lytton Theatre); Honk! The Musical (Gordon Craig Proms – ). Theatre SDA); Summer Holiday, Their Scarves Were Red & Cruisin (Highbury Youth Theatre); Made in Dagenham (Impact Theatre, workshop) JASMIN Workshop credits include: The Wicker Husband (Unicorn HINDS Theatre); Verbatim (Key Theatre; Peterborough). PLAYER PRINCESS (ELIZABETH I) Sufia trained at Drama Studio London & Royal Birmingham This is Jasmin’s first appearance Conservatoire (MMUS, BMUS (HONS), PGDip). at the New Vic. Theatre credits include: Summer and Smoke (Duke of York’s). TOM Television credits include: RICHARDSON The Amelia Gething Complex (BBC). PLAYER KING (HENRY VIII / Jasmin graduated from RADA in July 2018. BEEFEATER) For the New Vic: Roots (co-production with Mercury Theatre Colchester / Nottingham Playhouse / Hull Truck). Theatre credits include: , The Merry Wives of Windsor (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Storyhouse, Chester); Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Sense & Sensibility, Single Spies, Dial ‘M’ For Murder, Watch It Sailor!, The Rivals (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); ’s Glasses (Watford Palace Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Snow White and Other Tales from The Brothers Grimm, Treasure Island, The Wind in The Willows (Creation Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo & Juliet, The Wind in The Willows, Macbeth, (Chester Performs); Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment (The Rose Playhouse); The White Carnation (The Finborough / ); The Winter’s Tale, The Rivals, The Grapes of MARGIT VAN Wrath, Arsenic and Old Lace (all for The Mercury Theatre DER ZWAN Colchester’s acting company); The Mousetrap (Asia Tour PLAYER (MINSTREL) and West End); Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes and Dad’s Army This is Margit’s first appearance Marches On (UK No. 1 Tours). at the New Vic. Tom trained at The Webber Douglas Academy Theatre credits include: of Dramatic Art. The Bacchae (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Cabaret (Carré Theatre, Amsterdam); FAZ SHAH Lolly, Pops, Circus Props (Artful Playground); High Tea in PLAYER (SHOW MUSICAL Wonderland (Manchester International Festival); Love of Seven Dolls (Chickenshed Theatre, London); Sleeping Beauty DIRECTOR / MINSTREL) (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Aladdin (Queen’s Theatre, For the New Vic: Astley’s Astounding Hornchurch); Jack and the Beanstalk (Queen’s Theatre, Adventures. Hornchurch); Comedy of Composers (, Faz Shah (Farhaan Aamir Shah) is London). an actor, composer, script writer Television and film credits include: Mount Pleasant and beatboxing violinist from (Sky 1); Heading Out, In The Flesh, From There to Here, Manchester and has performed all The Worst Witch, The A Word (BBC); Pat and Cabbage, around the world in prestigious Paranoid (ITV); Snatch (Sony Crackle); (All4); venues both as a solo performer and with orchestras. He Years & Years (BBC / HBO). was invited to to attend a performance of Romeo and Juliet alongside other actors, dancers and As a cellist, Margit has recorded and toured with artists musicians from all over the world and to meet Her Majesty including Elbow, Cinematic Orchestra, Emeli Sande, I Am the Queen & Prince Philip. Kloot, ELO Experience, Richard Hawley, Dutch Uncles, Mat Halsall’s Gondwana Orchestra, The Maccabees, Beth Credits include: Eid With the Neighbours (collaboration with Orton, Roy Wood, Mick Harvey, Danni Nicholls, The Slow Brimero Entertainment and Penny Appeal); The Awakening Show, Taz Modi. She also teaches and is involved with several (UK Tour); Common Lore (Sophia Hatfield); Code Blue (Sam music charities (Music in Hospitals, Lime Arts, High Peak Glen); CBeebies, British Muslim TV, BBC Radio Liverpool Community Arts). International Music Festival (Garage Classical Orchestra in collaboration with the Royal Northern College of Music); Margit trained at Leeds University and Central St Martin’s / The Hallé Orchestra – bringing classical music to disadvantaged UAL. communities, Music Action International (Freetown, Sierra Leone); Royal Northern College of Music (Workshops); Tipp (Prisons and care centres). JOSS WYRE Faz has also delivered his own sessions in over a hundred APPRENTICE PLAYER schools across the UK. You can listen to Faz Shah on (UNDERSTUDY) YouTube, iTunes and Spotify. This is Joss’ first appearance at the New Vic. Theatre credits include: Vassa Zheleznova (Southwark Playhouse); Richard III (The Faction); Five Birds In a Cage, The New Poor, Pros and Cons, The Rest Cure (Optik Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Watch Your Head); Between the Soup and Savoury (Love, Work and the Vote); Jane Eyre (Rosemary Branch); Print (). Television and film credits include: Winter Ridge (Chris Hardman Pictures / Camelot Films); The Hallow (Occupant Entertainment). Joss trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. CREATIVE TEAM

YOUNG COMPANY THERESA HESKINS Thea Bailey, Jacque Bowen, Lily Bowers, ADAPTER AND DIRECTOR Beatrice Bowery-Taylor, Ella Bradshaw, For the New Vic: The 39 Steps, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Votes for Women, Treasure Island, Around The World In 80 Isobel Burke, Molly Clewes, Olivia Cliffe, Days (US and UK tour), The Royal Exchange, winner of the Eta Cullen-Cornes, Elizabeth Daily-Hunt, Cameo Page to Stage Award); The Snow Queen (winner of Callum Day, Holly Edwards, Molly Ferneyhough, UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young George Forsyth, Evangeline Giannitto, People); Peter Pan in Scarlet with Oxford Playhouse, Kiss Me Quickstep, Robin Hood & Marian, Unearthed and The Throne Martha Glover-Edge, Jessica Lello, Miles Lesniak, in association with the National Theatre Studio, Dracula, Emily Marshall, Mai McGregor, Marika Oakes, The Borrowers, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Widowers’ Jarom Sherrard, Anya Snape, Emilia Wildman Houses, A Christmas Carol, Far From the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life?, Alice in Wonderland; The Rivals, The Admirable Crichton, Peter Pan, Bleak House, Humble Boy, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The Wicked Lady, A Voyage Round My Father, The Weir, Great Expectations, The Wizard of Oz, Cider With Rosie, Jamaica Inn, The Glee Club. Theatre as Director: The Worst Witch ( and UK tour), White Open Spaces (South Bank Show Decibel Award nominee), Silent Engine (Edinburgh Fringe First), Precious Bane for Pentabus Theatre; Grace for Jade Theatre. Writing includes: BBC Women’s Hour radio dramas Lady Audley’s Secret, Wives and Daughters, Gunspowder Women. Shows created for the New Vic at Christmas have been produced all over the UK, including by the Watermill Theatre, Northern Stage, Edinburgh Lyceum, Cardiff Sherman, Kingston Rose and Northampton Theatres. Trained at Birmingham Rep on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme.

JAMES ATHERTON COMPOSER AND MUSICAL DIRECTOR For the New Vic: The 39 Steps, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Treasure Island, Around The World In 80 Days (2017 co- production with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Dracula, The Snow Queen, Peter Pan in Scarlet, Kiss Me Quickstep, Robin Hood & Marian, the Hoard Festival, The Borrowers, Around The World In Eighty Days (2014 co-production with Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; 2013); The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Stones in His Pockets, A Christmas Carol, Phoenix From the Flames (Olympic torch relay); Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Theatre as Composer / Musical Director credits include: The Man Without A Past (New Perspectives); A Tiger’s Tale (M6 Theatre Company); Prom, When We Built A Rocket Ship (Oldham Coliseum), Hansel and Gretel (Live@TheLibrary Oldham) The Visitors Book (Hope Mill Theatre); The Giant Jam Sandwich, The Tiger’s Bones (New Perspectives – National Tour); ‘Tis Written In The Stars (Oldham Coliseum); Bedtime UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young Stories (Upswing at Stratford Circus). People); The Mountaintop, Talent, Diana of Dobson’s, Robin Hood & Marian, The Hoard Festival, Dracula, Merry Wives, Television as Composer credits include: The History Of Around The World In Eighty Days (2014 co-production with Christianity, Tales From the National Parks, The Lives of Gandhi, the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; 2013); I Don’t Around the World in 80 Faiths (BBC); Survivors, Kenny Everett: Want to Set the World on Fire!, An August Bank Holiday Lark, Licence to Laugh (ITV1); The Unseen Eric Morecambe (Channel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Stones in His Pockets, Talking 4); Roger to the Rescue (Cosgrove Hall); Colleen’s Secrets Heads, A Christmas Carol, Proof, Spring and Port Wine. (Channel 5); All in the Game, starring Ray Winstone (Film4). James is also the Artistic Director of the renowned Oldham Other theatre credits include: The Canterbury Tales, Merry Theatre Workshop. Wives, Romeo and Juliet, Vacuum, The Tempest (Northern Broadsides UK and China Tour) and design, painting and making various productions in Nottingham, Manchester, LAURA WILLSTEAD Bradford Edinburgh and London SET AND PUPPET DESIGNER Lis has contributed to the National Life Stories collection For the New Vic: The Wind in the Willows, Astley’s Astounding for the British Library’s sound archive. Adventures, Treasure Island, The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young Costume drawings from various New Vic Productions People); Robin Hood & Marian, Dracula, The Borrowers, are currently on display on the New Vic Front-of-House The Hundred and One Dalmatians, A Christmas Carol, Alice in lampshades. Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Great Expectations. DANIELLA BEATTIE For New Vic Education and Borderlines: The Knotty, LIGHTING DESIGNER The Flood, Katy Clay (Education TiE Tour); All Mixed Up As resident Lighting Designer at the New Vic, productions (Borderlines TiE Tour); Cuba, The Government Inspector (Youth include: , The 39 Steps, The Strange Undoing of Theatre Main House); Fright Fest (Youth Opportunity). Prudencia Hart, Brassed Off, Much Ado About Nothing(co- Theatre design credits include: The Game (Northern production with Northern Broadsides), The Wind in the Broadsides National Tour); Previous (Geese UK Theatre Willows, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Table, Votes for Women, Company National Tour); Would Like to Meet (Stoke Rep); Treasure Island, The Pitmen Painters, Dial M for Murder, The On the Home Front, Singin’ in the Rain, Sticks and Stones (Reveal Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award for Best Show Theatre Company); The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Good for Children and Young People); Peter Pan in Scarlet (co- Woman of Szechwan (Arden Theatre); Dealing Dreams production with Oxford Playhouse); The Mountaintop, Diana (Real Life Theatre Company). of Dobson’s, Kiss Me Quickstep (co-production with Oldham Coliseum); Tale Trail to Robin Hood & Marian, Robin Hood Film and television credits include: Britannic Street, & Marian, Seeing the Lights, the Hoard Festival, Dracula, Bell, BT TalkWorks promotion, BP, International Climate Control, Book and Candle, The Borrowers, Ghosts, Inherit the Wind, The Manchester Mardi Gras (Ric Mellis Productions); Hollyoaks, Hundred and One Dalmatians, Gaslight, Stones in His Pockets, Brookside (Mersey Television). Blonde Bombshells (co-production with Oldham Coliseum); Laura is Head of Workshops at the New Vic Theatre. Thrill of Love (co-production with St James Theatre); A Fine Bright Day Today, Alfie (co-production with Stephen Joseph Theatre and Oldham Coliseum); The Wicked Lady (Best LIS EVANS Lighting Design at the 2009 TMA Awards). COSTUME DESIGNER Other theatre credits include: Ramshackle House (Upswing); As Resident Designer for the New Vic, Lis has designed Girls, Girls, Girls (Potboiler Theatre); The Ragged Trousered over 120 productions including: Brassed Off, Much Ado Philanthropists, We Are the Lions Mr Manager, Dare Devil Rides About Nothing (Northern Broadsides co-production, to Jarama and Rouse, Ye Women! (Townsend Productions); and International tour); Costumes for The Wind in the Peter Pan (Halifax Victoria Theatre); Man Up, The Voyages, Willows, Treasure Island, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Set You Are Here (Restoke); Cyrano (co-production with the New and Costume designs for Playhouse Creatures, The Pitmen Vic); Dick Whittington (Rotherham Civic); Romeo and Juliet, Painters, Around The World In 80 Days (2017 co-production The Tempest (Northern Broadsides); Extra Yarn (Filament). with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange, Manchester – winner of the Cameo Page Daniella trained in Theatre Design and Technology to Stage Award); Dial M for Murder, Cyrano (co-production at Bretton Hall (University of Leeds). with Northern Broadsides), The Snow Queen (winner of Associate Sound Designer: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia BEVERLEY Hart, Around The World In 80 Days (2017 co-production with NORRIS-EDMUNDS Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal CHOREOGRAPHER Exchange – winner of the Cameo Page to Stage Award); Beverley has worked on over 50 productions at the New Around The World In Eighty Days (2014 co-production with Vic, recent credits include: Handbagged, High Flyers (New Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester). Vic Borderlines); The 39 Steps, Much Ado About Nothing (co- Freelance Sound Designs: Stoke: A Love Story (Potboiler production with Northern Broadsides); Around The World In Theatre); Prom! The Musical – (Oldham Theatre Workshop). 80 Days, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Playhouse Creatures, Treasure Island, The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People); Peter JAMES EARLS-DAVIS Pan in Scarlet, Kiss Me Quickstep. CO-SOUND DESIGNER Recent Choreography includes: The Worst Witch (Vaudeville As resident Sound Designer for the New Vic, productions Theatre West End, Royal and Derngate and National Tour); include: Handbagged, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Cinderella, O What a Lovely War, Up ‘n’ Under, Hot Stuff, Chicago The 39 Steps, Intemperance, Much Ado About Nothing (co- (MEN Theatre Award for Best Ensemble – Oldham Coliseum production with Northern Broadsides), The Wind In The Theatre); Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Scouse Pacific, Maggie May Willows (co-designed with Alex Day), Astley’s Astounding (The Musical) Scouse Nativity, Our Day Out the Musical, (Royal Adventures (co-designed with Alex Day); Educating Rita, Court Theatre Liverpool) Hard Times, For The Pitmen Painters, Around The World In 80 Days (2017 co- Love or Money, Cyrano (co-production with the New Vic); production with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon A Winter’s Tale, Loves Labours Lost (Northern Broadsides); Friend and Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester – winner The D Road (Claybody Theatre). of the Cameo Page to Stage Award); Anna of the Five Towns, Dial M for Murder, The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Tours include: Around The World In 80 Days (New Victory Award for Best Show for Children and Young People – co- Theatre, Broadway, New York and UK Theatre Tour, co- designed with Alex Day); The Kitchen Sink, Peter Pan in Scarlet production with New Vic Theatre, Kenny Wax Family (co-production with Oxford Playhouse, co-designed with entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange Theatre, Alex Day); Kiss Me Quickstep (co-production with Oldham Manchester); Return to the Forbidden Planet, The Man without a Coliseum, co-designed with Alex Day); Robin Hood & Marian, Past (New Perspectives Theatre Company); Carmen. Dracula (co-designed with Alex Day); Seeing the Lights, The Television credits include: Disney’s The Evermoor Chronicles, Hoard Festival, The Ladykillers. Coronation Street, Butterfly, Hollyoaks, Cbeebie’s The Magic Original music includes: Bell, Book and Candle, The Thrill Door, Sunny D, Fernando Torres Nike Commercial, September of Love, Gaslight, Proof, Desire Under the Elms, Copenhagen, Song and O Jerusalem (feature film). Blue/Orange, Misery, Dealer’s Choice, Romeo and Juliet, Broken Beverley has also worked on numerous productions for: Glass (solo); Talking Heads, Smoke, Once We Were Mothers, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Bolton Octagon, West Kes, All That Trouble That We Had (with Russell Gregory); Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman The Wicked Lady, Romeo and Juliet and A Fine Bright Day & Playhouse, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Liverpool Empire, Today (with Sue Moffat). Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, Hull Truck Theatre, Sound design and / or original music includes: Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke and Harrogate Theatre. Play (B-Arts); Devotion (Potboiler Theatre); The Game (Northern Broadsides); A Number (Library Theatre, Manchester); These Four Streets (Birmingham Repertory); ALEX DAY , Frozen (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); King Macbeth, CO-SOUND DESIGNER Silent Anger, Homefront, Sticks and Stones (Reveal Theatre Co); Sound Designs for the New Vic: The 39 Steps, Votes For Twelfth Night (Belgrade, Coventry). Women, Beryl, The Mountaintop. Co-Designs: Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Treasure Island, The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award for Best PHILIP D’ORLÉANS Show for Children and Young People); Peter Pan in Scarlet FIGHT DIRECTOR (co-production with Oxford Playhouse); Kiss Me Quickstep For the New Vic: Brassed Off, Treasure Island, Dial M For (co-production with Oldham Coliseum); Robin Hood & Murder, Much Ado About Nothing (co-production with Marian, Dracula. Northern Broadsides), Cyrano and Hamlet (co-productions with Northern Broadsides); Kiss Me Quickstep, Robin Hood & Marian, Gaslight, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Ladykillers, Bristol Old Vic including Henry IV Parts One and Two, The Far From The Madding Crowd, The Rivals, Bleak House, Notebook of Trigorin, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Antigone, Humble Boy. The Beggar’s Opera, A Chorus of Disapproval, (Bristol Old Vic). Philip is an Equity Registered Fight Director, and a fight examiner for the BASSC. He teaches at RADA and Drama Television credits include: BBC2’s comedy drama series Studio London. The Cup, The Bill (over 50 episodes); The Sarah Jane Adventures – Invasion of the Bane, two series of London’s Burning (32 Other theatre includes: Shakespeare In Love (National episodes); The Knock (4 x 90-minute episodes). Theatre, Norway); Agreed (Glyndebourne); Simon Boccanegra (Greek National Opera); Merry Wives Of Windsor, King Lear Other credits include: – feature film 2.0 Lucy, feature film (Shakespeare’s Globe); Andrea Chenier, Simon Boccanegra Papadopoulos & Sons, West Is West, Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution, (); Lion In Winter, Jekyll & Hyde (Frankfurt Out of Depth, The Jolly Boys’ Last Stand, drama-documentary: English Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal, Stratford Curiosity – What Sank Titanic?, Mayday, Joan of Arc. East); The Outsider (Print Room); Romeo & Juliette (Korea Radio credits include: BBC Radio 4 political drama series National Opera); Titus Andronicus (RSC / Barbican); They Number 10. Don’t Pay, We Won’t Pay, Brighton Rock (Theatre Royal York); The Kite Runner (Wyndham’s Theatre); Cabaret (National Anji is a member of the Casting Directors’ Guild of Great Tour); Alzira, Macbeth 1847 (Buxton Opera Festival); Robin Britain and BAFTA Hood, Kindertransport, Our Country’s Good (Nottingham Playhouse); King Lear (Northern Broadsides); Treasure Island, Robin Hood (Duke’s Theatre); Great Expectations (National DAN HUTTON Tour); The Ladykillers (Hull Truck Theatre); Grapes of Wrath, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Dedication (Nuffield Southampton); Corpse, Hamlet (Vienna Directing credits include: CONSPIRACY (Barrel Organ, New English Theatre); Fox On The Fairway (Queen’s Theatre Diorama Theatre); Bingo (Pleasance); Anyone’s Guess How We Hornchurch); Faustus (Creation Theatre Oslo). Got Here (Barrel Organ, Camden People’s Theatre); Big Guns Film includes: King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword (Warner (The Yard); The Spanish Tragedy (Old Red Lion). Bros); Pan (Warner Bros); The Knife That Killed Me (Universal Associate Director credits include: Daughters of the Sun Pictures); Dark Signal (Racing Snake Prods). (Camden People’s Theatre). Assistant Director credits include: The Glass Menagerie ANJI CARROLL CDG (Headlong); Pioneer (curious directive); Cat on a Hot Tin CASTING ASSOCIATE Roof (Royal & Derngate, Northern Stage, Manchester Royal Exchange). Over 50 plays for the New Vic: including Around The World In 80 Days, – winner of the Cameo Page to Stage Award Dan is a founding member of touring theatre company at New Vic, Royal Exchange, UK Tour, New York and Barrel Organ. Florida, Produced by Kenny Wax Family Entertainment. The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award, Best Show for Children and Young People); The 39 Steps – soon to be returning by popular demand, and Astley’s Astounding Adventures. Other theatre credits include: Sleeping Beauty (Greenwich Panto); Pippi Longstocking, The Worst Witch – Royal & Derngate, Northampton, which after a successful UK tour transferred to the West End this summer. The Man Without A Past, The Giant Jam Sandwich, Harvest, The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock, and others (New Perspectives); The Snow Queen, Pinocchio (Birmingham Old Rep); The Wizard of Oz (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Jungle Book (Northampton and UK Tour); Before The Party, Echo’s End, Aladdin (Salisbury Playhouse); Judgement Day (The Print Room); Precious Little Talent (Best Play at the London Theatre Festival Awards 2011 – Trafalgar Studios); Richard III, Macbeth, Othello (Ludlow Festival); Seasons for the Northcott Theatre Exeter and ANSWERS: Find the Crown! Spot the Difference

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Tableware kindly supplied by Dudson, 2019 NEW VIC PATRONS Many thanks also ANNIVERSARY & PATRONS CIRCLE Hollingsworth Kathleen Golby Geoff Price to our Patrons and CENTRE STAGE Andrews Dawn Howard those who wish to M Graham George Pritchard PATRONS Graham Bagnall Sheila Howells remain anonymous. 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The Front-of-House Manager is on duty For copyright reasons, taking photographs or throughout the performance. Please ask if making sound recordings is not allowed. you require assistance. Should you need to leave the auditorium All smoke effects in New Vic productions during the performance, you may be asked are safe and non-toxic. to wait until a suitable break before you can be readmitted.

Remember to silence mobile phones There is no smoking in the building. Under and digital devices. the no smoking legislation, where the artistic integrity of a performance makes it If crossing the stage area, please exercise appropriate, actors may be permitted extreme caution as trip hazards may be to smoke on stage. present.

ACCESS

The New Vic welcomes all customers and is Baby-changing facilities available. committed to providing access to the arts for all. You are welcome to breastfeed in any of our Currently services includes: Front-of-House areas. If you would like a private space, please speak to our Box Office Team. Free parking available close to the theatre entrance for Blue Badge holders (reserve a Assistance Dogs are welcome, to take space with our Box Office). your dog into the auditorium, please let Box Office know when booking. Automatic doors and level access into the foyer, ramped access to the auditorium on the ground floor and lift access to the first Balcony Seating floor. Please note: our balcony seating is accessible by stairs only, is approximately 30ft above Wheelchair spaces available on both the the main stage and is not recommended for very ground and first floor. Disabled toilets young children and those with mobility concerns. available on both levels of the theatre.

Induction Loop (not available for amplified performances) and an Infrared assisted hearing system.

Achieving all the New Vic’s work would simply not LOVE THEATRE; CHANGE LIVES: be possible without the fantastic support of audience BECOME A NEW VIC PATRON members who choose to become Patrons. New Vic Patrons support us with monthly or annual donations JOIN NEW VIC PATRONS TODAY that fund our creative work as well as community If you wish to make use of any of these services, please inform the Box Office at time of booking. AND HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE and education projects that help some of the most For more information on the above facilities, pleasevulnerable contact [email protected] people in our area. This work is specialist and intensive, if we are to continue to invest in theatre- making and our pioneering work with local people we need your support.

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We’ve been creating excellent theatre-in-the round for over 30 years at our home in Newcastle-under-Lyme and, as a registered charity, our Supporters, Sponsors and Business Friends are crucial to our continued success.

The New Vic would like to thank our Business Friends for their support.

We welcome over 150,000 people through Find out more about how you can work with our doors each year to see world-class theatre, one of the region’s outstanding success stories and participate in life-changing projects with and add your business support to the culture the community. of the local area.

Contact Fiona Wallace, New Vic Managing Director, on 01782 717954 or email [email protected]

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The New Vic Theatre operates thanks to a unique partnership between Arts Council England, Staffordshire County Council, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council. Charity Registration number: 253242 Company Registration number: 911924 Registered Office: Etruria Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 0JG