The Promise By Paul Unwin
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Welcome to this performance of The Promise, our third world premiere of Festival 2024. Sometimes, ‘events, dear boy, events’ – to coin Harold Macmillan’s famous phrase – bestow an even greater relevance on a new production. That’s certainly the case with Paul Unwin’s new play; we knew that 2024 was likely to be an election year, but we didn’t foresee that The Promise would open in the immediate aftermath of a seismic general election. So, as we absorb the results and witness a transformed House of Commons, it’s particularly apt to re-examine the dramatic political struggles of Clement Atlee’s post-war Labour government which defined the Britain we live in today. Paul – the co-creator of BBC’s Casualty – reveals the fragile individuals behind these audacious public figures, true titans of the Labour movement, and their personal and public battles to create the revolutionary NHS. And in Ellen Wilkinson, he restores to the spotlight a radical outsider (chiming with one of the themes of this season). We’re delighted to welcome the distinguished cast; some, such as Clare Burt, Andrew Woodall and Suzanne Burden returning to CFT, others including Reece Dinsdale, Richard Harrington and Clive Wood making their debuts here. And it’s a particular pleasure to have director Jonathan Kent – whose many outstanding Chichester productions range from Gypsy and Sweeney Todd to Private Lives and The Young Chekhov Trilogy – also back working on our stages. It’s hard to believe we’re already over half way through the Season, but we still have two more world premieres to come: David Eldridge’s adaptation of John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Charlotte Jones’s Redlands, both of which also evoke different aspects of British history. We hope that you’ll enjoy this performance and to see you again soon.
Justin Audibert Artistic Director
Kathy Bourne Executive Director
Kathy Bourne and Justin Audibert Photograph by Peter Flude
These kids – they’re taking over the world – they’re the new aristocracy, man and the old guard don’t like it.
Redlands Festival Theatre 20 September – 18 October Sending the season out with ‘a bigger bang’ in the Festival Theatre, Charlotte Jones’s new play Redlands catapults us back to the Chichester of the 1960s and a moment of local history: the trial of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. CFT Artistic Director Justin Audibert is at the helm, and tells us: ‘This is a local story with national resonance. It tells the dramatic story of the drugs bust at Keith Richards’ house in the Witterings, and explores how Michael Havers QC manages to get the Rolling Stones acquitted; and how for his young son, the esteemed actor Nigel Havers, the experience changes his life forever.
‘As a dedicated Rolling Stones fan myself, it gives me enormous ‘Satisfaction’ to be directing this colourful, vibrant piece of ensemble theatre which will be supported with a live band onstage and some absolutely brilliant R&B songs.’
One minute to midnight. It’s time. Ladies and gentlemen, take a seat and I shall begin...
The Cat and the Canary Minerva Theatre 27 September – 26 October The Cat and the Canary, adapted by Carl Grose from the play by John Willard, is a hilariously chilling mixture of Agatha Christie and gothic horror that will have you shrieking with laughter and fear in equal measure. And there’s nobody better than the genius shape-shifting company Told by an Idiot, and director Paul Hunter, to tell it. Justin Audibert says: ‘Who doesn’t love a brilliantly scary ghost story as the nights get darker and chillier? This will be a physically entertaining piece of storytelling which centres around a motley group of characters who gather in a remote house in Cornwall to hear the reading of a will.
‘It has the perfect mixture of spooks, belly laughs and thrills to end the season.’
One of the ‘This is a friendly, welcoming space and my son loves it. I have actually developed my own confidence too!’ Each year, thousands of families are welcomed to Chichester Festival Theatre – many of them to shows such as Oliver! or our Christmas shows. But there are also plenty of fun-filled events and creative activities. Discover our wide range of pop-up one-day events for children and families, ranging from crafts with Creation Station, Lego with The BRICK People and origami with Fold Our City to musical moments for little ones with Baby Broadway, to name a few. Many are free or at minimal cost. Parents and carers can relax in our family friendly space in the Festival Theatre foyer while little ones make full use of the
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The Promise By Paul Unwin
One The First World War is devastating. Nearly a million British and Empire soldiers are among the 20 million people killed. Barely a family in Britain is left untouched. For all the talk of a ‘land fit for heroes’, very little changes with the peace.
Two Having fought and been injured in Gallipoli, Clement Attlee returns from the war and, rather than become a family solicitor, commits himself to politics. In 1922 he’s elected MP and marries Violet Millar, the daughter of a Hampstead businessman. They will go on to have four
children. Famously lacking charisma, Attlee will become one of Britain’s great post-war leaders.
Three Between the First and Second World Wars, a generation of left wing and socialist politicians emerge. They all have different backgrounds – the trade union movement, suffragettes, internationalism, protest marches, personal trauma – but share the conviction that Britain is an unequal and unfair society. Through years of struggle, they sharpen their sense of a future Britain, learn how to operate as politicians and develop deep personal ambitions.
Clement Attlee and Violet Millar on their wedding day, 10 January 1922.
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In the 1920s and 30s the divisions in British society grow. The rich get richer, the poor poorer. The conditions and life chances of the working class are, if anything, worse than they were before the First World War. By the early 1920s unemployment is soaring. The Conservative government responds brutally to the General Strike of 1926. Three years later, the Wall Street Crash leads to the Great Depression. There is mass unemployment and desperation.
The poor are terrified of sickness, accidents and disability as they have to pay for treatment and care. Families save pennies for emergencies and dread the ‘poor’ hospitals. GPs charge both for appointments and prescriptions. Without money, it’s not unknown for patients to turn up at doctors’ practices carrying a few eggs to barter. The mentally ill or neurodivergent are often incarcerated in mental hospitals. Women deliver their children in ‘lying-in hospitals’ and pay for the privilege.
Workers demonstrate during the General Strike, May 1926. Photo Shawshots/Alamy.
Children in east London outside the wreckage of what was their home following a German air raid, September 1940. Photo New Times Paris Bureau Collection.
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Six Britain relies on its empire for raw materials, a market in turn for manufactured goods, and a source of global power and status. Soldiers from the empire have fought alongside British servicemen, and this shared experience – for better or worse – has sharpened the desire for independence. India, the Middle East, Canada, parts of Africa and the Caribbean all have growing independence movements. The Second World War – when, again, Britain calls on the empire – makes independence almost inevitable.
At home, the Second World War transforms Britain. For the first time the population are on the front line. For all the talk of ‘stiff upper lips’, the fear of invasion, the bombing of cities and the war economy radically changes British society.
Eight Looking forward to the peace, Ernie Bevin commissions the Liberal politician William Beveridge to write a vision of future social welfare. The Beveridge Report goes on to define the five great evils – squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease – that Britain must rid itself of. Full of detailed criticism and idealism, the report receives broad political support and eventually forms the basis of Labour’s post-war social policy.
Above: William Beveridge confronts the five great evils identified in his 1942 report.
Nine When the war in Europe finally ends on 8 May 1945 there is both a sense of mass relief and exhaustion. Over a million British and Commonwealth service people are still posted abroad, many of them fighting what feels like will be a prolonged war in the Pacific against the Japanese. The full horror of what Nazi Germany has done emerges as hundreds of concentration camps are discovered, and the world learns that over six million people have been industrially murdered. Even as fighting continues in the Pacific, the United Nations convenes its first meeting in San Francisco.
Ten On 6 and 9 August 1945, the US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The war is over: what peace at home and abroad means now needs to be invented. A new world is being born and Britain, with a new Labour government, embarks on major reform…
Posters produced by the Ministry of Food during WWII. Imperial War Museums.
Top: Queuing for food during wartime rationing, 1945. Ministry of Information/Imperial War Museums. Above: Ernest Bevin, Winston Churchill, Sir John Anderson, Lord Woolton and Herbert Morrison on the balcony of the Ministry of Health, 8 May 1945 (VE Day). Photo Associated Press/Alamy.
Who’s who in T
Clement Attlee was notoriously
uncharismatic. Churchill once joked that ‘an empty taxi pulled up and Clement Attlee got out’. Born in 1883, he had a privileged public school and Oxford education. From school, Attlee volunteered as a charity worker in east London and witnessed poverty and deprivation first hand. As a young major, he was wounded in Gallipoli. Desperation in east London and the horror of warfare drove Attlee’s socialism. Elected MP in 1922, he became leader of the Labour Party in 1935, and was Churchill’s Deputy Prime Minister
in the wartime national government. For all his apparent diffidence, Attlee was one of Britain’s great prime ministers.
Violet Attlee was born in Hampstead in 1895 to a large wealthy family. She and Clem met on holiday in Italy, married and went on to have four children. She was a famously bad driver but insisted on driving her husband the length and breadth of Britain in their tiny Austin when he campaigned. Rumour has it that she voted Conservative.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee with members of his Cabinet – 35 men and one woman, Ellen Wilkinson – in the garden of 10 Downing Street, 23 August 1945. Photo Associated Press/Alamy.
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Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan was born
in South Wales in 1897. The son of a miner, he worked down the pits after leaving school at 14. That experience, and watching his father die of pneumoconiosis, forged his militancy. Nye conquered a severe childhood stutter to become a great political orator. During the Second World War he was a backbench Labour MP and challenged Churchill and the conduct of the war repeatedly. As a result, Attlee’s choice of Bevan as Minister of Health and Housing surprised everyone.
Ernie Bevin was born to a single mother
in grinding rural poverty in Somerset in 1877. Orphaned when he was seven, Ernie had no formal education and was working in the Bristol docks by the age of 11. But he went on to become Britain’s most powerful labour organiser as General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. As Minister of Labour during WWII, Ernie worked closely with Churchill, and on VE Day in May 1945 stood proudly beside the King and Prime Minister, greeting the huge crowds from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
Hugh Dalton’s father was chaplain
to Queen Victoria. Born in 1887, he was educated at Eton and Cambridge and, like Attlee, saw serious frontline action in the First World War. After the war, Dalton studied economics and law, before becoming Labour MP for Peckham in 1924. He was a tough, practical, left-leaning politician who was intolerant of colleagues whom he felt were his intellectual inferior. Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare in Churchill’s wartime Cabinet and established the SOE – the organisation that parachuted spies into occupied Europe.
Jennie Lee, Nye Bevan’s wife, was a
significant Labour politician in her own right. Born in Fife in 1904, she was a radical and independent thinker. She and Nye got together after ‘the love of her life’ – a married Labour MP – died suddenly on a picnic. The couple’s home life was radical and 23 Clivedon Place, Chelsea attracted the progressives of their time. George Orwell was a friend, and many actors, painters and politicians spent happy nights there. After Nye’s death in 1960, Jennie played a leading role in setting up the Arts Council and the Open University.
Herbert Morrison, the son of a
Conservative-voting police constable, was born in Stockwell, south London in 1888. Herbert left school at 14 and started out as an errand boy. He became a masterful political operator, rising to become Leader of the London County Council in the 1930s. Churchill appointed him Home Secretary in the wartime government, and he became famous for the ‘Morrison Shelter’. Morrison was the modern Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson’s grandfather.
Richard Stafford Cripps was
the son of a well-off barrister and nephew of the leading socialist Beatrice Webb. Born in Chelsea in 1889, he was educated at Winchester and University College, London. He pursued a lucrative career as a lawyer before becoming a Labour MP in 1931, but he was expelled from the party in 1939 after advocating an alliance with the Communist Party. As a result, presuming that he was a communist, Churchill appointed him Ambassador to the Soviet Union. In 1942 Stafford Cripps was posted to India to negotiate with Gandhi and was profoundly shocked by the mass starvation he witnessed in Bengal. A devout vegetarian, he suffered from ill health all his life.
Lord Moran, Charlie Wilson, came
from a family of Yorkshire doctors. A front-line doctor himself in the First World War, he won medals for his bravery. Later he was one of the doctors who defined what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He became one of Britain’s most renowned physicians and was President of the Royal College from 1941 to ’49. During the war, Moran was Churchill’s personal doctor and was key in keeping Winston alive. However, he later appalled Winston and his wife Clementine by discussing the Prime Minister’s ‘black dog’, Churchill’s notorious bouts of depression. Ellen Wilkinson’s life is explored in the following article.
Evening Standard front page, 26 July 1945 – Labour win the General Election. Photo John Frost Newspapers/Alamy.
Red Ellen ‘Mighty Atom’. ‘Fiery Particle’. ‘Elfin Fury’. Ellen Wilkinson was known by a host of nicknames during her quarter-century political career. But the nickname that has stuck in the historical memory is ‘Red Ellen’, a reference both to Wilkinson’s striking auburn hair and her radical brand of politics. She had been a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920. Her revolutionary ardour was tempered slightly by service in the 1929-31 Labour government, yet Winston Churchill nonetheless identified her as the most left-wing member of his government after inviting her to serve as a junior minister in his wartime coalition.
Ellen’s role as one of the leaders of the Jarrow march has come to symbolise her passionate rejection of a political system that allowed for prolonged suffering in the years before the Second World War.
Ellen Wilkinson by Bassano Ltd, 1924. Photo National Portrait Gallery.
Red Ellen is perhaps best remembered today for her role in the Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed workmen marched from Tyneside to the Palace of Westminster in October 1936, accompanied for much of the way by Wilkinson, their MP. The Crusade didn’t succeed in its objective of bringing industry back to the blighted town – where male unemployment hovered around three-quarters of the adult population for more than a decade. Nonetheless, Ellen’s role as one of the leaders of the march has come to symbolise her passionate rejection of a political system that allowed for prolonged suffering in Jarrow and other distressed areas in the years before the Second World War. But her legacy reaches well beyond the banks of the Tyne. While she was fiercely committed to the cause of her constituents, a focus on her advocacy on behalf of Britain’s unemployed has obscured both the extent to which her conception of social
justice was drawn on a broader canvas, and the ways in which her experiences combatting other forms of injustice – from colonialism, to fascism to sexism – informed her political work on behalf of the unemployed.
She was on intimate terms with the leaders of the Indian Congress Party, the German anti-fascist resistance and the Spanish Republican government, and counted Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin among her wide coterie of friends and allies. Born the third of four children to a working-class family in South Manchester, on 8 October 1891, Wilkinson had not left the north-west of England by the time she won a scholarship to Manchester University Top: Ellen Wilkinson and the Jarrow Crusade, 1936. Above: Ellen Wilkinson and Cecil Malone, TUC Congress, Bournemouth, 1926. Photo TUC Library Collections.
in 1910. In the 35 years that followed, she was active in the women’s suffrage movement, before becoming a key member of both the Communist Party and the Fabian Society (Fabian colleagues referred to her as the Red Queen alongside Beatrice Webb’s White Queen), met Lenin and Trotsky in Moscow, became the tenth woman to gain a seat in Parliament, played a prominent role in the General Strike of 1926, travelled across Europe, America and Asia in pursuit of international peace, served as one of only two women in Churchill’s wartime government, went to San Francisco as one of the few female delegates to the inaugural meeting of the United Nations, and returned to Britain to play a central role in the post-war government. Along the way she forged a remarkable series of friendships – she was on intimate terms with the leaders of the Indian Congress Party, the German anti-fascist resistance and the Spanish Republican government, and counted Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin among her wide coterie of friends and allies.
Her romantic relationship with Morrison… was driven by a combination of intellectual camaraderie and proximity.
The Promise focuses on just one slice of Wilkinson’s extraordinary political career – set between the May 1945 Labour Party conference in Blackpool and Wilkinson’s premature death in February 1947. At the time of the conference, Wilkinson was Undersecretary of State for Home Security at the Home Office, working alongside the Home Secretary Herbert Morrison – a fellow redhead and unlikely political ally with whom she had a brief romantic relationship (Morrison, the longtime leader of London Labour and grandfather to Peter Mandelson, was instinctively more of a political centrist than the radical Wilkinson). Like Margaret Bondfield who, as Minister of Labour in the 1924 and 1929 Labour governments, was Britain’s first female Cabinet minister, Wilkinson never married. Rather, she saw herself as married to politics. Her romantic relationship with Morrison – like her earlier relationship with the also married Frank Horrabin, who she met through the Workers’ Education movement and with whom she worked closely during the 1926 General Strike – was driven by a combination of intellectual camaraderie and proximity. Ellen existed primarily in a man’s world but, unlike her younger colleague Jennie Lee who forged a political and romantic marriage with Aneurin Bevan,
Nine victorious members of the Labour Party at the 1929 General Election. Front: Cynthia Mosley, Susan Lawrence, Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson, Jennie Lee. Back: Marion Phillips, Edith Picton-Turberville, Ethel Bentham, Mary Hamilton. Photo Colin Waters/Alamy.
she never succeeded in finding a long-term partnership that would accommodate her determination to maintain her career and autonomy. Ellen chaired Labour’s National Executive Committee in 1944-45 and, as such, it fell to her to lead the annual Party Conference during which Labour decided to withdraw from the wartime coalition government and force a general election. It was an easier decision for Ellen than for some, including Morrison. Although she left the Communists in 1924, she remained firmly on the left of the party, and saw 1945 as an opportunity for Labour to establish a New Jerusalem in Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In the latter days of the war, she had connived with Morrison’s failed efforts to depose Clement Attlee from the party leadership. But once Labour won the election, the 53-year-old political veteran – indisputably the most respected female politician in the party – was invited to take her place in history as Britain’s second female Cabinet member, as Minister of Education. Above: 1931 General Election poster. Right: Ellen Wilkinson with the Jarrow marchers, 1936.
Ellen worked tirelessly to improve school infrastructure and enable the government to raise the school leaving age to 15. While Education had never been Ellen’s particular brief, it must have struck Attlee as a suitably feminine and feminised department. (Churchill would follow suit and appoint Florence Horsbrugh to Education as the only woman in the 1951 Tory government. Years later, Margaret Thatcher would also do a stint at Education, earning the epithet ‘Thatcher, Thatcher milk snatcher’ for withdrawing the universal free milk scheme that Wilkinson had first put in place after the war.) During her brief tenure, Ellen worked tirelessly to improve school infrastructure and enable the government to raise the school leaving age to 15, although she drew ire from some on the party’s left for failing to tackle the question of the continued existence of private schools.
Her time in Cabinet took a serious toll on her health. A lifelong asthmatic and heavy smoker, she had long been selfmedicating with a combination of amphetamines to open her lungs and barbiturates to counteract the speed and help her get a few hours of much needed rest at night. The coroner would ultimately pronounce her death to be the result of an accidental overdose, although questions have continued to swirl around whether, ill and exhausted, the career fighter might have finally decided to throw in the towel. Certainly, when she passed away, Labour still had many important battles ahead. Yet, she lived to see the passage of Nye
Bevan’s flagship National Health Service legislation on 6 November 1946, a policy that she fervently believed would create a better world for a new generation of Britons. Laura Beers is Professor of History at the American University, Washington DC. She is the author of Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist, and has recently published a book on George Orwell and contemporary politics.
The Promise By Paul Unwin
Cast (in order of appearance) Ellen Wilkinson Violet Attlee Clement Attlee Photographer Ernie Bevin Herbert Morrison Joan Vincent Thomas Merriman Jennie Lee Nye Bevan Hugh Dalton Richard Stafford Cripps Lord Moran (Charlie Wilson) Winston Churchill
Clare Burt Suzanne Burden Andrew Woodall Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy Clive Wood Reece Dinsdale Felixe Forde Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy Allison McKenzie Richard Harrington Miles Richardson Peter Hamilton Dyer David Robb Martyn Ellis
All other roles played by members of the company. The Promise is set in England between 25 May 1945 and 7 February 1947. Act 1: The brink of the 1945 election. Act 2: 1947 – the Labour government has been in power for two years. Author’s note: Although The Promise is based on detailed research and all but two of the characters are inspired by real people, the play is a work of imagination. There will be one interval of 20 minutes.
World premiere performance of The Promise at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 19 July 2024.
Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting and Video Designer Composer Sound Designer Casting Director
Jonathan Kent Joanna Parker Deborah Andrews Peter Mumford Gary Yershon Christopher Shutt Annelie Powell CDG
Dramaturg Choreographer Associate Set Designer Assistant Director
Harry Mackrill Jack Murphy Christophe Eynde Sydney Stevenson
Production Manager Costume Supervisor Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Props Supervisor
Matt Ledbury Deborah Andrews Campbell Young Associates Fahmida Bakht
Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Alison Rankin Caitlin Shay Emily Humphrys
Production credits: Student placement ASM Emily Stimpson; Set Design Assistant Mana Sadri Irani; Drummer Tom Clare; Set floor and trucks by Custom Aspect; back wall and flattage by Illusion; additional masking by Blackout; Production Carpenter Philip Atherton; Video programmer Stephen Parkinson; Video engineer Jim Diamond; Video hires supplied by Blue-i Group; Costume hires supplied by Cosprop; Props Assistant Victoria Baylis; Props supplied by Film Medical Services, Elisabeth James Antiques; Transport by Paul Mathew Transport, Les Jones Transport and EJS Couriers; Rehearsal Room Jerwood Space. With thanks to to Sean Moon. Paul Unwin would like to thank the historians Laura Beers, Richard Toye, John Bew and Nick Thomas-Symonds; Georgia Gatti, Matthew Warchus and Katy Rudd; and Stephen Unwin, Kate Lynn-Evans, John Yorke and Phil Clymer.
Rehearsal and production photographs Helen Murray Programme consultant Fiona Richards Programme design Davina Chung Cover image Bob King Creative, photo PA Images/Alamy
Minerva Season Principal Charles Holloway OBE With special thanks to The Playwrights Fund for their support of the research and development of The Promise: Deborah Alun-Jones, Robin and Joan Alvarez, George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron, Clive and Frances Coward, Mrs Veronica J Dukes, Melanie Edge, Sir Vernon Ellis, Val and Richard Evans, Simon and Luci Eyers, Sandy and Mark Foster, Jonathan and Clare Lubran, and Denise Patterson DL. Supported by The Promise Patrons and Supporters Circle: Chris Bourne, Rosalind Bowen, Ian and Jan Carroll, Steve and Sheila Evans, George Galazka, Sir Malcolm Green, Themy Hamilton, Jammy Hoare, Jon and Ann Shapiro, Patricia Sloane, Sayers/Strange Family, Howard M Thompson, and all those who wish to remain anonymous.
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Cast Biographies Suzanne Burden Violet Attlee Previously at Chichester, Maria in Twelfth Night (Festival Theatre); Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Lydia Cruttwell in In Praise of Love, Beth in Three Women and a Piano Tuner (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes Herodius in Salome, The Comedy of Errors, Solstice, The Winter’s Tale (tour), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (also West End/Broadway) and Postcards from America, all Royal Shakespeare Company; Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (Noël Coward Theatre); Hippolyta in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl); Mrs Hudetz in Judgement Day, King Lear, The Possibilities, When We Dead Awaken Suzanne Burden Clare Burt
(Almeida); Mrs Alving in Ghosts (Arcola); Olivia in The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse); Battle Royal, The Recruiting Officer, The White Chameleon, Hedda Gabler, The Voysey Inheritance, The Shaughraun, Piano (National Theatre); By Many Wounds (Hampstead Theatre); Heartbreak House (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); As You Like It (Royal Exchange Theatre). Television includes Strike series 3, 4 & 5, Black Mirror 5, Fresh Meat, Midsomer Murders, Campion, Poirot, Fear Stress and Anger, Life Begins, Absolute Power, Armadillo, Microsoap, The Vet, A Mind to Murder, Between the Lines, Soldier Soldier, You Me and It, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore,
Secret Orchards, The Cherry Orchard, Troilus and Cressida, An Office Romance, Sharma and Beyond, Love in a Cold Climate, Bleak House, Hard Travelling, The Rivals. Radio includes Charles Paris: So Much Blood, Waking the Dead, The Charles Paris Mystery. Films include Joy, Gertler, The Devotee, Very Like a Whale, Strapless. Trained at RADA. Clare Burt Ellen Wilkinson Previously at Chichester, Ada Harris in Flowers for Mrs Harris (Festival Theatre); Yvonne in This is My Family (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes Stephen Sondheim’s Reece Dinsdale Peter Hamilton Dyer
Old Friends (Gielgud Theatre); Ada in Flowers for Mrs Harris (winner of the UK Theatre Award 2016), Yvonne in This is My Family (Sheffield Crucible); London Road, The Miracle, DNA, Babygirl, Coram Boy, Sunday in the Park with George (National Theatre); The American Clock (Old Vic); Joan Littlewood in Miss Littlewood (RSC); Big Fish (The Other Palace); The Divide (Edinburgh Festival/Old Vic); Sunspots (Hampstead Theatre); Game (Almeida Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire, Vernon God Little (Young Vic); Into the Woods, Company, Nine (Donmar Warehouse); Now You Know (Metropolitan Room New York/Pizza on the Park); The Hired Man (Astoria Theatre); Passion (Bridewell). Television includes Sexy Beast,
The Couple Next Door, Friday Night Dinner, The Children Next Door, Top Boy, Alice & Jack, Passenger, The Long Shadow, Tina and Bobby, Call the Midwife, Holby City, The Salisbury Poisonings, Cuffs, Criminal Justice, Fair Cop. Films include London Road, Broken, X+Y, The Levelling. Reece Dinsdale Herbert Morrison Theatre includes Solness in (The Fall of) The Master Builder, title role in Richard III, Alan Bennett in Untold Stories, Ross in Visiting Mr Green, Vindice in The Revenger’s Tragedy, Christy in Playboy of the Western World, Jack Rover in Wild Oats (Leeds Playhouse); George Jones in The Absence of War (Headlong); Walter Harrison in This House, Rev Tony Ferris in Racing Demon (National
Martyn Ellis Felixe Forde
Theatre); Dr Wangel in Lady from the Sea, Posa in Don Carlos, Jimmy in Woundings (Royal Exchange Theatre); Gary in Boys Mean Business, Jim in Love You Too (Bush Theatre); Cavaliere in Mirandolina (Lyric Theatre); Craig in Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Tony in A Going Concern, Morning and Evening (Hampstead); Martin in Old Year’s Eve (RSC); Berenger in Rhinoceros (Nuffield); Terry in Red Saturday (Paines Plough/Royal Court); Pascal in Beethoven’s Tenth (Vaudeville). Television includes Threads, Silent Witness, Life on Mars, Conviction, Spooks, Home to Roost, Ahead of the Class, The Storyteller, Take Me Home, The Attractions, Moving On, Catherine the Great, The Investigation, Coppers, In Deep, Murder in Mind, Thief Takers, Midnight Man, Love Lies Bleeding, Born and Bred, Haggard, Taggart,
Waterloo Road, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Chase, Lovejoy, Bliss, Full Stretch, Bergerac, Robin of Sherwood, Glamour Night, Out on the Floor, Partners in Crime, The Secret Adversary, Knife Edge, Coronation Street, Emmerdale. As a director: Eighteen, Scratch, Man of Steel, Madge, Lost, Beaten for Moving On, Coronation Street, Emmerdale. Radio – numerous plays and series. Films include ID (Special Jury Prize – Geneva Film Festival), Hamlet, A Private Function, Winter Flight, The Knife That Killed Me, Rabbit on the Moon, Romance and Rejection. As a Writer: Imaginary Friend. Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Richard Harrington Allison McKenzie
Peter Hamilton Dyer Richard Stafford Cripps Previously at Chichester, Mansfield Park (Festival Theatre). Theatre includes #We Are Arrested, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dream 16: A Play for the Nation, Epicoene (RSC); Twelfth Night, Richard III (Shakespeare’s Globe/West End/Broadway); King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe/Tokyo); The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Henry VIII, All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, The Changeling, The Broken Heart, Anne Boleyn, Gabriel, The Frontline, Holding Fire!, The Golden Ass (Shakespeare’s Globe); Romeo and Juliet (Regent’s Park); The Last King of Scotland (Sheffield); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Nimax UK tour); The Bacchae (Shared Experience); Richard II, The Moonstone (Royal Exchange Theatre
Manchester); Mrs Orwell (Southwark Playhouse); The Caretaker, David Copperfield (Dundee Rep); The Norman Conquests (Basingstoke); Saint Joan (Birmingham Rep); Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead Theatre); Miss Julie (Southampton). Television includes Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, The Nest, Genius: Einstein, Downton Abbey, Wolf Hall, Silk, Doctor Who, Exterminate all the Brutes, Upstart Crow, EastEnders, Babs, Doctors, The Bill, Silent Witness, Holby City, Waking the Dead, The Plot Against Harold Wilson, The Curse of Steptoe. Radio includes The Sisters, The Venice Conundrum, My Friend: Marie Antoinette, BBC Radio Rep, R4 Book of The Week: Then They Came For Me, Scribblers, Bretton Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy Miles Richardson
Woods, Pilgrim, The Colour of Milk, Brother Dusty Feet, Songs and Lamentations, The Cruel Sea, Mrs Dalloway, Ulysses, Twelfth Night, Titanic, Black Dirt, The House in the Trees, Caligari, Waiting for the Boatman, Bournewood, The Day Dad Stole A Bus, The Tempest, Caligari, The Grudge, The British Club, Red and Blue, The Warrah, Trueman and Riley, Blue Flu, The Lifeblood. Martyn Ellis Winston Churchill Previously at Chichester, Jimmy in Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (Spiegeltent). Theatre includes Marcus Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Lido Paris); Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Teatro Massimo, Palermo & Teatro di San Carlo, Naples); Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (Young Vic); The Wizard in
Wicked, Thenardier in Les Misérables, Man 2 in The 39 Steps, Pumbaa in original London cast of The Lion King and Paul McCartney in Lennon (West End); Gangster 1 in Kiss Me, Kate (Théatre du Chatêlet, Paris); Harry Dangle in original cast of One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre, West End and Broadway); Alfred P Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Dromio of Ephesus in The Boys from Syracuse (Sheffield Crucible); Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical); Herman Preysing in Grand Hotel (Donmar); Mr Biggins in Moll Flanders (Lyric Hammersmith); Dafydd in A Chorus of Disapproval (Bristol Old Vic). Television includes Moonflower Murders, The Playlist, Grime Kids, Renegade Nell, The Witcher, Why Didn’t David Robb Clive Wood
They Ask Evans?, Liaison, It’s A Sin, The Accident, The Light, A Confession, Catch 22, The Romanoffs, Decline and Fall, The Last Kingdom, Father Brown, Harley and the Davidsons, The Smoke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Agatha Raisin, The Sarah Jane Adventures, The Bobinogs, Fun with Claude, Doctors, The Tudors, Doctors and Nurses, William and Mary, The New Adventures of Robin Hood, Lifeboat, Rockliffe’s Babies, Joking Apart, Kavanagh QC. Films include Christmas Eve, A Christmas Carol, Devil’s Bridge, Agent Cody Banks: Lost in London, In2Minds. Trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.
Felixe Forde Joan Vincent Theatre includes Juliet in Playing Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Richmond in Henry VI: Rebellion, Bevis in Henry VI: Wars of the Roses (RSC); Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) (Bristol Old Vic & UK tour); The Afflicted (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Petroleuse (Lyric Hammersmith/Evolution Festival). Television includes The Chelsea Detective, Midsomer Murders, Death in Paradise, Doctors. Trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Richard Harrington Nye Bevan Theatre includes Johnny in Home I’m Darling (National Theatre/Duke of York’s); Andrew Woodall
Aufidius in Coriolanus (National Theatre of Wales/RSC); Messenger in The Persians (NTW); Cliff in Look Back in Anger (Theatre Royal Bath); Steve in Other Hands, Art in Art and Gruff (Soho Theatre); Ray in Stone City Blue (Theatr Clwyd); Gary in Unprotected Sex, Brian in Gas Station Angel (Royal Court); House of America (UK tour/ Fiction Factory). Television includes Tree On A Hill, McDonald and Dodds, The One That Got Away, Steeltown Murders, Dalgliesh, Consent, The Chelsea Detective, Endeavour, Gangs of London, A Mother’s Love, The Crown, Death in Paradise, Father Brown, Inspector George Gently, Requiem, Hinterland, Poldark, Woolfblood, Larkrise to Candleford, Collision, Land Girls, MI High, Missing, New Tricks, 5 Days, HolbyBlue, Sold, Casualty, Rise and Fall of Rome, Bleak House, Dalziel & Pascoe, Hustle, Silent Witness, Spooks, Gunpowder Treason and Plot, Holby City, Rehab, Care, Score. Radio includes Release, Castle of the Hawk, The Aeneid, Words & Music: Innocence, One Horizon, The Kraken Waves, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Antony and Cleopatra, And Quiet Flows the Don, Station Road, Night Must Fall, A Civil War, The Assassin, The Elizabethans, The Great Subterranean Adventure. Films include Havoc, Fisherman’s Friends 2, The Most Reluctant Convert, Gwen, The Last Summer, Just Jim, Elfie Hopkins, Burton – The Secret, Daddy’s Girl, The Contractor, The All Together, Mathilde, Secret Passage, Joyrider, House of America. Allison McKenzie Jennie Lee Previously at Chichester, Isobel in The Butterfly Lion (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes Steph in Wilderness (Hampstead Theatre); Lavinia in Seven Acts of Mercy, Hippolyta in The Two Noble Kinsmen, Moretta in The Rover (RSC); The White Witch in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); Lady Macduff/Witch in Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios); Doctor in the House (UK tour); The Snow Queen, Hamlet (Edinburgh Lyceum);
Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Nottingham Playhouse/Edinburgh Lyceum); Witchcraft (Finborough Theatre); James and the Giant Peach (Citizens Theatre); All My Sons, Sally Bowles in Cabaret (TMA nomination for Best Actress), Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Playboy of the Western World (Dundee Repertory Theatre). Television includes Our House, Shetland, Beowulf, Crime, The Victim, Press, Line of Duty, River City, The Athena, Rebus. Trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy Thomas Merriman Theatre includes Phil in The Shape of Things (Park Theatre); Himself in Y’MAM (Young Man’s Angry Movements) (Soho Theatre, Liverpool Everyman & UK tour); title role in Peter Pan (Theatre by the Lake); Sebastian
David Robb Richard Harrington
in Twelfth Night (Liverpool Everyman); Albert Narracott in War Horse (New London Theatre); Andrukha Repin in Galka Motalka (Royal Exchange Theatre Studio). Television includes Testament, Doctor Who, The Girlfriend Experience, Hollyoaks, Doctors. Radio includes Central Intelligence, Convenience Store Woman, In Diamond Square, Love Thy Synth, Indigo Children, Higher: Rebrand Relaunch, Voices Through the Wall. Films include Chosen, Act/Or, The Turing Enigma. Majid is Senior Lecturer in Acting for Stage and Screen at the University of East London. Trained at Manchester School of Theatre. Instagram @majidmvj
Miles Richardson Hugh Dalton Theatre includes over 70 plays in the West End and in numerous repertory companies as well as touring at home and aboard; most recently, The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre); My Fair Lady (Frinton Summer Theatre); Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall); Remains of the Day (Out of Joint tour); This House (National Theatre
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tour). He spent five years at the Royal Shakespeare Company appearing in Love’s Labour’s Lost, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Volpone, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3, Richard III. Other credits include Dear Brutus, The Moment of Truth (Southwark Playhouse); Sleuth (Nottingham Playhouse); King John (Rose Theatre); King Charles III (Wyndham’s
Theatre/Broadway); 12 Angry Men (Garrick Theatre); Anjin: The Shogun and the English Samurai (Tokyo & Sadler’s Wells); Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Newcastle Rep); Another Country (Queen’s); Romeo and Juliet (Ludlow Festival); Wilfred, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, An Inspector Calls, The Contractor (Birmingham Rep); Othello (Theatr Clwyd); Private Lives (Theatre Royal York); Richard II,
Richard III, The Three Musketeers (national tours); An Evening with Gary Lineker (Lyric); The Seagull (Bromley); Journey’s End (King’s Head); Charley’s Aunt, The Three Musketeers (Canizzaro Park); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Westminster Theatre); The Invisible Man (Stratford East/Vaudeville Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre); Candida, The Lovers, Playing Sinatra (New End); Lulu (Almeida & Washington DC).
Television includes Industry, Doctors, The Canterville Ghost, Outlander, Sicknote, The Crown, Genius, Lucan, Jo, Dancing on the Edge, Upstairs Downstairs, Titanic. Films include The Courier, Cranley Gardens, Peterloo, A Quiet Passion. Trained at Arts Educational Drama College, winning the Best Actor Award. David Robb Lord Moran (Charlie Wilson) Previously at Chichester Treasure Island, The Taming of the Shrew, The Beggar’s Opera (Festival Theatre). Theatre includes Michael Mansfield/Ray Bailey in Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Enquiry (Tabernacle Theatre & Birmingham Rep); Sir Anthony Blunt in Single Spies (UK tour); Sir Anthony Eden in The Audience (Apollo Theatre); Claudius in Hamlet (West End & UK tour); Duke of Cornwall in King Lear (Almeida Theatre);
Members of the company
George in Same Time Next Year, Elyot Chase in Private Lives, Sir David Lindsay in Armstrong’s Last Goodnight (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Michael Mansfield in The Colour of Justice (NT & UK tour); Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband (Old Vic); Michael Heseltine in Half the Picture (Tricycle Theatre). Television includes Downton Abbey, Wolf Hall, Garrow’s Law, Sharpe’s Peril, The Roman Mysteries, Rebus, Taggart, Monarch of the Glen, Heartbeat, In the Company of Strangers, Midsomer Murders, The Broker’s Man, The Crow Road, Casualty, Highlander, Half the Picture, Takin’ Over the Asylum, Strathblair, Up the Garden Path, Parnell and the Englishwoman, The Man Who Lived at The Ritz, Wall of Tyranny, Dreams Lost, Dreams Found, First Among Equals, Off Peak, The Last Days of Pompeii, Le Mort d’Arthur, Hamlet, Dangerous Corner, Ivanhoe, Fanny by Gaslight, The Flame Trees of Thika, The Legend of King Arthur,
Forgive Our Foolish Ways, I, Claudius, The Glittering Prizes. Films include Downton Abbey: A New Era, Sacrifice, From Time to Time, Young Victoria, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Deceivers, The Four Feathers, Regeneration, Conduct Unbecoming. Clive Wood Ernie Bevin Theatre includes Marc Antony in Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe); Ben in The Dumb Waiter (The Print Room); Gloucester in King Lear, Domenico in Filumena (Almeida Theatre); Stephano in The Tempest, Swanson in Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket); title role in Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Richard Plantagenet in Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3, Bolingbroke in Richard II, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Macduff in Macbeth, Claudius in Hamlet, title role
in Pilate, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (all Royal Shakespeare Company); Banquo in Macbeth (National Theatre). Television includes Casualty, Sense8, Father Brown, In The Dark, Wallander, Midsomer Murders, Utopia, Holby City, Endeavour, The Bible, Without You, Waking the Dead, Land Girls, The Pillars of the Earth, Eleventh Hour, A Touch of Frost, Dunkirk, The Lion in Winter, Death in Holy Orders, London’s Burning, The Globe, Bonkers, Minder, Press Gang, Mr Palfry of Westminster, A Kind of Loving. Films include Buster, Treasure Island, Red Mercury, The Innocent, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Crucifer of Blood, Suffragette, All The Money In The World. Games: Pirate Lord in Sea of Thieves, Gothi in Hellblade II.
Andrew Woodall Clement Attlee Previously at Chichester, Duke of Norfolk in The Other Boleyn Girl (Festival Theatre), First Light, South Downs/The Browning Version (also West End), all Minerva Theatre. Theatre credits include Bloody Difficult Women (Riverside Studios); Great Britain
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(also West End), Women Beware Women, Much Ado About Nothing, The Life of Galileo, The Voysey Inheritance, Luther, Shape of the Table, Murmuring Judges, Racing Demon, Abingdon Square (National Theatre); Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC); The Knowledge/Little Platoons (Bush);
The Sugar Syndrome, Search and Destroy, Disappeared, Weldon Rising (Royal Court); Something in the Air, Admissions, As You Like It, As You Desire Me, A Letter of Resignation (West End); Gaslight, King Lear, Cloud Nine, Waste, The Provok’d Wife (Old Vic); Certain Young Men, Butterfly Kiss (Almeida); Hedda Gabler (Gate, Dublin);
The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston); Don Carlos (Glasgow Citizens); Benefactors (Sheffield Crucible); The Art of Success (Paines Plough). Television includes The Couple Next Door, The Reckoning, Lockwood & Co, Endeavour, Des, Lucan, Silk, Miranda, New Worlds, An Adventure in Space and Time, Hear the Silence, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, New Tricks, Grantchester, Charles II, Kavanagh QC, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Dalziel & Pascoe, Heartbeat, Nature Boy, Seaforth, Degrees of Error, Prime Suspect III, Headhunters, Wish Me Luck, Hannay. Films include Solo: A Star Wars Story, Where Is Anne Frank?, 303 Squadron, The Riot Club, Belle, Johnny English Reborn, Hypnotic, Count of Monte Cristo, Regeneration.
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Creative Team Deborah Andrews Costume Designer and Costume Supervisor Previously at Chichester as Costume Supervisor, King Lear and The Winslow Boy. Costume Designs in theatre include Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse and St Ann’s Warehouse NY) and The Glass Piano (The Coronet, London). As Co-Costume Designer, work includes Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Patriots (Almeida, West End and Broadway). As Costume Associate Designer: The Birthday Party (West End); The Doctor (Almeida). Work as Costume Supervisor in Theatre includes To Kill a Mockingbird, Prima Facie, Company, Spring Awakening, Ink, The Twilight Zone (Almeida & West End); London Tide, The Welkin, Angels in America (also Broadway) (all National Theatre); in Opera, Katya Kabanova, Otello, Oklahoma (Grange Park Opera); Maria Luisa, Vanessa, The Rape of Lucretia, La bohème, St Matthew Passion (Glyndebourne Festival Opera). Studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art. Christophe Eynde Associate Set Designer Christophe is a set designer for theatre, opera, and dance productions. Other credits as an Associate Designer include Your Lie in April (Harold Pinter Theatre, London), Detention (Cast, Doncaster), and Wild About You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London). Internationally, Christophe was part of Das Rheingold (La Monnaie, Brussels) and is designing Così fan tutte for the Summer of Antwerp festival (Belgium). Christophe holds an MSc in Architecture from KU Leuven and an MA in Scenography from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Instagram @christophe.eynde
Jonathan Kent Director Previous productions at Chichester include Sweet Bird of Youth, David Hare’s Young Chekhov Trilogy (and National Theatre), Gypsy (and West End), Private Lives (and West End), Sweeney Todd (and West End), A Month in the Country. Between 1990 and 2002 Jonathan was joint Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, which he co-founded as a full-time producing theatre. His productions included When We Dead Awaken; All for Love; Medea (also West End/Broadway); Chatsky; The Showman; The School for Wives; Gangster No 1; Tartuffe; The Life of Galileo; The Rules of the Game; Ivanov (also Moscow); The Government Inspector; Naked (also West End); The Tempest; Hamlet (also Broadway); Richard II; Coriolanus (also New York/ Tokyo); Phèdre; Britannicus (also West End/ New York); Plenty (West End); Lulu (also Washington); Platonov and King Lear. Other theatre work includes Double Feature (Hampstead Theatre); Aspects of Love (Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue); Florian Zeller’s The Forest (Hampstead Theatre); Talking Heads (BBC TV, Bridge Theatre); A German Life (Bridge Theatre); The Height of the Storm (Wyndham’s/ Broadway); Peter Gynt (co-production with National Theatre and Edinburgh International Festival); Slaves of Solitude (Hampstead Theatre); Good People (Hampstead Theatre/West End); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Broadway); Le Cid, Mother Courage and Her Children, The False Servant, Oedipus and The Emperor and Galilean (all National Theatre); Man of La Mancha (Broadway); Hamlet (Japan); Hecuba (Donmar); Bond’s Lear (Sheffield Crucible); As You Desire Me (West End); The Country Wife, The Sea and Marguerite (all Theatre Royal Haymarket); Faith Healer (Dublin/Broadway). Opera work includes Elektra and Die Frau ohne Schatten (both Mariinsky,
St Petersburg); The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne/Paris/New York); Tosca (Royal Opera House); A Child of Our Time and The Flying Dutchman (both ENO/Royal Danish Opera); Lucio Silla; Kát’a Kabanová, The Tempest, The Marriage of Figaro and The Letter (all Santa Fe); The Turn of the Screw; Don Giovanni and Hippolyte et Aricie (all Glyndebourne); and Manon Lescaut (Royal Opera House). Jonathan has just completed a film of Long Day’s Journey into Night with Jessica Lange and Ed Harris which is due for release this year. Harry Mackrill Dramaturg Harry is a theatre director, dramaturg and researcher. He was Resident Director at the Tricycle Theatre (2013 – 2015), Associate Director at Kiln Theatre (2018 – 2019) and is co-founder and Creative Director of The Lot Productions. As director: What It Means (The Lot/ Wilton’s); Road (Synergy Theatre Project); World’s End (The Lot/King’s Head); Let Kilburn Shake (Kiln Theatre); Boy with Beer (King’s Head). As dramaturg: Burnt Sugar, The Housing Lark, What It Means (The Lot); The Orchard of Lost Souls (Fio). Harry is currently a Practice as Research PhD researcher at Leeds Beckett School of Arts, exploring the impact of Section 28 through actor training. Peter Mumford Lighting and Video Designer Previous designs at Chichester include Heartbreak House, The Last Confession, The Master and Margarita, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Out of This World (Festival Theatre); 4000 Miles, 8 Hotels, The Stepmother, King Lear (also BAM), The Waltz of the Toreadors (Minerva Theatre). Peter is a former CFT Lighting Design Associate. Recent theatre designs include Boys on the Verge of Tears (Soho Theatre); Rock ‘n’ Roll (Hampstead); Drop The Dead Donkey (UK tour); A Number Paul Unwin
(Bridge Theatre); Far Away (Donmar); Three Sisters (National Theatre); The Ferryman (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); 42nd Street (West End); King Kong (Global Creatures/Australia/Broadway); My Name is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre/ Samuel J Friedman Theatre New York); Ghosts (Almeida/West End/BAM); Long Day’s Journey into Night (West End/BAM). Recent ballet designs Don Quixote (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Within the Golden Hour (Rome/Monte-Carlo/ Bordeaux); Corybantic Games (Royal Ballet). Recent opera designs The Rake’s Progress, L’incoronazione di Poppea (Grange Festival); Orfeo ed Euridice (Staatsoper Hannover); Pearl Fishers, Requiem (Opera North); Die Tote Stadt (Opernhaus Düsseldorf); Falstaff (Greek National Opera); Romeo et Juliette (Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino); Peter Grimes (Paris/ROH/Madrid); Madama Butterfly (Vienna); The Mask of Orpheus (ENO).
Peter directed the concert staging and designed the lighting and projection for Der Ring des Nibelungen (which won the South Bank Sky Arts Opera Award) and Der Fliegende Holländer for Opera North; Fidelio (Garsington); Die Walkure (Lisbon); Otello (Bergen National Opera); and Fidelio (Orchestre de Chambre de Paris). Awards include Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design (The Bacchai); Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance; Knight of Illumination Award (Sucker Punch); Helpmann Award and Green Room Award for Best Lighting (King Kong). He was a double 2019 Tony nominee for Best Lighting Design for The Ferryman and King Kong. petermumford.info
Jack Murphy Choreographer Jack Murphy is a choreographer, movement director and dance teacher, working extensively in film, television and theatre. His work in theatre includes Three Sisters, Treasure Island, 3 Winters, Protest Song, Home, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Collaborators, The Veil, Double Feature, Twelfth Night, Men Should Weep, The History Boys (also UK tour, Broadway and West End), Exiles, The Voysey Inheritance, The False Servant, Remembrance of Things Past, The London Cuckolds at the National Theatre; King John (RSC). Other theatre includes Shining City, Mary Stuart, Not Talking, Utility, A Month of Sundays,
Arms and the Man, Splendour, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hobson’s Choice, A View from the Bridge, The Winter’s Tale, Disgraced, The Winslow Boy, The Recruiting Officer, Good, Marriage of Figaro, Yerma, Heartbreak House, Look Back in Anger, Death of a Salesman. Film and TV includes See How They Run, Bridgerton seasons 1 2 & 3, Queen Charlotte, Great Expectations, Brassic, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, Dancing on the Edge, Parade’s End, Papadopoulous and Sons, Bright Star, Brighton Rock, Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging, The Young Victoria, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Starter for 10, Sylvia, Vanity Fair, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, The Merchant of Venice, Hart’s War, Charlotte Gray, The Wide Sargasso Sea, The Ruby in the Smoke, Colditz, Trial and Retribution IV, Unconditional Love. Jack trained as an actor at LAMDA before retraining as a Director of Movement, Movement Teacher and Choreographer.
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Joanna Parker Set Designer Also for Festival 2024, The Other Boleyn Girl (Festival Theatre). Joanna Parker designs sets and costumes for theatre, opera and dance; her works have premiered in the UK, Europe and the USA. Theatre: Peculiar Journey through Time (The Burg Theater, Vienna); Translations, iGirl, Walls and Windows (Abbey Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); On Raftery’s Hill (Abbey Theatre); The Noise of Time (Complicité/Lincoln Centre NY); The Sarajevo Story (Lyric Hammersmith); American Buffalo and The Misanthrope (Young Vic); After Darwin (Hampstead Theatre); The Robbers (Gate Theatre); Off Camera (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Apache Tears (Clean Break/ Battersea Arts). Opera includes The Requiem/After Tears (and BBC film) and The Pearl Fishers (also Video Designs) and Andrea Chenier (Opera North); Glass Human (Glyndebourne on Tour); Rodelinda, The Rape of Lucretia (RCM); Precipice, Carmen (also Video Design & Movement, Grange Festival Opera); Aida (Opera North/Montpellier
Opera); Turandot (Opera North/Teatro Nacional de São Carlos); The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne Festival/tour/Malmo Opera); The Commission, Café Kafka (ROH & Aldeburgh Music); The Two Widows (Angers Nantes Opera); Eugene Onegin, Flavio, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Alcina, The Marriage of Figaro (English Touring Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera Theatre Company Dublin/Brno Festival Opera); Friend of People (Scottish Opera); Giulio Cesare (ROH). joannaparker.org/selected-works Annelie Powell CDG Casting Director Alice Walters Casting Assistant Also for Festival 2024, Coram Boy (Festival Theatre). Theatre includes Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder (West End & UK tour); Now That’s What I Call a Musical (ROYO/UK tour); A Taste of Honey (Royal Exchange); Oliver!, In Dreams, Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); Of Mice and Men, What’s New
Pussycat? (Birmingham Rep); Unexpected Twist, The Pope (Royal & Derngate); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Terribles); The Other Place Fest (RSC); The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Theatre Royal Stratford East); One Man Two Guvnors (NST/New Wolsey Theatre); CinderELLA, The Shadow Factory (NST); The House of Shades, Vassa (Almeida); Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith); The Weatherman (Park Theatre); Pavilion (Theatr Clwyd); Cougar (Orange Tree/ETT); Billionaire Boy, Fantastic Mr Fox (NST & UK tours); Othello (UK tour & Dubai Opera); Wolfie, Moone Disaster, Cotton Wool (Theatre503); The Audience (Nuffield Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (NST/Theatr Clwyd/ETT); The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (Tower of London); Othello/ Macbeth (Lyric Hammersmith); Don Carlos (Rose Theatre/NST/Northcott); Babette’s Feast (Print Room); Freedom on the Tyne (Freedom City Newcastle); Three Sisters (Lyric Belfast); The Summer Book, The Prince and the Pauper (Unicorn Theatre); I Killed Rasputin (Assembly Rooms
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Edinburgh); Even Stillness Breathes (Soho); Horrible Histories (Birmingham Stage Company); Dead Kid Songs (Theatre Royal Bath); but I cd only whisper, Boy on the Swing (Arcola). Television includes Testament, The River Cruise Romances, Christmas in the Cotswolds, Rita (UK Casting Director), Goldie’s Oldies, Trying (Children’s Casting Associate). Films include Dragonkeeper, Deep Blue Sea 3, Another Day of Life and the shorts I Remember You, Limbo, Thank You Hater! Christopher Shutt Sound Designer Previously at Chichester, Murder on the Orient Express (Festival Theatre), The Inquiry, The Country Girls, The House of Special Purpose (Minerva Theatre). Theatre includes Mnemonic, Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, A Disappearing Number, Elephant Vanishes, Noise of Time, Street of Crocodiles, Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (Complicite); Macbeth (found spaces); Brokeback Mountain, Four Quartets, The Twilight Zone, Frozen, The Entertainer, The Winter’s Tale, The Father (West End); War Horse, The Crucible, The Corn is Green, Paradise, Hansard, Top Girls, Antony and Cleopatra, Julie, John, Twelfth Night, Here We Go, Man and Superman, The James Plays (Parts I & II), From Morning to Midnight, Burnt by the Sun, Every Good
Members of the company
Boy Deserves Favour, Coram Boy, Play Without Words, Machinal (National Theatre); The Treatment (Almeida); Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp, ear for eye, Escaped Alone, Love and Information, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Serious Money, Road (Royal Court); Timon of Athens (& New York/Washington), Macbeth, Hamlet, Oppenheimer (& West End), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wendy and Peter Pan, The Tempest, King Lear (all for RSC); Far Away, St Nicholas, Aristocrats, Knives in Hens, Saint Joan, Faith Healer, Privacy, Philadelphia Here I Come! (Donmar); Timon of Athens, War Horse, A Human Being Died That Night, Macbeth, All My Sons, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Happy Days, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Coram Boy, Not About Nightingales, Mnemonic (Broadway/NY); Hamlet, Julius Caesar (Barbican); All About My Mother (Old Vic). Awards include Tony Award (War Horse); Evening Standard Theatre Award (A Disappearing Number); New York Drama Desk Award (War Horse, Mnemonic, Not About Nightingales). Sydney Stevenson Assistant Director Directing includes Britain’s Happiest Woman (short film), The Three Musketeers (workshop). As Assistant Director Betrayal (Theatre Royal Bath), The Three Musketeers – Attempted by Foolhardy (also writer, online),
1984 (ArtsEd), Set Me Free and Halcyon Heights (short films). Writing Includes Thicker Than Water (winner of the UKTV and Female Pilot club female writers initiative), Old Bag (short film), Fool (series currently in development), Next Door – An Awkward Love Story (Tabard Theatre), M*n and Women (winner of the Voices from Home Competition with Broken Silence Theatre, The Old Red Lion), Bubonic (longlisted for the Papatango Prize and workshopped with ATG). As an actor, theatre includes Relatively Speaking (The Mill at Sonning), Next Door (Tabard Theatre), The Men from the Ministry (White Bear Theatre), Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin (Hawthorne Theatre), The Three Musketeers (The Other Palace). On TV: Doctors, Misfits, Red Dwarf, Me and Mrs Jones, My Family; on Film Old Bag, Love & Spirit, Resting. Paul Unwin Writer Plays include Theory For The Attention Of Mr Einstein (Old Red Lion, Frankfurt Stadt theatre); Doolaly Days (Leicester, tour, Hampstead New End); This Much Is True – The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes (Theatre 503); At The Point Of Need (Old Vic); and The Enfield Haunting (Ambassadors Theatre). As Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic productions include In The Ruins (Bristol Old Vic/Royal Court); The Misanthrope (Bristol Old Vic/National Theatre); Hamlet, Othello, Uncle Vanya, The Clandestine Marriage, The Life of Galileo, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Tartuffe, In Times Like These (by Jeremy Brock) and The Three Musketeers. A Town in the West Country involved three hundred Bristolians and was the subject of an ITV South Bank Show. Worked closely with Arthur Miller on the European premieres of The Man Who Had All The Luck (Bristol Old Vic and Young Vic) and The Archbishop’s Ceiling. Freelance productions include Uncle Vanya (Gate Theatre Dublin), Loot (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and The Misanthrope (Cambridge Theatre). Christophe Eynde
His short film Syrup was nominated for an Oscar, and a BAFTA, won the Cannes Jury Prize and Amnesty International Award. He directed The American with Matthew Modine and Diana Rigg for BBC films. His film Elijah won the Gemini and Leo Awards in Canada. As a TV director, productions include The Bill, EastEnders, Rik Mayall in Claire de Lune and Dirty Old Town, The Bare Necessities, Bramwell, Combat Hospital, NCS, Poirot, Miss Marple, Messiah and Casualty. Breathless co-created with Peter Grimsdale, directed opening and wrote the bulk of the series. Casualty and Holby City co-created with Jeremy Brock. Casualty has won six RTS awards and seven BAFTAs. Currently, working on 58 Seconds with Jeremy Brock and Heroes/Berlin for German TV.
Gary Yershon Composer Gary Yershon’s stage scores include many productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, West End and Broadway; including the English-language premieres of Yasmina Reza’s Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and God of Carnage; Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse); Florian Zeller’s The Height of the Storm (Wyndham’s); and The Norman Conquests (Old Vic/New York: Drama Desk award nomination). Previously at Chichester, The Water Babies, Wild Orchids, The Recruiting Officer and The Magistrate (all Festival Theatre). Dance includes Ma Vie en Rose (Young Vic), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Northern Ballet). Television includes Trial and Retribution IX & X, James the Cat, Ebb and Flo. Radio includes The Odyssey, Gawain and the Green Knight, The Theban Plays, The Winter’s Tale. Autumn Journal. Films include Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy (as musical director), Happy-Go Lucky,
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Another Year (European Film Award nomination), A Running Jump, Mr Turner (Moët et Chandon/Camille Award for Best Orchestral Score, and nominations for an Ivor Novello Award, ASCAP Composer’s Choice award, and Academy Award for Best Original Score), Peterloo and Hard Truths. Concert works include The Great Blueness, commissioned and premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra; Lockdown Variations for solo flute; the wind quintet Ready for Anything; the septet Metamorphonie for the City of Nîmes; and Islands, a suite for French horn, violin and piano, for the Trio Arisonto. Having begun his career as an actormusician, Gary returned to live performance in 2019 with a series of shows at Crazy Coqs. Gary is an Associate Artist of the RSC and the Old Vic, an Associate Teacher at RADA, and a guest lecturer at the London Film School. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the European Film Academy. garyyershon.com
Events
The Promise Live Music Summer Sessions Friday evenings, 19 July – 30 August, 6.15pm Enjoy sunny, summer Friday evenings with live music on Oaklands Park. It’s free whether you’re here for the show or just want to come and soak up the vibes! Free
Pre-Show Talk Friday 26 July, 5.30pm Join director Jonathan Kent for a fascinating insight into how his production came together, with a chance to ask questions of your own. Jonathan is in conversation with bestselling author Kate Mosse. Free but booking is essential.
Post-Show Talk Thursday 15 August Stay after the performance to hear from company members about all the action behind the scenes and ask questions of your own. Free Pre- and Post-Show Talks sponsored by Close Brothers Asset Management
Consider yourself part of the CFT family Get closer to CFT and become part of our community with our Learning, Education and Participation team (you can call them LEAP for short). Whatever your age or ability, there’s something for you at CFT. From people who have been coming to CFT for years, to those who have never set foot in a theatre, we offer exciting opportunities for everyone from newborns to those in their 90s. Weekly classes. One-off workshops. Long term projects to get your teeth into. Our LEAP team does it all. This is a space where experiences are created and shared, and where everyone can find their place. So come join us, and become part of our story.
‘Working at the theatre under many guises gave me a well-rounded knowledge of our industry and the support was always there and still is – I wouldn’t be where I am without it. Please never stop working tirelessly to grow us into the next generation.’ Former CFYT member
‘I’ve discovered abilities I never knew I had. The classes contribute greatly to my quality of life and to that of the wider community.’ Community participant
So many people think they know what we do here at CFT. But did you know that we offer: • Free Youth Theatre places for young carers and anyone from underprivileged backgrounds
• Groups for adults with disabilities
• A creative outlet for isolated individuals through our weekly Chatter Project
• Wellbeing support for participants, visiting cast and company members, and staff
• Weekly Festival Fridays for kids who find creative ways of learning more accessible
• Free Buddy support for anyone who feels unable to attend shows or classes on their own
• Work experience, training opportunities and apprenticeships
• Training opportunities in Technical Theatre And that’s really just scratching the surface of our LEAP team’s reach. Visit cft.org.uk/get-closer or email leap@cft.org.uk to find out more and discover a way into CFT that’s right for you. With thanks to all our amazing LEAP supporters who generously fund this work.
Help us hatch the next generation of talent We have an urgent need to build a third space for emerging artists, community groups and families. Our solution is The Nest: a sustainably built performance venue nestled among the trees, providing a safe space to incubate exciting new projects. It will be a home for community and families, late night and fringe-style events, and it will hatch the work of our Emerging Artists Development Programme.
Help us make our dream a reality The Nest will cost at least £1,500,000 and we need your support to make it happen.
‘The Nest offers an amazing opportunity on a local level and also, really importantly, stands CFT confidently as a national cultural leader and change maker.’ JUSTIN AUDIBERT, CFT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Registered Charity No. 1088552
Please donate today cft.org.uk/the-nest
Staff Trustees Mark Foster (Chairman) Neil Adleman Jessica Brown-Fuller Jean Vianney Cordeiro Paddy Dillon Tasha Gladman Vicki Illingworth Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB CBE Caro Newling OBE Nick Pasricha Philip Shepherd Stephanie Street Hugh Summers
LEAP Ellen de Vere Matthew Downer
Directors Office Justin Audibert Kathy Bourne Keshira Aarabi
Louise Rigglesford
Helena Berry Angela Buckley
Artistic Director Executive Director Projects & Events Co-ordinator Heritage & Archive Manager Projects, Events & Green Book Co-ordinator
Miranda Cromwell Sophie Hobson Hannah Joss
Associate Director Creative Associate Associate Director (Literary)
Patricia Key Aimée Massey
Executive PA Diversity, Inclusion & Change Consultant
Julia Smith
Company Secretary & Board Support
Building & Site Services Chris Edwards Maintenance Engineer Lez Gardiner Duty Engineer Daren Rowland Facilities Manager Graeme Smith Duty Engineer Costume Brooke Bowden Ev Butcher Isabelle Brook Helen Clark Tobias Dane Chris Davenport Sophie Dodd Ella Duffy
Wardrobe Manager Dresser Wardrobe Assistant Dresser Dresser Wardrobe Manager Dresser Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Trainee
Lily Eugene-Kelly Aly Fielden Helen Flower Lysanne Goble Abigail Hart Sophie Kemp Kendal Love
Dresser Wardrobe Manager Senior Costume Assistant Wardrobe Assistant Wardrobe Assistant Wardrobe Assistant Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Manager Deputy Wigs, Hair & Make-Up
Natasha Pawluk Andy Robinson Roseby Willow Scovell
Wardrobe Trainee Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant
Isobel Shackleton
Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant
Hannah Sinclair
Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant
Loz Tait Colette Tulley Rachel Usher Eloise Wood
Head of Costume Wardrobe Maintenance Dresser Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant
Development Nick Carmichael Development Officer Julie Field Friends Administrator Sophie Henstridge-Brown Head of Philanthropy Sarah Mansell Liz McCarthy-Nield Leo Powell Charlotte Stroud Karen Taylor Megan Wilson
Finance Alison Baker Sally Cunningham Krissie Harte Katie Palmer
Simon Parsonage Amanda Trodd Protozoon Ltd
Appeal Director Development Director Appeal Co-ordinator Development Manager Development Manager Events and Development Officer
Payroll & Pensions Officer Purchase Ledger Assistant Finance Officer Assistant Management Accountant Interim Finance & Commercial Director Management Accountant IT Consultants
Youth & Outreach Trainee Cultural Learning & Participation Apprentice
Zoe Ellis Sally Garner-Gibbons
LEAP Co-ordinator Apprenticeship Co-ordinator
Matthew Hawksworth
Head of Children & Young People’s Programme
Hannah Hogg
Senior Youth & Outreach Manager
Shari A. Jessie Kate Potter
Creative Therapist Youth & Outreach Co-ordinator Senior Community & Outreach Manager
Dale Rooks Angela Watkins
Director of LEAP LEAP Projects Manager
Marketing, Communications & Sales Josh Allan Assistant Box Office Manager Caroline Aston Becky Batten
Audience Insight Manager Head of Marketing (Maternity leave)
Laura Bern
Head of Marketing (Maternity cover)
Jessica Blake-Lobb
Marketing Manager (Corporate)
Helen Campbell Jay Godwin Lorna Holmes
Box Office Systems Manager Box Office Assistant Assistant Box Office Manager
Mollie Kent Box Office Assistant Stephanie McKelvey-Aves Marketing & Press Assistant James Mitchell James Morgan Lucinda Morrison
Sales & Marketing Assistant Head of Sales & Ticketing Head of Press & Publications
Brian Paterson Kirsty Peterson Catherine Rankin Vic Shead Luke Shires
Distribution Co-ordinator Box Office Assistant Box Office Assistant Marketing Manager Director of Marketing & Communications
Jenny Thompson
Social Media & Digital Marketing Officer
Grace Upcraft Josh Vine Isobel Walter Claire Walters Joanna Wiege Jane Wolf
Box Office Assistant Box Office Assistant Marketing Officer Box Office Assistant Box Office Manager Box Office Assistant
People Paula Biggs Naz Jahir Emily Oliver Annie Thomas Bent Gillian Watkins
Head of People People Manager Accommodation Co-ordinator People Administrator HR Officer
Production Niamh Dilworth Producer Amelia Ferrand-Rook Senior Producer Robin Longley General Manager Claire Rundle Production Administrator George Waller Trainee Producer Nicky Wingfield Production Administrator Technical Sam Barnes Sound Technician Steph Bartle Deputy Head of Lighting Victoria Baylis Props Assistant Josh Bowles Senior Sound Technician Finley Bradley Technical Theatre Apprentice Leoni Commosioung Stage Technician Rebecca Cran Stage Crew & Stage Technician Sarah Crispin Connor Divers Elise Fairbairn Zoe Gadd Ross Gardner Lyla Garner-Gibbons Sam Garner-Gibbons Jack Goodland Fuzz Guthrie Laura Hackett Jamie Hall Anaya Hammond
Deputy Head of Props Workshop Lighting Technician Stage Technician Lighting Technician Stage Crew Stores Assistant Technical Director Stage Crew & Auto Technician Senior Sound Technician Technical Apprentice Sound Technician Stage Crew
Katie Hennessy Tom Hitchins Joe Jenner
Props Store Co-ordinator Head of Stage & Technical Production Manager Apprentice
Mike Keniger Bethany Knowles Andrew Leighton Ethan Low Fin Macknay Connor McConnell Charlotte Neville Stuart Partrick
Head of Sound Stage Crew Senior Lighting Technician Stage Crew Stage Crew No.1 Sound Engineer Head of Props Workshop Transport & Logistics Assistant
Neil Rose Ernesto Ruiz Max Rusbridge Anna Setchell (Setch) James Sharples Sophie Spencer Laura Sprake Graham Taylor Dominic Turner Linda Mary Wise Simon Woods
Deputy Head of Sound Prop Maker Stage Crew Deputy Head of Stage Senior Stage Crew & Rigger
Stage Crew Senior Lighting Technician Head of Lighting Lighting Technician Sound Technician Stage Crew
Theatre Management Janet Bakose Judith Bruce-Hay Charlie Gardiner Ben Geering
Theatre Manager Duty Manager Duty Manager 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
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Stage Door: Bob Bentley, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Chris Monkton, Sue Welling Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Judith Anderson, Maria Antoniou, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Ieva Bagdonaite, 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, Lyla Garner-Gibbons, Anna Grindel, Caroline Hanton, Justine Hargraves, Joseph Harrington, Joanne Heather, Maisie Henderson, Marie Innes, Keiko Iwamoto, Joan Jenkins, Pippa Johnson, Julie Johnstone, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Grace King, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Judith Marsden, Janette McAlpine, Fiona Methven, Chris Monkton, Ella Morgans, Susan Mulkern, Chris Murray, Lucija O’Donnell, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Alice Rochford, Sian Rodd, Fleur Sarkissian, Derren Selvarajah, Peg Shaw, Janet Showell, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust, Hannah Watts, Sue Welling, Gemma Wilcox, James Wisker, Dawn Wood, Donna Wood, Kim Wylam. We acknowledge the work of all those who give so generously of their time for Chichester Festival Theatre, including our CFT Buddies, Heritage & Archive Volunteers, and our Volunteer Audio Description Team: Lily Barkes, Janet Beckett, Richard Chapman, Tony Clark, Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Richard Frost, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd, Joanna Wiege. Youth Advisory Board: Issie Berg Rust, Theo Craig, Anayis Der Hakopian, Esther Dracott, Chloe Gibson, Aled Hanson, Ophelia Kabdenova, Alice Kilgallon, Francesca McBride, Ace Merriot, Katherine Munden, Jacob Simmonds, Susie Udall, Priya Uddin.
Our Supporters 2024/5 Minerva Season Principal Charles Holloway OBE Major Donors Deborah Alun-Jones Robin and Joan Alvarez Elizabeth and the late David Benson Philip Berry George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Sir William and Lady Castell David and Claire Chitty David and Jane Cobb John and Susan Coldstream Clive and Frances Coward Yvonne and John Dean Jim Douglas Nick and Lalli Draper Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Sir Vernon Ellis Huw Evans Steve and Sheila Evans Val and Richard Evans Sandy and Mark Foster Simon and Luci Eyers Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Angela and Uri Greenwood Themy Hamilton The Heller Family Liz Juniper Roger Keyworth Vaughan and Sally Lowe Jonathan and Clare Lubran Elizabeth Miles Eileen Norris Jerome and Elizabeth O’Hea Denise Patterson DL Stuart and Carolyn Popham Dame Patricia Routledge DBE David Shalit MBE and Sophie Shalit Greg and Katherine Slay Christine and Dave Smithers Alan and Jackie Stannah Oliver Stocken CBE Howard Thompson Bryan Warnett Ernest Yelf
Trusts and Foundations The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Arts Society, Chichester The Bassil Shippam and Alsford Trust The Bernadette Charitable Trust Bruce Wake Charitable Trust The Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity Dora Green Educational Trust The Dorus Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray’s Charity Trust Epigoni Trust Friarsgate Trust The Garrick Charitable Trust The G D Charitable Trust Hobhouse Charitable Trust John Coates Charitable Trust The Mackintosh Foundation The Maurice Marshal Preference Trust Noël Coward Foundation Rotary Club of Chichester Harbour Theatre Artists Fund Wickens Family Foundation
Festival Players 1000+ John and Joan Adams Lindy Ambrose and Tom Reid Sarah and Tony Bolton Robert Brown Ian and Jan Carroll C Casburn and B Buckley Jean Campbell Sarah Chappatte David Churchill Denise Clatworthy Michael and Jill Cook Lin and Ken Craig Deborah Crockford Clive and Kate Dilloway Jim Douglas Peter and Ruth Doust Gary Fairhall Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Wendy and John Gehr Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Mr & Mrs Paul Goswell Rachel and Richard Green Ros and Alan Haigh Rowland and Caroline Hardwick Chris and Carolyn Hughes John and Jenny Lippiett Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Alan and Virginia Lovell Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Sarah Mansell and Tim Bouquet Patrick Martyn Rod Matthews James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Mrs Sheila Meadows Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Roger and Jackie Morris Jacquie Ogilvie 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 Joanna Walker Ian and Alison Warren Angela Wormald
Festival Players 500+ Judy Addison Smith Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Martin Blackburn Janet Bounds Frances Brodsky and Peter Parham Sally Chittleburgh Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Roz Frampton Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Dr Stuart Hall Dennis and Joan Harrison Barbara Howden Richards Karen and Paul Johnston Frank and Freda Letch Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Jim and Marilyn Lush Selina and David Marks Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Sue Marsh Adrian Marsh and Maggie Stoker Trevor and Lynne Matthews Tim McDonald Mrs Mary Newby Margaret and Martin Overington Jean Plowright Ben Reeder Robin Roads Graham and Maureen Russel David Seager John and Tita Shakeshaft Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha Elizabeth Stern Anne Subba-Row Harry and Shane Thuillier Miss Melanie Tipples Penny Tomlinson Tina Webster Chris and Dorothy Weller Nick and Tarnia Williams
...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
Our Supporters 2024/5 Principal Partners Platinum Level
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