

Otherland
By Chris Bush, Directed by Ann Yee
Event details
Wed 12 Feb - Sat 15 Mar 2025
★★★★★
“Uplifting and profoundly enlightening”
The Stage
Jo and Harry are changing.
Harry is changing more than most, undeniably,
And change is beautiful. Necessary. Terrifying.
Break-ups aren’t just about who gets the CD collection. As Jo and Harry begin to untangle themselves from each other, new worlds start to open up – worlds filled with new partners, new identities, new possibilities. What kind of women do they want to be, and do they have the courage, or the permission, to get there?
From Chris Bush, the playwright behind the Olivier Award-winning Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Ann Yee (Next to Normal) directs Jade Anouka (His Dark Materials) and Fizz Sinclair (The Simple Life & Death) in Otherland, a new play exploring what it means to be true to yourself in the face of unstoppable change.
Running Time Approx. 2 hours & 30 mins incl. an interval.
Subject to change during previews.
Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees 2pm
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Cast & Creatives
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Cast
Jade AnoukaJade Anouka
Jade Anouka
Jade is an actor and creative. She delivered a TED Talk titled Being Black, Being a Woman, Being ‘Other’ and is a published poet and playwright. She wrote, directed and starred in short film Her & Her for the BBC.
Theatre includes: Heart (Minetta Lane Theatre, New York/ Paines Plough/ Edinburgh Fringe/ Brixton House); Cock (West End); Julius Caesar (Ian Charleson Award commendation); Henry IV; The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre); Queen Margaret (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Cover My Tracks (The Old Vic); Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe, Ian Charleson Award commendation); CHEF (Edinburgh Fringe/ Soho Theatre); Moon On A Rainbow Shawl (The National Theatre); Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal).
Film includes: ear for eye; Last Christmas; Fisherman’s Friends; Fisherman’s Friends: One and All; Zebra Girl.
Television includes: Dune: Prophecy; Fool Me Once; His Dark Materials; Cleaning Up; Turn Up Charlie; Trauma; Small Axe; The Drowning.
Jackie CluneJackie Clune
Jackie Clune
Theatre includes: Just For One Day (The Old Vic); Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors (National Theatre); The Rocky Horror Show; 9 to 5 the Musical (UK tour); Dr Semmelweis (Bristol Old Vic); Blank; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; The Vote; Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse); Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse/ St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Emilia; Billy Elliot the Musical (West End); Utility (Orange Tree Theatre); Fallen Angels (Salisbury Playhouse); Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory); Mogadishu (Lyric Hammersmith); Mamma Mia! (West End/ International tour); Julie Burchill (Soho Theatre); Showstopper (Edinburgh Fringe).
Film includes: The Great Escaper; Jawbone; Denial.
Television includes: Towards Zero; Mandy; No Escape; Motherland; Marriage; Father Brown; Stephen; Too Close; Ghosts; Borderline; Three Girls; The Bill; Waking the Dead; Eastenders.
Danielle FiamanyaDanielle Fiamanya
Danielle Fiamanya
For the Almeida: The Secret Life of Bees.
Theatre includes: Macbeth (UK tour); Mandela (Young Vic); Frozen; & Juliet (West End); The Color Purple (Curve Theatre, Leicester/ Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre, The Stage Debut Award for Best Actress in a Musical).
Film includes: Lucid.
Television includes: The Crown; Halo.
Laura HannaLaura Hanna
Laura Hanna
For the Almeida: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia.
Theatre includes: Bindweed (Arcola Theatre/ Mercury Theatre, Colchester); The Comedy of Errors; Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights (Shakespeare’s Globe); A History Of Water in the Middle East (Royal Court); Signal Fires (Fuel Theatre); Karaoke Play (The Bunker Theatre); The Sweethearts (Finborough Theatre); A Bright Room Called Day (Southwark Playhouse); Lean (Tristan Bates Theatre).
Television includes: Heartstopper; Call the Midwife; Grace; Casualty.
Beth Hinton-LeverBeth Hinton-Lever
Beth Hinton-Lever
Beth is a choreographer on the Paraorchestra’s global project SMOOSH!, and in 2021 she was awarded the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund in Musical Theatre.
Theatre includes: Hadestown (National Theatre/ West End); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Chorus Line; West Side Story (Curve Theatre, Leicester); Maryland; Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Millennials (The Turbine Theatre/ MTFestUK); Dick Whittington; Hadestown (National Theatre); The Doncastrian Chalk Circle (National Theatre/ Cast, Doncaster); As You Like It (National Theatre/ Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Treasure Island (Derby Theatre); Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre); Reasons to be Cheerful (UK Tour); Sleeping Beauty; Dancehall (Cast, Doncaster).
Film includes: Wicked; Men in Black: International.
Television includes: All the Light We Cannot See; Disclaimer; Big Night of Musicals; Silent Witness; The Suspect.
Audio includes: Vergil!; The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places.
Serena ManteghiSerena Manteghi
Serena Manteghi
Theatre includes: English (RSC/ Kiln Theatre); Bleak Expectations (West End);The Hound of the Baskervilles; Build a Rocket (UK tour); Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York); Salty Irina (Oval House Theatre); Eurydice (Festival Theatre, Adelaide); The Terrible Infants (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Echoes (59E59 Theatres, New York); My Mother Said I Never Should (The Other Place); The Railway Children (King’s Cross Theatre); HEART (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Mucky Kid (Theatre503); Agamemnon (Southwark Playhouse).
Film includes: This England; Miss J; Harvest.
Television includes: The Diplomat; The Other Half; Mrs Wilson.
Fizz SinclairFizz Sinclair
Fizz Sinclair
Fizz is an actor, model, writer, comedian and content creator.
Theatre includes:
As Co-writer and Performer: The Simple Life & Death (Pleasance Theatre)
As a Performer: Modest (Kiln Theatre/ UK tour); Mulan Rouge; Witches of Oz (The Vaults); Carmen 1808 (Union Theatre); NewsRevue: The Brexorcist (Underbelly/ West End).
Film includes: Crash Course; The Red Shoes.
Modelling includes: Becky Hill (Album Visuals); Henry Moodie (Music Video).
Amanda WilkinAmanda Wilkin
Amanda Wilkin
Amanda trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. In 2020, she won the Verity Bargate Award for her one-woman play Shedding a Skin.
Theatre includes: Dr Semmelweis; Emilia; The Grinning Man (West End); Shedding a Skin (Soho Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet; Gabriel; The Tempest; The Little Sob (Shakespeare’s Globe); White Teeth (Kiln Theatre); La Ronde (The Bunker Theatre); The 306: Day (National Theatre of Scotland); Pilgrims (Theatre Clwyd/ HighTide Festival/ The Yard); Hopelessly Devoted (Paines Plough/ Birmingham Rep); Arabian Nights (The Watermill Theatre); Blood Wedding; The Bacchae (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Marat/Sade (RSC).
Film includes: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
Television includes: Am I Being Unreasonable?; Until I Kill You; Spent; The Split; The Girlfriend Experience; Finding Alice; Unforgotten; Berlin Station; Doctors; Gavin and Stacey.
Radio includes: Folk; Killer; Boudica – The Musical Life of…; The Portal; 24 Kildare Road.
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Band
Jennifer Whyte
Musical Director
Catrin Meek
Harp
Gabriella Swallow
Cello
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Creatives
Chris Bush
Writer
Ann Yee
Director
Fly Davis
Set Designer
Milla Clarke
Costume Designer
Anna Watson
Lighting Designer
Pete Malkin
Sound Designer
Jennifer Whyte
Composer & Arranger
Amy Ball CDGAmy Ball CDG
Casting Director
Amy Ball CDG
For the Almeida: The Years; Alma Mater; Cold War; Portia Coughlan; Women, Beware the Devil; “Daddy” A Melodrama; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Dance Nation; Boy.
Theatre includes: Hamnet (RSC); Lyonesse; The Hills of California; 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).
Heidi Bryan
Costume Supervisor
Daniele Lydon
Voice Coach
Grace Duggan
Associate Director
Wabriya KingWabriya King
Dramatherapist
Wabriya King
Wabriya is a qualified dramatherapist (Roehampton University), actress (The Oxford School of Drama), creative facilitator and Reiki practitioner. She combines her experience to support creatives alongside the rehearsal and performance period.
For the Almeida: Alma Mater; Romeo and Juliet; The Secret Life of Bees.
Theatre includes: Shifters; August In England (Bush Theatre); Samuel Takes A Break (The Yard); Beautiful Thing; Tambo & Bones (Theatre Royal Stratford East); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Cowbois; Falkland Sound; The Empress; Julius Caesar (RSC); School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet (International tour); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité); For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (New Diorama Theatre/ Royal Court/ West End); Blue (ENO); Further than the Furthest Thing (Young Vic); Family Tree (Actors Touring Company); Bootycandy (Gate Theatre); Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre); Hamilton; Moulin Rouge (West End).

Access Performances
Audio Described Sat 8 Mar 2pm (Touch Tour 12pm)
Captioned Tue 4 Mar 7.30pm
Relaxed Environment Wed 5 Mar 2pm & 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 on access performances or 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 Wed 12 – Wed 19 Feb, and Fri 21 Feb. Enter code 25UNDER when selecting your seats. Tickets go on sale at 5pm on Tue 21 Jan. 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 Wed 12 – Wed 19 Feb and Fri 21 Feb, subject to availability. Enter promo code ISFIRST when selecting your seats. Find applicable postcodes here.
Talks & Events
Talkback
After Mon 3 Mar performance
A post-show talk with members of the company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Almeida For Free
Thu 27 Feb 7.30pm
A free performance for those aged 25 and under. More info.

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Artwork photography by Phil Fisk.