THE UNFRIEND A new play by Steven Moffat
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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.
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WELCOME
KATHY BOURNE AND DANIEL EVANS PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAMUS RYAN
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Welcome to this performance of Steven Moffat’s new play, The Unfriend. As we know, the two-year delay to this production caused by the pandemic hasn’t brought much mirth to our lives, so we couldn’t be happier that director Mark Gatiss and his superb company - led by Amanda Abbington, Frances Barber and Reece Shearsmith are finally bringing Steven’s play to the stage two years after it was originally announced, at a time when laughter is necessary. Steven and Mark have, together and separately, created some of the most entertaining and memorable screen dramas of recent years - including
Sherlock, Dracula and Doctor Who; so we are thrilled that this world premiere is happening in the Minerva in our 60th anniversary year. Amanda, Frances and Reece are joined by Michael Simkins (making a welcome return to CFT), Maddie Holliday, Gabriel Howell and Marcus Onilude. There are more world premieres to relish this season, including Stephen Beresford’s The Southbury Child in the Festival Theatre in June, starring Alex Jennings, and Christopher Shinn’s The Narcissist in the Minerva this autumn. Enjoy today’s performance and we look forward to welcoming you again soon.
Executive Director Kathy Bourne
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Artistic Director Daniel Evans
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THE NARCISSIST A new play by Christopher Shinn A gripping, inventive and witty take on personal and political communication in the internet age. This world premiere from celebrated American playwright Christopher Shinn is directed by Josh Seymour.
MINERVA THEATRE 26 August – 24 September #TheNarcissist
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LOCAL HERO Book by David Greig, Music & Lyrics by Mark Knopfler Based on the Bill Forsyth film CFT Artistic Director Daniel Evans directs a new musical version of this funny and enchanting story, featuring new songs by the legendary Mark Knopfler (formerly of Dire Straits).
MINERVA THEATRE 8 October – 19 November #LocalHero
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LEAP
Our Learning, Education and Participation (LEAP) programme offers practical workshops, projects and special events for over 62,000
GAME CHANGERS: COMMUNITY COMPANIES CFT’s programme of community events for adults range from weekly classes to talks and tours: allowing participants to discover more about the Theatre and its productions, as well as helping build confidence and gain new skills. Projects and initiatives includes CFT Buddies, the volunteer companion scheme, and Get Into It! – weekly sessions for adults to learn new skills in designing, acting, dancing, singing and devising. The latest initiative launched in September 2021. The Wednesday and Friday Community Companies offer weekly workshops for adults with learning disabilities. Sessions exploring creativity and developing personal and social skills are open to anyone over the age of 25, all within a supportive and fun-filled environment. As part of the Digital Stages events celebrating our 60th anniversary, the Wednesday and Friday groups will be creating Game Changer, combining gaming technology with theatrical storytelling and music to create a new virtual theatre experience.
auditorium, the Friday Company members will create a parallel universe on the digital stage with clay characters animated by 3D scanning technology. Meanwhile, the Wednesday Company members will be working alongside songwriter and musician Michael Fry to create a soundscape to accompany the digital story, offering an immersive utopia. Game Changer will be released from 8 July 2022; sign up to our regular e-newsletters to hear more about this and the full Digital Stages programme or head to our website, where you can also read more about our Community Companies and projects at cft.org.uk/take-part/community There are currently spaces available in our Wednesday Company, and we would welcome new members to join in the creative, fun and exciting projects we have planned. If you – or someone you know – would be interested in joining, you can book a free taster session or discuss our bursary scheme in confidence by contacting Louise Rigglesford, Senior Community and Outreach Manager, at louise.rigglesford@cft.org.uk.
The Friday Company will work with Brighton-based BRiGHTBLACK, a digital company specialising in interactive and immersive playable artwork. Using a highly accurate scan of the Festival Theatre
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people throughout the year. We aim to ensure that everyone, regardless of age, culture and social background, is given the opportunity to enrich
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DIGITAL STAGES Join us as we mark our 60th Anniversary with six dynamic digital events celebrating Chichester Festival Theatre across the decades. Using new technology to put the history of CFT centre stage, these special events will be released over our birthday week in July giving audiences across the globe an opportunity to celebrate with us. To be the first to hear more about Digital Stages, sign up to our newsletters at cft.org.uk or follow us on social media. cft.org.uk/DigitalStages
VISIONARY STAGES
From Sunday 3 July Step back in time and see our much-loved Festival Theatre as it was in 1962. Using cutting-edge technology, we have recreated the 1962 stage for a virtual meet-up with Daniel Evans and the Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival Theatre in Ontario, Canada, Antoni Cimolino. Launching on our official 60th birthday, they will talk about the shared history of the two buildings including the unique hexagonal designs. As they look back on 60 years of extraordinary theatre, they relive some favourite productions and meet up with special guests as we travel through the decades. Tickets £5
BACKSTAGE VIRTUAL TOUR
From Monday 4 July Ever wondered what lies beyond the stage at the Festival Theatre? In this immersive VR backstage tour you will encounter actors as they prepare to go on stage, and see the inner workings of the Theatre in virtual reality. This immersive unique experience will be available using VR headsets in the foyer this summer, or you can access a 360-degree video version on our YouTube channel. FREE
RE-STAGED
From Tuesday 5 July This could be your chance to relive a favourite CFT show! We’re bringing back a well-loved director and alumni cast (full details to be revealed…) to restage a scene from an archive production. Take your seat, wherever you are in the world, for this special Zoom performance. Tickets £5
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YOUR DREAM
From Wednesday 6 July Do you have what it takes to be the next Laurence Olivier? Want to join our biggest company yet? We’re inviting you all to take part in one mammoth online performance from A Midsummer Night’s Dream; you choose your own stage and your own costume, you are your own director! Just send us a video of you performing a pre-selected scene and we will edit them all together for a one-off screening online. The deadline for submissions is Friday 6 May so head to cft.org.uk/YourDream for full details. FREE
From Thursday 7 July A digital diorama sharing memories and anecdotes attached to 60 pieces from CFT’s fascinating archive will go on virtual display this summer. Model boxes, props, costumes, set designs, footage, programmes, artwork, time-lapses, interviews and sound bites will be shared to tell the story of our beloved Theatre through the last six decades. FREE
GAME CHANGER
From Friday 8 July Our endlessly creative ‘Wednesday and Friday’ community companies for adults with learning disabilities will combine gaming technology with theatrical storytelling and music to create a new virtual theatre experience. Using a highly accurate scan of our auditorium, they will work alongside experts to hone their skills in building a new digital theatre. FREE
FOOD AND DRINK Enjoy delicious food and drink at our welcoming café and restaurant. Whether you’re having a meal before the show, simply relaxing with a coffee or powering up using our free Wi-Fi, we can’t wait to welcome you.
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Enjoy a light and relaxed menu of sharing platters and small plates featuring local and seasonal ingredients, a brilliant range of local gin and spirits as well as beers and wines in our award-winning restaurant the Minerva Bar & Grill – the closest restaurant to the Minerva Theatre.
A great spot for barista coffee, freshly made sandwiches, delicious cakes and a range of drinks. Our Café on the Park offers indoor and outdoor seating overlooking Oaklands Park and family friendly areas in our spacious foyer.
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THE UNFRIEND A new play by Steven Moffat
‘CAN I COME TO THE OPENING NIGHT?’
Steven Moffat on the inspiration for The Unfriend Sitting on a patio in France with a spectacular view of a valley, I suddenly had the impulse to kill any other writer in the immediate vicinity. In fairness, this isn’t unusual for me – but for once I had a specific reason. Context: this was three or four years ago. I was in a little town called Callas with my brother-in-law David and an old friend I shall call Peter (largely because it’s his real name but shh!). This was one of our regular trips. David and his wife had a lovely house there which they rented out, and now and then David would pop over to do some maintenance. Peter and I would go with him to assist with any afternoon drinking. David would spend the morning mending things and Peter and I would spend the morning avoiding David in case he asked for help with a toilet. Then in the afternoon we’d drift into town, choose a patio and a view, and tell each other stories. This time Peter owned the day. He told the best kind of story. Not a story of something that really happened – a story of something that nearly really happened. For what it’s worth the first 20 minutes or so of this play are true. Of course, in boring old reality, Peter and Debbie managed to avert the social disaster you’re about to see developing: hold tight because comedy will not be so merciful. Laughter is a cruel mistress. Laughter, however, was the last thing on my mind when Peter told his story: like any writer on a sunny weekend away, I was filled with rage and fear. ‘Why,’ I demanded ‘haven’t you told me this story before!’. It was, to be clear, the best idea for a comedy play I’d ever heard. ‘Well, it only happened a couple of years ago’, explained Peter. A couple of years? The fear was really kicking in now. How many writers had heard Peter carelessly blurting out my new great idea for a play before I’d even stolen it? I glanced round the other tables. What about all these STEVEN MOFFAT
people listening? Could any of them be writers? I examined them all for poor social skills and cheap shoes. My hand was now gripping tightly on to my fork in case I had to take decisive action. ‘Peter,’ I said as calmly as any man could while contemplating the random slaughter of potential writers on a sunlit patio, ‘can I have it?’ ‘Have what?’ ‘Your story. Can I have it?’ ‘What do you mean, have it?’ ‘Can I have that story and write it as a play, except change it a bit so that the thing that doesn’t happen, does happen?’ Peter considered. An old lady at the next table was now staring vacantly at the view. Had she heard? Was she developing her own idea for a miniseries or a Netflix special? There was, I noticed, a vein in her neck in easy reach. ‘Can I come to the opening night?’ asked Peter. ‘Yes, of course you can’. ‘And maybe some other nights?’ ‘Yes, why not?’ (Take a look around – he might be sitting next to you.) ‘Oh, and keep our names the same. Me and Debbie, don’t change our names in the play!’ I thought about that. ‘Given the nature of the story and the particular, erm, hobby of the person you met... do you think that’s a tremendously good idea?’ ‘Maybe change our names a little bit.’ ‘I’ll do that.’ I can’t remember how the rest of the conversation went and that’s probably because I wasn’t really listening. Comedy gold had just dropped into my lap. Filming was about to start on a TV version of Dracula (which I’d co-written with the director of this play, Mark Gatiss), I’d already signed to adapt The Time Traveler’s Wife for HBO and there was a four-part thriller for the BBC I was keen to get on with – but suddenly all I wanted to do was get back to my laptop and start writing The Unfriend. Which is exactly what I did. I had a great time writing it, and then some people were kind enough to like it, and here we all are. And you know what? I didn’t even have to kill that old lady. Or did I?
A rehearsal room near London Bridge. The floor is marked with lines of coloured gaffer tape. Two men, Mark (a director) and Steven (a writer) are sprawled on an L-shaped sofa you may recognise. On the middle cushion there’s an iPhone in record mode. In front, a third man, Matthew, is sitting on a plastic chair. He has a notebook in his hand. Steven This is how we met. My wife Sue and I were feeling a bit un-Christmassy as Christmas approached. We went to the Curzon cinema in Soho. Sue of course enters every room waving to the multitude of people who know her. I stand shyly behind her. She waved at someone at the other end of the counter that’s just near the door and instead of sending back a greeting I heard... Mark ‘You once called me a warped, frustrated old man. Well what are you but a warped, frustrated young man? Look at you. You used to be so cocky.’ Steven This was because we were going to see It’s a Wonderful Life, and of course Mark was in character. I was going, ‘What the hell is going on?’. That was how it happened. MARK GATISS STEVEN MOFFAT
There was a period when we simply turned up at the same things all the time. On two occasions sitting next to each other by accident in the theatre. And at parties. Mark We would end up finding whoever the BBC exec was in the room and trying to persuade them to bring back Doctor Who. It was our hobby for a long time. We’d just force them into a corner. Matthew I don’t detect any echoes of Doctor Who in The Unfriend. Steven Oh there is one. You spotted it today. What is the line? ‘I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again...’ Mark ‘...our policemen are wonderful.’ A direct quote from The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Matthew If this were a blind tasting how would you know The Unfriend was by Steven? Mark There is not an ounce of fat on it. It moves like a train and it’s incredibly funny. That’s how I know. I know the bits of Steven’s life that inspired it. The engine of so much
STEVEN MOFFAT AND MARK GATISS: IN THE REHEARSAL ROOM great comedy is frustration with life itself. I’ve lived versions of this script for many years with Steven. Steven I told no one I was writing it. I called it ‘a play in 15 days’. I was freaking out about The Time Traveler’s Wife [Steven’s adapting the novel for TV] and that I was going back to my old ways of having too many shows to write. I thought, ‘I have got to do something different first’. So I set myself this grotesque challenge of writing this play quickly. I didn’t make it in 15 days, which is why I was still writing it when we were making Dracula. Then you saw me giggling to myself. Matthew Where were you? Steven In Castle Dracula. Mark I remember we were hunched over monitors because it was absolutely freezing. Steven has a particular laugh which he was doing this afternoon, which is a kind of tee-hee. He kept doing it to himself. I thought, ‘I wonder what he’s watching?’. I leant over and he was writing. He was laughing at his own jokes.
Steven Which is awful. Apologies. Mark I think the idea is the sort of thing Ira Levin would have written a play about, like Deathtrap. And the mechanics of doing this on stage, the problem-solving, is really interesting. A man comes through the door. The other character would turn and talk to him. Mark gets to his feet to illustrate. But you can’t do that so how do we do it? It’s like moving pieces around the board. Steven Bring the policeman round here, not funny. Put him over there, funny. Why? It’s weird. Mark I once did a three-day restoration comedy workshop with Selina Cadell and she learned everything from Donald Sinden. He knew his way around the stage. He’d say: ‘It’s funny here. It’s not funny here’. He was always right. Just by millimetres sometimes. It was so entertaining and so instructive. You just think, ‘I’ll just never be able to absorb all that’. You need a lifetime of it.
Matthew What has working on this play done to your relationship? Mark Oh, poisoned it (laughs). Actually, I did approach this with trepidation, which is funny. I said to Sue, ‘I don’t know quite how to say this to Steven but I can’t have him there the whole time because I’ve got to establish this rehearsal room as mine’. But Sue said, ‘I’ve already told him’. Steven You actually need to get out. If you see every edit on a show you become useless. You are wandering the streets for someone who hasn’t seen it to look at it. Mark When it’s starting to come together, that’s the moment to say, ‘Right. Here it is. What do you think?’.
Steven When we are collaborating, and even if it’s on the same script, sometimes I’m actively trying to surprise him. I’m actually thinking, ‘Mark won’t see this coming. He’ll love this’. Mark That is so true. You realise it’s because you exist on a system of rewards for yourself and for others. The one I really remember is getting to the end of episode three of Dracula. We didn’t think we were going to finish it that day. We got to six o’clock and we were just typing this very downbeat but rather beautiful ending where Dracula dies for Agatha. We just stopped and just looked at each other. Steven Yes. ‘That’s it. We’re done. Let’s go to the pub.’ Matthew So you’re physically present together when you write?
Matthew Perhaps you have fewer of those moments when you’re writing together? STEVEN MOFFAT AND MARK GATISS WITH PRODUCER, SUE VERTUE AND DIRECTOR, JONNY CAMPBELL ON THE SET OF DRACULA IN SLOVAKIA IMAGE COURTESY OF ROBERT VIGALSKY © HARTSWOOD FILMS
Steven We often go off and do our own thing and then at the end of the script we’ll sit with it for a couple of days together. Not in a cool way. I tried to arrange the cool way, where we are facing each other. Mark Like ‘Ebony and Ivory’. Steven So we sit next to each other. Matthew With one keyboard between you? Mark Like Morecambe and Wise in bed. Matthew I thought in writing partnerships it was usually one person on the keyboard and the other pacing around. Steven Someone is usually pacing. But we’ve done every version. Mark The line that always comes back to me is – is it from Conan Doyle? – ‘cudgelling your
brain’. There is a particular time of day when there is nothing left and you just go, ‘I think we have to stop now’. Steven Years ago, I actually did the thing of lying down on the sofa and hanging my head to see if blood would go down and make something happen. Did it work? No. But you’ve got to give it a shot. Matthew Would you do this the other way round? Would you direct a script by Mark? Steven I always quite fancied the idea. I thought at some point in Doctor Who surely I could get a go. But I don’t know. I might be rubbish at it. Ends MATTHEW SWEET
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THE UNFRIEND A new play by Steven Moffat
CAST (in order of appearance) Elsa Peter Debbie Alex The Neighbour Rosie PC Junkin
Frances Barber Reece Shearsmith Amanda Abbington Gabriel Howell Michael Simkins Maddie Holliday Marcus Onilude
The play is set in the springtime of the present day, mainly in Chiswick. There will be one interval of 20 minutes.
World premiere performance of The Unfriend at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 21 May 2022.
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Director Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Video Designer Casting Director
Charmian Hoare Ben Davies Adrien Corcilius Gavin Joseph
Voice & Dialect Coach Associate Designer Associate Video Designer Assistant Director
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Production Manager Costume Supervisor Props Supervisor
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Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Production credits: Set Constructed and Painted by TR2; Production Carpenter Tom Humphrey; Costume hires Angels Costumiers; Wigs by Campbell Young Associates; Prop Makers Clara Clark, Marise Rose; Automation by Absolute Motion Control Ltd; Video Equipment supplied by Stage Sound Services; Video Engineer Mike Higgs; Lighting by Christie Lites; Transport by Paul Mathew Transport, Edwin Shirley; Rehearsal room Jerwood Space. With thanks to Corey Johnson and Karl Meier.
Rehearsal and production photographs Manuel Harlan Programme Associate Fiona Richards Programme design Davina Chung Supported by The Unfriend Commissioning and Patrons Circles: Margaret Bamford, Ben-Levi Family, Christine Breene, Caroline and Malcolm Butler, Michael and Frances Coates, Karen Coburn, Graham and Wendy Davies, Veronica J Dukes, Steve and Sheila Evans, Gary Fairhall, Mrs Sophie Gooley, Jennie Halsall, Themy Hamilton, Maggi and Roger Marshall, Lyana Peniston, Peter and Lucy Snell, Howard M Thompson, Fiona and Martin Windebank, Ernest Yelf and all those who wish to remain anonymous.
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BIOGRAPHIES
AMANDA ABBINGTON Debbie Theatre includes Anne in The Son (Kiln Theatre and West End); Miss Minchin in A Little Princess (Royal Festival Hall); Annette in God of Carnage (Theatre Royal Bath); Bev in Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Bath and tour); Sally Rayner in God Bless the Child (Royal Court); Sian in Love Me Tonight (Hampstead Theatre); Pam in Something Blue (Scarborough); Bridget in The Safari Party (Scarborough and Hampstead); Kate in The Taming of the Shrew (Queen Mother Theatre); Jenny in Tin Soldiers (New End Theatre and Grace Theatre). Television includes Desperate Measures, The Net, We Are Not Alone, Lockwood & Co, Wolfe, I Hate Suzie, Unsaid Stories, Make Me Famous, Flack, The Queen and I, Safe, Sherlock, Uncle, We Are Family, Cuffs, Mr Selfridge, Case Histories, Joe Mistry, Being Human, Open Doors, Postcode, Married. Single. Other, Money, Harley Street, Psychoville, The Bill, Doc Martin, Poirot, AMANDA ABBINGTON FRANCES BARBER REECE SHEARSMITH
After You’ve Gone, Man Stroke Woman, Booze Cruise, Derailed, Bernard’s Watch, Coupling, Teachers, The Robinsons, 20 Things To Do Before You’re Thirty, The Debt, Always and Everyone, Hearts and Bones, Men Only, Shades, Dream Team, The Sins, The Thing About Vince, Casualty, Snap, No Sweat, Picking Up the Pieces, Plotlands, Wycliffe. Radio includes Clement Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Life in London. Films include The Lost King, Three Pints and a Rabbi, Decrypted, Six Days of Sistine, Crooked House, We the Kings, Another Mother’s Son, Ghost, Swinging with the Finkels, The All Together. FRANCES BARBER Elsa Previously at Chichester Sonya in Uncle Vanya (Minerva Theatre/tour: TMA Best Supporting Actress Award, Olivier Awards Best Supporting Actress nomination).
Theatre includes Polonius in Hamlet (Theatre Royal Windsor); Billie Trix in Musik (Edinburgh Festival/Leicester Square Theatre: Offie Award Best Lead Performance in a Musical); An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville Theatre); Madame Rubinstein (Park Theatre); The School for Scandal (New York); What the Butler Saw (Los Angeles); title role in Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse/St Anne’s Warehouse Brooklyn); Les Parents Terribles (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios); That Face (Sheffield Crucible: TMA Awards Best Performance nomination); Afterplay (Gate Dublin); Madame de Sade (Donmar at Wyndhams); Goneril in King Lear, Arkadina in The Seagull (RSC/world tour); Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe); Aladdin (Old Vic); Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Gielgud Theatre: WhatsOnStage Best Actress nomination); Tales from the Vienna Woods, The Night of the Iguana, Pygmalion (National Theatre); Billie Trix in Closer to Heaven
(Arts Theatre: WhatsOnStage Award Best Actress in a Musical). Television includes Whitstable Pearl, The Chelsea Detective, Dodger, The Mezzotint, Cold Feet, Semi-Detached, The Split, The Queen and I, Carol and Vinnie, The Rebel, Father Brown, Medici, Masters of Florence, Murder in Successville, Mapp and Lucia, Psychobitches, Silk, Flack, Bad Education, The Spa, Vexed, Great Expectations, We’ll Take Manhattan, Doctor Who, The Street, Funland. Films include A Bird Flew In, Trick or Treat (Marbella Film Festival Award Best Actress), The Escape, The Bookshop, Blue Iguana, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, El Elegido (The Chosen), Mr Holmes, May I Kill U?, Goal!, Goal II, Evilenko, Suzie Gold, 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman, La Sirène Rouge, Superstition, Flyfishing, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Prick Up Your Ears, The Missionary.
MADDIE HOLLIDAY FRANCES BARBER GABRIEL HOWELL MARCUS ONILUDE MADDIE HOLLIDAY
MADDIE HOLLIDAY Rosie Theatre includes Afterlife (National Theatre). Television includes The Queen’s Gambit, The Durrells in Corfu, Hank Zipzer, Asylum, Holby City, Man Down. Films include Home Sweet Home Alone, Toni_With_An_I, Hank Zipzer’s Christmas Catastrophe, Professor Branestawm Returns, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, and the short Crush. Trained at The Theatre Workshop. Instagram and Twitter: @maddie_holliday GABRIEL HOWELL Alex Theatre includes Wink (The Mission Theatre); Burying Your Brother in the Pavement (The Alma); Against and The Seagull (RADA). The Unfriend marks Gabriel’s professional theatre debut since graduating. Films includes The Fence. Trained at RADA.
REECE SHEARSMITH GABRIEL HOWELL
MARCUS ONILUDE PC Junkin Theatre includes Olly in The English Game (UK tour); Blazer in Gone Too Far (Royal Court Theatre); Arthur in Arthur (Arcola Theatre). Television includes Death in Paradise, The Thief His Wife and the Canoe, Father Brown, Ghosts, Ted Lasso, Cursed, Defending the Guilty, W1A, Casualty, Rev, Coma Girl, Twenty Twelve, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Coming Up, Identity, Primeval, Law & Order UK. Films include The Scopia Effect, Villain, The Payday, The Batman. REECE SHEARSMITH Peter Theatre includes The President in A Very Expensive Poison (Old Vic: Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role); Norman in The Dresser (Duke of York’s Theatre & national tour); Syd in Hangmen (Royal Court); Colin in Absent Friends (Harold Pinter Theatre);
MICHAEL SIMKINS AMANDA ABBINGTON FRANCES BARBER
Gilbert Chivers in Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre); Phillip Goodman in Ghost Stories (Duke of York’s Theatre); Comedians (Lyric Hammersmith); Nick in The Common Pursuit (Menier Chocolate Factory); Leo Bloom in The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Jacques in As You Like It (Wyndham’s Theatre); Yvan in Art (Whitehall Theatre). Television includes The Witchfinder, Stag, Hunderby, Peter Kay’s Car Share, Inside Number 9, Mid-Morning Matters, Chasing Shadows, The Widower, An Adventure in Time and Space, The Hollow Crown, Bad Sugar, Psychoville, Eric and Ernie, Chekhov Shorts: The Bear, New Tricks, Christmas at the Riviera, Ladies and Gentlemen, Marple: Ordeal by Innocence, Doctor Who, Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere, Catterick, TLC, The League of Gentlemen, Randall & Hopkirk Deceased, Spaced. Films include In The Earth, High Rise, A Field in England, The World’s End, Burke & Hare, The Cottage, The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse. As a writer, his work includes Inside Number 9, which has received Royal Television Society, BAFTA and British Comedy Awards, and Psychoville, also the recipient of a BAFTA and British Comedy Award, both co-written with Steve Pemberton; The League of Gentlemen, co-written with Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton, which has received South Bank Show, NME, BAFTA, Golden Rose of Montreux, RTS and Sony Silver Awards; and A Local Show for Local People. MICHAEL SIMKINS The Neighbour Previously at Chichester Fracked! (Minerva Theatre), Yes, Prime Minister (also West End/ tour), Antony and Cleopatra, Cavalcade (Festival Theatre), The Scarlet Pimpernel (also West End). National Theatre work includes Cornwall in King Lear, Soranzo in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Marco in A View from the Bridge (Best Supporting Actor nomination), the Rivetti Brothers in A Small Family Business, Maitland in Tons of Money. West End credits include Hay Fever, Company, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Donkeys’ Years, Mary Stuart, The Old Masters, Democracy, Mamma Mia!, Richard III, Burn This,
Look Look, Henceforward. Other theatre includes Candida, Taking Steps (Orange Tree); Eden, The Argument, Loyalty (Hampstead); The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich (RSC); Dessert (Southwark Playhouse); Good Canary (Rose Theatre); Sweet Charity In Concert (RPO/Cadogan Hall); Oh! What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Candide (L’Opéra National de Lorraine); Less Than Kind (Jermyn Street). Television includes This is Going to Hurt, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, Finding Alice, The Crown, Silent Witness, Doctors, 1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?, White House Farm, Endeavour, Prank Me, Harlots, Grantchester, EastEnders, Foyle’s War, A Touch of Cloth, Above Suspicion, Lead Balloon, Minder, Lewis, Midsomer Murders. Films include Greed, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, The Iron Lady, V for Vendetta, Topsy-Turvy. Michael is also a best-selling author, broadcaster and journalist; books include What’s My Motivation, The Rules of Acting, and the Costa shortlisted Fatty Batter.
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ADRIEN CORCILIUS Associate Video Designer Adrien is Audio & Video Technican at Chichester Festival Theatre; The Unfriend is his debut production as an Associate Video Designer. He studied technical theatre production at Northbrook College, where he also gained experience at the Northbrook Theatre. BEN DAVIES Associate Designer Previously at Chichester Assistant Designer South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy (also West End), Associate Designer Murder on the Orient Express, Oklahoma! (Festival Theatre). Theatre as Associate Designer Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre); The Drifters Girl (Garrick Theatre); Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre); The Book of Mormon (UK tour); GAVIN JOSEPH MARK GATISS STEVEN MOFFAT
Matilda the Musical (UK and international tours); Present Laughter, Lungs, Art, Electra, A Christmas Carol, The Lorax (The Old Vic and US/ Toronto); Beautiful, The Ferryman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End/Broadway); Long Day’s Journey into Night, Venus in Fur (West End); The Red Lion, Three Days in the Country, King Lear (National Theatre). Theatre as Assistant Designer Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); Sweeney Todd, Oliver!, The Audience, The Wizard of Oz, Hamlet, Betty Blue Eyes, The Children’s Hour, Shrek The Musical (West End); God of Carnage (West End/ Broadway); Bombay Dreams (Broadway); An American in Paris (Broadway/Paris); The Trojans (Metropolitan Opera New York).
MARK GATISS Director Mark Gatiss has a long and varied career as a writer, director and producer, as well as an actor and published author. On screen, he is the co-creator and executive producer of the multi award-winning BBC series Sherlock, in which he played Mycroft Holmes, and the BBC and Netflix drama Dracula. He wrote and directed The Mezzotint for BBC Two and The Amazing Mr Blunden for Sky Max, in which he also starred. He both wrote for and appeared in The League of Gentlemen and the modern revival of Doctor Who, and was the writer and executive producer of An Adventure in Space and Time for the latter’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Other writing credits for television include Crooked House and Agatha Christie’s Poirot; his
adaptation of HG Wells’ The First Men in the Moon; the documentary series A History of Horror and its sequel Horror Europa, which he also presented; and art documentaries on John Minton and Aubrey Beardsley. He curated and directed Queers, a series of eight monologues for BBC Four to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. As an actor, recent screen work includes Mission Impossible 7, The Road Dance, Operation Mincemeat, The Father, The Favourite, Christopher Robin, Gunpowder, Wolf Hall, Coalition and Game of Thrones; and on stage, Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse), The Boys in the Band (Park Theatre), Three Days in the Country (National Theatre: Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), the title role in The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse); and Jacob Marley in his own
adaptation of A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace). ANDRZEJ GOULDING Video Designer Previously at Chichester The Taxidermist’s Daughter, 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); THE COMPANY
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
MARK HENDERSON Lighting Designer Previously at Chichester Murder on the Orient Express, Oklahoma!, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Present Laughter, Sweet Bird of Youth, Forty Years On, An Enemy of the People, Young Chekhov, Gypsy (and West End), Sweeney Todd (and West End), The Scarlet Pimpernel, A Patriot for Me, Valmouth, The Mitford Girls, Feasting with Panthers, The Cherry Orchard (Festival Theatre); Copenhagen, For Services Rendered, Private Lives (and West End), ENRON (and Royal Court, West End and Broadway) (Minerva Theatre). He was an Associate and Lighting Consultant to the National Theatre and Lighting Adviser to the Almeida. He was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards for Lighting Design, was awarded a Tony Award in 2006 and has also received a Welsh BAFTA. Mark has lit extensively for all the major theatre, opera and dance companies in the UK and over 70 West End productions, notably Girl from the North Country, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Iceman Cometh, Copenhagen, Democracy,
Hamlet, The Real Thing (all also on Broadway), The Bodyguard, The Sound of Music, Grease, Spend Spend Spend, Neville’s Island, Follies, All My Sons, American Buffalo, Funny Girl. He has lit over 80 productions for the National Theatre including Racing Demon, Les Parents Terribles, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (all also on Broadway), All My Sons, Mourning Becomes Electra, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, One Man Two Guvnors. Opera and dance includes productions for ENO, the Royal Opera, WNO, Opera North and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, LCDT, Rambert Dance Company, the Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet. Mark designed the lighting for the Kate Bush ‘Before the Dawn’ shows at Hammersmith Apollo. CHARMIAN HOARE Voice and Dialect Coach Previously at Chichester Our Generation, The Taxidermist’s Daughter, South Pacific, Macbeth, Me and My Girl, Fiddler on the Roof, Quiz, Plenty, This is My Family, Present Laughter
and 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 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.
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ROBERT JONES Designer Previously at Chichester Murder on the Orient Express, Oklahoma!, Strife, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Mack and Mabel, Taken at Midnight (and Haymarket), Kiss Me, Kate (and Old Vic), Cyrano de Bergerac, Calendar Girls (and UK tour/West End/Canada/Australia), The Music Man, Hay Fever, Water Babies, Saturday Sunday… and Monday, When We Are Married and Quiz (both also West End). West End productions include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Ragtime, The Sound of Music (also UK and international tour), Much Ado About Nothing, The Dance of Death, The Girls, Benefactors, Heroes (also Los Angeles), The King and I (Royal Albert Hall), Cyrano de Bergerac, The Wizard of Oz (also Toronto/US/ Australia), Rock and Roll (also Broadway). As an Associate Artist of the RSC The Boy in the Dress, Pentecost, Othello, Jubilee, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Eastward Ho!, The Herbal Bed, Venus and Adonis, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Henry VIII (and New York), The Winter’s Tale. Other theatre includes Happy Days
(Riverside Studios); The Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre/Los Angeles/Chicago); Brian and Roger (Menier Chocolate Factory); Fiddler on the Roof (Menier and Playhouse Theatre); Look Back In Anger, Noises Off (West End, Broadway); The Playboy of the Western World, The Motherf***er with the Hat, Tartuffe (National Theatre); City of Angels, Sweet Charity, Lobby Hero, The Physicists, A Voyage Round My Father, Black Comedy, The Vote (Donmar); The Mercy Seat, Filumena, Ruined, There Came a Gypsy Riding, The Late Henry Moss (Almeida); Pericles (New York); The Wife of Willesden, Pass Over, Blues in the Night (Kiln Theatre); The Full Monty (West End, tour). Also, numerous opera productions for The Met, Glyndebourne, Chicago, Madrid, Frankfurt, Vienna, Tokyo, Sydney, Paris and Berlin. He is a four time Olivier and Evening Standard Award nominee. GAVIN JOSEPH Assistant Director Theatre credits include Assistant Director for Liar Heretic Thief (Lyric Hammersmith) and The Glee Club (Out of Joint). As a director credits include Ad Nauseam (Lyric Hammersmith); a short film for Pursued by a Dragon; and a Duologue for WoLab which showcased at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre and Bunker Theatre. Gavin co-created and produced a podcast Bame(ish) commenting on the creative arts and providing a platform for young creatives from under-represented communities and backgrounds at the beginning of their careers. He has worked as Workshop Assistant for Paddington Development Trust; Assistant Director at Southwark Playhouse, Wimbledon Civic Theatre Trust and seasons; Co-Lead at Kiln; Artist Consultant at The Old Vic Theatre Trust; Director for Stanley Arts, Selladoor and Pursued by a Dragon; Associate Reader and Director for WoLab; Arts Festival Leader for I Am At Tate Exchange Festival; a member of the Lyric Ensemble and RADA Youth Company, and attended the Hackney Empire’s Writers Room.
STEVEN MOFFAT Writer Steven Moffat was lead writer and executive producer of BBC One’s Doctor Who from 2009 to 2017, and the co-creator, writer and executive producer of the BBC series Sherlock and the BBC/Netflix series Dracula. His earlier work included all 43 episodes of the teen drama series Press Gang, and the sitcoms Coupling, Chalk and Joking Apart. Other credits include the TV series Jekyll and feature film Tintin. His TV adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife recently debuted on HBO and Sky Atlantic and his forthcoming work includes an original four-part series Inside Man for BBC/Netflix. His numerous awards include BAFTAs for Press Gang and Doctor Who, two BAFTAs and two EMMYs for Sherlock, and the BAFTA Special Award in 2012. In 2015 he was created an OBE for services to drama. CHARLOTTE SUTTON CDG Casting Director Previously at Chichester The Taxidermist’s Daughter, Doubt, The Long Song, South Pacific (CDG Casting Award 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). ELLA WAHLSTRÖM Sound Designer Ella Wahlström is an international Sound Designer. Her recent sound design credits include A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace); Ava: The Secret Conversations (Riverside Studios); MARCUS ONLIUDE MICHAEL SIMKINS REECE SHEARSMITH OPPOSITE: FRANCES BARBER AMANDA ABBINGTON
Dogs of Europe (Barbican Centre); The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre); Rare Earth Mettle and Inside Bitch (Royal Court Theatre); The Lemon Table (Michael Grandage Company); Piaf (Nottingham Playhouse); I Think We Are Alone (Frantic Assembly, UK tour); Noises Off (Garrick); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Alexandra Palace, UK tour); Jellyfish (National Theatre); Sometimes Thinking (National Theatre River Stage); Black&White (SJACC Kuwait); Trying it On (UK tour/RSC/Royal Court/Traverse); The Life (English Theatre Frankfurt). She is the sound designer of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto which premiered in Chicago in 2017 with Yo-Yo Ma as the soloist; and the co-Sound Designer of Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Letter to a Man. She was born in Finland and moved to London in 2010 to train at Rose Bruford College.
EVENTS
THE UNFRIEND PRE-SHOW TALK
Wednesday 25 May, 6.00pm Director Mark Gatiss in conversation with best-selling author Kate Mosse. FREE but booking is essential.
POST-SHOW TALK
Thursday 23 June Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the play. Hosted by CFT Literary Associate Kate Bassett. FREE
PROLOGUE MEETS STEVEN MOFFAT AND MARK GATISS
Wednesday 15 June, 6pm Minerva Theatre Prologue members (aged 16-30) have an exclusive opportunity to hear in person from the creators of some of TV’s biggest hits, including Sherlock and Dracula, about working together and bringing The Unfriend to the stage. Tickets £5
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LEAP
LEARNING, EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATION Our Learning, Education and Participation department works with people of all ages and abilities, offering opportunities to get involved with CFT beyond the work you see on our stages. A wide range of practical workshops, talks, tours and performances aims to excite and inspire everyone who takes part.
COMMUNITY
CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
Enjoy developing artistic, personal and social skills through our workshops, projects, productions and award-winning Youth Theatre for young people of all abilities. Chichester Festival Youth Theatre | Holiday Activities | Arts Award
EDUCATION
Our work with local schools, colleges and universities is designed to inspire and enrich students’ learning, while the next generation of arts professionals is nurtured through our training and apprenticeships programme. In-school workshops and projects | Work Experience | School Theatre Days
Learn about life behind the scenes, discover more about productions, develop creative skills, socialise and share experiences with others through workshops and community projects for anyone aged 18+. Get Into It! workshops | Talks and Discussions | Heritage projects | Dementia Friendly activities
FAMILIES
We’re always delighted to welcome our youngest visitors and their grown-ups to the Theatre. Families can explore and have fun with workshops, productions, events and activities. Free Family Fun | Little Notes | Family shows and workshops
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S TA F F
TRUSTEES Alan Brodie Mark Foster Judy Fowler Victoria Illingworth Georgina Liley Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB CBE Harry Matovu QC Mike McCart Holly Mirams Caro Newling OBE Nick Pasricha Philip Shepherd Stephanie Street Tina Webster Susan Wells ASSOCIATES Kate Bassett Charlotte Sutton CDG
Chair
Literary Associate Casting Associate
BUILDING & SITE SERVICES Chris Edwards Maintenance Engineer Lez Gardiner Duty Engineer Daren Rowland Facilities Manager Graeme Smith Duty Engineer DEVELOPMENT Jessey Barnes
Development Officer (Corporate & Trusts)
Julie Field Sophie Henstridge-Brown Charlotte Stroud Karen Taylor
Development Manager Development Officer (Individuals)
Joanna Walker Megan Wilson
Director of Development Events Officer
DIRECTORS OFFICE Kathy Bourne Daniel Evans Elspeth Barron Patricia Key Georgina Rae Julia Smith FINANCE Alison Baker Sally Cunningham Amanda Hart Krissie Harte Katie Palmer
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Youth & Outreach Trainee Heritage & Archive Co-ordinator Heritage & Archive Assistant LEAP Co-ordinator Community & Outreach Trainee Deputy Director of LEAP (Maternity Leave)
Youth & Outreach Co-ordinator - Musical Theatre
Hannah Hogg Richard Knowles Louise Rigglesford
Youth & Outreach Manager Education Projects Manager Senior Community & Outreach Manager
Dale Rooks Brodie Ross
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Riley Stroud
Education Apprentice
MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS, DIGITAL & SALES Carole Alexandre Distribution Officer Josh Allan Box Office Assistant Caroline Aston Audience Insight Manager Becky Batten Head of Marketing Laura Bern Marketing Manager Jenny Bettger Box Office Supervisor Jessica Blake-Lobb Marketing Manager (Corporate) Helen Campbell Lydia Cassidy
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Lorna Holmes Helena Jacques-Morton
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James Mitchell James Morgan Lucinda Morrison Rachael Pennell
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Kirsty Peterson Catherine Rankin Jenny Thompson
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PRODUCTION Amelia Ferrand-Rook Claire Rundle Joshua Vine Nicky Wingfield Jeremy Woodhouse
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TECHNICAL Jake Barinov Stage & Automation Technician Steph Bartle Deputy Head of Lighting Clara Clark Prop Maker Helen Clark Stage Crew Leoni Commosioung Stage Technician Adrien Corcilius Video & AV Technician Sarah Crispin Senior Prop Maker Lewis Ellingford Stage Technician Sam Garner-Gibbons Technical Director Jack Goodland Stage Crew Fuzz Guthrie Senior Sound Technician Lucy Guyver Production Manager Apprentice Katie Hennessy Props Store Co-ordinator Mike Keniger Head of Sound Andrew Leighton Senior Lighting Technician Zoe Lyndon-Smith Technical Theatre Apprentice Finlay Macknay Stage Crew Karl Meier Head of Stage Charlotte Neville Head of Props Workshop Ryan Pantling Sound Technician Stuart Partrick Transport & Logistics Assistant Tom Robinson Senior Stage & Construction Technician Neil Rose Joe Samuels James Sharples Tom Smith
Deputy Head of Sound Lighting Technician Senior Stage Crew & Rigger Senior Sound Technician
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Molly Stammers Graham Taylor Dominic Turner Emily Williamson Linda Mary Wise
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Dresser Deputy Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Head of Wardrobe Assistant Wardrobe Wardrobe Maintenance Dresser
Stage Door: Bob Bentley, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Chris Monkton, Sue Welling Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Judith Anderson, Maria Antoniou, Izzy Arnold, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Brian Baker, Richard Berry, Emily Biro, Gloria Boakes, Alex Bolger, Dennis Brombley, Judith Bruce-Hay, Louisa Chandler, Jo Clark, Gaye Douglas, Stella Dubock, Amanda Duckworth, Clair Edgell, Olivia Elgood, Lexi Finch, Suzanne Ford, Suzanne France, Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook, Barry Gamlin, Charlie Gardiner, Jay Godwin, Anna Grindel, Caroline Hanton, Justine Hargraves, Joseph Harrington, Joanne Heather, Daniel Hill, Marie Innes, Keiko Iwamoto, Flynn Jeffery, Joan Jenkins, Pippa Johnson, Julie Johnstone, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Maille Lyster, Judith Marsden, Samantha Marshall, Emily McAlpine, Janette McAlpine, Fiona Methven, Chris Monkton, Ella Morgans, Susan Mulkern, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Kirsty Peterson, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Fleur Sarkissian, Nicola Shaw, Janet Showell, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust, Sue Welling, 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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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.
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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 Foyle Foundation The G D Charitable Trust The Noël Coward Foundation Theatres Trust Wickens Family Foundation
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