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Redlands

By Charlotte Jones

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A warm welcome to this performance of Charlotte Jones’s new play Redlands, our fifth and final world premiere of Festival 2024 – sending the season out with ‘a bigger bang’, and marking Justin’s own first production in the Festival Theatre.

We’re delighted to welcome Charlotte back to Chichester, after the premiere of her play The Meeting in the Minerva in 2018.

Set in a Quaker community in the early 19th century, The Meeting may not, on the surface, have much in common with Redlands which catapults us back to the musically colourful milieu of the 1960s; but both are set in Sussex, where Charlotte herself lives.

It's a particular ‘Satisfaction’ (sorry, last Stones pun we promise) to be bringing this moment of local history to our stage. It’s been fascinating to hear so many of our audience’s own memories of the notorious trial at Chichester Magistrates Court, some of which you can explore in our free foyer exhibition; but we hope this extraordinary story will strike just as strong a chord with a younger generation of theatregoers as with those who lived through these remarkable events.

Our superb cast includes several seasoned actors making welcome returns to Chichester, including Anthony Calf, Clive Francis and Olivia Poulet, alongside some of the brightest talents from the new generation.

We’re already looking forward to a hugely varied Winter season, which encompasses musicals, drama and new work; but before then, ending the Festival season in the Minerva, comes The Cat and the Canary: a deliciously terrifying tale in a new co-production with Told by an Idiot.

We hope to see you over the Winter, and that you enjoy today’s performance.

Justin Audibert Artistic Director

Kathy Bourne Executive Director

Kathy Bourne and Justin Audibert Photograph by Peter Flude

One minute to midnight. It’s time. Ladies and gentlemen, take a seat and I shall begin...

The Cat and the Canary Minerva Theatre 27 September – 26 October The Cat and the Canary, adapted by Carl Grose from the play by John Willard, is a hilariously chilling mixture of Agatha Christie and gothic horror that will have you shrieking with laughter and fear in equal measure.

And there’s nobody better than the genius shape-shifting company Told by an Idiot, and director Paul Hunter, to tell it.

Justin Audibert says: ‘Who doesn’t love a brilliantly scary ghost story as the nights get darker and chillier? This will be a physically entertaining piece of storytelling which centres around a motley group of characters who gather in a remote house in Cornwall to hear the reading of a will.

‘It has the perfect mixture of spooks, belly laughs and thrills to end the season.’

Winter Season 2024 – 25 Here comes Winter! Bringing a hugely varied season of the best touring work on offer.

Fantastic West End musical hits like Come From Away and Six alongside eagerly-awaited new shows such as the Dolly Parton musical Here You Come Again. Drama based on popular and award-winning books with Birdsong, The Girl on the Train, Never Let Me Go and the hilariously inventive Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of).

Classic dramas A Man for All Seasons starring Martin Shaw, and a Rattigan double-bill Summer 1954 with Dame Siân Phillips and Nathaniel Parker. And unmissable new work, from the musical After the Act to Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz, and Driftwood from ThickSkin and Pentabus.

And in the centre, of course, is Christmas! We’re creating magical festive moments for everyone, young and old, from family shows Hey! Christmas Tree and Cinderella to the return of Santa’s Grotto.

Check out the full line-up of drama, music, dance and comedy at cft.org.uk

Making an imp We are delighted that Chichester District Council has granted planning permission for The Nest, a new 120-seat studio theatre created to be a vibrant hub for innovative and community performances from 2025.

The news comes as two reports commissioned by CFT on its local impact are published. An Economic Impact report examining the monetary impact that Chichester Festival Theatre has on the economy of Chichester District shows that, in 2023, our net economic impact was almost £26 million – compared with £17.5m in 2014 and £20 million in 2016.

This is substantially due to the expenditure (excluding tickets) by audiences attending the Theatre’s performances and events, but also the goods and services bought by the Theatre, its staff and artists from local suppliers.

Meanwhile, a Social Impact Report has measured the social outcomes and longer-term impact of the Theatre’s performances, outreach and participatory

programmes – particularly the work of our LEAP (Learning, Education and Participation) programme, which provides over 80,000 participation opportunities annually for people of all backgrounds, abilities and ages. Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of participants, audiences, partners, visitors and staff, the Social Impact Report used robust social impact indicators to measure the effectiveness of the programmes. Among the findings were that 98% felt welcome and included; 93% reported a positive impact on their mental health and wellbeing; 90% reported improved knowledge and skills; and 96% of trainees and apprentices improved their career opportunities.

Kathy Bourne, Executive Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, points out that ‘2024 marks the 10th anniversary of ‘Renew’, the major project to restore and upgrade the Grade II* listed Festival Theatre; our plans for The Nest show we’re not resting on our laurels.

mpact ‘We’ve always put our community first, whether that’s people who have lived and breathed Chichester all their lives, or the new community – whether students at the University or Chichester College, or those who’ve recently moved here. As Chichester regenerates post-Covid we want to be part of its future, building the audiences of tomorrow.

‘The Economic Impact report is a result of that commitment. The financial contribution is obviously meaningful, but we believe very strongly that commitment to our community is what powers our drive to ensure we sit at the heart of Chichester and all that it delivers. We’re determined to keep growing the artists and audiences of the future, and strengthen the remarkable work of our LEAP department, led by the indefatigable Dale Rooks whose exceptional vision was recently recognised with her well-deserved MBE.’ The Social Impact Report will also ensure that LEAP’s work will continue

to grow and evolve, says Dale Rooks.

‘For example, we are developing a Youth Theatre skills framework which will outline the progression of creative knowledge and skills from Year 6 to Year 13. Our ongoing evaluation processes will ensure that we are always reflecting on how we can further improve outcomes to strengthen the impact of our work.’

She acknowledges that measuring social impact ‘is not like marking maths with a right and a wrong answer. What can you put in place to measure how somebody’s confidence might have improved? Hence we brought in an external consultant to devise a framework of impact measures and to compile the report; but more importantly, worked with the participants and the people who gave their feedback to ensure there was a high degree of transparency and objectivity. It’s a comprehensive, detailed report that covers every aspect of our work.

‘What’s really lovely are the comments from the young people, parents, carers, teachers and supporters, so there’s a cross-section of people’s honest views of what they believe the value and impact of the work is. The stats are not always 100% and that’s how it should be; if you’re hitting 100% in everything, where’s the journey? Where’s the learning? We have to digest the Report and use it as a platform and foundation to look at the areas where we might improve. It’s a demonstration not just of the value of what we do for the community, but what we do to achieve that.’

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Redlands

By Charlotte Jones

From covers b to songwriter for the ages The Rolling Stones made their live debut at London’s Marquee Club on 12 July 1962.

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Paul Sexton charts how Mick and Keith composed rock history

When the Rolling Stones made their live debut at London’s Marquee Club on 12 July 1962 – as a replacement for Blues Incorporated, who had been called away for a radio session – the number of original songs in their set was zero. With the release of their fourth album Aftermath in 1966, their creative coming of age was complete: every track was a Mick Jagger/Keith Richards original.

The monumental songwriting achievements of the Glimmer Twins have reinforced their credentials from that day to this. Every track but one on the universally lauded 2023 album Hackney Diamonds bore the Jagger-Richards marque (three of them as collaborations with ‘the kid’, as Keith called producer-musician Andrew Watt). One of the band’s heroes, Muddy Waters, disturbed the monopoly via the 1950 staple that named the band in the first place, ‘Rolling Stone Blues’.

Of all the countless occasions I’ve shared the Stones’ company over 30-odd years, one that goes especially deep is sitting in the garden of Keith’s home in Connecticut in 2010, our interview duties for his then-new Life memoir complete.

Before I returned to New York, there was precious time to chill and chat as music wafted out onto the deck from the stereo inside the house. Who dominated the playlist? Muddy Waters.

The Stones paid tribute to the Mississippi blues titan in that very first gig, performing his 1953 single ‘Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)’. The Marquee show also featured covers of many of their other rhythm and blues muses… Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, Bo Diddley, Elmore James, Chuck Berry. A lifetime later, they still conjure the names of those giants every time we speak, as well as those of the great soul performers whose stage presence was a whole other inspiration, from Solomon Burke via James Brown to Prince.

It was Berry’s ‘Come On’ that provided the group’s first single. Even if it came to sound tentative by the groundbreaking standards they would soon set, that June 1963 release was a significant footprint

in the sand, soon to be followed by ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, bequeathed by their friends and fellow teething songwriters, a certain John and Paul.

As Mick said of manager Andrew Loog Oldham’s early efforts to force Keith and him to come up with their own work: ‘We couldn’t write rock songs. We just wrote these crap ballads’.

The Stones’ self-titled debut LP landed in April 1964, soon beginning a 12-week

The Stones’ self-titled debut LP landed in April 1964.

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UK chart reign, spending 36 out of 37 weeks in the top three. Only one of its dozen tracks, ‘Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)’, was a Jagger-Richards original, and that a rudimentary and derivative workout. As Mick said decades later of manager Andrew Loog Oldham’s early efforts to force Keith and him to come up with their own work: ‘We couldn’t write rock songs. We just wrote these crap ballads’.

Two tracks on that first album were group creations under the in-joke pseudonym Nanker Phelge, and the other nine were salutes to Diddley, Berry, Reed and other bastions of the band’s record collections such as Willie Dixon and Rufus Thomas. The Beatles were, by the Stones’ happy admission, ahead of them in terms

of both their arrival at 33rpm, and their songwriting self-determination. Please Please Me had appeared in March 1963 with Lennon-McCartney composing credits on eight of its 14 tracks. There were, of course, inspirations shared by the two bands; for example, both covered Chuck Berry and various Motown originals.

Keith would always call it one of their enduring achievements to take ‘Little Red Rooster’, an out-and-out blues song, to the top of the pop charts.

In 1965, Mick and Keith claimed three bylines on their second album, The Rolling Stones No. 2. This was soon after the group had scored their first UK No 1 singles with fine interpretations of Bobby and Shirley Womack’s ‘It’s All Over Now’ and Willie Dixon’s ‘Little Red Rooster’. Keith would always call it one of their enduring achievements to take the latter out-and-out blues song to the top of the pop charts, where it displaced the Supremes’ ‘Baby Love’, no less.

But the Jagger-Richards imprint was strengthening and, with it, the directional influence of Brian Jones, essentially the group’s founder, grew commensurately weaker. Soon they had a voice that was entirely their own, not one merely channelled via their American exemplars.

But the irony was that the first real proof of the pair’s growing confidence produced a hit not for the Stones, but for a teenager discovered by Oldham, their manager and master publicist.

‘A good pop song is not really that easy to write. It was a shock, this fresh world of writing our own material.’

Richards confirmed in his 2010 autobiography that the famed occasion when Oldham locked Keith in a room with Mick and told them to ‘come out with a song’ really did happen. ‘Why Andrew put Mick and me together and not Mick and Brian, or me and Brian, I don’t know’ he wrote.

‘It turned out that Brian couldn’t write songs, but Andrew didn’t know that then. I guess it’s because Mick and I were hanging out together at the time.’

The result was the charming ‘As Tears Go By’, a debut hit for a teenage Marianne Faithfull in 1964. ‘We weren’t trying to write a commercial pop song’ Keith explained.

‘It was just what came out. I knew what Andrew wanted: don’t come up with a blues, don’t do some parody or copy, come out with something of your own. A good pop

In recent decades, Mick and Keith may have been co-writing songs from different continents, but the moment they get anywhere near a studio that collaborative spirit comes back to life, and magic still happens.

song is not really that easy to write. It was a shock, this fresh world of writing our own material.’

The Stones’ February 1965 single ‘The Last Time’ was adapted by Mick and Keith in part from the Staple Singers’ 1954 gospel number ‘This May Be the Last Time’ and, paired with their new, atmospheric ‘Play With Fire’, became the Stones’ next British No 1. The duo’s songwriting had come of age in less than a year, and far greater was soon to come.

The story of what happened in May 1965, on the sixth floor of the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, has been endlessly retold, not least by Keith himself.

But as Oldham would recall, it ‘changed life as we knew it and all our summers’. When Keith awoke and played back the cassette tape he had left recording at his bedside the night before, he found the riff, and the title, that became the bedrock of what may still be the most anthemic song he and Mick ever created – ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’. Mick wrote superbly sharp verses the next day.

Oldham’s description of the second recording session for the track at RCA Studios in Los Angeles – after they had failed to nail it at Chess in Chicago – rivetingly captures the consummation of that creative process. In 2Stoned, the second volume of his excellent memoirs, he wrote, ‘Keith added the magical fuzz – his call… then laid down a bed of acoustic guitars for Mick to have something to ballad the verses to and avoid falling into the spaces and make opposites attract.

Above: Advert for Marianne Faithfull's single, ‘As Tears Go By’, 1964. Cash Box. Right: Advert for the Rolling Stones 1965 USA tour. London Records.

Jagger got it on one take, at his most pro and very best as he laid down one of the verses of the century’.

‘Satisfaction’ and another three-dozen indelible Jagger-Richards originals have been thrilling the latest generation of Stones fans on stages across north America this year. In recent decades, Mick and Keith may have been co-writing songs from different continents, but the moment they get anywhere near a studio, as on the chartconquering Hackney Diamonds, that collaborative spirit comes back to life, and magic still happens. It’s a testament to one of the greatest writing partnerships there will ever be.

Keith in 2010: ‘As life went on… we slowly had to learn how to do it from 3,000 miles away. And, basically, since then we’ve worked the same way. I send [Mick] five

or six ideas. First off, does it turn him on, and [if so] do you want to expand on it? You don’t say “Write the lyrics to these!”. But eventually you have to come together and decide.’

As far back as the 1980s, Mick was reflecting on what was already one of rock’s mightiest song catalogues. ‘Perhaps what we did in the 60s was to enlarge the subject material of popular music to include topics outside the typical “moon in June/I’ve got a new motorbike” teenage genre’, he reflected. ‘We said “You can write a song about anything you want”. And that was really a big thing.’

Paul Sexton has interviewed the Rolling Stones numerous times over more than 30 years. His books include Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts.

Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards launch ‘Hackney Diamonds’, the first Rolling Stones album in 18 years, London 2023. Photo Neil Lupin/WENN/Alamy

Swingeing London '67 Simon Martin on an icon of British pop art in Chichester

Richard Hamilton (1922 – 2011) Swingeing London '67 1968 Relief, screenprint on oil on photograph on hardboard

In April 1966, an article in Time magazine – titled ‘London: The Swinging City’ – declared that every decade has had its city, and in the 1960s it was London. The article instigated the phenomenon of ‘Swinging London’ with the city as the backdrop for British pop and rock bands such as The Beatles and the Rolling Stones; fashion boutiques such as Biba and Granny Takes a Trip; and the burgeoning market for pop art, which was moving away from traditional subject matter to embrace contemporary life, celebrity and consumer culture.

Robert Fraser was nicknamed ‘Groovy Bob’ due to the ‘gatherings’ that he organised.

The Time article included a map of key boutiques, galleries and nightclubs and quotes from various movers and shakers of the time. The gallerist Robert Fraser declared ‘Right now, London has something that New York used to have: everyone

Image credit: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (Wilson Gift through Art Fund 2006) © Image courtesy Pallant House Gallery, Chichester © R. Hamilton. All rights reserved, DACS 2024.

wants to be there. There’s no place else.

Paris is calcified. There’s an indefinable thing about London that makes people want to go there.’ His eponymous Robert Fraser Gallery at 69 Duke Street in Mayfair was synonymous with the city’s ‘cultural revolution’ and became a launchpad for British pop art. It represented some of the most exciting British and American artists of the 1960s including Peter Blake, Jann Haworth, Richard Hamilton, Gilbert & George, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol.

Paul McCartney described Fraser as ‘one of the most influential people of the London sixties scene’. The son of a banker, he was both an Old Etonian and a dandy who led a wildly promiscuous life embracing drug-taking and homosexuality (the latter only partially decriminalised in 1967). The private views at his gallery not only drew artists and collectors, but also formed a hip meeting place for actors, rock musicians and fashion models. In both his personal and professional life Fraser moved seamlessly between the worlds of pop art and rock music and he was behind some of the most celebrated album covers of the period, such as Peter Blake and Jann Haworth’s design for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967 and Richard Hamilton’s for the band’s White Album the following year. He was nicknamed ‘Groovy Bob’ by the American novelist Terry Southern due to the ‘gatherings’ that he organised, which included members of The Beatles and Rolling Stones and celebrities such as Marianne Faithfull, the photographer Michael Cooper, actors Kenneth Anger and Dennis Hopper, and the writer William Burroughs. One such gathering was at Redlands in West Wittering near Chichester, the home of Keith Richards, lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones. Tipped off by the popular press, on 12 February 1967 the police raided the now-infamous party. It was widely seen as ‘a carefully orchestrated attack on the primary arbitrators of sixties permissiveness and the growing popularity of the “catalyst” of youth rebellion,

cannabis’ (in the words of curator, Lizzie Carey-Thomas). Richards was charged for permitting his house to be used for smoking cannabis, while Fraser and Mick Jagger were found guilty of unlawful possession of drugs (and in Fraser’s case, heroin).

The prosecution led to a tsunami of tabloid moralising press coverage, which recorded every detail of the case with varying degrees of accuracy, from the eau-de-nil hue of the suit Jagger wore to the trial, to the fur-skin rug in which Marianne Faithfull was apparently clad when the police arrived. However, some establishment figures such as The Times editor, William Rees-Mogg supported Jagger and Fraser with a famous article entitled ‘Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel?’.

He argued: ‘It should be the particular quality of British justice to ensure that Mr Jagger is treated exactly the same as anyone else, no better and no worse.

Above: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at Redlands, West Wittering, 12 February 1967. Photo David Cole/Alamy.

Right: Marianne Faithfull, with Tom Keylock the Rolling Stones’ ‘gofer’, in Chichester for the drugs trial, 28 June 1967.

Photo Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy.

There must remain a suspicion in this case that Mr Jagger received a more severe sentence than would have been thought proper for any purely anonymous young man.’

In many ways Fraser was a mysterious figure both to the media and the wider public, and he occupies a shadowy position in the ‘Redlands’ story. He is not even a character in this play. And yet, due to a press photograph of Mick Jagger handcuffed to Fraser in the back of a police van, his role in the story was permanently fixed in the public eye. The photograph by Daily Mail photographer John Twine was taken through the window of the van as they arrived at court and showed them with their hands upraised: widely seen as a gesture

by Jagger to shield his face against the media glare, but apparently it was really because they were so outraged at being handcuffed together – after all, they were hardly dangerous criminals – that they brandished the handcuffs for all to see.

‘There are times when a swingeing sentence can act as a deterrent’.

This iconic photograph was the starting point for a series of paintings and prints by Richard Hamilton, who was part of Fraser’s stable of artists. Initially, Hamilton used the vast quantity of press cuttings amassed by the gallery to create a collage that was published as a limited-edition poster, with the photograph reproduced under a tabloid heading: ‘Stones: A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense’ and alongside snippets of incense packaging and contradictory reports that ranged from a photograph of a distraught young female fan outside the courthouse to the banalities of what Jagger ate in his prison cell. Among the cuttings that Hamilton used in the collage was a phrase used by the judge that struck him forcibly: ‘There are times when a swingeing

sentence can act as a deterrent’. Hamilton thus gave the series the title ‘Swingeing London ‘67’ – both to reference the Time article and as a pun on the ‘swingeing’ sentence imposed by the judge. Hamilton was a protégé of the French conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp who had championed both the idea of the ‘readymade’ and the pun: Hamilton was thus enlarging on both by using a found press image. There is a certain irony to this, of course, given that the scene depicted took place not in London, but outside the court in Chichester, a city which in 1967 was anything but ‘swinging’.

The work captures a remarkable point of social change in sixties Britain: an upper-class ex-Etonian and working-class rock star bound together in a tense and extraordinary moment.

Hamilton created numerous coloured screenprints of the image of Jagger and Fraser, as well as a hand-coloured etching to which he added paint and metallised acetate to emphasise the handcuffs. Appropriately, the poster, etching and the final work in the series are all housed in Chichester, just yards from the courthouse, as part of the internationally significant collection of British pop art at Pallant House Gallery, donated

by Prof Sir Colin St John Wilson and his wife MJ Long. In this version, arguably the most important of the series, Hamilton created a complex three-dimensional frame to mimic the exact appearance of the police van with a sliding window, and the screenprinted image touched up with oil. While it can be taken as a record of the only moment that Chichester was ‘cool’ in the 1960s, its true significance is far greater for it encapsulates the cross-fertilisation of art and pop in Britain and America, and the tensions between older and younger generations at the time.

The work captures a remarkable point of social change in sixties Britain: an upperclass ex-Etonian and working-class rock star bound together in a tense and extraordinary moment that speaks both of freedom and incarceration.

Simon Martin is Director of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester and the author of numerous books on British art, including works on the artists Eduardo Paolozzi, Colin Self, Glyn Philpot and Kaye Donachie. pallant.org.uk

Above: Richard Hamilton in his studio with 'Swingeing London’, London 1968.

Photo Homer Sykes/Alamy

Richard Hamilton (1922 – 2011) Swingeing London '67 1967-8 Etching and aquatint with collage on paper

Image credit: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government from the estate of MJ Long / Wilson and allocated to Pallant House Gallery, 2021) © Image courtesy Pallant House Gallery, Chichester © R. Hamilton. All rights reserved, DACS 2024.

Redlands

By Charlotte Jones

Cast Michael Havers QC

Constable Flint / Daphne / News Reporter Cecil Havers Nigel Havers Dancer / Frieda Marianne Faithfull Keith Richards Chief Inspector Bramley / Judge Block / RADA Principal Carol Havers PC Willis / Vivek Chakrabarti Mick Jagger Pattie Boyd / Sheila / Shop Assistant / Female Fan / Journalist / Drama Student

Anthony Calf Ben Caplan Melody Chikakane Brown Clive Francis Louis Landau Lara Rose McCabe Emer McDaid Brenock O’Connor Sam Pay Olivia Poulet Akshay Sharan Jasper Talbot Ella Tekere Riley Woodford

Sniderman / Philip Havers / Terry / Derek Carter / Cricket Commentator

Adam Young

All other roles played by members of the company.

Redlands is a fictional account, inspired by the famous ‘Redlands’ trial of the Rolling Stones. The action takes place in 1967, in West Sussex and London.

There will be one interval of 20 minutes.

Redlands has been produced by kind permission of Miichael Kuhn and Qwerty Films Ltd. World premiere performance of Redlands at Chichester Festival Theatre, 20 September 2024.

Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Composer and Orchestrator Sound Designer Musical Director Choreographer Casting Director

Justin Audibert Joanna Scotcher Ryan Dawson Laight Matt Daw Benjamin Kwasi Burrell Claire Windsor Alan Berry Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus Ginny Schiller CDG

Associate Director Associate Musical Director Voice and Dialect Coach Production Manager Costume Supervisor Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Supervisor Props Supervisors

Julia Head Joshua Griffith Ben Furey Ben Arkell Josie Thomas Sarah-Lou Packham Jamie Owens Charlotte Neville

Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Managers

Suzi Blakey Rob Le Maistre Jamie Craker Jasmine Smith

With special thanks to The Playwrights Fund for their support of the research and development of Redlands: Deborah Alun-Jones, Robin and Joan Alvarez, George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron, Clive and Frances Coward, Mrs Veronica J Dukes, Melanie Edge, Sir Vernon Ellis, Val and Richard Evans, Simon and Luci Eyers, Sandy and Mark Foster, Jonathan and Clare Lubran, and Denise Patterson DL. Supported by Redlands Patrons and Supporters Circles: Ian and Judy Barlow, Ben-Levi Family, Tim Bouquet, Veronica J Dukes, Steve and Sheila Evans, Val and Richard Evans, Gary Fairhall, Sophie Gooley, Jennie Halsall, Jac Hepworth, Chris and Carolyn Hughes, Penny Linnett, Sue and Nick Lutte, Elizabeth Miles, Caroline and John Nelson, Simon and Claire Parsonage, Jon and Ann Shapiro, Howard M Thompson, David Wagstaff and Mark Dunne, Ian and Alison Warren, Honor Woods, Ernest Yelf, Bryan Warnett, Susie Wells and all those who wish to remain anonymous.

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Production credits: Set constructed by Set Up Scenery Ltd; Rigging Support by Mechstage; Production Carpenters Jes Baines, Jimmy Quinn; Drapes manufactured by Drapemakers at PDS Ltd; Costumes created by Kingsley Hall, Rebecca Hopkins, Nicole Small, Julia Sayers; Costume alterations by Suzy Andrews, Rebecca Hopkins; Millinery by Karen Shannon; Costume hires supplied by Angels Costumes; Costumes supplied by The Modfather, David Saxby, A Dandy in Aspic; Additional wigs supplied by HUM Studio and Ray Marston; Additional Prop Makers Flux Metal; Lighting hires supplied by White Light; Additional Sound Equipment by Autograph Sound; Transport by Paul Mathew Transport; Rehearsal Room Jerwood Space.

With thanks to Nigel Havers, Marlon Richards and Jon Bath.

Charlotte Jones gratefully acknowledges the material she has drawn on from Nigel Havers’ autobiography Playing With Fire. She would also like to thank Daniel Evans, Kate Bassett, Michael Kuhn, Gavin Glendinning and Anthony Fabian.

Rehearsal and production photographs Ikin Yum Portrait photos Craig Sugden Programme consultant Fiona Richards Programme design Davina Chung Cover image Bob King Creative, photograph Seamus Ryan

Events

Redlands Court of Public Opinion

Post-Show Talk

Friday 20 September – Friday 18 October How did a cottage in West Wittering become the centre of a defining moment in British history? Delve deeper into Chichester’s cause célèbre through this interactive exhibition on the Rolling Stones’s Redlands drugs raid of 1967, from the controversial press campaign to the sensational trial at Chichester Magistrates Court.

To get even more from the exhibition, join a Guided Tour on selected dates.

Free (optional Guided Tours £12 / £5 cft.org.uk/court-of-public-opinion)

Monday 14 October Stay after the performance to hear from company members about all the action behind the scenes and ask questions of your own.

Free

Pre-Show Talk Thursday 26 September, 5.45pm Join director Justin Audibert for a fascinating insight into how his production came together, with a chance to ask questions of your own.

Free but booking is essential.

Akshay Sharan Emer McDaid Justin Audibert

Pre- and Post-Show Talks sponsored by Close Brothers Asset Management

Cast Biographies Anthony Calf Michael Havers QC Previously at Chichester Sir Leonard Darwin in Plenty, Sir William Collyer in The Deep Blue Sea (Festival Theatre), George Tesman in Hedda Tesman, Wilfred in For Services Rendered, Victor Prynne in Private Lives (& West End), Count Octavio Piccolomini in Wallenstein (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes The Moderate Soprano (West End); Racing Demon (Theatre Royal Bath); Twelfth Night (Manchester Royal Exchange); King Charles III (Broadway NY); The Hard Problem, The White Guard, The Power of Yes, Gethsemane, Never So Good, The False Servant, Betrayal, The Madness of George III (National Theatre); Fathers and Sons, Les Parents Terribles, The Hotel in Amsterdam (Donmar); Stephen Ward, Death and the Maiden (West End); My Fair Lady (Sheffield Theatres); Rock ‘n’ Roll (Royal Court Theatre); Uncle Vanya (Gate Theatre Dublin); Cressida (Almeida at The Albery); Dolly West’s Kitchen (Abbey Theatre Dublin); Neverland (Royal Court at the Ambassadors); A Buyers Market (Bush Theatre); My Night with Reg (Royal Court Theatre and West End).

Television includes One Day, Insomnia, Partygate, The Buccaneers, The Gold, Anne, Suspicion, SAS: Rogue Heroes, Death in Paradise, White House Farm, Domina, Poldark, Anne, Power Monkeys, Riviera, Call the Midwife, Doctor Who, Dracula, Midsomer Murders, Home Fires, Restless, Upstairs Downstairs, New Tricks (10 series), Lewis, Identity, Doc Martin, Material Girl, Trinity, Mistresses, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Good Samaritan, Beau Brummell, The Impressionists, Holby City, The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes, The Robinsons, The Murder Room, The Hotel in Amsterdam, Amnesia, The Village, Judge John Deed, Foyle’s War, The Falklands Play, The Cry, Doc Martin, The Brides in the Bath, Trust, Sirens, Bye Bye Baby, Lucky Jim, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Lorna Doone, Our Mutual Friend, A Touch of Frost, Kavanagh QC, My Night with Reg, Beck, Brenock O'Connor Jasper Talbot

Bramwell, Jilly Cooper’s Riders, Poirot, Pride and Prejudice, Absolute Hell, Great Expectations, Tanamera, Bergerac, Fortunes of War, The Monocled Mutineer, Drummonds, My Family and Other Animals, Beau Geste.

Films include Sisi and I, I Came By, King Lear, The Children Act, The Man Who Knew Infinity, A Woman of the North, Anna Karenina, Fairytale, The Madness of King George, Oxford Blues.

Ben Caplan English Teacher / Allen Klein / Newscaster / Radio Announcer Theatre includes Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice (Globe Theatre); A Sherlock Carol

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(Marylebone Theatre); The End of the Night (Park Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (RSC); The Exorcist (UK tour); Describe the Night (Hampstead Theatre); The Knowledge (Charing Cross Theatre); Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Bath & UK tour); Hedda Gabler (Salisbury Playhouse); Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre); Shiver (Watford Palace Theatre); Playing with Grown Ups (KPS Productions); A Winter’s Tale, Dr Korczak’s Example (Unicorn Theatre); Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Enquiry) (MAC Belfast); Under a Tree at the End of Time (Real Circumstance); Pushing Up Poppies, Hotel Play, Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court Theatre); The Common Pursuit

(Menier Chocolate Factory); Three Sisters On Hope Street (Hampstead Theatre/ Liverpool Everyman); Two Thousand Years (National Theatre); Guys and Dolls, Le Grandes Meaulnes, Judging Billy Jones (Young Vic); The Man of the Future is Dead, Hedda Gabler (Open Secret); Intimate Apparel, What Didn’t Happen (Old Vic New Voices); Everything is Illuminated (Soho Theatre); Hamlet (Nuffield Theatre Southampton); The Dwarfs (Tricycle Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It (national tours); Sweat (Bloomsbury Theatre).

Television includes Ink Black Heart, Lagging (series 1-3), Small Axe, Silent Witness, Casualty, Midsomer Murders,

Maigret, X Company, The Coroner, New Blood, Call the Midwife (series 1-6), The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, Whitechapel, Dark Matters, The Runaway, Trinity, The Passion, Maxwell, The Candidate, Judge John Deed, Dwarfs, Band of Brothers, Touch of Frost, Soldier Soldier, Inspector Morse, The Perfect Blue, Where the Heart Is. Films include Jay Kelly, Golda, Pretty Red Dress, Caveat, The Commuter, Leap Year, RocknRolla and the short That Woman.

Melody Chikakane Brown Constable Flint / Daphne / News Reporter Theatre includes The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience (Kakilang/Soho Theatre); The Box of Delights, Measure for Measure and The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); Midsummer Mechanicals (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible, Lyric Hammersmith & ETT); Wind in the Wilton’s (Wilton’s Music Hall); Sour Cherry Soup and Two Pairs of Eyes (Inroads); Henry V (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); House and Garden and Bubbles (Watermill Theatre); Tamburlaine (New Earth/Arcola); Last Journey (Pentabus); The History Boys (UK tour); Free Folk (Forest Forge). Melody has also worked with Pilot Theatre, Southampton Nuffield, Twisting Yarn, Cardboard Citizens, Border Crossings, Southwark Playhouse and London Bubble.

Television includes EastEnders.

Radio includes The Chatterleys and Money Gone.

Clive Francis Cecil Havers Previously at Chichester, ENRON (CFT/ Headlong, also West End & UK tour), An Ideal Husband, Look After Lulu, Monsieur Perrichon’s Travels, The Circle (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes The Circle (Theatre Royal Bath, Orange Tree Theatre & UK tour); Slaves of Solitude (Hampstead Theatre); An Inspector Calls (Playhouse Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, A Small Family Business, Never So Good, Les Blancs

(National Theatre); The Madness of George III (Apollo Theatre); An Absolute Turkey, The Rear Column and Gross Indecency (Gielgud Theatre); The School for Scandal (Duke of York’s); Single Spies (Queen’s Theatre); Troilus and Cressida, Three Hours After Marriage and A Christmas Carol (RSC); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Arts Theatre); The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse); Loot (Bristol Old Vic); The Hypochondriac (Liverpool Everyman).

Recent television includes Anatomy of a Scandal, The Larkins, The Crown, Bridgerton.

Recent films include Official Secrets, The Little Stranger, Mr Turner, The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, The Lost City of Z. Clive Francis has also adapted several books for the stage. As a caricaturist, his work can be seen hanging in the Gielgud Theatre, Coward Theatre and Sondheim Theatre. clivefranciscaricaturist.com

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Louis Landau Nigel Havers This is Louis’s professional stage debut.

Theatre while training includes Red Velvet, Oedipus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Earthquakes in London.

Film and television includes The Serpent Queen, Rivals, Butterfly.

Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he was a Josephine Hart Poetry Prize finalist. He was a member of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre’s Young Company, and Made in Bristol programme.

Lara Rose McCabe Dancer / Frieda Lara is a member of the Hip-Hop dance theatre company, Boy Blue, with whom she performs in a range of shows and also works as assistant and choreographer on projects such as Latitude and Wilderness Festivals, and the Barbican Theatre.

Theatre includes Resident and Rehearsal Director for Free Your Mind (Aviva Studios/Factory International); Dancer in Breakin’ Convention and Open Arts Surgery

(Sadler’s Wells); Assistant Choreographer on Made To Create campaign; Associate Choreographer on The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Unicorn Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre); Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Radlett Centre); Dancer in Emancipation of Expressionism (Barbican Theatre); Dancer in Skin (UK tour & Edinburgh Fringe); Dancer in Just Us Dance Theatre (Reverb Dance Festival NY & The Place London).

Television includes Assistant Choreographer on MOOD the series, Assistant Choreographer and Dancer Ann-Marie on The Greatest Dancer, Dancer on The Nightly Show.

She has also worked as movement director, and assisted and performed for a range of artists including Alex Aiona, Ann-Marie, Krept & Konan, Alice Chater, MAVRO studios, The Power of Musik with CeCe Sammy.

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Emer McDaid Marianne Faithfull Theatre includes Megan Hipwell in The Girl on the Train (Salisbury Playhouse); Romaine Vole in Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); No Motives and Sweeties (Macha Productions, Belfast); Milo’s Hat Trick (Lyric Belfast/Ireland tour); The Elves and the Shoemaker (The MAC Belfast); Diablo (Lyric Belfast/international tour); Tender Napalm (Lyric Belfast/Albany London); We’ll Walk Hand in Hand (Lyric Belfast); Sleeping Beauty (Belfast Waterfront); The Waiting Game (Old Red Lion); 23.5 Hours (St James’s Theatre); The Babysitter (Pleasance Courtyard/ Edinburgh Fringe).

Television includes Soft Border Patrol, Game of Thrones.

Radio includes Border Ceilidh.

Films include Dungeons & Dragons, and the short With The Angels.

Trained at the University of Warwick (BA Theatre and Performance).

Brenock O’Connor Keith Richards Theatre includes Rock ‘n’ Roll (Hampstead Theatre); Conor in Sing Street (NYTW off Broadway); Vincent in Plastic (Ustinov Theatre Royal Bath); Dodger in Oliver!

(London Palladium); Chip in Beauty and the Beast, Young Cosmo in Singin’ in the Rain, Fat Sam in Bugsy Malone (WMCS); Macduff’s Son in Macbeth (Rainbow Shakespeare Theatre); Aladdin, Peter Pan (Hammond Productions).

Television includes Ride Out, Alex Rider (3 seasons), Derry Girls, The Split, Living the Dream (2 series), That’s the Spirit, Casualty, Dickensian, Game of Thrones, Chickens, Holby City.

Radio includes Whistle Through the Shamrocks.

Films include The Spin, Double Blind, Young Hunters, Vita and Virginia, The Bromley Boys, Another Mother’s Son. Riley Woodford Shannelle 'Tali' Fergus Lara Rose McCabe

Brenock performs his own music under the pseudonym McGovern. He is also one fifth of the performance collective, Gravy River.

Sam Pay Chief Inspector Bramley / Judge Block / RADA Principle Theatre includes Tamburlaine, Tartuffe, Timon of Athens, The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Pinocchio, The Bolds, The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Unicorn Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (Mercury Theatre Colchester); Much Ado About Nothing, The Great Gatsby, Godspell, Our Man In Havana, Don’t Look Now, A Passionate Woman, Travels with My Aunt, The Talented Mr Ripley (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Trelawny of the Wells, See How They Run, Privates on Parade, My Fair Lady, Scrooge (Pitlochry Festival Theatre).

(King’s Head Islington); The School for Scandal (Derby Playhouse); Age Sex Location (Lyric Hammersmith).

Television includes Significant Other, Rivals, Back, Holby City, Doc Martin, Trollied, Fresh Meat, The Musketeers, The Thick of It, Without You, Sherlock: The Blind Baker, Margaret, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Outnumbered, Whatever Love Means, Friends and Crocodiles, Love Soup, The Rotters Club, Inspector Lynley, Silent Witness, Teachers, The Bill, Acorn Antiques.

Films include Christmas Karma, White Widow, Blinded by the Light, Double Date, Mad to Be Normal, Day of the Flowers, In the Loop, Heroes and Villains, Killing Me Softly.

Olivia Poulet Carol Havers Previously at Chichester, Caroline Mortimer in The Long Song (Festival Theatre), Chloe in Fred’s Diner (Theatre on the Fly), Dull Gret/Angie/Jeanine in Top Girls (CFT/Out of Joint Minerva Theatre & Trafalgar Studios).

Theatre includes Leah in Product, Olwyn in Pablo Neruda (Arcola Theatre); Anna in What’s in a Name (Birmingham Rep); Barbara/Vicky/Doris in Tonight at 8.30 (ETT/Nuffield Theatre); Adult Supervision (Park Theatre); Sissi in Captain of Kopenick (National Theatre); Lyn in Shivered (Southwark Playhouse); Miss Cox/Reigate’s Mum/Miss Fergusson in A Voyage Round My Father and Sally Steadman in Map of the Heart (Salisbury Playhouse); Fiasco (Soho Theatre); The Queef of Terence, Bird Flu Diaries (also co-writer, Pleasance Edinburgh); Jenny Hill in Major Barbara (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Lesson

Akshay Sharan PC Willis / Vivek Chakrabarti Theatre includes Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre); Notes from a Small Island (Watermill Theatre); The Bee in Me (Unicorn Theatre); Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre); Makeshifts/Realities/Honour Thy Father (Finborough Theatre); The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Finborough Theatre/The Yard Theatre/Bradford Literature Festival/ Edinburgh Fringe Festival at Summerhall); A Tale of Two Cities (Darlington Civic Theatre); Daughter of the Forest (Komola Collective); Sara Pascoe’s Christmas Assembly (Battersea Arts Centre); Sara Pascoe’s Literary Salon (The Book Club).

Television includes McDonald and Dodds (series 4), Grantchester (series 5), Guerrilla.

Films include The Effects of Lying.

Writing includes The Waiting Room (Jermyn Street Theatre); Roobaroo (The Space); PARTiTiON PLAY and Make Better (Omnibus Theatre), and Akshay is currently developing his fifth play Finders Shooters with the Criterion Theatre’s New Writing Programme.

Akshay is the recipient of The Stage Debut Award for Best Actor in a Play 2018 for The Reluctant Fundamentalist at The Yard Theatre.

Jasper Talbot Mick Jagger This is Jasper’s professional theatre debut.

Theatre while training includes Bobby Strong in Urinetown The Musical, Dan/ Dave/Felix/Steve/Clive/Luke in Anatomy of a Suicide, Joe Pitt in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Duke Orsino/ Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Chrysothemis in Elektra, Captain Brazen in The Recruiting Officer, Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Joe in Light Falls (RADA); Clay in Assessment Centre (Etcetera Theatre).

Television includes Broadchurch (season 3).

Films include the short Mantis.

Trained at RADA. Ella Tekere Female Fan / Journalist / Drama Student This is Ella’s professional theatre debut.

Theatre credits while training include Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes, Glinda in Wicked, Al DeLuca in A Chorus Line (Urdang Academy).

Music videos include JP Kazadi’s Closer.

Television includes Call the Midwife.

Films include the shorts The Price for a Princess, Granted.

Trained at The Urdang Academy.

Instagram @ellatekere Riley Woodford George Harrison / Dancer / Hawker / Policeman / Newspaper Seller / Appeal Clerk Theatre includes Miss Saigon (Sheffield Crucible); Hex (National Theatre); Strom/ Chorus in Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); ensemble/understudy Grandpa in Tales of the Turntable, Tinman in Groove On Down the Road – A Hiphop Tale to Oz (ZooNation).

Films include Masters of the Air, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Jingle Jangle.

Adam Young Sniderman / Philip Havers / Terry / Derek Carter / Cricket Commentator Theatre includes Danny in Withnail and I (Birmingham Rep); Mercutio in Romeo and

Juliet, Feste in Twelfth Night, Corporal Nym in Henry V, Lennox in Macbeth, Slender in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival); Sid in Call Me Vicky (Pleasance Theatre); Face in The Alchemist (Shakespeare Festival in the Globe Neuss); Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi (Sam Wanamaker Festival/The Globe); From Morning to Midnight, Face in The Alchemist, Todd in White Pig, Iago in Othello, George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Yasha in The Cherry Orchard, Ryan in If You Don’t Let Us Dream We Won’t Let You Sleep (Mountview); Arlo in No Quarter (Soho Theatre).

Television includes Masters of the Air, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Romantic Getaway, Rise of the Tudors, Sex Education, EastEnders.

Radio includes The Archers.

Films include Don’t Breathe 2, Two for Joy, Crooked House and the shorts Commitment Issues, Ultra, Homegrown, Clergymen, Nu Media, Tybalt’s Truth, Fineline, Teeth, Period Piece.

Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.

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Creative Team Justin Audibert Director Justin has been Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre since July 2023. He directed The Caretaker in the Minerva Theatre earlier this season.

Previously, he was Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre where he directed The Three Billy Goats Gruff (also at the Minerva Theatre), Pinocchio, Marvin’s Binoculars, The Canterville Ghost, Anansi The Spider, Aesop’s Fables, Beowulf and My Mother Medea.

Other recent theatre directing credits include: The Box of Delights, The Taming

of the Shrew (also broadcast live to cinemas internationally), Snow in Midsummer and The Jew of Malta (Royal Shakespeare Company); Snow in Midsummer (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Macbeth and The Winter’s Tale (National Theatre); The Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Cardinal (Southwark Playhouse); The Jumper Factory (Young Vic Prison Project); How (Not) to Live in Suburbia and Wingman (Soho Theatre); The Man with The Hammer (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Unscorched (Finborough Theatre); and Gruesome Playground Injuries (Gate Theatre).

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Winter’s Tale, both adapted by him for young audiences, are part of the National Theatre Collection; and he wrote and presented the two BBC Live Lessons on Shakespeare for the RSC. For Unicorn Online, his work included Marvin’s Binoculars, Anansi The Spider Re-spun and Philip Pullman’s Hansel and Gretel. He directed the short film Joseph Knight for the National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Scotland.

In 2012 he was the recipient of the Leverhulme Award for Emerging Directors from the National Theatre Studio. He is a trustee of Invisible Flock and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, and is on the Advisory Council for the Children’s Touring Partnership.

Alan Berry Musical Director Previously at Chichester, cover conductor for Local Hero (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre credits as Musical Supervisor: Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre, UK & Ireland tours); Bananaman The Musical (Southwark Playhouse).

As Associate Musical Supervisor: Groundhog Day (Princess Theatre Melbourne); Girl from the North Country (Public Theatre NY); Matilda The Musical (international tour); Avenue Q (UK tour 2011).

As Musical Director: A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day (Old Vic); Girl from the North Country (Old Vic/Noël Coward Theatre); Treason in Concert (Theatre Royal Drury

Lane); Hairspray (London Coliseum); Come From Away (Abbey Theatre Dublin/ Phoenix Theatre West End); A Little Princess (Royal Festival Hall); Big Fish (The Other Palace); Ghost The Musical (international tour); The Commitments (Palace Theatre); Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre); Avenue Q (Gielgud Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory/Duke of York’s Theatre/ Ambassadors Theatre).

As Associate Musical Director / Cover Conductor: A Christmas Carol (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne); Tammy Faye (Almeida Theatre); Shrek the Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Matilda. A Musical (Courtyard Theatre, RSC); Hairspray (Shaftesbury); Spamalot (Palace); Aladdin (Old Vic); Kiss Me, Kate (UK tour).

Television and radio includes The Olivier Awards, The Royal Variety Performance, Friday Night is Music Night, 4 Poofs and A Piano, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, This Morning, The Paul O’Grady Show, Ant ‘n’ Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Daybreak, Children in Need.

Original London cast recordings: Matilda The Musical, Girl from the North Country, Treason The Musical in Concert.

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Awards include the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music and the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Musical Direction for Come From Away. alanberry.co.uk Benjamin Kwasi Burrell Composer and Orchestrator Credits as composer include Grenfell: in the words of the survivors (National Theatre); Lenny Henry’s ITV drama Three Little Birds; The Motive and The Cue (National Theatre & Noël Coward Theatre); Best of Enemies (Young Vic & Noël Coward Theatre); Blues for an Alabama Sky, Small Island (National Theatre: 2019 Black British Theatre Award); A Taste of Honey (UK tour & Trafalgar Studios); Beyond Beethoven 9 (National Youth Orchestra/Southbank Centre).

Credits as musical supervisor include Mandela (Young Vic).

Benjamin was music director for Coventry Moves as part of Coventry City of Culture 2021. He is MD of the House and Garage Orchestra, and has performed, composed and arranged for bands and artists including Zara McFarlane, Cape Verdean’s Carmen Souza, the Jazz Jamaica All Stars Big Band, New Civilization

Orchestra, Chineke! Junior Orchestra and the Tomorrow’s Warriors Jazz Orchestra.

As a performer he has worked with top jazz talent including Garry Crosby MBE, Denys Baptiste, Rod Youngs, Mark Kavuma, Nubya Garcia, Peter Edwards, and Nathaniel Facey.

Screen credits include scores for We Go Again (BBC 3 Winter 2024).

He trained at Trinity College of Music, then gained a Masters in Scoring for Film, Television & Video Games from Berklee College of Music.

BW Musicians Ltd – Andy Barnwell and Rich Weeden Orchestral Management Previously at Chichester, Oliver!, Rock Follies, The Sound of Music, Assassins.

Current/recent London productions: Next to Normal, Hello, Dolly!, Kiss Me, Kate, Spirited Away, MJ The Musical, Operation Mincemeat, Opening Night, Sunset Boulevard, Crazy for You, Aspects of Love.

Current/recent regional/UK tours include: & Juliet, The Devil Wears Prada, Hamilton, Aladdin, Pretty Woman, Sinatra.

Andy Barnwell Also at Chichester Babes in Arms, Funny Girl, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Love Story, 42nd Street, She Loves Me, Singin’ in the Rain, Sweeney Todd, Kiss Me Kate, The Pajama Game, Barnum, Guys & Dolls, Gypsy, A Damsel in Distress, Mack and Mabel, Travels with My Aunt, Half a Sixpence, Love’s Labour’s Lost/Much Ado About Nothing, Caroline Or Change, Fiddler on the Roof, Me and My Girl, Flowers for Mrs Harris, This Is My Family, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Crazy for You. Current/recent London productions Cabaret, Moulin Rouge!, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, Hamilton, Frozen.

Rich Weeden Also at Chichester The Famous Five.

Current/recent London productions Fiddler on the Roof, ABBA Voyage, SIX, Brokeback Mountain, Once on this Island, La Cage aux Folles.

Current/recent regional/UK tours

include Hairspray, SIX, Shrek, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

Matt Daw Lighting Designer Theatre includes Dear Evan Hansen (Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour); The Hatchling (Trigger); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cymbeline, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida (RSC); Rumble in the Jungle (London); The Wolves in the Wall (Little Angel Theatre); Linck and Mühlhahn (Hampstead Theatre); Polinations (Birmingham); Bring It On (UK tour/London); Kuwait Calling, Black & White (National Theatre of Kuwait); The Snow Queen (Royal Danish Opera); Memoirs of a Sailor (Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre, Kuwait); The Last Ship (UK & US tours/Canada); The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Southampton); St Nicholas (Donmar/Goodman Theatre Chicago).

Live music includes Andrea Bocelli (30th Anniversary Concert, Teatro del Silenzio Italy); Sampha (world tour); Future Islands (People Who Aren’t There Anymore

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world tour); Alicia Keys (Keys to the Summer US tour); Lorde (Sola Power world tour); Arcade Fire (WE world tour); 5 Seconds of Summer (Live at The Royal Albert Hall); Pet Shop Boys (Dreamworld international tour); The XX (European tour); Damian Rice (My Favorite Faded Fantasy world tour); Sigur Ros (Kveikur and Valtari world tours); Björk (Biophilia world tour).

Film: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Asteroid City and The French Dispatch (directed by Wes Anderson), Pride (directed by Matthew Warchus).

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Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus Choreographer Previously at Chichester, The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Minerva Theatre, also Unicorn Theatre).

Credits include The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre/The Rep Birmingham/UK tour); Cinderella: A Fairytale (Northern Stage); mum. edit. more. (Rich Mix/Siobhan Davies Studios/ The Place/Wellcome); Let You Love Me (Rita Ora).

As Assistant/Contributing Choreographer: Anything, Taylor Swift Eras Tour (Griff); Messy Love (NAO); Phoenix World Tour (Rita Ora); X Factor (Italy); Palo Santo album campaign & tour (Years & Years).

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Instagram @tali_1301/@identity.ideas. industry Ben Furey Voice and Dialect Coach Based in London and the US, Ben’s recent West End theatre credits include Brokeback Mountain (Soho Place); The Third Man (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Extensive Broadway credits include Ink, The Nap, The Phantom of the Opera, The Children, Michael Moore: The Terms of My Surrender, Significant Other, The Encounter, King Charles III, Side Show, The Last Ship, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (also two US tours), Matilda The Musical, Billy Elliot (also three US tours), Monty Python’s Spamalot (also three US tours).

Off-Broadway: Oliver! (City Center, NY); Apologia, The Last Match, Significant Other, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, The Language Archive (Roundabout Theatre); Fairview (Soho Rep); Sugar in our Wounds, Dan Cody’s Yacht, Linda, By the Water (Manhattan Theatre Club); Animal, Cloud 9, Our New Girl, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Explorers Club, Harper Regan, Gabriel (Atlantic Theatre Company); Sweeney Todd (Barrow St/ Tooting Arts); Appropriate (Signature Theatre).

Film and television credits How to Train Your Dragon, Lost City of Z, Treasure Buddies, Elementary, Hunters, Blindspot, Tales of the City, Vinetalk.

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Joshua Griffith Associate Musical Director Previously at Chichester, Assistant Musical Director Local Hero (Minerva Theatre).

Credits as Musical Director include Annie (UK tour), Nativity! The Musical (Birmingham Rep).

Credits as assistant musical director include Chicago (UK/international Tour), Falsettos (The Other Palace), Flashdance (international tour).

Josh regularly deputises on piano at Kiss Me, Kate (Barbican) and Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre), where he is also the cover conductor; and played in the musical television production of How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

He studied music at the University of York, graduating with first class honours in 2018.

Julia Head Associate Director Also for Festival 2024, Associate Director for The House Party (Minerva Theatre/ Headlong).

Julia is a director of theatre, film and audio from Bristol. Select theatre works include Flies by Charlie Josephine

(Shoreditch Town Hall, 2023), Everywoman (The New Diorama, 2023), Lysistrata (Bristol Old Vic, 2022), Wild Swimming (Bristol Old Vic, 2019).

Jules founded and runs FullRogue, is the Company Director of YoungSixSix, and is an Associate Artist of Bristol Old Vic. They are a trustee of Headlong and MAYK. Jules was a Headlong Origins Director for 2021, was part of Buzz Artists Lab in Bremen in 2022, and was selected for the National Theatre Studio Directors programme in 2023. juliahead.com Charlotte Jones Writer Previously at Chichester, The Meeting (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre includes Diva in Me (Brighton Festival and tour, winner of Brighton Argus Award); The Lightning Play (Almeida, nominated for WhatsOnStage Best New Comedy); The Dark (Donmar Warehouse); The Woman in White (book for the musical

by Andrew Lloyd Webber, West End and Broadway); Humble Boy (National Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club: Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Critics’ Circle Best New Play, People’s Choice Best New Play, WhatsOnStage Best New Play and nominated for Olivier and Drama Desk Awards); Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Octagon Theatre Bolton, Liverpool Everyman, Palace Theatre Watford: Manchester Evening News Best New Play Award and Pearson TV Best New Play Award); In Flame (Bush Theatre, New Ambassador’s Theatre: Critics’ Circle Most Promising Playwright Award); Airswimming (Battersea Arts Centre).

Television includes The Halcyon (series creator), Without You (three-part series), The Palace, A and E, Bessie and the Bell (New York Film and TV Gold Award, Worldfest Houston Platinum Award and Columbus Film Festival Bronze Plaque).

Radio includes over 20 plays and adaptations for Radio 4 including Wild Things, Britt-Marie Was Here, The Henry Experiment, Pride and Prejudice, What would Elizabeth Bennet do?, Matilda,

Talking to Strangers, Dolly’s Mexican Wave, Mia and Maia (Sony Award nomination), The Sound of Solitary Waves, Magpie Tales, Blue Air Love and Flowers, In the Absence of Geoff, Ruby on a Tuesday, Sea Symphony for Piano and Child (Peter Tinniswood Award nomination), A Seer of Sorts, Future Perfect, Mary Something Takes the Veil.

Charlotte is currently writing new plays for the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse. She is also developing a new TV series based on the Tuva Moodyson books by Will Dean for Red Planet Productions, with Rose Ayling-Ellis starring as Tuva. She also has three films in development with House productions, Fictionhouse and Brouhaha films. She has already written the film version of Redlands for Qwerty Films. It is set to go into production early next year.

Charlotte is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and her plays are published

by Faber and Faber.

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Ryan Dawson Laight Costume Designer Previously at Chichester, The Jungle Book, The Wind in the Willows, Pinocchio (2020 & 2021), The Wizard of Oz, Crossing Lines, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales, The Tiger Who Came To Tea. Costume Design for Theatre includes Burlesque: The Musical (Manchester Opera House/Glasgow Theatre Royal); Twelfth Night, La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Wild About You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

Set and Costume Design for Theatre includes My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre/Turbine Theatre); I Wish (Unicorn Theatre); A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Gate Theatre/Paines Plough); Half-Empty Glasses, The Ultimate Pickle (Paines Plough/Edinburgh/tour); Just So (Barn Theatre); Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep Have Jumped All The Fences (Belfast International Arts Festival/ Big Telly/59E59); Torch Song Trilogy (Turbine Theatre); Duckie (Royal Festival Hall); Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre); Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory); HMS Pinafore, Chess, Blondel, The Mikado (Union Theatre). Ryan was Associate Designer for Creation Theatre where he designed over 25 shows.

Dance includes, for Drew McOnie, Nutcracker (Southbank Centre), Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell); for Gary Clarke Company, Detention (CAST Doncaster), Wasteland (UK tour), Coal (UK tour: UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance); for Botis Seva, Until We Sleep (Sadler’s Wells/international tour), Good Youts Walk (UK tour), BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells: Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production); for Boy Blue, Blak Whyte Gray (Barbican: nominated for Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production), REDD (Barbican).

Awards include WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles; nominated for Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles. ryandawsonlaight.com Brenock O'Connor

Ginny Schiller CDG Casting Director Previously at Chichester, The Other Boleyn Girl (Festival Theatre), 4000 Miles (Minerva Theatre) and three repertory seasons co-cast with Maggie Lunn 2003-05.

Ginny has been an in-house casting director for the RSC, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, ETT and Soho Theatre and has worked closely with Bath Theatre Royal and Ustinov Studio for the last decade. She has cast extensively for the West End and touring circuit as well as for the Almeida, Arcola, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, Cambridge Arts, Charing Cross Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Frantic Assembly, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, Jermyn Street, Leicester Curve, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Menier Chocolate Factory, Northampton Royal & Derngate, Nottingham Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Drum, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible, Traverse Edinburgh, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wilton’s Music Hall, Young Vic and Yvonne Arnaud Guildford.

She has also worked on many television, film and radio productions, including the BBC Radio 4 series Nuremberg and Nazis: The Road To Power. Recent theatre productions include A View from the Bridge (Ustinov/Haymarket), Machinal (Ustinov/Old Vic), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark/West End), Noises Off (West End), The Tempest (Ustinov Studio), The Starry Messenger (Wyndham’s) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (UK tour).

Joanna Scotcher Set Designer Previously at Chichester The Vortex (set designer), Doubt: A Parable (Festival Theatre), Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (Minerva Theatre and Spiegeltent).

Theatre as designer includes Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC); Black Superhero (Royal Court); Macbeth (Almeida Theatre); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (Theatre Royal Stratford East/UK Jasper Talbot

tour); Women Beware Women (Shakespeare’s Globe); Love, Love, Love (Lyric Hammersmith); Emilia (Shakespeare’s Globe/ West End); Mother Courage, Anna Karenina, The Rolling Stone (Royal Exchange/Headlong Theatre); The Village (Stratford East); Cuttin’ It (Young Vic/Royal Court/Birmingham Rep/Sheffield Theatres); Winter, Two Endless Moments, A Harlem Dream (Young Vic); Pests (Clean Break/Royal Court/Royal Exchange); Katie Roche (Abbey Theatre Dublin); Boys Will Be Boys (Bush Theatre/Headlong); The Railway Children (King’s Cross Theatre/ Waterloo/Toronto).

Opera as designer includes She Described It To Death, Current Rising (Royal Opera House).

She was awarded the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for her work on Emilia and a WhatsOnStage Award for Best Set Designer for The Railway Children.

Joanna Scotcher trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Claire Windsor Sound Designer Theatre includes Pericles, The Box of Delights, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Whip, The Taming of the Shrew, Tamburlaine, The Duchess of Malfi, Adam Young Louis Landau Olivia Poulet

Imperium, Dido, Queen of Carthage, Love for Love, The Jew of Malta, The Rape of Lucrece, Doctor Faustus, Snow in Midsummer (RSC); Betty! A Sort of Musical, Happy Days, Three Sisters, Monster, Jonah and Otto, Palace of the End, Flags, Mojo Mickybo, 0.0008, PUB, Powdermonkey, London Assurance (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Mistake (Michael Mear’s Essential Theatre Company); Our Lady of Kibeho (Royal & Derngate/Theatre Royal Stratford East); Fantastic Mr Fox (Southampton Nuffield/Leicester Curve/ Lyric Hammersmith/international tour); Company Along the Mile (Milan Govedarica & West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Claire is currently a member of the RSC Sound department.

She was a professional musician and live sound engineer for eight years before she graduated from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, BA (Hons) Sound Technology.

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We have an urgent need to build a third space for emerging artists, community groups and families.

Our solution is The Nest: a sustainably built performance venue nestled among the trees, providing a supportive space for exciting new projects.

With The Nest we will be able to host community and family classes, late night events, fringe-style performances and rehearsals for our Emerging Artist Development Programme.

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We now have planning permission. We need to raise at least £1,500,000 to make this dream a reality and we have just reached the halfway point – so now we urgently need your help to get us across the finish line.

‘Nurturing the next generation of artists is vital to ensure that theatre in the UK maintains its international reputation for excellence. I am delighted to support Chichester Festival Theatre - a place dear to my heart - as they embark on creating this exciting new space. I cannot wait to see the work that is incubated in The Nest!’

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Whatever your age or ability, there’s something for you at CFT. From people who have been coming to CFT for years, to those who have never set foot in a theatre, we offer exciting opportunities for everyone from newborns to those in their 90s.

Weekly classes. One-off workshops. Long term projects to get your teeth into.

Our LEAP team does it all.

This is a space where experiences are created and shared, and where everyone can find their place. So come join us, and become part of our story.

‘Working at the theatre under many guises gave me a well-rounded knowledge of our industry and the support was always there and still is – I wouldn’t be where I am without it. Please never stop working tirelessly to grow us into the next generation.’

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‘I’ve discovered abilities I never knew I had. The classes contribute greatly to my quality of life and to that of the wider community.’

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So many people think they know what we do here at CFT. But did you know that we offer: • Free Youth Theatre places for young carers and anyone from underprivileged backgrounds

• Groups for adults with disabilities

• A creative outlet for isolated individuals through our weekly Chatter Project

• Wellbeing support for participants, visiting cast and company members, and staff

• Weekly Festival Fridays for kids who find creative ways of learning more accessible

• Free Buddy support for anyone who feels unable to attend shows or classes on their own

• Work experience, training opportunities and apprenticeships

• Training opportunities in Technical Theatre And that’s really just scratching the surface of our LEAP team’s reach.

Visit cft.org.uk/get-closer or email leap@cft.org.uk to find out more and discover a way into CFT that’s right for you.

With thanks to all our amazing LEAP supporters who generously fund this work.

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 Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Arts Society, Chichester The Bassil Shippam and Alsford Trust The Bernadette Charitable Trust Bruce Wake Charitable Trust The Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity 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!

Wickens Family Foundation

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 Gary Fairhall 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 Roz Frampton 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

...and to all those who wish to remain anonymous, thank you for your incredible support.

‘Chichester Festival Theatre enriches lives with its work both on and off stage. It is a privilege to be connected in a small way with this inspirational and generous-hearted institution, especially at such a challenging time for everyone in the Arts.’

John and Susan Coldstream, Major Donors

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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

Sally Garner-Gibbons

Apprenticeship Co-ordinator

Matthew Hawksworth

Head of Children & Young People’s Programme

Hannah Hogg

Senior Youth & Outreach Manager

Shari A. Jessie Kate Potter

Creative Therapist Youth & Outreach Co-ordinator

Directors Office Justin Audibert Kathy Bourne Keshira Aarabi

Marketing, Communications & Sales Josh Allan Assistant Box Office Manager

Helena Berry Angela Buckley

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

Miranda Cromwell Sophie Hobson Hannah Joss

Associate Director Creative Associate Associate Director (Literary)

Patricia Key Aimée Massey

Executive PA Diversity, Inclusion & Change Consultant

Julia Smith

Company Secretary & Board Support

Building & Site Services Chris Edwards Maintenance Engineer Lez Gardiner Duty Engineer Daren Rowland Facilities Manager Graeme Smith Duty Engineer Costume Brooke Bowden Ev Butcher Isabelle Brook Tobias Dane Aly Fielden Helen Flower Shelley Gray

Wardrobe Manager Dresser Wardrobe Assistant Dresser Wardrobe Manager Senior Costume Assistant Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Manager

Abigail Hart Natasha Pawluk

Wardrobe Assistant Deputy Wigs, Hair & Make-Up

Roseby Willow Scovell

Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant

Isobel Shackleton

Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant

Hannah Sinclair

Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Assistant

Loz Tait Daniel Thatcher Colette Tulley Eloise Wood

Head of Costume Wardrobe Manager Wardrobe Maintenance Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Manager

Development Nick Carmichael Development Officer Julie Field Friends Administrator Sophie Henstridge-Brown Head of Philanthropy Sarah Mansell Liz McCarthy-Nield Leo Powell Charlotte Stroud Karen Taylor Megan Wilson

Finance Alison Baker Victoria Clarke Sally Cunningham Mandy Fletcher Krissie Harte Katie Palmer Simon Parsonage Amanda Trodd Protozoon Ltd LEAP Ellen de Vere Matthew Downer Zoe Ellis

Appeal Director Development Director Appeal Co-ordinator Development Manager Development Manager Events and Development Officer

Payroll & Pensions Officer Finance & Commercial Director Purchase Ledger Assistant Finance Analyst Finance Officer Assistant Management Accountant Interim Finance & Commercial Director Management Accountant IT Consultants

Youth & Outreach Trainee Cultural Learning & Participation Apprentice LEAP Co-ordinator

Louise Rigglesford

Senior Community & Outreach Manager

Dale Rooks Angela Watkins

Director of LEAP LEAP Projects Manager

Caroline Aston Becky Batten

Audience Insight Manager Head of Marketing (Maternity leave)

Laura Bern

Head of Marketing (Maternity cover)

Emily Biro Jessica Blake-Lobb Helen Campbell Jay Godwin Lorna Holmes

Box Office Assistant Marketing Manager (Corporate)

Box Office Systems Manager Box Office Assistant Assistant Box Office Manager

Mollie Kent Box Office Assistant Stephanie McKelvey-Aves Marketing & Press Assistant James Mitchell

Sales & Marketing Assistant

James Morgan Lucinda Morrison

Head of Sales & Ticketing Head of Press & Publications

Brian Paterson Kirsty Peterson Catherine Rankin Vic Shead Luke Shires

Distribution Co-ordinator Box Office Assistant Box Office Assistant Marketing Manager Director of Marketing & Communications

Jenny Thompson

Social Media & Digital Marketing Officer

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

Box Office Assistant Box Office Assistant Marketing Officer Box Office Assistant Box Office Manager Box Office Assistant

People Paula Biggs Naz Jahir Emily Oliver Annie Thomas Bent Gillian Watkins

Head of People People Manager Accommodation Co-ordinator People Administrator HR Officer

Production Niamh Dilworth Producer Amelia Ferrand-Rook Senior Producer Robin Longley General Manager Claire Rundle Production Administrator George Waller Trainee Producer Nicky Wingfield Production Administrator Technical Sam Barnes Steph Bartle Victoria Baylis Joe Chads Leoni Commosioung Rebecca Cran Sarah Crispin

Sound Technician Deputy Head of Lighting Props Assistant Stage Crew Stage Technician Stage Crew Deputy Head of Props Workshop

Connor Divers Lighting Technician Elise Fairbairn Stage Technician Zoe Gadd Lighting Technician Lyla Garner-Gibbons Stores Assistant Sam Garner-Gibbons Technical Director Jack Goodland Auto Technician Fuzz Guthrie Senior Sound Technician Laura Hackett Technical Apprentice Anaya Hammond Stage Crew Katie Hennessy Props Store Co-ordinator Tom Hitchins Head of Stage & Technical Joe Jenner Production Manager Apprentice Mike Keniger Andrew Leighton Matthew Linklater Ethan Low

Head of Sound Senior Lighting Technician Sound Technician Stage Crew

Fin Macknay Charlotte Neville Stuart Partrick

Stage Crew Head of Props Workshop Transport & Logistics Assistant

Neil Rose Ernesto Ruiz Anna Setchell (Setch) James Sharples Graham Taylor Dominic Turner Linda Mary Wise Simon Woods Theatre Management Janet Bakose Judith Bruce-Hay Charlie Gardiner Ben Geering

Deputy Head of Sound Prop Maker Deputy Head of Stage Senior Stage Crew & Rigger Head of Lighting Lighting Technician Sound Technician Stage Crew

Theatre Manager Duty Manager Duty Manager Head of Customer Operations

Dan Hill Assistant House Manager Will McGovern Deputy House Manager Sharon Meier PA to Theatre Manager Gabriele Williams Deputy House Manager Caper & Berry Catering Proclean Cleaning Ltd Cleaning Contractor Goldcrest Guarding

Security

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, Lucija O’Donnell, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Alice Rochford, Sian Rodd, Fleur Sarkissian, Derren Selvarajah, Peg Shaw, 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: Issie Berg Rust, Theo Craig, Anayis Der Hakopian, Esther Dracott, Chloe Gibson, Aled Hanson, Ophelia Kabdenova, Alice Kilgallon, Francesca McBride, Ace Merriot, Katherine Munden, Jacob Simmonds, Susie Udall, Priya Uddin.