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The Secret Life of Bees
Book by Lynn Nottage, Music by Duncan Sheik, Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, Based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd, Directed by Whitney White
Event details
Sat 8 Apr – Sat 27 May 2023
★★★★
“Come for the music. Go home in awe”
The Guardian
★★★★
The Telegraph, Independent, The Times, The i, Financial Times, Daily Mirror, WhatsOnStage
“Me and my sisters
We hold this house together
Hurt just one, you hurt us all”
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Sweat, the Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening, and Tony Award-nominated lyricist of Jelly’s Last Jam comes a “vibrant new musical” (The i) full of “astonishingly powerful music” (The Guardian) about a group of women ignited by rebellion and longing for acceptance.
1964, South Carolina. Rosaleen is fighting for her right to vote, and Lily is escaping her violent father. When this unlikely pair flee their small town, they seek salvation at a remote honey bee farm run by the remarkable Boatwright sisters. But will their past catch up with them?
Written by playwright Lynn Nottage, composer Duncan Sheik and lyricist Susan Birkenhead, The Secret Life of Bees is “buzzing with delights” (The Times) and features “performances of real star quality” (WhatsOnStage). Directed by Whitney White and based on the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, this production “deserves to generate a real buzz” (The Telegraph).
The Secret Life of Bees is presented in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, Lauren Shuler Donner, Marianne Mills, Bob Cohen, Hugo Six and Atlantic Theater Company.
Running Time
Approx. 2 hours & 30 mins, incl. an interval
Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees 2pm
Access Performances
Book by calling Box Office on 020 7359 4404 or email boxoffice@almeida.co.uk.
Audio Described Wed 24 May 2pm (Touch Tour 12pm)
Captioned Mon 15 May 7.30pm
Relaxed Environment Wed 17 May 2pm
Content Warnings
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Reviews
“A vibrant new musical”
The i
★★★★
“Astonishingly powerful music”
The Guardian
“Deserves to generate a real buzz”
The Telegraph
★★★★
“A civil rights musical buzzing with delights”
The Times
★★★★
“Sweet new musical is a joyful, inclusive crowd-pleaser”
Independent
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Cast & Creatives
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Cast
Ava BrennanAva Brennan
Ava Brennan
Theatre includes: Les Misérables; Hamilton; Tina: The Tina Turner Musical; The Lion King (West End); A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); The Count Of Monte Cristo; Hairspray (Theatre St. Gallen); Aida (German tour/ Stage Entertainment).
Film includes: Hellboy; Rocketman; Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again; Beauty And The Beast.
Television includes: Top Boy.
Tarinn CallenderTarinn Callender
Tarinn Callender
Theatre includes: The Drifters Girl (Newcastle Theatre Royal/ West End); Come From Away (West End); Dick Whittington and His Cat (Hackney Empire); Hamilton (West End, Black British Theatre Award nomination for Best Supporting Male Actor in a Musical); Kiss Me, Kate (Kilworth House Theatre).
Film includes: Party.
Television includes: Our House; The Theatre Channel; Mama Youth.
Madeline CharlemagneMadeline Charlemagne
Madeline Charlemagne
Madeline graduated Royal Central School Speech and Drama in 2021.
Theatre includes: 42 Balloons (West End); Kick (Lyric Hammersmith); Hex (National Theatre); Carousel (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).
Danielle FiamanyaDanielle Fiamanya
Danielle Fiamanya
Theatre includes: Mandela (Young Vic); Frozen; & Juliet (West End); The Color Purple (Curve Theatre/ Birmingham Hippodrome, The Stage Debut Award for Best Actress in a Musical).
Television includes: The Crown; Halo; Lucid.
Eleanor HouseEleanor House
Eleanor House
Eleanor trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre includes: Rebus: Long Shadows (Birmingham Rep); Tempest (The Pleasance Theatre); Bleak House (Creation Theatre); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (New Vic Theatre); A Christmas Carol; Passing Places (Dundee Rep); The Comedy of Errors (Underbelly); Julius Caesar (Bristol Old Vic).
Television includes: The Control Room; Doctors.
Radio includes: Frankenstein Dundee.
Richard James-NealeRichard James-Neale
Richard James-Neale
Richard James-Neale is an actor, movement director and a practitioner for Frantic Assembly.
Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opéra de Rouen Normandie); The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (Bridge Theatre); King Lear (US Tour); Wings (Young Vic); The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Watership Down (Watermill Theatre); Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Othello (Frantic Assembly); Emil and the Detectives (National Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic).
Film includes: The Batman; The Legend of Tarzan.
Television includes: Call The Midwife; Thanks For The Memories.
Rachel JohnRachel John
Rachel John
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Girl From The North Country (Toronto/ West End); Songs For A New World; West End Musical Celebration; Hamilton; Memphis; Sister Act (West End); The Bodyguard (West End/ UK tour); Rent (UK tour); We Will Rock You (UK tour); Godspell (Sir George Monoux College); The Legend of The Lion King (Disneyland Paris); The Lion King (West End/ Asian tour).
Daniel KriklerDaniel Krikler
Daniel Krikler
Daniel trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Laine Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: The Book Thief (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Fighting Irish (Belgrade Theatre); The Normal Heart (National Theatre); The Tempest; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Macbeth (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Pippin (Charing Cross Theatre); 4000 Miles; Present Laughter (The Old Vic); Unicorns, Almost; Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic); Homos or Everyone in America (Finborough Theatre); Jersey Boys (UK & Ireland tour); Mamma Mia!; Loserville (West End); Bare (Union Theatre).
Film includes: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
Television includes: The Halcyon.
Radio includes: The Hummingbird; Unicorns, Almost.
Shekinah McFarlaneShekinah McFarlane
Shekinah McFarlane
Shekinah trained at Brooksby Melton College and attended extensive classes in London and New York in musical theatre.
Theatre includes: Six (West End/ UK tour); American Idiot; Tommy (UK tour); Hair; Parade (Hope Mill Theatre); The Lion King (UK tour/ International tour); Godspell in Concert; Seussical The Musical (West End); Rent (Tabard Theatre); Sweet Charity (Lost Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Melton Theatre); West Side Story (Curve Theatre, Leicester).
Other work includes: Paradise Lost (Original cast recording); Beautiful to You; Thanking you (Original single); Welcome to my Diary (EP release); 3,2,1 (Original single); Semi-Finalist on The Voice 2022.
Mark MeadowsMark Meadows
Mark Meadows
For the Almeida: The House of Shades.
Theatre includes: The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Tartuffe (Tobacco Factory Theatres); A Woman of No Importance (UK tour); Orpheus Descending (Menier Chocolate Factory); Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield Theatres/ Chichester Festival Theatre); Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); 5/11; King Lear; Six Pictures of Lee Miller (Chichester Festival Theatre); King John (Shakespeare’s Globe); Richard III (Trafalgar Studios); Urinetown (St James’s Theatre/ West End); Betty Blue Eyes; Mary Poppins (West End); Macbeth; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath); Look Back in Anger; A Streetcar Named Desire; Up the Feeder, Down the ‘Mouth; Aeroplane Bones (Bristol Old Vic); High Society (Sheffield Theatres); A Man of No Importance; The Spire; The Herbal Bed; The Magna Carta Plays; Epsom Downs (Salisbury Playhouse); Goodbye Barcelona (Arcola Theatre); The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre Kingston); The Giant (Hampstead Theatre); Longitude (Greenwich Theatre); The Thrill of Love (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Wonderful Town (Grange Park Opera).
Film includes: Nicholas Nickleby; High Heels & Lowlifes; Letters from Baghdad.
Television includes: McDonald and Dodds; Kiri; EastEnders; Casualty; Doctors.
Abiona OmonuaAbiona Omonua
Abiona Omonua
Theatre includes: Dirty Crusty (The Yard); Caroline, or Change (West End/ Hampstead Theatre/ Chichester Festival Theatre); Guys and Dolls (Royal Exchange Theatre); Hamlet (Tara Theatre); Soul (Royal & Derngate, Northampton/ Hackney Empire); Robin Hood (Hall for Cornwall); Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios); The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory); Legally Blonde (West End); Parade (Southwark Playhouse); Hairspray (Original UK tour); HOT MIKADO (The Watermill Theatre); Wild Party (ArtsEd).
Film includes: Beauty and the Beast.
Television includes: Cucumber.
Chrystine SymoneChrystine Symone
Chrystine Symone
Chrystine Symone trained at the Royal Academy of Music.
Theatre includes: The Mirror Crack’d (UK tour); The Girl on the Train (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Anyone Can Whistle (Southwark Playhouse); The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); The Wedding Singer (Royal Academy of Music).
Noah ThomasNoah Thomas
Noah Thomas
Theatre includes: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End).
Television includes: Anansi Boys; The Fuck It Bucket.
Marcellus WhyteMarcellus Whyte
Marcellus Whyte
Marcellus has enjoyed a diverse career in musicals, plays and film. Having just recently graduated with a Master’s in Classical Acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre includes: Outright Terror (Random Order Theatre); Motown: The Musical (UK and Ireland tour); Hairspray (Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent); The Lion King (UK tour).
Film includes: Punch of a Late Summer; Why Today.
Television includes: Small Axe.
Eleanor Worthington-CoxEleanor Worthington-Cox
Eleanor Worthington-Cox
Theatre includes: Jerusalem (West End); Tomcat (Southwark Playhouse); Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith); To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Matilda The Musical (West End, Olivier Award for Best Actress in A Musical).
Film includes: Maleficent; Action Point; Gwen.
Television includes: The Irregulars; Britannia; The Enfield-Haunting; Cucumber; Hetty Feather.
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Creatives
Lynn NottageLynn Nottage
Book
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter. She is the first, and remains the only, woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice.
For the Almeida: Ruined (Manhattan Theatre Club/ Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Obie Award for Best New American Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play).
Theatre includes: MJ: The Musical (Broadway, Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical); Clyde’s (Broadway, Tony Award nomination for Best Play); Sweat (Broadway/ Donmar Warehouse/ West End, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, Obie Award for Playwrighting, Susan Smith Blackburn prize, Olivier Award nomination for Best Play); The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company); Intimate Apparel (Theatre Royal Bath/ Park Theatre/ Roundabout Theatre Company, Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play, Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Play); Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (Tricycle Theatre/ Playwrights Horizons/ Signature Theatre Company, Obie Award for Playwrighting).
Her many awards include a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, a William Inge Theater Festival Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater Award and she was an Honoree at the inaugural Black Women on Broadway Award Ceremony.
Duncan SheikDuncan Sheik
Music
Duncan Sheik
Duncan was awarded the 2007 Tony Award for Best Orchestration and Best Original Score, and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album for Spring Awakening.
For the Almeida: Spring Awakening; American Psycho (also Broadway).
Theatre includes: The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company); Alice By Heart (MCC Theater); The Nightingale (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Classic Stage Company); Nero (Another Golden Rome) (Powerhouse Theatre); Whisper House (The Old Globe, San Diego); Spring Awakening (Broadway/ West End/ Lyric Hammersmith).
Film includes: Great Expectations; The Saint; Teaching Mrs. Tingle; Three to Tango; What a Girl Wants; Transamerica; A Body Goes Down; A Home at the End of the World.
Sheik’s self-titled debut album, which was an enormous popular and critical success, introduced the hit singles “Barely Breathing” and “She Runs Away,” and spent more than 55 weeks on the Billboard 200. Other albums include Humming, Daylight, Phantom Moon, White Limousine, Whisper House, Legerdemain and Claptrap.
Susan BirkenheadSusan Birkenhead
Lyrics
Susan Birkenhead
Theatre includes: Jelly’s Last Jam (Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score, Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Show Album, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics); Triumph of Love (Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Lyrics); Working (Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Lyrics, Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score); High Society (Broadway); What About Luv? (Audrey Wood Theatre, New York, Outer Critics Circle Award); Minsky’s (Center Theatre Group, L.A. Drama Critics Award); Stars of David (Philadelphia Theatre Company); A My Name Is Alice (The Village Gate).
Sue Monk KiddSue Monk Kidd
Original novel
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd’s first novel, The Secret Life of Bees spent more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list, was adapted into an award-winning movie, and has been translated into 40 languages as well as receiving numerous awards.
Books include: The Secret Life of Bees (Book Sense Book of the Year, nomination for the Orange Prize); The Mermaid Chair; The Invention of Wings (SIBA Book Award); The Book of Longings; Traveling with Pomegranates; The Dance of the Dissident Daughter.
Whitney WhiteWhitney White
Director
Whitney White
Whitney White is an Obie Award and Lily Award-winning director, writer, and performer.
Theatre includes: Macbeth In Stride (American Repertory Theater, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical Performance by an Actress); Soft (MCC Theater, NYT Critic’s Pick); On Sugarland (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Direction); Semblance (New York Theatre Workshop); The Amen Corner (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater and Second Stage, NYT Critic’s Pick); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement Theatre Company/ Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company/ American Repertory Theatre/ The Public Theater, NYT Critic’s Pick); An Iliad (Long Wharf); Canyon (LA Times Critic’s Choice and recipient of the CTG Block Party Grant, IAMA); Jump (National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, PlayMakers Rep).
Television includes:
As a writer: I’m A Virgo
Other work includes: What’s Left Burns (Steppenwolf), Finish the Fight (The New York Times), The Cube (Audible).
Whitney is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award, Jerome Fellowship, Susan Stroman Directing Award, and is part of the Rolex Protegé and Mentorship Arts Initiative. She is also an Associate Director at Shakespeare Theatre Company and an Associate Artist at Roundabout Theatre Company.
Shelley MaxwellShelley Maxwell
Choreographer
Shelley Maxwell
For the Almeida: The Secret Life of Bees.
Theatre includes: Love’s Labour’s Lost; Tartuffe (RSC); Starter For Ten (Bristol Old Vic); Shifters; August in England (Bush Theatre); Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse); Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ West End); The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical (Storyhouse/ West End); Milma’s Tale (Kiln Theatre); Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/ Young Vic); Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (West End); J’Ouvert (Theatre503/ West End); After Life; Hansard; Antony and Cleopatra; Twelfth Night (National Theatre); Nine Night (National Theatre/ West End); Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East /West End); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Faustus (Headlong/ Lyric Hammersmith); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); Grey (Ovalhouse); King Hedley II (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Cougar; Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); Winter; Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere; Beneatha’s Place (Young Vic); Cuttin’It (Young Vic/ Royal Court); A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield Southampton Theatre/ Theatr Clwyd/ ETT); Rules for Living (Royal & Derngate, Northampton/ Rose Theatre, Kingston/ ETT); Apologia (English Theatre Frankfurt).
Film includes: The Marvels; Romeo and Juliet.
Television includes: Ear for Eye; Anansi Boys.
Shelley won the award for Best Choreographer at the inaugural Black British Theatre Awards in 2019 for her work on Equus.
Soutra GilmourSoutra Gilmour
Set Designer
Soutra Gilmour
Soutra has been recognised with five Olivier Award nominations and two Tony Award nominations, including Best Set Design for Betrayal and Best Costume Design for Cyrano de Bergerac.
For the Almeida: The Tragedy of Macbeth; Reasons to be Pretty.
Theatre includes: A Doll’s House; The Seagull; Cyrano de Bergerac; Betrayal; Pinter at the Pinter; Richard III; The Homecoming; The Ruling Class; The Pride; The Hothouse; Macbeth (Jamie Lloyd Company); Running With Lions; Out West (Lyric Hammersmith); The Band’s Visit; Knives In Hens; Piaf (Donmar Warehouse); Evita; Into The Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); & Juliet (WhatsOnStage Award for Best Set Design); From Here to Eternity; Strictly Ballroom (West End); My Brilliant Friend; Twelfth Night; Les Blancs (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre/ Lyttleton Films); Timon of Athens; Hecuba; The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC); Guys and Dolls (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Apologia (Trafalgar Studios); Assassins; Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Crucible; Jekyll and Hyde (The Old Vic).
Opera includes: Jack the Ripper (ENO); The Turn of the Screw (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Quartett (Royal Opera House); Carmen, Saul; Hansel and Gretel; Anna Bolena (Opera North).
Film includes: Romeo and Juliet.
Dance includes: Ruination (Royal Opera House).
Exhibitions includes: Re-imagining Musicals (V&A).
Qween JeanQween Jean
Costume Designer
Qween Jean
Qween Jean is a New York City based costume designer who has fully committed her voice to the advocacy of marginalised communities, emphasising Black Trans people.
Theatre includes: The Seagull; Black No More (The New Group, New York); Des Moines; Wedding Band (Theatre for a New Audience, New York); soft (MCC Theater); Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award for Costume Design); Hound Dog; Rags Parkland Sings The Songs For The Future (Ars Nova); On Sugarland; Semblance (New York Theatre Workshop); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater); Macbeth In Stride (American Repertory Theater); Siblings Play (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Amen Corner (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre).
Film includes: I Need Space.
Other work includes: The Fever (Audible).
Neil AustinNeil Austin
Lighting Designer
Neil Austin
For the Almeida: Tammy Faye; Albion; The Hunt; Ink (also West End/ Broadway); The Treatment; Medea; Children’s Children; Mrs Klein; Judgement Day; The Homecoming; Marianne Dreams; As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams; The Silent Twins; Dying for It; Tom & Viv; Love Counts; Romance; The Cricket Recovers; Macbeth; Man and Boy: Dada; The Embalmer.
Theatre includes: Medea; Frozen; The Night of the Iguana; Rosmersholm; Shakespeare in Love; The Goat; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Photograph 51; Bend it Like Beckham: The Musical (West End); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Leopoldstadt; Company; Hamlet; Red (West End/ Broadway); The 47th (The Old Vic); Travesties; Hughie; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Evita; The Seafarer; Frost/Nixon (Broadway); Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory, New York); The Night Alive (Atlantic Theater Company); Julius Caesar (St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York).
Neil is the recipient of three Tony, two Olivier and two Drama Desk awards.
Simon BakerSimon Baker
Sound Designer
Simon Baker
Theatre includes: Hex; Pinocchio (National Theatre); A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic/ Broadway/ US tour); Woman in Mind (Chichester Festival Theatre); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/ West End/ Broadway/ Australia tour/ UK & Ireland tour); Wuthering Heights (UK tour); Bagdad Café; Faith Healer: In Camera; Three Kings: In Camera; Lungs: In Camera; Lungs; Present Laughter; The Caretaker; The Masterbuilder (The Old Vic); The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk; The Little Match Girl (Shakespeare’s Globe/ US tour/ Bristol Old Vic); Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe/ Bristol Old Vic/ UK tour/ US tour); Malory Towers (Bristol Old Vic/ UK tour); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres); Matilda The Musical (RSC/ West End/ Broadway/ US tour/ Asia tour/ UK tour); Wise Children (The Old Vic/ UK tour); The Birthday Party The Moderate Soprano; Brief Encounter (West End); Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/ Broadway); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic/ West End).
Simon is also Technical Director for Wise Children, an Associate Artist at The Old Vic, and a Fellow of Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Will StuartWill Stuart
Music Supervisor
Will Stuart
Theatre includes:
As Arranger/ Orchestrator: My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican, Olivier Award nomination for Best Original Score or Orchestrations); Good; The Drifters Girl; West End Men (West End); The Corn is Green (National Theatre); Wicked; Amélie the Musical (Stage Entertainment Germany); The Band Plays On; Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Theatres); Committee… (Donmar Warehouse); King Pit (Sage Gateshead); Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath).
As Musical Supervisor: Guys and Dolls; The Band Plays On (Sheffield Theatres); From Here to Eternity (US tour); A Christmas Carol (Broadway).
As Musical Director: The Drifters Girl; West End Men (West End); The Band Plays On; Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres); A Christmas Carol; Mood Music; The Divide (The Old Vic).
Opera includes: Stjärnorna i baren gnistrar igen (Wermland Opera, Sweden).
Other work includes: Sali Mali (S4C); Paris Fashion Week.
Will has performed in many orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Big Band, Hamburg Symphoniker and Stockholm Sinfonietta.
Toby HigginsToby Higgins
Musical Director
Toby Higgins
Toby trained at Trinity College of Music and Royal Academy of Music (DipRAM). He is also an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
For the Almeida: The Secret Life of Bees.
Theatre includes:
As Musical Supervisor: Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); Clueless: The Musical (as associate) (Churchill Theatre); Tina: The Musical (UK tour).
As Musical Director: Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; Tina: The Tina Turner Musical; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End); Clueless: The Musical (Churchill Theatre); Oliver! (West End); Calendar Girls; Avenue Q (UK tour); Sunshine On Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Wind in the Willows (West End/ UK tour); The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Theatres); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory/ UK tour); The Braille Legacy (Charing Cross Theatre).
As Associate Musical Director: Little Shop Of Horrors (West End).
As Assistant Musical Director: Les Misérables (West End); This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres); Mamma Mia! (International tour); Tracy Beaker Gets Real (UK tour).
Other work includes: Cover conductor/ Keys 4 for Mamma Mia! (West End); A series of symphonic concerts with Joss Stone.
John ClancyJohn Clancy
Orchestrations
John Clancy
Theatre includes: Kimberly Akimbo; Mean Girls (Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestrations); 1776; Fun Home (Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestrations, and Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Orchestrations); Diana: the Musical; The Prom; Tuck Everlasting; Shrek the Musical (Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestrations, and Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Orchestrations); Cats (Broadway); The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company); The Karate Kid (Stages, St. Louis); The Notebook (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); JOY the Musical (New Brunswick Performing Arts Center); Gun & Powder (Signature Theatre); Becoming Nancy (Alliance Theater, Atlanta); Soft Power (Public Theater, New York); The Fortress of Solitude (Public Theater, New York/ Dallas Theater Center).
Jason HartJason Hart
Vocal Arranger
Jason Hart
For the Almeida as Additional Vocal Arrangements: American Psycho.
Theatre includes:
As Music Director, Vocal Arrangements & Additional Orchestrations: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (The New Group, New York).
As Musical Director & Vocal Arrangements: The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company); Alice by Heart (MCC Theater); Noir (Alley Theatre, Houston).
As Musical Director & Orchestrations: Lover Beloved (Alley Theatre, Houston).
As Musical Director: American Psycho (Broadway); Whisper House (The Old Globe, San Diego).
As Music Supervisor, Orchestrations & Vocal Arrangements: Because of Winn Dixie (Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam).
Jason has toured and recorded as keyboard player for Rufus Wainwright, Antony and the Johnsons, Duncan Sheik, Suzanne Vega, Aimee Mann, Renaissance and Camel and leads his own progressive rock project, I and Thou.
James HumphreysJames Humphreys
Copyist and Music Transcriber
James Humphreys
Theatre includes:
As Music Copyist: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse/ National tour); Hex; Dick Whittington (National Theatre); Identical (Nottingham Playhouse); The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); Pinnochio; Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Company (West End).
David GallagherDavid Gallagher
Orchestral Management
David Gallagher
For the Almeida: The Secret Life of Bees; Tammy Faye; Spring Awakening.
Theatre includes: My Neighbour Totoro (RSC/ Barbican); Matilda the Musical (RSC/ West End/ UK tour); Oklahoma; Come From Away; 42nd Street; Queen Anne; Dr Semmelweis; From Here to Eternity (West End); My Fair Lady; South Pacific; Anything Goes; Jerry Springer: The Opera; Caroline, or Change; The History Boys; War Horse (National Theatre); Girl from the North Country (West End/ The Old Vic/ UK tour); Groundhog Day; Sylvia; A Christmas Carol; Future Conditional; The Lorax; The Divide (The Old Vic); Miss Saigon; She Loves Me; Guys and Dolls; White Christmas (Sheffield Theatres); NHS the Musical (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Identical (Nottingham Playhouse/ The Lowry, Manchester); The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); The King and I (UK tour/ Ireland tour); Bernadette Peters (UK tour); Jackie The Musical (UK tour); Play Without Words (Sadler’s Wells/ UK tour).
Film includes: Robin Hood.
David was Music Manager at the National Theatre from 2000 to 2010, and Music Manager at RSC from 2010 to 2011. David has managed various projects with the National Symphony Orchestra and booked musicians for the 2014 and 2015 AMFAR Cinema Against AIDS Gala at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cynthia De La RosaCynthia De La Rosa
Wigs, Hair and Makeup Designer
Cynthia De La Rosa
For the Almeida: “Daddy” A Melodrama; The Tragedy of Macbeth; Shipwreck; Against; Boy; The Twilight Zone (also West End).
Theatre includes: Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres/ National Theatre); Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre); Sylvia; Jitney (The Old Vic); Beginning (National Theatre/ West End); The Watsons (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End); Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Color Purple (Curve Theatre, Leicester/ Birmingham Hippodrome/ UK tour); Allelujah! (Bridge Theatre); Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre); Half God of Rainfall (Kiln Theatre); The Convert; Twelfth Night; Yellowman; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Once in a Lifetime (Young Vic).
Film includes: Tommie’s; My Jerome; I Am Mary; The Track; Sink; Femme (as crowd supervisor).
Television includes: Dreaming Whilst Black; Everyone Else Burns; Stath Lets Flats; Riches.
Charlotte SuttonCharlotte Sutton
Casting Director
Charlotte Sutton
Charlotte Sutton CDG is an Artistic Associate of the Young Vic, the Associate Casting Director for Elliott & Harper Productions, and Casting Associate for Chichester Festival Theatre.
Theatre includes: Guys & Dolls (Bridge Theatre); The Unfriend (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Cock; Company (West End); Best of Enemies; Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/ West End); Further than the Furthest Thing; Fairview; The Convert; Wild East; Winter; Trade; Dutchman (Young Vic); Our Generation (National Theatre/ Chichester Festival Theatre); South Pacific (Sadler’s Wells/ Chichester Festival Theatre/ UK tour); Local Hero; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads; Doubt; The Long Song; Crave; Oklahoma!; The Deep Blue Sea; The Watsons; Cock; Flowers for Mrs Harris; The Meeting; Me and My Girl; random/generations; Quiz; The Norman Conquests; The Stepmother; Fiddler on the Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth; Caroline, or Change; Strife; Mack and Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre); Nell Gwynn (ETT/ Shakespeare’s Globe); My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre Kingston/ National Theatre); The Pitchfork Disney, Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); Annie Get Your Gun; Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Waiting for Godot; Queen Coal (Sheffield Theatres); Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); wonder.land; The Light Princess; Emil and the Detectives; The Elephantom (National Theatre).
Claudette WilliamsClaudette Williams
Dialect Coach
Claudette Williams
Theatre includes: Trouble In Butetown (Donmar Warehouse); Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical; Fences (West End); King Hedley II; Kingston 14 (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Convert (Young Vic); Five Guys Named Moe (Festival Square Theatre, Edinburgh); Hamlet (Watford Palace Theatre); Josephine and I (Bush Theatre); Sweet Little Things (Eclipse); Three Sisters (Birmingham Rep); Romeo in the City (Theatre Centre); Blest Be the Tie (Royal Court/ Talawa Theatre Company); Blues for Mr. Charlie (Tricycle Theatre/ Talawa Theatre Company); Gems of the Ocean (Tricycle Theatre); Mother Courage (Nottingham Playhouse).
Film includes: Three Little Birds; The Long Song; Yardie; Jonah; I Am Slave.
Radio includes: Passing by Nella Larsen; Testimony and The Last Seed.
Kate WatersKate Waters
Fight Director
Kate Waters
Kate has been an Equity Registered Fight Director since 2001, directing fights for theatre, TV and film. She has worked for many of the UK’s major theatres including the National Theatre, Royal Court, RSC, Donmar Warehouse, Shakespeare’s Globe and in the West End. She is also a qualified boxing coach, coaches at Rathbone Amateur Boxing Club and is a development coach on the England Boxing Performance Pathway.
For the Almeida: The Secret Life of Bees; The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Theatre includes: As You Like It; The Windsors: Endgame; Cyrano de Bergerec; Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (West End); Antigone; Carousel; Jesus Christ Superstar; Evita (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Guys & Dolls; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre); Private Lives; Sweat; Constellations (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre/ West End); The Father and the Assassin; The Effect; Small Island; Much Ado About Nothing; Frankenstein; One Man, Two Guvnors; War Horse (National Theatre); Rock Follies; Assassins; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Film includes: My Policeman; Death of England; Romeo and Juliet; Pond Life; Making Noises Quietly.
Television includes: Coronation Street; Hollyoaks; Emmerdale; Kisses & Bumflicks; Coronation Street Live.
Lucy HindLucy Hind
Intimacy Coordinator
Lucy Hind
Theatre includes:
As Movement & Intimacy Director: Kerry Jackson (National Theatre).
As Movement Director: Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (UK tour); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/ West End/ Broadway/ US tour); Murder on the Orient Express (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hamlet (Young Vic); The Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre/ Los Angeles Music Center/ Lyric Opera of Chicago); Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Local Hero (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Last Ship (Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto/ US tour); Calendar Girls (UK tour); Miss Littlewood (RSC); Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd); The Divide (The Old Vic); No’s Knife (The Old Vic/Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Ugly Lies The Bone (National Theatre); The Effect; Playing for Time; Twelfth Night; This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres); Multitudes; The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle Theatre); Aladdin; Kes (CAST); Refugee Boy; Wind in the Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
As Choreographer: Billy Elliot (Curve Theatre, Leicester); The Last Ship (Northern Stage); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd); The Snow Maiden (Opera North); Barnbow Canaries (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe/ US tour); The Jacobin (Buxton Arts Festival); Love Your Soldiers (Sheffield Theatres).
Marcus Hall PropsMarcus Hall Props
Props Supervisor
Marcus Hall Props
Theatre includes: Shirley Valentine; Back To The Future: The Musical; Sondheim’s Old Friends; The Drifters Girl; Frozen; Jerusalem; To Kill A Mockingbird; Come From Away; Dear Evan Hansen; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; 42nd Street; Hamilton; Half A Sixpence; I Can’t Sing!; Viva Forever; Bend It Like Beckham; Young Marx; Rosmersholm; The Night Of The Iguana; Walden; My Name Is Lucy Barton; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Birthday Party; Apologia; Young Chekhov; Hamlet; Macbeth; Gary Barlow A Different Stage (West End); The Phantom of the Opera; Jersey Boys; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Dreamgirls; Kinky Boots; Bedknobs & Broomsticks; Top Hat; The Commitments; Calendar Girls the Musical (West End/ UK tour); Mrs Doubtfire (Opera House Manchester); Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); The Taxidermist’s Daughter; Crazy For You (Chichester Festival Theatre); Mary Poppins (Her Majesty’s Theatre, Australia); & Juliet (Regent Theatre Melbourne/ Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto); A Doll’s House, Part II; The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse); Mamma Mia! The Party (The O2); Groundhog Day; Art (The Old Vic).
Television includes: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas; The Great British Menu.
Other work includes: The Shard Christmas Tree.
Jackie OrtonJackie Orton
Costume Supervisor
Jackie Orton
Jackie was Deputy Head of Costume at the Royal Court for 12 years under Dominic Cooke and Ian Rickson.
For the Almeida: A Streetcar Named Desire; The Clinic; Little Revolution.
Theatre includes: Posh; Jumpy; Clybourne Park (West End); The Low Road; Sucker Punch; Chicken Soup with Barley; The Pride (Royal Court); The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court/ Young Vic); The Tempest; Hamlet; Romeo & Juliet; The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe); Jerusalem; Amélie the Musical; Lady Windermere’s Fan; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Christmas Carol (West End); Faustus; That Damned Woman (Headlong tour); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (UK tour/ West End); Dusty the Musical (UK tour); The Two Noble Kinsmen; Salome; The Duchess of Malfi; Troilus & Cressida; As You Like It; King John (RSC); The Jungle (Young Vic); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Theatres/ West End); Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Hairy Ape; High Society; The Crucible (The Old Vic); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath/ Kiln Theatre/ West End); Di and Viv and Rose (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); East is East (Trafalgar Studios/ UK tour).
Suzanne ScotcherSuzanne Scotcher
Wigs, Hair and Makeup Supervisor
Suzanne Scotcher
Suzanne has worked for Madame Tussauds on exhibitions in London and internationally, including Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. She has also worked extensively with the National Theatre supervising over 25 shows, including NT Live productions, national and international tours. She has also taught at Christine Blundell Makeup Academy, Wimbledon College of Art and the National Theatre education department.
For the Almeida: Tammy Faye; The Chairs.
Theatre includes: Mandela (Young Vic); Much Ado About Nothing; Trouble in Mind; When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other; One Man, Two Guvnors (also West End/ International tour); The Father and the Assassin; Home; The Pillowman; Phaedra; Master Harold and the Boys; An Octoroon; Amadeus; Saint George and the Dragon; Common; Ugly Lies the Bone; Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State; The Flick; wonder.land; The James Plays; The Elephantom; Men Should Weep; Never So Good; The Hour; Women of Troy; The Hothouse; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (National Theatre); Bach & Sons (Bridge Theatre).
As Co-Wigs Hair and Makeup Designer: Jitney (The Old Vic).
Other work includes: Photo shoots for the National Theatre, British and American Vogue.
Mumba DodwellMumba Dodwell
Assistant Director
Mumba Dodwell
Mumba Dodwell (she/her) is a London-based director, actor and facilitator. She trained as an actor at Arts University Bournemouth and began her directing training on the ‘Intro to Directing’ course at the Young Vic. She was the 2019/20 recipient of the National Youth Theatre’s Bryan Forbes Bursary to train alongside the Rep Company.
For the Almeida: “Daddy” A Melodrama.
Theatre Includes:
As Director: Boy/Girl/Boy/Girl (National Youth Theatre); Intimate Apparel (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); The Ancestors (National Youth Theatre/ English Heritage); Great Expectations (National Youth Theatre, Offie Award nomination for Plays: Director); Tales from the Garden (The John Thaw Studio Theatre); Black Ice (Theatre503); Addict (Cockpit Theatre); Black Boys Don’t Cry (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
As Associate/Assistant Director: Othello (National Theatre); Rockets and Blue Lights (Royal Exchange Theatre/ Lockdown Festival/ BBC Radio 3 & 4/ National Theatre); Othello (National Youth Theatre/ Royal & Derngate/ Bolsover Castle); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Frankenstein (National Youth Theatre); The Court Must Have a Queen (Hampton Court Palace).
Ebony MolinaEbony Molina
Associate Choreographer
Ebony Molina
Ebony is the Associate Artistic Director of The McOnie Company.
Theatre includes:
As Assistant Director and Associate Choreographer: The Wild Party (The Other Palace); Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith).
As Associate Choreographer: Carousel; On The Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); This House (National Theatre/ Chichester Festival Theatre); Jekyll & Hyde; The Lorax (The Old Vic); Tommy; Spring Awakening (English Theatre, Frankfurt); Soho Cinders (West End).
As Choreographic Supervisor: The Wizard of Oz (Curve Theatre, Leicester).
As Performer: Singin’ in the Rain (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); 42nd Street (Curve Theatre, Leicester); Shoes; Shall We Dance (Sadler’s Wells); Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End); Be Mine (The McOnie Company/ Jackson’s Place); L’Heure Espagnole (Royal Opera House); On The Town (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris); Sinatra; Chicago; My One and Only; Romeo and Juliet (West End); West Side Story (Bregenz Festival); Beauty and the Beast (RSC); On Your Toes (Japan tour); The Car Man; Dorian Gray; Nutcracker; Edward Scissorhands (New Adventures).
Film includes: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Natalie PoundNatalie Pound
Associate Musical Director
Natalie Pound
Theatre includes:
As Musical Director: The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse); How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying; Anyone Can Whistle (Southwark Playhouse); A Chorus Line (ArtsEd); Urinetown; Broken Wings (Royal Academy of Music); Songs For A New World (Drayton Arms Theatre); Hall of Mirrors (Network Theatre); From Here To Eternity (Bloomsbury Theatre); Ordinary Days (Camden People’s Theatre); Rent (RADA Studios).
As Associate/ Assistant Musical Director: Six (West End); The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse); Rumi (London Coliseum); Tell ‘Em Things They Don’t Know: Sondheim at 90 (Royal Academy of Music); Paperboy (British Youth Musical Theatre/ Lyric Theatre, Belfast).
Natalie trained at the Royal Academy of Music graduating with an MA in Music Direction, and also has a Masters degree in Physics from University College London.
Natalie JacksonNatalie Jackson
Associate Costume Supervisor
Natalie Jackson
Theatre includes:
As Costume Supervisor & Buyer: Hex (National Theatre).
As Costume Supervisor: Friendsical (UK tour).
As Assistant Costume Supervisor & Buyer: Bat Out of Hell (UK tour); The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (Bridge Theatre).
As Assistant Costume Supervisor: Six; Cinderella; Magic Goes Wrong (West End); 101 Dalmatians (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Bedknobs & Broomsticks (UK tour).
As Set & Costume Designer: Rob. Steal. Swindle. (Mountview).
Rachel Wingate
Associate Designer
Chris BrambleChris Bramble
Madonna Sculptor
Chris Bramble
Born in London and brought up in Ipswich, Hastings and Glasgow, it was during college that Chris discovered his connection with clay as a medium for his art. Specialising in ceramics, Chris graduated from The Glasgow School of Art.
The contrast of his African heritage and European upbringing lead to Chris’s warm, contemporary style, combining African forms and culture with modern techniques. In 1985, Chris moved to Zimbabwe where he was influenced by methods of colloquial stone sculpture; he learned processes of carving serpentines and verdites and translated these new forms and techniques to his ceramic work.
Returning to London and exhibiting sculptures, Chris set up his own studio in 1988. His ceramics are inspired by life, harmony, rhythm and dance and influenced by the people around him; their spirit and heartbeat are captured in his meditative process as he documents hidden aspects of today’s black culture.
Exhibitions include: TwoTemple Place, Body Clay Vessel; IceHouse; Queen’s Park; RHS Chelsea Flower Show; Artefact; Posk Gallery; Cornerstones, 198 Gallery; Gallery 54; Obala, Black Art Gallery; Grange Museum (London); The Commonwealth Institute; Leicester City Art Gallery (Leicester); Kings Lynn Arts Centre (Norfolk); Torrance Gallery (Edinburgh); Blythswood Gallery (Glasgow).
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).
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Band
Rosie Bergonzi
Rebecca Gibson Swift
Mat Hector
Richard Henry
Jay Phelps
Diego Rodriguez
Andy Taylor-Vebel
Lewis Turner
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Talks & Events
Talkback
After Mon 15 May performance.
A post-show talk with members of the company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Almeida For Free
Thu 11 May 7.30pm
A free performance for those aged 25 and under. More info >
Concesssions
All concession tickets are limited and subject to availability. Proof of eligibility is required. Concessions in the final week of performances are only valid for Deaf and disabled bookings. More info>
Deaf and disabled patrons and a companion can buy tickets for £25 (£30 on selected performances) 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 Sat 8 – Fri 14 Apr. Enter code 25UNDER when selecting your seats. Tickets go on sale at 1pm on Fri 17 Mar. More info>
If you are aged 30 or under, you can book a £15 ticket for seats that are normally £30 or £35. Applicable on all performances except Fri & Sat evenings.
Book a £25 ticket for seats that are normally £30 or £35 on all performances except Fri & Sat evenings. This concession is also for £45 seats on matinee performances.
If you live or work in the Islington area you can book best available seats for £25 for performances from Sat 8 – Tue 18 Apr, subject to availability. Enter promo code ISFIRST when selecting your seats. Find applicable postcodes here.
Use code BLUELIGHT when selecting your seats to book £25 tickets for seats that are normally £30 or £35 on all performances except Fri & Sat evenings. This concession is also for £45 seats on matinee performances. Limited to 2 tickets per person.
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Access Performances
Audio Described Wed 24 May 2pm (Touch Tour 12pm)
Captioned Mon 15 May 7.30pm
Relaxed Environment Wed 17 May 2pm
For full information about our access performances, provisions and facilities visit our Access For All section.
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The world premiere of The Secret Life of Bees was presented by Atlantic Theatre Company, New York City, 2019.
Development of The Secret Life of Bees was supported in part by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s National Fund for New Musicals – www.namt.org.