THE TAXIDERMIST’S DAUGHTER Adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse A new play based on her novel
WELCOME
KATHY BOURNE AND DANIEL EVANS PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAMUS RYAN
FESTIVAL 2022
A very special welcome to the opening production of Festival 2022. The prospect of our 60th Anniversary season is a truly joyous one. It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate curtain raiser than The Taxidermist’s Daughter, a new play by Kate Mosse adapted from her own novel. Kate is not only an internationally best-selling author, the pioneering Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and a tireless advocate for women, literature and the arts; she has also been intimately connected with CFT since childhood and currently hosts our pre-show talks. Her thrilling and timely play is set in and around historic Chichester itself, and she writes in this programme of how the Sussex landscape was its inspiration. We are thrilled that we can finally welcome this world premiere to our main stage. We are equally delighted that Róisín McBrinn is making her directorial debut here. As Joint Artistic Director of Clean
Break, the theatre company dedicated to working with women with lived experience of the criminal justice system, she well knows the challenges that continue to face women seeking justice today, 110 years after the fictional events in Kate’s play. Róisín has assembled a superb creative team, and a multi-talented cast: some who have graced our stages before, others who are making their CFT debuts. We welcome them all. Looking ahead, we have five more world premiere productions, three musicals and a host of dramas. Don’t miss the opening play of our Minerva season: Alecky Blythe’s acclaimed Our Generation, coming straight from its National Theatre premiere. Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny, poignant and moving play, created from five years of interviews with 12 teenagers from all four corners of the UK, will introduce you to some truly unforgettable characters. Thank you for continuing to be a part of CFT’s journey.
Executive Director Kathy Bourne
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Artistic Director Daniel Evans
Meet Mia, who wants to be on Jeremy Kyle. And Robyn, who wants a job. When Ayesha and her brother Ali aren’t bickering, they’re dreaming of going on Hajj or to Australia to get a tan. Lucas wants to get into Edinburgh and get a girlfriend. Basketball holds the future for Taylor and Luan, but for Callum it’s politics. Ierum’s only allowed on her phone at the weekends; Annabella receives surprising news via Snapchat. Emily, whose dad is the housemaster, is predicted to get ten A*s. Zac has six piano concerts in five days. Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from all four corners of the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their teenage years as they journey into adulthood. Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and moving play is for anyone who is – or has ever been – a teenager.
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OUR GENERATION A new play by Alecky Blythe
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HHHH ‘A rich, gutsy production, told by a splendid ensemble. Fascinating and funny’ Evening Standard
HHHH ‘A valuable, vivid documentary of our times’ Daily Mail
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MINERVA THEATRE 22 April – 14 May #OurGeneration Contains strong language. Ages 13+
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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS By Agatha Christie Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig
Henry Goodman plays celebrated detective Hercule Poirot who faces the most difficult case of his career in Agatha Christie’s masterpiece. A spectacular new staging directed by Jonathan Church and designed by Robert Jones.
FESTIVAL THEATRE 13 May – 4 June #MurderOnTheOrientExpress
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Charlie Stemp
THE GERSHWIN MUSICAL COMEDY Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Book by Ken Ludwig Co-conception by Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and John McGowan
A hilarious, riotously entertaining musical packed with glorious Gershwin melodies and stunning tap dance routines, directed and choreographed by the multi Tony and Olivier Award-winning Susan Stroman. Charlie Stemp (Half A Sixpence, Mary Poppins) returns to Chichester to lead the cast.
FESTIVAL THEATRE 11 July – 4 September #CrazyForYou
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SOMETHING FO Chichester Festival Youth Theatre offers opportunities for young people throughout West Sussex As you sit watching today’s performance in the Festival or Minerva Theatre, across the county young people are also acting up a storm. Chichester Festival Youth Theatre (CFYT) was first established in 1985. Such was its popularity that demand for membership outstripped the provision available at its Chichester base; and a growing awareness of areas in West Sussex where there was little or no high quality arts provision for children and young people led to the roll-out of a satellite programme across a geographical area of approximately 50 square miles. Today, CFYT runs 38 weekly sessions in seven locations – Billingshurst, Bognor Regis, Burgess Hill, Horsham, Littlehampton, Midhurst and Worthing – and in Chichester itself. Each location hosts groups for Years 6 – 9
(ages 10 – 13) and for Years 10 – 13 and above (ages 14 – 25). There are currently opportunities to join all the older and most of the younger groups. ‘CFYT sessions will appeal to any young person needing a bit of escapism and to have some fun,’ says Hannah Hogg, CFT’s Youth & Outreach Manager. ‘It’s about gaining confidence, friendships, social and life skills. A very small percentage of our young people want a theatre career; the skills they gain are just as applicable to being a lawyer or a nurse.’ The year is divided into three terms, starting by looking at skills such as improvisation, devising or mime. Next, participants work towards sharing an informal performance with their peers and family. During the final term they’ll focus on a project such as Shakespeare or a mini-performance in the Minerva. All sessions are led by professional theatre practitioners.
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OR EVERYONE ‘It’s about gaining confidence, friendships, social and life skills.’
upwards; these are open to participants from across the county. So is the Technical Youth Theatre which, being a two-year course, differs from the Youth Theatre sessions (which you can join at any point); a new Tech group will be recruited in September. Every member has the opportunity to ‘There is something for everyone. We’re audition for the major CFYT productions, not a stage school, we’re about developing including the famed Christmas show. And the person and having a good time’, Hannah while CFYT’s mission is far wider, it can be emphasises. ‘The experience is exactly the a springboard into the theatrical profession; same for CFYT members in our satellite there are Youth Theatre graduates throughout locations, as for those attending sessions the industry, including the actors Finn Elliot at CFT itself. It’s very different from school (recently seenAlecky in The Blythe’s Crown) and Felix Mosse engrossing new verbatim tells the club; stories of a generation. or an play after-school it benefits anyone’s (son of Kate), andOften puppeteers Fred Davistoand too extraordinary be fiction, Daniel Evans this funny and wellbeing to havedirects a completely different Romina Hytten, who were nominated a moving play infor a co-production with theforNational experience an hourTheatre. and a half each week.’ 2022 Laurence Olivier Award as part of the team on The Life of Pi in the West End. MINERVA ForTHEATRE more information about joining CFYT, Additional needs groups are held in 22 Aprilvisit cft.org.uk/cfyt – 14 May Horsham and in Chichester, where dance #OurGeneration groups are also on offer for younger children, and a musical theatre group for year 11
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THE TAXIDERMIST’S DAUGHTER Adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse A new play based on her novel
KATE MOSSE REFLECTS ON THE LANDSCAPE OF
THE TAXIDERMIST’S DAUGHTER Although The Taxidermist’s Daughter is a story of revenge and sexual violence, retribution, recovered memories and secrets, it is also a love letter to the wild and haunting landscape of the Fishbourne Marshes. Fishbourne is first mentioned in the 11thcentury Domesday Book as Fiseborne. There are houses of Elizabethan provenance, several Queen Anne, Georgian and handsome Victorian buildings, including the old Toll House, Clayton Cottage, and the elementary school that opened in 1876. When I was growing up in the 1960s and 70s, Fishbourne was still an old-fashioned village, even though the discovery of a jewel of a 1st-century Roman palace had brought archaeologists from all over the world to our quiet corner of Sussex. The flint-faced
13th-century church, with 14th-century tiles on the altar step, triple lancets and Purbeck shafts, sat in the fields to the east of the village. On the north wall, scratched crosses where medieval pilgrims making their way to the Shrine of St Richard of Chichester had left their antique graffiti. Pathways and lanes overgrown with cow parsley in summer. There were three pubs, a village shop, a Methodist chapel, a post office and the old Victorian laundry at the foot of Salthill Road next to the white-timbered Dame School. Fishbourne has always been a place of living history, where the past speaks to the present. Our house in Creek End was always full, a second home to other people’s children and a meeting place for neighbours and friends. But, just as important, was what lay beyond.
Cross the main road by the Bull’s Head, head down Mill Lane, past Pendrills with its thatched roof, to the duck pond, where many generations of Wellington boots came to the same muddy end. Salt Mill House sat – and still sits – on the edge of the water meadows, looking out over the silent expanse of sea like a sentinel to the Marshes. In the middle of the channel, the ruins of Farhill’s Mill are exposed at each low tide. To the east, the spire of Chichester Cathedral dominates the landscape. And to the south, the sea. Not the yellow sands of the Witterings or Bognor Regis, but the beautiful, tidal estuary of the Marshes. The Marshes have been less altered by the passage of time than the village itself. Farming has encroached on the untended woodlands, the paths are less haphazard and white posts
PHOTOS OF FISHBOURNE MARSHES BY TIM HILLS
mark the way across the estuary at low tide, but the feelings of freedom and space are still the same. The stark hawthorn bushes, the ebb and flow of the tide. The occasional kingfisher at the freshwater sluices. In the reed banks, among the lyme grass and spartina, you’ll find waders, dunlin, plovers, black-tailed godwit, redshank, teal and golden-eye duck. Chill autumn days, the air heavy with the smell of bonfires and dusk, the damp mulch of leaves underfoot. Gulls wheeling out at sea and the hawthorn and blackthorn bushes stark and bare. Later, pinpricks of spring as the first wild flowers showed their colours in blossoms of yellow and pink. This was the real, and imagined, landscape of my childhood, both specific and timeless. Head along the western sea wall, to see brent geese, curlews and
herons in the oak pond, the water turned white by hundreds of pairs of nesting swans. And, if you’re lucky, a glimpse of the rare blooms of the ‘spiked star of Bethlehem’ and purple sea lavender. Looking back, I can see how the roots of my becoming a writer – that combination of landscape and history and storytelling – lie in my Sussex childhood. I started to walk the village with a notebook in hand, imagining the Fishbourne of a hundred years ago. Nutbeem’s post office and village store was gone, but the sweet shop on the bend of the main road was still there. I looked at Edwardian line drawings and sought out old maps of the village to trace the outline of the flour, salt and water mills. I followed in the footsteps of all those old Fishbourne families over the water meadows,
across to the church on the edge of the Marshes, and back again. Little by little, the idea for The Taxidermist’s Daughter took shape. I found myself superimposing on top of the Fishbourne of my childhood and the Fishbourne I knew now, a third version where Connie Gifford lived in an isolated house at the head of the Creek, surrounded by the remains of her father’s once celebrated museum of taxidermy. Feathers and colour and light. Place and time. This is how a story – on the page and on the stage – takes flight. This is an edited version of an article written by Kate Mosse for the Chichester Local History Society.
TOP: POTTER’S MUSEUM, BRAMBER 1930 BOTTOM: DETAIL OF POTTER’S KITTEN’S TEA PARTY IMAGE MARC HILL/ALAMY OPPOSITE: POTTER’S THE ORIGINAL DEATH AND BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN IMAGE PAT MORRIS
WALTER POTTER’S MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES The museum that inspired Gifford’s Museum of Avian Taxidermy in The Taxidermist’s Daughter may be known to many Sussex people: the Museum of Curiosities established in the mid19th century by Walter Potter in his home village of Bramber. Taxidermy was enormously popular in Victorian England, prompted by the increasing interest in the study of the natural world; 12 taxidermists featured in the 1851 Great Exhibition. Born in 1835, Potter was self-taught and very able, but what marked him out was not simply his skill at preserving specimens but his creation of extraordinary tableaux based on nursery rhymes or folksongs, some of which anthropomorphised animals and birds as miniature characters. Over time, he built up his Museum to be one of the most popular tourist attractions in the south of England. By the 1970s, the collection was housed in Arundel where Kate Mosse, among many others, used to visit with her family and on school trips. Among Potter’s most popular tableaux were a guinea pigs’ cricket match; a kittens’
tea party, complete with doll’s house chairs and blue and white porcelain crockery; and, the earliest and most celebrated of all, ‘The Original Death and Burial of Cock Robin’, which featured nearly one hundred birds in an English country churchyard, including the sparrow with his bow and arrow, the rook with his book, and the owl who dug the grave. Completed in 1861, it had taken Potter seven years to assemble. By the 1980s taxidermy had fallen out of fashion and the museum moved to Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, before being sold off piecemeal at auction in 2003 by Bonham’s, whose catalogue described it as ‘without doubt one of the most unusual and eccentric collections ever to have been offered’. It attracted huge interest, including a sprinkling of celebrity enthusiasts such as the photographer David Bailey, comedian Harry Hill, and artists Sir Peter Blake and Damien Hirst (who reputedly came up with an unsuccessful eleventh-hour offer of £1 million to keep the collection intact). The Cock Robin tableau alone made £23,500.
The theme of revenge has powered through drama and literature since Greek and Roman times. It reached a popular apogee in the Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies of the 16th and 17th centuries, proffering a maelstrom of violent and evil deeds, family wrongs, the abuse of power and a burning desire for vengeance. But, along with an exploration of the psychology of the individual, and the balance of power between men and women, these plays also raised timeless questions about provocation and premeditation; and whether justice should be brought about by the state or – if the state and its officials are corrupt – by the person who has been wronged, in a private act of retribution.
When is
Kill I shall, and none shall Medea, Euripides, 431BC
See'st thou this handkercher besmear'd with blood? It shall not from me, till I take revenge. See'st thou those wounds that yet are bleeding fresh? I'll not entomb them, till I have revenge. Then will I joy amidst my discontent; Till then my sorrow never shall be spent. The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd, 1587
n the bad bleed, then s the tragedy good. The Revenger’s Tragedy, Thomas Middleton, 1606
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well... Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. On Revenge, Francis Bacon, 1625
do me down.
What did I want? Nothing much. Just when you come right down to it, but a Endured, and resented. Without m
The Blind Assassin, M Goddess of midnight, Hekate, Holy of holies in whose name I live, Are they to hurt us and skip unscathed? Bitter and black the wedding I’ll contrive, Cruel and sharp as my rejection here. Come, now, Medea. Be clever now. Dare now. What you plan, now do; this is the test. Your sufferings are known. Are Jason and his crew to laugh themselves to bed? Medea, grand-daughter of the Sun, do it. You can. Aren’t women made for this? Useless, are we? Good for nothing good? Then evil be our good and I its queen! Medea, Euripides, 431 BC
Vengeance and retributi a long time; i the rule. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 1859
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t a memorial. But what is a memorial, a commemoration of wounds endured? memory, there can be no revenge.
Margaret Atwood, 2000
You speak as though to some thoughtless woman: you are wrong. My pulse beats firm. I tell what you already know: Approve or censure, as you will; all’s one to me. This is my husband, Agamemnon, now stone dead; His death the work of my right hand, whose craftsmanship Justice acknowledges… Why, once before, did you not dare oppose this man? He was the one you should have driven from Argos; he, Marked with his daughter’s blood, was ripe for punishment. But my act shocks your ears, whets your judicial wrath! Agamemnon (Clytemnestra), Aeschylus, 458 BC
ion require it is Meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain! At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark. Hamlet, William Shakespeare, 1609
THE TAXIDERMIST’S DAUGHTER Adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse A new play based on her novel
CAST
(in order of appearance)
Cassie Pine Davey Reedman Crowley Gifford Gerald White Frederick Brook / Levi Nutbeem Charles Crowther Connie Gifford Mary Christie Young Connie Young Cassie Harry Woolston Lewis / Clerk Dr Jack Woolston Sergeant Pennicott / Gregory Joseph Jennie Christie Townspeople
Pearl Chanda Akai Osei Forbes Masson Howard Saddler Tim Frances William Chubb Daisy Prosper Posy Sterling Haddymai John / Lauren Van Wyk Robyn Ellan Ashwood Taheen Modak Geoff Aymer Raad Rawi Alastair Parker Connie Walker
Mwenya Chisanga, Susie Gibbs, Robert Hall, Kevin Hawkes, Colette Holmes, Andy Trust, Chris Yeldham
The play takes place on the Sussex Marshes, in the villages of Fishbourne and Apuldram, and the city of Chichester in 1912. There will be one interval of 20 minutes.
World premiere performance of The Taxidermist’s Daughter at Chichester Festival Theatre, 8 April 2022.
Director Designer Lighting Designer Music, Sound & Musical Direction Video Designer Movement Director Fight Directors Casting Director
Róisín McBrinn Paul Wills Prema Mehta Sinéad Diskin Andrzej Goulding Chi-San Howard Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown of Rc-Annie Ltd Charlotte Sutton CDG
Voice & Dialect Coach Assistant Director
Charmian Hoare Aaliyah Mckay
Production Manager Costume Supervisor Props Supervisor Wigs, Hair & Make-Up
Ben Arkell Laura Hunt Marcus Hall Props Betty Marini Suzanne Bourke Lorna Earl Christopher Carr Jamie Craker
Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Janette McAlpine Jenny Beadle, Tracy Clayton, Emily McAlpine
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Production credits: Set and Scenery by Theatre Royal Plymouth TR2; Production Carpenters Jon Barnes and Steve Bush; Automation Engineering Adder Engineering Ltd; Automation Control Absolute Motion Control Ltd; Automation Programmer Jamie Lawrence; Automation Engineer Jesse Caie; Production Video Engineers Dave Kennedy and Mike Samuel; Production Programmer Dan Trenchard; Costume hire Cosprop Costumiers, Angels Costumiers; Additional Ladies Costume maker Emma Jealouse; Costume Millinery Masks Yasmin Rizvi; Breakdown Artist Helen Flower; Costume alterations Colette Tulley; Transport by Paul Mathew Transport; Rehearsal room The American Church. With thanks to Becky Dick of Taxtiles for taxidermy demonstration; @benjamingrahamphotography for landscape photography. Rehearsal photographs by Manuel Harlan, production photographs by Ellie Kurttz Programme Associate Fiona Richards Programme design by Davina Chung With special thanks to supporters of The Playwrights Fund for their support of the research and development of The Taxidermist’s Daughter : Deborah Alun-Jones, Joan Alvarez, Wendy Browning, Clive and Frances Coward, Veronica Dukes, Melanie Edge, Sir Vernon Ellis, Richard and Valerie Evans, Simon Eyers, Jonathan and Clare Lubran, Denise Patterson, Jans Ondaatje Rolls and Peter Usborne. Supported by The Taxidermist Daughter Commissioning and Patrons Circles: His Honour Michael Baker and Edna Baker, Judy and Ian Barlow, Patrick and Maggie Burgess, Steve and Sheila Evans, CS and M Chadha, Richard and Rosie Hoare, Colin and Gay Kaye, John and Chrissie Lieurance, Peter and Nita Mitchell-Heggs, Pippa Nott, Claire Parsonage, David and Sophie Shalit, Katherine and Greg Slay, Sayers/Strange Family, Howard M Thompson, Ian and Alison Warren, Ernest Yelf.
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BIOGRAPHIES
PEARL CHANDA GEOFF AYMER WILLIAM CHUBB
ROBYN ELLAN ASHWOOD Young Cassie Theatre includes The Sound of Music (UK and international tour); Matilda The Musical (RSC); Aida, Annie, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat (UK tours). Television includes Ackley Bridge, Grace, Robbie Williams’ One Night at the Palladium. Films include Last Train to Christmas. Music videos include West End Sings, Sarah Brightman. Trained at Sylvia Young Theatre School and Urdang Academy. GEOFF AYMER Lewis / Clerk Theatre includes Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); Jitney (Leeds Playhouse); GHBoy (Charing Cross Theatre); Apollo 13 Dark Side of the Moon (Original Theatre virtual production streamed online); Two Trains Running (ETT/Royal & Derngate); The Color Purple (Curve Theatre Leicester/Birmingham Hippodrome); Robin Hood and The Arrow of Destiny (Theatre Peckham); The Plague (After La Peste by Albert Camus) (Arcola Theatre); Driving Miss Daisy, Marking Time (Frinton-on-Sea Summer Rep Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Original Theatre national tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Vic); Driving Miss Daisy, Newsrevue (Canal Café Theatre); The Albatross 3rd and Main (Shiny Pin Productions/Brighton); To Kill a Mockingbird (national tour/Barbican/ Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Cheese and Crack Whores (Soho Theatre); The Lightning Child, Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Neighbors (High Tide/Nuffield Theatre); That Old Feeling (The Mill); Angel House (Birmingham Rep/WYP/Ipswich tour); Brixton Stories (Mama Put/Lyric Hammersmith); What’s in the Cat (Contact Theatre/Royal Court); The Big Life (Apollo West End); Revolution, Evolution (HMS Company and C Venues); Gagging for It (Gilded Balloon II); Don’t Push, We’re Leaving (Tour); Aymer and Powell’s Assorted Foolishness (tour). Television includes Mr Winner, Guerrilla, EastEnders, Club Class, The A Force, The Real McCoy. Films include Sket, Ragtag. Writing credits for stage include The Wonderful; Anansi and the Magic Mirror;
The Oddest Couple; What A Wonderful World; Wha Tif; Sam’n’Emma; Revolution and Evolution; Don’t Push, We’re Leaving; Assorted Foolishness. Writing for TV: Chatsworth Road (pilot episode). PEARL CHANDA Cassie Pine Theatre includes Masha in Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre); Imogen in One for Sorrow (Royal Court Theatre); Stephanie Rahn in Ink (Almeida Theatre & West End); Julie in Julie (Northern Stage); Laura in The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre); Anna/Henderson in The Angry Brigade (Bush Theatre); C in Crave/4.48 Psychosis (Sheffield Crucible); Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Minnie in Godchild (Hampstead Theatre); Nina in The Seagull (Headlong); Jessica in The Acid Test, Rosalind in As You Like It (RADA). Television includes War of the Worlds, I May Destroy You, McDonald & Dodds, Motherland, Endeavour, Arthur and George, Holby City. Films include See How They Run, Marionette, The Final Haunting, Mr Turner, Monster Heart, Only the Lonely, The Big Return of Ray Lamere. Trained at RADA. WILLIAM CHUBB Charles Crowther Previously at Chichester Yes Prime Minister (and Gielgud Theatre), The Schoolmistress (Festival Theatre). Theatre includes Othello, Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); This House, Othello, Scenes from an Execution, The London Cuckolds, The Madness of George III (National Theatre); Racing Demon (Theatre Royal Bath); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, King Lear (Old Vic); In the Depths of Dead Love (The Print Room/Coronet); Lawrence After Arabia (Hampstead Theatre); Great Britain, The History Boys (National Theatre/West End); The Vortex, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre Kingston); Mary Shelley (Shared Experience); The Sea, Hay Fever (Theatre Royal Haymarket); You Can Never Tell (Theatre Royal Bath & West End); Galileo’s Daughter, Man and Superman, Design for
Living, Fight for Barbara (Peter Hall Company); Whose Life is it Anyway? (Duke of York’s); Justifying War (Tricycle); Ghosts (English Touring Company); Homebody Kabul, A Raisin in the Sun (Young Vic); He Stumbled (Wrestling School). Television includes Vampire Academy, Pistol, Sandman, Miracle Workers, Quiz, Close to the Enemy, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Law and Order, Silk, Extremely Dangerous, The Ambassador, House of Cards. Films include 6 Days, Adrift in Soho, Veer, Affair of the Necklace, Milk, The Woodlanders. TIM FRANCES Frederick Brook/Levi Nutbeem Previously at Chichester, Hatcher in Sweet Bird of Youth (Festival Theatre), Sweater & Harlow in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Minerva Theatre and Liverpool Everyman). Theatre includes Mayhew in Witness for the Prosecution, Rusty in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Man Two in The 39 Steps, Cranmer in A Man For All Seasons, Gerald in An Inspector Calls (West End); Ronald Knox in Never So Good, Marat-Sade (National Theatre); Zeller in The Sound of Music (Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park); Jupiter in The Woman in the Moon TIM FRANCES FORBES MASSON
(Shakespeare’s Globe); Tyndale in Anne Boleyn, William in Eternal Love (Shakespeare’s Globe & English Touring Theatre); Blue Stockings, The Suicide (Storyhouse Chester); King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Love On The Links, The Magna Carta Plays, Map of the Heart, Habeas Corpus (Salisbury Playhouse); Lady Anna: All At Sea (Park Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Bridge House); A Government Inspector (Northern Broadsides); 1936 (Sadlers Wells & Arcola); Oliver Twist (Bolton Octagon); Twelfth Night, He’s Much To Blame, Relatively Speaking, Wives As They Were & Maids As They Are (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); The Wizard of Oz (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); The Glee Club (New Vic Stoke); The Prodigal Son, Purvis (Stephen Joseph Scarborough). Television includes Four Lives, The Trial of Christine Keeler, It’s All Lies, Big School, Gangsta Granny, Simon Schama’s Shakespeare: Hollow Crowns, Land Girls, The Day of the Triffids, Bad Girls, My Dad’s the Prime Minister, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cromwell, Holby City, East Enders, The Bill, Doctors, Lexx, Othello.
HADDYMAI JOHN Young Connie Theatre includes Shonelle in School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre, West End) and The Jungle Book (Brighton Open Air Theatre). Films include Make It! Haddymai trains at Fi Steps and attends school in Crawley. FORBES MASSON Crowley Gifford Theatre includes The Magician’s Elephant, The Boy in the Dress, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, Richard III, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Grain Store, Morte d’Arthur, The Pilate Project, Ahasverus, Tender Thing (RSC); Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/Apollo Theatre); Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead/Theatre Royal Haymarket); Doctor Faustus (Duke of York’s); Macbeth, Richard II, The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios/Jamie Lloyd Productions); Big Fish (The Other Palace); King Lear (Liverpool Everyman/Young Vic/Headlong); The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); Bartholomew Fair, TAHEEN MODAK ALASTAIR PARKER
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Boudica (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dumbstruck, Terror (Lyric Hammersmith). Television includes Crime, EastEnders, Father Brown, Doctors, Shetland, Monarch of the Glen, Rab C Nesbitt, Dead Boss, Supergirly, The High Life, Taggart, Catastrophe, The Young Person’s Guide to becoming a Rock Star. Radio includes Raj, Jago and Lightfoot, Doctor Who - Girl Interrupted, The Tempest, Nuremberg, Catastrophic Injury, Behind Closed Doors, The Red Gauntlet, Waverley, The Fair Maid of Perth, The Quest of Donal Q, Stevenson in Love, Pinkerton, Conan Doyle - A life in letters. Films include The Road Dance. Writing: Stiff (Lyceum), The High Life (BBC), Victor and Barry (Edinburgh Festival Perrier Award nominees), Mince (Dundee Rep), At Home with Feste (RSC). Forbes is an associate artist with the RSC and National Theatre of Scotland. Twitter @forbesmasson
DAISY PROSPER RAAD RAWI AKAI OSEI
TAHEEN MODAK Harry Woolston Theatre includes Lee 2 in The American Clock (Old Vic); Polykleitos in Welcome to Thebes, Dracula in Dracula, Eric in How to Completely Disappear and Never Be Found, Nogood Boyo in Under Milk Wood (West Country tour), Konstantin in The Seagull, Gibbet in The Beaux’ Stratagem, Roland in Constellations, Robert Sideway in Our Country’s Good (all Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); Edmund in King Lear (RADA Youth Company). Television includes The Bay, Van Der Valk, Safe Space, Two Weeks to Live. Radio includes Turning Misty. Films include the shorts Doggerland, Beyond the Blade, K&J. Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. AKAI OSEI Davey Reedman Theatre includes Lucas Sinclair in Secret Cinema Presents Stranger Things (Secret Cinema); Lost Boy in Into the Hoods (Royal Festival Hall); Diversity World Tour; NDubz (Hammersmith Apollo); Daniel in Remix: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (PCUK/Leicester Square Theatre); Child of Hamelin in Pied Piper (Barbican). Television includes 4 O’Clock Club, Friday Download, Drunk History, Shake It Up Dance Dance, Got to Dance. Films include StreetDance: All Stars, StreetDance 2, Horrid Henry: The Movie, StreetDance 3D. ALASTAIR PARKER Sergeant Pennicott / Gregory Joseph Theatre includes Magician in The Magician’s Elephant, Miss Trunchbull and Sergei in Matilda (RSC); Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol (Old Vic); Killigrew in Treasure Island, National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, Bruce in People, Clint Elvis Jr in Jerry Springer: The Opera (group Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical; also at Edinburgh Festival, BAC & West End), Stephano in The Merchant of Venice, Barnacles in Honk, Harry Paddington in The Villains’ Opera (National Theatre); Bed and Sofa (Finborough Theatre); The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Silk (Orange Tree
Theatre); The Wizard of Oz, The Glee Club (New Vic Theatre); The Mock Turtle/Cook in Alice in Wonderland, Ghost in Two Women for One Ghost, Priest in Twelfth Night, Carpenter in HMS Pinafore (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Spittin’ Distance, Jonah Boy, Beginner’s Guide to Cybershopping (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Is There Life After High School? (Bridewell Theatre); Jud Fry in Oklahoma (Perth Theatre); They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (RAM); The Tempest (Gardner Arts Brighton); Oliver! (London Palladium). Television includes The Witcher, Carnival Row, Whitstable, I Hate Suzie, Doctor Who, BBC Proms: Sondheim at 80, Sinchronicity, White Teeth, The Vice, Spooks, Crossroads. Radio includes Hell Cats. Films include London Road, Last Orders, The Hitman and Her, A Quiet Courage, The Merchant of Venice, Hell for Leather. Trained at Guildford School of Acting and Royal Academy of Music. DAISY PROSPER Connie Gifford Theatre includes Girl with No Shoes/Maria in Rage, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Irina in Three Sisters, Brecht Cabaret, Young Lover in Commedia Dell’Arte, Helena in Look Back in Anger, Tom’s Mother/Kate in Against, Margaret in Beyond Hillsborough, Emma in People, Places and Things, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (all at East 15 Acting School); Rite of Spring (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance); Erzulie in Once On This Island (BRIT School). Television includes The Devil’s Hour, Toast of Tinseltown. Radio includes Dolphin Therapy. Audio books include This Can Never Not Be Real, The Chalet, Nightingale Point. Trained at East 15 Acting School and The BRIT School. RAAD RAWI Dr Jack Woolston Previously at Chichester 5/11 (Festival Theatre); King Lear, Electra (Minerva Theatre); Fred’s Diner (Theatre on the Fly). Theatre includes Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse); Salomé, Stuff Happens, The Waiting Room, Antony and Cleopatra
(National Theatre); Breaking the Code (Manchester Royal Exchange: Manchester Theatre Awards Best Supporting Actor nomination); Chilcot (LUNG at The Lowry/ Battersea Arts Centre); The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle Theatre/US tour); Invasion (Soho Theatre); The Fever Chart (Theatre Royal York); Medea (Gate Theatre); The Romans in Britain, A View from the Bridge, Queueing for Everest (Sheffield Crucible); Called to Account, Nuremberg (Tricycle Theatre); Bombay Dreams, The Red Devil Battery Sign (West End); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek by Jowl, world tour & West End); Shoot (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Method&Madness, Lyric Hammersmith). Television includes Brassic, Half Bad, Sick of It, Unforgotten, Tyrant, The Honourable Woman, The Bible, Generation Kill, Death Becomes Him, The Tudors, House of Saddam, Wire in the Blood, Spooks, Murphy’s Law, Trial and Retribution, Judge John Deed. Films include Official Secrets, Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser, Jungle Tribe, Spy, The Devil’s Double, Green Zone, Conan the Barbarian, Traitor, The Kingdom.
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HOWARD SADDLER Gerald White Theatre includes Narrator/Stage Manager in Our Town, Leads in Two (Sheringham Little Theatre); Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Mr Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Arab Trader in Paul (National Theatre); Dr Rank in A Doll’s House (Northcott Theatre Exeter); Bones in Dead Meat, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Tench in Our Country’s Good (Out of Joint); Aslan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke); Bluntschli in Arms and the Man, Frank in Flyin’ West, Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera, Dejoux/Narrator in Factors Unseen (Orange Tree); Jerome in Breath Boom (Royal Court); Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra (Riverside Studios and world tour); Stanton in Dangerous Corner (Palace Theatre Watford); Cassius in Julius Caesar (world tour); Hastings in She Stoops to Conquer (Bristol Old Vic); Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (Liverpool Playhouse); Aaron in Titus Andronicus (Hornsey Baths); Othello in Iago (Man in the Moon). Television includes Family Affairs, The Office, Judge John Deed, Without Motive, Doctors, Waking the Dead, Holby City.
Films include the shorts Sweatbox and Grief. Posy is also the founder and director of Screen School; Instagram/Facebook @ screenschoolmh. Trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts (BA Hons Acting). LAUREN VAN WYK Young Connie Theatre includes Cinderella in Hollywood (English Youth Ballet at The Hawth Theatre, Crawley). Lauren trains at JBS School of Dance and West End Theatre Academy, and attends school in Durrington. She regularly competes in dance and drama festivals and holds various titles.
Radio includes Suffer the Little Children, Saint Lucy. Films include the shorts Ropey, Senet. Trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. POSY STERLING Mary Christie Posy has a been a member of Clean Break since 2015. Theatre includes Leigh in Faith, Hope and Charity (A Zeldin Company, European tour); Steph in Sweatbox (Clean Break, Royal Court/ UK tour); Belong (Clean Break, Lyric Hammersmith/Arcola Theatre); Turning a Little Further (Young Vic); The Good Person of Sichuan (Edinburgh Fringe). Posy worked with the Amy Winehouse Foundation as a young artist and singer/ songwriter. She later became an MC/Host for The Amy Winehouse Foundation Showcases and The Global Youth Awards, and filmed a short documentary with Fully Focused. Concerts include solo vocalist in Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala (Savoy). Recordings include Amy’s Yard: The Sessions Volume 1 (Island Records). Television includes London Live Playout. CONNIE WALKER
CONNIE WALKER Jennie Christie Previously at Chichester Mabel in Separate Tables (Festival Theatre). Theatre includes Witch/Lennox in Macbeth (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch/tour); Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre); Mum in Reasons to Stay Alive (Sheffield Theatres/ETT); Margaret Bradley in My Mother Said I Never Should (London Classic Theatre/tour); The Woman in Death of a Salesman (Northampton Royal/tour); Eileen in The March on Russia (Orange Tree); Denise in Trestle (Papatango Theatre/Southwark Playhouse); Sister Winnie in Folk (Birmingham Rep/tour); Pam in In Basildon, Mrs Barker in A Month of Sundays (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Mrs Duboise/Stephanie Crawford in To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, tour/Barbican); Marian/Muna in Seeing the Lights, Mrs Casper in Kes (New Vic Theatre); Mrs Birling in An Inspector Calls (English Theatre of Frankfurt). Television includes Pennyworth, Whitstable Pearl, Silent Witness, Murder They Hope, Holby City, Coronation Street, Scott & Bailey, Vera, Hollyoaks, Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Films include The Darkest Light.
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RACHEL BOWN-WILLIAMS and RUTH COOPER-BROWN of RC-ANNIE LTD Fight Directors Rc-Annie Ltd, established in 2005 by Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown, is the UK’s leading dramatic violence company. Previously at Chichester Macbeth, Plenty, Way Upstream (Festival Theatre), Hedda Tesman, The House They Grew Up In (Minerva Theatre). Other theatre credits include East is East (Birmingham Rep and NT co-production); Henry VI: Rebellion and Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part 1 (Rehearsal Room Project), King John, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe, The Duchess of Malfi, Salome, Snow in Midsummer (RSC); Theodora (Royal Opera House); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End); The Play What I Wrote (Birmingham Rep and tour); The Life of Pi (Wyndham’s Theatre); Blue/Orange, God of Carnage (Theatre Royal Bath); Beauty and the Beast (Theatr Clwyd); ‘Night Mother (Hampstead Theatre); Once Upon a Time KATE MOSSE RÓISÍN McBRINN
in Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida Theatre); As You Like It (Globe on tour); Romeo and Juliet, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Macbeth, Emilia, Othello, The Secret Theatre, Boudica, Lions and Tigers, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Comus, Imogen (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Welkin, Three Sisters, Anna, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Common, Ugly Lies the Bone, Peter Pan, The Threepenny Opera, The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland/ Edinburgh International Festival co-production), Cleansed, Peter Pan (National Theatre); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre); A Monster Calls (also national tour), Woyzeck (Old Vic); [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith and West End); The Night of the Iguana (Noël Coward Theatre); The Little Matchgirl (Bristol Old Vic/Shakespeare’s Globe); A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter (The Bridge Theatre); Wise Children (Wise Children/Old Vic); Company (Gielgud Theatre).
SINÉAD DISKIN Music, Sound and Musical Direction Recent theatre as Sound Designer and Composer includes Walking with Ghosts (Landmark Productions/Lovano), Medicine (Landmark Productions/Galway International Arts Festival), The Visit (Draíocht Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival), Minseach (Sibéal Davitt/Dublin Fringe Festival), Aftertaste (National Youth Theatre), Happy Days, Blood in the Dirt (Landmark Productions), Pale Sister, The Snapper, The Glass Menagerie (Gate Theatre Dublin), The Anvil (Anú Productions/ Manchester International Festival), The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre London), Toch (Anú Productoins/St Helens site specific); as Sound Designer Boland: Journey of a Poet (Druid Theatre Company), Incantata (Galway International Arts Festival, Gate Theatre Dublin, Irish Repertory Theatre New York). Films include Canaries, Torch, Suited. Sinéad received a Commissions Award from Anú Productions and the Arts Council of Ireland to create a score celebrating Irish munitions workers of WW1 (2021) and was a participant
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of the Atlantic Centre for the Arts Residence programme with Annie B Parson (2020). The Arts Council of Ireland awarded her the Next Generation Artists Award 2019 and a Theatre Bursary Award 2018; she won the Geoffrey Singleton Award/Trinity College Dublin for excellence in Music Technology and Sound Design. Studied Music at Trinity College Dublin and piano at Royal Irish Academy of Music. ANDRZEJ GOULDING Video Designer Previously at Chichester Me and My Girl, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Festival Theatre), 8 Hotels, Pitcairn, Pressure (Minerva Theatre). Current work includes Henry V (Donmar Warehouse); The Da Vinci Code (UK tour); & Juliet, The Drifters Girl and Life of Pi (all West End); Room (Grand Theatre/Princess of Wales Theatre). Video designs include Coriolanus, Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse); Message in a Bottle (Sadler’s Wells); The Unreturning – also set
design (Frantic Assembly UK tour); The Girl on the Train (UK tour/West Yorkshire Playhouse); 1984 (Northern Ballet, Sadler’s Wells); Herding Cats (Soho Theatre); Constellations – also set design (NCPA Theatre); A Tell-Tale Heart (National Theatre); Pressure (West End/UK tour/ Park Theatre); Into The Hoods (UK tour); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Menier Chocolate Factory); Frost/Nixon, Tribes (Sheffield Crucible); Rules for Living (ETT); Union – also set design (Lyceum Theatre); People, Places and Things (National Theatre/Headlong/West End); Groundhog Day (Broadway/Old Vic); La Cenerentola (Opera North); Kiki’s Delivery Service (Southwark Playhouse); Rent (The Other Palace). Awards include UK Theatre Award for Design (Life of Pi); WhatsOnStage Award for Best Video Design 2020 (&Juliet); Broadway World Award for Best Video Design (Life of Pi ); Off West End Award nomination and Broadway World Award 2019 nomination for Set Design (The Unreturning); Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Projection Design and Knights of Illumination USA Award
nomination for Projection Design 2018 (People, Places and Things). In 2017 he won the inaugural Theatre and Technology Award for Creative Innovation in Video Design (Room) and was nominated for a WhatsOnStage Award for Video Design (Groundhog Day). www.agoulding.com CHARMIAN HOARE Voice and Dialect Coach Previously at Chichester South Pacific, Macbeth, Me and My Girl, Fiddler on the Roof, Quiz, Plenty, This is My Family, Present Laughter, The Country Wife. Recent theatre credits include War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime, The Lehman Trilogy, The Barber Shop Chronicles (NT Productions); Our Generation, The Antipodes, Peter Pan, Ugly Lies the Bone, Consent, Angels in America, Pinocchio, Network, John, The Great Wave, Absolute Hell, Translations (National Theatre); Fatal Attraction (UK tour); Singin’ in the Rain (Sadler’s Wells); Company (Gielgud Theatre); The Canterville
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Ghost (Unicorn Theatre); The Comeback (Noël Coward Theatre); Walden (Harold Pinter Theatre); Road (Royal Court); Kiss Me, Kate and Frost/Nixon (Sheffield Crucible); The Rubinstein Kiss (Southwark Playhouse); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Young Vic); Sweat, Welcome Home Captain Fox, One Night in Miami (Donmar Warehouse); Uncle Vanya, Blue Door, Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Bath); The Pope (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); The Light in the Piazza (Royal Festival Hall). Trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. CHI-SAN HOWARD Movement Director Movement work includes Two Billion Beats, The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree Theatre); Anna Karenina (Sheffield Crucible); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); Milk and Gall (Theatre 503); Typical Girls (Sheffield Crucible/Clean Break); Glee and Me (Royal Exchange); Just So (Watermill Theatre); Home I’m Darling (Theatre by the Lake/Stephen Joseph Theatre/Bolton
Octagon); Sunnymeade Court (Arcola/ Defibrillator UK tour); Harm (Bush Theatre); Living Newspaper Edition 5 (Royal Court); The Effect (English Theatre Frankfurt); Oor Wullie (Dundee Rep/national tour); Variations (Dorfman Theatre/NT Connections); Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse); Under the Umbrella (Belgrade Theatre/Yellow Earth/Tamasha); Describe the Night (Hampstead Theatre); Fairytale Revolution and In Event of Moone Disaster (Theatre503); Cosmic Scallies (Royal Exchange Manchester/ Graeae); Moth (Hope Mill Theatre); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Scarlet and The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse); Adding Machine: A Musical (Finborough Theatre). Films include Hurt By Paradise, Birds of Paradise and music videos for Orla Gartland (Pretending), Joesef (I Wonder Why). Chi-San is an Associate Artist with Ransack Theatre. Trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
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RÓISÍN McBRINN Director Róisín McBrinn is Joint Artistic Director of Clean Break, the women’s theatre company dedicated to campaigning for and working with women with experience of the criminal justice system, for whom she has directed Typical Girls (Sheffield Crucible), Joanne (Soho Theatre and RSC) and House/Amongst The Reeds (Yard Theatre). She was formerly Associate Director at Sherman Cymru where she oversaw the commissioning and developing of new Welsh writing, and directed productions including It’s A Family Affair, Before It Rains (also Bristol Old Vic), Peter Pan, The Sleeping Beauties, The Get Together and Cityscape. Theatre elsewhere includes The Snapper (Gate Theatre Dublin); Afterplay (Sheffield Crucible Studio); Heartbreak House, The Fairer Sex, Perve, No Escape (Abbey Theatre Dublin); Villa & Discurso (Prime Cut/MAC Belfast); Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre); Yellow Moon (Rustaveli Theatre of Georgia); Yerma (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Novecento (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios); The Wake (RADA); In Parenthesis (Churchill Theatre Bromley); Crestfall (Theatre 503); Roberto Zucco (LAMDA); The Field (Tricycle Theatre); Whereabouts (Fishamble Theatre Company); Tejas Verdes (b*spoke theatre/Project Dublin); A Thousand Yards (Southwark Playhouse); References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Gompers (Arcola Theatre); Giants Have Us in Their Books (international Studio Dublin); Sonnets for an Old Century (Cube/Project Dublin); A is for Axe (Ireland national tour). Róisín graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an MA (Hons) in Drama and Spanish. AALIYAH McKAY Assistant Director Theatre includes, as Assistant Director: After the End (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Typical Girls (Clean Break/Sheffield Theatres); as Director: Voices from Prison (Clean Break); as Director/ Writer: Mask (Fully Focused X Netflix), Rewind (Purple Moon Drama), History on the Road (Cockpit Theatre), Trio of Conviction (Brunel University/Feltham Prison/Downview Prison).
Music Videos include Director/Producer for Man I Become, Harami, Trippi’n. Films include the shorts No Second Chances, Lockdown Love, Playing with Fire. PREMA MEHTA Lighting Designer Theatre credits include The Comeback (Noël Coward Theatre); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios); What If If Only, A History of Water in the Middle East, Superhoe (Royal Court); The Dumb Waiter (Old Vic); Hymn (Almeida Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (RSC); Swive (Elizabeth), Bartholomew Fair, Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); Studio Créole (Manchester International Festival); Things of Dry Hours (Young Vic); Of Kith and Kin (Sheffield Crucible/Bush Theatre); The Hired Man (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch/Bolton Octagon/Hull Truck); Fame (UK tour/Peacock Theatre); East is East (Northern Stage/Nottingham Playhouse); The Importance of Being Earnest (Bolton Octagon); Talking Heads (Leeds Playhouse); Chicken Soup (Sheffield Crucible); Holes, Hercules (Nottingham Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Leicester Curve); Mighty Atoms (Hull Truck); A Passage to India (Royal and Derngate/ UK tour); A Christmas Carol, The Wizard of Oz (Storyhouse); The York Suffragettes, Murder Margaret and Me (York Theatre Royal); Love Lies and Taxidermy, Growth, I Got Superpowers for My Birthday (Paines Plough); The Effect (English Theatre of Frankfurt); Coming Up, Jefferson’s Garden, Fourteen (Watford Palace); The Electric Hills (Liverpool Everyman); The Great Extension (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Snow Queen (Derby Theatre); The Canterville Ghost, Huddle (Unicorn); Wipers (UK tour). Dance credits include Bells (Mayor of London 2012); Spill (Düsseldorf); Sufi Zen (Royal Festival Hall); Dhamaka (O2 Arena); Maaya (Westminster Hall). Event credits include A-List Party Area (Madame Tussauds London); Museum of Austerity (BFI London Film Festival 2021). Prema is Founder of Stage Sight. She is a Trustee of the Unicorn Theatre and an Artistic Associate at the Young Vic. www.premamehta.com
KATE MOSSE Writer Kate Mosse is the author of ten novels and short story collections, including the No 1 bestselling The Burning Chambers Series – The Burning Chambers and The City of Tears – as well as the multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel), No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter and novella The Black Mountain for Quick Reads. Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. She has also written four works of non-fiction, including An Extra Pair of Hands, two one-act plays and is one of twelve writers contributing a story to a new Miss Marple Collection of Short Stories to be published in September 2022. Her new nonfiction book celebrating women in history,
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries, comes out in October 2022. The Taxidermist’s Daughter is her first full-length play. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Kate sits on the Executive Committee of Women of the World and is the Founder of the global campaign #WomanInHistory. She was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to women and literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. A regular guest and host of book and arts shows on radio and television, Kate recently launched her own YouTube book channel ‘Kate Mosse on Books’. A Chi girl born and bred, Kate hosts CFT’s pre-show talks. She also chairs Platform Events for the National Theatre and interviews writers, directors, campaigners and actors at literary and theatre festivals in the UK and beyond. A Visiting Professor of Creative Writing & Contemporary Fiction at the University
of Chichester, Kate is a Patron of the Chichester-based Consort of Twelve and a Patron of the Chichester Festival for Music, Dance and Speech. CHARLOTTE SUTTON CDG Casting Director Previously at Chichester Doubt, The Long Song, South Pacific (CDG Casting Awards nomination), Crave, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (CDG Casting Awards nomination), 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 and Mabel (Festival Theatre); Home, The Butterfly Lion, 8 Hotels, 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/West End; CDG Casting Award nomination), Strife (Minerva Theatre). Theatre credits Best of Enemies, Fairview (CDG Casting Award nomination), Death of a Salesman (CDG Casting Award nomination), The Convert, Wild East, Winter, trade, Dutchman (Young Vic); Company (Gielgud; CDG Casting Award nomination); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Wyndham’s, BAM & LA); Humble Boy, Sheppey, German Skerries (Orange Tree Theatre); Nell Gwynn (ETT and Globe); The Pitchfork Disney, 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, Queen Coal (Sheffield Crucible); Henry V, Twelfth Night Re-Imagined (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Hedda Gabler, Little Shop of Horrors (Salisbury Playhouse); Insignificance,
Much Ado About Nothing, Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd); wonder.land, The Elephantom, Emil and the Detectives, The Light Princess (National Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket/international tour); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); Bunny (Underbelly Edinburgh Festival, Soho and 59E59 New York). PAUL WILLS Designer Previously at Chichester King Lear, First Light (Minerva Theatre), costume designer for Barnum (Theatre on the Park). Theatre includes American Buffalo, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Di and Viv and Rose, Mrs Henderson Presents (West End); Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Anna Christie, Making Noise Quietly, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Cut, Novecento (Donmar Warehouse); Punk Rock, Blasted, Saved, The Chair Plays (Lyric Hammersmith); Routes, The Acid Test, Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre); Richard II, Dr Faustus, The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe); Our Few and Evil Day, Drum Belly (Abbey Theatre Dublin); A Room with a View, A Steady Rain, The Hypochondriac (Theatre Royal Bath); Juno and The Paycock PEARL CHANDA RÓISÍN McBRINN
(Gate Theatre Dublin); A Human Being Died That Night (Hampstead, The Fugard South Africa and BAM); Howie The Rookie (Dublin, Barbican and BAM); Once a Catholic, Pornography, The Field (Tricycle Theatre); A Number, Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory); My Fair Lady, Afterplay, Sisters, Gladiator Games (Sheffield Theatres); The Indian Wants the Bronx (Young Vic); Finding Neverland, Buried Child, Barnum (Curve Theatre Leicester); The Changeling (ETT); Orpheus Descending, 1984, Macbeth, See How They Run (Royal Exchange Manchester); Running Wild (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ UK tour); An Enemy of the People (Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo); Fortune (Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo); A Christmas Carol (Alexandra Palace). Opera and Dance includes The Monstrous Child (Royal Opera House), Bastard Amber (Liz Roche/Dublin Dance Festival), Rusalka (English Touring Opera), The Magic Flute (National Theatre of Palestine).
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THE TAXIDERMIST’S DAUGHTER PRE-SHOW TALK
Monday 18 April, 5.45pm Director Róisín McBrinn and writer Kate Mosse in conversation. FREE but booking is essential.
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Tuesday 26 April Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the play. FREE
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Thursday 28 April, 10.30am Festival Theatre Join the creative team and technical crew for 90 minutes of insight, demonstration and discussion. Combine with the matinee performance for an immersive day at the Theatre. Tickets £5 (plus optional show ticket)
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TECHNICAL Steph Bartle Helen Clark Leoni Commosioung Adrien Corcilius Lewis Ellingford Sam Garner-Gibbons Jack Goodland Lucy Guyver Katie Hennessy Mike Keniger Andrew Leighton Zoe Lyndon-Smith Finlay Macknay Karl Meier Charlotte Neville Tom Robinson Neil Rose
Deputy Head of Lighting Stage Crew Stage Technician Video & AV Technician Stage Technician Technical Director Stage Crew Production Manager Apprentice Props Store Co-ordinator Head of Sound Senior Lighting Technician Technical Theatre Apprentice Stage Crew Head of Stage Head of Props Workshop Senior Stage & Construction Technician Deputy Head of Sound
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James Sharples Graham Taylor Dominic Turner
Senior Stage Crew & Rigger Head of Lighting Stage Crew
THEATRE MANAGEMENT Janet Bakose Theatre Manager Gill Dixon Duty Manager Ben Geering House Manager Karen Hamilton Duty Manager Will McGovern Assistant House Manager Sharon Meier PA to Theatre Manager Gabriele Williams Deputy House Manager Caper & Berry Catering Proclean Cleaning Ltd Cleaning Contractor Vespasian Security Security WARDROBE & WIGS Fran Horler Abbie Johns Rebecca Rungen Loz Tait Colette Tulley Grace Upcraft
Wardrobe Manager Dresser Head of Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Head of Wardrobe Wardrobe Maintenance Dresser
Stage Door: Bob Bentley, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Chris Monkton Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Maria Antoniou, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Brian Baker, Bob Bentley, Gloria Boakes, Dennis Brombley, Judith Bruce-Hay, Louisa Chandler, Jo Clark, Gaye Douglas, Stella Dubock, Amanda Duckworth, Clair Edgell, Lexi Finch, Suzanne Ford, Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook, Barry Gamlin, Charlie Gardiner, Anna Grindel, Caroline Hanton, Justine Hargraves, Joseph Harrington, Joanne Heather, Daniel Hill, Keiko Iwamoto, Flynn Jeffery, Joan Jenkins, Pippa Johnson, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Maille Lyster, Judith Marsden, Samantha Marshall, Emily McAlpine, Janette McAlpine, Fiona Methven, Chris Monkton, Susan Mulkern, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Kirsty Peterson, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Fleur Sarkissian, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust, Rosemary Wheeler, James Wisker, Donna 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, Richard Frost, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd
ACCESS AND CAR PARKING
Wheelchair users 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 2022 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
SUPPORT YOUR THEATRE
60TH BIRTHDAY APPEAL CFT is a theatre for everyone, where each of us can find something inspiring. Sharing stories together is more important than ever but for many it can be difficult to reconnect. To celebrate our 60th Birthday, we are working even harder to help everyone join in – whether that’s through providing bursaries for our Youth Theatre, offering relaxed and dementia-friendly performances, or training our volunteer Buddies to assist isolated people with theatre visits. We continue to offer a full range of audio described, captioned and signed performances for blind, visually impaired or D/deaf audiences.
We need to raise £100,000 this year for this activity. Please help us reconnect with the most isolated and vulnerable in our community by giving a gift to our 60th Anniversary appeal.
To make your gift visit cft.org.uk/60for60 or call 01243 781312 Every gift makes a difference.
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‘What I really like with Chichester is I feel valued here’ Kathy, Access Member
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S U P P O R T E R S 2022
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT BENEFACTORS Deborah Alun-Jones Robin and Joan Alvarez David and Elizabeth Benson Philip Berry George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Sir William and Lady Castell John and Pat Clayton John and Susan Coldstream Clive and Frances Coward Yvonne and John Dean Jim Douglas George and Natasha Duffield Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis Val and Richard Evans Simon and Luci Eyers Angela and Uri Greenwood Sir Michael and Lady Heller 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 Graham and Sybil Papworth Nick and Jo Pasricha Mrs Denise Patterson Stuart and Carolyn Popham Jans Ondaatje Rolls Dame Patricia Routledge DBE David and Sophie Shalit Simon and Melanie Shaw Greg and Katherine Slay Christine and Dave Smithers Alan and Jackie Stannah Oliver Stocken CBE Howard Thompson Peter and Wendy Usborne The Webster Family Community Fund TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust Artswork The Arts Society, Chichester The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Bondi Foundation The Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity Chichester District Council Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray’s Charity Trust The G D Charitable Trust The Noël Coward Foundation Theatres Trust Wickens Family Foundation
FESTIVAL PLAYERS John and Joan Adams Dr Cheryl Adams CBE Judy Addison Smith Paul Arman The Earl and Countess of Balfour Matthew Bannister Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Mrs Margaret Baumber Franciska and Geoffrey Bayliss Lucy Berry Julian and Elizabeth Bishop Martin Blackburn Sarah and Tony Bolton Janet Bounds Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett Adam and Sarah Broke Therese Brook Peter and Pamela Bulfield Jean Campbell Julie Campbell Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg Sally Chittleburgh David and Claire Chitty Denise Clatworthy David and Julie Coldwell Mr and Mrs Barry Colgate Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Michael and Jill Cook Freda Cooper Brian and Claire Cox Susan Cressey Jonathan and Sue Cunnison Rowena and Andrew Daniels Jennie Davies The de Laszlo Foundation Yvonne and John Dean Clive and Kate Dilloway Peter and Ruth Doust Peter and Jill Drummond John and Joanna Dunstan Peter Edgeler and Angela Hirst Glyn Edmunds Anthony and Penny Elphick Sheila Evans Gary Fairhall Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Jane Fogg Robert and Pip Foster Jenifer and John Fox Debbie and Neil Franks Terry Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Alan and Pat Galer Robert and Pirjo Gardiner
Wendy and John Gehr Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Olwen Gillmore Mr and Mrs Paul Goswell Robin and Rosemary Gourlay R and R Green Reverend David Guest Ros and Alan Haigh Dr Stuart Hall Rowland and Caroline Hardwick Dennis and Joan Harrison Roger and Tina Harrison David Harrison Robert and Suzette Hayes Hania and Paul Hinton Christopher Hoare Dame Denise and Mr David Holt Pauline and Ian Howat Barbara Howden Richards Richard and Kate Howlett John B Hulbert Mike Imms Mrs Raymonde Jay Melanie J Johnson Nina Kaye and Timothy Nathan Rodney Kempster Nigel Kennedy OBE Anna Christine Kennett Geoffrey King James and Clare Kirkman Frank and Freda Letch Mrs Jane Lewis John and Jenny Lippiett Amanda Lunt Jim and Marilyn Lush Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Nigel and Julia Maile Sarah Mansell and Tim Bouquet Jeremy and Caroline Marriage Sue Marsh Adrian Marsh and Maggie Stoker Charles and Elisabeth Martin Trevor and Lynne Matthews John and Sally-Ann McCormack Tim McDonald Jill and Douglas McGregor James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Andrew McVittie Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Diana Midmer Jenifer and John Mitchell David and Di Mitchell Nick and Pat Moore Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris Terence F Moss Mrs Mary Newby Patricia Newton Bob and Maureen Niddrie Lady Nixon
Pamela and Bruce Noble Eileen Norris Jacquie Ogilvie Margaret and Martin Overington Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen Graham and Sybil Papworth Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Alex and Sheila Paterson Simon and Margaret Payton Terry and John Pearson Stephen and Annie Pegler Jean Plowright Barbara Pope Brian and Margaret Raincock John Rank David Rees The Rees Family Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Adam Rice John and Betsy Rimmer Robin Roads Philip Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ken and Ros Rokison Graham and Maureen Russell Clare Scherer and Jamie O'Meara Dr David Seager John and Tita Shakeshaft Mrs Dale Sheppard-Floyd Jackie and Alan Sherling The Sidlesham Theatre Group David and Linda Skuse Monique and David Smith Simon Smith Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha David and Unni Spiller Mel and Marilyn Stein Elizabeth Stern Barbara Stewart Peter Stoakley Anne Subba-Row Professor and Mrs Warwick Targett Harry and Shane Thuillier Mr Robert Timms Miss Melanie Tipples Alan and Helen Todd Peter and Sioned Vos David Wagstaff and Mark Dunne Ian and Alison Warren Brett Weaver and Linda Smith Chris and Dorothy Weller Bowen and Rennie Wells Judith Williams Angela Williams Lulu Williams Nick and Tarnia Williams David and Vivienne Woolf Angela Wormald And all those who wish to remain anonymous
‘Chichester Festival Theatre enriches lives with its work both on and off stage. It is a privilege to be connected in a small way with this inspirational and generous-hearted institution, especially at such a challenging time for everyone in the Arts.’ John and Susan Coldstream, Benefactors and Festival Players
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S U P P O R T E R S 2022
PRINCIPAL PARTNERS Platinum Partner
Prof E.F Juniper and Mrs Jilly Styles
Gold Level
Silver Level
CORPORATE PARTNERS Addison Law Criterion Ices
FBG Investment J Leon Group
Jones Avens Oldham Seals Group
The Bell Inn William Liley Financial Services Ltd
Please get in touch for more information: cft.org.uk/support-us | development.team@cft.org.uk | call 01243 812911
Summer 2022 marks a momentous time for Chichester and the surrounding areas as we celebrate Culture Spark 2022. Inspired by the anniversaries of Chichester Festival Theatre and other leading cultural attractions, Culture Spark will bring together artists, musicians and community groups from across the district to create a season of events that showcases work by local creatives and gives everyone a chance to enjoy a rich summer of fun. TikTok 22 will see young people create TikToks which tell stories about their lives. The Big Pic(k)nic is a musical litter-picking walk and wheel bonanza, and the Carnival of Lights is a grand parade that everyone is invited to! For more information visit thegreatsussexway.org/culture-spark-2022 where the full programme will be revealed this spring, and join CFT for these highlights.
LANTERN MAKING
Thursday 21 April, 10am & 2pm Festival Theatre Foyer Our community lantern-making workshop will be led by local artists, creating, creating beautiful willow lanterns to be used in the Carnival of Lights. £5 per person
CARNIVAL OF LIGHTS
WE THE PEOPLE EXHIBITION
From 22 August, 10am Festival Theatre Foyer Celebrating the generosity and commitment of many volunteers, this touring photographic exhibition created by Chichester College students can be enjoyed at various locations across the district, including CFT for two weeks from 22 August. FREE
Friday 10 June Chichester City Centre A grand parade of lanterns created by local schools, groups and artists will dance through the streets of Chichester to the Canal Basin culminating in a waterside extravaganza. FREE
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