Allan Corduner’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End), Two Thousand Years and The Beaux’ Stratagem at the National Theatre; My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center, NY; Murder on the Orient Express at the McCarter, Princeton; Show Boat at Sheffield Crucible; Passion at the Donmar Warehouse; Hello, Dolly! at Regent’s Park; The Birthday Party at the Berlind, Princeton; Comedians at the Acorn, New York; F***ing Games at the Royal Court; Serious Money at the Royal Court, in the West End and on Broadway; Titanic on Broadway; and A View from the Bridge and Taken at Midnight in the West End. TV includes Dinner with the Parents, Ridley Road, Fearless, The Collection, Homeland, Musketeers, Da Vinci’s Demons, Utopia, Spies of Warsaw, Dancing on the Edge, Midsomer Murders, We’ll Take Manhattan, Exile, Zen: Cabal, Lennon Naked, Grandma’s House, Schama’s Power of Art, Heartbeat, Friends and Crocodiles, The Last Detective, La Femme Musketeer, Trust, Daniel Deronda, Foyle’s War, The Way We Live Now, Fat Friends, Liverpool 1, Drop the Dead Donkey and Paris. Film includes Tár, The Offering, Operation Finale, Miss Dali, Disobedience, Woman in Gold, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Sweeney, Mr Nobody, Defiance, Fred Claus, The Waiting Room, The White Countess, Bigger Than the Sky, The Merchant of Venice, Vera Drake, De-Lovely, Food of Love, Moonlight Mile, Me Without You, The Grey Zone, Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang), Joe Gould’s Secret, Gladiator, Topsy Turvy, The Impostors, Talk Radio and Yentl. Radio includes Von Ribbentrop’s Watch, Insignificance, Dr Freud Will See You Now, Inspector Stein and The New World of Charles Fort.
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‘Unmissably extraordinary. Two acting titans dazzle in a love letter to theatre’
Daily Telegraph
‘A BRILLIANT NEW PLAY.’
Financial Times
‘A MAGNIFICENT TOUR DE FORCE’
Broadway World
‘Sam Mendes has spun a tense, superbly performed production. Theatrical gold’
Daily Mail
‘FUNNY, WITTY AND UTTERLY COMPELLING’
WhatsOnstage
‘A THRILLING ROLLERCOASTER OF HIGH DRAMA’
Sunday Times
‘A THEATRICAL EXTRAVAGANZA’
Evening Standard
ABOUT The Show
Sam Mendes directs Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton, Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Tuppence Middleton as Elizabeth Taylor, in this fierce and funny new play by Jack Thorne, offering a glimpse into the politics of a rehearsal room and the relationship between art and celebrity.
1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
The Motive and the Cue is inspired by Letters from an Actor by William Redfield and John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet by Richard L. Sterne.
Please note: This production contains strong language and adult themes, with some bright lighting. E-cigarettes are smoked onstage in this production.
Access performances
There will be access performances on the following dates.
BSL Interpreted: Saturday 3 February, 2pm
Audio Described: Thursday 29 February, 7.30pm and Saturday 16 March, 2pm
Captioned: Tuesday 20 February, 7.30pm and Saturday 9 March 2pm
For more information and to book access performances, email [email protected] or call 0344 482 5137 (open 10am – 6pm daily, excluding Bank Holidays).
education
Education groups of 10+ | Band C tickets for £25, plus 1 free teacher per 10 paying students*
*Excluding performances in weeks commencing 25 December 2023, 1 January 2024 and 12 February 2024. Subject to availability.
Phone enquiries: 0344 482 5100 (Calls to Delfont Mackintosh Theatres’ 03 numbers cost no more than a national rate call to an 01 or 02 number).
groups information
Groups of 10+ | Bands A and B tickets £50*
*Valid on Monday – Thursday performances, excluding weeks commencing 25 December 2023, 1 January 2024 and 12 February 2024. Subject to availability.
Phone enquiries: 0344 482 5100 (Calls to Delfont Mackintosh Theatres’ 03 numbers cost no more than a national rate call to an 01 or 02 number).
CAST and Creative
![ALLAN CORDUNER](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Allan-Corduner-400x547-1-e1696347539877.jpg)
ALLAN CORDUNER
Hume Cronyn
![ELENA DELIA](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Elena-Delia-headshot-Photo-Stanley-Morgan.jpg)
ELENA DELIA
Jessica Levy
Elena Delia trained at the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting in London. Her work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre (also in the West End); The Heresy of Love, Spring Awakening and The Cherry Orchard for Studio Soho; and Women of Troy for Theatre Technis. TV includes The Alienist and Soulmates. Film includes The Gates, Sober and A Motion Selfie.
![RYAN ELLSWORTH](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/ryan-ellsworth-headshot-RS.jpg)
RYAN ELLSWORTH
George Voskovec
Ryan Ellsworth trained at LAMDA. His work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre (also in the West End); Romeo and Juliet and Henry V at Regent’s Park; The Wizard of Oz at Sheffield Crucible; The Taming of the Shrew and The Custom of the Country at Shakespeare’s Globe; Labyrinth at Hampstead Theatre; ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore for Cheek by Jowl; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Theatr Clwyd; Where There’s a Will for English Touring Theatre; Cymbeline for Cheek by Jowl, the Barbican and on international tour; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare for the Reduced Shakespeare Company; The Round Dance for Camden Round House; Man and Superman for Shaw’s Corner; Antigone at the Old Vic; and To Kill a Mockingbird in the West End. TV includes Wednesday, Angel of Darkness, EastEnders, Manhunt and Island at War. Film includes A Royal Winter and Bel Ami. Radio includes Rare Earth.
![MARK EXTANCE](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Mark-Extance-headshot-RS.jpg)
MARK EXTANCE
Mick Burrows
Mark Extance’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End), Downstate, Three Days in the Country, Scenes from an Execution, Travelling Light and London Assurance at the National Theatre; The Mirror and the Light for the RSC; Copenhagen at Theatre Royal Bath; The Mullah of Downing Street at The Theatre Chipping Norton; The Box of Delights at Wilton’s Music Hall; Correspondence at the Old Red Lion; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Squerreys Court; Play of Thrones at the Union; Marriage at the Belgrade; School for Scandal and Dr Faustus at Greenwich Theatre; Pygmalion at the Old Vic; And Then There Were None for Agatha Christie Theatre Co; Uncle Vanya for English Touring Theatre; Old Times at Theatre Royal Bath; Waiting for Godot and You Never Can Tell for Peter Hall Company at Theatre Royal Bath and West End; Venice Preserv’d at the Arcola; and Don Juan in Soho and Yes, Prime Minister in the West End.
![JOHNNY FLYNN](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/06/Johnny-Flynn-headshot-RS.jpg)
JOHNNY FLYNN
Richard Burton
Johnny Flynn is a musician and actor. His work in theatre includes: The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre; Jerusalem, True West, Richard III and Twelfth Night (also at Shakespeare’s Globe) and Hangmen (also at the Royal Court and the Atlantic, NY) in the West End; The Low Road and The Heretic at the Royal Court; Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew at the Old Vic, on international tour and at Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. Work in TV includes The Lovers, Ripley, Les Misérables, Genius: Picasso, Vanity Fair, Lovesick, Inside No. 9, Genius: Einstein, Brotherhood, The Nightmare World of HG Wells, Detectorists and Kingdom. Film includes One Life, The Outfit, Operation Mincemeat, The Dig, Stardust, The Score, Cordelia, Emma, Beast, Love is Thicker Than Water, Clouds of Sils Maria, Song One, Apres Mai, Lotus Eaters and Crusade in Jeans. Composition includes As You Like It for Shakespeare’s Globe; The Heretic for the Royal Court; Zog on UK tour; True West in the West End; The Score, Emma, A Bag of Hammers and Detectorists. His radio musical Magnitsky, co-written with Robert Hudson, won Best Original Single Drama at the BBC Audio Awards 2021. Johnny Flynn recently composed music for Simon McBurney/Robert Macfarlane’s radio adaptation of Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising.Albums include A Larum, Been Listening, Country Mile, Sillion, Lost in the Cedar Wood with Robert Macfarlane and various live albums and EPs. Johnny received Theatre World Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations for Hangmen; Olivier Award nomination for Jerusalem; Critics Choice Award nomination for Genius; and the Ian Charleson Award for Twelfth Night. He was nominated for the London Newcomer of the Year at the 2012 WhatsOnStage awards.
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MARK GATISS
John Gielgud
Mark Gatiss’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue, Three Days in the Country and Season’s Greetings for the National Theatre; The League of Gentlemen Live and The Boys in the Band (also at Park Theatre) in the West End; A Christmas Carol and The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace; The Vote, Coriolanus and The Recruiting Officer at Donmar Warehouse; 55 Days at Hampstead; All About My Mother at the Old Vic; and Art at the Whitehall. Work in TV includes Nolly, Time Bandits, Dracula, Inside No. 9, London Spy, Coalition, Gunpowder, Wolf Hall, Doctor Who, Mapp and Lucia, Game of Thrones, The First Men in the Moon, Crooked House, Fear of Fanny and The League of Gentlemen. Film includes Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (parts one and two), Operation Mincemeat, The Father, The Favourite, The Mercy, The Road Dance, Christopher Robin and Our Kind of Traitor. Radio includes The Hound of the Baskervilles (BBC Symphony Orchestra), The Haunting of M.R. James, The School for Scandal, The Man in Black, Nebulous and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Mark received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Three Days in the Country.
![MIA KHAN](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2024/01/MIA-KHAN.jpg)
MIA KHAN
UNDERSTUDY LINDA MARSH/ STAGE MANAGER
![DANIEL KRIKLER](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Daniel-Krikler-RS.jpg)
DANIEL KRIKLER
Dillon Evans + Waiter
Daniel Krikler trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Laine Theatre Arts. His work in theatre includes The Normal Heart at the National Theatre; the original cast of The Book Thief (as Max Vandenberg ) at the Octagon, Bolton and Leicester Curve; The Secret Life of Bees at the Almeida; Fighting Irish at the Belgrade; The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth for Guildford Shakespeare Company; Pippin at Charing Cross Theatre; 4000 Miles and Present Laughter at the Old Vic; Unicorns, Almost and Pink Mist at Bristol Old Vic; Homos or Everyone in America at the Finborough; Jersey Boys on UK and Ireland tour; Bare at The Union; and Mamma Mia! and Loserville in the West End.
![SHAUN YUSUF McKEE](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/11/Shaun-Yusuf-McKee_Actors-Alliance_Headshot-1.jpg)
SHAUN YUSUF McKEE
Robert Milli
Shaun Yusaf McKee’s work in theatre includes War Horse at the National Theatre, in the West End and on UK & International tours; Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Twelfth Night and The Tempest for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men; The Magic Flute for Complicité/ENO; Ariodante at Festival D’Aix, Dutch National Opera; and Heartbreak Hotel for Zebedee Productions. Film includes The King’s Man, Dolittle, NZU, and This is Not a Love Song. Tv includes The Witcher, Secret Invasion, Britannia, Eastenders and I, Blondey.
![TUPPENCE MIDDLETON](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/06/Tuppence-Middleton-headshot-RS.jpg)
TUPPENCE MIDDLETON
Elizabeth Taylor
Tuppence Middleton’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue for the National Theatre; The One at Soho Theatre; and The Living Room at Jermyn Street. Her work in TV includes Our House, Shadowplay, The Novel, Diana and I, Electric Dreams, The Great War, Dickensian, Sense 8, War and Peace, Black Mirror, Spies of Warshaw, and The Lady Vanishes. Film includes Lord of Misrule, Downton Abbey, Mank, Possessor, Clifton Hill, The Imitation Game, Fisherman’s Friends, The Current War, MI-5, Jupiter Ascending, Cleanskin, Trap for Cinderella, Trance, Chatroom, A Long Way Down and Skeletons. Short films include Stine, Connect, Ever Here I Be, Subculture and In the Meadow.
![LUKE NORRIS](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/luke-norris-headshot-RS.jpg)
LUKE NORRIS
William Redfield
Luke Norris trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End), The Normal Heart, Antigone, The Kitchen, The Habit of Art and War Horse (also in the West End) for the National Theatre; Hamlet, As You Like It, The Gods Weep and Days of Significance for the RSC; Nora: A Doll’s House, Blue/Orange and A View from the Bridge (also in the West End) at the Young Vic; Orpheus Descending at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Filumena at the Almeida; Remembrance Day at the Royal Court; Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat for Paines Plough; and White Boy at Soho Theatre. TV includes Grace, The Girl Before, Poldark, Our World War, Titanic, Skins and The Inbetweeners. Film includes Black Cab, The Weekend Away, The Colour Room, Been So Long and First Born. Radio includes Bacon in Moscow, Nuremberg, Interrogation, As You Like It, The Hot Kid and Choice of Straws. As a playwright, work includes Hearts for National Theatre Connections; Goodbye to All That at the Royal Court; So Here We Are at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and HighTide; Growth for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Paines Plough; and the radio play The Coming Tide.
![HUW PARMENTER](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Huw-Parmenter-headshot-Photo-Leigh-Lothian-RS.jpg)
HUW PARMENTER
Clement Fowler
Huw Parmenter trained at the Oxford School of Drama and Rose Bruford College. His work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End) and Jekyll and Hyde for National Theatre; Anything is Possible if You Think About it Hard Enough at Southwark Playhouse; The Lovely Bones for Birmingham Rep; The Mirror Crack’d at Wales Millennium Centre and Salisbury Playhouse; Jam Jars at Tristan Bates; After Orlando at the Vaults and Theatre Royal Stratford East; Desert Rats, Slow Falling Bird, The Late Wedding and The Ballad of the Lost Dogs for Chaskis Theatre; Home Theatre UK at Theatre Royal Stratford East; Dark Tourism at Park Theatre; Rebel Rebel at Theatre503; Living in the City With or Without Sex at the Old Red Lion; Pride and Prejudice at Kenton; Basket Case on UK tour; Hearing the Song for Orange Tree; and Women Beware Women at the Sam Wanamaker Festival. TV includes Vikings, Killing Eve and EastEnders. Film includes Charlie and Close. Audio includes Heartstopper, All That Man Is, Elden Ring and Assassin’s Creed.
![STEPHANIE SIADATAN](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Steph-Siadatan-1-RS-1.jpg)
STEPHANIE SIADATAN
Susannah Mason
Stephanie Siadatan trained at Arts Educational Schools London and Margie Haber studios in LA. Her work in theatre includes Horseplay at Riverside Studios; A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer at the Lyric; Abdul for Old Vic New Voices; Murder in the Cathedral at Antwerp; Simply Cinderella at Leicester Curve; Simply Sondheim at Cadogan Hall; Foiled at Edinburgh Festival; High School Musical at Hammersmith Apollo; and Studio 66 at the Roundhouse. Immersive theatre includes The Golden Needle, Detroit Become Human and The Sound Affect for Les Enfants Terribles. TV includes Emmerdale, Silent Witness, Holby City, Doctors and Casualty. Film includes A Paris Christmas Waltz, London Appetite, Here, The School For Good and Evil, Fistful of Karma, Last Man Down and The Hike. Radio includes award-winning comedy A Musical Life Of and Foiled.
![ADAM SINA](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Adam-Sina-RS.jpg)
ADAM SINA
Frederick Young
Adam Sina trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His work in theatre includes War Horse (West End) for the National Theatre; Filleting App for the RSC and Northern Stage; Sinners at the Playground; The Shawshank Redemption on tour for Bill Kenwright; Rutherford and Sons for Northern Stage; A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Old Vic; Filleting Machine at Live; Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet for Hireath; ‘When my Mama Was a Hittite’ at Park Theatre; Kafka v Kafka and The Playboy of the Western World for Intake; Billy Liar for Middle Ground; and Hans Christian Andersen’s Magical Tales for Creation. TV includes The Boys: Varsity, Casualty, Theodosia, Bloods, Jesus: His Life, Doctors, Silent Witness: Moment of Surrender, Hollyoaks, Tyrant, Raiders of the Lost Art: Vanishing Vermeers, Dumping Ground 2, The Bill, Cranford and Byker Grove. Film includes 400 Bullets, Snow in Paradise, School for Seduction, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Ticket to Ride. Video games include Final Fantasy XVI: Salvation.
![DAVID TARKENTER](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/David-Tarkenter-headshot-Photo-Nick-Arthur-Daniel-RS.jpg)
DAVID TARKENTER
Alfred Drake
David Tarkenter’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End) and The Red Barn at the National Theatre; The 47th and Endgame at the Old Vic; The Four Quartets at Theatre Royal Bath and the Royal & Derngate; The Call of the Wild at Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre; Canterbury Tales for Creation; Jeeves and Wooster, Wife Begins at Forty, Absurd Person Singular and Funny Money at Sherringham Little Theatre; The Inn at Lydda, Hamlet (international tour) and The Knight of the Burning Pestle for Shakespeare’s Globe; The 39 Steps at Vienna’s English Theatre; Hare and Tortoise, Arsenic and Old Lace, Absent Friends, The Winter’s Tale, The Rivals, Grapes of Wrath, King David, Man of Blood, Under Milk Wood, Depot, The Lonesome West, David Copperfield, Two, She Stoops to Conquer, Death of a Salesman, Coriolanus, Of Mice and Men, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Heads in the Well, Twelfth Night and To Kill a Mockingbird at the Mercury, Colchester; The Collection, Betrayal, Hamlet, All My Sons and The Last Yankee for Rapture; Oh Starry Starry Night and Pantomime by Derek Walcott at Lakeside Theatre; Treasure Island for Northern Broadsides; Our Country’s Good, The Recruiting Officer, Frozen, The Birthday Party, The Deep Blue Sea, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Season’s Greetings and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick; and The Best Man and Admissions on UK tour and in the West End. TV includes Everything I Know About Love, 55 Degrees North, Falling, Lawless, Byker Grove, Micawber and Heartbeat. Film includes County Lines, King of the Road and London Road.
![KATE TYDMAN](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Kate-Tydman-headshot-Photo-Yellow-Belly-RS.jpg)
KATE TYDMAN
Christine Cooper
Kate Tydman’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End) and Top Girls at the National Theatre; Macbeth at Park Avenue Armory, NY; The Entertainer for the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company; Busman’s Honeymoon, Towards Zero and The Unexpected Guest at the Mill at Sonning; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the Rose, Kingston; Love Me Tender on UK tour; Proof and Look Back in Anger at Reading Repertory Theatre; Kiss Me Kate at the Old Vic and Chichester; Finding Neverland at Leicester Curve; Much Ado About Nothing and Gigi at Regent’s Park; Me and My Girl at Sheffield Crucible; Pippin at the Menier Chocolate Factory; and The Mousetrap, Candide, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Cats in the West End. TV includes Great Expectations and Doctor Who. Film includes Death on the Nile, All is True, Murder on the Orient Express and Cinderella.
![LAURENCE UBONG WILLIAMS](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/laurence-_ubong_williams-RS.jpg)
LAURENCE UBONG WILLIAMS
Hugh McHaffie
Laurence Ubong Williams’ work in theatre includes The Welkin at the National Theatre; A Place for We for Talawa; The Deep Blue Sea and The Watsons (also at the Menier Chocolate Factory) at Chichester; The Glass Piano for The Print Room at The Coronet; Stop and Search and Top Trumps at Theatre503; Jumpy at Theatr Clwyd; The Winter’s Tale at the Orange Tree; and How to Find Us and Swordy Well at Soho Theatre. TV includes The Chelsea Detective, Flatshare, The Capture, Back, Humans and Doctors. Film includes Gate Way, My Dinner with Hervé and The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim.
![SARAH WOODWARD](https://themotiveandthecue.com/content/uploads/2023/10/Sarah-Woodward-RS.jpg)
SARAH WOODWARD
Eileen Herlie
Sarah Woodward trained at RADA. Her work in theatre includes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Nell Gwynn, The Sea, Wild Oats, Present Laughter, The Cherry Orchard, This House and Quiz in the West End. She has played leading roles at the National Theatre, the RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Court, the Donmar, the Almeida and Hampstead theatres, among others. Film includes Supernova, Bright Young Things and I Captured the Castle. TV includes Quiz, The Pale Horse, The Politician’s Wife, Loving Miss Hato, Hear the Silence, Endeavour, Outnumbered and, most recently, Queens of Mystery and Professor T. Awards include Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Tony Awards 2000 for The Real Thing; Best Supporting Actress at the Olivier Awards 1998 for Tom & Clem; Shakespeare’s Globe Classic Award 1993 for The Tempest and Best Supporting Actress at the Clarence Derwent Awards 1989 for Artist Descending a Staircase.
Jack Thorne
Writer
SAM MENDES
Director
Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years. He was a founding director of Neal Street Productions. His work has been seen at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Old Vic, Young Vic, BAM, the West End and on Broadway. Most recently he has directed The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre and in the West End, The Lehman Trilogy and The Ferryman in both London and New York. Films include American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Spectre, 1917 and Empire of Light. Film awards include the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture, three other Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards and the PGA award. In theatre, he has won five Olivier Awards, the Olivier Special Award, six Tony Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, and the Hamburg Shakespeare Prize. He has also won the Directors Guild Award for lifetime achievement. He is an Honorary Fellow of the National Film and Television School, and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was made a CBE in 2000 and knighted in 2020 for services to drama.
ES DEVLIN
Set Designer
Es Devlin trained in English literature, art, and music, before attending the Motley theatre design course. Her work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue, The Lehman Trilogy (also West End and Broadway), The Crucible (also West End), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Ugly Lies the Bone and Betrayal for the National Theatre; A Number at the Old Vic; Girls and Boys and The Nether at the Royal Court; Faith Healer at the Donmar; Hamlet at the Barbican; and Chimerica at the Almeida. Other recent work includes ‘Come Home Again’ outside the Tate Modern; Conference of the Trees at COP26 in Glasgow; Memory Palace at Pitzhanger Manor; Forest of Us at Superblue Miami. Es Devlin has conceived stage sculptures with Beyoncé, The Weeknd, U2, Kanye West, Saint Laurent, Dior and the 2021 and 2022 Super Bowl halftime shows featuring Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem, as well as Olympic Ceremonies in London and Rio. Work in TV includes Abstract: The Art of Design. Her design for The Lehman Trilogy won the 2022 Tony and she has previously been awarded the London Design Medal, three Olivier Awards, doctorates from the universities of Bristol, Kent and UAL and a CBE.
KATRINA LINDSAY
Costume Designer
JON CLARK
Lighting Designer
Jon Clark is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the West End, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and with many other companies in the UK and internationally. His work in theatre includes Dear England, The Motive and the Cue, The Lehman Trilogy (also Broadway and in the West End), The Effect, Amadeus, Anna, Othello and Hamlet for the National Theatre; The Jungle (also at St. Ann’s Warehouse), Betrayal, King Charles III, The Inheritance (also at the Young Vic and on Broadway) and Cyrano de Bergerac (also at Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY) in the West End; A Doll’s House on Broadway; The Book of Dust and A German Life at the Bridge; Evita at Regent’s Park; and The Lorax at the Old Vic, in the US and in Toronto. Opera includes Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera and Glyndebourne; The Exterminating Angel at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House and Saltzburg Festival; Macbeth in Copenhagen and Valencia; Król Roger at Royal Opera House and Sydney Opera House; and Written on Skin at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Royal Opera House, Lincoln Center and internationally. Dance includes LORE for Wayne McGregor at La Scala, Milan; The Cellist for Cathy Marston at Royal Ballet.
Jon Clark won a Tony Award® for The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway, an Olivier Award for The Inheritance, a Green Room Award for King Roger in Australia and a Knight of Illumination Award for Three Days of Rain.
BENJAMIN KWASI BURRELL
Composer
PAUL ARDITTI
Sound Designer
ALASTAIR COOMER CDG
Casting
Alastair Coomer is the Head of Casting at the National Theatre. He was previously the Casting Director at the Donmar Warehouse. He has cast over 50 productions for the National Theatre including Phaedra, Othello, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Corn is Green, The Normal Heart, The Welkin, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Mosquitoes, This House, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, One Man, Two Guvnorsand War Horse. For the Donmar casting includes The Weir, Coriolanus, My Night with Reg, Privacy, City of Angels, The Vote, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Elegy, Faith Healer, Saint Joan and Limehouse. In London’s West End casting includes City of Angels, Company, This House, American Buffalo and Much Ado About Nothing. His work in film includes Mary Queen of Scots.
NAOMI DOWNHAM
Casting
Naomi Downham is currently Casting Associate at the National Theatre. She works across all three theatres on the South Bank as part of the National Theatre’s Casting department, and her most recent casting credits include The Crucible at the National’s Olivier Theatre and in the West End; The Ocean at the End of the Laneon UK tour for the National Theatre; Athena at The Yard; and National Theatre schools tours of Hamlet and Jekyll & Hyde. As a casting associate, work includes Othello and The Corn Is Green at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre; The Normal Heart at the National’s Olivier Theatre; the film Death of England: Face to Face; and The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the National’s Dorfman Theatre and at the Duke of York’s, West End.
ZOÉ FORD BURNETT
West End Director
Zoé Ford Burnett has worked as director and associate director on productions at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, Arcola Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Barbican, Broadway, West End and Los Angeles. Her work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (as associate director) and The Lehman Trilogy (as director in the West End and as associate director at the Nederlander, Ahmanson) for the National Theatre;Titus Andronicus at the Arcola; Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, A Life in the Theatre for Upstairs at the Gatehouse; Selected Sonnets at Shakespeare’s Globe; Click 2 Share at Theatre503; Hamlet at Riverside Studios; Blood Wedding and School for Scandal at Waterloo East; Wounds at Tristan Bates; Close Quarters at RADA; 1984 at Guildford School of Acting; Julius Caesar at LSDA; and Macbeth at Mountview. As assistant director, work includes: Les Liasons Dangereuses, Teddy Ferrara, Splendour, The Vote and Closer at Donmar Warehouse; and Henry V at Regent’s Park.
YASMIN HAFESJI
Associate Director
Yasmin Hafesji is a theatre director from London. She has directed new plays, reimagined classics, devised work, and youth theatre across the UK. Yasmin studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge before training on the Young Vic Introduction to Directing Programme in 2017 led by Natalie Abrahami. She also completed a National Theatre directing course in 2020 led by Katie Mitchell. Her work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (as staff director) for the National Theatre; A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain at the Paines Plough Roundabout and the Gate, Notting Hill; Electra at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; The Maladies for Almeida Young Company at The Yard; Kick at the Lyric Hammersmith; Rashida as part of Fresh Direction; Replay at the Young Vic; Two Heads and a Hand and The Jokers for the Shubbak Festival at the Gate, Notting Hill; Watch Me Dance! for White City Youth Theatre and Young Writers Group Showcase at the Bush; The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida; Women Beware Women at Shakespeare’s Globe; Fairview at the Young Vic; and Dear Elizabeth at the Gate, Notting Hill. Yasmin Hafesji is a Bill Cashmore Award Winner for Kick.
AMALIE WHITE
Associate Set Designer
Amalie White is a Design Director at Es Devlin Studio and has worked closely with Es Devlin since 2018. She has an MA in Architecture from the Royal College of Art and a BSc in Architecture from the Bartlett, University College London. Work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue and The Lehman Trilogy (as associate designer, in the West End) for the National Theatre; 1984 at Bloomsbury Theatre (as designer); Aristocrats at the Donmar Warehouse; and Atlas, an opera by Meredith Monk at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Amalie has worked as an associate designer for Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia arena world tour 2022; An Audience with Adele at the Palladium Theatre 2021; One Night Only with Adele at Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles 2021; The Brit Awards 2021; Dua Lipa at the MTV Awards in Seville 2019; Dua Lipa at the AMA Awards in Los Angeles 2019; Dua Lipa at Graham Norton 2019; and Stormzy at the Brit Awards 2018. Before working for Es Devlin, Amalie White worked as a design assistant on Sinatra: The Man and His Music at the London Palladium; Monty Python Live (mostly) at the O2 Arena; Robbie Wiliams’ Swing Both Ways arena tour 2013; and Robbie Williams’ One Night at the Palladium 2013. Other design work includes Es Devlin and Machiko Weston’s digital artwork I Saw The World End for the Imperial War Museum 2020; Mask in Motion at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen 2018 and Somerset House 2019.
Ben Jacobs
Associate Lighting Designer
George Lumkin
Associate Sound Designer
CHARMIAN HOARE
Dialect Coach
Charmian Hoare trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Work in theatre includes The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Jack Absolute Flies Again, Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika for the National Theatre; Walden, Bonnie & Clyde, Company and The Comeback in the West End; Singin’ in the Rain at Sadler’s Wells; The Taxidermist’s Daughter, The Unfriend, South Pacific, Me and My Girl, Fiddler on the Roof, Plenty, Macbeth, This is my Family, Present Laughter and The Country Wife at Chichester; The Birds and the Bees at the New Wolsey, Ipswich; Fatal Attraction on UK tour; Curtains on UK tour; The Rubenstein Kiss at Southwark Playhouse; Jesus Hopped the A train at the Young Vic; Private Lives, Sweat, Welcome Home, Captain Fox! and One Night in Miami at the Donmar; Blue Door and Abigail’s Party at Theatre Royal, Bath; and The Light in the Piazza at the Royal Festival Hall.
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