THE BUTTERFLY LION By Michael Morpurgo In a new adaptation by Anna Ledwich
DANIEL EVANS AND KATHY BOURNE PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHAN PERSSON
WELCOME
Welcome to our last Minerva Theatre production of Festival 2019, the premiere of this adaptation of The Butterfly Lion. We’re delighted that it follows in the footsteps of last year’s The Midnight Gang, which was the first production specifically to be programmed for family audiences during a Festival season (outside the Youth Theatre promenade productions). We’re thrilled that it’s once again directed by Dale Rooks, who is renewing our relationship with the inimitable Michael Morpurgo on whose best-selling novel it is based. Dale’s production of Michael’s Running Wild – first with CFYT in 2015, then at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and on a UK tour – was one of the most joyful productions of recent years. Michael’s entrancing account of the origins of The Butterfly Lion, later in this programme, amply demonstrates why he is one the master storytellers of this, or any age.
This brand new adaptation is by our Writer-in-Residence, Anna Ledwich. Anna’s new play Crossing Lines was a huge hit for the Youth Theatre earlier this summer, and we’re delighted to have a second work from her this season. Among the outstanding creative team bringing it to life are designer Simon Higlett, lighting designer Johanna Town, composer Tom Brady and the puppetry designer Nick Barnes. The excellent ensemble cast embraces a range of ages and a kaleidoscope of talents, and it’s a joy to see several Youth Theatre members involved. Enjoy the show, and we hope to see you back here at Christmas for The Wizard of Oz.
Executive Director Kathy Bourne
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THE BUTTERFLY LION By Michael Morpurgo In a new adaptation by Anna Ledwich
MICHAEL MORPURGO IMAGE COURTESY OF ALAMY
I’LL BEGIN THIS STORY WITH A BOY RUNNING AWAY! Michael Morpurgo talks to us about The Butterfly Lion. What was the inspiration behind The Butterfly Lion? Like most books, it has many, many roots. The first is one of those lovely accidents. There’s a book festival in a place called Hay-on-Wye which I go to from time to time. The town is full of bookshops; I was walking past one and in the window there was a book with a photograph of a white lion on the cover and the title was The White Lions of Timbavati. I went into the shop and asked how much it was and the man said four quid and I bought it. It was the best investment I’d ever made really, because I’d never seen white lions before – I didn’t know they existed. The second thing was that I had the book on my lap on a train journey from Paddington to Exeter, turning the pages and loving the photographs; and at a place called Westbury I looked out of the window and on the hillside, there was this white horse carved out of chalk. So I thought, ‘well that’s strange’, and I looked back at my book and I knew then that I was going to somehow write a story about a white lion carved out of chalk on a hillside. Then, it just got luckier and luckier. I was in Dublin at a conference, and in the lift I met an actress called Virginia McKenna who had been in a film called Born Free which a lot of people know. Everyone who saw her in that film was in love with her; I wasn’t particularly out of the ordinary in this respect. Like a 15-year-old, I said “It’s really nice to meet you and I think your Born Free Foundation is wonderful”. Luckily Virginia didn’t scream and she said “Oh that’s really sweet of you”. I went out of the lift and thought, that was so stupid, but I’ll recover this situation. I had a book called The Dancing Bear which is all about a bear in a cage and the Born Free Foundation is all about not keeping animals in cages, so I signed
it ‘To Virginia McKenna, Love (and I meant it) Michael Morpurgo’. Because I’m shy, I asked the man at hotel reception to give it to her, and I flew back to England. I had a letter from Virginia a week later saying ‘I loved the book and if you ever write a book about a lion, please let me know because I could help’. But I still had no actual story. Where did the final part of the jigsaw come from? I was at one of those very boring dinner parties where there’s always somebody louder than everyone else. Somehow we were all exchanging stories about grandfathers and this seriously loud man goes, “Oh my grandfather, he was in the First World War, you know” and I thought oh lordie, here we go; but I listened to his story and I’m really glad I did. I thought, this is so wonderful, I’m going to set my story in the First World War. (The story that the loud man told about his grandfather’s real life experiences in France in WWI became part of the story of The Butterfly Lion; but we won’t tell it here because it might spoil it for you.) What did you do next? I wasn’t alive in the First World War, which will surprise quite a lot of children! So I wanted a way of getting back to an earlier time. When I was about seven, I was at a boarding school in Sussex, funnily enough, and I ran away. I missed my mum and my home was in Essex, 100 miles away. I went out of the big school gates, turned left and started running. I knew that if I was caught, I would be caned because that’s what happened if you did anything wrong. So I just ran and ran and ran. I have a very strong memory of this, it was pouring with rain, and an old lady with a dog in a car overtook me.
She wound down the windows and said, “You’re running away, aren’t you? You’re from that school up the road, you have the uniform.” I said “Yes”, and she said “Well you can’t, it’s raining and where’s home dear?” “Essex”, I said. “Well that’s miles away”, said the old lady, “come in the car, you’ll catch your death.” Now, we all know you should never, never, never get into a stranger’s car; but it was a long time ago, she was an old lady and I was soaking wet and really scared by now over what I had gotten myself into. She took me back to her home and sat me down in front of her stove, took my wet shoes off, put them in the oven, took off my blazer, hung it up to dry. She gave me a sticky bun and some hot tea and then she said “Well what are we going to do with you? I’ll take you back to the headmaster, it will be fine.” I said “No, no, don’t”. Then she said, “I’ll contact your parents.” “No, no, no”, I said, “they’ll be just as angry”. She thought about it and said “Tell you what, when you’re all warm again and you’ve finished your tea, I’m going to drive you back, not to the gate but just to where the trees are by the road. You can run
into the grounds and you’ll only have been gone an hour, no one will know you’re missing.” And that’s what she did and really, she saved my life. She was a very old woman and there was a photograph on the mantelpiece of her late husband in uniform, who’d been killed in the First World War. That’s what she talked about when we were having our sticky buns. He had been very brave and she said, “Well you can be brave, can’t you?” It made a huge impression on me, and I thought that’s what I’ll do, I’ll begin this story with a boy running away; so then I sat down and wrote The Butterfly Lion. Many of the younger audience coming to see the show will have already read the novel. What do you hope they’ll take away from the stage version? Oh well, a love of theatre. Amongst the hundreds who are going to come, there are going to be many who will be converted to theatre for life. We’re trying to give these children an insight into the power of music and dance and drama. To give them a fascination
for it in life and also to give them the confidence that they can take part. Some of them will end up working for theatres. I know this because it happens with books, it’s exactly the same. If you give the right book to the right child at a certain moment, life completely changes for them. They become not just book readers but maybe book makers or book illustrators or book designers. And I love that, I love the fact that it opens doors for people. That’s what the arts should do, it makes you think when you’re young and you want to reach out for more and yearn to be a part of it. One of the reasons I’m here is that I really want to be an actor. Now I’m 75, it’s a bit late but I really love theatre because of the life that it brings to stories. I’m completely fascinated by how
it’s done and I would love to be seven again and go to a theatre – which I didn’t do at all when I was very, very young because it was just post-war and there certainly wasn’t much for children. The wonderful thing about the world of the arts today is that there is brilliant quality stuff for children. My daddy acted here in Chichester, way back in the 1960s and did a one-man show. So when I come here, I know I’m treading where he trod.
THE WHITE LIONS OF
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The Timbavati Game Reserve forms part of South Africa’s world-famous Kruger National Park, a conservation area of more than 20,000 square kilometres. In Tsonga, the local language, ‘Timbavati’ means ‘the place where something sacred
A WHITE LION WITH HER CUBS, TIMBAVATI GAME RESERVE IMAGE COURTESY OF MARIAASR
came down to earth from the heavens’ and refers to the rare white lions of the region. The earliest recorded sighting was in 1938. However, oral records of African elders indicate that white lions have been indigenous to the area for many centuries.
Regarded as divine by locals, these rare and beautiful animals came to worldwide attention in the 1970s, in Chris McBride's The White Lions of Timbavati – the book that inspired Michael Morpurgo’s The Butterfly Lion. In cultural terms white lions are ‘king of the beasts’. In scientific terms, they are a genetic rarity. Their white coats aren’t the product of albinism – a relatively common condition resulting from a failure to develop pigment – but from ‘leucism’ in which the pelt is white, but eyes and skin are pigmented. The condition is thought to represent an evolutionary stage in the progressive loss of pigmentation. If a cub receives a dominant tawny gene from either parent, its pelt will be tawny. So, a litter may contain both tawny and white cubs. In the 1970s, prized for their rarity, white lions and those carrying the white lion gene
were removed from the wild, put into captive breeding programmes and sent to zoos and circuses around the globe. The merciless trophy-hunting industry also had a devastating effect, and by 1994 no adult white lions were seen in their natural habitat. In 2004, after years of technical extinction in their ancestral land, the White Lion Trust began a reintroduction programme. Three prides of white lions have been successfully reintroduced to their natural habitat and cubs have been born in Timbavati since 2006. In this extraordinary region, an oasis in a world of disappearing and endangered species, there is hope for the long-term survival of white lions. And for once, man, responsible for the destruction of so much wildlife, is in a position to use new and sophisticated techniques to protect and foster these sacred animals.
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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WHITE LIONS?
2. What do they eat? a Fish b Insects c Meat 3. How fast can they run? a 50 miles an hour b 25 miles an hour c 10 miles an hour 4. When was the earliest recorded sighting of white lions in the Timbavati region? a 1938 b 1988 c 2018
*Global White Lion Trust, 2018
5. How long do they spend sleeping or resting each day? a 4-8 hours b 10-14 hours c 16-20 hours 6. How far away can a lion’s roar be heard? a 1 mile b 2 miles c 5 miles 7. There are hundreds of white lions in captivity, but how many are estimated to live in the wild*? a 13 b 130 c 1,300
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1. Where do they live? a England b South Africa c Australia
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THE BUTTERFLY LION By Michael Morpurgo In a new adaptation by Anna Ledwich CAST Michael / Monsieur Merlot Old Millie Isobel / Nanny Mason / Butcher James / Old White Lion George / Mr Cook Millie Bertie English Teacher / Browning / Old White Lion Latin Teacher / Nicholson / CafĂŠ Owner Sporty / Jack the Dog / White Lion Cub / Old White Lion Miss Tulips / Nurse Jones Young Millie Young Bertie Young Michael Nathaniel / Bannister / Soldier Deakin Basher Beaumont / Soldier Whitby
Jonathan Dryden Taylor Nicola Sloane Allison McKenzie Kevin Mathurin Guy Lewis Claudia Jolly Adam Buchanan James Charlton Rachel Hosker Lucas Button Charleen Qwaye Ellie Bradbury / Matilda Shapland Archie Elliot / Alex Webb Ruari Finnegan / Anthony Harvey Rudi Millard Sebastian Bessant Jack Taylor Hugo Talbot
Other parts played by the members of the company.
There will be one interval of 20 minutes. The world premiere performance of this adaptation of The Butterfly Lion at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 5 October 2019.
Supported by The Butterfly Lion Commissioning and Patrons Circles: Judy Addison Smith, Patrick and Maggie Burgess, Mrs Veronica J Dukes, Sheila Evans, Jac Hepworth, Dr and Mrs Nick and Sue Lutte, Vicky Mudford, Pippa Nott, Greg and Katherine Slay, Howard M Thompson and all those who wish to remain anonymous.
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Dale Rooks Simon Higlett Johanna Town Tom Brady Gregory Clarke Simon Wainwright Nick Barnes Kane Husbands Luyanda Lennox Jezile Charlotte Sutton CDG
Director Designer Lighting Designer Music Sound Designer Video Designer Puppetry Movement Director Additional Music Casting Director
Jon Pashley Karen Large Lizzie Frankl Matt George and Sonja Mohren Caroline Bowman David Callanan
Associate Director Costume Supervisor Props Supervisor Hair, Wigs & Make-up Supervisor Associate Puppet Designer Assistant Video Designer
Cath Bates Lou Bann Andrew Reed Eleanor Butcher Janette McAlpine Jenny Beadle Mia Cunningham-Stockdale Emily McAlpine Becky Stuckey
Production Manager Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Head Chaperone Chaperones
Musicians Charlie Brown, Shelley Britton (Violin); Becky Hopkin (Viola); Dom Pecheur (Cello); Nicola Davenport (Bass); Marcus Bates, Matthew Gunner, Richard Steggall (French Horn); Luyanda Lennox Jezile, Charles James (Djembe). Members of the Choir of Chichester Cathedral, directed by Charles Harrison, Organist and Master of the Choristers: William Chapple, Finley Watts, Lennox Woodsell (Trebles); George Haynes, David McGregor (Altos); Samuel Leggett, Thomas Perkins (Tenors); Richard Paterson, David Riley (Basses). Members of South African Cultural Choir, directed by Luyanda Lennox Jezile: Prudence Dineo Jezile, Nokulunga Zikhali, Thuba Gumede, Wendy Zulu and Maneli Hawley. Production credits: Set built by Capital Scenery; Lighting hires supplied by Sparks Lighting; Audio and video hires by Stage Sound Services; Video Programmer David Callanan; Video System Designer Alan Cox; Puppets made by Nick Barnes Puppets and Caroline Bowman, Richard Gray, Suzanne Law, Maya Lohse, Oli Simonon; Costume Makers Carol Coates, Sally Ann Dixie, Lydia Cawson, Sue Bradley; Hats by Jane Smith; Wigs supplied by Matt George; Props Assistant Evie Oliver; Prop Makers Ros Coombes, Data Reprographics, Properly Made, Lizzie Props Workshop and CFT Props Workshop; Cover ASM Amy Clayton; Recordings at Angel Recording Studios, University of Chichester Creative & Digital Technologies Department; Rehearsal room Glasshill Studios. Thanks to Tom White of Draftline Studios, Stephen Baysted, Michael Holley and Tracy May, and Phij Adams, Carly Bawden, Louis Maskell. Anna Ledwich would like to thank Raymond Smith, AmĂŠlie Montel, Marie-Jeanne Joffrin, Laila Smith. Rehearsal and production photographs Manuel Harlan Programme design by Davina Chung Programme Associate Fiona Richards
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BIOGRAPHIES
SEBASTIAN BESSANT Deakin Theatre includes Featured Chorus in Sweeney Todd, Oscar De Velt in Bugsy Malone and Chorus in Joseph (Capitol Theatre). He is a member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre. ELLIE BRADBURY Young Millie Previously at Chichester Violet in Beauty and the Beast, Goody in Sleeping Beauty (CFYT Festival Theatre) and Deborah/Ms Paget in Crossing Lines (CFYT Promenade). Theatre includes Flora in Turn of the Screw (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/English National Opera). Ellie is a member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and also trains with Showdown Theatre Arts and Stagebox. She sings and plays with West Sussex County Youth Orchestra, and attends Millais Secondary School. THE COMPANY
ADAM BUCHANAN Bertie Theatre includes Peter Pan (Park Theatre); As You Like It and After the Dance (Theatre by the Lake); Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Crucible); Diana of Dobsons and Talent (New Victoria Theatre); Elephants and The Mystae (Hampstead Theatre); The Ruffian on the Stair (Hope Theatre); After October (nominated for Best Actor in the Off West End Awards 2016, Finborough Theatre); First Episode (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Butterfly Lion (Mercury Theatre); As You Like It (Guildford Shakespeare Company). Television includes Our World War, Waking the Dead. Films include Next Man, Watch Over Me. Trained at Guildford School of Acting, where he won the Alan Bates Award in 2013.
LUCAS BUTTON Sporty / Jack the Dog / White Lion Cub / Old White Lion Theatre includes War Horse (UK tour and National Theatre); Kes (Leeds Playhouse); Alan We Think You Should Get a Dog (New Diorama Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (English National Opera); Pinocchio and A Tender Thing (The Dukes Theatre); The Lost Palace (Fuel Theatre and Uninvited Guests). Films include the short Billy and Jake. Lucas is a member of the National Youth Theatre. Trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Old Man/Resident Director/Puppetry Consultant for James and the Giant Peach (international tour); Jamie in Rumpy Pumpy (Tea & Crumpets Productions); Aslan Puppeteer for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (RSC/Birmingham Rep); Ensemble/Audrey 2 Puppeteer for The Little Shop of Horrors (Royal Exchange); Fox/ Lampwick in Pinocchio (Greenwich Theatre); David in Soviet Zion (The Jewish Museum); Somebody to Love (Netherlands rock concert tour); Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre). Recordings include The Light Princess (original cast). Trained at Guildford School of Acting.
JAMES CHARLTON English Teacher / Browning / Old White Lion Theatre includes Jiminy Puppeteer for Pinocchio and Physician in The Light Princess (National Theatre); Oona in Running Wild (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre);
JONATHAN DRYDEN TAYLOR Michael / Monsieur Merlot Previously at Chichester Sparrow/O’Toole in Travels With My Aunt (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes As You Like It, Our Country’s Good, JP in Light Shining In
Buckinghamshire, King Lear, Gratiano in Othello and The Captain of Köpenick (National Theatre); King Lear (US tour); The Hartlepool Monkey (Fuel/Gyre & Gimble/national tour); A Tale of Two Cities (Touring Consortium); While the Sun Shines (Theatre Royal Bath); Jim in But First This and Trotter in Journey’s End (Watermill Theatre); Sally Tomato in Holly Golightly (Lost Musicals); Chappers in Scott Mills The Musical (BBC Radio One/Pleasance); Tony in Toxic Bankers (The Lowry and Leicester Square Theatre); Jump (Pleasance); A Woman of No Importance, Chimneys, Horatio in Hamlet, Connie Rivers in The Grapes of Wrath, Desmond in A Small Family Business, Tito Merelli in Lend Me a Tenor and The Government Inspector (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Beggar’s Opera and Adam in The Road to the Sea (Orange Tree Theatre); Algren in The Inland Sea and Fencible in A Penny for a Song (Oxford Stage Company); Dave in Storeys (Steam Industry); Helenus in Troilus and Cressida (The Old Vic); Louis in Eurydice (Straydogs). Television includes That Mitchell and Webb Look, Highway to Hell. NICOLA SLOANE JONATHAN DRYDEN TAYLOR
Radio includes Publish and Be Damn’d, Mrs Lirriper, The Franchise Affair, A Nice Little Trip to Spain, Love Lessons, Kill the Cameraman First, Losing Rosalind, Ballet Shoes, Decameron, Flight. Writing for television and radio includes That Mitchell and Webb Sound/Look, Ten Things I Hate About..., Love Lessons, The Eliza Stories. ARCHIE ELLIOT Young Bertie Previously at Chichester Charles Howard in The Watsons (Minerva Theatre), Roger in Beauty and the Beast and Nibs in Peter Pan (CFYT/ Festival Theatre). Trained with Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and attends The Portsmouth Grammar School. RUARI FINNEGAN Young Michael Previously at Chichester Douglas in Shadowlands (Festival Theatre). Theatre includes Lost Boy in Peter Pan (Hawth Theatre); Curly in Peter Pan
(Attenborough Centre). Television includes Endeavour. Ruari is a drama scholar at Christ’s Hospital School. He has trained at Act One Beginners Drama School and the Hawth Youth Theatre. He was the winner of the Dial Industries Cup, Alexander Academy Cup, and Dickens Cup drama awards at the 2018 East Grinstead Music and Arts Festival. ANTHONY HARVEY Young Michael Previously at Chichester Harry in Crossing Lines (CFYT Promenade). Films include The Nest. He is a member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and attends Portsmouth Grammar School. RACHEL HOSKER Latin Teacher / Nicholson / Café Owner Theatre includes Girl in GIRLS (Vault Festival/ HOME/Latitude); Gretel/Thousand Furs in Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales (Unicorn Theatre); Skater in Skate Hard, Turn Left (Battersea Arts Centre); CLAUDIA JOLLY ADAM BUCHANAN
64 in Loaded (Birmingham Old Rep); Becca in Alan We Think You Should Get a Dog (Theatre503); This is Not a Drill (Tristan Bates Theatre); Mrs Lynch in Coram Boy, Anna Petrovna in Ivanov, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Lady Fidget in The Country Wife, Maria in Twelfth Night, Masha in Three Sisters and Ma/Mijo in We the Animals (RCSSD). Television includes Doctors. Films include the shorts Project Maudsley, Left My Desk, 100M. Trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Rachel is a founding member of awardwinning theatre company ThePappyShow and an Associate Artist of the National Youth Theatre. CLAUDIA JOLLY Millie Theatre includes Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre); Katharine Draper in Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End); Narrator in Roald Dahl Centenary Concert (LSO/Barbican); Bianca in Men (Arcola
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Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NSDF Acting Commendation); Rosalind in As You Like It (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Rebecca in The Country and Mrs Milcote in Coram Boy (Pleasance Theatre); Lily Garland in On the Twentieth Century, Isabella in Go, Make You Ready, Lulu in Lulu, Myriam Horowitz in Mephisto, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Anne in Separate Tables, Lois in For Services Rendered, Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard and Mary Magdalene in Medieval Mystery Plays (GSMD). Television includes The Feed, Endeavour (series 6), NW. Radio includes The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay. Films include On Chesil Beach. Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. GUY LEWIS George / Mr Cook Theatre includes Mr Hartridge/Charlie Ruddles/ Vicar/Mr Stelton in Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York’s); Iliad (National Theatre of Wales); Sir Andrew Aguecheek/Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park); Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep); Horatio in Hamlet, Clerk of Oxenford/Arcite/Aleyn/Rioter/Crow in Canterbury Tales (Northern Broadsides and New Vic); Hastings in She Stoops to Conquer (Northern Broadsides); Guildenstern in Hamlet, Write to Rock, Freddy Eynsford-Hill in Pygmalion, Davison in Mary Stuart, Miles in The Drawer Boy, Isaac in Memory, 1st Gent/ Froth/Friar Peter in Measure for Measure, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Alfred in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (and tour) (Theatr Clwyd); Rispolozhensky in It’s a Family Affair, Jimmy in Last Chance Hotel (Sherman Theatre Cardiff); Wilson/Geoff Goddard in Telstar (New Ambassadors Theatre); Young Ed in And Then They Came for Me (Lyric Hammersmith), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Graduate (Gielgud Theatre); Faustus in Doctor Faustus (National Theatre); Moritz in Spring Awakening (Theatre Royal Bath). Television includes Knightfall, Caerdydd, Torchwood, Casualty. Films include Telstar and the shorts Club Boudica, End-O, White Girl, No Words for That,
King of the Kitchen, The Second Hearing, Induction, Partners in Time. KEVIN MATHURIN James / Old White Lion Theatre includes David Keaton in The Exonerated (Hope Mill Theatre); Vince and Robert (understudy) in Nine Night (National Theatre & West End); Crooks in Of Mice and Men and Bogs Diamond in The Shawshank Redemption (UK tours); Professor Longhair in Closing Night at the Caledonia Club (LookLeft LookRight); Nightingale in Nightingale and Chase (Albany, Deptford); Roland in Free Fall (White Bear Theatre); Mick in Out in the Open (Chelsea Theatre); Danny Marshall in Monostereo (Drayton Theatre); Terry in A Consumer’s Dream (Old Red Lion); Victor/Felix/ Que in Kids Company (NT Studio); Eddie in Stags and Hens (Landor Theatre); R P McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Paul Robeson Theatre). Television includes Doctors, Bronzed, Banged Up Abroad, Berlin Station, Rillington Place, Michael Jackson: Man in the Mirror. Films include Break, The One and Only Ivan, Hooligan Escape: The Russian Job, Justice League, Transhuman, Narcissists, The World’s End, Ghosted and the shorts Home by 8.30, Sunday Roast, Five Little Foxy Chicks, Guilty Conscious, Toby. Trained at Sylvia Young Theatre School, The London Studio Centre and City Lit. ALLISON McKENZIE Isobel / Nanny Mason / Butcher Theatre includes Steph in Wilderness (Hampstead Theatre); Lavinia in Seven Acts of Mercy, Hippolyta in The Two Noble Kinsmen, Moretta in The Rover (RSC); The White Witch in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); Lady Macduff/Witch in Macbeth (Jamie Lloyd Productions/Trafalgar Studios; Olivier Award nominee); Ophelia in Hamlet (TMA Best Actress nominee) and The Snow Queen in The Snow Queen (The Royal Lyceum Theatre); Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Nottingham Playhouse and The Royal Lyceum); Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lydia in All My Sons, Sally Bowles in Cabaret (TMA Best Actress nominee), Joan in Sexual Perversity
RUARI FINNEGAN JAMES CHARLTON KEVIN MATHURIN GUY LEWIS
in Chicago, Susan Brady in The Playboy of the Western World (Dundee Rep); Annabelle in Witchcraft (Finborough Theatre); Aunt Spiker/ Miss Spider in James and the Giant Peach (Citizens Theatre). Television includes The Victim, The Athena, Press, Shetland, Beowulf, Line of Duty, MI High, Bob Servant Independent, Sadie Jones, Rebus, River City, Attachments II. Radio includes Breaking Bubbles – Doctor Who, The Fifth Doctor – Doctor Who, Survivors (all Big Finish recordings), The Coffin Road, Redgauntlet, Waverley. Films include Swung, Airborne, Loved Alone, New Town Killers, The Aficionado, Club Le Monde, 16 Years of Alcohol, and the shorts Family Portrait, The Virtual Network, Parkarma, Casting. RUDI MILLARD Nathaniel / Bannister / Soldier Previously at Chichester John in Crossing Lines (CFYT Promenade), John in Beauty and the Beast and Michael Darling/Lost Boy in Peter Pan (CFYT/Festival Theatre); Boy/Ensemble in LUCAS BUTTON RACHEL HOSKER
Forty Years On (Festival Theatre); Ben in The House They Grew Up In (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes Oliver Twist in Oliver! and Ensemble in The Music Man (CAOS Musical Productions). He is a member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, trains at Rebecca Cooke Singing and attends Bishop Luffa CofE School. CHARLEEN QWAYE Miss Tulips / Nurse Jones Theatre credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre); Harry Brewer/Black Caesar in Our Country’s Good, Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Tobacco Factory); Osono in Kiki’s Delivery Service (Southwark Playhouse); Mrs Muller in Doubt, Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew (Landor Theatre); Vicki Nichols/Dance Captain in The Full Monty (New Players Theatre & Catford Broadway Theatre); Annie in Chicago, The Black Queen in Chess The Musical, I Can’t Stop Loving You, Viva La Diva, Cat in Oh! What A Night! (UK tours); Classical Spectacular (Royal Albert Hall);
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Bluette in The Blues Brothers (US & European tour); This Is The Night (Richmond). As the co-founder of Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company, her directorial credits include 4:48 Psychosis (co-directed with Steve Green, London & Edinburgh Fringe), The Peculiar Tale of Pablo Picasso and The Mona Lisa (Brockley Jack), The White Devil (The Monkey House) and Elephant Man (Movement Director, Edinburgh Fringe and national tour). Television includes Crimes Stories. Films include the shorts Jerk, Mind-reading Algorithms. MATILDA SHAPLAND Young Millie Theatre includes Qui Qui in Young Marx (Bridge Theatre); Rebecca in XY (The Other Palace); Matilda in Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre); Little Cosette in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Annie in Annie the Musical (Petersfield Youth Theatre). Television and film includes The Time of Their Lives, The Dumping Ground. Trains with Liz Ongley (singing) and Guildford School of Acting, and attends Churcher’s College Petersfield. NICOLA SLOANE Old Millie Previously at Chichester Countess/Sybil/ Seamstress in Flowers for Mrs Harris, Mrs Hatfield in Way Upstream, Inez in The Gondoliers and Mrs Grimes in The Waterbabies (Festival Theatre), Frost/Mrs Rous in Strife (Minerva Theatre). Theatre: most recently, Mrs Soames in Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). Other credits include Mother/Professor Waldeman in Frankenstein and Miss Maudie Atkinson in To Kill a Mockingbird (Royal Exchange Manchester); Polton/Miss Wentworth in Love in Idleness (Menier Chocolate Factory and Apollo Theatre); Countess/Seamstress in Flowers for Mrs Harris, Mrs Pearce in My Fair Lady and Lady Battersby in Me and My Girl (Sheffield Crucible); Monsieur Popular (Ustinov Studio Bath); 50th Anniversary Gala, Rosemary in London Road and Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre); Anything Goes (National Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane);
Mrs Segstrom in A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory and Garrick Theatre); Frau Schmidt in The Sound of Music (London Palladium); Two Cities (Salisbury Playhouse); Acorn Antiques (Theatre Royal Haymarket); A Chorus of Disapproval and The Beggar’s Opera (Theatre Royal Bristol); Whenever and The Boy Who Fell Into the Book (Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough); Spend Spend Spend (Piccadilly Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Theatr Clwyd); Wardrobe Mistress in Enter the Guardsman (Donmar Warehouse); Celestine in Martin Guerre (Prince Edward Theatre); Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); title role in The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre); It’s a Girl (Duke’s Playhouse Lancaster). Television includes Maigret, Black Mirror, Holby City, Home Fires, Call the Midwife, Dancing on the Edge. Films include Red Joan, The Danish Girl, Victor Frankenstein, The Tale of Tales, London Road, Mr Turner, The Theory of Everything, Les Misérables, Broken, Season of the Witch. HUGO TALBOT Whitby Previously at Chichester Michael in Peter Pan and James in Beauty and the Beast (CFYT/ Festival Theatre). He is a member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and attends Seaford College. JACK TAYLOR Basher Beaumont / Soldier Previously at Chichester 101 Dalmatians, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast (all CFYT/Festival Theatre); The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, An Enemy of the People (Festival Theatre). He is a member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre. ALEX WEBB Young Bertie Previously at Chichester German POW in Crossing Lines (CFYT Promenade) and Courtier in Sleeping Beauty (CFYT/Festival Theatre). He is a member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and The Pop Up Club and attends Bishop Luffa School.
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NICK BARNES Puppetry Previously at Chichester Associate Designer for Running Wild (CFT/Regent’s Park); Puppetry Design and Direction for Beauty and the Beast (Festival Theatre). Nick Barnes co-founded the puppetry company Blind Summit Theatre, where for many years he was joint artistic director. He now runs a studio in Hove designing and making puppets for theatre and film. With Blind Summit his puppetry designs included Madame Butterfly (ENO/Metropolitan Opera), A Dog’s Heart (ENO/DNO), Shunkin and The Master and Margarita (Complicité), El Gato Con Botas (Tectonic Theatre), On Emotion (Soho Theatre), Faeries (Royal Opera House), His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep/WYP). In 2012 he co-directed the puppetry in Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Other recent puppetry credits for opera and theatre include co-design for The Life of Pi (Sheffield Crucible), The Lorax (Old Vic), Ariodante (Festival d›Aix-en-Provence/DNO), the Angel’s wings in Angels in America (NT London and Broadway), Ten Pieces Proms (Royal DALE ROOKS AND COMPANY
Albert Hall), Dr Dolittle (UK tour); co-direction and design of The First Hippo on the Moon (Les Enfants Terribles, UK tour); design and direction Mr Popper’s Penguins (UK tour/West End/Broadway), The Little Beasts (The Other Palace), The Jungle Book (Royal & Derngate Northampton); plus a major film project for Disney and a new stage show for Disneyland Paris. Nick studied drama at Hull University and theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art. nickbarnesdesign.co.uk TOM BRADY Music Previously at Chichester Sleeping Beauty (Composer), Flowers for Mrs Harris (Musical Supervisor & Musical Director), Fiddler on the Roof (Musical Director) and Forty Years On (Musical Director & Musical Arrangements). Credits as Musical Director include Pinocchio (National Theatre); Show Boat, Caroline, Or Change (West End); Anything Goes (Sheffield Crucible and UK tour); Flowers for Mrs Harris, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible); The Empress (RSC and Kneehigh); Floyd Collins (Wilton’s
Music Hall); The Fall of the House of Usher (Lyric Theatre, Belfast Ensemble); Lunaria (Queen Elizabeth Hall); A Tale of Two Cities (Royal & Derngate Northampton); December Songs (St James Theatre); Evita (Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia); Have a Nice Life (Edinburgh and NYC Fringe); Hello Again (Mountview); Nina (LAMDA). As Associate/Assistant MD The Light Princess, She Stoops to Conquer (National Theatre); 13 (Apollo, West End); My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible); Wah! Wah! Girls (Sadler’s Wells and Kneehigh). Tom read Music at Oxford University before training at the Royal Academy of Music, from which he received the ARAM award. He now teaches on the Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre course. GREGORY CLARKE Sound Designer Previously at Chichester Sleeping Beauty, The Watsons, The Midnight Gang, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Mrs Pat, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Theatre includes The Bridges of Madison County, The Bay at Nice, Spamilton, The Gronholm Method, Barnum, The Lie, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ The Musical (also West End), Love In Idleness, She Loves Me (Menier Chocolate Factory); Orpheus Descending (Theatr Clwyd/Menier); Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s); Twelfth Night (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); 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 Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Alchemist, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, 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); The Beacon, Albion, Against, The Merchant
of Venice, Cloud Nine (Almeida); Shelter, Furniture, Richard III, Sive, Waiting for Godot, King of the Castle, DruidShakespeare, Brigit (Druid Theatre); Sherlock Holmes (Theatre Royal Bath); Ruthless! (Arts Theatre); Still Alice (West Yorkshire Playhouse); 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). SIMON HIGLETT Designer Previously at Chichester The Midnight Gang, The Chalk Garden, The Norman Conquests, Much Ado About Nothing/Love’s Labour’s Lost (also RSC Stratford/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 and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists; Sleeping Beauty, 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 Big the Musical (West End); The Magic Flute (Scottish Opera); Falstaff (Grange Festival); The Price (West End transfer), The Argument and A Song at Twilight (Bath); Twelfth Night (RSC Stratford); An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville); Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (UK tour); Schoenberg in Hollywood (Boston Lyric Opera); The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse). Other highlights Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (WYP and UK tour); Blithe Spirit (West End/USA); 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 (Royal Exchange Manchester); 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 USA (Lady Windermere’s Fan). KANE HUSBANDS Movement Director Credits as Movement Director include The Last King of Scotland (Sheffield Crucible); One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic, Home Manchester); Icarus (Unicorn Theatre); Sketching (Wilton’s Music Hall); Macbeth (The Gatehouse); Pericles (Olivier Theatre); I Dare You (Nottingham Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse); Rocket Post (Scottish tour); Antigone (University of South Florida). Kane is Artistic Director of ThePappyShow, with productions including Wait Til the End (North Wall, New Diorama Theatre, Barbican and Jersey Art House), Boys (Vault Festival, Home Manchester, Latitude Festival, New Diorama, Brighton Fringe and South Bank Centre), Girls (Vault Festival, Home Manchester and Latitude Festival), Space to Create (National Theatre site specific). As Director Care (Rose Bruford College site specific); Home (St Mary’s University); Team TOM BRADY KANE HUSBANDS
Welcoming Ceremonies (2014 Commonwealth Games, 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics); 1001 Nights and Hamza (National Youth Theatre, King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, Saudi Aramco Ithra Project). He also works with the National Youth Theatre, National Theatre, English in Action Croatia, University of West London, St Mary’s University, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Guildhall School of Music and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. ANNA LEDWICH Writer Anna began her directing career at Theatre503 where she directed a number of world premieres before being made an Associate Director. She was awarded the Michael and Morvern Heller Director‘s Bursary at Chichester Festival Theatre where she assisted directors such as Richard Eyre and Rupert Goold. In 2012 Anna was made co-Artistic Director of Theatre on the Fly at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, performed by the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, premiered in 2017; and her play Crossing Lines, a promenade performance by Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, premiered earlier in 2019. Anna received the Gate Theatre/Headlong
New Directions Award for her adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu and returned to the Gate the following year to adapt and direct Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Story. She was nominated for the 2015 Olivier Award Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for her production of Four Minutes Twelve Seconds at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, which subsequently transferred to Trafalgar Studios. Her production of Dry Powder at Hampstead Theatre was nominated for the 2018 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. Further credits as director include: Deluge, The Argument, Labyrinth, Kiss Me, No One Will Tell Me How To Start a Revolution, Wilderness (all Hampstead), The Stick House (Bristol Old Vic/Temple Meads Station), The Importance of Being Earnest (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Roundelay (Southwark Playhouse), Lovely And Misfit (Trafalgar Studios). LUYANDA LENNOX JEZILE Additional Music Previously at Chichester Musical Director/Choir Leader for generations (Minerva Theatre). Luyanda founded South African Cultural Talent UK in 2012, since when he has directed and performed with the Choir and produced concerts around the United Kingdom and internationally. The Choir has sung at all the matches in the Cricket World Cup 2019, took part in Paul Simon’s Graceland Live UK tour 2019, and performed at Pope John Francis II’s visit to Ireland 2018, the celebrations of the life of Nelson Mandela on BBC One and at the Houses of Parliament, and at the South African team match at the Rugby World Cup in London. He was also Musical Director for the London African Gospel Choir, which performed at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert in Hyde Park in 2012 and at the Templeton Prize Ceremony for Desmond Tutu in 2013. He was an original cast member of The Lion King in the West End, performing with them from 1999-2008. Other stage credits include Another America: Fire (PUSH/Almeida); The Good Women of Sharkville and Jozi Jozi Guide (Market Theatre Johannesburg); Julius Caesar (Civic Theatre Johannesburg).
As a singer and musician, television and film includes The Lesley Garrett Christmas Show, Ghost and the Darkness, Sarafina. Recordings include The Lion King; the soundtracks to Long Walk To Freedom, Africa United, Ipi N’tombi and The Wild Thornberrys Movie; the Haiti charity single Everybody Hurts; the South African World Cup song; and recordings/videos with Hugh Masekela, Florence and the Machine, Ringo Madlingozi, Ben Onono, Rebecca Malope, Stimela, Simply Red and many more. MICHAEL MORPURGO Writer Michael Morpurgo began writing stories in the early ‘70s, in response to the children in his class at the primary school where he taught in Kent. One of the UK’s best-loved authors and storytellers, Michael was appointed Children’s Laureate in 2003. He has written over 130 books, including The Butterfly Lion, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Why the Whales Came, The Mozart Question, Shadow and War Horse, which was adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg. His book Private Peaceful has been adapted for the stage by Simon Reade and made into a film directed by Pat O’Connor. Running Wild was adapted for the stage by Samuel Adamson and premiered by Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in 2015, winning the UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People, and was later produced at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and on a UK tour. Michael was awarded the OBE for his writing in 2006. His books have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew and Japanese. His latest novel Boy Giant was published in September by HarperCollins. An animated adaptation of his book Mimi and the Mountain Dragon, narrated through a classical music score composed by Rachel Portman, will receive its television premiere on BBC One this Christmas. In 1976, Michael and his wife, Clare, started the charity Farms for City Children. The charity runs three farms around the country, in Gloucestershire, Pembrokeshire and North
Devon. Each farm offers children and teachers from urban primary schools the chance to live and work in the countryside for a week, and gain hands-on experience. michaelmorpurgo.com JON PASHLEY Associate Director Previously at Chichester Assistant Director for A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Deep Blue Sea, Rattigan’s Nijinsky (Festival Theatre), Stevie, Coward Cabaret and Cocktails (Minerva Theatre), Toad of Toad Hall (CFYT) and Associate Director for The Witches (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes as Director Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Twelfth Night (RCSSD), Comedy on a Station Platform (Warwick Arts Centre Studio), Much Ado About Nothing (B2 at Belgrade Theatre Coventry); Associate Director In Praise of Love (Theatre Royal Bath), Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Venus and Adonis (RSC Swan/Civic Theatre Dublin), Running Wild and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Chichester/national tours), Bad Jews (St James Theatre, Haymarket and national tour), Goodnight Mr Tom (Duke of York’s and national tour), 20 Tiny Plays About Sheffield (Sheffield Crucible Studio); Assistant Director The History Boys and Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible), The Full Monty (Sheffield Lyceum), NICK BARNES AND COMPANY
Straight (Sheffield Studio/Bush Theatre), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Southwark Playhouse), Ashes and Sand and The House of Special Purpose (RADA), The Game of Love and Chance (Salisbury Playhouse). Trained at Birkbeck, University of London, and University of Warwick. DALE ROOKS Director Dale Rooks’s 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. She co-directed, with Tim Sheader, a re-imagination of Running Wild for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2016 and a UK tour in 2017. In 2018, Dale directed the world premiere production of The Midnight Gang at CFT. Dale’s other directing credits for Chichester Festival Youth Theatre include The Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Witches, The FireworkMaker’s Daughter, Toad of Toad Hall, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan 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 Schools’ 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 and works extensively with children and young people. CHARLOTTE SUTTON CDG Casting Director Previously at Chichester Macbeth, Oklahoma!, Plenty, Shadowlands, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Me and My Girl, The Chalk Garden, Present Laughter, The Norman Conquests, Fiddler on the Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, Forty Years On, Mack & Mabel (and UK tour) (Festival Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea, This Is My Family, The Watsons, Cock, Copenhagen, The Meeting, random/ generations, Quiz, The Stepmother, The House They Grew Up In, Caroline, Or Change (also Hampstead and West End; CDG Casting Award nomination), Strife (Minerva Theatre). Theatre credits Company (Gielgud); Death of a Salesman, The Convert, Wild East, Winter, trade and Dutchman (Young Vic); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Wyndham’s, BAM & LA); Humble Boy, Sheppey and German Skerries (Orange Tree Theatre); Nell Gwynn (ETT and Globe); The Pitchfork Disney and Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre Kingston); Annie Get Your Gun, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Waiting for Godot and Queen Coal (Sheffield Crucible); Henry V and Twelfth Night Re-Imagined (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Hedda Gabler and Little Shop of Horrors (Salisbury Playhouse);
Insignificance, Much Ado About Nothing and Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd); Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York’s and tour); A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer, wonder.land, The Elephantom, Emil and the Detectives and The Light Princess (National Theatre); The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me... and Gruesome Playground Injuries (Gate Theatre); Albion (Bush); Our Big Land (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and tour); Forever House (Drum Theatre, Plymouth); One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket and international tour); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); Bunny (Underbelly Edinburgh Festival, Soho and 59E59 New York). JOHANNA TOWN Lighting Designer Previously at Chichester The Norman Conquests, The Deep Blue Sea/Rattigan’s Nijinsky (Festival Theatre); The Watsons, FRACKED! (and tour), Educating Rita, Pitcairn, In Praise of Love (Minerva Theatre). West End and international credits include Dear Lupin, Fences, What the Butler Saw, Some Like It HipHop, Betrayal, Speaking in Tongues, Beautiful Thing (West End); Rose (National Theatre/Broadway); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Royal Court Theatre/West End/NY); Guantanamo (NY/Tricycle/West End); Arabian Nights, Our Lady of Sligo (NT); Haunted (Royal Exchange/NY/Sydney Opera House); The Steward of Christendom (Out of Joint/ Broadway/Sydney); Macbeth (Out of Joint world tour); The Permanent Way (Out of Joint/ National Theatre/Sydney). Other theatre includes Two Ladies (Bridge Theatre); Rutherford and Son (Sheffield); Napoli Brooklyn (Park Theatre); Blithe Spirit, The Crucible (Pitlochry); Some Like It HipHop (Zoonation UK tour); Botticelli in the Fire (Hampstead); Shook (Southwark Playhouse); The Habit of Art (York and tour); Her Naked Skin (Salisbury Playhouse); Miss Julie, The Creditors (Theatre by the Lake/Jermyn Street); Queen Margaret, Frankenstein, Guys and Dolls, The Houe of Bernarda Alba, The Crucible, Miss Julie, A View from the Bridge (Manchester Royal Exchange); King Lear, All My Sons (Royal Exchange/Talawa); Brainstorm (National/Park Theatre); Five Finger Exercise (Print Room);
Don Quixote, The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC); A Mad World My Masters (ETT and RSC); Arcadia, Tonight at 8.30, Hello Goodbye (ETT); Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (National/Talawa). Johanna a Fellow of Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Chair of the Association of Lighting Designers. SIMON WAINWRIGHT Video Designer Simon formed the theatre company imitating the dog and is one of its three artistic directors, specialising over the last 10 years as a video and sound designer. His most recent video design work for the company includes Oh The Night (Urban Legends Hull, 2018), Heart of Darkness (UK tour, 2018-19), Arrivals and Departures (Hull City of Culture, 2017),
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Hanuman (Singapore Rep, 2016), Tosca (Ancona Italy, 2016) and A Farewell to Arms (UK, 2014). As a freelance designer his theatre projects include Neil Hannon’s opera In May; Derren Brown’s Miracle; Flit; Lanark (Citizen’s Theatre); Cold Calling (Birmingham Rep); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour); The Kid Stays in The Picture (Complicité/Royal Court); and Tom Gates (UK tour). Simon mainly works in video but trained as a painter, working in oil on canvas. He was selected for the BP Portrait Award in 2001.
EVENTS
THE BUTTERFLY LION PRE-SHOW TALK
Thursday 10 October, 5.15pm Director Dale Rooks in conversation with Kate Mosse. FREE but booking is essential.
POST-SHOW TALK
Monday 28 October Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the play. FREE
TOUCH TOURS
Thursday 7 & Saturday 9 November Our Touch Tours enable blind or visually impaired audience members to explore the set, props and costumes used in The Butterfly Lion. The tour takes place 90 minutes before the audio-described performances. FREE but booking is essential.
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TRUSTEES Sir William Castell Mr Nicholas Backhouse 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 Charlotte Sutton CDG
Chairman
Literary Associate Casting Associate
BUILDING & SITE SERVICES Chris Edwards Maintenance Engineer Lez Gardiner Duty Engineer Daren Rowland Facilities Manager Graeme Smith Duty Engineer DEVELOPMENT David Beal
Head of Individual Giving (Maternity Cover)
Rachel Billsberry-Grass Interim Development Director Eleanor Blackham Memberships Officer Joseph Fellows-Cameron Development Administrator Julie Field Friends Administrator Rosie Hiles Corporate Development Manager Laura Jackson William Mendelowitz Karen Taylor DIRECTORS Kathy Bourne Daniel Evans Patricia Key Georgina Rae Julia Smith
Head of Individual Giving (Maternity Leave) Head of Major Gifts Memberships Officer
Executive Director Artistic Director PA to the Directors Head of Planning & Projects Board Support
FINANCE Alison Baker Payroll & Pensions Officer Krissie Harte Finance Officer Will Jupp IT Support Katie Palmer Assistant Management Accountant Simon Parsonage Mark Pollard Paul Sturgeon Amanda Trodd Nicole Yu
Finance Director & Company Secretary IT Support IT Consultant Management Accountant Finance Assistant (Trainee)
HR Eugenie Konig Emily Oliver Jenefer Pullinger Gillian Watkins
Head of HR Accommodation Coordinator HR & Recruitment Officer HR Administrator
LEAP Isilda Almeida Elspeth Barron Ella Bassett Freddie Dempster Lauren Grant
Heritage & Archive Manager LEAP Officer Community Trainee Youth & Outreach Trainee Deputy Director of LEAP
Hannah Hogg Richard Knowles Poppy Marples
Youth & Outreach Officer Education Projects Manager Senior Youth & Outreach Officer
Hannah Millard Education Trainee Louise Rigglesford Community Partnerships Manager Dale Rooks
Director of LEAP
MARKETING, PRESS & SALES Carole Alexandre Distribution Officer Josh Allan Box Office Assistant Caroline Aston Audience Insight Manager Becky Batten Senior Marketing Manager Laura Bern Marketing Manager Jenny Bettger Box Office Supervisor Jessica Blake-Lobb Marketing Manager (Corporate) Fran Boxall Box Office Administrator (Maternity Cover) Helen Campbell Deputy Box Office Manager Lydia Cassidy Director of Marketing & Communications Hannah Dobson Clare Funnell
Communications Assistant Marketing Officer (Maternity Leave)
Madeleine Harker Box Office Assistant Rebecca Harte Box Office Assistant Lorna Holmes Box Office Assistant Helena Jacques-Morton Marketing Officer James Morgan Box Office Manager Lucinda Morrison Head of Press Kirsty Peterson Box Office Assistant Alice Stride Box Office Assistant Anne-Marie Varberg Box Office Assistant Joshua Vine Box Office Supervisor Claire Walters Box Office Assistant Joanna Wiege Box Office Administrator (Maternity Leave) Jane Wolf Box Office Assistant PRODUCTION Amelia Ferrand-Rook Producer Claire Rundle Production Administrator Eva Sampson Resident Assistant Director Nicky Wingfield Production Administrator Jeremy Woodhouse Producer TECHNICAL Dan Armstrong Transport & Logistics Steph Bartle Deputy Head of Lighting Hope Brennan Sound Technician Amy Clayton Stage Apprentice Leoni Commosioung Stage Crew Sarah Crispin Prop Maker Lewis Ellingford Stage Technician Ross Gardner Stage Crew Sam Garner-Gibbons Technical Director Fuzz Sound Technician Katie Hennessy Props Store Co-ordinator Ian Jarvis Deputy Head of Stage Mike Keniger Head of Sound Andrew Leighton Senior Lighting Technician Karl Meier Head of Stage Charlotte Neville Head of Props Workshop Ryan Pantling Lighting/Sound Apprentice Lewis Ramsay Assistant Lighting Technician Alex Rees Neil Rose Ernesto Ruiz Joe Samuels James Sharples Tom Smith
Lighting Technician Deputy Head of Sound Stage Crew Lighting Technician Stage Crew Senior Sound Technician
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Graham Taylor Emily Williamson
Head of Lighting Technical Apprentice
THEATRE MANAGEMENT Janet Bakose Theatre Manager Gill Dixon Front of House Duty Manager Ben Geering House Manager Karen Hamilton Front of House Duty 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 Natalie Bird Michaela Duffy Jessica Griffiths Natasha Hancock Lottie Higlett Amy Jeskins Gabby Selwyn-Smith Emily Souch Sam Sullivan Loz Tait Colette Tulley Hannah Ward Maisie Wilkins
Wardrobe Assistant Dresser Deputy Head of Wardrobe Deputy Head of Wardrobe Dresser Deputy Head of Wardrobe Dresser Dresser Wardrobe Assistant Head of Wardrobe Wardrobe Maintenance Dresser Dresser
WIGS Beau Bambi Brett Emily Grove Grace Healy Sonja Mohren Natascha Schnieden
Deputy Head of Wigs Deputy Head of Wigs Wigs Assistant Head of Wigs Wigs Assistant
Stage Door: Bob Bentley, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Sarah Hammett, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Chris Monkton Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Maria Antoniou, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Brian Baker, Bob Bentley, Gloria Boakes, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Lauren Bunn, Julia Butterworth, Louisa Chandler, Helen Chown, Jo Clark, Sophia Cobby, Gaye Douglas, Stella Dubock, Alisha Dyer-Spence, Clair Edgell, George Edwards, Suzanne Ford, Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook, Barry Gamlin, Charlie Gardiner, Luc Gibbons, Anna Grindel, Karen Hamilton, Caroline Hanton, Madeline Harker, Joseph Harrington (Trainee), Gillian Hawkins, Joanne Heather, Lottie Higlett, Paige Holdsworth, Keiko Iwamoto, Flynn Jeffery, Joan Jenkins, Lucy Jenkinson, Pippa Johnson, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Valerie Leggate, Emily McAlpine, Janette McAlpine, Chris Monkton, Susan Mulkern, Georgie Mullen, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Tabitha Peel, Kirsty Peterson, Helen Pinn, Lydia Piper, Barbara Pope, Justine Richardson, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Kerry Strong, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust (Trainee), Joshua Vine, Gillian Watkins, Rosemary Wheeler, Jonathan Wilson (Trainee), James Wisker, Donna Wood, Fleur Wood, Kim Wylam, Jane Yeates We acknowledge the work of those who give so generously of their time as our Volunteer Audio Description Team: Tony Clark, Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Sue Hyland, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd
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
Large-print version of this programme available on request from the House Manager or access@cft.org.uk Large-print and audio CD versions of the Festival Season brochure are available on request from access@cft.org.uk For more access information, call 01243 781312 or visit cft.org.uk/access
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SUPPORT US
GET INVOLVED As a registered charity, Chichester Festival Theatre needs support from people like you. The generosity and commitment of our members and donors means we can: • Keep creating world-class theatre in the heart of West Sussex • Run our award-winning Youth Theatre and other community projects that inspire and empower • Invest in emerging talent in UK theatre by offering unique career development opportunities There are many ways to support us. Whether you are an individual, a charitable trust or a company, you can get closer to the work we do both on and off the stage. To find out more about opportunities to support CFT, please visit cft.org.uk/supportus, email development.team@cft.org.uk or call 01243 812881.
WAYS OF GIVING If you donate to our Ageless campaign, you will help us bring theatre and live art to the wider community, particularly those at risk of isolation. All donations welcome. As a Friend you will receive priority booking, ticket discounts, Friends events and e-newsletters. Membership £35. Festival Players receive advance priority booking and exclusive events in thanks for your generous support. Membership from £250 (£25 + £225 donation). Benefactors enjoy unique access to CFT, with a bespoke relationship based around the projects you choose to support. Gifts from £3,000. By becoming a Corporate or Principal Partner, businesses can access a host of benefits including advertising, tickets, client entertaining and invitations to exclusive events.
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S U P P O R T E R S 2019
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 CS and M Chadha David and Sonia Churchill John and Pat Clayton 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 Basil Hyman Liz Juniper The family of Patricia Kemp Roger Keyworth 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 Artswork The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray's Charity Trust The Noël Coward Foundation The Roddick Foundation
FESTIVAL PLAYERS John and Joan Adams Dr Cheryl Adams CBE Charles and Clare Alexander Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Paul Arman The Earl and Countess of Balfour Matthew Bannister Mr Laurence Barker Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Franciska and Geoffrey Bayliss 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 Bridget Brooks Peter and Pamela Bulfield Jean Campbell Julie Campbell Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg Mike Caspan and Viv Wing Warren and Yvonne Chester Sally Chittleburgh David and Claire Chitty Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Denise Clatworthy Annie Colbourne John and Susan Coldstream David and Julie Coldwell 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 Glyn Edmunds Betty and Ian Elliot Anthony and Penny Elphick Caroline Elvy Sheila Evans Gary Fairhall Brian and Sonia Fieldhouse Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Robert and Pip Foster Jenifer and John Fox Roz Frampton Debbie and Neil Franks Alan and Valerie Frost Terry Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook
George Galazka Alan and Pat Galer Elizabeth Ganney Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Wendy and John Gehr Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Dr and Mrs P Golding Julian and Heather Goodhew Mr and Mrs Paul Goswell 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 David and Linda Harding David Harrison 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 Dame Denise and Mr David Holt Pauline and Ian Howat Barbara Howden Richards Mike Imms Mrs Raymonde Jay Robert and Sarah Jeans Robert Kaltenborn Nigel Kennedy OBE Anna Christine Kennett Roger Keyworth Jane Kilby Geoffrey King 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 Jim and Marilyn Lush Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Robert Macnaughtan Nigel and Julia Maile Jeremy and Caroline Marriage Sue Marsh Charles and Elisabeth Martin Gerard and Elena McCloskey Tim McDonald Jill and Douglas McGregor James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Andrew McVittie Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Diana Midmer David and Elizabeth Miles David and Di Mitchell Jenifer and John Mitchell Gerald Monaghan James Morgan Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris
Sara Morton Terence F Moss Nina Kaye and Timothy Nathan Mrs Mary Newby Patricia Newton Lady Nixon Pamela and Bruce Noble Margaret and Martin Overington Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen Mrs Glenys Palmer Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Mr and Mrs S Parvin Alex and Sheila Paterson Simon and Margaret Payton Jean Plowright John Rank The Rees Family Malcolm and Angela Reid Christopher Marek Rencki Adam Rice Sandi Richmond-Swift John and Betsy Rimmer Robin Roads Philip Robinson John and Valerie Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ken and Ros Rokison Graham and Maureen Russell Clare Scherer and Jamie O'Meara Mr Christopher Sedgwick John and Tita Shakeshaft Mrs Dale Sheppard-Floyd Jackie and Alan Sherling The Sidlesham Theatre Group Nick Smedley and Kate Jennings Monique and David Smith Simon Smith Christine and Dave Smithers Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha Mrs Barbara Snowden Brian Spiby David and Unni Spiller Elizabeth Stern Barbara Stewart Judy and David Stewart Peter Stoakley Anne Subba-Row Ms Maura Sullivan The Tansy Trust Professor and Mrs Warwick Targett Brian Tesler CBE Harry and Shane Thuillier Mr Robert Timms Alan Tingle Miss Melanie Tipples Peter and Sioned Vos David Wagstaff and Mark Dune 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 Lulu Williams Mrs Honor Woods Angela Wormald
‘We are lucky to have a world-class theatre in Chichester with its diverse and imaginative programming. We are proud to support the Theatre and the opportunity to meet the casts and crews is an added bonus.’ Jo and Nick Pasricha, Benefactors & Festival Players
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S U P P O R T E R S 2019
PRINCIPAL PARTNERS
Diamond Level Prof E.F Juniper and Mrs Jilly Styles
Oldham Seals Group
Gold Level private wealth
HOLIDAY LETS
Silver Level
CORPORATE PARTNERS LEVEL 1 Bishops Printers Chichester College Criterion Ices Jones Avens
Purchases Bar & Restaurant RL Austen Westminster Abbey
LEVEL 2 Addison Law Behrens Sharp FBG Investment Hennings Wine
Richard & Stella Read The Bell Inn The J Leon Group
Chichester Festival Theatre offers a variety of corporate partnership opportunities to meet your business needs. For further information, please contact us at development.team@cft.org.uk
LEVEL 3 European Office Products Russell & Bromley Mrs Joanna Williams
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.
Supported by Irwin Mitchell
Donate today at cft.org.uk/ageless or call us on 01243 781312
PLAY A PART IN OUR FUTURE Celebrate your love of Chichester Festival Theatre and help ensure that future generations can share your passion. If you are considering leaving us a gift in your Will, please talk to your solicitor or contact our Development Team on 01243 812911. You can also email development.team@cft.org.uk or write to us at Development Team, Chichester Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 6AP.