Almeida West End
By James Graham
Directed By Rupert Goold
Tickets £10 - £95
The Duke of York's Theatre, London
★★★★★
‘A play for today. The blazingly talented James Graham has penned a super, soaraway smash.’
Daily Telegraph
Nominated for Best Play, Best Actor (Bertie Carvel) and Best Design at the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. A young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asks the impossible and launches The Sun’s first editor’s quest: to give the people what they want. No matter the cost.
Following a sell-out season at the Almeida, Ink, written by James Graham (This House) and directed by Rupert Goold (King Charles III) transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited season. With a cast featuring Bertie Carvel (Doctor Foster; Matilda) and Richard Coyle (The Associate, The Lover) this ruthless, red-topped new play leads with the birth of this country’s most influential newspaper.
Ink in the West End is produced by the Almeida Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions.
Photographs taken at the Almeida by Marc Brenner.
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Previews Sat 9 Sep - Mon 18 Sep
Press Night Tue 19 Sep
Midweek matinees 2.30pm from Thurs 14 Sep
Sat matinees 2.30pm from Sat 16 Sep
Captioned Performance Captioned by Stagetext
Tue 7 Nov 7.30pm
Audio Described by VocalEyes
Tues 21 Nov 7.30pm (Touch Tour time 6pm)
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Gerard Croiset
Theatre includes: I Want My Hat Back; Treasure Island; There Is a War (National Theatre); Image Of An Unknown Woman (Gate Theatre); Moby Dick; The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; The Four Stages of Cruelty (Arcola Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk; The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse); 66 Books (Bush Theatre); The Snow Queen (Dukes Lancaster); Alice in Wonderland (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); We All Fall Down (En Masse Theatre); A Month in the Country (Salisbury Playhouse); Macbeth (Broadway's Lyceum/West End/Chichester Festival Theatre); Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre); Scenes from an Execution (Sweet Pea Productions).
Television includes: Doc Martin; In the Flesh.
Film includes: Macbeth; Peacock Season.
Oliver trained at LAMDA.
Anna Murdoch / Diana / Chrissie
Theatre includes: The Karaoke Theatre Company; Consuming Passions (Scarborough); Time of My Life; Arrivals and Departures (Scarborough / New York); Refugee Boy; Angus, Thongs and Even More Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Galka Matalka (Man Met Exchange/ Royal Exchange, Manchester); Doctor Faustus (Royal Exchange, Manchester).
Television includes: DCI Banks; Casualty; Doctors.
Film includes: The Rochdale Pioneers.
Rupert Murdoch
For the Almeida: Bakkhai; Rope.
Theatre includes: The Hairy Ape (Old Vic); Damned by Despair; The Man of Mode; Life of Galileo; Coram Boy;(National Theatre); Doctor Dee (Manchester International Festival); Matilda: The Musical (RSC / West End/Broadway); The Pride (Chichester/ UK tour); Parade (Donmar Warehouse); Faustus (Etcetera Theatre); Professor Bernhardi; Rose Bernd (OSC/Arcola/Dumbfounded Theatre); Macbeth (Union Theatre / En Masse); Revelations (Hampstead Theatre).
Television includes: Doctor Foster; Coalition; The Wrong Mans; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; Babylon; Restless; Hidden; The Crimson Petal & The White; Just William; Sherlock; Midsomer Murders; Waking The Dead; Primeval; John Adams; Doctor Who; Holby City; The Genius of Beethoven; Bombshell; Hawking.
Film includes: Les Misérables.
Stephanie Rahn
Theatre includes: Julie (Northern Stage Company); The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre); The Angry Brigade (Bush Theatre); Crave; 4.48 Psychosis (Crucible, Sheffied); Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Godchild (Hampstead Theatre); The Seagull (Headlong).
Television includes: Endeavour; Arthur and George; Holby City.
Film includes: The Final Haunting; Mr Turner.
Hugh Cudlipp
For the Almeida: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Theatre includes: Young Chekhov Season; The Hard Problem; The Magistrate; The Power of Yes; Democracy (National Theatre); Ivanov; Platonov; A Month in the Country; Black Comedy (Chichester); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester/West-End/Toronto); Privacy (Donmar); Relatively Speaking; Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams ); Noises Off (Old Vic/Novello); Donkeys Years (Comedy); Neville's Island (Apollo); What the Butler Saw ( Criterion); Bear Hug (Royal Court); According to Hoyle; The Philanderer; Hedda Gabler; The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Hampstead); Making Noise Quietly (Bush).
Television includes: Collateral; Endeavour; Parade's End; Downton Abbey; Pillars of the Earth; The old Curiosity Shop; The Last Detective; Doc Martin; Rome; Heartbeat; Foyle's War; Hornblower; Shipman; Midsomer Murders; Nicholas Nickleby; Falklands Play; Longitude; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Touch of Frost; Annie's Bar; The Rector's Wife; Middlemarch; Inspector Morse; Northanger Abbey; Silas Marner; Rumpole of the Bailey and Brideshead Revisited.
Film includes: Conspiracy; Mashenka; The Lost Prince; The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
Larry Lamb
Theatre includes: Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory); Polar Bears; After Miss Julie; Proof (Donmar Warehouse); The Lover / The Collection (West End) Look Back In Anger (Theatre Royal Bath); Don Carlos (Crucible, Sheffield / West End); The York Realist (Royal Court & West End).
Television includes: Hard Sun; Born to Kill; The Fall; The Collection; AD; Crossbones; Life of Crime; Covert Affairs; Going Postal; Whistleblowers; The History of Mr Polly; Ultra; Cracker; The Best Man; Gunpowder, Treason and Plot; Strange; Coupling; Othello; Lorna Doone; Sword of Honour; Hearts and Bones; Up, Rising; Wives & Daughters; The Life and Crimes of William Palmer.
Film includes: The Food Guide to Love; Pusher; Grabbers; W.E.; 5 Days of War; Prince of Persia; Franklyn; A Good Year; The Libertine; Happy Now; Young Blades; Topsy-Turvy; Human Traffic; Zeffirelli's; Jane Eyre.
Sir Alick / Rees-Mogg
For the Almeida: Filumena.
Theatre includes: Noises Off; Old Money; The Tempest; The Way of the World; Dracula; Arsenic And Old Lace (Chichester); The Faery Queen(Aix-en-Provence); The Invisible Man (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Churchill Play; The Alchemist (National Theatre); Once In A Lifetime(Piccadilly Theatre); Piaf (Wyndhams);Toad of Toad Hall(Birmingham Rep); The Real Inspector Hound (Warehouse Productions).
For the RSC: 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; 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 / Gielgud);Sejanus: His Fall.
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.
Radio includes: The Archers.
Geoffrey is an Associate Artists with the RSC.
Beverley / Christopher Timothy
Theatre Includes: What the Butler Saw (Curve Theatre, Leicester); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Oppenheimer; The Shoemakers Holiday; (RSC); She Stoops to Conquer (Theatre Royal, Bath); Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve F*cked (Underbelly); Johnny Got His Gun (Southwark Playhouse); Minotaur (Bristol Old Vic); National Theatre: 50 Years On Stage (National Theatre); The Aliens (Trafalgar Studios); War Horse (West End).
Television includes: Carnage; Outlander; Lewis.
Film includes: Journey’s End; The Levelling.
Brian McConnell
For the Almeida: Medea; Through a Glass Darkly; Dona Rosita the Spinster.
Theatre includes: Hansel and Gretel; Beauty and the Beast; Our Class; The Seagull; Pillars of the Community; The Cat in the Hat; The UN Inspector; A Dream Play; Iphigenia at Aulis (also Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Peter Pan; Chips with Everything; Dealer’s Choice (National Theatre); Love and Information; Bliss; The Food Chain; Under the Blue Sky (Royal Court); The Physicists; Privates on Parade (Donmar Warehouse); Cat in the Hat (Cusack Projects Limited / Paris); The Homecoming (RSC); Pressure Drop (On Theatre Company); Nocturnal; Candide (Gate Theatre); The Birthday Party (Lyric Hammersmith); King of Hearts (Out of Joint); Modern Dance for Beginners; Jump Mr Malinoff, Jump (Soho Theatre); Kick for Touch (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Backroom (Bush Theatre); Perpetua (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek by Jowl); Salome (National Theatre Studio).
Television includes: Doctor Who; Humans; Wagstaffe; The Windsors; Rillington Place; Midsomer Murders; The Mill; Ripper Street; Dracula; The 7:39; Being Human; Casualty; New Tricks; He Kills Coppers; Doc Martin; Whistleblowers; Empathy; Beau Brummell; Line of Beauty; Foyle’s War; The Bill; Hitler: The Rise of Evil; Trust; Murphy’s Law; Waking the Dead; Offenders; The Great Dome Robbery; The Vice; Dark Realm; London’s Burning.
Film includes: Ray & Liz; Brimstone; Crowhurst; The Eichmann Show; Everest; We Are Monster; Our Robot Overlords; Creature; Heartless; The Calling; Daylight Robbery; Enduring Love; The Revenger’s Tragedy; Peaches; Velvet Goldmine.
Justin trained at Guildhall.
Joyce Hopkirk / Muriel McKay
For the Almeida: The Knot of the Heart; Cloud Nine; Dying For It.
Theatre includes: Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar Warehouse); Made in Dagenham (West End); Nut; Ding Dog the Wicked; Market Boy; England People Very Nice (National Theatre) Mercury Fur (Paines Plough); Breeze Block Park(Liverpool Playhouse); Bright (Soho Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Donmar Warehouse/ Bush Theatre).
Television includes: Harry Price: Ghost Hunter; The Job Lot; Walter; My Mad Fat Diary; The Smoke; New Tricks; Mayday; The Silent and the Damned; One Night; Casualty; Eastenders; Midsomer Murders; Lewis; Ashes to Ashes; Fingersmith; Wallander.
Film includes: Blackbird; Me Before You; How I Live Now; Cheerful Weather For the Wedding; Grow Your Own; Hidden City; Closer; Shadowlands; Beautiful Thing.
Radio includes: Kiss Me Quick.
Frank Nicklin / Hetherington
For the Almeida: Big White Fog; Enemies; Measure for Measure.
Theatre includes: This House (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End) The Damned United (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time; This House; Burnt By the Sun; Her Naked Skin; The U.N Inspector; Present Laughter; Playing With Fire (National Theatre); The School For Scheming (Orange Tree Theatre); Journey’s End (Tour / West End); Personal Enemy (Brits Off Broadway); The Madness of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse);The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Salisbury Playhouse).
Television includes: Delicious; Doctors; WPC 56; Call the Midwife; Downton Abbey; Loving Miss Hatto; Silk; New Tricks; Party Animals; Gavin & Stacey; Holby City; Trial and Retribution XIII; Foyle's War; Derailed; Eyes Down; Red Cap; Heartbeat; Always & Everyone; Coronation Street; The Lakes.
Radio includes: Robin Hood’s Revenge; Hillcrest; Dream of Spring; A Little Like Drowning.
Bernard Shrimsley / Brittenden
For the Almeida: The Merchant of Venice.
Theatre includes: The Crucible(Royal Exchange, Manchester); 80 Days Around The World (St James Theatre); Crossing Play; Hero; Pride (Royal Court); Rocket to the Moon (National Theatre); Salome (Headlong); Volpone / The Duchess of Malfi (Greenwich Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); All My Sons (Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool); Silverland (Arcola Theatre); Cigarettes and Chocolate; Hang Up (King’s Head Theatre); Mere Mortals (Old Red Lion); 7 Blows (Pleasance Theatre);The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Amoeba Project (Out Of Joint); An Inspector Calls (Garrick Theatre); The Cows Are Mad; Election Night at the Courtyard (BAC / The Red Room); Anne Frank (Festival Company); Threepenny Opera (City Centre Theatre, New York).
Television includes: The Crown; Little Boy Blue; Wolf Hall; The Great Fire; Laid; Fresh Meat; London Irish; The Town; Twenty Twelve; A Young Doctor's Notebook; Garrow's Law; The Bill; Peep Show; Diary of a Somebody; Rhona; Happy Birthday Shakespeare; Poirot; Blonde Bombshell; Holby City.
Film includes: The Current War; Dead in a Week; Death of Stalin; The Imitation Game; Franklyn.
Tim trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.
Ray Mills / Lee Howard
Theatre includes: Made In Dagenham (West End); Hope (Liverpool Royal Court); The Comedy of Errors (National Theatre); Arabian Nights (RSC); Aunt Dan & Lemon (Royal Court); The Comedy of Errors (Stafford Open Air Festival); Summer Holiday (Hammersmith Apollo / Tour); Seeing Red (BAC); An Insect Inside (The Red Room); Blind Side (UK Tour).
Television includes: Doctors; Holby City; Britannia; Casualty; Cardinal Burns; Charlie; Dark Matters; My Family; Law & Order: UK; The Take; MI High; New Tricks; Silent Witness; Countdown to War; God on Trial; The Passion; Doctor Who; Nuclear Race; Rome; Robin Hood; Dream Team Retro; The Marchioness; The Bill (series regular); My Good Friend; Wycliffe; Dangerous Lady; A Taste of Honey; Frank Stubbs Promotes; Medics; Up the Garden Path; Second Thoughts; The Upper Hand; Scandal of Crookham Court; Grange Hill.
Film includes: Untitled; Dragonfly; Interview with a Hitman; Hard Boiled Sweets; Night Junkies; O’Jerusalem; Shifting; The Routine; That Day; She’s Been Away; The Collector.
Ensemble / Understudy
Theatre includes: Murder Ballad (Arts Theatre); The Wild Wind (St James Theatre/HighTide Festival); Beautiful Thing (UK tour/Leicester Curve); The Spitfire Grill (Union Theatre - Craig Dodd Prize 2015); Earthquakes in London (Catford Broadway Theatre); Leviathan (Arcola Theatre); The Lost Christmas (Waterloo East); Bright Lights Big City (Bridewell). She recently fronted Sky TV’s ‘Honey I Bought the House’ campaign.
Ensemble / Understudy
Theatre includes: Just to Get Married (off West End); The End of Longing (West End); The 39 Steps, Abigail’s Party and Fallen Angels (Theatre by the Lake); Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Three Sisters, Twelfth Night and Mary Stuart (off West End); The Robbers (Theatre Royal Bath); Toad (Southwark Playhouse); Eddie and the Goldtops, The James Herriot Story and A Yorkshire Christmas Carol (UK tour); Write Me a Murder (Southwold and Aldeburgh); Hard Times (UK tour).
Television and film includes: Emmerdale; Countdown to Revolution; Til Death; Night Owls; Inhabit.
Ensemble / Understudy
Theatre includes: The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); Albert’s Boy (London/Brighton) This House (National Theatre); Underground (59E59 Theater,
NYC); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace); Farinelli and the King (Duke of York’s); The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick); Daytona (Haymarket/Tour); Pygmalion (Tour); The Alchemist; The Royal Hunt of the Sun; Pizarro; Tartuffe (National Theatre); The Entertainer (Old Vic); Don Carlos (Crucible, Sheffield/West End); The Alchemist; Julius Caesar; Columbus and the Discovery of Japan (RSC).
Film & Television includes: The Vote; Crimewatch; EastEnders; Murder Not Proven; The Bill.
Radio includes: Don Carlos; Hobson’s Choice; Spring Awakening; Pilgrim’s Progress; An Eye for an Eye.
Ensemble / Understudy
Theatre includes: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Haymarket); Blood Brothers (Phoenix /UK tour); The Shawshank Redemption; 12 Angry Men (UK tour); How the Other Half Loves (Haymarket/Duke of York’s); The Two Worlds of Charlie F (Canada/UK tour); Mamma Mia! (International tour); The Sound of Music (QNCC Theatre, Doha); Don’t Dress for Dinner (Jumeirah Theatre, Dubai); Fab Four; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Italian tour).
Television includes: Western Lights; Dive; Who Wants to Live Forever; The Friday Night Project.
Radio includes: The Scarifyers.
Understudy
Theatre includes: The Crystal Maze Live (Little Lion Entertainment); Divas; The Common Land (Rose Theatre, Kingston); God’s Own Country (Brewery Arts Centre); Boxer Beetle (RichMix); Happy New (Trafalgar Studios); My Daughter’s Trial; Awakening (Soho Theatre); Irons (Tristan Bates Theatre).
Television includes: Doctors; Holby City; The Bill.
Film includes: Shooters.
Radio includes: The Alien Sister.
Writer
For the Almeida: Ink
Theatre includes: This House (National Theatre / West End); Finding Neverland (Broadway) Privacy; The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); Monster Raving Loony (Theatre Royal Plymouth; Soho Theatre); Whisky Taster (Bush Theatre).
Television includes: Coalition.
Film includes: X+Y.
James is writer in residence at the Finborough Theatre. He has been commissioned to write a TV drama set around the events of the 2016 Referendum and a film adaptation of 1984.
Direction
Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, and was Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre Company from 2005 to 2013, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005.
For the Almeida: Richard III; Medea, The Merchant of Venice; King Charles III (also West End and Broadway); American Psycho: A new musical thriller; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Theatre includes: Made in Dagenham (West End); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong / National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Three Sixty / Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Royal Court / West End / Broadway); Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; Art; Speed-the-Plow (West End); King Lear (Headlong / Liverpool Everyman / Young Vic); No Man’s Land (Gate Theatre, Dublin / West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Bristol Old Vic / West End); Macbeth (Brooklyn Academy of Music / Lyceum Theater / Broadway); Faustus; Restoration; Paradise Lost (Headlong); Hamlet; Summer Lightning; Insignificance; Paradise Lost; Waiting for Godot; The Weir; Betrayal (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Othello (Theatre Royal, Northampton / Greenwich Theatre); Scaramouche (Salisbury Playhouse / Australia, New Zealand, Canada tour); The Wind in the Willows; Privates on Parade (New Vic Theatre); Gone to LA (Hampstead Theatre); Broken Glass (Watford Palace Theatre); Habeus Corpus; Summer Lighting; Dancing at Lughnasa (Salisbury Playhouse); The Colonel Bird (Gate Theatre); Brand (NT Studio); Romeo and Juliet (Greenwich Theatre); The End of the Affair (Bridewell Theatre).
Opera includes: Turandot; On Thee We Feed (English National Opera); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera); Gli Equivoci; Il Pomo D’Oro (Batignano Opera Festival).
Television includes: Macbeth (BBC), 2011 Peabody Award, King Charles III (BBC2); BAFTA-winning Richard II (BBC).
Rupert’s first feature film, True Story, was released in 2015, which he wrote and directed, starring James Franco and Jonah Hill for Plan B and Fox Searchlight in New York.
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 and a BAFTA for Richard II.
Rupert was awarded a CBE in the 2017 New Years Honours for services to drama.
Design
Theatre includes: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time; People, Places and Things (National Theatre/West End); The Red Barn; The White Guard; A Streetcar Named Desire; Baby Doll (National Theatre); Husbands and Sons (National Theatre/Royal Exchange Manchester); Julius Caesar; Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse/St Ann’s Warehouse New York); Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre).
Opera includes: Medea (English National Opera); Tosca; Brief Encounter (Houston Grand Opera).
Film includes: Swansong.
Bunny won an Olivier and Tony Award for Best Set Design for her work on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. She has also won an Olivier Award for her work on The White Guard and A Streetcar Named Desire, and an Evening Standard Award for Baby Doll.
Lighting
For the Almeida: The Treatment; Medea; Children’s Children; Mrs Klein; Judgement Day; The Homecoming; Marianne Dreams; As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams; The Silent Twins; Dying for It; Tom and Viv; Love Counts; Romance; The Cricket Recovers; Macbeth; Man & Boy: Dada; The Embalmer.
Theatre includes: Woyzeck (The Old Vic); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre); Travesties; A Life in the Theatre (Apollo Theatre); The Goat; Great Britain; Japes (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Three Days in the Country; Evening at the Talkhouse; Our Country’s Good; Rules for Living; Dara; The Silver Tassie; Liolà; Children of the Sun; Port; The Doctor’s Dilemma; She Stoops to Conquer; The Veil; The Cherry Orchard; Women Beware Women; London Assurance; The White Guard; Oedipus; Philistines; The Man of Mode; Thérèse Raquin (National Theatre); Electra (Old Vic); Henry IV; Julius Caesar; The Night Alive; Spelling Bee; King Lear; Passion; The Wild Duck; After Miss Julie; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse); Birdland; The Faith Machine; Tusk Tusk (Royal Court); Travesties; Assassins; Dealer’s Choice (Chocolate Factory); Buried Child; The Hothouse; Dealer’s Choice (Trafalgar Studios); The Dazzle (Found 111); Photograph 51; Shakespeare in Love; Henry V (Coward); The Weir; Hamlet; Madame de Sade; Twelfth Night (Wyndham’s Theatre); The Sunshine Boys (Savoy Theatre ); South Downs; The Browning Version; Death and the Maiden; The Children’s Hour (Harold Pinter Theatre); Piaf; The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Vaudeville); No Man’s Land (Duke of York’s); Frost/Nixon (Gielgud); King Lear; The Seagull (RSC/New London); Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix); Betty Blue Eyes; Much Ado About Nothing (Novello); Hughie; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Evita; Red; Hamlet; The Seafarer; Frost/Nixon (Broadway).
Neil was the Recipient of the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for The White Guard, the 2010 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Red and the 2017 WhatsOnStage Best Lighting Design Award for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Sound & Composition
For the Almeida: Richard III; Medea; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; The Late Henry Moss.
Theatre includes: London Road; Salome; Les Blancs; Three Days In The Country; Danton’s Death; All’s Well that Ends Well; Phaedra; Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Red; Hamlet; Richard II; Anna Christie; Luise Miller; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Chalk Garden; Othello; Creditors; The Wild Duck; John Gabriel Borkman; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse/Broadway); Ivanov (Donmar Warehouse/West End); King Lear; Anna Christie (Donmar Warehouse); ENRON (Broadway/West End); Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Harold Pinter Theatre); Don Juan In Soho (Wyndhams Theatre); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory); No Man’s Land (Sheffield Crucible/West End; Hughie (Broadway); Henry V (Michael Grandage Company/West End); No Man’s Land; A View From the Bridge (Duke of York’s); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud Theatre); Don Carlos; Photograph 51 (West End); Romeo & Juliet; The Tempest (RSC); The Glass Menagerie (Apollo Theatre); Faustus (Hampstead Theatre); Paradise Lost (Headlong); The Cherry Orchard (Crucible Theatre).
Television includes: London Road; The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Macbeth; Frances Tuesday; Re-ignited; Imprints.
Film includes: Genius; Bust; The Three Rules of Infidelity; Tripletake.
Radio includes: Losing Rosalind; The Luneberg Variation; The Colonel-Bird; Don Carlos; Othello; On the Ceiling; The Chalk Garden.
Adam's musical London Road won the 2011 Critic's Circle Award 'Best Musical' and in 2012 received an Olivier nomination for 'Best New Musical'. In 2010 he received a Tony Award for the music and sound score for Red, and an Olivier Award in 2011 for King Lear, also receiving the Evening Standard ‘Best Design’ award 2011 for Anna Christie and King Lear. In 2010 he was nominated for the Tony Award ‘Best Score’ (Music & Lyrics) for ENRON.
Adam sits on the board of Mercury Musical Developments, and is an Associate Artist of the RSC.
Projection
For the Almeida: Little Eyolf; The Lightning Play; Whistling Psyche.
Theatre includes:3 Winters; King Lear; The Effect; People; The Last of the Haussmans; Travelling Light; Earthquakes in London; Nation; The Power of Yes; All’s Well That Ends Well; The Observer; Gethsemane; Her Naked Skin; Fram; A Matter of Life and Death; The Reporter (National Theatre); The Winter’s Tale; Harlequinade (Kenneth Branagh Company); Mack and Mabel; Separate Tables; The Last Cigarette (Chichester Festival Theatre); Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse); ENRON (Chichester Festival Theatre/Headlong);Richard III; The Prisoner of Second Avenue; Complicit (Old Vic); Brief Encounter (Kneehigh); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Stephen Ward; From Here to Eternity; The King’s Speech; The Wizard of Oz; Love Never Dies; Dirty Dancing; Our House; Up for Grabs; Dance of Death (West End); Ghost the Musical (West End/Broadway); Chaplin the Musical; Finding Neverland (Broadway).
Opera and dance includes: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet); Carmen (Santa Fe Opera).
Concert and Events includes: The Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall); Blade Runner (Secret Cinema); Kate Bush: Before the Dawn (Hammersmith Apollo).
Jon won the 2014 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and was nominated for an Olivier Award his work on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Brief Encounter, for which he also won an Obie Award and LA Drama Critics Circle Award. For his work on Ghost the Musical Jon won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony Award, and was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his work on Chaplin the Musical.
Jon studied Cinematography at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield and Theatre Design at Croydon College of Art.
Choreography & Movement Direction
For the Almeida: American Psycho (also Broadway); There Came A Gypsy Riding; The Late Henry Moss.
Theatre includes: Funny Girl; Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory/UK Tour/West End); My Fair Lady (Lyric Opera Of Chicago); Volpone; The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (RSC); The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice; Bat Boy – The Musical; Tell Me On A Sunday (West End); Company; Assassins (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Cherry Orchard; Never So Good; The Merchant Of Venice (National Theatre); La Cage Aux Folles; A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End/Broadway); Aspects Of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory).
Opera includes: Les Troyens (La Scala/Milan/San Francisco Opera); Medea (English National Opera); Andrea Chénier (Bregenzer Festspiele); Carmen (Opera Holland Park).
Television includes: The Crown.
Film includes: Fred Claus; Hippie Hippie Shake; White Lightnin'; So You Think You Can Dance.
Music & Commercials include: Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum (Royal Opera House); Burberry: Shanghai Launch & Festive Film (2014 & 2015); Kanye West (2009 Festival Tour); Muse Resistance Tour (2009); Music Videos for Ellie Goulding, Imogen Heap, Duffy.
Lynne’s collaboration with GoGo Penguin, Veils, was originally performed at the EFG London Jazz Festival, 2015, and presented on the Sadlers Wells’ stage at Latitude Festival, 2016.
For her work on La Cage Aux Folles Lynne won a 2009 What’s On Stage Award, and was nominated for an Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award and Tony Award.
Casting
For the Almeida: Bakkhai; Carmen Disruption.
Theatre includes: The Country Girls; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Chichester Festival Theatre/Minerva Theatre); No Man’s Land (Noël Coward Theatre) Photograph 51; The Cripple of Inishmaan; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Henry V (Michael Grandage Company); Outside Mullingar (Ustinov Studio Bath); Betrayal (Ethel Barrymore Theatre NY); Macbeth (MIF 2015/New York Armory); Tartuffe; Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep); Venice Preserved (Spectator’s Guild); Good People (Hampstead Theatre/Noël Coward Theatre); Afterplay; Translations; Wonderful Tennessee (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).
Anne was Casting Director at the Donmar Warehouse 1991-2012 and Casting Associate for Manchester International Festival 2017.
Resident Director
As Director, theatre includes: 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 & 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 Associate/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.
Voice & Dialect Coach
Theatre includes: Crazy for You (Watermill Theatre); Forget Me Not (Bush Theatre).
Television includes: Horrible Histories; Prime Suspect 1973; Clique.
Film includes: Watcher in the Woods; The Professor and the Madman.
Radio includes: A Streetcar Named Desire; X Files: Cold Cases.
Video games include: Need for Speed.
Elspeth regularly makes expert contributions about accents on programmes such as Melvyn Bragg's Matter of the North (BBC) where she recorded a series of short Northern accent lessons, An Immigrant's Guide to Britain (Channel 4) and The Royals (Netflix). She is also the lead Voice Coach for BBC News.
Associate Choreographer
As Associate Choreographer:
Theatre includes: Love in Idleness (Menier Chocolate Factory).
Television includes: The Crown.
Opera and Events include: London Jazz Festival (Barbican); Pet Shop Boys (Royal Opera House); Latitude Music Festival.
As a dancer:
Ballet includes: The Car Man; Nutcracker; Highland Fling; Edward Scissorhands; Swan Lake (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures); as a soloist for Gothenburg Ballet.
Gemma has also worked as a dance artist on various contemporary projects for Lynne Page, Arthur Pita, Wayne McGregor, Michael Keegan Dolan, Aletta Collins, Caroline Pope, Liam Steel and Anthony Van Laast.
She trained at the Royal Ballet Upper School and Central School of Ballet. Gemma currently creates her own work under Payne Productions.
Costume Supervision
For the Almeida: Filumena; Medea.
Theatre includes: Angels in America (National Theatre); Good People; Wonderland; Hapgood (Hampstead Theatre); Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/West End/UK Tour); As You Desire Me (Playhouse Theatre, London); King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Tempest; Henry IV; Julius Caesar; Closer (Donmar Warehouse).
Opera includes: The Rape of Lucretia; La Boheme; St Matthew Passion (Glyndebourne); Agrippina; Orfeo; Salome; Alcina; Child of our Time; Trojans; Ernani; The Mikado; Don Giovanni (English National Opera); Cosi Fan Tutte (English National Opera/Barbican).
Deborah studied Fashion Design at Central St Martins College of Art and then worked in fashion before being lured into the theatre. She has worked as a Costume Supervisor in both Opera and Theatre.
★★★★ Thrillingly dynamic and rambunctiously entertaining... a hell of a story
The Times, 20 September
The running time is approximately 3 hours including a 20 minute interval.
"Between the fine print" Listen to Director Rupert Goold and Writer James Graham discuss the play in our podcast.
Cast
Oliver Birch
Rachel Caffrey
Bertie Carvel
Pearl Chanda
Jonathan Coy
Richard Coyle
Geoffrey Freshwater
Jack Holden
Justin Salinger
Sophie Stanton
Tim Steed
Tony Turner
Rene Zagger
Understudies
Natalie Law
Andrew McDonald
Jonny McPherson
Owen Oldroyd
Joel Samuels
Writer James Graham
Director Rupert Goold
Design Bunny Christie
Lighting Neil Austin
Sound & Composition Adam Cork
Projection Jon Driscoll
Choreography & Movement Direction Lynne Page
Casting Anne McNulty CDG
Resident Director Rebecca Frecknall
Associate Choreographer Gemma Payne
Costume Supervision Deborah Andrews
Voice & Dialect Coach Elspeth Morrison
Video Programmer Neville Bull
Design Assistant Verity Sadler
Casting Consultant Ruth O'Dowd