#richard iii: almeida (2016)

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gratuitous rape scene for shock value. groundbreaking.

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Happy Birthday Scottish actress  Joanna Vanderham, who was born on 17th October 1990.

Born Joanna Rosie-Le Van Der Ham in Perth and brought up in nearby Scone. Her father Tom, a businessman, and mother, Jill Belch, a professor of cardiovascular research at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, her parents split up when she was eleven, Joanna has two sisters and a brother,  er eldest sister and brother are also doctors.

Joanna  joined the local drama club aged nine. She attended school in Dundee where she read six Shakespeare plays .Othello was her favourite and she would always have her hand up to take a part. She did Scottish Highers in: English, Drama and History before being accepted at 17 for The Royal Welsh College in Cardiff.

In her second year she played Cathy in The Runaway, a six part serial for Sky TV, with in my opinion, a stellar cast that included, Ken Stott, Alan Cumming Keith Allen and Jack O'Connell . Recording this meant missing two terms when she was filming for three months in South Africa but the college graded her work from her film performances, giving her a first.

Having graduated she was immediately recruited for the central role of Denise in The Paradise, an eight part series for BBC based loosely on the Emile Zola novel Au Bonheur des Dames. She then filmed The Go-Between a BBC TV movie, in which she plays the young Marian, with Vanessa Redgrave playing the older version of her character.

She also appears in the film What Maisie Knew with Alexander Skarsgård and Julianne Moore, and as Pamela in the BBC drama Dancing on the Edge, The  Mini Series banished and  One of Us , a Netflix original set in Scotland, on which Joanna commented she loved filming “the puppies on the farm helped you forget how cold Scotland is”

Joanna is probably most famous for the role of Penelope Blake in the acclaimed Cinemax series, Warrior and in the American superhero television series Legends of Tomorrow as Atropos.

Season 2 of the Irvine Welsh based series Crime is being filmed at present, Joanna plays police office Amanda Drummond. Joanna was last  on our screens in the excellent drama Control Room, set in Glasgow

Joanna Vanderham has been in many plays around the country, starring in some for the Royal Shakespeare Company and received a Commendation at the 2016 Ian Charleson Awards for her role as Queen Anne in Richard III at the Almeida Theatre.

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Ralph Fiennes trying out prosthetics for Richard III at the Almeida Theatre (2016)

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Fundo do Clima

Audiência foi convocada pelo ministro Luís Roberto Barroso, relator da ação que discute o funcionamento do Fundo Nacional sobre a Mudança do Clima e a situação das políticas públicas ambientais.

Ontem (clique aqui para ver resumo em vídeo -- https://youtu.be/j32V4Ns0ung) e hoje (22 de setembro de 2020, https://youtu.be/fRz9oIAYLpg), o Supremo Tribunal Federal realiza, sob a coordenação do Ministro Luís Roberto Barroso, relator da Arguição de Descumprimento de Preceito Fundamental (ADPF) 708, audiência pública destinada a debater o funcionamento do Fundo Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima, a alocação de seus recursos e a situação das políticas públicas em matéria ambiental no Brasil. A audiência pública contará com exposições de autoridades, organizações da sociedade civil, institutos de pesquisa, acadêmicos e empresários.

SAIBA MAIS. Expositores: Dia 21.09.2020 – Manhã, das 9h às 13h. Seção 1: Autoridades e órgãos públicos: (i) Exmo. Sr. Davi Alcolumbre (Presidente do Senado); (ii) Exmo. Sr. Rodrigo Maia (Presidente da Câmara dos Deputados); (iii) Ministro Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira (Ministro Chefe do Gabinete de Segurança Institucional da Presidência da República); (iv) Ministro Marcos Cesar Pontes (Ministro da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações); (v) Ministro André Luiz de Almeida Mendonça (Ministro da Justiça e Segurança Pública); (vi) Ministro Bento Costa Lima Leite de Albuquerque Junior (Ministro de Estado de Minas e Energia); (vii) Ministro Ricardo de Aquino Sales (Ministro de Estado do Meio Ambiente); (viii) Ministra Tereza Cristina Correa da Costa (Ministra de Estado da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento); (ix) Presidente do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social – BNDES (Expositores: Dr. Nabil Moura Kadri, Chefe do Departamento de Meio Ambiente e Gestão do Fundo Amazônia, e Dr. Raphael Duarte Stein, Gerente do Departamento de Meio Ambiente e Gestão do Fundo Amazônia, o tempo será divido entre os expositores); (x) Dr. Eduardo Fortunato Bim (Presidente do IBAMA); (xi) Dr. Marcos de Castro Simnovic (Diretor de Criação e Manejo de Unidades de Conservação do ICMBio); (xii) Fundação Nacional do Índio – FUNAI (Expositores: Dr. Juan Felipe Negret Scalia, Coordenador-Geral de Promoção ao Etnodesenvolvimento/FUNAI; Dr. Azelene Inácio, indígena Kaingang, Coordenadora Regional do Interior Sul/FUNAI; Dr. Jocélio Leite Paulino, indígena Xucuru, Chefe de Coordenação Técnica Local em Delmiro Gouveia/FUNAI; Dr. Arnaldo Zunizakae, indígena Parecis, Agricultor, que dividirão o tempo); (xiii) Secretário José Mauro de Lima O' de Almeida (Secretário de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade do Estado do Pará); (xiv) Secretária Tatiana Schor (Secretária de Ciência Tecnologia do Estado do Amazonas); e (xv) Embaixador Rubens Antonio Barbosa (Presidente do Conselho Superior de Comércio Exterior da Federação das Indústrias de São Paulo); (xvi) Dr. Alessandro Molon (Partido Socialista Brasileiro – PSB). Os expositores desta seção terão até 15 minutos para manifestação. // Dia 21.09.2020 – Tarde, das 14h30 às 18h15. Seção 2: Organizações sociais e Institutos de Pesquisa: (i) Programa das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente – PNUMA (Expositora: Inger Andersen, Diretora Executiva); (ii) Greenpeace Brasil (Expositora: Dra. Fabiana Ferreira Alves, Coordenadora de Clima e Justiça, especialista em mudanças climáticas); (iii) Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil – APIB (Expositora: Dra. Sonia Guajajara, Coordenadora Executiva da APIB e indígena do Povo Guajajara); (iv) Transparência Internacional Brasil (Expositor: Dr. Renato Morgado, USP); (v) Human Rights Watch – Brasil (Expositora: Dra. Maria Laura Canineu, Diretora do Escritório do Brasil); (vi) World Wide Fund for Nature – Brasil (Expositor: Dr. Maurício Voivodic, Diretor Executivo da World Wide Fund for Nature – Brasil); (vii) The Nature Conservacy – TNC (Expositora: Karen Oliveira, Gerente de Relações Institucionais da TNC Brasil); (viii) Conectas Direitos Humanos; (ix) Instituto Democracia e Sustentabilidade; (x) Conselho Federal da OAB (Expositora: Dra. Marina Motta Benevides Gadelha, Conselheira Federal e Presidente da Comissão Nacional de Direito Ambiental do CFOAB); (xi) Iniciativa “Terceira Via Amazônica” / Projeto Amazônia 4.0 (Expositor: Dr. Carlos Afonso Nobre, Pesquisador do Instituto de Estudos Avançados da USP e do Instituto de Estudos Climáticos da UFES, Professor do INPE e da UNESP-São José dos Campos); (xii) Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia – IPAM (Expositor: Dr. Paulo Moutinho, cientista sênior e cofundador do IPAM); (xiii) Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia – IMAZON (Expositora: Dra. Brenda Brito do Carmo, Advogada, Mestre e Doutora em Ciência do Direito pela Universidade Stanford, EUA); (xiv) Instituto Socioambiental – ISA (Expositor: Dr. Mauricio Guetta, Consultor Jurídico do ISA); e (xv) Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia – IDESAM (Expositor: Dr. Mariano Cenamo Diretor de Novos Negócios do IDESAM); e (xvi) APA XINGU (Dr. Marcelo Norkey). Os expositores desta seção terão até 15 minutos para manifestação. // Dia 22.09.2020 – Manhã, das 9h às 12h30. Seção 1: Academia: (i) Dr. Armínio Fraga (Sócio-fundador da Gávea Investimentos, Presidente do Conselho de Administração da BM&F Bovespa de 1999 a 2002, ex-Presidente do Banco Central do Brasil); (ii) Dr. Ricardo Abramovay (Professor do Departamento de Economia da FEA/USP); (iii) Dr. Beto Veríssimo (Pesquisador Sênior do IMAZON); (iv) Dr. Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet (Professor Titular da PUC-RS) e Dr. Tiago Fensterseifer (Doutor pela PUC-RS e Defensor Público), que dividirão o tempo de exposição; (v) Ricardo Magnus Osorio Galvão (ex-diretor do INPE); (vi) Izabella Mônica Vieira Teixeira (ex-Ministra do Meio Ambiente, 2010-2016); (vii) Flavia Witkowski Frangetto (Gerente de Projetos do Programa das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente – PNUMA); (viii) Pedro de Camargo Neto  (Produtor rural, Master of Science pelo Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doutor em Engenharia de Produção pela Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo); (ix) Sergio Margulis (ex-Secretário de Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Presidência da República, 2013-2015); (x) David Richard Boyd (Relator Especial das Nações Unidas sobre Direitos Humanos/2018 e Professor na Universidade da British Columbia); (xi) Thelma Krug (Vice-Presidente eleita do Painel Intergovernamental sobre Mudança do Clima – IPCC); (xii) Tasso Azevedo (Coordenador do Sistema de Estimativas de Emissões de Gases de Efeito Estufa brasileiro, ex-Diretor Geral do Serviço Florestal Brasileiro, ex-Diretor do Programa Nacional de Florestas, ex-Diretor Geral do Imaflora); (xiii) Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias (Secretário Executivo da Convenção Sobre Diversidade Biológica – CDB da Organização das Nações Unidas – ONU, 2012-2017; Professor da UNB); e (xiv) Joana Setzer (Prof. da London School of Economics, onde lidera linha de Pesquisa sobre litigância climática). Os expositores desta seção terão até 15 minutos para manifestação. // Dia 22.09.2020 – Tarde, das 14h30 às 18h. Seção 2: Atividades Empresariais: (i) Natura Brasil (Expositora: Dra. Luciana Villa Nova Silva, gerente de Sustentabilidade da Natura Brasil); (ii) Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Expositor: Dr. Hugo Barreto, Diretor de Sustentabilidade e Investimento Social); (iii) Suzano Papel e Celulose (Expositor: Dr. Pablo F. G. Machado, Diretor Executivo de Relações e Gestão Legal da Suzano Papel e Celulose); (iv) Centro de Empreendedorismo da Amazônia (Dr. Centro Rafael Medeiros); (v) Banco Itaú, Bradesco e Santander (Expositor: Dr. Candido Botelho Bracher, Presidente do Itaú Unibanco Holdings S.A); (vi) Empresa Brasileira de Agropecuária - Embrapa (Dr. Celso Luiz Moretti; (vii) Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável – CEBDS (Expositora: Dra. Marina Grossi, Presidente); (viii) Associação Brasileira do Agronegócio – ABAG (Expositor: Dr. Alexandre Mendonça de Barros, engenheiro agrônomo e doutor em Economia Aplicada pela Escola Superior de Agricultura); (ix) Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil – CNA (Expositor: Dr. Rodrigo Justus de Brito); (x) Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária – FPA (Expositores: Deputado Federal Arnaldo Jardim, Partido Cidadania; Deputado Federal Zé Vitor, Partido da Mobilização Nacional; Deputado Federal Sérgio Souza, Partido MDB, que dividirão o tempo de exposição); (xi) Associação dos Mineradores do Tapajós – AMOT (Expositor: Dr. José Altino Machado, empresário do ramo da mineração na Amazônia Legal); (xii) Organização das Cooperativas Brasileiras – OCB (Expositor: Dr. Roberto Rodrigues, Coordenador do Centro de Agronegócio da FGV/EESP e Embaixador Especial da FAO para as Cooperativas); (xiii) Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Soja – APROSOJA BRASIL (Expositor: Dr. Ricardo Manoel Arioli Silva, engenheiro Agrônomo e produtor rural); e (xiv) Fórum Nacional das Atividades de Base Florestal – FNBF (Expositor: Dr. Frank Rogiere de Souza Almeida, Presidente do FNBF e médico veterinário); (xv) Dr. Rodrigo Agostinho, Coordenador da Frente Parlamentar Ambientalista e Presidente da Comissão de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável – CMADS da Câmara dos Deputados; (xvi) Associação Brasileira de Companhias de Energia Elétrica – ABCE. Os expositores desta seção terão até 15 minutos para manifestação.

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#AllisonMack joins the cast of "Red Velvet" at @TheOldGlobe in San Diego (March 25th - April 30th) #Smallville

  SAN DIEGO (March 2, 2017)—The Old Globe today announced the complete cast and creative team of Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti. In-demand director Stafford Arima (Broadway’s Allegiance, Off Broadway’s Altar Boyz, West End’s Ragtime) returns to the Globe, following Allegiance and Ace, to helm the award-winning drama, which runs March 25 – April 30, 2017 on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage of the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Opening night is Thursday, March 30 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets start at $29, on sale now, and can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE, or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park. Red Velvet is a stirring drama that transports audiences to the turbulent backstage world of London’s Theatre Royal in the early 1800s. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, can’t go on tonight as Othello, and his company is in disarray. A young American actor named Ira Aldridge arrives to step into the role—but no black man has ever played Othello on the English stage. His groundbreaking performance upends stage tradition and changes the lives of everyone involved. Lolita Chakrabarti’s multi-award-winning play uncovers the fascinating true story of a pivotal figure in theatre history. Stafford Arima returns to The Old Globe with a stunningly theatrical production of a play that the London Telegraph called “informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking.” Albert Jones leads the cast as Ira Aldridge. His extensive credits include Lincoln Center’s acclaimed Henry IV on Broadway and the Off Broadway productions of Macbeth, Pericles, and Richard III. His television and film credits include “House of Cards,” “The Night Of,” American Gangster, and Cadillac Records. Joining him are Michael Aurelio (The Merry Wives of Windsor and Richard III at Theatricum Botanicum) as Casimir and Henry Forrester; Sean Dugan (The Four of Us at the Globe, Next Fall on Broadway, “Smash,” “Oz”)as Pierre Laporte; San Diego actress Monique Gaffney (Craig Noel Award winner, Globe for All’s Much Ado About Nothing and All’s Well That Ends Well)as Connie; John Lavelle (Macbeth, The Royale, 2013 Shakespeare Festival at the Globe, The Graduate on Broadway)as Charles Kean; Allison Mack (10 seasons of WB/CW’s hit series “Smallville,” “Wilfred”)as Ellen Tree; Amelia Pedlow (Globe’s The Metromaniacs, Off Broadway’s The Liar and The Heir Apparent) as Halina Wozniak, Betty Lovell, and Margaret Aldridge; and Mark Pinter (Macbeth, Othello, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Globe, Rothschild & Sons Off Broadway) as Terence and Bernard Warde. The creative team includes Jason Sherwood (Scenic Design), David Israel Reynoso (Costume Design), Jason Lyons (Lighting Design), Jonathan Deans (Sound Design), Lynne Shankel (Original Music), Jenn Rapp (Movement, Associate Director), David Huber (Vocal Coach), Caparelliotis Casting (Casting), and Jess Slocum (Production Stage Manager). “Theatre is very good at bringing neglected pieces of history to life, and Red Velvet does that with uncommon vividness and power,” said Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. “Ira Aldridge’s story is remarkable on its own terms for the impact he had on theatrical history and the obstacles of racism and exclusion he struggled through. But in Lolita Chakrabarti’s hands, Aldridge’s life is transformed into metaphor. She takes us on a journey to a place we didn’t know existed, and then shows us ourselves in the figures dwelling there. I’m thrilled to bring this play to San Diego and excited to see the theatrical magic that the talented Stafford Arima and his colleagues will work on our stage.” Lolita Chakrabarti (Playwright) is an award-winning actress and writer. Her debut play, Red Velvet, premiered in 2012 at Tricycle Theatre in London, where it returned in 2014 before transferring to St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York. In 2016 the play opened at the prestigious Garrick Theatre on London’s West End as part of Kenneth Branagh’s season of plays. Red Velvet garnered for Ms. Chakrabarti the 2012 Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright; 2012 Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright; 2013 Asian Women of Achievement Award for Arts & Culture; 2012 WhatsOnStage Award nominations for London Newcomer of the Year and Best New Play; and a 2012 Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Red Velvet earned further rave reviews in its New York transfer. Ms. Chakrabarti also wrote Joy for Last Seen at Almeida Theatre and a five-part adaptation of The Goddess for BBC Radio 4. She runs Lesata Productions with Rosa Maggiora and Adrian Lester. They produced Of Mary, a short film directed by Mr. Lester, which won the Best Short Film Award at the 2012 Pan African Film Festival and was officially selected for the Raindance, Underwire, London Short, Montreal Black International, Independent Black Women’s, and Toronto Black Film Festival. Stafford Arima (Director) previously directed the Globe productions of Allegiance and Ace. His selected work includes Allegiance (Broadway), Ragtime (West End, eight Olivier Awards nominations including Best Director and Best Musical), A.R. Gurney’s Two Class Acts (The Flea Theater), The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Roundabout Theatre Company), Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Candide (San Francisco Symphony), Altar Boyz (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, seven Drama Desk Award nominations), Poster Boy (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Secret Garden (Lincoln Center), Total Eclipse (Toronto), Carrie (MCC Theater, five Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Revival of a Musical), bare (2012 Off Broadway revival), Abyssinia (Goodspeed Musicals), Spring Awakening (University of California, Davis), Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theater), and Marry Me a Little (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Mr. Arima was the associate director for the Broadway productions of Seussical and A Class Act. He graduated from York University, where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Creative Work. He is Artistic Advisor for the Broadway Dreams Foundation, an adjunct professor at UC Davis, and a proud member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Allison Mack (Ellen Tree) began her professional acting career at the age of four. Throughout her childhood, she worked on numerous television and feature films. Although she had been working consistently for over a decade as a child actor, it was in her late teens when she landed her defining role, playing reporter Chloe Sullivan on the WB/CW hit series “Smallville.” Eventually in 2010, due to the popularity of her portrayal of Chloe, Ms. Mack led DC Comics to officially introduce the character. She earned several awards and nominations for her performance, establishing her as one of television’s most sought-after geek goddesses. In November 2008, Ms. Mack went behind the camera and made her directorial debut with the “Smallville” episode “Power,” and she went on to direct additional television episodes as well as produce and direct feature films. Today Ms. Mack serves as President and top trainer at The Source, which she and accomplished philosopher, physicist, and educator Keith Rainiere developed. The Source is a curriculum providing a unique toolset and innovative exercises to increase one’s mastery in the art of compassion through the discipline of acting and expression. Red Velvet is supported in part through gifts from Dow Divas, HM Electronics, Inc., and The Estate of Madelon McGowan. SINGLE TICKETS to Red Velvet start at $29 and go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 24 at 12:00 noon. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE [234-5623], or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park. Discounts are available for full-time students, patrons 29 years of age and under, seniors, military members, and groups of 10 or more. Performances begin on March 25 and continue through April 30, 2017. Performance times: Previews: Saturday, March 25 at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 26 at 7:00 p.m.; Tuesday, March 28 at 7:00 p.m.; and Wednesday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. Opening night is Thursday, March 30 at 8:00 p.m. Regular Performances: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., Thursday and Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. There will be an additional matinee performance on Wednesday, April 19 at 2:00 p.m. and no matinee performance on Saturday, April 22. LOCATION and PARKING INFORMATION: The Old Globe is located in San Diego’s Balboa Park at 1363 Old Globe Way. Through a special arrangement with the San Diego Zoo, Old Globe evening ticket-holders have the opportunity to pre-purchase valet parking in the Zoo’s employee parking structure. With a drop-off point just a short walk to the Globe, theatregoers may purchase fast, easy, convenient valet parking for just $20 per vehicle per evening. Pre-paid only, available only by phone through the Old Globe Box Office. Call (619) 234-5623 or visit www.theoldglobe.org/plan-your-visit/dir ... et-parking. There are numerous free parking lots available throughout the park. Guests may also be dropped off in front of the Mingei International Museum. The Balboa Park valet is also available during performances, located in front of the Japanese Friendship Garden. For additional parking information visit www.BalboaPark.org. For directions and up-to-date information, please visit www.theoldglobe.org/plan-your-visit/dir ... directions. Promo vid:  HERE Full press release: HERE Allison Mack Interview:  HERE Red Velvet Article:  HERE

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Seb Carrington

The girl who said ‘no’ – she doesn’t exist anymore, she died last summer – suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her.

In the heat of summer – under the wings of an angel – Alma meets John. Trapped between desire and fear in a life of obligation, her world turns upside down in the search for salvation.

Joining the previously announced Patsy Ferran are Seb Carrington, Nancy Crane, Eric MacLennan, Forbes Masson, Matthew Needham, Tok Stephen and Anjana Vasan.

The production is designed by Tom Scutt, with lighting design by Lee Curran, composition by Angus MacRae, sound by Carolyn Downing and casting by Julia Horan.

Tennessee Williams, whose plays include The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, transformed the American stage through his poetic writing and provocative subject matters. Williams was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes and Tony Awards, three Drama Critic Circle Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Summer and Smoke was first performed on Broadway in 1948, and ran for the first time in the West End in 2006.

Rebecca Frecknall (Director) was previously on the Almeida Resident Director Scheme. She worked as Resident Director on Ink (also Duke of York’s Theatre) and Movement Director on Albion. Prior to the Almeida, she was Resident Director at Northern Stage from 2015-2016 after winning the acclaimed RTYDS bursary. During this time she directed Idomeneus; What Are They Like?, Educating Rita (for Durham Gala) and Julie by Zinnie Harris. Before taking up this role, Rebecca worked as a freelance Director in London and has worked with the National Theatre, RSC and Young Vic. She was the 2012 recipient of the National Theatre Studio’s Resident Director Bursary and was awarded one of the Young Vic’s Jerwood Assistant Director Bursaries in 2011.

CAST BIOGRAPHIES Seb Carrington plays Archie Kramer. His theatre work includes Ivanov for the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. His television work includes Father Brown and The Crown.

Nancy Crane plays Mrs Winemiller/Mrs Bassett. She previously appeared at the Almeida in Against and Chimerica. Other theatre credits include The Sewing Group, Now or Later, The Sweetest Thing in Baseball and The Strip at the Royal Court; Teddy Ferrara at the Donmar Warehouse; Next Fall at Southwark Playhouse; The Children’s Hour in the West End; Design For Living at The Old Vic; Love The Sinner and Angels in America at the National Theatre; Chains of Dew and Trifles at the Orange Tree Theatre. Her television work includes Genius; Doctors; Nixon’s The One; Upstairs Downstairs. For film, her work includes The Current War; Megan Leavey; Florence Foster Jenkins; The Danish Girl; Woman in Gold; and Batman: The Dark Knight.

Patsy Ferran plays Alma. Her theatre credits include Speech and Debate at Trafalgar Studios; As You Like It and Treasure Island at the National Theatre; The Merchant Of Venice at the RSC; The Angry Brigade for Paines Plough and Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre. Patsy’s television credits include Guerrilla and Jamestown (series regular). Film credits include Darkest Hour; God’s Own Country; Tulip Fever; The National Phobia; Association’s Day Out. Patsy won a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2014.

Eric MacLennan plays Papa Gonzales/Vernon. For theatre his work includes 1984 at Creation Theatre; Government Inspector and Anne Get Your Gun at Young Vic; Henry V at Southwark Playhouse and Cyrano de Bergerac at Manchester Royal Exchange. His television credits include The Night Manager and The Borgias. For film, his work includes Rogue One; Mindhorn; Anna Karenina and Tale of Tales.

Forbes Masson plays Rev Winemiller/Dr Buchanan. His recent theatre work includes Big Fish at The Other Palace; Boudica at Shakespeare’s Globe; Terror at Lyric Hammersmith; Travesties at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Apollo Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Theatre Royal Bath; Doctor Faustus at the Duke of York’s; Mr Foote’s Other Leg at Hampstead Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket and The Ruling Class, Richard III and Macbeth at Trafalgar Studios. His television work includes Catastrophe; Shetland: Dead Water and Monarch of the Glen.

Matthew Needham plays John Buchanan. He is currently appearing in The Twilight Zone at the Almeida and was previously in The Treatment in 2017. His other theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Imogen, The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus and The Knight of the Burning Pestle at Shakespeare’s Globe; Henry IV Parts I and II, Love’s Sacrifice, The Jew of Malta, Candide and Titus Andronicus for the RSC; Our Country’s Good for Out of Joint and There is a War at the National Theatre. For television, his work includes Endeavour; The Hollow Crown: Part Two; Monroe and Sherlock.

Tok Stephen plays Roger Doremus/Dusty. He recently graduated from RADA and his professional theatre work includes Boudica at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Anjana Vasan plays Rosemary/Rosa Gonzales/Nellie. Her theatre work includes King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe; Life of Galileo at the Young Vic; Image of an Unknown Young Woman at the Gate Theatre; Dara at the National Theatre and Macbeth at Manchester International Festival/Broadway. For television, her work includes Hang Ups; Ill Behaviour; Black Mirror; Call the Midwife and Fresh Meat. Her film work includes The Children Act; Cinderella and Jack Ryan.

ALMEIDA LISTINGS INFORMATION Saturday 24 February – Saturday 7 April 2018 Summer and Smoke By Tennessee Williams Directed by Rebecca Frecknall Press night: Wednesday 7 March at 7pm

Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, London, N1 1TA almeida.co.uk

http://ift.tt/2Cvm2WQ London Theatre 1

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TRH Productions will present Natalie Dormer and David Oakes in the West End premiere of David Ives’ hit Broadway play Venus in Fur this autumn for a strictly limited nine-week engagement at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. This critically-acclaimed two-hander will run from 6 October to 9 December with opening night for press on 17 October.

Tickets are on sale now from £15 www.trh.co.uk / 020 7930 8800

Enigmatic actress Vanda Jordan appears unannounced for an audition with director Thomas Novachek. She’s determined to land the leading role in his new production – despite seeming wrong for the part. Over one evening in downtown Manhattan, their charged meeting becomes a seductive dance to the end.

Directed by Patrick Marber, designed by Rob Howell with lighting by Hugh Vanstone and casting by Executive Producer Ilene Starger, Venus In Fur is an intoxicating dark comedy of desire, fantasy and the innate love of fur.

Natalie Dormer is to play Vanda Jordan. Dormer is known globally for film and television roles including Margaery Tyrell in HBO series Game of Thrones, Anne Boleyn in The Tudors for Showtime, Cressida in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, Focus Features’ The Forest, Ron Howard’s Rush, and Ridley Scott’s The Counselor.  Upcoming, Dormer stars opposite Sean Penn and Mel Gibson in The Professor and the Mad Man, and the independent thriller In Darkness, which she also co-wrote. She is currently in production on FremantleMedia’s Picnic at Hanging Rock in Australia. Venus in Fur sees Dormer reunite with Patrick Marber, who wrote After Miss Julie (Young Vic) for which she received widespread critical acclaim in the title role. Her other stage credits include Sweet Nothings (also at the Young Vic) and .45 (Hampstead Theatre).

David Oakes is to play Thomas Novachek. Oakes is best known for portraying Juan Borgia in the Emmy Award-winning Showtime Original series The Borgias, for playing William Hamleigh in Emmy Award-winning mini-series The Pillars of the Earth, for BBC’s The White Queen in the role of George, Duke of Clarence and, most recently, on screen as Prince Ernest in ITV’s Victoria, for which he is currently filming the second series. Stage credits include Kit Marlowe in Shakespeare In Love (Nöel Coward Theatre) and Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). Oakes will also appear in the film adaptation of Albert Sánchez Piñol’s thriller Cold Skin set for release later this year.

Patrick Marber is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, actor and director. His productions of his own work includes Dealer’s Choice (NT & Vaudeville), After Miss Julie (BBC TV), Closer (NT, Lyric & Music Box NY) Howard Katz (NT), Three Days in the Country (NT) Don Juan in Soho (Wyndhams). His other directing credits include Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Apollo Theatre) The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills  (National Theatre), ‘1953’ (Almeida) and The Old Neighborhood (Royal Court Theatre). Other plays include The Red Lion, The Musicians, The School Film (all for NT) and Hoop Lane (BBC Radio 3). His film credits include Closer (directed by Mike Nichols), Notes on a Scandal (directed by Richard Eyre), Old Street and Love You More. For television his co-writing credits include The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge.  More recently Ivo van Hove directed Marber’s version of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler for the National Theatre starring Ruth Wilson. His plays have won Evening Standard, Olivier, Time Out, New York and London Critics’ Circle and Writers’ Guild Awards. His TV work has received BAFTA, British Comedy and Royal Television Society Awards. His screenplays have been nominated for Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Awards. He received the British Independent Film Award for Notes on a Scandal.

David Ives was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play for Venus In Fur, which has been produced all over the country and the world, and was turned into a film by Roman Polanski. He is also well known for his evenings of one-act comedies All In The Timing and Time Flies. Other plays include New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza; The Liar (adapted from Corneille); The School For Lies (adapted from Molière); The Metromaniacs (adapted from Alexis Piron); Is He Dead? (adapted from Mark Twain); Ancient History, and Polish Joke. A Chicago native, he lives in New York City.

Rob Howell has worked extensively in costume and set design in theatre and opera within the UK and abroad including at the Royal Court, Almeida, Donmar Warehouse, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Welsh National Opera, Royal Opera House and Metropolitan Opera, New York as well as at numerous other West End and Broadway Theatres. Recent credits include The Ferryman (Royal Court) and Groundhog Day (UK and Broadway). He has received three Olivier Awards and multiple nominations for Tony and Olivier Awards for both Set and Costume Design, including the Olivier Award for Best Set Designer for Troilus and Cressida, Vassa and Richard III in 2000 and for Hedda Gabler in 2006. He received an Olivier Award in 2012 and a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony Award in 2013 and for his designs for Matilda the Musical in New York and London.

Hugh Vanstone has designed the lighting for over 200 productions and worked extensively with UK national companies and on Broadway. He has received many awards including three Oliviers, a Tony and a Molière. As associate artist at The Old Vic, he has recently lit Art, No’s Knife, Groundhog Day (UK and Broadway), The Caretaker, The Master Builder and  Future Conditional. Other work includes: Dreamgirls (Savoy), Welcome Home, Captain Fox and  Closer (Donmar); The Red Lion (National Theatre, Dorfman); Closer (Donmar and in New York); An Act Of God (New York & tour); Matilda (RSC and internationally); Strictly Ballroom (Australian tour);  Don Quixote (Royal Ballet); Tanz Der Vampire (throughout Europe & Russia); Shrek The Musical (New York, West End & UK tour); Ghost (London and internationally).

Ilene Starger is a Casting Director and Producer. West End theatre credits include The Libertine (as Casting Director/Executive Producer for TRB and TRH); Breakfast at Tiffany’s (as U.S. Casting Director for 2009 TRH production; also for 2016 UK tour.) Broadway credits include Waiting for Godot, No Man’s Land, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Casting Director & Associate Producer), Marlene, The Elephant Man, Dance of Death, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dirty Blonde, Closer (Artios Award.) Film credits include Custody (also Associate Producer), The Rewrite, Pink Panther 1 & 2, Music and Lyrics, Two Weeks’ Notice, Night at the Museum (Artios Award), School of Rock (Artios Award), Sleepy Hollow, A Simple Plan, The Parent Trap, First Wives’ Club, Marvin’s Room, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, No Way Out. TV credits include: Witness to the Mob, The Great Gatsby, Earthly Possessions. Starger is a former VP of Casting for Walt Disney and Touchstone Pictures.

An adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 novel Venus in Furs that inspired the term masochism, Venus in Fur was first performed off-Broadway, New York in 2010 with Nina Arianda and Wes Bentley, before transferring to the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway with Nina Arianda reprising the role of Vanda Jordan alongside Hugh Dancy as Thomas Novachek. Both productions were directed by Walter Bobbie and won Arianda multiple awards including the 2011/12 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. In 2012, Roman Polanski directed a film version of the play, in French, starring Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric.

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 Belated 31st  Birthday wishes to Scottish actress  Joanna Vanderham, who was born on 17th October 1990.

This was flagged today, but looking into Joanna’s biographies I found out that I am a day late!  Born Joanna Rosie-Le Van Der Ham in Perth and brought up in nearby Scone. Her father Tom, a businessman, and mother, Jill Belch, a professor of cardiovascular research at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, her parents split up when she was eleven, Joanna has two sisters and a brother,  er eldest sister and brother are also doctors.

Joanna  joined the local drama club aged nine. She attended school in Dundee where she read six Shakespeare plays .Othello was her favourite and she would always have her hand up to take a part. She did Scottish Highers in: English, Drama and History before being accepted at 17 for The Royal Welsh College in Cardiff.

In her second year she played Cathy in The Runaway, a six part serial for Sky TV, with in my opinion, a stellar cast that included, Ken Stott, Alan Cumming Keith Allen and Jack O'Connell . Recording this meant missing two terms when she was filming for three months in South Africa but the college graded her work from her film performances, giving her a first.

  Having graduated she was immediately recruited for the central role of Denise in The Paradise, an eight part series for BBC based loosely on the Emile Zola novel Au Bonheur des Dames. She then filmed The Go-Between a BBC TV movie, in which she plays the young Marian, with Vanessa Redgrave playing the older version of her character.

She also appears in the film What Maisie Knew with Alexander Skarsgård and Julianne Moore, and as Pamela in the BBC drama Dancing on the Edge, The  Mini Series banished and  One of Us , a Netflix original set in Scotland, on which Joanna commented she loved filming “the puppies on the farm helped you forget how cold Scotland is” 

Joanna is probably most famous for the role of Penelope Blake in the acclaimed Cinemax series, Warrior and in the American superhero television series Legends of Tomorrow as Atropos.

I’m quite excited about the latest project that Joanna is set to appear in,  Irvine Welsh’s upcoming TV series Crime.  I have seen the trailer and it looks like you will see lots of scenes around Edinburgh, among the co-stars are Ken Stott and  Dougray Scott, Crime is the sequel to his earlier novel, Filth and airs on Britbox from November 18th. Joanna plays police office Amanda Drummond, originally played by  Imogen Poots in the film Filth. 

Joanna Vanderham has been in many plays around the country, starring in some for the Royal Shakespeare Company and received a Commendation at the 2016 Ian Charleson Awards for her role as Queen Anne in Richard III at the Almeida Theatre.

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Ralph Fiennes at the Brijuni Islands with the cast of the Almeida Theatre production of Richard III (AUG 2016) 

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Ralph Fiennes photographed by Miles Aldridge while rehearsing for Richard III at the Almeida Theatre (MAY-JUN 2016)

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Ralph Fiennes photographed by Matt Humphrey behind the scenes of Richard III at the Almeida Theatre (2016)

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Casting is today announced for Fanny & Alexander at The Old Vic. Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece Fanny and Alexander is adapted for the stage by BAFTA award-winning writer Stephen Beresford and directed by Old Vic Associate Director Max Webster, opening on 1 March 2018 with previews from 21 February 2018. The cast includes Penelope Wilton, Thomas Arnold, Lolita Chakrabarti, Kevin Doyle, Karina Fernandez, Annie Firbank, Matt Gavan, Tim Lewis, Gary MacKay, Gloria Obianyo, Vivian Oparah, Michael Pennington, Hannah James Scott, Jonathan Slinger, Catherine Walker and Sargon Yelda.

‘There should be no shame in us taking pleasure in our little lives.’ Amongst the gilded romance and glamour of 1900s Sweden, siblings Fanny and Alexander’s world is turned upside down when their widowed mother remarries the iron-willed local bishop. As creative freedom and rigid orthodoxy clash, a war ensues between imagination and austerity in this magical study of childhood, family and love.

Penelope Wilton plays Mrs. Helena Ekdahl. Her extensive theatre credits include Taken at Midnight (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Chichester Festival Theatre) for which she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2015, Delicate Balance, Heartbreak House, The Deep Blue Sea (Almeida), The Family Reunion, The Chalk Garden – winning her the London Evening Standard Award Best Actress in 2008, John Gabriel Borkman, Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse), The House of Bernarda Alba, Tess, Piano, The Secret Rapture, Major Barbara, Much Ado About Nothing, Man and Superman, Betrayal, The Philanderer, Sisterly Feelings, Landscape (National Theatre), Hamlet, Tishoo (Wyndham’s Theatre) and Women Beware Women (RSC Swan Theatre). Television includes Brief Encounters, Downton Abbey, Miss Marple: They do it with Mirrors, South Riding, Doctor Who, The Passion, Five Days, The Whistle-Blower, Wives and Daughters, Half Broken Things, Celebration, Ever Decreasing Circles. Film work includes Guernsey, Zoo, The BFG, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Belle, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The History Boys, Pride and Prejudice and Shaun of the Dead.

Thomas Arnold plays Carl Ekdahl/Mr. Landhal. His theatre credits include Oslo, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Cyrano De Bergerac, Mourning Becomes Electra, Three Sisters and The Stoppard Trilogy (National Theatre), The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court), Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (2015 – The Old Vic), Hamlet, Orlando (Manchester Royal Exchange), A Door Must be Open or Shut (King’s Head Theatre), Outlying Islands (Bath Theatre Royal), and Poor Mrs Pepys (New Victoria Theatre). Television credits include Broken, The Missing, War and Peace, Call the Midwife, Wolf Hall, Director, Bert & Dickie, Midsomer Murders, This is England, Broadside, Demons, Miss Marple – Towards Zero, The Last Detective and Abolition. His film credits include The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, Far from the Madding Crowd, Posh, The Fifth Estate, Thor 2, Kon Tiki, One Day, Made In Dagenham, Robin Hood, Me and Orson Welles, The Duchess, The Golden Compass and Cromwell and Fairfax.

Lolita Chakrabarti plays Alma Ekdahl/Helena Vergérus. Theatre credits include Gertrude in Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company/RADA), Last Seen (Almeida), which Lolita also wrote, Free Outgoing (Royal Court/Edinburgh Festival), John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar), The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle Theatre), The Waiting Room and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre). Television credits include Delicious, Born to Kill, Beowulf, My Mad Fat Diary, Jekyll and Hyde, The Casual Vacancy and The Smoke. Writing credits include Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre 2012 and 2014, St Ann’s Warehouse New York 2014, The Garrick Theatre 2016). Red Velvet was nominated for nine awards. Lolita won the Charles Wintour Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2012, the Critics Circle Most Promising Playwright Award 2012 and the AWA Award for Arts and Culture in 2013.

Kevin Doyle plays Bishop Edvard Vergérus. Theatre includes: NSFW, Spur Of The Moment (Royal Court), One For The Road/Victoria Station (Young Vic), The White Guard, Mutabilitie (National Theatre), For King And Country (Touring Partnership),Three In The Back, Two In Head, The Mob, A Hole In The Top Of The World (Orange Tree Theatre), Comedy Of Errors (Southampton), Henry V, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Artistes and Admirers, Romeo and Juliet, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Henry IV Parts I & II, Kissing The Pope, Twelfth Night, The Plantagenets, The Plain Dealer (all For The RSC), The Crucible (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (Queen’s Theatre and tour), Therese Racquin (Chichester Minerva Theatre),Othello (Bristol Old Vic), The Admirable Crichton, Great Expectations and Cymbeline (Royal Exchange).

Television includes Happy Valley, Reg, Downton Abbey, A.D – Beyond the Bible, The Crimson Field, Snodgrass, Open Doors, The Accused, New Tricks, Room at the Top, Scott & Bailey, Law and Order, Vexed, Survivors, Five Days, Paradox, Silent Witness, The Tudors, Till We Die, George Gently, Sleep With Me, Heartbeat, Belle De Jour, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Dalziel and Pascoe, Casualty, The Royal, New Street Law, The Brief, Brief Encounters, Afterlife, Big Dippers, The Rotters Club, Blackpool, Midsomer Murders, Family Business, Murphy’s Law, Silent Witness, The Lakes, Holby City, At Home With The Braithwaites and Badger. Film includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Social Call, Good and The Libertine.

Karina Fernandez plays Lydia Ekdahl/Justina. Her theatre credits include Mare Rider (Arcola Theatre), There is a War, Edgar and Annabel (National Theatre), Bites (The Bush Theatre), Blue Hart (Royal Court), Cahoot’s Macbeth (King’s Head Theatre), Crocodile Seeking Refuge (Lyric Hammersmith), Dealing with Claire (Union Theatre), Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic), Trips (Birmingham Rep) and Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons (Soho Theatre). Television credits include Holby City, Quick Cuts, A Touch of Cloth II, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, The Blind Man of Seville, My So Called Life Sentence, Twenty Twelve, My Family, Happy Birthday Shakespeare, Married. Single Other and The Forsythe Saga. Her film credits include Sense of an Ending, Pride, Untitled 13, Now is Good, Another Year, Happy Go Lucky, Gabriel and The Return and Daphne.

Annie Firbank plays Vega/Blenda Vergérus. Her theatre credits include Richard III (Arcola/Madrid), Oresteia, Macbeth (Almeida Theatre), Who Do We Think We Are?, Roundelay (Southwark Playhouse/Visible Ensemble), The Crucible (The Old Vic), To Kill a Mockingbird, Three Sisters, An Ideal Husband, Separate Tables, Habitat (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Golden Dragon, Orpheus, The Belle Vue, Ion, Celestina (ATC), Billy Liar, A Working Woman, Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse), An Argument About Sex (Tramway/Traverse Theatre), Only the Lonely, Death of a Salesman (Birmingham Rep), Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Maps of Desire (Wonderful Beast), The Hollow Crown, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors (RSC), Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl), Hedda Gabler (ETT/Donmar Warehouse), The Invisible Woman (Gate Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet (Acter-USA), Mary Stuart (BAC), A Handful of Dust (Shared Experience), High Society (Victoria Palace), The Passion, Julius Caesar (National Theatre), Twelfth Night, Richard III, and Anthony and Cleopatra (Stratford, Ontario). Television includes New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, East Enders, Elizabeth I, Doctors, Kavanagh QC, Heartbeat, Heart of the Country, Growing Rich, Poirot, Mother Love, Hotel du Lac, Flesh and Blood, Lillie, The Nearly Man, Crown Court and Persuasion. Film credits include Anna and the King, Strapless, A Passage to India, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sunday Bloody Sunday, A Severed Head, Accident, The Servant and Carry on Nurse.

Matt Gavan plays Michael Bergman/Aron Retzinsky. His recent theatre credits include King Lear (The Old Vic). His film credits include Murder on the Orient Express and Goodbye Christopher Robin.

Tim Lewis is in the Ensemble. Theatre includes The Elephantom, War Horse (National Theatre/West End), The Man of Mode (National Theatre) The Edge (UK tour), The Hudsucker Proxy (Nuffield Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse), At The End Of Everything Else, Something Very Far Away (Unicorn Theatre) The Guinea Pig Club, (York Theatre Royal), The Railway Children (Waterloo Station Theatre), and Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep/UK tour). TV credits include Mr Selfridge, Five Daughters, and Coming Up: The King. Film includes A Night in Hatton Garden, A Congregation of Ghosts and In the Dark Half.

Gary Mackay is in the Ensemble. His theatre credits include Farm Boy (Mercury Theatre), ‘Art’ (The Old Vic), Run for Your Wife (Vienna English Theatre), Let The Right One In (NTS/West End/New York), The 39 Steps (UK tour), The Madness of George III (West End/UK tour), The Signal Man (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Little Otik (NTS/UK tour), When Five Years Pass, The Highway Crossing (Arcola Theatre), Lark Rise to Candleford (Finborough Theatre) and Julius Caesar (Barbican Theatre). His television credits include Derren Brown’s – Twisted Tales, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Lip Service, Hollyoaks, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Half Moon Investigations and Francis. His film credits include E=Motion, He Who Dares 2, The Magic Flute, The Devil’s Chair and Broken.

Gloria Obianyo plays Petra Ekdahl/Pauline/Ismael Retzinsky. Her theatre credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse), The Wild Party (St James’s Theatre), The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and The Happy Warrior (Bromley Churchill Theatre). Her television and film credits include Good Omens and High Life.

Vivian Oparah plays Maj. Her theatre credits include An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre). Her television credits include Class, and she is set to appear in The Rebel and film Teen Spirit.

Michael Pennington plays Isak Jacobi/Death. His theatre credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman he Once Loved (Donmar Warehouse), King Lear (UK tour), She Stoops to Conquer (Theatre Royal Bath), A Winter’s Tale (Garrick Theatre), Richard II (RSC), Dance of Death (Gate Theatre), Judgement Day (The Print Room), Anthony and Cleopatra, The Syndicate, The Master Builder, Collaboration and Taking Sides (Chichester Festival Theatre). Michael’s television credits include Endeavour, Father Brown, Silent Witness, Holby City, The Tudors, Lewis, Waking the Dead and The Bill. His film credits include The Iron Lady and Return of the Jedi.

Hannah James-Scott is in the Ensemble. Her theatre credits include Powerplay (Hampton Court), Translations (Sheffield Crucible/Rose Theatre) and LoveBites (Southwark Playhouse). Her film credits include Crumble and Empty.

Jonathan Slinger plays Gustav Adolf Ekdahl. His theatre credits include Trouble in Mind (Print Room), Plastic (Theatre Royal, Bath), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Urinetown (St. James Theatre/Apollo Shaftesbury), Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Henry VI parts 1, 2 & 3, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III, The Homecoming, Macbeth (RSC), The Gods Weep (RSC/Hampstead Theatre), Power, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Coast of Utopia (National Theatre). Recent television credits include Kiri, Nelson in his Own Words, Foyle’s War, To The Ends of the Earth, Vexed and Paradox. His film credits include The Taking, Harmony, A Knight’s Tale, Forgive and Forget and The Last September.

Catherine Walker plays Emilie Ekdahl. Her theatre credits include Hedda Gabler (Abbey Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Uncle Vanya (Gate Theatre), Play (Barbican/Gate Theatre), The House (Abbey Theatre), Terminus (Abbey Theatre/Young Vic), Blackwater Angel (Finborough Theatre), What Happened Bridgie Cleary (Peacock Theatre), John Bull’s Other Island (Tricycle Theatre), Wild Orchids (Chichester Festival Theatre), Stairs to the Roof (Minerva Theatre), Richard II, Henry V, A Month in the Country, Troilus & Cressida (RSC) and Sive (Palace Theatre). Her television credits include Versailles II/III, Acceptable Risk, Rebellion, Critical, Strike Back, The Clinic, Life of Crime, The Silence, Lewis, Bittersweet, Northanger Abbey, Waking the Dead, Animals, Holby City, Passengers On Board and Sweeney Todd. Her film credits include Delinquent Season, Cellar Door, We Ourselves, Dark Song, Patrick’s Day, Debris, Dark Touch, Easier Ways to Make A Living, Leap Year, Cromwell, Losing Her, Perfect Day: The Funeral, Conspiracy of Silence and The Favourite.

Sargon Yelda plays Oscar Ekdahl. His theatre credits include King Lear (The Old Vic), Forget Me Not (Bush Theatre), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Dara, Emperor and Galilean, Mother Courage and her Children, Stovepipe (National Theatre), The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court), Incognito (Bush Theatre), Moby Dick, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Arcola Theatre), Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (RSC) and When the Rain Stops Falling (Almeida Theatre). His television credits include The Strike Series: The Silkwork and Cuckoo’s Calling, Innocent, Zen, Compulsion, Midnight Man and Saddam’s Tribe. His film credits include Spectre, Dead Cat and Close.

The role of Fanny will be played by Zaris Angel Hator, Amy Jayne Leigh, Molly Shenker and Katie Simons, and the role of Alexander will be played by Guillermo Bedward, Kit Connor, Jack Falk and Misha Handley, who will alternate performances.

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Full casting and U.S. dates for Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night are announced today. Jessica Regan will return to the role of Cathleen, having played her in the 2016 Bristol Old Vic production. Matthew Beard and Rory Keenan will join the company as Edmund Tyrone and James Tyrone Jr alongside the previously announced Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville, who will play James and Mary Tyrone in Richard Eyre’s acclaimed Bristol Old Vic production.

Considered one of the most powerful American plays of the 20th century, the production will play a strictly limited 10 week West End season at Wyndham’s Theatre from 27 January to 7 April before transferring to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Harvey Theater (8-27 May) and the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts in Los Angeles (8 June – 1 July).

The Tyrones’ summer home, August 1912. Haunted by the past but unable to face the truth of the present, the Tyrones and their two sons test the bonds of a family caught in the cycle of love and resentment. As day turns to night and the family indulge in their vices, the truth unravels leaving behind a quartet of ruined lives.

Matthew Beard will play Edmund Tyrone. With credits across stage and screen, Matthew is best known for his work in film, including the roles of Guy Bellingfield in The Riot Club, Peter Hilton in The Imitation Game, Howard Raymond in The Look of Love and a young Blake Morrison in And When Did You Last See Your Father? Other screen credits include One Day, Chatroom, Acid Burn, An Education, Panic Buddy and Singularity. Matthew made his stage debut as Edward in Skylight (Wyndham’s Theatre) starring Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award when the production transferred to Broadway.

Jeremy Irons plays James Tyrone. A Bristol Old Vic Theatre School graduate, he began his professional career on the Bristol Old Vic stage in 1969. After years of success in the West End, Irons made his Broadway debut in 1984 opposite Glenn Close in The Real Thing, which won him a Tony Award. An internationally renowned actor, he is well known not only for films such as The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Mission, Being Julia, Lolita and Reversal of Fortune for which he won an Oscar, but also for the variety of his work – everything from The Lion King to The Borgias. He is one of only a handful of actors to have won an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy for his body of work.

Rory Keenan will play James Tyrone Jr. Keenan has a rich list of television credits, best known for the role of Bilibin in the latest BBC adaption of War and Peace, Simon in Stan Lee’s Lucky Man and Donal in Peaky Blinders. Other screen credits include Primeval, Birdsong, The Clinic, Aristocrats, Dear Dilemma, a leading role in two series of On Home Ground, Intermission, Ella Enchanted, Reign Of Fire, Close, Gun and Benedict Arnold. As well as his extensive credits in film and television, Rory has starred in a variety of stage shows including Welcome Home Captain Fox directed by Blanche McIntyre (Donmar Warehouse), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me directed by Michael Attenborough and Liola directed by Richard Eyre (National Theatre).

Lesley Manville plays Mary Tyrone. An award-winning actress, she is a frequent collaborator with director Mike Leigh, winning the London Film Critics’ Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for her work in both his 2002 film All or Nothing and his 2010 film Another Year, for which she also won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress. Manville’s extensive stage career includes roles in Top Girls (Royal Court 1990), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (RSC 1986), His Dark Materials (National Theatre 2005), Pillars of the Community (National Theatre 2005) and Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic 2010). In 2012, she was nominated for an Olivier Award for her role in Leigh’s play Grief (National Theatre 2011), before going on to win the 2014 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role in the revival of Ghosts (Almeida 2013) directed by Richard Eyre.

Jessica Regan will reprise the role as Cathleen from the 2016 Bristol Old Vic production. Until recently, Jessica played regular Niamh Donoghue in Doctors for the BBC, for which she has won Best Newcomer at the British Soap Awards. Other theatre credits include Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Liola for the National Theatre (directed by Richard Eyre), Stars In The Morning Sky for Belgrade Coventry; The Kitchen, The Cherry Orchard and Blood And Gifts, all at the National Theatre, and The Flags at the Royal Court Liverpool.

Director Richard Eyre is widely considered to be the UK’s greatest living director. Eyre was director of the National Theatre between 1987 and 1997. His most noted theatre productions include Hamlet (twice), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989; Richard III with Ian McKellen; King Lear with Ian Holm; Henrik Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins; and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hampton and Nicholas Wright. He also directed the musical Mary Poppins in London and on Broadway. He has been the recipient of numerous directing awards including five Olivier Awards, including an Olivier Lifetime Achievement Award, and awards from The Directors’ Guild of Great Britain, the South Bank Show, the Evening Standard and the Critics’ Circle. In November 2013, he once again won the Evening Standard Award for Best Director for Ibsen’s Ghosts starring Lesley Manville at the Almeida Theatre. This production transferred to the West End and to Broadway.

Richard Eyre is joined by set and costume designer Rob Howell who has designed sets and costumes for numerous plays and musicals in the UK, in London and on Broadway over a 20-year period. Howell has won three Olivier Awards for Best Set Design. The most recent of these was for his work on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda the Musical, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.

International Lighting Designer Peter Mumford has been working in theatre for over 40 years. He is a two-time Olivier Award winner, with work in the West End including Top Hat, Much Ado About Nothing, An Ideal Husband, The Lion in Winter and Absent Friends. He has recently worked with Chichester, Sheffield Crucible, Royal Court, Almeida and the Peter Hall Company.

Sound Designer John Leonard ran the sound department at Bristol Old Vic from 1970 to 1976. He went on to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and in 1984 he was made the company’s first head of sound and an associate artist of the company. He works regularly for the Almeida Theatre in London, for whom he is Sound Associate, as well as the National Theatre and in the West End.

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Anna Shaffer and Pauline McLynn (l-r) for Daisy Pulls It Off at Park Theatre. Photo by Jack Sain

DAISY PULLS IT OFF: Olivier Award-winning comedy revived with age-blind, diverse cast for modern London. Directed by Paulette Randall MBE.

A ripping revival of Denise Deegan’s Olivier Award-winning, festive heart-warmer Daisy Pulls It Off is set to wrap up Park Theatre’s 2017 season. This affectionate parody of 1920s boarding schoolgirl novels, directed by Paulette Randall MBE, will feature a truly diverse ensemble cast.

Starring Anna Shaffer (Harry Potter film series, Hollyoaks), Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless), Shobna Gulati (Dinnerladies, Coronation Street) and Clare Perkins (EastEnders, Family Affairs), the official press night will be on Friday 8 December, 7pm.

Paulette Randall says: “We knew straightaway that we were never going to cast an actual bunch of 12-year-old schoolgirls to portray the play’s army of smart, brave and hilarious characters. So why even try with a bunch of sort-of lookalikes? Instead, we’ve thrown the rulebook out the window, casting a brilliant bunch of talented and diverse actors who, gloriously, tick none of the boxes. Not being bound by age and race has been such a freeing experience, and the results are hugely exciting. Our only criteria were: Are they smart? Are they brave? And – most importantly – are they hilarious? It’s all about creating a modern Daisy for a modern London crowd.”

Daisy Meredith, the energetic new girl from an underprivileged background, is the first scholarship student to attend Grangewood School for Girls. Faced with prejudice and pranks from the wealthier schoolgirls, Daisy also discovers her new school is faced with financial closure. Having won over a zany group of chums, Daisy concocts a wizard plan to save the school with the discovery of a secret treasure.

Daisy Pulls It Off won the 1983 Olivier Award for Best Comedy and ran for 3 years, launching the careers of actresses like Samantha Bond and Gabrielle Glaister.

  Anna Shaffer recently filmed Fearless (produced by Mammoth for ITV), and Lovesick for Netflix. Other recent credits include the role of Poppy in I Live With Models (produced by Rough Cut for Comedy Central) and the role of Rachel in the BBC’s Doctor Who spin-off Class. Anna had a regular role in Hollyoaks and played Romilda Vane in the Harry Potter film series.

Pauline McLynn’s television credits include: EastEnders (BBC), Father Figure (BBC), Threesome (Comedy Central), Shameless (Channel 4), The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (BBC) Pramface (BBC), Jam and Jerusalem (BBC), Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel 4), High Hopes (BBC), French and Saunders (BBC), TV To Go (BBC) and The Dark Ages (ITV). She is well known for her award-winning role as Mrs Doyle in Father Ted (Hatrick/ Channel 4). Her theatre credits include Happy Days (Sheffield Crucible), The Taming of the Shrew (Smock Alley Theatre), Playboy of the Western World (Donmar Warehouse), Cymbeline and The Knight of the Burning Pestle (The Globe Theatre) and East is East (Ambassadors Theatre).

Shobna Gulati became a household name for her role as Anita in Victoria Wood’s Dinnerladies and as Sunita in Coronation Street. Her other TV credits include: Paranoid (ITV1/RED PRODUCTIONS), Casualty (BBC1), Kay Mellor’s In the Club (BBC1) and The Circle (Channel 4). Her theatre credits include: Anita & Me (The Touring Consortium), Grease (Leicester Curve Theatre), Mamma Mia (International Tour 2015- 2016), Hunger for Trade and Come Closer (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Jungle Book, (West Yorkshire Playhouse), and The Vagina Monologues (Mark Goucher Ltd).

Clare Perkins’ theatre credits include: Primetime (Royal Court), The Convert (The Gate), Little Revolution (Almeida Theatre), Generations of the Dead (Young Vic), The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle Theatre), Mules (Royal Court), Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime (National Theatre Tour), Removal Men (The Yard), Caucasian Chalk Circle (Shared Experience). Her screen credits include Death In Paradise (BBC), EastEnders (BBC), Men Behaving Badly (BBC), Family Affairs (Channel 5).

Lucy Eaton trained at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse), The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Khadija is 18 (Finborough Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse), Almost, Maine (Park Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Win/Lose/Draw (Waterloo East Theatre), This Year It Will Be Different (Theatre 503), Cyrano De Bergerac (White Bear), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Edinburgh Fringe). Film credits include: Sedu (Ansu Kabia Productions) and Exposure. Her TV credits include: Murder Maps (Netflix).

Melanie Fullbrook trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her theatre credits include: Playing For Time (Sheffield Crucible), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse), Almost, Maine (Park Theatre), See What I See (Eyestring Theatre), The Voice Of The Turtle (London tour), BASH! (Rag Factory) and Win/Lose/Draw (Waterloo East Theatre). Radio credits include: Peer Gynt (BBC Radio). Her directing credits include: Joy (director at Theatre Royal Stratford East), In Night’s Darkling Glory (Director), Experience (assistant director at Hampstead Theatre), Diminished (assistant director at Hampstead Theatre), Looking at Lucien (associate director at Theatre Royal Bath)

Freddie Hutchins trained at Bristol Old Vic. His theatre credits include: Coram Boy (Bristol Old Vic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse), The Provoked Wife (London tour), While the Sun Shines (Lion and Unicorn), Richard III (Tower of London), Brewing Tea (White Bear) and Tartuffe (Courtyard Theatre). Film credits include Viking: The Berserkers (Lindisfarne Films). Freddie is a regular participant of the Read Not Dead initiative at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Libby Watson trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Wimbledon School of Art. Her design credits include: The Philanthropist (Trafalgar Studios), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Wolsey Theatre), Godiva Rocks (Belgrade Theatre), Sweet Charity (Wolsey Theatre), Rudy’s Rare Records (Birmingham Rep and Hackney Empire), Frankie and Johnny (Chichester Festival Theatre), History Boys (UK tour), What’s in the Cat and Blest Be the Tie (Royal Court). Libby also designed The Mountaintop at Trafalgar Studios, which was the winner of the 2011 Olivier Award for Best Play.

Paulette Randall is a freelance theatre director and producer. Her most recent theatre credits include; Five Guys Named Moe (Underbelly and Cameron Mackintosh), The Disappearance of Dorothy Lawrence (Vital Exposure), Obama-ology (RADA), Play Mas (Orange Tree Theatre), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune (Chichester Festival Theatre), and Rudy’s Rare Records – starring Lenny Henry (Birmingham Rep and Hackney Empire). Her TV credits include River City, Holby City, The Real McCoy (BBC Two), Desmond’s, Porkpie, C4, The Crouches, Comin Atcha, CITV and Kerching! (CBBC). Paulette was also the Associate Director of the London Olympics Opening Ceremony in 2012.

CAST & CREATIVES Anna Shaffer as Daisy Pauline McLynn as Trixie Shobna Gulati as Sybil / Mummy Clare Perkins as Monica / Belinda Melanie Fullbrook as Clare / Winnie / Miss Granville Lucy Eaton as Alice / Miss Gibson Freddie Hutchins as Mr Thompson / Mr Scoblowski / Mademoiselle

Directed by Paulette Randall Written by Denise Deegan Designed by Libby Watson

LISTINGS DAISY PULLS IT OFF Venue: PARK200, Park Theatre, Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, N4 3JP Dates: 5 December 2017 – 13 January 2018 Press night: Friday 8 December, 7pm Age guidance: 8+ http://ift.tt/1NQfsF7

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It’s England really, isn’t it? A climate without cloud and rain isn’t honest. In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Albion is a new play by Mike Bartlett, directed by Rupert Goold, their first collaboration following their international award-winning production King Charles III.

The cast is announced for ALBION, a new play by Mike Bartlett, directed by Rupert Goold. Joining the previously announced Victoria Hamilton are Nigel Betts, Edyta Budnik, Christopher Fairbank, Charlotte Hope, Margot Leicester, Vinette Robinson, Nicholas Rowe, Helen Schlesinger and Luke Thallon. Albion is designed by Miriam Buether, with lighting design by Neil Austin, sound design by Greg Clarke and casting by Amy Ball.

Victoria Hamilton plays Audrey Walters. She has previously appeared in The Doctor’s Dilemma at the Almeida. Recent television appearances include The Queen Mother in The Crown and Anna in Doctor Foster. Other theatre credits include Love, Love, Love at the Royal Court; Twelfth Night for the Donmar Warehouse at Wyndham’s Theatre; Once in a Lifetime, Summerfolk and Money at the National Theatre; Suddenly Last Summer at the Donmar Warehouse and UK Tour; Sweet Panic in the West End; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Roundabout Theatre, New York and in the West End; Home & Beauty in the West End; The Country Wife and As You Like It at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; King Lear, The Provoked Wife and The Seagull at The Old Vic; Troilus And Cressida and As You Like It at the RSC; The Master Builder in the West End; Retreat and Memorandum at the Orange Tree Theatre. Other television includes Our Ex-Wife; The Circuit; Call the Midwife Christmas Special; The Game; What Remains; Toast; Larkrise to Candleford; Time of Your Life; Trial and Retribution; Wide Sargasso Sea; The Shell Seekers; A Very Social Secretary; Jericho; Spine Chillers; To the Ends of the Earth; The Brontes; Goodbye Mr Chips; Baby Father – I & II; Victoria & Albert; The Savages; King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice. Films include French; Scoop; Before You Go and Mansfield Park.

Mike Bartlett’s plays for the Almeida include Game and the multi-award winning King Charles III (Olivier Award – Best New Play) which premiered at the Almeida before West End and Broadway transfers, and a UK and international tour. Mike’s television adaptation of the play was broadcast on BBC earlier this year. Other plays include Wild at the Hampstead Theatre; An Intervention for Paines Plough and Watford Palace Theatre; Bull for Sheffield Theatres, Off Broadway and the Young Vic (Olivier Award – Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre); Medea for Headlong, at the Glasgow Citizens, Watford Palace and Warwick Arts Centre; Chariots of Fire at the Hampstead Theatre and at the Gielgud Theatre, West End; 13 at the National Theatre; Decade (co-writer) for Headlong; Earthquakes in London for Headlong and the National Theatre; Love, Love, Love for Paines Plough, the Plymouth Theatre Royal, the Royal Court, and the Roundabout Theatre Company, New York (Theatre Award UK – Best New Play); Cock (Olivier Award – Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre), Contractions, and My Child for the Royal Court; and Artefacts for the Bush Theatre and Nabokov. Plays for the radio include: King Charles III, Cock, Heart, The Core, Family Man, and Love Contract for BBC Radio 4; and The Steps and Not Talking for BBC Radio 3. As Director: Medea (Headlong/Glasgow Citizens/Watford/Warwick) and Honest for the Theatre Royal Northampton. Television includes King Charles III; Doctor Foster; and The Town.

Rupert Goold is the Almeida’s Artistic Director where he has previously directed Ink, Richard III (which was broadcast live to cinemas around the world in July 2016), Medea, The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III and American Psycho, which opened on Broadway in April 2016. He was Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005 until 2013 where his work included The Effect, ENRON, Earthquakes in London and Decade. Other theatre credits include Made in Dagenham in the West End; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida; Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway; and No Man’s Land at The Gate, Dublin and in the West End. He has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director. He was Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2009 to 2012 and was Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005. On film he directed the BAFTA nominated Richard II, part of The Hollow Crown, and Macbeth for the BBC, feature True Story starring James Franco and Jonah Hill, and a television adaptation of his production of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III for BBC Two. Rupert was awarded a CBE for services to drama in the 2017 New Year’s Honours.

ALMEIDA LISTINGS INFORMATION Tuesday 10 October – Friday 24 November ALBION By Mike Bartlett Directed by Rupert Goold Press night: Tuesday 17 October at 7pm Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, London, N1 1TA https://almeida.co.uk/

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Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre announce full casting for the West End transfer of Ink, a new play by James Graham, directed by Almeida Theatre Artistic Director Rupert Goold. Featuring Bertie Carvel as Rupert Murdoch and Richard Coyle as Larry Lamb.

Cast includes: Oliver Birch, Rachel Caffrey, Bertie Carvel, Pearl Chanda, Jonathan Coy, Richard Coyle, Geoffrey Freshwater, Jack Holden, Justin Salinger, Sophie Stanton, Tim Steed, Tony Turner and Rene Zagger. With Natalie Law, Andrew McDonald, Jonny McPherson, Owen Oldroyd and Joel Samuels.

Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre today announce full casting for the West End transfer of Ink, written by James Graham (This House), which will play a limited season at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 9 September, following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre.

Directed by Rupert Goold (King Charles III), the returning cast includes Oliver Birch, Rachel Caffrey, Bertie Carvel, Pearl Chanda, Richard Coyle, Geoffrey Freshwater, Jack Holden, Justin Salinger, Sophie Stanton, Tim Steed, Tony Turner and Rene Zagger, with Jonathan Coy joining the company to play the role of Hugh Cudlipp. They will be joined on stage by Natalie Law, Andrew McDonald, Jonny McPherson, Owen Oldroyd and Joel Samuels who form the ensemble. Ink is designed by Bunny Christie, with lighting by Neil Austin.

Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. A young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asks the impossible and launches The Sun’s first editor’s quest: to give the people what they want. No matter the cost.

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Ink is James Graham’s Almeida Theatre debut. His work for theatre, television and film includes This House, which had two sell-out runs at the National Theatre, and a run at the Garrick Theatre in the West End, was broadcast to cinemas internationally by NT Live and will tour the UK early 2018; Finding Neverland (book) on Broadway; Privacy and The Vote (broadcast live on television on election night 2015) at the Donmar Warehouse; Coalition for Channel 4; Monster Raving Loony for Theatre Royal Plymouth and Soho Theatre, and The Whisky Taster at the Bush Theatre. He remains the writer in residence at the Finborough Theatre. His first feature film X+Y for BBC Films was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival before an international cinema release in Spring 2015. James has been commissioned to write a TV drama set around the events of the 2016 Referendum and a film adaptation of 1984.

Rupert Goold is the Almeida Theatre’s Artistic Director, he will direct the forthcoming production of Albion by Mike Bartlett this Autumn. His previous productions for the Almeida Theatre include Richard III, which was broadcast live to cinemas around the world in July 2016, Medea, The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III and American Psycho, which opened on Broadway in April 2016. He was Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005 until 2013 where his work included The Effect, ENRON, Earthquakes in London and Decade. Other theatre credits include Made in Dagenham in the West End; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida; Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway; and No Man’s Land at The Gate, Dublin and in the West End. He has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director. He was Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2009 to 2012 and was Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005. On film he directed the BAFTA nominated Richard II, part of The Hollow Crown, and Macbeth for the BBC, feature True Story, starring James Franco and Jonah Hill, and an adaptation of his production of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III for BBC Two. Rupert was awarded a CBE for services to drama in the 2017 New Year’s Honours.

Creatives Writer James Graham Director Rupert Goold Design Bunny Christie Lighting Neil Austin Sound & Composition Adam Cork Video Jon Driscoll Choreography & Movement Direction Lynne Page Casting Anne McNulty CDG.

Ink A New Play by James Graham Duke of York’s Theatre St Martin’s Lane London WC2N 4BG Box office number: 0844 871 7623 Website: www.inktheplay.com Saturday 9 September 2017 – Saturday 6 January 2018

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