by William Shakespeare - Almeida Theatre

CREATIVE TEAM
Michael Attenborough
Director
Michael Attenborough is Artistic Director
of the Almeida Theatre. Previously, he was
Associate Director, Mercury Theatre,
Colchester (1972-74), Associate Director,
Leeds Playhouse (now West Yorkshire
Playhouse) (1974-79), Associate Director,
Young Vic (1979-80), Artistic Director,
Palace Theatre, Watford (1980-84), Artistic
Director, Hampstead Theatre (1984-89),
Principal Associate Director, Royal
Shakespeare Company (1990-2002). On
leaving the Royal Shakespeare Company
he was invited to become an Honorary
Associate Artist.
For the Almeida: When the Rain Stops
Falling; In a Dark Dark House; The
Homecoming; Awake and Sing!; Big White
Fog; There Came A Gypsy Riding; Enemies;
The Late Henry Moss; Brighton Rock; The
Mercy Seat; Five Gold Rings.
For the Royal 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 and
Juliet; A Month in the Country; Othello;
Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2; The Prisoner’s
Dilemma; Antony and Cleopatra.
For the Hampstead Theatre: The War at
Home (also on Broadway); Particular
Friendships; That Summer; Observe the Sons
of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme;
Separation (also in the West End).
For the Palace Theatre Watford: The Girl in
Melanie Klein; The Big Knife; Romantic
Comedy (also in the West End); Terra Nova.
Freelance: Over a Barrel; Single Spies
(Turnstyle Group); 1984 (Citadel Theatre,
Edmonton);Yerma (Abbey Theatre,
Dublin); Anna Weiss (West End); My
Mother Said I Never Should (Royal Court);
Fashion (Tricycle Theatre); Apollo and
Daphne (North Wall); Playing with Fire
(National Theatre).
Lez Brotherston
Design
For the Almeida: Duet for One; In a Dark,
Dark House; Dying For It; Brighton Rock;
The Lightning Play.
Other theatre includes: The Rise And Fall Of
Little Voice; Sister Act; Dickens Unplugged;
In Celebration; Under The Blue Sky; Far
Pavillions; Acorn Antiques; Spend, Spend,
Spend, Tonight’s The Night (West End);
Dorian Gray (Sadler’s Wells/UKTour);
Edward Scissorhands (New Adventures/L.A,
Australia/European Tour); Play Without
Words (National Theatre/New
Adventures); Dancing At Lughnasa (Old
Vic); Seven Deadly Sins; Into The Woods; A
Soldier’s Tale (Royal Opera House); Hedda
Gabler (Gate, Dublin); French and Saunders
(UK Tour); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC);
Swan Lake; The Car Man; Cinderella;
Highland Fling (Adventures in Motion
Pictures); The Vortex (Royal Exchange,
Manchester); Sugar Mummies (Royal Court
Theatre); The Dark; Little Foxes (Donmar
Warehouse); The Crucible (Sheffield
Crucible); L’Elisir D’Amore (Glyndebourne,
Grange Park Opera); Hansel and Gretel
(Opera Zuid/Opera Northern Ireland);
Romeo & Juliet; Carmen; Giselle; Swan Lake
(Northern Ballet).
Film includes: Letter to Brezhnev; Swan
Lake; The Car Man.
Tony Award for Swan Lake (AMP); Oliver
Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Dance for Set and Costume for Cinderella
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