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12 APRIL 19 may By ella road Directed by SAM YATES

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WELCOME The Phlebotomist is the third play in this season of work by early career writers, and the second by a playwright making her debut. New voices form an essential part of the cultural conversation and encouraging, nurturing, and – most importantly – presenting the work of first-time playwrights is an essential part of Hampstead’s mission. Hampstead Downstairs was created partly to deliver this strand of our activity, providing a place where writers are free from the commercial exigencies and uncompromising critical focus that have to be navigated by playwrights writing for Hampstead’s Main auditorium.

Since we created the Downstairs programme, we have premiered more than a dozen first plays, launching talents as brilliant and as diverse as Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Collette Kane, Deborah Bruce, Rose Heiney, Jacqui Honess-Martin and, most recently, Georgia Christou. There is much to celebrate here, and, in spite of the financial challenges we have been set of late, with your help and support we hope to be able to continue to offer first productions to those we believe will be the great writers of tomorrow.

And it is always pleasing to have one’s judgements of such matters confirmed by people that one respects. Sam Yates is a director we have been trying to bring to Hampstead for a while, so it’s especially pleasing that, hot from the West End triumph of his production of Glengarry Glen Ross, he found Ella’s play as compelling as we did and immediately signed up to make his Hampstead debut directing it. I hope we’ll see a lot more of him here – and I know we’ll all be seeing a lot more of Ella.

EDWARD HALL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

BEA DAVID AARON CHAR

JADE ANOUKA VINCENT EBRAHIM RORY FLECK BYRNE CHERRELLE SKEETE

CREATIVE TEAM WRITER DIRECTOR DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER VIDEO DESIGNER CASTING DIRECTOR ASSOCIATE DESIGNER PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER REHEARSAL PHOTOGRAPHER PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHER

ELLA ROAD SAM YATES ROSANNA VIZE ZOE SPURR ALEX TWISELTON DUNCAN MCLEAN LUCY HELLIER FIONA RIGLER TAMMY ROSE AMY SLATER BECKY PARIS MARC BRENNER

VIDEO AND AUDIO INTERLUDES CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY PRODUCTION DESIGNER ASSISTANT CAMERA SOUND

IVAN WOOD DUNCAN MCLEAN JAMES SOLDAN KITT SULLIVAN VALERIO CERINI

AUDIO INTERLUDES ACTORS

ESH ALLADI, ASHLEY BYAM, JONATHAN COOTE, JOANNE GALLAGHER, LLOYD HUTCHINSON, MARTINS IMHANGBE, FIZ MARCUS

VIDEO INTERLUDES ACTORS

EMMA DARLOW, CONOR GORMALLY, REBEKAH HINDS, THEO OGUNDIPE, SAKUNTALA RAMANEE, SULE RIMI, SID SAGAR, MIA SELWAY, KELLIE SHIRLEY, NIALL WRIGHT WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO JESSICA NORMAN FOR DRAMATURGICAL SUPPORT AND DR MARYAM KHOSRAVI FOR SCIENTIFIC ADVICE

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE WOULD LIKE TO THANK

BETHANY PITTS, PETER CLAYTON, ALL AT THE CRITERION THEATRE TRUST, RAMIN SABI AT DEM, CHARLIE MURPHY, MICHELA MEAZZA (MOVEMENT DIRECTION), NIGEL LILLEY (MUSICAL DIRECTION), DANNY SHORT (GUITARIST “HIT OR MISS”), ANDREW SPEED, PETER WILKINSON, ANNIE BREWER, THE JERWOOD SPACE, THE NATIONAL THEATRE AND LIZ & ANDY YATES

THE PHLEBOTOMIST

CAST IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

THE WILL MORTIMER INTERVIEW WM This is your first play. Why did you write it?

ER The idea had been rattling about in my head for a few years, but I didn’t know what form it would take until a few friends and I set an arbitrary deadline to each write ‘something’, and I knocked out a first draft. I’d seen a video years before about a device which tested your genetic risk of developing lung cancer and it stuck in my head. At first I’d thought ‘How amazing!’ Then I’d thought, ‘Would I want to know that kind of thing?’ And then, ‘Hmmm, what would a world look like if everyone knew?’ I did some research into what other diseases were being genomemapped, and couldn’t stop thinking about how our desire for self-knowledge could interact with our increasing obsession with value and validation, investment and return.

WM You’re not a scientist, are you?

ER No but my family are pretty science-y and I’ve always been interested in evolution. During drama school holidays I worked at the Natural History Museum and hung out with the fossils. And when I finished training and was missing both learning and performing, I borrowed some books on genetic theory to write a poem for a scratch night. I’d decided that through poetry I’d prove that humans aren’t inherently selfish -- that there’s no link between capitalism and the

survival of the fittest: ‘...See I don’t think that inequality/Comes from our inner-qualities…’ (No Nobel prize materialised, but I think the poem went OK). Similarly the original research for The Phlebotomist mainly consisted of Wikipedia and whatever books were in Hornsey Library, so I asked Dr. Maryam Khosravi to confirm that what I’d come up with was scientifically plausible. Her inside perspective is fascinating. Technology evolves quicker than humans do, and some areas of science are advancing at such a rate that our ethical framework can’t keep up.

WM Hampstead takes a very artistcentred approach to production, so you and your director Sam Yates have had a free hand in developing the text. Can you describe that process?

ER Sam is brilliant and I’ve loved collaborating with him. When we first met we pulled apart the questions that the play raises for us on both personal and political levels and really interrogated the characters.

He’s encouraged me to be playful, and to run down some of the hallways I was standing on the threshold of.

The text hasn’t changed dramatically, but we’ve distilled some bits and expanded others, and I’ve no doubt it will continue to evolve a lot during rehearsals and the run.

THE HAMPSTEAD THEATRE LITERARY MANAGER TALKS TO THE WRITER

ELLA ROAD

WM How are rehearsals going?

ER Well, I think! The actors are wonderful, and I’ve found it fascinating watching them explore the world and build the characters up into three-dimensional humans.

We’re only about half way through and I’ve stepped out of the room to let it all breathe a bit. I’m very much looking forward to seeing what they’ve created when I come back in.

WM What is it like to see your first play go into production?

ER Really exciting. Every time we’ve had a new brain join it’s felt a bit more real.

I’ve loved feeling the team grow and the potential of the play expand. Creatives and cast have picked out tropes that I didn’t write intentionally. Art is so elastic and subjective, and that’s what makes the process of collaboration so wonderful.

WM Though the play is rooted in the personal, it is definitely a play with political points to make… Would you describe yourself as a political playwright?

ER I think to some extent all theatre is political. Once you put a body on stage (or anywhere, in fact) it is immediately politicised. I’ve only recently started calling myself a ‘playwright’ at all, so it might be too soon for me to describe myself as any particular type of playwright. However, we live in a world with so much injustice, where things are moving so quickly in some ways and far too slowly in others, where value systems and language and expectations are constantly shifting, that I’d have to try pretty hard to avoid it. I want to explore human experience, and experience is a highly political thing.

WM What do you want the audience to take from the play?

ER I’d love them to enjoy it! And I’d love them to come away thinking ...and hopefully not just about what they’re going to drink (although there is a very good bar upstairs).

JENNIFER LEONG

CRACKING THE CODE THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT

was an international research effort to sequence and map all of the genes, together known as the genome, of Homo Sapiens. Completed in April 2003, it was one of the great feats of exploration in scientific history; and gave us the ability to read nature’s complete genetic blueprint for building a human being for the first time.

WHAT IS A GENOME?

Your genome is the set of instructions for making and maintaining you. All living things - plants, bacteria, viruses and animals - have a genome. This genome is written in a chemical code called DNA. A genome is made of 4 letters (CTGA) repeated in a specific sequence. These letters represent the chemical elements – or bases – of DNA. Your genome is a sequence of DNA unique to you. It is found in almost every cell in your body. It contains around 20,000 genes. Genes are the ‘instructions’ for making the proteins our bodies are built of – from the keratin in hair and fingernails to the antibody proteins that fight infection.

Genes make up about 2% of your genome. The rest of the DNA, between the genes, used to be called ‘junk’ DNA. It wasn’t thought to be important, but recent research has shown that DNA between genes is important for regulating the genes and the genome. For example, it can switch genes on and off at the right time.

There is still much more to be discovered about what it does.

WHAT IS GENOME SEQUENCING?

A standard 250 page book is made up of a specific sequence of the letters of the alphabet adding up to roughly 400,000 letters. Remove the spaces, imagine that you have an alphabet of 4 letters rather than 26, and you have a DNA sequence.

Each book is different, just like each person is different. 2 copies of the same book will share the same DNA, just as two identical twins will.

Sequencing is a technique that is used to ‘read’ DNA. Sequencing a human genome means finding the unique sequence of someone’s 3.2 billion letters of DNA. The position of most of human genes is known and is marked on the ‘Reference Sequence’ (common to our species).

Every person has millions of differences (called Variants) to the Reference Sequence. Most of these differences are harmless – they are the reason we are different from each other. However, some differences can cause disease.

WHY SEQUENCE A GENOME?

Learning more about genomes can help us to identify the cause of genetic diseases, like Cancer.

Some rare diseases are caused by as little as a single variant, like a spelling mistake, in someone’s DNA. Looking at the genome of a person affected by a rare disease can help find which DNA changes might be causing the problem.

For some patients, knowing more about their genome may mean that a particular

treatment can be recommended.

When the genome sequences of patients with the same condition are compared, it is possible to see patterns.

The more genomes that are sequenced, the more patterns are noted. These known patterns can be combined with a patient’s general health information to help predict whether they are likely to develop certain conditions, and, if so, how severe their illness is likely to be – even before any symptoms are detected.

As research advances, scientists are able to ‘read’ more and more information from the genome, from fat storage, to personality types and behavioural tendencies.

WHAT’S NEXT?

The next step in the UK is The 100,000 Genomes Project. It is currently the largest national sequencing project of its kind in the world.

It will sequence 100,000 genomes from around 70,000 people. Participants are

NHS patients with a rare disease, plus their families, and patients with cancer. The aim is to create a new genomic medicine service for the NHS – transforming the way people are cared for. Patients may be offered a diagnosis where there wasn’t one before. In time, there is the potential for new and more effective personalised treatments.

Combining genomic sequence data with medical records is a ground-breaking resource. Researchers will study how best to use genomics in healthcare and how best to interpret the data to help patients.

OVER THE COUNTER TESTS

Advancements in genomics means that it is becoming cheaper and easier for the public to have their genome sequenced, as a means of calculating future health risks, and finding out about ancestry.

Biotechnology companies currently sell inthe-post genetic tests.

The information in this essay was drawn from various sources, including Genomics England.

JADE ANOUKA

CHERRELLE SKEETE

ELLA ROAD VINCENT EBRAHIM

JADE ANOUKA SAM YATES

RORY FLECK BYRNE

CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM ELLA ROAD WRITER

Ella trained as an actor at The Oxford School of Drama after her English degree at Somerville College, Oxford.

The Phlebotomist is the first play she’s written.

She is currently under commission from Theatre Royal Plymouth, and is developing her play Roosting following an R&D scheme at The Park Theatre. She is also developing work for screen.

Film work as a creative includes The Wyrd and Mo Ji (in development).

Radio work includes Road to Oxford for BBC Radio 4.

She is co-founder of the new writing company ‘Flux Theatre’ and is a Soho Theatre Young Writer.

SAM YATES DIRECTOR

Theatre work includes Glengarry Glen Ross (Playhouse, West End); Desire Under the Elms (Sheffield Crucible); Murder Ballad (Arts - nominated for three WhatsOnStage Awards and Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress); Cymbeline (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse/Shakespeare’s Globe – Ian Charleson Award commendation); East Is East (West End and UK tours); The El Train with Ruth Wilson (Hoxton Hall); Outside Mullingar (Ustinov Studio, Bath); Billy Liar (Manchester Royal Exchange - winner of the Manchester Theatre Awards for Best Actor and Best Newcomer); Cornelius (Finborough/59E59 Theaters, New York - nominated for four Off West End Theatre Awards and Critics’ Pick, The New York Times) and Mixed Marriage (Finborough).

Film work includes The Hope Rooms (winner of the Rhode Island International Film Festival 2016 Grand Prize Filmmaker of the Future Award); Cymbeline; All’s Well That Ends Well and Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Complete Walk, Shakespeare’s Globe) as well as two music videos, Emeralds and Auld Wives for the Ivor Novello Award-nominated band Bear’s Den (Communion Music).

Radio work includes Ecco (Radio 4).

RORY FLECK BYRNE

JADE ANOUKA

AARON

BEA

Theatre work includes Cover My Tracks (Old Vic); Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar at King’s Cross); Doctor Faustus (West End); Julius Caesar; Henry IV and The Tempest (all Donmar/St. Ann’s Warehouse, NY); So Here We Are (Royal Exchange/Hightide); Chef (Soho); The Vote (Donmar); Omeros (Sam Wanamaker); Clean (Traverse/59E59, NY); Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet (both Shakespeare’s Globe); Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Bolton Octagon); Wild Horses (Theatre503); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe/US tour); Blood Wedding (Southwark Playhouse); Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal); The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice (both RSC); The Penelopiad (RSC/NAC, Canada) and Handa’s Surprise (Little Angel Theatre).

Film work includes Baby Gravy; The Dark Channel; A Summer Hamlet and A Running Jump.

Television work includes Trauma; Chewing Gum; Lucky Man; The Vote; Shakespeare Uncovered; Doctor Who; Secrets and Words and Law & Order: UK.

VINCENT EBRAHIM DAVID

Theatre work includes Dara and Behind the Beautiful Forevers (both National Theatre); Bad Roads and The Djinns of Eidgah (both Royal Court); The Empress (RSC); The Great Game (Tricycle/US tour); Occupational Hazards and Nathan the Wise (both Hampstead Theatre); Credible Witness (Royal Court Upstairs); Ramayana (Birmingham Rep/National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tara Arts/Lyric); Tartuffe; Little Clay Cart and Fanshen (all National Theatre) and Real Dreams and The Danton Affair (both RSC).

Film work includes Allied; The Physician; Material and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Television work includes 40 North; Casualty; Hoff the Record; Hollyoaks; Doctors; The Old Guys; Compulsion; The Kumars at Number 42; New Street Law; After You’ve Gone; Meet the Magoons; The Lenny Henry Show; Holby City; Bedtime and Doctors.

Radio work includes Tumanbay; Revelation; Oedipus the King; School Drama; Dark Fire and An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk.

Audio Podcast work includes My Indian Odyssey.

Rory trained at RADA. Theatre work includes Anna Karenina (Abbey); King Charles III (Wyndham’s); The Vortex (Gate, Dublin); That Face (Landor); The Lion in Winter (Haymarket); Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Cause Célèbre (Old Vic) and Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Everyman).

Film work includes The Foreigner; Vita and Virginia; Night of the Lotus; Tiger Raid; Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters and The Quiet Ones.

Television work includes Death in Paradise; Harlots; To Walk Invisible; Jack Taylor; Midsomer Murders; Damo & Ivor and Grantchester.

Short film work includes Inbox; Bodies and Untitled Blues.

CHERRELLE SKEETE CHAR

Theatre work includes The Seagull and Jack and the Beanstalk (both Lyric Hammersmith); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace); Three Days in the Country and The Amen Corner (both National Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (Royal & Derngate Theatre); The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices (Old Vic) and I and Silence (Finborough).

Theatre work whilst training at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama includes The Edge (New Diorama); Sold; King Lear; Love’s Last Shift; There’s No Place Like Home; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Three Sisters.

Musical theatre work includes The Lion King (Disney Theatrical Productions).

Television work includes Silent Witness; Doctors (series regular); Danny and the Human Zoo; The Five; Ordinary Lies and Call the Midwife (Season 4).

ROSANNA VIZE DESIGNER

Theatre work includes Yous Two and No One Will Tell Me How to Start a Revolution (both Hampstead Downstairs); Myths (RSC); King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe); Girls (Soho); Coastal Defences and Infinite Lives (both Tobacco Factory Theatres); Measure for Measure (North Wall Theatre); Low Level Panic (Orange Tree); The

Earthworks (RSC); St Joan of the Stockyards; Dark Land Lighthouse and A Thousand Seasons Passed (all Bristol Old Vic); FUP (Kneehigh); The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco (Gate/National Theatre Studio) and The Picture of John Gray (Old Red Lion).

Opera work includes Don Giovanni (Hampstead Garden Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC/ Garsington Opera) and Il Furioso All’Isola Di San Domingo (English Touring Opera).

ZOE SPURR

LIGHTING DESIGNER Theatre work includes Beginners (Unicorn); Elephant (Birmingham Rep.); Collective Rage (Southwark Playhouse); Tiny Dynamite (Old Red Lion – Offie 2018 nomination); Festival Voices (Ugly Duck, a warehouse space, London Bridge); Phoenix Rising (Smithfield Market Car Park, Site Specific Promenade - Offie Finalist 2017); Elton John’s Glasses (Watford Palace); Skate Hard, Turn Left (Battersea Arts Centre); Hidden (UK tour); Natives (Boundless Theatre); Good Dog (Watford Palace/UK tour); School Play (Southwark Playhouse); Muted (Bunker Theatre); Erwartung / Twice Through the Heart (Hackney Showroom); The Knife of Dawn (Roundhouse); Affection (The Glory, Haggerston/Stan’s Cafe at A.E Harris, Birmingham); Bitches (Finborough); Torch (Latitude/New Diorama/ Big Belly, Edinburgh Underbelly); This Evil Thing (New Town Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe); Handle With Care (Site Specific touring production); Hookup (Hackney Downs Studios/Outbox Theatre) and The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face (The Jetty, North Greenwich/ Shunt).

ALEX TWISELTON SOUND DESIGNER

Work as a Sound Designer includes The Trial; Oh My Sweet Land and Safe House (all Young Vic); Story Fishers (National Theatre); A Man of No Importance; Little Shop of Horrors; Dangerous Corner; Anne and Zef; Stepping Out; Spread a Little Happiness; Epsom Downs; Blackbird; Death and the Maiden; A Taste of Honey; A Game of Love and Chance; The Country and Faith Healer (all Salisbury Playhouse); Toro! Toro! (UK tour); and The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Theatre503).

Work as Associate Sound Designer includes Network (National Theatre); Red Velvet (West End); A View from the Bridge (Young Vic/West End/Broadway/LA/ Washington DC) and Our Country’s Good (Out of Joint US tour).

Alex is currently a Sound & Video Supervisor at the National Theatre.

DUNCAN MCLEAN VIDEO DESIGNER

London theatre work includes Labour of Love (Noël Coward); Big Fish (Other Palace); Matthew Bourne’s: The Red Shoes and Cinderella (both Sadler’s Wells); Saint Joan; Privacy; City of Angels and Phyllida Lloyd’s Shakespeare Trilogy (all Donmar); All About My Mother (Old Vic); The Bodyguard (Adelphi); Shrek (Drury Lane); and Frost/Nixon (Gielgud).

New York theatre work includes Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes (City Center); Privacy (Public Theater); The Tempest (St Ann’s Warehouse); and The Norman Conquests (Circle in the Square).

International theatre work includes Starlight Express (Germany); The Bodyguard (Worldwide); Evita (Worldwide) and Ghost (Germany).

Events include The League of Gentlemen - Live Again! (UK tour); Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse Legends! (UK tour); 28 Days Later; Dr Strangelove and Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (all Secret Cinema).

LUCY HELLIER

CASTING DIRECTOR Current work as a Casting Director on the following independent films includes The Unravelling; Rendezvous in Paradise (Director Alain Berliner) and War Wolf (Director Simon West).

Other film work as Casting Director includes The Ledge (Director Howard J Ford); All the Devil’s Men (Director Matthew Hope); Soma (Director Miklos Keleti) and Medusa’s Ankles (Short film, Director Bonnie Wright).

Film work as a Casting Associate includes The Foreigner (Director Martin Campbell); Skyfall and Spectre (both Director Sam Mendes); Iron Sky: The Coming Race (Director Timo Vuorensola); Stratton (Director Simon West); Billionaire Ransom (Director Jim Gillespie); The Confessions (Director Roberto Andò) and Tiger Raid (Director Simon Dixon).

Television work includes Knightfall; One Child and Borgia.

Theatre work as a Casting Associate includes Strangers on a Train (Director Robert Allan Ackerman).

Prior to Casting, Lucy worked for 7 years as a Senior Sales Executive in International Distribution at ITV.

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MAIN STAGE

WHAT’S ON CAROLINE, OR CHANGE BOOK AND LYRICS BY TONY KUSHNER

MUSIC BY JEANINE TESORI DIRECTED BY MICHAEL LONGHURST 12 MARCH - 21 APRIL

DESCRIBE THE NIGHT

BY RAJIV JOSEPH DIRECTED BY LISA SPIRLING 30 APRIL - 9 JUNE

GENESIS INC. DOWNSTAIRS

BY JEMMA KENNEDY DIRECTED BY LAURIE SANSOM 22 JUNE - 28 JULY

THE PHLEBOTOMIST

BY ELLA ROAD DIRECTED BY SAM YATES 12 APRIL - 19 MAY

THE STRANGE DEATH OF JOHN DOE

WEST END

BY FIONA DOYLE DIRECTED BY EDWARD HALL 25 MAY - 30 JUNE

PLAYFUL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS HAMPSTEAD THEATRE’S

THE MODERATE SOPRANO

BY DAVID HARE DIRECTED BY JEREMY HERRIN 5 APRIL - 30 JUNE | DUKE OF YORK’S, LEICESTER SQUARE

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE

BOOK & LYRICS BY TONY KUSHNER | MUSIC BY JEANINE TESORI DIRECTED BY MICHAEL LONGHURST | STARRING SHARON D. CLARKE 20 NOVEMBER - 9 FEBRUARY PLAYHOUSE THEATRE, EMBANKMENT

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THE PHLEBOTOMIST