European Premiere
By Sam Shepard
Directed By Michael Attenborough
Tickets £6 - £29.50
In Bernalillo, New Mexico, Ray and Earl return home to mark the passing of their estranged father, Henry.
Over a bottle of bourbon and a box of old photographs, tales of their childhoods emerge. As they encounter Henry's bizarre collection of friends, including his wild and voracious lover, the colourful circumstances surrounding his death provoke violen suspicion...
The Late Henry Moss marks the first play by Sam Shepard to be produced at the Almeida. His other work includes the Pulitzer-Prize winning Buried Child, A Lie of the Mind and Fool for Love.
Michael Attenborough directs the European Premiere of The Late Henry Moss. His productions inlude Playing with Fire at the National Theatre, Five Gold Rings and The Mercy Seat as the Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre.
Ray Moss
Theatre: Free (National Theatre), Blue/Orange (National Theatre & West End), Hushabye Mountain (Hampstead Theatre & National Tour), Sugar, Sugar (Bush Theatre).
Television: Who’s Baby?, Tell Me Lies, Teachers, Saving Grace, Afterlife, A Likeness in Stone, Bomber, Woman in White, This Life, Bramwell, N7, Overhere, Drop the Dead Donkey. As Director: Teachers Series 4.
Film: Enduring Love, Love Actually, Offending Angel, Gangster No.1, Human Traffic, Boston Kick Out, Comme tu es Belle, Scenes of a Sexual Nature.
Earl Moss
Theatre: Buried Child (National Theatre), The Bear (The Gate), Dead Eyed Boy (Hampstead Theatre), Battle Royal (National Theatre), The Weir (Royal Court & Broadway), The Changing Room (Duke of York), The Silver Tassie (Almeida Theatre), The Plough and the Stars (O’Casey Theatre), September Tide (Kings Head), A Love Song for Ulster (Tricycle Theatre), Elegies to Angels, Punks and Raving Queens (Kings Head), Philadelphia Here I Come (Kings Head & Wyndhams Theatre), Pygmyies in the Ruins (Royal Court), Playboy of the Western World (Lyric, Belfast), Ragged Trousered (National Tour), Philanthropist (Old Red Lion), All Souls Night, Over the Bridge (Lyric, Belfast), Force and Hypocrisy (Young Vic).
Television: Soundproof, Shameless, Ghost Squad, Jericho, North and South, Omagh, Amnesia, Single, Waking the Dead, The Commander, Rockface, Great Deliverance, Paths to Freedom, The Bombmaker, Rebel Heart, McReady and Daughter, Soft Sand Blue Sea, Silent Witness, Thieftakers, The Glass Virgin, The Full Wax.
Film: Offside, The Jacket, Mapmaker, Conspiracy, I Could Read the Sky, The General, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Cull, Last Bus Home, Ailsa.
Funeral Attendant 2
Theatre: SICK! (Almeida Projects), Lysistrata (Camden Peoples Theatre).
Opera: Magic Flute (Welsh National Opera).
Conchalla
Theatre: The Permanent Way (Out of Joint/National Theatre), Push Up (Royal Court), More Grimm Tales (New York), Mind Mille for Me (Haymarket), Othello (Watermill & Japan), The Missionary and Other Positions (Etcetera), Lysistrata (Wyndhams & Athens), The Neighbour (National Theatre), The Rose Tattoo (Playhouse), It’s A Girl (Library, Manchester), A Streetcar Names Desire (Bristol Old Vic), Fiddler on the Roof, Daisy Pulls It Off, French without Tears (Wolsley Theatre, Ipswich).
Television: Waking the Dead, Ultimate Force, Hustle, Mad About Alice, The Savages, Worst Witch, Blue Murder, The Wilsons, Supply & Demand II, Mr White Goes to Westminster, Game On, Sunnyside Farm, Drop the Dead Donkey, Agony Again, My Good Friend, Harry, Beethoven’s Not Dead, Gerry Sadowitz, Freddie & Max, Gophers, Casualty, TLC, KYTV, Lake of Darkness, Lovejoy, You, Me & Him, The Upper Hand, The Safe House, About Face.
Film: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Casanova, What a Girl Wants, Ashes and Sand, The Safe House, Room to Rent, Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Widow Maker, The Statement of Affairs.
Taxi Driver
Theatre: The Dumb Waiter and Other Pieces (Oxford Playhouse Tour), Sherlock Holmes in Trouble (Royal Exchange, Manchester), A Laughing Matter, She Stoops to Conquer (National & Out of Joint), Bedroom Farce (Aldwych Theatre), Boy Gets Girl (Royal Court), Servant to Two Masters (Young Vic, RSC, New Ambassadors UK and World Tours), Kafka’s Dick, Filumena (Piccadilly Theatre), After Dawin (Hampstead Theatre), Blue Heart (Ambassadors Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Almeida Theatre), Habeus Corpus (Donmar), My Night with Reg (Criterion & Playhouse), One Flea Spare (Bush Theatre), The Libertine and Man of Mode (Out of Joint & Royal Court), The Libertine, A Handful of Dust (Cambridge Theatre Company), Keyboard Skills (Bush Theatre), Inadmissable Evidence (National Theatre), The House of Yes (Gate Theatre), King Lear (Royal Court), The Rivals (Nottingham Playhouse), True West, The Government Inspector, As You Like It (Sheffield Crucible), Timon of Athens (Young Vic), Rafts and Dreams (Royal Court), Arden of Faversham (Old Red Lion), Kissing the Pope, Plantagenets, The Plain Dealer (RSC), Blind Faith (Soho Poly), Ruffian of the Stair, Waiting for Godot (Not the National Theatre), Jack the Giant (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Camille (Leeds Playhouse), Professionals (Elephant Theatre), Body and Soul (Edinburgh Fringe), He Who Gets Slapped (Riverside Studios).
Television: My Family and Other Animals, Funland, Elizabeth – The Virgin Queen, Booze Cruise II, All About George, Peter Ackroyd’s Romantics, Bodies, Conviction, Sex Traffic, William and Mary, Family Business, In Denial of Murder, Bodily Harm, The Russian Bride, Sex ‘n Death, Couples, Bostocks Cup, Duck Patrol, Grown Ups, Annie’s Bar, The Bill, Casualty, Pie in the Sky, Between the Lines, Buddha of Suburbia, Good Guys, Soldier Soldier, Eastenders.
Film: Sixty Six, Confetti, Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason, Sabotage, Tomorrow Never Dies, Circus, Eugene Onegin, High Hopes, Split Second.
Funeral Attendant 1
Theatre: The Day of Nine Days (Dirty Minds - CPT), Brighton Rock (Almeida Theatre), The Invisibles (Dirty Minds - BAC), Downstream, Yerma (Open Door Theatre Works), 2024 (Santa Monica Playhouse), The Sixth Day (Human Title).
Television: Power Rangers (Fox Kids), Front Row (Commercial).
Film: Side Walk, Sofia, Chance (Short Films).
Radio: The Dark Places (Resonance).
Esteban
Theatre: The Hypochondriac (Almeida Theatre), The 39 Steps (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Interior (Young Vic), Red Demon (Noda Map), Pericles & The Tempest (RSC), The Lion King (Royal Lyceum), Snake (Hampstead), Gas Station Angel (Royal Court), The Front Page (Donmar), Beauty and the Beast (Young Vic), Full Moon (Theatr Clwyd, Young Vic), Weldon Rising (Royal Court, Liverpool Playhouse), Woman in Mind (Windsor Theatre Royal), Damned for Despair (The Gate), Three Judgements in One (The Gate), Good Person in Setzuan (National), Master Harold and the Boys (Contact, Manchester), Inventing a New Colour (Royal Court, Bristol Old Vic), Marat/Sade, Wild Honey, Happy Haven (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Pirates on Parade (Bolton Octagon), Catch 22 (Dukes, Lancashire), Marriage of Figaro (Theatr Clwyd), Mabinogi (Moving Being).
Television: Mine All Mine, Mersey Beat, 20 Things to do Before You’re 30, Waking the Dead, Swallow, Arabian Nights, Men Behaving Badly, The Keep, Love on a Branch Line, Blag, Avarice, Drop the Dead Donkey, Queen of Clubs, The Bill.
Film: The Statement, The Wrong Blonde, Bodywork, Last Seduction II, The Island on Bird Street, A Casualty of War, Young Toscanni, Escape from Sobibor.
Henry Moss
Theatre: Playing with Fire (National Theatre), A Night at the Dogs (Soho Theatre), By the Bog of Cats (Wyndhams Theatre), Soldiers (Finborough Theatre), The Lieutenant of Innishmore, King John, The Prisoners Dilemma (RSC), Snake in the Grass (Old Vic), Lone Star (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Crimson Island (The Gate), American Buffalo (The Duke’s Theatre, Lancaster), The Iceman Cometh (Old Vic Theatre), Shallow End (Royal Court), According to Hoyle (Hampstead Thetare), Zenobia (RSC at the Young Vic), Absurd Person Singular, Julius Caesar (Royal Exchange Theatre), Live Like Pigs (Royal Court), Strange Snow (Teatro Technic), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (National Theatre), Winding the Ball (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic), Court in the Act (Phoenix Theatre), Twelfth Night, Great Expectations, Cymbeline (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Hamlet (Barbican), The Hired Man (Nuffield, Southampton), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Half Moon Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar, Having a Ball (Theatre Royal, York), Andy Capp (Royal Exchange & Aldwych Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Newcastle Playhouse).
Television: Holby City, Rose and Maloney, Down to Earth, Eroica, Trevors World of Sport, Fortysomething, Midsomer Murders, Strife, Lorna Doone, The Singing Detective, A Very Peculiar Practice, Mr Pye, Diana, All the World’s a Stage, Smiley’s People, The Lady Killers, The Merchant of Venice, Fatal Spring, Mother Love, A Wanted Man, Redemption, Drop the Dead Donkey, An Ungentlemanly Act, Framed, Gallowglass, Frank Stubbs Promotes, Our Friends in the North, Loved Up, A Very Open Prison, Out of the Blue, Bodyguards, Ivanhoe, A Perfect State, Insiders, Sex n’ Death, Underworld, Baal, Underbelly, Duck Patrol, Days Like These, Longitude, Uprising, Foyles War, Peterloo.
Film: Dear Wendy, Chromophobia, Dead Fish, Vanity Fair, Gangs of New York, The Emperors New Clothes, Century, The Woman in Black, Drowning by Numbers, Whistle Blower, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Moonlighting, Final Warning, Wuthering Heights, The Silent Touch, Century, Fellow Traveller.
Radio: Dead Souls, The Rover, The Fosdyke Saga.
Composer & Sound Design
Theatre: Adam has composed music and sound scores for Don Carlos (Gielgud), The Wild Duck, Caligula, Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse),Suddenly Last Summer (Albery), Five Gold Rings (Almeida), On The Ceiling (Garrick),Scaramouche Jones (Riverside Studios, Australian and North American tour 2003), Troilus and Cressida (Old Vic), Sunday Father (Hampstead Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lear (Sheffield Crucible), Romeo and Juliet (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Government Inspector (Chichester Festival), King Lear (Chichester Minerva),Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Bristol Old Vic), Romeo and Juliet (No. 1 tour), Bedtime Stories (Stephen Joseph), My Uncle Arly (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio), Insignificance (Brighton Festival), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Hysteria (Salisbury Playhouse), Othello (Greenwich Theatre), Broken Glass (Watford Palace), Arcadia, The Weir, Waiting for Godot, Paradise Lost, Faustus, Hamlet (Northampton Royal), The School for Scandal (Derby Playhouse), A Streetcar Named Desire, Blithe Spirit, The Crucible, The Tempest, Blood Wedding, The Dance of Death, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Romeo & Juliet, The Three Sisters, Macbeth (Colchester Mercury), The Colonel-Bird (Gate), The End of the Affair (Bridewell), Marry Maria (Hoipolloi), Arms and the Man, Hysteria (Northcott Exeter), 2;18 Underground (Lyric Hammersmith studio), Alice Through the Looking Glass (Creation Theatre).
Television: Frances Tuesday (ITV1), Re-ignited (Channel 4).
Film: Bust (Film Council), Sexdrive (Vancouver Film Festival), Tripletake (JJC Films).
Radio:Losing Rosalind (BBC Radio 4), The Colonel-Bird (BBC World Service), Don Carlos (BBC Radio 3).
Casting
Lisa has been Head of Casting at the Royal Court Theatre since 1987 and in that time has worked closely with many eminent playwrights and directors including Max Stafford-Clark, Patrick Marber, Ian Rickson, Harold Pinter, Stephen Daldry, Richard Wilson, Terry Johnson, David Hare, Phyllida Lloyd, Roger Michell, Franco Zefferelli.
Freelance work includes the west end and broadway transfers of Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill, Popcorn by Ben Elton, Closer by Patrick Marber, The Weir by Conor Mcpherson , Far Away by Caryl Churchill, Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson, Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr and starring Holly Hunter.
Casting for television includes: My Night with Reg, The Changeling, La Nona, Roots, Top Girls (BBC). For Red Productions: Mine All Mine by Russell T Davies. For the BBC: Auf Wiedershen Pet, 20,000 Streets Under the Sky and most recently Aberfan, a drama documetary.
Film: Peaches by Nick Grosso.
Lighting Design
Mark Henderson is an associate at the National Theatre and lighting advisor to the Almeida Theatre.
Theatre includes: Recently for the National: Playing with Fire, The President of an Empty Room, The UN Inspector, The False Servant, The History Boys, Mourning Becomes Electra, Democracy, Edmond, His Girl Friday, Henry V, All My Sons. For the Almeida: The Mercy Seat, Faith Healer, King Lear, The Shape of Things, Coriolanus and Richard II, Lulu, Phedre, Britannicus, Naked, Plenty, Hamlet (also Broadway). At the Donmar: The Real Thing, Suddenly Last Summer, Design for Living. West End includes: Amy’s View, The Iceman Cometh, The Judas Kiss, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (all also on Broadway), Our House, Grease, Spend, Spend, Spend, Neville’s Island, Follies, Copenhagen, Passion, Endgame, Tonight’s the Night. On tour: The League of Gentlemen, French and Saunders, Eddie Izzard, Rowen Atkinson.
Opera and Dance include productions for Rambert, The Royal Ballet, Gyndebourne, The Royal Opera, ENO.
Director
Michael Attenborough is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre.
Previously, he was Associate Director, Mercury Theatre, Colchester (1972-74), Associate Director, Leeds Playhouse (1974-79), Associate Director, Young Vic (1979-80), Artistic Director, Palace Theatre, Watford (1980-84), Artistic Director, Hampstead Theatre (1984-89), Principal Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company (1990-2002).
On leaving the Royal Shakespeare Company he was invited to become an Honorary Associate Artist.
Productions include: For the Almeida: Brighton Rock, The Mercy Seat, Five Gold Rings. For the Royal Shakespeare Company: Amphibians, The Changeling, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (UK & European Tour), After Easter, Pentecost, The Herbal Bed (also in the West End & on Broadway), Romeo and Juliet, A Month in the Country, Othello, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Antony and Cleopatra. For the Palace Theatre: The Girl in Melanie Klein, The Big Knife, Romantic Comedy (also in the West End), Terra Nova. For the Hampstead Theatre: The War at Home (also on Broadway), Particular Friendships, That Summer, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Separation (also in the West End). Freelance: Over a Barrel, Single Spies (Turnstyle Group), 1984 (Citadel Theatre, Edmonton), Yerma (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Anna Weiss (West End), My Mother Said I Never Should (Royal Court), Fashion (Tricycle Theatre).
Television: BBC TV Drama Directors Course (1983), The Importance of Being Earnest (Channel Four).
Radio: The H File (BBC Radio 3).
Assistant Director
As director: Open House (Riverside Studios), Bluebeard’s Wives (ICA, Edinburgh C Venues, Lambeth Festival), The Bay at Nice (RADA), Tales of Hoffmann (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The B File (Edinburgh Academy), Fiddler on the Roof (Edinburgh Underbelly); Romeo and Juliet (USA student tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Little Shop of Horrors, The Boy Friend and The Scarlet Pimpernel; The Footlights Pantomime 2001 (various Cambridge theatres).
As assistant director: Days of the Commune and Don Juan Comes Back from the War (RADA), The Ark and the Covenant (BAC Grand Hall), Macbeth (Cambridge Arts Theatre).
Rachel is resident Director of SPID Theatre Company. She trained on RADA’s new Theatre Directing Programme 2004-5.
Design
Recent work includes: Heroes (Wyndham’s Theatre), Sejanus: His Fall (RSC), On the Town (Coliseum-English National Opera), a new translation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca by Frank McGuinness (U.K. Tour), Cloaca (Old Vic), Venus and Adonis (RSC), Piaf (Sheffield Theatres), Dancing at Lughnasa(The Gate Theatre Dublin), The Mercy Seat (Almeida Theatre), Waterbabies (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Theatre: Pentecost, The Herbal Bed, Jubilee, Cyrano de Bergerac, Henry VIII (also Broadway and Washington), Romeo & Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, Othello, Eastward Ho! (RSC). Look Back in Anger, (National Theatre), Playboy of the Western World and Noises Off (National Theatre, West End and Broadway). The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, When We Are Married, Lautrec, The Killing of Sister George (West End), Jolson (West End & Canada, USA and Australia), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and Ragtime, The Goodbye Girl and Benefactors, The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy (West End), Dance of Death (West End & Australia) and The Secret Rapture (West End), Getting Attention (Royal Court), Democracy and Crossing The Equator (Bush Theatre), A Collier’s Friday Night, Bold Girls, You be Ted, Morning & Evening, The Flight into Egypt, Lucky Sods, Back Up The Hearse, Buried Alive (Hampstead Theatre), Uncle Vanya, The Magistrate (Manchester Royal Exchange), Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Chichester), Proposals (West Yorkshire Playhouse), York Millennium Mystery Plays (York Minster), Divas (Donmar Warehouse), Stressed (Ruby Wax Tour), The Secret Rapture (Los Angeles), Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse and West End), Marty (Huntingdon Theatre Boston), Sweet Charity (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Arms and the Man (ACT Productions).
Opera: Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne), Couronnement de Poppee (Theatres de Champs-Elysees), The Elixir of Love (English National Opera), Der Rosenkavelier (Wuppertal/Gelsenkirchen) and Manon Lescaut (Goteborgs Opera).
"A thrilling new play...acted up to the hilt by a remarkable company...an astonishingly wrought, high drama"
Evening Standard
Cast includes Martin Barron, Flaminia Cinque, Trevor Cooper, Brendan Coyle, Simon Gregor, Curtis Jordan, Andrew Lincoln, Jason Watkins
Direction Michael Attenborough
Design Robert Jones
Light Mark Henderson
Composer and Sound Adam Cork