The HomecomingBy Harold Pinter

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Max Kenneth CranhamLenny Nigel LindsaySam Anthony O’DonnellJoey Danny Dyer

Teddy Neil DudgeonRuth Jenny Jules

Director Michael AttenboroughDesign Jonathan FensomLighting Neil AustinSound John LeonardCasting Julia Horan

Fight Arranger Terry KingAssistant Director Nadia Latif

Production Manager Paul HenneseyCompany Manager Rupert Carlile

Stage Manager Suzanne BourkeDeputy Stage Manager Lucy Taylor

Assistant Stage Manager Ali HunterCostume Supervisor Sarah BowernWardrobe Supervisor Catrina Richardson

Wardrobe Deputy Eleanor DolanChief Technician Jason Wescombe

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A house in North London. Summer.There will be one interval.

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Betrayal – 1991

Party Time – premiere 1991

No Man’s Land – 1993

Moonlight – premiere 1993

Celebration(premiere)/The Room – 2000

The Homecoming – 2008

Pinter at the Almeida

“Meaning begins in thewords, in the action,continues in your head andends nowhere. There is noend to meaning. Meaningwhich is resolved,parcelled, labelled andready for export is dead,impertinent – andmeaningless”.Harold Pinter in a letter to Peter Wood,30 March 1958

Steven Pacey, Henry Woolf and Lindsay Duncan in The Roomat the Almeida, 2000

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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find itbut the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly

what drives the endeavour. The search is your task. Moreoften than not you stumble upon the truth in the dark,colliding with it or just glimpsing an image or a shape whichseems to correspond to the truth, often without realisingthat you have done so. But the real truth is that there never isany such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art.There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoilfrom each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, teaseeach other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel youhave the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slipsthrough your fingers and is lost.

I have often been asked howmy plays come about. I cannotsay. Nor can I ever sum upmy plays, except to say that this iswhat happened. That is what they said. That is what they did.Most of the plays are engendered by a line, a word or animage. The given word is often shortly followed by theimage. I shall give [an] example of [a] line which came rightout of the blue into my head, followed by an image, followedby me… The first line of The Homecoming is ‘What have youdone with the scissors?’… I had no further information.

Left: Dorothy Tutin and Roger Lloyd Pack in MountainLanguage at the Almeida, 1991Below: Danny Dyer, Lia Williams and Steven Pacey inCelebration at the Almeida, 2000

Someone was obviously looking for a pair of scissors andwas demanding their whereabouts of someone else hesuspected had probably stolen them. But I somehow knewthat the person addressed didn’t give a damn about thescissors or about the questioner either, for that matter… Ifoundmyself compelled to pursue the matter. Thishappened visually, a very slow fade, through shadow intolight. I always start a play by calling the characters A, B and C.In the play that became The Homecoming I saw aman enter astark room and ask his question of a younger man sitting onan ugly sofa reading a racing paper. I somehow suspectedthat A was a father and that B was his son, but I had noproof. This was however confirmed a short time later when B(later to become Lenny) says to A (later to becomeMax),‘Dad, do youmind if I change the subject? I want to ask yousomething. The dinner we had before, what was the name ofit? What do you call it? Why don’t you buy a dog? You’re adog cook. Honest. You think you’re cooking for a lot of dogs.’So since B calls A ‘Dad’ it seemed to me reasonable toassume that they were father and son. A was also clearly thecook and his cooking did not seem to be held in high regard.Did this mean that there was nomother? I didn’t know. But,

Bill Nighy and Cheryl Campbell in Betrayal at the Almeida, 1991

Cordelia Roche, Peter Howitt, Barry Foster and Dorothy Tutin inParty Time at the Almeida, 1991

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as I told myself at the time, our beginnings never know ourends… It’s a strange moment, the moment of creatingcharacters who up to that moment have had no existence.What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, althoughsometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author’sposition is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by thecharacters. The characters resist him, they are not easy tolive with, they are impossible to define. You certainly can’tdictate to them. To a certain extent you play a never-endinggame with them, cat andmouse, blind man’s buff, hide andseek. But finally you find that you have people of flesh andblood on your hands, people with will and an individualsensibility of their own, made out of component parts youare unable to change, manipulate or distort. So language inart remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, atrampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you,the author, at any time. But as I have said, the search for thetruth can never stop. It cannot be adjourned, it cannot bepostponed. It has to be faced, right there, on the spot.”

Extract from Harold Pinter’s acceptance speech for hisNobel Prize for Literature, December 2005.

Letter from Noël Cowardto Harold Pinter aboutThe Homecoming

Les Avants sur MontreuxAugust 21st 1965

Dear Harold,

I have just read The Homecoming twicethrough. I had thought that perhaps theimpeccable acting and direction might havecloudedmy judgement of the play itself. But Iwas dead wrong. It reads as well if not betterthan it plays. Your writing absolutely fascinatesme. It is entirely unlike anyone else’s. Youcheerfully break every rule of the theatre that Iwas brought up to believe in, except thecardinal one of never boring for a split-second.I love your choice of words, your resoluterefusal to explain anything and the arrogant,but triumphant demands youmake on theaudience’s imagination. I can well see whysome of the clots hate it, but I belong to theopposite camp – if you will forgive theexpression.

Why don’t you fly out here for a night or two inSeptember? I long to talk to you. I’m going tothe South of France this minute until nextWednesday…Please call me. I have just writtenthree new plays. One long and two short, sosucks to you! I am going to grace the Londonstage in all three of them next March!

My love to Vivien and to you.

Noël

This letter is reproduced with the kind permission of the Estate of NoelCoward. It is currently on display at the National Theatre in anexhibition celebrating the life and work of Noel Coward. STARQUALITY: ASPECTS OFNOEL COWARD continues in the OlivierExhibition Area until 29 March 2008

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Nigel LindsayLennyTheatre includes:For The Almeida: Moe Axelrod inAwake and Sing! (nomination for BestSupporting Actor in the 2007WOSTheatregoers’ Choice Awards);Romance;WilliamMorris in EarthlyParadise; The Tower.Other theatre: Ariel in The Pillowman;The London Cuckolds; BlueRemembered Hills (National Theatre);Mugsy inDealer’s Choice (NationalTheatre and Vaudeville Theatre);Nathan Detroit inGuys and Dolls(Piccadilly Theatre); The WomanBefore; Push Up; King Lear (RoyalCourt); Max in The Real Thing(Donmar Warehouse/Albery Theatre/Ethel Barrymore Theater onBroadway);Morphic Resonance(Donmar Warehouse); The Tempest(Old Vic); Bedroom Farce (Aldwych);

World Music;Hamlet (SheffieldCrucible); Katerina (LyricHammersmith); Relative Values(Salisbury Playhouse); Anna Karenina(Shared Experience).

Television includes:Jeremy Lion; Relief of Belsen; Jam andJerusalem; Rome;OK Corral; All AboutGeorge;New Tricks; Tunnel of Love;Frances Tuesday;Murphy’s Law;MyFamily; I’m Alan Partridge;MidsomerMurders; Armando Iannucci Show; TooMuch Sun;Déjà vu; A Dance To TheMusic of Time;Harbour Lights; Bye ByeBaby; Brass Eye;Dressing for Breakfast;The Bill; A Few Short Journeys of theHeart; Casualty; Between The Lines.

Film includes:Scoop;On A Clear Day; Blackball;MikeBassett: England Manager; RogueTrader.

Radio includes:A Pin to See The Peepshow; LuckyNumbers; The Face of The Enemy;House of Milton Jones; Frederick andAugusta;Morphic Resonance; PeopleLike Us; Crossing The Equator.

Kenneth CranhamMaxTheatre includes:Gaslight (Old Vic); Endgame (GateTheatre); The UN Inspector; Flight;Cardiff East; An Inspector Calls;Strawberry Fields; Love Letters on Blue

Paper; Country Wife; Old Movies; Passion;The Caretaker; Kick for Touch (NationalTheatre); From Kipling to Vietnam(National Theatre and oneman show atEdinburgh); The Novice (AlmeidaTheatre); Paul Bunyan (Royal Opera);School for Scandal; Ice Man Cometh;Ivanov (RSC);An Inspector Calls(Aldwych/Broadway);A MidsummerNight’s Dream (Manchester RoyalExchange); Loot (Criterion Theatre/Broadway); Entertaining Mr Sloane(Duke of Yorks); The Entertainer(Greenwich Theatre); Tibetan Inroads;The London Cuckolds; Tooth of Crime;Geography of a Horse Dreamer;Magnificence; Play; Early Morning;Narrow Road; Saved; Ruffian on the Stair;Owners; Cheek (Royal Court); TheDoctors Dilemma (Mermaid Theatre).

Television includes:W.H.Auden in A Journey ThroughAuden; The Sinking of the Lusitania;Lilies; Afterlife;Harold Wilson in

Lavender List; A Line of Beauty; Pompeyin Rome; LeopoldMozart in TheGenius of Mozart; Night Flight;GeorgeCarman in Justice in Wonderland; SilasWegg inOur Mutual Friend; OrangesAre Not the Only Fruit; Master of theMarionettes; The Contractor; The Blackand Blue Lamp; The Party; A Sort ofInnocence; The Birthday Party; TheDumb Waiter; Lady Windermere’s Fan;Reilly; Harvest Moon; Therese Raquin;The Bell; Danger UXB; ‘Tis Pity She’s aWhore; The Caretaker; The Chauffeurand the Lady.

Film includes:A Man Sat Next To Me; The Curry Club;Layer Cake; Two Men Went to War; BornRomantic; Shiner; Gangster No1; UnderSuspicion; Hellraiser II; Oliver; BrotherSun Sister Moon; Joseph Andrews.

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CAST

Danny DyerJoeyTheatre includes:No Man’s Land; Pinter’s Sketches(National Theatre); Celebration(Almeida Theatre, New York); CertainYoung Men (Almeida Theatre); Caricies(Royal Court);Not Gods But Giants(White Bear).

Television includes:Kiss of Death; International FootballFactory Documentary; Skins; All In TheGame; Rose & Maloney; FamilyBusiness; Second Generation; Serious &Organised; Foyles War; Is Harry On TheBoat; Soldier Soldier; Bramwell;Throwaways; Prime Suspect 3; BrotherCadfael; The Bill; The Ward.

Film includes:Outlaw; Straightheads; Severance; TheAll Together; The Business; The OtherHalf; Football Factory; Mean Machine;Tabloid TV; High Heels Lowlifes; BorstalBoys; Goodbye Charlie Bright;Greenfingers; The Trench; HumanTraffic; Prince of Denmark Hill; CityRats; Adulthood; Vanilla Envelopes; 7Lives; The Great Ecstacy of RobertCarmichael.

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Anthony O’DonnellSamTheatre includes:Midsummer Night’s Dream (ZurichBallet); King Of Hearts (JointStock/Hampstead Theatre);HenryVIII (Schtanhaus/Stratford); PresidentOf An Empty Room; Cyrano deBergerac; The Shaugraun; BartholemewFair; Ghetto; The Miser; Artuo Ui; UnderMilk Wood; The Way Of The World; TheLondon Cuckolds (National Theatre); AMidsummer Night’s Dream; Witch ofEdmunton; The Winter’s Tale; Our

Friends in The North; Peter Pan; Money;Measure For Measure; A New Way ToPay Old Debts; The Comedy of Errors;Life’s A Dream; Red Star; The DeadMonkey; The Beggars Opera; As YouLike It; All’s Well That EndsWell (RSC);The Weir (Duke Of Yorks);Don Juan(Sheffield Theatres); King Lear; Galileo;Dance Of Death; Ivanov (AlmeidaTheatre);Glengarry Glenross; TwelfthNight (Donmar Warehouse);UncleVanya (Donmar Warehouse/BrooklynAcademy OfMusic); Longitude(Greenwich Theatre).

Television includes:Nuts In May; Knock For Knock; 20,000Streets Under The Sky; The Merchant OfVenice; Tess Of The D’Urbevilles; MollFlanders; Much Ado About Nothing;Charles II; Sweeney Todd; Gavin AndStacey.

Film includes:Vera Drake; Match Point; AgathaChristie – A Life In Pictures; SantaClaus; Robin Hood; Secrets And Lies;The Barber Of Siberia; O Xango DeBaker Street; Love’s Labours Lost; DeathDefying Acts; The Best Times Of OurLives; Caught In The Act.

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Neil DudgeonTeddyTheatre includes:Fewer Emergencies; MountainLanguage; Blasted; Waiting RoomGermany; Talking in Tongues; No OneSees the Video; Road; Shirley (RoyalCourt); Ashes to Ashes (RoyalCourt/New York);Closer; Yerma; Schoolfor Wives (National Theatre); TheImportance of Being Earnest; Richard II(Royal Exchange); Crackwalker (GateTheatre);Miss Julie (OldhamColiseum); The Next Best Thing(Nuffield Theatre); The Daughter inLaw (Bristol Old Vic); Colliers FridayNight (Greenwich Theatre); TheChangeling; School For Scandal(Cambridge Theatre).

Television includes:Roman’s Empire; Sorted; The Street; TheLavender List; The Return of SherlockHolmes; The Plan Man; Murder inMind; Dirty Tricks; Messiah I, II, III & IV;Mrs Bradley Mysteries; Four Fathers;Tom Jones; The Gift; Our Boy; Breakout;Out of the Blue; The All New Alexei SayleShow; Common as Muck; Fatherland;Touch of Frost; Sharpes Eagles; NiceTown; Between the Lines; Resnick;Nightvoice.

Film includes:Son of Rambow; Bridget Jones: The Edgeof Reason; Breathtaking; Crossing theBorder; Revolver; Fools of Fortune; RedKing, White Knight; Prick Up Your Ears.

Jenny JulesRuthTheatre includes:Big White Fog; Shakespeare Laboratory;A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre);Fabulation; How Long Is Never; Gem ofThe Ocean; Walk Hard; The Promise;Wine In The Wilderness; The GreatWhite Hope; The Colour Of Justice; Two

Trains Running; (Tricycle Theatre); TheVagina Monologues (NewAmbassadors Theatre/ Tour); BornBad (Hampstead Theatre);When WeAre Married; Stamping, Shouting andSinging Home (Birmingham Rep); ThePan Beaters (Greenwich Theatre);Familiar Feelings; Whispers In The Dark(Theatre Centre),Deadmeat (WestYorkshire Playhouse).

Jenny won the Time Out Award forBest Actress in 1992 for herperformance in Pecong at the TricycleTheatre.

Television includes:Judge John Deed;Holby City; I Saw You;NCS Manhunt; A Respectable Trade;Kavanagh QC; Little Napoleons; PrimeSuspect 2.

Film includes:Octane; SW9; WIT;Up ‘N’ Under;Spiders and Flies.

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CREATIVES

Michael AttenboroughDirectorMichael Attenborough is ArtisticDirector of the Almeida Theatre.Previously, he was Associate Director,Mercury Theatre, Colchester (1972-74), Associate Director, LeedsPlayhouse(nowWest YorkshirePlayhouse) (1974-79), AssociateDirector, Young Vic (1979-80), ArtisticDirector, Palace Theatre, Watford(1980-84), Artistic Director,Hampstead Theatre (1984-89),Principal Associate Director, RoyalShakespeare Company (1990-2002).On leaving the Royal ShakespeareCompany he was invited to become anHonorary Associate Artist.

Productions include: For the Almeida:Awake and Sing!; Big White Fog; ThereCame A Gypsy Riding; Enemies; The

Late Henry Moss; Brighton Rock; TheMercy Seat; Five Gold Rings. For theRoyal Shakespeare Company:Amphibians; The Changeling;Les Liaisons Dangereuses (UK &European Tour); After Easter;Pentecost; The Herbal Bed (also in the

West End & on Broadway); Romeo andJuliet; A Month in the Country; Othello;Henry IV parts 1 and 2; The Prisoner’sDilemma; Antony and Cleopatra. Forthe Palace Theatre: The Girl in MelanieKlein; The Big Knife; Romantic Comedy(also in the West End); Terra Nova. Forthe Hampstead Theatre: The War atHome (also on Broadway);ParticularFriendships; That Summer; Observe theSons of Ulster Marching Towards theSomme; Separation (also in the WestEnd). Freelance:Over a Barrel; SingleSpies (Turnstyle Group); 1984 (CitadelTheatre, Edmonton);Yerma (AbbeyTheatre, Dublin); Anna Weiss (WestEnd);My Mother Said I Never Should(Royal Court); Fashion (TricycleTheatre); Apollo and Daphne (NorthWall); Playing with Fire (NationalTheatre).

Harold PinterWriterHarold Pinter was born in London in1930. He is married to AntoniaFraser. He has written twenty-nineplays including The Birthday Party,The Caretaker, The Homecoming, andBetrayal; twenty-one screenplaysincluding The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant’sWoman and, most recently, Sleuth;and directed twenty-seven theatreproductions, including James Joyce’sExiles, David Mamet’s Oleanna, sevenplays by Simon Gray, and many of hisown plays including Celebrationpaired with The Room at the Almeidain the spring of 2000.

In 2005 he received the Nobel Prizefor Literature. Other awards includethe Companion of Honour forservices to Literature, the Legion

D’Honneur, the Laurence OlivierAward and the Moliere D’Honneurfor lifetime achievement. In 1999 hewas made a Companion of Literature

by the Royal Society of Literature. Hehas received honorary degrees fromseventeen universities.

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Jonathan FensomDesignTheatre Includes:Happy Now? (National Theatre);Pygmalion (Roundabout Theatre NewYork); In The Club; Born Bad; In ArabiaWe’d All Be Kings; Abigail’s Party(Hampstead Theatre);What the ButlerSaw (Hampstead Theatre &WestEnd); Love’s Labours Lost (GlobeTheatre); Big White Fog (AlmeidaTheatre); Journey’s End (West End,Broadway); Kindertransport (SharedExperience); The Tempest (The TronTheatre); The Faith Healer (The Gate,Dublin & Broadway); Smaller (WestEnd & UK Tour); Burn / Citizenship /Chatroom (National Theatre);God ofHell (Donmar Warehouse); Some Girls;Twelfth Night (West End); The SugarSyndrome (Royal Court);Duck; Talkingto Terrorists (Royal Court & UK Tour);National Anthems (Old Vic); The Ladyin the Van; So Long Life (Theatre RoyalBath & UK tour); Cloud Nine (SheffieldCrucible); Breakfast with Emma(Shared Experience);M.A.D.; LittleBaby Nothing; Backroom (BushTheatre); Small Family Business; LittleShop of Horrors (West YorkshirePlayhouse);My Night With Reg;Dealer’s Choice (BirminghamRepertory); Be My Baby (Soho TheatreCompany UK tour); After the Dance;Hay Fever (Oxford Stage Company);The Mentalists (RNT);Wozzeck(BirminghamOpera and Europeantour); Erpingham Camp (EdinburghAssembly Rooms & tour); Alarms andExcursions (Producciones AlejandroRomay, Argentina); A Streetcar NamedDesire; Richard III; Bouncers (MercuryTheatre, Colchester); East (VaudevilleTheatre, West End & UK tour);September Tide (King’s Head, UK tour& Comedy Theatre, West End).

Television and Film Includes:tvSSFBM EHKL; Arena; Tomorrow LaScala.

Neil AustinLightingTheatre includes:The Emperor Jones; Philistines; The Manof Mode; Thérèse Raquin; The Seafarer(also Broadway);Henry IV Parts 1 and2; Fix Up; The Night Season; A PrayerFor Owen Meany; Further Than theFurthest Thing; The Walls (NationalTheatre); King Lear; The Seagull;MuchAdo About Nothing; King John; Romeoand Juliet; Julius Caesar; Two Gentlemenof Verona (RSC);Marianne Dreams;Dying for It; Tom and Viv; Romance;Macbeth (Almeida Theatre); Parade;John Gabriel Borkman;Don Juan inSoho; Frost/Nixon (also West End &Broadway); The Cryptogram; The WildDuck; Caligula; After Miss Julie;HenryIV;World Music; The Cosmonaut’s LastMessage... (Donmar Warehouse);Dealer’s Choice (Chocolate Factory andWest End).

Dance includes:Rhapsody (Royal Ballet); The Soldier’sTale (ROH2 at the Royal OperaHouse); The Canterville Ghost(English National Ballet); PineapplePoll (Birmingham Royal Ballet);Darkness & Light (Miyako Yoshida,Tokyo).

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Opera includes:Chorus! (Welsh National Opera); TheSilent Twins; As I Crossed the Bridge ofDreams; Love Counts;Man and Boy:Dada; The Cricket Recovers; TheEmbalmer (Almeida Opera); PulseShadows (Queen Elizabeth Hall);L’Orfeo (Opera City, Tokyo).

John LeonardSoundMost recent work includes: Long Day’sJourney Into Night (Druid Theatre,Galway & Dublin);Much Ado AboutNothing; The Enchantment (NationalTheatre); Pure Gold (Soho Theatre);Big White Fog (Almeida Theatre); InCelebration; Kean; Donkey’s Years;Summer & Smoke; Glengarry Glen Ross(West End); Translations (Princeton/Broadway); Leaves; Empress of India;The Druid Synge (Druid Theatre,Galway/Dublin/ Edinburgh/Minneapolis/ New York).

Other theatre includes: For theAlmeida Theatre:Dying For It; HeddaGabler; Macbeth; Brighton Rock;Whistling Psyche; Five Gold Rings; TheMercy Seat; I.D.

Other theatre: 2000 Years; Paul; TheUN Inspector; Jumpers (NationalTheatre); Antony and Cleopatra; MuchAdo About Nothing; The Prisoner’sDilemma; Romeo & Juliet (RSC);TheOld Masters; The Birthday Party(Birmingham Rep /West End); TheOdd Couple; The Entertainer; Still Life;The Astonished Heart; Ma Rainey’sBlack Bottom; The Anniversary and TheFlint Street Nativity (LiverpoolPlayhouse); Cinderella; The DumbWaiter (Oxford Playhouse); The MerryWives of Windsor; The Merchant OfVenice; Cymbeline; Twelfth Night(Ludlow Festival); Becket; Les LiaisonsDangereuses; Sweet Panic; Absolutely!Perhaps; The Anniversary; Losing Louis;The Master Builder (also tour); PrivateLives (also Broadway); Embers; Smaller(West End);How to Act Around Cops;Flush; Mercy; Colder Than Here (SohoTheatre); Sunday Father; Born Bad; InArabia We’d All Be Kings; The Best OfFriends (Hampstead Theatre).

Julia HoranCasting DirectorTheatre includes: Three Sisters onHope Street (Hampstead/Liverpool);Swimming with Sharks (VaudevilleTheatre); Tintin (Tour and PlayhouseTheatre); Absolute Beginners (LyricHammersmith); Awake and Sing,Dying for It;Out of the Fog (AlmeidaTheatre);We That Are Left;HeartbreakHouse (Watford Theatre); pool (nowater) (Frantic Assembly); Rabbit (OldRed Lion);Gaddafi - A Living Myth(English National Opera); Bad Jazz; ABrief History of Helen of Troy (ActorsTouring Company); The Prayer Room(Birmingham Rep/EdinburghInternational Festival); As You Like It(Wyndhams Theatre);One Under(Tricycle Theatre); Anna in the Tropics;Yellowman (HampsteadTheatre);Othello (Cheek by Jowl); TheSoldiers’ Fortune; Tintin; The Skin of ourTeeth; Hobson’s Choice; The Daughter-in-law; Homebody Kabul; A Raisin inthe Sun; Six Characters Looking for an

Author; (Young Vic); The Morris, PortAuthority; Urban Legend; The Kindnessof Strangers; Yellowman (LiverpoolEveryman); The Girl on the Sofa(Edinburgh International Festival/Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin);OriginalSin (Crucible, Sheffield); Antarctica(Savoy); The Weir (Duke of York’s);The Force of Change; Made of Stone;,Local; Trade; About a Boy; Yardgal; HolyMothers; Last Dance at Dum-Dum(Royal Court).

Television includes: The Verdict; TheBill; The Badness of George IV.

Julia is a member of the CastingDirector’s Guild.

Terry KingFight ArrangerTheatre includes: Awake and Sing!;Big White Fog; The Late Henry Moss(Almeida Theatre); Troilus andCressida; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet;Cymbeline; Pericles; Julius Caesar;Coriolanus; Henry V; Hamlet; TheWhite Devil; Comedy of Errors; TwelfthNight; Othello (RSC); Fool for Love;The Murderers; Scenes from the BigPicture; King Lear; Carousel; His DarkMaterials; The Riot; Battle Royal; TheTalking Cure; London Cuckolds;Duchess of Malfi; The Homecoming;Jerry Springer the Opera (NationalTheatre); Our Country is Good; TheRecruiting Officer; The Queen and I;Duck; Sore Throats; Search andDestroy; Ashes and Sand; Oleana;Berlin Bertie; Ourselves Alone;Greenland (Royal Court); The FifteenStreets (Coventry/West End); PeterPan (Grand Theatre, Leeds) TrueWest; Fool for Love; Caligula;Accidental Death of an Anarchist(Donmar Warehouse); Death of aSalesman; Les Liaison Dangereuse(Bristol Old Vic); Lycistrata (Old Vic);On an Average Day; Peribanez (YoungVic).

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Opera and Musicals include: Porgyand Bess; Otello; Carmen; MartinGuerre; Jesus Christ Super Star; Oliver;Saturday Night Fever; Spend SpendSpend; West Side Story; Lautrec; ChittyChitty Bang Bang; Our House; BillyElliot the Musical; Lord of the Ringsthe Musical; Caberet.

Television includes: The Bill; Casualty;Eastenders; Broken Glass; A King ofInnocence; Fell Tiger; Scold’s Bridle;Fatal Inversion; Nerys Glas; Death ofSalesman; The Widowing of MrsHolroyd; Mesasure for Measure; TheMayor of Casterbridge; Lucky Jim; BlueDove; Rock Face.

Nadia LatifAssistant DirectorNadia recently completed training asa director at RADA.

Directing credits include: In the Heartof America;How Long is Never; TheDaughter In Law (RADA); TheImportance of Being Turbann’d(Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Skin.

Assistant Directing credits include:Duck Hunting; Wuthering Heights(RADA); I Like Mine With A Kiss (BushTheatre); Claude Des Armoises(Drill Hall).

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PRODUCTIONTHANK YOUS

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Two years ago an actress working for the Almeida, Jessica Boyd,revealed that she was the grand-daughter of Arthur Boyd,

perhaps the most remarkable Australian painter of the twentiethcentury. More specifically, she told me of his extraordinarybequest to his nation in the form of a property, next to theShoalhaven River in the midst of stunning countryside, for the useof artists to stay and work in peace and tranquillity, all funded byhis charity, the Bundanon Trust. And was this something thatwould interest the Almeida?

I felt that whatever we did, it should act as a cultural bridgebetween our two countries; theatrically speaking we are a frequentexporter, but a minimal importer. We share a common languagebut, unlike America, don’t know a great deal about their theatricaltradition and living theatre artists.

As the start of a cultural dialogue I offered to lead a workshop onacting Shakespeare, involving British and Australianpractitioners. This culminated in four British and six Australianactors, plus a young, indigenous Australian director, joiningmyself and Cicely Berry (the RSC’s brilliant Head of Voice) lastOctober for two weeks at the Bundanon retreat (about two and ahalf hours from Sydney).

The venture was jointly funded and organised by the AlmeidaTheatre and the Sydney Theatre Company, plus, of course, Arthur

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Boyd’s Bundanon Trust. The four English actors were RichardCordery, with whom I had worked at the RSC and three castmembers from the Almeida’s recent Big White Fog; Jenny Jules(who played Ella and is now in The Homecoming), Tunji Kasim(who played Les) and GuguMbatha-Raw (who playedWanda).

The one condition Imadewas that the workshop should not beshaped by the pressure to produce something specific to beperformed publicly, but should focus onmethodology and process.

The result was a thrilling and rewarding period of work – at theend of the two weeks none of us involved wanted to stop.Numerous rich new friendships still continue to reach round theglobe. Prior to the time in Bundanon, I spent a week in Sydney asa guest of the Sydney Theatre Company, seeing performancesandmeeting as many of Australia’s top writers, directors andactors as I could. I can’t thank Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett(incoming artistic directors) and Robyn Nevin (outgoing)enough for their warmth and generosity.

The trip has already given birth to a joint project on a newAustralian play and the offer of work here for three Australianpractitioners. Longmay our collaboration continue.

Michael AttenboroughArtistic Director

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Audio described performances are idealfor audience members with visualimpairment. We provide a discreetheadset which allows you to listen toinformation about the set, costumes,body language and facial expressions ofthe performers, during pauses in theaction on-stage.

Prior to the performance patrons receiveCDs giving details of the set, charactersand costumes and on the day of theperformance can attend a free touchtour where they get a chance to explorethe set and costumes and meet some ofthe cast.

Our sign language interpretedperformances are presented by a varietyof highly experienced interpreters whouse British Sign Language.

The Almeida Theatre schedules assisted performances in order to maketheatre more accessible and enjoyable for people who may find it difficult tosee or hear everything that takes place on stage.

THE HOMECOMING THE HOMECOMING THE HOMECOMINGThu 20 March 7.30 pm Sat 15 March 3 pm Thu 6 March 7.30 pmCaptioned in house Audio Described by Vocaleyes Sign Language Interpreted by

(Touch Tour 1.30 pm) Jacqui Beckford

THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOTTue 29 April 7.30 pm Sat 3 May 3 pm Thu 24 April 7.30 pmCaptioned in house Audio Described by Vocaleyes Sign Language Interpreted by

(Touch Tour 1.30 pm) Russ Aldersson

ROSMERSHOLM ROSMERSHOLM ROSMERSHOLMTue 1 July 7.30 pm Sat 28 June 3 pm Thu 19 June 7.30 pmCaptioned in house Audio Described by Vocaleyes Sign Language Interpreted by

(Touch Tour 1.30 pm) Jeni Draper

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ALMEIDA PROJECTS

Almeida Projects creates opportunities

to take ideas directly from the Almeida

rehearsal room into local schools and

community groups. Since our launch in

September 2003, we have created two

productions supported by projects for

young people, a festival of new-writing

for local first-time writers; and countless

original pieces created and performed

by young people and members of the

local community in response to the

theatre’s productions.

Projects Online –Resources, images and information from our current andprevious project work can be viewed and downloadedfrom our website. www.almeida.co.uk/projects

We place the community and the “ensemble” at thecentre of what we do and how we do it, creating agenuine collaborative atmosphere for everyoneinvolved – from people new to the arts to theprofessionals they work with. In our projectseveryone is learning, everyone is challengingthemselves to discover something new: aboutthemselves, each other or the work they are doing.

Alongside our projects, we offer subsidised ticketprogrammes and workshops allowing both localyoung people and students from across the countryto experience our productions.

For more information about ourwork, subsidised tickets schemes forstudents groups and forthcomingprojects visitwww.almeida.co.uk/projects

Principal Supporter

Students from Central Foundation and Elizabeth Garrett AndersonSchools present work on Cloud Nine at the Almeida.

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The Almeida BoardRichardHaythornthwaiteChairMary Francis CBE Rosemary Leith(Treasurer) BaronessMcIntoshAnupamGanguli of HudnallMichael Gwinnell Ray O’ConnellA. Michael Hoffman Rufus OlinsThelma Holt CBE Nigel PantlingLinden Ife David Robbie

Artistic Directors1980 – 1990 Pierre Audi (Founder)1990 – 2002 Jonathan Kent

Ian McDiarmid2002 – Michael Attenborough

THE ALMEIDA THEATRECOMPANY

Artistic DirectorMichael Attenborough

Executive DirectorNeil Constable

Artistic AssociateJennyWorton

Associate DirectorHowardDavies

Writer in ResidenceRoyWilliams

Music AdvisorJonathanDove

Lighting AdvisorMarkHenderson

Sound AdvisorJohn Leonard

ADMINISTRATIONGeneral ManagerEmma Rees

Assistant to theDirectorateSuli Majithia

AdministrativeAssistantDavid Swain

ALMEIDA OPERAAldeburgh Almeida OperaJonathan ReekieChelsea Lawrence

Music DirectorDavid Parry

Concert DirectorsRichard BernasJohnWoolrich

ALMEIDA PROJECTSProjects DirectorRebeccaManson Jones

Projects AdministratorCharlie Payne

Projects AssistantKirsty Hoiles

Projects Workshop TeamAyesha AntoineDan AylingMartin BarronKate BudgenCharlotte DamigosDavid EllingtonNedGlasierAbigail GrahamNicholas KhanNadia LatifSally AmakaOkaforAndrew Pembrooke

BARBar ManagerHannahWoolhouse

Deputy Bar ManagerLanre Bankole

Bar StaffNatalie BartleCarolina CadavidIrene CioniDominique EdwardsEmmelineHamAndrewHladkyHywel JohnNeil JonesMargheritaMalanchiniSanti RieserLara Rossi*Harriet Shillito*Melissa Smith*Luis Valentine*Also occasional DutyManagers

BOX OFFICEBox Office ManagerTina Farguson

Box Office AssistantsCurtis JordanGuy NewmanFrancesca SilveriJonathan SpeerRuth VarleySuzanne Walker**Miranda Yates**** Also Access Officers

DEVELOPMENTHead of DevelopmentKirstenHolmes

Sponsorship ManagerLottieWake

Development ManagerNadia Boujo

Development Officer(Individual Giving)Susie Parker

Events OfficerNatasha Dilleyston

FINANCEHead of FinanceFraser Jopp

Finance ManagerJenny Patterson

Finance OfficerJoy Aitchison

FRONT OF HOUSETheatre ManagerHelen Cooles

Duty ManagersNick DurantJonathan SpeerDervla Whiteside

Head UshersGeraldine CaulfieldImogen CooperChris CorbySylvie GallantAglaia GelpkeVida HarrisonHannah LeeDavid WeinbergGeoff White

UshersSofka Amour BrownImmanuel VonBennigsenJessica CarrollOno DafedjaiyeJuilliette GoursatAndrew HowardJanice HowardNic McQuillanMary OkekeAnne SheasbyJeany Spark

Theatre Tour GuideJenny Hargreaves

Cleaning StaffExcell Cleaning ServicesLtd

MARKETINGHead of Marketing& SalesJaneMacpherson

Marketing OfficerHelen Bennett

Interim MarketingOfficerLouise Glover

Marketing InternNicola Fisher

Audience DevelopmentKatie Southall

PRESSPress RepresentativeJanine Shalom atPremier PR020 7292 8330

PRODUCTIONHead of ProductionJames Crout

Company ManagerRupert Carlile

Stage ManagerSuzanne Bourke

Chief TechnicianJasonWescombe

Lighting TechnicianRobin Fisher

Sound TechnicianHowardWood

Theatre TechnicianMark Jenkins

Wardrobe SupervisorCatrina Richardson

Wardrobe AssistantEleanor Dolan

CONSULTANTSScripts AdvisorBarryMcCarthy

Structural EngineeringConsultantsAlan Conisbee Associates

Surveyor to the AlmeidaHedleyMerriman

AuditorsHaysmacintyre

SolicitorsCumberland& EllisMishcon de ReyaWedlake Saint

Production InsuranceWalton& Parkinson Ltd

SecurityUmair Jamil forMcKenzie ArnoldSecurity Ltd

Access Consultant GroupMandy ColleranMichael GodfreyWendyHaslamIan JentleLois KeithDeborahNeveCaroline Parker

Graphic DesignSarahHyndmanDave Roberts for Cantate

Programme PrintCantate

Development BoardA.Michael HoffmanChairRosemary LeithVice ChairJamie ArkellSue BaringJonathan BlakeGeorgiana BoothbyRick GildeaChristopheGollutLordHart of ChiltonMatthewHurlockJohn KinderJudith LooseNickyManbyRayO'ConnellLady RayneMartha TackAndrewWilkinsonHilaryWilliamsAndreaWilson

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RECENT ALMEIDAPRODUCTIONS

2003THE LADY FROM THE SEA“The Islington powerhouse opens with thistremendous production by Trevor Nunn…electrifying… leaves you reeling.”Daily Telegraph

Sponsored by Hydro

I.D.“A riveting production… full of wonderfultheatrical invention… a rich and shamefulperiod of history and howmemorably it isevoked.”Daily Mail

Sponsored by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

THE MERCY SEAT“Michael Attenborough’s production has ahigh voltage charge that never dips for amoment. This play plumbs the depths anddeserves to be seen.”Daily Telegraph

FIVE GOLD RINGS“Bold, elegant, lyrical, finely wraught…gorgeously staged and beautifullyperformed.”Time Out

2004THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA?“Superbly written… brilliant… flawlessproduction; youwon’t findmore blazingacting anywhere… see it if you see nothingelse.”Mail on Sunday

Sponsored by Aspen Re

FESTEN“Electrifying, shocking and profoundlymoving… such talent, such skill, suchhumanity. Something to celebrate.”Sunday Times

WHISTLING PSYCHE“An intense, haunting and beautiful play…two remarkable performances...marvellously rewarding.”Mail on Sunday

BRIGHTON ROCK“An intelligent, edgy, adult musical whichgives you something to think about...Hooray for that... a production of brilliantclarity... crackles with energy and evil.”Daily Express

THE EARTHLY PARADISE“Gorgeous writing… very compelling, lovelyand tragic.My play of the year.”New Statesman

Sponsored by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

2005MACBETH“Themost powerful, chilling, evil – feelingMacbeth sinceMcKellen andDench.”The Times

Sponsored by Aspen Re

HEDDA GABLER“An electrifying hit… a wonderfulproduction by Richard Eyre”Daily Telegraph

Sponsored by Hydro

BLOOD WEDDING“Brilliantly directed by RufusNorris.Another indication of howwell MichaelAttenborough’smanagement is doing atthe Islington playhouse.”Daily Express

ROMANCE“You laugh uproariously... it’s a silly personwho doesn’t.”Financial Times

THE HYPOCHONDRIAC“Lindsay Posner’s exuberant, superblyacted production is riotously entertaining...has you laughing like a drain.”Daily Telegraph

Stockard Channing (Bessie Berger) and Nigel Lindsay(Moe Axelrod) in Awake and Sing!, photo by HugoGlendinning

The cast of Enemies, photo by Hugo Glendinning

2006THE LATE HENRY MOSS“A thrilling new play... acted up to the hilt bya remarkable company... an astonishinglywrought, high drama”Evening Standard

Sponsored by Pinsent Masons

PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT“Youmust see this play: it’s like a diamondcut with its own stardust.”Sunday Times

Sponsored by Aspen Re

ENEMIES“A superb theatrical achievement...anexcellent cast...Michael Attenborough’sadmirable staging...this is amajor event inour theatre”Financial Times

Sponsored by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

TOM AND VIV“Amagnificent and superbly acted piece oftheatre...the play so powerfully succeeds...asublime tragedy”Sunday Times

THE LIGHTNING PLAY“Funny, touching and consistentlyentertaining”Daily Telegraph

Sponsored by Pinsent Masons

Andrew Lincoln (Ray) and Brendan Coyle (Earl) in The Late Henry Moss,photo by John Haynes

Danny Sapani (Victor Mason), Ayesha Antoine(Caroline Mason) and Kedar Williams-Stirling(Phillip Mason) in Big White Fog, photo byCatherine Ashmore

Eve Best (Hedda) in Hedda Gabler, photoby John Haynes

2007THERE CAME A GYPSY RIDING“Amagnificent and harrowing play” The Spectator“Unmissable” The Observer

Sponsored by Aspen Re

Season Sponsor Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

DYING FOR IT“The rediscovery of a subversive Soviet classic:deserves a permanent place in the Britishrepertory” The Guardian

"Desperately funny... beautifully written”The Observer

Season Sponsor Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

BIG WHITE FOG“For strong gripping drama and splendid,heartfelt acting, the show is hard to beat...outstanding”Daily Telegraph

“A long-lost gem…an excellent company…a riveting production” Daily Mail

AWAKE AND SING!“Stirring and fabulously well performed”Mail On Sunday

“Richly rewarding” Independent

CLOUD NINE“An absolute treat…wholly heavenly”Daily Telegraph

“Scorching stuff, andmore entertaining thenanything on in theWest End” Sunday Telegraph

MARIANNE DREAMS“A great Christmas show…beautiful and funny”Independent

“Inspired, potent theatre”Mail on Sunday

Sponsored by Pinsent Masons

Eileen Atkins (Bridget) and Imelda Staunton (Margaret) inThere Came A Gypsy Riding, photo by Mark Ellidge

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YOUR VISIT

The box office, bar, kiosk and toiletsare all accessible from the foyer.

Access to the Circle is upstairsthrough the doors on Almeida Street.Access to the stalls is through thedoors in the foyer.

The following are available to buyfrom the kiosk in the foyer:

• Playscripts, past & present• Programmes• Posters• Losely Ice Creams• Almeida T-shirts• Almeida umbrellas

Infrared headsets are also available atthe kiosk for a small deposit.

DURING THEPERFORMANCEPlease take your seats in goodtime. There will be a three minutebell before the start of theperformance.

To avoid distracting the performersand spoiling the performance forother audience members we askthat you keep noise to a minimumin the auditorium and pleaseswitch off mobile phones.Wekindly request no photography orrecording equipment be used in theauditorium.

Welcome to theAlmeida Theatre.

IN THE FOYER

Plastic cups are available at the barand from ushers to enable you totake drinks into the auditorium. Werequest that you do not take foodinto the auditorium.

Please do not cause any unduealarm by leaving your bagsunattended.

We appreciate your considerationfor local residents when leaving thetheatre.

In accordance with therequirements of the Council of theLondon Borough of Islington,persons shall not be permitted tostand or sit in any of the gangwaysintersecting the seating or to sit inany of the other gangways.

The Almeida Theatre Bar offerstasty homemade dishes, agreat wine list, fine coffees anda relaxed atmosphere, and inthe evening becomes a livelybar for audiences, actors andpublic alike.

To beat the rush we recommend thatyou pre-order your interval drinks atthe bar before the performance.

Remember the café bar is open to all.You can visit us from 11.30am-11pm,Mon-Sat for drinks and light meals.

We use organic products whereverpossible, and locally sourced produce

from Covent Garden and BillingsgateMarkets, making it an ideal place tomeet friends for lunch, or just to relaxand read the papers.

The bar is also available for private hire.

For further information please seewww.almeida.co.ukor email bar@almeida.co.uk

EXPLORETHE ALMEIDAYou can find out more about thehistory of this fascinating building onour theatre tours.

Led by an experienced guide they offerthe opportunity to explore the depthsof the theatre including backstage,wardrobe, and technical departments.

The tours also look at the history ofthe building through its manyincarnations from lecture hall toVictorian music hall, to carnivalnovelties factory, up until the newbuilding you see today.

We finish the tours with acomplimentary tea or coffee in the bar.

We welcome any suggestionsor comments you may haveabout your visit to the AlmeidaTheatre.

Please get in touch with us byemailing info@almeida.co.uk

For more information seewww.almeida.co.uk or to book aplace on a tour contact box office on020 7359 4404.

The Almeida building in 1840

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EATING ANDDRINKING

JOIN THEALMEIDA’SCIRCLE OFSUPPORTERSEvery donation made through our Circle ofSupporters scheme is vital to ensuringthat the Almeida can continue to mountproductions of outstanding quality in ourbeautifully refurbished theatre.

IN ADDITION YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM:

• Priority booking

• Advance mailing

• Exclusive events

• Quarterly newsletter

• Special offers

• Programme accreditation

• Personalised booking

• Access to sold out shows

See overleaf for more details.(Benefits depend on level of support)

If you would like to help us and becomemore involved with the theatre and itswork, please join our Circle of Supporterstoday.

For further information please call020 7288 4930 or email Susie Parker atsparker@almeida.co.uk

“The country’shottest theatre”Daily Telegraph

Jonathan Pryce in Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?Photographer: John Haynes

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PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM TO:

ALMEIDA CIRCLE OF SUPPORTERS, FREEPOST LON18195, N1 1BR

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ALMEIDA FRIENDS (£50+)

DESIGNERS’ CIRCLE (£120+)

ACTORS’ CIRCLE (£300+)

DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE (£500+)

PATRONS (£1,000+)

BENEFACTORS (£2,500+)

PRODUCTION CIRCLE (£5,000+)

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S INNER CIRCLE (£10,000+)

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PLEASE SUPPORT THE ALMEIDA ATONE OF THE FOLLOWING LEVELS:

ALMEIDA FRIENDS (£50+)For a suggested donation of £50 or more we mayextend the following:

• Advance mailing and priority booking• Regular information about Almeida news and events• Invitations to Supporters’ evenings• Ticket offers when available

DESIGNERS’ CIRCLE (£120+)For a suggested donation of £120 or more we mayextend the above and the following:

• Accreditation in Almeida Theatre programmes• Advance notice of Almeida Galas

ACTORS’ CIRCLE (£300+)For a suggested donation of £300 or more we mayextend the above and the following:

• Personalised booking service through the Development Office

DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE (£500+)For a suggested donation of £500 or more we mayextend the above and the following:

• Regular press release mailings, including latestcasting updates

• Opportunity of hiring the Almeida Bar forprivate functions (subject to availability)

• Invitation to annual Directors’ Circle reception

PATRONS (£1,000+)For a suggested donation of £1,000 or more we mayextend the above and the following:

• Invitations to selected Press Nights

• Invitations to private post-show discussions with castand creative teams

• Invitation to Patrons’ lunch with the Almeida’sArtistic Director

• Access to house seats when a production isofficially sold-out (subject to availability)

BENEFACTORS (£2,500+)For a suggested donation of £2,500 or more we may extend theabove and the following:

• Invitations to every Press Night• Acknowledgement on the Benefactors’ Board inthe Theatre Foyer

• Private Backstage Tour

PRODUCTION CIRCLE (£5,000+)For a suggested donation of £5,000 or more we may extend theabove and the following:

• Invitations to selected dress or technical rehearsals

• Draft scripts when rehearsals for productions begin

• Published scripts signed by cast or creative teams(subject to availability)

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S INNER CIRCLE (£10,000+)For a suggested donation of £10,000 or more we may extend theabove and the following:

A unique opportunity for a small team of individuals to becomeclosely involved at the heart of the theatre company. Forming anexclusive partnership with the Artistic Director, members will play acrucial and active role in enabling the theatre’s programme and theartistic standards for which the Almeida is renowned.

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ALMEIDA SUPPORTERS

The Almeida is a truly unique theatre. The world’s finest acting, writing, designing and directing talents producesome of their best work in our much loved space, ensuring that the theatre is alive each night with performancesthat inspire and excite our audiences.

However, the freedom and the means whereby we can be bold, risk-taking and distinctive and able to producework of the highest quality, costs money. £3.3m per annum to be precise. Every year we raise £1.2m of thatourselves – more than box office income or subsidy from Arts Council England.

We are, therefore, hugely reliant upon the financial commitment of a group of very special individuals, trusts andcompanies who choose to become involved at the heart of our theatre. Their support ensures that we can planambitiously for the future with security and confidence, whilst keeping ticket prices affordable (with over 40 seatssold each night for just £6). It also means we can continue to deliver Almeida Projects - our inspirationalprogramme of work with young people and the local community.

Accordingly, we owe immense thanks to a collection of committed and enthusiastic supporters - many of whomare listed below and without whose kindness we simply could not exist. I do hope that you too might considerbecoming involved with our wonderful theatre, at whatever level - helping us to continue turning our dreamsinto reality.

Michael AttenboroughArtistic Director

Major DonorsOrmonde &Mildred Duveen TrustThe Esmée Fairbairn FoundationThe Genesis FoundationChristophe GollutThe Hon. Daphne GuinnessNiarchosThe Ingram TrustHarvey & AllisonMcGrathGeorgia OetkerThe Laura Pels FoundationThe Rose FoundationThe Tara Ulemek FoundationRoger Wingate

Legacy GiftsArthur Donald FlemingClare Hope

Almeida Opera SupportersColumbia Foundation, SanFranciscoThe Peter Moores Foundation

Almeida Projects SupportersPrincipal Supporter:The Lehman Brothers FoundationEuropeSir John Cass’s FoundationRaymond Cazalet CharitableTrustTheWorshipful Company ofGrocersThe Paul Hamlyn Foundation

The Peter Harrison FoundationThe Kreitman FoundationKyte BrokingTheMackintosh FoundationTheWates Foundation

Artistic Director’s Inner CircleEric Abraham& Sigrid RausingAnonymousMrs Claus von BulowMercedes &Michael HoffmanJack & Linda KeenanJohn KinderMidge & Simon PalleyDavid RobbieJon &NoraLee SedmakStuart &Hilary Williams

Production CircleStamos J. FafaliosCathy & Guy GronquistTheMarina Kleinwort TrustPaul & Elizabeth O’HanlonSarah & Alastair Ross GoobeyCarl &Martha TackRachel & AnthonyWilliams

BenefactorsArimathea Charitable TrustK.L. Breuss & G.P. BurgessMr &Mrs JC Carter-MeggsClyde CooperIan & Caroline CormackSarah & Louis Elson

Celeste FenichelTim FosberryMr &Mrs A GeczyBeth GlynnLydia &Manfred GorvyBarbara &Michael GwinnellMatthew & Severa HurlockStephanie & Carter McClellandThe Noël Coward FoundationWayne RapozoLady Jane RayneLord & Lady SimonNicola StanhopeChristian & Sarah Thun-HohensteinJan &Michael TophamRoderick &Melanie Vere NicollAndrew & Juliet WilkinsonMichael & Kate Yates

PatronsAnonymousJeffrey ArcherJamie ArkellJane AttiasKeith & Barbara BainDerek & Bonnie BandeenSue Baring & Andre NewburgSteve Barnett & AlexandraMarksCornelius BarryLord & Lady BernsteinKate & Colin BirssJonathan & Isabel BlakeTony & Gisela BloomMr &Mrs Benjamin Bonas

Georgiana BoothbyMiriam BorchardSteven & Ellen BowmanKatie BradfordRichard & Robin ChapmanMrWilliam Claxton-SmithMrs Denise CohenColine CovingtonMr &Mrs Stephen CoxFelicia CrystalMr &Mrs Karl DannenbaumAngus DeaytonMr Robert H.F. DevereuxJames & Erica DicksonRobyn DurieRichard & Linda ElyMr Peter EnglanderJohn & Tawna FarmerJoachim FleuryDaniel FrielRobert & Pirjo GardinerJackie &Michael GeeJacqueline & Jonathan GestetnerMichael GoddardDavid GrahamNick GrayByron Grote & SusanMillerSusan Hahn &DuncanMooreAndrewHaighPamela, Lady HarlechAlisdair & Sophie HaythornthwaiteMichael &Morven HellerDorothy HendersonJerry & Barbara Hines

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Clare &Bernard HornChristopher HyderLinden IfeNicholas &Maria JonesNicholas JosefowitzMary Kallaher andMatteo PeraleDr and Dr C KaplanisMr &Mrs Philip KingsleyChristian Kwek &David HodgesMr &Mrs David LakhdhirMarsha & Alan LeeKathryn LudlowAnthonyMackintoshCharles &NickyManbyMr Raul MargaraElizabethMeyerJeremyMilesMr JulianMillsDiana & AlanMorgenthauMatthewNicklinChristopher Nugee & EmilyThornberryRay & Sarah O’ConnellHarald OrnebergThe Oyster FoundationDesmond Page & Asun GelardinJ Francis PalamaraBarrie PearsonMr &MrsWilliam PlapingerAndrea &Hilary PontiThe Posgate Charitable TrustThe David & Elaine PotterFoundationMichele RagazziClare RichSue & Tony RosnerJill RuddockWilliam& Julie RyanDrMortimer & TheresaSackler FoundationSusie SainsburyMr &Mrs Richard J SchwartzMrs Carol SellarsJennifer SevauxNorma &David SmithRosalyn &Nicholas SpringerDavid & Tanya SteynAdam& Sheri StipewichRichard Sykes & PennyMasonMr R D SzpiroEileen TaylorSarka TourresLord & Lady TugendhatJudith UnwinMr P VoyceEdgar & JudithWallnerEric & KatharinaWaltersBob & India WardropLady Alexander of WeedonSimon &Glennie WeilGeorge & Patricia WhiteMartha & DavidWinfieldJack & LinaWoodMr Neil WoodgateMr CCWright

Directors’ CircleCliff & Fiona AtkinsLorraine BaldryLeslie Balfour-LynnJ & A BenardNeil & Ann BensonMrs Rosalie BerwinNicholas BerwinMartin BlackSally A. BourneMs Diana BrantAnthony BunkerSir Geoffrey and Lady CassMr Simon ClarkCarole &Neville ConradKay Ellen ConsolverJohn CrispMr George DragonasMort & Frannie FleishhackerMargaret Ford & John StewartAnupamGanguliDavid Gestetner &Angela HowardMr Farzin S GhandchiMrs Alison GrayMimi & Peter HaasNeville & Veronika HarrisMr Charles HendersonSir Robin & Lady JacobDavid Kaskel &Christopher TeanoPeter &Maria KellnerMuriel LambertLondon Arts Discovery ToursBrendaMeldrumMaggieMillsMs BarbaraMintoAsha & Trevor PhillipsJohn & Laurel RafterDiane RaposioAnthony ReganMr Charles RussellMr &Mrs Anthony SalzMr Brian D SmithTim& Sophia SteelDrMiriam StoppardIzak & Freda UziyelSally WaldenMarilyn & Geoffrey WilsonMr &Mrs Roger WyandJonathan Yudkin

Actors’ CircleBrian AbbsJ AldredMr Simon AldridgeNicola AllpressAlexander BalcombeBrian & Ruth BarclayMr &Mrs Andrew BarnettMr Dean BarrettSusan BartyDavid & Primrose BellMichael & Lesley BennettMr &Mrs Anthony Blee

Lord and Lady Brown of Eaton-Under-HeywoodOssi & Paul BurgerFelicity CallinanPeter & Diana CawdronFrances CloudRosamund Shelley, Lady CoxRobert & Lynette CraigPaul CullingtonGill Cutbill & Ged DaviesDavid DayJose and David DentYvonne DestribatsMr R J DormerJim &Maureen EltonJane EpsteinBrian GitlinRobert & Clare GrayBrian and Rosita GreenNick & Fiona GreenGraeme & Fiona GriffithsSheila & John HarveyMs Clodagh HayesMs Sioban HealyMartin & Alicia HerbertMichael HolterRob & Sally HullMr Roger JospeThe JPMorgan Fleming FoundationMr &Mrs Roger LambertMr &Mrs B LesslieMr Charles ListerJanet MartinStephen &Nan-YeongMatthewsJaneMcNeillTheMorris-Jones FamilyDespinaMoschosMichael &Mimi NaughtonMr Philip NoelMs Jane NorburyMr C DOrganJeremy &Mary Vere ParrCindy Polemis & RickWellsMr Richard PoloAna PozziJohn & Christine PrestonGeorge & Karen RathmanTimothy & Judith RitchieMary RobeyMr G C RodopoulosJulian & Catherine RoskillJames Richard RoweSamuel French LtdBarry SerjentDasha ShenkmanSue and Stuart StradlingMr Philip TalbotChristoph &Marion TrestlerMrWilliamUnderhillKersti & Louis UrvoisMrs Bonnie J WardNicholasWatkinsonFrank &Denie WeilMr &Mrs R AMWelsford

Designers’ CircleRaymond A AdamsD J AlmeidaMrs Carole J ArmstrongStephen ArtusZac & Lucy BarrattChristopher BensonRita & Ian BinderMr &Mrs BoeschMrM R BowleyMandy BridgerRob BrooksJohn &Dianne BrowningMr C L BulfordDr Nigel BurtonMrs R J A CarawanPedro A & Tiana del CastilloGeraldine CaulfieldLady CazaletMrs Gay ChristieMr S J ClaymanMr T ColdreyJohn & Rosemary ColdwellClaire & Ivor ConnickMs Kate CrehanJonathan CrowAnthony CroxfordMrs Pamela CurwenTimothy & Patricia DauntProfessor Philip DavidDr Sheilagh DaviesGraham& Christine DawsonMrs Denise DixJustin & EmmaDowleyMr Kendall DuesburyMs Jo DutchCaroline DuthyMiss Sally EnglandMrs Joy EveMark EverettLindy FletcherTony & Jane FoggMr P L FolmerJudith FoyDr K GarrowJonathan Glasson & Jamie LakeMichael GodbeeMrMichael GodfreyJanine GoedertAndrew & Karen GoldstoneMs S J GoodmanMs Eleanor GordonMr Ian GrantGrouse InvestmentNerissa GuestDebby GuthrieMaurice & Valerie HalperinMrs Isobel HancockSophie HanscombeRosemary HansonAndrew and Anita HarperCrawford &Mary HarrisMaureen and Derek HarteSarah Havens & Gregg SandoJonathan and Hélène HawDouglas Hawkins

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We would like to thank the following individuals for their dedication and support.

Corporate CouncilRosemary LeithChair

Andrew GrantJeremy HallCarol LakeHenry Timms

Gala Committee ChairsJuliet WilkinsonChain Play II

Martha TackA Chain Play

Saffron Burrows & Sydney FinchThe Hypochondriac

Thelma Holt & Damian LewisMacbeth

Christophe GollutAwake and Sing!Blood WeddingLove Counts

Jessica de RothschildThe Lady From The Sea

Local Liaison CommitteeNicky ManbyChair

Milly AyliffeJenny BlackKatie BradfordAnnie EdgeSusan HahnCaroline HoareLinden IfeRod SmithSarah WhiteheadRachel Williams

AmbassadorsSarah ElsonJack KeenanGeorgia OetkerJessica de RothschildStamos J. Fafalios

Have you ever thought about supporting the Almeida Theatre with a legacy?

Leaving a legacy is a very special way of ensuring that your tradition ofsupport for the Almeida Theatre continues for years to come, allowingus to provide enriching theatrical experiences which will engage futuregenerations.

You can include the Almeida Theatre in your Will by directing your giftto the Almeida Theatre Company Limited, registered charity number282167.

For any information concerning legacies please contact Nadia Boujo at nboujo@almeida.co.uk or 020 7288 4934.

Mr Robert J HendersonPolly HesterAndy & Janelle HillJane HillCaroline Hoare & Charles HebbertAndrewHochhauser QC&GrahamMarchantMr LewHodgesMadeleine HodgkinMrs Rosemary HoodJacky HyerTamara IngramMrMichael JacobChristine JayProfessor Norman JoelsMrsM JohnstonMr Simon JonesBrian & Janet KingDavid & Gisela KingsleySarah & Christopher KnightRuth & Peter KrausKudos Film and TelevisionMr &Mrs Harald LamotteMrs A LampertMr David LanchDavid John LangrishMr Roger LascellesJacqui LavyAlan Leibowitz & BarbaraWeissMrs Joan R LevineColette & Peter Levy

Mr Dennis M LevyMadeleine LightfootMr &Mrs LE LinakerTim& Theresa LloydPaul & Brigitta LockMr SimonMacLachlanC & IMaggsDonald & Sally MainJohnMcGinleyLynette &Willie McKechnieMs AMillarMs TessaMoloneyPaulaMorrisSeanMurphyMrs VGMurrayMr &MrsMyddletonDr Venetia NewallJames NicolClive & Annie NortonMr &MrsMO’FarrellEllie Packer & Bob FreidusMrMarcelo Paes DeMelloNigel PantlingMs Sara ParkinMrs Joyce ParsonsMr &Mrs Pedro del CastilloNick PerryOrion PetersonMs G A PiergiesProfessor Brice PittMrs Barbara Pollard

Preben & Annie PrebensonMrs Caroline PriceSue PrickettJane PritchardJack PrydeMr &Mrs Andrew Pucher EsqMrs E E RandallDr Susan RankineMs Ruth RattenburyLiz &Nick ReeveChristopher Marek RenckiMrsMary RendallAnthony RhodesRobin RoadsAnthony RuddMrs Susan RudeloffDr &Mrs SaggarChristopher & Alison SamuelSimon & Abigail SargentSchon Family Charitable TrustGilly SchusterBabara ScottMr &Mrs Colin Scott-MaldenLucie SeatonDrMartin Seifert & Dr Jackie MorrisMr Naveed ShahMrs Susan ShammasMr TW SharpMrM ShenfieldJustin Shinebourne & LaurenceChaussinand

Elaine & English ShowalterJonathan SilverMark SilversteinSir Peter & Lady SingerPeter &Moira SmithMr AP &MrsM T StirlingMr D. A. ThomasAnne & Robert Van GiesonMr Zoran VidinicMr AndrewWalesLadyWardMrs CarolynWareSue & AlanWarnerMr TimWatsonMr JohnWelzMiss LisaWhiffenMrWiddisDr Peter WillisJanineWillsMs Ann E FWingateMr &Mrs D WoolfRichardWorts &Nicola ShackeltonJeffrey & Fenella Young

We would also like to thank themany generous Friends of theAlmeida Theatre, whom we areunable to list individually

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ALMEIDA CORPORATESUPPORTERS“A small stage where giants play” The Times

The Almeida Theatre’s Corporate Supporters benefit frombespoke, mutually beneficial partnerships with the theatrethat include the following:

• Unique entertaining opportunities with the Almeida’sfirst-class casts and creative teams

• Branding,marketing and profiling opportunities

• Staff training and employee involvement initiatives

The theatre’s name is associated with critically acclaimed,award-winning productions. Actors, directors, writers anddesigners of the highest calibre have produced some of theirfinest work at the Almeida.

The theatre is particularly grateful to Principal Sponsor Coutts& Co who is currently enjoying a fifth year of support. Inpartnership with the Almeida, Coutts & Co has benefited fromexclusive client hospitality opportunities, professionaldevelopment for staff and the creation of a unique film,Portrait of a Bank.

To find out how the Almeida can help your business, pleasecontact Kirsten Holmes, Head of Development, who will bepleased to discuss your specific requirements.

Telephone: 020 7288 4930Email: development@almeida.co.uk

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Almeida ProjectsPrincipal Supporter

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