Beauty and the Beast digital programme | Chichester Festival Theatre | Winter 2017

Chichester Festival Youth Theatre presents

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Book by Anna Ledwich Music & Lyrics by Richard Taylor

WELCOME

Welcome to our final production of 2017, a brand new version of Beauty and the Beast.

The work of Dale Rooks and her Learning, Education and Participation (LEAP) team is at the heart of what we do at Chichester Festival Theatre. The central role of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre was illustrated on 30 November 2017, when the cast of Beauty and the Beast gave a joyous performance on the Festival stage for HM The Queen, including a scene from the play you are about to watch.

DANIEL EVANS AND RACHEL TACKLEY PHOTOGRAPH BY TOBIAS KEY

For the young people taking part, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience; for all of us watching, it was a day of enormous pride in their achievement and an uplifting and moving testament that the future of CFT is in very good hands.

For many people, Christmas wouldn’t be complete without CFYT’s annual production. Beauty and the Beast follows a valued tradition of commissioning leading playwrights and composers to adapt much-loved classics. Writer Anna Ledwich, whose relationship with CFT began in 2008 as a trainee

director - she was the first recipient of the Heller Fellowship Programme - and lyricist and composer Richard Taylor have given us a fresh and captivating look at this timeless tale.

Chichester Festival Youth Theatre is the largest youth theatre in the country with over 800 members in nine locations throughout the region. Our collaboration with them and their schools is one aspect of our learning and community work; another, equally important, aspect is our engagement with older people at risk of social isolation. If you haven’t yet seen our recently launched Ageless campaign, which aims to ensure that theatre and live art remain at the heart of people’s lives, please pick up a leaflet or go online.

We hope that you enjoy today’s performance and we wish you a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.

Artistic Director Daniel Evans

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Executive Director Rachel Tackley

TASTE FOOD & DRINK EVENTS

Chichester Festival Theatre presents a mini season of delicious dinners, entertaining evenings and gin-tastic get-togethers from our caterers Caper & Berry.

WINING & DINING

GIN TASTING EVENINGS

‘CALL MY WINE BLUFF’ DINNER With Hennings Vintners Brasserie, 2 Mar 7.30pm Tickets £39.95

THE BIG GINS TASTING EVENING Pinkster and Brockmans Minerva Bar & Grill, 16 Mar 7.30pm Tickets £19.95

WISTON ‘30 MILE’ WINE TASTING DINNER Brasserie, 23 Mar 7.30pm Tickets £59.95

THE CHICHESTER GIN TASTING EVENING Chilgrove, Tom Cat and Silent Pool Minerva Bar & Grill, 6 Apr 7.30pm Tickets £19.95

ARGENTINIAN & CHILEAN WINE TASTING With Hennings Vintners Minerva Bar & Grill, 29 Mar 7.30pm Tickets £19.95

GIN LOVERS TASTING EVENING Portobello Road, Sipsmith and Blackdown Minerva Bar & Grill, 13 Apr 7.30pm Tickets £19.95

MOTHER’S DAY LUNCH Brasserie, 11 Mar from 12.30pm Adult £19.95 Child £11.95

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Chichester Festival Youth Theatre presents

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Book by Anna Ledwich Music & Lyrics by Richard Taylor

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED Anna Ledwich and Richard Taylor introduce their new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.

‘Someone once said there are only six plots in the world that simply keep getting retold. I’d say one of them is definitely Beauty and the Beast.’

Richard Taylor, composer and lyricist of this brand new version of the familiar tale – originally published as a French novel in 1740 – warms to his theme.

‘You could say Jane Austen wrote a Beauty and the Beast and called it Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennett and nasty, scarred Mr Darcy; Pemberley is the big mansion. Jonathan Demme made Beauty and the Beast for adults and called it The Silence of the Lambs: Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter in his prison.

Stephen Spielberg made the space version for kids and called it ET. They’re essentially the same ingredients and plot. So our spin on it is only the latest in a long line of versions.’

Arguably the most pervasive of those versions, for modern audiences at least, are Disney’s original animated tale and the recent live action movie. But Richard and playwright Anna Ledwich set about making their own with relish, informed but in no way limited by the fact they’d been commissioned specifically for CFYT. On the practical side, ‘I co-directed the Youth Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol with Dale Rooks in 2008,’ Anna Ledwich says.

‘I knew there would need to be enough parts for a wide range of performers; that it had to have scenes for a chorus as well as the lead actors; and clear story-telling as well as the moments of magic which people are looking for in a Christmas show. So I had all that in my head when I began working on Beauty and the Beast, because I’d had the real privilege of watching ANNA LEDWICH

a production being made on those terms.

‘The standard of performance and production with the Youth Theatre is really astonishing. I never had a voice in my head saying “perhaps I’d better keep it simple here or ensure it’s not too complex.” I always knew there’d be a real relish from the Youth Theatre to get stuck into it.’

‘Adults are slightly quicker to know where they think their limitations are – kids never do’ Richard Taylor (whose early successes included Whistle Down the Wind for National Youth Music Theatre) fully concurs that composing for young people as opposed to adults ‘makes absolutely no difference at all. I think it’s because their brains are used to taking in new information all the time, at college, at school. They’re constantly being given things that are slightly beyond their grasp and they always do conquer it; that’s the wonderful difference between working with adults and kids. Adults are slightly quicker to know where they think their limitations are – kids never do.

‘It’s the story that leads everything and if the story demands young people, you still approach the story in the same way.’

Richard has previously composed music for no less than three productions of Beauty and the Beast, although this is the first with songs.

So how have he and Anna gone about giving this iconic story a unique Chichester angle?

‘The wonderful thing about Beauty is that it’s a blank canvas. You’re given the bare bones

of the structure and the types of characters within it; but the motivations for why characters do things within the story are open to the interpretation of every new writer that looks at it,’ he reflects. ‘And that’s what makes it so wonderful, you can put your own stamp on it, like all great fairy tales.’

‘I was very conscious that for a new version of Beauty and the Beast, performed by young people, largely for an audience of young people and families, I felt a real responsibility not to perpetuate an idea of Beauty’s worth being solely connected to whether or not she gets the prince at the end of the day,’ Anna says, firmly.

‘In the story her name, Beauty, describes her character attributes as much as how she looks.

I wanted to see what happens if she doesn’t care about her appearance.

‘When we workshopped it with them, I was blown away by the depth of their analysis, their intuition about the characters and themes’

EVACUEES AT GLYNDEBOURNE

‘It kind of makes me laugh that in the Disney version she’s seen as being a strange girl just because she likes books! One of the delightful things about Beauty is that she loves gardening and creating beauty in unusual places.’

The story’s openness to new interpretation certainly struck a chord with the teenagers of the Youth Theatre who are, no doubt, all too familiar with the contemporary obsession with image.

‘When we workshopped it with them, I was blown away by the depth of their analysis, their intuition about the characters and themes,’ Anna marvels. ‘It helped me immensely in trying to imagine a contemporary take on what is motivating both Beauty and the Beast to behave the way they do – the insights of the young people working on it were incredibly helpful.

‘For example, in the original there’s a prologue about how the Beast is cursed by an evil fairy to live his life in this horrid pain until someone loves him regardless of the way he looks. I’d sidestepped this until there’s a moment at the end when he has to transfer back into human form where I realised we have to explain why he was a Beast in the first place, without getting too snarled up in the back story of the evil fairy.

‘I’d come up with a version in which he was talking about his relationship with his father; but in the workshop a few of the young people said, “we really see it that he’s been so consumed with self-loathing and disgust at his own selfish behaviour that what he actually perceives in the mirror is a beast. It’s a manifestation of his emotional or psychological state in physical form.” I thought my goodness, I’m having that! It encapsulated it in a nutshell: it was the natural extension of him feeling such self-hatred that he actually turns into a beast.’

Starting out, however, Dale, Richard and Anna ‘batted back and forth a lot of ideas’, Anna recalls. ‘What could be a space that makes sense of children telling this story? There are aspects of Beauty and the Beast which are reasonably adult, especially if you look at the original source material, so we needed to find an appropriate way of exploring all the themes and ideas.’

To that end, as audiences will quickly

realise, they’ve created an entirely new setting for the action.

‘I found an old newspaper article about Glyndebourne opera house and how lots of evacuee children were sent there during the Second World War,’ says Richard. ‘We started chatting about how amazing it must have been for a child from the East End of London to be sent to this extraordinarily big house in the middle of the countryside, making the imagination run wild. An old boiler in a big house like that must sound like the roar of some great animal and a peacock shrieking in the distance like some monster coming to get you.’

Thus the framing device of wartime evacuee children in the 1940s was born – children who may be strangers and rivals and want to wind each other up with scary stories.

‘It’s like peeling an onion; there are lots of layers within that, where very often we don’t know what is real and what is being made up.’

The idea of transformation from human to animal that forms the backbone of the story ‘brought us to think that maybe all the inhabitants of the house might have assumed an animal form as well, reflecting the same fate as the Beast,’ Anna explains. ‘It’s an idea drawn from the original where Beauty stumbles across an astonishing aviary full of beautiful birds as she’s exploring the house.’

RICHARD TAYLOR

This ‘gift of an idea’ has enabled, in Richard’s words, ‘a multitude of fabulous characters’ born from Anna’s imagination, among them the flamboyant cockatoo personal stylist Kiki and Dot the telegram otter who speaks in constant dots and dashes. ‘They were just such fun to write – they sprang off the page,’ she says fondly.

Soberingly to modern eyes, it’s thought that Beauty and the Beast may originally have been written to reconcile 18th century young girls to arranged marriages.

‘There is a bit of slightly alarming Stockholm Syndrome in the original, where Beauty’s made to stay and gradually fall in love with her captor,’ says Anna. ‘I wanted to unpick that a bit – why does she stay? – and find some tangible reasons why this relationship develops.

‘It feels mildly subversive to talk about the idea of self-worth not being attached to image and what we look like; how we all engage on a very superficial level with people until we really get to know them. This version of the story is trying to tackle that, in a non-preachy way.’

‘I hope people enjoy and embrace the fact that it’s a new telling of the story’, Richard adds.

‘There were a million tellings of Beauty and the Beast before Disney’s version and there will be another million yet to come.’

CREATING A NEW BEAUTY Find out more about the costumes with a look at designer Ryan Dawson Laight’s original costume sketches.

SEWING BEES • Tap Dancing • Knitted Skirts • Knitting Needles

ECHOES • Military • Similar colour palette to the set • Hand-painted

LADY B

• Ladybird • 80s style danc

e/20s Tea Dance • Red and Black • Giant Dots • Insect Legging s • Oversized Hats

MR KEYS y • Dragonfl n inspired • Elton Joh Rock inned, Glam il • 70s Sequ e d ta head piece • Metallic

BUTTERFLIES • Tiffany Lamp inspired • Sequins • Fierce

HOW TO MAKE A PAPER ROSE

PAPER ROS TEMPLATE E

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To make your own paper rose you will need: • Our template which you can download from cft.org.uk/beautyandthebeastrose • Coloured paper • Scissors • PVA glue

Cut out the spiral along the line. Take the outside edge and begin rolling the paper towards the centre as tight as possible.

TIP Cut the spiral so the line sits slightly to the right-hand side. This way the printed line will be at the bottom of the rose and wont be seen at the top.

Printed line

Sit the rose on a flat surface and dab a blob of glue in the centre. Position the rolled paper on top of the glue and leave to dry for about an hour.

WORDSEARCH Find the 12 words in the crossword puzzle. Words can be found forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally!

ROSE

VILLENEUVE

CASTLE

ADVENTURE

BEAST

MAGICAL

ENCHANTING

KIKI

BEAUTY

FAIRYTALE

SCARY

PERKINS

M T T I R H G S F D S W U D A S F

B V G W X J W C D W K F S E G N A

S I W M B D L A C I G A M F F I O

X L N T K W L R V H G I X X W K G

W L S D Z K A Y G G V R G J L R V

L E N R 0 S E V W I T Y I B H E H

A N T A T L G E Q K A T F E M P D

N E A D D V N R X I Z A E N N X E

C U E S F V R H V K C L T C V E X

B V K W B P E W I W H E J H R Y C

E E W D E C M N Y E L T S A C I A

Answers available at cft.org.uk/beautywordsearch

R W A F A A S G T W D E Y N Z A C

D H V U S I K N E U N L M T I Z G

B G J X T W O Y Y A R F O I O N W

F M O L V Y C O Z T A E L N K H L

X H A K J G N H K W D U R G E N P

S P W O L W E L B U V P O X W H X

THE CAST Oluwafunmilayo Ajayi

Tewogbola Ajayi

George Bailey

Callum Beaven

Megan Bewley

Archie Biddle

Libby Connor

Nancy Cook

Sophie Cook

George Craig

Mia Cunningham-Stockdale

Hal Darling

Heather Falconer

Crispin Glancy

George Goldsmith

Jennifer Goodier

Anna Grindel

Tadeus Ruiz Harrison

Georgina Liley

Thomas Lunn

Grace Lyon

Emily McAlpine

Francesca McBride

Dominic McGreevy

Freya Peake

Noah Peirson

Alex Phillips

Ben Phillips

Connor Read

Alice Roberts

Albie Stisted

Isaac Sturge

Hugo Talbot

Scarlett Taylor-Jones

Jack Taylor

Lucy Tebb

Eliot Biddle

Ellie Bradbury

Jake Butlin

Evie Carter

Richard Chapman

Freya Collins

Carmen Dawtrey

Freddie Dempster

Ellie Dickens

Patrick Durand

Olivia Edwards-Cox

Archie Elliot

Sam Hemingway

Katherine Henry

Benedict Hothersall

Lindon Jones

Esme Kane

Daniel Kitt

Rudi Millard

Megan O'Hanlon

Ella O'Keeffe

Erin Oldmeadow

Jessica Oyo

Jessica Page-Smith

Joe Russell

Gemma Sangster

Alfie Scott

Freya Shepherd-Bland

Lael Smith

Leila Solly

Kai Terry

Hannah Wadey

George Waller

Grace Watkins

Lucie West

Rosie Wharton

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST CAST (in order of appearance) Rose Dennis James Perkins Peter Violet Edith Roger Poppy George Mr Villeneuve Henry Sebastian Adeline Caroline Beauty Winston Dockers

Beefy Man Shifty Man Statues The Beast See-No Hear-No Speak-No Dot D’Otter Pele Kiki Reg Mrs McTeek

Evie Carter / Megan O’Hanlon Noah Peirson / George Goldsmith Albie Stisted / Hugo Talbot Georgina Liley Alfie Scott / Patrick Durand Ella O’Keeffe / Ellie Bradbury Ellie Dickens / Libby Connor Rudi Millard / Archie Elliot Oluwafunmilayo Ajayi Dominic McGreevy George Bailey / Crispin Glancy George Craig / Archie Biddle George Waller / Lindon Jones Megan Bewley / Emily McAlpine Freya Collins / Lucy Tebb Gemma Sangster / Mia Cunningham-Stockdale Jennifer Goodier / Joe Russell George Bailey, Callum Beaven, Jake Butlin, Richard Chapman, Hal Darling, Crispin Glancy, Sam Hemingway, Benedict Hothersall, Connor Read, Isaac Sturge Tadeus Ruiz Harrison Kai Terry Heather Falconer, Freya Peake Hal Darling / Connor Read Eliot Biddle Jack Taylor Tadeus Ruiz Harrison Thomas Lunn Daniel Kitt Crispin Glancy / George Waller Freddie Dempster Erin Oldmeadow

There will be one interval of twenty minutes.

First performance of Beauty and the Beast at the Festival Theatre, Chichester, 16 December 2017.

Library

Lady B Kenny G Legs Mr Keys Chas Butterflies Sewing Bees

Waiter Crabs

Mr Perkins Ensemble

Tewogbola Ajayi, Nancy Cook, Sophie Cook, Carmen Dawtrey, Katherine Henry, Georgina Liley, Alice Roberts, Freya Shepherd-Bland, Leila Solly, Scarlett Taylor-Jones, Hannah Wadey, Rosie Wharton Anna Grindel Jake Butlin Kai Terry Isaac Sturge Jessica Oyo Heather Falconer, Jessica Page-Smith, Freya Peake Olivia Edwards-Cox, Jennifer Goodier, Sam Hemingway, Grace Lyon, Alex Phillips, Ben Phillips, Francesca McBride, Grace Watkins Callum Beaven, Eliot Biddle, Richard Chapman, Benedict Hothersall, Esme Kane, Joe Russell, Lael Smith, Lucie West Isaac Sturge Tewogbola Ajayi, Callum Beaven, Megan Bewley, Archie Biddle, Jake Butlin, Richard Chapman, Freya Collins, Nancy Cook, Sophie Cook, George Craig, Mia Cunningham-Stockdale, Carmen Dawtrey, Freddie Dempster, Patrick Durand, Olivia Edwards-Cox, Heather Falconer, Jennifer Goodier, Anna Grindel, Tadeus Ruiz Harrison, Sam Hemingway, Katherine Henry, Benedict Hothersall, Lindon Jones, Esme Kane, Daniel Kitt, Georgina Liley, Grace Lyon, Emily McAlpine, Francesca McBride, Erin Oldmeadow, Jessica Oyo, Jessica Page-Smith, Freya Peake, Alex Phillips, Ben Phillips, Alice Roberts, Joe Russell, Gemma Sangster, Alfie Scott, Freya Shepherd-Bland, Lael Smith, Leila Solly, Isaac Sturge, Scarlett Taylor-Jones, Lucy Tebb, Kai Terry, Hannah Wadey, George Waller, Grace Watkins, Lucie West, Rosie Wharton

Supported by the Beauty and the Beast Commissioning Circle: Michael and Frances Coates, Graham and Sybil Papworth, Vicky Mudford, Greg and Katherine Slay and Bryan Warnett of St. James's Place.

Rehearsal photographs by Pete Jones. Programme design by Davina Chung.

Sponsored by

CREATIVE TEAM Book Music and Lyrics Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Arrangements Musical Director Sound Designer Movement Director Puppetry Assistant Director

Anna Ledwich Richard Taylor Dale Rooks Simon Higlett Ryan Dawson Laight James Whiteside Richard Taylor Colin Billing Gregory Clarke Lizzi Gee Nick Barnes Lauren Grant

Costume Supervisor Sabrina Cuniberto Costume Makers Katy Adeney, Charlie Clark, Darcy Collins, April Dalton,

Helen Flower, Kate Healy, Janie Stephenson, Elliott Squire Wardrobe Supervisor Jordan Edwards Wardrobe Assistants Ellie Edwards, Lottie Higlett Wig and Make Up Supervisor Sonja Mohren Props Supervisor Marise Rose Props Maker Sarah Crispin Lead Puppet Sculptor Caroline Bowman Puppet Makers Maia Kirkman-Richards, Joanna May, Rose Miller,

Ivan Thorley, Charlie Tymms Props Fabricator Janette McAlpine Sound No 1 Mike Keniger Radio Mic Runner Lewis Ramsay Lighting Programmers Maura Fuzz Guthrie, Andrew Leighton Assistant Lighting Designer Jesse Caie Production Manager Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Chaperone Manager Chaperone Supervisor

John Page Sally Ann Garner-Gibbons Lou Bann Caitlin O’Reilly Elspeth Barron Janette McAlpine

TECHNICAL YOUTH THEATRE Assistant Stage Managers Beth Dixon, Elspeth Goodman,

Megan Pickthorne Costume, Hair and Make Up Olivia Bickley, Erin Boxall, Sophie Carter,

Rebecca Collins, Jay Dix, Lizzie Doyle, Tilly Goodman,

Tess Grant, Poppy Wiseman, Hannah Young Follow Spot Operators Georgina Deane, Daniel Johnson Radio Mic Runners Connor Baker, Sammy Lacey,

Peter Reavey, Rhys Shapcott

MUSICIANS Musical Director / Keyboard Woodwind Woodwind Viola Upright Bass / Bass Guitar Percussion / Orchestral Management

Colin Billing Gavin Tate-Lovery Sarah Watson Jason Glover Stephen Street Mark Taylor

MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE The Best Place (Part 1) Edith, Violet, Poppy, George, Roger,

Peter, Rose, James, Dennis ‘House Kids’ The Best Place (Part 2) Adeline, Caroline, Henry,

Sebastian and The Company Somewhere to Grow (The Best Place Part 3) Beauty Never Give Up Mr Villeneuve The Only Thing You Can Be Beauty ACT TWO A Girl Has a Duty Kiki, Sewing Bees The Library Books That’s Her! Butterflies Take It Back!

Sewing Bees, Waiter Crabs Not At All What We Expected Rose, Edith, Peter, Roger, Poppy, George, Dennis, Violet and The Company Duets Beauty / Kiki, Beast / Beauty The Only Thing You Can Be - reprise Beauty Not At All What We Expected - reprise The Company

Chichester Festival Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support from the families of the Youth Theatre cast and crew members.

With special thanks to the following for all their support and dedication: Beast Puppet made by Nick Barnes Puppets, Set built and painted by Capital Scenery, Costume Rails by Tin Shed Scenery, Additional Lighting by White Light, EM Acoustics, Lighting Programmer (Trainer) Andi Davis, Rehearsal trailer by Isaac H. Madge, Sam and all the team at Papa John’s Pizza, Chichester.

Thanks to our wonderful chaperones without whom none of this would be possible: Clare Apel, Elspeth Barron, Jenny Beadle, Glyn Bentley-Angell, Helen Button, Toby Chopra, Tom Chown, Ali Dix, Mary Elliott, Paula Glenister, Toni Hickey, Hannah Hogg, Lydia Holland, Ella Jarman, Janine Kane, Francesca Lomax, Poppy Marples, Janette McAlpine, Karen McBride, Jon Mileman, Helen Peake, Lyana Peniston, Louise Rigglesford , Rebecca Stuckey, Kate Smith, Penny Thomas, Margaret Todd, Ian Wadey, Laura Wadey, Suzanne Wilkins, Emma-Jane Wyatt.

BIOGRAPHIES

Nick Barnes Puppetry Previously at Chichester Associate Designer for Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

Nick studied drama at Hull University and theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art and soon after began incorporating puppets into his designs for opera and theatre, nationally and internationally. Until recently, he was Joint Artistic Director of the puppetry company Blind Summit Theatre, which he co-founded.

With Blind Summit Nick designed puppets for Madame Butterfly (ENO, Metropolitan Opera), A Dog’s Heart (ENO/DNO), Shunkin and Master and Margarita (Complicité), El Gato Con Botas (Tectonic Theatre), On Emotion (Soho Theatre), Faeries (Royal Opera House) and His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep/WYP). In 2012 he co-directed the puppetry in Danny Boyle’s spectacular opening ceremony for the London Olympic Games.

More recent puppetry credits include codesign for The Lorax (The Old Vic) and Ariodante (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, DNO), co-direction and design of a new adaptation of David Walliams’ children’s book The First Hippo on the Moon (Les Enfants Terribles UK tour), puppet design and direction Mr Popper’s Penguin’s (Pins & Needles/Kenny Wax Ltd, West End and Broadway) and The Little Beasts (The Other Palace London).

Nick has also designed a spectacular Firebird and a giant Gnome for the BBC Ten Pieces Proms (Royal Albert Hall), and codesigned the Angel’s wings for Angels in America (National Theatre, transferring to Broadway in 2018).

Forthcoming projects include The Jungle Book (Royal & Derngate Northampton and UK tour).

Colin Billing Musical Director Previously at Chichester Musical Director for Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol and The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Festival Theatre).

Theatre credits as Musical Director include Lend Me A Tenor – The Musical (Gielgud Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth), West Side Story (RWCMD), Lift Off! (opening show at DALE ROOKS

Leicester’s CURVE), Chasing Fate (Birmingham Hippodrome), Marina Laslo’s Russian Romance (Barbican Hall), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Leicester Haymarket); as Musical Director/Orchestrator Sleeping Arrangements (Landor Theatre and UK tour); as Musical Director/Arranger Beyond Phantom (UK tour), Kaye’s the Word (New End Theatre and tour), Friends Like Us (Arts Theatre), The Maladjusted Songster (Plush Rooms San Francisco); as Musical Director/Arranger/Orchestrator The Wizard of Oz (Leicester Haymarket), Three Men in a Boat (UK tour), No One in the World (Cochrane Theatre), Brenda Bly – Teen Detective (World Premiere; Bridewell Theatre); as Musical Supervisor/Arranger A Spoonful of Sherman (St James Theatre), Bugle Boy (UK Tour), Christmas with The Salvation Army (Royal Albert Hall); as Musical Supervisor/Orchestrator Bumblescratch (workshop and demo album), Godspell (UK Tour), City of Angels (LSMT/Bridewell Theatre).

Vocal Coaching and Musical Theatre workshops include London School of Musical Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Chichester Festival Theatre, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of Warwick, University of Chichester and Big Little Theatre School of which he is Co-Founder. colinbilling.co.uk Gregory Clarke Sound Designer Previously at Chichester Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Festival Theatre), Mrs Pat (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes The Color Purple (Broadway), Medea, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Misterman, Tristan and Yseult (National Theatre), The Goat, Or Who Is Silvia? (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Truth (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Alchemist, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), Journey’s End (Duke of York’s/New York; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design), Equus (Gielgud/ New York; Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play), Welcome Home Captain Fox!, My Night With Reg, Versailles, The Night Alive, A Voyage Round My Father, The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse), Clarence Darrow, A Flea In Her Ear,

National Anthems, Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Vic), Albion, Against, The Merchant of Venice, Cloud Nine (Almeida), Barnum, The Lie, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - The Musical, Love In Idleness, She Loves Me, The Truth, Assassins, The Lyons, Travels With My Aunt, Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory), Sive, Waiting for Godot, King of the Castle, DruidShakespeare, Brigit (Druid Theatre), A Steady Rain, Stepping Out, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, Blithe Spirit, The Rivals, Hedda Gabler, The Winslow Boy (Theatre Royal Bath), The Twits, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court Theatre), Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour), The Birthday Party (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Seagull (Headlong), Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre Kingston), Arcadia (ETT), The Night Alive, The Philanthropist, Pygmalion (New York), My Night With Reg, Goodnight Mister Tom, The Vortex, A Voyage Round My Father, And Then There Were None, Some Girls, What the Butler Saw (West End).

Lizzi Gee Movement Director Previously at Chichester A Christmas Carol (Festival Theatre), Running Wild (Cass Sculpture Foundation).

Theatre credits include Iolanthe (ENO), A Christmas Carol, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Future Conditional (The Old Vic), The Jungle Book (Royal & Derngate Northampton), The Miser (Garrick Theatre), The National Theatre 2017 Gala and Rocket to the Moon (National Theatre), A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer (National Theatre/UK tour), The Girls (Phoenix Theatre), Million Dollar Quartet (West End/UK tour), Oliver! (Grange Park Opera), Around the World in 80 Days (St James Theatre), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Chichester/UK tour), Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York’s, Phoenix Theatre, Chichester and UK tour), Cinderella and Peter Pan (New Wimbledon Theatre), But First This (Watermill Theatre), Annie Get Your Gun and

NOAH PEIRSON EVIE CARTER ALBIE STISTED MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY

Buddy (UK tour), The Winter’s Tale (RSC/UK tour), All Male HMS Pinafore (Union Theatre/UK tour), Love Story (Duchess Theatre), Onassis (Novello Theatre), Vernon God Little (Young Vic), All Male Pirates of Penzance (Union Theatre, Wilton’s Music Hall, Rose Kingston, Australia), Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury Theatre), Sunshine On Leith (Dundee Rep/UK tour), Snoopy the Musical (New Players), Oliver!, The Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz (Cyprus), Hair (Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre).

Television includes Children’s Baftas, Fit Farm, Feelgood Factor, The Legend of Dick and Dom, Diddy Movies and The Big Performance with Gareth Malone.

Lauren Grant Assistant Director Previously at Chichester Assistant Choreographer for Grimm Tales For Young and Old (Cass Sculpture Foundation) and Assistant Director for Peter Pan (Festival Theatre).

Theatre credits as Director include #Getonyoursoapbox at Live Theatre Newcastle.

Lauren is an alumnus of Step Change, the National Theatre’s professional development and leadership programme. She has worked as a drama and dance practitioner, designing and delivering arts projects with young people at various schools and youth theatres across the country including Live Theatre in Newcastle, New London Performing Arts Centre and Stretton Arts Festival.

Lauren studied dance at Stella Mann College of Performing Arts and Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

She is Deputy Director of Learning, Education and Participation (LEAP) at Chichester Festival Theatre.

TADEUS HARRISON CRISPIN GLANCY ISAAC STURGE MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY GEMMA SANGSTER MIA CUNNINGHAM-STOCKDALE GEORGE CRAIG GRACE LYON

Simon Higlett Set Designer Previously at Chichester The Norman Conquests, Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labour’s Lost (and RSC Stratford and West End), Mrs Pat, Amadeus, Stevie (and Hampstead), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Singin’ in the Rain (and world tour), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Yes, Prime Minister, Collaboration and Taking Sides, Nicholas Nickleby (all West End transfers), A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Grapes of Wrath, The Circle, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

Current, recent and forthcoming designs Twelfth Night (RSC), Racing Demon, Present Laughter, She Stoops to Conquer (Theatre Royal Bath), All Our Children (Jermyn Street), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (WYP and major UK tour), Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury (West End and USA), Hobson’s Choice, Derren Brown’s Miracle (West End), Big The Musical, The Importance of Being Earnest (Washington DC), The Marriage of Figaro (Scottish Opera).

Other highlights include The Magic Flute (Scottish Opera), When We Are Married, The Rivals, Derren Brown’s Infamous, Man and Boy, Hay Fever, Of Mice and Men, Amy’s View (West End), Enemies, Whistling Psyche, The Earthly Paradise (Almeida), The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Donmar Warehouse), The Force of Change (Royal Court Theatre), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stockholm), An Ideal Husband, Mrs Warren’s Profession (Washington DC), Haunted (NYC/Brits Off Broadway), Pygmalion (The Old Vic), Singer, A Russian in the Woods, Thomas More (RSC), The Brothers Karamazov (Manchester Royal Exchange), To Kill a Mockingbird (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Norman Conquests (Birmingham Rep).

Simon designs for opera worldwide and is the recipient of the Manchester Theatre Award for Best Design (Wonderful Town), two TMA Best Design Awards (Elizabeth Rex, Three Sisters), and Helen Hayes Best Design Award USA (Lady Windermere’s Fan).

Ryan Dawson Laight Costume Designer Previously at Chichester Peter Pan and A Christmas Carol (Festival Theatre) and Grimm

Tales For Young and Old (Cass Sculpture Foundation).

Current and recent work includes Toro (DeNada Dance Theatre/national tour), Genius (Gary Clark/Anjali), A Christmas Carol (Northwall Theatre Oxford).

Other work includes Blak Whyte Gray (Barbican), The All Male Mikado (national tour), Coal (Gary Clarke Company), Drunk (Drew McOnie Company/Curve Leicester and Bridewell Theatre), Mariposa (Drew McOnie Company/ national tour), Ham and Passion (DeNada Dance Theatre/national tour), Duckie (Royal Festival Hall), Chip Shop The Musical (Octagon Theatre Bolton), Ice Cream Wars (Freedom Studios), HMS Pinafore (Union Theatre and national tour), Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry V, King Lear, As You Like It and The Wind in the Willows (Creation Theatre), Ruffle (Lowry Theatre), Not the End of the World (Youth Music Theatre/Edinburgh Festival), Chess (Union Theatre), Hear Hear (Deaf Men Dancing/ Sadler’s Wells), Cube of Curiosity (London Olympic Village), Starting Line (Paralympics 2012), Alive (Deaf Men Dancing/Outdoor tour with Without Walls), Good Morning Midnight (Jermyn Street Theatre), New Ways of Living (Gary Clarke Company), Black Homotopia (Unity Theatre Liverpool), Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Ryan is the Associate Designer for Creation Theatre in Oxford, an Associate Lecturer on Theatre Design at the University of Chichester and a Visiting Lecturer on Set Design at the Brit School. He studied Design at the University of Brighton (BA Hons 1st Class). ryandawsonlaight.com Anna Ledwich Book Anna began her directing career at Theatre503 where she directed a number of world premieres before being made an Associate Director. She was awarded the Michael and Morvern Heller Director’s Bursary at Chichester Festival Theatre where she assisted directors such as Richard Eyre and Rupert Goold. In 2012 Anna was made co-Artistic Director of Theatre on the Fly at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Anna received the Gate Theatre/Headlong New Directions Award for her adaptation

of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu and returned to the Gate the following year to adapt and direct Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Story. She was nominated for the 2015 Olivier Award Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for her production of Four Minutes Twelve Seconds at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, which subsequently transferred to Trafalgar Studios.

Anna directed The Stick House for Raucous Collective and Bristol OId Vic, a site specific performance which took place in tunnels underneath Bristol Temple Meads Station. In 2016 Anna directed three plays at Hampstead Theatre: The Argument by William Boyd, Labyrinth by Beth Steel, and Kiss Me by Richard Bean which transferred to Trafalgar Studios in June this year. She returned to Hampstead Theatre in September to direct Luke Barnes’ new play No One Will Tell Me How to Start A Revolution and in January 2018 will direct Dry Powder by Sarah Burgess.

Anna has directed at major drama schools in the UK and is a regular tutor at the Actor’s Centre in London.

Dale Rooks Director Dale Rooks works extensively with children and young people, and has directed numerous Youth Theatre productions at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her acclaimed promenade production of Michael Morpurgo’s Running Wild was staged for Festival 2015, winning the UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People.

Dale co-directed a re-imagination of Running Wild for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2016 and a UK tour in 2017.

Dale’s other directing credits at Chichester Festival Theatre include The Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Witches, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, Toad of Toad Hall, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. Dale has also directed for the National Theatre (NT Connections), Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Royalty Theatre London, Brighton Dome, London Thames Festival, International Youth Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Other credits include Stage Director for The Shakespeare Schools

Festival, opera projects with West Sussex Schools and the BBC Concert Orchestra players, and European School’s Drama Project with companies in Normandy, France.

Dale has worked as Education Specialist for the London based company Artichoke, designing and creating a programme of work for schools in London and Brooklyn, New York and on a further live arts project as part of the Liverpool City of Culture Celebrations. Other credits include working in partnership with NAYT (National Association of Youth Theatres); Dale is the Lead Officer for the South East region, networking with other youth theatres in the South of England.

Dale is Director of LEAP at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Richard Taylor Music and Lyrics, Arrangements Richard is the composer and lyricist of Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield Theatres) and The Go-Between (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Northampton Theatres, Derby Theatre and West End), both of which won the Best Musical Production Award at the UK Theatre Awards in 2012 and 2016 respectively.

Other recent work includes Calderland, a large-scale community opera performed by over 200 voices (Halifax Piece Hall), Julius Caesar (Sheffield Crucible), and two commissions for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Services No Longer Required, performed at the Imperial War Museum North, and The Man Who Planted Trees, for narrator and orchestra (Bridgewater Hall Manchester).

Opera work includes Ludd and Isis, commissioned by the Royal Opera; the Royal Philharmonic Society award-winning Confucius Says (HMDT at Hackney Empire); and Genesis for massed voices, commissioned by ENO (London Coliseum).

Richard has composed scores for over 70 plays and was composer in residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, where scores included King Lear, Twelfth Night, Ying Tong (and Ambassador Theatre West End), Yerma, Electricity, Single Spies, Spring and Port Wine, Enjoy, The Dutiful Daughter, David Copperfield, When We Are Married, Pinocchio, A Doll’s House, Beauty and the Beast.

Television scores include the ITV thriller The Brides in the Bath, the animated feature Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer (Cosgrove Hall), and CBeebies Buzz and Tell.

James Whiteside Lighting Designer Previous credits at Chichester Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Alice in Wonderland and The Snow Queen (Festival Theatre), Miss Julie/Black Comedy, The Witches, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Wallenstein and Funny Girl (Minerva Theatre), Running Wild (Festival Theatre and UK tour).

Credits include Tango Moderno, Shirley Valentine, Love Me Tender (UK tours), The Borrowers (Sherman Theatre Cymru), Unfaithful (Found 111), The House of In Between (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd), The Royale, Disgraced, Fear (Bush Theatre), Deathtrap, A Voyage Round My Father (Salisbury Playhouse), The Last Tango, Dance Til Dawn, Midnight Tango, Never Forget, Footloose (West End and UK tours), The Night Before Christmas, GEORGE BAILEY HAL DARLING

Little Sure Shot, Salonika (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Monsieur Popular, Animal Farm (Theatre Royal Bath), Richard III, The Water Babies (Curve Theatre Leicester), Far From the Madding Crowd (Watermill Theatre), The Dumb Waiter (Print Room), The Good Person of Sichuan (Mercury, Colchester), The Jungle Book (Citizen’s, Glasgow), Stroke of Luck (Park Theatre), Bully Boy, Prodigy (St James Theatre), Holding the Man (Trafalgar Studios), The Female of the Species (Vaudeville), April in Paris, The Odd Couple, Moonlight and Magnolias, Twelfth Night (Perth Theatre), A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales, Gates of Gold (Library Manchester), The Absence of Women (Lyric, Belfast and Tricycle), James and the Giant Peach (Birmingham Stage Company).

For Tall Stories Theatre Company credits include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom and The Snail and the Whale.

EVENTS

EVENTS FOR FAMILIES BEAUTY AND THE BEAST PRE-SHOW TALK

MAGICAL TALES

21 December, 5pm Hear directly from the creative people behind the production. Lasting around 45 minutes, the pre-show talk offers an incredible insight into how the production develops from thoughts and ideas, through the rehearsal process, to the performance you see on stage.

Tickets FREE but booking essential

IN THE JUNGLE

12 February, 2pm - 3.30pm (ages 7- 11) Explore the sights and sound of the jungle in this lively movement session inspired

by The Jungle Book.

Tickets £10 per child

16 February, 10am - 11am (ages 5 - 7) and 2pm - 3pm (ages 8 - 11) Re-discover the magic and delight of Hans Christian Andersen’s beautiful stories. These storytelling sessions are a chance for children and adults to enjoy classic tales together.

FREE Visit cft.org.uk/forfamilies to find out more about what we have on offer, or sign up for e-newsletters at cft.org.uk and we’ll send all the latest family friendly news direct to your inbox.

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LEAP

LEARNING, EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATION The Learning, Education and Participation Department creates a year-round programme of practical workshops, talks, tours, performances and much more. With opportunities for all ages and abilities we aim to excite and inspire every person that engages with us.

COMMUNITY

CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE

Develop artistic, personal and social skills through our workshops, projects and award-winning Youth Theatre for young people of all abilities.

Chichester Festival Youth Theatre | Holiday Activities | Arts Award

EDUCATION

Working with local schools to enrich students’ learning, our training and apprenticeships programme enables us to grow the next generation of arts professionals.

Playboxes | Technical Tasters | Creative Careers Day | Work Experience

Learn more about theatre, develop performance skills, discover how productions are made and share experiences with others through our workshops and community projects.

Talks and Discussions | Community Theatre Days | Adult Classes

FAMILIES

Take part in Family Friendly talks, tours and workshops designed to complement our Festival programme.

Storytelling | Theatre Tours | Toddler Classes

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S TA F F

TRUSTEES

Lauren Grant

Sir William Castell

Chairman

Deputy Director of LEAP

Hannah Hogg

Youth Theatre Officer

Karl Meier

Mr Nicholas Backhouse

Ella Jarman

Mr Nigel Bennett

Richard Knowles

Education Projects Manager

Giselly Rodriquez

Mr Alan Brodie

Poppy Marples

Senior Youth Theatre Officer

Neil Rose

Ms Jill Green

Katie Morgan

Ms Odile Griffith

Anna Mould

Mrs Shelagh Legrave OBE

Louise Rigglesford

Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB OBE

Mr Mike McCart

Dale Rooks

Mr Harry Matovu QC

Emilia Trodd

Mrs Denise Patterson

Youth Theatre Apprentice

LEAP Apprentice Community & Heritage Officer

Head of Stage

Chris Perryman

Deputy Head of Stage

Megan Pickthorne

Stage Apprentice Lighting Technician Deputy Head of Sound

James Sharples

Stage Crew

Graham Taylor

Acting Head of Lighting

Community Partnerships Manager Director of LEAP Community Partnerships Apprentice

Mr David Seddon

THEATRE MANAGEMENT Janet Bakose Gill Dixon

Theatre Manager Front of House Duty Manager

Ben Geering

House Manager

Gabriele Hergert

Mrs Patricia Tull

MARKETING, PRESS & SALES

Ms Tina Webster

Carole Alexandre

Mrs Susan Wells

Caroline Aston Rebecca Batten

BUILDING & SITE SERVICES Chris Edwards

Jenny Bettger Maintenance Engineer

Daren Rowland

Facilities Manager

Jordan Scurr

Assistant Duty Engineer

Jessica Blake-Lobb

Director of Development

Julie Field

Friends Administrator

Elizabeth Ganney

Audience Insight Manager

Will McGovern Joshua Vine

PA to Theatre Manager Assistant House Manager Front of House Duty Manager

Marketing Manager Box Office Supervisor Marketing Manager

Stage Door: Sarah Hammett, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Mia Kelly, Chris Monkton, Susan Welling (Supervisor)

Harry Boulter

Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Lucy Anderson,

Alys Carter

Katie Cotton

Sharon Meier Distribution Officer

(Corporate)

Helen Campbell DEVELOPMENT

Deputy House Manager

Lydia Cassidy

Box Office Assistant Deputy Box Office Manager

Maria Antoniou, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson,

Marketing Projects Manager

Rachel Benjamin, Bob Bentley, Charlie Bentley,

Director of Marketing & Communications

Gloria Boakes, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Lauren Bunn, Julia Butterworth, Helen Chown,

Supporter Relations

Joe Edwards

Box Office Assistant

Beth Church, Jo Clark, Sophia Cobby, Jill Dalaine,

Manager

Clare Funnell

Marketing Officer

Gaye Douglas, Stella Dubock, Alisha Dyer-Spence,

Victoria Gregory

(Maternity Leave)

Clair Edgell, Suzanne France,

Corporate Development Manager

Bridie Heathcote

Box Office Assistant

Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook,

Shannon Hay

Development Administrator

Mike Hedgecock

Box Office Assistant

Barry Gamlin, Luc Garner-Gibbons, Anna Grindel,

Laura Jackson

Individual Giving Manager

Lorna Holmes

Box Office Assistant

Elisha Hamilton, Caroline Hanton, Madeline Harker,

William Mendelowitz

Development Manager

DIRECTORS Daniel Evans

Jon Mileman

Marketing Officer

Joseph Harrington (Trainee), Fred Harris,

(Maternity Cover)

Gillian Hawkins, Joanne Heather,

James Morgan Artistic Director

Lucinda Morrison

Rachel Tackley

Executive Director

Molly Peel

Patricia Key

PA to the Directors

Catherine Rankin

Georgina Rae

Head of Planning & Projects

FINANCE Alison Baker

Payroll & Pensions Officer

Krissie Harte

Finance Officer

Katie Palmer

Assistant Management

Josie Simmons

Peter Jordan, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Chris Monkton, Chloe Mulkern, Susan Mulkern,

Claire Walters

Box Office Assistant

Georgie Mullen, Katie Olorenshaw, Isabel Owen,

Joanna Wiege

Box Office Administrator

Jane Wolf

Box Office Assistant

Martyn Pederson, Kirsty Peterson, Barbara Pope, Justine Richardson, Gemma Sangster, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd,

Amelia Ferrand-Rook

Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust Literary Associate Producer

IT Support

Andrew Sloane

Production Administrator

Paul Sturgeon

IT Consultant

Jacob Thomas

Production Trainee

Amanda Trodd

Management Accountant

Nicole Yu

Pippa Johnson, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Valerie Leggate, Nathalie Meier, Margaret Minty,

Kate Bassett

Mark Pollard

Box Office Assistant

Stephanie Horn, Charlotte Horner, Keiko Iwamoto,

Box Office Assistant

Simon Parsonage

Company Secretary

Communications Assistant

Gordon Hemming, Charlotte Higlett,

Joshua Vine

PRODUCTION

Head of Press

Box Office Supervisor

Accountant Finance Director &

Box Office Manager

Nicky Wingfield

Production Administrator

Finance Assistant (Trainee)

(Trainee), Chantelle Walker, Rosemary Wheeler, Donna Wood, Kim Wylam, Jane Yeates Volunteer Audio Describers: Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Sue Hyland (Co-ordinator), Peter Jordan, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd

TECHNICAL HR Eugenie Konig Emily Oliver Jenefer Pullinger

Steph Bartle Head of HR Administrator (Accommodation) HR Assistant Administrator

Jesse Caie Sam Garner-Gibbons Abbie Gingell Katie Hennessy

LEAP Elspeth Barron Charlie Essex

Mike Keniger LEAP Officer Education Apprentice

Andrew Leighton Francis Martin

Deputy Head of Lighting Lighting / Sound Apprentice

Described performances are co-ordinated by Sue Hyland. We acknowledge the financial

Technical Director

assistance received from Chichester City Council

Stage Technician

in respect of signed performances and the work

Props Store Co-ordinator Head of Sound Lighting Technician Sound Technician

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of those who give so generously of their time as our Volunteer Audio Description Team.

ACCESS AND CAR PARKING

Wheelchair users 16 wheelchair spaces are available on two levels in the Festival Theatre, with accessible lifts either side of the auditorium. Two wheelchair spaces are available in the Minerva Theatre.

Hearing impaired Free Sennheiser listening units are available for all performances or switch your hearing aid to ‘T’ to use the induction loop in both theatres.

Signed performances are sign language interpreted for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Stagetext Captioned performances display English captions on a unit, for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Audio-described performances offer live commentary over headphones for people who are blind or visually impaired.

Touch Tours for blind or visually impaired people are available 90 minutes before audio-described performances. Free but booking is essential.

Dementia-Friendly Theatre All of our Box Office and Front of House staff have attended a Dementia Friends Information Session, and can be identified by the blue pin they wear on their uniform.

Assistance dogs are welcome; please let us know when booking as space is limited.

Parking for disabled patrons Blue Badge holders can park anywhere in Northgate Car Park free of charge.

There are 9 non-reservable spaces close to the Theatre entrance.

Car Parking Northgate Car Park is a 900-space pay and display car park next to the Theatre (free after 8pm). As well as cash, contactless and card payments, you can now pay using the MiPermit app, text message, online or by phone.

The location number for Northgate Car Park is 711015. chichester.gov.uk/mipermit If you have access requirements or want to book tickets with an access discount, please join the Access List.

For more information and to register, visit cft.org.uk/access, call the Box Office on 01243 781312 or email access@cft.org.uk

Large-print version of this programme available on request from the House Manager or access@cft.org.uk Large-print and audio CD versions of the Festival Season brochure are available on request from access@cft.org.uk For more access information, call 01243 781312 or visit cft.org.uk/access

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S U P P O R T E R S 2017

PRINCIPAL PARTNERS

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT

Diamond Level

BENEFACTORS Robin and Joan Alvarez David and Elizabeth Benson Philip Berry Sarah and Tony Bolton George W Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Wilfred and Jeannette Cass Sir William and Lady Castell John and Pat Clayton CMC Professional Services Clive and Frances Coward Jim Douglas Mrs Veronica J Dukes Stephen and Melanie Edge Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis Steve and Sheila Evans Val and Richard Evans Angela and Uri Greenwood Sir Michael and Lady Heller Anne Hewat Mr and Mrs Christopher Hogbin Basil Hyman Liz Juniper Alan and Virginia Lovell Jonathan and Clare Lubran Selina and David Marks Mrs Sheila Meadows Jerome and Elizabeth O’Hea Mrs Denise Patterson Stuart and Carolyn Popham Dame Patricia Routledge DBE David and Sophie Shalit Jon and Ann Shapiro Simon and Melanie Shaw Greg and Katherine Slay David and Alexandra Soskin David and Unni Spiller Alan and Jackie Stannah Howard M Thompson Nicholas and Francesca Tingley Lady Sainsbury of Turville Peter and Wendy Usborne Ernest Yelf Lord and Lady Young

Prof E.F Juniper and Mrs Jilly Styles

Gold Level Cass Sculpture Foundation

HOLIDAY LETS

Oldham Seals Group

Silver Level

CORPORATE PARTNERS LEVEL 1 Chichester College Criterion Ices Jones Avens Purchases Bar & Restaurant Rathbone Investment Management St James’s Place Thesis Asset Management LEVEL 2 Addison Law Anthony Harding Wealth Management Behrens Sharp FBG Investment Hennings Wine Merchants Richard & Stella Read RL Austen The Bell Inn The J Leon Group Tod Anstee Hancock

LEVEL 3 Dinamiks European Office Products Russell & Bromley Mrs Joanna Williams ACCOMMODATION PARTNERS Accommodation at Chichester Cathedral Chilgrove Farm Bed and Breakfast Corner House Bed and Breakfast Historic Sussex Hotels Musgrove House The Harbour Hotel The Millstream Hotel Ten Chichester Bed & Breakfast

FESTIVAL PLAYERS The Aldama Foundation Charles Alexander and Clare Mumby John and Annoushka Ayton His Honour and Mrs Michael Baker Matthew Bannister Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard Martin Blackburn Mike and Alison Blakely Tim Bouquet and Sarah Mansell Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett F H Brittenden Mrs Susie Brookes Peter and Pamela Bulfield Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg Sally Chittleburgh Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Frances Clark Denise Clatworthy John and Susan Coldstream Cecilia Cole Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Michael and Jill Cook Brian and Claire Cox Susan Cressey Yvonne Dean Dr and Mrs Clive Dilloway Christopher and Madeline Doman Peter and Ruth Doust Peter and Jill Drummond John and Joanna Dunstan Betty and Ian Elliot Anthony and Penny Elphick Brian and Sonia Fieldhouse Lady Finch Beryl Fleming Alan and Valerie Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Suzanna Gayford Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Kay Glendinning

John and Sue Godfrey Dr and Mrs P Golding Robin and Rosemary Gourlay Mr I S Hall Kathy and Roger Hammond Dennis and Joan Harrison Roger and Tina Harrison Robert and Suzette Hayes Eric and Susan Hinds Peter Edgeler and Angela Hirst Michael Holdsworth Joyce Hytner Mrs Raymonde Jay Mrs Pamela Johnson Robert Kaltenborn Mr Rodney Kempster Nigel Kennedy OBE Anna Christine Kennett Roger Keyworth John and Jane Kilby Mrs Rose Law Frank and Freda Letch Mrs Jane Lewis John and Jenny Lippiett Colin and Jill Loveless Amanda Lunt Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Jane Mansell Jeremy and Caroline Marriage Charles and Elisabeth Martin Stuart and Patricia Martin Gerard and Elena McCloskey Mick and Betty McGovern Jill and Douglas McGregor James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Diana and Richard Midmer David and Elizabeth Miles Jenifer and John Mitchell Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris Sara Morton Mrs Mary Newby Lady Nixon Margaret and Martin Overington Philip and Gail Owen Mrs Glenys Palmer Alex and Sheila Paterson Jean Plowright Brian and Margaret Raincock John Rank Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Malcolm and Angela Reid John and Betsy Rimmer A. John Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ken and Ros Rokison Mr Christopher Sedgwick John and Tita Shakeshaft Mrs Dale Sheppard-Floyd Jackie and Alan Sherling Christine and Dave Smithers Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha Mrs Barbara Snowden Mrs Elizabeth Stern Barbara Stewart Jane Stoakley Anne Subba Row Sara and Rodney Stone Ms Maura Sullivan The Tansy Trust Mr Robert Timms Alan Tingle Ian and Alison Warren Chris and Dorothy Weller Bowen and Rennie Wells Graham and Sue White David and Vivienne Woolf TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Bassil Shippam and Alsford Trust The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray’s Charity Trust The Roddick Foundation The Eranda Rothschild Foundation The Vestris Trust The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust Thanks to NADFAS Chichester and all those who wish to remain anonymous

SUPPORT US

COME CLOSER Did you know that Chichester Festival Theatre is a registered charity?

And that you can play an essential role and get more involved in what we do?

The generosity and commitment of our supporters, whether their donation is large or small, has helped us achieve our reputation as ‘the jewel in the crown of regional theatres’ (Daily Telegraph).

Here are some of the ways you can support the Theatre to maintain our world-class standards, extend our dedicated community and education work, and inspire the future generation of performers, theatre-makers and audiences. In return, we’ll give you a range of benefits to bring you closer to our work.

As a Friend of Chichester Festival Theatre, for just £35 a year you’ll receive priority booking, ticket discounts and special events. Visit cft.org.uk/friends for further details.

Our Festival Players are a community of theatre-loving individuals who receive advance priority booking, the opportunity to meet Artistic and Creative teams and invitations to exclusive events throughout the season. You can become a member from £250 a year.

Benefactors enjoy an especially close relationship with the Theatre, gaining unique insight into the creative process.

Gifts support all areas of our work, from our award-winning Youth Theatre to the Playwrights’ Fund and Trainee programmes. Bespoke communications throughout the year from a personal contact at Chichester Festival Theatre keep you in touch with the impact of your gift.

We’d love to tell you more about the ways you can support us. Please contact the Development Team on development.team@cft.org.uk or call 01243 812908.

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MOSCOW CITY BALLET SWAN LAKE THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Moscow City Ballet return to Chichester with two enchanting productions, presented in classic Russian style with full orchestra. The perfect way to start the new year FESTIVAL THEATRE 3 - 7 JAN cft.org.uk

THE JUNGLE BOOK

By Jessica Swale Based on the stories by Rudyard Kipling Directed by Max Webster Music by Joe Stilgoe

A wild and fun tale of family and belonging, filled with memorable characters and new songs FESTIVAL THEATRE 25 JAN - 3 FEB cft.org.uk

THE LITTLE MATCHGIRL AND OTHER HAPPIER TALES

From the story by Hans Christian Andersen and Other Storytellers Writer and co-adaptor Joel Horwood Director and co-adaptor Emma Rice

Inspired by the beautiful and devastatingly sad Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Little Matchgirl reveals a spellbinding world of magic and mystery.

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