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SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS

By Roy Williams

DANIEL EVANS AND KATHY BOURNE PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHAN PERSSON

WELCOME

Welcome to the Chichester Spiegeltent – and to this new production of Roy Williams’s ferocious, funny and disturbing play Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads.

Premiered at the National Theatre in 2002, and exploring what it means to be black, white and English in an increasingly divided twenty-first century Britain, the play’s resonance – soberingly – has grown since its first outing.

It’s wonderful to be bringing Roy Williams’s work to Chichester for the first time. One of contemporary theatre’s most influential and thought-provoking writers, he won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award for Clubland, while Sucker Punch brought him both Olivier and Standard nominations for Best New Play, and he’s also written several award-winning screenplays. His new play Death of England (jointly written with Clint Dyer) will premiere at the National next year.

We’re also delighted that director Nicole Charles is making her Chichester debut, fresh from her acclaimed production of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia which transferred from Shakespeare’s Globe to the West End. Most of the exciting ensemble cast are also new to Chichester and we warmly welcome them all.

On 30 October, there’s a brilliant chance to hear Roy Williams discussing the challenges facing young writers trying to change the face of British theatre.

Whether you’re an aspiring playwright or simply interested in the future of playwriting, do put this in your diary.

Read on for more about our brand new venue, the Chichester Spiegeltent.

We hope you enjoy today’s performance and that we see you again in the Spiegeltent during our cabaret season.

Executive Director Kathy Bourne

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Artistic Director Daniel Evans

To the Chichester Spiegeltent Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads is set in a pub. For this new production in Chichester, we wanted the audience to really feel part of the action; we also wanted to put on a short season of entertainment including cabaret, music and comedy that was totally different from what people might expect to find in either the Festival or Minerva Theatres.

The Spiegeltent was our answer.

Spiegeltents, or “mirror tents�, are ornate travelling pavilions, constructed from wood and canvas and decorated with mirrors and stained glass. They originated in Belgium during the late 19th century as travelling dance halls.

Despite their glamorous appearance, they could be easily transported from town to town, often appearing at funfairs in places where there was no existing dance hall.

Only a handful of original Spiegeltents survive today and each is unique. The Chichester Spiegeltent (called Magic Mirrors) is a recreation of the renowned European mirror tents of art nouveau days. Today, they are frequently attractions at arts festivals, often hosting fringe and alternative events.

Check out chichesterspiegeltent.com for details of the packed two-week programme of intriguing events and entertainment for all ages in the Spiegeltent from 4 November, bringing the best of the Fringe to Chichester.

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SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS

By Roy Williams

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In his foreword to the published text of Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, Roy Williams tells us that he very much wanted to write a play ‘Not just simply about race, but about British nationalism: what does it mean to be British in the 21st century, who’s more British now, the blacks or the whites?’

He continues: ‘I had been wanting to write about these themes ever since I watched (for the hundredth time) Spike Lee’s brilliant movie Do the Right Thing, one of the most honest pieces of drama I have seen about race.

I admired the film because it did not lose its bottle by drowning itself with wishy-washy liberal platitudes. To me, Spike’s movie said ‘fuck’ to all that.

It just told it as it was. No apologies.

‘It was not an easy play to write.

And I was thankful for that. I wanted to challenge myself as well as the audience and the world of my play.

One of the main characters is called Alan. He is a member of a fascist political party, not unlike our British National Party. It was important to

me not to make him a devil. The night after Sing Yer Heart Out opened [in 2002], local elections were taking place all over the country. The British National Party won several seats.

People were actually going out to vote for them. What was that about? What was it the BNP said that made them do that? It had to be something. It had to come from somewhere. As much as Alan’s views disgust me, he does say one thing in the play that I totally agree with: If you want to stop people from being like me, then you are going to have to start listening to people like me...

‘That pretty much sums up how I feel racial issues should be addressed.

Listen, then confront. No apologies.’

Gary Younge's searing opinion (on the following pages) was first published in the Guardian on 24 May 2019. Some of the seats of power have changed since then but the underlying issues have not.

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ROY WILLIAMS

SHOCKED

BY THE RISE OF

THE RIGHT?

THEN YOU WEREN’T PAYING

ATTENTION

The seeds of Trump, Brexit and Modi’s success were sown by endemic racism and unfairness. Tackling that is the answer.

The morning after both Donald Trump’s victory and the Brexit referendum, when a mood of paralysing shock and grief overcame progressives and liberals on both sides of the Atlantic, the two most common refrains I heard were: ‘I don’t recognise my country any more,’ and ‘I feel like I’ve woken up in a different country.’ This period of collective disorientation

was promptly joined by oppositional activity, if not activism. People who had never marched before took to the streets; those who had not donated before gave; people who had not been paying attention became engaged.

Many continue.

Sooner or later progressives are going to have to stop being stunned by these electoral defeats.

Almost three years later the Brexit party, led

by Nigel Farage, is predicted to top the poll in European parliament elections in which the far right will make significant advances across the continent; Theresa May’s imminent downfall could hand the premiership to Boris Johnson; Trump’s re-election in 2020 is a distinct possibility, with Democratic strategists this week predicting only a narrow electoral college victory against him. ‘Democrats do not walk into the 2020 election with the same enthusiasm advantage they had in the 2018 election,’ said Guy Cecil, the chairman of Priorities USA, the largest Democratic political action committee.

Elsewhere, exit polls suggest Narendra

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Modi, the reactionary Hindu nationalist leader of India implicated in a massacre in 2002, will enjoy a landslide victory.

Sooner or later progressives are going to have to stop being stunned by these electoral defeats. The first time, it is plausible to ask, ‘How could this possibly happen?’ But when that possibility recurs in relatively short order, what once presented itself as a shock has now curdled into self-deception. It turns out that the country you woke up in is precisely the one you went to bed in. If you still don’t recognise it then you are going to have real problems changing it.

Ethnic and racial plurality and migration as a lived experience are older than any nation state, but equality is a relatively new idea.

There are any number of lessons we might draw from this moment – for instance, the fact that our capacity to stage marches has outpaced our ability to build effective movements or the media’s efforts to maintain credibility. We are in a period during which facts are devalued, and appearing on a political show has more worth than answering any questions on that show.

There are many differences between the places I’ve mentioned, but for now I’d like to focus on one thing that unites them: that the countries which keep producing these shocks are every bit as racist, xenophobic and discriminatory as their voting habits suggest.

This is not some new virus; it’s a susceptibility to a chronic illness that has crippled us for years. Ethnic and racial plurality and migration as a lived experience are older than any nation state, but equality is a relatively new idea, and some don’t like it. People forget how recently African Americans couldn’t vote, and that Winston Churchill told his cabinet ‘Keep England White’ was a good campaign slogan.

These electoral victories are, largely but not exclusively, the products of those age-old prejudices: not because everyone who voted for them was racist, but because all the racists

who did go to the polls voted for them. The intensity of that racism is now growing, as the victors use their podiums and despatch boxes to amplify their bigotry, giving confidence and licence for people to spread their poison. Take Britain. In January 2016, 64% of people from an ethnic minority said they had been targeted by a stranger. That’s before Brexit, and already terrible. That proportion rose to 76% this year.

Things were bad. They are getting worse.

Racism was the wedge the enemies of cosmopolitanism and plurality used to prise open a broader cleavage that is dividing us all.

In the past, issues of race and racism were misunderstood by some liberals as a sectional interest – a bad thing that affected people of colour. It has taken this moment to make it clear

MARCH FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, WASHINGTON DC, 30 SEPTEMBER 2017 IMAGE COURTESY OF STEPHEN MELKISETHIAN

that while these acts of discrimination – be they deliberate, unwitting, covert, overt, individual or institutional – did directly impact the black and the brown, they also undermined the whole of society. Racism was the wedge the enemies of cosmopolitanism and plurality used to prise open a broader cleavage that is dividing us all.

It’s not clear this lesson has been learned.

Most, but by no means all, ‘remain’ devotees I have encountered are far more fluent in the language of race accusation (pointing out the bigotry of the Brexiters) than in the anti-racist activism that would put a racially diverse and plural Britain at the heart of their world view.

Some would be happy if we went back to the way we were before we voted to leave. But that would mean returning to a place where two-thirds of ethnic minority people faced racial abuse. No wonder these second referendum marches are so white.

These rivers run deep – winding through empire, imperialism, caste, settlement, colonialism, white supremacy and beyond.

That’s not all these countries are. Wherever there is bigotry you will find an impressive tradition opposing it and a potential audience willing to be weaned off it. A recent survey in the US, for example, revealed that one in seven Republicans agreed with the statement: ‘When it comes to giving black people equal rights with whites, our country has not gone far enough’.

There is no denying that bigotry, once embedded in a political culture, is difficult to

STAND UP TO RACISM RALLY LONDON, 14 JULY 2018 IMAGE COURTESY OF ALISDARE HICKSON

excise. But it cannot be avoided for reasons of expediency and complicity either. That is in no small part how we got here: people who knew better eschewing ‘difficult conversations’ because it would cost them votes.

Nor can racism be met halfway, any more than you can remove half a cancer and expect it not to grow back. Attempts to triangulate with weasel words about the ‘legitimate concerns’ of ‘traditional voters’ are dishonest. Concerns about high class sizes and over-stretched welfare services are obviously legitimate; blaming ethnic minorities for them is obviously

not. Facilitating a conflation of the two and hoping no one will notice is spineless. It also doesn’t work. Those who dedicate their lives to racism are better at it and will never be satisfied. Pandering does not steal their thunder – it gives them legitimacy.

There is precious little value in pointing out, once every four or five years, that racism is a problem if you are not advocating an agenda in the intervening time that posits anti-racism as a solution. In the words of the great white hope of Conservative electoral strategy, Australian, Lynton Crosby: ‘You can’t fatten

the pig on market day.’ You can’t go around producing anti-immigration mugs, pathologising Muslims and demonising asylum seekers for a decade and then expect a warm reception for open borders in the few months before a referendum.

Or, if you do, the very least you can do is not keep being shocked when you lose.

GARY YOUNGE

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and Guardian columnist.

Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2019.

ON 13 JULY 2018, THE DAY AFTER DONALD TRUMP WAS WELCOMED TO THE UK BY THERESA MAY, THOUSANDS MARCHED ON TRAFALGAR SQUARE IN THE BIGGEST PROTEST FOR OVER A DECADE. IMAGE COURTESY OF ALISDARE HICKSON

SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS

By Roy Williams CAST (in order of appearance) Jimmy Gina Glen Mark Duane Bad ‘T’ Lawrie Lee Becks Phil Jess Alan Barry Sharon

Martyn Ellis Sian Reese-Williams Billy Kennedy Mark Springer Harold Addo Dajay Brown Richard Riddell Alexander Cobb Jack James Ryan Rob Compton Kirsty J Curtis Michael Hodgson Makir Ahmed Jennifer Daley

The play is set in the King George Pub in south-west London on Saturday 7 October, 2000.

There will be one interval of 20 minutes.

The first performance of this production of Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads at Chichester Spiegeltent, 7 October 2019.

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads © Roy Williams 2002.

First produced at the National Theatre Loft, 2 May 2002.

Nicole Charles Joanna Scotcher Amelia Jane Hankin Joshua Carr George Dennis Isaac Madge Chris Whittaker Kate Waters Charlotte Sutton CDG

Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Video Designer & Programmer Movement Director Fight Director Casting Director

Josie Thomas Sharon Foley Joanna Bowman Tess Dignan Kay Welch Luisa Gerstein

Costume Supervisor Props Supervisor Assistant Director Voice Coach Dialect Coach Vocal Arrangement

John Page Luciano Macis Helen Fletcher Isobel Eagle-Wilsher

Production Manager Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Production credits: Production Carpenter Tom Humphrey; Set by Tin Shed Scenery; Lighting supplies by Hawthorn; Sound and Video hires by Stage Sound Services; Beer and Ale pumps kindly supplied by The Turks Head, CAMRA’s Warwickshire Pub of the Year 2019; Pub dressing by The Bell Inn Chichester; Magic Mirrors; Pridewatch Events; Demon Designs; Cathedral Signs; Andrew Sykes heaters; Beaver Tool hire; Elfords Sheds Chichester; Basil Baird (Fareham); clothing from Five Fifteen in Petersfield; Rehearsal room St Mary Abbots Centre, London.

With thanks to Kris Mitra, Gerry Knoud, Sussex Police, Noluthando Boqwana, Jack Myers as Rob, Daren Rowland, David Beal, Luciano Macis, William McGovern, Ernesto Ruiz, Freddie Dempster and Sky Sports. Special thanks to the FA for the match footage.

Rehearsal photographs Helen Murray Production photographs Manuel Harlan Programme design by Davina Chung Programme Associate Fiona Richards Supported by the Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads Commissioning Circle: Ben-Levi Family, Christina Breene, Mrs Veronica J Dukes, Jennie Halsall, John and Chrissie Lieurance, Dr and Mrs Nick and Sue Lutte, Dr Jeremy Shaw and Dr Linda Shaw OBE, Bryan Warnett of St. James’s Place and all those who wish to remain anonymous.

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BIOGRAPHIES

HAROLD ADDO Duane Theatre includes Moritz in Spring Awakening (Young Vic); Sailor in Billy Budd (Royal Opera House); Horatio in Hamlet and Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island (Iris Theatre); Nkrumah in Womb (Black Lives Black Words/Bush Theatre); ToeRag/Hoodie 2 in The Gift of the Gab (White Bear Theatre); Teddy in Beyond the Blue (Cut the Cord Theatre); Estragon in Waiting for Godot (Sweaty Palms Productions/site specific); Scott/ Male 2 in It Might Never Happen (Doll’s Eye Theatre); Prince Charmont/Ensemble in Ella Enchanted (Bush Barrel Tun/Edinburgh Fringe); Tom in The 49 (Theatre N16); Anibal de la Luna in Cloud Tectonics (Corbett Theatre); Prince Tydeus in Welcome to Thebes, Ross in Macbeth, Orlando/Charles the Wrestler in As You Like It, Vasilly Solyony in Three Sisters, Lucius Jenkins in Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (East 15 Acting THE COMPANY

School); Chorus in 4.48 Psychosis (LoneTree Theatre Project); Fiscur/Poor Man in Liliom: A Legend in Seven Scenes (TorchLight Collective).

Television includes Premature.

Films include Urban Decay and the short Beatrice.

Trained at East 15 Acting School.

MAKIR AHMED Barry Theatre includes Leo in The Firm and Josh in A Further Education (Hampstead Theatre); Nick in Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Gothenburg English Studio); Simon in Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Lieutenant General Alexis in The Tale of the Wolf and the Shepherd and Smith in Party Time (Arthur Cotterell Theatre); Leader of the Opposition in Prosopopeia (London Theatre); Jason in Torn (Arcola Theatre); Sister/Leonid Adreyavitch in

Brezhnev’s Children, Joe Smith in Club 27 and Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (London College of Music); Tyrone Jackson in Fame the Musical and Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing (Sandown Bay Academy).

Television includes EastEnders, Unforgotten, Doctors, Casualty.

Films include the shorts What Happened to Evie, Colours, Reckless, Get Home Safe.

DAJAY BROWN Bad T Theatre includes William in Lest We Forget (Greenwich Theatre); Dr Maudsley in Blue Stockings (NYT/Yard Theatre); Josh in I am Walrus and Firs in The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic).

Television includes Casualty.

Films include the shorts Out, Just a Normal Guy, A Place Called Havana, Rifts, W O L V E S.

Trained at The Brit School and National Youth Theatre.

ALEXANDER COBB Lee Theatre includes Antony and Cleopatra and The Magistrate (National Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (RSC); Mary Stuart (Almeida); Red Velvet (Garrick Theatre); The Seagull (Headlong); Goodbye to All That (Royal Court); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal & Derngate); Wasted (Paines Plough/Latitude).

Television includes Vera, Indian Summers, Ripper Street, The Mimic, Call the Midwife, Mr Selfridge, Doctors, Parade’s End. Radio includes Calais 2037, A Soldier and a Maker.

Films include The Kings Man, Mary Shelley, Whitehawk.

Trained at RADA.

ROB COMPTON Phil Theatre includes Matilda (RSC); wonder.land (Manchester International Festival, National Theatre); Bat Boy (Southwark Playhouse); Mother Courage and Her Children (Manchester Library Theatre/The Lowry); A Chorus of Disapproval (Harold Pinter Theatre); All the Fun of the Fair (UK tour); Merlin and the Woods of Time and As You Like It (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Great Expectations (ETT/Palace Theatre Watford); A Christmas Carol (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Television includes True Horror, Rellik, Babs, Ripper Street, Corner Shop Show, Silent Witness, EastEnders, Endeavour.

Films include American Assassin and the short Faithful.

KIRSTY J CURTIS Jess Theatre includes Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing (Mercury Theatre); Lucy in Dirty Promises (The Hope Theatre); Hannah in Days of Significance (Unicorn Theatre); Carrie in HAROLD ADDO MAKIR AHMED

Memory of Forgetting (Arcola Theatre); C in The Club (Tristan Bates Theatre); Monologueslam UK (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Kate in The Red Balloon (Theatre503); Jane in My Girlfriend’s a Real Doll’s Face and Honey in Sweetheart and Honey Fight the War (The Bush Theatre).

Television includes Harlots, Sliced, Timewasters, Grantchester, Hailmakers, Rellik, The Halcyon, Holby City, Birds of a Feather, Doctors, People Just Do Nothing, Casualty, Locked Up Abroad, Call the Midwife.

Radio includes The Taylors.

Films include The Festival, Homeless Ashes, Bonded by Blood 2, Urban Hymn and the shorts Resurrection of Daniel Durante, Again, Tough Crowd.

Web series Match Not Found.

Trained at Rose Bruford College.

Instagram and Twitter: KirstyJCurtis JENNIFER DALEY Sharon Theatre includes Left My Desk (Greenwich Theatre); The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Safe (Soho Theatre); Land

of the Three Towers (Pleasance); Marie in This Wide Night (Albany Theatre); Rita in Educating Rita (UK tour); Lucy Lockwood in Gutted and Karisma in Bashment (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Vanessa in Steam (Barons Court Theatre); Sunai in The South London Passion Plays (Tristan Bates Theatre); Imogen in Cymbeline (Drayton Theatre).

Television includes Trust, The Interceptor, Nuzzle & Scratch, EastEnders, Dalziel and Pascoe, Hidden Lives, Doctors, Casualty.

Radio includes The Archers, Ambridge Extra.

Films include The Adventures of Selika, Robot Overlords, Bashment (British Independent Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress), Swim, Fit. Trained at Middlesex University and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. MARTYN ELLIS Jimmy Theatre includes Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (Young Vic); The Wizard in Wicked, Gangster 1 in Kiss Me, Kate, Thenardier in Les Misérables, Man 2 in The 39 Steps, Pumbaa in original DAJAY BROWN ALEXANDER COBB

London cast of The Lion King and Paul McCartney in Lennon (West End); Harry Dangle in original cast of One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre, West End and Broadway); Mr Bascombe in Carousel (ENO); Alfred P Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Dromio of Ephesus in The Boys from Syracuse (Sheffield Crucible); Marcel in Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory); Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical); Herman Preysing in Grand Hotel (Donmar); Mr Biggins in Moll Flanders (Lyric Hammersmith); Dafydd in A Chorus of Disapproval (Bristol Old Vic).

Television includes The Light, A Confession, Catch 22, The Romanoffs, Decline and Fall, The Last Kingdom, Father Brown, Harley and the Davidsons, The Smoke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Agatha Raisin, The Sarah Jane Adventures, The Bobinogs, Fun with Claude, Doctors, The Tudors, Doctors and Nurses, William and Mary, The New Adventures of Robin Hood, Lifeboat, Rockliffe’s Babies, Joking Apart, Hope It Rains, Kavanagh QC, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde.

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Films include Christmas Eve, A Christmas Carol, Devil’s Bridge, Agent Cody Banks, In2Minds.

Trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Growing Up, 315, Titanic: Birth of a Legend.

Trained at Guildford School of Acting (graduated 2018).

BILLY KENNEDY Glen Theatre includes Toots in Emil and the Detectives (National Theatre); Astyanax in The Last Days of Troy (Shakespeare’s Globe); Yerma (Hull Truck/The Gate); Guys and Dolls (Paul Robeson Theatre).

Television includes The Five, The Boy in the Dress.

Radio includes Home Front (BBC Audio Drama Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), The Magic Faraway Tree.

Films include Outside Bet, Horrid Henry and the shorts Nurtured, Reunion, The Bristol Job.

MICHAEL HODGSON Alan Previously at Chichester Strife (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, The Mouse and His Child (RSC); Oliver Twist (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Treasure Island (Birmingham Rep); Get Carter, Catch 22, Noir, A Christmas Carol (Northern Stage); Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible); Brilliant Adventures (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Pitmen Painters (original cast, Live Theatre/National Theatre/West End/Broadway); Can’t Pay Won’t Pay, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Told By An Idiot); Bones (Hampstead); King Lear (Young Vic/Japan tour); The Three Musketeers (UK tour); The Tower (Almeida); The Wind in the Willows, The Devil’s Disciple (National Theatre); Jane Eyre, Travels With My Aunt (West End); Death of a Salesman, The Last Yankee, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Guise (Arts Threshold/Romania/Hong Kong/Off Broadway NY).

Television includes George Gently, Accidental Farmer, Vera, Skins, The Visit, Instinct, Angel Cake, Spit Game, Ghost Squad, 55 Degrees North (series regular), Babywar, Lawless, Spooks, 2000 Acres of Sky (series regular), Without Motive, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Touching Evil, Doctors, The Bill.

Films include In Bruges, The One and Only, Gypsy Woman, The Lowdown, The Last Minute, Wonderland, First Knight.

SIAN REESE-WILLIAMS Gina Theatre includes Lungs, The Initiate, Our Teacher’s a Troll (Roundabout Season/Paines Plough); Linda in Enjoy (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Marta in Children of Fate (Bussey Building); Queenie in Be My Baby (New Vic Theatre); Phoebe in As You Like It (Derby Playhouse); Future Perfect, Freya in Coltan and Lucy in Sixtyfive Miles (Paines Plough); Sarah in Present Tense (Trafalgar Studios); Young Gladys in Diamond (King’s Head Theatre); Jennifer in The Dreaming (BBC London Theatre Award) and Rapunzel in Into the Woods (National Youth Music Theatre).

Television includes Silent Witness, Hidden/ Craith, Pili Pala, Line of Duty, Requiem, 35 Diwrnod, Hinterland, Emmerdale.

Films include Justine.

Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

JACK JAMES RYAN Becks Theatre includes Me and My Left Ball (Rough Velvet Collaborative); Serious Says in Funny Ways (The Yard); On the Mend (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham).

Television includes Homegrown, Emmerdale, Casualty, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Moving On, Where To Mate?

Films include Military Wives Choir, Life

RICHARD RIDDELL Lawrie Theatre includes John Shore in Gabriel, Chiron in Titus Andronicus and Officer in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe); Husband in All Who Pass (International Playwrights Showcase/Royal Court); Hardy in Pastoral (Soho Theatre); Michele in Filumena (Almeida Theatre); Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice and Joey in The Homecoming (RSC); Sean

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in After the Party (Criterion Theatre).

Television includes Endeavour, Curfew, Bodyguard, The Terror, Scott and Bailey, Barbarians Rising, Doc Martin, Penny Dreadful, Vera, Misfits, Jabberwock, The Fattest Man in Britain, Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, Merlin, Waking the Dead, Fanny Hill: The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Heartbeat.

Films include 55 Steps, Star Wars VII, The Merciless Beauty, Legend, Weekender, Blitz, Robin Hood, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Act of God, Enemy Lines, Dogging: A Love Story.

MARK SPRINGER Mark Theatre includes The Island (Dukes Theatre Lancaster and The Theatre Chipping Norton); Henry V, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, The Darker Face of the Earth (National Theatre); Thomas More, A New Way to Please You, Believe What You Will (RSC Stratford/West End); Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); title role in Don Juan (Citizens Theatre); King Lear (Royal Exchange Theatre/Talawa); RICHARD RIDDELL MARK SPRINGER

Brutus Jones in The Emperor Jones (LOST Theatre); Chigger Foot Boys (Ovalhouse); Meet the Mukherjees (Bolton); Where the Mangrove Grows and Songs of Grace and Redemption (Theatre503); The Chimes (Southwark Playhouse); The Suppliants (Gate); A Taste of Honey (Watford); Night and Day (Northampton).

Television includes One Night, Buried, New Tricks, Doctor Who, Sea of Souls, EastEnders, Holby City, Law & Order: UK, Doctors, Rose and Maloney, In 2 Minds, The Merchant of Venice, Second Generation, The Bill.

Films include King Lear, Sahara, Acceptable Damage.

C R E AT I V E T E A M

JOANNA BOWMAN Assistant Director Credits include, as Director: Hero, Nibble Nibble Gnaw (Dundee Rep), Hotel Home (OSO Arts), Hedda Gabler (Byre Theatre), Delay Detach (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scottish Arts Club Theatre Award); as Assistant Director A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre of Scotland), Nora: A Doll’s House, A Christmas Carol and The Macbeths (Citizens Theatre), Toy Plastic Chicken (Traverse Theatre and Òran Mór).

Trained on the MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London.

NICOLE CHARLES

JOSHUA CARR Lighting Designer Recent credits include Hamlet (Leeds Playhouse); True West (Vaudeville); Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree); Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); Hangmen (Atlantic Theatre Company New York); A Christmas Carol (Hull Truck); Tiger Bay (Wales Millennium Centre, Cape Town Opera); Terror (Lyric Hammersmith); Romeo and Juliet (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Theatres); Henry V (Regent’s Park); Hangmen (Royal Court and West End); Sleeping Beauty, All My Sons, The Miser (Watermill); Stewart Lee: Content Provider (London and UK tour); Lunch and the Bow of Ulysses (Trafalgar Studios);

Wonderman (Gagglebabble, National Theatre of Wales and Wales Millennium Centre); Raz (West End); Songs for the End of the World (Vault Festival, BAC); Dinner with Friends (Park Theatre); Albert Herring (RCM); The Dissidents (Tricycle); The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Britain’s Best Recruiting Sergeant (Unicorn Theatre); The Wasp, In the Vale of Health (Hampstead); Exit the King (Theatre Royal Bath); Breeders (St James Theatre); Holes (Arcola); The Saints, The Best Christmas Present in the World (Nuffield); Le Gateau Chocolat: Black (Assembly Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, Homotopia Festival, Liverpool and UK tour); Yellow Face (National Theatre and Park Theatre); Some Girl I Used to Know (West Yorkshire Playhouse and UK tour); Unscorched, The Northerners (Finborough); Amygdala (Print Room); As You Like It (Luxembourg and UK tour); The Love Girl and the Innocent, Port Authority (Southwark Playhouse); Jekyll & Hyde (Assembly Roxy Edinburgh and Southwark Playhouse); President and the Pakistani (Waterloo East); Mansfield Park (UK tour); Mudlarks (High Tide Festival); His Teeth (Only Connect, Offie Award Best Lighting Design nomination); The Song of Deborah (Lowry). joshua-carr.co.uk NICOLE CHARLES Director Nicole Charles’s work has been staged at the Young Vic, The Bush Theatre, National Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket. Recent work includes Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, which transferred from Shakespeare’s Globe to the Vaudeville Theatre; Gluathione by Winsome Pinnock at the Young Vic; and assistant directing Joe Murphy & Joe Robertson’s The Jungle which transferred from the Young Vic to the Playhouse Theatre. She was also a finalist in the Young Vic’s Genesis Future Director Awards 2018.

Before becoming a director Nicole trained as an actress at RADA. GEORGE DENNIS Sound Designer Previously at Chichester Hedda Tesman and The Deep Blue Sea (Minerva Theatre), The Norman Conquests (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes Sweat (Donmar Warehouse/Gielgud Theatre); Venice Preserved (Royal Shakespeare Company); Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre); A Slight Ache/The Dumb Waiter, The Lover/The Collection, One for the Road/A New World Order/Mountain Language/ Ashes to Ashes (Harold Pinter Theatre); Nine Night (National Theatre/Trafalgar Studios); A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre); An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre/ National Theatre); The Homecoming (Trafalgar Studios, Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design); Frost/Nixon, Tribes (Sheffield Crucible); Much Ado About Nothing, Imogen, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Harrogate, Fireworks, Liberian Girl (Royal Court); Richard III, Spring Awakening (Headlong); The Mountaintop, The Island (Young Vic); Baskerville (Liverpool Playhouse); The Secret Garden (Theatre By The Lake/York Theatre Royal); Poison, German Skerries (Orange Tree); Guards at the Taj, Visitors (Bush Theatre); Killer (Off-West End Award for Best Sound Design), The Pitchfork Disney (Shoreditch Town Hall, co-designed with Ben and Max Ringham); The Convert, In the Night Time, Eclipsed (Gate Theatre); Noises Off (Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour); Mametz (National Theatre of Wales); Moth (HighTide/Bush Theatre).

TESS DIGNAN Voice Coach Previously at Chichester, Dialect Coach on Flowers for Mrs Harris (Festival Theatre).

Tess is Head of Voice at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and this season has coached on Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and Bartholomew Fair.

She has coached at the Royal Shakespeare Company for many years on productions including Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Women Beware Women, The Drunks, Twelfth Night, The Mouse and his Child, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing. Other theatre in the UK and internationally includes Emilia (Shakespeare’s Globe & West End); Mother Courage (Manchester Royal Exchange); Night School (Pinter at the Pinter); Tartuffe (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic/

Bush Theatre); Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night and The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Everyman); Odyssey (Theatre Ad Infinitum); Caledonia (National Theatre of Scotland); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, West Side Story and The Tempest (Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario).

Television includes Outlander.

Trained at The Webber Douglas Academy, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Manchester University and Kristin Linklater’s International Voice Centre.

AMELIA JANE HANKIN Costume Designer Theatre includes One Under (Graeae); The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse (Unicorn Theatre); The Wave and (This isn’t) A True Story (Almeida Theatre); Blue Orange (Birmingham Rep); Gastronomic (Curious Directive); The Fishermen (HOME/Arcola/Trafalgar Studios); The Comedy of Errors (RSC); Confidence and Natives (Southwark Playhouse); Europe After the Rain (Mercury Theatre); Smack That (A Conversation) (Barbican and UK Tour); Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok (Royal Exchange); Mixed Brain (Paines Plough/tiata fahodzi); The Scar Test (Soho Theatre); Punts (Theatre503); Powerplay (Hampton Court Palace); Good Dog (Palace Theatre Watford & UK tour); Rudolf and The Night Before Christmas (Leeds Playhouse); We Are You (Young Vic at British Museum); CHRIS WHITTAKER

he Neighbourhood Project (Bush Theatre); The Tiger’s Bones (Lakeside Nottingham, Polka London and Leeds Playhouse); She Called Me Mother (Tara Arts and UK tour); Fake It ‘Til You Make It (Soho Theatre, Traverse Edinburgh, UK and Australian tour); The Same Deep Water As Me, The Crucible, Dealer’s Choice and Pinter Triple Bill (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); 64 Squares (New Diorama and UK tour); You Once Said Yes (Perth International Festival, Nuffield Theatre and Lowry Theatre); The Many Whoops of Whoops Town (Lyric Hammersmith); The Itinerant Music Hall (Lyric Hammersmith, Latitude, Greenwich & Docklands and Watford Palace).

ISAAC MADGE Video Designer Isaac is a filmmaker and video technician.

At Chichester he has previously been Video Technician/Operator on Quiz (Minerva Theatre and West End) and AV Content Editor for Caroline, Or Change (Minerva, Hampstead and West End). Other theatre projects include Peter Gynt, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Lehman Trilogy, I’m Not Running and Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre, Camera Operator on All About Eve (Noël Coward Theatre & NT Live), and creating the projections for Top Girls (NT) and video content for Hansard (NT).

Films include the shorts #Suicide Awareness: Taylor’s Story, Fragments, The Memory of a Warm Embrace, Drift and

No One On Earth; and music videos for Comfort’s debut single and Francesca Berta’s Waves.

Trained with Chichester Festival Technical Youth Theatre, where he was awarded the John Hyland Award 2013 for outstanding contribution. isaacmadge.co.uk JOANNA SCOTCHER Set Designer Theatre includes Emilia (Vaudeville Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe); Mother Courage (Royal Exchange Theatre/Headlong); The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Winter and Two Endless Moments (Young Vic); Katie Roche (Abbey Theatre Dublin); Boys Will Be Boys (Bush Theatre/Headlong); Cuttin’ It (Young Vic/Royal Court/Birmingham Rep/Sheffield Theatres/Yard Theatre); The Railway Children (National Railway Museum/King’s Cross Theatre, WhatsOnStage Award Best Set Designer, National Dora Award nominations Outstanding Costume Design and Outstanding Set Design); The Rolling Stone and Anna Karenina (Royal Exchange/West Yorkshire Playhouse); European Olympic Games, Baku 2015 – Capturing the Flame Ceremony (Ateshgah Baku); Arabian Nights (Birmingham Rep/Coney); A Harlem Dream (BirdGang/Dance Umbrella/Young Vic); Antigone (Pilot Theatre/Derby Theatre/Theatre Royal Stratford East); Pests (Clean Break/Royal

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Exchange/Royal Court); Hopelessly Devoted (Paines Plough); Billy the Girl (Soho Theatre/ Clean Break); Silly Kings (National Theatre of Wales/Cardiff Castle); Once Upon a Christmas and Above and Beyond (Look Left Look Right/ site specific with Covent Garden & Corinthia Hotel respectively); Imaginary Menagerie (Les Enfants Terribles/national festival tour); House of Cards (Kensington Palace/Coney); Epidemic and Platform (Old Vic Tunnels/Old Vic New Voices); The Guinea Pig Club (Theatre Royal York); House Party (Channel 4 Arts Commission/ ACME TV); All That is Solid Melts into Air (NT Watch This Space/Tangled Feet Productions/ Greenwich International Festival); Young Pretender (Nabokov Theatre); Counted (Roundhouse/Look Left Look Right/County Hall, West Yorkshire Playhouse and site specific tour); The Caravan (Look Left Look Right/Royal Court and UK tour).

Future projects include Women Beware Women (Shakespeare’s Globe Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Love Love Love (Lyric Hammersmith); 100Million (Royal Opera House/ Figment Productions). joannascotcher.com CHARLOTTE SUTTON CDG Casting Director Previously at Chichester Oklahoma!, Plenty, Shadowlands, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Me and My Girl, The Chalk Garden, Present Laughter,

The Norman Conquests, Fiddler on the Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, Forty Years On, Mack & Mabel (and UK tour) (Festival Theatre); The Butterfly Lion, 8 Hotels, The Deep Blue Sea, This Is My Family, The Watsons, Cock, Copenhagen, The Meeting, random/generations, Quiz, The Stepmother, The House They Grew Up In, Caroline, Or Change (also Hampstead and West End; CDG Casting Award nomination), Strife (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre credits Company (Gielgud); Death of a Salesman, The Convert, Wild East, Winter, trade and Dutchman (Young Vic); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Wyndham’s, BAM & LA); Humble Boy, Sheppey and German Skerries (Orange Tree Theatre); Nell Gwynn (ETT and Globe); The Pitchfork Disney and Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre Kingston); Annie Get Your Gun, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Waiting for Godot and Queen Coal (Sheffield Crucible); Henry V and Twelfth Night Re-Imagined (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Hedda Gabler and Little Shop of Horrors (Salisbury Playhouse); Insignificance, Much Ado About Nothing and Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd); Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York’s and tour); A Pacifist’s Guide o the War on Cancer, wonder.land, The

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Elephantom, Emil and the Detectives and The Light Princess (National Theatre); The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me… and Gruesome Playground Injuries (Gate Theatre); Albion (Bush); Our Big Land (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and tour); Forever House (Drum Theatre, Plymouth); One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket and international tour); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); Bunny (Underbelly Edinburgh Festival, Soho and 59E59 New York).

KATE WATERS Fight Director Kate Waters is one of only two women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors.

Previously at Chichester Fight Director for The Norman Conquests (Festival Theatre), The Deep Blue Sea (Minerva Theatre) and King Lear (Minerva Theatre and Duke of York’s), Fight and Movement Director for Miss Julie/Black Comedy (Minerva Theatre).

For the National Theatre Small Island, Othello, As You Like It, Our Country’s Good, Rules for Living, Hotel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End), The Comedy of Errors, One Man Two Guvnors (also West End, Broadway, world tour), Frankenstein,

Season’s Greetings, Hamlet, Women Beware Women, War Horse (and West End).

Recent work includes Young Marx, Julius Caesar (The Bridge Theatre); Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (West End/Germany); The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Hand to God, From Here to Eternity (West End); Kiss Me, Kate (Sheffield Crucible); The Convert (Young Vic); The Last Goodbye (The Old Globe San Diego California); The Maids, Macbeth, Richard III, East is East, The Ruling Class, The Hothouse, The Pride (Jamie Lloyd Company); Liberian Girl (Royal Court); Urinetown The Musical (St James Theatre and West End); Don Giovanni (ROH); Sweat, Julius Caesar, Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse and St Ann’s Warehouse NYC); Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Two Noble Kinsmen, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, King Lear, Love’s Sacrifice, Doctor Faustus (RSC); Noises Off (Old Vic and West End); The Duchess of Malfi, Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic); Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Peter Pan, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Porgy and Bess, Lord of the Flies (Regent’s Park); Disgraced (Bush); Bugsy Malone, Saved, Blasted, Herons (Lyric Hammersmith), and numerous productions for major regional theatres.

Kate is a regular Fight Director for Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, and choreographed the fights for Coronation Street Live 2015.

Film includes Making Noise Quietly, Pond Life.

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CHRIS WHITTAKER Movement Director Theatre credits include I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical (Underbelly Dairy Rooms Edinburgh Fringe Festival, also Director); The Accidental Time Traveller (Barbican Theatre Plymouth); Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Wild Party (Royal Academy of Music); Judy! and Gatsby (Arts Theatre London); Seussical (Southwark Playhouse); Alice in Wonderland, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows and Shout! (Associate Director/Choreographer, UK tours); Cry Baby (ArtsEd); Dick Whittington, Robin Hood (Kenton Theatre Henley-onThames); Beauty and the Beast and Wizard Of Oz (Harrow Arts Centre); Top Off The Pops (Shaftesbury Theatre); Oh My, Nellie Bly! (Bridewell Theatre); Live and Let Hedge (Savoy Theatre); Top Hat, 9 to 5, Anything Goes and Singin’ In the Rain (Gatehouse London); Sister Act (Stockwell Playhouse); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Civic Theatre Chelmsford); Ruby Strippers: West End Bares (Novello Theatre); Blondel (Union Theatre); Aladdin (Millfield Theatre Edmonton); Beauty and the Beast (also Director, UAE tour); Lucky Stiff (Lillian Baylis Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (national and international tour); UK premiere of A Catered Affair (London Theatre Workshop); The Jungle Book (international tour); You Won’t Succeed on Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews

(St James Theatre and international tour); The Apple Tree and LittleMe (Ye Olde Rose & Crown); Just Another Love Story (Warren Venues, Brighton Fringe Festival); Assassins (Pleasance Theatre).

ROY WILLIAMS Writer Roy Williams’s Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads premiered at the National Theatre’s Loft in 2002 and was revived in a new production at the NT’s Cottesloe in 2004.

His other plays include Sucker Punch (nominated for Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play), Fallout, Clubland (Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright) and Lift Off (joint winner of the George Devine Award), all for the Royal Court; Come Back Tomorrow (National Theatre of Wales); The Firm, Wildefire and Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre); Soul: The Untold Story of Marvin Gaye (Royal and Derngate/Hackney Empire); Baby Girl and Slow Time (NT); adaptations of Antigone and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Pilot Theatre/UK tours); Kingston ’14 and The No-Boys Cricket Club (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Angel NICOLE CHARLES ROY WILLIAMS

House (Eclipse Theatre/UK tour); Days of Significance (RSC); Joe Guy (tiata fahodzi); Absolute Beginners (Lyric Hammersmith); Little Sweet Thing (Nottingham Playhouse); The Gift (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle Theatre); Starstruck (John Whiting Award, Alfred Fagon Award & EMMA Award for Best Play) and Category B (Tricycle Theatre). He also contributed to the Royal Court’s Peckham: The Soap Opera.

His work for television includes Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle, Let It Snow, Fallout (Screen Nation Award for Achievement in Screenwriting), Offside (BAFTA Award for Best Schools Drama) and Babyfather. For film he has co-written Fast Girls.

His radio work includes adaptations of A Choice of Straws, To Sir With Love and The Midwich Cuckoos, as well as original plays ell Tale, Homeboys and seven series of Interrogation for BBC Radio 4.

Roy Williams was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama in 2008 and made a fellow of The Royal Society of Literature in 2018.

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EVENTS

SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS PRE-SHOW TALK

Wednesday 9 October, 6pm The Spiegeltent Director Nicole Charles in conversation with Kate Bassett.

FREE but booking is essential.

POST-SHOW TALK

Thursday 24 October The Spiegeltent Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the play.

FREE

CHANGE OF NARRATIVE

Wednesday 30 October, 5.30pm The Spiegeltent Roy Williams offers an honest insight into the challenges facing young writers trying to change the face of British Theatre. Aspiring young playwrights pose their questions to him and encourage audience discussion.

FREE but booking is essential.

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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 British Sign Language interpreted for people who are D/deaf or hard of hearing.

Stagetext Captioned performances display text on a screen for D/deaf or hearing impaired patrons.

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

Touch Tours enable blind or visually impaired people to explore the set before audio described performances. Free but booking is essential.

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

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

Car Parking Northgate Car Park is an 836-space pay and display car park (free after 8pm). On matinee days it can be very busy; please consider alternative car parks in Chichester. chichester.gov.uk/mipermit If you have access requirements or want to book tickets with an access discount, please join the Access List.

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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT BENEFACTORS Deborah Alun-Jones 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 CS and M Chadha David and Sonia Churchill John and Pat Clayton Clive and Frances Coward Jim Douglas Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis Steve and Sheila Evans Val and Richard Evans Simon and Luci Eyers Angela and Uri Greenwood Themy Hamilton Sir Michael and Lady Heller Basil Hyman Liz Juniper The family of Patricia Kemp Roger Keyworth Jonathan and Clare Lubran Selina and David Marks Mrs Sheila Meadows Jerome and Elizabeth O'Hea Philip and Gail Owen Nick and Jo Pasricha Mrs Denise Patterson Stuart and Carolyn Popham Jans Ondaatje Rolls Dame Patricia Routledge DBE Lady Sainsbury of Turville 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 Peter and Wendy Usborne Bryan Warnett of St. James's Place Ernest Yelf Lord and Lady Young TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Artswork The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray's Charity Trust The Noël Coward Foundation The Roddick Foundation

FESTIVAL PLAYERS John and Joan Adams Dr Cheryl Adams CBE Charles and Clare Alexander Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Paul Arman The Earl and Countess of Balfour Matthew Bannister Mr Laurence Barker Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Franciska and Geoffrey Bayliss Julian and Elizabeth Bishop Martin Blackburn Mike and Alison Blakely Sarah and Tony Bolton Tim Bouquet and Sarah Mansell Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett Adam and Sarah Broke Bridget Brooks Peter and Pamela Bulfield Jean Campbell Julie Campbell Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg Mike Caspan and Viv Wing Warren and Yvonne Chester Sally Chittleburgh David and Claire Chitty Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Denise Clatworthy Annie Colbourne John and Susan Coldstream David and Julie Coldwell The Colles Trust Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Michael and Jill Cook Brian and Claire Cox Susan Cressey Deborah Crockford Rowena and Andrew Daniels Jennie Davies Yvonne and John Dean The de Laszlo Foundation Diana Dent Clive and Kate Dilloway Christopher and Madeline Doman Peter and Ruth Doust Peter and Jill Drummond John and Joanna Dunstan Peter Edgeler and Angela Hirst Glyn Edmunds Betty and Ian Elliot Anthony and Penny Elphick Caroline Elvy Sheila Evans Gary Fairhall Brian and Sonia Fieldhouse Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Robert and Pip Foster Jenifer and John Fox Roz Frampton Debbie and Neil Franks Alan and Valerie Frost Terry Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook

George Galazka Alan and Pat Galer Elizabeth Ganney Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Wendy and John Gehr Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Dr and Mrs P Golding Julian and Heather Goodhew Mr and Mrs Paul Goswell Robin and Rosemary Gourlay R and R Green Michael and Gillian Greene Reverend David Guest Ros and Alan Haigh Dr Stuart Hall Kathy and Roger Hammond David and Linda Harding David Harrison Dennis and Joan Harrison Roger and Tina Harrison Robert and Suzette Hayes Mrs Joanne Hillier Andrew Hine Christopher Hoare Malcolm and Mary Hogg Michael Holdsworth Dame Denise and Mr David Holt Pauline and Ian Howat Barbara Howden Richards Mike Imms Mrs Raymonde Jay Robert and Sarah Jeans Robert Kaltenborn Nigel Kennedy OBE Anna Christine Kennett Roger Keyworth Jane Kilby Geoffrey King James and Clare Kirkman Mrs Rose Law Frank and Freda Letch Mrs Jane Lewis John and Jenny Lippiett Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Mr Robert Longmore Colin and Jill Loveless Amanda Lunt Jim and Marilyn Lush Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Robert Macnaughtan Nigel and Julia Maile Jeremy and Caroline Marriage Sue Marsh Charles and Elisabeth Martin Gerard and Elena McCloskey Tim McDonald Jill and Douglas McGregor James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Andrew McVittie Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Diana Midmer David and Elizabeth Miles David and Di Mitchell Jenifer and John Mitchell Gerald Monaghan James Morgan Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris

Sara Morton Terence F Moss Nina Kaye and Timothy Nathan Mrs Mary Newby Patricia Newton Lady Nixon Pamela and Bruce Noble Margaret and Martin Overington Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen Mrs Glenys Palmer Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Mr and Mrs S Parvin Alex and Sheila Paterson Simon and Margaret Payton Jean Plowright John Rank The Rees Family Malcolm and Angela Reid Christopher Marek Rencki Adam Rice Sandi Richmond-Swift John and Betsy Rimmer Robin Roads Philip Robinson John and Valerie Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ken and Ros Rokison Graham and Maureen Russell Clare Scherer and Jamie O'Meara Mr Christopher Sedgwick John and Tita Shakeshaft Mrs Dale Sheppard-Floyd Jackie and Alan Sherling The Sidlesham Theatre Group Nick Smedley and Kate Jennings Monique and David Smith Simon Smith Christine and Dave Smithers Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha Mrs Barbara Snowden Brian Spiby David and Unni Spiller Elizabeth Stern Barbara Stewart Judy and David Stewart Peter Stoakley Anne Subba-Row Ms Maura Sullivan The Tansy Trust Professor and Mrs Warwick Targett Brian Tesler CBE Harry and Shane Thuillier Mr Robert Timms Alan Tingle Miss Melanie Tipples Peter and Sioned Vos David Wagstaff and Mark Dune Paul and Caroline Ward Ian and Alison Warren Chris and Dorothy Weller Bowen and Rennie Wells Graham and Sue White Barnaby and Casandra Wiener Judith Williams Nick and Tarnia Williams Lulu Williams Mrs Honor Woods Angela Wormald

‘We are lucky to have a world-class theatre in Chichester with its diverse and imaginative programming. We are proud to support the Theatre and the opportunity to meet the casts and crews is an added bonus.’

Jo and Nick Pasricha, Benefactors & Festival Players

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S U P P O R T E R S 2019

PRINCIPAL PARTNERS

Diamond Level Prof E.F Juniper and Mrs Jilly Styles

Oldham Seals Group

Gold Level private wealth

HOLIDAY LETS

Silver Level

CORPORATE PARTNERS LEVEL 1 Bishops Printers Chichester College Criterion Ices Jones Avens

Purchases Bar & Restaurant RL Austen Westminster Abbey

LEVEL 2 Addison Law Behrens Sharp FBG Investment Hennings Wine

Richard & Stella Read The Bell Inn The J Leon Group

Chichester Festival Theatre offers a variety of corporate partnership opportunities to meet your business needs. For further information, please contact us at development.team@cft.org.uk

LEVEL 3 European Office Products Russell & Bromley Mrs Joanna Williams

LEAP

LEARNING, EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATION Our Learning, Education and Participation department works with people of all ages and abilities, offering opportunities to get involved with CFT beyond the work you see on our stages. A wide range of practical workshops, talks, tours and performances aims to excite and inspire everyone who takes part.

COMMUNITY

CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE

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

Chichester Festival Youth Theatre | Holiday Activities | Arts Award

EDUCATION

Our work with local schools, colleges and universities is designed to inspire and enrich students’ learning, while the next generation of arts professionals is nurtured through our training and apprenticeships programme.

In-school workshops and projects | Work Experience | School Theatre Days

Learn about life behind the scenes, discover more about productions, develop creative skills, socialise and share experiences with others through workshops and community projects for anyone aged 18 +.

Get Into It! workshops | Talks and Discussions | Heritage projects | Dementia Friendly activities

FAMILIES

We’re always delighted to welcome our youngest visitors and their grown-ups to the Theatre. Families can explore and have fun with workshops, productions, events and activities.

Family Foyle sessions | Little Notes | Fun Palaces | Family workshops

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