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WOMAN IN MIND

By Alan Ayckbourn

WELCOME

KATHY BOURNE AND DANIEL EVANS PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAMUS RYAN

FESTIVAL 2022

A warm welcome to this performance of Woman in Mind.

Chichester audiences are no strangers to Alan Ayckbourn’s work; indeed, it’s hard to imagine any theatre audiences, whether in the UK or internationally, being unfamiliar with at least a few of Alan’s remarkable plays.

The fact that he was the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards speaks for itself. We are especially delighted to offer this new production of one of his most dazzlingly inventive and heart-stopping plays.

It is also a special pleasure to welcome Jenna Russell, who plays the title role, and director, Anna Mackmin.

Jenna is beloved of audiences from the West End to Broadway in wide-ranging and award-winning roles, notably those of Stephen Sondheim; she is making

a long overdue Chichester debut. Anna is once again taking up the reins of her directorial career, having written an award-winning novel. We wish them both, and the superb ensemble cast, a very enjoyable time in Chichester.

Even though autumn is upon us, there are two more Festival 2022 productions still to open. A musical version of Local Hero, based on the Bill Forsyth film, is written by David Greig with songs by the legendary Mark Knopfler; and there’s a treat for all the family in The Famous Five: A New Musical, a co-production with Theatr Clwyd, based on the Enid Blyton novels.

In November, we launch into our lively Winter season – a collection of some of the best touring productions currently on offer in the UK. We hope you enjoy this performance and to see you again soon.

Executive Director Kathy Bourne

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Artistic Director Daniel Evans

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LOCAL HERO Book by David Greig, Music & Lyrics by Mark Knopfler Based on the Bill Forsyth film CFT Artistic Director Daniel Evans directs a new musical version of this funny and enchanting story, featuring new songs by the legendary Mark Knopfler (formerly of Dire Straits).

MINERVA THEATRE 8 October – 19 November #LocalHero

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Music & Lyrics by Theo Jamieson, Book by Elinor Cook Based on the books by Enid Blyton The Famous Five go on a daring mission with the future of the planet at stake!

An exciting and heart-warming family treat celebrating adventure, bravery and friendship, directed by Tamara Harvey.

A co-production with Theatr Clwyd

FESTIVAL THEATRE 21 October – 12 November #FamousFive

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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

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 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

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

Enjoy a contemporary British menu featuring local and seasonal ingredients, a selection of excellent wines and top-notch service in our stylish and award-winning restaurant The Brasserie – the closest restaurant to the Theatre.

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.

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

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

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

WOMAN IN MIND

By Alan Ayckbourn

Before rehearsals began, we asked director Anna Mackmin why Woman in Mind – which premiered in 1985 – is still a play for our times.

The title itself – Woman in Mind – tells us this is a play with a woman squarely at its centre. How significant is that?

Isn’t it shocking that’s still a rarity? Off the top of my head, I can’t think of other plays where an ‘ordinary’ middle-aged woman with everyday concerns and responsibilities, ie one who’s not a queen or a murderer, never leaves the stage. What are the great female roles? Lady Macbeth? Appears in nine out of 29 scenes.

ANNA MACKMIN

Despite the fact that over the last few years, women themselves have been making theatre which puts women centre stage, Woman in Mind is still unique in its focus.

Does Susan’s age have particular significance?

A woman losing all sense of her own identity and purpose as she hits the menopause years? I’d say – yup, her age is important!

One of the privileges of this job so far has

been my email correspondence with Alan Ayckbourn. In the script he describes Susan as being in her 40s. I asked if I could cast her a bit older and he said two things: one – he was very young when he wrote it, and two – yes. Thirtyseven years after the play was first performed, I felt more people would recognise a woman in her 50s going through some of what Susan is experiencing.

JENNA RUSSELL

The play’s sub-title, December Bee, is interesting in that context.

I love this version of the title. A bee – a creature that gathers nectar, pollinates, makes honey. But can’t survive in the snow, isolated and frozen out.

The translation of December Bee (as used in the play) is – remember me. Who are we if we’re not held in memory by someone?

Or ourselves?

Conversations about mental health are much more prevalent now than they would have been in the 1980s; does that make it more recognisable today?

I suppose we do at least now pay lip service to the seriousness of mental health; our awareness has changed, we all know we should take a broken mind as seriously as a broken limb – but, disgracefully, mental health services are the first to be affected by economic cuts.

Mental health is still relegated to a woefully lesser status. There’s a long way to go before we truly put the whole of who a person is at the centre of healing.

The structure of the play, and Ayckbourn’s use of language to convey Susan’s fracturing mental state, is very striking.

Alan has an immaculate ear for the musicality of language. He is the genius of punctuation, which is a gift for a director. But mostly an actor! If you do nothing else in the rehearsal room other than adhere strictly to the punctuation marks, you’ve got the beginnings of a performance. Gerald’s language flows; he speaks in long sentences, he doesn’t expect to be interrupted. So watch out for the moments when he isn’t speaking like this. They are key to understanding him. Susan, particularly as the play goes on, has so many full stops. Her punctuation is fracturing as her mind fractures.

But again, really notice the points in the play when her speech flows. These are the beats when her instinct and intellect are working together; when she’s speaking from the heart.

Bill? Well, it’s brilliant. He can go from yes, to no, and back to yes again. And mean them all. In one sentence. ‘Yes. Yes. No. Yes.’ It’s deceptively simple. Alan deals with complex ideas, but with such deftness and economy.

Does Ayckbourn’s popularity and accessibility obscure his genius?

Alan is often thought of as a ‘comedy writer’, as if comedy were a lesser skill. To which I say, ‘It’s not!’ The muscle of laughter frees people. People are functioning from the best of themselves when they’re laughing, they’re opened up, non-judgmental; but, and this is vital, the trick is that this openness makes space for fresh ideas to come lasering NIGEL LINDSAY STEPHANIE JACOB FLORA HIGGINS

in. To create joy, to transport people and provoke in them all those other experiences too, that is rare. Alan’s a craftsperson who creates art.

The play has an apparently naturalistic setting but we’re seeing the world through Susan’s increasingly confused eyes. How are you approaching the staging?

Alan gives great stage direction too. Lots of notes about the lighting and sound. Which I assume is in part because he’s a director and the first director of his own writing as well.

There are even a couple of sound cue jokes.

I haven’t directed for a few years so I’m lucky to be reunited with the team of people I’ve done most work with in the past: designer Lez Brotherston, sound and video designer Simon Baker and lighting designer Mark Henderson.

They are immensely skilled and inspiring.

I’m not sure it’s often spoken about, but the MATTHEW COTTLE ORLANDO JAMES MARC ELLIOTT

‘casting’ of this side of a production is every bit as vital as the actors you work with. And it is with. It’s a collaboration. A shared aesthetic you can lean into. So, to answer your question, what we’re focusing on are Alan’s notes about weather. Weather as, if you like, a metaphor for Susan’s state of mind. And since technology has advanced considerably over the last 37 years, we’re piggybacking on Alan’s notes and using video as well as lighting and sound to explore this.

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‘Humanity takes itself too seriously.

It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.’

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

‘In my comedy I try and puncture almost a crusade with me to stri Joan Rivers, comedian/actor

‘THE LITERATURE OF JOY IS INFINITELY MORE DIFFICULT, MORE RARE, AND MORE TRIUMPHANT THAN THE BLACK AND WHITE LITERATURE OF PAIN.’ GK Chesterton, The Defendant

‘Jesters do often prove prophets.’

William Shakespeare, King Lear

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‘Comedy is a weird but very beautiful thing. Even though it seems foolish and silly and crazy, comedy has the most to say about the human condition.

Because if you can laugh, you can get by. You can survive when things are bad when you have a sense of humor.’

Mel Brooks, All About Me!

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Peter Ustinov, actor/writer

‘I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour.’

Dawn French, actor/writer/comedian

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‘THE ONLY HONEST ART FORM IS LAUGHTER, COMEDY. YOU CAN'T FAKE IT... TRY TO FAKE THREE LAUGHS IN AN HOUR – HA HA HA HA HA – THEY'LL TAKE YOU AWAY, MAN. YOU CAN'T.’ Lenny Bruce, comedian/social critic

‘COMEDY IS SIMPLY A FUNNY WAY OF BEING SERIOUS.’

Sir Winston Churchill, statesman/writer

Y SERIOUS THING.’ tragedy Carol Burnett, writer/actor

‘When humour works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel.

It has to come from someplace real.’

‘A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I’ll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time.

Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.’ Stephen King, writer

Tina Fey, actor/writer/comedian

‘COMEDY IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN TRAGEDY – AND A MUCH BETTER TRAINING, I THINK. IT'S MUCH EASIER TO MAKE PEOPLE CRY THAN TO MAKE THEM LAUGH.’ Vivien Leigh, actor

‘Drama is easy. hard.’

Comedy’s Peter Bogdanovich, writer/ director/actor

WOMAN IN MIND

By Alan Ayckbourn

CAST (in order of appearance) Susan Bill Andy Tony Lucy Gerald Muriel Rick

Jenna Russell Matthew Cottle Marc Elliott Orlando James Flora Higgins Nigel Lindsay Stephanie Jacob Will Attenborough

The action of the play occurs over the course of 48 hours and takes place in Susan’s garden and beyond, in the 1980s.

There will be one interval of 20 minutes.

First performance of this production of Woman in Mind at Chichester Festival Theatre, 23 September 2022.

First performed in Scarborough at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round on 30 May 1985.

Anna Mackmin Lez Brotherston Mark Henderson Simon Baker

Director Designer Lighting Designer Sound and Video Designer

Kate West John Page Yvonne Milnes Harriet Saffin

Production Managers Costume Supervisor Props Supervisor

Nikki Colclough Morag Lavery Jamie Craker Harriet Saffin Jasmine Smith

Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Managers

Production credits: Set Construction by Bowerwood Production Services; Set textured and painted by Richard Nutbourne Scenic Studio; Rain by Water Sculptures; Revolve by The Revolving Stage Company; Production carpenters Kieren Patrick, Level Event Limited; Costume maker Anne Nichols; Costume hires Angels Costumiers; additional Sound equipment

by Creative Technology; Video equipment supplied by Stage Sound Services; Rehearsal room St Mary Abbots Centre.

With thanks to Alan Ayckbourn; Noluthando Boqwana, Gerry Knold, and Josh Vine.

Rehearsal and production photographs Johan Persson Programme Consultant Fiona Richards Programme design Davina Chung

Supported by the Woman in Mind Commissioning Circle: Rosalind Bowen, Steve and Sheila Evans, Jon and Ann Shapiro, Howard M Thompson and those who wish to remain anonymous.

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BIOGRAPHIES

JENNA RUSSELL

WILL ATTENBOROUGH Rick Previously at Chichester, Judd in Another Country (Minerva Theatre and Trafalgar Studios).

Theatre includes James Watson in Photograph 51 (Noël Coward Theatre); title role in Hamlet, Christian in Festen, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chris Keller in All My Sons, Selsdon in Noises Off, Stanhope in Journey’s End, and Footlights Spring Revue: Dressing Down which he also wrote (ADC Theatre/Cambridge University).

Television includes Our Girl, 1983, Major Crimes, Home Fires, War and Peace, Midwinter of the Spirit, You, Me and the Apocalypse, Father Brown, In The Flesh, Utopia, The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Parts I & 2, Holding the Baby.

Films include The Outpost, Where Hands Touch, Hunter Killer, Dunkirk, Denial.

MATTHEW COTTLE Bill Previously at Chichester The Chalk Garden, The Schoolmistress (Festival Theatre), The Deep Blue Sea (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes Habeas Corpus, Communicating Doors (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Windsors (Prince of Wales Theatre); Rough Crossing (UK tour); Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse); How The Other Half Loves (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Duke of York’s and tour); Our Country’s Good, A Small Family Business, The Habit Of Art (National Theatre); Quartermaine’s Terms (Wyndham’s Theatre); A Chorus Of Disapproval (Harold Pinter Theatre); Comic Potential (Lyric Theatre); Neighbourhood Watch (Stephen Joseph Theatre/New York/UK tour/Tricycle); Dear Uncle, Way Upstream (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Racing Demon (Sheffield Crucible); Taking Steps (Orange Tree); Absurd Person Singular, Season’s Greetings (Theatre Royal Windsor and tours); Man Of The Moment, Private Fears In Public Places, Just Between Ourselves (Northampton Theatres); Round And Round The Garden (Theatre Royal Windsor); Noises Off (Liverpool Playhouse); Rough Crossing, The Ghost Train, An Evening With Gary Lineker, Party Piece, The Sunshine Boys, Rattle Of A Simple Man (UK tours).

Television includes Life After Life, Pistol, The Responder, Bridgerton, The Windsors, Outlander,

Defending The Guilty, Endeavour, Pure, Traitors, Murder On The Blackpool Express, Citizen Khan, Plebs, Unforgotten, The Dresser, Man Down, Hoff The Record, Fried, Doctors, The Job Lot, Pramface, Holby City, Spooks, Sex, The City And Me, EastEnders, Life Begins, The Commander, Down To Earth, The Infinite World Of HG Wells, Comin’ Atcha, Get Well Soon, A Perfect State, Karaoke, An Independent Man, Game On, Drop The Dead Donkey, Men Of The World, Harry Enfield & Chums, Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors, Taking The Floor.

Films include Seize Them!, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Blessed, Chaplin, Bright Young Things, A Christmas Carol.

MARC ELLIOTT Andy Theatre includes Nehru in The Father And The Assassin, NT50 (National Theatre); Ladislav Sipos in She Loves Me (Sheffield Crucible); Jeff in [title of show] (online stream); Munoz/ Pancho Vargas in City Of Angels (Garrick Theatre/Donmar Warehouse); Kamal Abdic in The Girl On The Train (Duke of York’s); Ross in Macbeth (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Oscar in Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); The Big I Am, Roderigo/Lodovico in Othello, Julio Valveras in Paint Your Wagon (Liverpool Everyman); Rapunzel’s Prince in Into The Woods (Manchester Royal Exchange); McQueen in Urinetown (Apollo Theatre and The Other Palace); Vince in Tape (Trafalgar Studios); Ben in Wild Turkey, Jean in Miss Julie and Claire in The Maids (Naach Theatre Company); Akthar in The History Boys (Wyndham’s and National Theatre); Jack in Lord Of The Flies (RSC).

Television includes Call The Midwife, Holby City, NT50, Midsomer Murders, EastEnders, The Invisibles, MI High, Lewis, Mile High.

Radio includes Maps For Lost Lovers, Bombay Talkie, The Tenth Man, Jadoo!, The Mob. FLORA HIGGINS Lucy This is Flora’s professional theatre debut.

Television includes The Crown.

Graduated from the University of Manchester and trained with the National Youth Theatre.

STEPHANIE JACOB Muriel Previously at Chichester, Mme Mantalini in Nicholas Nickleby (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes Mrs Buxton/Miss Todd in Small Island, Doris in Absolute Hell, Miller in Saint George and the Dragon, Mokhova in Burnt By The Sun, Briggs in Her Naked Skin, Rummy Mitchens in Major Barbara, Akulina in Philistines, Peppina in The Rose Tattoo, Elsie in Stanley (National Theatre); Mother/Cardinal in Women Beware Women (Shakespeare’s Globe); Doctor/Sheridan in The Madness Of George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Kat in The Strongbox (Vault Festival); Nurse in A Streetcar Named Desire (St Ann’s Warehouse New York and Young Vic); Mrs Oakes in Flare Path (Original Theatre Company); Miss Mockridge in Dangerous Corner (Salisbury Playhouse); Burns in The Quick (Tristan Bates Theatre); The Madwoman in As You Desire Me (Playhouse Theatre); Pirelli in Sweeney Todd (Ambassadors Theatre); Mrs Adams in Be My Baby (Soho Theatre); Paulina in The Winter’s Tale (A and BC Theatre); Miss Prism in The Importance Of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Nurse in Romeo And Juliet (English Shakespeare Company); Prossy in Candida (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Lise in Cyrano De Bergerac (RSC).

Television includes Maternal, Call The Midwife, Doctors, Genius: Einstein, Mr Selfridge, The Ones Below, Vincent Van Gogh: Painted With Words, The Crimson Petal And The White, Foyle’s War, Midsomer Murders, Daniel Deronda, EastEnders, Home Farm Twins, Casualty.

Radio includes Shifts.

Films include In The Heart Of The Sea, Sightseers, The Iron Lady, The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.

Writing includes The Strongbox (Vault Festival), Again (Trafalgar Studios), A Night Visitor (Radio 4, Writers’ Guild Radio Drama Award), Three-Eyed Wolf, collected poems in the voice of Boudica.

ORLANDO JAMES Tony Previously at Chichester, Barclay in Another Country (Minerva Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath).

Theatre includes Him in Even Stillness

Breathes Softly Against A Brick Wall (Orange Tree); Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Giovanni in ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Malcolm in Macbeth (Cheek by Jowl: London/Paris/New York/world tours); Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love (Noël Coward Theatre); Ferdinand in The Duchess Of Malfi (Eyestrings Theatre/Oxford Playhouse/Soho Theatre); Captain Greville in The Madness Of George III (Theatre Royal Bath/ UK tour and West End); Prince of Wales in Curious (Riverside Studios); Holofernes in Judith: A Parting From The Body (White Bear Theatre); Sebastien in Country Feedback, Orlando in 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic); Albert in Sense (Southwark Playhouse).

Television includes Chloe, Six Wives, Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Special.

Radio includes Chain Gang, Slaughterhouse 5, Ruminations Upon Mortality.

Films include Wonder Woman 1984, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor, The Laureate.

NIGEL LINDSAY Gerald Theatre includes The Trials, The Same Deep Water As Me, Morphic Resonance (Donmar Warehouse); Teddy in Faith Healer (Abbey Theatre; Irish Times Theatre Awards 2022 nomination for Best Supporting Actor); God of Carnage (Theatre Royal Bath); Harrogate, Sucker Punch, Push Up, King Lear and The Woman Before (Royal Court); Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls (Phoenix and Piccadilly Theatres); Bull (Young Vic); Speed-The-Plow (Playhouse Theatre); Bolingbroke in Richard II (RSC); title role in Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; Olivier and WhatsOnStage Award nominations for Best Actor in a Musical); Dr Harry Hyman in Broken Glass (Tricycle; WhatsOnStage Best Supporting Actor Award); Under the Blue Sky (Duke of York’s Theatre); Awake and Sing (WhatsOnStage nomination for Best Supporting Actor), The Homecoming, Romance, The Earthly Paradise, The Tower (Almeida); A Small Family Business, The Pillowman, The London Cuckolds, Blue Remembered Hills and Dealer’s Choice (National Theatre, the latter also West End); The Tempest (Old Vic); The Real Thing (Donmar Warehouse/ West End/Broadway); Bedroom Farce (Aldwych Theatre).

WILL ATTENBOROUGH MATTHEW COTTLE MARC ELLIOTT FLORA HIGGINS

Television includes Midsomer Murders, The Chelsea Detective, The Salisbury Poisonings, This Time with Alan Partridge, Tin Star, Plebs, The Last Kingdom, The Capture, Magnum PI, No Offence, Safe, White Gold, Innocent, Unforgotten, Victoria, Death in Paradise, Foyle’s War, Poirot, The Tunnel, The Fear, Inspector George Gently, Best of Men, Spooks, Silent Witness, Waking the Dead, Rome, Brass Eye, Jam and Jerusalem, A Dance to the Music of Time.

Films include Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson, Four Lions (British Comedy Awards Best British Comedy Performance in Film nomination), Scoop, Mike Bassett: England Manager, On A Clear Day, Rogue Trader.

Nigel has also worked extensively on radio.

Twitter: @NigelLindsay1 JENNA RUSSELL Susan Previously at Chichester, Celebrating Sondheim (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes title role in Piaf STEPHANIE JACOB

ORLANDO JAMES

(Nottingham Playhouse/Leeds Playhouse); Francesca in The Bridges of Madison County (Menier Chocolate Factory); Helen in Fun Home (Young Vic); Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus (Duke of York’s Theatre); Little Edie in Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse; Evening Standard Awards longlist for Best Musical Performance); Rose in Di and Viv and Rose (Vaudeville Theatre); Penelope in Urinetown (St James’s & Apollo Theatres); Colleen in Mr Burns (Almeida); Mary in Merrily We Roll Along (Menier/Harold Pinter Theatre; Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, Evening Standard Award longlist); Marilyn in Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre); Enid in That Day We Sang (Manchester International Festival); Phyllis in Season’s Greetings (National Theatre); Baker’s Wife in Into The Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Dot/Marie in Sunday In The Park With George (Wyndham’s Theatre/Studio 54 New York; Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Tony Award nomination for Leading Actress in a Musical, Theatreworld Award Broadway Debut Performance); Amy in Amy’s View (Garrick Theatre); Sarah Brown in Guys

and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre; Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical).

Television includes Born and Bred, Gentleman Jack, Call The Midwife, Ladies Paradise, On The Up, EastEnders, Midsomer Murders, Home To Roost, as well as being the performer of the theme tune to Red Dwarf.

Films include The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Mortdecai, P’Tang Yang Kipperbang, Sacred Hearts, The Fear.

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C R E AT I V E T E A M

ALAN AYCKBOURN Writer A playwright and theatre director, to date Alan Ayckbourn has written 87 plays. The Girl Next Door attracted 4-star reviews when it premiered in June 2021 at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre where nearly all his plays are first staged. Indeed, his most recent play, Family Album, opened there in early September. Before the pandemic his other work, having won countless awards, could be seen on stage and television throughout the world, so it was good news when this year Birthdays Past Birthdays Present was at last able to be staged in Germany to a terrific response.

Relatively Speaking, How The Other Half Loves, Season’s Greetings, Absent Friends, A Chorus of Disapproval and Absurd Person Singular have all been recently revived, with The Norman Conquests and Way Upstream

having revivals at Chichester Festival Theatre – now happily joined by Woman in Mind.

In New York, biennial visits with the SJT company performing his plays for the Brits off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theatres regularly received an enthusiastic reception.

Sadly, Covid meant their 2020 visit with the aforementioned Birthdays Past Birthdays Present had to be cancelled.

He wrote a best-selling guide to writing and directing, The Crafty Art of Playmaking. This is still in print. His first ‘novel’, The Divide, was published in 2019.

Inducted into American Theatre’s Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts, he became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre.

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SIMON BAKER Sound and Video Designer Previously at Chichester I Am Shakespeare (Minerva Theatre).

Extensive theatre credits include Girl From The North Country (Old Vic/West End/UK & Ireland tour/Broadway (Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination)/Public Theater NY/Canada/ Australia); Hex (National Theatre); A Christmas Carol (New York/San Francisco/US tour/Old Vic; Tony Award for Best Sound Design); Wuthering Heights (also Video Design; Wise Children/UK tour); Bagdad Café (also Video Design; Wise Children/Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer, Three Kings, Lungs (Old Vic In Camera live streams); The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk (Wise Children/Kneehigh/Bristol Old Vic); Romantics Anonymous (Wise Children/Bristol Old Vic/UK & US tours); Lungs, Present Laughter, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future

Conditional, High Society (Old Vic); Malory Towers (also Video Design; Wise Children/Bristol Old Vic/UK tour); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Crucible); Matilda The Musical (UK/ Asia/US/Australia tours; Helpmann and Olivier Awards); Wise Children (Wise Children/Old Vic/ UK tour); The Birthday Party, The Moderate Soprano, Di and Viv and Rose (West End); Brief Encounter (West End/UK tour); Pinocchio (National Theatre); Twelfth Night, Romantics Anonymous, The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk (also US tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Little Match Girl (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Grinning Man (West End/Old Vic); 946 The Story Of Adolphus Tips (Shakespeare’s Globe/ Kneehigh UK tour); Groundhog Day (Broadway/ Old Vic); The Roaring Girl (RSC).

Films include Wise Children’s Wuthering Heights.

He is the Technical Director & Digital

Producer for Wise Children, an Associate Artist at the Old Vic (London) and a Fellow of GSMD. Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

LEZ BROTHERSTON Designer Previously at Chichester Me and My Girl, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Fiddler on the Roof, Forty Years On, My One and Only, The Schoolmistress (Festival Theatre).

Theatre/Musicals/Opera includes Malory Towers (Wise Children); Flowers for Mrs Harris, Show Boat, Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Crucible); Romantics Anonymous, Twelfth Night, 946 (Kneehigh/Shakespeare’s Globe); Oh! What a Lovely War (Stratford East/West End); Seminar, Hysteria (Hampstead Theatre); The Rover, The Empress, Much Ado About Nothing

(RSC); Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Under the Blue Sky (West End); Sister Act (West End, worldwide); Women Beware Women, Really Old Like 45, Playing With Fire (National Theatre); Hedda Gabler, Design for Living, Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic); Duet for One (Almeida/West End); My City, Measure for Measure (Almeida); L’Elisir d’Amore (Glyndebourne).

Dance credits include a long collaboration with Matthew Bourne including The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Edward Scissorhands, Dorian Gray, Highland Fling, Cinderella, The Car Man and Play Without Words; Seven Deadly Sins (Royal Ballet); The Soldier’s Tale, Into the Woods (ROH2); The Nutcracker (Scottish Ballet). He designed, co-wrote and co-directed Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Adam Cooper (Japan

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and Sadler’s Wells); Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, A Christmas Carol, Carmen, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Brontës, Dracula (Northern Ballet).

Awards include Tony Award 1999 for Swan Lake (AMP); 12 Olivier nominations, winning in 1998 for Cinderella (AMP); UK Theatre Best Design Award 2016 for Show Boat and Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield Crucible); Critics’ Circle 2018 Ninette de Valois Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance; 2018 Outer Critics’ Circle Award for The Red Shoes. He was awarded the OBE in The Queen’s New Year Honours 2022 for services to Dance and Theatre.

Lez is an Associate Artist of Matthew Bourne’s company, New Adventures.

Trained at Central School of Art and Design.

MARK HENDERSON Lighting Designer Previously at Chichester Murder On The Orient Express, Oklahoma!, Flowers For Mrs Harris, Present Laughter, Sweet Bird Of Youth, Forty Years On, An Enemy Of The People, Young Chekhov, Gypsy (and West End), Sweeney Todd (and West End), The Scarlet Pimpernel, A Patriot For Me, Valmouth, The Mitford Girls, Feasting With Panthers, The Cherry Orchard (Festival Theatre); Copenhagen, For Services Rendered, Private Lives (and West End), ENRON (and Royal Court, West End and Broadway) (Minerva Theatre).

He was an Associate and Lighting Consultant to the National Theatre and Lighting Adviser to the Almeida. He was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards for Lighting Design,

was awarded a Tony Award in 2006 and has also received a Welsh BAFTA. Mark has lit extensively for all the major theatre, opera and dance companies in the UK and over 70 West End productions, notably Girl From The North Country, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Iceman Cometh, Copenhagen, Democracy, Hamlet, The Real Thing (all also on Broadway), The Bodyguard, The Sound Of Music, Grease, Spend Spend Spend, Neville’s Island, Follies, All My Sons, American Buffalo, Funny Girl.

He has lit over 80 productions for the National Theatre including Racing Demon, Les Parents Terribles, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (all also on Broadway), All My Sons, Mourning Becomes Electra, The History Boys, The Habit Of Art, One Man Two Guvnors.

Opera and dance includes productions for ENO, the Royal Opera, WNO, Opera North and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, LCDT, Rambert Dance Company, the Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Mark designed the lighting for the Kate Bush ‘Before The Dawn’ shows at Hammersmith Apollo.

JENNA RUSSELL ORLANDO JAMES

ANNA MACKMIN Director Theatre includes Di and Viv and Rose (Hampstead Theatre and Vaudeville Theatre); Hedda Gabler, The Real Thing and Dancing at Lughnasa (The Old Vic); Cloud Nine (TMA Best Director Award), The Crucible (TMA Best Director Award), Iphigenia, Teeth ‘n’ Smiles, The Arbor and Me and My Girl (Sheffield Crucible); Really Old, Like Forty Five, Intolerance: Shoot Get Treasure Repeat and Chatroom/Burn/Citizenship (National Theatre); Hedda Gabler (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Under the Blue Sky and In Celebration (Duke of York’s Theatre); Dying For It and The Lightning Play (Almeida Theatre); Ghosts (The Gate Theatre); Mammals (Bush Theatre); Knight of the Burning Pestle (Young Vic); Breathing Corpses and Food Chain (Royal Court); The Dark (Donmar Warehouse); Auntie and Me (Assembly Rooms/ Edinburgh Fringe: Fringe First Award, Wyndham’s Theatre and Gaiety Theatre, Dublin); In Flame (Ambassador’s Theatre and Bush Theatre); Airswimming (Battersea Arts Centre).

Anna’s first novel Devoured was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize 2022, and won the New Angles Book of the Year and the East Anglian Best Novel Award.

She originally trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

EVENTS

WOMAN IN MIND PRE-SHOW TALK

Tuesday 27 September, 5.45pm Director Anna Mackmin in conversation with best-selling author Kate Mosse.

FREE but booking is essential.

POST-SHOW TALK

Thursday 6 October Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the play. Hosted

by CFT Literary Associate Kate Bassett.

FREE

TOUCH TOURS

Friday 14 & Saturday 15 October Our Touch Tours enable blind or visually impaired customers attending the audio-described performances of Woman in Mind to explore the set, props and costumes. The tours take place 90 minutes before the audio-described performances.

FREE but booking is essential.

BACKSTAGE TOUR

Saturday 15 October, 10.30am Explore behind the scenes at CFT in the latest of our monthly 60-minute tours.

Tickets £8

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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.

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.

Free Family Fun | Little Notes | Family shows and workshops

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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

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Julie Field Sophie Henstridge-Brown Charlotte Stroud Karen Taylor

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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

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

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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 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 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 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) Mrs Margaret Baumber Franciska and Geoffrey Bayliss Lucy Berry Julian and Elizabeth Bishop Martin Blackburn Sarah and Tony Bolton Janet Bounds Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett 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

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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.

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