New Vic Theatre Annual Review 2016

ANNUAL REVIEW

2016

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150,000 visits to the New Vic

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MAKING AN IMPACT The New Vic is the producing theatre for Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. Our mission is to make excellent theatre-in-the-round and to be a force for positive change in our region.

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PLACE SHAPING 7

A Centre For Creativity

Growing Audiences For The Arts 9 11

Stronger Communities

WELLBEING

LOOKING BACK AT OUR PRODUCTIONS

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LEARNING

INNOVATION

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ENTERPRISE

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REPUTATION

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OUR SUPPORTERS, SPONSORS AND BUSINESS FRIENDS

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THE YEAR AT A GLANCE

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“How lucky we are to have such a fantastic theatre like the New Vic right here on our doorstep” The Sentinel

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CHAIR’S INTRODUCTION A year of ambitious development has seen the New Vic making an impact locally and nationally, shining a spotlight on Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire as places where creativity and excellence thrive.

The culmination of our affiliation with the National Theatre Studio in our innovative Hoard Festival project; the third year of our partnership with the RSC; collaborations with colleagues at Hull Truck Theatre, Oldham Coliseum, Eastbourne Theatres and Oxford Playhouse; not one but two shows featured in national newspaper roundups of the best theatre of the year; research projects with a number of universities including Keele and Staffordshire; an international programme of arts engagement; a flagship intergenerational company and life-changing work with hard-to-reach individuals and communities. These are just snapshots of the activity which has been undertaken by the hardworking team at the New Vic, but they reflect the energy and creativity which is generated at the Theatre every day of the year. Furthermore, they demonstrate how the boundaries of excellence are being pushed by every project we undertake.

We also heard from the Arts Council’s Chief Executive Darren Henley who, after travelling the length and breadth of the country, wrote a book about the invaluable rewards to be gained from the public investment that enables great art and culture to be a part of everyone’s lives. We couldn’t agree more and share in this Annual Review our role in delivering the dividends that culture and creativity can bring in terms of place shaping; advancing education; impacting positively on health and wellbeing; contributing to economic prosperity, and enhancing our reputation nationwide.

Bryan Carnes MBE Chair of Trustees

“Staffordshire’s New Vic proves what a regional theatre with ambition and imagination can do” The Guardian

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28,007 people saw our work on tour across the country

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PLACE SHAPING: A CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY DEFINING AND ANIMATING “Place Shaping: local players using their influence, powers, creativity and abilities to create attractive, prosperous and safe communities; places where people want to live, work and do business. Our Local Economic Partnership’s vision is for a county which dominates the space between a number of the UK’s largest urban areas, driving economic growth and achieving ‘superconnectivity.”

Future Communities With 150,000 people drawn to the New Vic from an area that stretches from Manchester in the north to Birmingham in the south; from Derby in the east to the Welsh border in the west, the New Vic is a cultural centre, breaking down geographical barriers locally and across the wider region, animating our area and supporting key strategic opportunities such as that offered by the Stoke-on-Trent City of Culture bid.

IMPORT/EXPORT As a producing theatre the New Vic creates and delivers a busy programme of work developed by local people for local people, and part of our role is to define the place where we make our work, ensuring it has a local voice. But we’re also about making that voice heard on the national stage. During the year New Vic productions including Kiss Me Quickstep, The Merry Wives and The Ladykillers made an impact across the country; and we welcomed the country to us too. We’re proud to be a key player in a thriving national industry that’s at the forefront of British economic growth.

Kiss Me Quickstep The Guardian A new commission from Amanda Whittington. Toured from Staffordshire to Eastbourne Theatres, Oldham Coliseum Theatre & Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.

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49% of our Appetite audience are those least likely to attend the arts

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PLACE SHAPING: GROWING AUDIENCES FOR THE ARTS Alongside members of our community, Newcastle-under-Lyme Business Improvement District and Stoke-on-Trent City Centre Partnership we planned and curated a programme of events to enable more and more people to enjoy and be inspired by the arts. As part of our Appetite programme we invited national and international artists to perform here, offering a menu of the very best dishes.

Our attendance figures demonstrate that we achieved exactly what we’d hoped – a growing appetite for the arts. And we put our area on the map at the same time.

CELEBRATING OUR COMMUNITIES Through the World in One City International Feast Day with the British Ceramics Biennial and the Jubilee Group, to a Diwali celebration with Runga Rung and Emergency Exit Arts, we’ve been able to celebrate our diversity. Luke Jerram’s Lullaby marked our excitement about the Tour of Britain, sending out a flotilla of illuminated bikes to light up the night.

We programmed and commissioned artworks for local fayres and carnivals. Through Christmas Light switch-ons and annual Homecoming celebrations we’ve brought the best of national circus to our local streets.

“Culture brings huge benefits by providing better quality of life and wellbeing within local communities.”

DCMS Culture White Paper

THE BIG FEAST Mr Wilson’s Second Liners provided the soundtrack for a Taster Tour, dancing us through the Six Towns as we sampled what the Big Feast, our Appetite summer arts festival, would bring.

Over the big weekend itself 17 companies delivered 70 performances including an afterdark tour of shadowy parks and shuttered shops by French company Rara Woulib; spectacular aerial feats outside Argos by French Collectif du Bascule; South Asian and Portuguese dance; a takeaway van serving up poetry; a meeting of extraordinary bodies and local singers in Weighting.

“It’s just amazing to see good events in the city, do things you would not normally do and see people enjoying where they live.”

Appetite audience member

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18,773 778 participations

workshops

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PLACE SHAPING: STRONGER COMMUNITIES New Vic Borderlines is concerned with the social agenda, working with a range of partners including statutory bodies and community-led organisations to reduce isolation and marginalisation, reduce criminal and antisocial behaviour and enhance health and wellbeing. A wide range of projects with partners including health care professionals, the constabulary and looked-after children’s services, worked with a wide range of people facing challenges at home and abroad – including the Tsunami communities in Japan.

Two of our many projects were:

LOVE HURTS? In partnership with the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s office, Borderlines built on research into domestic violence to create a new documentary-style drama featuring the voices of young people caught up in abusive relationships. Love Hurts? performed in front of schools, colleges and frontline professionals, offering an opportunity for young people to consider what constitutes a healthy relationship, and suggestions of how to help if they or their friends become involved in an abusive relationship.

“Culture can help to improve self-esteem, social skills and wellbeing: all of which helps make our communities safer.”

DCMS Culture White Paper

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH Borderlines and Keele University’s Management School initiated a whole new research centre focused on developing socially innovative research with communities CASIC (Community Animation and Social Innovation Centre). Research includes important issues about overcoming food poverty through working with communities to identify causes and potential solutions including SMART CITIES approaches and digital information sharing.

This was funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council and resulted in a publication ‘Beyond the Foodbank’.

Strathcross.

New Vic Borderlines’ led theatre group for adults with learning difficulties with their show Two Hoods are better than one.

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‘being involved with Borderlines has given me my dignity back, I feel like I am a decent human being again not just a burden to society‌’ Participant, Appetite for Change project about unemployment and food poverty

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WELLBEING Just going to the theatre can have a positive effect on your health. But this year a raft of other initiatives across all of our programmes allowed us to see first-hand the benefits that engaging with and participating in the arts can bring to individuals and communities.

Here are a few of them:

CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES Borderlines worked with parents of children with disabilities or life-limiting conditions to create a piece of theatre which told the story of how Scope’s Face2Face project had made a difference to their lives over the past ten years. A documentary drama was produced by parents and volunteers from the Face2Face project in the main auditorium at the New Vic.

ANIMATING HOSPITALS As a follow-on to a programme of dance, music and art in hospital corridors and wards, Appetite worked with University Hospitals of North Midlands to develop new art projects with staff, including using puppetry to work with stroke patients, a mural to enliven the Minor Injuries Department and a groundbreaking exploration into the use of music in the neo-natal ward. The research, which showed that music and sound can aid babies’ development during this vital stage of life, is set to be developed further.

“Those who attended a cultural place or event in the previous 12 months were almost 60% more likely to report good health than those had not.”

Arts Council Evidence Review, 2014

AGES AND STAGES This programme of continuing collaborative research on the impact of culture through the lifecourse brought together experts from schools of Gerontology, Humanities and Social Sciences from Keele University, and the New Vic, to create an intergenerational theatre company. An offshoot of this flagship work was the development of the Creative Age Festival; and we’ve shared learning with other theatres in York, Manchester and London.

The research continues.

As part of the Beyond The Foodbank project with Keele University, Borderlines held workshops encouraging people to share experiences of food, using this as inspiration to decorate a display of plates.

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Table Play. The Hoard Festival.

June/July 2015

The Gift. The Hoard Festival. June/July 2015

Unearthed. The Hoard Festival. June/July 2015

The Ladykillers. April 2015

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Seeing The Lights. September 2015

Private Lives. May 2015.

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Tale Trail to Robin Hood & Marian. December 2015

Robin Hood & Marian. November 2015 – January 2016

Photos by Andrew Billington

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28,524 14,943 school-age children attended performances during the year

young people under 20 participated in our projects

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LEARNING We work across the curriculum, using theatre to explore literacy, language, science, the arts and the social agenda. At the theatre, in the classroom, in libraries, universities, online, and in publication. With learners of all ages, from pre-school up to Adult and Community Learning courses designed to build confidence, aspiration and ambition.

LITERACY A magical installative theatre event offered the very youngest of children an opportunity to attend and experience the theatre. Tale Trail to Robin & Marian involved literacy development activities in collaboration with national literacy charity Beanstalk, and invited pre-school children to literally enter the story and interact with the characters as the drama played out around them.

Our partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Warwick University completed its third year and is now set to continue, inspiring imagination, creativity and a love of language in primary school students and their teachers.

“Children from low income families who take part in arts activities at school are three times more likely to get a degree.”

Arts Council Evidence Review, 2014

ARTS AWARD As an Arts Award centre the New Vic inspires young people to deepen their engagement with the arts at the same time as developing their creativity and leadership skills – all whilst achieving a national qualification. Students can progress through five levels to Gold, which carries 16 UCAS points and takes about 150 hours to complete, so it’s a serious and substantial undertaking.

It Snows by Bryony Lavery & Frantic Assembly.

Performed by New Vic Youth Theatre as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival.

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INNOVATION It was a year of firsts for us, full of ambition and innovation. National critics noticed, comparing our work favourably with that of theatres including the Royal Court, National Theatre, Almeida and Chichester Festival Theatre.

HOARD ‘Not one, not two, but 19 new plays (even more if one included the volunteer storytellers circulating shopping precincts). At its centre a fascinating verbatim documentary revealed how much the treasure continues to baffle experts.’

Hoard Festival: The Guardian Top Ten regional theatre productions of 2015 We were the first regional Affiliate Company of the National Theatre Studio, who supported the genesis and development of the entire Hoard Festival project, helping us to commission 19 new pieces of work including a sonic piece by non zero one and a series of ‘table plays’ for audiences of only three or four at a time. And we explored digital animation and projection, splashing images of the artefacts ten metres wide across our stage.

“The Hoard Festival at Staffordshire’s New Vic proves what a regional theatre with ambition and imagination can do.”

The Guardian

“A rich and rewarding cache of stories.”

The Observer on The Hoard Festival

DRACULA Our 2015 production of Dracula continued to be discussed by national critics and commentators, with one citing it as contributing to a revolution in sound design across the industry; and another including it in its round-up of the ten best theatre productions of the year.

‘Vampire magic, with electrifying foley work.’

Dracula: The Observer Top Ten

‘Seldom has a key rasping in a lock been as scary or symbolic.’

Lyn Gardner in The Guardian

“Theatrical gold in the Midlands.”

The Guardian

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ÂŁ3.3m 15,065 turnover

volunteer hours contributed

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ENTERPRISE “The creative industries are one of the UK’s fastest growing sectors in terms of both job and value creation. Alongside their vital economic role, these industries help mould the UK’s global brand, shaping investment, tourism, and our cultural influence.”

The CBI As an entrepreneurial charity, we have stakeholders not shareholders. Our stakeholders are our audiences, participants, schools, community groups, funders and many more, but any surplus we make is reinvested to deliver our work and help us achieve our objectives as a charity. And this all makes good business sense. Investment in arts and culture pays out economic benefits, creates jobs and enables us to deliver value for money for all investors.

Our turnover of £3.3 million during the year and more than 150,000 people visiting the theatre or taking part in our projects meant that we made an economic impact on our region of £12.8 million. As a modern arts organisation we play an important and growing part in the economic development and regeneration of our area, breaking down barriers between commercial and non-commercial, subsidised activity.

We completed a programme of capital improvements during the year, which transformed the theatre’s public areas. Customer feedback has been excellent and income lines from catering and ancillary areas have shown strong growth with a turnover of £490,000.

NEW VIC PEOPLE During the year we: Employed more than 177 people, a mix of permanent and contractual staff, througout the year Engaged 84 artists including actors, musicians, choreographers and designers The New Vic is a voluntary-led organisation and volunteers make an enormous contribution to our work. 15,065 hours were worked by volunteers during the year, which is estimated to be worth £196,146 to the charity based on the 2015 local average hourly wage.

“The UK has seen its creative industries grow at rate of 8.9% between 2013 and 2014.

That’s faster than any other industrial sector – including financial services.”

Darren Henley, Chief Executive, Arts Council England

“A show that will

touch a lot of people with its humanity.”

The Sentinel on Seeing The Lights

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109,787 99% ticketed attendances

of our audience rated our Artistic Quality as Good or Very Good

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REPUTATION We know that we make theatre in a place where creative talent and excellence thrive, and part of our mission is to make sure the rest of the country knows that too. So national partnerships, national touring and international relationships are a key part of our role.

LOCAL The New Vic worked alongside local stakeholders including Keele and Staffordshire Universities; Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce; Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council; Newcastle-under-Lyme Business Improvement District; Stoke-on-Trent City Council, City of Culture 2021 bid team, the Potteries Museum; Staffordshire County Council, the Police Commissioner and the Fire and Rescue Service.

NATIONAL Productions created at the New Vic were restaged in venues across the country, with The Ladykillers enjoying a further run in Hull, The Merry Wives touring nationally, a number of our Hoard Festival pieces being remounted in Birmingham, and Kiss Me Quickstep transferring first to Scarborough, then Oldham, before waltzing away with a summer season in Eastbourne.

Plays originally created for the New Vic were recorded as radio drama by the BBC (The Thrill of Love) and new productions were staged in three of the UK’s capital cities (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in Edinburgh and Cardiff; Great Expectations in London).

INTERNATIONAL The New Vic works with universities and other organisations internationally including the British Council. Their social leadership programme Active Citizens connects 40 countries via 450 partners. A residency at the New Vic included a visit to Robin Hood & Marian, which the group observed emphasised the importance of democracy, rights and equality. Our Marian, Crystal Condie, made a big impression on Yassmine of British Council Lebanon: “I love her!

When she threw off her dress and put on the trousers, it was amazing. In Lebanon, women and girls need more strong role models like Marian.”

The Merry Wives, co-production with Northern Broadsides.

Toured nationally from January to May 2016

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19 330

main house productions

performances

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OUR SUPPORTERS TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS:

Ernest Cook Trust, The Sir Barry Jackson Trust, Michael Marsh Charitable Trust, Open Gate Trust, Ellerman, William A Cadbury Charitable Trust, Cheshire Community Foundation, Ragdoll Foundation, Cultural Grants (Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough), Edward Cadbury Trust, HLF young roots, Split Infinitive Trust, Cheshire Freemasons, BBC Children In Need, Big Lottery Fund, Baron Davenports Charity

OUR SPONSORS

OUR BUSINESS FRIENDS

ANNIVERSARY PATRONS Janet Bennett David Briggs Shelley Brooker Tricia Budd David Budgett Mark and Carol Eastwood Jean Foden John and Sheila Freeman Angela Glendenning Martin Harrison Pam and John Hindley

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Susan Holland Jean Hollings Marilyn Jones Ifor Jones and Esther Morris-Jones J Lamont Allan and Eleanor Lewington Susan Marsh Anthony Martin Margaret Michell Jane Morris

Kathy and Paul Niblett John and Kathy Norman Kath and Walter Partington Richard Platt Philip Potts Robin Powell Diana Richardson Judith and Jason Rowley Mr Spilsbury Mr and Mrs Tallentine Gareth Snell

Sophia Snell Catherine Taylor Philip Taylor John Turner Warren Winfield

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THE YEAR AT A GLANCE NEW VIC PRODUCTIONS 10 April – 2 May 6 – 23 May 20 June – 25 July

18 Sept – 3 Oct 21 Nov – 30 Jan 12 – 24 Dec 5 – 27 Feb 4 – 19 March

The Ladykillers by Graham Linehan (with Hull Truck Theatre) Private Lives by Noël Coward (with Octagon Theatre Bolton) Hoard Festival: My Name is Freda by Samuel Adamson The Foreigner by Lydia Adetunje Rune by April de Angelis Larksong by Chris Bush 500 Pieces by Andy Field The Throne by Frazer Flintham Unearthed by Theresa Heskins Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill Tranklements by Caroline Horton The Gift by Jemma Kennedy The Rime of the Hoard by Gary Longden Gold by Fran Millican-Slater A Thing Worth Keeping by non zero one Hoarder by Sara Pascoe Zoomorph by Matthew Robins Magic by Darren Sharp Inscribed by Lemn Sissay Half a Horse by Isy Suttie Hwaet! by Tom Wells Beowulf Seeing the Lights by Brendan Murray Robin Hood & Marian adapted by Theresa Heskins Tale Trail to Robin Hood & Marian, New Vic Education The Merry Wives by William Shakespeare (with Northern Broadsides) Kiss Me Quickstep by Amanda Whittington (with Oldham Coliseum Theatre)

VISITING PRODUCTIONS 31 March – 4 April 27 May – 13 June 1 – 12 Sept 6 – 24 Oct 27 – 31 Oct 3 – 7 Nov 10 – 14 Nov 30 Nov – 12 Dec

Bouncers by John Godber, John Godber Co & Theatre Royal Wakefield King Lear by William Shakespeare, Northern Broadsides Eric in Benidorm, David Graham Productions Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre Hero’s Welcome by Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre Poles Apart by John Godber, John Godber Co & Theatre Royal Wakefield The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, Northern Broadsides & Harrogate Theatre Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, London Classic Theatre Eric’s Christmas Party, David Graham Productions

WHAT OUR AUDIENCES THINK We asked our audiences to rate us. These are our scores for ‘Good’ or ‘Very Good’: Entertainment 97% Artistic Quality 99% Value 97% Customer Care 98%

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SOME EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS Drama Club Youth Theatre Arts Award Curriculum workshops INSET National Theatre Connections Royal Shakespeare Company Adult & Community Learning Tale Trail to Robin Hood & Marian Beanstalk Young People’s Theatre Company Scope Face2Face Model Citizens Arts & Humanities Research Council Yizkor Love Hurts?

Professional conferences International

Year-round drama sessions for under tens Weekly, term-time sessions with five age groups aged 10 – 19 We are an Arts Award centre, inspiring young people to grow their arts and leadership talents Using drama to teach across the curriculum in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent schools Professional development for teachers Performances as part of a national festival of new writing for young people Work with Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent schools as part of the RSC’s Learning and Performance Network Year-round sessions with vulnerable adults Immersive storytelling for pre-school children and their families Supporting children who struggle with reading ability and confidence For young people who have come through our community projects Working with parents of children with life-limiting conditions Investigating the meaning of citizenship with older people Working with Keele University and international academic partners to co-design and co-produce research with communities locally, nationally and internationally A documentary drama using the testimonies of young people caught up in the Holocaust, touring to schools and community venues Commissioned by the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, a drama about young people, cars, and mobile phones toured to schools and community venues Using documentary drama in conferences for front-line professionals to explore issues such as food poverty, health and social care Using the techniques of cultural animation to work with communities in Japan

OUR 2015/16 NUMBERS AT A GLANCE Professional productions (at the New Vic)

Number of main house productions 19 Number of performances 330 Ticketed attendances 109,787 School-age children attending 28,524 Education & Community Participatory attendances 18,773

Young people under 20 attendances 14,943

Number of participatory sessions 778 Economic Turnover £3.3 million Economic impact £12.8 million

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STOKE-ON-TRENT AND NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE THEATRE TRUST LIMITED 2015-16 Colin Barcroft Bryan Carnes MBE (Chair) Rosy Crehan Ann Fisher Cllr Terence Follows Gabriella Gay Michael Holt Susan Honeyands Iona Jones Chris Lewis Cllr Ian Parry John Sambrook Jonathan Shepherd Cllr Elizabeth Shenton Sara Williams

NEW VICTORIA PROJECTS LIMITED 2015-16 Paul Powner (Chair) Albert Cooper (Secretary) Chris Lewis Fiona Wallace Howard Wraight

The New Vic operates thanks to a unique partnership between Arts Council England, Staffordshire County Council, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

Registered Charity Number: 253242 Company Registration Number: 911924 Registered Office: New Vic Theatre, Etruria Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 0JG

Tel: 01782 717954 www.newvictheatre.org.uk Cover: Robin Hood & Marian. Photo by Andrew Billington

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