Alma Mater
By Kendall Feaver, Directed by Polly Findlay
Event details
Tue 11 Jun - Sat 20 Jul 2024
It’s a culture that begins with a joke, a gesture, a throwaway word or a game between friends, and it ends in an act of violence.
Jo Mulligan is the first female master in her prestigious college’s history. Determined to create a space where everyone feels welcome, she starts dismantling old ways of working.
But an alarming incident on campus throws her tenure into turmoil, and Jo is pitted against Nikki, a student impatient for justice.
With the college polarised and both sides doubling-down, will anyone emerge unscathed?
Kendall Feaver follows her “funny, heart-breaking, acutely alive play” (The Guardian) The Almighty Sometimes, with a sharp new look at the ever-growing generational divide between feminists. Directed by Polly Findlay (Assassins; Beginning), featuring a cast including Phoebe Campbell (House of the Dragon; The Importance of Being Earnest) and Lia Williams (Oresteia; Mary Stuart), Alma Mater will ignite discussion on the right way to make a difference.
Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees 2.30pm
Access Performances
Book our access performances by calling Box Office on 020 7359 4404 or email boxoffice@almeida.co.uk.
Audio Described Sat 13 Jul 2.30pm (Touch Tour 12.30pm)
Captioned Tue 2 Jul 7.30pm
Relaxed Environment Wed 10 Jul 2.30pm & 7.30pm
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Introducing the play
Find out more about this UK premiere from Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold as he introduces Kendall Feaver‘s sharp new play.
Cast & Creatives
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Cast
Nathalie Armin
Phoebe Campbell
Liv Hill
Liam Lau-Fernandez
Nathaniel Parker
Lia Williams
Susannah Wise
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Creatives
Kendall Feaver
Writer
Polly Findlay
Director
Vicki Mortimer
Set Designer
Fay Fullerton
Costume Designer
Jessica Hung Han Yun
Lighting Designer
Ian Dickinson
Sound Designer
Alev Lenz
Composer
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Movement Director
Shelley Maxwell
Theatre includes: Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ West End); Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep); The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical (Storyhouse); Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (West End); J’Ouvert (Theatre503/ West End); After Life; Master Harold and the Boys; Hansard; Antony and Cleopatra; Twelfth Night (National Theatre); Nine Night (National Theatre/ West End); Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East /West End); Tartuffe (RSC); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Faustus (Headlong/ Lyric Hammersmith); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); Grey (Ovalhouse); King Hedley II (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Cougar; Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); Winter; Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere (Young Vic); Cuttin’It (Young Vic/ Royal Court); A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield Southampton Theatre/ Theatr Clwyd/ ETT); Rules for Living (Royal & Derngate, Northampton/ Rose Theatre, Kingston/ ETT); Apologia (English Theatre Frankfurt)
Television includes: Anansi Boys.
Shelley won the award for Best Choreographer at the inaugural Black British Theatre Awards in 2019 for her work on Equus.
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Casting Director
Amy Ball
For the Almeida: Portia Coughlan; Women, Beware the Devil; “Daddy” A Melodrama; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Dance Nation; Boy.
Theatre includes: Hamnet (RSC); Jerusalem; Leopoldstadt; Uncle Vanya; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Night of Iguana; Rosmersholm; True West; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; The Pillowman (West End); The Son (Kiln Theatre/ West End); Sweat (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre/ West End); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); The Birthday Party; Consent (National Theatre/ West End); Hangmen (Royal Court/ West End/ Atlantic Theater Company); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Stories; Exit the King (National Theatre); White Noise; A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The Brothers Size (Young Vic); Maryland; ear for eye; Girls & Boys; Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court).
Access Performances
Audio Described Sat 13 Jul 2.30pm (Touch Tour 12.30pm)
Captioned Tue 2 Jul 7.30pm
Relaxed Environment Wed 10 Jul 2.30pm & 7.30pm
For full information about how to book for our access performances please visit our Access For All page.
Concessions
All concession tickets are limited and subject to availability. Proof of eligibility is required. Concessions in the final week of performances are only valid for Deaf and disabled bookings. More info
Deaf and disabled patrons and a companion can buy discounted tickets by calling the Box Office on 020 7359 4404 or email boxoffice@almeida.co.uk.
£5 tickets will be available to those aged 25 and under for performances from Tue 11 Jun – Mon 17 Jun. Enter code 25UNDER when selecting your seats. Tickets go on sale at 4pm on Wed 22 May. More info
If you are aged 30 or under, over 65 or are unemployed you can book tickets at a discounted rate. Not applicable on Fri or Sat evenings.
If you live or work in the Islington area you can book best available seats for £25 for performances from Tue 11 – Mon 17 Jun and Wed 19 Jun, subject to availability. Enter promo code ISFIRST when selecting your seats. Find applicable postcodes here.
Talks & Events
Talkback
After Mon 8 Jul performance
A post-show talk with members of the company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Almeida For Free
Thu 27 Jun 7.30pm
A free performance for those aged 25 and under. Sign up to our emails for Tickets & Events for 16-25s to be notified when tickets are available.
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Kendall Feaver was part of the inaugural Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme in 2019-20. This programme is made possible with support from the Genesis Foundation.
An earlier version of this play was performed at Griffin Theatre Company in November 2021 at the SBW Stables Theatre.