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2016 Annual Review.Pdf 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. Jesus Christ Superstar 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 Radio Times “This out-does both War Horse and The Lion King 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 London “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 Media Partners 2016 Tour Venues: Bromley | Norwich | Cambridge | Manchester | 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 | Liverpool | 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 | The Sound of Music 2014 136,633 All My Sons | Hobson’s Choice | Twelfth Night re-imagined The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess | 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
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