Principal Partner
World Premiere
By Ella Hickson
Directed By Carrie Cracknell
Tickets £10 - £38
★★★★The Guardian, The Independent, Time Out, Evening Standard, Sunday Times, The Observer, Mail on Sunday
The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil. The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones.
What do you do when you know it's going to run out? Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling crash of empire, history and family.
Playwright Ella Hickson and Director Carrie Cracknell make their Almeida debuts with the World Premiere of an explosive new play which drills deep into the world's relationship with this finite resource.
Photographed by Miles Aldridge, Production by Lucy Watson Productions, Set Design by Vincent Olivier @ Magnet, Styling by Nicholas Royal, Hair by Joseph Pujalte @ Art List Paris, Make up by Janeen Witherspoon, Nails by Ami Streets @ LMC Worldwide. Special thanks to Spring Studios and Sola Lighting
Rehearsal photography by Miles Aldridge
Previews Fri 7 Oct - Thurs 13 Oct
Press Night Fri 14 Oct
Evenings 7pm
Wed matinees 1.30pm 19, 26 Oct, 2, 9 & 16 Nov
Sat matinees 1.30pm from 22 Oct
Supporters' Evening
Mon 7 Nov
Pre-show talk in the auditorium at approximately 5pm
Talkback Mon 24 Oct
Post-show discussion with members of the Oil company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Audio Described Performances
Sat 12 Nov 1.30pm
(Touch Tour 11.15am)
Fri 18 Nov 7pm
(Touch Tour 5.15pm)
Captioned Performance
Fri 11 Nov
Islington First
Fri 7 - Sat 15 Oct
If you live or work in the Islington area you can book best available seats for £23 for the opening performances* of each production
*subject to availability
Under 25s
Mon 24 Oct, Mon 31 Oct, Mon 14 Nov
£5 Mondays for Under 25s. Proof of age ID will be required on collecting the tickets. Tickets are limited and subject to availability. £5 tickets will go on sale on Monday 10 October at noon.
Click here for more information about concessions.
TodayTix
Download the TodayTix App for your chance to get exclusive £20 tickets.
Day Seats
A small number of tickets will be released every morning at 11am for that day's performance. For more information click here.
May
For the Almeida: Vassa.
Theatre includes: Husbands And Sons; Strange Interlude; Saint Joan; King Lear; War And Peace; La Grande Magia (National Theatre); Macbeth (Lincoln Centre Theatre); Berenice; Days Of Wine And Roses (Donmar Warehouse); Cause Celebre (Old Vic); The Soldier’s Fortune; The Daughter In Law; (Young Vic); Playboy Of The Western World (Druid Theatre Company); A Doll’s House (Shared Experience Theatre Comp); Collected Stories (Haymarket Theatre Royal).
Television includes: From Darkness; Murder; The Accused Mo’s Story; Parade’s End; Margot; The History Of Mr Polly; The Virgin Queen; Shameless; Doctor Zhivago; Sinners; Wild West; The Way We Live Now; Aristocrats; Amongst Women.
Film includes: Suffragette; Before I Go To Sleep; Molly Moon; Sanctuary; Closed Circuit; Nowhere Boy; The Last Station; Is Anybody There; French Film; Born Equal; Garage; The Waiting Room; Magdelene Sisters; Enigma.
Mr Farouk
Theatre includes: Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State (National Theatre); Fireworks (Royal Court); I Call My Brothers (Arcola); The Nightmares Of Carlos Fuentes (Arcola); Love your Soldiers (Crucible, Sheffield); The Great Game – Afghanistan (Tricycle / US Tour); Crossing Jerusalem (Tricycle); Rest upon the Wind (Middle East Tour); Spakleshark (UK Tour); East is East (Oldham Coliseum); Wish (Ovalhouse).
Television includes: The Night Of; The Missing; 24: Live Another Day; Top Boy; Mad Dogs; Strikeback; Law & Order; Generation Kill; The Path To 9/11; EastEnders; Only Fools & Horses; As If.
Film includes: Sandcastle; Hyena Road; Reign of the General; Zero Dark Thirty; TowerblockJunkhearts; Blitz; Journey to Mecca; The Boat People; Charlie Wilson’s War; Code 46; In This World; Ali G indahouse.
Thomas / Mr. Thomas / Tom
Theatre Includes: Anything That Gives Off Light (The TEAM & National Theatre Scotland); The Broken Heart (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Changeling (Shakespeare’s Globe); Hamlet (Citizens Theatre); Adler & Gibb (Royal Court); Threeway (Invisible Dot for Edinburgh Festival); Ugly Bird (Bush Theatre); The Game Show (Bush Theatre); The Aztec Trilogy (RSC); Richard III (RSC); Dunsinane (RSC); Money (The Arches); Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Shakespeare in a suitcase (RSC); The Dark Things (Edinburgh Traverse); Fall (Edinburgh Traverse); The Drawer Boy (Glasgow Tron); Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland); Rupture (National Theatre of Scotland); Snuff (Glasgow Arches & National Theatre of Scotland).
Television includes: Line of Duty, Our World War, Field of Blood- The Dead Hour; Doctors; One Minute Drama-The Prayer; River City; Taggart-Island.
Film includes: Residue.
Ma Singer
Theatre includes: Bingo (Chichester Festival Theatre / Young Vic); Taking Care of Baby (Birmingham Rep / Hampstead Theatre); Denial (Bristol Old Vic); The House of Bernada Alba (Theatr Clwyd); Death of a Salesman (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mother Courage; The Sea (National Theatre); Richard III (RSC); My Mother Said I Never Should (Chichester Festival Theatre); Duchess of Malfi; The Winter’s Tale; Anna Christie; The Voysey Inheritance; Female Parts; Mother Courage & Her Children (Manchester Royal Exchange); Blues for Mr Charlie (Sheffield Crucible); Sunday’s Children (Derby Playhouse); Normal Heart; Educating Rita (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Abigail’s Party (York Theatre Royal).
Television includes: Motherland; Ripper Street; Dickensian; Ordinary Lies; Scott and Bailey; The Musketeers; Atlantis; Foyle’s War; The Spies of Warsaw; The Café; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Luther; My First Nativity; Doctors; Gracie!; Mo; New Tricks; Doctor Who; The Bill; Wire in the Blood; A Very Social Secretary; Holby City; Bad Girls; Life Begins; Sea of Souls; Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde; Sons & Lovers; A&E; Cutting It; Midsomer Murders; Taggart; The Wyvern Mystery; Life Support; Trail of Guilt; Bad Blood; The Bolton Seven; Looking After Jo Jo; A Wing and a Prayer; Heartbeat; Casualty; In Suspicious Circumstances; Wycliffe; Cracker; Ball on the Slates; The Lorelei; Coronation Street; Loving Hazel; Unnatural Causes; Muck & Brass.
Film includes: Their Finest; Creation; Sparkle; The Lawless Heart; Breathtaking; Creatures; Bombshell.
Samuel/ Officer Samuel/ Sammy
Theatre includes: Photograph 51 (Noel Coward Theatre); No Quarter (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie (Salisbury / Shared Experience); Measure For Measure (Plymouth Theatre Royal/UK Tour); Therese Raquin (National Theatre); Everything Is Illuminated (Hampstead Theatre); Suddenly Last Summer (Sheffield Lyceum/Albery Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream; Les Liasons Dangereuses (Bristol Old Vic); Maps Of Desire (Wonderful Beast / Southwark Playhouse); A Clockwork Orange (Old Fire Station); Marge (Oxford Stage Company /Edinburgh Festival).
Television includes: The Collection; Churchill’s SecretThe Money; Downton Abbey; Murder On The Home Front; Boardwalk Empire; Peep Show; Parade's End; Black Mirror: The National Anthem; Married, Single, Other; The 39 Steps; Consuming Passions; Einstein and Eddington; The Somme; Bleak House; The Inspector Linley Series; Cambridge Spies; Spooks.
Film includes: London Has Fallen; Mr Holmes; Neanderthal Container; November Man; The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview; Warhorse; Ourhouse; Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; The Last Station; Me and Orson Welles; Atonement; In Transit; A Good Year; Mrs Henderson Presents; Munich; The Tulse Luper Suitcases; Nine Lives.
Amy
Theatre includes: The Deep Blue Sea (National Theatre); For Services Rendered (Chichester Festival Theatre); Little Light (The Orange Tree); Coolatully (Finsborough Theatre); Birdland; Anhedonia (Royal Court); A Tale Of Two Cities (Royal and Derngate Northampton); A Doll’s House (Young Vic / Duke of York); Pride And Prejudice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Hello/Goodbye (Hampstead Theatre); The Seagull (Arcola); Saved (Royal Court Gala 2011).
Television includes: The Collection; Love Nina; Tipping The Velvet; Father Brown; Mega Tsunami; Holby City; Doctors.
Joss
Theatre includes: Cleansed (National Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Headlong); B, Crave (Sheffield Crucible); 4:48 Psychosis (Sheffield Crucible); The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic); In Lambeth (Southwark Playhouse); Missing Dates (Hampstead Theatre); King Lear (Brooklyn Academy of Music); King Lear (Chichester Festival); ET. Thursday (Adelaide International Festival); The Revengers Tragedy (Independent Productions); Boys (Headlong); Romeo and Juliet (Headlong); Iphigenia (Theatre Royal Bath); The Phoenix of Madrid (Theatre Royal Bath); An Ideal Husband (West End); The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Thousand stars explode in the sky (Lyric Hammersmith); Pride & Prejudice (Theatre Royal Bath); The Bedroom (National Youth Theatre).
Television includes: Endeavour, Peaky Blinders and The Missing.
Anne / Ana / Aminah
Theatre Includes: Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State (National Theatre); A is for Ali (Turner Theatre); Nahda (Sandpit Productions); Jordanian Dirty Laundry (Nabil Sawalha Comedy Group); Return (3fates); Sour Lips (Paper Tiger); Tunnel (Sandpit Productions); Rest upon the Wind (AM Productions); Memoirs of Solitude.
Film includes: Roads to Olympia; Father is doing fine; The Last Friday; High Heels.
William Whitcomb / Nate
Theatre includes: Wendy and Peter Pan; Dunsinane (RSC); Pomona (Orange Tree / National / Royal Exchange); The Kitchen; Greenland (National Theatre); Primetime (Royal Court); Mercury Fur (Trafalgar Studios).
Television includes: Mr Selfridge; Jekyll & Hyde; Vicious; The Five; Atlantis; Gothic; Privates.
Sam trained at LAMDA.
Fanny / Fan Wang
Television includes: Brief Encounters; In the Club; Doctors; Prey; Derek; Scott & Bailey; In the Flesh; At the Sea; Last Tango in Halifax; Give Out Girls; Coronation Street; Body Farm; Hollyoaks; Bedlam; The Accused-Kenny’s Story; Spooks Code 9; Mobile; Innocence; Bodies.
Film includes: Limehouse Golem and Automata.
Writer
Theatre includes: Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC); Merlin (The Royal and Derngate, Northampton/ Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Boys (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton / Headlong Theatre / HighTide Festival Theatre); Decade (Headlong Theatre / St. Catherine's Dock); The Authorised Kate Bane (Traverse Theatre); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios / Tantrums Productions); Hot Mess (Arcola Tent / Tantrums Productions); Eight (Trafalgar Studios / PS122, New York / Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh).
Film includes: Hold On Me.
Radio includes: Rightfully Mine; Riot Girls.
Ella was the Pearson Writer in residence at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 2011. She is the recipient of the 2013 Catherine Johnson Award.
Direction
Theatre includes: The Deep Blue Sea; Medea; Blurred Lines (National Theatre); Macbeth; Electra (Young Vic); A Doll’s House (Young Vic / West End / BAM, New York); Birdland; Pigeons; Searched (Royal Court); Wozzeck (ENO); The Sexual Neurosis of Our Parents; Hedda (Gate Theatre); I Am Falling (Gate Theatre /Sadler’s Wells).
This is Carrie’s Almeida debut. Carrie was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London, from 2007 to 2012. She has also previously been Associate Director at both the Young Vic and the Royal Court.
Design
For the Almeida: Heartbreak House; 1953; The Master Builder.
Theatre includes: The Threepenny Opera; The Plough and the Stars; The Silver Tassie; Othello; Hansel and Gretel; The Last of the Haussmans; Hamlet; Beauty and the Beast; Cat In The Hat; Pains of Youth; Burnt By The Sun; Waves; …some trace of her; Never So Good; Three Sisters; The Seagull (National Theatre); Happy Days; The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic/Headlong); As One; Qualia (Royal Opera House); One Evening (Aldeburgh); The Wild Duck (Donmar Warehouse); Jumpers (National Theatre / Piccadilly Theatre / Broadway); Easter; Natt och Drommar (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm); Boy Gets Girl; Mountain Language/Ashes to Ashes; My Zinc Bed; The Country (Royal Court); Don John (RSC & Kneehigh); The Seagull (RSC & tour); The Real Thing (Donmar Warehouse / West End / Broadway).
Costumes for: Fiddler on the Roof; Nine (Broadway).
Opera includes:
For the Almeida: Heartbreak House; 1953; The Master Builder.
Theatre includes: The Threepenny Opera; The Plough and the Stars; The Silver Tassie; Othello; Hansel and Gretel; The Last of the Haussmans; Hamlet; Beauty and the Beast; Cat In The Hat; Pains of Youth; Burnt By The Sun; Waves; …some trace of her; Never So Good, Three Sisters, The Seagull (National Theatre); Happy days; The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic/Headlong); As One, Qualia (Royal Opera House); One Evening (Aldeburgh); The Wild Duck (Donmar Warehouse); Jumpers (National Theatre / Piccadilly Theatre / Broadway); Easter; Natt och Drommar (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm); Boy Gets Girl; Mountain Language/Ashes to Ashes; My Zinc Bed; The Country (Royal Court); Don John (RSC and Kneehigh) The Seagull (RSC and tour); The Real Thing (Donmar Warehouse / West End / Broadway). Costumes for: Fiddler on the Roof; Nine (Broadway).
Opera includes: Wozzeck (Chicago Lyric Opera); Neither (Staatsoper Berlin); Al Gran Sole (Salzburg Festival and Staatsoper Berlin); After Dido (ENO / Young Vic); Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg; Cosi fan Tutte; St Matthew Passion (Glyndebourne); Jenufa; Katya Kabanova; Jephtha (WNO).
Designs for dance include: Yantra (Stuttgart Ballet); Genus (Paris Opera Garnier); Skindex (Nederlands Dans Theater); Raven Girl (Royal Ballet); Millenarium; Sulphur 16; Aeon (Random Dance Company).
She has worked extensively with the RSC and National Theatre. She has also designed for Kneehigh; Stuttgart Ballet; Random Dance Co; Nederlands Dans Theater.
Movement Direction
As Movement Director, theatre includes: Blue/Orange; Happy Days; The Cherry Orchard; Blackta (Young Vic); ; Cleansed; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Hansel and Gretel; Beauty and the Beast; The Cat in the Hat; A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre); Hamlet (RSC); The Trial of Ubu (Hampstead Theatre); Playhouse (Orange Tree Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (Theatre Clwyd).
As Movement Director, opera includes: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Royal Opera House); Pelleas et Melisande; Alcina (Festival d’Aix); Idomeneo (ENO); How the Whale Became; Clemency (ROH2).
As Director: The Secret Agent (theatre O/Young Vic); The Man Jesus (Lyric Belfast & UK Tour); Delirium; Astronaut; The Argument (theatre O/Barbican); The Bridge (Mimbre); Arsenic and Old Lace (Derby Playhouse); 3 Dark Tales (theatre O); Sick Room (Co-Director – NYT).
As Associate Director: The Way Back Home (ENO / Young Vic); Footfalls/Neither & Le Vin Herbé (Staatsoper Berlin); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ETO).
Joseph is the Artistic Director of the company theatre O.
Lighting
Theatre includes: The End of Longing (Playhouse Theatre); Medea; Blurred Lines; Emil and the Detectives (National Theatre); Husbands and Sons (National Theatre / Royal Exchange Manchester); Love and Money; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Othello (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Trial of Ubu (Hampstead Theatre); Wastwater (Royal Court); Crow, with Handspring (Greenwich Docklands Festival).
Opera includes: Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera); La finta giardiniera (Glyndebourne); Grimes on the Beach (Aldeburgh Productions); Lohengrin (Welsh National Opera / Polish National Opera); The Wasp Factory (Bregenzer Festspiele, Berlin / Linbury, Royal Opera House); The Adventures of Mr Broucek; Maria Stuarda (Opera North).
Lucy Carter trained in Dance and Drama at the Roehampton Institute before training in Lighting Design at Central School of Speech and Drama. In 2008 she received the Knight of Illumination Award for Dance for Chroma and in 2015 for Woolf Works.
Lucy is the main collaborator with choreographer Wayne McGregor. Their work includes: Borderlands (San Francisco Ballet); FAR and Entity; Dyad 1929; Amu; Digito1; AtaXia; Nemesis (Random); Obsidian Tear; Woolf’s Works; The Art of Fugue; Raven Girl; Carbon Life; Live Fire Exercise; Limen; Infra; Chroma and Qualia; Dido and Aeneas; Acis and Galatea (Royal Opera House / Royal Ballet); Outlier (New York City Ballet); Dyad 1909 (Australian Ballet); Kirikou and Karaba (musical); L’Anatomie de la Sensation; Genus (Paris Opéra Ballet); Skindex; Renature (Netherlands Dance Theatre); 2 Human (ENB); Yantra and Nautilus (Stuttgart); Chroma (Bolshoi / Canadian National Ballet / San Francisco Ballet / Royal Danish Ballet / Pennsylvania Ballet); Infra (Joffrey Ballet, Chicago / Mariinsky, St Petersburg / Tulsa Ballet).
Other credits include: Appssionata; Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward –with choregrapher Benjamin Millepied (Worldwide); Life in Progress - a farewell to Silvie Guillem (Aakram Khan, Sadler’s Wells) and the lighting design for Paloma Faith’s performance at the Brit Awards 2015.
Dramaturg
As dramaturg, theatre includes: Blurred Lines (National Theatre); Breathing Irregular (Gate Theatre); Little Creatures (The Place).
Jenny has adapted for the stage Ingmar Bergman’s Through A Glass Darkly (Almeida Theatre / Atlantic Theater at New York Theatre Workshop), Dolls (National Theatre of Scotland / Hush Productions) and wrote the text for I Am Falling (Gate Theatre / Sadler’s Wells). For Slung Low Theatre Company’s Mapping The City she wrote William, After Sarah. Her original work for Radio Four includes Demonstrating Grace and A Hallowed Space.
Jenny was the Artistic Associate at the Almeida Theatre between 2005 and 2015.
Composition
Theatre includes: The Deep Blue Sea; Blurred Lines (National Theatre); A Doll’s House (Young Vic / Duke of York’s / NYC’s BAM); Candida (Theatre Royal, Bath); Routes and How To Hold Your Breath (Royal Court); Regeneration (Royal & Derngate).
Television includes: The Secret Agent; And Then There Were None; Black Work; Babylon; Mayday; Black Mirror: The Entire History Of You; Rillington Place.
Film includes: Dreamcatcher; Lilting; My Brother The Devil; In Our Name; Guilty Pleasures.
Stuart was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for his score on the three-part drama And Then There Were None.
Sound
Theatre includes: The Deep Blue Sea (National Theatre); The Fruit Trilogy (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Southbank Centre); Weald (Finborough Theatre); Five Finger Exercise; The Dumb Waiter (Print Room); Barbarians; Fireface (Young Vic); Romeo and Juliet (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Funfair (Home, Manchester); Noises Off; The Ancient Secret Of Youth and the Five Tibetans (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Jack and the Beanstalk; Cinderella (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool / Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool); James And The Giant Peach (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Black Comedy / Miss Julie (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Masque Of Anarchy (Manchester International Festival); The Witches Of Eastwick; Arabian Nights; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Wind In The Willows; Radio Times; Treasure Island (Watermill Theatre); Manchester Sounds – The Massacre Manchester; Manchester Lines; Hard Times (Library Theatre, Manchester); Fragile (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Winterlong (Royal Exchange, Manchester / Soho Theatre); Punk Rock (Royal Exchange, Manchester / Lyric Hammersmith); On The Shore Of The Wide World (Royal Exchange, Manchester / National Theatre); Lady In The Van (Hull Truck); Jane Bond; Very Little Women (Lip Service); Still Time (Southwark Playhouse)
As Associate Sound Designer: Emil and the Detectives; The Kitchen (National Theatre).
Peter has a long standing relationship with the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and has designed sound for: A Streetcar Named Desire; Scuttlers; Hamlet; The Last Days Of Troy; Brittania Rules The Waves Blindsided; That Day We Sang; Cannibals; Orpheus Descending; Black Roses; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; Beautiful Thing; As You Like It; A View From The Bridge; The Lady From The Sea; Pygmalion; Punk Rock; Haunted (also UK Tour / New York); Three Sisters; The Glass Menagerie (also UK Tour); The Children’s Hour; An Ideal Husband; The Tempest; Straw Girl; Adoption Papers; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Barton; Christmas Is Miles Away (also Bush Theatre); Kes; The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice; The Sanctuary Lamp; Yerma; The Dead Wait; Design For Living.
Video
For the Almeida: Uncle Vanya; Medea; Oresteia (also West End); Game; Mr Burns; Chimerica (also West End); 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: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre); Yerma; Blue/Orange; The Trial; Ah, Wilderness!; Man; A View from the Bridge (also West End / Broadway); Happy Days; Public Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; Wild Swans; After Miss Julie; A Doll’s House (also West End / BAM); The Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Annie Get Your Gun; In The Red and Brown Water; Lost Highway (Young Vic); Hamlet (Barbican); The Nether (also West End); Adler & Gibb; Birdland; The Mistress Contract; Khandan; The Pass; Gastronauts; Clybourne Park (also West End); The Heretic; Get Santa!; Kin; Red Bud; Tribes; Wanderlust; Spur of the Moment; Sucker Punch; Ingredient X (Royal Court); Martyr; The Events; The Golden Dragon; Bad Jazz; A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); 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).
Film includes: The Exception; Departure; Astoria; Adha Cup; Parliamo Glasgow; Harvest.
Julia is an Associate Artist at the Young Vic.
Resident Direction
For the Almeida: They Drink It In The Congo.
As Assistant Director, theatre includes: Octagon (Arcola Theatre); Perseverance Drive (Bush Theatre); Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic); Pigeon English (Bristol Old Vic).
As Director, theatre includes: How to Make Love to a Muslim Without Freaking Out (Bush Theatre with Black Lives; Black Words); Face In a Jar (Rhoda Mcgaw Theatre); Gutted ’n’ Battered (Sweden Tour); 90's Kid (Etcetera Theatre); Sexy Buff Ting (Cockpit Theatre).
Costume Supervision
Claire studied technical theatre and stage management specialising in costume at RADA. After graduating in 2009, she went on to work at the Royal Court Theatre for five years.
For the Almeida: Boy.
Theatre includes: Jerusalem (Royal Court / West End); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre); Here We Go (National Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre / West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Trail (Young Vic); The Angry Brigade (Bush Theatre); With a Little Bit of Luck (Paines Plough / Latitude Festival); Little Universe (Fevered Sleep / The Science Museum); Mojo; Journey’s End; Enron (West End).
Associate Lighting Designer
As Associate/Programmer: Strictly Ballroom (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Big the Musical (Plymouth); Mickey and the Magician (Disney Imagineering); Single Spies (Chichester); The Girls Musical (Leeds / Salford); Elf the Musical (Dominion Theatre); Close to You (Criterion Theatre / Menier Chocolate Factory); Full Monty (UK Tour); Rebecca (Tour); Strangers on a Train (Gielgud Theatre); Whelan/Watson: Stories (City Center NYC / Royal Opera House); Future Conditional (Old Vic); Closer (Donmar Warehouse); Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre); Birthday (Court); Wind in the Willows (Vaudeville Theatre / Duchess Theatre); Soldier’s Tale (Tokyo); Josephine and I (Bush Theatre).
His own lighting designs include: Pop – Circus Festival (Roundhouse); Napoli Milionaria; The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other; Hamlet (Barbican); See What I See (St Clements Hospital).
Max works as a freelance designer and programmer in opera, dance and theatre. He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Drama.
We just don’t get female characters like this often enough on stage, and certainly not fronting a play as ambitious as this
Huffington Post
The running time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes including a twenty minute interval. This production includes smoking.
Cast
Anne-Marie Duff
Nabil Elouahabi
Brian Ferguson
Ellie Haddington
Patrick Kennedy
Yolanda Kettle
Tom Mothersdale
Lara Sawalha
Sam Swann
Christina Tam
Writer Ella Hickson
Direction Carrie Cracknell
Design Vicki Mortimer
Movement Direction Joseph Alford
Lighting Lucy Carter
Dramaturg Jenny Worton
Associate Lighting Designer Max Narula
Composition Stuart Earl
Sound Peter Rice
Video Luke Halls
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Resident Director Taio Lawson
Costume Supervision Claire Wardroper