Henry V

All photos, unless stated, Johan Persson. “What an audacious and imaginative start this is to the Open Air Theatre’s season” Evening Standard

Continuing our ambition to stage large scale theatre for families, Michael Morpurgo’s jungle adventure, Running Wild, incorporated a Young People’s Ensemble of over 50 drawn from our local community, as well as life-size puppetry in the form of orang-utans, a tiger and an elephant. Co-produced with Chichester Festival Theatre, the production embarks on a UK tour in 2017.

Opening on the eve of the EU referendum, Henry V - Shakespeare’s play examining England’s relationship with her European neighbours - was staged to celebrate his legacy in this, the 400th anniversary of his death. With Michelle Terry in the title role, a soundscape of warfare played throughout the venue accompanying choreographed battles.

“What better example of the unintentionally site-specific. Regent’s Park becomes a version of an ideal Britain. Lush, green, inviting. Around the stage, bushes press in, heavy with rain. Birds don’t so much chirrup as bellow their freedom. They soar over the stage, unchallenged across boundaries” (Observer)

As a self-funded charity with ticket sales accounting for over 90% of income, audience engagement and development are key to our success. and Pride and Prejudice played to capacity audiences, with both productions continuing into 2017; Pride and Prejudice tours the UK until March and Jesus Christ Superstar returns to the Open Air Theatre to conclude the 2017 season giving audiences one final chance to see it in its original home.

“This is a theatre that doesn’t operate in spite of the elements, but whose magic is in large part created by them” WhatsOnStage

Timothy Sheader William Village Artistic Director Executive Director

Directors Timothy Sheader 13 May – 12 Jun & Dale Rooks Designer Paul Wills Puppetry Design & Direction Finn Caldwell & Toby Olié for Gyre & Gimble Movement Director Georgina Lamb Composer & Musical Director Rod Paton Sound Score Nick Powell Lighting Designer Paul Anderson Sound Designer Nick Lidster for Autograph Season Associate Director (Voice & Text) Barbara Houseman Casting Director Jessica Ronane CDG Ensemble Casting Verity Naughton Music Director (Performance) Louise Anna Duggan

In partnership with

“The puppetry is EXQUISITE, “Remarkable by its inventive, with full-sized animals EVOCATIVE STAGING” manipulated so they The Times seem to breathe with “Manages to take children documentary life. And into the darker areas of as the sun goes down life – bereavement, death, over Regent’s Park and environmental destruction Paul Anderson’s – while emerging with atmospheric lighting a message of hope and kicks in, THE MAGIC encouragement. A BRILLIANT, REALLY HITS YOU” LIFE-AFFIRMING SHOW” Daily Telegraph “This out-does both War Horse and in the puppetry stakes…it’s a BRILLIANT SPECTACLE” Guardian

Director Robert Hastie 17 Jun – 09 Jul Set & Costume Designer Anna Fleischle Movement Director John Ross Composer Yaron Engler Lighting Designer Joshua Carr Sound Designer Avgoustos Psillas for Autograph Season Associate Director (Voice & Text) Barbara Houseman Fight Director Kate Waters Casting Directors Alastair Coomer CDG & Charlotte Sutton Lead Media Partner

Coordinated by Kings College

“Cry God for Harry, England “Astonishing gender- and equality! Female Henry switched reinvigoration… is EVERY INCH A LION” Michelle Terry IS RIVETING” Daily Mail Guardian

“Hastie isn’t imposing a “A kinetic, fast-paced transgressive vision on the production” play, he cuts to the heart Time Out of its concerns: the way it interrogates masculinity, stresses the need for inner resolve, ponders the lottery of life-chances, and how, in order to make peace – and sue for love, too – you must put yourself in another’s shoes” Daily Telegraph

Director Timothy Sheader 15 Jul – 27 Aug Designer Tom Scutt Choreographer Drew McOnie Musical Director Tom Deering Lighting Designer Lee Curran Sound Designer Nick Lidster for Autograph Fight Director Kate Waters Season Associate Director (Voice & Text) Barbara Houseman Casting Director Will Burton CDG & David Grindrod CDG

WINNER: BEST MUSICAL BBC Radio 2 Audience Award, Evening Standard Awards Lead Media Partner

“An ALMIGHTY REVELATION… “Wit, lyricism and satirical Superstar’s potency and bite abound in this its Christ-like radicalism DRAMATIC REVIVAL” – courting sacrilege, Guardian achieving an essence of “TYRONE HUNTLEY’S STUNNING spiritual intensity – IS JUDAS…fizzes with wired REBORN” Daily Telegraph energy and anguish and, whether belting out his rage or crooning his pain in glorious falsetto, he sings “Timothy Sheader offers like an angel” some of the most stylish The Times direction I’ve seen all year, sculpting each segment into something DISTINCT, VIVID and COMPELLING.” Evening Standard

Director Deborah Bruce 2 Sep – 17 Sep Set Designer Max Jones Costume Designer Tom Piper Movement Director Siân Williams Composer Lillian Henley Lighting Designer Tina MacHugh Sound Designer Matt McKenzie for Autograph Season Associate Director (Voice & Text) Barbara Houseman Casting Director Lotte Hines Resident Director Hannah Banister

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2016 Tour Venues: Bromley | Norwich | Cambridge | | Leicester | Woking | Truro | Birmingham | Richmond

“Elegant, amusing and “Matthew Kelly: with a quiet heartfelt…the cast is authority and sharp wit, his immaculate…A REAL TREAT” is a masterful lesson in Daily Express apparently-understated yet “The MAGNIFICENT actually PERFECTLY-JUDGED PERFORMANCE” Felicity Montagu rules Leicester Mercury the stage as an anxiously energised Mrs Bennet” The Times

“Full of wit, wonder, a charming cast and a STUNNING MUSICAL SCORE to couple the beauty of the show.” GetSurrey

Director Timothy Sheader On UK Tour Co-Director Liam Steel Designer Jon Bausor Composer & Sound Score Nick Powell Lighting Designer Paul Keogan Sound Designer Avgoustos Psillas for Autograph Voice & Text Coach Barbara Houseman Fight Director Kate Waters Casting Director Pippa Ailion CDG Resident Director Fiona Dunn

2016 Tour Venues: Bath | Richmond | Guildford | | Leicester | Coventry | Bradford | Newcastle | Bromley

“Seldom has a production “When the actors begin to had such a visceral impact” move in slow motion, The Reviews Hub forming a terrifyingly “Absolutely invigorating and macabre dance, it’s simple, COMPLETELY TERRIFYING.” powerful and raw…AN Bath Chronicle UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE.” Coventry Times “Challenging and heart- wrenching, it is A TRIUMPH.” Swindon Advertiser “An absolutely breath-taking production PERFORMED TO PERFECTION by the eager young cast.” Sunderland Echo The Luna Cinema Regent’s Park Theatre Ltd presents

with Matthew Kelly and Felicity Montagu as Mr and Mrs Bennet

“A PERFECT PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: SKITTISH, COMICAL, EASY ON THE EYE AND MOVING’ DAILY MAIL

www.PrideandPrejudicePlay.com

The Children’s Touring Partnership presents

Originally produced by Regent’s Park Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre

THE TIMES DAILY TELEGRAPH

TIME OUT EVENING STANDARD

www.runningwildlive.co.uk ATTENDANCE

Visitors 2013 2014 2015 2016

UK Domestic 94.80% 94.25% 93.91% 93.31% In-Bound Tourism 5.20% 5.75% 6.09% 6.69%

Distance attendees live 2013 2014 2015 2016 from the theatre

25% of attendees 3.3 miles 3.5 miles 3.3 miles 3.8 miles 50% of attendees 7 miles 7.3 miles 6.3 miles 8.2 miles

75% of attendees 17.7 miles 19.3 miles 20.1 miles 22.6 miles*

90% of attendees 49.9 miles 55 miles 59.9 miles 62 miles*

Cambridgeshire Suffolk Warwickshire Cambridge Warwick Bedfordshire 62 miles* Ipswitch

Bedford Buckinghamshire Stevenage Braintree Colchester Luton Essex Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Gloucester Aylesbury Hemel Hampstead St Albans Chelmsford Oxford Barnet High Wycombe Romford Basildon Southend-on-Sea

Slough LONDON Berkshire Rochester Margate Bristol Windsor Swindon Reading Croydon 22.6 miles* Canterbury Basingstoke Wiltshire Kingston Maidstone Surrey Kent Andover Dover Guildford Crawley Hampshire Royal Tunbridge Wells Salisbury Winchester Sussex Hasting

Southampton Portsmouth Chichester Brighton Eastbourne Dorset Bournemouth Dorchester Newport SOURCES OF INCOME

90.10% Box Office

3.90% Catering

3.10% Sponsorship & Donations

1.40% Programmes & Merchandise

0.80% Members

0.60% Miscellaneous

65.72% Full Price

9.45% U18

5.24% Family (Running Wild)

4.63% Over 60

3.54% Schools

2.68% Groups

1.61% Members

7.12% Other Discounts & Concessions

Year Attendance Productions 2013 187,993 To Kill a Mockingbird | Pride and Prejudice The Winter’s Tale re-imagined |

2014 136,633 All My Sons | Hobson’s Choice | re-imagined The Gershwins’ | To Kill a Mockingbird

2015 139,074 Peter Pan | The Seagull | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Lord of the Flies

2016 140,264 Running Wild | Henry V Jesus Christ Superstar | Pride and Prejudice

Figures included in this review are estimates. Audited reports and accounts for the year will be available from the address on the following page from 1 October 2017. 2016 SUPPORTERS

Corporate Partners Hotel Partners Aesop ASC Finance for Business Blick Rothenberg LLP BMW i Park Lane Canard-Duchêne Chapel Down Media Partners CNBC

Delancey Grant Thornton UK LLP Home House Malsar Kest King & Wood Mallesons Linklaters LLP The Mackintosh Foundation Melia Hotels International RR Donnelley Saracens Sport Foundation Sweett Group Tonstate Education Partner The Wall Street Journal Yamaha Music London

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is managed by Regent’s Park Theatre Ltd (RPT) and is licensed by Westminster City Council. RPT has three wholly owned subsidiaries: Regent’s Park Enterprises Ltd through which it operates the bar and catering facilities for the theatre, Regent’s Park Productions Ltd and Regent’s Park Ventures Ltd.

Regent’s Park Theatre Ltd Regent’s Park Enterprises Ltd Registered in England No: 759557 Registered in England No: 6626067 Registered Charity No: 231670 Directors Patron: Judi Dench DBE Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL William Village Joint Chief Executives Timothy Sheader (Artistic Director) Regent’s Park Ventures Ltd William Village (Executive Director) Company No. 09279742 Trustees Directors Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL (Chairman) Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL Pippa Ailion Sir Peter Rogers Stuart Griffiths OBE William Village Jim Reed Samantha Spiro The Registered Office for all companies is: Martin Wilkinson Stage Door Gate, Open Air Theatre, Inner Circle, William Village (Company Secretary) Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4NU Tel: 0844 375 3460 Regent’s Park Productions Ltd Group VAT Registration No: 997 3013 90 Registered in England No. 09082210 Directors openairtheatre.com Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL Box Office: 0844 826 4242 Sir Peter Rogers William Village

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ACTORS With agreement from Janine Summerhayes Gareth Tucker Rebecca Phillips Catrin Aaron Equity the following East Cathy Tate Hadyn Williams Hugh Purves Daniel Abbott 15 Acting School students Poppy Taylor Leo Woolcock Dean Rigby Ashley Andrews also appeared: Jane Thomas Colquhoun Dom Yates William Selby Stuart Angell Patricia Allison Hilary Wili Elliot Squire Philip Arditti Matthew Biddulph Anna Winkler MARKETING, Zosia Stella-Sawicka Geoff Arnold Tiffany Clare PARTNERSHIPS Claire Turner Francesca Bailey Owen Landon CREATIVE and PRESS Charlie Tymms Will Barratt Jo McGarry Paul Anderson Marianne Richardson Stephanie Whieldon Declan Bennett Ved Sapru Hannah Banister Morag Shackerley-Bennett Alex Bhat Maciej Trzpis-Miedziewski Jan Bench Olivia Hood SENIOR Raphael Bushay Rebecca Turner Deborah Bruce Jo Allan MANAGEMENT Peter Caulfield Finn Caldwell Mary Cormack Timothy Sheader Phil Cheadle ADMINISTRATION and Joshua Carr Mark Dooley William Village Okorie Chukwu FINANCE Lee Curran Shereden Mathews Andy Locke Cavin Cornwall Rachel Quinney Tom Deering Jane Newman Louise Anna Duggan John Potter Charlotte Cornwell Lydia Lewis VISITOR SERVICES Anna Ganjolla Loren Elstein James Travis-Lever and ESTATES Anna Crichlow Louise Waldron Yaron Engler Mark Senior Elinor Williams Doña Croll Vineetha Sastry Anna Fleischle Jack Gavin Laura Cubitt Zoé Ford MUSICIANS Ines Alves Billy Cullum CASTING Lizzie Frankl Oroh Angiama Claudia Amati Jessica D’Arcy Will Burton Poppy Hall Andy Barnwell Max Alexander-Taylor Rose D’Aulbey Alastair Coomer Marcus Hall Props Alan Berlyn Hollie Ashton-Penketh Fred Davis David Grindrod Robert Hastie Ben Castle Robert Awosusi Bobby Delaney Lotte Hines Lillian Henley Andrew Cooksley Sofia Bagge Joshua Dever Verity Naughton Barbara Houseman John Davy Tanya Bailey Benjamin Dilloway Jessica Ronane Majella Hurley Mark Dickman Gina Bay Omari Douglas Charlotte Sutton Max Jones John Donovan Arianna Beadie Hollie Edwin Oliver Kaderbhai Jon Gingell Yaman Birawi Ryan Ellsworth CATERING Georgina Lamb Pete Harrison Charlotte Blandford Joshua Fernandes Lawrence Keal Nick Lidster Matt Leaver Diana Blazewicz Polly Frame Richard Dryden Tina MacHugh Pete Lewinson Jodi Burgess Simon Hardwick Sophie Beard Betty Marini Simon Minshall Catherine Carnegie Joel Harper-Jackson Richard Cabala Beckie May Kevin Wedrychowski Cecelia Casemiro Pitta Joyce Henderson Roberta Colonna Matt McKenzie Reece Connolly Shanay Holmes Jessica Cosentino Drew McOnie PHOTOGRAPHERS Kayleigh Cousins Tyrone Huntley Dean Fawcett Toby Olié Hugo Glendinning Chloe Cordell Romina Hytten Christina Horsepool Jackie Orton David Jensen Celeste Crawford Collins Mari Izzard Luiz Jefferson Rod Paton Johan Persson John Deller Raquel Jones Kostas Kaloskamis Tom Piper Simon Turtle Mairtin Dwyer Matthew Kelly Mohamed Lallali Nick Powell Judit de Ancos Parra Beruce Khan Abigail Larrsson Avgoustos Psillas PRODUCTION, Laura Emmerman Phil King Umar Malik Dale Rooks TECHNICAL and Ryan Epps Sean Kingsley Francesca Manzai John Ross STAGE MANAGEMENT Alexandra Finch Hattie Ladbury Lauren Nugent Tom Scutt David Allen Owen Findlay John Leader Innocent Anaeche Ogbuosisi Claire Wardroper Ian Andlaw Hannah Gibbs Bobbie Little Leon Scott Kate Waters Becky Athawes Hannah Gladstone Sinead Long Leo Sophocleous Siân Williams Nick Barnes Megan Griffith Syrus Lowe Dimitris Varytimosoglou Paul Wills Phillipa Bean Anna Herdsman Anoushka Lucas Denzel Westley-Sanderson Andy Beardmore Katy Higgins Genesis Lynea Gisele Wojciechowska LIGHTING Daisy Beattie James Houlbrooke Eric Mallett Redae Zemichael and SOUND Amy Bending Evie Howard Ira Mandela Siobhan Barry Abbotts Dulcie Best Amanda Hulley Ally Manson CHAPERONES James Bentley Andy Bewley Antonia Kleopa Sarah Mardel Danielle Evans Phil Brejza Daisy Bradley Ula Kusiel-Moroz Jack McMullen Daniel Gill Barry Channer Cheryl Brown Jamie Lee Pike Steven Meo Holly Haycock Liam Cleary Anna Bruder Rachel Little Jordan Mifsúd Mitch Kolebuk David Dalley 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Hopkins-Thomas Hannah Roe Kirsty Rider Jackie Burston Adam Majsai Alice Jenkins Evangelina Salado Cameron Sharp Mark Costello Geoff Maynard Sneha Karmakar Raya Sambidge David Sibley Gabrielle Firth Liam McDermott Mary King Lily Scott Cat Simmons Helen Gardner Julian Mcready Annegret Kuhnigk Dorota Skoneczna Tafline Steen Catherine Green Colin Newland Ollie Last Stephanie St Paul, Michael Taibi Rebecca Hartnoll Adam Povey Rob Le Maistre Alexander Thompson Michelle Terry Lorraine Koh Lewis Rose Aidan Lesser Imogen Tong David Thaxton Kevin Matthias Erin Rutter Cindy Lin Andreea Tudosa Ben Thompson Lydia McDonald Michael Scott Benjamin Lockwood Issy Veysey Barnaby Thompson Sandra Northend Adam Squire Kirsty MacDiarmid Jessica Warshaw Stephen Ventura Rachel Schofield Martin Strods Russel Martin Liz Wheeler Dwane Walcott Hilary Sleiman Eleanor Theodorou Cleo Maynard Gareth Williams Rhys Whitfield Mariella Spoto Marc Thorton Jen McGinley Max Wilkinson Ben Wiggins Camila Stanford Liam Tranter Simon Narciso 19 May — 1 Jul 7 Jul — 5 Aug

music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN book and lyrics by BETTY COMDEN and ADOLPH GREEN based on a concept by JEROME ROBBINS a new play by MATTHEW DUNSTER adapted from the novel by CHARLES DICKENS

17 Jul — 5 Aug 11 Aug — 16 Sep

adapted by ANYA REISS from the novel by CHARLES DICKENS lyrics by TIM RICE music by

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