By William Shakespeare
Directed By Rupert Goold
Tickets
£10 - £30 (7 - 13 Jun)
£10 - £38 (15 - 18 Jun & 1 - 23 Jul)
£10 - £48 (20 - 30 Jun & 25 Jul - 6 Aug)
A peaceful England. Family. Small children. But obstacles can be overcome.
Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold (King Charles III, The Merchant of Venice, Medea) brings Shakespeare's most notorious villain to the Almeida Theatre with a cast that includes Ralph Fiennes as Richard and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret.
Ralph Fiennes as Richard III photographed by Miles Aldridge.
Photography by Miles Aldridge, Body Harness by Slim Barrett, Set Design by Vincent Olivieri @ Magnet, Styling by Nick Royal, Hair by Asashi @ Caren, Make up by Isamaya Ffrench @ Streeters, Production by Lucy Watson Productions, Photographed at Spring Studios
Rehearsal photography by Miles Aldridge.
Previews Tue 7 - Wed 15 Jun
Press Night 7pm Thurs 16 Jun
Evenings 7pm
Saturday matinees 1.30pm from 18 Jun
Wednesday matinees 1.30pm 22 Jun, 29 Jun 6,13, 27 Jul & 3 Aug
Talkback
Mon 11 Jul
Post-show discussion with members of the Richard III company. With live speech-to-text transcription by Stagetext. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Supporters' Evening
Mon 4 Jul
Pre-show talk at 6.20pm in the auditorium
Audio Described Performances
Sat 23 Jul 1.30pm
(Touch Tour 11.15am)
Fri 29 Jul 7pm
(Touch Tour 5.30pm)
Captioned Performance
Mon 11 Jul 7pm
£60 Champagne Pol Roger Package
Top-price seat, pre-show glass of Pol Roger Brut Reserve* souvenir programme and poster
*soft drink alternative available
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Tue 7 - Mon 13 Jun
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King Edward IV / James Tyrrel / Sir James Blunt
For the Almeida: Measure For Measure; Judgment Day
Theatre includes:For Services Rendered (Chichester Festival Theatre); Macbeth (MIF/Park Avenue Armory); The Master and Margarita; A Disappearing Number (Complicite); Ah, Wilderness!; Fireface; My Dad's A Birdman (Young Vic); The Cement Garden (Vault Festival); Drawing The Line (Hampstead); Henry VIII (RSC Complete Works); Chains of Dew (Orange Tree); Guantanamo (Tricycle Theatre/New Ambassadors); After Mrs. Rochester (Shared Experience / Duke of York’s); The Good Actor; Here’s What I Did With My Body One Day; London/My Lover; Utter (lightwork).
Television includes: Maigret Sets a Trap; World War Three: Inside The War Room; Coalition; An Adventure In Space And Time; Shetland; Call The Midwife; The Taking of Prince Harry; Prisoners’ Wives; Midsomer Murders; Lennon Naked; The Last Days of Lehman Brothers; EastEnders; Criminal Justice; The Chatterley Affair.
Film includes: Mad To Be Normal; Absolutely Anything; Believe; The West Wittering Affair.
Earl Rivers
Theatre includes: The Late Henry Moss; Black Battles With Dogs (Southwark Playhouse); The Rehearsal (Chichester Theatre); White Devil; Witch of Edmonton; Romeo and Juliet; Julius Caesar; The Winter’s Tale; Mojo; Little Eagles; Morte D’Arthur; The Grain Store (RSC); We Are Proud To Present... (Bush Theatre); Home; Jungle of the Cities (Arcola Theatre); Titus (Made In Scotland Showcase / Summerhall); Brilliant Adventures (Manchester Royal Exchange); I Caught Crabs In Walberswick (High Tide Festival); Cotton Wool (Theatre 503); The Glass Menagerie (The Royal Lyceum); War And Peace; Ravenhill For Breakfast (Paines Plough / Traverse Theatre Company); Stoopud Fucken Animals (Traverse Theatre); Mud (The Gate Theatre); I Confess; Moonlight (Arches Theatre Company).
Television includes: Doctors; Romeo and Juliet.
Film includes: Pelican Blood.
Sir Robert Brakenbury / Earl of Richmond
Theatre includes: The Hook (Royal and Derngate / Liverpool Everyman); Wuthering Heights (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Dealer’s Choice (Royal and Derngate / Oxford Playhouse); Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic); Sons Without Fathers (Belgrade Theatre); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Abbey Theatre).
Television includes: Wasted; The Collection; Houdini & Doyle; Death Comes to Pemberley.
Film includes: Shit Kicker.
Catesby
For the Almeida: Game; Blood Wedding; Aunt Dan and Lemon.
Theatre includes: Birdland; Plasticine; Mountain Language; Attempts on her Life; Cleansed (Royal Court); Fortune’s Fool (Old Vic); Table (National Theatre); Feast; The Changeling; Vernon God Little; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Amazonia; Some Voices; Afore Night Come; The People Downstairs; The Art of Random Whistling (Young Vic); Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic / New York); Celestina (Edinburgh International Festival); The Girl on the Sofa Schaubühne am Lehninerplatz / Edinburgh International Festival); Arabian Nights; Luminosity (RSC); Guantanamo (Tricycle Theatre); In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (Hampstead Theatre); Meat (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Antony and Cleopatra (Moving Theatre Company); Crocodile Looking at Birds (Lyric Hammersmith).
Television includes: Dr. Foster; The ‘A’ Word; Fortitude; Ripper Street; My Baby; Call the Midwife; Knifeman; A Young Doctor’s Notebook; New Tricks; Top Boy; Falcon; Wallander; Royal Bodyguard; Birdsong; Rock & Chips; Going Postal; Waking the Dead; Rome; Pinochet’s Progress; Distant Shores; Murder Prevention; Tell Me Lies; The D-Day Landings; Spooks; Cruise of the Gods; I’m Alan Partridge; Sunburn; City Central; Hot Dog Wars; Pirate Prince.
Film includes: Radiator; The Limehouse Golem; The Woman in Black; Fade to Black; Sixty Six; Tube Tales; Mad Cows; Saving Private Ryan.
Daniel trained at RADA.
Bishop of Ely
Theatre includes: 1984 (West End / UK and World Tour); King John (Globe); Regeneration (UK Tour); Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre); The Misanthrope; Tartuffe; The Hypochondriac (Liverpool Playhouse / ETT / UK Tour); The Alchemist (Liverpool Playhouse); Romeo & Juliet (Headlong / UK Tour); Plenty (Sheffield Crucible); The Prince of Homburg (Donmar Warehouse); Arthur and George; Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep); The Real Thing (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Life After Scandal; Hand in Hand (Hampstead Theatre); The Constant Wife (Gate Theatre, Dublin / US Tour); Translations; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Arcadia; Macbeth; Murmuring Judges; Pygmalion; Arturo Ui; Black Snow (National Theatre); Arcadia (Bristol Old Vic); Coriolanus; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Loveplay; Luminosity; The Taming of the Shrew; The Comedy of Errors (RSC); The Miser (Chichester Festival Theatre); As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl).
Television includes: Eastenders; Doctors; Holby City; The Amazing Mrs Pritchard; The Bill; Dream Team; A Touch of Frost.
Film includes: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Simon received the New York Drama Award for Outstanding Featured Actor, and an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in As You Like It.
Duchess of York
Recent theatre includes: Three Winters; Her Naked Skin; Dido – Queen of Carthage; The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National Theatre); Fathers and Sons; Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse); Candide; Women Beware Women (Swan Theatre); Love and Information; Spinning into Butter (Royal Court); The Crucible (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park); A Passage to India (Shared Experience); After The Gods (Hampstead Theatre).
Film includes: King Lear.
Television includes: Holby City; Casualty; Café; Midsomer Murders; Afterlife; Dalziel and Pascoe; The Vice; Trial and Retribution; Kavanagh QC.
Radio includes: Pilgrim; Bombs on Aunt Dainty; On Cigarette Papers; Flaw in the Motor; Dust in the Blood; The Raj Quartet.
Richard, Duke of Gloucester
For the Almeida: Ivanov; Hamlet (also Hackney Empire / Broadway); Richard II; Coriolanus (Gainsborough Studios).
Theatre includes: The Master Builder (Old Vic); Man and Superman; Oedipus; The Talking Cure (National Theatre); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket); First Love (The Gate Theatre for Lincoln Centre Festival NY / Sydney Festival); God of Carnage (West End); Faith Healer (Gate Theatre Dublin / Broadway); Julius Caesar (Barbican); Brand; King John; King Lear; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Much Ado About Nothing; The Man Who Came To Dinner; The Plantagenets; Troilus and Cressida (RSC); The Play Wot I Wrote (West End).
Film Includes: Hail Caesar!; Two Women; A Bigger Splash; Spectre; Grand Budapest Hotel; The Invisible Woman; Great Expectations; Skyfall; Coriolanus; Harry Potter; The Reader; The Duchess; The Hurt Locker; In Bruges; Bernard and Doris; Chromophobia; Land of the Blind; The Constant Gardener; The White Countess; Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; Red Dragon; The Miracle Maker; Spider; The End of the Affair; Sunshine; Onegin; The Avengers; Oscar and Lucinda; The English Patient; Strange Days; Quiz Show; Schindler’s List.
Television includes: Page Eight; Turks & Caicos; A Dangerous Man; Lawrence After Arabia.
William, Lord Hastings
Theatre includes: The Winter’s Tale; Pericles; As You Like It; ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore; Dr Scroggy’s War; The Duchess of Malfi; The Tempest; Gabriel; Richard III; Twelfth Night; All’s Well That Ends Well; Anne Boleyn; A New World: The Life of Thomas Paine; The Storm; Romeo and Juliet; Dido Queen Of Carthage (Shakespeare’s Globe); Down By The Greenwood Side (Brighton Festival); Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic); King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Hamlet (The Factory / Bristol Old Vic); Here Lies Mary Spindler (RSC / Latitude); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Middle Temple Hall / US Tour / The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment); The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes; Merchant of Venice; Taming Of The Shrew (RSC); One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (UK Tour); The Barber of Seville (Bristol Old Vic); The Tempest; The Winter’s Tale; Pericles (RSC / Round House / RST); Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Blue Room; Les Liaison Dangereuses (Theatre Royal York).
Television includes: Who Killed The Princes In The Tower; Foyle’s War; The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies; Syntax Era; Without Motive II.
Film includes: Testament of Youth; The Real American: Joe McCarthy; Anonymous; The Brussels.
Ratcliffe / Lord Mayor
Theatre includes: The Painkiller (The Garrick Theatre); The Meeting; Matchbox Theatre (Hampstead Theatre); Made In Dagenham (West End); Jeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense (West End); Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre); The Tempest; Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (Theatre Royal Bath); The Painkiller (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); The Flooded Grave (Bush Theatre / Latitude Festival); A Christmas Carol (Nuffield Theatre); Into The Woods (Open Air Theatre); Volpone; Duchess Of Malfi (Greenwich Theatre); Talent; Rookery Nook (Menier Chocolate Factory); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet; Love Labour’s Lost; The Canterbury Tales; Twelfth Night; The Seagull; The Talk Of The City; The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (RSC); The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other; Therese Raquin (National Theatre); Donkeys' Years (UK Tour Sonia Friedman Productions); 39 Steps; Peter Pan (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Don Juan; Man And Superman (Peter Hall Company); The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre).
Television includes: Maigret; Cradle To The Grave; Trollied; Wallander; Doc Martin; Foyles War; Headless; The Vice II; People Like Us; The Wyvern Mystery.
Film includes: A Royal Night Out; Hamlet; A Cock And Bull Story; Felicia’s Journey; In The Bleak Midwinter; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
George, Duke of Clarence
For the Almeida:The Merchant of Venice.
Theatre includes:The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Victoria; Twelfth Night; The Tempest (RSC); Troilus and Cressida (RSC and The Wooster Group); Love the Sinner (National Theatre); Cyrano De Bergerac; Macbeth; Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre); Son of Man (Northern Stage); The Seagull (Bristol Old Vic); Faustus (Hampstead Theatre); Teeth and Smiles (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Hamlet (Bouffes Du Nord); Hayfever ( Noel Coward Theatre / tour); The Duchess of Malfi; As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl / West End); An Inspector Calls (National Theatre / Aldwych Theatre).
Opera includes: Turendot (ENO).
Television includes: Ripper Street; The Game; The Village; Hunted; The Courageous Heart of Irene Sandler; The Bill; The Yellow House; The Haunting of Toby Jugg; Midsomer Murders; Love from Colditz; Henry VIII; Newton's Dark Secrets; Mystery! Heat of the Sun; Dangerfield; The Moonstone; True Love; The Merchant of Venice; Heroes and Villains; Poirot; Hands Together.
Film includes: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children; Macbeth; Seach'd; Match Point; The Tulse Luper Suitcase Part 2; The Gospel of John; Skagerrak; Shadowlands; Hamlet; A Knight's Tale.
Duke of Buckingham
Theatre includes: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; The Hothouse; Antony and Cleopatra; Not About Nightingales; King Lear (National Theatre); Antigone (Barbican Centre / World Tour); The Silence of the Sea (Trafalgar Studios); Desire Under The Elms; The Big Fellah (Lyric Hammersmith); The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne / Paris / New York); The Duchess of Malfi; Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic); Faith Healer (Bristol Old Vic); The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (Chichester Festival Theatre / Liverpool Everyman); The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Hampstead Theatre / Leicester Curve); Portrait of a Lady; A Doll’s House (Bath Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre Kingston); Three Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead Theatre / Liverpool Everyman); Ghosts (Gate Theatre); The Tempest; Julius Caesar; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Measure for Measure; Coriolanus; The Alchemist; The Virtuoso; Amphibians; A Woman Killed with Kindness; The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); As You Desire Me (Playhouse Theatre); The Birthday Party (Duchess Theatre); Hecuba; To the Green Fields; Fool for Love; Translations (Donmar Warehouse); Othello (Northampton & Greenwich); Miss Julie (Greenwich Theatre); Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible Theatre); Messiah (Riverside Studios / UK Tour); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Manchester Royal Exchange); Three Sisters (Royal Court / Gate Theatre Dublin);Playboy of The Western World (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Rivals; School For Scandal; Fathers And Sons; Absurd Person Singular; Peer Gynt; A Streetcar Named Desire; Twelfth Night; Les Liaisons Dangerous (Gate Theatre, Dublin).
Television includes: Foyle’s War; DCI Banks; Breathless; Game of Thrones; Silk; Richard IV; Proof; Dalziel and Pascoe; Waking the Dead; Red Cap; Atilla the Hun; Second Sight; Mind Games; Holby City; Small World; Between the Lines; Glenroe.
Film includes: Property of the State; Suffragette; Child 44; Departure; The Numbers Station; Matilde; To Kill a King; Lost Batallion; King Lear; Scold’s Bridle; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Schooner; Rawhead Rex.
Queen Elizabeth
For the Almeida: Our Father.
Theatre includes: A Month In The Country (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Famished Castle (Rough Magic Theatre Co); Heartbreak House (Abbey Theatre); King Lear (Theatre Royal, Bath); Macbeth; The Homecoming; Twelfth Night; Richard III; Henry VI Parts I, II & III (RSC); The Clearing (Shared Experience); Duchess of Malfi; Volpone (Greenwich Theatre); Dial M For Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Homeplace; Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Belfast); The Steward of Christendom (Out of Joint / Royal Court).
Television includes: Outlander; New Tricks; Holby City; David Copperfield; Amongst Women; The Creatives; Amongst Women; The Unknown Soldier; Casualty; Heartbeat.
Film includes: The White Countess; The Nephew; Trojan Eddie.
Lord Stanley
Theatre includes: The Crucible (Yorkshire Playhouse); A Season In The Congo; Electra (Young Vic); A Thousand Miles Of History (The Bussey Building); Julius Caesar; Breakfast With Mugabe; Pericles; The Winter’s Tale; Twelfth Night; Prisoner’s Dilemma; Everyman; The Mysteries; They Shoot Horses Don’t They?; The Two Noble Kinsmen; Flight; Worlds Apart; Macbeth (RSC); The Comedy Of Errors; Edmond; Alice’s Adventures Underground; Angels In America; Lyrics Of The Hearthside; Evening At The Talkhouse (National Theatre); Hamlet; As You Like It; The Seagull; The Government Inspector (The Crucible); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (West End / Novello Theatre); The Tempest (Regent’s Park); The Jew Of Malta (Hall For Cornwall); The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui (Lyric Hammersmith); King Lear (The Globe); The Last Confession (Chicester Theatre); Anna In The Tropics; Tobacco Land (Hampstead Theatre); Medea (USA / Paris Tour); As You Like It; In The Talking Dark (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Treatment; Four (Royal Court); The Boys Next Door (Assembly Rooms); The Life Of Galileo; Master Harold And The Boys (Contact Theatre); The Great White Hope (Tricycle Theatre); The Price Of Experience (Traverse Theatre).
Television includes: Homeland; The Missing; Julius Caesar; Death In Paradise; Holby City; Midsommer Murders; Born With Two Mothers; Trial And Retribution; Doctors; Dinotopia; The Bill; The Care Of Time; Beryl Markham – Shadow On The Sun; Miss Marple; Bergerac; Scarlett; Space Precinct; The All New Alexei Sayle Show; All Or Nothing At All; Jeeves And Wooster; Chancer; The Gravy Train.
Film includes: The Seven Dwarfs And Me; Woman In Gold; National Theatre Live – The Comedy Of Errors; Tonight You’re Mine; You Instead; Mammoth; Manderlay; The March On Europe.
Radio includes: Falco: Poseidon’s Gold; Great Escape; Two Pipe Problems; Henry VIII; Untitled Lover; Innocence; Breakfast With Mugabe; Tender Is The Night; The Clothes Of Nakedness; The Mysteries.
Queen Margaret
Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic); The Revisionist (Cherry Lane Theater, New York); Driving Miss Daisy (New York / London); The Year of Magical Thinking (New York / London); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (New York).
Television includes: Call the Midwife; The Go-Between; Call Out; The Fever; The Gathering Storm.
Film includes: Secret Scriptures; Foxcatcher; Coriolanus; Miral; Letters to Juliet; Evening; Atonement.
Marquess of Dorset
Joshua trained at BRIT School. This is his professional stage debut.
Lady Anne
Theatre includes: The Dazzle (Michael Grandage Company); Othello (RSC); The Promise (Donmar Warehouse).
Television includes: One Of Us; The Go Between; Banished; The Paradise; Dancing on the Edge; Above Suspicion; Young James Herriot; The Runaway.
Film includes: And Then I Was French; Blackwood; What Maisie Knew.
Joanna trained at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. In 2011, Joanna was the recipient of the Screen International Star of Tomorrow Award.
Richard, Duke of York
Theatre includes: Lord of the Flies (Regents Park Open Air Theatre / UK Tour)
Radio: Man at the Helm
Benedict trains at Jackie Palmer Stage School.
Prince Edward
For the Almeida: Medea.
Theatre includes: A Doll’s House (Duke of York).
Television includes: WILL; Grantchester; commercials for Bird’s Eye and Coca-Cola.
Film includes:Miss You Already; Fury; Sunday Dinner With The Morgan's; We Play War; The Mentor.
Lukas attends the Young Actors Theatre in Islington.
Prince Edward
Television includes: Casualty
Film includes: Blackwood
Richard, Duke of York
Theatre includes: The Winter’s Tale (The Globe), Peter Pan (Wycombe Swan)
Oliver trains at Jackie Palmer Stage School.
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: Medea; The Merchant of Venice (also RSC); King Charles III (also West End); American Psycho: A new musical thriller (also Broadway); 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.
Set
For the Almeida: Uncle Vanya; Oresteia (also West End); Rosmersholm; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (also West End).
Theatre includes: Waste; A Taste of Honey; Scenes from an Execution; After The Dance; Harper Regan; The Hour we Knew Nothing of Each Other; The Hothouse; Therese Raquin; Exiles; Iphigenia at Aulis; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; King Lear (National Theatre) Primo (National Theatre / Broadway); Good People; Passion Play; Old Times; Top Hat (also world tour); The Sunshine Boys (also Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles); Arcadia (West End / Broadway); Blithe Spirit; The Misanthrope; The Crucible; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder (West End); Teddy Ferrara; Roots; Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar Warehouse); Cause Celebre; All About My Mother; Richard II (Old Vic); The Seagull (Royal Court / Broadway); Now or Later; Krapp’s Last Tape; Terrorism; My Name is Rachel Corrie (also New York); Blasted (Royal Court); Electra (RSC); The Jewish Wife (Young Vic).
Television and film includes: Primo; Krapp’s Last Tape.
Opera includes: La finta giardiniera (Santa Fe Opera); La Traviata (Glyndebourne Opera Festival); The Makropulos Case (Edinburgh International Festival / Opera North); The Damnation of Faust (ENO / De Vlaamse / Teatro Massimo, Palermo).
Hildegard received an Olivier Award in 2011 for her design of After the Dance. She received an Olivier Award nomination for Top Hat and a nomination for the Evening Standard Best Designer Award in 2011 for Iphigenia at Aulis. She also won the 2009 Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House. She is currently designing the upcoming world premiere of Thomas Ades' The Exterminating Angel at Salzburg, the ROH and The Met.
Costume
Theatre includes: Top Hat (UK Tour / West End); Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); His Dark Materials; The Winter’s Tale (National Theatre).
Opera includes: La Finta Giardiniera (Santa Fe Opera); Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Dutch National Opera); La Gazza Ladra (Frankfurt Opera); Partenope (English National Opera/Opera Australia / San Francisco Opera), Tannhauser (Royal Opera House Covent Garden / Chicago Lyric Opera); Aida (Canadian Opera Company); Angels in America (Le Châtelet);
Tosca (Opera Australia / Opera North); Jenufa (English National Opera / Houston Grand Opera / Washington Opera); Norma (Del Liceu Barcelona / Grand Théâtre de Genève); Wozzeck (Dallas Opera); Kat'a Kabanová (ENO / Polish National Opera / Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos Lisbon / Dallas Opera / Houston Grand Opera).
Set and Costume design for opera includes: Otello (ENO / Royal Swedish Opera / Teatro Real Madrid); Maometto II (Santa Fe Opera / Canadian Opera Company); Rigoletto (Scottish Opera / New Zealand Opera); Iphigenie en Tauride (Staatsoper Hamburg); La Clemenza di Tito (Teatro Regio di Torino).
Jon trained at the Central School of Art and Design in London. He received the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for the musical Top Hat.
Lighting Design
For the Almeida: King Charles III (also West End / Broadway /Sydney Theatre Company); American Psycho; King Lear; The House of Bernarda Alba.
Theatre includes: As You Like It; The Beaux’ Stratagem; Othello; Hamlet; The Effect; Collaborators; A Woman Killed With Kindness; Greenland; Pains of Youth; Our Class; Women of Troy; The Cat in the Hat; Beauty and the Beast; Hansel and Gretel (National Theatre); Hamlet; The Tempest; The Comedy of Errors; Twelfth Night; The Merchant of Venice; The Winter’s Tale; King Lear (RSC); Doctor Faustus; The Maids; Made in Dagenham; The Commitments; I Can’t Sing!; The Ruling Class; The Pride; Three Days of Rain; The Little Dog Laughed; The Lover and the Collection (West End); Streetcar Named Desire (also St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); A Season in the Congo; Street Scene; Been So Long; The Return of Ulysses (with ENO); How Much Is Your Iron?; The Jewish Wife (The Young Vic); The Lorax (The Old Vic); Tipping The Velvet; The Birthday Party (Lyric Hammersmith); Trelawny of the Wells; Moonlight; Polar Bears (Donmar Warehouse); Ten Billion; Red Bud; Aunt Dan and Lemon; The Pride; Gone Too Far (Royal Court); Into the Woods (Open Air Theatre); Salome (Headlong); Water and Silence (Filter Theatre); The Painkiller (Lyric Belfast); Four Quartets (Lincoln Center NYC).
Opera includes: Lucia Di Lammermoor; L’Etoile; Kròl Roger; Written on Skin (Royal Opera House / Aix-en-Provence / New York / Paris / Amsterdam / Toulouse / Munich / Vienna); La Bohème; Wozzeck; Caligula (also Buenos Aires); The Perfect American (alsoTeatro Real, Madrid / Brisbane Festival); La Bohème; Orest (ENO); Macbeth (Dutch National Opera); Footfalls/Neither (Royal Danish Opera).
Jon received an Olivier Nomination and Knight of Illumination Award for Three Days of Rain and an Olivier Nomination for King Charles III.
Composition and Sound
Adam has written mainly for the stage, incorporating sound design with composition to create integrated music and sound scores embracing instrumental music, electronic music and song for many celebrated productions.
For the Almeida: Medea; The Merchant of Venice; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; The Late Henry Moss; Tom and Viv; Five Gold Rings.
Theatre includes: Les Blancs; Three Days in the Country; Phèdre; Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Henry V; Peter and Alice (Michael Grandage Company / West End); Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest (RSC); Richard II; A Streetcar Named Desire; Othello; The Chalk Garden; Creditors; The Wild Duck; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse); No Man’s Land (West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End); Don Carlos (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield / West End); Faustus; Paradise Lost (Headlong); Hamlet (Donmar Warehouse / West End / Broadway); Ivanov (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Anna Christie; King Lear (Donmar Warehouse); Red (Donmar Warehouse / Broadway).
Screen work includes: Genius; London Road; The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Macbeth; Frances Tuesday; Re-ignited; Imprints; Bust; Tripletake.
Radio includes: Losing Rosalind; The Luneberg Variation; The Colonel-Bird; On the Ceiling.
Adam’s musical London Road, co-written with Alecky Blythe, won the Critic’s Circle Award for Best Musical in 2011 and a film version was released in 2015. He also received an Olivier Award in 2011 for King Lear, the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2011 for Anna Christie and King Lear, and a Tony Award in 2010 for his music & sound score for Red. In 2010 Adam also received a Tony Award nomination for Best Score (Music & Lyrics) for Enron (Headlong / West End / Broadway). Also on Broadway, his sound design for Macbeth (2008)was nominated for a Tony Award and his music for Frost/Nixon (2007) was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
Fight Direction
For the Almeida: King Lear; The Late Henry Moss.
Theatre includes: His Dark Materials; Henry IV Parts I and II; Scenes from the Big Picture; Othello; Duchess of Malfi; Edmund; Landscape with Weapon; Elmina’s Kitchen; The White Guard (National Theatre); Henry VI Parts I, II, and III; Hamlet; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Coriolanus; As You Like It; Cymbeline; Sniger; Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Company); Our Country is Good (Royal Court); Peter Pan (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Les Liaison Dangereuse (Bristol Old Vic); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham and West End); Festen (Almeida and West End); Caligula; Don Carlos; Othello (Donmar); The People are Friendly (Traverse – Edinburgh); Moon for the Misgotten (Old Vic); Fool for Love (West End); Titus Andronicus (Globe); Three Musketeers (Sheffield Crucible).
Television includes:The Bill; Casualty; EastEnders; Broken Glass; A Kind of Innocence; Fell Tiger; The Scold’s Bridle; Fatal Inversion; Nerys Glas; Death of a Salesman; The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Lucky Jim; Blue Dove; Rock Face.
Musicals and Opera include: Porgy and Bess; Othello; Martin Guerre; Jesus Christ Superstar ; Oliver; Saturday Night Fever; Spend Spend Spend; Fifteen Streets/Lautrec; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Guys and Dolls; Billy Elliot the Musical; Cabaret; Fiddler on the Roof ; Jerry Springer the Opera; Our House/Lord of the Rings the Musical; Dirty Dancing; Zorro the Musical.
Casting
Joyce was Head of Casting at the RSC for 10 years under the Artistic Directorship of Trevor Nunn. She worked on a regular basis with Jonathan Kent when he was Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre. She cast three productions with the great German director Peter Stein and has also worked with Peter Hall and Peter Brook.
For the Almeida: King Charles III; Little Revolution; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Waste.
Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard; Macbeth (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Three Sisters; Death of a Salesman; And Then There Were None; As You Desire Me; The Country Wife; Glengarry Glen Ross; The Sea (West End); Julius Caesar (Barbican); Enron; Cyrano de Bergerac; The Deep Blue Sea; Rattigan’s Nijinsky; The Way of the World (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Seagull; Blackbird; Troilus and Cressida (Edinburgh International Festival); Uncle Vanya (The Print Room).
Television includes: Midsomer Murders; Foyle’s War; Kavanagh QC; Inspector Morse; Goodnight Mister Tom; RKO 281.
Film includes: Hamlet; Breaking the Waves.
Joyce received an Emmy Award in 2000 for her work on RKO 281.
Resident Director
As a Director: Echoes (The Gilded Balloon / The Arcola Theatre / 59E59 Theatre New York) The Bench; Powerpoints (Theatre 503); Romeo And Juliet (site specific); Murder In Whitechapel (The Tristan Bates); Detrimental (Greenwich Theatre); Dying City (The Cockpit).
As an Associate Director: The Dazzle (Michael Grandage Company); Absent Friends (UK tour); The Separation (Theatre 503); Dido And Aeneas (The Sage Gateshead); The Flood (So & So Arts Club).
As an Assistant Director: Waiting For Godot (UK tour); The King James Bible; The Marriage Of Figaro (The Sage Gateshead); Finding Butterfly; The Secret Consul (Opera Machine).
Emma trained as a director at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Costume Supervision
For the Almeida: Carmen Disruption; Game; Mr Burns: A post-electric play.
As Associate Costume Designer, theatre and opera include: Curlew River (Barbican / London & USA tour; Marco Polo (Bergen National Opera / Bergen Festival, Norway); Where the Wild Things Are; HiggledyPiggledyPop (Barbican / Walt Disney Hall / Aldeburgh Music Festival; Mamma Mia (Artscape Theatre, Cape Town / Korea tour; Much Ado About Nothing (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men / UK tour).
As Costume Supervisor, theatre and opera include: Alice In Wonderland (LA Philharmonic, Walt Disney Hall / Barbican London);’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Shakespeare’s Globe); Edward II (National Theatre); Mamma Mia! (Shanghai, China); Le Nozze Di Figaro (Sadler’s Wells / Teatro Ventidio Bassi, Ascoli Piceno); The White Devil (Menier Chocolate Factory); Dickens Unplugged (Comedy Theatre).
As Costume Designer, film includes: Minimus; In the Dark Half; Where Have I Been All Your Life.
Music Associate
Sheila is a London-based singer, actor and instrumentalist and studied singing and music at Wac Arts. Her work as a composer includes music for The Etienne Sisters at Stratford East Theatre Royal.
★★★★ Vividly... enfolds past and present. A hypnotic central performance
The Independent
★★★★ Resonates powerfully. Fiennes is chilling... Vanessa Redgrave brings an unexpeceted gentleness to Queen Margaret
Evening Standard
★★★★ Rupert Goold's sleek, dark production... this bleak, bitter reading powerfully suggests that ugly times breed ugly minds
Financial Times
★★★★★ Breathtaking... Fiennes, in one of the theatrical performances of the year, is pure, dripping malevolence
City AM
★★★★ Fiennes finds new sense in the old words... a mesmeric, revelatory performance
WhatsOnStage
A polished interpretation with uncomfortable contemporary resonance
The Hollywood Reporter
The running time is approximately 3 hours and 10 minutes including one interval of 20 minutes. Pre-order a hamper with snacks to enjoy in the interval here.
This production contains haze, gun shots, executions and sexual violence.
Cast
David Annen
Joseph Arkley
Tom Canton
Daniel Cerqueira
Simon Coates
Susan Engel
Ralph Fiennes
James Garnon
Mark Hadfield
Scott Handy
Finbar Lynch
Aislín McGuckin
Joseph Mydell
Vanessa Redgrave
Joshua Riley
Joanna Vanderham
Benedict Barker
Lukas Rolfe
Baxter Westby
Oliver Whitehouse
Ensemble
Osman Baig
Josh Collins
Lev Levermore
Lucas Parish
Direction Rupert Goold
Set Hildegard Bechtler
Costume Jon Morrell
Lighting Jon Clark
Composition and Sound Adam Cork
Fight Direction Terry King
Casting Joyce Nettles
Resident Director Emma Butler
Costume Supervision Jemima Penny
Movement Direction Anna Morrissey
Sound Associate Sheila Atim
Design Assistant Luke Smith
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