Roots
By Arnold Wesker, Directed by Diyan Zora
Event details
Tue 10 Sep - Sat 23 Nov 2024
★★★★
“Eternally relevant and deeply moving”
The Guardian
What’ve you done since you come in? Hev you said anythin’? I mean really said or done anything to show you’re alive?
Beatie Bryant returns to her rural home in Norfolk, inflamed with political zeal from her time spent living in London. As the family anxiously prepares for the arrival of her firebrand activist boyfriend Ronnie, Beatie struggles to fit back into her old way of life.
As Beatie’s radical new ideals fail to land with her traditional family, the differences between young and old are laid bare.
Diyan Zora (English) directs Morfydd Clark (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) in a new production of Arnold Wesker’s lyrical, impassioned play about a young woman’s journey to self-discovery which, together with John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, changed British theatre forever. The mirror they held up to 1950s society is now angled towards 2024, with the two plays running alongside each other in repertory for 11 weeks, as part of the Almeida’s Angry and Young season.
Running Time Approx. 1 hour & 45 mins, no interval
Subject to change during previews.
Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees 2pm
Access Performances
Book our access performances by calling Box Office on 020 7359 4404 or email boxoffice@almeida.co.uk.
Audio Described Sat 23 Nov 2pm (Touch Tour 12pm)
Captioned Fri 15 Nov 7.30pm
Relaxed Environment Wed 30 Oct 2pm & Wed 6 Nov 7.30pm
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Cast & Creatives
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Cast
Michael AbubakarMichael Abubakar
Michael Abubakar
For the Almeida: The Tragedy of Macbeth; Oresteia; Hamlet (also Park Avenue Amory, New York).
Theatre includes: King John; The Whip (RSC); The Glass Menagerie (Arcola Theatre/ Watford Palace Theatre); The Whip Hand (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Cadaver Police in the Electrocution Afterlife (Tron Theatre); Invisible Army (Scottish tour).
Opera includes: Der Rosenkavalier (Scottish Opera).
Film includes: Wonka; Artemis Fowl; Long Night at Blackstone.
Television includes: Bad Sisters; Crime; Annika; Grantchester; Motherland; News Crack; Doctors; Horrible Histories; Trust Me.
Morfydd ClarkMorfydd Clark
Morfydd Clark
Theatre includes: The Colours (Soho Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff); King Lear (The Old Vic); Les Liasons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse); Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Theatres); Violence & Son (Royal Court); Blodeuwedd (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); No Other Day Like Today (National Youth Theatre Wales).
Film includes: Starve Acre; Saint Maud; Crawl; Eternal Beauty; The Personal History of David Copperfield; The Man Who Invented Christmas; Interlude in Prague; Love & Friendship; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; The Call Up; The Falling; Madame Bovary; Two Missing.
Television includes: Murder is Easy; The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power; Dracula; His Dark Materials; Patrick Melrose; The City and The City; The Alienist; Arthur and George; Dylan Thomas: A Poet in New York; New Worlds.
Iwan DaviesIwan Davies
Iwan Davies
Iwan trained at RADA.
Theatre includes: Backstairs Billy (West End); The Corn is Green (National Theatre).
Television includes: A Small Light; Anatomy of a Scandal; A Christmas Carol; Gwaith/Cartref.
Billy HowleBilly Howle
Billy Howle
Theatre includes: Dear Octopus (National Theatre); Hamlet; Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bristol Old Vic); Europe (Donmar Warehouse); Life of Galileo (Young Vic); Ghosts (BAM, New York).
Film includes: Kid Snow; Infinite Storm; Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; Outlaw King; Dunkirk; On Chesil Beach; The Seagull; The Sense of an Ending.
Television includes: The Perfect Couple; Under the Banner of Heaven; Chloe; The Serpent; The Beast Must Die; MotherFatherSon; Glue.
Eliot SaltEliot Salt
Eliot Salt
Eliot trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes: The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre).
Television includes: Slow Horses; Industry; Intelligence; Fate: The Winx Saga; Amicable (also writer); Dalgliesh; Normal People; GameFace.
Sophie StantonSophie Stanton
Sophie Stanton
For the Almeida: Ink; Dying For It; The Knot of the Heart; Cloud Nine.
Theatre includes: East is East; England People Very Nice; Market Boy (National Theatre); As You Like It; The Taming of the Shrew; The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich (RSC); The Tempest; Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Made In Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre/ West End); Ding Dong The Wicked (Royal Court); Beautiful Thing (Donmar Warehouse/ Bush Theatre).
Film includes: Una; Me Before You; How I Live Now; Grow Your Own; Cheerful Weather for the Wedding; Beautiful Thing.
Television includes: The Killing Kind; The Full Monty; King Gary; Vera; Endeavour; The Halcyon; The Job Lot; My Mad Fat Diary; Eastenders; Gimme Gimme Gimme; Wallander.
Ellora TorchiaEllora Torchia
Ellora Torchia
For the Almeida: The Treatment.
Theatre includes: All’s Well That Ends Well; The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare’s Globe); Boys Will Be Boys (Bush Theatre/ Headlong); Macbeth (Arcola Theatre).
Film includes: Cold Storage; A Real Pain; In the Earth; Crisis; Ali & Ava; Midsommar; Dreamland; Les Cowboys; Premier Vacances.
Television includes: Silent Witness; House of the Dragon; Generation Z; The Gold; Grantchester; The Nevers; Infiniti; The Split; Dark Money; Broadchurch; Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands; Indian Summers; Spooks; The Suspisions of Mr Whicher; DCI Banks; On The Edge.
Tony TurnerTony Turner
Tony Turner
For the Almeida: Measure for Measure; Ink (also West End); Big White Fog; Enemies.
Theatre includes: Dear England; The Visit; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Burnt by the Sun; Her Naked Skin; Present Laughter Playing with Fire; The UN Inspector (National Theatre); Sea Creatures (Hampstead Theatre); The Mirror and the Light (West End); This House (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ National Theatre/ UK tour); The Damned United (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Journey’s End (UK tour/ West End); Personal Enemy (59E59 Theaters, New York); The House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival Theatre); One Night in November (Belgrade Theatre); Neville’s Island (The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Madness of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse/ Birmingham Rep); Macbeth; Othello (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep).
Television includes: Gentleman Jack; Quiz; Delicious; Call the Midwife; Downton Abbey; Loving Miss Hatto; New Tricks; Maxwell; Party Animals; Gavin and Stacey; Trial & Retribution; Foyle’s War; Coronation Street; September Song.
Radio includes: The Archers.
Deka WalmsleyDeka Walmsley
Deka Walmsley
For the Almeida: Enemies.
Theatre includes: Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; As You Like It; The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe/ International tour); An Enemy of the People; Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse); Playing with Fire; Macbeth; The Pitmen Painters (National Theatre/ Broadway); Cockpit (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Fatherland (Frantic Assembly); Secret Heart (Royal Exchange); Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing; Laughter When We’re Dead (Live Theatre); Cyrano (Bristol Old Vic); Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (York Theatre Royal/ UK tour); Home Shetland (National Theatre of Scotland); Gaffer (York Theatre Royal/ Southwark Playhouse); Keepers of the Flame (RSC); News from the 7th Floor (Watford Palace); Bones (Hampstead Theatre); Mapping the Edge (Sheffield Theatres); Andorra; Stars in the Morning Sky (Northern Stage); Billy Elliot; Cooking with Elvis; Blood Brothers (West End).
Film includes: Blue Jean; A Banquet.
Television includes: Truelove; Deceit; The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself; The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe; Vera; Three Girls; Our Friends in the North; Nature Boy; Ticket to Ride; Rebus; Waiters; Breeze Block; Grease Monkey; 55 Degrees North; Waking the Dead; Dirty War; Inspector George Gently.
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Creatives
Arnold WeskerArnold Wesker
Writer
Arnold Wesker
Arnold Wesker, FRSL, Hon. Litt.D. born London 1932, is the author of 42 plays, four books of short stories, two collections of essays, a book for young people, three more of non-fiction, and an autobiography.
His works include: The Kitchen; The Wesker Trilogy (comprising Chicken Soup with Barley; Roots; I’m Talking About Jerusalem); Chips with Everything; The Four Seasons; Love Letters On Blue Paper; Shylock; Annie Wobbler; When God Wanted a Son; Caritas; Circles of Perception; Denial; Groupie; Longitude.
His work, which includes scripts for TV, radio and film is continually performed world-wide, and translated/published in 18 languages. They have won prizes in both the UK and abroad. Over the last 40 years Penguin have published seven paperback volumes of his collected plays and one of his stories. These are now gradually being taken over by Methuen Books.
In 1989, Wesker received his first Honorary Degree (D.Litt.) from the University of East Anglia. His second from Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, was awarded March 1995. A third – Doctor of Humane Letters – was awarded from Denison University, Ohio, May 1997.Diyan ZoraDiyan Zora
Director
Diyan Zora
Diyan was the 2021 recipient of the Genesis Future Director’s Award, as well as a member of the Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group.
Theatre includes:
As Director: English (RSC/ Kiln Theatre); Lysistrata (Lyric Hammersmith); Tom Fool (Orange Tree Theatre); Klippies (Young Vic, as recipient of the Genesis Future Directors Award).
As Associate and Assistant Director: Faith Hope and Charity; Evening at the Talkhouse (National Theatre); Love (National Theatre/ European tour); The Ferryman (West End); Fireworks; The Wolf from the Door (Royal Court).
Naomi DawsonNaomi Dawson
Set Designer
Naomi Dawson
Theatre includes: Shed: Exploded View; Light Falls; Happy Days (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Hope has a Happy Meal; That Is Not Who I Am/Rapture; Scenes with girls; The Woods (Royal Court); Akedah; The Breach; The Animal Kingdom; Wildefire; Belongings; The Gods Weep (Hampstead Theatre); Fair Play (Bush Theatre); The Convert; The Container; Phaedra’s Love (Young Vic); Romeo and Juliet; As You Like It (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi; Doctor Faustus; The White Devil; The Roaring Girl; As You Like It; King John (RSC); The Winter’s Tale (Roma Abbey, Romakloster); Beryl (Leeds Playhouse/UK tour); Kasimir & Karoline; Fanny & Alexander; Love & Money (Malmö Stadsteater); Hotel; Three More Sleepless Nights (National Theatre); Amerika; Krieg der Bilder (Staatstheater Mainz); Scorched (The Old Vic); Mary Shelley; The Glass Menagerie; Speechless (UK tour) State of Emergency; Mariana Pineda (Gate Theatre); Stallerhof; Richard III; The Cherry Orchard; Summer Begins (Southwark Playhouse); If That’s All There Is (Lyric Hammersmith); The Typist (Sky Arts); Attempts on Her Life (Battersea Arts Centre); Home; In Blood; Venezuela; Mud; Trash (Arcola Theatre).
Opera includes: Madama Butterfly; The Lottery; The Fairy Queen (Bury Court Opera); Madama Butterfly (Arcola Theatre).
Tomás PalmerTomás Palmer
Costume Designer
Tomás Palmer
Tomás is an artist and designer who works across theatre, dance, opera and performance art. Tomás trained at The Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He is a recipient of the 2021 Linbury Prize for Theatre Design. As an artist, he has created installations and performance pieces for the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Transmission Gallery and Embassy Gallery.
Theatre includes:As Set and Costume Designer: Liberation Squares (Nottingham Playhouse) Dreaming and Drowning (Bush Theatre); Blue Mist (Royal Court); The Bacchae (Lyric Hammersmith); My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar (Brixton House); Autocue (Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow).
As Costume Designer: Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard); Julius Caesar (RSC).Lee CurranLee Curran
Lighting Designer
Lee Curran
For the Almeida: King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); Summer and Smoke (also West End); Dance Nation.
Theatre includes: Constellations (West End/ Broadway/ Royal Court); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ US tour/ Barbican); Next to Normal (West End/Donmar Warehouse); Player Kings (West End/ UK tour); Henry V; Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); The House of Bernarda Alba; The Welkin; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical; Protest Song (National Theatre); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); The Song Project; Gundog; Road; Nuclear War; a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun); X; Linda (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie; West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/ UK tour); Nora: A Doll’s House (Young Vic/ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); Harm (Bush Theatre); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); Julius Caesar; Doctor Faustus (RSC).
Dance includes: Cycles, Blak Whyte Gray (Blue Boy Entertainment); The Limit (Royal Opera House); We Are As Gods (James Cousins Company); Enowate (Dickson Mbi); Clowns; Sun; Political Mother; In Your Rooms; Uprising (Hofesh Shechter Company); Don Quixote (Royal Danish Ballet); Untouchable (Royal Ballet); Grey Matter; Tomorrow; Frames (Rambert).
Opera includes: Orphée et Eurydice (Royal Opera House/Teatro alla Scala); Aida; Fidelio; Nothing (Royal Danish Opera); Tosca (Opera North/Opera Australia); Phaedra (Royal Opera House).
George DennisGeorge Dennis
Sound Designer
George Dennis
For the Almeida: The Duchess of Malfi; Three Sisters.
Theatre includes: The Homecoming (Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design); The Seagull; Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons; The Importance of Being Earnest; Pinter at the Pinter (West End); Nine Night (West End/ National Theatre); Sweat (West End/ Donmar Warehouse); English (Kiln Theatre/ RSC); Love’s Labour’s Lost; Venice Preserved (RSC); The Effect (National Theatre/ The Shed, New York); Blues for an Alabama Sky; An Octoroon (National Theatre); The Homecoming; Further than the Furthest Thing; The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Clyde’s (Donmar Warehouse); Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles; Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads; The Deep Blue Sea; The Norman Conquests (Chichester Festival Theatre); Glee & Me (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Straight Line Crazy (Bridge Theatre/ The Shed, New York); The Southbury Child; Two Ladies (Bridge Theatre); Talent; Frost/Nixon; Tribes (Sheffield Theatres); Hedda Tesman; Spring Awakening (Headlong); Much Ado About Nothing; Imogen; The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Harrogate; Fireworks; Liberian Girl (Royal Court); Julie (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam).
Chris EvansChris Evans
Movement Director
Chris Evans
Chris was a founding member of the Hofesh Shechter Company, where he spent six years devising and touring work globally. He has been a regular collaborator with Ben Duke since performing in the Place Prize-winning It Needs Horses (The Place).
Theatre includes:
As Associate Choreographer: Two Boys (Metropolitan Opera House, New York); Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway).
As Movement Director: The Dreamer (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre).
As Associate Movement Director: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (West End); CODE (International tour); Tom Fool (Orange Tree Theatre).
As Writer and Director: The Rescue (The Place/ Riley Theatre, Leeds).
Chris is a core member of Gecko Theatre, contributing to the company’s success for over a decade across six major productions. His roles at Gecko have evolved from performer to writer and Director of Associate Commissions, including the upcoming immersive show The Deal (Minghua, Shenzhen).
Yarit DorYarit Dor
Fight & Intimacy Director
Yarit Dor
Yarit is a multidisciplinary creative working as a Fight Director, IDC Certified Intimacy Director and Movement Director. She is co-director of Moving Body Arts and an Ensemble Associate Artist of The Shakespeare’s Globe. In 2019 she originated the role of the Intimacy Director in the West End and recently she’s been awarded a Fellow of Rose Bruford College.
For the Almeida: The Years;“Daddy” A Melodrama.
Theatre includes: Why Am I So Single; Hamilton; The Shark Is Broken (West End); Hadestown (West End/ National Theatre); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Death Of A Salesman (West End/ Young Vic); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); Othello; Henry V; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Hamlet; As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Band’s Visit, Love & Other Acts Of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); The Homecoming; The Second Woman; Changing Destiny (Young Vic); A View From The Bridge (Headlong); This Is Not Who I Am (Royal Court); Old Bridge (Bush Theatre).
Film includes: Wicked.
Television includes: Daisy Jones and The Six; Mood; The Rings of Power.
Dance includes: Weather Is Sweet; Death Trap; Peaky Blinders (Rambert Dance Company); The Burnt City (Punchdrunk).
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).
Sabia SmithSabia Smith
Costume Supervisor
Sabia Smith
Sabia studied Costume Construction and Supervision at RADA.
Theatre includes: Next to Normal (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); Duchess of Malfi; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights; Midsummer Mechanicals (Shakespeare’s Globe); Ulster American (Riverside Studios); Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written. (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Inquiry (Chichester Festival Theatre); Favour (Bush Theatre); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Noises Off (West End); Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] (Park Theatre); The American Clock (The Old Vic); Twelfth Night (Wilton’s Music Hall); We’re Stuck! (Shoreditch Town Hall).
Opera includes: Aleko; Gianni Schicchi; Gods of the Game: a Football Opera; La Gioconda; The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko; Falstaff; Don Carlos (Grange Park Opera); Zauberland (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord/ Royal Opera House/ La Monnaie / De Munt/ Opéra de Lille/ Lincoln Center, New York/ Opéra de Rouen); The Marriage of Figaro (Royal Academy of Music).
Film includes: Nation Down.
Television includes: Gods of the Game: A Football Opera.
Dance includes: Anne of Green Gables (Sadler’s Wells); Message In A Bottle (Sadler’s Wells/ International tour).
Edda SharpeEdda Sharpe
Dialect Coach
Edda Sharpe
Theatre includes: English (RSC/ Kiln Theatre); The Witches (National Theatre); And Then There Were None (UK tour); Baghdaddy (Royal Court); My Fair Lady (ENO); Oleanna (Theatre Royal Bath/ West End); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Lyric Hammersmith/ Chichester Festival Theatre); Love, Love, Love; A Doll’s House (Lyric Hammersmith); When the Crows Visit; Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre); The Other Boleyn Girl; Hedda Tesman (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hobson’s Choice (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Switzerland; King Lear (Theatre Royal Bath); Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall) Lions and Tigers (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Graduate (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Anita and Me (Birmingham Rep); East is East (West End); The Rover; Volpone; Wendy and Peter Pan; What Country Friends Is This; The Homecoming; I’ll Be The Devil (RSC).
Film includes: Far from the Madding Crowd; The Door; The Anomaly; Kajaki.
Written works include: How To Do Accents.
Edda has also worked on over 20 seasons as Head of Voice and Dialect at the Shaw Festival Theatre, Ontario.
Tian Brown-SampsonTian Brown-Sampson
Associate Director
Tian Brown-Sampson
Tian is a British-Caribbean theatre director, producer, movement director, writer, dramaturg, translator and facilitator. Her focus lies mainly within Black, East and South-East Asian South Asian, and D/deaf and disabled theatre work within new writing. She is currently Associate Trustee at Theatre503.
Theatre includes:
As Director: The Lesson (Theatre503); Violet (Pleasance Theatre); babydyke; Bougie Lanre’s Boulangerie (Talawa Theatre); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre); In the Black Fantastic (Southbank Centre); Days of Significance (ArtsEd); For Her 还装什么男子汉 (Kakilang Festival); Lost Laowais (VAULT Festival).
As Associate and Assistant Director: Passing Strange; Further than the Furthest Thing; Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); A Dead Body in Taos (Bristol Old Vic/ Theatre Royal Plymouth/ Wilton’s Music Hall/ Warwick Arts Centre); Moreno (Theatre503); Gin Craze! (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); Does My Bomb Look Big In This? (Soho Theatre); Under the Umbrella (Belgrade Theatre); Forgotten 遗忘 (Arcola Theatre).
As Movement Director: Makeshifts and Realities (Finborough Theatre); Possession (Arcola Theatre); Til Death Do Us Part (Theatre503); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre); Heard (Camden People’s Theatre).
Wabriya KingWabriya King
Production 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).
ANGRY AND YOUNG Season
Roots is presented in rep with Look Back in Anger by John Osborne as part of our Angry and Young Season.
Concessions
All concession tickets are limited and subject to availability. Proof of eligibility is required. 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 Tue 10 – Sat 28 Sep. Enter code 25UNDER when selecting your seats. Tickets go on sale at 5pm on Tue 20 Aug. 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 Tue 10 – Mon 30 Sep, subject to availability. Enter promo code ISFIRST when selecting your seats. Find applicable postcodes here.
Access Performances
Audio Described Sat 23 Nov 2pm (Touch Tour 12pm)
Captioned Fri 15 Nov 7.30pm
Relaxed Environment Wed 30 Oct 2pm & Wed 6 Nov 7.30pm
For full information about how to book for our access performances please visit our Access For All Page.
Talks & Events
Talkback
After Thu 7 Nov performance
A post-show talk with members of the company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Almeida For Free
Thu 14 Nov 7.30pm
A free performance for those aged 25 and under. Sign up to our emails for Tickets & Events for 16-25s to be notified when tickets are available.
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Artwork photography by Gavin Li. Concept by Studio Doug.