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By Tennessee Williams
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By Tennessee Williams
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Ralph Bates
Isabel Haverstick
George Haverstick
Dorothea Bates
Jared Harris
Lisa Dillon
Benedict Cumberbatch
Sandy McDade
Director
Design
Lighting
Music
Sound
Casting
Dialect Coach
Assistant Director
Production Manager
Company Manager
Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Costume Supervisor
Wigs and Hair Creator
Wardrobe Supervisor
Wardrobe Assistant
Wigs and Hair Supervisor
Chief Technician
Lighting Technician
Theatre Technician
Production Carpenter
Production Sound
Sound Operator
Scenic Artists
Howard Davies
Mike Britton
Mark Henderson
Paddy Cunneen
Paul Groothuis
Maggie Lunn
Joan Washington
Polly Findlay
Igor
Rupert Carlile
Suzanne Bourke
Nicole Keighley
Harry Niland
Louise Dadd
Angela Cobbin
Catrina Richardson
Jennifer Moore
Zoe Goodchild
Jason Wescombe
Robin Fisher
Howard Wood
Craig Emerson
Matthew Berry
Sarah Weltman
Charlotte Gainey
Natasha Shephard
Scott Fleary Scenery Ltd
Set Built by
Student on attachment to
Technical Department
Production Photography
Charlotte Dale
Simon Annand
CAST
Benedict Cumberbatch
George
Lisa Dillon
Isabel
Theatre: Hedda Gabler , Lady from the
Sea (Almeida Theatre), Oh What A
Lovely War, Romeo and Juliet, As You
Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Love’s Labour’s Lost (New Shakespeare
Company).
Theatre: Hedda Gabler (Almeida
Theatre), Othello (Royal Shakespeare
Company), The Master Builder (West
End), Iphengia (Sheffield Crucible).
Television: Hawking, Cambridge Spies.
Film: Bright Young Things.
Television: To the Ends of the Earth,
Hawking, Dunkirk, Nathan Barley,
Forty Something, Spooks, Cambridge
Spies, Tipping the Velvet, Broken News,
Silent Witness, Fields of Gold.
Film: Amazing Grace, Starter For Ten,
To Kill a King, Hills Like White
Elephants.
Radio: Far Side, Mr Norris Changes
Trains, The Odyssey, Kepler, The
Sergeant’s Mate, D Day, The Cocktail
Party, Mansfield Park.
Jared Harris
Ralph
Theatre: Les Liasons Dangereuses
(Playhouse), Humble Boy (Manhattan
Theatre), Hamlet (New Jersey
Festival), More Lies About Jerzy
(Vineyard Theatre), King Lear (New
York Shakespeare Festival), Ecstasy
(The New Group), Henry IV parts I
and II (New York Shakespeare
Festival), A Clockwork Orange, Hamlet,
Romeo and Juliet, The Silent Woman
(Royal Shakespeare Company), Tis
Pity She’s A Whore (New York
Shakespeare Festival).
Television: Coup, To The Ends Of The
Earth, The Other Boleyn Girl, Two Of Us.
Film: Lady In The Water, Ocean’s
Twelve, The Ballad of Bettie Page,
Resident Evil 2, I Love Your Work,
Sylvia, Igby Goes Down, Dummy,
Mr Deeds, Perfume, How To Kill Your
Neighbour’s Dog, Lush, The Bullfighter,
Shadowmagic, The Weekend, The
Chinese Box, Trance, B. Monkey, Fathers
Day, Gold In The Streets, Sunday,
I Shot Andy Warhol, Dead Man, Blue
In The Face, Smoke, Nadja, Tall Tale,
Natural Born Killers, The Public Eye,
Last Of The Mohicans, Far and Away,
The Rachel Papers.
Sandy McDade
Dorothea
Theatre: The House of Bernada Alba,
The Striker, A Prayer for Owen Meany,
Ghetto, Peer Gynt, Fuente Ovejuna,
The Good Person of Sichuan (National
Theatre), Iron (Traverse and Royal
Court), The Rivals (Nottingham
Playhouse), Macbeth (Manchester
Royal Exchange), As I Lay Dying,
Twelfth Night (Young Vic), Life of Stuff
(Donmar Warehouse), The House of
Bernada Alba (Shared Experience),
Cyrano de Bergerac, The Hunchback
of Notre Dame (Communicado),
Tears From A Glass Eye, The Ingolstadt
Plays (Gate).
Television: Teachers, Down To Earth,
Quite Ugly One Morning, Touch of
Frost, The Office Christmas Special,
Judge John Deed, Heading Home,
Uncle Silas, Hamish Macbeth, Friday
Night Armistice, Dr Finlay, From Doon
With Death, Heading Home.
Film: Mrs Henderson Presents, One
Last Chance, Restoration.
Howard Davies
Director
Howard Davies is Associate Director
of both the Almeida Theatre and the
National Theatre, and was previously
an Associate of the Royal
Shakespeare Company. While at the
RSC he established and ran the
Warehouse Theatre where he
produced and directed 35 new plays.
Productions include: For the Almeida
Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf, The Iceman Cometh, The Play
About The Baby, Vassa. In the West
End: Private Lives, The Breath of Life.
For the National Theatre: Paul, The
President of an Empty Room, The
House of Bernada Alba, The
Shaughraun, The Secret Rapture,
Hedda Gabler, Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom, The Crucible, Piano,
Pygmalion, The Children’s Hour, Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof, Mary Stuart, Chips
With Everything, Flight, Battle Royal,
All My Sons, The Talking Cure,
Mourning Becomes Electra. For the
Royal Shakespeare Company: Piaf,
Good, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Troilus
and Cressida.
Opera: Idomeneo, Eugene Onegin
(WNO), I Due Foscari (Scottish
Opera), The Italian Girl in Algiers.
Television: Tales From Hollywood,
Armadillo, Copenhagen, Blue/Orange.
Film: The Secret Rapture (David
Hare’s screen play)
Mike Britton
Design
Theatre includes: Tartuffe (Watermill
Theatre and On Tour), Walk Hard
(Tricycle Theatre), Comfort Me With
Apples (Hampstead Theatre), Twelfth
Night (Plymouth Theatre Royal and
On Tour), The Comedy Of Errors
(Sheffield Crucible), The Morris, Dr
Faustus (Liverpool Everyman and
Playhouse).
Troilus and Cressida (Guildhall), John
Bull’s Other Island (Lyric Theatre
Belfast), Bird Calls (Sheffield Crucible
Studio), The Venetian Twins, The
Gentleman From Olmedo, The
Triumph of Love, Dancing at Lughnasa
(Watermill Theatre), Madness in
Valencia (RSC, The Other Place), The
Age of Consent (Pleasance, Edinburgh
Festival/ Bush Theatre), Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf (Oxford Playhouse),
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas
Nickleby (Milton Keynes).
Mark Henderson
Lighting
Mark Henderson is an associate at
the National Theatre and lighting
advisor to the Almeida Theatre.
Theatre includes: For the Almeida
Theatre: The Late Henry Moss, The
Mercy Seat, Faith Healer, King Lear,
The Shape of Things, Coriolanus and
Richard II, Lulu, Phedre, Britannicus,
Naked, Plenty, Hamlet (also
Broadway).For the National Theatre:
Playing with Fire, The President of an
Empty Room, The UN Inspector, The
False Servant, The History Boys,
Mourning Becomes Electra,
Democracy, Edmond, His Girl Friday,
Henry V, All My Sons. For the
Donmar Warehouse: The Real Thing,
Suddenly Last Summer, Design for
Living. West End includes: Amy’s
View, The Iceman Cometh, The Judas
Kiss, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (all also
on Broadway), Our House, Grease,
Spend, Spend, Spend, Neville’s Island,
Follies, Copenhagen, Passion,
Endgame, Tonight’s the Night. On
tour: The League of Gentlemen,
French and Saunders, Eddie Izzard,
Rowen Atkinson.
Opera and Dance include
productions for Rambert, The Royal
Ballet, Gyndebourne, The Royal
Opera, ENO.
Paddy Cunneen
Music
Paddy has composed music for
some 150 productions for many
companies and theatres, including
Cheek by Jowl, the National Theatre,
Royal Shakespeare Company,
Donmar Warehouse, Out of Joint,
Abbey Theatre, Gate Theatre, Druid
Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange,
the Royal Court, Liverpool Everyman
and many others.
In addition he composes for BBC
Radio Drama, RTE Radio Drama and
has a number of TV and film credits.
He has had two plays broadcast by
BBC Radio.
Paul Groothuis
Sound
Paul trained as a stage manager at
the Central School of Speech and
Drama. Between 1984 and 2003 he
was a member of the Sound
Department at the National Theatre
where he designed the sound for
over 120 productions including His
Dark Materials, Edmond, Henry V, A
Streetcar Named Desire, The Coast of
Utopia, My Fair Lady (National
Theatre and Drury Lane), The
Oedipus Plays, Summerfolk, The
Merchant of Venice, Candide,
Oklahoma! (National Theatre/
Lyceum and Gershwin Theatre, NY),
Oh What A Lovely War, A Little Night
Music, Lady In The Dark, Guys and
Dolls, Under Milk Wood, Sunday In
The Park With George, Sweeney Todd,
The Wind In The Willows, The Night of
The Iguana, The Shaughraun.
Other credits include: The King and I
(London Palladium/ UK Tour),
Endgame (Albery), Matthew Bourne’s
The Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells and
on tour), CoisCeim Dance Theatre’s
Mermaids (Dublin).
Most recent productions include: A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
the Forum, Stuff Happens, The House
of Bernada Alba, Buried Child, Henry
IV parts I and II (National Theatre),
The Witches (Birmingham Rep and
West End), As You Desire Me, Acorn
Antiques, Highland Fling (West End).
Paul is currently working on Royal
Hunt of The Sun at the National
Theatre and the UK tour of My Fair
Lady. He will be spending Spring 06
teaching at the Hong Kong Academy
of Performing Arts. He is also an
associate to the the National Theatre
Sound Department and Sound
Consultant for Sir Peter Hall’s Rose
of Kingston Theatre project.
Polly Findlay
Assistant Director
Polly trained at LAMDA. Theatre
as a director includes: Good (Sound
Theatre), The School For Scandal,
Dublin Carol, The Unexpected Man
(Linbury Studio, LAMDA), As You Like
It (Oxford Playhouse). As Assistant:
Promises, Promises (Crucible Theatre
Sheffield), Prometheus Bound (Sound
Theatre), The Twenty Four Hour Plays
(Old Vic), No Offence (Tricycle). Polly
has also worked for Complicite and
as a research intern for
Shakespeare’s Globe.
Maggie Lunn
Casting
Maggie Lunn was Artistic Associate
and Resident Casting Director for the
Almeida Theatre for three years,
Head of Casting at the RSC and
Acting Head of Casting at the
National Theatre.
Theatre: Work for the Almeida
Theatre includes: The Hypochondriac,
Romance, Blood Wedding, The Goat,
or who is Sylvia, Festen, Hedda Gabler,
The Mercy Seat. Work for the
National Theatre includes: The Coast
of Utopia, Vincent In Brixton, Anything
Goes. Other credits include: The
Romans In Britain, The Clean House
(Sheffield Crucible), Richard II,
Hamlet (Old Vic), Skellig (Young Vic),
Chichester Festival Seasons 2003 2005, Lord of the Rinngs, Phaedra’s
Love (Bristol Old Vic/ Young Vic at
the Barbican).
Television: A for Andromeda,
Archangel, Derailed, The Family Man,
The Lavender List.
Film: Notes on a Scandal.
Tom McKitterick
Script Editor
Theatre as a performer: Fathers and
Sons (Public Theatre NY and Los
Angeles) Salt Lake City Skyline
(Public Theatre NY), Say Goodnight
Gracie (Off-Broadway), Holiday
(Los Angeles).
Film: The Warriors.
Tom also has also worked as a
photojournalist covering news,
sport and classical music. Tom was
represented worldwide by Impact
Visuals.
TENNESSEE
WILLIAMS
1911: Born Thomas Lanier Williams in
Columbus, Mississippi.
1939: Receives Group Theatre Award
for American Blues.
Williams enters a period of
depression.
1929: Enters the University of
Missouri.
1940: Students stage his one-act play
The Long Goodbye, the first of his plays
to be seen in New York.
1968: Kingdom of Earth (The Seven
Descents of Myrtle) opens in New York.
1932: Father withdraws him from the
university. Begins working at
International Shoe Company and
spends his nights writing.
1935: Claims he has a heart attack and
recuperates at his grandparents’ home
in Memphis.
Battle of Angels opens in Boston but
quickly closes after a censorship
controversy; is revised as Orpheus
Descending in 1957.
1943: Moves to California to start work
as a scriptwriter for MGM.
1936: Sees Ibsen’s Ghosts and is
inspired to be a playwright. Enrolls in
Washington University, St Louis.
1945: The Glass Menagerie opens on
Broadway and wins the New York
Drama Critics’ Circle Award.
1937: First full length plays are
produced, Candles to the Sun and
Fugitive Kind, by amateur group in St
Louis.
1947: A Streetcar Named Desire opens
in New York.
Transfers to University of Iowa to
study playwriting and production.
His sister Rose is institutionalised for
schizophrenia.
1938: Graduates with BA English from
University of Iowa.
Receives honorary degree of Doctor of
Humane Letters, University of
Missouri. Awarded National Institute
of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for
Drama.
Enters Barnes Hospital for psychiatric
care.
1971: Dismisses Audrey Wood, his
agent of 32 years.
Meets Frank Merlo.
1973: Out Cry has its New York
premiere.
1948: First collection of fiction One
Arm and Other Stories published.
1975: The Red Devil Battery Sign
opens.
Frank Merlo moves in with him
beginning a 14-year relationship.
The autobiographical Memoirs, which
deals openly with his sexuality, is
published.
1950: His novel The Roman Spring of
Mrs Stone is published.
1977: Vieux Carre opens in New York.
1951: The Rose Tattoo opens in
Chicago.
1978: A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
opens.
1952: Election to National Institute of
Arts and Letters.
1980: Will Mr. Merriweather Return
from Memphis? inaugurates the
Tennessee Williams Performing Arts
Centre, Key West.
1953: Camino Real opens in New
York.
Photo by Bruce Paulson. Courtesy of New Directions Publishing Corp.
1969: In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel
opens in New York.
1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
opens in New York where it
runs for 694 performances,
winning the Pulitzer Prize
among many others.
1956: His film Baby Doll is
released by Warner Bros
1957: Orpheus Descending
opens in New York.
Father dies.
1959: Sweet Bird of Youth opens
in New York.
1960: Period of Adjustment opens
in New York.
1961: The Night of the Iguana
premieres.
1963: The Milk Train Doesn’t
Stop Here Anymore opens in
New York.
Frank Merlo dies of cancer.
Clothes For A Summer Hotel opens.
Mother dies.
1981: Production of A House Not
Meant to Stand opens.
Something Cloudy, Something Clear, his
last play to be produced in his lifetime,
opens.
1982: Receives honorary doctorate
from Harvard University.
1983: Dies at Hotel Elysee, New York
City, from choking on cap from a
medicine bottle.
Tennessee Williams died on 25 February 1983, at The Elysee Hotel
in New York. He had choked to death on the plastic cap of his
medication, an empty wine bottle beside him. He was alone. For
some it marked the final act of a life and a reputation that had been
in decline for more than two decades.
In truth, America had lost its most
distinctive playwright, a man whose
work - powerful, disturbing, deeply
original - influenced more than one
generation of playwrights. Indeed, in
subsequent years they have lined up to
acknowledge his centrality.
Sam Shepard’s first play was, he
confessed, imitation Williams. Edward
Albee’s The Zoo Story took some
inspiration from Suddenly Last Summer.
Tony Kushner “read as much Williams
as I could get my hands on”, while for
Terrence McNally, the very idea that
people would lose interest in Williams’
work was absurd: “ Not interested in
Tennessee Williams! I don’t know how
that can happen to an artist that has
given so much.”
For fellow playwright Arthur Miller,
Williams was crucial. Sitting in the
audience of the Broadway production
of A Streetcar Named Desire, Miller
heard a language that transfixed him.
Here was a man who had “printed a
licence to speak at full throat,” a licence
that liberated him to write Death of A
Salesman. Williams’s work had, he
insisted, “the surprise of reality as only
the poetic can reveal it.”
finding temporary solace in one
another at the risk of being caught commitment and escape being
mutually exclusive. In Orpheus
Descending this leads in the direction of
tragedy; in Period of Adjustment towards
comedy. Their fate is either to retreat
into fantasy and psychosis, or to suffer
a kind of crucifixion as they are
destroyed in a spasm of violence.
There was in fact a rational reason for
the sense of social paranoia to be
found in his work. In Mississippi,
where he lived until the age of twelve,
the laws against what was called
“unnatural intercourse with man or
beast” would not be overturned until
2003. He had later moved to Iowa,
where a law calling for sterilisation of
what were called “sexual perverts”
and “moral degenerates” would be on
the books until the mid 1970s. The
fact is that Williams’s homosexuality
was proscribed. Not merely was it
illegal, attracting draconian
punishments, it was at odds with
national myths to do with strenuous
masculinity and family values.
Both Miller and Williams began their
careers not in the 1940s, when their
great successes were achieved, but in
the 1930s, a radical decade in which
they saw themselves in some degree as
radicals. Williams would later protest
the US government’s withdrawal of
Miller’s passport. His own radicalism,
however, was of a different kind, even if
he did see himself as offering a critique
of a “culture sick with neon”, a
capitalist society with no time or place
for human values.
When Williams first appeared he
seemed something of an exotic, not
least because of his name. He
abandoned his given names, Thomas
Lanier (which he thought made him
sound like a tortured romantic poet) in
favour of Tennessee. But this was also
not without its problems. One Boston
reviewer dismissed an early play as the
work of a hillbilly, while Dorothy Parker
said that if he was going to call himself
Tennessee,she would call herself
Palestine. However, given that his
great-great-great-grandfather’s name
was Preserved Fish Dakin, he could
have done worse.
He celebrated the poet in a prosaic
society, the marginal, the dispossessed.
His characters are often in flight, or
It is difficult to over-estimate the
popularity of Williams’s early plays.
His first success - The Glass Menagerie -
ran for 561 performances, while
Streetcar ran for 855. By contrast, even
Arthur Miller’s great successes trailed
in his wake (All My Sons managed 328,
Death of A Salesman 742). Later, when
Williams’s reputation suffered an
eclipse in the United States, it
remained high in Britain. For Richard
Eyre, this had to do with American
attitudes to the past. The American
theatre, he suggested, “has been
robbed of continuity”, whereas British
audiences, “fed on Shakespeare, have
an appetite for writing which uses
sinewy and passionate language with
such unembarrassed enthusiasm.”
However, Tennessee Williams was in
some ways always an outsider. He
wrote a poem that captures equally the
twin poles of doom and liberation that
constituted his own sensibility. It spoke
of “the strange, the crazed, the queer,”
and imagined a time when mercy
would be shown to “the lonely and
misfit,” a time when they would be
protected for a while, “Before, with
such a tender smile,/ The earth
destroys her crooked child.”
Tennessee Williams was not a crooked
child, but he came close to being
destroyed, not least by his own
personal demons. He was, though, a
survivor, aware of the comedy as well
as the tragedy implicit in the struggle
to survive. There has never been a
writer quite like him. From his earliest
works to the last play, he was a poet
who chose theatre as the arena for his
poetry, although, as Arthur Miller
remarked, he ended “as he had begun,
on the outside looking in - as he once
put it, scratching on the glass.”
Written by Christopher Bigsby, Professor of
American Studies at the University of East
Anglia.
By 1953, most
Americans believed
they had entered an
era of well-deserved
security and prosperity.
The Korean War and McCarthyism
faded, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin
died, and the overwhelmingly popular
Eisenhower brought a sense of security
to American life. Especially for the white
middle class, confidence in material
progress and the perfectibility of
American society coexisted along a
fervent anti-Communist ideology and
anxiety about nuclear destruction.
Following the turbulence of the last
two decades, the home seemed a safe
haven. Just as containment of
communism characterized American
foreign policy, a kind of domestic
containment, stressing traditional
gender roles and domesticity,
dominated American social life. In the
ideal suburban family, the American
mother kept house and raised the
children while her husband went off to
a white-collar job. The kids grew up with
a strong sense of American values.
But in retrospect, the fifties seem a
curiously contradictory period in
American life. Whilst on the one hand
Eisenhower practised the politics of
moderation, churches increased their
membership and family values
appeared dominant, on the other
young people – inspired by their own
emerging subculture – entered a
period of ferment. Intellectual critics
challenged the era’s conformity and
consumerism, and the Beat writers
dared to suggest that drugs, sex and
religious experiences might be more
important than patriotism.
Perhaps the biggest contradiction of all
was that despite the overall prosperity,
one in four Americans lived near or
beneath the poverty line at the end of
the decade.
Extracts from Present Tense: The United
States since 1945 by Shaller, Scharff and
Schulzinger (1996). Published by
Houghton Mifflin.1
What Allen Ginsberg
has called the System
of Shutdown began in
the early Fifties:
The move towards a closed society
where all decisions would be secret;
the paralysis caused by the use of
technological devices to invade privacy;
the perfectly paranoid atmosphere of
McCarthyism; the increasing power of
the Pentagon with its military bases
designed to contain a new enemy
supposedly (and suddenly) more
threatening than the Nazis.
The hysteria of rabid anti-Communism
was far more damaging than any
native Communism: the patriotic
blood boiling became a convenient veil
assuring a continued blindness to
domestic social conditions that
desperately needed attention. An
internal freeze gripped America in the
Fifties, an irrational hatred that created
intense fear and repression, and since
any repression feeds on oppression as
its necessary rationalization, the red
witch-hunts, the censorship of artists
and film-makers, the regimentation of
the average man began with
unparalleled momentum and design.
With the exception of the Civil War
period, never before had the sense of
hopefulness traditionally associated
with the American experience been so
damaged. The Fifties were times of
extraordinary insecurity, of profound
powerlessness as far as individual
effort was concerned, when personal
responsibility was being abdicated in
favour of corporate largeness, when
the catchwords were co-ordination
and adjustment, as if we had defeated
Germany only to become ‘good
Germans’ ourselves.
Extracts from The Rolling Stone Book of
The Beat by Holly George-Warren(1999).
Published by Bloomsbury London.2
1: Copyright permission has been sought from
Houghton Mifflin. 2: Copyright permission has been
sought from AM Heath
The election of President Eisenhower in 1953 marked a new
beginning in the lives of most contemporary Americans. With
war an increasingly distant memory, U.S. seemed at last to have
attained the kind of economic and social stability it had longed for.
Conservatism and consumerism
were the buzzwords of the decade.
In the wake of two international
conflicts (WW2 and Korea),
Americans were keen to shore up the
conventions that they believed were
the safeguards of their national
identity. Women began to marry
younger and younger: by the end of
the fifties, the average marriage age
of women in the U.S. had dropped to
twenty, and would continue to fall. In
what now seems like an astonishing
reversal of the feminist movements
that had begun to take root in the
1930s and 40s, women often viewed
a college education as simply a
means to finding the husband and
starting the family that would afford
them their real identity. ‘Of all the
accomplishments of the American
woman’, declared the Christmas
issue of Life magazine in 1956, ‘the
one she brings off with the most
spectacular success is having
babies’. By 1960, the U.S. birth rate
was beginning to overtake India’s.
Thousands of young Americans
flocked to make their homes in the
new suburban communities, which
sprang up throughout the decade in
record numbers. The innovations of
real estate developer William Levitt
characterised a trend that was
sweeping across the country.
Responding to the post-war boom
in the housing market, he set out
to build full-scale communities of
mass-produced, affordable, single
family homes. At the height of
production in the ‘Levittowns’,
which comprised up to 17,000
properties, a house was going up
every sixteen minutes. Against the
background of the Cold War and the
Space Race, and with McCarthyism
still a recent memory, Levitt made a
quip whose deliberately ironic sting
articulated precisely the selective
social focus that had ushered in the
decade’s cultural complacency: ‘No
man who owns his own house and
lot can be a communist. He has too
much to do’.
With more time and money at
America’s disposal, the fifties saw
a huge boom in the popular
entertainment industry, giving birth
to some of the last century’s most
enduring icons. Most Americans
owned a television by the end of the
decade; a large proportion of them
tuned in weekly to the hugely popular I
Love Lucy, which ran for six years (and
which has just been voted the second
greatest American TV show of all time,
behind Seinfeld.) J.D. Salinger wrote
Catcher in the Rye, Brylcreem enjoyed a
period of popularity and The Twilight
Zone premiered as the first major
science fiction show. The polio vaccine
was discovered, enabling the complete
eradication of the wild polio virus in
America; in 1954, the first organ
transplants were carried out in Boston
and in Paris. Abroad, Francis Crick
and James D. Watson discovered the
helical structure of DNA; at home,
Billy Graham was just one of the
figures leading the marked rise in
evangelical Christianity. Disneyland
opened in California in 1955.
However, despite its ostensible veneer
of secure prosperity, the decade was
arguably characterised as much by
the social fissures that were beginning
to run through it. Allen Ginsberg was
one of those who identified the
paradox at the heart of the American
dilemma, arguing that the Cold War
had created a paranoiac generation
whose fragile happiness depended
more on repression than on genuine
security. The emerging youth culture
began to provide a potentially
subversive counterbalance to the
predicated norm, and by the end of the
decade the African-American struggle
to claim equal rights was beginning to
take shape. Arguably the fifties was a
much rockier, more socially and
politically volatile period than its cleancut, picture book smile might suggest.
Written by Polly Findlay,
Assistant Director.
ASSISTED PERFORMANCES
PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT
Tuesday 11th April 7.30pm
Captioned by STAGETEXT
PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT
Saturday 22nd April 3pm
Audio Described by
Vocaleyes (Touch Tour 1.30pm)
PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT
Wednesday 26th April 7.30pm
Sign Language Interpreted
by Russ Aldersson
ENEMIES
Wednesday 7th June 7.30pm
Captioned by STAGETEXT
ENEMIES
Saturday 17th June 3pm
Audio Described by
Vocaleyes (Touch Tour 1.30pm)
ENEMIES
Wednesday 21st June 7.30pm
Sign Language Interpreted
by Jeni Draper
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Thanks to STAGETEXT, Vocaleyes and all our interpreters.
PRODUCTION THANK YOUS
Rocket and other props made by
The Glue Factory
www.gluefactory.co.uk
Costume hire:
Carlo Manzi and Cosprop
Ladies Costumes made by
Coleman James, David Plunkett,
Cosprop.
Dyeing:
Nicola Kileen Textiles
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2003
THE LADY FROM THE SEA
“The Islington Powerhouse opens with
this tremendous production…
electrifying… leaves you reeling.”
Daily Telegraph
Sponsored by Hydro
ALMEIDA OPERA 2003
“Bags of atmosphere and dashes of
black humour” The Times on Who put Bella
in the Wych Elm
I.D.
“A riveting production… full of
wonderful theatrical invention…
a rich and shameful period of history
and how memorably it is evoked.”
Daily Mail
Sponsored by Cadwalader
THE MERCY SEAT
“Michael Attenborough’s production
has a high voltage charge that never
dips for a moment. This play plumbs
the depths and deserves to be seen.”
Daily Telegraph
FIVE GOLD RINGS
“Bold, elegant, lyrical, finely wraught…
gorgeously staged and beautifully
performed.” Time Out
1: Natasha Richardson (Ellida), John Bowe (Dr Wangel),
The Lady from the Sea, photo by Catherine Ashmore
2: Eve Best (Hedda Gabler)
Hedda Gabler, photo by John Haynes
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HEDDA GABLER
“An electrifying hit… a wonderful
production” Daily Telegraph
Sponsored by Hydro
ALMEIDA OPERA 2005
“Eccentric, engaging, exuberant,
provocative and entertaining.”
The Times on The Cricket Recovers
BLOOD WEDDING
“Brilliantly directed by Rufus Norris.
Another indication of how well
Michael Attenborough’s management
is doing at the Islington playhouse.”
2004
THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA?
“Superbly written…brilliant… flawless
production; you won’t find more
blazing acting anywhere… see it if
you see nothing else.” Mail on Sunday
Sponsored by Aspen Re
FESTEN
“Electrifying, shocking and profoundly
moving… such talent, such skill, such
humanity. Something to celebrate.”
Sunday Times
WHISTLING PSYCHE
“An intense, haunting and beautiful
play… two remarkable performances…
marvellously rewarding.” Mail on Sunday
ALMEIDA OPERA 2004
“Rapturously intense… the
performances are wonderfully
precise.” The Guardian on lo Passion
Daily Express
BRIGHTON ROCK
“An intelligent, edgy, adult musical
which gives you something to think
about...Hooray for that...a production
of brilliant clarity...crackles with energy
and evil.” Daily Express
THE EARTHLY PARADISE
“Gorgeous writing… very compelling,
lovely and tragic. My play of the year.”
New Statesman
Sponsored by Cadwalader
2005
MACBETH
“The most powerful, chilling, evil –
feeling Macbeth sinced McKellen
and Dench.” The Times
ROMANCE
“You laugh uproariously...it’s a silly
person who doesn’t.” Financial Times
THE HYPOCHONDRIAC
“Lindsay Posner’s exuberant,
superbly-acted production is riotously
entertaining - has you laughing like
a drain.” Daily Telegraph
2006
THE LATE HENRY MOSS
“A thrilling new play...acted up to the
hilt by a remarkable company...an
astonishingly wrought, high drama”
Evening Standard
Sponsored by Pinsent Masons
Sponsored by Aspen Re
3: Flaminia Cinque (Conchalla) and Trevor Cooper
(Henry) The Late Henry Moss, photo by John Haynes
4: Sinead Cusack (Abby), John Hannah (Ben)
The Mercy Seat, photo by John Haynes
5: Jonny Lee Miller (Christian), Tom Hardy (Michael)
Festen, photo by John Haynes
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5th May – 24th June 2006
ENEMIES
By Maxim Gorky
A new version by David Hare
Production Sponsor
Directed by Michael Attenborough
Designed by Simon Higlett
Lighting by Tim Mitchell
Sound by Paul Arditti
Cast Includes: Martin Barron,
Amanda Drew, John Higgins,
Tony Kebbell, Edward Peel,
Amanda Root, Graham Turner,
Tony Turner, Sandra Voe,
Deka Walmsley and Robin Weaver.
Production supported by Roger Wingate
Our AUTUMN SEASON will be on sale from May 2006.
for more details see www.almeida.co.uk
Box Office 020 7359 4404 www.almeida.co.uk
ALMEIDA PROJECTS
Year 7s and the company of Sick! at Highbury Grove School. Photo by Bridget Jones.
Primary and Drayton Park took part
in workshops and then attended a
performance at Highbury Grove
School as part of a project to help
children make the transition from
primary to secondary school.
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOPS
– Locally, nationally and online
Supporting Period of Adjustment and
the national tour of Festen, Almeida
Projects is leading participatory
workshops exploring the techniques
behind creative and rehearsal
processes. Ideas for further
exploration can be found on our
website www.almeidaprojects.co.uk
HAPPY MONDAYS
Almeida Projects draws on
the expertise of theatre
artists and brings them
into contact with our
community partners,
promoting innovative
creative exchange between
the Almeida and Islington.
SICK! @ SCHOOL
So far this season, with SICK! our
first-ever production created
especially for 11 year olds, over 2000
local young people have participated
in design, music and drama
workshops as well as attending
performances at the Almeida or in
their school. In addition, Year 6
primary school children from
Highbury Quadrant, Rotherfield
This season we are piloting an
initiative offering top price tickets for
£3 on the first Monday in the
production run to local students who
have been involved in our residency
programmes and have now left
school.
What makes a good story? What makes us laugh till we burst,
causes our blood to boil or inspires us so much we have to write
it down so that everyone can share it?
WRITE.
Between November 2005 and the end
of January 2006, 152 first-time writers
with a connection to Islington
answered our call to action. They sent
us their new ideas in the form of a 2page script. During February each
script was read three times by a panel
of 20 readers who selected a small
group of the writers to take part in a
playwriting workshop at the Almeida.
Now the writers are working on a
15-minute script ready for a second
workshop. We are looking forward to
the final phase of WRITE. in which
the most exciting, original,
provocative and inspiring of the
15-minute scripts will be produced at
the Almeida in July.
The fund has been launched in memory of
Jinny McCallister, Theatre Manager at the
Almeida from 2002-2005. Jinny had an
infectious passion for playwriting and
theatre. It is our wish to provide support,
expertise and opportunities to encourage
more playwrights like her.
THE ALMEIDA THEATRE
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The Almeida Board
Richard Haythornthwaite
Chair
Baroness McIntosh
Mary Francis
of Hudnall
Anupam Ganguli
Rodney Milnes
Michael Gwinnell
Rufus Olins
A. Michael Hoffman
Nigel Pantling
Thelma Holt CBE
Trevor Phillips
Linden Ife
David Robbie (Treasurer)
Carol Lake
Alastair Ross-Goobey CBE
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Carl Tack
Artistic Directors
1980 – 1990 Pierre Audi(Founder)
1990 – 2002 Jonathan Kent
Ian McDiarmid
2002 –
Michael Attenborough
ADMINISTRATION
General Manager
Ros Brooke-Taylor
Assistant to the
Directorate
Morgan Tovey Frost
Administrative and
Production Assistant
Laura Pickard
ALMEIDA OPERA
Producer
Patrick Dickie
Aldeburgh Almeida Opera
Jonathan Reekie
James Brown
Music Director
David Parry
Concerts Director
John Woolrich
ALMEIDA PROJECTS
Projects Director
Rebecca Manson Jones
Projects Co-ordinator
Ned Glasier
Audience Development
Assistant
Nuala Phillips
BAR
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Hannah Woolhouse
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Dance Robinson
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DEVELOPMENT
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Elizabeth Fowler
Development Manager
Kirsten Holmes
Events Manager
Sarah Ben-Tovim
Development
Co-ordinator
Susie Parker
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Chair
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Roy Williams
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Neil Constable
Music Advisor
Jonathan Dove
Artistic Associate
Jenny Worton
Lighting Advisor
Mark Henderson
Associate Director
Howard Davies
Sound Advisor
John Leonard
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Cleaning Staff
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FRONT OF HOUSE
Theatre Manager
Helen Cooles
Duty Managers
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Amos Pate
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Associate Actors
Simon Russell Beale
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Richard Wilson
Penelope Wilton
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PRESS
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PRODUCTION
Technical Director
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Igor
Company Manager
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Robin Fisher
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We would like to thank the following individuals for their dedication and support.
Gala Committee Chairs
Saffron Burrows & Sydney Finch
The Hypochondriac
Corporate Council
Rosemary Leith
Chair
Local Liaison Committee
Nicky Manby
Chair
Thelma Holt & Damian Lewis
Macbeth
Mary Francis
Andrew Grant
Jeremy Hall
Carol Lake
Phil Ley
Henry Timms
Milly Ayliffe
Jenny Black
Katie Bradford
Annie Edge
Susan Hahn
Jessica de Rothschild
The Lady From The Sea
Jenny Hargreaves
Caroline Hoare
Jean Hurley
Linden Ife
Rachel Williams
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SUPPORTERS
The Almeida extends its deepest gratitude to the following individuals, organisations and trusts
whose generosity made the refurbishment of the theatre possible.
Founding Members
Anonymous
The Ingram Trust
Bruce Kovner
The Kresge Foundation
The Mackintosh Foundation
Georgia Oetker
The Garfield Weston Foundation
Principal Investors
Tony & Gisela Bloom
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San Francisco
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Duveen Trust
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Foundation
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Judy Craymer
Polly Edwards
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Eric Evans Memorial Trust
Mary Friday Leadbetter
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Rick & Janeen Haythornthwaite
Mrs Drue Heinz DBE
Julie & Thomas Høegh
Carlo & Basia Kapp
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John Kinder
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
Duncan Moore & Susan Hahn
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David Norwood
Mary P. Oenslager Foundation Fund
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Anthony & Rachel Williams
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Keith & Barbara Bain
Rosalind M Bax
Helen Bedford
Kate & Colin Birss
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Katie Bradford
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Martha (Sunny) C. Auersperg von Bulow
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David Day
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Robyn Durie
Ralph Fiennes
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Jennifer Sevaux
Ricky Shuttleworth
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We would also like to thank the many
generous donors whom we are unable
to list individually.
Please do not smoke or eat in the auditorium.
Please remember that noise such as coughing,
rustling of programmes, the bleeping of digital
watches and the ringing of mobile phones can
be distracting to performers and also spoils the
performance for other members of the audience.
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The first performance of this production at the
Almeida Theatre, 9th March 2006.
The information in this publication is correct at
the time of going to press.
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Council of the London Borough of Islington,
persons shall not be permitted to stand or sit in
any of the gangways intersecting the seating or
to sit in any of the other gangways.
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