A View from the Bridge By Arthur Miller
Justin Audibert and Kathy Bourne Photograph by Peter Flude
Festival 2023 Welcome to the final Festival Theatre production of 2023: our co-production with Headlong, Octagon Theatre Bolton and Rose Theatre of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge. It’s hard to believe that in over 60 years of presenting great plays from the world stage, Chichester Festival Theatre has never previously produced a play by this titan of 20th century American drama. Miller’s plays – which also include The Crucible, Death of a Salesman and All My Sons – are, by any yardstick, among our greatest and most timeless masterpieces; so we’re happy to finally rectify that omission. It's a pleasure to be collaborating once again with Headlong. Our relationship with this tirelessly inventive company began with Rupert Goold’s production of Six Characters in Search of an Author in 2008, since when our association has included the premiere of Lucy Prebble’s ENRON in 2009; the revival of James Graham’s This House in 2016; and the premieres of Deborah Bruce’s
The House They Grew Up In in 2017 and Cordelia Lynn’s Hedda Tesman in 2019. We’re delighted to be welcoming Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan back to Chichester; and to be working for the first time with our producing partners Octagon Theatre Bolton and Rose Theatre. We’re also delighted to welcome back several members of the cast who’ve appeared here recently (Kirsty Bushell in King Lear, Rachelle Diedericks in Our Generation and Jonathan Slinger in Crave), and to greet those making their debuts here. Following A View from the Bridge and the final Minerva Theatre production of Festival 2023, Harry Davies’s The Inquiry, our Winter season gets into full swing with a packed programme of classic dramas, sparkling comedies and family entertainment. Thank you for all your support over Festival 2023; we hope you enjoy today’s performance and to see you again soon.
Justin Audibert Artistic Director
Kathy Bourne Executive Director
A Voyage Round My Father By John Mortimer
Festival Theatre 7 – 11 November Tickets from £10 Book at cft.org.uk
Rupert Everett and Julian Wadham star in John Mortimer’s celebrated autobiographical play about the delicate relationship between a young man and his father, a brilliant and eccentric barrister, directed by Richard Eyre.
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‘Breath-taking. Roar it out: this is a hit’ Sunday Times
Life of Pi Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti from the novel by Yann Martel Festival Theatre 16 November – 2 December Tickets from £10 Book at cft.org.uk
Winner of five Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards, this five-star ‘theatrical phenomenon’ (Telegraph), directed by Max Webster, is the hugely popular story of an epic journey of endurance and hope. Ages 8+
Asphaleia Asphaleia is an organisation located in Worthing which offers young people a place of safety, supporting and encouraging those that need their services. CFT has been working in partnership with Asphaleia since 2018, delivering weekly sessions for young unaccompanied asylum seekers based in West Sussex. Recently, Poppy Marples and Jess Smith, our experienced theatre practitioners, have led a programme of dynamic, creative and nurturing workshops with these inspiring young people. Focusing on wellbeing and arts skills such as puppetry and physical theatre, the workshops also support the young people in learning English. These sessions enable them to make friends, develop confidence
socially, and build skills. We currently work with 24 young people who are also completing a Bronze Arts Award. ‘The sessions with Asphaleia are always full of lots of laughter and provide a safe space for the young people to develop their skills. When I look back to our first session with this year’s cohort compared to now, the difference in their confidence, social and language skills is just incredible. I’m so proud of them all and it’s been a joy and privilege to work with them this year.’ Poppy Marples, Lead Practitioner
In July we welcomed 17 of the Asphaleia group – including unaccompanied young people from Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia – for a fun-packed day at CFT. Starting with a backstage tour, they enjoyed a certificate of achievement presentation and games on the park before watching a matinee of The Sound of Music. For almost all the participants it was their first time in a theatre.
In the young people’s own words: ‘I will never forget this day. It will be in my mind for ever.’ ‘Drama has helped me learning English, respecting each other and feeling strong in my mind.’ ‘Sometimes I am angry because I miss my family, Poppy asks how I feel and talking helps, drama makes me feel better.’ ‘I am proud we have learnt all together and enjoyed no matter what country.’
Discover new foodie experiences Christmas food & drink
Dine with friends
In the Minerva Bar, we’re changing it up with truly scrumptious Afternoon Teas and in The Brasserie a new family friendly bistro style menu, bursting with local ingredients and epic desserts. Children can enjoy half portions of firm family favourites like posh fish & chips, burgers and, of course, turkey with all the trimmings. Yum!
If you’re looking for a great spot to dine with your theatre pals, look no further than The Brasserie. Fantastic food featuring local, seasonal ingredients plus à la carte options, top notch service and excellent wine. It also happens to be the closest restaurant to the Theatre so there’s no need to rush to catch the overture.
In the Café on the Park we’ll have mince pies, and we can’t wait for the smell of mulled apple juice from The Bar (extra shots of festive cheer available!).
Like some more? Pop in for pizza, cracking cakes and barista coffee from the Café on the Park, where you'll also find free WiFi and family-friendly books, toys and beanbags.
For the full menu of food and drink, visit cft.org.uk/eat, email dining@cft.org.uk or call 01243 782219.
A View from the Bridge By Arthur Miller
The Trag of Re As Arthur Miller wandered the streets of Brooklyn, at the mouth of the East River in New York, he would regularly cross bustling Brooklyn Bridge. From it, he could look down to the migrant enclave of Red Hook, home to many Italian longshoremen – the river’s dock workers – who had fled the battered economy of post-war Italy with their families to find new lives and hopes across the Atlantic. Miller met the dockers, learned about the traditions and values they had brought with them from Sicily and Calabria and the feudal hiring rituals they now experienced as they sought work in the land of the free. He also discovered that they could count on little
Brooklyn Bridge and East River, New York Photo by Irving Underhill/Library of Congress
support from the outfits supposedly charged with looking after their interests. During his wanderings, Miller saw graffiti asking “Dove Pete Panto?” (“Where is Pete Panto?”), a reference to a young man murdered after standing up, not to the tyrannical dock managers, but to a corrupt union boss. The result was a script for a film to be called simply The Hook. Nothing came of it. But Vincent Longhi, a lawyer with political ambitions, wanted to keep the story of Pete Panto alive and also told Miller of a longshoreman who had reported to the Immigration Bureau two illegal migrants living with him in order to prevent one of them marrying his niece.
gedy ed Hook Miller saw at once the potential drama in this story of a terrible betrayal of a supposed inviolable community code. When Miller went with Longhi on a trip to Europe in the late 1940s, he stood in the Greek theatre at Syracuse in Sicily and saw this Red Hook story as a version of a Greek tragedy with a hero, Eddie Carbone, who was neither monarch nor warrior but an ordinary, inarticulate working man. ‘I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were,’ Miller wrote in a later essay. Eddie, Miller said, ‘is obeying an ancient law which predates the laws we know. That’s one of the points of the play, and the reason
for the title. It takes place beneath the traffic on Brooklyn Bridge and the modern society we live in; down in a little neighbourhood, an ancient tragedy is being worked out... It always struck me oddly that here is this commuter traffic going over night and day, people going out to nice neighbourhoods somewhere else, passing over where this Greek drama was taking place and no one ever thought about it...So it was a view of our culture, which is up on the bridge, down into their culture.’ Miller wrote two versions of A View from the Bridge, both featuring Alfieri, the lawyer who moves in and out of the action taking on the role of the chorus in the dramas
of ancient Greece. The story was told first in a verse play in one act, staged in New York in 1955 as part of a double bill that ran for 149 performances but received lukewarm reviews, although Brooks Atkinson wrote in the New York Times that Carbone ‘like the heroes of Greek tragedy topples the whole house on himself in the final catastrophe of a haunted play’. A year later, the British director Peter Brook asked Miller to expand the play. The new version, in two acts and in prose (but with clear poetic leanings), opened in London in October 1956 at the Comedy Theatre, which had to be turned into a theatre club because the Lord Chamberlain, then in charge of censorship, did not like a particular intense moment. British actor Anthony Quayle played Eddie, a young Richard Harris played Louis and Arthur Miller was in the audience with his new wife Marilyn Monroe. The critics were divided: the Guardian’s Philip Hope-Wallace said it was all ‘deathly earnest’; Kenneth Tynan
in the Observer said it was ‘just short of being a masterpiece’. Almost 70 years on, Tynan’s qualification has long been ditched. This is a play that presents a moral dilemma in a vividly dramatic form. In her final speech to the audience, Alfieri (played here for the first time by a woman) hesitantly tells us what she thinks. But the question Eddie prompts remains: is it better to settle for half? It’s up to you to decide. David Ward was a Guardian journalist for 33 years before spending 12 years as literary consultant to Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, Cumbria. © David Ward 2023
Above: Longshoremen, New York Photo by Lewis HIne/US National Archives Opposite: Brooklyn Bridge Photo by Bobby Zucco
A View from the Bridge By Arthur Miller Cast Beatrice Alfieri Catherine Louis / Immigration Officer Rodolfo Marco Eddie Mike / Immigration Officer
Kirsty Bushell Nancy Crane Rachelle Diedericks Elijah Holloway Luke Newberry Tommy Sim’aan Jonathan Slinger Lamin Touray
There will be one interval of 20 minutes.
A co-production with First performance of this production of A View from the Bridge at Octagon Theatre, Bolton, 8 September 2023. First performance at Chichester Festival Theatre, 6 October 2023. A View from the Bridge is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited.
Director Set & Costume Designer Lighting Designer Composer & Sound Designer Movement Director Fight Director Intimacy Director Casting Director
Holly Race Roughan Moi Tran Alex Fernandes Max Perryment Malik Nashad Sharpe Kevin McCurdy Yarit Dor Becky Paris
Voice and Dialect Coach Associate Director Associate Set and Costume Designer Associate Sound Designer Consulting Designer
Aundrea Fudge Emily Ling Williams Mona Camille Keegan Curran Loren Elstein
Production Managers
James Dawson Thomas Langford Su Newell
Wardrobe Manager Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Nikki Colclough Emma Cook Assen Chan
Production credits: Workshop Managers Andy Bubble, Simon Pemberton; Production Carpenter Dominic Seeber; Carpenters Stephen Bunn, Harry Hearne; Scenic Artists Caitlin Line, Carly Whickman, Sarah Worrall; Costume Makers Shellby Hamer, Emily Harbot, Alison Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Ogden; Lighting Programmer Luca Panetta; Production Electrician & Relighter Graeme Smith; Production Sound Engineer Keegan Curran. With special thanks to: Gwen Adshead, Lee Curran, Jacob Gough, Eleanor Henderson, Laura Hopkins, Oliver Johnstone, Dr. Lynn Robson, Rebecca Roughan, Luke Thallon and Jaz Woodcock-Stewart. Rehearsal photographs Helen Murray Production photographs The Other Richard Programme design Davina Chung Cover image Emilie Chen
Supported by the A View from the Bridge Supporters Circle: Edna Baker, Philip Berry, Patrick and Maggie Burgess, Rosie and Charlie Drayson, Sheila and Steve Evans, Malcolm Green and Lindy Riesco, Themy Hamilton, Richard and Rosie Hoare, Elaine Leaver, Vaughan and Sally Lowe, Caroline Nelson, Jacquie Ogilvie, Jon and Ann Shapiro, Howard M Thompson, Susie Wells and all those who wish to remain anonymous.
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Cast Biographies Kirsty Bushell Beatrice Theatre includes Angels in America (Headlong); Richard III, The White Devil, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors (RSC); King Lear (Chichester & West End); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Edward II, 13, Edgar and Annabel, There is a War, Danton’s Death, The Voysey Inheritance, Two Gentlemen of Verona (National Theatre); Antigone (Barbican & international tour); The Cherry Orchard (Bristol & Royal
Jonathan Slinger Kirsty Bushell
Exchange); Torn (Royal Court); Boys Will Be Boys, Disgraced, 2000 Feet Away (Bush Theatre); A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, Don Juan (Lyric Hammersmith); Fen, Far Away, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible); Pornography, Testing The Echo (Tricycle); Belongings, I Know How I Feel About Eve (Hampstead); Hedda Gabler (Salisbury Playhouse); The Seagull (Northampton); The Importance of Being Earnest (The Watermill); An Inspector Calls (West End); Blue Heart (Out of Joint). Television includes Tom Jones, Murder
in Provence, The Dark Tower, Motherland, This Way Up, Silk, Pulling, Injustice, Casualty, Pornography, Midsomer Murders, EastEnders, FM Radio Takeover, Tumanbay. As a director Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Festival Avon); Romeo and Juliet (Skrow Athens); and the forthcoming short film Oak.
Nancy Crane
Nancy Crane Alfieri Theatre includes Yellowfin (Southwark Playhouse); Dance Nation, Against (Almeida); Summer and Smoke, Chimerica (Almeida & West End); A Lie of the Mind, Next Fall (Southwark Playhouse); The Sewing Group, Now or Later, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Our Late Night, The Strip (Royal Court); Teddy Ferrara (Donmar); Vieux Carré (King’s Head); The Children’s Hour (West End); Design for Living (Old Vic); Love the Sinner, Angels in America (National Theatre); Re-Orientations (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); Chains of Dew, Trifles (Orange Tree); The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Six Degrees of Separation (Sheffield Crucible); The Price (ACT); Habitat (Royal Exchange Manchester); A Wedding Story (Sphinx). Television includes The Buccaneers, Inside Man, The Crown (series 5), Suspicion, The Girlfriend Experience, Call the Midwife, Avenue 5, Chimerica, Black Earth Rising, Melrose, Genius, Doctors, Nixon’s the One, Upstairs Downstairs, Law & Order UK. Radio includes The Climate Book, Ringolevio, Leni Goes to Hollywood, Mueller: Trump Tower Moscow, Cassandra at the Wedding, Tales of the City series, True Grit, Ladder of Years, BBC National Short Story Awards, The Golden Record, Gilead, Hyde Park, The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Ice Blonde (which she also wrote), Wit. Films include Touchdown, The Current War, Leavey, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Danish Girl, Woman in Gold, The Special Relationship, Batman: The Dark Knight, The Road to Guantanamo, The Machinist.
Rachelle Diedericks Catherine Theatre credits include Hayley in The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Mary Warren in The Crucible (National Theatre), Ierum in Our Generation (National Theatre & Minerva Theatre, Chichester); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre); Debbie in The Band (Theatre Royal Haymarket & UK tour). Television includes Andor, Speechless. Films include This Time Next Year, The Silence and the Noise, How To Be a Person. Trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Elijah Holloway Louis / Immigration Officer A View from the Bridge marks Elijah’s professional theatre debut. Trained at Rose Bruford College London. Luke Newberry Rodolpho Theatre includes When Winston Went to War With the Wireless, Teddy Ferrara (Donmar Warehouse); Living Newspaper Edition 7: The Last Word (Royal Court); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth (Ian Charleson Award Winner) (RSC/Barbican); iHo (Hampstead Theatre); A Little Hotel on the Side (Theatre Royal Bath); Antigone (National Theatre); The Aliens (Trafalgar Studios); The Secret Garden (RSC). Television includes Gentleman Jack, The Singapore Grip, To Walk Invisible, Death in Paradise: Man Overboard, From Darkness, Banana, In the Flesh seasons 1 & 2 (BAFTA Best Actor nomination), Lightfields, Mrs Biggs, Sherlock. Films include Dusty and Me, The Legend of Hercules, Frankenstein’s Army, Quartet, Anna Karenina, 8 Minutes Idle, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Heart of Me. Radio includes Norse Mythology, Roderick Hudson, Breaking Up with Bradford, Home Front, Emile Zola: Money, Midnight at Christmas, Sonnets in the City, John Gabriel Borkman.
Rachelle Diedericks Luke Newberry
Tommy Sim’aan Marco Theatre includes Caliban in The Tempest (RSC); Tybalt in Starcrossed (Wilton’s Music Hall: The Stage Debut Award nomination); Joost de Groost in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (UK tour). Television includes Vigil 2, The Midwich Cuckoos, Doctors. Radio includes Two on a Tower, The Medici: Bankers, Gangsters, Popes, Words and Music, The Al-Hamlet Summit. Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Jonathan Slinger Eddie Extensive roles for the RSC include Hamlet, Parolles in All’s Well That Ends Well, Prospero in The Tempest, Dr Pinch in The Comedy of Errors, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Lenny in The Homecoming, Macbeth, The Gods Weep (also Hampstead), Richard III and Richard II (Evening Standard Award Best Actor nomination), Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, The American Pilot, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other theatre includes Buddy & Irwin in City of Angels, Willie Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Lockstock in Urinetown (West End); Absolute Hell, Power, The Duchess of Malfi, The Coast of Utopia, Widowers’ Houses (National Theatre); Crave, Yes, Prime Minister (Chichester Festival Theatre); Fanny and Alexander (Old Vic); Sarah (Coronet Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Rose Theatre); Oleanna (Theatre Royal Bath/West End); Trouble in Mind (Print Room); Plastic (Ustinov Studio, Bath); Uncle Vanya (Young Vic); Bones (Live Theatre Newcastle & Hampstead); Medea (Queen’s Theatre); As You Like It, Dreaming (Royal Exchange); The Winter’s Tale, The Maid’s Tragedy (Shakespeare’s Globe). Television includes The Sixth Commandment, Shadow and Bone, Alex Rider, The Salisbury Poisonings, I May Destroy You, Kiri, Nelson In His Own Words,
Playing Ball, Doctors, The Adventures of Daniel, Vexed, Paradox, The Bill, Krod Mandoon, Hunter, Hustle, A Touch of Frost, Little Dorrit, To The Ends of the Earth, Rosemary & Thyme, Foyle’s War, Murder in Surburbia, Cold Feet. Films include The Taking, Harmony, A Knight’s Tale, Forgive and Forget, Spring Awakening. Trained at RADA.
Lamin Touray Mike / Immigration Officer Theatre includes Wuthering Heights (East Riding Theatre, Hull); As You Like it (Shakespeare in the Squares); Bouncers (UK tour & Theatre Royal Wakefield); Up ‘N’ Under (Hull New Theatre/John Godber Company); This Is Not Right (Wilton’s Music Hall); Moby Dick (John Godber Company); The Aftermath (Northern Broadsides).
Above left: Lamin Touray Elijah Holloway Above right: Jonathan Slinger Kirsty Bushell Below: Rachelle Diedericks Luke Newberry Tommy Sim'aan Nancy Crane
Television includes All Creatures Great and Small (series 2 & 3), Coronation Street, Everything I Know About Love, Waterloo Road, Doctors, The Biscuits. Radio includes About a Boy, The Hidden Victims of Grooming, The Contraband Crisis, The Way You Look Tonight, Homecoming. Films include the shorts I Can’t Breathe, Glass Houses.
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Arthur Miller
Creative Team Arthur Miller Writer Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Archbishop’s Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980) and Playing for Time. Later plays include Two-Way Mirror (Elegy for a Lady and Some Kind of Love Story) (1982), Danger: Memory! (1987), The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters’ Connections (1998), Resurrection Blues (2002), and Finishing the Picture (2004). Other works include Focus, a novel (1945), The Misfits, a screenplay (1960), and the texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977), and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Memoirs include Salesman in Beijing (1984), and Timebends, an autobiography (1988). Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t Need You Anymore (1967), the novella, Homely Girl, a Life (1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He also won an Obie award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Algur Meadows Award. He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. He was awarded the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the 2003 Jerusalem
Prize. He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University and was awarded the Prix Moliere of the French theatre, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Mona Camille Associate Set & Costume Designer Mona Camille is a multidisciplinary set designer and artist with a background in architecture. Her recent work and collaborations in theatre, dance and film include set and costume designs for Theatre503, Saksi Bisou at Bloomsbury Festival 2022, Studio Goodluck Film productions, Ellandar productions at the Blue Elephant Theatre, and the Chinese Arts Now Festival 2020 London, as well as working as an associate designer alongside Moi Tran on productions at Shakespeare’s Globe Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with Headlong Theatre, at the Arcola Theatre and Storyhouse Theatre with New Earth Theatre, and the Hampstead Theatre. Mona Camille is also a multidisciplinary artist with artworks exhibited at the Seychelles Biennale of Contemporary Art 2022 and the Seychelles National Museum for the 2022 Festival Kreol, in her home country. Keegan Curran Associate Sound Designer Keegan Curran has worked in theatre and live events for many years. Since graduating from The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School as a Composer & Sound Designer in 2014, he has undertaken multiple sound designs, regionally, in the West End and internationally as well as production management, teaching and production sound work across film, television and theatre. Previous Sound Designs: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show (international tour); Julius Caesar, The Duchess of Malfi (Fourth Monkey); Baby Reindeer (Bush Theatre); Our Country’s Good, Blue Stockings and The Winter’s Tale (Tobacco Factory Theatres); Rotterdam (Theatre503/
Trafalgar Studios); My World Has Exploded A Little Bit (Tristan Bates Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); Infinity Pool (Plymouth Fringe/ Edinburgh Fringe); The Blues Brothers: Xmas Special (West End); Last Thursday (Prime Theatre); Trip the Light Fantastic (Theatre West/Bristol Old Vic); Living Quarters (Tobacco Factory/SATTF); 140 Million Miles (Tobacco Factory/The Traverse); Where we are (Theatre Royal Bath); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Redgrave). Previous Associate Sound Designs: Belarus Free Theatre’s Dogs of Europe and King Stakh’s Wild Hunt (Barbican Theatre). Yarit Dor Intimacy Director Yarit is an IDC certified intimacy director and intimacy coordinator, fight and movement director and a BASSC certified stage combat teacher with work that spans dance, theatre, musicals and film/TV. Selected theatre credits include: The Book Thief (Curve Theatre & Belgrade Theatre); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Black Holly Race Roughan
Superhero, This Is Not Who I Am, Purple Snowflakes, Titty Wanks (Royal Court); Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Hamlet, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Arms and The Man, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Last Easter (Orange Tree Theatre); The Band’s Visit, Love & Other Acts Of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Hamilton, The Glass Menagerie, The Shark Is Broken (West End); Death of a Salesman (West End & Young Vic); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); “Daddy” A Melodrama (Almeida Theatre); NW Trilogy (Kiln Theatre); The Second Woman, Changing Destiny, Wild East (Young Vic); Of Mice and Men (Brimingham Rep); Old Bridge, Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre), Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith); Macbeth (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Crucible, An Unfinished Man, Dirty Crusty (The Yard); Miss Julie (Storyhouse); Assata Taught Me, Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tempest (Shakespeare in the Squares).
Alex Fernandes Lighting Designer Alex Fernandes is a lighting designer for contemporary performance, and was the recipient of the 2013 Michael Northen Bursary. He was the technical director of Forest Fringe between 2013 and 2016. Other lighting work includes DOMESTICA (Battersea Arts Centre, UK and international tour); Swimming Pools (Teatro de la Abadia, Spanish tour); Double Double Act (Unicorn Theatre); Système AI (Sadler’s Wells); Minor Planets (HAU Berlin); Kim Kardashian (Balé da Cidade de Palmas, Brazil); Heartbreaking Final (Wiener Festwochen & Centre Pompidou); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre); Paradise Now! (Bush Theatre); l’Addition (Avignon International Festival). Aundrea Fudge Voice and Dialect Coach Aundrea Fudge is an accent/dialect and speech coach from New York. She has degrees in Linguistics and English Literature,
Tommy Sim'aan Kirsty Bushell Lamin Touray
a certificate in TESOL, and singing training in Opera and Musical Theatre. She completed her MFA in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2018 and is currently working and residing in London. She currently teaches at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and has done accent workshops for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, LAMDA, Rose Bruford, and The LIR Academy. She has also run accent and linguistic workshops for the Midlands Voice Conference and currently runs an accent workshop with The Monobox. Her most recent work on theatrical productions includes: Once on this Island (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Blackout Songs (Hampstead Theatre); Bootycandy (Gate Theatre); On The Ropes! (Park Theatre); Driving Miss Daisy (Barn Theatre); Bring it On: The Musical (Southbank Centre); and Yellowman (Orange Tree Theatre).
Emily Ling Williams Associate Director Emily was previously an Origins Artist at Headlong, Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre, Jerwood Assistant Director at the Young Vic and Trainee Director at Paines Plough. Theatre includes, as Director: A Playlist For The Revolution (Bush Theatre); Polko (Paines Plough/RJG Productions); Wasted (Lyric Hammersmith); The Full Works, The Key Workers Cycle (Almeida); text me when you’re home, 5 Plays (Young Vic); Appropriate, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (RWCMD); Miss Julie (LAMDA); Preach (Rose Bruford); Turbines (Paines Plough/RWCMD/Gate Theatre). As Assistant Director: The House of Shades (Almeida); Blood Wedding (Young Vic); The Meeting, The Chalk Garden (Chichester Festival Theatre); Black Mountain, Out of Love, How To Be A Kid (Paines Plough/Theatr Clwyd/Orange Tree); The Island Nation (Arcola).
Kirsty Bushell Jonathan Slinger Luke Newberry Rachelle Diedericks
Kevin McCurdy Fight Director Kev is an Equity-registered professional Fight Director and Choreographer of 24 years, professional Stage combat tutor of 31 years, Director, Actor, Action performer and co-founder of The Academy of Performance Combat. Kev teaches at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has also taught at universities in Oklahoma and Missouri as well as being a guest instructor on workshops in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Canada, America. Theatre and Opera includes: The Color Purple (UK tour); Sister Act (UK tour & Hammersmith Apollo); Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Phantom of the Opera (His Majesty’s Theatre); Rigoletto, Bajazet, Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House); Jenufa, Candide (Welsh National Opera); The Barber of Seville (Garsington Opera); Semele (Glyndebourne); The House of Shades (Almeida Theatre); Billy Elliot (Curve Theatre); O Island, Ivy Tiller: Squirrel Killer, The Tempest (RSC); Jitney (Old Vic); Red Pitch (Bush Theatre); Moreno (Theatre 503); Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (UK tour);
Nine Night (Leeds Playhouse); Gunpowder (Tower of London); Guardians of the Galaxy (Secret Cinema); Trouble in Butetown (Donmar Warehouse); Brokeback Mountain (Soho Place); The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium); Othello (National Theatre); Carmen (Waterperry Opera); Tambo and Bones (Stratford East). TV & Film includes: The Pact S2, The A List S2, Hollyoaks, John Carter of Mars, Season of the Witch, Protein, Scopophobia, Canaries, The Lady of Heaven. Music videos: Off Bloom ‘Shut Up and Let Me Walk’, Formation ‘A Friend’, Kayla ‘Mojito’, Circles ‘I See’, ‘Monstas’, Louis Mattrs ‘War With Heaven’. Radio: The Snow Queen, Making of a Monster, The Garden Centre. Directing: The Saliva Milkshake, The Glass Menagerie (The Richard Burton Company); The Welsh Dragon (Theatr Iolo); Making of a Motherer (BBC Wales/It’s My Shout); Jekyll and Hyde The Musical (Royal Academy of Music).
Elijah Holloway Nancy Crane
Becky Paris Casting Director Becky is Head of Casting at Shakespeare’s Globe, leading on the casting of all productions, workshops, readings and special events for the Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. She is also a freelance Casting Director who has worked on theatre projects for the Almeida, Headlong, the Bridge Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Histrionic Productions, Sheffield Theatres and ATG, as well as a number of short films. Previously, she worked as a Casting Assistant on TV and film projects in the offices of Rose Wicksteed, Jessie Frost and Alex Johnson. Recent credits at the Globe include Ghosts, Othello, The Duchess of Malfi, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Henry V (co-production with Headlong/UK tour), Titus Andronicus, The Winter’s Tale, Hakawatis, I, Joan, King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing.
Other theatre credits include Brilliant Jerks (Southwark Playhouse); Wish You Weren’t Here, Birds and Bees, Human Nurture (Sheffield Theatres/Theatre Centre/ UK tour, as Casting Consultant); An Interrogation (Edinburgh Fringe), Anna X (VAULT Festival). Max Perryment Composer and Sound Designer Theatre credits include Dear England (National Theatre); One Woman Show (West End & tour); Jitney (Headlong/Old Vic); Sunset Shift (PoliNations); Corrina, Corrina (Headlong/Liverpool Everyman); String V SPITTA (Soho Theatre); Living Newspaper, Is God Is (Royal Court); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Miss Julie (Chester Storyhouse & UK tour); Shipwreck (Almeida); The Convert, In a Word (Young Vic); The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton’s Music Hall & Southwark Playhouse); Dust (New York Theatre Workshop, Trafalgar Studios & Soho Theatre); Rasheeda Speaking, A Guide For The Homesick (Trafalgar Studios); Last of the Boys, Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (The Park); Utility, Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree); Twilight Members of the company and creative team
Los Angeles 1992 (The Gate); The Tide (Young Vic Taking Part); Hair (Vaults, Hope Mill Manchester & UK tour); Broken Dreams, Blood and Water (Kestrel Theatre/HMP Springhill & Royal Court); Start Swimming (Young Vic & Summerhall, Edinburgh); Replay (59E59 New York & Soho Theatre); Goodbear: Dougal (Pleasance Dome & Soho Theatre); Landmines (BRIT School, Ovalhouse & The Other Place, Brighton); Skin of the Teeth (The Vaults & Ophelia Theatre, New York); Nest (Arts Depot, Brighton Fringe & UK tour). Television includes Footsteps of Tagore. Audio includes People Who Knew Me, Skyscraper Lullaby, The Half Life of Joshua Jones. Films include 7 Keys, David vs Goliath, Buddy Goes to Nollywood and the shorts The Everlasting Club, Ma’am, Waiting for Fukushima. Holly Race Roughan Director Holly Race Roughan is the Artistic Director of Headlong. Most recently for Headlong she directed Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe and Corrina, Corrina by Chloe Moss at the Liverpool Everyman. She co-created
Signal Fires, a nationwide festival for touring companies, directing in it The Ghost Caller by Luke Barnes. She was an Executive Producer on Unprecedented, the BBC Four, Century Films and Headlong drama anthology, directing House Party by April De Angelis and Penny by Charlene James for the series. Previously for Headlong she directed the Ibsen adaptation Hedda Tesman by Cordelia Lynn at Chichester Festival Theatre, and the UK tour of People, Places & Things by Duncan MacMillan. Holly was Co-Director on Metamorphoses for Shakespeare’s Globe and the Director of the Lyric Ensemble at the Lyric Hammersmith between 2018 and 2019, directing The Mob Reformers by Omar El-Khairy. Other directing credits include Broken Dreams by Simon Longman for the Royal Court, Prurience for Southbank Centre in London and the Guggenheim in New York, Eye of a Needle for Southwark Playhouse, Milly Thomas’ A First World Problem and Clickbait for Theatre 503, and Best Served Cold by Cordelia Lynn for the VAULT Festival. Holly sits on the board of arts-in-prisons charity Kestrel Theatre Company, where she was Associate Director from 2015 to 2019. Malik Nashad Sharpe Movement Director Malik Nashad Sharpe, also known as Marikiscrycrycry, is an award-winning choreographer and movement director known for his provocative and formally engaging performance works that address themes of violence, alienation, horror, melancholia, and the horizon. He holds a BA in Experimental Dance with highest honors from Williams College and a certificate in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, where he won the Simone Michele Prize for Outstanding Choreography. He has received commissions and shown his work at venues and festivals across the U.K., Europe, and Canada, and is currently an Associate Artist at The Place and a studio resident of Somerset House Studios. He has held artistic residencies
at Sadler’s Wells, Barbican, Performance Situation Room, Dance4, Duckie, and Tate Modern. In 2019, he was named a Rising Star in Dance by Attitude Magazine and in 2022, he was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his unique and pervasive choreographic achievements. He currently lives in London and is a guest professor in dance and performance at the Stockholm University of Arts in Sweden. Moi Tran Set and Costume Designer Moi Tran is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer and researcher with a background in Fine Art and Design for live performance. Recent design includes A Play for the Living in Time of Extinction (Headlong/ Barbican); The Herring Girls Protest Song Cycle (High Tide); Worth (New Earth/ Chester Storyhouse); The Tempest: Playing Shakespeare (Shakespeare’s Globe); Henry V (Headlong/Shakespeare’s Globe); Peaky Blinders (Rambert); Baghdaddy, Rare Earth Mettle, White Pearl (Royal Court); Chasing Hares (Theatre Uncut/Young Vic); Corrina, Corrina (Headlong/Liverpool Playhouse); Raya, Deluge (Hampstead); Dear Elizabeth, The Letters Project (Gate); In the Blood (Donmar); Chiaroscuro (Bush); Human Wall (V&A); Beats ’n’ Shine (MUDAM); Summer Rolls (Park); The Imperfect Pearl (Corn Exchange Newbury, St George’s Bristol, King’s Place & UK tour); Falstaff (Opera Berbiguieres France). Recent Art includes Reshaping the Collectible (TATE Modern UK); Solo Exhibition Civic Sound Archive (PEER UK); Sign Chorus VN (National Archives UK); The Circuit, Shy God A Chorus (SPILL Festival); Sonic Signalling in Reverse (AIO/GIBCA Gothenburg); SHY GOD Chapter Môt ˙ (Chisenhale Dance UK); Solo Exhibition I love a broad margin to my life (Yeo Workshops Singapore); The Bolero Effect (Hanoi/British Council); Civic Voice Archive (The National Archives/UEL UK); The Circuit (Prague Quadrennial); Temporality in a Cut (Display Gallery). Moi Tran is currently Artist in Residence with Headlong.
Events
A View from the Bridge Pre-Show Talk
Schools Theatre Day
Monday 9 October, 5.45pm Join director Holly Race Roughan for a fascinating insight into how her production came together, with a chance to ask questions of your own. Holly is in conversation with best-selling author Kate Mosse. Free but booking is essential.
Wednesday 18 October, 10.30am Get a real insider’s view with our creative team and technical crew. Over 90 minutes you’ll enjoy demonstrations and discussion; for a completely immersive day, combine with a matinee performance. Suitable for GCSE/A level students. £13.50 (includes matinee ticket)
Arthur Miller Experience Weekend Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 October, 10am – 5pm Get closer to the work of Arthur Miller in our practical weekend workshop with scene-studies, masterclasses and talks about the great American playwright. £60 (includes matinee ticket)
Post-Show Talk Monday 16 October Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the production. Hosted by Kate Bassett, CFT Literary Associate. Free
We’re Headlong. We make theatre with the power to move. Big, exhilarating productions that use the unexpected to connect everyone we reach, right across the nation. Whether a work is old or new, there are always different questions we can ask. So our productions are an invitation: to come and see something in a new way. Join us. Previous Headlong productions include Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play, A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction, Henry V, Jitney, Best of Enemies, People, Places & Things and Enron, and major digital theatre innovations Signal Fires and Unprecedented. headlong.co.uk For Headlong General Manager Joni Carter Marketing Consultant Stacy Coyne Wright Development Manager Lucy Howard Taylor Finance Director Keerthi Kollimada Executive Director Lisa Maguire Assistant Producer Radha Mamidipudi Executive Assistant Carla-Marie Metcalfe Development Consultant Kirstin Peltonen Literary Manager Frank Peschier Producer Zoë Anjuli Robinson Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan Communities Associate Iskandar إسكندرR. Sharazuddin Artist/Designer in Residence Moi Tran Headlong is grateful for the generous support of the following Trusts and Foundations: Backstage Trust, The Buffini Chao Foundation, Garrick Charitable Trust, Noël Coward Foundation We would like to thank the following individuals for their generous support: Neil and Sarah Brener, Annabel Duncan-Smith and Victoria Leggett, Alyce Faye Eichelberger-Cleese, Nick Hern, Nicky Jones, Linda Keenan, Beth and Ian Mill KC, Donna Munday, Rob O’Rahilly We are also grateful for the dedicated support of our Board members: Justin Audibert, Kathy Bourne (Chair), Anna Cornelius, Paddy Dillon, Cas Donald, Sarah Ellis, Lucinda Harvey, Julia Head, Claire Heaney, Jacqueline Hurt, Prime Isaac, Lil Lambley, Sir Trevor Phillips OBE, Toni Racklin, Lesley Wan We would like to acknowledge the passing of the remarkable Jack Keenan, friend and supporter of Headlong and patron of many London theatres, who died earlier this year. Our heartfelt thanks go to him and his wife Linda Keenan, for their many years of support and friendship.
The Octagon is a producing theatre situated at the heart of Bolton. We are bold, adventurous and popular, making theatre of the highest quality, and a brilliant creative home for the people of Bolton and beyond. Our ambition is to be vital to a healthier and happier community. The Octagon was shortlisted for Theatre of the Year at the 2023 The Stage Awards. The Octagon is an artistic hub, producing new and accessible art for all. We create theatre in the belief that this can enrich communities and fundamentally change peoples’ lives for the better. Our engagement programmes provide creative opportunities for all ages. We believe that everyone has their own story and that theatre can be an amazing tool in empowering and building the confidence of people to tell these stories. The Octagon was officially opened on 27 November 1967 by HRH Princess Margaret; it was the first theatre to be built in the North West since World War Two. In 2018, the theatre underwent a major redevelopment. The Octagon has seen a complete modernisation of the entire building, with updated performance spaces and an improved front of house experience. It is now fit for generations to come. We are delighted to be working with Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Rose Theatre in bringing Arthur Miller’s powerful and gripping drama to audiences across the country. We hope you enjoy the show! Chief Executive Roddy Gauld Artistic Director Lotte Wakeham octagonbolton.co.uk OctagonBolton
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Rose Theatre is one of the largest producing theatres in London and has established itself since its 2008 opening as one of the most exciting theatres in the UK. Current Rose Original productions include: Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal after Henrik Ibsen, directed by Jeff James, and A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, directed by Holly Race Roughan. Forthcoming Rose Original productions include Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie in a new version by Evan Placey, with music and lyrics by Olivier Award-winner Vikki Stone, directed by Lucy Morrell. Previous Rose Original productions include: Richard III directed by and starring Adjoa Andoh; A Christmas Carol in a new version by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, with music by Eamonn O’Dywer, directed by Rosie Jones; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, directed by RTST Award winner Denzel WestleySanderson; The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, in a new version by Steve Waters with music by Michael Henry, directed by Christopher Haydon (nominated for Best Revival at the WhatsOnStage Awards); The Two Popes by Antony McCarten, directed by James Dacre; Jeff James and James Yeatman’s hit adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, directed by Jeff James featuring an explosive foam party and a soundtrack of Frank Ocean, Dua Lipa and Cardi B; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, adapted by Rona Munro, which transferred to the West End in July 2019 following a successful UK tour; and the world premiere stage adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, My Brilliant Friend, adapted by April De Angelis, which transferred to the National Theatre in November 2019. The latter were both directed by Rose Associate Artist Melly Still. The Rose is home to one of the largest youth theatres in the country, offering over 1,200 participants training, careers advice and the opportunity to take part in productions alongside professionals. To read more about who we are and what we do, visit rosetheatre.org
Get Creative Whatever your interests or skill-set, there’s something for you in our programme of activities for adults. Everyone’s welcome, so join us and get creative. Get Into It! Learn new skills and socialise in our termly sessions in Acting, Dancing or Singing each Monday. Can’t make it every week? Try our Drop-Ins and join us when suits you. No experience necessary - everyone is welcome to Get Into it!
Mind, Body, Sing Fun and relaxing, our group singing sessions are open to everyone aged 18+ and are dementia friendly. We believe everyone is musical and there are no wrong notes, so join us and experience the health-giving properties of group singing.
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Wednesday Company and Friday Company For adults aged 25+ with learning disabilities to develop their artistic skills, meet new people and socialise in a fun and supportive environment. Wednesday Company takes place at The Capitol in Horsham and Friday Company takes place at St Paul’s Church in Chichester.
Chichester People’s Theatre Our community company work together to devise an original piece of theatre inspired by the work on our stages. The piece is then shared at a public performance. We’ll hold open auditions to become part of the company towards the end of 2023.
Join Chichester Festival Youth Theatre “For young people, knowing you can identify as whoever you really think you are is more and more relevant, and CFYT has always felt like a space where you can do that.” CFYT MEMBER
Every week, CFYT members meet at locations across the county to discover new skills and explore new stories, make friends, build confidence and, most importantly, “laugh until your sides hurt”* (*direct quote from a member). For ages 5 to 25 we have drama, dance, musical theatre and technical theatre sessions to choose from, as well as groups for young people with additional needs (CFYT Wednesday in Horsham and CFYT Friday in Chichester). Our weekly sessions take place in locations across West Sussex for you to meet like-minded people and find a space where you can just be yourself!
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Staff Trustees Mark Foster Jessica Brown-Fuller Jean Vianney Cordeiro Victoria Illingworth Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB CBE Harry Matovu KC Caro Newling OBE Nick Pasricha Philip Shepherd Stephanie Street Hugh Summers Tina Webster Associates Kate Bassett Charlotte Sutton CDG
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Abbie Hart Dee Howland Kendal Love Lucy Olorenshaw Natasha Pawluk Loz Tait Colette Tulley
Directors Office Justin Audibert Kathy Bourne Patricia Key Keshira Aarabi
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Artistic Director Executive Director PA to the Directors Projects & Events Co-ordinator
Angela Buckley
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Sophie Hobson Aimée Massey
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Julia Smith
Finance Alison Baker Payroll & Pensions Officer Sally Cunningham Purchase Ledger Assistant Amanda Hart
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Krissie Harte Katie Palmer
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LEAP Helena Berry Ellen de Vere Matthew Downer
Matthew Hawksworth
Head of Children &Young People’s Programme
Hannah Hogg
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Shari A. Jessie Louise Rigglesford
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Dale Rooks Abi Rutter
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Marketing, Communications, Digital & Sales Josh Allan Box Office Supervisor Caroline Aston Audience Insight Manager Becky Batten Head of Marketing Laura Bern Marketing Manager Jessica Blake-Lobb Marketing Manager (Corporate) Helen Campbell
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Jay Godwin Lorna Holmes Mollie Kent
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Mihad Khalifa
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James Mitchell James Morgan Lucinda Morrison Brian Paterson
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Catherine Rankin
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Luke Shires
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Claire Walters Joanna Wiege Jane Wolf
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Ross Gardner Stage Crew Sam Garner-Gibbons Technical Director Laura Hackett Technical Apprentice Dan Heesem Lighting Technician
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Finlay Macknay Charlotte Neville
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Theatre Management Janet Bakose Theatre Manager Judith Bruce-Hay Minerva Supervisor Charlie Gardiner Minerva Supervisor Ben Geering Head of Customer Operations Dan Hill Assistant House Manager Will McGovern Deputy House Manager Sharon Meier PA to Theatre Manager Gabriele Williams Deputy House Manager Caper & Berry Catering Proclean Cleaning Ltd Cleaning Contractor Goldcrest Guarding
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Stage Door: Bob Bentley, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Chris Monkton, Sue Welling Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Judith Anderson, Maria Antoniou, Izzy Arnold, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Brian Baker, Richard Berry, Emily Biro, Gloria Boakes, Alex Bolger, Dennis Brombley, Judith Bruce-Hay, Louisa Chandler, Jo Clark, Gaye Douglas, Stella Dubock, Amanda Duckworth, Clair Edgell, Lexi Finch, Suzanne Ford, Suzanne France, Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook, Barry Gamlin, Charlie Gardiner, Jay Godwin, Anna Grindel, Caroline Hanton, Justine Hargraves, Joseph Harrington, Joanne Heather, Marie Innes, Keiko Iwamoto, Flynn Jeffery, Joan Jenkins, Pippa Johnson, Julie Johnstone, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Judith Marsden, Emily McAlpine, Janette McAlpine, Fiona Methven, Chris Monkton, Ella Morgans, Susan Mulkern, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Kirsty Peterson, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Fleur Sarkissian, Nicola Shaw, Janet Showell, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust, Sue Welling, James Wisker, Donna Wood, Kim Wylam We acknowledge the work of those who give so generously of their time as our Volunteer Audio Description Team: Janet Beckett, Tony Clark, Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Richard Frost, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd
Our Supporters 2023 Major Donors Deborah Alun-Jones Robin and Joan Alvarez David and Elizabeth Benson Philip Berry George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Sir William and Lady Castell David and Claire Chitty John and Pat Clayton David and Jane Cobb John and Susan Coldstream Clive and Frances Coward
Trusts and Foundations The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Arts Society, Chichester The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Bernadette Charitable Trust The Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity The Dorus Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray’s
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A Voyage Round My Father Life of Pi Mosquitoes Christmas Concerts The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Jungle Book Noises Off 2:22 A Ghost Story Drop the Dead Donkey Black is the Color of My Voice Scan the QR code to view the full line-up!
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