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Chichester Festival Youth Theatre

Cinderella

Written by Philip Wilson Music by Jason Carr Lyrics by Philip Wilson and Jason Carr

“For young people, knowing you can identify as whoever you really think you are is more and more relevant, and CFYT has always felt like a space where you can do that.”

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Every week, CFYT members meet at locations across the county to discover new skills and explore new stories, make friends, build confidence and, most importantly, “laugh until your sides hurt”* (*direct quote from a member).

We currently have opportunities for Year 6 students upwards to join drama, dance, musical theatre and technical theatre sessions. We also have groups for young people with additional needs (CFYT Wednesday in Horsham and CFYT Friday in Chichester).

Our weekly sessions take place in locations across West Sussex for you to meet like-minded people and find a space where you can just be yourself!

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Welcome

A very warm welcome to this performance of Cinderella.

A few weeks ago, some of the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre members you’ll see on stage today took part in a unique charity gala celebrating 125 years of Noël Coward.

A Marvellous Party took place at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre, and they shared the stage with an astonishing roll-call of some of the most distinguished luminaries of British theatre, including Dame Patricia Routledge, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi.

Needless to say, they sang and performed with all the skill, panache, enthusiasm and dedication familiar to anyone who’s enjoyed their outstanding Chichester productions over the years, and could stand proudly alongside those titans of the industry.

For 21 years, CFYT have taken over the Festival stage at Christmas, delighting audiences young and old. Cinderella continues their tradition of presenting an original play with new music that’s been written especially for the Youth Theatre, and we’re delighted that Philip Wilson and Jason Carr have created a spellbinding new retelling of the classic folk tale.

We also welcome back director Jon Pashley, whose CFYT production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was one of the highlights of Festival 2023, and set designer Simon Higlett.

Next year, our Youth Theatre will celebrate its 40th anniversary.

The lyrics to one of the Noël Coward songs which CFYT performed at the gala had the refrain: ‘There's a younger generation, Knock, knock, knocking at the door.’ The talent of the 72 cast members you’ll see today, and 24 members of the young technical team backstage, promise a rosy future for theatre.

Look out for our great February half-term family shows – we hope to see you again for one of those. In the meantime, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Justin Audibert Artistic Director

Kathy Bourne Executive Director

Kathy Bourne and Justin Audibert Photograph by Peter Flude

The Littlest Yak Written and directed by Barra Collins Based on the book written by Lu Fraser and illustrated by Kate Hindley This musical adaptation of the award-winning children’s book will delight audiences young and old with beautiful puppets and catchy tunes.

Gertie is in a rush to grow up and be just like the big yaks. But what if there are some things only a Gertie can do?

A gorgeous story celebrating you being perfect. Join us this half term for a dazzling adventure into the heart of the Himalayas.

Ages 3+

17 – 22 February Minerva Theatre

Check out the full line-up of drama, music,

Dinosaur World Live Olivier Award-winner for Best Family Show 2024 Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family!

Discover a pre-historic world of astonishing (and remarkably life-like) dinosaurs.

A special meet and greet after the show offers a chance to make a new dinosaur friend. Don’t miss this fun and mind-expanding Jurassic adventure.

Ages 3+

20 – 23 February Festival Theatre

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Creative Industries

Careers Day Friday 31 January 2025, 9.30am – 2.30pm.

Suitable for Year 9+ and graduates.

Are you – or a young person you know – curious about a career in theatre, visual arts, design, writing or music, but don’t quite know where or how to get started?

Then come along to our Creative Industries Careers Day on Friday 31 January.

Hosted in association with Pallant House Gallery, Chichester College and Creative County West Sussex, and suitable for KS3 to university graduates, we’re inviting the next generation of curious minds to an unmissable day of discovery in the creative industries.

Dive into inspiring sessions with creative organisations large and small. Meet with artists, designers, tattooists, theatremakers, writers and creatives, and find out about careers that you didn’t even know existed.

If you’re a student choosing GCSE options, next step pathways, or you’re ready to survey the employment landscape, then this careers fair is for you. Whether you’re looking to explore design, writing, music, a skilled trade, technical production, digital creation, gaming, public speaking, theatre

or more, we can help. Receive guidance, and quiz experts on apprenticeships, trainee schemes, career pathways and employment opportunities.

Focussing on creative roles across a variety of industries, it’s your opportunity to access presentations, panel discussions, interactive stands, CV sessions – all led by professionals at the top of their game.

Angela Watkins, LEAP Projects Manager, says: ‘We want to demystify the many pathways leading into creative careers, and for our Careers Day to be informative and fun. We’ll have outstanding panels of speakers from prestigious organisations such as LW Theatres, Frantic Assembly and White Light, and freelance playwrights, designers and actors at the top of their game, alongside senior CFT leaders, to share their journeys and areas of expertise. We are excited to welcome young people through our doors on 31 January.’

The Creative Industries Careers Day is free to attend but group booking is essential.

We recommend a minimum two-hour visit, either for the morning or afternoon session.

If you’re a teacher interested in attending with a school group, please advise us of your subject lead, year group, number of attendees and focus of visit, and we can curate a bespoke itinerary.

Our Café will be open for refreshments throughout the day.

For more information visit, cft.org.uk/creativecareers

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Chichester Festival Youth Theatre

Cinderella

Written by Philip Wilson Music by Jason Carr Lyrics by Philip Wilson and Jason Carr

Telling Tales

‘I will marry whoever this slipper fits!’

There are umpteen, almost infinite, variations on the Cinderella story, old and new. If stories were shoes, Cinderella would fill a very large wardrobe. It’s a tale that we return to, time and time again.

In fact, back in 1893, the English folklorist Marian Roalfe Cox compiled a hefty tome entitled Three-Hundred and Forty-Five Variants of Cinderella!

In my research, I was fascinated to learn that perhaps the original source (I say perhaps since, as with most folk tales, this has been disputed) is to be found in the ancient story of Rhodopis, as told by the Greek historian Strabo in the first century BC. Rhodopis – or Rosy-Cheeks – was a Greek courtesan living in the Egyptian city of Naucratis. One day, while she was bathing in the River Nile, an eagle swooped down and snatched her golden sandal and flew away with it to the city of Memphis. There, the king was holding court outside, and the eagle dropped the shoe into his lap. Stirred by the beautiful shape of the sandal, the king became obsessed with finding out who it belonged to. He sent out men across his lands, until Rhodopis was found in her home. And ended up – you’ll be unsurprised to hear – marrying the king.

Many elements of the tale we know are missing here, though: and it is not until around the ninth century AD that we find the earliest recognisable Cinderella story, the Chinese tale of Yeh Hsien. This is Members of the company in rehearsal

maybe the first retelling that combines a young girl whose mother has died wearing a magic dress to a festival, her rivalry with her stepmother and stepsister, and a search for the wearer of a mislaid shoe.

After numerous retellings, including appearances in The Arabian Nights and Giambattista Basile’s Pentamerone (1634), there is a major fork in the fairy-tale road. One, based on Charles Perrault’s 1697 Cendrillon, winds through the centuries towards perhaps the best-known adaptation, the 1950 Disney film. This is the version with a fairy godmother, a pumpkin carriage, rats that turn into

coachmen, a midnight curfew and, of course, a glass slipper.

The other road – darker, more hazardous, less well-travelled – follows the version not written but recorded by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm: they may have curated and tweaked stories but mainly they set down narratives whose origins, as with all tales, are found in age-old oral traditions. Even this one has variants, including Thousandfurs; but the core story – known as Aschenputtel or Cinder Girl – involves the spirit of Cinderella’s mother, a wish-giving tree, three balls rather than one, a golden slipper,

and some pretty gruesome shoe fittings, as the stepsisters embark on increasingly desperate attempts to make the feted footwear fit.

This is the path I have taken, following in the footsteps of writers such as Angela Carter, Carol Ann Duffy and Philip Pullman (whose Grimm Tales I previously adapted for the stage). As well as Stephen Sondheim, of course, whose musical Into The Woods drew on the same source.

Along the way, I stopped off en route to take in elements from earlier versions of this story, as well as other fairy tales – including the central character undertaking seemingly impossible trials, mother and daughter looking identical, and locking people up – to create a special story for the audiences in the Festival Theatre.

Alongside integrating these sources, Jon Pashley – the director of this premiere of my new version – and I talked about why this story has retained our interest throughout the centuries. We were struck by how Cinderella has to cope, at a very young age, with bereavement – what counsellors call a ‘world-shattering event’ – and discussed the term ‘emotional ossification’, which relates to how young people who experience trauma are emotionally frozen like bone, until they find release and are able to move on.

We also considered how the notion of having to adjust to and cope with the unexpected arrival of step-siblings might resonate with our young cast. As you’ll see, these conversations fed their way into this retelling…

While writing, I had in mind the baroquely designed films of Powell and Pressburger, the gothic invention of Tim Burton and the ritual and symbolism of Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates. But as with all folk tales, your imagination is the key source, to conjure up, create and complete the world required.

The Prince is holding a ball – and everyone is invited...

Philip Wilson Writer

Ballgowns throu the ages The layers of sheer tulle on Cinderella’s dresses heighten the idea that she is surrounded by magic.

Costume designs by Abigail Caywood

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In our version of Cinderella, the prince hosts three balls at the palace. So Cinderella needs three dazzling dresses! Dresses are very important to her because her mother loved to dance and go to parties, so she had a beautiful collection of ballgowns.

Our costume designer Abigail (Abby) was inspired by couture ballgowns and wedding dresses from the 1950s to today: The layers of sheer tulle on Cinderella’s dresses heighten the idea that she is surrounded by magic.

In the 1950s, formal balls were held in London during the summer months so that aristocratic young women could meet suitable husbands. These young women, called debutantes, would order ballgowns from couturiers, so each one was unique.

In the early 1950s, most ball dresses had a tight, strapless bodice with a full, long skirt.

The top layer was usually made of organza or other light fabric that was gathered at the waist band.

Many of these young women had impressive jewellery collections. Abby’s designs for Cinderella’s ballgowns sparkle and shine like the pearls and beading that embellished the dresses and complemented ladies’ jewellery.

For Cinderella’s ballgown, I was inspired by the idea that she is surrounded by magic.

But I wanted this magic to look fragile, as though when the spell breaks, the dresses will disappear.

To create this effect of fragmented magic I was inspired by the mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt. I decided to layer small embellishments like beads and sequins on top of tulle to create a similar effect.

Gustav Klimt often used gold leaf in his paintings and many of his famous artworks show people wearing stunning costumes.

Top: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt, 1907. Neue Galerie, New York.

Above: A fanfare of trumpets for Deb of the Year at the Daily Mirror Debutantes ball, 1957. Photo Mirrorpix/Alamy.

The silhouettes of Cinderella’s dresses were inspired by bridalwear. Wedding dresses often still use the shapes of classic ballgowns from history.

By the late 1970s, private balls held in grand houses began to be replaced with charity balls. Lots of different people could now attend balls because anyone had the chance to buy a ticket, rather than needing a private invitation.

Designers had started to create dresses that could be bought ‘off-the-peg’.

New designers began to emerge who produced more wearable, less structured evening wear.

During the 1980s, Diana, Princess of Wales sparked a renewed interest in the royal family, which also created a new demand for spectacular evening dresses.

By the 1990s, the fashion industry realised the power of celebrities wearing their designs. Popular styles of ballgown were inspired by glamorous red-carpet events like the Oscars. Ballgowns remained as important as ever as photographs taken at events went around the world.

Over the past 70 years the ballgown has held a special place within the world of fashion. This has been upheld by the British fascination with the royal family, celebrity glamour and pride in traditional craft.

Even the most experimental designers continue to incorporate traditional shapes, colours or materials.

Top: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala, 2024. Photo Alamy.

Lashana Lynch attending the premiere of No Time To Die at the Royal Albert Hall, 2021. Photo Alamy.

Cinderella Wordsearch Find these Cinderella inspired words hidden below. Words can be found forwards, down and diagonally. Visit cft.org.uk/cinderella-programme-answers to check your answers.

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Maze Help the Prince find Cinderella. Visit cft.org.uk/cinderella-programme-answers to check your answers.

Watch your garden flourish Help the tree to bloom by drawing in its leaves, blossom or fruit. Can you create a tree Cinderella and her mother would love to see in their garden?

Kitty-Primrose Alden

Sophie Bell

Amelia Boxall-Tullett

Annalise Bradbury

Libby Bradbury

Daisy Chapman

Felix Dobrijevic

Isla Donaldson

Amelie Evans

Emerson Fisher

Laila Fletcher

Tayla Goodeve

Callum Jurd

Zibs Klidjian

Sasha Kramp

Dominic Lacey

Poppy Lloyd

Freddie Lyons

Reuben McGreevy

Keira McGuiness

Luka Mechergui

Will Metcalfe

Thea Miller

Melody Moles

Jude Reynolds

Laurence Roberts

Henry Rooney

Amelie Russell-Burns

Devon Sandell

Martha Saxton

Charlotte Stubbs

Olive Tarsey

Summer Taylor

Hannah Thomas

Kathryn Toms

Dolly Vann

Asha Christie-Verma

Flo Clarke

Teddy Corcoran

Reuben Dallinger

Olivia Dickens

Olive Dixon

Angela Griffiths

Tilly Groves

Scarlette Guilfoyle

Raefe Hakes

Ivor Hogg

Niamh Hughes

Joseph Mackley

Teddy Mackley

Jack Mallender

Hugo Marchant-Williams

Blythe Marks

Megan May

Willow Moss

Bethan Moyler

Neve Moyler

Amy Noble

Lilly Pearce

Lucy Pitts

Barnaby Scutts

Maya Sewrey

Milly Sheard

Alex Solly

George Stanbridge

Henry Strong

Jack Walter-Nelson

Benjamin Webb

Daisy Wintle

Alex Witcomb

Austin Woodward

Dilshad Yilmaz

Chichester Festival Youth Theatre

Cinderella Written by Philip Wilson Music by Jason Carr Lyrics by Philip Wilson and Jason Carr

Cast (in alphabetical order) Kitty-Primrose Alden Sophie Bell Amelia Boxall-Tullett Annalise Bradbury Libby Bradbury Daisy Chapman Asha Christie-Verma Flo Clarke Teddy Corcoran Reuben Dallinger Olivia Dickens Olive Dixon Felix Dobrijevic Isla Donaldson Amelie Evans Emerson Fisher Laila Fletcher Tayla Goodeve Angela Griffiths Tilly Groves Scarlette Guilfoyle Raefe Hakes Ivor Hogg Niamh Hughes Callum Jurd Zibs Klidjian Sasha Kramp Dominic Lacey Poppy Lloyd Freddie Lyons Joseph Mackley Teddy Mackley Jack Mallender

The Potter Villager Middle Cinderella / Palace Guard Cinderella The Painter The Second Stepsister Villager Villager The Gull Villager / Palace Guard The Musician The Second Stepsister Villager Villager Villager The Farrier The Flower Seller The Dressmaker The First Dove The Stepmother The First Stepsister The Builder The Barker / The Second Dove The Swan The Lord Chamberlain Villager / Palace Guard Villager The Prince The Woodcutter The Hunter The Parakeet Villager The Jackdaw

First performance of this new production of Cinderella at Chichester Festival Theatre, 17 December 2024.

The Cobbler Villager Villager The Fruit Seller The First Stepsister Villager / Palace Guard Villager Villager Villager Villager Villager Villager / Palace Guard Villager The Ropemaker Cinderella Villager Villager Villager / Palace Guard Villager The Parakeet The Owl Villager Young Cinderella Villager The Chief Beater The Prince The Priest The Stepmother Young Cinderella Villager Villager Villager Mother Villager / Palace Guard The Butcher Villager / Palace Guard The King Villager The Father

Hugo Marchant-Williams Blythe Marks Megan May Reuben McGreevy Keira McGuiness Luka Mechergui Will Metcalfe Thea Miller Melody Moles Willow Moss Bethan Moyler Neve Moyler Amy Noble Lilly Pearce Lucy Pitts Jude Reynolds Laurence Roberts Henry Rooney Amelie Russell-Burns Devon Sandell Martha Saxton Barnaby Scutts Maya Sewrey Milly Sheard Alex Solly George Stanbridge Henry Strong Charlotte Stubbs Olive Tarsey Summer Taylor Hannah Thomas Kathryn Toms Dolly Vann Jack Walter-Nelson Benjamin Webb Daisy Wintle Alex Witcomb Austin Woodward Dilshad Yilmaz All other roles are played by members of the company.

Special thanks to all our incredible supporters of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and Technical Youth Theatre.

Special thanks to the Cinderella Patrons and Supporters Circles: Veronica J Dukes, Sara Kelly, Dr Linda Shaw OBE, Katherine and Greg Slay, Bryan Warnett and all those who wish to remain anonymous.

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Creative Team Director Set Designer Costume Designer Orchestrator Musical Director Lighting Designer Sound Designer Choreographer Puppet Designer Puppet Director Assistant Director Voice & Dialect Coach Intimacy Director

Jon Pashley Simon Higlett Abigail Caywood Jason Carr Audra Cramer Emma Chapman Gregory Clarke Julia Cave Charlie Tymms Steve Tiplady Kate Potter Marcia Carr Bethan Clark

Production Manager Costume Supervisor Wigs Supervisor Props Supervisor

John Page Loz Tait Natasha Pawluk Victoria Baylis

Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Head Chaperone Deputy Head Chaperone Chaperones

Robin Longley Sharon Hobden Jasmine Smith Laura Hackett Janette McAlpine Boo Chapman Jenny Beadle, Ellie Bradbury, Tom Chown, Sydney Craddock, Willow Farrington-Wheeler, Lyla Garner-Gibbons, Amy Glenister, Milena Harrison, Emily McAlpine, Lesley McGovern, Susan Mulkern, Alison Nicholds, Sue O'Donoghue, Ella O'Keeffe, Sue O'Keeffe, Isabel Owen, Ellie Philpott, Lewis Renninson, Sian Rodd, Jack Taylor, Margaret Todd, Laura Wadey

Technical Youth Theatre & Chichester College Technical Students Junior Assistant Stage Managers

Oscar Jannece, Ayden Petter, Charlie Rossetter, Tali Swain Junior Costume Assistants CJ Biles, Robert Dancey, Izzy Hoff, Dave Joyce, Erin Lloyd, Ryan Owen, Clara Roberts, Phoebe Sharp, Lucy Tyrrell, Joe R Walker, Ella Watkins Junior Wigs, Hair & Make-up Assistants Bryony Petter Junior Follow Spot Operators Josie van Deelen, Jess Hobson, Levi Whitley Junior Radio Mic Runners Reuben Hooper, Alice Jones, Alex Proops, Kieran Turnbull

Musicians Keyboard Percussion Recorders / Saxophone Guitars Violin / Viola Trombone

Audra Cramer Gerry Berkley Lou Bradbury Connor Bannister Nancy Taylor Tim Wade

Musical Numbers There Was a Time A Season of Remembering I’ve Lost My Way Look in the Mirror / I’ve Lost My Way Free as a Bird The Rough and Tumble of Love Who Is She? Swept Off My Feet Let Love Be Your Guiding Light There will be one interval of 20 minutes.

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

Special thanks to Jon Barnes, Chris Davey, Murray Hughes, Darragh O’Leary, Jody Ellen Robinson.

Production credits: Set constructed by Scena Pro; production carpenter Tom Humphrey; Lighting programmer Laura Howells; Puppet Fabrication Assistant Josie Corben, Emily Tupholme; Props made by Sarah Crispin, Michael Smart and Anna Davis-Brown; Junior Prop Makers Bella Buckham and Joe I Walker Rehearsal photographs Tim Hills Production photographs Manuel Harlan Programme design Davina Chung Cover image Bob King Creative, photograph Seamus Ryan

Creative Team Jason Carr Composer, Co-Lyricist & Orchestrator Jason studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. After winning the 1988 Vivian Ellis Prize for Young Writers of Musicals, he composed the musical Born Again at Chichester Festival Theatre in 1990. As Associate Composer at Chichester 2003-5, he wrote music and lyrics for The Water Babies and Six Pictures of Lee Miller (nominated British Composer Awards). His musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol, created for CFYT, has twice played Chichester, as well as West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep.

The company

Also for CFYT, Jason composed Peter Pan (2006), James and the Giant Peach, and The Snow Queen.

Jason has composed incidental music for over 50 plays at the NT, RSC, in the West End and on Broadway, including 17 productions for the late Steven Pimlott, notably The Master & Margarita and 5/11 (CFT).

Orchestration credits include the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Sunday in the Park with George, La Cage aux Folles and A Little Night Music (all also Broadway, winning the Drama Desk Award and two Tony nominations for Best Orchestrations),

and Fiddler on the Roof (Olivier nomination).

Orchestration credits at CFT include Noel/ Cole: Let’s Do It!, Carousel, and Funny Girl.

Jason has accompanied many notable artists, including Elisabeth Welch, Michael Ball, Anne Reid and Dame Felicity Lott, and has had a long association with Maria Friedman.

Marcia Carr Voice Coach Previously at Chichester, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CFYT/West Dean Gardens).

Marcia is an Associate Artist with National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and has her own theatre companies, Arts Outburst (formerly Impetuous Kinship)

and Creative Blast.

Vocal Coach credits for the National Youth Theatre Rep Company include Othello, Animal Farm, Much Ado About Nothing, Gone Too Far, BAKKHAI, War of the Worlds and Twelfth Night. She has also delivered voice modules, workshops and show support for Playing Up and Stepping Up along with delivering masterclasses and online resources for teachers and performers. She also delivers vocal support for her own company productions, including those touring Europe.

Directing/physical direction credits include The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, WW1 at Coalhouse Fort, Gray’s 100, Christmas at Coalhouse,

Alice in Wonderland (all for Impetuous Kinship); Sugar and Spice (Futures Theatre Company); West Side Story, Assassins, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, Punk Rock, Equus, 1984, Canterbury Tales, Company (UWL/London College of Music); Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Harry From the Hill (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch).

As a performer she has toured nationally and internationally including The Wild Party (Vita Award nomination, South Africa; Best Ensemble nomination, Stage and Television Award); Pigtales (Manchester Evening Standard Award Best Fringe Performer 2000); The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (Buxton Festival Best Actor 2007, Best Production nomination).

Marcia has a chapter on ‘Tuning the Body’ in The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music and Theatre published by Bloomsbury Press.

Trained at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Julia Cave Choreographer Previously at Chichester, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CFYT/West Dean Gardens).

Theatre credits as Choreographer and Movement Director: Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer (Orange Tree Theatre); The Smeds and the Smoos (UK tour, international & West End); Peter and the Wolf (Waterperry Opera Festival/Opera Holland Park); Around the World in 80 Days (Devonshire Park, Eastbourne); Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Twelfth Night (East London Shakespeare Festival); The Tempest (Jermyn Street); Treasure Island (Bolton Octagon); The Children, Home I’m Darling, Pride and Prejudice, Sleeping Beauty, Goodnight Mr Tom, Treasure Island, Our Day Out, Arabian Nights, Dick Whittington, Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds); Pictures of Dorian Gray (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough & tour); The Wizard of Oz (Salisbury Playhouse); The Importance of Being Earnest, Othello, A Midsummer

Night’s Dream, Nell Gwynn, The Winter’s Tale (Changeling Theatre); Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre); Infinite Joy (Southwark Playhouse); Northanger Abbey (UK tour); The Picture of Dorian Gray (English Theatre Frankfurt); Clown Hearted (Vaults Festival); The Taming of the Shrew (Brockley Jack); King Lear (The Space); Women of Troy (The Blue Elephant); Cabaret Havana, The Night the War Ended, Paperboy, Help! Get Me Out of This Musical (British Youth Music Theatre); Catastrophe Bay, Merrily We Roll Along (NYMT).

As Director: Jack and the Beanstalk (Central Theatre Chatham), Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast (White Rock, Hastings); Cinderella (Royal Leamington Spa Centre); Dick Whittington (Newark Palace Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Wyllotts Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (CoDirector, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds); Stig of the Dump (Resident Director, UK tour & West End).

Trained at Mountview. juliacave.co.uk Abigail Caywood Costume Designer Previously at Chichester, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CFYT/West Dean Gardens).

Credits as Costume Designer include Punchdrunk’s The Last Rite (London); as Set and Costume Designer, The Concrete Jungle Book (HighRise Theatre at The Pleasance Theatre), Boudica (RCSSD/ Curve Theatre Leicester), Every Brilliant Thing (Cygnet Theatre, San Diego).

She has worked extensively as a Costume Designer in the United States, where her credits include Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (Old Globe Theatre), Our Great Tchaikovsky (San Diego Repertory Theatre & The Other Palace Theatre), MAESTRO: The Art of Leonard Bernstein (San Diego Repertory Theatre & 59E59 Off-Broadway), Marry Me a Little (Theatre Out) and Lincoln: An American Story (Pasadena Playhouse & San Diego Birch Theatre).

In the UK, her Costume Supervisor credits include La bohème (Longborough Festival); Grud (Hampstead Theatre),

Tarinn Jon Pashley Callender Nick Haverson Lucy McCormick

The Accountants (Factory International/ Hong Kong), BalletBoyz: Deluxe (2022 UK tour); in the US, Globe For All: Twelfth Night (Old Globe Theatre), Shockheaded Peter (Cygnet Theatre: San Diego Theatre Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design), The Illusion (North Coast Repertory Theatre), Hamlet, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth (New Swan Shakespeare Festival).

She was Deputy Head of Wardrobe on Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City, which she helped develop and build as part of the original costume design team. She was a semi-finalist for the National Theatre’s 2021 Linbury Prize for Stage Design. She received an MFA in Scenography from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and a BA in Drama from the University of California Irvine.

Emma Chapman Lighting Designer Previously at Chichester, Coram Boy (Festival Theatre/Lowry).

Theatre includes Self-Raising (Graeae/ Edinburgh Fringe/UK tour); The Third Man (winner of a Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre), Christina Bianco: In Divine Company, Marjorie Prime (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Mirror Crack’d (UK tour); The Lion (Southwark Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company/ Daegu International Musical Festival, South Korea); Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre, Soho); The Mountaintop (Theatre 503 & Trafalgar Studios); The Painter (Arcola Theatre); Rosenbaum’s Rescue (Park Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, Théâtre de la Ville, Luxembourg, Oper Graz); Utility (Orange Tree Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatr Clwyd); The Human Ear (Paines Plough); Joanne (Clean Break Theatre Company & Soho Theatre); Boi Boi is Dead (Leeds Theatre Trust & West Yorkshire Playhouse); Rose (Edinburgh Fringe); The Machine Gunners, The Planet

and Stuff, Run (Polka Theatre); Dublin Carol (Donmar); Sex with a Stranger (Trafalgar Studios); The Sea Plays (Old Vic Tunnels); Parallel Hamlet (Young Vic); Dick Whittington (Bury St Edmunds).

Opera and Ballet includes Aci by the River (London Handel Festival); The Seven Deadly Sins (London Philharmonic Orchestra, BAC); The Paradis Files (Graeae Theatre Company, UK tour); Xerxes, Carmen (Royal Northern College of Music); Così fan tutte (Royal College of Music); The Pied Piper (Opera North); Il Turco in Italia

(Angers/Nantes Opera & Luxembourg); Rumplestiltskin (London Children’s Ballet, Peacock Theatre).

With Lucy Osborne and Howard Eaton, Emma designed and realised The Stage Awards ‘Theatre Building of the Year 2015’ – Roundabout commissioned by Paines Plough. Emma has co-authored the book ‘Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life’ with Rob Halliday.

Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Bethan Clark Intimacy Director Bethan Clark is a Fight and Intimacy Director.

Previously at Chichester, Coram Boy (Festival Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CFYT/West Dean Gardens).

Credits include Princess Essex (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Hot Wing King (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Cowbois (RSC & Royal Court); Brassed Off, A Little Princess (Theatre by the Lake); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare North Playhouse); Wendy: A Peter Pan Story

(Theatre Royal Bath/The Egg); Romeo and Juliet (Royal Exchange Manchester); Our Country’s Good, Wedding Band, God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith); The Swell (Orange Tree Theatre); Sovereign, Hello and Goodbye, A View from the Bridge, Everything is Possible: The York Suffragettes (York Theatre Royal); The Odyssey Episode 5 – The Underworld (NT Public Acts); Dixon and Daughters (National Theatre/Clean Break); The Lavender Hill Mob (UK tour); The Prince (Southwark Playhouse); HEX (as Fight Consultant, National Theatre); The Witness (Avant Cymru); Snowflakes (Dissident Theatre/Park 90); My Brother’s Keeper (Theatre 503); As You Like It (Northern Broadsides); The Bolds, Marvin’s Binoculars (The Unicorn); The Last Ship (Northern Stage & US tour); Macbeth (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch/Derby Playhouse); Our Lady of Kibeho (Royal & Derngate/Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Effect (English Theatre Frankfurt); My Beautiful Laundrette (Leicester Curve); Lord of the Flies (Theatr Clwyd/Sherman Theatre); As You Like It (NT Public Acts/ Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Othello (Liverpool Everyman); Thick As Thieves (Clean Break/Theatr Clwyd); Kes (Leeds Playhouse); Mold Riots (Theatre Clwyd); The Hired Man (Queen’s Hornchurch/Hull Truck/Oldham Coliseum).

Gregory Clarke Sound Designer Previously at Chichester, Assassins, The Wind in the Willows, Pinocchio (2020 & 2021), The Wizard of Oz, The Butterfly Lion, Sleeping Beauty, The Watsons, The Midnight Gang, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Mrs Pat, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Theatre includes Romeo and Julie, All of Us, Medea, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Misterman (National Theatre); A View from the Bridge, Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath/ West End); The Deep Blue Sea, The Lover & The Collection (Theatre Royal Bath); Pacific Overtures, Close Up: The Twiggy Musical, The Third Man, Brian & Roger, The Boy Friend, The Bridges of Madison

County, The Bay at Nice, Fiddler on the Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical, My Night with Reg, The Vortex, A Voyage Round My Father, Rosmersholm. All of Us, The Goat, or Who Is Silvia?, The Truth (West End); Richard III (Druid/Lincoln Center NY); The Color Purple (Broadway); All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Alchemist (RSC); Journey’s End (Duke of York’s/New York, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design); Equus (Gielgud/New York, Tony Award for Best Sound Design); Welcome Home Captain Fox!, My Night with Reg, Versailles, The Night Alive, A Voyage Round My Father, The Philanthropist (Donmar); Clarence Darrow, A Flea in Her Ear, National Anthems, Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); The House of Shades, Albion, Against, The Merchant of Venice, Cloud Nine (Almeida); The Night Alive, The Philanthropist, Pygmalion (New York).

Audra Cramer Musical Director Audra Cramer is a musical director, arranger, and teacher and has worked as both an MD and performer in New York City and the regional US before moving to the UK in 2017.

Recent credits include The Devil Wears Prada (Associate Digital Music Programmer, Dominion Theatre); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (MD & Music Supervisor, The Other Palace and UK tour); SIX (Dep MD/Joan, Lyric Theatre); Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (MD, Hope Mill Theatre).

Audra is a guest tutor at Mountview and also runs her own voice and piano studio, teaching private lessons from beginners to professionals all over the world.

Simon Higlett Set Designer Previously at Chichester: Coram Boy, The Chalk Garden, The Norman Conquests, Mrs Pat, Amadeus, Stevie (also Hampstead); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Singin’ in the Rain, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Collaboration/Taking Sides, Nicholas

Julia Cave

Nickleby (all West End transfers); A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Grapes of Wrath, The Circle, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. For CFYT: The Jungle Book, The Wind in the Willows, Pinocchio, The Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty, The Midnight Gang, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Witches, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Forthcoming designs include A Man For All Seasons (Bath and UK tour), Derren Brown – Only Human (tour), L’Elisir d’Amore (Garsington). Among recent designs: Saturday Night Fever (Copenhagen), Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street), Tosca (Grange Festival), Private Lives, Noises Off (West End & UK tours), Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory (UK tour), Derren Brown’s Showman (West End/UK tour), The Barber of Seville (Garsington), The Yeoman of the Guard (Grange Festival), Big the Musical (West End), Song at Twilight, Racing Demon (Bath), Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute (Scottish Opera), Singin’ in the Rain (West End, international tour).

Earlier highlights: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour), Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (RSC/West End), Blithe Spirit (West End/ USA), The Price (Bath/West End), All Our Children (Jermyn Street), The Force of Change (Royal Court), Yes Prime Minister, Amy’s View, Hay Fever (West End), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Donmar),

Goats Gruff, The Witches (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre as Director includes Bad Jews (Arts Theatre); Welcome to Thebes (London College of Music); GHBoy (Charing Cross Theatre); Boudica, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Twelfth Night (Central School of Speech and Drama); Comedy on a Station Platform (also translator, Warwick Arts Centre Studio); Much Ado About Nothing (B2 Belgrade Theatre). As Associate Director, Romeo and Juliet, Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); In Praise of Love (Theatre Royal Bath); Venus and Adonis (RSC Swan/Civic Theatre Dublin); Bad Jews (St James Theatre/Haymarket/ national tours); Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York’s/national tour).

Jon studied English and Theatre at Warwick before graduating with an MFA in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck, University of London.

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stockholm), Haunted (off-Broadway), The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs Warren’s Profession (Washington DC), Peer Gynt, The Brothers Karamazov (Manchester Royal Exchange), Enemies, Whistling Psyche (Almeida), Kean, Pygmalion (Old Vic), A Russian In The Woods, Singer, Thomas More (all RSC).

Jon Pashley Director Previously at Chichester as Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CFYT/West Dean Gardens); as Associate Director, The Butterfly Lion, Running Wild (& national tour), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Festival Theatre & national tour), The Three Billy

Kate Potter Assistant Director Kate is the Youth & Outreach Coordinator at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Previous Directing credits include Off Your Chest R&D (Salisbury Playhouse).

Credits as Assistant Director include The Ramayana Reset and Remote (MAST Mayflower Studios), Can You Hear Me Major Tom (RSCoYT). Her production of The Ramayana Reset was also performed at the National’s Dorfman Theatre as part of the Connections Festival 2022.

Kate was the Associate Artist for Wiltshire Creative’s first ever SHIFT project from 2020-2021, a project designed to amplify young voices through the arts.

Kate also worked as an actor and theatre-maker with Theatre For Life from 2018-2022, performing in Silent Mind (MAST Mayflower Studios/TIE tour) and partaking in the R&D for Roots & Branches (The Point).

Steve Tiplady Puppet Director Steve has been working with puppets since 1987. He formed Indefinite Articles with his partner, Sally Todd, in 1995 to make theatre from objects and materials, since when

they have given about 2500 performances in 15 countries. In 2002 they won a Time Out award for their show Dust; their show Claytime has become a byword for interactive theatre and been performed over 750 times from tiny nursery spaces to the souk in Sharjah.

As a performer Steve won an OBIE with Improbable Theatre for 70 Hill Lane and was part of Theatre Rites’ groundbreaking show Houseworks. He has worked at the Welsh National Opera, the Unicorn, the Royal Opera House and Spoleto Festival USA. His television work includes puppeteering Milky Joe, The Mighty Boosh.

The company; below left Philip Wilson and Dolly Vann

As a director he has created over 70 puppet shows including The Mouse Queen which played at the New Victories in New York, and Journey Home which toured China, both for the Little Angel Theatre.

He has directed 20 shows for the Little Angel and 15 for Garlic Theatre. He has created shows for companies in France, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Slovenia, Lebanon and Norway. Most recently he directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Norwich Puppet Theatre.

As a puppet director he has worked many times at the Royal Shakespeare Company (including Venus and Adonis),

also at the National Theatre, National Theatre of Wales, National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Opera House, Complicité and Shakespeare’s Globe. Most recently he puppet directed Anna Hibiscus’ Song for Utopia Theatre.

Charlie Tymms Puppet Designer Previously at Chichester, Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre/Regent’s Park Theatre/UK tour), The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, The Witches, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Noah.

Theatre as Puppet Designer: The Lord

of the Rings (Watermill Theatre & Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, world tour), The Dream Thief (National Theatre of Iceland), The Dinosaur Show (Southwark Playhouse & UK tour), Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time (Burg Theatre Vienna & Southbank Centre), The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse), Book of Mormon (UK tour), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Palace Theatre & UK tour); as Puppet fabrication/lead sculptor: Spirited Away (London Coliseum & Japan), Stranger Things (Phoenix Theatre), My Neighbour Totoro (Gillian Lynne Theatre), Spirited Away (London Coliseum), Life of Pi, Harry Potter

and The Cursed Child, Angels in America (Broadway), The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre), Dr Dolittle (Music & Lyrics/UK tour), Gnomus (Kew Gardens).

Films include Isle of Dogs, Artemis Fowl, Frankenweenie.

Trained at Central School of Art and Design, Goldsmiths University of Arts, Motley Theatre Design School.

Philip Wilson Writer & Co-Lyricist Philip’s other work as an adaptor includes Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales (Nick Hern Books) and JL Carr’s A Month in the Country (Salisbury Playhouse). He is the co-author, with Giles Taylor, of Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric (Oberon Books).

The company

Philip is also a director, including at Chichester If Love Were All, In Praise of Love (Minerva Theatre).

Other recent theatre credits include: The Voice of the Turtle, The Oyster Problem (Jermyn Street Theatre); A Single Man (Park Theatre); Starcrossed (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Boy With The Bee Jar (Hope Theatre); Perfect Nonsense, After The Dance (Theatre by the Lake); The Star, The Norman Conquests, Noises Off, Dr Faustus, The Astonished Heart/Still Life (Liverpool Playhouse); As You Like It (Storyhouse, Chester); Beacons (Park Theatre); his own adaptations of Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales (Oxo Tower Bargehouse & Shoreditch Town Hall); The Three Lions (St. James Theatre & Edinburgh & UK Tour); How Many Miles

to Babylon? (Lyric Belfast); Toro! Toro! (national tour); Twist of Gold (Polka); the books of Ruth and 2 Samuel in Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre & Westminster Abbey); The Importance of Being Earnest/ Travesties (Birmingham Rep); The Found Man (Traverse); Un Uomo Trovato (Teatro della Limonaia, Florence); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Sheffield Crucible); Breaking The Code (Northampton Theatre Royal).

He is the former Artistic Director of Salisbury Playhouse (2007–11), where he directed The Game of Love and Chance, The Constant Wife, The Picture, Private Lives, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Winslow Boy, his own adaptation of JL Carr’s A Month in the Country, What the Butler Saw, People At Sea, Alphabetical Order, Corpse!.

He also directed and designed Blackbird, Faith Healer and Toro! Toro! (TMA Award nomination, Best Show for Children and Young People).

Philip spent two years as a producer for the BBC, and was the Performance Consultant for the film Shakespeare in Love.

He won the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme bursary in 1995, and in 2015 was awarded the David Fraser/Andrea Wonfor Directing for Television Bursary. philipwilsondirector.com

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Staff Trustees Mark Foster (Chairman) Neil Adleman Jessica Brown-Fuller Jean Vianney Cordeiro Paddy Dillon Tasha Gladman Vicki Illingworth Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB CBE Caro Newling OBE Nick Pasricha Philip Shepherd Stephanie Street Hugh Summers Directors Office Justin Audibert Kathy Bourne Keshira Aarabi Helena Berry Angela Buckley

Artistic Director Executive Director Projects & Events Co-ordinator Heritage & Archive Manager Projects, Events & Green Book Co-ordinator

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Charlotte Neville Stuart Partrick

Hannah Hogg

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Shari A. Jessie Kate Potter

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Neil Rose Ernesto Ruiz Anna Setchell (Setch) James Sharples

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Dale Rooks Angela Watkins

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Grace Upcraft Josh Vine Isobel Walter Claire Walters Joanna Wiege Jane Wolf

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Stage Door: Bob Bentley, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Chris Monkton, Sue Welling Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Judith Anderson, Maria Antoniou, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Ieva Bagdonaite, 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, Lexi Finch, Suzanne Ford, Suzanne France, Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook, Barry Gamlin, Charlie Gardiner, Lyla Garner-Gibbons, Caroline Hanton, Justine Hargraves, Joseph Harrington, Joanne Heather, Marie Innes, Keiko Iwamoto, Joan Jenkins, Pippa Johnson, Julie Johnstone, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Grace King, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Judith Marsden, Janette McAlpine, Fiona Methven, Chris Monkton, Ella Morgans, Susan Mulkern, Chris Murray, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Alice Rochford, Sian Rodd, Fleur Sarkissian, Derren Selvarajah, Janet Showell, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust, Hannah Watts, Sue Welling, Gemma Wilcox, James Wisker, Dawn Wood, Donna Wood, Kim Wylam.

We acknowledge the work of all those who give so generously of their time for Chichester Festival Theatre, including our CFT Buddies, Heritage & Archive Volunteers, and our Volunteer Audio Description Team: Lily Barkes, Janet Beckett, Richard Chapman, Tony Clark, Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Richard Frost, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd, Joanna Wiege.

Youth Advisory Board: Jenny Bathurst, Liam Bitton, Cara Branley-Jones, Grace Craig, Anayis Der Hakopian, Esther Dracott, Luka Mechergui, Katherine Munden, Phoebe Norman, Kieran Turnbull, Susie Udall.

Our Supporters 2024/5 Minerva Season Principal Charles Holloway OBE Major Donors Deborah Alun-Jones Robin and Joan Alvarez Elizabeth and the late David Benson Philip Berry George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Sir William and Lady Castell David and Claire Chitty John and Susan Coldstream Clive and Frances Coward Yvonne and John Dean Jim Douglas Nick and Lalli Draper Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Sir Vernon Ellis Huw Evans Steve and Sheila Evans Val and Richard Evans Sandy and Mark Foster Simon and Luci Eyers Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Angela and Uri Greenwood Themy Hamilton The Heller Family Liz Juniper Roger Keyworth Vaughan and Sally Lowe Jonathan and Clare Lubran Elizabeth Miles Eileen Norris Jerome and Elizabeth O’Hea Denise Patterson DL Stuart and Carolyn Popham Dame Patricia Routledge DBE David Shalit MBE and Sophie Shalit Greg and Katherine Slay Christine and Dave Smithers Alan and Jackie Stannah Oliver Stocken CBE Howard Thompson Bryan Warnett Ernest Yelf

Trusts and Foundations The Aldama Foundation The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Arts Society, Chichester The Bassil Shippam and Alsford Trust The Bernadette Charitable Trust Bruce Wake Charitable Trust Dora Green Educational Trust The Dorus Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray’s Charity Trust Epigoni Trust Friarsgate Trust The Garrick Charitable Trust The G D Charitable Trust Hays Travel Foundation Hobhouse Charitable Trust John Coates Charitable Trust The Mackintosh Foundation The Maurice Marshal Preference Trust Noël Coward Foundation Rotary Club of Chichester Harbour Theatre Artists Fund theatre works!

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Festival Players 1000+ John and Joan Adams Lindy Ambrose and Tom Reid Sarah and Tony Bolton Robert Brown Ian and Jan Carroll C Casburn and B Buckley Jean Campbell Sarah Chappatte David Churchill Denise Clatworthy Michael and Jill Cook Lin and Ken Craig Deborah Crockford Clive and Kate Dilloway Jim Douglas Peter and Ruth Doust Roz Frampton Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Wendy and John Gehr Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Mr & Mrs Paul Goswell Rachel and Richard Green Ros and Alan Haigh Rowland and Caroline Hardwick Chris and Carolyn Hughes John and Jenny Lippiett Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Alan and Virginia Lovell Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Sarah Mansell and Tim Bouquet Patrick Martyn Rod Matthews James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Mrs Sheila Meadows Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Roger and Jackie Morris Jacquie Ogilvie Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen Graham and Sybil Papworth Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Nick and Jo Pasricha John Pritchard Trust Philip Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ros and Ken Rokison David and Linda Skuse Peter and Lucy Snell Julie Sparshatt Pip Taylor Joanna Walker Ian and Alison Warren Angela Wormald

Festival Players 500+ Judy Addison Smith Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Martin Blackburn Janet Bounds Frances Brodsky and Peter Parham Sally Chittleburgh Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Dr Stuart Hall Dennis and Joan Harrison Barbara Howden Richards Karen and Paul Johnston Frank and Freda Letch Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Jim and Marilyn Lush Selina and David Marks Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Sue Marsh Adrian Marsh and Maggie Stoker Trevor and Lynne Matthews Tim McDonald Mrs Mary Newby Margaret and Martin Overington Jean Plowright Ben Reeder Robin Roads Graham and Maureen Russel David Seager John and Tita Shakeshaft Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha Elizabeth Stern Anne Subba-Row Harry and Shane Thuillier Miss Melanie Tipples Penny Tomlinson Tina Webster Chris and Dorothy Weller Nick and Tarnia Williams

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‘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.’

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