A Merry Little Christmas Celebration digital programme | Chichester Festival Theatre | Autumn 2020

KATHY BOURNE AND DANIEL EVANS PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAMUS RYAN

WELCOME

Welcome to this Christmas celebration.

After a rollercoaster year, with its many challenges, disappointments, sorrows and – perhaps – some unexpected and more positive discoveries too, we are all surely ready to appreciate the festive season as never before.

For many, it will be a different celebration to those we usually enjoy.

We may even be denied the opportunity for full-throated and carefree carol-singing!

So, here at CFT we wanted to offer audiences some tuneful, communal joy.

We’re delighted to welcome a group of outstanding singers – Rebecca Caine, Emmanuel Kojo and Rebecca Trehearn – along with five fine musicians. It’s wonderful that Simon Callow is able to join us with his matchless readings

from Charles Dickens; and we’re also grateful to our special guests who will be surprising audiences each night.

As the literary extracts you’ll hear on stage and read in this programme remind us, there are innumerable ways to celebrate Christmas, all of which can be special. As we look forward to brighter times ahead, we say to all our audiences, whether here in the Festival Theatre or joining us online – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!

Executive Director Kathy Bourne

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Artistic Director Daniel Evans

TASTE FOOD & DRINK EVENTS

Caper & Berry present a mini-season of delicious dinners, entertaining evenings and gin-tastic get-togethers in our COVID-safe restaurants.

THE FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER SERIES 4, 11, 18 December & 15 January £45pp Caper & Berry are so excited to be hosting this very popular series of evenings alongside Hennings Wine Merchants. Delight in a sumptuous five-course tasting menu – you can also add exquisite wine pairings for £20pp or soft drinks for £10pp.

GIN TASTING EVENING Saturday 16 January £25pp Savour three different gins, along with mixers from Fever-Tree. Charcuterie and mezze sharing boards are available for purchase during the evening along with alternative drinks from the bar.

CALL MY BLUFF WINE TASTING DINNER Friday 8 January £59pp Enjoy a delicious four-course meal with four carefully matched wines and see if you can beat trade experts as we play ‘Guess the Wine’. Also include arrival drink and coffee.

To book, email dining@cft.org.uk or call 01243 782219 between 10am and 4pm Monday – Friday.

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A STOCKINGFUL Few people expect to go to their ordinary work on Christmas Day, and fewer still on every one of the other three hundred and sixty-four days also; yet this is the record of a certain Downland shepherd, and he does it without grumbling.

He will not be at home for a merry dinner-party at midday, but his grandchildren will welcome him at tea-time when his work is done. Should the day be fine, my friend will eat his frugal lunch in the open, with his dog for company, and the sheep bells will provide the music he loves best.

Should you have a spare hour or two at this season of peace and goodwill, and you know of a shepherd of the old school, it will refresh you to tread the Downland paths, where peace reigns, and to hear the gentle song of the old bells.

Before you start, remember that the figure with the crook is very human, and put some tobacco in your pocket for the old man on the hill.

Barclay Wills, from Bypaths of Downlands

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L OF CHRISTMAS “This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings. At Christmas everybody invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather.

I was snowed up at a friend’s house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter.”

Jane Austen, Emma

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18 Laura and Mary never would have looked in their stockings again. The cups and the cakes and the candy were almost too much. They were too happy to speak.

But Ma asked if they were sure the stockings were empty.

Then they put their arms down inside them, to make sure.

And in the very toe of each stocking was a shining bright, new penny!

They had never even thought of such a thing as having a penny. Think of having a whole penny for your very own. Think of having a cup and a cake and a stick of candy and a penny.

There had never been such a Christmas.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers, As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.

And girls in slacks remember Dad, And oafish louts remember Mum, And sleepless children’s hearts are glad.

And Christmas-morning bells say ‘Come!’

Even to shining ones who dwell Safe in the Dorchester Hotel.

John Betjeman, Christmas

At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovelful of chestnuts on the fire. Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; and at Bob Cratchit’s elbow stood the family display of glass. Two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle.

These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Then Bob proposed: “A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!”

Which all the family re-echoed.

“God bless us every one!” said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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This king lay at Camelot at Christmastide; Many good knights and gay his guests were there, Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers, With feasting and fellowship and carefree mirth.

There true men contended in tournaments many, Joined there in jousting these gentle knights, Then came to the court for carol-dancing, For the feast was in force full fifteen days, With all the meat and the mirth that men could devise, Such gaiety and glee, glorious to hear, Brave din by day, dancing by night.

High were their hearts in halls and chambers, These lords and these ladies, for life was sweet.

Anon, from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, tr. Marie Borroff

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15 What’s up?’ inquired the Rat, pausing in his labours.

‘I think it must be the field-mice,’ replied the Mole, with a touch of pride in his manner. ‘They go round carol-singing regularly at this time of the year. They’re quite an institution in these parts. And they never pass me over – they come to Mole End last of all; and I used to give them hot drinks, and supper too sometimes, when I could afford it. It will be like old times to hear them again.’

‘Let’s have a look at them!’ cried the Rat, jumping up and running to the door.

It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by the dim rays of a horn lantern, some eight or ten little fieldmice stood in a semicircle, red worsted comforters round their throats, their fore-paws thrust deep into their pockets, their feet jigging for warmth. With bright beady eyes they glanced shyly at each other, sniggering a little, sniffing and applying coat-sleeves a good deal. As the door opened, one of the elder ones that carried the lantern was just saying, ‘Now then, one, two, three!’ and forthwith their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields that were fallow and held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung in the miry street to lamp-lit windows at Yule-time.

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

It has now turned noon and the day slides slowly from the roofs of the sloping village. It freezes harder than ivory; one can almost see it in the air, as though the light was being stretched on nails.

A clear cold radiance hangs over the landscape and a crow crosses it on creaking wings. The rich earth, with all its seeds and humming fields and courtships, is now closed and bound in white vellum. Only one colour remains, today’s single promise, pricked in red over the ashen world – seen in a flitting robin, some rosehips on a bush, the sun hanging low by the wood, and through the flushed cottage windows the berries of holly and the russet faces of the feasting children.

Laurie Lee, A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country

23 Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

How many gifts in total did the true lover send over the full Twelve Days of Christmas?

In which film did Bing Crosby first sing White Christmas?

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11 “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents” is the opening line of which classic book?

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In Raymond Briggs’s tale, which Brighton landmarks do the Snowman and the boy fly over?

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11. Holiday Inn, 1942 (White Christmas came later in 1956) 6. Meet Me in St Louis

Originally sung

by Eartha Kitt, which popular Christmas song has also been recorded

by Madonna, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams?

. The Snow Queen

The anthem ‘This Is The Day’ by John Rutter, who composed Shepherd’s Pipe Carol, featured in which Royal Wedding?

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12. 364

7. The Royal Pavilion and Palace Pier

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Where was it ‘Always winter but never Christmas’?

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Adolphe Adam, who wrote the music for O Holy Night, also composed which famous ballet about a girl who haunts her lover?

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In which film did Judy Garland sing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas?

Which wintry story by Hans Christian Andersen did CFYT perform in 2009?

8. Santa Baby

9. Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

2. Giselle

3. The Trapp Family Singers

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In which decade was A Christmas Carol first published?

Answers: 1. Narnia

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The Little Drummer Boy was first recorded by which famous family singing group? (hint: Do, a Deer...)

10. Little Women

4. 1840s (1843)

A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION CAST Rebecca Caine Simon Callow Daniel Evans Emmanuel Kojo Rebecca Trehearn And special guests

BAND Jennifer Whyte Musical Director / Piano Nick Briggs Trumpet Mike Davis Woodwind Matt French Drums / Percussion Rachael Lander Cello

PRODUCTION Lorna Cobbold

Company Stage Manager

First performance of this production of A Merry Little Christmas Celebration at Chichester Festival Theatre, 3 December 2020.

SONGS AND READINGS ACT ONE We Need A Little Christmas Jerry Herman from Mame Shepherd’s Pipe Carol John Rutter The Twelve Days of Christmas John Julius Norwich (Correspondence) adapted by Toby Hine The Man with the Bag Harold Stanley, Irving Taylor & Dudley Brooks The Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth Katherine Kennicott Davis / Ian Fraser,

Larry Grossman & Alan Kohan Maria Wiegenlied (Mary’s Lullaby) music by Max Reger, lyrics by Martin Boelitz Troika Sergei Prokofiev White Christmas Irving Berlin Baby, It’s Cold Outside Frank Loesser A Child’s Christmas in Wales Dylan Thomas Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane Carol of the Bells Mykola Leontovich,

English lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky ACT TWO Twelve Days To Christmas music by Jerry Bock, from She Loves Me lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Welsh Carol: Tua Bethlem Dref Edward Arthur In The Bleak Midwinter music by Gustav Holst,

lyrics by Christina Rossetti Sleigh Ride Leroy Anderson River Joni Mitchell A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Festive Medley: Winter Wonderland music by Felix Bernard, lyrics by Richard Bernhard Smith Let It Snow music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn Santa Claus Is Coming To Town J. Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree Johnny Marks I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday Roy Wood All I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah Carey & Water Afanasieff It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Meredith Wilson O Holy Night music by Adolphe Adam,

English lyrics by John Sullivan Dwight O Come All Ye Faithful arr. David Willcocks Programme design by Davina Chung

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BIOGRAPHIES

REBECCA CAINE Born in Toronto, Rebecca Caine’s career has been divided between opera and musical theatre. She made her West End debut as Laurey in Oklahoma!, sang Eliza in My Fair Lady on national tour, and after making her debut at Glyndebourne in L’incoronazione di Poppea, created the role of Cosette in Les Misérables for the RSC. Since then her many theatre credits include Christine in Phantom of the Opera in London and Toronto; Salad Days (Riverside Studios); The Sound of Music (national tour); The Mikado and Harold and Maude (Charing Cross Theatre); Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield Theatres); Preludes (Southwark Playhouse).

REBECCA CAINE

Opera includes leading roles in Lulu, Cunning Little Vixen, Seven Deadly Sins, The Pearlfishers, Figaro’s Wedding, Cosi Fan Tutte, Magic Flute, Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Il Re Pastore, Rigoletto, Fidelio, Julietta for English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Glimmerglass, Canadian Opera Company, Nice, Antwerp, National Theatre of Prague, Opera Northern Ireland, Atlanta, Ottawa, Spoleto, Ravenna, Chicago Opera Theatre. Most recently, Abomination: A DUP Opera for The Belfast Ensemble.

She regularly appears in cabaret and concerts internationally, and broadcasts on BBC Radios 2 and 3.

Trained at Guildhall School of Music.

SIMON CALLOW Simon Callow is an actor, author and director.

His previous appearances at Chichester include Sir John Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight and Martin Dysart in Equus.

He has written extensively about Charles Dickens, whom he has played in a one-man show, The Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd; in the film Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale; and on television, including An Audience with Charles Dickens and twice in Doctor Who. He created the role of Mozart in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus at the National Theatre in 1979; since then, his theatre work has included The Woman in White and Waiting for Godot SIMON CALLOW

(West End), as well as many one-man shows including Being Shakespeare, De Profundis and Inside Wagner’s Head.

His many films include his one-man version of A Christmas Carol, A Room with A View, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, Phantom of the Opera, Viceroy’s House, Hampstead, Blue Iguana, Victoria and Abdul and The Man Who Invented Christmas.

Directing credits include Shirley Valentine (West End & Broadway), Single Spies (National Theatre) and Les Enfants du Paradis (RSC).

He has written biographies of Oscar Wilde, Charles Laughton, Charles Dickens, Orson Welles and Wagner, and three autobiographical books: Being An Actor, Love Is Where It Falls

and My Life in Pieces. He has also made many appearances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players.

Studied at Queen’s University, Belfast and trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London.

DANIEL EVANS Daniel Evans is Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, where he has directed This Is My Family, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Me and My Girl, Quiz, Fiddler on the Roof and Forty Years On. He also appeared in CFT’s Concert in the Park and Celebrating Sondheim earlier this year.

Previously, he was Artistic Director DANIEL EVANS

at Sheffield Theatres (2009-16) where he directed An Enemy of the People, Racing Demon, Othello, My Fair Lady, Macbeth, The Full Monty, This Is My Family, Anything Goes, The Sheffield Mysteries, Oliver!, The Effect, Show Boat and Flowers for Mrs Harris. As an actor, he appeared in Company, The Pride, Cloud Nine and The Tempest.

In the West End, he has directed Quiz, Show Boat, The Full Monty and American Buffalo.

As an actor, Daniel’s theatre credits include Henry V, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure and Cymbeline (RSC); Cardiff East, Peter Pan, Troilus and Cressida, Candide and The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre); Merrily We Roll Along

(Olivier Award) and Grand Hotel (Donmar Warehouse); Ghosts (ETT); Sunday in the Park with George (Olivier Award) and Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory); Other People, Cleansed, Where Do We Live and 4:48 Psychosis (Royal Court).

Television includes The Passion, Doctor Who, The Virgin Queen, Spooks, Love in a Cold Climate, Great Expectations, Daniel Deronda and To the Ends of the Earth.

Films include Les Misérables.

EMMANUEL KOJO

EMMANUEL KOJO Emmanuel previously appeared at Chichester as Jud Fry in Festival 2019’s Oklahoma!, for which he was nominated for a UK Theatre Award.

Theatre includes Murdo in Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Joe Scott in Girl from the North Country (Noël Coward Theatre); Clarence in The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic and Garrick Theatre); Sir Lionel in Camelot In Concert (London Palladium); Curio/Drag in Twelfth Night (National Theatre); Joe in Show Boat (Sheffield Crucible and West End: UK Theatre Award nomination); Gremio in Kiss Me, Kate (Opera North); Tunde in Child Soldiers in Africa (Manchester Arts Education Initiative).

Television includes Enterprice, BBC Proms:

Oklahoma!, Walliams and Friends.

Radio includes Tommies.

REBECCA TREHEARN Rebecca Trehearn was last seen at Chichester in Daniel Evans Hosts in 2019.

Born and raised in North Wales, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role as Julie in Daniel Evans’s production of Show Boat at Sheffield Theatres and in the West End. Her many theatre credits include City of Angels (Garrick Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Old Vic); Kiss Me, Kate (Watermill, Newbury); Rags (Hope Mill Theatre); Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); Les Misérables (Pimlico Opera); Diary of a Teenage REBECCA TREHEARN

Girl, Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse); The Night Before Christmas, A Little of What You Fancy (Salisbury Playhouse); Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall); City of Angels (Donmar Warehouse); Ghost (national tour & Piccadilly Theatre); Bernarda Alba (Union Theatre); Love Story (Duchess); Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory); Dirty Dancing (Aldwych); We Will Rock You (Dominion); Alfie (Watford Palace).

Television includes Dim Ond Y Gwir, Wawffactor, Casualty, A470.

Films include Nan: The Movie.

She also appeared in Sondheim On Sondheim at the Royal Festival Hall and is a regular guest on Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night.

Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

JENNIFER WHYTE Musical Director Previously at Chichester: Hedda Tesman (Minerva Theatre), The Midnight Gang (Festival Theatre), Caroline, Or Change (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre: Follies, The Magistrate, My Fair Lady, The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre); Betty Blue Eyes, Avenue Q, Parade, Les Misérables, Whistle Down The Wind, Show Boat (West End); Breakfast On Pluto, Mary Poppins, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, The Phantom of the Opera, Martin Guerre, Little Voice, Boys Will Be Boys, Dames at Sea, Into the Woods, Ruthless, JENNIFER WHYTE

Spend Spend Spend, A Catered Affair, The Wiz. As Composer: Shehallion, The Famished Land, Chasing Fate, Underworld.

Television: The Crown, Pop Idol, World Idol, Can’t Sing Singers, Hit Me Baby One More Time, Soapstar Superstar, Tsunami Prayers, Vet Safari.

Film: Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera.

Jennifer has also recorded Stories, a solo album of piano music. She studied music at Glasgow University and the University of Massachusetts.

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Deputy House Manager (Maternity Leave)

Director of LEAP WARDROBE & WIGS

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Box Office Supervisor

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PRODUCTION

DIRECTORS Kathy Bourne

Executive Director

Daniel Evans

Artistic Director

Patricia Key Georgina Rae Julia Smith

PA to the Directors Head of Planning & Projects Board Support

Kerry Strong, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear,

Stephen Bailey

Resident Assistant Director

Amelia Ferrand-Rook

Producer

Andy Trust (Trainee), Joshua Vine, Rosemary Wheeler, Jonathan Wilson (Trainee),

Claire Rundle

Production Administrator

James Wisker, Donna Wood, Fleur Wood,

Nicky Wingfield

Production Administrator

Kim Wylam, Jane Yeates

Jeremy Woodhouse

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TECHNICAL

FINANCE Alison Baker

Payroll & Pensions Officer

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IT Consultant

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Management Accountant

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Neil Rose James Sharples Graham Taylor

HR Emily Oliver Jenefer Pullinger

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who give so generously of their time as our

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Accommodation Coordinator HR & Recruitment Officer (Maternity Leave) HR Officer

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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.

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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT BENEFACTORS Deborah Alun-Jones Robin and Joan Alvarez David and Elizabeth Benson Philip Berry George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Sir William and Lady Castell David and Sonia Churchill John and Pat Clayton John and Susan Coldstream Clive and Frances Coward Yvonne and John Dean Jim Douglas George and Natasha Duffield Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis Val and Richard Evans Simon and Luci Eyers Angela and Uri Greenwood Sir Michael and Lady Heller 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 Graham and Sybil Papworth Nick and Jo Pasricha Mrs Denise Patterson Stuart and Carolyn Popham Jans Ondaatje Rolls Dame Patricia Routledge DBE David and Sophie Shalit Simon and Melanie Shaw Greg and Katherine Slay David and Alexandra Soskin Alan and Jackie Stannah Oliver Stocken CBE Peter and Wendy Usborne TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Artswork The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity Chichester District Council Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray’s Charity Trust The G D Charitable Trust The John Coates Charitable Trust The Noël Coward Foundation The Roddick Foundation Wickens Family Foundation

FESTIVAL PLAYERS John and Joan Adams Dr Cheryl Adams CBE Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Paul Arman His Honour Michael Baker and Edna Baker Mr Brian Baker The Earl and Countess of Balfour Matthew Bannister Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Franciska and Geoffrey Bayliss Julian and Elizabeth Bishop Martin Blackburn Sarah and Tony Bolton Sarah Mansell and Tim Bouquet Janet Bounds Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett Nick and Carol Brigstocke Therese Brook Peter and Pamela Bulfield Jean Campbell Julie Campbell Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg Sally Chittleburgh David and Claire Chitty Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Denise Clatworthy Annie Colbourne David and Julie Coldwell Mr & Mrs Barry Colgate The Colles Trust Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Michael and Jill Cook Freda Cooper Brian and Claire Cox Susan Cressey Deborah Crockford Jonathan and Sue Cunnison Rowena and Andrew Daniels Jennie Davies The de Laszlo Foundation 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 Anthony and Penny Elphick Sheila Evans Gary Fairhall Brian and Sonia Fieldhouse Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Jane Fogg Robert and Pip Foster Jenifer and John Fox Debbie and Neil Franks Terry Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Alan and Pat Galer

Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Wendy and John Gehr Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Olwen Gillmore Mr and Mrs Paul Goswell Robin and Rosemary Gourlay R and R Green Reverend David Guest Ros and Alan Haigh Dr Stuart Hall David Harrison Dennis and Joan Harrison Roger and Tina Harrison Julia and Tom Haxworth 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 Maria and David Johnson Robert Kaltenborn Nina Kaye and Timothy Nathan Rodney Kempster Nigel Kennedy OBE Anna Christine Kennett Geoffrey King James and Clare Kirkman Elaine Leaver Frank and Freda Letch Mrs Jane Lewis John and Jenny Lippiett Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Amanda Lunt Jim and Marilyn Lush Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Robert Macnaughtan Nigel and Julia Maile Jeremy and Caroline Marriage Adrian Marsh and Maggie Stoker Sue Marsh Charles and Elisabeth Martin Trevor & Lynne Matthews John and Sally-Ann McCormack Tim McDonald Jill and Douglas McGregor James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Andrew McVittie Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Diana Midmer David and Di Mitchell Jenifer and John Mitchell Gerald Monaghan Nick & Pat Moore Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris Sara Morton Terence F Moss Mrs Mary Newby Patricia Newton Bob and Maureen Niddrie Pamela and Bruce Noble

Eileen Norris Jacquie Ogilvie Margaret and Martin Overington Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Alex and Sheila Paterson Simon and Margaret Payton Terry and John Pearson Stephen & Annie Pegler Jean Plowright John Pritchard Trust Brian & Margaret Raincock John Rank David Rees The Rees Family Malcolm and Angela Reid Adam Rice Sandi Richmond-Swift John and Betsy Rimmer Robin Roads John and Valerie Robinson Philip 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 David and Linda Skuse Simon Smith Monique and David Smith Christine and Dave Smithers Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha David & Unni Spiller Mel and Marilyn Stein Elizabeth Stern Barbara Stewart Judy and David Stewart Peter Stoakley Anne Subba-Row Ms Maura Sullivan Professor and Mrs Warwick Targett Patricia Tatspaugh 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 Brett Weaver and Linda Smith Chris and Dorothy Weller Bowen and Rennie Wells Judith Williams Angela Williams Lulu Williams Mrs Honor Woods David and Vivienne Woolf Angela Wormald And all those who wish to remain anonymous

‘Chichester Festival Theatre enriches lives with its work both on and off stage.

It is a privilege to be connected in a small way with this inspirational and generous-hearted institution, especially at such a challenging time for everyone in the Arts.’

John and Susan Coldstream, Benefactors and Festival Players

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PRINCIPAL PARTNERS

Diamond Level Prof E.F Juniper and Mrs Jilly Styles

Gold Level

HOLIDAY LETS

Silver Level

W E A LT H S O L U T I O N S

CORPORATE PARTNERS Addison Law Behrens Sharp The Bell Inn

Bishops Printers Chichester College FBG Investment

Joanna Williams The J Leon Group Jones Avens

Westminster Abbey William Liley Financial Services Ltd

Please get in touch for more information: cft.org.uk/support-us | development.team@cft.org.uk | call 01243 812881

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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