A future history play by Mike Bartlett
Directed By Rupert Goold
£9 - £36
The Queen is dead: after a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule?
Directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold, this ‘bracingly provocative and outrageously entertaining new play’ (The Independent) explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family.
Previews Thu 3 - Wed 9 Apr
Press Night Thu 10 Apr (7pm)
Evening performances 7.30pm
(no show Easter Monday)
Wednesday matinees 2.30pm
on 30 Apr, 14, 21 & 28 May
Saturday matinees 2.30pm
from Sat 12 Apr
Talkback
Tue 20 May (post-performance)
Supporters' Evening
Mon 12 May
Captioned Performances
Thur 1 May 7.30pm
Sat 10 May 2.30pm
Audio-Described Performances
Sat 3 May 2.30pm
(Touch Tour at 12.45pm)
Thu 8 May, 7.30pm
(Touch Tour at 6pm)
For the Almeida: American Psycho: A new musical thriller.
Theatre includes: Joking Apart (Nottingham Playhouse / Salisbury Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); 13 (National Theatre);Company (Southwark Playhouse); John and Jen (Landor Theatre); Is Everyone OK? (Navokov); Friday 4pm (Arcola Theatre); Time Warp; Return to the Forbidden Planet; Counted? (UK Tour);The Great British Country Fete (Bush Theatre); Skin Tight (Riverside Studios); Mamma Mia!(West End / International Tour); Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Lyric Hammersmith).
Theatre includes: One Man, Two Guvnors; Season’s Greetings (National Theatre); Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rose Theatre, Kingston);Rain Man (Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield); Portrait of a Lady (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal, Northampton).
Television includes: Breathless; Bluestone 42; Silent Witness; FM; Fairy Tales; Hotel Babylon; Bonkers; Tripping Over; Sharpe’s Challenge; The I.T. Crowd; According to Bex; Nathan Barley; Sweet Medicine; Green Wing; Shelley; The Real Jane Austen; Casualty; Rescue Me; The Office; Lorna Doone.
Film includes: Huge; The Other Boleyn Girl; The Gathering; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
For the Almeida: King Lear.
Theatre includes: A Mad World My Masters; Titus Andronicus; Candide; The Seagull; King Lear (RSC); Posh (Royal Court / West End); A Soldier and A Maker (Barbican); The Way of the World (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Good (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); There is a War; Edgar and Annabel (National Theatre); The Elephant in the Room (New Wimbledon Theatre); An English Tragedy (Watford Palace Theatre).
Television includes: Foyle’s War; M.I. High.
Film includes: The Iron Lady; Queen of the Desert.
Radio includes: The Tempest; Napoleon Rising; A Soldier and A Maker; Jill.
Theatre includes:Richard III (Nottingham Playhouse; Theatre Royal, York); Nhamo (Tricycle Theatre); ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl); The Ark (Arcola Theatre); 11 and 12 (Theatre Bouffe du Nord); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lyric Hammersmith); The Brothers Size (ATC / Young Vic); Real Black Men Don’t Sit Crosslegged on the Floor (New Federal Theatre); August in April (Brooklyn College / Arizona University); Pericles; The Winter’s Tale (RSC); As You Like It (Theatre Royal Bath); American Buffalo; Dr Faustus; Yonadab (Bedlam Theatre).
Television includes: W1A; Strike Back: Vengeance; Garrow’s Law; Above Suspicion: Silent Scream; Law and Order UK; Blood and Oil; The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency; Silent Witness; Holby City.
Film includes: To Leech; Magpie; Narcopolis; The Comedian; Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me; The Ghost; No Money; And the Woods Fell Silent; Clive Hole; The Three Dumas; Side Effects Including Road Kill; The Good Shepherd.
Radio includes: Crisis; Internal Investigations; The Second Grief; Hearing Voices; The Plantagenets; The Wall; Mauritius Command; Saint Joan; Aladdin; Dickens’ London; Leverage; The Porlock Poisoner; The Lost World; Why is the Sky So Blue; The Archers; David and Goliath; Safety Catch; Scoop; The Way We Live Right Now; Shredder; Old Peter’s Russian Tales; The Black Sheep; Paid Servant; Piper Alpha; Portrait of a Lady; Listen to the Words; I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse; Statement of Regret; The Postman of Good Hope; The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
Theatre includes: Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead Theatre); Bull (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield / 59E59 Theatres, New York); 13; Blood and Gifts; Gethsemane (National Theatre);The Pride (MCC Theatre, New York); Now Or Later; My Child (Royal Court); Rabbit (Old Red Lion / Trafalgar Studios / 59E59 Theatres, New York); Original Sin (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield);The Glass Menagerie (Minerva Theatre); Time and the Conways; Snake in Fridge; King Lear;Poor Superman (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester).
Television includes: The Assets; The Game; The Crimson Field; Churchill: The War Letters;Law and Order; Family Tree; Silent Witness; Vexed; Miranda; Law and Order: Los Angeles;Lewis; A Touch of Frost; Foyle’s War; The Execution of Gary Glitter; Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant; Doctor Who; Sleep With Me; Hustle; Jonathan Creek; Consuming Passions; Hotel Babylon; Wired; Secret Diary of a Call Girl; Bonekickers; Harley Street; Ashes to Ashes;Extras; Sold; The Commander; The Amazing Mrs Pritchard; Waking the Dead; Judge John Deed; Desperados; Rome; Love Soup; Casualty; Meucci; England Expects; Reversals; As If;Trust; The Lost Battallion; Murder on the Orient Express; Band of Brothers; I Saw You; Life of the Party; Tenth Kingdom; Let Them Eat Cake; Sharpe’s Regiment; Cold Lazarus.
Film includes: A Little Chaos; Kilimanjaro; Last Chance Harvey; Mother of Tears; The Road to Guantanamo; De-Lovely; Prima Dammi Un Bacio; A Family Man; Gregory’s Two Girls.
Adam is the winner of winner of the Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in The Pride, which also earned a Drama Desk nomination. He has also been nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Whatsonstage Awards for his role in Blood and Gifts, and Best Newcomer in the M.E.N. Awards.
For the Almeida: The Knot of the Heart.
Theatre includes: Long Day’s Journey into Night; An Inspector Calls; The Glass Menagerie; Habeas Corpus; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Enemies Within; All My Sons; Ghosts (Bolton Octagon); The Sacred Flame (English Touring Theatre); A Conversation (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Coriolanus (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Gospels (National Theatre Studio); The Laramie Project (Sound Theatre); Colder Than Here; Protection (Soho Theatre);The Lucky One (Hampstead Theatre); Frame 312 (Donmar Warehouse); God Only Knows; The Memory of Water; Les Liasons Dangereuses (West End); Home Truths (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Positive Hour (Hampstead Theatre / Out of Joint / Tour); Broken Glass (National Theatre / West End); The Last Yankee (Young Vic / West End); An Enemy of the People (Playhouse on Park); Measure for Measure; The Crucible; Macbeth (Young Vic); Antony and Cleopatra; The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre Royal, Haymarket).
Television includes: Frankie; First Thing: The Bill; Margot; The Take; Doctors; Law and Order; Heartbeat; Five Days; Messiah; Spooks; Midsomer Murders; Waking the Dead; Holby City; Heartbeat; Medics; Chandler & Co; Families.
Film includes: 1408; Full Time; Broken Glass.
Margot received the Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actor for her performance in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Nominations include the Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actor for A Conversation, and the Olivier Award for Best Actor for Broken Glass.
For the Almeida: A Delicate Balance; The Iceman Cometh.
Theatre includes: Stroke of Luck (Park Theatre); The Tempest; Little Nell (Theatre Royal, Bath); King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Educating Rita (Trafalgar Studios); Enron (Chichester Festival Theatre / Royal Court / West End); Pygmalion (Theatre Royal, Bath / Old Vic); See How They Run; Benefactors (West End); Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse); Mourning Becomes Electra; Mary Stuart; The Tempest; Cymbeline; A Winter’s Tale; Entertaining Strangers; Coming In To Land; NT 50 (National Theatre); A Christmas Carol; The Picture of Dorian Grey (Lyric Hammersmith); Julius Caesar (RSC Stratford / Barbican); The Iceman Cometh (Old Vic / Broadway); Heritage (Hampstead Theatre); The Alchemist (Birmingham Rep / National Theatre); The Retreat (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Old Times (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Amadeus (Compass Theatre); Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Sherlock Holmes; Titus Andronicus; Woman Before Woman (RSC); The Bengal Lancer (Leicester Haymarket); Traps (Royal Court); Hamlet (Prospect Theatre); As You Like It;Major Barbara; School for Scandal (Bristol Old Vic).
Television includes: Houdini; 37 Days; The Bletchley Circle; The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; Wodehouse in Exile; Miranda; Downton Abbey; Silent Witness; The Hour; The Little House; On Expenses; Money; Foyle’s War; The Queen; Midsomer Murders; Holby Blue; Poirot; North and South; Eroica; Pompeii; The Vice; Inspector Lynley Mysteries; Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible; Bloody Sunday; The Innocents; The Glittering Prizes; The Wilderness Years; Hannah; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Eustace and Hilda; The Lost Boys; Wings; Fame is the Spur; Jewel in the Crown; The Traitor; The Challenge; Life Story; The Chief; The Life and Times of Christopher Columbus; Bullion Boys; Shadowy Third.
Film includes: Jupiter Ascending; Red 2; My Piece of the Pie; Alice in Wonderland; Quantum of Solace; V for Vendetta; L’Entente Cordiale; Alexander; Johnny English; Gangs of New York; Bloody Sunday; The Four Feathers; Remains of the Day; Aces High; Joseph Andrews; Sweet William; Clash of the Titans; The Day Christ Died; Escape to Victory; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Richard’s Things; Chain Reaction; Dead Man’s Folly.
For the Almeida: Lulu.
Theatre includes: Twelve Angry Men (Birmingham Rep / Garrick Theatre); i (Southwark Playhouse); Anjin: The Shogon and the English Samurai (Horipro, Japan / Sadler’s Wells); Midwinter Dream; A Doll's House (Bridge House Theatre, Warwick); Henry V; Henry IV, Parts 1, 2 & 3; Richard III; A Midsummer Night's Dream; As You Like It; All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC); Playing Sinatra (New End Theatre); The Ministry of Pleasure (Pursued by a Bear); The Rivals (New Wimbledon Theatre); Johnson in Love (BAC).
Television includes: Doctors; Dancing on the Edge; Upstairs, Downstairs; Titanic; Dirk Gently; Midsomer Murders; Fit to Kill; Agatha Christie’s Marple; The King Must Die; The Brief; Byron; Cambridge Spies; The Inspector Lynley Mysteries; Murder Rooms; Big Pants; Strange But True; Hope It Rains; Highlander; The Manipulator; The Final Cut; 'Allo 'Allo!; Ps & Qs; Starlings; Porterhouse Blue; Bulman.
Film includes: The Best Offer; Beat Girl; A Princess for Christmas; Flushed Away; Harry Potter; Another Life; Sabotage; Day Release; The Remains of the Day; Maurice; Foreign Bodies; A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Radio includes: Gallifrey; The Confessions of Dorian Gray; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Bernice Summerfield; Travels in Dangerous Places; The Tomorrow People; Doctor Who.
Theatre includes: Othello; Timon of Athens (National Theatre); Fairytales ( Nabokov); The Human Comedy (Young Vic); Town (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); Quadrophenia (National Tour); Edward II; Enduring Voices (Old Vic 24-Hour Plays); Hobson’s Choice (Chichester Festival Theatre / National Tour); African Gothic (White Bear Theatre); The Changing Room (Royal Court Theatre).
Television includes: Switch; Doctors; Shangri-La; Torchwood.
Film includes: The Consultation Fee.
Theatre includes: Donkey's Years (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Raving (Hampstead Theatre);The Madness of George III (Theatre Royal, Bath / Tour); Into Thy Hands (Wilton’s Music Hall); Nation (National Theatre); Victory (Arcola Theatre); An English Tragedy (Watford Palace Theatre); Whipping It Up (Bush Theatre / West End); See How They Run (West End);Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (English Touring Theatre); The Way of the World (Wilton's Music Hall); The John Wayne Principle (Pleasance Theatre); The Importance Of Being Earnest (Nottingham Playhouse); Twelfth Night (Sheffield Theatre); Translations (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Black Comedy / The Real Inspector Hound (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Hamlet (Hackney Empire / Broadway); Saint Joan (Theatre Clwyd / West End);The Fairy Queen (Lisbon Coliseum); Romeo and Juliet (E.S.C); My Cousin Rachel (Derby Playhouse / Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham).
Television includes: Da Vinci's Demons I & II; Inspector George Gently; Midsomer Murders;Silk; Loving Miss Hatto; The Borgias; Kingdom ; Margaret; Hotel Babylon; Sold; Easy Peasy; Beau Brummel; A Harlot's Progress; Gil Mayo; Waste of Shame; Our Hidden Lives; Broken News; Princes in the Tower; The Fugitives; The Black Death; La Femme Musketeer; Holby City; Peterloo; Shackleton; Outside the Rules; HG Wells; Longitude; A Dance to the Music of Time; The Relic Hunters; Let Them Eat Cake; Magpie in the Dock; The Prodigious Hickey; Sharpe's Enemy; Pie in the Sky; Poldark; Dalziel and Pascoe; Kavanagh QC; Dangerfield.
Film includes: Delicious; The Duel; The Baker; Seed of Chucky; Crying Shame; Nicholas Nickleby; Enigma; All Forgotten; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; True Blue; Young Sherlock Holmes; Another Country; Higher Agency.
Radio includes: The Marriage of Figaro; Number Ten; Left at Marrakech; These Are the Times; The Small Back Room; Swindled; Basil; The Parasites; The Officers’ Ward; The River; Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2; Hamlet; Timon of Athens; The Headman; Twelfth Night.
Audio includes: Kidnapped; Sylvester; The Return of the Native.
Theatre includes: The Possibilities (King’s Head Theatre / Tron Theatre); King Lear (Citizens Theatre); Men (The Arches); Let the Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland / R&D Workshop).
Television includes: Obsession; Dark Desires.
Tafline has recently graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Theatre includes: Hysteria (Hampstead Theatre); ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl / Barbican / World Tour); Acid Test; The Heretic (Royal Court); Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith);Pains of Youth (National Theatre); The House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Television includes: Misfits; The Making of a Lady; Black Mirror; Hereafter; Dirk Gently;South Riding; The Crimson Petal and the White; Any Human Heart; Pete Versus Life; Midsomer Murders.
Film includes: About Time; Never Let Me Go
Writer
Theatre includes: Bull (Sheffield Theatres / Off-Broadway); Medea (Headlong / Glasgow Citizens / Watford / Warwick); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre / West End); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough / Theatre Royal Plymouth / Royal Court); 13 (National Theatre); Decade (co-writer, Headlong); Earthquakes in London (Headlong / National Theatre / UK Tour); Cock (Royal Court / Off-Broadway); Contractions; My Child (Royal Court); Artefacts (Nabokov / Bush Theatre / 59E59 Theatres, New York).
Radio includes: The Core; Heart; Liam; The Steps; Love Contract; Not Talking; The Family Man.
Television includes: The Town.
As a director, theatre includes: Medea (Headlong Theatre / Glasgow Citizens/ Watford Palace Theatre/Warwick Arts Centre); Honest (Royal & Derngate Theatre).
Love, Love, Love won Best New Play in the 2011 Theatre Awards UK, and Cock won an Olivier Award in 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Mike also received the Writer’s Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking, and the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefacts. His television series The Town was nominated for a BAFTA for Breakthrough Talent.
Mike is currently developing a film version of Earthquakes in London, along with television projects with the BBC, ITV, Big Talk, and Drama Republic. He is under commission from Headlong Theatre, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre, and The Royal Court.
Mike is the Associate Playwright at Paines Plough. In 2011 he was Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre, and in 2007 he was Pearson Playwright in Residence at The Royal Court.
Director
For the Almeida: American Psycho: A new musical thriller; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Theatre includes: The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong / National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Three Sixty / Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Speaking Like Magpies (Royal Shakespeare Company); Enron (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Royal Court / West End / Broadway); Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; Art; Speed-the-Plow (West End); King Lear (Headlong / Liverpool Everyman / Young Vic); No Man’s Land (Gate Theatre, Dublin / West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Bristol Old Vic / West End); Macbeth (Brooklyn Academy of Music / Lyceum Theater / Broadway); Faustus; Restoration; Paradise Lost (Headlong); Hamlet; Summer Lightning; Insignificance; Paradise Lost; Waiting for Godot; The Weir; Betrayal(Northampton Theatre Royal); Othello (Northampton Theatre Royal / Royal Theatre / Greenwich Theatre); Scaramouche (Salisbury Playhouse / Australia, New Zealand, Canada Tour); The Wind in the Willows; Privates on Parade (New Vic Theatre); Gone to LA (Hampstead Theatre); Broken Glass (Watford Palace Theatre);Habeus Corpus; Summer Lighting; Dancing at Lughnasa (Salisbury Playhouse); The Colonel Bird (Gate Theatre);Brand (NT Studio); Romeo and Juliet (Greenwich Theatre); The End of the Affair (Bridewell).
Opera includes: Turandot; On Thee We Feed (English National Opera); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera); Gli Equivoci; Il Pomo D’Oro (Batignano Opera Festival).
Film includes: True Story; Richard II; Macbeth.
Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre. He was previously Artistic Director of Headlong, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres.
Design
For the Almeida: King Lear; Through A Glass Darkly.
Theatre includes: The Weir (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Constellations (Royal Court / West End); Medea; 13 (National Theatre); A Number (Nuffield Theatre); Absent Friends (West End); South Downs / The Browning Version (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End); The Djinns of Eidgah; The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; No Quarter; Remembrance Day (Royal Court); The Life of Galileo (RSC / Birmingham Rep / UK Tour); Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong Theatre); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); Hamlet (Sheffield Theatres); Mogadishu (Manchester / Lyric Hammersmith); Cinderella; Jack and the Beanstalk; Aladdin; Dick Whittington (Lyric Hammersmith); Uncle Vanya; Unbroken; The Internationalist (Gate Theatre); Bay (Young Vic); The Merchant of Venice (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Metropolis (Theatre Royal, Bath).
Opera includes: How The Whale Became (Royal Opera House); Wozzeck (Set – English National Opera); The Flying Dutchman (Scottish Opera); Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park).
Tom received the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design in 2007 for his work with Headlong Theatre, the Jocelyn Herbert Award 2007 and the Whatsonstage Award for Best Set Designer in 2013 for Constellations and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Tom is Associate Designer for the Nuffield Theatre.
Composer
Theatre includes: St Joan (National Theatre); Strange Fish (DV8 / World Tour); King John (RSC / Swan Theatre).
Dance includes: Desh (Akram Khan Company / Sadler’s Wells / World Tour); iTMOi (Akram Khan Company / Sadler’s Wells / World Tour); works for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Company, O Vertigo Danse.
Opera includes: Ingerland (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House).
Radio includes: Portraits in Absentia.
Television includes: The Government Inspector.
Film includes: Eyes Wide Shut; The Merchant of Venice; Heidi; Time Out; Brick Lane; Gangs of New York; Room 304.
Concert works include: Hearing Voices with BBC Concert Orchestra (Queen Elizabeth Hall); the multimedia collaboration Speaking In Tunes; Mobile.
Jocelyn received a Chicago Film Award and a Golden Globe nomination for Eyes Wide Shut, an Olivier Award for St Joan, a British Composer Award in Stage Works for Desh, a BAFTA nomination for The Government Inspector and a Prix Italia Award for Music in Strange Fish. Jocelyn was one of the composers commissioned to write music for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
Jocelyn is one of UK’s most versatile composers, having written extensively for stage, screen, opera house and concert hall. She has established an international reputation as a highly original composer, winning numerous awards including a Golden Globe, an Olivier and two British Composer Awards.
Lighting Design
For the Almeida: American Psycho: A new musical thriller; King Lear; The House of Bernarda Alba.
Theatre includes: Othello; The Effect, Collaborators; Damned by Despair; A Woman Killed With Kindness; Greenland; Beauty and the Beast; Hamlet; The Cat in the Hat; Pains of Youth; Our Class; Women of Troy (National Theatre); Hamlet; The Comedy of Errors; Twelfth Night; The Tempest; King Lear; The Winter’s Tale; The Merchant of Venice; The Homecoming; Silence (RSC); Trelawney of the Wells; Moonlight; Polar Bears (Donmar Warehouse); Ten Billion; Red Bud; Aunt Dan and Lemon; The Pride; Gone Too Far! (Royal Court); Into the Woods (Open Air Theatre); A Season in the Congo; Street Scene; Been So Long; The Jewish Wife (Young Vic); The Birthday Party; Water (Lyric Hammersmith); The Little Dog Laughed; Three Days of Rain (Knight of Illumination Award & Olivier Award nomination); I Can’t Sing; The Commitments; The Pride; The Lover and The Collection (West End); The Painkiller(Lyric Belfast); Salome (Headlong).
Opera includes: Written on Skin (Aix-en-Provence / Royal Opera House); Caligula; The Return of Ulysses (ENO);Wozzeck; The Perfect American (ENO/Madrid); Macbeth (Copenhagen); Orest (Netherlands Opera); Clemency (ROH2/Scottish Opera); Seven Angels; The Lion’s Face; Into the Little Hill; Down by the Greenwood Side (The Opera Group); L’Elisir d’Amore (Grange Park Opera).
Dance includes: New works for Will Tuckett, Cathy Marston, ROH2, Bern Ballett and Scottish Dance Theatre.
Jon is an RSC Associate Artist.
Sound Design
For the Almeida: When the Rain Stops Falling; There Came a Gypsy Riding; Enemies; Festen (also West End / Broadway); American Psycho: A new musical thriller.
Theatre includes: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Audience (West End); Feast; Three Sisters; The Changeling; The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Been So Long; Member of the Wedding; Vernon God Little (Young Vic);King Lear; NT 50; Edward II; The Magistrate; Collaborators; London Road; Never So Good; Happy Now?; Saint Joan;The Revenger’s Tragedy; The Year of Magical Thinking; The Pillowman (National Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre / West End / Broadway); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre / New York); In the Republic of Happiness;In Basildon; The Pain and the Itch (Royal Court); Jumpy (Royal Court / West End); The Bee (Soho Theatre / New York); Company (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Billy Elliot (West End / Broadway / US Tour); Arabian Nights (RSC);The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre of Scotland); The Cherry Orchard; The Winter’s Tale (Brooklyn Academy of Music / Old Vic); Mary Stuart (Broadway); Nakamitsu (Gate Theatre); Hergé’sAdventures of Tintin (Barbican / West End).
Opera and ballet include: Dr Dee (Manchester International Festival / English National Opera); A Ring, A Lamp, A Thing (Royal Opera House); The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler’s Wells).
Paul received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Olivier Award for Billy Elliot, Tony nominations for One Man, TwoGuvnors in 2012 and Mary Stuart in 2009, an Evening Standard Award for Festen, an Olivier Award for SaintJoan and a Drama Desk Award for The Pillowman.
Casting
For the Almeida: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Waste.
Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard; Macbeth (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Three Sisters; Death of a Salesman;And Then There Were None; As You Desire Me; The Country Wife; Glengarry Glen Ross; The Sea (West End);Julius Caesar (Barbican); Enron; Cyrano de Bergerac; The Deep Blue Sea; Rattigan’s Nijinsky; The Way of the World(Chichester Festival Theatre); The Seagull; Blackbird; Troilus and Cressida (Edinburgh International Festival); Uncle Vanya (The Print Room).
Television includes: Midsomer Murders; Foyle’s War; Kavanagh QC; Inspector Morse; Goodnight Mister Tom; RKO 281.
Film includes: Hamlet; Breaking the Waves.
Joyce received an Emmy Award in 2000 for her work on RKO 281.
Joyce was Head of Casting at the RSC for 10 years under the Artistic Directorship of Trevor Nunn. She worked on a regular basis with Jonathan Kent when he was Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre. She cast three productions with the great German director Peter Stein and has also worked with Peter Hall and Peter Brook.
Movement Director
Movement and choreography credits include: Macbeth (NI Opera); World of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep); Pericles; Antony and Cleopatra; The Grain Store; The Drunks; The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes; I’ll Be The Devil; Cordelia Dream; Marat / Sade (RSC); Orpheus in the Underworld (Scottish Opera); The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony; Noyes Fludde (NI Opera / Belfast Zoo / Beijing Music Festival / MISA Shanghai); The Flying Dutchman; Hansel and Gretel (NI Opera); Dunsinane; Caledonia (National Theatre of Scotland); Elisir D’Amore (Opera Holland Park); The Magic Flute (Nevill Holt); Bus Stop (New Vic Theatre); My Dad’s A Birdman (Young Vic); The Village Bike (Sheffield Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Royal Exchange Theatre); My Generation (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Hansel and Gretel (Opera North); 101 Dalmations (Northampton Theatre Royal); The Barber of Seville; Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park); Larissa and the Merchants; On the Record (Arcola Theatre); Molly Sweeney (The Print Room); Restoration (Headlong); Mother Courage (English Touring Theatre); The Tempest; Macbeth; As You Like It; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge House Theatre); The Arab-Israeli Cookbook (Tricycle Theatre); Julius Caesar (Menier Chocolate Factory);Tamburlaine the Great (Rose Theatre).
As director, credits include: Beating Heart Cadaver (Finborough Theatre); Masque Arias (RSC New Work / Stratford River Festival); Ghost Plays (RSC / Young People’s Project); Memories Cabaret (Chapito, Lisbon).
Anna’s upcoming productions include Boeing, Boeing and Don Giovanni.
Anna is a visiting lecturer for Central School of Speech and Drama, associate education practitioner for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe. Anna is currently Artist in Residence for Historic Royal Palaces. Anna studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University; she then went on to train in dance at Birkbeck College and Lewisham College and then studied for her MA in Movement Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama.
Associate Director
Directing credits include: Last Words You’ll Hear (Latitude/Almeida Lab); Faster Higher Stronger Straighter (Dominion Theatre Studio); Scratch Me, I Bleed (Camden People’s Theatre); Bacchanalia (Greece / USA); M. Butterfly (RADA MA Showcase / GBS Theatre); Throwing Your Voice; Exit Johnny Clarke; Szinhaz (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Stage Blood (Princeton Shakespeare Company); The Goat or Who is Sylvia?; Valentine at Bellevue (Theatre Intime).
Whitney has also assisted Moises Kaufman, Richard Nelson, Tom Hunsinger, and playwright Steven Sater.
Whitney was the first Director in Residence at the Almeida Theatre, working with Rupert Goold on American Psycho: a new musical thriller and King Charles III, and with Rob Icke on Mr Burns.She is co-Artistic Director of Huntley Street, and is a graduate of Princeton and RADA
★★★★★ Attendance is compulsory...a royally entertaining drama for our time.
Daily Telegraph
★★★★★ Mike Bartlett's extraordinary play. Just wonderful...true heir of greatness.
Daily Express
★★★★★ This is the play of the year no doubt. Full deserving of its must-see status.
Whatsonstage
★★★★ This is undoubtedly one of the most stimulating plays of the year.
Evening Standard
The running time is approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes including an interval.
Katie Brayben
Oliver Chris
Richard Goulding
Nyasha Hatendi
Adam James
Margot Leicester
Tim Pigott-Smith
Miles Richardson
Tom Robertson
Nicholas Rowe
Tafline Steen
Lydia Wilson
Writer Mike Bartlett
Director Rupert Goold
Design Tom Scutt
Composer Jocelyn Pook
Lighting Jon Clark
Sound Paul Arditti
Casting Joyce Nettles
Movement Director Anna Morrissey
Associate Director Whitney Mosery