By Henrik Ibsen | adapted and directed by Richard Eyre
Tickets £10 - £38
How is a life well-lived?
Alfred Allmers comes home to his wife, Rita, and makes a decision. Casting aside his writing, he dedicates himself to raising his son. But one event is about to change his life forever. Ibsen's Little Eyolf is an forensic examination of a marriage as it explosively falls apart.
The third in a trilogy of revelatory Ibsens, Little Eyolf follows Richard Eyre's multi-award winning Ghosts (Almeida, West End and BAM, New York), and Hedda Gabler (Almeida, West End).
Previews Thu 19 Nov - Wed 25 Nov
Press Night Thu 26 Nov
Evenings 7.30pm
Mon matinee 2.30pm on 28 Dec
Sat matinees 2.30pm from 28 Nov
Wed matinees 2.30pm on 2, 9 & 16 Dec, Wed 6 Jan
Talkback
Mon 21 Dec
Post-show discussion with members of the Little Eyolf company. Free to same day ticket holders.
Supporters' Evening Mon 14 Dec
Pre-show talk in the auditorium at approximately 6.30pm.
Captioned Performance
Fri 11 Dec 7.30pm
Audio Described Performances
by VocalEyes
Sat 12 Dec 2.30pm
(Touch Tour at 12.45pm)
Tue 22 Dec 7.30pm
(Touch Tour at 6pm)
Listen to the Winter 2015/16 Audio Brochure here.
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19-28 November
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Alfred Allmers
Theatre includes: Creditors (Young Vic); Holy Warriors; Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare's Globe);Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC); Our Boys (West End); Posh (Royal Court / West End); Edward II (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Prince of Homburg (Donmar Warehouse); All's Well That Ends Well (National Theatre); The Liskin Award (Ten Four Theatre); Merry Christmas, Joe (Love Bites); A Room on Greek Street (Lost Souls); A Drug for You (Love Bites / Southwark Playhouse); The Dumb Waiter and Other Pinter Sketches (Mojo Theatre Company).
Television includes: Midsomer Murders; War and Peace; Mr Selfridge; The Whale; Locked Up Abroad; Henry IV Parts 1 & 2; Pete vs Life II; The Bill; Doctors; The Friday Night Club; Casualty; The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury; My Hero.
Film includes: Beauty and the Beast; Testament of Youth; The Fifth Estate; The Deep Blue Sea.
Bjarne Borgheim
Theatre includes: Ditch (HighTide Festival / Old Vic); The Gods Weep (RSC / Hampstead Theatre); The York Realist (Riverside Studios); The Homecoming; Twelfth Night (Theatre Royal, York); Snowbound (Trafalgar Studios); Othello (Salisbury Playhouse); Hamlet (English Touring Theatre / New Ambassadors Group); Blues for Mister Charlie (Talawa / Tricycle Theatre).
Television includes: The Dovekeepers; Peaky Blinders; Resurrection; The Village; Lightfields; Ripper Street; Scruples; Accused; Eternal Law; Shameless; Lewis; The Little House; Paradox; Waterloo Road; The Kevin Bishop Show; New Tricks; The Bill; City of Vice; Midsomer Murders; Persuasion; Robin Hood; Holby City; Life on Mars; Foyle's War; Dalziel & Pascoe; The House That God Built; Doctors; Passer By; Prime Suspect.
Film includes:The Huntsman; Mechanic Resurrection; Grimsby; Learning to Breathe; Cherry Tree; 71; The Monuments Men; Still; The Machine; Dead Mine; The Raven; Riot on Redchurch Street; Weekender; Don't Let Him In; The Wolfman; Chromophobia; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Offending Angels.
Sam trained at RADA.
Rita Allmers
Theatre includes: Wolf Hall, Parts 1 & 2 (RSC / Winter Garden Theatre, NYC); Onassis (Novello Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse / Gielgud Theatre); Let There Be Love (Tricycle Theatre); Hecuba (RSC / BAM).
Film includes: The Fifth Estate; Archipelago; True True Lie.
Television includes: Life in Squares; River; Lucan; Rome; Ambassadors; Da Vinci’s Demons; Whitechapel; Law & Order; Spooks; Ashes to Ashes; Casualty 1909; The 39 Steps; Margaret Thatcher; A Line of Beauty; Jericho; Foyle’s War; Midsomer Murders.
Lydia trained at Bristol Old Vic.
Asta Allmers
Theatre includes: Shakespeare in Love; The Children’s Hour (West End); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl);If Only (Chichester Festival Theatre); Longing (Hampstead Theatre); Boys (Headlong); The Prince of Denmark (NYT / National Theatre).
Film includes: Victor Frankenstein; The Unbeatables.
Television includes: Lady Chatterley’s Lover; The White Queen; Above Suspicion: Silent Scream; Misfits.
Eve studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
Woman
Theatre includes: The Tempest (Improbable Theatre Company); Lippy (Dead Center / Abbey Theatre, Dublin / Young Vic); The Believers (Frantic Assembly / Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Teh Internet Is Serious Business; Sand; Crave (Royal Court); Liolà (National Theatre); Quizshow; The Drowned World (Traverse Theatre); Conversations / Whistle in the Dark / Famine; The Gigli Concert (Druid Theatre Company); Hamlet (Young Vic); Macbeth; The Playboy of the Western World; Saved; Portia Coughlan; Ariel (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Medea (Siren Productions); Terminus (Abbey Theatre, Dublin / Traverse Theatre / Public Theatre, New York); Mary Stuart (National Theatre of Scotland / Royal Lyceum Theatre); Crestfall (Gate Theatre); The Entertainer (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool); Splendor (Paines Plough / Traverse Theatre); Troilus and Cressida (Oxford Stage Company); Boomtown (Rough Magic Theatre Company); Phaedra’s Love (Corcadorca Theatre Company); Disco Pigs (Bush Theatre / Arts Theatre); Danti-Dan (Rough Magic Theatre Co / Hampstead Theatre); Request Programme; The Merchant of Venice (Corcadorca Theatre Company).
Television includes: Catastrophe; Pure Mule.
Film includes: Gold; Morning; Snap; Triage; Eden; 33x Around the Sun; Nicholas Nickelby; The Magdalene Sisters; Janice Beard; Miss Julie; The Van; Spaghetti Slow; The Last Bus Home; When Brendan Met Trudy.
Eileen won the Best Actress Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008 for her performance in Eden.
She trained at Trinity College, Dublin.
Eyolf Allmers
This is Adam’s theatre debut.
Film includes: The Young Messiah; The Witching Tree; Gutpunch; Death Machine.
Television includes: Sherlock; All at Sea; Topsy and Tim; Being Human; Minibeast Adventures with Jess; Polar Bears and Penguins.
Radio includes: The World According to Garp.
Eyolf Allmers
Theatre includes: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Chichester Festival Theatre / National Tour).
Television includes: Topsy and Tim; a commercial for Halifax.
Eyolf Allmers
Theatre includes: Billy Elliot (West End).
Direction
Richard was Director of the National Theatre from 1988–1997. He has received numerous major awards; he was knighted in 1997 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2011.
For the Almeida: Ghosts; The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Hedda Gabler; The Judas Kiss; The Novice.
Theatre includes: Hamlet; Kafka’s Dick; Edmond (Royal Court); Comedians; Guys and Dolls; The Government Inspector; The Changeling; The Voysey Inheritance; Racing Demon; Richard III; The Night of the Iguana; The White Chameleon; Napoli Milionaria; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Invention of Love; The Absence of War; John Gabriel Borkman; King Lear; Vincent in Brixton; The Reporter; The Observer; Welcome to Thebes, Liolà (National Theatre); A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic); The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre); The Crucible (Broadway); Skylight; Amy’s View; Mary Poppins; Private Lives (West End / Broadway); Quartermaine’s Terms; The Pajama Game (West End); Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre / West End).
Opera includes: La Traviata (Royal Opera House); Carmen; Werther, Le Nozze di Figaro (Metropolitan Opera); Manon Lescaut (Baden-Baden Festspielhaus).
Television includes: The Insurance Man; Country; Tumbledown; Suddenly Last Summer; Changing Stages; Henry IV, Parts I & II; The Dresser.
Film includes: The Ploughman’s Lunch; Iris; Stage Beauty; Notes on a Scandal; The Other Man.
Richard is the author of Utopia and Other Places, National Service, Talking Theatre and What Do I Know?
Design
For the Almeida: Mrs Klein; Ghosts.
Theatre includes: 3 Winters; Great Britain; Timon of Athens; Welcome to Thebes; Rafta Rafta; Present Laughter; Henry IV; The Talking Cure; Vincent in Brixton; Humble Boy; Stanley; Hamlet; Sleep with Me; The Darker Face of the Earth; Flight; The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre); Carmen; Don Quixote (Royal Ballet); The Bodyguard; Betty Blue Eyes; Shrek the Musical; Spamalot; Private Lives; Suddenly Last Summer; The Crucible (Broadway); Endgame; The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol; Out of a House Walked a Man (Complicite); My Fair Lady; Singin’ In The Rain (Theatre du Châtelet, Paris); Quartermaine’s Terms (West End); Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre/West End).
Opera includes: La Traviata (Vlaamse Opera); Figaro (Aix-en-Provence); Love for 3 Oranges (Cologne); Carmen; Orpheus in the Underworld; Return of Ulysses (Opera North); Ariadne auf Naxos; Il Trovatore (Scottish Opera).
Film includes: Stage Beauty; Closer; Notes on a Scandal.
Exhibitions include: Vivienne Westwood, a London Fashion; Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes (V&A).
He received the Olivier Award for Stanley and Private Lives and the Tony Award for Private Lives and Shrek the Musical.
Light
For the Almeida: Bakkhai; Ghosts; The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Parlour Song; Rosmersholm; Hedda Gabler; Cloud Nine; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Earth and the Great Weather. Theatre includes: The Storm; Venice Preserved; The Winter Guest; The School for Wives.
Theatre includes: Mr Footes Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre / West End); King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre / BAM); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Donkey Heart;Stephen Ward;Old Times; Top Hat; Absent Friends; Much Ado About Nothing; The Lion in Winter; The Misanthrope; An Ideal Husband; Carousel; Fiddler on the Roof (West End); King Kong(Global Creatures / Australia);Scenes from an Execution; All’s Well That Ends Well; The Hothouse; Exiles (National Theatre);Other Desert Cities; Pygmalion; The Entertainer; Richard II (Old Vic); The Wolf from the Door;Circle Mirror Transformation;Love and Information; Jumpy; Our Private Life;Sucker Punch; Cock; The Seagull; Drunk Enough to Say I Love You;Dying City (Royal Court); Bull;Betrayal (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Wonderland;The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre); The Same Deep Water as Me (Donmar Warehouse); The BFG(Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Accolade (St James Theatre).
Opera includes:(Royal Ballet); La Traviata; La Cenerentola (Glyndebourne); Manon Lescaut (Baden Baden); The Damnation of Faust; Lucrezia Borgia; Elegy for Young Lovers; Punch and July (also Geneva); Bluebeard’s Castle; Madam Butterfly (English National Opera); The King Dances; Faster; E=MC² (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Pelleas and Melisande (Mariinsky); Soldier’s Tale; Pierrot Lunaire (Chicago Symphony); Werther;Madama Butterfly; Faust; Carmen; Peter Grimes; 125th Gala (New York Met); Eugene Onegin (LA Opera / Royal Opera House); Passion (Minnesota Opera); Carmen (also set design); Petrushka (Scottish Ballet); Il Trovatore (Paris); Fidelio; Two Widows; Don Giovanni; The Ring (Scottish Opera); The Midsummer Marriage (Chicago Lyric Opera); The Bartered Bride (Royal Opera House).
Peter received the 1995 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for (Siobahn Davies) and Fearful Symmetries (Royal Ballet), the 2003 Olivier Lighting Award for >The Bacchai (National Theatre), the Knight of Illumination Award in 2010 for Sucker Punch (Royal Court) and the Helpmann Award for Best Lighting for King Kong in 2013. He recently directed and designed a concert version of The Ring Cycle and The Flying Dutchman for Opera North.
Sound
John started work in theatre sound more than 40 years ago, and has provided soundtracks for theatres all over the world.
For the Almeida: Ghosts (also West End / New York); The Turn of the Screw; The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Filumena; The Master Builder; Becky Shaw; Measure For Measure; Rope; Duet for One; Waste; The Homecoming; Big White Fog; Dying For It; Hedda Gabler; Macbeth; Brighton Rock; Whistling Psyche; Five Gold Rings; The Mercy Seat.
Theatre includes: Waste; Grief; Detroit; London Assurance; Much Ado About Nothing (National Theatre);Pig Farm; Bully Boy (St James Theatre); Mr Foote’s Other Leg(Hampstead Theatre / West End); Just Jim Dale (West End); McQueen (St James Theatre / West End); Luna Gale; Firebird; Matchbox Theatre; Stevie;Farewell to the Theatre(Hampstead Theatre); Red Dragon, White Dragon (Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Parl);The BFG(Birmingham Repertory Theatre); 84 Charing Cross RoadSeparate Tables;Bedroom Farce (Salisbury Playhouse); A View From the Bridge (Liverpool Playhouse / UK tour); Moon Tiger (Theatre Royal, Bath / UK tour); The Duck House (West End / tour); A Little Hotel on the Side (Theatre Royal, Bath); Quartermaine’s Terms (West End); Untold Stories - Cocktail Sticks (National Theatre / West End); Birthday; Tribes (Royal Court); Ladies in Lavender (Northampton / tour); The Heresy of Love (RSC); Rattigan’s Nijinsky; The Deep Blue Sea (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Silver Tassie (Druid Theatre, Galway / tour / New York).
John is the author of an acclaimed guide to theatre sound, the recipient of multiple awards, a Fellow of The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and an Honorary Fellow of The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.
Video Design
For the Almeida: The Lightning Play; Whistling Psyche.
Theatre includes: 3 Winters; King Lear; The Effect; People; The Last of the Haussmans; Travelling Light; Earthquakes in London; Nation; The Power of Yes; All’s Well That Ends Well; The Observer; Gethsemane; Her Naked Skin; Fram; A Matter of Life and Death; The Reporter (National Theatre); The Winter’s Tale; Harlequinade (The Kenneth Branagh Company); Mack and Mabel; ENRON; Separate Tables; The Last Cigarette (Chichester Festival Theatre); Richard III, The Prisoner of Second Avenue; Complicit (Old Vic); Brief Encounter (Kneehigh); Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Stephen Ward; From Here to Eternity; The King’s Speech; The Wizard of Oz; Love Never Dies; Dirty Dancing; Our House; Up for Grabs; Dance of Death (West End); Ghost the Musical (West End / Broadway); Finding Neverland; Chaplin the Musical (Broadway).
Dance includes: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet).
Opera includes: Carmen (Santa Fe Opera)
Concerts and events include: The Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall); Blade Runner (Secret Cinema); Kate Bush’s Before the Dawn (Hammersmith Apollo)
Jon received the Obie Award and LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Brief Encounter, an Olivier Award for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Olivier award nominations for Brief Encounter and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a Drama Desk Award and Tony nomination for Ghost the Musical and a Drama Desk nomination for Chaplin the Musical.
He studied Cinematography at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield and Theatre Design at Croydon College of Art. He is the director of cinelumina, a London-based film post-production company.
Casting
For the Almeida: Ghosts; The Dark Earth and the Light Sky.
Theatre includes: Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre / West End); Chariots of Fire (West End); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Last of the Duchess; Raving (Hampstead Theatre); The Judas Kiss (Hampstead Theatre / West End / BAM / Toronto); Dealer’s Choice (Royal & Derngate).
Television includes: Big Bad World; Coma Girl; Stella; Vexed; A Touch of Frost; The Time of Your Life; The State Within; Beneath the Skin; Recovery; Witless; Home and Away.
Film includes: London Town; Heart of Lightness; Forget Me Not; Gin and Dry; The Dyatlov Pass Incident; Creation; The Nutcracker; The Secret of Moonacre; Mr Bean’s Holiday; Good.
Radio includes: Victory.
Assistant Direction
As Director, theatre includes: The Win Bin (Old Red Lion); Night Tella (Jermyn St Theatre); Act Without Words I; Rough For Theatre II; Catastrophe (Old Red Lion); The Playboy Variations; Click; Soho Young Playwright’s Showcase (Soho Theatre); Disco Pigs; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Samuel Beckett Theatre); Attempts On Her Life (Flat Lakes Literary and Arts Festival).
As Assistant Director, theatre includes: Death of a Comedian (Lyric Theatre, Dublin / Abbey Theatre, Dublin / Soho Theatre); I Kiss Your Heart (Crazy Coqs); The One; The Night Before Christmas (Soho Theatre).
As Dramaturg, theatre includes: The Win Bin (Old Red Lion); Click; Playboy Variations (Soho Theatre).
Sara is an Offwestend nominee for Best Director for Act Without Words I, Rough for Theatre II and Catastrophe. The Win Bin was shortlisted for the Papatango new play award and nominated for three Off West End Awards. She is also co-founder of Whispering Beasts Theatre Company, winners of Deutsche Bank Award for Drama 2013.
Sara studied Drama and Theatre at Trinity College Dublin and trained at Ècole Jacques Lecoq.
★★★★★ Quietly shattering... Acting, design, gradation of mood; all are masterly. Lydia Leonard is stunning
The Independent
★★★★ Provides an evening of shocking intensity... Eyre's production vividly captures... Ibsen's terrifying masterpiece
The Guardian
★★★★ A bracing 80-minute blast. A finely wrought production laden with atmosphere
Evening Standard
A play you may not know but, with this production, shall not soon forget.
The New York Times
The running time is approximately one hour and 20 minutes, with no interval.
Jolyon Coy
Sam Hazeldine
Lydia Leonard
Eve Ponsonby
Eileen Walsh
Adam Greaves-Neal
Tom Hibberd
Billy Marlow
Adapted and directed by Richard Eyre
Design Tim Hatley
Light Peter Mumford
Sound John Leonard
Video Jon Driscoll
Casting Cara Beckinsale CDG
Assistant Direction Sara Joyce
Costume Supervision
Rachel Woodhouse