Rock Follies | CFT | Festival 2023

Rock Follies

Book by Chloë Moss Songs by Howard Schuman and Andy Mackay

Justin Audibert and Kathy Bourne Photograph by Peter Flude

Festival 2023 Welcome to our third – and first new – musical of Festival 2023.

We’re so excited to be bringing the world premiere of Rock Follies to the Minerva stage. Based on Howard Schuman’s iconic 1970s television series, with a book by playwright and screenwriter Chloë Moss, and songs from the original series by Howard Schuman and Andy Mackay, it’s one of this season’s most eagerly awaited productions for those who adored the ground-breaking screen drama.

As the articles in this programme

by Matthew Sweet and Jude Rogers relate, the original Rock Follies proved enduringly influential for some of our leading writers and musicians. No doubt this new incarnation of the ‘Little Ladies’ and their adventures in the rock industry will strike an equal chord with contemporary audiences.

Dominic Cooke, a former Artistic Director of the Royal Court, whose highly praised recent productions range from Good and Medea in the

West End to Sondheim’s Follies at the National Theatre, makes a long-overdue Chichester debut with this production. He has assembled an outstanding cast, led by Carly Bawden, Angela Marie Hurst and Zizi Strallen. We’re delighted to welcome them all.

Rock Follies is followed into the Minerva by Deborah Frances-White’s explosively funny new play Never Have I Ever, featuring an all-star quartet of actors; and another world premiere, Harry Davies’ The Inquiry. Over in the Festival Theatre, after The Sound of Music comes another chance to see James Graham’s celebrated comedy Quiz, and Arthur Miller’s powerful 20th century classic A View from the Bridge.

Enjoy today’s performance, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

Justin Audibert Artistic Director

Kathy Bourne Executive Director

Never Have I Ever

By Deborah Frances-White

Minerva Theatre 1 – 30 September Tickets from £10 Book at cft.org.uk

Alexandra Roach, Amit Shah, Greg Wise and Susan Wokoma in an explosive, savagely funny first play by comedian, screenwriter and host of the global hit podcast The Guilty Feminist Deborah Frances-White, directed by Emma Butler.

Quiz

By James Graham

Rory Bremner, Britain’s top satirical impressionist, stars as Chris Tarrant in James Graham’s thrilling, entertaining and provocative drama, directed by Daniel Evans and Seán Linnen.

Get ready to answer the ultimate 50:50: guilty or not guilty?

Festival Theatre 22 – 30 September Tickets from £10 Book at cft.org.uk

A little bit different

‘Expect the unexpected’ could be the motto for Chichester Festival Theatre’s CFT Lates and Summer Sessions: two recently introduced strands of programming designed to offer something a little bit different to the shows in the main theatres.

CFT Lates was born out of the success of the 2019 Chichester Spiegeltent, ‘which proved there was an audience looking for entertainment they might not normally associate with CFT’, says Georgina Rae, CFT’s Director of Planning and Projects. ‘And we wanted to look at opportunities to programme artists on a lighter scale than an entire play.’

Happening in the Minerva Bar on the last Friday of the month (usually), CFT Lates encompass comedy, drag nights, music and improv. ‘It will look different each time you come,’ Keshira Aarabi, Projects & Events Co-ordinator adds. ‘In April we held a Noël Coward cabaret which was the first time we’d done a CFT Lates connected to a production.

‘The Minerva Bar has a relaxed, informal atmosphere and attracts a really varied audience of all ages. Tickets are £10, or £5 if you’re a Prologue member aged 16 - 30. We keep it flexible; you can book ahead but tickets are available on the door too, so if you feel like an impromptu night out at the last minute – perhaps after seeing a show – you can. Start times range between 8 – 10pm to ensure we don’t clash with the show in the Minerva.’

Coming up are Fest to Fest (27 July), with comedians en route to Edinburgh, and Musicals Bingo (15 September) which promises drag queens, show tunes, shade and shenanigans!

Even more informal are the Summer Sessions, which offer free outdoor music on the park. ‘Since the pandemic we’ve embraced our position on the edge of Oaklands Park much more – moving the main Café and introducing deck chairs on the grass, encouraging the building to be a real community space,’ Georgina says.

Initially trialled in 2022, this year another seven sessions will take place over central summer Fridays. ‘We invite local musicians to perform outside the Theatre on a Friday night in the run-up to the start of the show. The bar is open and we hope it’s an opportunity for the audience coming to the Festival Theatre to have a very pleasant pre-show experience – but also something that local people can enjoy, whether or not they’re coming to a show.’

Keshira’s open call-out for local musicians interested in a paid opportunity to perform at CFT resulted in ‘over 90 applications for seven slots!’ she exclaims. ‘There were some amazing people: it was so hard to narrow it down. They have a 35-minute set and styles will range from jazz to acoustic to keyboards, original music and covers, with musicians of different ages and backgrounds.’

For more info, visit cft.org.uk/cft-lates and cft.org.uk/events/summer-sessions

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For the full menu of food and drink, visit cft.org.uk/eat, email dining@cft.org.uk or call 01243 782219.

Rock Follies

Book by Chloë Moss Songs by Howard Schuman and Andy Mackay

Rock Follies A TV Landmark You had to be there. It’s the painful catchphrase of those people who saw David Warner’s Hamlet, Maria Callas’ Carmen, or heard that guy shout at Bob Dylan when he got out his electric guitar at the Free Trade Hall. Painful because it’s true. And it was once true of Rock Follies.

A TV event that subtly altered the consciousness of an audience lucky enough to have seen it.

Howard Schuman’s TV series – 12 episodes of song, dance, satire and triple BAFTA-winning high experiment that aired between February 1976 and December 1977 – is a landmark of the medium. But it requires its own special symbol on the map.

It’s not – like I, Claudius or Fawlty Towers – a canonical work rebroadcast every so often as a treat or an education. It’s not – like Coronation Street or Doctor Who – a faithful companion, always there to reflect the changing times. Rock Follies put its all-female rock band, the Little Ladies, on the small screen, where they played pubs, nightclubs and gay bars, negotiated the wandering hands of agents and record producers, argued about revolution and money, power and pleasure – and burned brightly and brilliantly and were never seen on television again.

Thanks to industrial action at Thames TV, the second series, Rock Follies of 77, was transmitted in two broken halves.

Then, in the 80s, a long and complicated contractual dispute put paid to further broadcasts. While other great television successes of the 70s became part of a familiar repertoire of repeats, Rock Follies remained a spangled studio videotape Woodstock – an event that subtly altered the consciousness of an audience lucky enough to have seen it. Everyone else had to content themselves with the album and the memories of those who were there.

And they still remember. Sally Wainwright, creator of Happy Valley and Gentleman Jack, began writing television scripts under the influence of Rock Follies.

(Her recent appearance on Radio 4’s This Cultural Life included her heartfelt paean to the series.) ‘MY FAVOURITE SHOW EVER,’ says Russell T Davies (his caps), and viewers of It’s a Sin will know why. Carol Morley, director of Dreams of a Life and Falling, also detects its presence in her artistic bloodstream. ‘The incalculable power of being very young and seeing women dominate the screen has definitely had a long-lasting effect,’ she says. ‘The absolute daring and sense of freedom!

I wanted to be them all and I still want to be them now!’

In the streaming age, the present-tense nature of 1970s television is hard to recapture.

Perhaps the whole series was a kind of lightning-strike. If the new Head of Drama at Thames TV had not been Verity Lambert, a chain-smoking Sorbonne graduate who was, in the words of her former boss at the BBC, ‘full of piss and vinegar’. If she had not enjoyed the full support of Jeremy Isaacs, Director of Programmes at Thames, who defended the artistic decisions of his employees even if he did not always fully comprehend them. If Julie Covington, the lynchpin of the Little Ladies, the first Janet in Rocky Horror, the first Evita, had not generated such chemistry with her co-stars Rula Lenska and Charlotte Cornwell. If Roxy Music had not been going through a period of entropy, leaving its oboist and saxophonist Andy Mackay free to compose two albums’ worth of songs for the Little Ladies. If Howard Schuman, a Brooklynborn writer in love with British television, Charlotte Cornwell, Julie Covington, Rula Lenska, 1976 Photo Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo

had not overcome his nauseated terror of the blank page – particularly after producing a first draft that neither he nor Verity Lambert much admired. Remove one of these elements, and Rock Follies disappears from screen history.

In the streaming age, the present-tense nature of 1970s television is hard to recapture. ‘In those days,’ says Schuman, ‘when hardly anybody could record programmes, you tuned in or you missed it.’

His future husband failed to see the opening episode because the other guests in his Brighton hotel wouldn’t agree to switch over to ITV. Rula Lenska missed watching the second series because she was on stage in a tour of Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path.

This mayfly quality, however, also ensured fast and simultaneous reactions from the audience. As the credits rolled on episode one, Schuman’s first phone call was from Michael Frayn, keen to settle a bet with his fellow playwright Peter Nichols over whether Broadway Annie – the creaky musical revival on which the Little Ladies meet – was real or imagined. Schuman received reports of ‘women of a certain age singing the theme song together on the

bus.’ A member of the Rock Follies band revealed that his mother adored the show because ‘she knew all the shit those girls were taking’ from her own life as an office cleaner. In that 15 million-strong audience, something was happening.

It happened among TV critics, too, who competed to attach excited adverbs to approving adjectives. In the Observer, Clive James described Rock Follies as ‘gratifyingly original’. When the series was screened on PBS in America, the New York Times thought it ‘bitingly convincing.’

But there was also plenty of hostility.

During voting for the show’s first BAFTA nomination, one of the jurors, Cedric Messina, overseer of the BBC’s Television Shakespeare project, declared his intention to move back to South Africa if Rock Follies won. (It won, he stayed.)

The heaviest fire, however, came from the male-dominated music culture with which the series took issue. In April 1976, the NME concentrated its barrage under the headline ‘Schlock Jollies’. ‘I found myself almost shaking with fury at the callowness of the whole operation, at its condescension, its effete agonising,’ declared its reporter. ‘I hated Rock Follies.’

In the second series, Schuman took revenge by creating Charlie Chime, a sinister and taciturn music hack who snarls, ‘I hate female rock’ and prefers to write

flattering copy about a pretentious male singer who incorporates the Waffen SS symbol into his personal branding and obliges his support act – the Little Ladies – to perform standing in a row of wheelie-bins.

There had been nothing like it before. There has been nothing quite like it since.

The gold-selling album of the first series was a particular source of unease. David Hepworth, the distinguished music journalist who edited Smash Hits in its 80s heyday and launched Q, Empire and Mojo magazines, recalls the disquiet of his peers.

‘All the people who like me were working in record shops in the West End objected to it on sight because it was misappropriating the word ‘rock’ – and then deeply resented the few weeks when one out of every two customers bought a copy of the soundtrack.

Mind you, it stopped selling as abruptly as it had begun.’

The broken-backed broadcasting history of Rock Follies may have added to its mystique, but it was nothing but a source of frustration to its creator. The hiatus caused by the 1977 strike – held in protest at the installation of a new timecoded editing system at Thames TV – robbed some

Rula Lenska, Howard Schuman, Charlotte Cornwell, Andrew Brown (producer), Andy Mackay, Julie Covington, 1976 Photo courtesy of Andy Mackay

energy from the series. ‘The reaction was still good,’ Schuman recalls, ‘but the momentum had been broken.’ Rock Follies remained inaccessible for two decades.

But in the early noughties, momentum began to gather again. A DVD release in 2002 allowed the series to be rediscovered by archive TV buffs and academics.

In 2009, Jonathan Ross reunited Julie Covington, Rula Lenska and Charlotte Cornwell on his chat show sofa. And at a screening at the British Film Institute in 2019, Schuman felt something reignite. ‘The impact it made was astonishing,’ he recalls.

‘The more serious stuff about men in the music industry landed even more powerfully than it did in the 70s. Maybe that was the reward for all that frustration.’

There had been nothing like it before.

Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell, Rula Lenska, 1976 Photo PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo

There has been nothing quite like it since.

And yet the impulses generated by Rock Follies – its anger, its joy, its clear-eyed acknowledgement that female artistic talent attracts manipulative men – still crackle in the culture. Its unrepeated absence, its tricky relationship with the canon, is part of the reason why it remains relevant to those who continue to find it, and to hear its voice.

You had to be there in 1976 and 1977 to experience Rock Follies in the bright burning moment of its arrival. But the work of the series is unfinished business.

We’re still here.

Matthew Sweet is a writer and broadcaster.

The

Little Ladies Legacy On a Tuesday night in February 1976, one of the biggest British bands of the decade landed in Britain’s living rooms. The band are rarely lauded today, but they had a number one album and were watched every week by 15 million people. As an all-female group they broke ground – suggesting a new template for what a rock band could look like and what it could be.

The TV show was Rock Follies.

The band, the Little Ladies.

Before Rock Follies, gutsy girl groups wanting to play rock weren’t a mainstream concern.

Before Rock Follies, gutsy girl groups wanting to play rock weren’t a mainstream concern in the UK – the only real female rock success story was Suzi Quatro, an American solo artist with a male backing

Clockwise from top left: Suzi Quatro, 1973 Dolly Mixture: Hester Smith, Debsey Wykes, Rachel Bor, c1980 Toyah Willcox marks the 40th anniversary of Jubilee, 2018 @toyahofficial Bananarama, 2018

band. Girl groups only existed on the margins, like The Liverbirds in the 1960s, sold as the female Beatles on an early tour of Hamburg, but without any commercial success. In the early 70s, the US had Fanny, a sister-led rock band that had great reviews in the NME and minor hits in their home country, but no impact across the Atlantic.

But by the end of the decade, female artists were populating the fringes of British rock, punk and new wave, many of whom had been in their mid-teens when Rock Follies was broadcast. Toyah Willcox was one of them (she went on to have pop success with hits such as ‘It’s a Mystery’ in the early 80s). ‘I absolutely loved Rock Follies. The girls always looked magnificent, but they were also accessible, and that felt very new. It gave this Birmingham girl, who was pulled from home into the glitterati very

quickly soon after, such self-confidence’.

The show came along for Willcox at the right time, she explains. She was 17 when she started watching it on the family TV, and anxiously preparing to leave home later that year to work at the National Theatre. ‘To find out about the characters’ stories and their strengths, and experience role models like Julie Covington, who was really successful but never compromised, was a joy. And I loved the playfulness and the surreal moments. It was wonderful.’

‘The show was a pure injection of energy and hope that helped me find my place in the world.’ Toyah Willcox

Two years later, alongside Siouxsie Sioux and Adam Ant, Willcox starred in director Derek Jarman’s Jubilee, a film inspired by the spirit of punk. The genre was then at the height of its success – but Willcox thinks Rock Follies embodied a similar spirit long before punk exploded.

The Sex Pistols had only been together three months when the first series was shown, and their first single, ‘Anarchy in the UK’, was nine months away.

‘For me, Rock Follies and punk came together in a strange way,’ she explains.

‘The show was a pure injection of energy and hope that helped me find my place in the world. Punk was that for other people.’

She’s sure that its portrayal of women also influenced other budding performers like her. ‘It introduced three very strong women who were not like women usually were on TV. They had this symbiotic relationship with each other. They were great singers and performers. They didn’t go on all the time about their vanilla cis sexual relationships. They weren’t hysterical. They weren’t having breakdowns. They were fully-rounded people – like in real life.’

Rock Follies was also influential on a late 1970s teenage girl band that influenced the indie-pop of the 80s. Debsey Wykes, now a backing singer with the British group Saint Etienne, and half of the indie-pop duo, Birdie, formed her first group, Dolly Mixture, in 1978, inspired by the TV show. The band was also made up of three teenage girls.

‘Three is the magic number, I think’ Wykes says. ‘And them being three very different women was great, as it felt you could pick your favourite with your friends.’

(Wykes’ favourite was Rula Lenska’s Q.) She was a Roxy Music fan too, so Andy Mackay’s music was another draw. ‘I was 15 when I saw it, which was an amazing age to have that input in your life. Remember there was hardly any pop on TV then – there were only three channels anyway! – and definitely no dramas about it. And here I was on my own in my living room – my dad out, my mum looking after my little sister – watching these women on tour. It was amazing.’

With a bass guitar in tow, Wykes formed

Dolly Mixture with guitarist Rachel Bor and drummer Hester Smith two years later.

Before Rock Follies she had wanted to be a solo singer, ‘because the early 70s were full of female singers – but the show made me want to be part of a gang’. Dolly Mixture became a favourite of the DJ John Peel, for whom they recorded a prized live session in 1979. They later went on to be the backing band for Captain Sensible on his 1982 number one hit, ‘Happy Talk’, and Wykes has been a musician ever since. She met Covington by chance ‘about ten years ago’, as a friend of a friend of her mother. ‘When I told her how much Rock Follies had influenced me, she was very nice. And then said, “Well, you see, you did it for real!”’

Since then, British girl groups have included women as full of fire and energy as Dee, Q and Anna. Take Bananarama, who were in their late teens when they formed in London in 1980. The Sex Pistols’ manager Malcolm Maclaren had approached them, wanting them to record a song called ‘Don’t Touch Me Down There, Daddy’ – they rejected him straight away. Instead, they covered a song of their own choice, ‘Aie A Mwana’ – previously recorded by Black Blood with Swahili lyrics – which kickstarted their career.

Their breakthrough international hit – ‘Venus’, a cover of a 1969 track by female-fronted Dutch rock group Shocking Blue – was also down to them. They approached up-and-coming producers Stock Aitken Waterman themselves, wanting to give the song a high-energy, modern production. It reached number one in nine countries including the UK and the hard-tocrack US. They still hold the record for having had the most international hits of any all-female group.

Geri Halliwell left The Spice Girls citing exhaustion and creative differences. Rock Follies could have proved an instructive watch.

The Rock Follies story also lingers when you consider the biggest British girl group of all time: The Spice Girls. They began their career by breaking away from their original managers, getting back in touch with songwriters and producers they had met in early sessions, and finding a new manager, Simon Fuller, who masterminded their rapid rise to fame. But even though their success was anchored around the slogan of ‘girl power’, the band quickly fell apart. Less than two years after ‘Wannabe’, their debut single, Geri Halliwell left the band, citing exhaustion and creative differences.

Rock Follies could have proved an instructive watch.

Even now, nearly 50 years on, the Rock Follies script and songs still have so much to tell us. The direct, punchy lyrics of ‘OK?’, play like they could have been written after #MeToo reached its peak: ‘You want to do me/But I don’t want to be done/OK?/You listening to me/You took on the wrong one/

The Spice Girls, 2008

OK?’ Songs like ‘Good Behaviour’ swagger in the swampy rhythms of pub rock while delivering messages about maternity that remain pipedreams for many: ‘I’ve played a mother/So now I get/Some time off/For good behaviour.’

The Rock Follies theme also speaks of exploitation in the music industry, and it working along gendered lines (‘Women with talent, women with none/Men selling power/ Peddling fun’) that remind us that times have moved on for some, but not all, and there are still many battles to be won.

Jude Rogers is a journalist, music critic and broadcaster.

Rock Follies

Based on the television series written by Howard Schuman

Book by Chloë Moss Songs by Howard Schuman and Andy Mackay Cast Anna Dee Q

Carly Bawden Angela Marie Hurst Zizi Strallen

Director / Jack / David Fred Haig Harry Samuel Barnett Spike Stephenson Ardern-Sodje Bernard / Stevie / Carl Sebastien Torkia Gloria / Kitty / Annie Tamsin Carroll Roxy / Secretary Philippa Stefani Ensemble Bella Brown Ensemble / Dance Captain Collette Guitart Ensemble Peter Houston Ensemble Matthew Malthouse Ensemble Antoine Murray-Straughan Ensemble Harriet Watson All other roles played by members of the Company.

The story starts in London in 1976.

There will be one interval of 20 minutes.

Rock Follies is based on an original idea of the Rock Bottom Group (Diane Langton, Gaye Brown and Annabel Leventon) and Don Fraser.

Songs used by kind permission of Universal Music Publishing.

Rock Follies was commissioned and developed by Fictionhouse, Longshot Films and Elpis Theatre Productions Ltd.

Director Musical Supervisor, Arranger & Co-Orchestrator Choreographer Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Musical Director & Co-Orchestrator Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Design Fight Director Casting Director Casting Director Voice & Dialect Coach Associate Director Assistant Musical Director Associate Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Designer Associate Casting Director Production Manager Costume Supervisor Props Supervisor Assistant Set Designer

Dominic Cooke Nigel Lilley Carrie-Anne Ingrouille Vicki Mortimer Kinnetia Isidore Paule Constable Ian Dickinson for Autograph Toby Higgins Campbell Young Associates Kate Waters Pippa Ailion CDG Natalie Gallacher CDG Anne-Marie Speed Tanuja Amarasuriya Liam Godwin Helen Keane Richard Johnston Ben Arkell Zoë Thomas-Webb Katie Balmforth for Propworks Matt Hellyer

Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Lorna Cobbold Anna Hunscott Ellie Penney Kanoko Shimizu

Supported by the Rock Follies Supporters and Patrons Circles: Mrs Veronica J Dukes, Val and Richard Evans, Sheila and Steve Evans, Jac Hepworth, Catherine Headlam, Colin and Gay Kaye, Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte, David and Elizabeth Miles, Caroline Nelson, Peter and Sally Nicholson, Lyana Peniston, Howard M Thompson, Clare and Hugh Twiss, Bryan Warnett, Ernest Yelf, and all those who wish to remain anonymous.

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In memory of Charlotte Cornwell 1949 – 2021.

World premiere performance of Rock Follies at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 24 July 2023.

Production credits: Set built and painted by Set Up Scenery Ltd; Production Carpenters Tom Humphrey, Jon Barnes; Costumes made by Katy Adnery, Anna Barcock, Kingsley Hall, Sarah Juliet Costumes, Edith Webb; Costume trainee Laila Blavanik; Costume Alterations Amy Hills, Colette Tulley; Props Assistant Lauren Thompson for Propworks; Props Runner Anna Hennessy; Props made by CFT Props Workshop, Michaela Bott, Marise Rose, and Propworks London Workshop; Lighting hires White Light; Additional sound equipment supplied by Autograph Sound and EM Acoustics; Transport by Paul Mathew Transport; Rehearsal room English Touring Theatre.

With thanks to Dave Woolf, Lulu, Dr Sadie Boniface, Ray Russell, Will McGonagle at Autograph, members of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, Antony Walsh, Chichester College, Shan Ako, Jocasta Almgill, Katie Brayben, Ava Brennan, Jade Ewen, Harry Hepple, Hugh Skinner, Gemma Sutton, Sam Thomas, Rebecca Trehearn, Alex Young, Rupert Young, Georgia Bird, Anna Hill.

Rehearsal and production photographs Johan Persson Programme Associate Fiona Richards Programme design Davina Chung Cover image Bob King Creative, photograph Seamus Ryan

Musical Numbers Act 1 Broadway Annie Blueberry Hill Outlaws We Shall Overcome Stairway Little Ladies Good Behaviour The Road Daddy Sugar Mountain Rock Follies Hot Neon The Band Who Wouldn’t Die

The Company Dee, Q, Anna Dee, Q, Anna Spike Dee, Anna, Q, Ensemble Anna, Dee, Q Dee, Anna, Q Dee, Anna, Q, Ensemble Dee, Anna, Q Harry, Anna, Dee, Q, Ensemble Stevie, Dee, Q, Anna Stevie, Dee, Q, Anna Dee, Q, Anna

Act 2 Follies of ’77 Jubilee Struttin' Ground / In My Cans The Hype Reprise Jubilee Loose Change The Things You Have To Do The B Side Lamplight Rollercoaster Looney Tunes Reprise Follies of ’77 OK? Glen Miller Is Missing Dee's Hype Biba Nova Round One The Real Life Good Behaviour

Harry, Ensemble Dee, Anna, Q Dee, Anna, Q David, Kitty, Harry, Ensemble Dee, Anna, Q Anna, Dee, Q Kitty Anna Dee, Roxy, Anna, Q Anna, Roxy, Dee, Q Anna, Q, Dee, Harry Dee, Anna, Roxy, Q Q Dee, Roxy, Anna Dee, Kitty Dee, Roxy, Ensemble Dee, Ensemble Q, Anna, Dee Dee, Q, Anna

Cast Biographies

Stephenson Ardern-Sodje Spike Theatre includes Daniel in Once on This Island (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Simba in Disney’s The Lion King (UK & Ireland tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and The Tempest (Globe Theatre tour); cover Alexander Hamilton/ John Laurens/Philip Hamilton in Hamilton: An American Musical (Victoria Palace).

Television includes Superhoe, Breeders 2.

Trained at Royal Academy of Music.

Carly Bawden Angela Marie Hurst Zizi Strallen

Samuel Barnett Harry Previously at Chichester, Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Festival Theatre & Theatre Royal Haymarket), Reggie in The Accrington Pals (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen (Roundabout/Edinburgh Fringe & Bush Theatre: The Stage Edinburgh Awards and Fringe First Awards winner); Ariel Porter in Straight Line Crazy, Colin Colman in Allelujah

(Bridge Theatre); Molina in Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Menier Chocolate Factory); Carl in Dealer’s Choice (Menier & Trafalgar Theatre West End); Man in An Oak Tree, Aimwell in The Beaux’ Stratagem, Leantio in Women Beware Women, Pantalaimon in His Dark Materials (National Theatre); Posner in The History Boys (National Theatre, Broadway & world tour: Drama Desk Awards and WhatsOnStage Awards winner, Olivier and Tony Awards

nominations); Viola in Twelfth Night (Broadway: Tony Awards nomination); Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe, Apollo Theatre West End & Broadway); Witwoud in The Way of the World (Sheffield Crucible); Saint Peter in 66 Books, Peter in When You Cure Me, Barney in The Whisky Taster (Bush Theatre); Ben Edwards in The Man (Finborough); Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (Manchester Royal Exchange).

Television includes Murder in Provence, Four Lives, The Amazing Mr Blunden, The Prince, Urban Myths, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Penny Dreadful, Endeavour, Vicious, Not Safe for Work, Twenty Twelve, Shakespeare in Italy, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Marple, Beautiful People, Desperate Romantics, Crooked House, John Adams, Wilfred Owen, Alexander Hamilton, The Royal, Strange, Doctors, Inspector Lynley, Coupling.

Films include Lee, And Mrs, The Lady in the Van, Jupiter Ascending, Love Tomorrow,

Carly Bawden Samuel Barnett

Bright Star, The History Boys (BIFA nomination), Mrs Henderson Presents.

Carly Bawden Anna Previously at Chichester, Concert in the Park (2021).

Theatre includes Julie Jordan in Carousel (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Angelique in Romantics Anonymous (Bristol Old Vic & Sam Wanamaker Theatre); Brittain in Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre); Clementine Churchill in Sylvia (Old Vic); Maria in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s

Globe); Alice in Wonder.land (National Theatre); Dahlia in McQueen (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme in Assassins, Catherine in Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory); Polly in Dead Dog in a Suitcase and Other Love Songs, Whitehands in Tristan and Yseult (Kneehigh); Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible); Susan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (360 Theatre/Kensington Gardens); Genevieve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Gielgud Theatre/Kneehigh); Swallow in Whistle Down the Wind, The Mistress in Evita (UK tours); Bella in Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Wakefield).

Television includes This England, Call the Midwife, Close to the Enemy, Michael Grade’s Musical Treats, The Spa, Doctors.

Radio includes The Colour of Milk, Black Dirt, The House in the Trees, Glass Eels, The Verb.

Trained at Guildford School of Acting.

Stephenson Ardern-Sodje Bella Brown

Bella Brown Ensemble This is Bella’s professional theatre debut.

Credits while training include Cassie in A Chorus Line, Catch Me If You Can. Trained at The Arts Educational School, graduating in 2023.

Tamsin Carroll Gloria / Kitty / Annie Previously at Chichester, Chairy Barnum in Barnum (Theatre on the Park).

Theatre includes Witch in Into The Woods (Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney); Lauren in 2:22 (Criterion); Queenie in Hex, Anitra and Green Woman in Peter Gynt, Dandy in The Magistrate (National Theatre); Maria in Twelfth Night (Melbourne Theatre Company); Miss Hedge in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Crucible/ West End); Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Shirley Hastings in Strictly

Ballroom (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Rita in Casa Valentina (Southwark Playhouse); Ellen in Miss Saigon (West End); Nancy in Oliver!

(Australian national tour); alternate Nancy in Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Emma Goldman in Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Dusty in Dusty: The Original Pop Diva (Australian national tour); Isabella in Measure For Measure (Bell Shakespeare Company).

Television includes EastEnders, Heartbreak High.

Films include Goddess, Holy Smoke.

Collette Guitart Ensemble / Dance Captain Theatre includes Eleanor/first cover Anne for & Juliet (Shaftesbury Theatre); Understudy/

Kanoko Shimizu Collette Guitart Ellie Penney

Dance Captain for SIX (Arts, Lyric & Vaudeville Theatres); Lead Vocalist for The Show Must Go On (The Palace Theatre/Sky Arts); Rip It Up (Garrick Theatre); Bat Out of Hell The Musical (Dominion Theatre); The Royal Variety Performance (London Palladium); Wonderland (UK tour); ensemble/cover Fate in 27 (Cockpit Theatre); Dancer/Assistant Choreographer for Hallam FM Summer (Sheffield Motor Point Arena); Dancer/Assistant Choreographer for They Live in You (Bloomsbury Theatre).

Music Videos include Pixie Lott’s ‘Won’t Forget You’.

Trained at Bodywork Company.

Fred Haig Director / Jack / David Theatre includes Tammy Faye (Almeida); A Christmas Carol, The American Clock (Old Vic); Follies (National Theatre); Ostrich Boys (Belgrade Theatre).

Television includes untitled Disney Plus series, Summer of Rockets.

Radio includes Relativity, Alone, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.

Films include The Courier and the shorts Velma, Success.

Peter Houston Ensemble Theatre includes Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); Matilda (Cambridge Theatre); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The All Male Mikado and An Evening of Dirty Angela Marie Hurst

Dancing (UK tours); Legally Blonde (Kilworth House); We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); A Chorus Line and Peter Pan (The Lowry, Salford); Cinderella (Wolverhampton Grand).

Television includes Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Knuckles, A League of Their Own, The Olivier Awards, Blue Peter, Britain’s Got Talent, The Royal Variety Performance.

Films include First Time Loser, Matilda.

Trained at Phil Winston’s Theatre Works.

Instagram: peter_houston Angela Marie Hurst Dee Theatre includes The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); Tina: The Tine Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Motown The Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre); West Side Story (Salzburg Festival).

Training: Identity School of Acting and The London Studio Centre.

Matthew Malthouse Ensemble Previously at Chichester, Pete in Crazy for You, Policeman in Singin’ in the Rain, Jake in 42nd Street (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Phil Dolan III in On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall); Oklahoma! (Royal Albert Hall); Oh What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Bob Alcorn in Bonnie and Clyde (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Rusty Charlie in Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible); Skimbleshanks in Cats (Kilworth House); Dance Captain in Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Dance Captain/Assistant Choreographer for Sunshine on Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Foster Wilson in Annie Get Your Gun, Tom Barker in My Fair Lady Peter Houston Antoine Murray-Straughan

(Sheffield Theatres); Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me, Kate (Théâtre du Châtelet Paris); Jeff in Groundhog Day (Old Vic); Eddie in Mrs Henderson Presents (Noël Coward Theatre/ Theatre Royal Bath); Don Lockwood/ Policeman in Singin’ In The Rain (UK tour/ Palace Theatre); Escapologist in Matilda, Chicago (Cambridge Theatre); title role in Edward Scissorhands, Bruno/Marco in The Car Man (New Adventures); Anything Goes (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Salt in Beauty and the Beast (UK tour).

Trained at Dance School of Scotland and Arts Educational Schools.

Antoine Murray-Straughan Ensemble Theatre includes Once On This Island (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Sylvia (original cast, Old Vic); South Pacific (West End & UK tour); & Juliet (Shaftesbury

Theatre); Marty in Madagascar (UK tour); Graffiti Pete in In the Heights (Kings Cross Theatre); Rum Tum Tugger in Cats (London Palladium); The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (international arena tour); Breaking Convention (Sadler’s Wells).

Television includes Britain’s Got Talent.

Films include the short Silence.

Trained at The Urdang Academy.

Philippa Stefani Roxy / Secretary Theatre includes Anita in West Side Story, Rizzo in Grease, Evita (Slovenia); Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet! (original cast, London Coliseum & UK tour); Mimi in Rent (St James Theatre & UK tour); Daniela in

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The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre); Patty/The Shimmer Girl in Smokey Joe’s Café (Landor Theatre); ensemble/cover Liz Imbrie/Dinah in High Society (Old Vic); ensemble/cover Molly in Ghost (original cast, Piccadilly Theatre); ensemble/cover Jordy in I Can’t Sing!, ensemble/cover Sister Mary Robert/KT in Sister Act (original casts, London Palladium); Assistant Dance Captain in Wicked (original cast, Apollo Victoria Theatre); swing in Imagine This (original cast, New London Theatre); ensemble/cover Velcro in Soho Cinders (original cast, Soho Theatre); ensemble/cover Serena/Carmen in Fame (Aldwych Theatre).

Television includes Doctors, Prince

Andrew The Musical, The Olivier Awards, The Royal Variety Performance, The National Television Awards, Children in Need, Blue Peter, This Morning, GMTV, The Paul O’Grady Show, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, The Gadget Show.

Films include Mamma Mia 2! Here We Go Again.

Original cast recordings include Sister Act, Ghost, Imagine This, A Mother’s War. Twitter @PhilippaStefani Zizi Strallen Q Previously at Chichester, Zaneeta Shinn in The Music Man (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes Marie Antoinette in Cake: The Marie Antoinette PLAYList (UK tour); Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre; Olivier Award Best Actress in a Musical nomination); Betty Schaefer Philippa Stefani

in Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); Fran in Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre); Young Phyllis in Follies (National Theatre); Lana in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man (Royal Albert Hall/UK tour); Demeter in Cats (UK tour/London Palladium); Penny Pingleton in Hairspray and Mona Lipschitz in Chicago (Leicester Curve); Meg in Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Harold Pinter Theatre); Constance in Rock of Ages (original cast, Shaftesbury Theatre); Betty in Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella (Sadler’s Wells and world tour); ensemble/ cover Lisa in Dirty Dancing (Aldwych); Kathy Cratchit in Scrooge and juvenile ensemble in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Palladium); The Herbal Bed (RSC); Tessie in Annie (Victoria Palace); A Tale of Two Cities (Theatre Royal Windsor).

Television and film includes Cats, Disney’s Cinderella, The Car Man, Merrily

We Roll Along, The Prince and the Pauper, Bramwell, Victoria & Albert, Dinotopia.

Twitter & Instragram @ZiziStrallen Sebastien Torkia Bernard / Stevie / Carl Previously at Chichester, Mario in Travels with My Aunt and Eddie Ryan in Funny Girl (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes Berlusconi in Berlusconi: A New Musical (Southwark Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (Old Vic); Mr Wormwood in Matilda The Musical (RSC/ West End); Alberto Beddini in Top Hat, Singin’ in the Rain (UK tours); Al Wheeler in The Stripper (The Other Palace: West End Offie nomination); Peter and the Starcatcher (Royal Theatre Northampton); The Wild Party (The Other Palace); Pirelli in Sweeney Todd (Leeds Playhouse/Manchester Royal Exchange); The Lion King, Benoit in Martin Zizi Strallen

Guerre, Grease (West End); A Streetcar Named Desire (Bolton Octagon); Women Beware Women (National Theatre); La Cage aux Folles (West End/Menier Chocolate Factory); Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre); Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (West End, Germany, Italy); A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Leeds Playhouse).

Television includes Mammals, The Boleyns, Victoria Wood’s That Day We Sang, Coronation Street, Babes in the Wood.

Radio includes Leaving Normal.

Films include Paddington 2, Disney’s Aladdin, Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again, Mamma Mia!, The Clan, The Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Harriet Watson Ensemble Theatre includes Super Swing for SIX The Musical (West End); alternate Jane Seymour, Catherine Parr and Dance Captain for SIX The Musical (UK tour); Catherine Parr in West End Live (Kenny Wax Ltd); Woman 2 in Closer Than Ever, Pauline Quirke in Early Birds (Edinburgh Fringe/Q Productions); Baloo in The Jungle Book (Jellyfish Theatre/Tabard Theatre); Dawn

Matthew Malthouse

in Mismatched (Old Red Lion Theatre); Beauty in Beauty and the Beast (Jellyfish Theatre/Lion Theatre/Unicorn Theatre).

Concerts include Battersea Arts Centre Fundraiser (Royal Festival Hall); Kerry Ellis Live (UK tour/Leicester Curve); lead singer in Live From London.

Television includes Children in Need, Inside Holloway.

Trained at Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama.

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Creative Team

Pippa Ailion CDG and Natalie Gallacher CDG Casting Directors Richard Johnston Associate Casting Director Pippa Ailion has cast over 200 productions internationally. Natalie Gallacher has worked alongside Pippa for 18 years; Richard Johnston has worked with Pippa and Natalie for three years.

Chichester Festival Theatre and West End: The Sound of Music, Rock Follies, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, The Pajama Game, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Kiss Me Kate, Love Story.

Current West End: Ain’t Too Proud, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, TINA – The The Company

Tina Turner Musical, The Book of Mormon, The Lion King (also international tour). Future Projects: Frozen, MJ The Musical.

Other West End includes: Mandela, Get Up Stand Up, Come from Away, The Wind in the Willows, Memphis, Motown, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bend It Like Beckham, Legally Blonde, Wicked, Spring Awakening. West End and UK tours: Beauty and The Beast, Dreamgirls, Funny Girl: On Your Feet!, Motown The Musical, Sunny Afternoon, Billy Elliot, Top Hat, We Will Rock You, Here Lies Love (National Theatre), Fela!

(National Theatre/Broadway/US tour).

Other theatre includes Tammy Faye, Spring Awakening, American Psycho, Decade (Almeida); Legally Blonde, The

Sound of Music, Porgy and Bess, Into The Woods, Ragtime, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lord of the Flies, The Importance of Being Earnest (Regent’s Park); One Love – The Bob Marley Musical, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Wiz, Waiting for Godot, Follow My Leader (Birmingham Rep).

Film Dance casting: Rocketman, Wonka, Disney’s Snow White.

Awards: Come From Away CDG Award 2020; Spring Awakening WhatsOnStage Award 2023.

Pippa Ailion – Special Recognition Olivier Award 2023.

Tanuja Amarasuriya Associate Director Credits as Director include Out of Sorts (Theatre 503); The Paper Man (Soho Theatre); and Absolute Scenes (The Marble Factory). In 2021, she was shortlisted for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Award.

Under the name of Sleepdogs she collaborates with writer and composer Timothy X Atack and has directed all their productions to date including The Bullet and the Bass Trombone which premiered at Bristol Old Vic and toured nationally, including a run at the National Theatre.

As Assistant or Associate Director she has previously worked with Dominic Cooke on Good (Harold Pinter Theatre) and Medea

(sohoplace theatre).

As Sound Designer, credits include Salt (Southbank Centre/UK and international tour) and The Half God of Rainfall (Kiln Theatre).

BW Musicians Ltd – Andy Barnwell and Rich Weeden Orchestral Management Also this season at Chichester: Assassins, The Sound of Music.

Current London productions: Crazy For You, Operation Mincemeat, Aspects of Love.

Philippa Stefani Dominic Cooke

Andy Barnwell Previously at Chichester: Babes in Arms, Funny Girl, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Love Story, 42nd Street, She Loves Me, Singin’ in the Rain, Sweeney Todd, Kiss Me Kate, The Pajama Game, Barnum, Guys & Dolls, Gypsy, A Damsel in Distress, Mack and Mabel, Travels with My Aunt, Half A Sixpence, Love’s Labour’s Lost/Much Ado About Nothing, Caroline, Or Change, Fiddler on the Roof, Me and My Girl, Flowers for Mrs Harris, This Is My Family, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Crazy for You. Current London productions: Ain’t Too Proud, Newsies, Cabaret, Moulin Rouge!,

include SIX, Shrek, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Hairspray, Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

Frozen, Pretty Woman, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical, Hamilton. Previously: & Juliet, Get Up Stand Up, The Band’s Visit, Dear Evan Hansen, Anything Goes, Hairspray.

Current/recent regional/UK tours include The Commitments, The Rocky Horror Show, Beauty and the Beast.

Rich Weeden Previously at Chichester: The Famous Five.

Current/recent London productions: ABBA Voyage, SIX, Brokeback Mountain, Once on This Island, La Cage aux Folles.

Current/recent regional/UK tours

Campbell Young Associates Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Design Previously at Chichester 8 Hotels, Oklahoma!, The Meeting, Quiz, Sweet Bird of Youth, Strife, Half A Sixpence, Young Chekhov (also National Theatre), Mack & Mabel; and Taken at Midnight, Gypsy, Guys & Dolls and Crazy for You (all also West End).

West End and Broadway credits include Company, Girl From The North Country, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (2020 Drama Desk Award), A Christmas Carol, The Ferryman, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Farinelli and the King, Groundhog Day, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Matilda, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Ghost, Les Misérables, La Bête, Billy Elliot, Rock ’n’ Roll, Private Lives.

West End theatre includes The Drifters Girl, Get Up, Stand Up!, Back to the Future, Cinderella, Anything Goes, Leopoldstadt, The Prince of Egypt, City of Angels, All About Eve, Rosmersholm, The Light in the Piazza, The King and I, Queen Anne, Mary Poppins, Funny Girl, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bend it Like Beckham, Made in Dagenham, Fatal Attraction, I Can’t Sing!, Stephen Ward, Henry V, Passion Play, Peter and Alice, Old Times, Top Hat, The Bodyguard, A Chorus of Disapproval, South Downs/The Browning Version, The King’s Speech, Sweeney Todd, Hay Fever, Betrayal, Million Dollar Quartet; and work for The Bridge, Donmar Warehouse, Almeida and Old Vic. Films and television include Downton Abbey, Murder on the Orient Express, The Bourne Legacy, The First Lady, The Gilded Age, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Good Behavior, House of Cards, Boardwalk Empire, Doctor Who. cyassocs.com Paule Constable Lighting Designer Previously at Chichester Half A Sixpence, Three Sisters (Festival Theatre); Barnum (Theatre in the Park); Local Hero,

The Meeting, This House, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Minerva Theatre).

Many National Theatre credits include Dixon and Daughters, Master Harold and the Boys, The Visit, The Normal Heart, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (& West End, Olivier Award), Nine Night (& West End), Follies, Angels In America (& Broadway), This House, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Olivier & Tony Awards), War Horse (Tony Award), Waves and His Dark Materials (Olivier Award).

RSC credits include Wolf Hall (& West End/Broadway).

Other credits include Guys & Dolls (Bridge); Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicite); The Devil Wears Prada (Chicago); The Glass Menagerie, Cock, The Moderate Soprano (West End); Best of Enemies, Happy Days, Feast (Young Vic); …And Breathe (Almeida); Tenebrae: Lessons Learnt In Darkness (Brighton Festival); The Nico Project (Manchester International Festival); The Cherry Orchard (ITA Amsterdam); The Cripple of Inishmaan (& Broadway/Michael Grandage Company); ear for eye, Clybourne Park, Posh (& West End) (Royal Court); The Chalk Garden (Olivier Award, Donmar Warehouse); Carrie-Anne Ingrouille

Don Carlos (Sheffield, Olivier Award); Les Misérables (25th Anniversary production, Broadway/international).

Opera productions include The Handmaid’s Tale, Satyagraha (ENO), The Return of Ulysses, Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Macbeth (ROH); Nothing, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Billy Budd, Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne); and productions for the Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, and throughout Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Dance includes The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, The Midnight Bell, Dorian Gray, Play Without Words (Matthew Bourne).

Dominic Cooke Director Dominic Cooke is an Associate of the National Theatre, where his work includes The Corn is Green, The Normal Heart, Follies (Critics’ Circle Best Director Award, Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Olivier Award, Best Revival), Here We Go and The Comedy of Errors.

In the West End: Medea (Soho Place); Good (Harold Pinter Theatre); Teddy Ferrara (Donmar Warehouse); By the Bog of Cats (Wyndham’s).

As Associate Director of the RSC: Arabian Nights (TMA Award), Noughts and Crosses, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Crucible (Olivier Awards, Best Director and Best Revival), Postcards from America, As You Like It, Macbeth, Cymbeline, The Malcontent.

As Artistic Director and Associate Director at the Royal Court, work includes The Low Road, Choir Boy, In the Republic of Happiness, Ding Dong the Wicked, In Basildon, Chicken Soup with Barley, Clybourne Park (also West End), Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, Seven Jewish Children, Wig Out!, Now or Later, Rhinoceros, The Pain and the Itch, Identical Twins, This is a Chair, The People are Friendly, Plasticine, Fucking Games, Redundant, Spinning into Butter, Fireface and Other People.

Other theatre includes The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (The Gate, Dublin).

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Television includes The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.

Films include The Courier, On Chesil Beach.

Ian Dickinson for Autograph Sound Designer Ian is an award-winning sound designer with extensive credits in the UK and internationally.

His work includes The Pillowman (Duke of York’s); 42nd Street (Leicester & UK tour); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End, Los Angeles & UK tour); The Ocean at the End of the Lane (UK tour & Duke of York’s); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare North Playhouse & Northern Stage); Cock (Ambassador’s); Jerusalem (Broadway & West End); Hangmen (Broadway & West End); Uncle Vanya and Absent Friends (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe (The Bridge Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, West End & UK tour); Translations, Small Island, Angels in America (also Broadway), Husbands and Sons (National Theatre); Camp Siegfried

(Old Vic); Europe, Elegy, Roots, The Weir (Donmar Warehouse); True West (Vaudeville); Heisenberg (Wyndham’s); Fatherland (Lyric Hammersmith & Royal Exchange Manchester).

He received Olivier and Drama Desk Awards for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time (National Theatre and international tour). He has also received Olivier and Tony nominations for his work in London and on Broadway, including for Company, Angels In America, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Jerusalem and 2:22.

Ian has been a member of the Autograph team since 2009. autograph.co.uk Liam Godwin Assistant Musical Director Liam is a Musical Director and musician who plays the piano, organ and drums as well as being a Conductor and Vocalist across multiple styles and genres.

Credits include Co-Musical Director/ Additional Arrangements/Keyboard Programming and playing Raymond in Misty (The Shed, New York); Original Associate Musical Director and then Deputy Musical

Director on Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, and Musical Director/ Musical Arranger/Orchestrations for West End Musical Christmas 2022 (both at Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue); Keyboard for BBC’s Big Night of Musicals 2022 (AO Arena, Manchester); Vocalist for The BRIT Awards 2020 (The O2 Arena); Musical Director/Pianist for Andrew Lloyd Webber Tribute Concert (The Other Palace Theatre); Choir MD/Vocal Arranger/Singer for The BRIT Awards Diamond Dinner 2019 (The Intercontinental Hotel).

Liam trained at The Brit School and gained a BA in Popular Music Performance at The British and Irish Institute of Modern Music, London. liamgodwin.com Toby Higgins Musical Director Musical direction credits include The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Tina (Aldwych Theatre); Calendar Girls, Oliver! and Avenue Q (UK tours); Sunshine on Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Wind in the Willows

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(London Palladium/UK tour); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory/UK tour); The Braille Legacy (Charing Cross Theatre); and a series of symphonic concerts with Joss Stone.

As Children’s Musical Director: Oliver!

(Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

As Associate Musical Director: Little Shop of Horrors (Duke of York’s/ Ambassadors).

As Assistant Musical Director: Les Misérables (Queens Theatre); This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres); Mamma Mia! (international tour); Tracy Beaker Gets Real (UK tour); cover conductor/Keys 4 for Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales/Novello).

Toby trained at Trinity College of Music and Royal Academy of Music (DipRAM).

He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. tobyhiggins.com Carrie-Anne Ingrouille Choreographer Previously at Chichester, Our Generation (and National Theatre), This is My Family

(Minerva Theatre).

Current work in the West End and on Broadway includes SIX (Vaudeville, London & Lena Horne, New York: Tony Award & Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Choreography, Olivier Award nomination for Best Theatre Choreographer, WhatsOnStage, OFFIE & The Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nominations for Best Choreography).

Other selected choreography and movement direction work includes Village Idiot (Theatre Royal Stratford East/ Nottingham Playhouse); The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible/Lyric Hammersmith); Monsoon Wedding – The Musical (St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park); The Catherine Tate Show Live (UK tour); Jeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s); The Suicide (National Theatre); The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House and Roundhouse).

Forthcoming projects include a revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Lido 2, Paris).

Carrie is currently the UK Associate Choreographer for the London production of Hamilton.

Kinnetia Isidore Costume Designer Previously at Chichester, Our Generation (Minerva Theatre & National Theatre).

Kinnetia has worked across a range of costume roles in dance, theatre, opera, television and film with companies including English National Opera, Punchdrunk, Sky and HBO. Her credits as Costume Designer include School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Scandaltown, Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); Black Superhero (Royal Court); Adult Children (Donmar Warehouse); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Young Vic); The Wife of Willesden (co-designer: The Kiln, Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theater Boston); Enter Achilles (Rambert, Sadler’s Wells & Onassis Stegi); The Night Woman (The Other Palace).

As Associate Costume Designer: Constellations (Donmar Warehouse, Vaudeville West End); Ragtime (Arts Ed); Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Harold Pinter West End).

Training: Wimbledon College of Art, London College of Fashion and Camberwell College of Art. Nigel Lilley Musical Supervisor, Arranger & Co-Orchestrator Previously at Chichester, Musical Supervisor for South Pacific (& UK tour); Musical Supervisor, Musical Director and Dance Arrangements for Oklahoma!

(Festival Theatre); Musical Director for Caroline, Or Change (Minerva Theatre, also Hampstead Theatre, West End & Broadway).

Recently, Musical Supervisor, Musical Director & Dance Arrangements for Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre).

Musical Supervisor credits include The Band’s Visit, Looking A Lot Like Christmas (Donmar Warehouse); Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe/Bristol Old Vic/US tour); Guys & Dolls, Sweet Charity (Royal Exchange); Chaplin The Tanuja Amarasuriya

Musical (European tour); Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre); Anything Goes (Sheffield Crucible & UK tour); That Day We Sang (Manchester Royal Exchange & Manchester International Festival); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Curve Leicester & West End); Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory & Theatre Royal Haymarket).

Musical Director credits include Follies (National Theatre, including revival); Fun Home (Young Vic); The Go-Between (West End); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); My Fair Lady, Company (Sheffield Crucible); Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Spring Awakening (European premiere, Lyric & Novello); La Cage aux Folles (Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse); Piaf (Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville); Lauren Kennedy in Concert (Menier Chocolate Factory); Les Misérables (conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland & Edinburgh International Festival); Acorn Antiques (UK tour).

Other credits include Sinatra at the London Palladium, Les Misérables (Denmark); Maury Yeston’s December Songs (UK premiere, Greenwich Theatre);

Philip Quast at the Donmar (Divas season); Pacific Overtures (Donmar).

Television includes Gentleman Jack, Victoria, That Day We Sang, Victoria Wood’s Christmas Special, Up The Women, 2008 Royal Variety Performance (conducting La Cage aux Folles), Musicality.

Andy Mackay Songwriter Andy Mackay is a musician, composer, and a founder member of Roxy Music.

Formed in 1971, Roxy Music became one of the most musically innovative and influential bands of the decade with a succession of hit albums and singles, leaving an indelible mark on the worlds of music, fashion and art. After their eighth studio album ‘Avalon’, a platinum album on both sides of the Atlantic, the band stopped touring in 1983. They re-formed for live shows in 2001 and again in 2011, also performing a short set in 2019 when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2022 they embarked on a 50th anniversary tour of the UK and USA, finishing at The London O2. The band members continue to be active in many musical spheres and remain friends.

Over the years Andy Mackay has recorded solo albums and other projects for TV and films, including the award-winning

The Company

Rock Follies, as well as playing sessions for many great musicians including the various Roxy members.

He has also written a book on electronic music, studied theology and most recently finished the 3Psalms project, a synthesis of Andy’s various influences: rock, classical, electronic, sacred and secular.

Vicki Mortimer Set Designer Previously at Chichester, Our Generation (and National Theatre), The Meeting (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes The Normal Heart, The Visit or The Old Lady Comes to Call, ANNA, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Follies (Critics’ Circle Award for Design, Olivier Award for Best Costume Design 2018), The Plough and the Stars, The Threepenny Opera, Here We Go, The Silver Tassie, Othello, Hamlet, Waves, Cat in the Hat, Three Sisters, The Seagull, Closer, Paul, The Last of the Haussmans (National Theatre); Medea, Good and The Glass Menagerie (West End); Wuthering Heights, Wise Children (Emma Rice/Wise Children); The Little Match Girl (Shakespeare’s Globe/UK tour); Oil (Almeida).

Previous designs also include work for the RSC, Kneehigh, The Bridge, Young Vic,

Donmar, Almeida, Royal Court, in Japan and Sweden and on Broadway.

Opera includes New Dark Age, Death in Venice, Lesson in Love and Violence, Lucia di Lammermoor (Royal Opera House/ international tour); Ariodante (Vienna Staatsoper); Written on Skin (Aix Festival/ tour); Al Gran Sole (Salzburg Festival/ Staatsoper Berlin); Neither/Footfalls (Staatsoper Berlin); Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg, St Matthew Passion, Così fan tutte

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(Glyndebourne); The Winter’s Tale, After Dido, The Way Back Home (also Young Vic) for English National Opera; Wozzeck (International Opera Award for Design 2016: Lyric Opera, Chicago).

Dance includes Lore (Teatro al Scala, Milan); Afterite (American Ballet Theatre); Raven Girl (Royal Ballet); Yantra (Stuttgart Ballet); Genus (Paris Opera Garnier); Skindex (Nederlands Dans Theater); Millenarium, Sulphur 16, Aeon (Random Dance Company).

Chloë Moss Writer Chloë Moss is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Corrina, Corrina (Headlong/Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Run Sister Run (Paines Plough/ Soho Theatre & Sheffield Theatres); The Gatekeeper (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Fatal Light (Clean Break Charged / ReCharged season, Soho Theatre); This Wide Night (Clean Break/Soho Theatre: winner of the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn prize); The Way Home (Liverpool Everyman); Christmas is Miles Away (Royal Exchange, Manchester & Bush Theatre); and How Love Is Spelt (Bush Theatre).

She has also written extensively for television. Credits include Marie Antoinette, Frankenstein Live, Six Wives, Dickensian, New Tricks, The Smoke, Prisoners’ Wives, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Lip Service, Hollyoaks.

Howard Schuman Writer Brooklyn born, Howard Schuman settled in London to become one of the most successful television writers of his generation.

Rock Follies won the BAFTA Award for Best Series 1976 and the Royal Television Society’s Most Original Contribution to Television Award; Rock Follies of ’77 received the Broadcast Critics’ Award for Most Original Programme of the Year.

For television, his work also includes Selling Hitler, which was nominated for the Royal Television Society Award for Best Serial and the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Serial 1992; Young Jung, winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Children’s Drama, the ETA Broadcast Award, and Silver Plaque NYTA; Nervous Energy, nominated for the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Original Film and selected for Panorama Section, Berlin Film Festival 1996; Skinny Marink (MIND Award nomination for most important contribution to Children’s Television 1997); and Verité, Captain Video’s Story, Censored Scenes from King Kong, A Helping Hand,

The Liberty Tree, Carbon Copy, Anxious Anne, The British Situation, Bouncing Back, Video Stars, Shock Opera, Upline and Small World.

Screenplays include Normal Human Problems, Lifestyle and The Minister of Fun. He was the writer/presenter of BBC 2’s Moving Pictures from 1991 – 1996, winner of the 1996 ITA Award for Best Arts Programme of the Year. He also presented BBC Radio’s Kaleidoscope, Night Waves, First Night, Third Ear and Front Row, and was a regular contributor to Saturday Review.

Howard Schuman was a member of the BFI Production Board 1982-1985 and 1994 -1998.

Anne-Marie Speed Voice & Dialect Coach Anne-Marie has been working as a voice and singing teacher, vocal, acting and accent coach for almost 30 years within film, theatre, music theatre and television. She is also an Estill Mentor and Course Instructor.

Theatre in the West End includes Mrs Doubtfire, Stones in His Pockets, Singin’ in the Rain (& tour), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, From Here to Eternity, Candide, Funny Girl, An American in Paris, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Dear Evan Hanson, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; My Fair Lady (London Coliseum); Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); Man of La Mancha (ENO); Obsession (Barbican).

Television includes Britain’s Got Talent, The X-Factor, The Palace, Kaos, Citadel, Wolf, Pistol, Cilla, Doc Martin, Candide, Skins, Fairy Tale Rapunzel, Churchill at War, The Best Man, Silent Witness, Doctor Zhivago.

Films include Wicked, Back to Black, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Blithe Spirit, Beauty and the Beast, Jonathan Toomey, The Dark, Agent Cody Banks II.

Kate Waters Fight Director Kate Waters is one of only two women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors.

Previously at Chichester Fight Director for Assassins, The Norman Conquests (Festival Theatre), The Deep Blue Sea (Minerva Theatre), King Lear (Minerva Theatre and Duke of York’s) and Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (Minerva Theatre and Spiegeltent); Fight and Movement Director for Black Comedy (Minerva Theatre).

Work for the National Theatre includes Much Ado About Nothing, Small Island, Othello, As You Like It, Our Country’s Good, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End), One Man Two Guvnors (also West End, Broadway, world tour), Frankenstein, Hamlet, War Horse (and West End).

Recent work includes Guys & Dolls, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Young Marx, Julius Caesar (The Bridge Theatre); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End/ Germany); The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Hand To God (West End); Private Lives, Henry V (Donmar Warehouse); The Secret Lives of Bees, The Tragedy of Macbeth (Almeida); Lord of the Flies (Leeds Playhouse); Kiss Me, Kate (Sheffield

Crucible); The Last Goodbye (The Old Globe San Diego California); Cyrano de Bergerac, The Maids (Jamie Lloyd Company); Don Giovanni (ROH); Sweat, Julius Caesar, Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse and St Ann’s Warehouse NYC); All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (RSC); Antigone, Carousel, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park); and numerous productions for major regional theatres.

Kate is a regular Fight Director for Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, and choreographed the fights for Coronation Street Live 2015.

Films include the National Theatre’s Death of England: Face to Face and Romeo and Juliet, Lola, My Policeman, Making Noise Quietly, Pond Life.

The Rock Bottom Group Rock Follies is based on an original idea of the ground-breaking rock group Rock Bottom formed in 1973 by actresses Gaye Brown (Ratepayers’ Iolanthe, A Clockwork Orange, 42nd Street), Diane Langton (A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, The Rag Trade), Annabel Leventon (Hair!, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, The Dresser) and composer, manager, piano-player and music producer Don Fraser.

Carrie-Anne Ingrouille Carly Bawden Angela Marie Hurst Collette Guitart Zizi Strallen

Events

Rock Follies Pre-Show Talk

Post-Show Talk

Thursday 27 July, 5.30pm Join director Dominic Cooke for a fascinating insight into how his production came together, with a chance to ask questions of your own. Dominic is in conversation with best-selling author Kate Mosse.

Free but booking is essential.

Monday 7 August Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the production. Hosted by Kate Bassett, CFT Literary Associate.

Free

Theatre Day Thursday 3 August, 10.30am Get a real insider’s view with our creative team and technical crew.

Over 90 minutes you’ll enjoy demonstrations and discussion; for a completely immersive day, combine with a matinee performance. £10 (plus optional show ticket)

Prologue Meets The Musicals Wednesday 16 August, 5pm Meet the casts of The Sound of Music and Rock Follies. Say hello, grab a drink and find out what performing at CFT is really like.

Get Creative Whatever your interests or skill-set, there’s something for you in our programme of activities for adults. Everyone’s welcome, so join us and get creative.

Get Into It! Learn new skills and socialise in our termly sessions in Acting, Dancing or Singing each Monday. Can’t make it every week? Try our Drop-Ins and join us when suits you. No experience necessary - everyone is welcome to Get Into it!

Mind, Body, Sing Fun and relaxing, our group singing sessions are open to everyone aged 18+ and are dementia friendly. We believe everyone is musical and there are no wrong notes, so join us and experience the health-giving properties of group singing.

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Wednesday Company and Friday Company For adults aged 25+ with learning disabilities to develop their artistic skills, meet new people and socialise in a fun and supportive environment.

Wednesday Company takes place at The Capitol in Horsham and Friday Company takes place at St Paul’s Church in Chichester.

Chichester People’s Theatre Our community company work together to devise an original piece of theatre inspired by the work on our stages. The piece is then shared at a public performance.

Join Chichester Festival Youth Theatre “For young people, knowing you can identify as whoever you really think you are is more and more relevant, and CFYT has always felt like a space where you can do that.”

CFYT MEMBER

Every week, CFYT members meet at locations across the county to discover new skills and explore new stories, make friends, build confidence and, most importantly, “laugh until your sides hurt”* (*direct quote from a member).

For ages 5 to 25 we have drama, dance, musical theatre and technical theatre sessions to choose from, as well as groups for young people with additional needs (CFYT Wednesday in Horsham and CFYT Friday in Chichester).

Our weekly sessions take place in locations across West Sussex for you to meet like-minded people and find a space where you can just be yourself!

Find your group across West Sussex and join us!

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cft.org.uk/CFYT

Light a Spark Enjoying the show? Imagine if everyone could discover the magic of theatre.

You can make it happen. Donate to our Light a Spark fundraising campaign and support a family to come to CFT for the first time or a young person to launch their career with us.

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cft.org.uk/LightASpark

Chichester Festival Theatre is a registered charity. Charity no. 1088552.

Staff Trustees Mark Foster Jessica Brown-Fuller Jean Vianney Cordeiro Victoria Illingworth Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB CBE Harry Matovu KC Caro Newling OBE Nick Pasricha Philip Shepherd Stephanie Street Hugh Summers Tina Webster 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 Costume Kit Beaumont

Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant Wardrobe Manager Assistant Wardrobe Dresser Dresser Senior Costume Assistant Dresser Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Manager Jessica Griffiths Wardrobe Manager Abbie Hart Dresser Dee Howland Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant Kendal Love Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Manager Lucy Olorenshaw Dresser Eleanor Patterson Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant Natasha Pawluk Wig Daysetter Henry Reeder Dresser Hannah Sargent Dresser Emily Souch Assistant Wardrobe Loz Tait Head of Costume Colette Tulley Wardrobe Maintenance Eloise Wood Wig Assistant Brooke Bowden Isabelle Brook Helen Clark Tobias Dane Helen Flower Lysanne Goble Shelley Gray

Development Laura Blake Fundraising Consultant Julie Field Friends Administrator Sophie Henstridge-Brown Senior Development Manager Sarah Mansell Development Consultant Charlotte Stroud Development Manager Karen Taylor Development Manager (Maternity Leave) Megan Wilson Events and Development Officer Directors Office Justin Audibert Kathy Bourne Patricia Key Keshira Aarabi Angela Buckley Sophie Hobson Georgina Rae Julia Smith

Artistic Director Executive Director PA to the Directors Projects & Events Co-ordinator Projects & Events Co-ordinator Creative Associate Director of Planning & Projects Board Support

Finance Alison Baker Payroll & Pensions Officer Sally Cunningham Purchase Ledger Assistant Amanda Hart Finance & Operations Director Krissie Harte Finance Officer Katie Palmer Assistant Management Accountant Amanda Trodd Management Accountant Protozoon Ltd IT Consultants

Jack Goodland

LEAP Anastasia Alexandru

Youth & Outreach Trainee Helena Berry Heritage & Archive Manager Rob Bloomfield Heritage & Archive Assistant Richard Chapman Community Outreach Trainee Zoe Ellis LEAP Co-ordinator Sally Garner-Gibbons Apprenticeship Co-ordinator Matthew Hawksworth Head of Children & Young People’s Programme Hannah Hogg Senior Youth & Outreach Manager Shari A. Jessie Creative Therapist Louise Rigglesford Senior Community & Outreach Manager Dale Rooks Director of LEAP Abi Rutter Youth & Outreach Co-ordinator Riley Stroud Cultural Learning & Education Apprentice Angela Watkins LEAP Projects Manager Marketing, Communications, Digital & Sales Josh Allan Box Office Supervisor Caroline Aston Audience Insight Manager Becky Batten Head of Marketing Laura Bern Marketing Manager Jessica Blake-Lobb Marketing Manager (Corporate) Helen Campbell Deputy Box Office Manager Lydia Cassidy Director of Marketing & Communications Jay Godwin Box Office Assistant Lorna Holmes Box Office Supervisor Mollie Kent Box Office Assistant (Casual) James Mitchell Box Office Assistant James Morgan Box Office Manager Lucinda Morrison Head of Press Brian Paterson Distribution Co-ordinator Kirsty Peterson Box Office Assistant Ben Phillips Marketing & Press Assistant Catherine Rankin Box Office Assistant (Casual) Jenny Thompson Social Media & Digital Marketing Officer Joshua Vine Box Office Assistant (Casual) Claire Walters Box Office Assistant Joanna Wiege Box Office Administrator Jane Wolf Box Office Assistant People Paula Biggs Jenefer Francis Naziera Jahir Emily Oliver Jenny Sherriff Gillian Watkins

Head of People HR Officer Interim People Manager Accommodation Co-ordinator Recruitment & HR Administrator HR Officer

Production Amelia Ferrand-Rook Producer Claire Rundle Production Administrator George Waller Trainee Producer Nicky Wingfield Production Administrator Jeremy Woodhouse Producer Technical Steph Bartle Deputy Head of Lighting James Barnes Stage Crew Victoria Baylis Props Assistant Daisy Vahey Bourne Stage Crew Finley Bradley Technical Theatre Apprentice Serena Christian Stage Crew Leoni Commosioung Stage Technician Sarah Crispin Senior Prop Maker Elise Fairbairn Stage Technician Zoe Gadd Assistant Lighting Technician Ross Gardner Stage Crew Sam Garner-Gibbons Technical Director

Stage Crew & Automation Senior Sound Technician Production Manager Apprentice Laura Hackett Stage Crew Dan Heesem Lighting Technician Katie Hennessy Props Store Co-ordinator Tom Hitchins Head of Stage & Technical Mike Keniger Head of Sound Andrew Leighton Senior Lighting Technician Matthew Linklater No.1 Sound Technician Katie Long No.1 Sound Technician Finlay Macknay Stage Crew Tito Ruiz Mateo Prop Maker Ian Murphy Stage & Automation Technician Charlotte Neville Head of Props Workshop Stuart Partrick Transport & Logistics Neil Rose Deputy Head of Sound Ernesto Ruiz Prop Maker Anna Setchell (Setch) Deputy Head of Stage James Sharples Senior Stage Crew & Rigger Molly Stammers Senior Lighting Technician Ben Steel Stage Crew Graham Taylor Head of Lighting Dominic Turner Lighting Technician Bogdan Virlan Stage Crew Elliott Wallis Sound Technican Fuzz Guthrie Lucy Guyver

Theatre Management Janet Bakose Theatre Manager Judith Bruce-Hay Minerva Supervisor Charlie Gardiner Minerva Supervisor Ben Geering Head of Customer Operations Dan Hill Assistant House Manager Will McGovern Deputy House Manager Sharon Meier PA to Theatre Manager Gabriele Williams Deputy House Manager Caper & Berry Catering Proclean Cleaning Ltd Cleaning Contractor Goldcrest Guarding Security 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, 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, Marie Innes, Keiko Iwamoto, Flynn Jeffery, Joan Jenkins, Pippa Johnson, Julie Johnstone, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Judith Marsden, 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, James Wisker, Donna Wood, Kim Wylam We acknowledge the work of those who give so generously of their time as our Volunteer Audio Description Team: Janet Beckett, Tony Clark, Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Richard Frost, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd

Our Supporters 2023 Major Donors 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 David and Claire Chitty John and Pat Clayton David and Jane Cobb John and Susan Coldstream Clive and Frances Coward

Trusts and Foundations The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Arts Society, Chichester The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Bernadette Charitable Trust The Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity The Dorus Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray’s

Festival Players 1000+ John and Joan Adams Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose The Earl and Countess of Balfour Sarah and Tony Bolton Ian and Jan Carroll C Casburn and B Buckley CS and M Chadha David Churchill Denise Clatworthy Michael and Jill Cook Lin and Ken Craig

Festival Players 500+ Judy Addison Smith Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Martin Blackburn Janet Bounds Pat Bowman Jean Campbell Sally Chittleburgh Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett

Yvonne and John Dean Jim Douglas Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Huw Evans Steve and Sheila Evans Val and Richard Evans Sandy and Mark Foster Simon and Luci Eyers Angela and Uri Greenwood Themy Hamilton Lady Heller and the late Sir Michael Heller Liz Juniper Roger Keyworth Vaughan and Sally Lowe Jonathan and Clare Lubran Mrs Sheila Meadows Elizabeth Miles Eileen Norris Jerome and Elizabeth O’Hea Mrs Denise Patterson DL Stuart and Carolyn Popham Dame Patricia Routledge DBE Sophie and David 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 Bryan Warnett Ernest Yelf

Charity Trust Epigoni Trust The Foyle Foundation The G D Charitable Trust Hobhouse Charitable Trust The Mackintosh Foundation The Maurice Marshal Preference Trust Noël Coward Foundation Rotary Club of Chichester Harbour Theatre Artists Fund The Vernon Ellis Foundation Wickens Family Foundation

Deborah Crockford Clive and Kate Dilloway Peter and Ruth Doust Gary Fairhall Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Wendy and John Gehr Marion Gibbs CBE Rachel and Richard Green Ros and Alan Haigh Chris and Carolyn Hughes Melanie J. Johnson John and Jenny Lippiett Alan and Virginia Lovell Sarah Mansell and Tim Bouquet James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Roger and Jackie Morris Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen Graham and Sybil Papworth Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Nick and Jo Pasricha John Pritchard Trust Philip Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ros and Ken Rokison David and Linda Skuse Peter and Lucy Snell Julie Sparshatt Richard Staughton and

The de Laszlo Foundation Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Terry Frost Stephen J Gill Dr Stuart Hall Rowland and Caroline Hardwick Dennis and Joan Harrison Karen and Paul Johnston Frank and Freda Letch Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Jim and Marilyn Lush Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Trevor & Lynne Matthews Tim McDonald Jill and Douglas McGregor Sue and Peter Morgan Mrs Mary Newby Margaret and Martin Overington Jean Plowright Robin Roads Dr David Seager John and Tita Shakeshaft Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha Elizabeth Stern Anne Subba-Row Harry and Shane Thuillier Miss Melanie Tipples Chris and Dorothy Weller Nick and Tarnia Williams

Claire Heath Ian and Alison Warren Angela Wormald

...and to all those who wish to remain anonymous, thank you for your incredible support.

‘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, Major Donors and Festival Players

Our Supporters 2023 Principal Partners Platinum Level

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