THE MIDNIGHT GANG By David Walliams Adapted by Bryony Lavery Music & Lyrics by Joe Stilgoe
WELCOME
The power of the imagination is, as adapter Bryony Lavery and composer and lyricist Joe Stilgoe point out in this programme, the governing theme of The Midnight Gang. Bryony’s popular previous adaptations for Chichester include A Christmas Carol and The Hundred and One Dalmatians; while Joe has delighted audiences with his own concerts as well as his music for The Jungle Book. A very warm welcome to The Midnight Gang – the first family show to be produced during a Festival season on our main stage.
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We are thrilled to be presenting this world premiere adaptation of David Walliams’s best-selling novel. David’s brilliantly inventive books have won him millions of devoted young readers, so there can be no better way of welcoming audiences of all ages to our work. David tells us that it was seeing Frankie Howerd in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Chichester when he was a teenager that made him want to get into comedy. Who knows if there will be young people who find similar inspiration in the performance they are seeing today, and make a career in theatre or the arts?
Few people can have inspired as many young people as director Dale Rooks, with her stunning Youth Theatre productions including the award-winning Running Wild which she also co-directed at Regent’s Park and on UK tour, as well as leading our education and participation programme. Her Festival debut is long overdue. Jennie Dale, who tapped her way into audiences’ hearts in Me and My Girl, has returned to play Matron. And spot the stars of the future among the 11 to 14 year-olds who are playing The Midnight Gang! Please enjoy today's performance.
Artistic Director Daniel Evans
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Executive Director Rachel Tackley
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COMING SOON
SLEEPING BEAUTY By Rufus Norris From The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods by Charles Perrault Chichester Festival Youth Theatre return to present Rufus Norris’s splendidly entertaining and mischievous version of the original fairy tale which ventures beyond the usual ‘happy ever after’ ending! Ages 7+
15 – 30 December #SleepingBeauty
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THE MIDNIGHT GANG By David Walliams Adapted by Bryony Lavery Music & Lyrics by Joe Stilgoe
JOE STILGOE JENNIFER WHYTE BRYONY LAVERY TUMO REETSANG DALE ROOKS CODY MOLKO JENNIE DALE
THE GREATEST ADVENTURE Bryony Lavery and Joes Stilgoe tell us about their new version of The Midnight Gang How did you get involved in The Midnight Gang? Joe Stilgoe We were just about to put The Jungle Book into the Festival Theatre and I was asked to a meeting with Daniel Evans and Dale Rooks, who said ‘We’d like you to be involved in a show for next season and we’ve got this idea for an adaptation of a book - we’re hoping it’s The Midnight Gang’. So I went home via a bookshop in Chichester where I found a copy and read it very quickly, and thought ‘I really hope it’s this, because it’s just up my alley’. To be involved in something theatrically that suits my memories of childhood and the anarchy of all those Roald Dahl-like stories would be a lovely thing. Then they said Bryony was going to do the adaptation, which I thought was brilliant because she’s so experienced and queen of her world. Bryony Lavery If Dale Rooks asks me to do something I just say yes, because it’s Dale Rooks. Then I read The Midnight Gang and thought gosh, this is a lark! David Walliams likes exclamation marks and big capital letters for when the character is excited, in exactly the same way I do, so I thought well, this is a very good fit. How does the process of adaptation start? Bryony I’ve done some previous collaborations with composers/lyricists and they all work in a different way. With Joe, we find the same things funny and the same things moving. We both started working separately; he marked where he thought the songs might come, and when I started extracting the dialogue from the book,
I kept that in mind. But I normally write the scene that the song may replace anyway, because then one gets the song and the point of the scene mixing together. Then we just sat together and worked out what would work best. Joe As I was reading the book – because your first instincts are the best, I think – I wrote down ‘song here’ at points. I nicked that idea from Lionel Bart; he said that when he wrote the musical Oliver!, he went through Oliver Twist as if he was watching a play or show – you imagine you are being presented with a song at that point. I then sent Bryony about 10 or 12 ideas for songs. Bryony, you’ve done many very successful book adaptations: how much of a free hand do you give yourself in terms of the original material? Bryony It completely varies. My rule of thumb is to try and get all the dialogue and scenes from the book, without my adding anything new. That’s my first pass at it, and if it works, fine. But very often, because I’m transmuting it from one artform to another, I have to intervene if there’s something that isn’t happening dramatically. But I really try always to be the junior writer because the piece is about the original author’s characters and story, and it’s my job to make that story and those characters work on stage – not to provide new characters or put my big footprint on it. Dialogue from books doesn’t always work theatrically because it’s too long, but finding how to get the essence of what people are saying is the joy of adaptation. I find that David Walliams’s work leaps with alacrity from the page to the stage because it’s a very visual book constructed like comedy and theatre, with good sight gags.
Joe, how did you approach the music? Joe Songwriters always talk about hooks in melodies, things that become ear worms that make a song catchy but I think lyrics are equally important – how the sound of the words suits the song and how easy it is for the performers and listeners to grab on to it. What I’ve learnt in musical theatre is that one misplaced word that doesn’t mean anything or add to the story, is pointless. It’s not like a pop song where you can just get the feel of it without catching all the lyrics. And for children, that’s even more important. Bryony I also work a bit harder to be clearer with children, because they let you know much earlier than adults if you’re not getting it right. They lose interest. Writing for children is great practice for any sort of writing because you have to be clear and direct and do your job well, otherwise they start taking the furniture apart. Joe When I was growing up and singing along to music, my brother used to get really annoyed with me because I’d never get the lyrics right; he’d go, “Just think about what you’re singing – why would it be ‘Last night I dreamt of some bagels’ in that Madonna song?” I didn’t really have an interest in it until my early 20s, which must have been a crushing blow for my dad [Richard Stilgoe, famous for his brilliant lyrics!]. It’s a lifelong struggle to write the perfect lyrics. As for the music itself, it’s all about making sure the song fits the scene and is evocative of the situation. For this show I’ve tried to keep some musical phrases consistent throughout, even though the style of the songs varies hugely. I’ve used a particular interval here called a ‘tritone’ as one of the phrases that recurs – it’s there in the menacing Matron’s music, but it can also be used in a happier setting. Basically, if the song’s in C, it will be C down to F sharp. Bernstein used it a lot in West Side Story and it gives our world a musical base from which you can go anywhere you want. It keeps cropping up so you can listen out for that.
The Midnight Gang deals with something that’s potentially quite difficult and emotional - children who are ill in hospital. Is that something you thought about particularly? Bryony I don’t think children live in an easy world, any more than adults do. They have different things to tackle but boy, they have big things to tackle. If it’s good for us as adults to tackle difficult subjects, it’s good for them too. I don’t feel very preachy about it; it’s just that children’s lives aren’t a stroll in the park. I’ve written several plays for the National Theatre’s Connections festival and I think young people really like tackling difficulties – they like the challenges. Joe It’s an interesting question. Our 3 ½ year-old daughter recently watched Paddington 2; we thought there was nothing that could particularly affect her, but she found the jail scene very sad and started crying. We thought, what have we done?! She absolutely loves the film though, and she’s learned a lot about other feelings, so I do think about that a lot when writing. One of our characters is more unwell than the others; she has a song and I didn’t hold the punches or sugar coat it. It’s good to get children to be aware of the imbalance of life. But I love that in the book and this show, the baddies are taken down. Matron is our scary character and we show her to be completely ridiculous. It’s saying, don’t be scared about the monsters, because the monsters aren’t the thing you should worry about. What we should worry about is other people’s feelings. Bryony I think it’s a wonderful examination of kindness. Normally children are deemed to be a bit cruel to one another, but actually gangs are about supportiveness. Hence ‘The Midnight Gang’. Incidentally, can I say how good the kids in our cast are, how focused they are on doing their job. They’re very young and it’s rather nice to see them being very professional. They’re always very generous about handing round their sweets as well!
FIBIAN McKENZIE ANJALI SHAH ALBIE STISTED JASMINE SAKYIAMA FELIX WARREN TUMO REETSANG MATTHEW CAVENDISH JOE STILGOE MATTHEW CAVENDISH TIM MAHENDRAN
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The Midnight Gang is a story that shows the huge power and importance of the imagination... Joe Yes – the best thing about childhood is not having any barriers placed on your imagination, being allowed to think about the wildest things. That’s why this book resonated with all of us; it’s different to David’s other stories in that this group of children are confined in a particular way, but they are told to just dream - to think of the silliest, maddest, most impossible thing and let’s see if we can make it happen. So hopefully when children and grown-ups see the show, they will feel that same feeling. Bryony These children plan at least two major dramatic events using almost nothing more than balloons and string. I think it’s a very true
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world, I love to watch children playing. I had a rich fantasy world as a child; my sister and I had a skating school, my brothers and I had a detective agency and as a sideline we practised safe-breaking. I can still pick locks and I’m very proud of it. I once broke into somebody’s car when they lost their key, and they looked at me with gratitude and suspicion in equal measure. Joe Adults go to the theatre often to have that experience, to get taken out of yourself, whether it’s a family show or a very serious play. Theatre does connect deeply with memories. Any age of audience who comes to see this show will hopefully be reminded of that part of their personality which has maybe been lost or suppressed by growing up.
If you were members of The Midnight Gang, what would be the dream you’d like to come true? Joe George in the play has a similar dream; he wants to fly, but mine is slightly different and I still have it occasionally. I dream I can take huge steps when I’m running so I can sort of float – I’m able to tread air. I know, it doesn’t sound that exciting but IT IS! The annoying thing is that I’ve often woken up from that dream and thought ‘that was a dream’, then I have the same dream the next night and it feels real, and I think ‘no it’s not a dream, now I can really do it’. It’s stayed with me all my life. In fact, I had it last night. I don’t know why flying is such a universal dream, but it pops up in so many stories. I always remember the completely magical moment when the Darling children
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fly out of the nursery window in Peter Pan. It’s a great metaphor for childhood and imagining – being able to escape the real world and just be free to go where you like. Bryony The Midnight Gang is about children trying not to be earthbound through their imaginations. I always thought I could fly anyway when I was a kid; I’m still not convinced I can’t. A bit of me now would like eternal youth; to be as limber as I was. You realise all the things you take for granted that you have to stop taking for granted. I don’t want to live forever, but I’d like a steady and fit progression towards the end. I want to live in good health and to be able to have adventures until my very last breath.
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DRAW YOUR OWN DREAM WITH YOUR OWN GANG! Whoever you're with, draw your greatest dream together like a real Midnight Gang. (Why not take turns drawing a different part?)
THE MIDNIGHT GANG By David Walliams Adapted by Bryony Lavery Music & Lyrics by Joe Stilgoe CAST (in order of appearance) Porter Tom Nurse Meese Doctor Luppers George Robin Amber Matron Sally Dilly Tootsie Raj Nelly Sir Quentin Strillers Mrs Cod Mr Thews
Dickon Gough Cody Molko / Tumo Reetsang Lucy Vandi Matthew Cavendish Albie Stisted / Rafi Essex Cooper Snow / Felix Warren Fibian McKenzie / Jasmine Sakyiama Jennie Dale Anjali Shah / Cerys Hill Marilyn Cutts Lucy Vandi Tim Mahendran Marilyn Cutts Matthew Cavendish Marilyn Cutts Tim Mahendran
Additional parts played by members of the Company
The Midnight Gang is set in Lord Funt Hospital in London. There will be one interval of twenty minutes. World premiere performance of this production of The Midnight Gang at Chichester Festival Theatre, 13 October 2018.
Dale Rooks Simon Higlett Jennifer Whyte James Whiteside Gregory Clarke Georgina Lamb Verity Naughton
Director Designer Musical Director, Orchestrator & Additional Music Lighting Designer Sound Designer Movement Director Casting Director
Karen Large / Katy Adeney Lizzie Frankl Matt George Max Lindsay Marnie O’Ceallaigh
Costume Supervisors Props Supervisor Hair, Wigs & Make-up Supervisor Assistant Director Costume Assistant
John Page Lou Bann Victoria Rousell Gareth Newcombe Alice Wilson Janette McAlpine Jenny Beadle Ella Jarman Lyana Peniston Julie Tyrell Sarah Lea / Helen Rae Louise Moore / Stuart Morris
Production Manager Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Head Chaperone Chaperones House Mothers Tutors
Supported by The Midnight Gang Commissioning and Patrons Circles: Mrs Veronica J Dukes, Steve and Sheila Evans, John and Chris Lieurance, Graham and Sybil Papworth, Greg and Katherine Slay, Howard M Thompson and Bryan Warnett of St. James's Place.
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ORCHESTRA Musical Director / Piano / Keyboards Flute / Clarinet / Bass Clarinet / Alto Sax Trumpet / Piccolo Trumpet / Flugelhorn Drums / Percussion Double Bass / Bass Guitar
Jennifer Whyte Tommy Andrews Nick Briggs Matt French Nick Laughlin
MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE So Many Questions Doctor Luppers Children Will Never Be Welcome Here Matron Pink Frilly Nightdress Tom, Robin, George, Amber, Sally Snow Amber The Next Best Thing Porter and the Gang Anthem Amber, Robin, George, Tom Breakfast Time Tootsie and the Gang So Many Questions (Reprise) Doctor Luppers ACT TWO Breakfast Time (Reprise) Tootsie Big Beautiful Life Sally and the Gang A Couple of Lost Souls Porter and Tom The Punishment Will Be Severe Mr Thews and Matron The Greatest Adventures Company
Production credits: Set built and painted by Capital Scenery; Production Carpenter Martin Gelder; Automation by Absolute motion control and All Access Staging; Transport by Paul Mathew International, Southern Van Lines and MM Transport; Additional sound hire by Stage Sound Services; Performer flying by Freedom Flying; Costumes made by Sue Bradley, Carol Coates, Charles Hanrahan, Sally Ann Dixie Brook, Kirsti Spence, Lydia Cawson and Amy Beth Addison, with special thanks to Justin Allin and CFT Wardrobe Department; Wigs made by The Big Wig Company; Props made by Amy Hawthorne, Heather Cryan, Ryan O’Conner, Danni Haylett and Sean Teng for Lizzie Props; Additional props made by CFT Props Workshop and Lizzie Props Workshop; Rob Connick, Ros Coombes and Data Reprographics; Children's Administration by Elspeth Barron. Additional thanks to Gerry Knoud, Noluthando Boqwana, Pioneer LED. Rehearsal and production photographs Manuel Harlan Programme design by Davina Chung
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BIOGRAPHIES
MATTHEW CAVENDISH Doctor Luppers / Sir Quentin Strillers Theatre includes The Biograph Girl (Finborough Theatre, Offie nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical); Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (Lyric Theatre West End); The Play That Goes Wrong (original Broadway cast/West End); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (West End and UK tour); Lights! Camera! Improvise! (Mischief Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Park Theatre); The Boys from Syracuse (Union); The Borrowers (Northern Stage); An Intimate Evening with Ruthie Henshall (Apex Theatre) and News Revue (Canal Café).
Television includes A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong. Matt is a member of Mischief Theatre Company and Showstopper. Trained at LAMDA. MARILYN CUTTS Dilly / Nelly / Mrs Cod Previously at Chichester Miss Pratt/The Cocotte/ Mrs Bamberg/Aunt Ermyntrude in Nymph Errant (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes Rose in Pieces of String (Mercury Theatre); Mrs Brice in Funny Girl (Savoy and Menier Chocolate Factory); Madame Morrible in Wicked (UK & Ireland tour); Mother
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Lord in High Society (UK tour); Jack’s Mother in Into the Woods (New Shakespeare Company); Fiona in How the Other Half Loves (Scarborough); Babs Sherwood in Never Forget (Savoy); Teresa in The Rose Tattoo (National Theatre); Agneta in Frozen (Theatre by the Lake); Madame de Rosemonde in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Japanese tour and Sadler’s Wells); Ruby Rosenberg in Queen’s English (Watford); Vi Moore in Footloose, herself in Fascinating Aida: One Last Flutter, Mrs Potts in Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, Grace/Lowbutt/ Dot in Honk! and Conchita in Copacabana (UK tours); Dormouse/White Queen in Alice in Wonderland and Julie Laverne in Show Boat
(RSC); Queen Exilona in La Cava (West End); Mrs Sowerberry in Oliver! (Cameron Mackintosh); Armina in Oklahoma! (National Theatre); Despina in Così fan tutte (London Music Theatre). Television includes Grantchester, Little Howard. Films include Les Misérables, Oklahoma!. JENNIE DALE Matron Previously at Chichester Parchester in Me and My Girl (Festival Theatre). Theatre includes Miss Dinsmore in Singin’ in the Rain and Maggie Jones in 42nd Street
TUMO REETSANG JENNIE DALE DICKON GOUGH ALBIE STISTED FIBIAN McKENZIE COOPER SNOW
(Théâtre du Châtelet Paris); Deb in Elf (Dominion Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Bord Gáis Theatre Dublin); Mae in The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre); Washerwoman in The Wind in the Willows (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Hattie Jaques in Carry on Matron - Hackney Empire’s Gay Extravaganza and Broadbean in Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire); Rosie in Mamma Mia! (UK and international tour); Widow Corney in Oliver! (Larnaca Festival Cyprus); Sister Act (London Palladium); Gigi (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Lord of the Rings and The Witches of Eastwick (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Carmen (ROH); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); The Likes of Us (Sydmonton Festival); Jerry Springer – The Opera (Cambridge Theatre London); Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); Milkmaid in Oliver! (UK tour and Toronto); Scrooge (Dominion Theatre and UK tour); Summer Holiday (UK tour). Television includes CBeebies’ Shakespeare – The Tempest, Summer Witch in The Snow Queen and Captain Captain in Swashbuckle; The Tracey Ullman Show, Midsomer Murders, Victoria Wood’s Midlife Crisis, Victoria Wood: What Larks! Director for Do You Hear the People Sing? (Performing Arts Theatre Manila); Director / Choreographer for Little Shop of Horrors and Head of Tap 2012-15 (Millennium Performing Arts School). Jennie is a guest teacher and choreographer at Glendale Theatre Arts School. RAFI ESSEX George Television includes The Tracy Ullman Show. Films include the shorts Noor and Dancing with the Mop. This is Rafi’s professional stage debut. He began his training at Stagecoach Theatre School and now attends Chickenshed Theatre Company and SNTS London Dance School. DICKON GOUGH Porter Theatre and opera includes Lurch in The Addams Family Musical (original UK cast, UK and international tour); Coster in Clocks 1888: The Greener (Hackney Empire/UK tour); Masetto/Commendatore in Don Giovanni
and Viscomte Cascada in The Merry Widow (Opera della Luna national tours); Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance (Kilworth House Theatre); Colline in La bohème (OperaUpClose/Soho Theatre and Charing Cross Theatre); Leporello in Don Giovanni (Soho Theatre); Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore (Ravenna Festival); Carmen, Krol Roger, Guillaume Tell, Die fliegende Holländer (Royal Opera House); cover Billy Jackrabbit in La fanciulla del West (Opera North); Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Zuniga in Carmen (OUC UK tour); Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi (Opera Holland Park); Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Wyllyotts Theatre); Pirate/Policeman in The Pirates of Penzance (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and UK tour). Vocal work includes Guest Vocalist on the new Faithless album ‘All Blessed’; Guest Vocalist on Rollo Armstrong’s ‘Safe From Harm’ soundtrack; SXSW Music Festival in Austin Texas with Blind Boris. Trained at LIPA and studied opera at Birkbeck University. CERYS HILL Sally Television and video work includes appearing as the Young Anne-Marie in Anne-Marie’s music video 2002, Maths KS1 Series and the shorts Lost Boys and Gifts. This is Cerys’s professional stage debut. She trains at Susan Roberts Academy of Performing Arts and attends Christ College Guildford. TIM MAHENDRAN Raj / Mr Thews Theatre includes Otto in Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre and Curve Theatre Leicester); Magic at the Musicals, The Other School and The Hired Man (St James Theatre); 13 The Musical (Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue). Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (BA Hons 2018).
FIBIAN McKENZIE Amber Theatre includes Beauty and the Beast (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); 2018 Young Voices (O2 Arena); Schools Out 2016 and We Are Family 2018 (CPA Performing Arts / Queens Theatre Hornchurch). Fibian trains with KA Arts and is currently attending Becket Keys Church of England School. CODY MOLKO Tom Theatre includes Carousel and Ivan in Chess (London Coliseum); Mason in School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre). Cody attends Sylvia Young Theatre School. TUMO REETSANG Tom Theatre includes Young Michael Jackson in Motown the Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre); Boy in Les Blancs and Everyboy in Everyman (National Theatre); Young Lola in Kinky Boots (Adelphi Theatre). Radio includes Maya Angelou Singin’ and Swingin’, Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas. LUCY VANDI
Tumo trained with Westminster School of Performing Arts and attends Ark Globe Academy. JASMINE SAKYIAMA Amber Theatre includes Tomika in School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre West End); Sara Crewe in A Little Princess (Royal Festival Hall); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Royal & Derngate Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Milton Keynes Theatre). Jasmine trains at Arts1 School of Performance Milton Keynes. ANJALI SHAH Sally Television includes Joseph Morpurgo’s Christmas: Nativity. This is Anjali’s professional stage debut. She trains with West London Drama Training. COOPER SNOW Robin Theatre includes Roland Rollover in Sleeping Beauty and the Ewe’s Duty (Brighton Fringe Festival); Percival in Lord of the Flies (Open Air Theatre Brighton); Pinocchio in The Amazing Adventures of Pinocchio (Attenborough Centre
for the Performing Arts). Cooper trains at Stagecoach Theatre Arts Tunbridge Wells and Theatrix Rottingdean, and attends Cardinal Newman Catholic School.
Wardrobe (Leicester Haymarket); Village Auntie in Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Stratford East). Television includes Doctors, Mile High.
ALBIE STISTED George Previously at Chichester Mini-Me in The Hundred and One Dalmatians and James in Beauty and the Beast (CFYT/Festival Theatre), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Festival Theatre). Albie is a member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and attends Portsmouth Grammar School.
FELIX WARREN Robin West End theatre includes Eric in Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre) and Gavroche in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre). Other theatre credits include Younger Boy in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Black Box Theatre Galway and O’Reilly Theatre Dublin), Will Proudfoot in Son of Rambow: The Musical (The Other Palace), Norma’s Child in Norma (English National Opera). Felix trains with Spirit Young Performers Company and vocal coach Aimee Gray, and attends Sylvia Young Theatre School.
LUCY VANDI Nurse Meese / Tootsie Theatre includes Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (Royal Exchange Theatre/Talawa); Ms Sheinkopf in School of Rock (West End); understudy Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); Tryshia in The Last Session (Climar Productions); La Tanya in Jerry Springer – The Opera (National Theatre and West End); The Life of Galileo (National Theatre); Mrs Beaver in The Lion, the Witch and the
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GREGORY CLARKE Sound Designer Previously at Chichester Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Mrs Pat, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Theatre includes The Color Purple (Broadway); Medea, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Misterman, Tristan and Yseult (National Theatre); The Goat, Or Who Is Silvia? (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Truth (Wyndham’s); The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Alchemist, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Journey’s End (Duke of York’s/New York, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design); Equus (Gielgud/ New York, Tony Award for Best Sound Design); Welcome Home Captain Fox!, My Night With Reg, Versailles, The Night Alive, A Voyage Round My Father, The Philanthropist (Donmar); Clarence Darrow, A Flea In Her Ear, National Anthems, Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); Albion, Against, The Merchant of Venice, Cloud Nine (Almeida); Barnum, The Lie, The Secret
Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ The Musical, Love In Idleness, She Loves Me, The Truth, Assassins, The Lyons, Travels With My Aunt, Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Sive, Waiting for Godot, King of the Castle, Druid Shakespeare, Brigit (Druid Theatre); A Steady Rain, Stepping Out, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, Blithe Spirit, The Rivals, Hedda Gabler, The Winslow Boy (Theatre Royal Bath); The Twits, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court); Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); The Birthday Party (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Seagull (Headlong); Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre Kingston); Arcadia (ETT); The Night Alive, The Philanthropist, Pygmalion (New York); My Night With Reg, Goodnight Mister Tom, The Vortex, A Voyage Round My Father, And Then There Were None, Some Girls, What the Butler Saw (West End).
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SIMON HIGLETT Designer Also at Chichester in 2018 The Chalk Garden, Sleeping Beauty. Previously at Chichester The Norman Conquests, Much Ado About Nothing/Love’s Labour’s Lost (and RSC Stratford and West End); Mrs Pat, Amadeus, Stevie (also Hampstead); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Singin’ in the Rain (and world tour); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Yes Prime Minister, Collaboration/Taking Sides, Nicholas Nickleby (all West End transfers); A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Grapes of Wrath, The Circle, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists; and Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (all Chichester Festival Youth Theatre). Current, recent and forthcoming designs The Price, Racing Demon (Bath); Vulcan 7 (Guildford and tour); Twelfth Night (RSC Stratford); An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville); Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (UK tours); Schoenberg in Hollywood (Boston Lyric Opera); All Our Children (Jermyn Street); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (WYP and UK tour); Blithe Spirit (West End and USA); Falstaff (The Grange Festival). Other highlights The Marriage of Figaro (Scottish Opera); The Rivals, Man and Boy, Hay Fever, Of Mice and Men, Amy’s View (West End); Enemies, Whistling Psyche, The Earthly Paradise (Almeida); The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Donmar); The Force of Change (Royal Court); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stockholm); Haunted (NYC/Brits Off Broadway); Pygmalion (Old Vic); Singer, A Russian in the Woods, Thomas More (RSC); The Brothers Karamazov (Manchester Royal Exchange); To Kill a Mockingbird (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mrs Warren’s Profession (Washington DC). Simon designs for opera worldwide and is the recipient of the Manchester Theatre Award for Best Design (Wonderful Town); two TMA Best Design Awards (Elizabeth Rex, Three Sisters); Helen Hayes Best Design Award (Lady Windermere’s Fan) USA.
GEORGINA LAMB Movement Director Previously at Chichester Choreographer for Grimm Tales (Cass Sculpture Foundation), A Christmas Carol (Festival Theatre); Movement Director for The Witches, Macbeth (and West End, BAM New York and Broadway), Six Characters in Search of an Author (CFT/Headlong, and West End, Sydney) (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes Frozen, Chimerica, Much Ado About Nothing (West End); Kiss of the Spider Woman, The White Devil (Menier Chocolate Factory); A Christmas Carol, Titus Andronicus, Roaring Girl, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Babette’s Feast (The Print Room); Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theatre New York, Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Best Choreographer); Running Wild (Regent’s Park/ CFT tour); Sleeping Beauty (Watermill Theatre); Twelfth Night, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, Holy Warriors, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Doctor Faustus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe); Wit, Too Clever By Half (Royal Exchange); East is East, Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios); Every Last Trick, The Duchess of Malfi, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Glass Cage (Royal & Derngate); Sweeney Todd (Tooting Arts Club); Never Try This at Home, Hopelessly Devoted (Birmingham Rep); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court); Cinderella: The Midnight Princess, The Three Musketeers (Rose Kingston); Bottle Neck (HighTide); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Palace); Dream Story, Electra, Lulu (The Gate); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Paradise Lost (Headlong); The Game of Love and Chance (Salisbury Playhouse); Macbeth (Regent’s Park); Gambling (also co-Director, Soho Theatre); King Lear (Headlong/Liverpool Everyman, Young Vic); Far from the Madding Crowd (ETT); The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic); Faustus (Headlong/Hampstead). Television and film includes True Stories, Once Upon a Time, Hansel and Gretel, Macbeth.
GREGORY CLARKE DALE ROOKS BRYONY LAVERY SIMON HIGLETT JAMES WHITESIDE JENNIFER WHYTE THE COMPANY THE COMPANY ANJALI SHAH CODY MOLKO SIMON HIGLETT JOE STILGOE DALE ROOKS
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BRYONY LAVERY Adapter Bryony Lavery’s previous work for Chichester includes adaptations of The Hundred and One Dalmatians (2014) and A Christmas Carol (2015). Her play Frozen won the TMA Best Play Award, the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award and was produced at Birmingham Rep, then at the National Theatre and on Broadway in 2004 where it was nominated for four Tony Awards; it was revived in the West End earlier this year. Stockholm, for Frantic Assembly, won the Wolff-Whiting Award for Best Play of 2008. Beautiful Burnout, for the National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly, received a Fringe First at Edinburgh, before productions in the UK, New York, Australia and New Zealand. Dirt was nominated for the Charles McArthur Award for Most Outstanding Play or Musical of 2013 in Washington DC. Recent work includes The Believers (Frantic Assembly); Queen Coal (Sheffield Crucible); Treasure Island (National Theatre); Brideshead Revisited (York Theatre Royal/ETT); Our Mutual Friend (Hull Truck/City of Culture 2017); Balls (59E59E, New York); Brighton Rock (Pilot Theatre/York Theatre Royal/UK tour); Swallows and Amazons (Storyhouse Chester); and The Lovely Bones (Royal & Derngate Northampton/ Northern Stage/Birmingham Rep & UK tour). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University and an Associate Artist at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. MAX LINDSAY Assistant Director Max Lindsay is Resident Assistant Director for Festival 2018 and was also Assistant Director on random/generations and Me and My Girl. Theatre as Director includes Angry (Southwark Playhouse); Foreign Goods 2 and Broken Gargoyles (Theatre503); Consensual, The Odyssey, Girls Like That, Henry IV, His Dark Materials, The Laramie Project, The Wardrobe, Feathers in the Snow, Great Expectations, The Three Musketeers and Cymbeline (Nuffield Theatre); Someone to Blame (Kings Head Theatre/Nuffield Theatre); Jimmy Jimmy (Omnibus Clapham); The Best Christmas
Present In The World (The Playing Field); The Voyage of Lost Dreams (SS Shieldhall). As Associate Director Cargo (regional tour); We Are Here (National Theatre); as Assistant Director Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Cargo (Arcola Theatre); The Nutcracker (Nuffield Theatre). Trained at East 15. VERITY NAUGHTON Casting Director Theatre includes, as Children’s Casting Director, The Ferryman (Royal Court Theatre and Gielgud Theatre), Frozen (Haymarket Theatre); as Casting Director Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre), The Country Wife and Kiki’s Delivery Service (Southwark Playhouse), all female Posh (Pleasance Theatre), If We Had Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Old Red Lion Theatre); as Children’s Casting Associate School of Rock The Musical (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Ensemble Casting Director Running Wild (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Senior Children’s Casting Assistant Billy Elliot The Musical (Victoria Palace Theatre, UK and Ireland tour), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Matilda The Musical (RSC); Children’s Casting Assistant Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), Made in Dagenham The Musical (Adelphi Theatre), To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and UK tour), I Can’t Sing – The X–Factor Musical (London Palladium), The Sound of Music (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Audience (Gielgud Theatre). Television includes Evermoor (Assistant Casting Director). Films include Radioactive, Farming (Children’s Casting); Nativity 3! – Dude Where’s My Donkey? (Children’s Casting Assistant). www.vjncasting.com DALE ROOKS Director Dale Rooks works extensively with children and young people, and has directed numerous Youth Theatre productions at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her acclaimed promenade production of Michael Morpurgo’s Running Wild was staged for Festival 2015, winning the UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People.
Dale co-directed, with Tim Sheader, a reimagination of Running Wild for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2016 and a UK tour in 2017. Dale’s other directing credits at Chichester Festival Theatre include The Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Witches, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, Toad of Toad Hall, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Grimm Tales and Beauty and the Beast. She has also directed for the National Theatre (NT Connections), Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Royalty Theatre London, Brighton Dome, London Thames Festival, International Youth Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Other credits include Stage Director for The Shakespeare Schools Festival, opera projects with West Sussex Schools and the BBC Concert Orchestra players, and European Youth Drama Project with companies in Normandy, France. Dale has worked as Education Specialist for the London based company Artichoke, designing and creating a programme of work for schools in London and Brooklyn, New York and on a further live arts project as part of the Liverpool City of Culture Celebrations. Other credits include working in partnership with NAYT (National Association of Youth
Theatres); Dale is the Lead Officer for the South East region, networking with other youth theatres in the South of England. Dale is Director of Learning, Education and Participation (LEAP) at Chichester Festival Theatre. JOE STILGOE Music and Lyrics Joe Stilgoe is a singer, pianist and songwriter. He composed the music for the 2017 stage adaptation of The Jungle Book, which was seen at Chichester and on UK tour. As well as releasing five critically lauded albums – I Like This One, We Look to the Stars, Songs on Film, New Songs for Old Souls and Songs on Film: The Sequel (three of which have topped the UK Jazz chart) – Joe has toured around the world, appearing in festivals, jazz clubs and concert halls from Ronnie Scott’s to the Royal Albert Hall to New York’s Birdland. He starred in High Society at The Old Vic in 2015 and performed at the 2016 Olivier Awards. This year he has toured the UK in a new show with Sir Michael Parkinson called Our Kind of Music, and in October he will appear as Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls at the Royal Albert Hall. Joe works extensively on radio, having
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hosted BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night, as well as his own show on JazzFM. His television credits include BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year, Babs and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. With his big band, he has performed at The Snape Proms, The Old Vic, the Lyric Hammersmith and at Chichester Festival Theatre. He is frequently a guest soloist with orchestras including The John Wilson Orchestra, RLPO, RTE and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and has performed on numerous occasions for royalty and heads of state in Windsor Castle, St James Palace and Clarence House. He is an ambassador for Children And The Arts and The Orpheus Centre, and a patron for Chestnut Tree House. DAVID WALLIAMS Writer David Walliams has become one of the most influential children’s writers today. In the ten years since the publication of his first novel, The Boy in the Dress, David Walliams has become a global bestseller, with sales exceeding twenty-six million copies, and his books have been translated into fifty-three languages. In July 2017 David became the first children’s writer to spend 100 (nonconsecutive) weeks at number one in the children’s charts. He also topped the Sunday Times bestseller charts four times, another record for a children’s author. In 2014 David established King Bert Productions with Miranda Hart, Jo Sargent and Conor McCaughan with the aim of delivering original comedy, drama and entertainment programmes across global markets. King Bert has produced over twenty-five programmes to date including the 2017 television adaptation of Grandpa’s Great Escape for the BBC starring David alongside Tom Courtenay and Jennifer Saunders. David also appeared in the Sky One adaptation of his novel Ratburger, shown at Christmas 2017. They are currently in production on a new adaptation of The Midnight Gang for BBC1. The Boy in the Dress, Billionaire Boy and Gangsta Granny have also been adapted into TV comedy-dramas. David’s novels and
picturebooks have also been made into touring theatre productions including Mr Stink, Ratburger, The First Hippo on the Moon, Gangsta Granny and Awful Auntie. Little Britain, which he co-created with Matt Lucas, started on Radio 4, soon progressed to BBC1 and now plays in over 100 countries, winning numerous international awards including three BAFTAs. Little Britain Live performed to a million people in the UK, Ireland and Australia. David and Matt followed Little Britain with the spoof airport documentary series Come Fly with Me. As an actor, David’s television work includes Capturing Mary with Dame Maggie Smith, the Agatha Christie series Partners in Crime, and as Frankie Howerd in the biopic Rather You Than Me. He received the Evening Standard Theatre Comedy Award for his performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and also appeared on stage in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land alongside Michael Gambon. His film credits include The Look of Love, Great Expectations, Dinner for Schmucks, Run Fat Boy Run and Stardust. David is a trustee of Comic Relief, for which he has personally raised £8.5m – most notably swimming the English Channel in 2006 and the River Thames in 2011. David is also an ambassador for the children’s charity, Make A Wish. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2017. Since 2012 David has appeared as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. JAMES WHITESIDE Lighting Designer Previously at Chichester Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Alice in Wonderland and The Snow Queen (Festival Theatre), Miss Julie/Black Comedy, The Witches, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Wallenstein and Funny Girl (Minerva Theatre), Running Wild (Festival Theatre and UK tour). Theatre includes The Art of Success, The Taste of the Town, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose, Kingston); Tango Moderno, Shirley Valentine, Love Me Tender (UK tours); The Borrowers (Sherman Theatre Cymru); Unfaithful (Found
111); The House of In Between (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd); The Royale, Disgraced, Fear (Bush Theatre); Deathtrap, A Voyage Round My Father (Salisbury Playhouse); The Last Tango, Dance Til Dawn, Midnight Tango, Never Forget, Footloose (West End and UK tours); The Night Before Christmas, Little Sure Shot, Salonika (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Monsieur Popular, Animal Farm (Theatre Royal, Bath); Far From the Madding Crowd (Watermill Theatre); The Dumb Waiter (Print Room); The Good Person of Sichuan (Mercury Colchester); The Jungle Book (Citizen’s Glasgow); Stroke of Luck (Park Theatre); Bully Boy (St James Theatre); Holding the Man (Trafalgar Studios); The Female of the Species (Vaudeville); April in Paris, The Odd Couple, Moonlight and Magnolias, Twelfth Night (Perth Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales, Gates of Gold (Library Manchester); James and the Giant Peach (Birmingham Stage Company); The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom and The Snail and the Whale (Tall Stories Theatre Company).
JENNIFER WHYTE Musical Director / Orchestrator / Additional Music Previously at Chichester Caroline, Or Change (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes conductor/pianist for Into The Woods, Betty Blue Eyes, Les Misérables, Avenue Q, A Catered Affair, The Wiz, The Threepenny Opera, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, My Fair Lady, Whistle Down the Wind, The Phantom of the Opera, Martin Guerre, Show Boat and Dames at Sea; Composer for Shehallion, The Famished Land, Chasing Fate and Underworld; Associate Musical Director for Follies and The Magistrate (National Theatre). Television includes Musical Director on Pop Idol, Can’t Sing Singers, Hit Me Baby One More Time, Soapstar Superstar, Tsunami Prayers, Vet Safari. Films include on-set pianist for Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera. Jennifer has also recorded Stories, a solo album of piano music. She studied music at Glasgow University and the University of Massachusetts.
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EVENTS
THE MIDNIGHT GANG PRE-SHOW TALK
Tuesday 16 October, 5.15pm Writer Bryony Lavery and Director Dale Rooks in conversation with Kate Mosse. FREE but booking is essential
POST-SHOW TALK
Tuesday 30 October Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the play. FREE
JOE STILGOE & FRIENDS
Thursday 1 November, 7pm Festival Theatre Young or old, you’re invited to join Joe Stilgoe and some special friends for a celebratory evening of music including songs from The Midnight Gang. Pyjamas welcome! Tickets £10 (Under 16s £5)
MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE
Saturday 3 November, 3pm Steven Pimlott Building Explore what might happen beyond bedtime in this fun and practical workshop. Take part in your own midnight adventure through craft, storytelling and character-based activities. Ages 5+ and their families. FREE but booking is essential
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TRUSTEES Sir William Castell Mr Nicholas Backhouse Mr Nigel Bennett Mr Alan Brodie Ms Jill Green Ms Odile Griffith Mrs Shelagh Legrave OBE Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB CBE Mr Mike McCart Mr Harry Matovu QC Mrs Denise Patterson Ms Stephanie Street Mrs Patricia Tull Ms Tina Webster Mrs Susan Wells ASSOCIATES Kate Bassett Lez Brotherston Charlotte Sutton CDG
Chairman
Literary Associate Design Associate Casting Associate
BUILDING & SITE SERVICES Chris Edwards Maintenance Engineer Lez Gardiner Duty Engineer Daren Rowland Facilities Manager DEVELOPMENT Eleanor Blackham Memberships Officer Katie Cotton Director of Development Julie Field Friends Administrator Laura Jackson Head of Individual Giving Rosie Hiles Corporate Development Manager William Mendelowitz Head of Major Gifts Tabitha Moore Development Administrator Karen Taylor Memberships Officer DIRECTORS Daniel Evans Rachel Tackley Patricia Key Georgina Rae
Artistic Director Executive Director PA to the Directors Head of Planning & Projects
FINANCE Alison Baker Payroll & Pensions Officer Krissie Harte Finance Officer Katie Palmer Assistant Management Accountant Simon Parsonage Mark Pollard Paul Sturgeon Amanda Trodd Nicole Yu HR Eugenie Konig Emily Oliver Jenefer Pullinger Gillian Watkins
Finance Director & Company Secretary IT Support IT Consultant Management Accountant Finance Assistant (Trainee)
Head of HR Accommodation Administrator (Maternity Leave) HR & Recruitment Officer HR Administrator
LEAP Isilda Almeida Events & Heritage Manager Elspeth Barron LEAP Officer Mia Cunningham-Stockdale Youth Theatre Apprentice Lauren Grant Hannah Hogg Richard Knowles Poppy Marples
Deputy Director of LEAP Youth Theatre Officer Education Projects Manager Senior Youth Theatre Officer
Louise Rigglesford Community Partnerships Manager Dale Rooks Director of LEAP Fin Ross-Russell Education Trainee Beth Sedgwick Community Partnerships Trainee MARKETING, PRESS & SALES Carole Alexandre Distribution Officer Josh Allan Box Office Assistant Caroline Aston Audience Insight Manager George Bailey Digital Marketing Officer Becky Batten Senior Marketing Manager Laura Bern Marketing Manager Jenny Bettger Box Office Supervisor Jessica Blake-Lobb Marketing Manager (Corporate) Harry Boulter Fran Boxall Helen Campbell Lydia Cassidy
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Gemma Clark Box Office Assistant Clare Funnell Marketing Officer Madeline Harker Box Office Assistant Lorna Holmes Box Office Assistant Helena Jacques-Morton Communications Assistant James Morgan Box Office Manager Lucinda Morrison Head of Press Kirsty Peterson Box Office Assistant Joshua Vine Box Office Assistant Claire Walters Box Office Assistant Joanna Wiege Box Office Administrator Jane Wolf Box Office Assistant PRODUCTION Amelia Ferrand-Rook Producer Max Lindsay Resident Assistant Director Claire Rundle Production Administrator Jacob Thomas Production Trainee Nicky Wingfield Production Administrator Jeremy Woodhouse Producer TECHNICAL Jason Addison ALD Lumière Trainee Dan Armstrong Transport & Logistics Assistant Steph Bartle Deputy Head of Lighting Alex Castro Sound Technician Amy Clayton Stage Apprentice Rhuari Coe Stage Technician Leonie Commosioung Stage Crew Sarah Crispin Props Maker Lewis Ellingford Stage Crew Fuzz Sound Technician Sam Garner-Gibbons Technical Director Abbie Gingell Stage Technician Dominic Godfree Stage Crew Katie Hennessy Props Store Co-ordinator Laura Howells Senior Lighting Technician Mike Keniger Head of Sound Andrew Leighton Lighting Technician Karl Meier Head of Stage Andrew Mills Stage Crew Charlotte Neville Head of Props Workshop Ryan Pantling Lighting and Sound Apprentice Chris Perryman Deputy Head of Stage Megan Pickthorne Stage Apprentice Lewis Ramsay Lighting & Sound Apprentice Erin Ridley Assistant Lighting Technician Alys Robinson Stage Crew Neil Rose Deputy Head of Sound Ernesto Ruiz-Mateo Stage Crew
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THEATRE MANAGEMENT Janet Bakose Theatre Manager Gill Dixon Front of House Duty Manager Ben Geering House Manager Gabriele Hergert Deputy House Manager Will McGovern Assistant House Manager Sharon Meier PA to Theatre Manager Joshua Vine Front of House Duty Manager WARDROBE Michaela Duffy Ellie Edwards Fiona McIntosh Naomi Overton Gabby Salwyn-Smith Suzanne Skelton Sam Sullivan Loz Tait Colette Tulley Gina Warnes Maisie Wilkins WIGS Beau Bambi Brett Sonja Mohren Isabella Trevisiol-Duff
Dresser Dresser Deputy Head of Wardrobe Dresser Dresser Deputy Head of Wardrobe Assistant Wardrobe Head of Wardrobe Wardrobe Maintenance Assistant Wardrobe Dresser
Deputy Head of Wigs Head of Wigs Deputy Head of Wigs
Stage Door: Sarah Hammett, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Mia Kelly, Chris Monkton, Susan Welling (Supervisor) Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Lucy Anderson, Maria Antoniou, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Bob Bentley, Gloria Boakes, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Lauren Bunn, Julia Butterworth, Louisa Chandler, Helen Chown, Jo Clark, Sophia Cobby, Freya Cooper, Gaye Douglas, Stella Dubock, Alisha Dyer-Spence, Clair Edgell, Suzanne Ford, Jade Francis-Clark, Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook, Barry Gamlin, Luc Gibbons, Anna Grindel, Karen Hamilton, Caroline Hanton, Madeline Harker, Joseph Harrington (Trainee), Fred Harris, Gillian Hawkins, Joanne Heather, Gordon Hemming, Lottie Higlett, Stephanie Horn, Keiko Iwamoto, Pippa Johnson, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Valerie Leggate, Janette McAlpine, Margaret Minty, Chris Monkton, Chloe Mulkern, Susan Mulkern, Georgie Mullen, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Kirsty Peterson, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Justine Richardson, Nicholas Southcott, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust (Trainee), Joshua Vine, Chantelle Walker, Rosemary Wheeler, Donna Wood, Fleur Wood, Kim Wylam, Jane Yeates Volunteer Audio Describers: Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Sue Hyland (Co-ordinator), David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd We acknowledge the financial assistance received from Chichester City Council in respect of signed performances and the work of those who give so generously of their time as our Volunteer Audio Description Team.
ACCESS AND CAR PARKING
Wheelchair users 16 wheelchair spaces are available on two levels in the Festival Theatre, with accessible lifts either side of the auditorium. Two wheelchair spaces are available in the Minerva Theatre. Hearing impaired Free Sennheiser listening units are available for all performances or switch your hearing aid to ‘T’ to use the induction loop in both theatres. Signed performances are British Sign Language interpreted for people who are D/deaf or hard of hearing. Stagetext Captioned performances display text on a screen for D/deaf or hearing impaired patrons. Audio-described performances offer live narration over discreet headphones for people who are blind or visually impaired. Touch Tours enable blind or visually impaired people to explore the set before audio described performances. Free but booking is essential. Dementia-Friendly Theatre All Box Office and Front of House staff have attended a Dementia Friends Information Session, and can be identified by the blue pin on their uniform.
Assistance dogs are welcome; please let us know when booking as space is limited. Parking for disabled patrons Blue Badge holders can park anywhere in Northgate Car Park free of charge. There are 9 non-reservable spaces close to the Theatre entrance. Car Parking Northgate Car Park is an 836-space pay and display car park (free after 8pm). On matinee days it can be very busy; please consider alternative car parks in Chichester. chichester.gov.uk/mipermit If you have access requirements or want to book tickets with an access discount, please join the Access List. For more information and to register, visit cft.org.uk/access, call the Box Office on 01243 781312 or email access@cft.org.uk
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COME CLOSER Did you know that Chichester Festival Theatre is a registered charity? And that you can play an essential role and get more involved in what we do? The generosity and commitment of our supporters, whether their donation is large or small, has helped us achieve our reputation as ‘the jewel in the crown of regional theatres’ (Daily Telegraph). Here are some of the ways you can support the Theatre to maintain our world-class standards, extend our dedicated community and education work, and inspire the future generation of performers, theatre-makers and audiences. In return, we’ll give you a range of benefits to bring you closer to our work. As a Friend of Chichester Festival Theatre, for just £35 a year you’ll receive priority booking, ticket discounts and special events. Visit cft.org.uk/friends for further details.
Our Festival Players are a community of theatre-loving individuals who receive advance priority booking, the opportunity to meet Artistic and Creative teams and invitations to exclusive events throughout the season. You can become a member from £250 a year. Benefactors enjoy an especially close relationship with the Theatre, gaining unique insight into the creative process. Gifts support all areas of our work, from our award-winning Youth Theatre to the Playwrights’ Fund and Trainee programmes. Bespoke communications throughout the year from a personal contact at Chichester Festival Theatre keep you in touch with the impact of your gift. We’d love to tell you more about the ways you can support us. Please contact the Development Team on development.team@cft.org.uk or call 01243 812908.
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S U P P O R T E R S 2018
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT BENEFACTORS Deborah Alun-Jones Robin and Joan Alvarez David and Elizabeth Benson Philip Berry Sarah and Tony Bolton George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Wilfred and Jeannette Cass Sir William and Lady Castell John and Pat Clayton CMC Professional Services Clive and Frances Coward Jim Douglas Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis Steve and Sheila Evans Val and Richard Evans Simon and Luci Eyers Angela and Uri Greenwood Themy Hamilton Sir Michael and Lady Heller Mr and Mrs Christopher Hogbin Basil Hyman Liz Juniper The family of Patricia Kemp Roger Keyworth Alan and Virginia Lovell Jonathan and Clare Lubran Selina and David Marks Mrs Sheila Meadows Jerome and Elizabeth O'Hea Philip and Gail Owen Nick and Jo Pasricha Mrs Denise Patterson Stuart and Carolyn Popham Jans Ondaatje Rolls Dame Patricia Routledge DBE Lady Sainsbury of Turville David and Sophie Shalit Jon and Ann Shapiro Simon and Melanie Shaw Greg and Katherine Slay David and Alexandra Soskin David and Unni Spiller Alan and Jackie Stannah Howard M Thompson Nicholas and Francesca Tingley Peter and Wendy Usborne Bryan Warnett of St. James's Place Ernest Yelf Lord and Lady Young TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray's Charity Trust The Eranda Rothschild Foundation The Noël Coward Foundation The Roddick Foundation
FESTIVAL PLAYERS Dr Cheryl Adams CBE Charles and Clare Alexander Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Paul Arman Mr Brian Baker Matthew Bannister Mr Laurence Barker Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard Julian and Elizabeth Bishop Martin Blackburn Mike and Alison Blakely Sarah and Tony Bolton Tim Bouquet and Sarah Mansell Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett Adam and Sarah Broke Mrs Susie Brookes Bridget Brooks Peter and Pamela Bulfield Jean Campbell Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg Warren and Yvonne Chester Julien Chilcott-Monk Sally Chittleburgh David and Claire Chitty Denise Clatworthy Annie Colbourne John and Susan Coldstream David and Julie Coldwell Cecilia Cole The Colles Trust Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Michael and Jill Cook Brian and Claire Cox Susan Cressey Deborah Crockford Rowena and Andrew Daniels Jennie Davies Yvonne and John Dean The de Laszlo Foundation Diana Dent Clive and Kate Dilloway Christopher and Madeline Doman Peter and Ruth Doust Peter and Jill Drummond John and Joanna Dunstan Peter Edgeler and Angela Hirst Betty and Ian Elliot Anthony and Penny Elphick Caroline Elvy Sheila Evans Brian and Sonia Fieldhouse Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Robert and Pip Foster Roz Frampton Debbie and Neil Franks Alan and Valerie Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Elizabeth Ganney Robert and Pirjo Gardiner
Wendy and John Gehr Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill John and Sue Godfrey Dr and Mrs P Golding Julian and Heather Goodhew Robin and Rosemary Gourlay R and R Green Michael and Gillian Greene Reverend David Guest Ros and Alan Haigh Dr Stuart Hall Kathy and Roger Hammond Anthony Harding David and Linda Harding Dennis and Joan Harrison Roger and Tina Harrison Robert and Suzette Hayes Mrs Joanne Hillier Andrew Hine Christopher Hoare Malcolm and Mary Hogg Michael Holdsworth Pauline and Ian Howat Barbara Howden Richards Joyce Hytner Mrs Raymonde Jay Robert and Sarah Jeans Mrs Pamela Johnson Robert Kaltenborn Nigel Kennedy OBE Anna Christine Kennett Roger Keyworth John and Jane Kilby James and Clare Kirkman Mrs Rose Law Frank and Freda Letch Mrs Jane Lewis John and Jenny Lippiett Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Mr Robert Longmore Colin and Jill Loveless Amanda Lunt Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Robert Macnaughtan Nigel and Julia Maile Jeremy and Caroline Marriage Charles and Elisabeth Martin Gerard and Elena McCloskey Tim McDonald Mick and Betty McGovern Jill and Douglas McGregor James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Diana Midmer David and Elizabeth Miles David and Di Mitchell Jenifer and John Mitchell Gerald Monaghan Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris Sara Morton Terence F Moss Mrs Mary Newby Patricia Newton
Lady Nixon Margaret and Martin Overington Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen Mrs Glenys Palmer Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Alex and Sheila Paterson Simon and Margaret Payton Jean Plowright Maggie Pollock Tim Randall and John Murphy John Rank Malcolm and Angela Reid Christopher Marek Rencki Sandi Richmond-Swift John and Betsy Rimmer Robin Roads Philip Robinson John and Valerie Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ken and Ros Rokison Mr and Mrs Rooney Mark and Susan Ross Nigel and Jackie Scandrett Clare Scherer and Jamie O'Meara Mr Christopher Sedgwick John and Tita Shakeshaft Mrs Dale Sheppard-Floyd Jackie and Alan Sherling Nick Smedley and Kate Jennings Monique and David Smith Christine and Dave Smithers Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha Mrs Barbara Snowden Paul and Marie Stacey Elizabeth Stern Barbara Stewart Judy and David Stewart Peter Stoakley Rodney and Sara Stone Anne Subba-Row Ms Maura Sullivan The Tansy Trust Brian Tesler CBE Harry and Shane Thuillier Mr Robert Timms Alan Tingle Peter and Sioned Vos Steve and Margaret Wadman David Wagstaff and Mark Dune Phil and Claire Wake Paul and Caroline Ward Ian and Alison Warren Chris and Dorothy Weller Bowen and Rennie Wells Graham and Sue White Barnaby and Casandra Wiener Judith Williams Nick and Tarnia Williams Mrs Honor Woods David and Vivienne Woolf Angela Wormald And all those who wish to remain anonymous
‘I am very proud to be associated with Chichester Festival Theatre. To be able to give extra support to such consistently fine work gives me a great sense of engagement with the life of the Theatre.’ John Shakeshaft, CFT Supporter
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S U P P O R T E R S 2018
PRINCIPAL PARTNERS
Diamond Level Prof E.F Juniper and Mrs Jilly Styles
Oldham Seals Group
Gold Level
HOLIDAY LETS
Silver Level
CORPORATE PARTNERS LEVEL 1 Chichester College Criterion Ices Jones Avens Purchases Bar & Restaurant RL Austen Thesis Asset Management
LEVEL 2 Addison Law Behrens Sharp Hennings Wine Merchants Perry Property Advisors Richard & Stella Read The Bell Inn The J Leon Group
LEVEL 3 Dinamiks European Office Products Russell & Bromley Ten Chichester Bed & Breakfast Mrs Joanna Williams
Chichester Festival Theatre offers a variety of corporate partnerships to meet your business needs. For further information, please contact us at development.team@cft.org.uk
AGELESS THEATRE FOR LIFE
Our Ageless campaign aims to ensure that theatre and live art remain at the heart of people’s lives, particularly for older people who are at risk of isolation. Donating to Ageless will help us break down barriers, providing life-changing experiences that benefit mind and body. Help us raise £100,000 in order to continue and expand this work. Donate today at cft.org.uk/ageless or call us on 01243 781312
Supported by Irwin Mitchell and Sheen Stickland