World Premiere
By Alecky Blythe
Directed By Joe Hill-Gibbons
Tickets £9 - £36
In the summer of 2011, London was burning. Alecky Blythe took her Dictaphone to the streets…
From the helicopters circling overhead to the burnt out buildings on the street, this explosive new play records the voices and stories of a community as the riots happened to their present-day aftermath.
Little Revolution is Alecky Blythe’s first new London production after the success of London Road at the National Theatre and is directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins (Edward II, National Theatre and The Changeling, Young Vic).
See the Almeida’s space transformed as the audience are placed at the heart of the action.
With support from Jon and NoraLee Sedmak.
Little Revolution is supported by a syndicate of Islington businesses:
Savills Islington
Previews Tue 26 Aug - Tue 2 Sept
Press Night Wed 3 Sept (4pm & 7pm)
Evening performances 7.30pm*
Saturday matinees 2.30pm from 6 Sept
*from 26 Sept Friday performances will take place at 6.30pm & 9pm
Special Events
Talkback Wed 24 Sept (post performance)
Supporters' Evening Mon 29 Sep
Captioned Performances
Mon 15 Sep 7.30pm
Sat 20 Sep 2.30pm
Audio Described Performances
Fri 19 Sep 7.30
(Touch Tour at 6pm)
Sat 27 Sept 2.30pm
(Touch Tour at 12.45pm)
Kate / Jane
For the Almeida: The Hypochondriac.
Theatre includes: Singin’ in the Rain (Saddler’s Wells); Miss Conceptions (Edinburgh Festival).
Television includes: The Trip; Last Tango in Halifax; Father Brown; QI; Midsomer Murders; Skins; Hope Springs; Ronni Ancona & Co; Miss Marple; Hotel Babylon; Gideon’s Daughter; Sven & Nancy’s Big Impression; Posh & Becks’ Big Impression; The Big Impression; The Key; The Big Impression Christmas Special; The Sketch Show; Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible; Have I Got News For You; Pulp Video; Rory Bremner, Who Else?; Fist of Fun; Punt and Dennis; The Man from Auntie; Harry Hill’s Fruit Fancies; The Full Monty; Standing Room Only; Live at Jongleurs; The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos; The Comedy Store.
Radio includes: Weekending; Life, Death & Sex with Mike & Sue; Shedtown.
Film Includes: The Roundabout; Penelope; A Cock and Bull Story; Stella Street: The Movie; The Calcium Kid; The Debt Collector.
Ronni won the British Comedy Award and the Variety Club Award for Best Actress for her work on the BAFTA winning The Big Impression with Alastair McGowan, she also received a BAFTA for her performance in The Sketch Show.
Sadie
Theatre includes: Looking for JJ (Pilot Theatre); The Vagina Monologues (MelaDrama); Robin Hood (Pele Productions); Mother Redcaps Tempest and Treasure (Foolsgold); A Little Princess (M&M Productions).
Television includes: Casualty; The Riots; Eye Witness; Coronation Street; Emmerdale; Hollyoaks; This is England 86; Bedsitcom.
Film includes: The Knife that Killed Me.
Melanie studied at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Alecky
Theatre includes: You Can Still Make A Killing (Southwark Playhouse); Cruising (Bush); All the Right People Come Here (New Wimbledon Studio); The Day of All Days (Flight 5065 Festival, London Eye) Come Out Eli (Arcola/ BAC); Miss Julie (Theatre 503); Still Life (Tobacco Factory).
Film includes: London Road; Crocodile; Web of Deceit.
Come Out Eli won the Time Out Award for Best Production on the Fringe and Crocodile won the Cannes Prix Canal Award for Short Film. Alecky studied theatre at the University of Warwick and trained at Mountview.
Kyle
Theatre includes: Mad About the Boy (Unicorn Theatre / Bush Theatre / Young Vic / Edinburgh Fringe); Little Baby Jesus (Ovalhouse); The Gods Are Not To Blame; The Litter;Uncle Vanya; The Web (Young Vic).
Film includes: Swarm; Mission London.
Steve Lord / Father Rob
For the Almeida: The Lightning Play; Measure for Measure.
Theatre includes: A View from the Bridge (Liverpool Playhouse); Particle of Dread (Playhouse Theatre, Derry); Collaborators (National Theatre); A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic); Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse); The Observer; Once in a Lifetime; The Night Season; Romeo and Juliet; Peer Gynt; The Merry Wives of Windsor (National Theatre); Twelfth Night (Wyndham’s Theatre); The Birthday Party (Lyric Hammersmith); Rhinoceros; Some Voices (Royal Court); A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic); Talking To Terrorists (Out of Joint / Royal Court / National Tour); The Permanent Way (Out of Joint / National Theatre / National Tour); Sherlock Holmes in Trouble; The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Stones in His Pockets (Duke of York’s Theatre); One for the Road (Gate Theatre / West End / New York / Tour); The Tempest; Translations (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); English Journeys (Hampstead Theatre); Shopping And F***Ing (West End / International Tour); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid Theatre Company / Royal Court / West End / Ireland Tour); Playboy of the Western World (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Travesties (RSC / West End); School for Wives (Belfast Civic Arts Theatre / Dublin Festival); The Break of Day; Three Sisters (Out of Joint / Royal Court / Bristol Old Vic /Lyric Hammersmith / India Tour); Boris Godunov; The Orphan of Zhao; Troilus and Cressida; A Month in the Country; A Jovial Crew; The School of Night; Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I & II; Travesties; Edward II; Love's Labour's Lost; Curse of the Starving Class (RSC); Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (King's Head Theatre).
Television includes: Silent Witness; Utopia; Casualty; Hatfields & McCoys; Hustle; Titanic;The Fades; Silk; The Bill; Midsomer Murders; Pulling Moves; Murphy’s Law; Lloyd & Hill; In Defence; Inspector Morse; Making News; The Nightwatch; Scout.
Documentary television voice work includes: Dispatches; On the Record; Panorama;Timewatch; Sean’s Show; Frontline; Streetwise.
Film includes: Anthropopometry; Anonymous; Mrs Henderson Presents; Slapper;Gladiatress; Boxed; Rebel Heart; With or Without You; Space Island One; London's Burning.
Radio includes: Hearts & Minds; Charity; The Weighing Room; The Conflict is Over; Your Only Man; Two Pipe Problems; The Trusty Valet; The Crusty Butler; The Listening; The Big Chill; Catching a Fly in the Cathedral; Still Life; Baldi; My Life in Boxes; Thinking Earth; The Trick of Togetherness; A Series of Murders; Good Man Ya Da; A Journey From the New World; The Permanent Way; Cheating the Gallows; A Wild Ride to Dublin; Pressing the Flesh; Under the Net; Measure for Measure; At Freddie’s; The Giant O’Brien; From a Great Height;The Faerie Queen; Unwritten Law; Vital Signs; Dubliners; The Steward of Christendom;Playboy of the Western World.
Audio cassettes include: King Lear; As You Like It; Henry V; Measure for Measure; Pericles; A Comedy of Errors.
Lloyd trained at RADA.
Siva
Theatre includes: Aladdin (Sadler’s Wells); Hearts Unspoken (Canada Water Library Theatre);The Man Who Became a Room (Rich Mix); Ghandi and Coconuts (Kali Theatre); The Hot Zone (Lyric Hammersmith); The Fortune Club (Leicester Haymarket / Tricycle Theatre); The Battle of Green Lanes (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Hirja (Bush Theatre / Theatre Royal, Plymouth / WYPH?); Nativity (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Arbor (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Playboy of the Asian World (Leicester Haymarket Theatre).
Television includes: Adha Cup; Spooks; Lee Evans: So What Now?; Desperados; Roger Roger; Bash; Trouble in Paradise; Danger Man; Doctors; Paper Flowers; Trial by Jury; Chicks;The Bill; Singapore Mutiny; Fall; Last Minute Living; Watch Over Me; It's a Small World.
Film includes: Amar Akbar & Tony; The Mystic Masseur; My Son of the Fanatic; Brothers in Trouble; Reuniting the Rubins; Chakara; Life Goes On; Stag Night of the Dead; I Can't Think Straight; The Baseline; Kapital; Stud Life; Broken Inside; The Hidden Persuaders; Umar; Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors; Recurring; Khaana; Sawhney; Change; Crazy For You; Inaam;The Other Woman; Ayesha; The 25th Dynasty; Dead End; Present Tense; Cosmo & Politan; Horvath; The Incident; The Family Portrait; Viral; If It Don't Kill Ya; Pressurized; Cold Steel;Circle; The Edit; The Divide; Road; Keepers of the Gate; Black Nor White; Interaction; Another Day; Spilt Milk; Balancing the Books; Shanti.
Ian
For the Almeida: Last Seen; King Lear.
Theatre includes: Kafka’s Dick (Theatre Royal Bath); Flustered (Southwark Playhouse);Father Christmas (Lyric Hammersmith); A Round-Heeled Woman (Riverside Studios / Aldwych Theatre); Realism (Soho Theatre); The White Guard (National Theatre); Absolutely Frank (Queen’s Hornchurch); Kean (Guildford / Tour / Apollo); The Canterbury Tales; As You Like It; Back to Methuselah; The Park; Wildest Dreams (RSC); House and Garden; Body Language; Happy Birthday; Dear Alice; Henceforward; Woman In Mind (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Things We Do for Love (Gielgud Theatre).
Television includes: Doctors; Holby City; Topsy & Tim; The Bill; Missing; Judge John Deed;Peak Practice; The Final Cut.
Film includes: London Road; Notes on a Scandal; Kinky Boots; The Food of Love.
Colin
For the Almeida: Ruined; I.D.
Theatre includes: The Amen Corner; The Comedy of Errors; Death and The King’s Horseman; The Overwhelming; The President of An Empty Room; Mourning Becomes Electra; NT50 (National Theatre); If You Don’t Let Us Dream We Won’t Let You Sleep; Belong (Royal Court Theatre); Clybourne Park (Royal Court / West End); Pericles (RSC); The Fabulation;Gem of the Ocean; Walk Hard (Tricycle Theatre).
As Director, theatre includes: The Epic Adventure of Nhamo the Manyika Warrior and his Sexy Wife Chipo (Tricycle Theatre); The Legend of Hamba (Without Walls); Taming of the Shrew (Neuss Globe Theatre, Germany).
As Writer, theatre includes: Born African; Zuva Crumbling; Memory Play (Over The Edge, Zimbabwe).
Television includes: Game of Thrones; Ashes to Ashes; Spooks; Doctor Who; Death in Paradise; The Knock; The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
Film includes: The International; Dr Juju; The Hollow Crown; Richard II; Legend of The Sky Kingdom.
Lucian is Artistic Director of Tiata Fahodzi Africans in British Theatre.
Elaine
Theatre includes: Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Shared Experience, Oxford); The Hounding of David Oluwale (Eclipse Theatre / West Yorkshire Playhouse); Two Women (Soho Theatre); Our Country’s Good (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Ragamuffin (Camden United Theatre).
Television includes: Eastenders; Family Affairs; Doctors; Casualty; All In The Game; Clapham Junction; Pig Heart Boy; Holby City.
Film includes: Ladybird Ladybird; Secrets and Lies; Bullet Boy; Shoot the Messenger; Dead Meat; 7lives.
Radio includes: The Winter House; Landfall; Corinne Come and Gone; Best Intentions; Westway.
Clare received the Screen Nation Best Actress award for Bullet Boy. She trained at Rose Bruford College.
Tony
For the Almeida: Mr Burns: a post-electric play.
Theatre includes: Godchild (Hampstead Theatre); Open Court: Friday Night Sex (Royal Court); Table; London Road (National Theatre); Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night (Stafford Castle); All About My Mother (Old Vic); Restoration (Headlong); Of Mice and Men (Mercury Theatre); Hamlet (Northampton Royal Theatre); Dreams From a Summerhouse (Watermill, Newbury); The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre Tour); Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); The Beautiful Game (Cambridge Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (National Tour).
Television includes: Foyle’s War 2014; Luther; Black Mirror; The Waldo Moment; Mrs Biggs; Parade’s End; Game of Thrones; Silent Witness; M.I. High; Kings and Queens; Eastenders; World in Arms - Navies.
Film includes: London Road; London Fields; Broken; Anna Karenina; Trance; Gulliver’s Travels; Breaking & Entering; Kingdom of Heaven; The Storeroom; The Sea.
Michael trained at Rose Bruford.
Sarah
Theatre includes: Strangers on a Train; St Joan; Closer; A Streetcar Named Desire; Uncle Vanya; Heartbreak House (West End); Orpheus Descending; Private Lives (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Third Finger Left Hand (Trafalgar Studios); A Marvellous Year for Plums (Chichester Festival Theatre); Little Eyolf (Jermyn Street Theatre); Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse); The Glass Menagerie (Shared Experience); Alphabetical Order (Hampstead Theatre); Scenes from a Marriage (Belgrade); The Duchess of Malfi; Blast from the Past (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Hamlet (Old Vic); Mum's the Word (Albery Theatre / Clear Channel Entertainment); Three Sisters (Theatre Royal Bath / Southampton); The Relapse; Betrayal (National Theatre); Othello; Richard II; The Rover; Two Noble Kinsmen of Verona (RSC); The Boyfriend; Cabaret (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich).
Television includes: Parents; Switch; Doctors; Injustice; Miss Marple; New Tricks; Mothertime; Big Kids; Blind Ambition; Anna Lee; The Browning Version; After the Dance; Relatively Speaking; The Rainbow.
Film includes: Dead Cool; Collusion; Twelfth Night; Sense and Sensibility; Sandra C'est La Vie; A Summer Story; Fellow Traveller; True Colors; Nanou.
Radio includes: Nelson; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Poem of the End; Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pair; Word and Music; Michel Morpurgo's On Angel Wings; Personal Statements; How to Get an A star; As You Like It; A la Recherche du Temps Perdu; La Bête Humaine.
Alan Dein / Christophe / Sam
Theatre includes: The One; The Backroom (Soho Theatre); The Audience (West End);Titanic: Scenes from the Commissioner's Enquiry 1912 (MAC Belfast); The 39 Steps (Fiery Angel); The Empire (Royal Court); Serious Money (Birmingham Rep); Private Lives (Hampstead Theatre); Crown Matrimonial (National Tour); FROST/NIXON (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Mary Stuart (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Journey's End (Playhouse Theatre / West End); Hay Fever (Basingstoke Haymarket Theatre); The Madness of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse/ Birmingham Rep); Trust Byron; Life with an Idiot;Franziska (Gate Theatre); Single Spies (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Last Sortie (King's Head Theatre); The Secret Garden (Salisbury Playhouse); Richard II (Pleasance Theatre).
Television includes: Knifeman; Lucan; Elementary; Foyle's War; Baby, Be Blonde; EastEnders; Miranda; White Van Man; Five Daughters; The Thick of It; Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor; Taking the Flak; The Bill; Fanny Hill; Doctors; Extras; The Quatermass Experiment;P.O.W.; The Secret; Bomber; Boyz Unlimited; Medea Masterclass with Fiona Shaw.
Film includes: 45 Years; Narcopolis; The Face of an Angel; The Special Relationship; Swinging with the Finkels; Quantum of Solace; Spygame.
Radio includes: Le Donne; North by Northamptonshire; The Reluctant Spy; I'm Still the Same Paul; Shakespeare's Vortigern and Rowena.
Writer
Alecky is the founder of Recorded Delivery, an innovative verbatim theatre company established in 2003. The term 'recorded delivery' has now become synonymous with the verbatim technique she employs in her plays. Alecky has also created television work for BBC2 and Channel 4.
Theatre includes: Friday Night Sex (Royal Court); Where Have I Been All My Life? (New Vic Theatre); London Road (National Theatre); Decade (Headlong Theatre); Do We Look Like Refugees?! (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe / Riverside Studios); The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court / Drum / Young Vic); Strawberry Fields (Pentabus);Cruising (The Bush); Come Out Eli (Arcola Theatre).
Television includes: The Riots: In Their Words; A Man In a Box.
Film includes: London Road.
Alecky received the Time Out Award for Best Production on The Fringe for Come Out Eli and was selected as one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow in 2007. She received the Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010 and London Road won Best Musical at the 2011 Critics' Circle Awards.
Director
Theatre Includes: Edward II (National Theatre); The Changeling; The Glass Menagerie; The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic); The Girlfriend Experience (Young Vic/ Royal Court/ Drum Theatre, Plymouth); The Fever (Theatre503/ Young Vic); The Village Bike; Bliss; Family Plays; A Girl in a Car With a Man (Royal Court Theatre); A Thought in Three Parts (BAC, James Menzies-Kitchin Trust Young Directors Award winner).
Opera Includes: Powder Her Face (ENO).
Design
For the Almeida: Festen.
Theatre Includes: Billy Elliot the Musical (West End / Broadway); Albert Speer; Machinal; An Inspector Calls; The Amen Corner (National Theatre); Far Away; Via Dolorosa; This is a Chair; Death and the Maiden; Plasticine; A Number; In Basildon; Birdland (Royal Court); Afore Night Come; Vernon God Little; A Doll’s House (Young Vic); The Ingolstadt Plays; Figaro Gets Divorced; Jerker (Gate Theatre); Enter Achilles; Bound to Please (DV8); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); Betrayal (Broadway).
Ian received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design for Billy Elliot the Musical, The Critics’ Circle Award for Machinal, the Olivier and Critics’ Circle Awards for An Inspector Calls and the Evening Standard Best Design Award for Plasticine and Festen.
Costume Design
For the Almeida: It Needs Horses / Home for Broken Turns; SEC_RITY IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT U(installation for Eurepica.Challenge.).
As Set and Costume Designer, theatre includes: Crow (Handspring); Electra (Young Vic / Gate Theatre); Breathing Irregular; Hedda (Gate Theatre).
As Set and Costume Designer, dance includes: Varmints (Sadler’s Wells); The Life & Times of Girl A (Scottish Dance Theatre).
As Costume Designer, theatre includes: Birdland (Royal Court); The Humans (Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art); The Difference Engine (Lost Dog).
As Costume Designer, film includes: Ginger & Rosa.
As Assistant Costume Designer, film includes: War Horse; Lincoln; Robopocalypse; The Man from U.N.C.L.E; Another Year; Happy Go Lucky.
Installations and performances include: Karl's Electric Heel Grind (Latitude / The Cabaret Melancholique).
Lighting Design
For the Almeida: A Delicate Balance; Waste.
Theatre includes: Strange Interlude (National Theatre); A Doll’s House (Young Vic / West End / New York); Clarence Darrow (Old Vic); Roots; Serenading Louie; Be Near Me (Donmar Warehouse); NSFW; In Basildon (Royal Court); All My Sons (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); And No More Shall We Part (Hampstead Theatre / Traverse Theatre); Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland); Future Proof (Dundee Rep / Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Rutherford & Son; Othello (Northern Broadsides / UK Tour / West End); Faith Healer (Bristol Old Vic / Hong Kong International Festival); Going Dark (Sound&Fury, UK Tour / International Tour).
Dance includes: The Metamorphosis (Royal Ballet / ROH / New York); Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge (Royal Ballet / ATMA Dance / ROH); The Land of Yes and The Land of No (Sydney Dance Company / Australian Tour); Front Line (Aterbaletto / European Tour); Dracula (Mark Bruce Company / Wilton’s Music Hall / UK Tour); Square Map of Q4 (Bonachela Dance Company / International Tour); And Who Shall Come to the Ball? (Candoco / International Tour); Just As We Are (bgroup / UK Tour); Strange Blooms (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company / QEH); Havana Rakatan (Sadler’s Wells / International Tour); Mischief (Theatre Rites / UK Tour / New York).
Opera includes: Jakob Lenz (ENO / Hampstead Theatre); The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (The Opera Group / UK Tour / New York); American Lulu (The Opera Group / Young Vic / Edinburgh / Bregenz); The Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek Theatre Brno); King Priam; Paul Bunyan; The Lighthouse; Gianni Schicchi; Promised End; Katya Kabanova; Don Giovanni; Eugene Onegin (ETO).
Sound Design
For the Almeida: King Charles III; American Psycho: A new musical thriller; When the Rain Stops Falling; There Came a Gypsy Riding; Enemies; Festen (also West End / Broadway).
Theatre includes: Skylight; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Audience (West End); The Scottsboro Boys;Feast; Three Sisters; The Changeling (Young Vic); Great Britain; King Lear; NT 50; Edward II; The Magistrate; Collaborators; London Road (National Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre / West End / Broadway / UK and international tour); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre / New York); In the Republic of Happiness; In Basildon (Royal Court).
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, Two Guvnors in 2012 and Mary Stuart in 2009, an Evening Standard Award for Festen, an Olivier Award for Saint Joan and a Drama Desk Award for The Pillowman.
Choreographer
For the Almeida as Choreographer: Encourage the Others; Measure for Measure.
For the Almeida as Movement Director: The Turn of The Screw; King Lear; Filumena; When The Rain Stops Falling; Marianne Dreams.
As Choreographer, theatre includes: The Crucible (Old Vic); Hamlet; Blindsided Cannibals (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Arden of Faversham (RSC); Powder Her Face (ENO); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre / New York); Edward II (National Theatre); In Time O’ Strife; An Appointment with the Wicker Man; The Missing (National Theatre Scotland); The History Boys (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield) Under The Carpet (De Stilte, Holland); OMG! (Sadler’s Wells); Penelope (Dramaturgs Network / Company of Angels); but i cd only whisper (Arcola Theatre); One Day When We Were Young; The Sound of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough); Love, Love, Love (Royal Court); As You Like It (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Corrie (The Lowry / UK Tour); Let’s Make an Opera!:The Little Sweep (Malmo Opera).
As Movement Director, theatre includes: Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Low Road; Time to Reap (Royal Court); The Tempest (Watermill Theatre); Persuasion (Salisbury Playhouse); Macbeth (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Snow Queen (Chichester Festival Theatre); Pests; The Boiler Room (Clean Break); A Doll’s House (Exeter Northcott Theatre); Dido, Queen of Carthage (National Theatre); Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep); When Five Years Pass (Arcola Theatre); Success (National Theatre / Islington Youth Theatre).
Television includes: Call the Midwife.
Film includes: I Am Ruthie Segal, Hear Me Roar.
Imogen was previously an Associate Artist with Frantic Assembly, she is also a guest lecturer in Movement at Central School of Speech and Drama. She has choreographed music videos for I Blame Coco and Mika and commercials for Age UK and Childline.
Casting
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.
For the Almeida: King Charles III; 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.
Associate Director
Rebecca has recently joined the Almeida as director in residence. She is also Co-Artistic Director of Unbound Productions, an Associate Director of new writing company Little Pieces of Gold and an Ovalhouse Artist for 2014 as recipient of the Arts Manifesto: A Future for the Arts Award.
As Director, theatre includes: Travesti (Pleasance Theatre); Two Sisters (Southwark Playhouse); One Time Thing (Park Theatre); Half Way (Ovalhouse).
As Assistant Director, theatre includes: Tender Napalm (UK Tour / Southwark Playhouse); World Enough and Time (Park Theatre); King Lear; Dido, Queen of Carthage (Greenwich Theatre).
Also a playwright, Rebecca’s work has been seen at the Swansea Grand Theatre, the Bush Theatre and Ovalhouse Theatre.
★★★★ [Joe] Hill-Gibbins’s superb direction… his professional cast – all playing multiple roles – is excellent… the large, non-professional Community Chorus… fills the theatre with dynamic motion and a sense of living, breathing community.
Time Out
★★★ Fascinating… captures the sense of a fractured community…in which Hackney becomes a microcosm for many parts of urban Britain.
The Guardian
★★★ The real achievement is a mosaic of contemporary London life… it has a warmth, an optimism about people which may tell us more about ‘riot-torn’ London than hours of rolling news coverage ever could.
The Daily Mail
Alecky Blythe has made people listen in a completely different way… an extraordinary experience.
BBC Front Row
Little Revolution is approximately 1 hour 25 minutes without an interval.