Back to Productions LYONESSE Running at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 17th October 2023. I was inspired to write Lyonesse after wondering what would happen if the dramatic action of a traditional revenge tragedy was flipped. Penelope Skinner Penelope Skinner’s writing had me gripped from the first page. I love the questions the story raises. Kristin Scott Thomas Elaine ( Kristin Scott Thomas ) a reclusive and talented actress, disappears in mysterious circumstances. 30 years later, she finally feels ready to tell her story – summoning Kate, a young film executive ( Lily James ), to her remote Cornish home to assist with her glorious comeback. But who really controls the stories we tell, and how we get to tell them? Will these women own their narrative, or will it be swept away from them at any given moment? When I received Penelope Skinner’s brilliant play, I read it in one sitting and adored it – I was utterly gripped by these strong, original characters. Lily James CAST KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – Elaine LILY JAMES – Kate JAMES CORRIGAN – Greg DOON MACKICHAN – Sue SARA POWELL – Chris NICOLA BLACKMAN – Understudy Chris and Sue OLIVIA CHAPPELL – Understudy Kate NESBA CRENSHAW – Understudy Elaine SCOTT HUME – Understudy Greg CREATIVES PENELOPE SKINNER – Playwright IAN RICKSON – Director GEORGIA LOWE – Design JESSICA HUNG HAN YUN – Lighting Design STEPHEN WARBECK – Music TINGING DONG – Sound Design

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman named in TIME's 2018 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World Wednesday, 18 April 2018 TIME named Sonia Friedman to the 2018 TIME 100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes appear in the April 30, 2018 issue of TIME, available on newsstands on Friday, April 20, and now at time.com/100. The list, now in its fifteenth year, recognizes the activism, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. TIME editors have said of the list in the past, “The TIME 100 is a list of the world's most influential men and women, not its most powerful, though those are not mutually exclusive terms. While power is certain, influence is subtle. As much as this exercise chronicles the achievements of the past year, we also focus on figures whose influence is likely to grow, so we can look around the corner to see what is coming." Up Up

Back to News & Press The Haunting of Hill House thrills critics in Liverpool Tuesday, 15 December 2015 ★★★★ "An undoubtedly enjoyable evening." The Guardian ★★★★★ "Intelligent, sophisticated horror – and electrifyingly scary." Merseysider Magazine ★★★★★ "A modern horror masterpiece." Low Down Magazine ★★★★★ "Hard to beat!" Downstage Centre ★★★★★ "Great storytelling and technical genius bring a classic psychological thriller to the stage with tremendous flair." Good News Liverpool ★★★★ "A genuinely chilling watch." WhatsOnStage.com ★★★★ "Hill House is a Gothic beauty." Liverpool ECHO ★★★★ "The perfect night out." Wirral Globe No-one ever visits Hill House, especially not after dark. When three strangers are invited to join the mysterious Dr Montague at the eerie house on the hill, not even their darkest dreams could have prepared them for what awaits. As their stay unfolds, they are plagued by a series of inexplicable events that propel them to the very edge of their existence. A terrifying psychological thriller that plays with our perceptions of reality, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House became one of the greatest horror films ever made (The Haunting, 1963) and her work influenced writers such as Stephen King and Neil Gaiman. This Christmas watch as Hill House stirs into life on stage, in a new adaption by Anthony Neilson (The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Realism and The Night Before Christmas) and directed by Olivier and Tony Award nominee Melly Still (Coram Boy). Up Up

Back to Productions RAGTIME This production began performances on 14th March and closed on 31st May 2003. Sonia Friedman Productions , Waxman Williams Entertainment , Stewart F. Lane/ Boonie Comley , Ruth Hendel/ Bergere and Dede Harris/ Sharon Karmazin present “RAGTIME ”. CAST MARIA FRIEDMAN – Mother GRAHAM BICKLEY – Tateh DAVE WILLETS – Father KEVYN MORROW – Coalhouse Walker Jr. MATTHEW WHITE – Younger Brother EMMA JAY THOMAS – Sarah HOPE AUGUSTUS – Sarah's Friend IAIN DAVEY – Henry Ford DAVID DURHAM – Booker T. Washington HOWARD ELLIS – Willie Conklin SAMUEL JAMES – Harry Houdini SUSIE MCKENNA – Emma Goldman MARK MCKERRACHER – J.P. Morgan VINCENT PIRELLO – Grandfather REBECCA THORNHILL – Evelyn Nesbit CREATIVES STAFFORD ARIMA – Director ROBERT JONES – Designer HOWARD HARRISON – Lighting Designer PETER HYLENSKI – Sound Designer WILLIAM DAVID BROHN – Orchestrations SHEILAH WALKER – Musical Supervisor CHRIS WALKER – Musical Direction CANDACE JENNINGS – Musical Staging DAVID GRINDROD – Casting Director

Back to News & Press Additional official production photographs for Lyndsey Turner's production of Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch Monday, 24 August 2015 Performances at the Barbican Theatre commenced earlier this month on 5 August, with opening night this evening. Hamlet is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and presented by the Barbican for an exclusive 12-week run, concluding 31 October 2015. Set designs are by Es Devlin with costume designs by Katrina Lindsay, video by Luke Halls, lighting by Jane Cox, music by Jon Hopkins, sound by Christopher Shutt, movement by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and fights by Bret Yount. In partnership with Sky Arts, 100 tickets at £10 have been allocated for every public performance. These tickets are spread throughout the auditorium totalling over 9,000 tickets during the run. In addition to the regular performances, four education matinees have been scheduled exclusively for school and university groups (aged 14+ and in full-time education only). For these performances there will be 100 tickets priced at £10, 300 at £25 and the remainder at £35. For ongoing ticket availability please check the Barbican website at hamlet.barbican.org.uk Hamlet will be broadcast to cinemas around the world on Thursday 15 October 2015 as part of National Theatre Live - the National Theatre’s ground-breaking project which broadcasts plays live from the stage to over 550 cinemas in the UK and over 44 countries internationally. Details of all screenings, including Encore performances, can be found at ntlive.com Performing alongside Cumberbatch are Barry Aird (Soldier), Eddie Arnold (Danish Captain, Servant), Leo Bill (Horatio), Siân Brooke (Ophelia), Nigel Carrington (Servant, Cornelius), Ruairi Conaghan (Player King), Rudi Dharmalingam (Guildenstern), Colin Haigh (Priest, Messenger), Paul Ham (Official), Diveen Henry (Player Queen, Messenger), Anastasia Hille (Gertrude), Ciarán Hinds (Claudius), Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Laertes), Karl Johnson (Ghost of Hamlet’s father), Jim Norton (Polonius), Amaka Okafor (Official), Dan Parr (Barnardo), Jan Shepherd (Courtier), Morag Siller (Voltemand), Matthew Steer (Rosencrantz), Sergo Vares (Fortinbras) and Dwane Walcott (Marcellus). Up Up

Back to News & Press New York Theatre Workshop announce MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Monday, 7 March 2022 New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) announced today that Merrily We Roll Along , featuring music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim , a book by George Furth , and based on the original play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart , will complete its 2022/23 Season. Directed by Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman and choreographed by Tim Jackson , Merrily We Roll Along is presented by special arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions , the Menier Chocolate Factory (Artistic Director, David Babani), and Patrick Catullo , and will star Daniel Radcliffe as Charley. Merrily We Roll Along is planned for late 2022 at New York Theatre Workshop (79 E 4th Street, New York, NY 10003). Additional details, including the full cast, will be announced at a later date. Spanning three decades in the entertainment business, Merrily We Roll Along charts the turbulent relationship between composer Franklin Shepard and his two lifelong friends — writer Mary and lyricist & playwright Charley. An inventive, cult-classic ahead of its time, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Stephen Sondheim ’s most celebrated and personal songs. Maria Friedman first directed the musical at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory which subsequently transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre to critical acclaim—the most five-star reviews in West End history—winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical. NYTW also announced today two new cross-season membership packages, offering a special deal for the remaining 2021/22 season, as well as guaranteeing access to the 2022/23 season. Cross-season memberships (7-Play Premiere for $425 or 7-Play Cross-Season for $335) are on sale now at NYTW.org or by calling 212-460-5475. Early renewal for current members is also available for the 2022/23 season. Merrily We Roll Along will complete the NYTW 2022/23 season. It joins the previously announced productions of Anton Chekhov ’s Three Sisters , in a new adaptation by Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron (Dance Nation, You Got Older ), directed by Tony Award winner and NYTW Usual Suspect Sam Gold (Othello, Fun Home ); american (tele)visions by Tow Playwright-in-Residence Victor I. Cazares (Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall ), directed by NYTW Usual Suspect Rubén Polendo (); 2019 winner of the Yale Drama Prize, How to Defend Yourself by Liliana Padilla (Born 1000 Times ), co-directed by Tony Award winner and NYTW Usual Suspect Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown ), Padilla and Helen Hayes Award winner Steph Paul (The Last Match ); and The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams (Barber Shop Chronicles ). Up Up

Back to News & Press The Doctor starring Juliet Stevenson touring & coming to the West End in 2022 Monday, 4 April 2022 ★★★★★ The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, WhatsOnStage ★★★★ The Times, Evening Standard, The Observer, Independent, The Stage, Metro Robert Icke ’s (Animal Farm, The Wild Duck, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, 1984 ) sold- out, five-star Almeida Theatre production, The Doctor , will tour to Brighton (5-10 September), Bath (13-17 September) and Richmond (19-24 September) before transferring to the Duke of York’s Theatre from 29 September – 11 December 2022. Olivier Award winner, Juliet Stevenson , ‘ delivering one of the peak performances of the theatrical year’ (The Guardian), will reprise her role as Professor Ruth Wolff. Juliet won a Critics’ Circle Award and was nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her performance in this role. Juliet Stevenson said “I am beyond thrilled that The Doctor is travelling to Brighton, Bath and Richmond and then onto the West End. So much has happened in the last two years since we first played the show - I am so excited to share these new resonances and conversations with audiences, everywhere we go. Never has this debate been more needed”. The Doctor , by Robert Icke , very freely adapted from Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler , has been critically lauded since it opened at the Almeida in August 2019. The play headlined the Adelaide Festival in 2020, before it was due to transfer to the West End. This was delayed until 2022 due to the outbreak of Covid-19. This is the third West End transfer for Robert Icke and Juliet Stevenson, following the critical and commercial smash-hit productions of Mary Stuart and Hamlet . She most recently voiced one of the puppets in Robert Icke’s current production of Animal Farm . In a divisive time, in a divided nation, a society takes sides. The latest smash-hit by “Britain’s best director” (Telegraph) is a "provocative, wonderfully upsetting" (Independent) whirlwind of gender, race and questions about identity, "one of the peaks of the theatrical year" (Guardian) and a "devastating play for today" (Financial Times). The production has designs by Hildegard Bechtler , lighting by Natasha Chivers , sound and composition by Tom Gibbons and casting by Julia Horan . Further casting will be announced in due course. 3800 STALLS TICKETS - PRICED AT JUST £25 will be available across the run exclusively for NHS employees and blue light workers (which includes emergency services, those who work in the social care sector and the armed forces). These tickets are available via the official box office ATG Tickets (just select the ‘NHS/Blue Light’ option whilst booking, and present one ID per transaction when you arrive). The Doctor is produced by Ambassador Theatre Group Productions & Almeida Theatre, Gavin Kalin Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions & Wessex Grove . Up Up

Back to Productions THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE This production first began performances on 7th December 2015 and closed on 16th January 2016. ★★★★ An undoubtedly enjoyable evening. The Guardian The fear is all too real. No one ever visits Hill House, especially not after dark. When three strangers are invited to join the mysterious Dr Montague at the eerie house on the hill, not even their darkest dreams could have prepared them for what awaits. As their stay unfolds, they are plagued by a series of inexplicable events that propel them to the very edge of their existence. ★★★★ Superb projections, a lurid soundscape and a generous ration of jump-out-of-your-seat surprises Mail on Sunday A terrifying psychological thriller that plays with our perceptions of reality, Shirley Jackson ’s The Haunting of Hill House became one of the greatest horror films ever made (The Haunting, 1963) and her work influenced writers such as Stephen King and Neil Gaiman. This Christmas watch as Hill House stirs into life on stage, in a new adaption by Anthony Neilson (The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Realism and The Night Before Christmas) and directed by Olivier and Tony Award nominee Melly Still (Coram Boy). Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and HAMMER presents “The Haunting of Hill House ” by Anthony Neilson , based on the novel by Shirley Jackson . ★★★★★ Great storytelling and technical genius bring a classic psychological thriller to the stage with tremendous flair Good News Liverpool CAST EMILY BEVAN – Eleanor CHIPO CHUNG – Theodora ANGELA CLERKIN – Celia Markway JANE GUERNIER – Mrs Dudley JOSEPH MAY – Luke MARTIN TURNER – Dr Montague CREATIVES Based on the novel by SHIRLEY JACKSON By ANTHONY NEILSON MELLY STILL – Director MIRIAM BUETHER – Set Deisgner GABRIELLE DALTON – Costume Designer JACK KNOWLES – Lighting Designer 59 PRODUCTIONS – Video Designer NICK POWELL – Composer and Sound Designer AL NEDJARI – Movement Director JOANA DIAS – Associate Set Designer MAX BARTON – Assistant Director HELEN JOHNSON – Costume Supervisor GEMMA HANCOCK & SAM STEVENSON – Casting Directors

Back to News & Press Toby Jones, Stephen Mangan and Zoë Wanamaker to star in Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party Monday, 11 September 2017 Stanley Webber (Toby Jones ) is the only lodger at Meg (Zoë Wanamaker ) and Petey Boles’ sleepy seaside boarding house. The unsettling arrival of enigmatic strangers Goldberg (Stephen Mangan ) and McCann disrupts the humdrum lives of the inhabitants and their friend Lulu, and mundanity soon becomes menace when a seemingly innocent birthday party turns into a disturbing nightmare. Truth and alliances hastily shift in Pinter's brilliantly mysterious dark-comic masterpiece about the absurd terrors of the everyday. Following critically-acclaimed productions of Betrayal and Old Times , Ian Rickson returns to direct a new production of Harold Pinter ’s landmark play, The Birthday Party . Starring in this comedy of menace are trio of Olivier Award winners, Golden Globe Award-nominated Toby Jones (The Girl, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Infamous ), Tony Award-nominated Stephen Mangan (The Norman Conquests , Jeeves and Wooster , Episodes ) and Tony Award-nominated Zoë Wanamaker CBE (Electra , Passion Play , My Family ). This will be the seventh Harold Pinter play that Sonia Friedman has produced, three of which have been directed by Ian Rickson , who also directed Pinter himself in his last performance as an actor in Krapp’s Last Tape . It is also the ninth production directed by Ian Rickson that Sonia Friedman has produced. Ian Rickson said: “I knew Harold from when I ran the Royal Court and he was a great mentor to me. Doing The Birthday Party is particularly thrilling because as with the best first major plays - like first albums, and first novels - it has the intense DNA of the writer’s inner life; their yearnings, their obsessions, their longings. There’s something about The Birthday Party in particular that’s so raw and committed - it has this kind of anarchic, punk spirit and I’m just so excited about directing it. ” British Actor TOBY JONES is known for his roles both in the theatre and on screen. Earlier this year Toby finished filming both French comedy film Naked Normandy for Philippe le Gay, and next year’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom . Toby has a further four films out later this year including - Universal Pictures’ crime drama The Snowman , psychological indie thriller, Kaleidoscope , Lionsgate’s World War One drama Journey’s End and Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or nominated film, Happy End . Toby will also reprise his BAFTA-nominated role later this year in the third season of the award-winning comedy series Detectorists , written by and co-starring Mackenzie Crook. Toby's other works include ‎Infamous, where Toby played ‘Truman Capote’ for which he won Best British Actor at the London Film Critics Circle Awards. In 2011, Toby starred in the Oscar-nominated adaptation of John le Carre’s classic crime novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the year after, Toby garnered huge critical acclaim for his performance as Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO/BBC television movie The Girl, for which he received a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy nomination. That year also saw Toby play the lead in Peter Strickland’s multi award-winning film Berberian Sound Studio . In 2014, Toby starred as the lead in the BBC Two BAFTA winning drama Marvellous, and the following year in Matteo Garrone’s fantasy horror, Tale Of Tales . Further credits include: Atomic Blonde , Sherlock , Dad’s Army , The Secret Agent , The Witness For The Prosecution, Morgan , Wayward Pines , Capital , The Man Who Knew Infinity , The Hunger Games series, the Harry Potter series, Captain America: The First Avenger , Captain America: The Winter Soldier , Leave to Remain , Andrew Kotting’s By Ourselves , My Week With Marilyn , The Adventures Of Tintin, Frost/Nixon , W and The Painted Veil . Theatre credits include: Circle Mirror Transformation, The Painter, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Parlour Song, Dumb Waiter and Other Pinter Pieces, Measure for Measure ( with Complicite), The Play What I Wrote ( winner: Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor). STEPHEN MANGAN is a stage, film, television and voice actor. After graduating from Cambridge University and then RADA, Stephen began his acting career in the theatre. In 2008 he starred in The Norman Conquests at The Old Vic and then on Broadway. Stephen was nominated for a Tony Award and the play won Best Revival. Other theatre credits include: Birthday , The People Are Friendly (Royal Court Theatre), Jeeves and Wooster (Duke of York’s Theatre), Hayfever (Savoy Theatre), Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC) and Rules For Living (National Theatre). Stephen has an extensive list of television credits. He plays the lead role of Sean Lincoln in the comedy series Episodes , opposite Tamsin Greig and Matt LeBlanc; Series 5 is to be broadcast next year. Next year he can also be seen starring in the new comedy series Bliss for Sky Atlantic, Hang Ups for Channel 4 and Abi Morgan’s new BBC1/AMC drama The Split . Previous TV credits include the BAFTA-winning British sitcom Green Wing, Free Agents , Dirk Gently , in which he played the title role, Houdini & Doyle . Stephen’s film credits include Breathe , Billy Elliot , Birthday , Postman Pat: The Movie (Voice), Rush , Beyond the Pole , Confetti The multi-award-winning ZOE WANAMKER CBE is one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation, with a career that spans both stage and screen. She is a four-time Tony Award nominee, and a nine-time Olivier Award nominee, winning the Best Actress Award twice for Electra and Once In A Lifetime . Her career has taken her from the RSC to the National Theatre via Broadway, the Royal Court, the West End and the Donmar Warehouse. Her varied television career has included the much-loved BBC sitcom My Family , along with Poirot and Mr. Selfridge . She received a BAFTA nomination for her role in the film Wilde , with other film credits including Harry Potter and My Week With Marilyn . Zoë will be appearing in the Sky/Amazon collaboration ‘Britannia’ (2017) as Queen Antedia and in Girlfriends for ITV. Her film credits include: My Week With Marilyn, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, Five Children and It, Harry Potter, Swept from the Sea, Wilde , The Raggedy Rawney, The Hunger, Inside the Third Reich, The Last 10 Days of Hitler. Television includes: Girlfriends, Inside No. 9, Babs, Britannia, Mr Selfridge, Poirot, Wodehouse in Exile, The Man, My Family, Old Curiosity Shop, Johnny and the Bomb, Waste of Shame, Dr Who, Miss Marple, The Cappuccino Years, David Copperfield, Leprechaun, Gormanghast, A Dance to the Music of Time, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The English Wife, Countless Alice, Memento Mori, The Blackheath Poisonings, Love Hurts and Prime Suspect. IAN RICKSON Ian was Artistic Director at the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006, during which time he directed Krapp’s Last Tape, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Fallout, The Night Heron, Boy Gets Girl, Mouth to Mouth (also in the West End), Dublin Carol, The Weir (also in the West End and on Broadway), The Lights, Pale Horse and Mojo (also at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago), Ashes & Sand, Some Voices and Killers. His last production for the Royal Court, The Seagull , transferred to Broadway. Other theatre includes Against (The Almeida), The Goat (West End), The Nest (Lyric, Belfast and Young Vic), Evening At The Talkhouse (NT), The Red Lion ((NT), The River (Broadway), Electra (Old Vic), Mojo ( West End), Old Times (West End), The River (Royal Court), Hamlet (Young Vic), Jerusalem (Royal Court, West End and Broadway), Betrayal (Comedy Theatre), The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre), The Hothouse and The Day I Stood Still (NT), Parlour Song (Almeida), Hedda Gabler (Roundabout Theatre, New York), The House of Yes (Gate) and Me & My Friend (Chichester Festival Theatre). Film includes: Fallout, Krapp’s Last Tape and The Clear Road Ahead . Radio; In Therapy (Radio 4). HAROLD PINTER CH CBE Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980). After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, he worked as an actor under the stage name David Baron. Following his success as a playwright, he continued to act under his own name, on stage and screen. He last acted in 2006 when he appeared in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson.He wrote twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party , The Dumb Waiter , A Slight Ache , The Hothouse , The Caretaker , The Collection , The Lover , The Homecoming , Old Times , No Man’s Land , Betrayal , A Kind of Alaska , One For The Road , The New World Order , Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes . Sketches include The Black and White , Request Stop , That’s your Trouble , Night , Precisely , Apart From That, and the recently rediscovered Umbrellas . He directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce's Exiles , David Mamet's Oleanna , seven plays by Simon Gray (one of which was Butley in 1971 which he directed the film of three years later) and many of his own plays including his last, Celebration , paired with his first, The Room at the Almeida Theatre, London in the spring of 2000. He wrote twenty-one screenplays including The Pumpkin Eater , The Servant , The Go-Between , The French Lieutenant's Woman and Sleuth . In 2005 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other awards include the Companion of Honour for services to Literature, the Legion D’Honneur, the European Theatre Prize the Laurence Olivier Award and the Moliere D'Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. Harold Pinter was awarded eighteen honorary degrees. The production will be designed by the Quay Brothers , with lighting by Hugh Vanstone , sound by Simon Baker , music by Stephen Warbeck and casting by Amy Ball . Up Up

Back to News & Press Full cast announced for terrifying psychological thriller The Haunting of Hill House at Liverpool Playhouse Wednesday, 11 November 2015 The production is a collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and HAMMER to create the first major UK stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel. The production will play at the Williamson Square venue from Monday 7 December to Saturday 16 January. This Christmas at the Playhouse, following the international and West End success of Ghost Stories, the horror genre makes a return with The Haunting of Hill House. Emily Bevan plays Eleanor. Emily can currently be seen in ITV’s Doc Martin and she is also known for her roles in J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (BBC) and playing one of the leads in the BAFTA award-winning supernatural drama series In The Flesh (BBC). Her other credits include The Ark (BBC), The Thick of It (BBC) and Phone Shop (Channel 4). Chipo Chung plays Theodora. Chipo is a well-known face from stage and screen, her theatre credits include Fu Manchu Complex (Oval House Theatre) and Phaedre (National Theatre) and for the Everyman & Playhouse she has appeared in The Mayor Of Zalamea and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Her many television and film roles include Fortitude (Sky), Camelot (Channel 4), Black Mirror (Channel 4) and In the Loop. Jane Guernier plays Mrs Dudley and Celia Markway. Jane has worked extensively with Told by an Idiot including the productions And the Horse You Road In On and Beauty and the Beast. Her other stage and screen credits include Brand (RSC), Shelf Life (National Theatre of Wales) and The Bletchley Circle (ITV). Joseph May plays Luke. Joseph is well known for the role of Andy Button in Episodes (BBC), while his other screen credits include I Live with Models (Comedy Central), Holby City (BBC) and Mistresses (ABC). His theatre credits include No Naughty Bits (Hampstead Theatre) and Serious Money (Birmingham Rep). Martin Turner plays Dr Montague. Renowned for his stage and screen roles, Martin’s most recent stage roles include The King's Speech (Chichester Festival Theatre), Medea (National Theatre), Twelve Angry Men (Garrick Theatre) and A Life of Galileo (RSC). On screen he has appeared in New Tricks (BBC) and Law and Order: UK (ITV). Martin is well known for playing the role of Banquo in Rupert Goold’s production on Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, the West End, Brooklyn Academy of Music and on film. This stage version of The Haunting of Hill House is adapted by Anthony Neilson. His previous theatre credits include The Wonderful World of Dissocia, National Theatre Scotland; Realism, Edinburgh International Festival; Narrative, Royal Court Theatre and The Censor, Finborough Theatre. The production is directed by Olivier and Tony Award nominee Melly Still. Her credits as director and co-designer include From Morning To Midnight and The Revenger's Tragedy (both National Theatre) and Coram Boy (National Theatre and Broadway); Rats' Tales, Manchester Royal Exchange (also adaptor); Rusalka and The Cunning Vixen, Glyndebourne Opera. Shirley Jackson established herself as one of America’s leading horror authors of the 20th Century thanks to a writing style of cryptic symbolism in the Gothic mold in which abnormal behaviour seemed perilously ordinary. As well as The Haunting of Hill House, her notable works include The Hangsaman and The Lottery. Such is the standing of The Haunting of Hill House in the horror cannon that Stephen King, in his book Danse Macabre, calls the novel "one of the finest books ever to come out of the genre". An alternative theatre experience over the festive period, the 150-year-old Playhouse is the perfect setting for this terrifying psychological thriller. Up Up

Back to News & Press Three-time Tony Award Nominee, Kelly O'Hara, to star opposite Matthew Broderick in Nice Work If You Can Get It Thursday, 1 September 2011 Three-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O’Hara (South Pacific, The Pajama Game and The Light in the Piazza) will star opposite two-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick (The Producers, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Brighton Beach Memoirs) in the new musical comedy NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes, The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town), opening on Broadway this April. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT reunites Kelli O’Hara with Kathleen Marshall once again following their Tony-winning success with The Pajama Game and the critically-acclaimed Bells Are Ringing at Encores! last season. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT also marks Matthew Broderick’s first musical since The Producers. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT will open on Broadway in April, 2012 and will be produced by Roger Berlind, Sonia Friedman, Roy Furman and Scott Landis. With a book by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro (Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score for Memphis), NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT follows Billie Bendix (Kelli O'Hara), a tough-as-nails bootlegger who meets up with wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter (Matthew Broderick) on the weekend of his nuptials. Featuring a veritable hit parade of iconic George and Ira Gershwin songs as well as some unknown gems in their catalog, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT is a new take on a classic 1920’s musical farce. "I am over the moon to get to work with the brilliant Kelli O'Hara again. Kelli and Matthew starring together in a romantic screwball comedy and singing Gershwin songs is going to be a total blast!" said Kathleen Marshall. Additional casting, venue and creative team will be announced shortly. Up Up

Back to News & Press The Nether Q&A talks Friday, 16 January 2015 The Nether will host post-show Q&A talks during the play’s West End run at the Duke of York’s Theatre. With members of the creative team, as well as further guests from the worlds of theatre, the media, gaming and technology industries, there will be 6 Q&A talks after selected performances of the play. All Q&A talks are free for The Nether ticket holders. The Nether offers complete freedom – a new virtual wonderland providing total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. An intricate crime drama and a haunting thriller set in the year 2050, The Nether follows an investigation into the complicated, disturbing morality of identity in the digital world, and explores the consequences of making dreams a reality. Previewing at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 30 January and opening on 23 February, Jennifer Haley’s critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning play The Nether, directed by Jeremy Herrin, is booking for 12 weeks only to 25 April 2015. In a Headlong and Royal Court Theatre co-production, The Nether is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott M Delman in association with Tulchin Bartner Productions, Lee Dean & Charles Diamond, 1001 Nights, JFL Theatricals/GHF Productions, Scott & Brian Zeilinger/James Lefkowitz. Tuesday 17 February: Jennifer Haley & Jeremy Herrin - In Conversation How do you write a play about the ethics of online existence? How do you stage a virtual world? Playwright Jennifer Haley and director Jeremy Herrin discuss The Nether and the process behind creating Headlong and the Royal Court’s production of the show, in a discussion chaired by Royal Court Literary Manager, Christopher Campbell. Tuesday 24 February: Gaming Are games a dangerous and anti-social addiction? Might gaming be able to save the world? How is gaming culture changing the kinds of stories that we tell and how we engage with them? Join playwright and gamer Lucy Prebble (ENRON, The Effect) and Iain Simons (Director of the GameCity Festival and co-founder of the National Videogame Archive) to explore how gaming has developed from Pong to Destiny and to discuss where gaming might take us in the future. Chaired by Royal Court Literary Manager, Christopher Campbell. Tuesday 3 March: Theatre and Technology How do we create a theatre for the digital age? Is technology fundamentally changing the ways in which we engage with and make performance? Matt Adams (Artistic Director, Blast Theory) and David Sabel (Head of Broadcast and Digital at the National Theatre) discuss how digital technology is revolutionising performance, chaired by Headlong’s Artistic Associate, Sarah Grochala. Tuesday 10 March: Online Policing and The Dark Web How do you police the entire internet? And how much of the web do we know about? Join Susie Hargreaves (Chief Executive of the Internet Watch Foundation) and Jamie Bartlett (Author of The Dark Net) to discuss how our relationship with the web is constantly changing. Chaired by Headlong’s Artistic Associate, Sarah Grochala. Tuesday 17 March: Living Online Is the web changing us? How does spending time online affect our brains? Can you spend too much time online? Journalist, Liat Clarke (Associate Editor of Wired Magazine) and Spencer Kelly (Presenter of BBC News’s Click) discuss the implications. Tuesday 24 March: The Future of Theatre Design with panel led by Es Devlin How is technology changing the way that we stage and design a production? What new possibilities might digital technology open up for theatre designers in the future? From the Deus Ex Machina of Ancient Greek Theatre to the invention of the electric lantern in the late nineteenth century, technology has had a huge impact on the ways in which we stage a performance. Olivier Award Winning Set Designer Es Devlin (Chimerica, American Psycho, The Nether) and Luke Halls (I Can’t Sing!, Olympic and Paralympic Closing Ceremonies, Master and Margarita) lead a panel of experts to discuss how digital technology is revolutionising the world of theatre design. The West End cast of The Nether comprises David Calder (Doyle), Amanda Hale (Morris), Ivanno Jeremiah (Woodnut) and Stanley Townsend (Sims) who are joined by Zoe Brough and Isabella Pappas who will alternate the role of Iris as they did at the Royal Court. Set designs are by Es Devlin, with costume designs by Christina Cunningham, lighting by Paul Pyant, compositions by Nick Powell, sound by Ian Dickinson and video design by Luke Halls. Jennifer Haley’s other writing includes Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, which premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville at the 2008 Humana Festival, Breadcrumbs for the Contemporary American Theatre Festival and Sustainable Living written in the 2011-2012 CTG Writers’ Workshop and featured at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Her play Froggy is in development with The Banff Centre and American Conservatory Theater. Haley’s plays have been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Lark Play Development Center, PlayPenn, Page 73 and the MacDowell Colony. She is a member of New Dramatists in New York City and lives in Los Angeles where she founded a writing collective called the Playwrights Union. The Nether was the first play Jeremy Herrin directed for Headlong as Artistic Director. Previously he was Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 2009 until 2012 where his credits included No Quarter, Hero, Haunted Child, The Heretic, Kin, Spur of the Moment, Off the Endz, The Priory, Tusk Tusk, The Vertical Hour and That Face. Herrin directed the world premieres of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in two parts for the Royal Shakespeare Company – the productions transferred to the West End in May 2014 and will open on Broadway in March. He was the recipient of the 2014 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for the productions. Herrin’s other recent credits include Another Country, Uncle Vanya and South Downs for Chichester Festival Theatre all of which transferred to the West End, This House for the National Theatre, Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre and The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare’s Globe. Herrin’s production of David Hare’s The Absence of War will open at Sheffield Theatres next month prior to a UK tour. The Nether is the latest in a number of collaborations between Sonia Friedman Productions and the Royal Court Theatre (Rock ‘n’ Roll, Clybourne Park, Jerusalem in the West End and The River on Broadway) and Headlong (1984 and Chimerica). Development of The Nether was supported by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during a residency at the National Playwrights Conference 2011, Preston Whiteway, Executive Director; Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director. Up Up