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The Lightning Play
By Charlotte Jones

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The Lightning Play
By Charlotte Jones
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In association with Matthew Byam Shaw
Production Sponsor

Coutts has a very special partnership with
the Almeida Theatre that has flourished over
the last three years. The Almeida is such
an innovative and respected theatre, which
constantly surprises and delights us and our
clients with its ground-breaking productions.
This sponsorship forms an important part
of Coutts’ programme of support for the
performing arts, and I am thrilled that we are
now in our fourth year as Principal Sponsor.
As Principal Sponsor, not only are we helping to
support the rich diversity of productions on the
London stage, but are also able to access the
Almeida’s creative expertise, to help train our staff
and develop the Coutts brand. We were delighted
when the success of this partnership was recognised
by Arts & Business with a nomination in the 2006
Arts & Business Awards.
The relationship between Coutts and the Almeida
continues a long tradition of supporting the arts.
Over time, Coutts has enjoyed a close relationship
with many famous artists, including Frédéric Chopin,
Sir Henry Irving and Charles Dickens.
Indeed, from the late 18th century, Thomas Coutts
and his second wife Harriot, herself an ex actress
and later Duchess of St Albans, supported many of
London’s theatres through charitable donations and
contributed to a fund“for the relief of performers who by
age or infirmities shall be oblig’d to retire from the stage.”
Today, Coutts continues this 300-year heritage,not
only through its ongoing support of the performing
arts, but also through its relationships with many
of the UK’s top figures in the world of entertainment.
On behalf of everyone at Coutts, I wish the Almeida
Theatre every success with this production of
The Lightning Play.
Sarah Deaves, Chief Executive, Coutts & Co

THE LIGHTNING
PLAY
By Charlotte Jones
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Max Villiers
Eddie Fox
Harriet Villiers
Jacklyn Pettit
Imogen Cumberbatch
Burak
Marcus Cumberbatch
Tabby Morris
Matthew Marsh
Lloyd Hutchinson
Eleanor David
Adie Allen
Katherine Parkinson
Simon Kassianides
Orlando Seale
Christina Cole
Director
Design
Lighting
Sound
Cinematography and
Projection Designer
Casting
Assistant Director
Production Manager
Company Manager
Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Costume Supervisor
Wardrobe Supervisor
Wardrobe Assistants
Chief Technician
Lighting Technician
Sound Technician
Theatre Technician
Production Carpenter
Scenic Artists
Set Built by
Student on attachment
Production Photography
Anna Mackmin
Lez Brotherston
Tim Mitchell
Paul Groothuis
Jon Driscoll
Toby Whale
Elly Green
Igor
Rupert Carlile
Suzanne Bourke
Emily Peake
Kate McDowell
Irene Bohan
Catrina Richardson
Jennifer Moore and
Charlotte Damigos
Jason Wescombe
Robin Fisher
Howard Wood
Mark Jenkins
Craig Emerson
Charlotte Gainey and
Jono Beakes
Bower Woods Production
Services
Bryna Shindell
Manuel Harlan
First performed at the Almeida Theatre, 9 November 2006.

CAST
Matthew Marsh
Max Villiers
Recent work includes:
Theatre: The Overwhelming (National
Theatre with Out Of Joint), The
Exonerated (Riverside Studios), The
Goat, or who is Sylvia, Conversations
After A Burial(Almeida Theatre), Us
And Them (Hampstead Theatre), A
Buyer’s Market (Bush Theatre), The
Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse)
Copenhagen (National Theatre).
Television: The Commander (series 1,
2 and 3), Service, Hotel Babylon,
Surviving Disaster, Monarch of the
Glen, The Thick Of It, Murphy’s Law,
Belonging, The Return of the Dancing
Master, Hawking, Wall of Silence, Real
Men.
Film: An American Haunting, Land of
the Blind, O Jerusalem, Bad Company,
Miranda, Quicksand, Spygame.
Lloyd Hutchinson
Eddie Fox
Theatre: Once In A Lifetime, The
Night Season, The Permanent Way,
Romeo and Juliet, Peer Gynt, The
Merry Wives of Windsor (National
Theatre), Talking To Terrorists (Out of
Joint, on tour and Royal Court),
Sherlock Holmes In Trouble, The
Taming of The Shrew (Royal
Exchange), Stones In His Pockets
(Duke of Yorks Theatre), One For The
Road (Gate Theatre), The Tempest,
Translations (Abbey Theatre, Dublin),
English Journeys (Hampstead
Theatre), Shopping and F***ing
(Gielgud Theatre), The Beauty Queen
of Leenane (Duke of Yorks Theatre),
Playboy of the Western World
(Sheffield Crucible), Some Voices
(Royal Court), Travesties (Savoy
Theatre), School For Wives (Belfast
Civic Arts Theate), The Break of Day,
Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith
and on tour).
For the RSC: Troilus and Cressida, A
Month In The Country, A Jovial Crew,
The School of Night, Tamburlaine The
Great - parts I and II, Travesties,
Cowboys II, Edward II, Love’s Labour’s
Lost, Curse of the Starving Class,
Events While Guarding the Borfurs
Gun.
Television: Murphy’s Law, Lloyd and
Hill, Rebel Heart, In Defence, Space
Island One, Inspector Morse, The Bill,
London’s Burning, Making News,
Pulling Moves, The Nightwatch, Scout.
Film: Mrs Henderson Presents,
Gladiatress, With Or Without You,
Boxed.
Radio: includes Catching A Fly In The
Cathedral, Still Life, Baldi, My Life In
Boxes, Thinking Earth, The Trick of
Togetherness, A Series of Murders,
Good Man Ya Da, A Journey From The
New World, The Permanent Way,
Cheating The Gallows, A Wild Ride To
Dublin, Pressing The Flesh, Under The
Net, Measure For Measure, At
Freddies.

Eleanor David
Harriet Villiers
Theatre: Cabaret (Belgrade Theatre),
Summer, The Duchess of Malfi
(National Theatre), Victory, Birthright
(Royal Court), When I Was a Girl I
Used To Scream and Shout, The Brave
(Bush Theatre), Les Liaisons
Dangereuses (RSC), A Streetcar
Named Desire (Bristol Old Vic), The
Crucible (Royal Exchange), The Way of
the World (Lyric Theatre), Kean (Old
Vic), The Philanderer, Three Women
and a Piano Tuner (Hampstead
Theatre), Nine (Donmar Warehouse),
Arcadia (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Television: The Borgias, The Member
for Chelsea, The Antonia White
Quartet, Paradise Postponed, The
Spirit of Man, Chancer, Head Hunters,
The Rotters Club, The Case of the Silk
Stocking.
Film: The Wall, Comfort and Joy, The
Rocking Horse Winner, Sylvia, Ladder
of Swords, London Kills Me, The Kings
Whore, Topsy Turvy.
Adie Allen
Jacklyn Pettit
Theatre: One Under (Tricycle
Theatre), Communicating Doors
(Gielgud Theatre), Selling Out
(Scarborough/Oxford), Three Birds
Alighting in a Field, No One Sees the
Video, Rafts and Dreams (Royal
Court), Daisy Pulls It Off (Leicester
Haymarket), Boys Mean Business
(Bush Theatre), Child In The Forest,
Moll Flanders (Swan Theatre,
Worcester), Cinderella, Noises Off
(Chester Gateway).
Television: Gil Mayo, Inspector Lynley,
Rose and Maloney, Hear The Silence,
Forty, Single, William and Mary,
Holby, Murder, Where The Heart Is,
Midsomer Murders, Waking The Dead,
The Innocents, Wycliffe, The Bill,
Woman In White, Sharman, The Vet,
The Bill, Between The Lines, The
Changeling, Me, You and Him, Calling
The Shots, Poirot, Mary Whitehouse
Experience, Harry Enfield Show, Roots,
Casualty, Inspector Morse, Made In
Heaven, Eastenders, Close Relations,
The Bill.
Film: Business With Friends.
Radio: Baggage

Katherine Parkinson
Imogen Cumberbatch
Theatre: Devised Piece (Young Vic),
Other Hands, Flush (Soho Theatre),
The Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible
Studio), Cigarettes and Chocolate
(Kings Head Theatre), The Riot Act,
The Increased Difficulty of
Concentration (Gate Theatre), Camille
(Lyric Hammersmith), Frame 312
(Donmar Warehouse), Deep Throat
Live On Stage (Assembly Rooms),
The Age of Consent (Bush Theatre/
Edinburgh)
Television: Doc Martin, Fear, Stress
and Anger, Comedy Lab, The IT Crowd,
Extras, Casualty, Ahead of The Class,
Dirty Filthy Love
Radio: Good Times Roll, A Certain
Smile
Simon Kassianides
Burak
Theatre: Night of The Iguana (Lyric
Theatre).
Television: Suburban Shootout,
Recovery, Spooks, Ultimate Force,
Planespotting, My Life In Film,
Casualty, Making It at Holby, Gaby
and the Girls.
Film: Troy.

Orlando Seale
Marcus Cumberbatch
Theatre: A Servant to Two Masters,
Henry VIII, Camino Real, Spanish
Tragedy, Uncle Vanya, Richard III
(RSC), Eurydice (Whitehall Theatre),
Wuthering Heights (West Yorkshire
Playhouse), Kepow (Improv Theatre,
on tour), Legislative (Theatre GLC)
Television: Ghost Whisperer, Monk,
Live (Pilot), The West Wing, Casualty,
Headless ,H.G. Wells, In Your Dreams.
Film: Bobby, Ripple Effect, 3:15,
Caffeine, Crashing, Minni’s First Time,
The Onion Movie, Everything You
Want, Pride and Prejudice, Embryo,
Hysteria, Sleepy Hollow, Hamlet.
Radio: Les Miserables, Orson’s
Shadow, Breaking The Code, Bunbury,
The Trial of Walter Raleigh.
PRODUCTION
THANK YOUS
Special thanks to Morgan Richards and Bram
Richards
Bang & Olufsen of Islington for their
generous, in-kind support
J Sainsbury Ltd for donation of wine
Rug made by Area Rugs, Dewsbury
Michael Gwinnell
Christina Cole
Tabby Morris
Theatre: Romeo and Juliet (Theatr
Clwyd), The Children of Via Della
Scala (Warehouse Croydon), Anna
Karenina (Battersea Arts Centre)
Television: Doctor Who, Jane Eyre,
Most Mysterious Murder, Story II, Miss
Marple, Hex (series 1 and 2), He Knew
He Was Right, Foyle’s War, All About
Me, The Project
Film: Gods Wounds, The Deaths of
Ian, Casino Royale, What A Girl Wants,
Gun, Light
Larron Obinokwo, Samuel Cox, Vishal Deb,
Richard Gaisey, Jordan Gill, Cemal
Cakantemur, Olatunde Mubarak Busari, Sean
Dunkley, Kamran Khan
Copyright permission has been sought from
PRS and ABKCO Music & Records Inc. for the
use of Sam Cooke’s music in this production
The information in this publication is correct at
the time of going to press.
All rights reserved.© Almeida Theatre.
Published November 2006. Registered Charity
No. 282167.The Almeida Theatre Company Ltd,
Almeida Street, Islington, London N1 1TA

Charlotte Jones
Writer
Theatre: Airswimming (Battersea Arts
Centre), In Flame (Bush Theatre and
New Ambassadors Theatre), Martha,
Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Octagon
Theatre, Bolton and tour), Humble
Boy (National Theatre, West End and
Manhattan Theatre) The Dark
(Donmar Warehouse), the book for
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The
Woman in White (West End and
Broadway)
Radio: Talking To Strangers, Mia and
Maia, Dolly’s Mexican Wave, Mary
Something Takes The Veil, Future
Perfect, A Seer of Sorts, Sea Symphony
for Piano and Child, Blue Air, Love and
Flowers, Magpie Tales, The Sound of
Solitary Waves.
Television: Bessie and the Bell.
Charlotte is currently adapting Fay
Weldon's latest novel She May Not
Leave for television and she is writing
a one-off drama for the BBC.
Anna Mackmin
Director
Theatre: Burn, Chatroom, Citizenship
(National Theatre), Mammals (Bush
Theatre and on tour), Knight of the
Burning Pestle (Colchester and Young
Vic at the Barbican) Breathing Corpses,
Food Chain (Royal Court), Cloud Nine
(Sheffield Crucible), The Dark
(Donmar Warehouse), The Crucible,
Iphigenia, The Arbor (Sheffield
Crucible), Auntie & Me (Assembly
Rooms Edinburgh, Gaiety Theatre
Dublin, Wyndhams Theatre), In Flame
(Bush Theatre and the New
Ambassadors), Airswimming
(Battersea Arts Centre).
Anna was the literary associate and
then an associate director at the
Sheffield Crucible Theatre from 2002
- 2004. She is an associate director at
the Gate Theatre.
Lez Brotherston
Design
Theatre includes: For the Almeida:
Brighton Rock. National Theatre:
Playing with Fire, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead, Play without
Words. For the West End: Bedroom
Farce, A Midsummer Nights Dream,
Alarms and Excursions, Nevilles Island,
Sisters Rozensweig, The Far Pavilions,
Tonights the Night, Spend, Spend,
Spend, My One and Only.
For Manchester Royal Exchange:
Design for Living, A Woman of No
Importance, Nude with Violin, Hindle
Wakes. Other credits include: Sugar
Mummies (Royal Court), Little Foxes,
The Dark (Donmar Warehouse),
Fuddy Meers (Arts Theatre), The
Crucible (Shefield Crucible).
Dance includes: Co-directed and
designed Les Liasions Dangereuses
(Japan and Sadlers Wells). For New
Adventures: Edward Scissorhands.
Adventures in Motion Pictures: The
Car Man, Cinderella, Swan Lake,
Highland Fling. For Northern Ballet
Theatre: Carmen, Hunchback of Notre
Dame, Dracula, Romeo and Juliet, A
Christmas Carol, Giselle, Swan Lake.
Other credits include: Jus Scratchin
the Surface (Scottish Ballet), A
Soldiers Tale (ROH2), Bounce
(Stockholm & Roundhouse), Six
Faces (K Ballet Tokyo).
Opera Includes: L'elisir D'amour
(Grange Park), La Sonnambula
(Teatro Municipale, Rio de Janero),
Hansel and Gretel, Cunning Little
Vixen, Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera Zuid
Holland), Cornet Christophe Rilke
(Glyndebourne Touring Opera),
Masquerade, Le Roi Malgre Lui,
Madam Butterfly (Opera North),
Falstaff (Sicily and Royal Danish
Opera Copenhagen).
Film: Letter to Brezhnev, Swan Lake,
The Car Man, Christmas Carol, Romeo
and Juliet.
Tim Mitchell
Lighting
Tim was lighting designer on Enemies,
Blood Wedding, Whistling Psyche and
Brighton Rock at the Almeida Theatre.
Other theatre includes: Dirty Dancing
(West End/Hamburg), Sleeping Beauty
(New York/ Barbican/ Young Vic),
Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (Washington),
The Play What I Wrote (Broadway/
West End/ Tour), Noises Off
(Broadway/ West End/ National
Theatre), Otherwise Engaged, As You

Like It, Romeo And Juliet, Of Mice And
Men (West End), All Banged Up (West
Yorkshire Playhouse/Shed TV); Alice In
Wonderland (West Yorkshire
Playhouse/ Birmingham Rep);
Charley’s Aunt (Oxford Playhouse);
Lear, Ain’t Misbehaving, Richard III,
Edward II, A Chorus Line (Sheffield
Crucible), Hamlet (Japan/ Sadlers
Wells), Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar
Warehouse). He also works
extensively for the RSC, with many
productions transferring to the West
End, Japan and the USA, and most
recently including Coriolanus and
Merry Wives The Musical (forthcoming
season), Anthony and Cleopatra, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear,
Othello, A Comedy Of Errors, Taming
Of The Shrew, Much Ado About
Nothing, The Lieutenant of Inishmore,
Macbeth and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2.
He has also recently lit The Lady and
the Fool for Birmingham Royal Ballet
and La Traviata and Ariadne auf Naxos
for Welsh National Opera.
Paul Groothuis
Sound
Paul trained as a stage manager at
the Central School of Speech and
Drama. Between 1984 and 2003 he
was a member of the Sound
Department at the National Theatre
where he designed the sound for
over 120 productions including His
Dark Materials, Edmond, Henry V, A
Streetcar Named Desire, The Coast of
Utopia, My Fair Lady (National
Theatre and Drury Lane), The
Oedipus Plays, Summerfolk, The
Merchant of Venice, Candide,
Oklahoma! (National Theatre/
Lyceum and Gershwin Theatre, NY),
Oh What A Lovely War, A Little Night
Music, Lady In The Dark, Guys and
Dolls, Under Milk Wood, Sunday In
The Park With George, Sweeney Todd,
The Wind In The Willows, The Night of
The Iguana, The Shaughraun.
Other credits include: The King and I
(London Palladium/ UK Tour),
Endgame (Albery), Matthew Bourne’s
The Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells and
on tour), CoisCeim Dance Theatre’s
Mermaids (Dublin).
Most recent productions include: A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
the Forum, Stuff Happens, The House
of Bernada Alba, Buried Child, Henry
IV parts I and II, Royal Hunt of the
Sun(National Theatre), Bent
(Trafalgar Studios), Matthew
Bourne’s Highland Fling and Edward
Scissorhands.
Current projects include Merry Wives
The Musical (RSC), Porgy and Bess
(Savoy Theatre), Man of Mode
(National Theatre early 2007). Paul is
also an associate to the National
Theatre Sound Department and
Sound Consultant for Sir Peter Hall’s
Rose of Kingston Theatre project.
This year, and in 2007, Paul will
spend time as a Guest Lecturer at
the Hong Kong Academy of
Performing Arts.
Jon Driscoll
Cinematography and
Projection Designer
Jon studied Cinematography at the
National Film and Television School
and Theatre Design at Croydon
College of Art.
Theatre includes: Dirty Dancing
(Aldwych Theatre), Frost/Nixon
(Donmar Warehouse), On The Third
Day (New Ambassadors Theatre),
The Year Of The Hiker (Druid
Performing Arts), Whistle In The Dark
(Royal Exchange Theatre
Manchester), Fabulation (Tricycle
Theatre), Jerry Springer- The Opera
(Cambridge Theatre, UK Tour),
Heroes (Wyndham's Theatre);
Glorious (Duchess Theatre, UK Tour),
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
(Lyric Hammersmith, UK Tour), The
Ha'penny Bridge (Point Dublin and
Cork Opera House), Billy Elliot
(Victoria Palace), Queen’s English,
Country Wife (Palace Theatre
Watford), Darwin In Malibu
(Hampstead Theatre), Whistling
Psyche (Almeida), When Harry Met
Sally (Theatre Royal Haymarket),
Dance Of Death (Lyric Theatre and
Theatre Royal Sydney), Our House
(Cambridge Theatre), Midnight's
Children (Royal Shakespeare
Company), Up For Grabs
(Wyndham's Theatre), Life After
George (Duchess Theatre), Eurydice
(Whitehall Theatre), God And Stephen
Hawking (UK Tour), Terminatrix
(National Theatre Studio), Lady Into
Fox (Gloria, UK Tour), Godspell (UK
Tour).
Opera designs include: A Midsummer
Night's Dream (Royal Opera House),
Genoveva (Opera North), Zoe
(Glyndebourne), Orfeo (Kent Opera).
Dance designs include: Arthur parts I
& II (Birmingham Royal Ballet); The
Pulse of Tala (Angika); Trips To Ecstasy,
The Labyrinth, The Dreamforest and
The Sprirts (Tripsichore).
Film and Television as a Director of
Photography include: Acts of
Kindness, Last Rumba In Rochdale, I
Love Dagenham, Dim Sum - A Little
Bit Of Heart.
Elly Green
Assistant Director
Elly has recently completed a twoyear
MFA in Theatre Directing at
Birkbeck College, University of
London. She is a founder member of
new theatre company: Brother
Tongue.
Directing credits: Skylight (Stephen
Joseph Theatre), The Beach (Theatre
503), The Zoo Story (Etcetera
Theatre). Assistant-directing: To
Reach the Clouds (Nottingham
Playhouse), Improbable Fiction
(Yvonne Arnaud and National Tour),
Villette (Stephen Joseph Theatre),
Rose Bernd (Arcola Theatre), North
Greenwich (McCarthy Theatre),
Cigarettes & Chocolate (Kings Head
Theatre).

HALLOWEEN
alloween is the great survivor among
British seasonal festivals. Older than
Valentine’s Day, Bonfire Night, and even
Christmas, it has survived regular attempts at
reform or abolition, and managed to reinvent
itself numerous times.
Its most recent incarnation –
characterised by a sudden interest in
pumpkins, visits from trick-ortreating
infants, and a brief flowering
of bizarre consumer products in the
supermarkets – is largely an
importation from the United States.
But the modern Halloween
represents no more than the grafting
of a new stem onto a plant with deep
British roots. Halloween has been
able to adapt and survive because it
“Halloween has been able to adapt and survive
because it is one of very few occasions when issues
around death, loss, and the fragility of ordinary
human society are collectively confronted”
MOST LIGHTNING
STRIKES AVERAGE
2 TO 3 MILES
IN LENGTH
is one of very few occasions when
issues around death, loss, and the
fragility of ordinary human society
are collectively confronted, and when
usually suppressed fears are brought
into the open. Whatever else has
changed down the centuries, death
and loss are the great constants of
human culture.
Halloween’s origins are obscure, but
stretch back to pre-Christian times.
The ancient Celtic peoples celebrated
a major festival, Samhain, at the
beginning of November each year.
We know few details about this
festivity, but it seems clear that
Samhain was designed to mark the
turn of the seasons, to celebrate the
end of the agricultural year and the
coming of winter. It seems also to
have involved the ritual lighting of
fires, in defiance of the onset of the
months of darkness.
The fires may have had a specifically
protective purpose, for Samhain was
an evident time of transition and
change. As anthropologists of
different human cultures have long
pointed out, such boundary or
‘liminal’ moments are often felt to be
fraught with potential danger,
occasions when the forces of the
unseen spiritual world threaten to
break into the known material one.
Well into the nineteenth century,
ON AVERAGE
LIGHTNING
STRIKES THE
EARTH ABOUT
100 TIMES
EVERY SECOND

“All Souls reflected
a growing concern
about the fate of
the dead and the
responsibilities of
the living towards
them”
NEARLY 2000 PEOPLE
PER YEAR WORLDWIDE
ARE INJURED BY
LIGHTNING STRIKES.
25-33% OF INJURIES ARE
FATAL.
bonfires were being lit at Halloween
in parts of Scotland in order ‘to keep
the fairies awa’.’
If Halloween celebrations and beliefs
have ancient pagan roots, these were
transformed by their encounter with
the central tenets of medieval
Christianity. ‘Halloween’ is, after all,
the eve of the feast of All Hallows, or
All Saints, joined from the late tenth
century by the feast of All Souls, to
be kept on 2 November. The timing
of the twin festival at the start of
November may have been
coincidental, rather than a deliberate
colonising of a pre-existing pagan
festival. But if so, it was a happy
conjunction, allowing old habits to
assume an acceptable Christian
rationale. All Souls in particular
reflected a growing concern in
Christian circles about the fate of the
dead, and the responsibilities of the
living towards them. A notion
implicit in early Christianity
eventually came to seem an
unacceptable one: that heaven was
reserved for a small spiritual elite
(martyrs, hermits and monks), while
the rest of the population could,
quite literally, go to hell.
A solution was found in the doctrine
of purgatory, a ‘third place’ where
the souls of the great mass of
humanity would be purged before
being admitted to paradise.
Purgatory was imagined as a place of
fire and torment, distinguishable
from hell only by the fact that its
pains would eventually come to an
end. Yet time in purgatory could be
shortened by the prayers of the
living. In churches across the land,
requiem masses were said on All
Souls for deceased parishioners, and
on the eve of All Hallows, church
bells rang out to comfort the souls in
purgatory. However, these rituals did
little to change Halloween’s
importance as a point of ‘slippage’
THERE ARE
8.6 MILLION
LIGHTNING STRIKES
EVERY DAY
WORLD WIDE

“Halloween has long been
regarded as an important
point of ‘slippage’ between
parallel worlds”
between parallel worlds. If anything,
they underlined it, for it made sense
to believe that the souls of the
departed were more likely to appear
and beg piteously for succour now
than at any other time. Wandering
ghosts thus swelled the ranks of the
other supernatural forces let loose at
this crucial turning-point of the year.
The Protestant reformers of the
sixteenth century detested purgatory
and Halloween. Requiems were
abolished, and parishes were ordered
to stop ringing their bells on All
Hallows’ Eve. But if Halloween was
driven out of the Church, ‘popish’
customs lived on in the countryside.
In Lancashire, families lit fires on
hillsides, and knelt round them to
pray for dead relatives. In the West
Country, visitors at Halloween were
invited to eat special ‘soul cakes’ for
the benefit of the departed. And
whatever Protestant preachers might
say, people carried on believing in
ghosts.
Over time, Halloween rites gradually
lost their explicit connection with the
doctrine of purgatory, but a strong
sense of the need to recognise and
guard against the forces of the
supernatural remained. In many
places, rituals were revivified by Irish
immigration in the nineteenth
century, for in Celtic and Catholic
Ireland the traditions of ‘goblin night’
had always been strong. One way of
warding off witches and spirits was
to imitate them, and ‘guisers’ -
weirdly attired or cross-dressed,
armed with turnip lanterns, and
demanding cakes and fruit - were to
be found in many parts of Britain
into modern times.
MOST LIGHTNING
STRIKES CARRY A
CURRENT OF
10,000 AMPS AND
100 MILLION VOLTS

THERE IS A ONE IN 3
MILLION CHANCE
OF BEING STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING
The abandonment of normal codes
of dress nearly always implies the
temporary inversion of society, and a
degree of (barely) licensed disorder.
Guisers, like the malevolent spirits
they mimicked, were often
pranksters, and in many places
Halloween became ‘Mischief Night’,
when children played games like
‘Thunder and Lightning’ - banging on
doors like thunder, and running away
like lightning. (I have strong
memories from my own childhood,
in a peaceful rural community in
north-east Scotland in the 1970s, of
annual expectations of slashed tyres
and broken windows).
Today, such excesses have by-andlarge
been sanitised into the
commercialised world of ‘trick-ortreat’.
But in spite of this, Halloween
retains its power to provoke unease.
Some evangelical Christians regard
the celebrations as dangerous
flirtations with the forces of the
occult, while, conversely, some
modern pagans see them as
trivialising their own beliefs.
Whatever one’s feelings on the
matter, there is no doubt that the
long history of Halloween supplies
eloquent testimony of the endurance
of some central human concerns: of
the need to remember, and to
protect, of the importance of family,
and of belief. It demonstrates a rare
willingness on our part, however
playfully or knowingly, to recognise a
realm of experience beyond the
everyday material world, and thus a
kind of keeping-faith with our
ancestors.
Peter Marshall
Professor of History
University of Warwick
“Halloween supplies eloquent
testimony of the endurance of
some central human concerns”
THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE OF
A TYPICAL LIGHTING
BOLT IS 40,000F (7 TIMES
HOTTER THAN THE
SURFACE OF THE SUN)

RECENT ALMEIDA
PRODUCTIONS
1 2
2003
THE LADY FROM THE SEA
“The Islington powerhouse opens with
this tremendous production…
electrifying… leaves you reeling.”
Daily Telegraph
Sponsored by Hydro
ALMEIDA OPERA 2003
“Bags of atmosphere and dashes of
black humour” The Times on Who put Bella
in the Wych Elm
I.D.
“A riveting production… full of
wonderful theatrical invention…
a rich and shameful period of history
and how memorably it is evoked.”
Daily Mail
Sponsored by Cadwalader
THE MERCY SEAT
“Michael Attenborough’s production
has a high voltage charge that never
dips for a moment. This play plumbs
the depths and deserves to be seen.”
Daily Telegraph
FIVE GOLD RINGS
“Bold, elegant, lyrical, finely wraught…
gorgeously staged and beautifully
performed.” Time Out
1: Natasha Richardson (Ellida), John Bowe (Dr Wangel),
The Lady from the Sea, photo by Catherine Ashmore
2004
THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA?
“Superbly written… brilliant… flawless
production; you won’t find more
blazing acting anywhere… see it if
you see nothing else.” Mail on Sunday
Sponsored by Aspen Re
2: Eve Best (Hedda Gabler)
Hedda Gabler, photo by John Haynes
FESTEN
“Electrifying, shocking and profoundly
moving… such talent, such skill,
such humanity. Something to
celebrate.” Sunday Times
WHISTLING PSYCHE
“An intense, haunting and beautiful
play… two remarkable performances...
marvellously rewarding.” Mail on Sunday

3 4
ALMEIDA OPERA 2004
“Rapturously intense… the
performances are wonderfully
precise.” The Guardian on lo Passion
BRIGHTON ROCK
“An intelligent, edgy, adult musical
which gives you something to think
about... Hooray for that... a
production of brilliant clarity... crackles
with energy and evil.” Daily Express
THE EARTHLY PARADISE
“Gorgeous writing… very compelling,
lovely and tragic. My play of the year.”
New Statesman
Sponsored by Cadwalader
2005
MACBETH
“The most powerful, chilling, evil –
feeling Macbeth sinced McKellen
and Dench.” The Times
Sponsored by Aspen Re
HEDDA GABLER
“An electrifying hit… a wonderful
production” Daily Telegraph
Sponsored by Hydro
ALMEIDA OPERA 2005
“Eccentric, engaging, exuberant,
provocative and entertaining.”
The Times on The Cricket Recovers
BLOOD WEDDING
“Brilliantly directed by Rufus Norris.
Another indication of how well
Michael Attenborough’s management
is doing at the Islington playhouse.”
Daily Express
ROMANCE
“You laugh uproariously... it’s a silly
person who doesn’t.” Financial Times
THE HYPOCHONDRIAC
“Lindsay Posner’s exuberant,
superbly-acted production is riotously
entertaining - has you laughing like
a drain.” Daily Telegraph
5
2006
THE LATE HENRY MOSS
“A thrilling new play... acted up to the
hilt by a remarkable company... an
astonishingly wrought, high drama”
Evening Standard
Sponsored by Pinsent Masons
PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT
“You must see this play: it’s like a
diamond cut with its own stardust.”
Sunday Times
Sponsored by Aspen Re
ENEMIES
“A superb theatrical achievement...an
excellent cast...Michael Attenborough’s
admirable staging...this is a major
event in our theatre” Financial Times
Sponsored by Cadwalader
ALMEIDA OPERA 2006
“Musically and theatrically this is an
event of astonishing force”
The Independent on Pierrot Lunaire
TOM AND VIV
“A magnificent and superbly acted
piece of theatre...the play so powerfully
succeeds...a sublime tragedy”
Sunday Times
3: Flaminia Cinque (Conchalla) and Trevor Cooper
(Henry) The Late Henry Moss, photo by John Haynes
4: The cast of Enemies, photo by Hugo Glendinning 5: Jonny Lee Miller (Christian), Tom Hardy (Michael)
Festen, photo by John Haynes

11 January – 3 March 2007
World premiere
There Came
A Gypsy Riding
By Frank McGuinness
Director Michael Attenborough
Design Robert Jones
Lighting Paul Pyant
Sound Paul Arditti
Cast:
Eileen Atkins, Elaine Cassidy, Aidan McArdle, Ian McElhinney, Imelda Staunton
Image Getty
Season Sponsor:
Media Partner:
Box Office 020 7359 4404
www.almeida.co.uk

NEW SPRING 2007 SEASON
8 March - 28 April 2007
World Premiere
Dying For It
By Moira Buffini
A free adaptation of The Suicide
By Nikolai Erdman
11 May - 30 June 2006
European Premiere
Big White Fog
By Theodore Ward
Moira Buffini, 2006
Director Kathy Burke
Design Lez Brotherston
Living with poverty, a bread-winning wife
and a bullying mother-in-law, how is a man
to cope? By becoming a national celebrity.
Theodore Ward, 1938
Director Michael Attenborough
Design Jonathan Fensom
“Big White Fog is the best play of Negro
authorship that this courier has seen’
New York Times 1940
For further information and to book
for forthcoming productions, including
Dying For It and Big White Fog, visit
our website www.almeida.co.uk
(see right for booking dates)
Priority booking
(Circle of Supporters): 6 November 2006
Advance booking
(mailing list members): 27 November 2006
Public booking: 4 December 2006
Media Partner:
Box Office 020 7359 4404
www.almeida.co.uk

ASSISTED PERFORMANCES
The Almeida schedules assisted performances in order to make theatre more
accessible and enjoyable for people who may find it difficult to see or hear
everything that takes place on stage.
Captioned performances feature an
electronic screen which displays the
words being spoken on stage in time with
the performance, much like the subtitles
you would see on television.
Audio described performances are ideal
for audience members with visual
impairment. We provide a discreet
headset which allows you to listen to
information about the set, costumes,
body language and facial expressions of
the performers, during pauses in the
action on-stage.
Our sign language interpreted
performances are presented by experienced
interpreters who use British Sign Language.
THE LIGHTNING PLAY
Wed 6 Dec 7.30pm
Captioned by STAGETEXT
THERE CAME A
GYPSY RIDING
Tue 13 Feb 7.30pm
Captioned by STAGETEXT
DYING FOR IT
Tue 17 Apr 7.30pm
Captioned in house
BIG WHITE FOG
Tue 19 Jun 7.30pm
Captioned in house
GET IN TOUCH
If you would like any more information
about assisted performances or access, or
to book for an assisted performance,
please contact us:
020 7288 4999
email access@almeida.co.uk
or visit www.almeida.co.uk
THE LIGHTNING PLAY
Sat 6 Jan 3pm
Audio Described by
Vocaleyes (Touch Tour 1.30pm)
THERE CAME A
GYPSY RIDING
Sat 24 Feb 3pm
Audio Described by
Vocaleyes (Touch Tour 1.30pm)
DYING FOR IT
Sat 14 Apr 3pm
Audio Described by
Vocaleyes (Touch Tour 1.30pm)
BIG WHITE FOG
Sat 16 Jun 3pm
Audio Described by
Vocaleyes (Touch Tour 1.30pm)
THE LIGHTNING PLAY
Tue 12 Dec 7.30pm
Sign Language Interpreted
by Jeni Draper
THERE CAME A
GYPSY RIDING
Wed 28 Feb 7.30pm
Sign Language Interpreted
by Russ Aldersson
DYING FOR IT
Thu 26 Apr 7.30pm
Sign Language Interpreted
BIG WHITE FOG
Wed 27 Jun 7.30pm
Sign Language Interpreted
If you would like a large print
copy of this programme please
contact us using the details
listed.
Thanks to STAGETEXT, Vocaleyes and all our
interpreters.

ALMEIDA PROJECTS
Almeida Projects brings together the professional experience of theatre artists working at the
Almeida and the original ideas of local people in a genuine creative exchange.
Image Phill Pepper
Since our launch in 2003, we have devised, workshopped, written, designed, produced, created lighting and
sound as well as performed with individuals, schools, colleges and community groups from across Islington.
In 2006–7, our work will reach over 1,000 local people, attending and creating their own responses to Almeida
productions.
LOSTLINGS
“What images return”
Marina, TS Eliot
Connecting our first three
productions, Tom and Viv, The
Lightning Play and There Came A
Gypsy Riding, we tackle parent/child
relationships. Focusing on Viv and
the off-stage characters in the other
two plays, we investigate and
animate the plays from the
perspective of the “lost children.”
“Time present and time past
are both perhaps present
in time future”
Burnt Norton, TS Eliot
Why try? Where do I belong? How
can history influence my future?
Following on from the Lostlings
project, Almeida Projects presents a
series of theatrical inquiries into
destiny, aspiration, nature and
nurture. Inspired by our forthcoming
European premiere Big White Fog,
the project culminates in
opportunities for the participants to
present their ideas in performances
either at the Almeida or in the
participants’ own venues.
“Where are we going?”
Adam, Bridge School
Between October and December,
Almeida Projects is working with
students with severe and profound
learning difficulties attending the
Bridge School in Islington. We are
using projection, movement, lighting
and voice to explore the journeys that
the students make every day and to
look ahead to the school’s move to a
new site in September 2007. The
project is being led by a diverse team
of professional artists, supported by
volunteers from the law firm
Cadwalader.
PROJECTIONS
Projections is our initiative which
focuses on continuing participation
with the Almeida’s work outside and
beyond school and college.
HAPPY MONDAYS, our subsidised
ticket programme for local schoolleavers
and Projects “graduates”
continues into its second year,
providing opportunities for young
people to see our work and to
discuss theirs with each other and
with Almeida artists. In 2007, we
pilot BRING THE FAMILY, a chance
for Projects participants to host their
families at an Almeida performance.
For more information about our
work, Teachers’ Evenings and
Subsidised Ticket Scheme, please
visit www.almeidaprojects.co.uk or
call 0207 288 4916.

YOUR VISIT
Welcome to the
Almeida Theatre.
IN THE FOYER
The box office, bar, kiosk and toilets
are all accesible from the foyer.
Access to the Circle is through the
doors on Almedia Street. Access to
the stalls is through the doors in the
foyer.
The following are available to buy
from the kiosk in the foyer:
• Playscripts
• Programmes
• Posters
• Losely Ice Creams
• Almeida T-shirts
• Almeida umbrellas
Infra Red headsets are also available
at the kiosk for a small deposit.
DURING THE
PERFORMANCE
Please take your seats in good
time. There will be a three minute
bell before the start of the
performance.
To avoid distracting the performers
and spoiling the performance for
other audience members we ask
that you keep noise to a minimum
in the auditorium and please
switch off mobile phones.
Smoking is allowed in the bar area
only.
Plastic cups are available at the bar
and from ushers to enable you to
take drinks into the auditorium.
We request that you do not take
food into the auditorium.
Please do not cause any undue
alarm by leaving your bags
unnattended.
We appreciate your consideration
for local residents when leaving the
theatre.
In accordance with the
requirements of the Council of the
London Borough of Islington,
persons shall not be permitted to
stand or sit in any of the gangways
intersecting the seating or to sit in
any of the other gangways.

EATING AND
DRINKING
The Almeida Theatre Bar offers
tasty homemade dishes, a
great wine list, fine coffees and
a relaxed atmosphere, and in
the evening becomes a lively
bar for audiences, actors and
public alike.
To beat the rush we recommend that
you pre-order your interval drinks at
the bar before the performance.
Remember the cafe bar is open to all,
You can visit us from 11am-11pm,
Mon - Sat for drinks and light meals.
With locally sourced produce from
Covent Garden and Billingsgate
Markets it is an ideal place to meet
friends for lunch, or just to relax and
read the papers.
The bar is also available for private
hire.
For further information please see
www.almeida.co.uk
or email bar@almeida.co.uk
EXPLORE
THE ALMEIDA
You can find out more about the
history of this fascinating building on
our theatre tours.
Led by an experienced guide they
offer the opportunity to explore the
depths of the theatre including
backstage, wardrobe, and technical
departments.
The tours also look at the history of
the building through its many,
incarnations from lecture hall to
Victorian music hall, to carnival
novelties factory, up until the new
building you see today.
We finish the tours with a
complimentary tea or coffee in
the bar.
The Almeida building in 1840
To book a place on a tour or for more
information ask at the box office or
see www.almeida.co.uk
We welcome any suggestions
or comments you may have
about your visit to the Almeida
Theate.
Please get in touch with us by
emailing info@almeida.co.uk

“The country’s
hottest theatre”
Daily Telegraph
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ALMEIDA’S
CIRCLE OF
SUPPORTERS
Every donation made through our Circle of
Supporters scheme is vital to ensuring
that the Almeida can continue to mount
productions of outstanding quality in our
beautifully refurbished theatre.
IN ADDITION YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM:
• Priority booking
• Advance mailing
• Exclusive events
• Quarterly newsletter
• Special offers
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If you would like to help us and become
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work, please join our Circle of Supporters
today.
For further information please call
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sparker@almeida.co.uk
Jonathan Pryce in Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Photographer: John Haynes

PLEASE SUPPORT THE ALMEIDA AT
ONE OF THE FOLLOWING LEVELS:
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For a suggested donation of £50 or more we may
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• Invitations to Supporters’ evenings
• Ticket offers when available
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For a suggested donation of £120 or more we may
extend the above and the following:
• Accreditation in Almeida Theatre programmes
• Advance notice of Almeida Galas
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For a suggested donation of £1,000 or more we may
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• Invitations to selected Press Nights
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• Access to house seats when a production is
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BENEFACTORS (£2,500+)
For a suggested donation of £2,500 or more we may extend the
above and the following:
• Invitations to every Press Night
• Acknowledgement on the Benefactors’ Board in
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For a suggested donation of £5,000 or more we may extend the
above and the following:
• Invitations to selected dress or technical rehearsals
• Draft scripts when rehearsals for productions begin
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For a suggested donation of £10,000 or more we may extend the
above and the following:
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closely involved at the heart of the theatre company. Forming an
exclusive partnership with the Artistic Director, members will play a
crucial and active role in enabling the theatre’s programme and the
artistic standards for which the Almeida is renowned.
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ALMEIDA CORPORATE
SUPPORTERS
“A small stage where giants play” The Times
The Almeida’s Corporate Supporters
benefit from bespoke, mutually
beneficial partnerships with the
theatre that include the following:
• Unique entertaining opportunities
with the Almeida’s first-class casts
and creative teams
• Branding, marketing and profiling
opportunities
• Staff training and employee
involvement initiatives
• CSR fulfilment via Almeida Projects;
the theatre’s creative exchange with
local young people
The Almeida has won 50 major
awards in the past twelve years.
The theatre’s name is associated
with critically acclaimed productions
of a diverse range of British and
international drama. Actors, directors,
writers and designers of the highest
calibre have produced some of their
finest work at the Almeida.
The theatre is particularly grateful to
Principal Sponsor Coutts & Co who
is currently enjoying a fourth year
of support. In partnership with the
Almeida, Coutts & Co has benefited
from exclusive client hospitality
opportunities, professional
development for staff and the creation
of a unique film, Portrait of a Bank.
The Almeida is hugely grateful to
Coutts & Co for their ongoing support.
To find out how the Almeida can
help your business, please contact
Jennifer Davies, Head of Development
(Maternity Cover) who will be pleased
to discuss your specific requirements.
Telephone: 020 7288 4934
Email: jdavies@almeida.co.uk
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ALMEIDA SUPPORTERS
Every year the Almeida needs to raise £1.2m to produce work of the highest quality. With the
generous help of our supporters we are able to be bold, risk-taking and disctinctive. We are
immensely grateful to the following for their ongoing support of the theatre and its work.
Major Donors
Ormonde & Mildred Duveen
Trust
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
The Genesis Foundation
The Hon. Daphne Guinness
Niarchos
The Ingram Trust
Harvey & Allison McGrath
Georgia Oetker
The Laura Pels Foundation
The Rose Foundation
Carl & Martha Tack
The Tara Ulemek Foundation
Roger Wingate
Almeida Opera Supporters
John S. Cohen Foundation
Columbia Foundation, San
Francisco
The Foyle Foundation
The Hinrichsen Foundation
Peter Moores Foundation
Almeida Projects Supporters
The Andor Charitable Trust
Anonymous
Business Design Centre
Sir John Cass’s Foundation
Raymond Cazalet Charitable
Trust
The Goldsmiths’ Company
The Worshipful Company of
Grocers
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Kreitman Foundation
JPMorgan Foundations
The Lord Mayor’s Appeal
The Rayne Foundation
Richard Reeve’s Foundation
The Foundation for Sport
& the Arts
The Wates Foundation
Artistic Director’s Inner Circle
Eric Abraham & Sigrid Rausing
Anonymous
Mrs Claus von Bulow
Mercedes & Michael Hoffman
Jack & Linda Keenan
Midge & Simon Palley
David Robbie
Stuart & Hilary Williams
Production Circle
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Christopher Hyder
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Act Productions
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Robert & Clare Gray
Richard Greaves & Joanna
Munro
Brian and Rosita Green
Nick & Fiona Green
Graeme & Fiona Griffiths
Susan & Don Guiney
Mrs Susan Harbour
Sheila & John Harvey
Ms Clodagh Hayes
Ms Sioban Healy
Martin & Alicia Herbert
Michael & Jennifer Hershon
Michael Holter
Rob & Sally Hull
Martha Hummer-Bradley
Mr Roger Jospe
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Foundation
Roger Lascelles
Mr & Mrs B Lesslie
Mr Gerald Levin
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Rod & Mina McManigal
Maggie Mills & Stephen Price
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NationalTheatre ThérèseRaquin
A play by Emile Zola. Adapted by Nicholas Wright
I’m frightened. There’s something
happening that I can’t control.
Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and
a sickly husband, Thérèse Raquin falls
passionately for another man. Their feverish
affair drives the lovers to an act of terrible
desperation and catapults them into a world
more claustrophobic than the one they
sought to destroy.
Charlotte Emmerson, who played the lead in Baby
Doll at the NT in 2000, plays Thérèse while Ben
Daniels, seen at the NT most recently in Iphigenia at
Aulis, is her lover, Laurent; and Judy Parfitt, whose
many film, TV and theatre credits include Girl with
a Pearl Earring, is the mother-in-law.
This is director Marianne Elliott’s second production
for the National, following the critically-acclaimed
Pillars of the Community.
Photo (Charlotte Emmerson and Ben Daniels) by Jillian Edelstein.
UNTIL 21 FEBRUARY 2007
Tickets £10 – £37.50
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Lucian Freud, born 1922. Leigh Bowery, 1991
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