“THIS IS OUR LITTLE PIECE OF THE WORLD, AND ALBION WE’RE ALLOWED TO DO WITH IT, EXACTLY AS WE LIKE. YES?”

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ALBION by Mike Bartlett Directed by Rupert Goold 1 February – 29 February 2020

CAST CREATIVE TEAM PRODUCTION TEAM Production Electrician Edward Writer Production Manager Philip Burke Nigel Betts Mike Bartlett Tom Horton Production Sound Krystyna Direction Production Assistant Engineer Edyta Budnik Rupert Goold Lauren Young Michael Woods Weatherbury/James/ Design Company Stage Manager Production Carpenters Stanley Miriam Buether Linsey Hall Gruff Carro Stuart Relph Wil Coban Light Deputy Stage Manager Anna Neil Austin Lorna Seymour Show Crew Angel Coulby James Barbour Sound Assistant Stage Managers Tom Carro-Lemay Zara Gregory Clarke Meg Charlton Chris Parker Daisy Edgar-Jones Catriona McHugh Casting Tech Week Runner Gabriel Amy Ball Head of Costume Olivia Page Dónal Finn Claire Wardroper Movement Director Stage Management Matthew Rebecca Frecknall Wardrobe Deputy Student Placement Geoffrey Freshwater Associate Director Bec Goldstone Daiva Aleksiunaite Audrey Walters Tom Brennan Wardrobe Assistant Set built by Victoria Hamilton Associate Lighting Finlay Forbes Gower Miraculous Engineering Cheryl Designer Hair and Makeup Set painted by Margot Leicester Jamie Platt Suzanne Scotcher Kerry Jarrett Paul Walters Costume Supervisor Chief Technician Horticultural Consultant Nicholas Rowe Claire Wardroper Jason Wescombe Janice McGuire Katherine Sanchez Assistant Designer Lighting Technician Production and Rehearsal Helen Schlesinger Joana Dias Robin Fisher Photos by Voice Coach Sound Technician Marc Brenner Alison Bomber George Lumkin Theatre Technician Fraser Craig

Cover Victoria Hamilton photographed by Marc Brenner

1 ALBION REPOTTED

Our ideas of who we are by Rupert Goold, Artistic Director as a country and a people are much less simply divided between those who wanted their borders secured and those who liked them porous.

Plays, like plants, grow over time. the national recalibration, our ideas of Their meanings shift, flowering and who we are as a country and a people withering in unexpected ways, so are much less simply divided between that lines, scenes and characters that those who wanted their borders seemed unimportant take on new secured and those who liked them significance while others fade or porous. Class, property, the wealth evolve. We see it all the time with very gap, gender, sexuality, nostalgia, old plays when we revive them, and hope, and, above all, the increasing I hope the Almeida has continually generational fracture between young tried to interrogate this phenomenon and old have made those exciting in our work on Shakespeare and times more complicated than we Ibsen and Greek tragedy, but when it could have imagined back then. happens on plays that are still saplings I believe theatre’s greatest function in rather than sturdy oaks, it is in some society is to try and bring ALL parts ways even more fascinating. of society together to share stories A decade ago I worked on a play called about ourselves, to listen and to Enron by Lucy Prebble that opened in understand. To do that we need plays the Weimar-like giddy uncertainty of of humanism and compassion, plays the 2008 financial crash but by the time that are able to sit and hold the hand we reached the end of that production’s of the other, in whatever form that long life the bite of austerity had might take, and come to know transformed riotous vaudeville it better. into something harder and more So this is the first revival of an monumental so that the atmosphere Almeida production in my time as in the audience was entirely different Artistic Director and I hope, as well from how it had begun. as giving all those who missed it I always sensed Albion was a play previously a chance to see some of that might have a similarly complex the finest acting we’ve had on this journey. When we opened in 2017, stage, you will hear something new among the mostly positive notices we and resonant forged from the form of had was one from a leave-supporting what was there before. I believe it is a critic who despaired that we were genuine play for today and I couldn’t presenting (in his mind) a play for be prouder of our role in bringing it the moment that failed to recognise to the stage here at the Almeida and I “the interesting and often thrilling hope one day around the country too. times we live in” in the aftermath of Thrilling times? Our job at the the referendum. Now, over two years theatre is to ask the question not later, as we depart the EU and begin posit the answer. Set of Albion at the Almeida in 2017. Photo by Marc Brenner.

2 3 PRESERVATION Country houses FOR THE PEOPLE

seemed out of time, by Adam Page with the squires and landlords, and the social In the mid-nineteenth century, writer and art order they represented, historian John Ruskin suggested to the Society of Antiquaries that a new Association be created lost with them. to produce a catalogue of “buildings of interest” endangered by demolition, development or restoration. In the decades after Ruskin’s intervention, a number of organisations were established, including the National Trust in 1895. Nineteenth century preservationism was informed by concerns about a nation, culture and landscape endangered by a modernity of industrialisation and urbanisation, which was quickly and dramatically reshaping natural and built environments. Key figures in these early years included Ruskin and William Morris, who both criticised industrialisation and its effects on people and places, and stressed the beauty of nature. But while Morris in particular was closely associated with an early socialist politics in Britain, around the turn of the century the preservationist call began to be heard from the right as well as the left. For conservatives in the early twentieth century who had previously opposed intrusions into the rights of private property holders, preservationism increasingly began to be understood as a response to a rapidly changing country and society. The preservation of old landscapes and architectures here signified a vision of a stable social order and a connection to an idea of England fixed at a moment of imperial and economic strength. The invocations of rural scenes from left and right highlight how national and regional landscapes can be incorporated into the visual and even spiritual vocabulary of a variety of political projects. The legibility of images of the countryside, when combined with its openness to rewriting, has made it a symbol of national identity that has proven remarkably resilient. This resilience is exemplified by its frequent depiction as something under threat from disruptive forces, with the implication being that Englishness and England itself is endangered, but enduring. >

Moreton Corbet Hall. Image: FreespiritTownsVillages/Alamy

4 5 The preservation of old landscapes and architectures signified a vision of a stable social order and a connection to an idea of England fixed at a moment of imperial and economic strength.

In the twentieth century, a of halting the tide of of the future in the mid- 1947 novel, One Fine Day, argued that despair at the this feeling of imminent new kind of war was added historical change, and twentieth century, and in a woman returns to her disintegration of the pre- decline and eclipse, a to the familiar dangers of resisting the forces of the Second World War in house after the war to find war social system and its consistent presence in industry and the growth modernity, but represented particular. it transformed and the replacement with modern modern British history and sprawl of cities. The an attempt to use expert During the war, world it signified reduced democracy, as dramatized and culture, is unwittingly First World War played knowledge to manage government commissioned to ghostly traces. The in the declining country exposed by these images an important part in the and plan a landscape films depicted the Britain staff had left to work in house, was a key driving of refurbished houses elevation of the notion that could be both that would rise from the factories in the town and force for the heritage and immaculate gardens of an English pastoral modern and traditional. ruins, with New Towns would not return, while sensibilities which achieved frozen in time. The sense into an easily recognised These groups sought to and a harmonious balance the landscape was scattered prominence in the 1980s. of an old country under image of peace, something bring ordered progress between town and country, with Nissen Huts and By the end of the 1980s, threat was evoked again defined by its opposition through the promotion tradition and modernity. scarred by thick muddy a growing heritage and recognisable images of to the antipastoral of the of expert knowledge The country house, a tracks left by military industry was exhibiting rural peace were presented battlefields of northern and interventions in the frequent icon of heritage vehicles, as barbed wire and exporting a vision of as a response, but the Europe. In the years after landscape, and made and Englishness, had little and sandbags blocked the Britain often populated focus here was not on how the First World War there preservationism into a place in these images of route back to the past. The by these same country these landscapes could be was a shift in the work of more modern political the future and was already country house seemed out houses, striped lawns and utilised to tackle social preservationists which project. Rural spaces were understood somewhat of time, and the squires and elegant rose bushes, which problems as the “planner- reflects this increasing presented as remedies as a vestige of the past. landlords, and the social had been explicitly recast preservationists” had focus on rural England, to the urban industrial Some country houses had order they represented, as something of historic proposed. Preservationism and away from particular conditions of the time, been commandeered by lost with them. Instead, and aesthetic interest, but in the 1980s was more buildings of “historic with landscapes imagined the military, or used as planners reimagined these out of place in the years concerned with displaying interest”. The war had as potentially reformative nurseries and homes for country estates as offering after 1945. The revival heritage than with given landscape new spaces of citizenship evacuated children during space for new settlements, and promotion of these active participation and meanings and political defined by their order and the war, and after 1945 whereby city-dwellers images was in part a way engagement with it. value, as it was mobilised health, in contrast to the there was a sense that they could be relocated to of asserting historical as a place worth fighting chaotic life of the cities. benefit from a country life would not return to their continuity and a resolute Dr Adam Page is a lecturer in the for and a vision of the This was a gendered and previous social or cultural while preserving the beauty Englishness in spite of history of modern Britain in the promise of peace. For the paternalist vision, but of the natural landscape. It School of History and Heritage at the role. In work by writers political and social turmoil. University of Lincoln. interwar period’s “planner- one which more clearly such as Rex Warner and was in this period that the In preservationism there preservationists”, as focussed on the notions of Virginia Woolf, instability National Trust Country is a persistent and potent geographer David Matless preservation for the ‘public and uncertainty reframed Houses Scheme became sense of the mortality of a calls them, preservation good’ and became a key the image of rural life. In increasingly prominent, nation or a culture, of its was not simply a question element in official images Mollie Panter-Downes’s and Patrick Wright has historical contingency, and

The war had given landscape a new meaning as a place worth fighting for and a vision of the promise of peace.

6 7 NOSTALGIA AS A POLITICAL FORCE

by Sophia Gaston

Nostalgia is once Political Narratives and the Nation Given its “social” functions, nostalgia is a natural again gaining a bedfellow with the practice of politics – particularly in terms of political campaigning, as a rhetorical tool, in particular currency in the construction of the nation as a community, and in the narratives politicians and political parties seed and contemporary society. foster to reconcile or activate our memories of the past. The most prominent body of academic research in terms of nostalgia’s political function relates to the concept of “post-Soviet nostalgia”, which has extensively explored the process by which tremendous shifts in national and cultural identity intersected with new mandates on political ideology, and new economic structures, to foster extremely highly polarised viewpoints on the value of modernity and nostalgic impulses towards the past. While the experience of the collapse of the Soviet Empire was undoubtedly unique, over recent years, Western political systems have also begun to experience similar forms of fundamental structural upheaval, as competing ideologies, social divisions and poorly functioning economic models create more polarised, less unified societies – fertile ground for nostalgic cultural and political expression. The political construction of nostalgia was most recently explored with substantial scholarly attention in Western Europe and the United States during and in the aftermath of the Reagan-Thatcher period, which saw both leaders employing language of restoration and “lost values” as core elements of their political strategies. One of the most Photo: iStock/P Wei prominent critiques of this period was The Heritage Industry (1987) from Robert Hewison, which argued that such messages were constructing an environment incompatible with progressive action and positive social change. David Lowenthal observes that nostalgia is once again gaining a particular currency in contemporary society, sensing that it has proliferated throughout many aspects of our social and economic spheres; in particular, he notes its increasing role in marketing and advertising. Writer Owen Hatherley shares this perspective, describing a “Ministry of Nostalgia” in Great Britain, constituted by a sense of omnipresent nostalgia permeating all forms of life – from public policy to architecture. Paul Gilroy, a scholar of > 8 9 There is a degree of consensus around nostalgia’s potential as a narrative to achieve power and influence among citizens.

cultural studies, draws a relationship societal level, this means that nostalgic migrants or minorities; conversely, Restorative Nostalgia and Populism therefore backwards-looking in The signing of the executive order between nostalgia and melancholia discourses have a strongly idealised when one nostalgises about social According to Boym, restorative nature; populists are often deeply provided a theatrical addition to the for the past, which he believes is and utopian streak, which eradicates protest, civil rights movements, nostalgia has two core elements: suspicious of progress, favouring restoration narrative, with Trump fundamentally embedded in the the negatives of the historical past, and or tradition of tolerance, one may the restoration of origins and the human experience as the defining flanked by coal miners and bosses. British character, living in the shadow develops a “longing for a home that no express more liberal attitudes towards conspiracy theory about how home or human condition. The Trump campaign also spoke in of empire. longer exists or has never existed”. immigrants or minorities”. values were lost. Much of the rhetoric As Steenvoorden and Harteveld a focused, strategic way to groups he Within the canon of literature devoted Nostalgia can stand as central to Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia of populist parties conforms strongly explain, populists “provide a clear identified to be especially dissatisfied to nostalgia as a political concept in narratives of nationhood and social Central to exploring the to this restorative form, premised on vision of how society should change, with the contemporary direction Western countries, there is a degree belonging, both through its rhetorical manifestation of nostalgia in an idealised memory of the “past” namely returning to how it used to of the nation’s social and political of consensus around its potential emphasis on an imagined “home”, and contemporary Western cultures are and/or of “home”, and a conspiratorial’, be before the social changes that have settlement. According to exit polls, as a narrative to achieve power and its practical psychological capacity to the dual concepts of “restorative” and narrative about the role of external occurred in recent decades”. Taggart 81 per cent of White Evangelicals influence among citizens. While strengthen human bonds. At the same “reflective” nostalgia, a distinction forces in threatening this vision. In has written extensively about the role voted for Trump in the Presidential some academics caution that such a time, the connection between nostalgia devised by novelist and academic this sense, we can regard nostalgia that the “heartland”, a romanticised Election, and it appears that the relationship could be dangerous to the and the nation, particularly the role Svetlana Boym. By her definition, as a concept of time; Stuart Tannock physical, emotional and temporal restoration narrative was particularly functioning of liberal democracies, of collective nostalgia in delimiting “reflective nostalgia” involves the describes three stages of nostalgic place, has played in the formation effective for this group. Research Albert Weale draws an explicit link social boundaries, may suggest an revisiting and savouring of the past, rhetoric, which essentially distinguish of populist narratives. Inglehart and by the Public Religion Research between political campaigning and automatically exclusionary effect, with the recognition that while some between the “golden days”, the “great Norris emphasise that populism Institute in 2016 found that 74 per nostalgic messages in his assertion particularly to newcomers or migrants. things have been lost, much has been rupture” and the “present discontent”. captures “a mythical ‘golden past’” for cent of White Evangelicals believed that the Brexit vote represents a The question then becomes how to gained in the present. “Restorative Considering the receptiveness of a time when society was less diverse, that American culture had ‘mostly direct consequence of “nostalgic reconcile this exclusionary propensity, nostalgia”, on the other hand, is citizens to such messages, there the nation wielded greater global changed for the worse since the democracy”, a kind of aberration that which jars with the known empathetic driven by the desire to pristinely appears to be a particular affinity influence, and traditional gender roles 1950s’, presenting a stark contrast to encourages restorative policy-making. qualities of nostalgia, and its role in restore an idealised past. between those experiencing social offered natural status and agency. other ethnic groups, with 62 per cent Michael Kenny furthermore considers strengthening social connectedness. pessimism and populism parties. Many of the now-infamous slogans of African Americans and 57 per nostalgia an essential constituent Broadly, the former is seen as a cent of Hispanic Americans thinking One recent study has found that more benign force, common to the When describing “populist” parties of successful populist campaigns of to a populist political style and “nostalgia-prone” individuals or referring to the phenomenon itself, recent years emphasise the nostalgic American culture had changed for antiestablishment politics, emphasising human condition. Boym uses the Tate the better. are more likely to demonstrate Modern as an example of reflective this report for consistency evokes Cas desire to restore a home of the nostalgia’s saliency as a tool of political prejudice-reducing or prejudice- Mudde’s definition, which speaks to past, for example, Donald Trump’s campaigning and governance. nostalgia. In this sense, a reflective controlling behaviours as a result political discourse would celebrate the defence of “the people” against a “Make America Great Again”. The excerpt is taken from Sophia Gaston’s report Benedict Anderson famously of the empathetic emotion linked corrupt, self-serving establishment, titled At Home in One's Past: Nostalgia as a Cultural and, to some extent preserve, the ruins Trump’s campaign machine actively and Political Force in Britain, France and Germany, described the nation as an “imagined to nostalgic experiences. However, of past (imagined) glories, but would often standing accused of privileging targeted de-industrialised, “rust- Demos, 2018? community” – a description worthy the authors of this study also note creatively recycle and re-inhabit the needs of “undeserving” interests. belt” communities, in particular, of consideration in exploring that while their findings show that these spaces to serve contemporary There is a moral dimension to visiting coal-mining regions with the role of nostalgia in political nostalgia is not exclusionary or progressive needs. On the other populism, in which distinctions are pledges to re-open the mines. As cultures. Nostalgic memory does not regressive per se, understanding the hand, restorative impulses implicitly made on values between groups seen President, Trump has signed an consistently conjure an historically “referent” or object of this experience suggest the desire to restore previous to be irreconcilable, and a radical executive order rolling back Obama’s accurate recollection of past events, is key to determining its social societal and economic structures and element to the changes populists Clean Power Plan, an act described and is rather prone to inaccuracy, impact: “When one nostalgises about relationships, which may come at the propose. However, this change is by the Financial Times as motivated and centres on emotion, rather than “the way the country was”, one may expense of certain groups – thereby often positioned as reactionary, and by “nostalgia, not economics”. the details of what happened. At a express conservative attitudes towards inferring a sense of exclusion. Many of the now-infamous slogans of successful populist campaigns of recent years emphasise the nostalgic desire to restore a home of the past.

10 11 ALMEIDA QUESTIONS

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PIANO IF YOU LIKE IT THEN YOU BETTER SALT OF THE EARTH: by D. H. LAWRENCE PUT YOUR NAME ON IT: DOES DO ARTISTS LACK IMAGINATION PATRONAGE IMPLY OWNERSHIP? IN REPRESENTING THE WORKING-CLASS? Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Monday 20 April, 6pm Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see Tickets £5 Monday 15 June, 6pm A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings Free to those aged 25 and under Tickets £5 Free to those aged 25 and under And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings. “Is not a patron . . . one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in water, and when he has reached the ground ‘I wanna live like common people encumbers him with help” I wanna do whatever common people do In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song - Samuel Johnson Wanna sleep with common people Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong I wanna sleep with common people Like you’’ To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside Without the Medici family would we have Michaelangelo’s The Last Judgement? Damien Hirst’s pickled shark without Saatchi? - Jarvis Cocker And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide. And without James I’s patronage would Shakespeare’s company The King’s Men simply have been ‘The . . . Men?’ How have changes in working-class identity during the twenty- So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour Inspired by "Daddy", the Almeida Questions panel explores the first century found their expression in books, plays and films? Is layers of trust, obligation and ownership that exist between artists there a hierarchy in the artistic representation of the working- With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour andTHEATRE their patrons TOURS and asks—is the role of the patron to be a classTALKBACKS experience: the urban over the rural, the northern over champion,You can find a mentor, out more or aboutjust the the one history who signsof our the cheques? theThese southern, illuminating the white post-show working-class Q&As overwith themembers ethnic ofminority Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast fascinating building on our theatre tours. the company are free to same day ticket holders. Almeida Questions is an eclectic programme of pre-show experience? Are working-class stories inextricably linked to social Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. discussionsLed by an experienced which consider guide, some the toursof the explore questions the raised depths by of the the realism, or is there space for the surreal, the magic realist, the worktheatre, on including our stage. our backstage, wardrobe and technical areas. expressionistic?The Hunt And where is the line drawn between empathy and Your visit will also cover the history of the theatre, from pity;Thursday between 25 grittyJuly authenticity and voyeuristic poverty porn? Sections of this poem are used within the song Cucurucu by Nick Mulvey, lectureTickets roomon sale to now music at hall and carnival novelties factory. Inspired by The House of Shades, the Almeida Questions panel which features in the production. Upcomingalmeida.co.uk Tours: exploresThe howDoctor working-class life is represented in culture from CathyThursday Come 19 Home September to Moonlight. Saturday 6 July 11am Saturday 2 November 11am VassaTickets on sale now at (£7/£6 concessions) Mondayalmeida.co.uk 4 November Tickets on sale now at Read transcripts of past conversations at almeida.co.uk almeida.co.uk/explore

12 13 WHAT’S ON AT THE ALMEIDA

The Almeida makes bold new work that asks big questions: of plays, of theatre, and of how we live. With talks, tours and even more online, there are lots of ways to take part as we interrogate the present, dig up the past and imagine the future.

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“DADDY” THE HOUSE A MELODRAMA OF SHADES

“Daddy” The House of Shades The Doctor You can find out more about the history These illuminating post-show Q&As of our fascinating building on our theatre with members of the company are free A Melodrama by Beth Steel Very freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s tours. to same performance ticket holders. by Jeremy O. Harris Directed by Blanche McIntyre Professor Bernhardi by Robert Icke Led by an experienced guide, the tours Directed by Danya Taymor 18 May – 27 June 2020 Directed by Robert Icke explore the depths of the theatre, including Albion 30 March – 9 May 2020 At the Duke of York's Theatre Nothing cuts into us like the family knife. our backstage, wardrobe and technical areas. Monday 17 February 18 April - 18 July 2020 I will be your father figure. Put your tiny The Webster House. Your visit will also cover the history of the ★★★★★ hand in mine. 1965. 1979. 1985. 1996. 2016. theatre, from lecture room to music hall “Daddy”* The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, I will be your preacher teacher. Anything you Death silences no one, least of all the dead. and carnival novelties factory. Thursday 30 April The Sunday Times, WhatsOnStage have in mind. Blanche McIntyre (The Writer) directs Upcoming tours: Olivier Award-winner Juliet Stevenson A young black artist meets an older white the world premiere of Beth Steel’s Saturday 18 April 11am The House of Shades* delivers “one of the performances of the art collector. (Wonderland) revelatory new play which Saturday 13 June 11am Thursday 18 June A gospel choir emerges from an infinity spans five decades of the lives, and deaths, year” (Evening Standard) in the West End transfer of Robert Icke’s sold-out, five-star Tickets £7 (£6 concessions). pool. of the Webster family. With live subtitles by Stagetext Almeida Theatre production - from 18 April * A mother stops at nothing to save her Inside their home, set against the ever- Tickets on sale now at 2020 at the Duke of York’s Theatre. son’s soul. changing industrial landscape of working- almeida.co.uk Read transcripts of past conversations at In this Bel Air tale of love and family, class Britain, some chase dreams of a First, do no harm. almeida.co.uk/explore intimacy is a commodity and the surreal brighter future and others are haunted by On an ordinary day, at a private hospital, gets real. the nightmares of the past. a young woman fights for her life. A priest When it’s summer every day, when even arrives to save her soul. Her doctor refuses Tickets on sale now at is it? him entry. almeida.co.uk Danya Taymor directs the UK premiere In a divisive time, in a divided nation, a of “Daddy”, an explosive and blistering society takes sides. melodrama from Jeremy O. Harris (Slave The latest smash-hit by “Britain’s best Play) – “one of the most exciting new director” (The Telegraph) is a “provocative, voices of his generation” GQ. wonderfully upsetting” (Independent) whirlwind of gender, race and identity Tickets on sale now at politics, “one of the peaks of the theatrical almeida.co.uk year” (The Guardian) and a “devastating play for today” (Financial Times).

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An audio introduction For more information, or to request Eddie Aspen; Paradise Reclaimed; The Theatre/ West End); Lavender Blue (Royal Roaring Girl; Love’s Sacrifice; Volpone; As You CD is sent out in advance, and a information in alternative formats Afternoon Play “Heroes & Villains”; Paradise Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); A Statement Like It; King Lear; The Taming of the Shrew; Touch Tour before the performance such as large print and audio, please Heights; Grange Hill; Courtroom; Midsomer of Regret (National Theatre). Julius Caesar; The Merchant of Venice; The allows the audience to explore the set call 020 7288 4999, or email Murders; A Touch of Frost; Sharpe; As Time Television includes: The Tunnel; Man in Changeling; Softcops; Coriolanus; Happy End; and costumes and meet the cast. [email protected] Goes By; Barbara; Coupling. an Orange Shirt; Innocent; Hooten and the The Odyssey; Sejanus: His Fall (RSC); Much With thanks to Ado About Nothing (RSC USA/ European or visit Film includes: Undercliffe; David Lady; Undercover; Dancing on the Edge; tour); Richard III (RSC Australian tour); Copperfield; The Christmas Candle; Merlin; Life is Wild; Blue Murder: Crisis almeida.co.uk/access Travesties (RSC/ Savoy Theatre); The Winter’s Lipstikka; Desert Flower; Mrs Ratcliffe’s Management; Small Time; Talk to Me; Doll Tale; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Revolution; In Your Dreams; Chain Male; Hospital; Secret Life; New Street Law; The King John; The Malcontent; Eastwood Ho! Cheeky; Harold the Amazing Contortionist Bill; Fear, Stress and Anger; Tripping Over; (RSC/ West End). Pig; Keen Eddie; Thunderpants. Doctor Who; Legless; Hustle; Vincent; Holby City; Conviction; Mit: Murder Investigation Television includes: Will; Law & Order; Team; Gods & Goddesses: The Odyssey; Poirot; Peak Practice; The Bill; EastEnders; EDYTA BUDNIK Making Waves; Merseybeat; As If; Manchild; Trial & Retribution VII; Foyle’s War; The For the Almeida: Albion (2017). Second Coming; Having It Off; A Good Commander; Midsomer Murders; The Theatre includes: This Kind of Air(The Thief; Casualty; ‘Orrible. Government Inspector; Doctors. Bunker); Death of Ophelia (Sam Wanamaker Film includes: Magicians; Imagine Me and Film includes: The Program; Invisible Playhouse); Us Against Whatever (Liverpool You; Royston Vasey - The Motion Picture; Woman; Sabotage; The Leading Man; A Everyman); Under the Lid (Jermyn Theatre); The Jacket. Bridge Too Far. Tense/Nine (Southwark Playhouse). Radio includes: The Archers. 16 17

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VICTORIA HAMILTON Conversation (Royal Exchange Manchester); Babylon; Sold; Easy Peasy; Beau Brummel; For the Almeida: Albion (2017); The Coriolanus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Colder A Harlot’s Progress; Gil Mayo; Broken News; Doctor’s Dilemma. Than Here; Protection (Soho Theatre); Frame Our Hidden Lives; Princes in the Tower; 321 (Donmar Warehouse); The Lucky Ones Waste of Shame; The Black Death; The Theatre includes: Love, Love, Love (Royal (Hampstead Theatre); God Only Knows; The Fugitives; Holby City; La Femme Musketeer; Court); Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse/ Memory of Water (Vaudeville Theatre); The Outside the Rules; Shackleton; The Infinite West End); Once in a Lifetime; Summerfolk; Taming of the Shrew; Anthony and Cleopatra Worlds of H.G. Wells; Longitude; A Dance to Money (National Theatre); Suddenly Last (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Broken Glass the Music of Time. Summer (Donmar Warehouse/ UK Tour); (National Theatre/ West End/ UK Tour); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Roundabout Film includes: Hurt by Paradise; Waiting for Macbeth; The Crucible; Measure for Measure Theatre, New York/ West End); Sweet Panic; Anya; Remi Sans Famille; Old Boys; A United (Young Vic). Home & Beauty; The Master Builder (West Kingdom; Snowden; Mr Holmes; Delicious; End); The Country Wife; As You Like It Television includes: Hannah; King Charles The Duel; Crying Shame; Nicholas Nickleby; (Crucible Theatre); King Lear; The Provoked III; Broken Glass; New Tricks; Frankie; Law Enigma; All Forgotten; Lock, Stock and Two Wife; The Seagull (Old Vic); Troilus and and Order; The Take; Five Days; Miller Smoking Barrels; The Young Sherlock Holmes. Cressida; As You Like It (RSC); Retreat; Shorts; King Girl. Nicholas trained at the Bristol Old Vic Memorandum (Orange Tree Theatre). Film includes: Mum; Blue Borsalin; Full Time. Theatre School. Television includes: Life; Cobra; Deep State; Margot won the Manchester Theatre Award Urban Myths – The Trial of Joan Collins; for Best Actress for her performance in HELEN SCHLESINGER The Crown; Doctor Foster; Our Ex-Wife; The Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and was For the Almeida: Albion (2017). Circuit; Call the Midwife Christmas Special; nominated for an Oliver Award for Best Theatre includes: Henry IV parts t1 The Game; What Remains; Toast; Larkrise Actress in Broken Glass. and 2; Henry V; Hamlet; As You Like It to Candleford; Time of Your Life; Trial & (Shakespeare's Globe); Boys Will Be Boys; Retribution; Wide Sargasso Sea; The Shell NICHOLAS ROWE Whipping It Up (Bush Theatre); Frozen Seekers; A Very Social Secretary; Jericho; For the Almeida: Albion (2017); King (Park Theatre); Single Spies (Rose Theatre Spine Chillers; To the Ends of the Earth; The Charles III (also West End). Kingston); Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Brontes; Goodbye Mr Chips; Baby Father - I Bracken Moor (Tricycle Theatre); Fireface & II; Victoria & Albert; The Savages; King Theatre includes: Madness of George III (Young Vic); Blue/Orange (Arcola Theatre); Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Persuasion; Theatre Royal Bath/ West End); Into Thy Skane; No Experience Required; Comfort Pride and Prejudice. Hands; The Way of the World (Wilton’s Music Hall); Whipping It Up (Bush Theatre/ Me with Apples (Hampstead Theatre); The Film includes: French; Scoop; Before You Go; West End); See How They Run; Real Inspector Gods Weep; The Merchant of Venice; Twelfth Mansfield Park. Hound/Black Comedy (West End); Hamlet Night (RSC); The Crucible (RSC/ West End); Victoria won the Evening Standard best (Hackney Empire/ Broadway); Romeo and The Stone; Wild East; The Weather/Bear actress award for Suddenly Last Summer Juliet; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hug (Royal Court); Messiah (Old Vic); A and was nominated for a Tony award for Joe Dead (English Touring Theatre); Donkey’s Moon for the Misbegotten; Uncle Vanya; King Above: Victoria Hamilton Egg. She has also been awarded Best Actress Years (Rose Theatre Kingston); Raving Lear; The Illusion; Road to Mecca (Royal at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards three (Hampstead Theatre); Nation (National Exchange Theatre); Oresteia; War and Peace; times, including for her performance in Theatre); Victory (Arcola Theatre); An Inadmissible Evidence (National Theatre); Albion in 2017. English Tragedy (Watford Palace Theatre); Mill on the Floss (Shared Experience); An The John Wayne Principle (Pleasance Inspector Calls; Becket (West End). MARGOT LEICESTER Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest Television includes: Midsomer Murders; For the Almeida: Albion (2017); King (Nottingham Playhouse); Translations Lewis; Merlin; EastEnders; The Hour; Charles III (also West End/ Broadway); (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Hamlet Nativity; Criminal Justice; Sensitive Skin; The Knot of the Heart. (Hackney Empire); Saint Joan (Clwyd/ West Trial and Retribution; Sex Traffic; Rose and End); Twelfth Night (Crucible Theatre). Maloney; Bad Girls; The Playground; The Way Theatre includes: Admissions (Trafalgar We Live Now; The Greatest Store on Earth; Studios); Stories (National Theatre); Television includes: Roadkill; Washington; The Cormorant; Bad Girl; Devil’s Advocate; Seventeen (Lyric Hammersmith); Hamlet; To Belgravia; The Joy of Oscar Wilde; Harnessing Peacocks. Kill a Mockingbird; The Winter’s Tale; Long Grantchester; Genius: Einstein; Riviera; Day’s Journey into Night; Habeas Corpus; Doctor Thorne; The Crown; The Last Film includes: Persuasion; Dirty War; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Glass Kingdom; Da Vinci’s Demons; George Twenty Four Hour Party People. Menagerie; All My Sons; Ghosts; The Enemies Gentley; Midsomer Murders; Loving Miss Radio includes: Home Front; The Cazalets; Within (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); The Hatto; Borgias; Kingdom; Margaret; Hotel Dombey and Son.

18 19 Clockwise from top left: Dónal Finn; Victoria Hamilton; Nicholas Rowe; Geoffrey Freshwater; Margot Leicester; Helen Schlesinger; Rupert Goold (Director). Clockwise from top left: Wil Coban; Edyta Budnik; Daisy Edgar-Jones; Dónal Finn; Angel Coulby.

20 21 22 23 Clockwise from top left: Victoria Hamilton; Nicholas Rowe; Nigel Betts; Victoria Hamilton; Wil Coban. Clockwise from top left: Nicholas Rowe; Daisy Edgar-Jones; Victoria Hamilton; Rupert Goold (Director); Edyta Budnik; Dónal Finn; Previous spread from left: Edyta Budnik; Victoria Hamilton. Angel Coulby; Daisy Edgar-Jones.

24 25 CREATIVE TEAM

MIKE BARTLETT Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ New Writer The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe York); The Trial; Public Enemy; Wild Swans; (Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of The Government Inspector; In the Red and For the Almeida: Vassa; Game; King Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Brown Water; The Good Soul of Szechuan; Charles III (also West End/ Broadway). Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON Generations (Young Vic); Get Santa!; Theatre includes: Snowflake (Old Fire (Headlong/ West End/ Broadway); Made Sucker Punch; Cock; In the Republic of Station/ Kiln Theatre); Wild (Hampstead in Dagenham; Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; Happiness; Glass.Kill.Bluebeard.Imp (Royal Theatre); An Intervention (Paines Plough/ No Man’s Land (West End); King Lear Court); The Children; Escaped Alone; Love Watford Palace); Bull (Crucible Theatre/ (Headlong/ Liverpool Everyman/ Young and Information (RCT/ New York); Sunny Off Broadway/ Young Vic); Medea; Decade Vic); Six Characters in Search of an Afternoon; Chariots of Fire (Hampstead (Headlong); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Author (Headlong/ West End); Macbeth Theatre/ West End); The Cherry Orchard Theatre/ West End); 13 (National Theatre); (Chichester/ West End/ Broadway); Faustus; (ITA); Bend it Like Beckham (West End); Earthquakes in London (Headlong/ National Restoration; Paradise Lost (Headlong); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); The Effect; Theatre); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough/ Hamlet; Summer Lightning; Insignificance; Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Plymouth Theatre Royal/ Royal Court/ Paradise Lost; Waiting for Godot; The Six Characters in Search of an Author Roundabout Theatre Company, New York); Weir; Betrayal; Othello (Royal Theatre, (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Cock; Contractions; My Child (Royal Court); Northampton); Scaramouche Jones (Dublin Red Demon; The Bee (Young Vic/ Japan); Artefacts (Bush Theatre/ Nabokov). Festival/ World Tour); The Wind in the Guantanamo: “Honor Bound to Defend As Director: Medea (Headlong/ Glasgow Willows (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Freedom” (Tricycle Theatre/ West End/ Citizens/ Watford/ Warwick); Honest Privates on Parade (New Vic Theatre); Gone New York/ San Francisco); Frame of View (Theatre Royal Northampton). to LA; Sunday Father (Hampstead Theatre); (Cedar Lake, New York). Television includes: Sticks and Stones; Broken Glass (Watford Palace Theatre); Opera includes: La Fanciulla Del West Press; Trauma; King Charles III; Doctor Habeus Corpus; Summer Lighting; Dancing (ENO/ Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck Foster; The Town. at Lughnasa (Salisbury Playhouse); The End (ENO); Suor Angelica (Royal Opera Radio includes: King Charles III; Cock; of the Affair (Bridewell Theatre); The Colonel House); Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House/ Heart; The Core; Family Man; Love Bird (Gate Theatre); Romeo and Juliet New York); The Death of Klinghoffer Contract; The Steps; Not Talking. (Greenwich Theatre). (Edinburgh Festival/ Scottish Opera). King Charles III won an Olivier award Opera includes: Turandot (English Miriam trained in Costume Design at for Best New Play in 2015. Both Bull and National Opera); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Akademie für Kostüm Design in Hamburg, Cock won Olivier Awards for Outstanding Opera); Gli Equivoci; Il Pomo D’Oro and in Theatre Design at Central Saint Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Mike (Batignano Opera Festival). Martin’s, London. She won The Linbury also won a Theatre Award UK for Best New Television includes: Macbeth; King Charles Prize for Stage Design in 1999, and Play for Love, Love, Love, and Not Talking III; Richard II. received the Evening Standard Best Design received both the Tinniswood Award and Film includes: Judy; True Story. Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London Imison Award. and Sucker Punch, and in 2018 for The Rupert has twice been the recipient of Jungle. the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and RUPERT GOOLD Evening Standard awards for Best Director. Direction He won a Peabody Award in 2011 for NEIL AUSTIN Macbeth. Rupert was awarded a CBE in Light Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida the 2017 New Years Honours for services Theatre, and was founding Artistic Director For the Almeida: The Hunt; Ink (also West to drama. of Headlong from 2005 to 2013, Associate End/ Broadway); The Treatment; Medea; Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company Children’s Children; Mrs Klein; Judgement and Artistic Director of Northampton MIRIAM BUETHER Day; The Homecoming; Marianne Dreams; Theatres from 2002 to 2005. Design Dying for It; Tom and Viv; Romance; Macbeth. For the Almeida: The Hunt; Shipwreck; For the Almeida: Shipwreck; Machinal; Albion; Ink; Richard III; Medea; The Albion; Boy; Game; When the Rain Stops Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Merchant of Venice; King Charles III; Falling; Judgement Day. Cursed Child (West End/ Broadway/ American Psycho; The Last Days of Judas San Francisco/ Melbourne/ Hamburg); Clockwise from top left: Victoria Hamilton; Margot Leicester; Geoffrey Freshwater; Tom Brennan(Associate Director). Theatre and Dance includes: King Lear; Iscariot. Leopoldstadt; Rosmersholm; Company; To Kill a Mockingbird; Three Tall Women; The Night of the Iguana; The Lieutenant of Theatre includes: The Effect; Earthquakes A Doll’s House 2; The Children (Broadway); in London (Headlong/ National Theatre); Inishmore; Labour of Love; Photograph 51;

26 27 Shakespeare in Love; Henry V; The Starry Coriolanus; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Court/ West End); Measure for Measure Bruford and on Made in Bristol at the CLAIRE WARDROPER Messenger; Red; The Weir; Hamlet; Madame Tantalus; Cymbeline; A Midsummer (Young Vic); The Moderate Soprano Bristol Old Vic. He is a founding member Costume Supervisor de Sade; Twelfth Night; No Man’s Land; Night’s Dream (RSC); A Steady Rain; The (Hampstead Theatre). of The Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol, where Claire is Head of Costume at the Almeida The Entertainer; The Winter’s Tale; Frost/ American Plan (Broadway); Stepping Out; in 2011, he founded Closer Each Day, an Theatre, and during her time here has Nixon; Piaf; Travesties; A Life in the Theatre; Henry IV parts I and II; Jeffrey Bernard REBECCA FRECKNALL improvised soap opera that continues to be supervised the following productions: Boy; Death and the Maiden; The Children’s is Unwell; Blithe Spirit; The Rivals; Hedda Movement Director performed bi-weekly. Hamlet; Oil; Against; Dance Nation; The Hour; The Goat; Great Britain; Japes; Bend Gabler; The Winslow Boy; Balmoral; Peter Wild Duck; The Tragedy of King Richard II. It Like Beckham; Betty Blue Eyes; Much Hall Company Season (Theatre Royal Rebecca is Associate Director at the JAMIE PLATT Prior to her time as Head of Costume, Ado About Nothing; The Sunshine Boys Bath); Welcome Home Captain Fox!; Almeida Theatre and was previously on Claire was a freelance Costume Supervisor, (West End); Buried Child; The Hothouse; My Night with Reg; Versailles; The Night the Almeida’s Resident Director Scheme Associate Lighting Designer working at venues such as The National Dealer’s Choice (Trafalgar Studios); Harry Alive; A Voyage Around My Father; The supported by the Eranda Rothschild As Associate Lighting Designer, for Theatre, The Royal Court and the Young Vic to name a few. Potter and the Cursed Child; Company; Ink; Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse); The Foundation. the Almeida: The Hunt; Three Sisters; Travesties; Hughie; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Color Purple (Broadway); The Twits; The As director, for the Almeida: The Duchess Machinal; Ink (also West End). Evita; Red; Hamlet; The Seafarer; Frost/ Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal of Malfi; Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke As Lighting Designer, theatre includes: Nixon (Broadway). Neil has also designed Court); Medea; The Doctor’s Dilemma; (also West End). Jellyfish (National Theatre); Cracked; extensively at the National Theatre and the Misterman; Tristan & Yseult (National As director, theatre includes: Steel Remembrance (Old Vic); Either; Paradise; Donmar Warehouse. Theatre); Clarence Darrow; A Flea in her (Sheffield Crucible); Julie (Northern Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre); Le Grand Ear; National Anthems; Six Degrees of Neil was the recipient of the 2019 Tony Stage); A Streetcar Named Desire - Parallel Mort (Trafalgar Studios); Gently Down Separation (Old Vic); Journey’s End (Duke Award for Ink on Broadway; 2019 Production (Young Vic); Something Cloudy, the Stream; Alkaline (Park Theatre); of York’s/ New York); Equus (Gielgud/ New Helpmann Award for Harry Potter and the Something Clear (Greenwich Theatre). Absurd Person Singular (Watford Palace York); The Wizard of Oz; The Midnight Cursed Child in Melbourne; 2019 Knight Theatre); Mythic (Charing Cross Theatre); Gang; The Watsons; A Christmas Carol; Rebecca trained at Goldsmiths, LAMDA, of Illumination Award for Company in Singin’ in the Rain (The Mill at Sonning); Mrs Pat; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and on the National Theatre Studio’s the West End; 2018 Tony, Drama Desk Sonny; Once on this Island (ArtsEd); Blood (Chichester Festival Theatre); Annie Get Directors Course. Upon graduating she and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Harry Orange; The Moor; Where Do Little Birds Your Gun (UK tour); The Birthday Party received a Jerwood Assistant Director Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway; Go? (Old Red Lion Theatre); Checkpoint (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Seagull Bursary to train at the Young Vic and was the 2017 Olivier and WhatsOnStage Chana; Quaint Honour; P’yongyang; We (Headlong); Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre awarded the National Theatre Studio’s Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Know Where You Live; Chicken Dust Kingston); Arcadia (English Touring Resident Director Bursary in 2012. In Child in London; the 2011 Laurence (Finborough Theatre); Beast; Klippies Theatre); King of The Castle; The Irish 2015 she won the acclaimed Regional Olivier Award for The White Guard, and (Southwark Playhouse); Vincent River Shakespeare Project; Brigit; Bailegangaire Theatres Young Directors Scheme Bursary the 2010 Tony and Drama Desk Awards (Hope Mill Theatre); Pattern Recognition (Druid Theatre); The Night Alive; The at Northern Stage where she was Resident for Red. (Platform Theatre/ World Tour); Reared; Philanthropist; Pygmalion (New York). Director for 18 months. Her production of Summer and Smoke at the Almeida and Screwed; Grey Man (Theatre 503); The For his work on Journey’s End Gregory GREGORY CLARKE Duke of York’s Theatre won two Olivier Trap (Omnibus Theatre); Scenes from the won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Awards including Best Revival of a Play End of the World; The Act (Yard Theatre); Sound Design. Gregory also won a Tony and Rebecca was nominated as Best Constellations (Théâtre Municipal de For the Almeida: Albion; Against; The Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for Director. Fontainebleau); Shudder (Soho Theatre). Merchant of Venice; Cloud Nine. his work on Equus. As Associate Lighting Designer, theatre Theatre includes: Rosmersholm; The Goat includes: The Night of the Iguana; The or Who is Silvia?; The Truth; Stepping Out; TOM BRENNAN AMY BALL Associate Director Starry Messenger; Bitter Wheat (West End); My Night with Reg; Goodnight Mister Tom; Casting Six (UK tour); Blues in the Night (Kiln The Vortex; A Voyage Around My Father; For the Almeida: Albion; The Twilight Theatre); Amélie (Werk7, Munich); The For the Almeida: The Hunt; Shipwreck; And Then There Were None; Some Girls; Zone. Grit in the Oyster (Sadler’s Wells/ World Waiting for Godot; What the Butler Saw Dance Nation; Albion; Boy. As director and co-writer: Drac and Jill; Tour); The Measures Taken; All That is Solid (West End); The Beacon; Shelter; Furniture; Theatre includes: Uncle Vanya; The Rocky Shock (The Wardrobe Theatre); Melts into Air (Royal Opera House/ World Richard III (Druid); Twelfth Night (Royal Leopoldstadt; The Night of the Iguana; The Last of the Pelican Daughters; South Tour). Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Admissions Rosmersholm; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Western; 1972: The Future of Sex; Eloise Jamie trained at RWCMD, and has been (Trafalgar Studios); The Secret Diary of Woolf? (West End); The Son (Kiln Theatre/ and the Curse of the Golden Whisk; RIOT; nominated for a Knight of Illumination Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (Menier Chocolate West End); Sweat (Donmar Warehouse/ 33; The Forever Machine (Wardrobe Award, a Broadway World Award and four Factory/ West End); Orpheus Descending West End); A Very Very Very Dark Matter Ensemble). Offie Awards for Best Lighting Design. (Theatr Clwyd/ Menier Chocolate Factory); (Bridge Theatre); Exit the King; Consent The Gronholm Method; Fiddler on the (National Theatre); On Bear Ridge; Glass. As director: 252AM (Shady Dolls Theatre). Roof; Spamilton; The Bridges of Madison Kill. Bluebeard. Imp; White Pearl; The Cane; As writer: Weapons; Congregation (North Country; Lettice & Loveage; The Truth; ear for eye; Girls and Boys; The Children; Wall); The Episode (UK Tour). Dinner with Saddam; Assassins; Two Into road; Anatomy of a Suicide; The Ferryman; As co-writer and performer: Education One; The Lyons; The Color Purple; Travels Cyprus Avenue; X; Hangmen; Escaped Education Education (Wardrobe Ensemble/ With My Aunt; Proof (Menier Chocolate Alone; Linda; Liberian Girl; How to Hold Royal and Derngate Northampton/ Factory); The Two Noble Kinsmen; The Your Breath; Constellations; Jumpy; Posh; Shoreditch Town Hall/ Trafalgar Studios). Alchemist; All’s Well That Ends Well; The River (Royal Court); Jerusalem (Royal Tom trained in American Theatre at Rose

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Recent highlights have included West Sam South at the Creative Green awards, and five star Sophie Taylor Roberta Livingston Abi Falase Jamie Armitage End transfers of James Graham’s Ink (also Broadway), Robert Icke’s Creative Industry Green (IG) certification ADMIN- Adriana Maestranzi Robert Awosusi productions of Hamlet (also broadcast on BBC Two and transferring from Julie's Bicycle. ISTRATION DEVELOPMENT Joe von Malachowski Atri Banerjee to New York in June alongside Oresteia), Mary Stuart (also toured the Thomas Maryan Development Ebenezer Bamgboye Operations Director Elle McAlpine UK) and The Doctor (transfers to the West End in April) and Associate Director Jack Bradfield Fiona Greenhill Claudia McDowell Director Rebecca Frecknall’s Olivier Award-winning production of Sarah Harwood TD Moyo Summer and Smoke. Administrators Theatre Tour Guide Sammy J Glover Individual Anastasia Dyson Nick Durant Emily Ling-Williams Other notable recent productions have included King Charles III Giving Manager Erin McCulloch Lucy McCann (transferred to the West End and Broadway, won the Olivier Award Ryan Nicolussi Security & This programme is recyclable, and Access Officer Fire Officer Tamar Saphra for Best New Play, toured the UK and Sydney, and received a BBC Trusts and made using FSC certified paper. Miranda Yates Thiago Carvalho television adaptation) and livestreamed marathons of more than 100 Foundations General Assistant artists reading Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey as part of 2015’s Almeida Manager Jane Ryan Greeks festival, reaching tens of thousands across the world. Katie Randall

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