Almeida Greeks
Aeschylus | a new version created by Robert Icke
Tickets £10 - £38
Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written.
Following Mr Burns and 1984, Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke radically reimagines Oresteia for the modern stage, in its first major London production in more than a decade.
Lia Williams returns to the Almeida as Klytemnestra.
The running time is approximately 3 hours and 40 minutes including a 10 minute pause and a 15 minute interval. Latecomers will not be admitted.
Previews Fri 29 May - Thu 4 Jun
Press Night Fri 5 Jun
Evenings 7pm
Sat matinees 1pm from 13 Jun
Wed matinees 1pm on 24 Jun, 1 Jul & 8 Jul
Talkback
Wed 1 Jul
Post-show discussion with members of the Oresteia company (after 7pm evening performance)
Free to same day ticket holders
Supporters' Evening
Mon 29 Jun
Pre-show talk in the auditorium at 6.15pm
Captioned Performance
Fri 3 Jul 7pm
Audio Described Performances
by VocalEyes
Sat 27 Jun 1pm
(Touch Tour at 11.15am)
Fri 10 Jul 7pm
(Touch Tour at 5.30pm)
Click here for information about Concessions.
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Television includes: True Love; Love Life; Outnumbered; The Catherine Tate Show; Doctors; The Bill; The Vivienne Vyle Show; The Ronni Ancona Show; Much Ado About Nothing; French and Saunders; Family Business; Holby City; Jailbirds; Murder Most Horrid; Casualty; Dangerfield; Anna Lee.
Film includes: Taking Stock; Les Misérables; Gambit; World War Z; Little Soldier.
Lorna trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
This is Jessica's theatre debut.
Television includes: Jamaica Inn; Labyrinth; Black Mirror; Downton Abbey; Misfits.
Film includes: Frankenstein; Posh; Winter’s Tale; Albatross; Lullaby.
Theatre includes: Dara; Rafta Rafta; England People Very Nice; Playing With Fire (National Theatre); The History Boys (National Theatre / international tour / 101 Productions); Hope (Royal Court); Worst Wedding Ever (Salisbury Playhouse); The Events (Young Vic / UK tour); The Seagull (Headlong / UK tour); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC / Noël Coward Theatre); You Can Still Make a Killing; Tiger at the Gates (NT Studio); The English Game (Headlong); The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Naach Theatre); Tom’s Midnight Garden (Unicorn Theatre); The Geri Project (Oldham Coliseum); Learning Styles (Impact Theatre Company); Anorak of Fire; The Tempest (Adelphi Studio Theatre); E to the Power of 3; The Dispute (Robert Powell Theatre).
Television includes: Casualty; Doctor Who; Coronation Street; Hollyoaks; New Tricks; The Bill; Cutting It.
Film includes: Britz.
Radio includes: The Events; Tommies; Love Lies Sleeping; The Shape of Things.
Rudi trained at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and the University of Salford.
For the Almeida: Macbeth.
Theatre includes: The Crucible (Old Vic); To Kill A Mockingbird; Three Sisters; An Ideal Husband; Separate Tables; Habitat; The Candidate (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Golden Dragon (Arcola Theatre / tour); Billy Liar; Postcards from Rome; A Working Woman; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); An Argument About Sex (Tramway / Traverse Theatre); King Arthur (Arcola Theatre); Ana In Love (Hackney Empire Studio); Only the Lonely (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Three Women (Riverside Studios); Wonderful Beast: Maps of Desire (Southwark Playhouse); Dance of Death (Lyric Hammersmith); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Liverpool Playhouse); Henry V; The Comedy of Errors (RSC); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl); Orpheus; The Belle Vue; Ion; Celestinai (Actors Touring Company); Hedda Gabler (English Touring Theatre); The Invisible Woman; A Little Satire (Gate Theatre); The House of Mirth (Cambridge Theatre Company); The Winter’s Tale; Romeo and Juliet (Acter-USA University Tours); Mary Stuart (Battersea Arts Centre); God Say Amen (ESC); The Old Devils (Theatre Clwyd); A Handful of Dust (Shared Experience); High Society (Victoria Palace Theatre); The Passion (NT Cottesloe); Julius Caesar (NT Olivier).
Television includes: New Tricks; Midsomer Murders; Kingdom; EastEnders; Elizabeth I; Doctors; 10th Kingdom; An Evil Streak; Kavanagh QC; Heartbeat; Animal Ark; Surgical Spirit; Boon; Heart of the Country; Growing Rich; Poirot; The Good Guys; Mother Love; Hotel du Lac; Flesh and Blood; Lille; The Nearly Man; Crown Court; Persuasion.
Film includes:Des gens qui s’embrassent; In Love With Alma Cogan; Esther Khan; Anna and the King; Strapless; Lionheart: The Children’s Crusade; A Passage to India; The Magic Box; Sunday Bloody Sunday; A Severed Head; Accident; The Servant; Carry On Nurse.
Ann trained at RADA and the Old Vic School.
For the Almeida: 1984 (Headlong / Nottingham Playhouse / West End).
Theatre includes: Shakespeare in Love (Sonia Friedman / Disney Productions); Regeneration (Royal & Derngate Theatres); Birdsong (UK tour); The Alchemist (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool); Skylight (Corpus Christi Playroom); Twelfth Night (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Two Gentlemen of Verona (ADC Theatre, Cambridge / US tour); Footlights Pantomime; Three Sisters; Romeo and Juliet; (ADC Theatre, Cambridge); Julius Caesar (ADC Theatre / European Tour); Uncle Vanya; Twelfth Night; Joyriders (LAMDA).
Film includes: The Machine; 21 Clicks.
Joshua trained at LAMDA and Cambridge University.
Theatre includes: Drawing the Line; 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre); Richard III; As You Like It; Troilus and Cressida; The Winter’s Tale; Measure for Measure (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); Going Dark (Young Vic / National tour); Little Eagles; Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear; The Winter’s Tale; Julius Caesar; The Grainstore; The Histories; Twelfth Night; As You Like It; Pilate; Hamlet (RSC); Six Characters In Search Of An Author (Headlong); Dark Earth (Traverse Theatre); All My Sons (York Theatre Royal).
Television includes: Hollow Crown II; Holby City; The Honourable Woman; Law and Order; The Great Transatlantic Cable; Doc Martin; Casualty; London’s Burning.
Film includes: Sheepish.
Radio includes: Farran at Bay; Barnaby Rudge; Five Fever Tales; Poetry Please; The Broken Word; The Stuarts; Only The Sure Foot; The Martin Beck Killings; Operation Black Buck; Erebus; Heart of Darkness; Night and Day; The Iliad; Evelina.
John trained at Bristol Old Vic Training School.
Radio includes: Farran at Bay; Barnaby Rudge; Five Fever Tales; Poetry Please; The Broken Word; The Stuarts; Only The Sure Foot; The Martin Beck Killings; Operation Black Buck; Erebus; Heart of Darkness; Night and Day; The Iliad; Evelina.
John trained at Bristol Old Vic Training School.
For the Almeida: Celebration / The Room.
Theatre includes: The Father (Theatre Royal, Bath); A Streetcar Named Desire (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Old Times (Harold Pinter Theatre); Arcadia (Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York); Earthquakes In London; Hot House; Mappa Mundi; King Lear (National Theatre); God Of Carnage (Theatre Royal, Bath / tour); Lady From the Sea (Arcola Theatre); Absurd Person Singular (Garrick Theatre); My Child (Royal Court); Postcards From America; Eric La Rue; As You Like It (RSC); Eccentricities Of a Nightingale ( Gate Theatre, Dublin); The Homecoming ( Gate Theatre, Dublin / West End / New York); The Lover & The Collection (Donmar Warehouse); Skylight (National Theatre / Broadway); Oleanna (Duke of York's Theatre / National Theatre); The Revenger's Comedies (Strand Theatre); Body Language (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Daisy Pulls It Off (Shakespeare's Globe).
Television includes: Midsomer Murders; Secret State; Lewis; Doc Martin; Miss Marple; A Touch of Frost; May 33rd; Sparkling Cyanide; The Lives of Animals; The Russian Bride; Bad Blood; Imogen's Face; A Shot Through The Heart; The Uninvited; Flowers of the Forest; Seaforth; Mr Wroe's Virgins.
Film includes: Jonathan Toomey; Girl From Rio; The King is Alive; Different For Girls; The Fifth Province; Firelight; Dirty Weekend; Las Suite Blanche-Neige.
Radio includes: Wasteland; The Four Quartets; The Faith Healer; The Idiots; The Raj Quartet; Confessions; Easy Virtue; Drop Dead Gorgeous; Small Earthquakes; Redemption; Marblethorpe; Red Room; Seasons' Greeting; Breath of God.
Lia won the Award for Best Actress in The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2014 for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire.
For the Almeida: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic); Twelfth Night / Richard III; Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Cat in the Hat (Théâtre des Abbesses, Theatre de la Ville, Paris); Wastwater (Royal Court); Design for Living (Old Vic); Privates on Parade (West End); The Master and Margarita; Measure for Measure (Complicité); A Dream Play; Stuff Happens; Measure for Measure; Three Sisters; Chips with Everything; Mother Courage; War Horse; St Joan; The Seagull (National Theatre); The Rivals; Early Morning (NT Studio); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Nottingham Playhouse); Salome (European tour); Private Lives; A Mongrel’s Heart (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Hamlet; The Theban Plays; The Dybbuk; Henry IV, pats I and II; Twelfth Night; Talk of the City; The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC); Too Clever By Half; Uncle Vanya (Moscow Arts Theatre School).
Television includes: Jekyll and Hyde; Father Brown; Sons of Liberty; Lucan; Breathless; Murder on the Home Front; Being Human; The Sarah Jane Adventures; Above Suspicion; The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall; Waking the Dead; Hotel Babylon; Incidental History; Casanova; Winter Solstice; Wire in the Blood; Boudica; Cambridge Spies; The Way We Live Now; The Vice; Whistleblower; Attachments; Brilliant; Dalziel and Pascoe; The Painted Lady; Soldier Soldier; Pie in the Sky; Crocodile Shoes; The Bill; Between the Lines.
Film includes: A Little Chaos; Jack Ryan; Maleficent; Closed Circuit; Private Peaceful; The Iron Lady; The Bank Job; Kingdom of Heaven; Nicholas Nickleby; Dr Sleep; Charlotte Gray; Labyrinth; The Affair of the Necklace; Bridget Jones’ Diary; The Lover’s Prayer; RKO 281; Jilting Joe; Cutthroat Island; First Knight; Frankenstein; The Whipping Boy.
Radio includes: The Secret Pilgrim; Plenty; Precious.
For the Almeida: 1984 (also Headlong / Nottingham Playhouse / West End); The House of Bernarda Alba.
Theatre includes: 1984 (Headlong / West End); Mare Rider (Arcola Theatre); Britannicus (Wilton’s Music Hall / Natural Perspective); Pericles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Uncle Vanya (Arcola Theatre / Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Tales of Harrow Road (Soho Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe / European tour); it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Clean Break / Arcola Theatre); On the Boost; Epsom Wells; Absolute Hell; The Merchant of Venice; The Seagull (LAMDA).
Television includes: The Musketeers; Law & Order: UK; The Smoke; The Bible; Holby City.
Film includes: Patient Zero.
Hara trained at LAMDA.
Television includes: Katy Brand’s Little Cracker; commercials for Disney, Amazon, Morrison’s, Kellogg’s, Asda, First Choice and TK Maxx.
Film includes: Ant & Decs Saturday night takeaway; Gifted Sky Arts; Katy Brand’s Little Cracker.
This is Amelia’s stage debut.
Theatre includes: Oliver! (Cameron Mackintosh Company); Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); I Can’t Sing (London Palladium); Matilda-The Musical (Cambridge Theatre London); Finding Neverland Workshop (The Weinstein Company).
Television includes: Chickens; Wizards vs Aliens; Grandpa In My Pocket; commericals for Go Compare, Domino’s and BT.
Television includes:The Outcast.
This is Cameron’s stage debut.
Clara was born in Islington but began her acting career whilst in Hong Kong with the acting company Faust, playing Lucy in 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'. Since moving back to London a year ago she has been an active member of the Young Actors Theatre in Islington. performing in the christmas panto. Clara is very excited to be making her theatrical debut at the Almeida.
Eve is nine years old and lives in London. She is British/American and is a keen singer, gymnast, and dancer, and has been studying contemporary dance at 'The Place'. She loves drama and has been with the Young Actors Theatre in Islington for two years, and her dream is to get involved in musical theatre. This is Eve's first professional performance and she is very excited to be starting out with the Almeida.
Theatre includes: God Bless the Child (Royal Court); Billy Elliot the Musical (West End).
Television includes: Cockroaches; Harry and Paul’s Story of the Two’s; Casualty ‘Waiting for a Star to Fall’; Robbie Williams ‘One Night at the London Palladium’; Topsy and Tim; Deadbeats; Miss Marple; Greenshaw’s Folly; Casualty- Ricochet; How To Save A Life; What Shall We Do Today?; Kids Say The Funniest Things.
Film includes: What We Did On Our Holiday; Foster.
Bobby is currently training at Sylvia Young Theatre School.
Version/ Direction
Robert is the Associate Director of the Almeida.
For the Almeida: The Fever; Mr Burns; 1984 (also West End / National Tour).
Theatre includes: Boys; Romeo and Juliet; Decade (Headlong); The Alchemist (Liverpool Playhouse).
Robert was Associate Director of Headlong from 2010-2013, Artistic Director of the Arden Theatre Company in Stockton-on-Tees from 2003-2007 and of the Swan Theatre Company in Cambridge from 2005-2008, where he was awarded the Susie Gautier-Smith Prize for his contribution to theatre. His production of 1984 (which he co-adapted and directed with Duncan Macmillan) won Best Director at the UK Theatre Awards and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play. Robert was selected as one of the Hospital Club’s 100 most influential people working across Britain’s creative industries in 2014.
Light
For the Almeida: 1984 (also Headlong / Nottingham Playhouse / West End).
Theatre and opera include: The Mistress Contract; Gastronaughts; The Djinns of Eidgah (Royal Court); Praxis Makes Perfect (Neon Neon / National Theatre Wales); Macbeth (National Theatre Scotland / Broadway / Lincoln Center); Green Snake (National Theatre China); The Shawl (Young Vic); The Village Bike; Happy Days (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Talk of the Town (Dublin Festival); The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (National Theatre Wales); 27; The Wheel; The House of Bernarda Alba; Empty / Miracle Men; Home (NationalTheatre Scotland); One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Eclipse Theatre); And the Horse You Rode in On (Told by an Idiot); Statement of Regret (National Theatre); Sunday in the Park with George (West End); The Wolves in the Walls (National Theatre Scotland / Improbable); That Face (Royal Court Theatre / West End); Othello; Dirty Wonderland; pool (no water); Peepshow; Hymns; Sell Out (Frantic Assembly).
Dance includes: Broken (Motionhouse); Motor Show (LIFT / Brighton Festival); Electric Hotel (Sadler’s Wells / Fuel); God’s Garden (Arthur Pita / Open Heart / Linbury Studio); Electric Counterpoint (Royal Opera House); Scattered (Motionhouse Tour / Southbank Centre); Run!; Renaissance (Greenwich+Docklands International Festival); Beyond Belief (Legs on the Wall / bSydney); Encore (Sadler’s Wells). Future work includes: new works by Craig Revel Horwood, Rafael Bonachela and Will Tuckett for the BalletBoyz at the Royal Festival Hall.
Natasha has won the Theatre Award UK in 2011 for Happy Days (Best Design) and an Olivier Award in 2007 for Sunday in the Park with George (BestLighting Design).
Sound
For the Almeida: Mr Burns;1984.
Theatre includes: White Devil; As You Like It (RSC); Translations (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); A View From the Bridge; Happy Days; A Season in the Congo; Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Romeo and Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicite); Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse / St Ann’sBrooklyn); Grounded (GateTheatre); The Spire (SalisburyPlayhouse); London (PainesPlough); The Roundabout Season (Shoreditch Town Hall / PainesPlough); The Rover (HamptonCourt Palace); Love, Love, Love (Royal Court); Island (NationalTheatre / Tour); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool); Plenty (Crucible Theatre Studio, Sheffield); Wasted (Paines Plough / Tour); Chalet Lines; The Knowledge; Little Platoons; 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Bush Theatre); Hairy Ape; Shivered; Faith, Hope and Charity; The Hostage; Toad (SouthwarkPlayhouse); Sold (Theatre 503); The Chairs (Ustinov Studio, TheatreRoyal Bath); The Country; The Road to Mecca; The Roman Bath; 1936; The Shawl (Arcola Theatre); Utopia; Bagpuss; Everything Must Go; Soho Streets (Soho Theatre); Hitchcock Blonde (Hull Truck).
As Associate Designer, theatre includes: Choir Boy (Royal Court); Broken Space Season (Bush Theatre).
Tom trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Video
For the Almeida: 1984 (also Headlong / Nottingham Playhouse / West End).
As Video Designer, theatre, dance and opera include: A Christmas Carol (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Love Your Soldiers; The History Boys (Crucible Theatre,Sheffield); Quiz Show; Tree of Knowledge (Traverse Theatre); Carousel (Royal Conservatoireof Scotland); White Rose (Firebrand Theatre); 8 (GlasgayFestival); Biding Time (Remix) (A Band Called Quinn / TromoloProductions); Ghost Patrol (Scottish Opera / Music TheatreWales); Educating Ronnie (HighTide / MacRobert Arts Centre,Stirling); Can We Talk About This? (DV8); Clockwork (VisibleFictions / Scottish Opera); Girl X; 99… 100; Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland); Playback (Ankur Productions); The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo; Bright Black (Vox Motus); We Dance WeeGroove (Stillmotion); Treasure Island; One Giant Leap (Wee Stories); Promises Promises (Random Accomplice); Cresseid (Edinburgh InternationalFestival); White Tea (Fire Exit); The Tailor of Inverness (Dogstar).As Projection Designer: Wild Swans (Young Vic / ART).
As Video Co-designer: Ten Billion (59 Productions / RoyalCourt); As One (Royal Ballet).
Tim has worked as head of video for the National Theatre of Scotland and toured internationally. His work has been seen in places as diverse as Sydney Opera House and the Shetland Isles.
Casting
For the Almeida: Game; Mr Burns; Chimerica; Before the Party; The Turn of the Screw; King Lear; Children’s Children; Filumena; The Knot of the Heart; Through a Glass Darkly; Measure for Measure; When the Rain Stops Falling; In a Dark Dark House; The Homecoming; Nocturne; Awake and Sing!; Dying for It; Out of the Fog.
Theatre includes: Man; A View from the Bridge; Happy Days; Public Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; Wild Swans; After Miss Julie; Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Annie Get Your Gun; In The Red and Brown Water; Lost Highway; The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic); A Doll’s House (Young Vic / West End /BAM); The Nether; Adler & Gibb; Birdland; The Mistress Contract; Khandan; The Pass; Gastronauts; Clybourne Park; The Heretic; Get Santa!; Kin; Red Bud; Tribes; Wanderlust; Spur of the Moment; Sucker Punch; Ingredient X (Royal Court); The Events; The Golden Dragon; Bad Jazz; A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); Spring Awakening; The Seagull; Edward Gant’s Amazing Feat of Loneliness (Headlong); Another Country (Chichester Festival Theatre / WestEnd); The Winslow Boy (Old Vic); A Chorus of Disapproval; South Downs / The Browning Version; Absent Friends; Backbeat; Arcadia; Swimming with Sharks; As You Like It; Antarctica; The Weir (West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End / Sydney Festival); Pool (no water) (Frantic Assembly); Gaddafi; A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh International Festival / Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin).
Television includes: Adha Cup; Parliamo Glasgow; Harvest; The Verdict; The Bill; The Badness of George IV.
Film includes: Puffins.
Assistant Director
Anthony is Director in Residence at the Almeida.
As Assistant Director, for the Almeida: Game.
As Director, theatre includes: Fox (Southwark Playhouse); Thousand Words (Park Theatre); Centre Spread (Wardrobe Theatre); London 2012: Glasgow (Theatre Uncut, Trinity Centre); Yesterday (Theatre Uncut, Bristol Old Vic); The Changeling (Young People’s Project, Young Vic); A Vampire Story (Outreach, Bristol Old Vic).
As Assistant Director, theatre includes: To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air / UK tour/ Barbican); Cinderella: A Fairytale (Tobacco Factory Theatre / St James Theatre / Unicorn Theatre).
To Kill a Mockingbird received the Whatsonstage Award for Best Play Revival in 2014. Cinderella: A Fairytale was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family, and received the Off West End Theatre Award for Best Production for Young People.
Anthony reads scripts for theatres nationwide and works nationally as a participation practitioner, with past projects at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham; Bristol Old Vic; Theatre Orchard; National Youth Theatre; and HM Prison, Drakehall.
He trained with the Young Vic and on Bristol Old Vic’s Made in Bristol Theatre Making Programme.
Theatre includes: The Broken Heart; Julius Caesar; Blue Stockings; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre); Hippolytus; Fairyland; The Relapse; Bloody Poetry; Six Pictures of Lee Miller; All’s Well That Ends Well (RADA).
Television includes: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; In the Club.
Film includes: Mary Gloster.
Luke was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer Award in 2013 for his performance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Design
For the Almeida: Rosmersholm; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (also West End).
Theatre includes: Good People; Passion Play; Old Times; Top Hat; The Sunshine Boys (also Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles); Arcadia (also Broadway); Blithe Spirit; The Misanthrope; The Crucible; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder (West End); Roots; Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar Warehouse); A Taste of Honey; Scenes from an Execution; After The Dance; Harper Regan; The Hour we Knew Nothing of Each Other; The Hothouse; Therese Raquin (set); Exiles; Primo (also Broadway); Iphigenia at Aulis; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; King Lear (National Theatre); Cause Celebre; All About My Mother; Richard II (Old Vic); The Seagull (also Broadway); Now or Later; Krapp’s Last Tape; Terrorism; My Name is Rachel Corrie (also New York); Blasted (Royal Court); Electra (RSC); The Jewish Wife (Young Vic).
Television and film includes: Primo; Krapp’s Last Tape.
Opera includes: La Traviata (Glyndebourne); The Makropulos Case (Edinburgh International Festival / Opera North); The Damnation of Faust (ENO / De Vlaamse / Teatro Massimo, Palermo).
Hildegard received an Olivier Award in 2011 for her design of After the Dance. She received an Olivier Award nomination for Top Hat and a nomination for the Evening Standard Best Designer Award in 2011 for Iphigenia at Aulis. She also won the 2009 Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House.
★★★★★[An] exhilarating adaptation.. you can almost see the dust flying off the old master
Observer
★★★★ Beautifully staged… striking performances… Lia Williams is brilliant
The Guardian
★★★★ Thrilling and frightening… grips, surprises and unsettles throughout. Huge themes… big success.
The Times
★★★★ A revelatory start to the Almeida’s season of classic Greek theatre
Evening Standard
★★★★ Robert Icke's gripping, radical restless adaptation... A tremendous start to the Almeida's Greek season.
Financial Times
Enthralling... Wipe(s) away the distance between antiquity and the present.
The New York Times
Evening performances begin at 7pm. The running time is approximately 3 hours and 40 minutes including a 10 minute pause and a 15 minute interval. Latecomers will not be admitted.
Lorna Brown
Jessica Brown Findlay
Rudi Dharmalingam
Annie Firbank
Joshua Higgott
John Mackay
Luke Thompson
Lia Williams
Angus Wright
Hara Yannas
Amelia Baldock
Eve Benioff Salama
Ilan Galkoff
Cameron Lane
Clara Read
Bobby Smalldridge
Version/Direction Robert Icke
Design Hildegard Bechtler
Light Natasha Chivers
Sound Tom Gibbons
Video Tim Reid
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Assistant Direction Anthony Almeida
Consultant Academic Simon Goldhill
Costume Supervision Laura Hunt
Dramaturg Duška Radosavljević
Casting Associate Lotte Hines
Assistant Sound Designer Dan Balfour