Almeida Greeks
Euripides | a new version by Rachel Cusk | Directed by Rupert Goold
Tickets £10 - £38
Medea’s marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides’ seminal play cuts to the heart of gender politics and asks what it means to be a woman and a wife.
One of world drama's most infamous characters is brought to controversial new life by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold (The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III, American Psycho) and award-winning feminist writer Rachel Cusk (Outline, Aftermath).
Kate Fleetwood makes her Almeida debut in the title role.
Medea Production Supporter:
Previews Fri 25 Sep - Wed 30 Sep
Press Night Thu 1 Oct
Evenings 8pm
Sat matinees 3pm from 3 Oct
Wed matinees 3pm on 14, 21, 28 Oct, 4 & 11 Nov
Talkback
Mon 26 Oct
Post-show discussion with members of the Medea company. With live speech-to-text transcription by Stagetext.
Free to same day ticket holders.
Supporters' Evening
Mon 19 Oct (pre-show talk at 6.40pm)
Captioned Performance
Mon 26 Oct 8pm
Audio Described Performances
by VocalEyes
Sat 24 Oct 3pm
(Touch Tour at 1.15pm)
Mon 2 Nov 8pm
(Touch Tour at 6.30pm)
Islington First
Fri 25 Sep - Wed 30 Sep
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Direction
Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre.
He was previously Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre Company, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres.
For the Almeida: The Merchant of Venice (also RSC); King Charles III (also West End); American Psycho: A new musical thriller; 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 (Three Sixty / Kensington Gardens); 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).
Film includes: Richard II; Macbeth.
As Writer and Director, film includes: True Story.
Rupert has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director.
Version
In 2003, Rachel Cusk was selected by Granta as one of their Best Young British Novelists. The author of seven novels and three works of nonfiction, Cusk won the Whitbread First Novel Award for Saving Agnes, a Somerset Maugham Award for The Country Life, and was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize for Arlington Park. Her latest novel, Outline, was shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, the Folio Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. "Spend much time with this novel and you'll become convinced [Cusk] is one of the smartest writers alive" writes The New York Times Book Review.
Set
For the Almeida: Little Revolution; Festen.
Theatre includes: Billy Elliot – the Musical (West End / Broadway); Albert Speer; Machinal; An Inspector Calls; The Amen Corner (National Theatre); Far Away; Via Dolorosa; This Is a Chair; Death and the Maiden; Plasticine; A Number; In Basildon; Birdland (Royal Court); Afore Night Come; Vernon God Little; A Doll’s House (Young Vic); The Ingolstadt Plays; Figaro Gets Divorced; Jerker (GateTheatre); Enter Achilles; Bound to Please (DV8); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); Betrayal (Broadway).
Ian received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design for Billy Elliot - the Musical, a Critics’ Circle Award for Machinal, Olivier and Critics’ Circle awards for An Inspector Calls, and the Evening Standard Best Design Award for Plasticine and Festen.
Costume
For the Almeida: Little Revolution; It Needs Horses / Home for Broken Turns; SEC_RITY IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT U (installation for Eurepica Challenge).
As Set and Costume Designer, theatre includes: Crow (Handspring); Electra (Young Vic / Gate Theatre); Breathing Irregular; Hedda (Gate Theatre).
As Set and Costume Designer, dance includes: Varmints (Sadler’s Wells); The Life and Times of Girl A (Scottish Dance Theatre).
As Costume Designer, theatre includes: Birdland (Royal Court); The Humans (Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art); The Difference Engine (Lost Dog).
As Costume Designer, film includes: Ginger & Rosa.
As Assistant Costume Designer, film includes: War Horse; Lincoln; Robopocalypse; The Man from U.N.C.L.E; Another Year; Happy-Go-Lucky.
Installations and performances include: Karl’s Electric Heel Grind (Latitude Festival / Cabaret Melancholique).
Composition and Sound
For the Almeida: The Merchant of Venice; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; The Late Henry Moss; Tom and Viv; Five Gold Rings.
Theatre includes: London Road; Danton’s Death; All’s Well that Ends Well; Phedre; Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Hamlet; Red (Donmar Warehouse / Broadway); Ivanov (Donmar Warehouse / West End); King Lear; Anna Christie; Richard II; Anna Christie; Luise Miller; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Chalk Garden; Othello; Creditors; The Wild Duck; John Gabriel Borkman; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse); ENRON (Broadway / West End); Henry V (MGC / West End); No Man’s Land; A View From the Bridge (Duke of York’s Theatre); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud Theatre); Don Carlos (West End); Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest (RSC), The Glass Menagerie (Apollo Theatre); Faustus (Hampstead Theatre); Paradise Lost (Headlong); The Cherry Orchard (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).
Film includes: Bust; The Three Rules of Infidelity; Tripletake.
Television includes: The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Macbeth; Frances Tuesday; Re-ignited; Imprints.
Radio includes: Losing Rosalind; The Luneberg Variation; The Colonel-Bird; Don Carlos; Othello; On the Ceiling; The Chalk Garden.
London Road, which Adam co-authored (music and lyrics) won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical in 2011. In 2010 he received a Tony Award for the music and sound score for Red and an Olivier Award in 2011 for King Lear, and also received the 2011 Evening Standard Best Design award for Anna Christie and King Lear. Adam is an Associate Artist of the RSC.
Choreography
For the Almeida: The Merchant of Venice.
As a performer, theatre includes: The Car-Man (Old Vic / UK / European / UStours); Edward Scissorhands (UK / world tour); Cinderella (West End / L.A.); Swan Lake (Sadler’s Wells / UK tour / L.A. / Broadway / West End); Highland Fling (Donmar Warehouse / UK &European tours); Nutcracker! (Sadler’sWells / UK tour); Play Without Words (National Theatre / UK & world tours).
As Choreographer, theatre includes: The Phantom of the Opera (US& UK tours); The Lord of the Flies (Theatre Royal Glasgow / UK tour); Wonderland (Hampstead Theatre); The Hostage (RSC / Barbican); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Enron (Chichester Festival Theatre / Royal Court / Noël Coward Theatre/ Broadway); Sondheim’s Passion (Donmar Warehouse); Earthquakes in London (National Theatre / UK tour); The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Decade (Headlong); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre / The Gielgud); This House (National Theatre); Der Zigeunerbaron (Stadttheater Klagenfurt); #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre); Candide (RSC).
As Choreographer, dance includes: Boys’ Own (Rambert); Luther Dances (Moving Visions); Say Something (Testing Ground); A Vicious Rumour (Savage Dance); Flesh Tones (NYDT); I Giganti della Montagne / La Calisto (Batignano); Der Stein die Weisen (Garsington).
As Assistant Choreographer, theatre includes: Peer Gynt (RSC / Barbican); Oliver! (London Palladium); My Fair Lady (National Theatre / Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); South Pacific; Play Without Words (National Theatre).
As Assistant Choreographer, television and film include: The Car Man; Swan Lake; Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood; Drip: A Love Story; OK2; Richard II; Billy Elliot; Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre (BBC).
Scott is an Associate Artist of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and was nominated for an OIivier Award for Best Choreographer for Chariots of Fire.
Casting
For the Almeida: Oresteia; Game; Mr Burns; Chimerica; Before the Party; The Turn of the Screw; King Lear; Children’s Children; Filumena; The Knot of the Heart; Through a Glass Darkly; Measure for Measure; When the Rain Stops Falling; In a Dark Dark House; The Homecoming; Nocturne; Awake and Sing!; Dying for It; Out of the Fog.
Theatre includes: Man; A View from the Bridge; Happy Days; Public Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; Wild Swans; After Miss Julie; Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Annie Get Your Gun; In The Red and Brown Water; Lost Highway; The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic); A Doll’s House (Young Vic / West End /BAM); The Nether; Adler & Gibb; Birdland; The Mistress Contract; Khandan; The Pass; Gastronauts; Clybourne Park; The Heretic; Get Santa!; Kin; Red Bud; Tribes; Wanderlust; Spur of the Moment; Sucker Punch; Ingredient X (Royal Court); The Events; The Golden Dragon; Bad Jazz; A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); Spring Awakening; The Seagull; Edward Gant’s Amazing Feat of Loneliness (Headlong); Another Country (Chichester Festival Theatre / WestEnd); The Winslow Boy (Old Vic); A Chorus of Disapproval; South Downs / The Browning Version; Absent Friends; Backbeat; Arcadia; Swimming with Sharks; As You Like It; Antarctica; The Weir (West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End / Sydney Festival); Pool (no water) (Frantic Assembly); Gaddafi; A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh International Festival / Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin).
Television includes: Adha Cup; Parliamo Glasgow; Harvest; The Verdict; The Bill; The Badness of George IV.
Film includes: Puffins.
For the Almeida: The Chain Play.
Theatre includes: Pride and Prejudice (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The House That Will Not Stand; The Riots (Tricycle Theatre); I Know How I Feel About Eve; Out in the Open (Hampstead Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre); Wild Child; The Lost Mariner; Breath, Boom; Been So Long (Royal Court); Generations (Young Vic); 50 Revolutions (Oxford Stage Company); Our Country's Good (Out of Joint); It's a Great Big Shame (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
Television includes: The Casual Vacancy; Death in Paradise; Harry and Paul; Holby City; EastEnders; Outnumbered; Peep Show; Silent Witness; Britannia High; Never Better; Secret Life; The Bill; The Wife of Bath; Ugetme; A&E; Clare in the Community; Doctors; Gimme Gimme Gimme; Babes in the Wood; Comedy Nation; Kiss Me Kate; The Perfect Blue. Film includes: What We Did on our Holidays; Another Year; The Infidel; All or Nothing; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Second Nature; Secrets and Lies.
Michele trained at Rose Bruford College.
For the Almeida: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; Ghost Ward.
Theatre includes: Twelfth Night (Filter Theatre); The Accrington Pals (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Twelfth Night; The Tempest; The Comedy of Errors (RSC); Beachy Head (Analogue); Six Characters In Search of an Author (Headlong); The Weather Man (Opera North); The Elephant Man (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield); Roam (Grid Iron / National Theatre of Scotland); The Devil’s Larder (Grid Iron); The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith); Zero Degrees and Drifting; The Swing Left (Unlimited Theatre); 13 Objects; He Stumbled; Ursula (The Wrestling School); Edmond; The Collection (Northern Stage); The Ecstatic Bible (Adelaide Festival); The Nativity (Young Vic); Leonce and Lena; Candide; Ballad of Wolves (Gate Theatre); A River Sutra (NT Studio); The Metamorphoses; Silver Swan; Red Ladies (Clod Ensemble / BAC); Sunspots (Red Room).
Television includes: The Musketeers; Tales from the Old Bailey; Lead Balloon; Talk to Me; Beginner’s Luck; Doctors.
Radio includes: Hair of the Dog; Richard Tyrone Jones' Big Heart; The Cold Cold Snow; Crusty Pie; Knowledge and a Girl.
Devil’s Larder won a Fringe First, Herald Archangel, Total Theatre X and Carol Tamber awards.
For the Almeida: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Theatre includes: Uncle Vanya (St James Theatre); Relative Values (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Speed Twins (Riverside Studios); The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Vaudeville Theatre); The Sea Plays (Old Vic Tunnels); The House of Bernarda Alba; The Graduate (Gielgud Theatre); A Touch of the Poet (Young Vic / Comedy Theatre); The Painter; Macbeth (Arcola Theatre); The Destiny of Me; Many Roads to Paradise (Finborough Theatre); The Arab-Israeli Cookbook (Gate Theatre / Tricycle Theatre); The Pain and the Itch; The Strip (Royal Court); Cling to Me Like Ivy (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Rivals (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); The Yiddish Queen Lear (Southwark Playhouse / Bridewell Theatre); Come Blow Your Horn; The Fall Guy; The Misanthrope; Absurd Person Singular (Royal Exchange, Manchester).
Television includes: Silent Witness; Doctors; Casualty; Bodies; The Shell Seekers; Trial and Retribution; Chalk; Road Rage; Goodbye My Love; Cider with Rosie.
Film includes: Saving Private Ryan; Together; The Things I Do for You; Bad Behaviour.
Amanda won Best Actress in the London Fringe Awards for her performance in Strange Snow.
She was born in New York and trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes: The Trial (Young Vic); My Night with Reg (Donmar Warehouse / West End); War Horse (National Theatre); Salome (Headlong); Troilus and Cressida; Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl); Original Sin; The Country Wife (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); She Stoops to Conquer (New Kent Opera); Pera Palas (Gate Theatre); Other People (Royal Court); Angels in America (Manchester Library); Hamlet; Cymbeline; Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); The Modern Husband (Actors Touring Co); As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl); The Canterbury Tales (Garrick Theatre); Waterland (Eastern Angels).
Television includes: Mapp and Lucia; Outlander; Vexed; Above Suspicion: Red Dahlia; Doctors; The Bill; Midsomer Murders; Bleak House; Ian Fleming - Bond Maker; Gunpowder, Treason & Plot; The Way We Live Now; Shackleton; Gimme, Gimme, Gimme; Sunburn; This Life; The Day Today; Great Expectations.
Film includes: Sparkle; Lawless Heart.
Richard trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.
For the Almeida: Celebration.
Theatre includes: People; No Man's Land; Pinter Sketches (National Theatre); Lay Down Your Cross (Hampstead Theatre); Silly Cow (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Measure for Measure (Riverside Studios); The Last Yankee (The Print Room); The Cutting of the Cloth (Southwark Playhouse).
Television includes: Holby City; Waking the Dead; The Bill; The Brief; The Quatermass Experiment; Courtroom; Nighty Night; A Touch of Frost; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Kavanagh Q.C. (also writer); The Wimbledon Poisoner; Downtown Lagos; Bottom; Witchcraft; King and Castle (also writer); Clem (also writer); A Perfect Spy; Driving Ambition; Casualty; Juliet Bravo; Flickers; Strangers.
Film includes: Le Confessioni, Dough; 44-Inch Chest; Oliver Twist; Asylum; Pandemonium; Notting Hill.
Theatre includes: Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (HOME, Manchester); ’Tis Pity She's A Whore (Cheek by Jowl); King Lear (Shakespeare's Globe); Dangerous Corner (Salisbury Playhouse); The Yalta Game; Elegy For a Lady (Salberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse); Antony and Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre); 6 Actors in Search of a Director (Charing Cross Theatre); The Marriage of Figaro; Our Country's Good (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Chekhov in Hell (Soho Theatre / The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Things That Make No Sense (Theatre Uncut / Southwark Theatre / Soho Theatre); Rain Man (national tour); The Spiral (Royal Court Upstairs); Suppressed Desires; Chains of Dew (Orange Tree Theatre); Pains of Youth (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Rabbit (Old Red Lion / Trafalgar Studios / 59E59, New York); Much Ado About Nothing (Playhouse, Liverpool); Outlying Islands (Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath); Great Expectations (Cheek by Jowl / RSC).
Television includes: Sherlock; Holby City; The Bill.
Theatre includes: High Society (Old Vic); King Lear; London Road; Love's Labour's Lost (National Theatre); Our New Girl (Bush Theatre); Macbeth (Gielgud / BAM / The Lyceum, Broadway); Macbeth/Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre); Winter's Tale/ Pericles (RSC); Hecuba; Life Is A Dream (Donmar Warehouse); Lord of the Rings Workshop (The Lord of the Rings Ltd.); Othello (Northampton Royal Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bristol Old Vic); Mariana Pineda (Gate Theatre); Medea (Really Useful Co.); Tender (Hampstead Theatre); The Tempest; The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare's Globe); Ghosts (Plymouth National Theatre); The Nativity; Arabian Nights (Young Vic); Romeo and Juliet; The Comic Mysteries (Greenwich Theatre); Swaggers (Old Red Lion); Twelfth Night (Oxford Stage Company).
Television includes: War and Peace; The Children Next Door; The Widower; Way To Go; Touch of Cloth; Sarah-Jane Adventures; Casualty 1909; Waking the Dead; Hustle; Foyle's War; After Thomas; Blade Camp; Midsomer Murders; Murphy's Law; Spine Chillers; Silent Witness; The Bill; Doctors; Dalziel & Pascoe; Urban Gothic: the End; Eastenders; Holby City; Getting Hurt; The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells; World's First; Catching Light.
Film includes: London Road; Star Wars: Episode VII; Philomena; Les Misérables; Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1; Macbeth; The Golden Age; 77 Beds; Vanity Fair; A Changed Man; Pure; Beautiful People.
Radio includes: Tosca's Kiss; The Laurence & Gus Show; Interviews; They Say I Shot a Man & Killed Him; Mansfield Park; A Night in Fifty Four.
Kate was nominated for Tony Award for Best Actress in Macbeth and an Olivier nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in London Road.
Theatre includes: Green Living (Old Vic New Voices); Othello (Shakespeare's Globe); Stockholm (Frantic Assembly / Hampstead Theatre); Frankenstein (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Cyrano de Bergerac (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Market Boy (National Theatre); Home (National Theatre of Scotland); Young Genius Rehearsed Readings (Young Vic); Villette (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Dirty Wonderland (Frantic Assembly / Brighton Festival); Peepshow (Frantic Assembly / Lyric Hammersmith); Zero; Klub; Underworld (Frantic Assembly); The Race (Gecko / BAC); Hello You (Riverside Studios / Fecund Theatre); Unsuitable Girls (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester / Lyric Hammersmith); Beauty and the Beast (Manchester Library Theatre); Beyond the Wall; Death of a Salesman (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester); The Barretts of Wimpole Street; Island (Trestle Theatre Company); Bitter Fruit (Trestle Theatre Company / Royal Festival Hall); Fascinations from the Crowd (Fecund Theatre / BAC).
Television includes: Tales from the Old Bailey; Hollyoaks; Some Dogs Bite; EastEnders; Doctors; Whitechapel; Sugar Rush. Film includes: Searching.
Theatre includes: From Morning to Midnight; Every Good Boy Deserves Favour; War Horse; His Dark Materials (National Theatre); The Empress; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (RSC); Red Cross (Albany Theatre); The Drowned Man; Tunnel 228; The House that Jack Built (Punchdrunk); Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead Theatre); World Cup Final 1966; The Creation of the Violin (BAC); The Lesson (Theatre O); The Chimp that Spoke; Off the Wall (David Glass Ensemble); The Communication Chord (Haymarket Theatre); The Red Ladies (Clod Ensemble); The Donkey Show (Hanover Grand); Crime and Punishment; The Square; The Turnout; Floating Babel (Shibboleth); Many Sources High (Barely Ensemble).
Television includes: Hannah Glasse; Takes.
Film includes: Friends, Fame and Cocaine.
Radio includes: Murder!
Emily is currently the Associate Movement Director for War Horse and The 39 Steps in the West End and was an Assistant Movement Director for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Emily trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq.
Theatre includes: Deluge (Hampstead Theatre); Birdland; Muse and Poem: Sylvia Plath Secret Theatre (Royal Court Theatre); The Lyons (Menier Chocolate Factory); Public Enemy (Young Vic); The King's Speech (West End / tour); Decade (Headlong); Lingua Franca (Finborough Theatre / 59E59 Theatre, New York); Love the Sinner; Mother Courage; Romeo and Juliet; Marat/Sade (National Theatre); King Lear (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool / Young Vic); All About My Mother (Old Vic); Rabbit (Old Red Lion / Trafalgar Studios / 59E59 Theatre, New York); Don Carlos (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield / West End); Fuddy Meers (Birmingham Repertory Theatre / Arts Theatre); Iphgenia; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; The Man Who Had All the Luck (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse / New Ambassadors Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); The Dispute (RSC / Lyric Hammersmith); Richard III (European tour); Pericles (NT Studio); The Nun (Greenwich Studio Theatre / BAC); The Miser (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Television includes: The Trials of Jimmy Rose; Father Brown; Silent Witness; Legacy; Holby City; Doctors; The Bill; Casualty; The IT Crowd; The Brides in the Bath; EastEnders; McCallum; The Miller’s Tale; Lord Elgin.
Film includes: Joyride; Seahorse; Being Considered; The Honest Courtesan; The Token King.
Radio includes: The Good Listener; Ghosts In The Machine; The Gambler; The Other Man; Don Carlos; The Ideal Heroine.
Charlotte trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
For the Almeida: 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: The Eichmann Show; Midsomer Murders; The Mill; Ripper Street; Dracula; The 7:39; Being Human; Casualty; New Tricks; He Kills Coppers; Doc Martin; Whistleblowers; Empathy; Beau Brummell; A 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: Brimstone; Crowhurst; 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.
Theatre includes: Have Your Circumstances Changed? (Art Angel)
Television includes: Commercials for Estathé (Italy)
Film Includes: Pan; A Child’s Eyes.
Theatre includes: A Doll's House (Duke of York’s Theatre); Man of Mode (Young Actors Theatre).
Television includes: Grantchester; commercials for Coca Cola and Bird’s Eye.
Film includes: Miss You Already; Fury; Sunday Dinner with the Morgans; We Play War; The Mentor.
Theatre includes: Words For Snow (The Purcell Rooms).
Television includes: A commericals for Pact.
This is Sam's professional debut.
This is Xavier's professional debut.
Theatre includes: God Bless the Child (Royal Court); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre).
Television includes: The Ministry of Curiosity; commercials for Glade, Heinz, City Link, Disney, Morrisons, Sky, Coldplay and Weetabix.
Film includes: Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?; Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger.
Light
Neil Austin is a Tony- and Olivier Award-winning lighting designer working internationally on plays, musicals, opera and dance.
For the Almeida: Children's Children; 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; Macbeth.
Theatre includes: Three Days in the Country; Rules for Living; Dara; The Silver Tassie; Liolà; Children of the Sun; Port; The Captain of Köpenick; The Doctor's Dilemma; She Stoops to Conquer; The Cherry Orchard; The White Guard; London Assurance; Great Britain; King James Bible: The Twelve Extracts; The Veil (National Theatre); Bend It Like Beckham; Shakespeare in Love; Henry V; South Downs & The Browning Version; Death and the Maiden; Betty Blue Eyes; The Children's Hour (West End); Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre); American Trade (RSC / Hampstead Theatre); Electra (Old Vic); Carousel (Lyric Opera, Chicago); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Macbeth (Manchester International Festival / Park Avenue Armory, New York); Henry IV; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse / St Ann's Warehouse); The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse / Atlantic Theatre); The Weir (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Birdland; The Faith Machine (Royal Court); Josephine and I (Bush Theatre); The Hothouse (Trafalgar Studios); The El Train (Hoxton Hall); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Evita; Hamlet; Red; The Seafarer; Frost/Nixon (Broadway); The Sunshine Boys (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles); Finding Neverland (Curve Theatre, Leicester).
Ballet includes: Le Corsaire; Sleeping Beauty (English National Ballet); 24 Preludes (Royal Opera House).
Neil received a 2011 Olivier Award for The White Guard, the 2010 Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards for Red, 2008 and 2012 Knight of Illumination Awards for Company and Parade, and a Falstaff Award for Macbeth in 2013.
★★★★ Thought-provoking, fresh... a fitting end to the Almeida's season of Greek drama.
Evening Standard
★★★★ The voices of women ring out in a way that is rare on the stage... (Rachel) Cusk lasers her way to the centre of Euripides' drama
Observer
★★★★ Fleetwood has that forbidding edge that makes her perfect casting for director Rupert Goold.
Financial Times
Fleetwood gives a ferocious, soul-baring performance… Rupert Goold’s production is visually inventive.
The Guardian
The running time is approximately one hour and 30 minutes with no interval.
Michele Austin
Sarah Belcher
Amanda Boxer
Richard Cant
Andy de la Tour
Ruth Everett
Kate Fleetwood
Georgina Lamb
Emily Mytton
Charlotte Randle
Justin Salinger
Guillermo Bedward
Lukas Rolfe
Louis Sayers
Sam Smith
Xavier Moras Spencer
Joseph West
Version Rachel Cusk
Direction Rupert Goold
Set Ian MacNeil
Costume Holly Waddington
Light Neil Austin
Composition and Sound Adam Cork
Choreography Scott Ambler
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Assistant Direction Sara Joyce
Trainee Director David Loumgair