Principal Partner
By MIKE BARTLETT
Directed By RUPERT GOOLD
Running Time: Approx 3 hours and 5 mins, incl. an interval
This is our little piece of the world, and we’re allowed to do with it, exactly as we like. Yes?
In the ruins of a garden in rural England.
In a house which was once a home.
A woman searches for seeds of hope.
Following a sell-out run in 2017, The Telegraph’s "Play of the Year" returns to the Almeida for just 31 performances.
Mike Bartlett’s (King Charles III) “richly layered” (The Guardian) state-of-the-nation play is directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold (Ink, The Hunt).
Victoria Hamilton (The Crown) reprises her “extraordinary” (The Times) performance, for which she won Best Actress at the 2018 Critics’ Circle Awards.
★★★★★
“DEEPLY ABSORBING. VICTORIA HAMILTON IS GLORIOUS”
Independent
★★★★★
“THE PLAY THAT BRITAIN NEEDS RIGHT NOW”
The Telegraph
Previews Sat 1 Feb – Tue 4 Feb
Press Night 7pm Wed 5 Feb
Evenings 7.30pm
Wed matinees 2.30pm from 12 Feb
Sat matinees 2.30pm from 8 Feb
1 Feb – 4 Feb
£34, £29, £20, £10
6 Feb – 28 Feb
£42.50, £34, £20, £10
Almeida Rush
Almeida Rush allows audiences to book last minute tickets to popular Almeida shows. Tickets released Tuesday at 1pm here.
Talkback
Mon 17 Feb
Post-show talk with members of the Albion company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Captioned performance
Tue 18 Feb 7.30pm
£5 Captioned tickets are available to those aged 25 and under. Book by calling Box Office on 020 7359 4404.
Audio Described performance
by VocalEyes
Sat 22 Feb 2.30pm
(Touch Tour 12.45pm)
£5 Audio Described tickets are available to those aged 25 and under. Book by calling Box Office on 020 7359 4404.
Filmed Performances
Wed 26 2.30pm & Thu 27 Feb 7.30pm
These performance are being filmed. There may be some disruption or restriction of view as a result of cameras in the auditorium. There will be strictly no latecomers at these performances.
Islington First
Sat 1 Feb – Thu 6 Feb (except 5 Feb)
If you live or work in the Islington area you can book best available seats for £25 for the opening performances, subject to availability.
Enter the promo code ISFIRST at the top of the seating plan screen before selecting your seats. For applicable postcodes see here.
Concessions
Customers claiming Jobseeker's Allowance and students can book second-price band tickets for £25 on Monday - Thursday evenings and Wednesday and Saturday matinees. Concessions tickets are also applicable for first-price band tickets on Wednesday and Saturday matinees*.
Concessions tickets are subject to availability and not available in the final week of performances. For more information click here.
Over 65s
Customers who are 65 and over can book second-price-band tickets* for £25 on Monday - Thursday evenings & Wednesday & Saturday matinees. Over 65s tickets are also applicable for first-price band tickets on Wednesday and Saturday matinees. For more information click here.
Under 30s
Customers aged 30 or under can book second-price-band tickets for £15 on Monday - Thursday evenings and Wednesday & Saturday matinees*.
Access
Deaf and disabled patrons and a companion can buy tickets for £25 for all performances by calling the Box Office on 020 7359 4404.
*Concessions are subject to availability and proof of eligibility is required. Concessions in the final week of performances are only valid for Deaf and disabled bookings
25 and under
£5 tickets are available to those age 25 and under for performances on Mon 3 Feb, Tue 4 Feb, Mon 10 Feb, Tue 11 Feb, Mon 17 Feb & Tue 18 Feb. Enter the promo code 25UNDER to access. Subject to availability. For more information click here.
Available until Tue 15 Sep 2020
Edward
For the Almeida: Albion.
Theatre includes: The Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); Steel (Crucible Theatre); Aladdin (Oxford Playhouse); Three Days In The Country (National Theatre); One Man Two Guvnors; War Horse (National Theatre/West End); Wonderland (Hampstead Theatre); Pastoral (Soho Theatre/High Tide); The 39 Steps (Criterion); Tinderbox (Bush Theatre); The Constant Couple; The Recruiting Officer (Blue Eagle Productions); A New Way To Please You; Sejanus: His Fall; Thomas Moore; Night Of The Soul (RSC); Eden End; Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Neville's Island (Watford Palace Theatre).
Television includes: Casualty; All Creatures Great and Small; Father Brown; The A Word; Pennyworth; Harlots; Trollied; Scarborough; Bounty Hunter; Bliss; Outlander; Little Boy Blue; Vera; Death In Paradise; The Coroner; Class; The Wrong Mans; Doctors; Doctor Who; Holby City; Boy Meets Girl; New Tricks; You, Me & Them; Waterloo Road; Downton Abbey; The Escape Artist; The Starlings; Doc Martin; Moving Wallpaper; The Bill; Trial and Retribution; Coronation Street; The Street; Emmerdale; The Catherine Tate Show; EastEnders; Silent Witness; Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps; Grease Monkeys; Inspector Lynley; Final Demand; Eddie Aspen; Paradise Reclaimed; The Afternoon Play "Heroes & Villains"; Paradise Heights; Grange Hill; Courtroom; Midsomer Murders; A Touch Of Frost; Sharpe; As Time Goes By; Barbara; Coupling.
Film includes: Undercliffe; The Christmas Candle; Lipstikka; Desert Flower; Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution; In Your Dreams; Chain Male; Cheeky; Harold the Amazing Contortionist Pig; Keen Eddie; Thunderpants.
Krystyna
For the Almeida: Albion.
Theatre includes: This Kind of Air (The Bunker); Death of Ophelia (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Us Against Whatever (Liverpool Everyman); Under the Lid (Jermyn Theatre); Tense/Nine (Southwark Playhouse); Twelfth Night (The Dell).
Television includes: Killing Eve; Coronation Street; The Tunnel: Sabotage; Casualty; Suspects; The Bletchley Circle; The Sarah Jane Adventures; Doctors; The Bill; Parliamo Glasgow.
Film includes: Happy Birthday Toby Simpson; Byzantium; The Comedian.
Edyta studied at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology from 2006-2008. She was nominated for Best Actress at the British Independent Film Festival 2017, for Happy Birthday Toby Simpson.
James/ Weatherbury
For the Almeida: Albion (2017).
Theatre includes: Gate (Cockpit Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (HOME Manchester); Your Last Breath (Curious Directive).
Television includes: Cursed; The Liberator; Origin; Cuffs.
Film includes: Waiting for the Barbarians; Justice League; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; Obey.
Wil Coban was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Manchester Theatre Awards 2015.
Anna
Theatre includes: Good People (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); Lavender Blue (Edinburgh Lyceum); A Statement of Regret (National Theatre).
Television includes: The Tunnel; Man in an Orange Shirt; Innocent; Hooten and the Lady; Undercover; Dancing on the Edge; Merlin; Life is Wild; Blue Murder: Crisis Management; Small Time; Talk To Me; Doll Hospital; Secret Life; New Street Law; The Bill; Fear, Stress and Anger; Tripping Over; Doctor Who; Legless; Hustle; Vincent; Holby City; Conviction; Mit: Murder Investigation Team; Gods & Goddesses: The Odyssey; Making Waves; Merseybeat; As If; Manchild; Second Coming; Having It Off; A Good Thief; Casualty; 'Orrible.
Film includes: Magicians; Imagine Me and You; Royston Vasey - The Motion Picture; The Jacket.
Zara
Television includes: Normal People; War of the Worlds; Gentleman Jack; Outnumbered: Christmas Special; Silent Witness; Cold Feet.
Film includes: Pond Life.
Gabriel
Theatre includes: Sing Street (Mark Rubinstein Ltd); Chasing Bono (Soho Theatre).
Television includes: The Witcher.
Film includes: How to Build a Girl.
Matthew
For the Almeida: Ink (also West End); Filumena.
Theatre includes: Paradise (Hampstead Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest; Once In A Lifetime; Piaf (West End); Noises Off; Old Money; The Tempest; The Way of the World; Dracula; Arsenic And Old Lace (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Faery Queen (Aix-en-Provence); The Invisible Man (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Churchill Play; The Alchemist (National Theatre); Toad of Toad Hall (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Real Inspector Hound (Warehouse Productions); Jew of Malta; The Witch of Edmonton; Arden of Faversham; The Roaring Girl; Love’s Sacrifice; Volpone; As You Like It; King Lear; The Taming of the Shrew; Julius Caesar; The Merchant of Venice; The Changeling; Softcops; Coriolanus; Happy End; The Odyssey; Sejanus: His Fall (RSC); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC USA/European tour); Richard III (RSC Australian tour); Travesties (RSC/Savoy Theatre); The Winter’s Tale; The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe; King John; The Malcontent; Eastwood Ho! (RSC/ West End).
Television includes: Will; Law & Order; Poirot; Peak Practice; The Bill; EastEnders; Trial & Retribution VII; Foyle’s War; The Commander; Midsomer Murders; The Government Inspector; Doctors.
Film includes: The Program; Invisible Woman; Sabotage; The Leading Man; A Bridge Too Far.
Audrey Walters
For the Almeida: Albion (2017); The Doctor’s Dilemma.
Theatre includes: Love, Love, Love (Royal Court); Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse/West End); Once in a Lifetime; Summerfolk; Money (National Theatre); Suddenly Last Summer (Donmar Warehouse/UK Tour); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Roundabout Theatre, New York/West End); Sweet Panic; Home & Beauty; The Master Builder (West End); The Country Wife; As You Like It (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); King Lear; The Provoked Wife; The Seagull (Old Vic); Troilus and Cressida; As You Like It (RSC); Retreat; Memorandum (Orange Tree Theatre).
Television includes: Life; Cobra; Deep State; Urban Myths – The Trial of Joan Collins; The Crown; Doctor Foster; Our Ex-Wife; The Circuit; Call the Midwife Christmas Special; The Game; What Remains; Toast; Larkrise to Candleford; Time of Your Life; Trial & Retribution; Wide Sargasso Sea; The Shell Seekers; A Very Social Secretary; Jericho; Spine Chillers; To the Ends of the Earth; The Brontes; Goodbye Mr Chips; Baby Father - I & II; Victoria & Albert; The Savages; King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice.
Film includes: French; Scoop; Before You GoMansfield Park
Victoria won the Evening Standard best actress award for Suddenly Last Summer and was nominated for a Tony award for Joe Egg. She has also been awarded Best Actress at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards three times, including for her performance in Albion in 2017.
Cheryl
For the Almeida: Albion; King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway); The Knot of the Heart.
Theatre includes: Admissions (Trafalgar Studios); Stories (National Theatre); Seventeen (Lyric Hammersmith); Hamlet; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Winter's Tale; Long Day’s Journey into Night; Habeas Corpus; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Glass Menagerie; All My Sons; Ghosts; The Enemies Within (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); The Conversation (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Coriolanus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Colder Than Here; Protection (Soho Theatre); Frame 321 (Donmar Warehouse); The Lucky Ones (Hampstead Theatre); God Only Knows; The Memory of Water (Vaudeville Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew; Anthony and Cleopatra (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Broken Glass (National Theatre/ West End/ UK Tour); Macbeth; The Crucible; Measure for Measure (Young Vic).
Television includes: Hannah; King Charles III; Broken Glass; New Tricks; Frankie; Law and Order; The Take; Five Days; Miller Shorts; King Girl.
Film includes: Mum; Blue Borsalin; Full Time.
Margot won the Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and was nominated for an Oliver Award for Best Actress in Broken Glass.
Paul Walters
For the Almeida: Albion; King Charles III (also West End).
Theatre includes: Madness Of George III (Theatre Royal Bath); Into Thy Hands; The Way of the World (Wilton's Music Hall); Whipping It Up (Bush Theatre/ West End); See How They Run; Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy (West End); Hamlet (Hackney Empire/ Broadway); Romeo and Juliet; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (English Touring Theatre); Donkey's Years (Rose Theatre Kingston); Raving (Hampstead Theatre); Nation (National Theatre); Victory (Arcola Theatre); An English Tragedy (Watford Palace Theatre); The John Wayne Principle (Pleasance Theatre); The Importance Of Being Earnest (Nottingham Playhouse); Translations (Edinburgh Lyceum); Hamlet (Hackney Empire); Saint Joan (Clwyd/West End); Twelfth Night (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).
Television includes: Road Kill; Washington; Belgravia; The Joy of Oscar Wilde; Grantchester; Genius: Einstein; Riviera; Doctor Thorne; The Crown; The Last Kingdom; Da Vinci's Demons; George Gentley; Midsomer Murders; Loving Miss Hatto; Borgias; Kingdom; Margaret; Hotel Babylon; Sold; Easy Peasy; Beau Brummel; A Harlot's Progress; Gil Mayo; Broken News; Our Hidden Lives; Princes in the Tower; Waste of Shame; The Black Death; The Fugitives; Holby City; La Femme Musketeer; Outside the Rules; Shackleton; The Infinite Worlds Of H.G. Wells; Longitude; A Dance to the Music of Time.
Film includes: Hurt by Paradise; Waiting for Anya; Remi Sans Famille; Old Boys; A United Kingdom; Snowden; Mr Holmes; Delicious; The Duel; Crying Shame; Nicholas Nickleby; Enigma; A Lover’s Prayer; All Forgotten; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; The Young Sherlock Holmes.
Nicholas trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Katherine Sanchez
For the Almeida: Albion.
Theatre includes: Hamlet/As You Like That (Shakespeare’s Globe); Boys Will Be Boys; Whipping It Up (Bush Theatre); Frozen (Park Theatre); Single Spies (Rose Theatre Kingston); Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Bracken Moor (Tricycle Theatre); Fireface (Young Vic); Blue/Orange (Arcola Theatre); Skane; No Experience Required; Comfort Me with Apples (Hampstead Theatre); The Gods Weep; The Merchant Of Venice; Twelfth Night (RSC); The Crucible (RSC/West End); The Stone; Wild East; The Weather/Bear Hug (Royal Court); Messiah (Old Vic); A Moon For The Misbegotten; Uncle Vanya; King Lear; The Illusion; Road To Mecca (Royal Exchange Theatre); Oresteia; War and Peace; Inadmissible Evidence (National Theatre); Mill On The Floss (Shared Experience); An Inspector Calls; Becket (West End).
Television includes: Midsomer Murders; Lewis; Merlin; EastEnders; The Hour; Nativity; Criminal Justice; Sensitive Skin; Trial and Retribution; Sex Traffic; Rose and Maloney; Bad Girls; The Playground; Waking the Dead; The Way We Live Now; The Greatest Store On Earth; Persuasion; The Cormorant; Bad Girl; Devil’s Advocate; Harnessing Peacocks.
Film includes: Dirty War; Twenty Four Hour Party People.
Writer
For the Almeida: Vassa; Game; King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway).
Theatre includes: Wild (Hampstead Theatre); An Intervention (Paines Plough/ Watford Palace); Bull (Crucible Theatre/ Off Broadway/ Young Vic); Medea; Decade (Headlong); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); 13 (National Theatre);
Earthquakes in London (Headlong/ National Theatre); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough/ Plymouth Theatre Royal/ Royal Court/ Roundabout Theatre Company, New York); Cock; Contractions; My Child (Royal Court); Artefacts (Bush Theatre/ Nabokov).
As Director: Medea (Headlong/ Glasgow Citizens/ Watford/ Warwick); Honest (Theatre Royal Northampton).
Television includes: King Charles III; Doctor Foster; The Town.
Radio includes: King Charles III; Cock; Heart; The Core; Family Man; Love Contract; The Steps; Not Talking.
King Charles III won an Olivier award for Best New Play in 2015. Both Bull and Cock, won Olivier Awards for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. He also won a Theatre Award UK for Best New Play for Love, Love, Love.
Direction
Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, and was founding Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005 to 2013, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005.
For the Almeida: The Hunt; Shipwreck; Albion; Ink; Richard III; Medea; The Merchant of Venice; King Charles III; American Psycho; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Theatre includes: The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong/ National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong/ West End/ Broadway); Made in Dagenham; Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; No Man’s Land (West End); King Lear (Headlong/ Liverpool Everyman/ Young Vic); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong/ West End); Macbeth (Chichester/ West End/ Broadway); Faustus; Restoration; Paradise Lost (Headlong); Hamlet; Summer Lightning; Insignificance; Paradise Lost; Waiting for Godot; The Weir; Betrayal; Othello; (Royal Theatre, Northampton); Scaramouche Jones (Dublin Festival/ World Tour); The Wind in the Willows (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Privates on Parade (New Vic Theatre); Gone to LA; Sunday Father (Hampstead Theatre); Broken Glass (Watford Palace Theatre); Habeus Corpus; Summer Lighting; Dancing at Lughnasa (Salisbury Playhouse); The End of the Affair (Bridewell Theatre); The Colonel Bird (Gate Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Greenwich Theatre).
Opera includes: Turandot (English National Opera); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera); Gli Equivoci; Il Pomo D’Oro (Batignano Opera Festival).
Television includes: Macbeth; King Charles III; Richard II.
Film includes: True Story; Judy.
Rupert has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director. He won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth. Rupert was awarded a CBE in the 2017 New Years Honours for services to drama.
Design
For the Almeida: Shipwreck; Machinal; Albion; Boy; When the Rain Stops Falling; Judgement Day.
Theatre and Dance includes: King Lear; To Kill a Mockingbird; Three Tall Women; A Doll’s House 2; The Children (Broadway); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ New York); The Trial; Public Enemy; Wild Swans; The Government Inspector; In the Red and Brown Water; The Good Soul of Szechuan; Generations (Young Vic); Get Santa!; Sucker Punch; Cock; In the Republic of Happiness (Royal Court Theatre); The Children; Escaped Alone; Love and Information (RCT and New York); Sunny Afternoon; Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre and West End); Bend it Like Beckham (West End); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Red Demon; The Bee (Young Vic / Japan); Guantanamo: “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” (Tricycle Theatre/ West End/ New York/ San Francisco); Frame of View (Cedar Lake, New York).
Opera includes: La Fanciulla Del West (ENO and Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck (ENO); Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House); Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House and New York); The Death of Klinghoffer (Edinburgh Festival/ Scottish Opera).
Miriam trained in costume design at Akademie für Kostüm Design in Hamburg, and in theatre design at Central Saint Martin’s, London. She won The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 1999, and received the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London and Sucker Punch, and in 2018 for The Jungle.
Light
For the Almeida: The Hunt; Albion; Ink (also West End/ Broadway); The Treatment; Medea; Children’s Children; Mrs Klein; Judgement Day; The Homecoming; Marianne Dreams; Dying for It; Tom and Viv; Romance; Macbeth.
Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London/ Broadway/ Melbourne); The Night of the Iguana; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Labour of Love; Photograph 51; Shakespeare in Love; Henry V; The Starry Messenger; Red; The Weir; Hamlet; Madame de Sade; Twelfth Night; Rosmersholm; No Man’s Land; Bitter Wheat; The Entertainer; The Winter’s Tale; All On Her Own / Harlequinade; Company; Frost/Nixon; Piaf; The Prisoner of Second Avenue; Travesties; A Life in the Theatre; South Downs; The Browning Version; Death and the Maiden; The Children’s Hour; The Goat; Great Britain; Japes; Bend it Like Beckham; Betty Blue Eyes; Much Ado About Nothing; The Sunshine Boys (West End); Buried Child; The Hothouse; Dealer’s Choice (Trafalgar Studios); Blues in the Night (Kiln Theatre); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Travesties; Hughie; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Evita; Red; Hamlet; The Seafarer; Frost/Nixon (Broadway). Neil has also designed 40 shows at the National Theatre and 26 at the Donmar Warehouse.
Neil was the recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Ink on Broadway; 2019 Helpmann Award for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in Melbourne; 2019 Knight of Illumination Award for Company in the West End; 2018 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway; the 2017 Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London; the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for The White Guard, and the 2010 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Red.
Sound
For the Almeida: Albion; Against; The Merchant of Venice; Cloud Nine.
Theatre includes: Rosmersholm; The Goat Or Who Is Silvia?; The Truth; Stepping Out; My Night With Reg; Goodnight Mister Tom; The Vortex; A Voyage Around My Father; And Then There Were None; Some Girls; Waiting for Godot; What the Butler Saw (West End); The Beacon; Shelter; Furniture; Richard III (Druid); Twelfth Night (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Admissions (Trafalgar Studios); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End); Orpheus Descending (Theatr Clwyd/ Menier Chocolate Factory); The Gronholm Method; Fiddler on the Roof; Spamilton; The Bridges of Madison Country; Lettice & Loveage; The Truth; Dinner With Saddam; Assassins; Two Into One; The Lyons; The Color Purple; Travels With My Aunt; Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Two Noble Kinsmen; The Alchemist; All’s Well That Ends Well; Coriolanus; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Tantalus; Cymbeline; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); A Steady Rain; The American Plan (St James’s); Stepping Out; Henry IV Parts I and II; Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell; Blithe Spirit; The Rivals; Hedda Gabler; The Winslow Boy; Balmoral; Peter Hall Company Season (Theatre Royal Bath); Welcome Home Captain Fox!; My Night With Reg; Versailles; The Night Alive; A Voyage Around My Father; The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse); The Color Purple (Broadway); The Twits; The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court); Medea; The Doctor’s Dilemma; Misterman; Tristan & Yseult (National Theatre); Clarence Darrow; A Flea In Her Ear; National Anthems; Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); Journey’s End (Duke of York’s/New York); Equus (Gielgud /New York); The Wizard of Oz; The Midnight Gang; The Watsons; A Christmas Carol; Mrs Pat; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Chichester Festival Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); The Birthday Party (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Seagull (Headlong); Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre Kingston); Arcadia (English Touring Theatre); King of The Castle; The Irish Shakespeare Project; Brigit; Bailegangaire (Druid Theatre); The Night Alive; The Philanthropist; Pygmalion (New York).
For his work on Journey’s End Gregory won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design. Gregory also won a Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for his work on Equus.
Casting
For the Almeida: Shipwreck; Dance Nation; Albion; Boy.
Theatre includes: Sweat (Donmar Warehouse); A Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); Exit the King; Consent (National Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Harold Pinter Theatre); Girls and Boys; The Ferryman; Cyprus Avenue; X; Hangmen; Escaped Alone; Linda; Liberian Girl; The Twits; Violence and Son; How to Hold Your Breath; Constellations; Jumpy; Posh; The River; Love and Information; In Basildon; Love, Love, Love; Choir Boy; Chicken Soup With Barley; Sucker Punch; The Vertical Hour (Royal Court); Jerusalem (Royal Court/ West End); Measure for Measure (Young Vic); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre).
Movement Director
Rebecca is Associate Director at the Almeida Theatre and was previously on the Almeida’s Resident Director Scheme supported by the Eranda Rothschild Foundation.
As director, for the Almeida: Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke (also West End).
As director, theatre includes: Steel (Sheffield Crucible); From Morning to Midnight (Bridewell Theatre); Educating Rita (Durham Gala); Julie; What Are They Like?; Idomeneus (Northern Stage); You, Me, and Everything Else (Soho Theatre/UK Tour); Aftermath (Royal & Derngate); A Streetcar Named Desire - Parallel Production (Young Vic); Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Greenwich Theatre); Summer and Smoke (Southwark Playhouse); Bassett (New Diorama).
As Resident/Assistant Director, for the Almeida: Ink.
As Resident/Assistant Director, theatre includes: James and the Giant Peach; The wonderful Wizard of Oz; Here is the News from Over There; Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage); The Taming of The Shrew (RSC); From Morning to Midnight; Liola (National Theatre); The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (ThreeSixty Productions); After Miss Julie (Young Vic); Dream Story (The Gate).
Rebecca trained at Goldsmiths, LAMDA, and on the National Theatre Studio’s Directors Course. Upon graduating she received a Jerwood Assistant Director Bursary to train at the Young Vic and in 2015 she won the acclaimed Regional Theatres Young Directors Scheme Bursary at Northern Stage. She was one of the first winners of the Michael Grandage Company Futures Bursary in 2016, was Runner-Up for the Royal Theatrical Support Trust Director Award 2016 and a 2017 finalist, and was a finalist for the 2014 & 2017 Genesis Future Directors Award at the Young Vic.
Associate Director
For the Almeida: Albion; The Twilight Zone.
As director and co-writer: Drac and Jill; The Rocky Shock (The Wardrobe Theatre); South Western (Tobacco Factory Theatres); RIOT; 33; The Forever Machine (Wardrobe Ensemble).
As co-director and co-writer: The Last of the Pelican Daughters; 1972: The Future of Sex; Eloise and the Curse of the Golden Whisk (Wardrobe Ensemble).
As director: 252AM (Shady Dolls Theatre).
As co-director and writer: The Episode (UK Tour).
As writer: Weapons; Congregation (The North Wall).
As co-writer and performer: Education Education Education (Wardrobe Ensemble/ Royal and Derngate Northampton/ Shoreditch Town Hall/ Trafalgar Studios).
Tom trained in American Theatre at Rose Bruford and on Made in Bristol at the Bristol Old Vic. He is a founding member of The Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol, where in 2011, he founded Closer Each Day, an improvised soap opera that continues to be performed bi-weekly.
Associate Lighting Designer
As Associate Lighting Designer, for the Almeida: The Hunt; Three Sisters; Machinal; Ink (also West End).
As Lighting Designer, theatre includes: Jellyfish (National Theatre); Cracked; Remembrance (Old Vic); Either; Paradise; Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre); Le Grand Mort (Trafalgar Studios); Gently Down the Stream; Alkaline (Park Theatre); Absurd Person Singular (Watford Palace Theatre); Mythic (Charing Cross Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain (The Mill at Sonning); Sonny; Once On This Island (ArtsEd); Blood Orange; The Moor; Where Do Little Birds Go? (Old Red Lion Theatre); Checkpoint Chana; Quaint Honour; P’yongyang; We Know Where You Live; Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre); Beast; Klippies (Southwark Playhouse); Vincent River (Hope Mill Theatre); Pattern Recognition (Platform Theatre/ World Tour); Reared; Screwed; Grey Man (Theatre 503); The Trap (Omnibus Theatre); Scenes from the End of the World; The Act (Yard Theatre); Constellations (Théâtre Municipal de Fontainebleau); Shudder (Soho Theatre).
As Associate Lighting Designer, theatre includes: The Night of the Iguana; The Starry Messenger; Bitter Wheat (West End); SiX (International); Blues in the Night (Kiln Theatre); Amélie (Werk7, Munich); The Grit in the Oyster (Sadler’s Wells/ World Tour); The Measures Taken; All That is Solid Melts into Air (Royal Opera House/ World Tour).
Jamie trained at RWCMD, and has been nominated for a Knight of Illumination Award, a Broadway World Award and four Offie Awards for Best Lighting Design.
Costume Supervisor
Claire is Head of Costume at the Almeida Theatre, and during her time here has supervised the following productions: Boy; Hamlet; Oil; Against; Dance Nation; The Wild Duck; The Tragedy of King Richard II.
Prior to her time as Head of Costume, Claire was a freelance Costume Supervisor, working at venues such as The National Theatre, The Royal Court and the Young Vic to name a few.
★★★★ Miriam Buether's beautiful turf-topped set, slowly blossoming with the installation of dozens and dozens of plants
ALEX WOOD, WHATSONSTAGE
The running time is approximately 3 hours and 5 minutes, including a 20 minute interval. Running times may change during preview performances.
Please note there is no level access in the stalls for Albion. Audiences sitting in Stalls Right will need to enter the auditorium by the outside doors which includes using stairs. If you have any questions please contact the Box Office on 020 7359 4404.
This production includes strobe lighting, loud noises, and features real plants and flowers. Read more about our production guidance and warnings or contact Box Office if you have specific concerns.
There is no cloakroom or storage space at the theatre, so please do not bring large bags or bicycles as we will be unable to accommodate them.
By Mike Bartlett
Direction Rupert Goold
Design Miriam Buether
Light Neil Austin
Sound Gregory Clarke
Casting Amy Ball
Movement Director Rebecca Frecknall
Associate Director Tom Brennan
Associate Lighting Designer
Jamie Platt
Costume Supervisor Claire Wardroper
Assistant Designer Joana Dias
Voice Coach Alison Bomber
Cast
Nigel Betts
Edyta Budnik
Wil Coban
Angel Coulby
Daisy Edgar-Jones
Dónal Finn
Geoffrey Freshwater
Victoria Hamilton
Margot Leicester
Nicholas Rowe
Helen Schlesinger