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Music & Lyrics by Theo Jamieson, Book by Elinor Cook Based on books by Enid Blyton

WELCOME

KATHY BOURNE AND DANIEL EVANS PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAMUS RYAN

FESTIVAL 2022

Welcome to The Famous Five: A New Musical – the final production of Festival 2022!

Our 60th anniversary season has flown past, and has given us all a huge lift after the rollercoaster ride of the previous two years. Working in partnership assumed an even greater significance during the pandemic; so, after Our Generation and The Southbury Child – our co-productions with the National Theatre and The Bridge Theatre respectively – we’re delighted to end Festival 22 with this collaboration with Theatr Clwyd and their Artistic Director Tamara Harvey.

It’s always exciting to see a brand new British musical, and it’s wonderful to be able to co-produce Theo Jamieson and Elinor Cook’s new work, based on books by Enid Blyton, on our main stage.

So many of us were first taken to the

theatre as children, our eyes being opened to the joy and stimulation of live performance and building a lifelong love of drama; so a show appealing to all ages, and celebrating adventure and friendship - as Enid Blyton's books do - is a joyful thing.

There’s plenty more entertainment coming up this Winter for families.

Do explore our brochures or website for the full range of shows for all ages, from babies to grand- and great-grandparents, including Dear Santa Live – an ideal introduction to theatre for ages 2 – 7; and our annual highlight, Chichester Festival Youth Theatre’s always magical festive show.

This year, they present Alan Bennett’s wonderfully witty adaptation of the classic tale of The Wind in the Willows; come and join Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger on an unforgettable riverbank adventure.

We hope you enjoy this performance, and to welcome you here again soon.

Executive Director Kathy Bourne

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Artistic Director Daniel Evans

WINTER 2022 - 23

THE WIND AND THE WILLOWS

By Kenneth Grahame Adapted for the stage by Alan Bennett Music and Additional Lyrics by Jeremy Sams The adventures of Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger are a delight for children and adults alike. Dale Rooks directs Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in Alan Bennett’s witty adaptation of the classic story. For ages 7+

FESTIVAL THEATRE 17 – 31 December #WindInTheWillows

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WINTER 2022 - 23

MOTHER GOOSE Ian McKellen, John Bishop and Mel Giedroyc star in a hilarious, family-friendly panto that promises to be the ultimate theatrical feast – full of fun, farce and surprises that will make you honk out loud. Ages 6+

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CFYT Celebrates! was a fundraising concert on Sunday 31 July 2022, designed to showcase the very best of the talent it has produced over many years.

But this hugely emotional event – which brought the audience to their feet not once but many times throughout the performance – reminded us of the huge debt we all owe to Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and to the simply extraordinary Dale Rooks who has been the modest and self-deprecating life force behind it.

Through personal testimonies on stage, amazing performances, and filmed commentary from past members, we saw how thousands of young lives have been transformed by their experiences.

We heard how CFYT had given them confidence, self-assurance, friendship, the ability to communicate, and the power

to be their best – while entertaining some 20,000 people every Christmas with their spectacular shows.

These festive events which elsewhere might be simply an excuse for friends and family to buy tickets have become both a tradition and an institution here in our city of Chichester.

Some of those young people have gone on to achieve spectacularly in the world of arts – while others have embraced their transferable skills to become everything from graphic artists to paramedics and teachers of distinction.

But in a closing, unscripted piece of film there was one thing they all wanted to say.

‘Thank you.’ And they said it to one person in particular, Dale Rooks, who I know from personal experience has fought with every fibre of her being for every single person

CELEBRATING

CHICHESTER FESTIVAL YOUTH THEATRE

By Gary Shipton Director and Editor in Chief of Sussex World and the Chichester Observer

who has ever trod the Youth Theatre boards.

The concert itself featured a host of alumni performers. Let me mention a few of the stand-outs.

Bradley Trevethan, Sam O’Hanlon, Megan O’Hanlon, Alice O’Hanlon. There was a sumptuous ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ sung by Polly Maltby and Ella O’Keeffe – who alternated the Dorothy role in The Wizard of Oz in 2019.

Anna Foye’s ‘La Vie En Rose’ brought a tear to the eye such was its emotional power and subtlety while Nick Howard Brown exacted every nuance of humour from his pitch perfect and utterly delightful ‘Reviewing the Situation’ from Oliver! – aided by the enormously talented Katy Ellis on violin.

No wonder Felix Mosse has gone on to enjoy such incredible success given his spine tingling ‘Empty Chairs’ from Les Misérables.

The hosts [CFT Trustees and CFYT alumni] Gi Liley and Holly Mirams carried the show with personality and panache.

But, of course, the one person everyone wanted on stage was Dale herself. She was completely overwhelmed by the standing ovation she received before she had even spoken a word.

“I’ve had the great privilege of working with hundreds, no thousands of young people in the Youth Theatre over the past twenty plus years. You are everywhere. You are in London, you are in cities across the UK, you’re overseas. Some of you are married, some of you have children, and those children are back in the Youth Theatre which is really lovely to come full circle. And of course we must pay tribute to those young people who sadly have passed way too prematurely.

“You are the most extraordinary group of people. Your energy, enthusiasm and positivity is infectious and I am really, really proud of all of you wherever you are.

“The Youth Theatre has gone on an incredible journey. It started in the 1980s in the theatre tent with story-telling sessions.

And here today we have over 750 members and seven satellite locations across the county.

“As Daniel [Evans, Artistic Director] said, we want this programme of work to continue way into the future beyond the next 60 years because it does have great impact and the power to change and transform lives.

“The encouragement and support comes from the top of the theatre, from Daniel and Kathy [Bourne, Executive Director], the Board of Trustees and it filters right the way through the organisation. We are so lucky and grateful we are celebrated in this way.”

She gave a special shout-out to Hannah Hogg, the co-director of the concert and she thanked the anonymous supporters who had offered to double the first £10,000 of donations.

It costs more than £350,000 to run CFYT

each year and there is a plea for as much financial support as possible.

Daniel Evans led the singing of the final song of the show ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ from Carousel, which encapsulated everything the Youth Theatre represents.

He said to the audience: “I can’t tell you how inordinately proud we are of our Youth Theatre which make us the envy of many theatres around the country.

“There are also two groups of young people that aren’t represented here today – but they are core to us. The first is a group of young carers – some as young as five – who have serious, sometimes onerous responsibilities looking after their siblings or their parents. They are able to come to the theatre in an inclusive, safe environment and have fun and focus on themselves for a change.

“The second group is young, unaccompanied asylum seekers – who often come from very challenging war-torn areas

around the globe. They are able to learn some new skills, socialise together and be in a safe place and crucially a place that allows them to be themselves.

“We have recently included both Syrian and Ukrainian refugees. Chichester was recently named as the city in the UK that’s taken in more Ukrainian refugees than any other. As a city and a theatre we are openarmed, and we are welcoming people in times of need.”

Everyone in Chichester should share in his pride. The Youth Theatre here is simply the best in class. We salute everyone involved, especially the young people themselves who have, through all their hard work, transformed not just their lives – but all of ours as well.

This review appeared on sussexworld.co.uk on 1 August 2022 and is reprinted with their kind permission.

To donate to the work of CFYT, visit cft.org.uk/birthdayappeal

Former and current members of Chiches reflect on what CFYT means to them.

Lives changed, careers made and a family forged.

Daniel Hill, Theatre Maker and Videographer (CFYT 1998-2003)

I’ve definitely taken lots of transferable skills into my profession.

Commitment and communication are key in the role I do in the ambulance service.

Katie Finch, Paramedic (CFYT 2007-2009)

It was the first time that I saw a creative theatrical process from beginning to end, and what’s brilliant about the Youth Theatre is that it involves its young people in every stage of that. It’s meant that I feel more prepared to do my job as a director. Not only that, the Youth Theatre is a really kind and nurturing environment and I aspire to create that environment in my own rehearsal rooms.

When I was 18, I had quite a difficult experience – my dad passed away and my grandma passed away, and I had a really, really tough time with mental health as a result. And I have never been so grateful to an organisation as I was at that period of time as a family network and support. They put a smile on my face at a time when nothing else really did. I really wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t have the support of CFT.

Lucy Betts, Theatre Director (CFYT 1993-2006)

Twyla Doone, Communications Strategist (CFYT 2008-2014)

It’s hard to put into words exactly what impact CFYT has had on my life, because every aspect of what I want to do in my career has come from the passion in theatre that Chichester Festival Youth Theatre gave me.

Caleb Barron, Theatre Writer/Director (CFYT 2009-2017)

It inspired me to make sure that I’m doing something that I’m enthusiastic about every day and that I work really hard to do that.

Olivia Rose, Theatre Maker & Mental Health Co-Ordinator (CFYT 1997-2005)

ster Festival Youth Theatre

Working in a business, you have to sell your work to a client, and you have to present in front of the whole business, you’re putting on a performance. So those skills I learnt at Youth Theatre have been so transferable.

Kassy Bull, Graphic Designer (CFYT 2007-2013)

CURRENT CFYT MEMBERS The thing about CFYT is that you’re celebrated for the things that are different about you and make you unique.

Priya Uddin, aged 19

It’s really improved my confidence – it’s helped me with conversation, it’s helped me with doing stuff I wouldn’t normally expect me to do.

Dominic Lacey, aged 14

The Youth Theatre introduced me to puppetry. I would not be here without Chichester. They were my training for my whole career.

Romina Hytten, pictured with Fred Davis, Actor Puppeteers and winners of a 2022 Laurence Olivier Award as members of the puppetry team on The Life of Pi in the West End (CFYT 2009-16)

It’s about building resilience and growing as a person, not just the acting. I think anybody could benefit from what we do. It could prepare you for anything.

Paige Fitzsimmons, aged 17

It’s for everyone and it’s always a good time. No matter what happens in the session, you will leave with a smiling face.

MJ (Jacinta) McKenzie, aged 14

FOOD AND DRINK Enjoy delicious food and drink at our welcoming café and restaurant. Whether you’re having a meal before the show, simply relaxing with a coffee or powering up using our free Wi-Fi, we can’t wait to welcome you.

DINE BEFORE THE SHOW

GREAT COFFEE IN A GREAT LOCATION

Bring the whole family to The Brasserie – our spacious, family friendly restaurant just opposite the Festival Theatre. Enjoy a contemporary British menu featuring local and seasonal ingredients and top-notch service – we guarantee to have you in your seats in time for the show!

A great spot for barista coffee, freshly made sandwiches, delicious cakes and a range of drinks. Our Café on the Park offers indoor and outdoor seating overlooking Oaklands Park and family friendly areas in our spacious foyer.

Check out the delicious children’s menu available for The Famous Five and The Wind in the Willows online.

Open Monday to Friday from 10am and from 9am on Saturday so ParkRunners can stop by for much needed refreshment.

Open for Festival Theatre performances: matinees from 12pm and evening shows from 5pm. Also available for Christmas parties, private hires and functions.

Visit cft.org.uk/eat, call 01243 782219 or email dining@cft.org.uk for opening times, reservations, menus and more.

Music & Lyrics by Theo Jamieson, Book by Elinor Cook Based on books by Enid Blyton

ENID BLYTON AT HER HOME, GREEN HEDGES OPPOSTE: THE FIRST FAMOUS FIVE BOOK LEFT: CLASSIC ARTWORK BY EILEEN SOPER RIGHT: ARTWORK BY LAURA ELLEN ANDERSON IMAGES © HODDER & STOUGHTON LIMITED

ABOUT ®

The Famous Five: A New Musical is based on the work of Enid Blyton.

Enid Blyton is one of the world’s bestselling children’s authors. Sales of her books are in excess of 500 million copies, and they have been translated into over 40 languages.

Enid Blyton began her career as a schoolteacher before becoming a bestselling children’s book author, writing over 700 books and about 2,000 short stories.

In 2021, an Enid Blyton book was sold every minute, and she appeared in the top ten of The 50 Greatest Storytellers of All Time (Canon UK). As well as being regularly voted the UK’s best-loved author, Enid Blyton is the most translated children’s author in the world according to UNESCO, and many of her books have been adapted into films, stage shows and TV series.

Her most popular series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Naughtiest Girl, The Adventure Series, The Magic Faraway Tree, St Clare’s and Malory Towers.

Director Tamara Harvey, writer Elinor Cook and co

CREATING Did you read Enid Blyton as a child?

Elinor Yes avidly! My favourites were Malory Towers and St Clare’s – the ones set in boarding schools. I fell in love with that world of mischief and camaraderie, the lawlessness of the midnight feasts, the friendships that emerged amongst the girls, often via conflict and misunderstanding. Like The Famous Five, there was a real sense of young people figuring it out on their own, away from adult intervention.

Tamara Lots. For a while my favourite was The Famous Five, then Malory Towers – shifting depending on which world I wanted to live in at any given moment.

TAMARA HARVEY ELINOR COOK THEO JAMIESON

How did the idea for adapting the show come about?

Tamara I was approached a long time ago by a producer, Joe Smith, who’d had the idea of creating a musical based on the books. It’s taken various forms along the way but always driven by my – and the team’s – love of these four children, their dog, their dawning understanding of who they are and who they can be, and the belief that kids can and should be allowed to have wild adventures and – together – save the world.

Elinor It started in a pre-pandemic world. Me and Tamara chatted a lot about the spirit of childhood and what it meant to us. We both found the idea of children flourishing in a world where adults are absent really compelling. It’s a yearning that exists in all of us - to escape,

omposer and lyricist Theo Jamieson tell us about

THE SHOW to be wild, and answerable only to ourselves.

And we wanted some magic in an increasingly digital world.

Post pandemic, it now feels incredibly important to give children something hopeful and joyful, full of adventure and kindness and a sense of community. Children have been through so much in the last few years – it feels like an enormous privilege to get them back in the theatre and to hopefully take them away from anxieties they may have felt in last few years. Our aim is to help them feel present and in the moment; a celebration of joy, hope, fun and laughter.

Do you have a favourite character in the show?

Elinor When I first approached it, I wondered what it would be like to put Anne at the centre.

I was always intrigued by her as a child – I suspected she was possibly the most like me but she also always struck me as elusive and on the periphery compared to the other characters. She’s so often overlooked, talked over, left behind and patronised. I wanted her to go on a journey to overcome that. Then Theo wrote her this beautiful, complex song, really giving her the space to own the stage, and that felt really exciting. I love the journey she goes on in our piece – learning to trust herself.

Tamara It changes every time we rehearse a scene! This morning I started with Bobby (Kirrin’s ticket collector, station master, postman, lifeguard... the list goes on), moved onto George as she sang ‘In The Water’, and right now it’s Rowena as I watch her reliving her time in the lab with Quentin.

AILSA DALLING AND TIMMY

Theo Dick. Dick always lives in the moment and enjoys everything. He makes jokes all the time and loves to eat. We should all be more like Dick.

Where’s your favourite place to go on an adventure?

Theo The seaside. Also I love mountains.

And new cities.

Elinor Having just had a baby this year, every day is an adventure. I’m seeing the world through my little boy’s eyes – watching him see the garden, the plants, the flowers for the first time. It helps me to be really present – to allow the smallest things to be exciting and wondrous! Adventures don’t have to be big to feel significant.

Tamara The Argyll peninsula on the West coast of Scotland. We go there every year and there’s nothing more exhilarating than exploring its wild forests and shores with my kids.

This is a brand-new production; what are the challenges that come with that?

Tamara Trying to honour the original stories whilst also making sure that anyone – even those who’ve never encountered the books – can come to the show and love it. Alongside this responsibility though, there is also the freedom that comes with being the first people ever to make this musical – we’re not burdened by past interpretations – we get to create something entirely new.

Elinor We really wanted to maintain the themes of compassion and kindness in The Famous Five and re-invent them with today’s modern eyes. After re-reading all of the books, I didn’t want to adapt any particular one and instead felt I wanted to weave a new tapestry with recognisable themes and familiar touch points: the island, the picnics, the children saving the day at the end. And playfulness all the way through.

Theo I think with a new musical what’s challenging is how big a part the audience

play in telling you what the show is. You do all this work imagining how the show will feel but there’s a whole part of the picture you don’t have until you get it on its feet in front of people. That’s the biggest challenge but also the part I’m most excited about.

This is a show for all the family with a nostalgic feeling for adults returning to the books and children engaging for perhaps the first time. How do you create that universal appeal?

Theo For me, the aim is just to try and be as honest as possible about the characters and what they’re going through. I’m surprised at how emotional writing the piece has ended up being.

Elinor I feel very much in touch with my inner child, so I remember the rhythms and beats I found funny, or that moved me. I’ve tried to retain the comforting familiarity of the books – that warmth and cosiness and sense of fun – while making sure it also works for a modern audience.

Theo, how do you begin to create the music for a new musical? What influences have you had?

Theo An early-in-the-process focus is working out the musical identity of a new show: what gives it its own special flavour and ambience that would be different if you were telling a different story. Once I get into the main bulk of the writing I’m led by the characters and the story, so holding onto a strong sense of what the musical footprint is feels really important, otherwise it gets diluted along the way and you risk ending up with something slightly indistinct.

This is something I try to be quite strict with myself about but it’s a really tough balancing act - for me, anyway!

I love a lot of classic Broadway musicals, I love the dynamic range and emotional detail of Stephen Sondheim and Lin-Manuel Miranda, I also love the frankness of shows like A Chorus Line, A Strange Loop and Fun Home, and the ecstatic music in shows like The Light In The Piazza and Wicked. For this show I wanted to

make a musical language that felt like when music of nature and music of people collide.

So there’s a bit of a music festival vibe underpinning it - bands like Bon Iver, Electric Light Orchestra, The Staves, Phoebe Bridgers, The Divine Comedy, The Flaming Lips. And subterranean influences which maybe aren’t immediately in evidence but are bubbling underneath – Kanye West, Dirty Projectors, Thomas Ades, Lizzo, Brad Mehldau, John Adams, Wagner. There’s a lot of secret Benjamin Britten in there too.

THE COMPANY

Tamara, how does the use of puppets impact the direction of the show?

Tamara There’s something inherently playful and magical about puppets – the way the puppeteer disappears and somehow you’re suddenly watching a creature that is entirely alive – the way we fill them with our imaginations. And our animals (a dog, sheep, bats, rabbits and more) are hilariously independent – however much I may try and direct them, they (and their amazing puppeteers) still have entirely mischievous minds of their own.

Meet the designer –

LUCY OSBORNE Lucy Osborne is an award-winning set and costume designer, who has worked all over the country. We sat down with her to find out how she approached The Famous Five.

When you start a project like The Famous Five, where do you begin?

Alongside the director, Tamara, I immerse myself in the script and music and start drawing as soon as possible, so we can find our way into what we would like the audience to see and feel at different points.

Tamara and I spent time in Dorset visiting the places Enid Blyton had in mind when she wrote the books and it was so useful to get a sense of how the landscape changes so dramatically from moorland, to beach, to sea and cliff.

I like to find pieces of visual reference and COSTUME AND SET DESIGNS BY LUCY OSBORNE

create mood boards to inspire the rest of the team, hoping that they then bounce ideas back at me. I sketch in 2D and in 3D and work quite quickly to create computer sketch models of the environment which everyone on the team can collectively respond to. Once we have thrown lots of big, architectural ideas at the canvas there is then a more detailed, iterative process where we gradually refine and distil the central visual ideas and think about individual scenes.

It’s at this point that I make a model box which describes the colour and texture of the production.

A new musical can offer an opportunity to collaborate directly with the

writers and throughout the design process we have been in conversation with Elinor and Theo about the ideas we are having and decisions we are making. Having the writers in the room creates an incredibly rich and rewarding dialogue between all of the different disciplines, such as video, lighting, sound, choreography, puppet design, who all come together to create a new musical and test and explore ideas together.

We hope the audience will feel transported to another place and time. Our Kirrin is a world where the sky is the brightest blue and the sunsets are the deepest amber, a place full of adventure and the joy of friendship.

Do you have a favourite element of design about the show?

New musicals are such a collaborative act, the real thrill for me is when the whole team’s hard work and creativity comes together and works in harmony to create something really magical and special.

It’s hard to choose one design element to focus on, but one element which has been a new experience for me has been collaborating

COSTUME AND SET DESIGNS BY LUCY OSBORNE

with our puppet designer Rachael. It’s the first time I have made a show with puppets and Rachael has introduced a whole new visual language to the production which has informed the visual language of Kirrin in a brilliant way.

Working with Rachael, we evolved the idea of Kirrin as a place where an old sack can transform into a rabbit and a piece of driftwood can become a table. Everything is patched and mended and has the feel of being washed up on the beach. Working in harmony with nature our

feel like even if you’ve never visited any of them – I know I do! So I hope that our locations are evocative not prescriptive and allow plenty of space for the audience’s own imagination.

Early on we looked at the illustrated maps which you find at the beginning of all of the best adventure stories! This illustrative, woodcut feel has found its way into the scenic and video design, and will enable us to change scale so the audience can be taken from a bird’s eye view of the landscape and then zoom in.

The design is very fluid and musical in the way that there are changes of level and one space flows into another or comes to an abrupt end with a cliff face.

Is it true your daughter helped with some of the designs in the show? scenic palette is soft blues and greens. Rowena then contrasts this with crisp, clean lines and her colour palette is driven by synthetic whites and bright reds.

The show takes place in lots of different locations, which must be a challenge.

I think that if you grew up with Enid Blyton’s books you have a clear picture in your head of what all the different locations look and

We wanted the audience to feel as if they are seeing Kirrin through the children’s eyes rather than from the adult’s point of view. Anne sees the world in a unique way through her painting and we loved the idea that the trees in Kirrin look the way they do because we see them through her perspective. I was inspired by some trees my six year-old drew!

THE FAMOUS FIVE A NEW MUSICAL

Music & Lyrics by Theo Jamieson, Book by Elinor Cook Based on books by Enid Blyton CAST Timmy Puppeteer and Puppet Associate Aunt Fanny Puppeteer and Puppet Associate George Bobby Anne Uncle Quentin Dick Rowena Julian MUSICIANS OF KIRRIN Violin Woodwind Guitar

Ailsa Dalling Lara Denning Elisa De Grey Maria Goodman Sam Harrison Isabelle Methven David Ricardo-Pearce Louis Suc Kibong Tanji Dewi Wykes Elisa Boyd Claire Shaw Benedict Wood

BAND Bass Guitar / Double Bass Trumpet / Flugel Drums / Percussion

Mat Elliott David Hopkin Rob Waugh

There will be one interval of 20 minutes.

A co-production with

Based on the novels by Enid Blyton published by Hachette Children’s Group.

Enid Blyton and The Famous Five are registered trademarks of Hodder & Stoughton Limited.

World premiere performance of The Famous Five: A New Musical at Theatr Clwyd, 23 September 2022.

First performance at Chichester Festival Theatre, 21 October 2022.

Tamara Harvey Lucy Osborne Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster David White Benjamin Holder Katherine Rockhill Theo Jamieson Johanna Town Dan Samson Ash J Woodward Rachael Canning Charlotte Sutton CDG

Director Designer Choreographer & Movement Director Musical Supervisors Musical Director Orchestrator Lighting Designer Sound Designer Video Designer Puppetry Director & Designer Casting Director

Kaitlin Howard Nick Trumble Francesca Goodridge Mildred Moyo Juliette Manon

Fight Director Dialect Coach Associate Director Associate Lighting Designer Assistant Director Orchestral Manager Keyboard Programmer Music Preparation

Richard Weeden Daniel Goodger Amir Shoenfeld

Production Manager Wardrobe Supervisors

Luke Child Debbie Knight Loz Tait Jessica Thanki Anna Hunscott Chris Grogan

Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

With special thanks to supporters of The Playwrights Fund for their support of the research and development of The Famous Five – A New Musical : Deborah Alun-Jones, Robin and Joan Alvarez, George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron, Clive and Frances Coward, Mrs Veronica J Dukes, Melanie Edge, Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis, Val and Richard Evans, Simon and Luci Eyers, Sandy and Mark Foster, Jonathan and Clare Lubran, Selina and David Marks, Mrs Denise Patterson, Jans Ondaatje Rolls, Peter and Wendy Usborne.

Supported by The Famous Five Commissioning and Patrons Circles: Jac Hepworth, Lyana Peniston, Howard M Thompson, Bryan Warnett of St James's Place, and all those who wish to remain anonymous.

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SONG LIST

ACT ONE Is it Me? Welcome to Kirrin Fanny’s Got Why is She Like That?

Go Where You Go Worlds Away An Artist Adventurers Julian Not A Game

ACT TWO Go Where You Go (reprise) It Could Happen to You Jump, Fly, Fall In The Water Bobby’s Uniforms Why Am I Like This?

Why Would You Do That?

Worlds Away (reprise) The Famous Five

Production credits: Set built by Theatr Clwyd workshop and scenic team; Scenic Artist Hannah Dimelow; Scenic Art Assistants Kelly Selvester, Millie Lamkin; Workshop Assistants David Davies, John Kavanagh; Costumes made by Theatr Clwyd Wardrobe team; Milliner Ani Stafford Towsend; Breakdown Artist Helen Flower; Wigs, Hair and Make Up Beverley Chorlton; Props

by Vada Baldwin, Lisa Buckley, Chris Grogan, Marise Rose, Harmony Trodd, Chichester Festival Theatre workshop team; Lighting Programmer Tom Mulliner; Production Sound Engineer Nick Newman; Video System Designer Mogzi Bromley-Morgans; Production Video Engineer Mike Higgs; AV Programmer Arthur Skinner; Rehearsal Pianist Michael Cullen; Rehearsal rooms London Welsh Centre, St Mary’s Hall Mold.

With thanks to Caitlyn Burt, Michael Cullen, Edd Hawkes (Unicycle Skills), Celia and Charles Harvey, Dr Jane Hodson, William James, Joe Smith, Nick Stevenson, Ric Watts, Dr Ruoyang Yuan of The University of Sheffield, Jared Zeus.

Thanks to those who helped workshop the show in development: Marc Antolin, Dan Armstrong, Matt Byham, Carly Sophia Davies, Joe Evans, Sèverine Howell-Meri, Ifan Huw Dafydd, Caitlin Drake, Ellis Duffy, Ilan Galkoff, Michael Geary, Adrian der Gregorian, Lowri Hamer, Siubhan Harrison, Victoria John, Melanie Marshall, Kirsty MacLaren, Ryan O’Donnell, Kristian Phillips, Adam Redmore, Rebecca Smith-Williams, Esme Scarborough, Matilda Shapland, Caroline Sheen, Rebecca Thornhill, Tim Treloar, Adam Washington, Elliot Williams, Tristan Whincup, Nicola Hughes.

This show is dedicated to the memory of David Crompton.

Rehearsal and production photographs The Other Richard Programme design Davina Chung

BIOGRAPHIES

AILSA DALLING Timmy Puppeteer and Puppet Associate Theatre includes Animal Farm and RAT (UK tours); The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); The Dancing Frog (Kneehigh); Venus and Adonis (RSC); Angelo (Little Angel Theatre); The Adventures of Curious Ganz (Silent Tide/Little Angel Theatre); Theatre Ballads (Horse & Bamboo); Modern Fairies (Sage Gateshead); Disarming Reverberations (Lepus Productions).

Film and Television includes Princess and Peppernose, We are Lady Parts, Monty & Co, Possum.

Trained at The Curious School of Puppetry. www.ailsadalling.co.uk

THE COMPANY

LARA DENNING Aunt Fanny West End Theatre includes guest appearance as Miss Hedge in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre); Doreen/Miss Elf in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (Ambassadors and Menier Chocolate Factory); Mrs Wormwood and Miss Honey in Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre); Louise and Eve in Ruthless The Musical (Arts Theatre); Mrs Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

Regional Theatre includes Mrs Mullin in Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre); Miss Hedge in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Gotta Sing

Gotta Dance, All The Fun Of The Fair, Dirty Dancing in Concert (UK tours); Mrs Cratchit in Scrooge The Musical (Curve Theatre, Leicester); Queen Rat in Dick Whittington (Bristol Hippodrome); The Rocky Horror Show (European tour); Grease (Cyprus).

Television and Film includes I Came By, Ruthless The Musical, Dick Whittington, Glass Body, Leave A Light On. Recordings include The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, Matilda, Toast of London, Dear Evan Hansen.

Trained at Mountview Theatre School, London.

MARIA GOODMAN George Theatre includes Gemma/Amelia in Jabberwocky (The Other Palace); Ngana in South Pacific, Aladdin, Mother Goose (Lyceum Theatre); Howl in What We Wished For (Crucible Theatre); Tiger Lily in Peter Pan, Amelia in Jabberwocky (Theatre Royal Margate); Younger Sibling in No Man’s Land (Square Chapel Arts Centre); Red Squirrel in The Legend of White Bear Lake (Barbican Theatre Plymouth).

Television includes Ted’s Top Ten. Other credits include Senior Presenter in Monologue Slam (The Other Palace), Lead Vocalist in The Snowman (Sheffield City Hall), Vocalist in Child of Britain Awards (Grosvenor Hotel).

Trained at Pius Hume School of Singing, Bailey-Cox Dance Academy, British Youth Music Theatre, Mark Jermin Stage School.

ELISA DE GREY Puppeteer and Puppet Associate Previously at Chichester Goodnight Mr Tom (also West End and UK tour).

Theatre includes Animal Farm (UK tour); The Wolves in the Walls (Little Angel Theatre); Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol (Citizens Theatre); Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe); Running Wild (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/UK tour); Little Universe,

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Brilliant (Fevered Sleep); These Associations (Tino Sehgal); No Way Out (Southwark Playhouse); The Juniper Tree (Goat and Monkey Theatre Company); The Water Babies (Northern Broadsides); Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble); Beyond Midnight (Trestle Theatre Company); Binari (Obviam Est); Macbeth (Conspirators of Pleasure); Cinderella, Robin Hood, The Lottie Project (Polka Theatre).

Television includes The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon, Harbour Lights.

SAM HARRISON Bobby Previously at Chichester A Damsel In Distress (Festival Theatre), Love Is Only Love (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes Love Is Only Love (The Other Palace); The Magician’s Elephant

(RSC); The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); Les Misérables (West End); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West Yorkshire Playhouse/UK tour); Eastward, Ho! (Shakespeare’s Globe); By Jeeves (Trinity Theatre); The Phantom of The Opera (25th Anniversary tour); Salad Days (Riverside Studios).

Film includes Under The Jericho Sun, Foxtrot One One. ISABELLE METHVEN Anne Theatre includes Annie/Swing/July in Annie (Piccadilly Theatre); Summer Hathaway in the original cast of School Of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Jane Banks in Mary Poppins (international tour); Brigitta in The Sound Of Music (UK tour); Young Cosette in Les

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Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); and several acting roles with the Royal Opera House.

Television and Film includes I’ll Find You, Bardo Bebop, Poirot, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Children in Need, My Life, Royal Variety Performances 2015 & 2018.

in Saturday Night, title role in The Great Gatsby (Arts Theatre); Anthony in Sweeney Todd (Trafalgar Studios).

Television and Film includes Traitors, Trauma, EastEnders, The Spa, Outnumbered, Extras, Border Crossing, Stop Dead, Ma’am.

DAVID RICARDO-PEARCE Uncle Quentin Theatre includes title role in The Lorax (Old Vic); David in We Started to Sing (Arcola); Gideon in Crossing Jerusalem (Park Theatre); Theseus/ Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Barbican/Bristol Old Vic); Fred in Kiss Me, Kate (Watermill Theatre; Best Actor in a Musical nomination, Broadway World Awards); Michael in The Big Fellah (Lyric Hammersmith); title role in Hamlet, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Lydgate in Middlemarch (Orange Tree); Colin in The Sacred Flame (ETT); Saint Joan (National Theatre); Steven Flowers in Privates on Parade (WYP/Birmingham Rep); Emanou in The Car Cemetery (Gate Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic); title role in Alfie (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Gene

LOUIS SUC Dick Theatre includes Charlie in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal); Eric in Matilda the Musical (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Television includes Goldie’s Oldies, Plebs, Rhyme Time Town, Doctors, Mike The Knight.

Films include I’ll Find You, Correspondence O, High-Rise, The White King, My Cousin Rachel.

KIBONG TANJI Rowena Kibong Tanji made her West End debut playing the female cover to Arinzé Kene in Misty at Trafalgar Studios.

Recent Theatre includes Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre); All My Sons (Queens

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Theatre, Hornchurch and tour); The Sun, The Moon and The Stars (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Tina the Musical (Aldwych Theatre).

Films include The Lair.

Trained at The BRIT School and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Acting and Musical Theatre from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

DEWI WYKES Julian Theatre includes Pwdin Evans in Petula (National Theatre Wales); Konstantin in The Three Seagulls (Bristol Old Vic); Silk Road: How To Buy Drugs Online (Wardrobe Theatre); William Boldwood in Far From The Madding Crowd (BOVTS).

Television includes Y Goleudy, The Sister Boniface Mysteries.

Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

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MUSICIANS OF KIRRIN ELISA BOYD Violin Elisa Boyd is an actress, filmmaker and violinist working in theatre, TV, film and audiobooks (2021 RONE Award for Best Audiobook narration).

Theatre includes Sunset Boulevard (West End); A Christmas Carol (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Take Five (Trafalgar Studios); Sweet Charity (New Wolsey); She Stoops to Conquer (Birmingham Rep); Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show (No.1 tour); The Borrowers (Northern Stage); White Witch (Chelsea Theatre).

Films include Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia, The Recording Angel, Children of Sorrow.

As Writer-Director: Three and A Half Songs, Art in Heaven and Sogni D’Oro (Best Drama, Portobello Film Festival).

Television includes EastEnders, Family Style, Good Job Thanks!

She plays the violin professionally

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in everything from theatre shows to backing vocals/violin for Sophie Ellis-Bextor to orchestral playing with the RPO. CLAIRE SHAW Woodwind Claire is a First Class graduate of the Royal College of Music having studied saxophone, clarinet and flute, and where she won the woodwind round of the RCM Concerto Competition in 2018 as well as the June Emerson Chamber Music Prize in 2016 as part of Hestia Saxophone Quartet.

Most recently, she has appeared in Anything Goes (UK tour and Barbican), 9 to 5 The Musical (UK tour 2021-22 and 2019); and features on the UK cast recording of The Queen of the Mist (2019).

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Claire was in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra from 2018-2022, and has also performed at a number of London’s most prestigious music venues, including the Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms 2019), Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and Cadogan Hall.

BENEDICT WOOD Guitars Benedict Wood is a guitar graduate of The Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Jazz department.

He has been working in various professional contexts for the last 10 years. Having performed in venues such as the Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Barbican, he contributes as a sideman in a variety of London-based projects across multiple genres.

BAND MAT ELLIOTT Bass Guitar / Double Bass Theatre includes Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre); 9 to 5 the Musical (Savoy Theatre); But I’m a Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre); Carousel (Kilworth House); Identical (Nottingham Playhouse/Lowry Theatre); The Producers, Annie, The Rocky Horror Show, Singin’ in the Rain, Jersey Boys, La Cage aux Folles, Sister Act, Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray, Tell Me on a Sunday (UK tours).

Film: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Live Broadcast.

Trained at the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music.

DAVID HOPKIN Trumpet / Flugel David studied at Chetham’s School of Music before studying at Trinity College and the Royal Academy of Music.

Since graduating he has enjoyed a varied career as a trumpet player on many shows in the West End over the past 15 years, most recently on Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre.

Alongside this, David has played with artists such as Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Pete Tong, Frankie Valli, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Muse and Cliff Richard. He has also been invited to play with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syd Lawrence Orchestra. He has worked extensively in the

studio for TV and film and is a founding member of the Old Dirty Brasstards. As an educator he is a visiting professor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

ROB WAUGH Drums / Percussion Theatre as Musician (drummer) for Joseph! (UK tour 2022); Jack and the Beanstalk (The Princes Theatre, Clacton Upon Sea); Just So (Alexandra Theatre, Bognor Regis); Our House (Urdang

Academy); Mother Goose (Edmonton Theatre).

Rob is part of an in-demand function band that travels nationwide, and a backing band for several pop artists mainly from the Birmingham area.

Studied at Leeds Conservatoire (formerly Leeds College of Music) achieving a 2:1 BA with Honours in a combined course of Popular Music and Production.

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RACHAEL CANNING Puppetry Director and Designer Theatre includes Kan Yama Kan (Global Theatre, The Boulevard Riyadh); Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish Opera); Merlin (Northern Ballet); Kite (The Wrong Crowd); Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel (The Citizens Theatre); Peter Pan, Winnie and Wilbur (Birmingham Rep); The Snow Queen (Sherman Cymru); Crocodile Fever (Traverse Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Y Cylch Sialc Theatr (Genedlaethol Cymru); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ The Musical (Ambassadors, West End); Snow White (Oval House);The Wizard of Oz, Kes (Sheffield Crucible); The Girl With The Iron Claws (revival, Dartington); My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre Kingston); Into The Woods (Opera North); House / Amongst The Reeds (Clean Break); Swan Hunter (Opera North/Royal Opera House).

ELINOR COOK Writer Elinor was the winner of the George Devine Award 2013 for Most Promising Playwright and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2018.

Theatre includes Pilgrims (HighTide Festival, The Yard, Theatre Clwyd); Extra Yarn (Orange Tree Theatre); Ten Weeks and Image Of An Unknown Woman (Gate Theatre); The Boy Preference (National Theatre Connections 2015); The Girl’s Guide To Saving The World (HighTide Festival); This Is Where We Got To When You Came In (Bush Theatre); Out Of Love (Paines Plough Roundabout Season, Orange Tree Theatre and UK tour); The Lady From The Sea (Donmar Warehouse).

Television includes Killing Eve, The Essex Serpent, The Secrets.

Audio includes Islanders.

ANNIE-LUNNETTE DEAKIN-FOSTER Choreographer & Movement Director Theatre includes Beauty and The Beast, The Panto That Nearly Never Was, Pavilion (Theatr Clwyd); Heart (Minetta Lane Theater, New York); Kiss (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); Romeo and Juliet, Little Women

(Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); An Octoroon (Abbey Theatre); Cock (Ambassadors Theatre); Mum (Soho Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); Black Victorians (UK tour); Overflow, Chiaroscuro (The Bush); The Bee in Me, Aesop’s Fables, Grimm Tales (Unicorn Theatre); You Stupid Darkness (Southwark Playhouse); The Last Noel (Arts at the Old Fire Station and UK tour); On The Other Hand We’re Happy, Daughterhood, Dexter & Winter’s Detective Agency (Roundabout); Jericho’s Rose (The Hope & Anchor); Pop Music (UK tour); The Court Must Have a Queen (Hampton Court Palace); These Bridges (National Theatre Connections at The Bush); The Little Match Girl and Other Happier Tales (Shakespeare’s Globe and UK tour); The Dark Room (Theatre 503). www.annielunnettedeakinfoster.com FRANCESCA GOODRIDGE Associate Director Associate or Assistant Director credits include Isla, Milky Peaks, For The Grace of You Go I, Wave Me Goodbye, Dick Whittington Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto, Pavilion, The Importance of Being Earnest.

As Director, A Pretty Shitty Love, Once Upon A Christmas (Theatr Clwyd); Carousel (Mountview); The Brothers Grimm presents Cinderella (The Barn Theatre); REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN, Philistines, Posh (LIPA); The Future (National Youth Theatre of Wales); The Crocodile (Cornerstone Theatre); Bark!

The Musical (Edinburgh Fringe); Adam & Eve & Steve (King’s Head Theatre); Shout! The Mod Musical (Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool).

She has been a visiting director at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, LIPA, Mountview and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She is one of the co-founders of The Far Away Plays, a play-reading company which champions Welsh and Wales-based creatives. Francesca is currently developing two new musicals: Miss Wales and Without You: The Badfinger Musical.

Trained on The National Theatre Directors’ Course and Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. She was one of the first recipients of the Carne Traineeship for Directors in Wales and is the former Trainee Director of The Other

Room Theatre in Cardiff. www.francescagoodridge.com Twitter @FrancescaJadeG / @TheFarAwayPlays

For the screen, she has directed Isla (BBC), What A Carve Up! (OnComm Innovation Award) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (OnComm Recorded Award).

TAMARA HARVEY Director Tamara has been Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd since August 2015. She will become Co-Artistic Director, with Daniel Evans, of the Royal Shakespeare Company in June 2023.

At Theatr Clwyd she has directed the world premieres of Isla, Pavilion, Pilgrims, Peter Gill’s version of Uncle Vanya and Home, I’m Darling, which was nominated for UK Theatre and Evening Standard Awards, as well as five Olivier Awards, winning the Olivier for Best New Comedy. For Clwyd, she has also directed Beauty and The Beast, Curtain Up, Orpheus Descending, Skylight, Much Ado About Nothing.

As a freelance director, her work includes: Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Theatres); From Here to Eternity (West End); The Kitchen Sink, The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre); Kreutzer vs Kreutzer (Aurora Orchestra).

BENJAMIN HOLDER Musical Supervisor As Musical Director Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Crazy for You (UK tours); The Entertainer (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company/Garrick Theatre); Aladdin, Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); The Beautiful Game (Union Theatre).

As Associate or Cover Musical Director Moulin Rouge (Piccadilly Theatre); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Bat Out Of Hell (Dominion Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company/Garrick Theatre); Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith).

As Keyboard Player Back to the Future (Adelphi Theatre); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre/UK & European tour); Jersey Boys (Piccadilly Theatre/Trafalgar Theatre); Les Misérables, The Bodyguard (UK tours); Funny

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Girl (Théâtre Marigny).

Film: Music Associate for Disney’s Snow White.

Television: Pianist & Arranger for You’ve Been a Lovely Audience; Associate MD for Our Gay Wedding: The Musical.

Benjamin studied Music at Oxford University and Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music. He was the first Associate Musical Director at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2013-14, supported by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. www.benjaminholdermusic.com KAITLIN HOWARD Fight Director Kaitlin qualified as a Stage Combat instructor in 2005, is a teaching and examining member of The Academy of Performance Combat and is one of only three women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors. Also trained as an actress, her solo show The Alphabet Girl won a 2014 Manchester Theatre Award for Best

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Fringe Performance.

Theatre Fight Direction includes The Girl on The Train (The Barn Theatre, Cirencester); Tom, Dick & Harry (The New Vic, Stoke); Habibti Driver (Bolton Octagon); Life is A Dream, The Scent of Roses (Edinburgh Lyceum); Red Ellen (Northern Stage, Nottingham Playhouse, Edinburgh Lyceum); The Jungle Book (The Dukes, Lancaster); Guards at The Taj (Theatre

By The Lake); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Our Country’s Good (Tobacco Factory, Bristol); The Effect, A Skull In Connemara, Jack and The Beanstalk, Aladdin, The Jungle Book (Oldham Coliseum); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet (Storyhouse, Chester); Hushabye Mountain, A Kidnapping, Orphans, The Trial, The Pride, Hamlet (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester); Twelfth Night, Arcadia, The Illusion (HOME, Manchester); The Sweet Science of Bruising, Blue Stockings, Playhouse Creatures (Capitol Theatre, Manchester); Posh, Decades, Game, Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Scuttlers (Wigan Pier); Robin Hood, The Doncastrian

Chalk Circle (Cast, Doncaster); Drych (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (Epstein Theatre, Liverpool); The Little Mermaid, Cherry Jezebel (Liverpool Everyman); The Comedy of Errors (Greenwich Playhouse); Killer Joe (Pleasance Theatre, London).

Film and TV Fight Direction includes So Awkward Series 3 & 4, Crimewatch, Clouds, Blank... www.kaitlin-howard.co.uk Twitter @KaitlinJHoward Instagram kaitlinhowardfightdirector THEO JAMIESON Music, Lyrics and Orchestration Previously at Chichester, additional arrangements and ‘Happy Talk’ orchestrations for South Pacific (Festival Theatre, also Sadler’s Wells and UK tour).

As Musical Supervisor and Musical Director, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre, UK tour and Australia).

As Musical Director, Funny Girl (Savoy Theatre); High Society (Old Vic); Treasure Island (National Theatre/Olivier); Here Lies Love JOHANNA TOWN KAITLIN HOWARD

(National Theatre/Dorfman); Putting It Together (St James Theatre).

As Composer and Lyricist, Kali’s Toenail (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Love Child (National Theatre Studio).

As Musical Director and Musical Supervisor, The Wild Party (The Other Palace).

As Pianist, The Light In The Piazza (Royal Festival Hall).

For radio, composer, lyricist and cobookwriter U.Me (winner of Best Original Music at the New York Festival Radio Awards) and U.Me Part 2.

JULIETTE MANON Assistant Director Directing credits include UpRoar (Sherman Theatre); Dreamalelogram: Dim Byd ‘Tha Chdi (Frân Wen Young Company); Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot (RNCM).

As Associate Director, The In-Between (Theatr Clwyd/NYTW).

Assistant Director and Assistant Musical Director credits include Celebrated Virgins, Y Teimlad (Theatr Clwyd/NYTW); Millie Miller

and The Golden Baguette, George’s Wonderful Life, Women Rediscovered/Ailddarganfod Merched (Theat Clwyd); Anthem (Wales Millennium Centre); Anfamol (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru).

Writer/Artist credits include I’m a Pacifist (Out-Rage-Us!), Sherman Theatre); Y Gwir yn Erbyn y Byd (Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Frân Wen).

Twitter @juliette_manon_ Instagram @juliette_manon MILDRED MOYO Associate Lighting Designer Mildred M Moyo is one of Zimbabwe’s only female Stage Lighting Designers. In 2011, she established her own Lighting and Power Solutions Company which specialises in events lighting and household power solutions.

She also founded the Phenomenal Lighting Masterclass for young people, with a particular focus on women who are keen to get into the Lighting industry.

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Lighting designer credits include The Frog Queen (ZGS); Much Ado About Nothing (British Embassy); Mamma Mia!, Killer Queen, We Will Rock You (7 Arts Theatre); For Coloured Girls, A Streetcar Named Desire (Reps Theatre).

Concerts: Oliver ‘Tuku’ Solo Festival, Masango Bodo (Tuku music), NAMA Awards.

Festival Lighting: Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), EU Film Festival, Shoko Festival, Miombo Magic Festival, Francophone Festival, Zimbabwe Jazz Festival, Jacaranda Music Festival.

Trained on Technical theatre course (Lighting, Sound, Props and Set design), Reps Theatre.

Danhiko Project: Domestic Appliances and Housing Installations www.phenomenallighting.com Facebook Mildred M Moyo / Phenomenal lighting and Power Solutions Instagram @Mildred_M_Moyo / @phenomenal_lightingzw

LUCY OSBORNE Designer Awards include UK Theatre Award winner for Translations and The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Best Touring Production); Jeff Award winner for Scenic Design for Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Evening Standard Award nomination for The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse).

Theatre includes Uncle Vanya and The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr

Clwyd); Fisherman’s Friends The Musical (Hall for Cornwall/UK tour); Cabaret (Gothenburg Opera); Afterplay (Coronet Theatre); The Osmonds: A New Musical (UK tour); God’s Dice (Soho Theatre); Rutherford and Son, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Sheffield Crucible); A Pacifist’s Guide To The War on Cancer (Complicite); Les Misérables (Wermland Opera, Karlstad Sweden); The Recruiting Officer, Privacy, Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse/Public Theatre New York); The Angry Brigade

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(Paines Plough); Translations (Sheffield Crucible/ ETT/Rose Kingston/UK tour); The Machine (Manchester International Festival/The Armoury, NYC).

Lucy is a co-designer of Roundabout, the world’s first flat-pack theatre and winner of The Stage Awards Theatre Building of the Year.

Following the success of Roundabout, she founded the company studio three sixty, which advocate for resilient, inclusive and inspirational theatre buildings through a combination

of design and consultancy.

Lucy is a Trustee of the Theatres Trust and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is a member of the Editorial Board for the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference 2022.

KATHERINE ROCKHILL Musical Director Katherine Rockhill attended the Royal College of Music in London, where she was a Foundation Scholar, major prize-winner and Junior Fellow. Upon graduating, Katherine won the RCM’s most prestigious award, the Tagore Medal, which was presented to her by HRH The Prince of Wales, now King Charles III, at whose personal request she has performed twice at Sandringham House.

In 1998 Katherine was the pianist for Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells 3. She played piano on the Evanescence Synthesis Live Tour 2018,

performing at the Royal Festival Hall and Eventim Apollo, London. In September 2019 Katherine performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the National Symphony Orchestra on board the QM2 travelling from New York to Southampton, and has been invited to perform again in 2023.

West End piano and keyboard credits include Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Crazy for You, Whistle Down the Wind, My Fair Lady, The Light Princess, Miss Saigon, Fanny and Alexander and Pinocchio. She is currently depping on Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre) and Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre).

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Katherine was the pianist and Musical Director for Katherine Jenkins’ tour in 2021 and continues to perform with Katherine regularly as her accompanist.

As well as her busy performance schedule, Katherine has been working as music teacher at her local prep school for over 15 years.

DAN SAMSON Sound Designer Theatre includes Fisherman’s Friends The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour); Passion (Hope Mill Theatre); The Cher Show, The Osmonds, Saturday Night Fever, Cilla The

Musical, Rain Man, Rough Crossing, Cabaret, La Cage aux Folles, This is Elvis, Save The Last Dance For Me, Dreamboats and Petticoats, The Cat and Canary, The Lady Vanishes, The Case of The Frightened Lady, A Judgement in Stone, Rehearsal For Murder, The Sound of Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Twelve Angry Men, Blood Brothers, Dreamboats and Miniskirts, Fame, The Shawshank Redemption, All Creatures Great and Small, The Small Hand and Before The Party (UK tours); Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket, UK tour, The Other Palace); Love Letters (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Berlin Berlin (German tour); Ghost (UK & international tour, Paris Mogador, Moscow MDM); Evita (Dominion, Phoenix, UK and international tour); High Fidelity The Musical (Turbine Theatre); Eugenius (The Other Palace); How the Other Half Loves (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Duke of York’s and UK tour); The Outsider (3 Pin Productions Ltd, Cunard); Echoes in The Night (3 Pin Productions Ltd, P&O); Sideshow, Carrie (Southwark Playhouse); The War of the Worlds (Dominion); Sinatra On Stage (London Palladium); The Glenn Miller Story (London Coliseum and UK tour); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Newcastle Arena and UK tour); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Colchester Mercury and Southwark Playhouse); The Buddy Holly Story, Brief Encounter, Mystery On Air (Theatre Royal, Windsor).

CHARLOTTE SUTTON CDG Casting Director Previously at Chichester The Taxidermist’s Daughter, Doubt, The Long Song, South Pacific (CDG Casting Award nomination), Crave, 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 (Festival Theatre); Local Hero, Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads (CDG Casting Award nomination), The Unfriend, Our Generation, Home, 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/West End; CDG Casting Award nomination), Strife (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre credits: Insignificance, Much Ado About Nothing, Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd); Cock (Ambassadors); Best Of Enemies, Fairview (CDG Casting Award nomination), Death Of A Salesman (CDG Casting Award nomination), The Convert, Wild East, Winter, trade, Dutchman (Young Vic); Company (Gielgud; CDG Casting Award nomination); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndham’s, BAM & LA); Humble Boy, Sheppey, German Skerries (Orange Tree Theatre); Nell Gwynn (ETT and Globe); The Pitchfork Disney, 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, Queen Coal (Sheffield Crucible); Henry V, Twelfth Night Re-Imagined (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Hedda Gabler, Little Shop Of Horrors (Salisbury Playhouse); wonder.land, The Elephantom, Emil And The Detectives,

The Light Princess (National Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket/ international tour).

JOHANNA TOWN Lighting Designer Previously at Chichester The Norman Conquests (Festival Theatre), The Butterfly Lion, The Watsons, Fracked (Minerva Theatre).

Johanna is Chair of The Association for Lighting Production & Design and a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She recently received A Worshipful Company of Lightmongers Award for the promotion of new talent in entertainment lighting.

Theatre includes Beauty and The Beast, The Panto That Nearly Never Was, Much Ado About Nothing, Afore Night Comes (Theatr Clwyd); Fisherman’s Friends The Musical (UK tour); Identical (Nottingham Playhouse/Salford Lowry

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Thing (West End); My Name is Rachel Corrie, Rose, Guantanamo, Our Lady of Sligo, The Steward of Christendom, Haunted, Arabian Nights (New York).

NICK TRUMBLE Voice and Dialect Coach Previously at Chichester, Sweet Bird of Youth (Festival Theatre), The House They Grew Up In (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes Orpheus Descending, Insignificance (Theatr Clwyd); Mary Poppins, Aladdin (Prince Edward); City of Angels (Garrick); Sweet Charity (Donmar); Funny Girl (Savoy); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales); The Price (Theatre Royal Bath/Wyndham’s); Hobson’s Choice (Vaudeville/UK tour); This House (UK tour); Indecent, The Grönholm Method, She Loves Me (Menier Chocolate Factory); A Christmas Carol (Old Vic); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A View from the Bridge (Tobacco Factory).

Films include Bohemian Rhapsody, No Time To Die, The People We Hate at the Wedding, Mary Queen of Scots, The Secret Garden, Pixie.

Television includes Heartstopper, The Crown series 2 – 6, Slow Horses, A Town Called Malice, The Last Kingdom, Dracula.

Training: MA in Voice Studies from The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

Lyric Theatre); Tamerlano (The Grange Festival); The Homecoming (Theatre Royal Bath & UK tour); Peggy For You, The Memory Of Water, The Death Of A Black Man (Hampstead Theatre); Two Ladies (Bridge Theatre); The Habit of Art, Mr Wickham (Original Theatre Tour); Some Like It Hip Hop (ZooNation); Crush The Musical (Big Broad Productions); Guys and Dolls, Queen Margaret, Frankenstein, The House of Bernada Alba (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Paper, Rutherford and Son, Love and Information, Julius Caesar (Sheffield Crucible); Don Quixote (RSC); Brainstorming, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, The Permanent Way (National Theatre); Creditors/Miss Julie, A Perfect Nonsense, Sense and Sensibility (Theatre by the Lake); September in the Rain, Blood Wedding, Her Naked Skin (Salisbury Playhouse); Shook (Papatango); What the Butler Saw, Fences, Dear Lupin, Betrayal, Via Dolorosa, Beautiful

RICHARD WEEDEN for UK Music Management Orchestral Manager UK Music Management provides musicians and orchestral management services for musical theatre productions, live and recording artists and television.

Recent credits include ABBA Voyage, Hairspray, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, Bugsy Malone, Salute To Sinatra, Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show, SIX (West End and UK tour), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.

DAVID WHITE Musical Supervisor Previously at Chichester, Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator for Fiddler on the Roof (Festival Theatre).

Musical Supervisor/Musical Director credits include Fisherman’s Friends the Musical

(UK tour 2022/23); Cabaret (Gothenburg Opera, Sweden); Showboat, The Lion King, Porgy and Bess, The Witches of Eastwick, Martin Guerre, Sunset Boulevard (all West End); My Fair Lady (National Theatre and West End); South Pacific (National Theatre); new production of Les Misérables, Crazy For You and Sunset Boulevard (Wermland Opera/Gothenburg Opera).

Orchestration credits include The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd); Cabaret (Göteborgsoperan, Sweden); A Celebration Of Richard Rodgers On Broadway: Act III (Wigmore Hall for Nash Ensemble); Sunset Boulevard (English National Opera); Top Hat (Malmo Opera); From Here To Eternity (West End); Shrek, Crazy For You and Candide (Wermland Opera, Sweden); Mulan (Singapore Repertory Theatre); Nutcracker, Something Rotten (Karlstad).

Orchestral conducting credits include Tokyo Philharmonic (Budokan Arena); Stockholm Sinfonietta (Sweden, Norway and Finland); Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; London Concert Orchestra; Gothenburg Opera Orchestra; Nash Ensemble.

David was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music for his contribution to the world of musical theatre.

ISABELLE METHVEN LOUIS SUC DEWI WYKES

ASH J WOODWARD Video Designer Also at Chichester this season, Local Hero (Minerva Theatre).

As Video Designer, Theatre includes The 47th, The Divide (Old Vic); Hex (National Theatre); Madam Butterfly, The Beauty Parade (Wales Millennium Centre); Can I Live? (with Fehinti Balogun, COP26 Glasgow); The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Ballet School at Royal Opera House); God’s Dice (Soho Theatre); Armadillo (The Yard); Merrily (Royal Academy of Music); Molly (Edinburgh Festival); Bletchley Park Hut 11A (Bletchley Park); Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre London/Lyric Theatre Broadway).

Other work includes Senior Designer for Jess Glynne: Years and Years (UK arena tour); Senior Designer for Ellie Goulding (TV 2018); Animation for Curtain Up: Celebrating 40 Years of Theatre in London and New York, So You Want a Revolution?: Records and Rebels 1966-1970 (Victoria and Albert Museum); Rolling Stones: Exhibitionism (Saatchi Gallery). www.ashjwoodward.com

EVENTS

THE FAMOUS FIVE A NEW MUSICAL

PRE-SHOW TALK

Monday 24 October, 5.15pm Director Tamara Harvey in conversation with best-selling author Kate Mosse.

FREE but booking is essential.

POLISH-INTERPRETED PERFORMANCE

Wednesday 26 October, 7pm Polish-speaking families can watch the show whilst listening to live Polish language audio interpretation on individual headsets. cft.org.uk/polishinterpreted

RELAXED PERFORMANCE

Friday 28 October, 2pm This performance welcomes any audience member who would benefit from a more relaxed environment. cft.org.uk/relaxedperformances Tickets £16

THE FAMOUS FIVE TREASURE HUNT

Saturday 29 October, 10am – 4pm Steven Pimlott Building & Chichester City Centre Join in the fun of a family treasure hunt.

Weave your way through the streets of Chichester with riddles, codes and other clues to solve the mystery, inspired

by The Famous Five.

FREE for all the family – just drop in!

SCHOOLS THEATRE DAY

Wednesday 2 November, 10.30am Students can learn about the story, staging and characters in a semi-practical 90-minute workshop before seeing the show.

Tickets £13.50 (includes show ticket)

POST-SHOW TALK

Thursday 3 November Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the play. Hosted

by CFT Literary Associate Kate Bassett.

FREE

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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.

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

COMMUNITY

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.

Free Family Fun | Little Notes | Family shows and workshops

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S TA F F

TRUSTEES Alan Brodie Mark Foster Judy Fowler Victoria Illingworth Georgina Liley Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB CBE Harry Matovu KC Mike McCart Holly Mirams Caro Newling OBE Nick Pasricha Philip Shepherd Stephanie Street Tina Webster Susan Wells ASSOCIATES Kate Bassett Charlotte Sutton CDG

Louise Rigglesford Chair

Literary Associate Casting Associate

BUILDING & SITE SERVICES Chris Edwards Maintenance Engineer Lez Gardiner Duty Engineer Daren Rowland Facilities Manager Graeme Smith Duty Engineer DEVELOPMENT Jessey Barnes

Development Officer (Corporate & Trusts)

Julie Field Sophie Henstridge-Brown Charlotte Stroud Karen Taylor

Friends Administrator Senior Development Manager Development Manager Development Manager (Individuals)

Joanna Walker

Director of Development

Senior Community & Outreach Manager

Dale Rooks Brodie Ross

Director of LEAP Deputy Director of LEAP (Maternity Cover)

Riley Stroud

Cultural Learning & Education Apprentice

MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS, DIGITAL & SALES Carole Alexandre Distribution Officer Josh Allan Box Office Assistant Caroline Aston Audience Insight Manager Becky Batten Head of Marketing Laura Bern Marketing Manager Jenny Bettger Box Office Supervisor Jessica Blake-Lobb Marketing Manager (Corporate) Helen Campbell Lydia Cassidy

Deputy Box Office Manager Director of Marketing & Communications

Lorna Holmes Box Office Supervisor Helena Jacques-Morton Senior Marketing Officer James Mitchell Box Office Assistant (Casual) James Morgan Box Office Manager Lucinda Morrison Head of Press Rachael Pennell Marketing and Press Assistant Kirsty Peterson Catherine Rankin Jenny Thompson

Box Office Assistant Box Office Assistant (Casual) Social Media & Digital Marketing Officer

Emilie Trodd Julia Walter Claire Walters Joanna Wiege Jane Wolf

Box Office Assistant (Casual) Creative Digital Producer Box Office Assistant Box Office Administrator Box Office Assistant

DIRECTORS OFFICE Kathy Bourne Executive Director Daniel Evans Artistic Director Patricia Key PA to the Directors Georgina Rae Director of Planning & Projects Julia Smith Board Support

PRODUCTION Amelia Ferrand-Rook Claire Rundle Joshua Vine Nicky Wingfield Jeremy Woodhouse

FINANCE Alison Baker Sally Cunningham Amanda Hart Krissie Harte Katie Palmer

TECHNICAL James Barnes Stage Crew Steph Bartle Deputy Head of Lighting Finley Bradley Technical Theatre Apprentice Leoni Commosioung Stage Technician Adrien Corcilius Video & AV Technician Sarah Crispin Senior Prop Maker Ross Gardner Stage Crew Sam Garner-Gibbons Technical Director Jack Goodland Stage Crew Fuzz Guthrie Senior Sound Technician Lucy Guyver Production Manager Apprentice

Payroll & Pensions Officer Purchase Ledger Assistant Accounting & Report Analyst Finance Officer Assistant Management Accountant

Simon Parsonage

Finance Director & Company Secretary

Amanda Trodd Protozoon Ltd

Management Accountant IT Consultants

HR Emily Oliver Jenefer Francis Gillian Watkins

Accommodation Co-ordinator HR Officer HR Officer

LEAP Anastasia Alexandru Helena Berry Rob Bloomfield Zoe Ellis Isabelle Elston Lauren Grant Jade Hall Hannah Hogg Shari A. Jessie

Youth & Outreach Trainee Heritage & Archive Manager Heritage & Archive Assistant LEAP Co-ordinator Community & Outreach Trainee Deputy Director of LEAP (Maternity Leave)

Youth & Outreach Co-ordinator - Musical Theatre Youth & Outreach Manager Creative Therapist

Producer Production Administrator Trainee Producer Production Administrator Producer

Katie Hennessy Props Store Co-ordinator Mike Keniger Head of Sound Andrew Leighton Senior Lighting Technician Ethan Lowe Followspot Operator Zoe Lyndon-Smith Technical Theatre Apprentice Finlay Macknay Stage Crew Tito Mateo Stage Technican Karl Meier Head of Stage Charlotte Neville Head of Props Workshop Ryan Pantling Sound Technician Charles Parry No. 1 Sound Technician Stuart Partrick Transport & Logistics Assistant Neil Rose Deputy Head of Sound Joe Samuels Senior Lighting Technician James Sharples Senior Stage Crew & Rigger Graham Taylor Head of Lighting Dominic Turner Stage Crew Emily Williamson Assistant Lighting Technician Linda Mary Wise Sound Technician

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THEATRE MANAGEMENT Janet Bakose Theatre Manager Gill Dixon Duty Manager Ben Geering Head of Customer Operations Karen Hamilton Duty Manager Will McGovern Deputy House Manager Sharon Meier PA to Theatre Manager Gabriele Williams Deputy House Manager Caper & Berry Catering Proclean Cleaning Ltd Cleaning Contractor Goldcrest Guarding Security WARDROBE & WIGS Louise Abusenna Isabelle Brook Shelley Gray Abbie Hart Fran Horler Amy Jeskins Abbie Johns Janette McAlpine Rebecca Rungen Stacie Smith Emily Souch Zena Sweetapple Loz Tait Colette Tulley Grace Upcraft

Assistant Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Dresser Deputy Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Dresser Wardrobe Manager Wardrobe Manager Dresser Dresser Head of Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant Wardrobe Deputy Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Head of Wardrobe Wardrobe Maintenance Dresser

Stage Door: Bob Bentley, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Chris Monkton, Sue Welling Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Judith Anderson, Maria Antoniou, Izzy Arnold, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Brian Baker, Richard Berry, Emily Biro, Gloria Boakes, Alex Bolger, Dennis Brombley, Judith Bruce-Hay, Louisa Chandler, Jo Clark, Gaye Douglas, Stella Dubock, Amanda Duckworth, Clair Edgell, Olivia Elgood, Lexi Finch, Suzanne Ford, Suzanne France, Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook, Barry Gamlin, Charlie Gardiner, Jay Godwin, Anna Grindel, Caroline Hanton, Justine Hargraves, Joseph Harrington, Joanne Heather, Daniel Hill, Marie Innes, Keiko Iwamoto, Flynn Jeffery, Joan Jenkins, Pippa Johnson, Julie Johnstone, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Maille Lyster, Judith Marsden, Emily McAlpine, Janette McAlpine, Fiona Methven, Chris Monkton, Ella Morgans, Susan Mulkern, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Kirsty Peterson, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Fleur Sarkissian, Nicola Shaw, Janet Showell, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust, Sue Welling, James Wisker, Donna Wood, Kim Wylam, Jane Yeates We acknowledge the work of those who give so generously of their time as our Volunteer Audio Description Team: Tony Clark, Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Richard Frost, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd

SUPPORT US

SUPPORT OUR 60TH BIRTHDAY APPEAL Birthdays are for sharing and we are working harder than ever to help everyone join in. Your donation will mean more people can be part of our celebratory Festival 2022 Season.

We’re proud of CFT’s 60-year history of making and sharing stories for all.

So to celebrate our 60th Birthday, we’re doing even more to ensure everyone can get involved – whether that’s through providing bursaries for our Youth Theatre, offering relaxed and dementia-friendly performances, or training our volunteer Buddies to assist isolated people with theatre visits. We’re continuing to offer tickets starting from £10 for our Festival Theatre shows, as well as a full range of audio described, captioned and signed performances.

We need your help to raise £100,000 this year to enable everyone to be part of CFT’s birthday year. However much you choose to donate, your generosity will make a real difference to those most in need.

Make your gift today at cft.org.uk/birthdayappeal or call 01243 812915

Th ank yo u

‘What I really like with Chichester is I feel valued here’ Kathy, Access Member

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S U P P O R T E R S 2022

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 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 Huw Evans Val and Richard Evans Sandy and Mark Foster Simon and Luci Eyers Angela and Uri Greenwood Sir Michael and Lady Heller Liz Juniper The family of Patricia Kemp Roger Keyworth Vaughan and Sally Lowe Jonathan and Clare Lubran Selina and David Marks Mrs Sheila Meadows Jerome and Elizabeth O’Hea Graham and Sybil Papworth 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 Christine and Dave Smithers Alan and Jackie Stannah Oliver Stocken CBE Howard Thompson Peter and Wendy Usborne The Webster Family Community Fund TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust Artswork The Arts Society, Chichester The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Bernadette Charitable Trust The Bondi Foundation The Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray's Charity Trust The Foyle Foundation The G D Charitable Trust Hobhouse Charitable Trust The John Coates Charitable Trust

The Noël Coward Foundation The Roddick Foundation The Patricia Routledge Charitable Trust Rotary Club of Chichester Harbour Theatres Trust Wickens Family Foundation FESTIVAL PLAYERS John and Joan Adams Dr Cheryl Adams CBE Judy Addison Smith 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 Janet Bounds Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett Nick and Carol Brigstocke Adam and Sarah Broke Therese Brook Jean Campbell Julie Campbell Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg CS and M Chadha Sally Chittleburgh David and Claire Chitty Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Denise Clatworthy David and Julie Coldwell Mr and Mrs Barry Colgate Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Michael and Jill Cook Freda Cooper Brian and Claire Cox Ken and Lin Craig Susan Cressey Deborah Crockford Jonathan and Sue Cunnison Rowena and Andrew Daniels Jennie Davies The de Laszlo Foundation Yvonne and John Dean Clive and Kate Dilloway Peter and Ruth Doust John and Joanna Dunstan Peter Edgeler and Angela Hirst Glyn Edmunds Anthony and Penny Elphick Caroline Elvy Sheila Evans Gary Fairhall Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Jane Fogg

Robert and Pip Foster Jenifer and John Fox Terry Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Wendy and John Gehr Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Robin and Rosemary Gourlay R and R Green Reverend David Guest Ros and Alan Haigh Dr Stuart Hall Rowland and Caroline Hardwick Dennis and Joan Harrison Roger and Tina Harrison David Harrison Robert and Suzette Hayes Andrew Hine Hania and Paul Hinton Christopher Hoare Dame Denise and Mr David Holt Gill and Tim Howard Pauline and Ian Howat Barbara Howden Richards Richard and Kate Howlett Chris and Lin Hughes John B Hulbert Mike Imms Mrs Raymonde Jay Melanie J Johnson Nina Kaye and Timothy Nathan Rodney Kempster Nigel Kennedy OBE Geoffrey King James and Clare Kirkman Frank and Freda Letch Mrs Jane Lewis Tony and Janet Lindley John and Jenny Lippiett Amanda Lunt Jim and Marilyn Lush Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Nigel and Julia Maile Sarah Mansell and Tim Bouquet Sue Marsh Adrian Marsh and Maggie Stoker Charles and Elisabeth Martin Trevor and 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 Stephen and Ann Miller Jenifer and John Mitchell David and Di Mitchell Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris Terence F Moss Mrs Mary Newby

Bob and Maureen Niddrie Pamela and Bruce Noble Eileen Norris Jacquie Ogilvie Margaret and Martin Overington Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen Graham and Sybil Papworth Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Nick and Jo Pasricha Simon and Margaret Payton Terry and John Pearson Stephen and Annie Pegler Jean Plowright Barbara Pope John Pritchard Trust Brian and Margaret Raincock David Rees The Rees Family Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Adam Rice John and Betsy Rimmer Robin Roads Philip Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ken and Ros Rokison Graham and Maureen Russell Clare Scherer and Jamie O'Meara Dr David Seager John and Tita Shakeshaft Mrs Dale Sheppard-Floyd Jackie and Alan Sherling David and Linda Skuse Monique and David Smith Simon Smith Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha David and Unni Spiller Marilyn Stein Elizabeth Stern Barbara Stewart Peter Stoakley Anne Subba-Row Professor and Mrs Warwick Targett Harry and Shane Thuillier Mr Robert Timms Miss Melanie Tipples Alan and Helen Todd Tricia Tull Peter and Sioned Vos David Wagstaff and Mark Dunne Ian and Alison Warren Brett Weaver and Linda Smith Chris and Dorothy Weller Bowen and Rennie Wells Judith Williams Angela Williams Lulu Williams Nick and Tarnia Williams 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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S U P P O R T E R S 2022

PRINCIPAL PARTNERS Platinum Partner

Prof E.F Juniper and Mrs Jilly Styles

Gold Level

Silver Level

CORPORATE PARTNERS Addison Law Criterion Ices

FBG Investment J Leon Group

Jones Avens Oldham Seals Group

The Bell Inn William Liley Financial Services Ltd

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TRANSFERRING TO THE WEST END FROM JANUARY 2023

HHHHH ‘Pure comedy gold’ WhatsOnStage

HHHH ‘Impeccable performances’ Daily Telegraph

HHHH ‘A wicked wit: delicious’ The I newspaper

‘The funniest new play by a British dramatist since Alan Ayckbourn was at his peak’ Country Life

Amanda Abbington Frances Barber Reece Shearsmith

THE UNFRIEND A new play by Steven Moffat

Mark Gatiss’s sell-out production of Steven Moffat’s hilarious comedy transfers to the West End for a strictly limited run.

HHHH Sunday Times

HHHH Guardian

CRITERION THEATRE 15 JANUARY – 16 APRIL CRITERION-THEATRE.CO.UK