Cast

BENJAMIN WALKER

REBECCA THORNHILL

CILLA SILVIA

IAN MCLARNON

JOS SLOVICK

Sheridan Smith is an award-winning stage and screen actress, whose acclaimed West End credits include most recently playing the title role in Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Her performance as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde at the Savoy Theatre and as Doris in Flare Path at Theatre Royal Haymarket, both garnered her Olivier Awards, and the latter the Evening Standard Award as Best Actress. She received further Olivier nominations for her performance as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Duke of York’s Theatre, and Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Savoy Theatre. Other notable performances include Hedda Gabler at The Old Vic, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Noel Coward Theatre, the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium, and her stage debut as Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods at the Donmar Warehouse. Amongst her prolific screen roles, Sheridan was Emmy-nominated and won a BAFTA as Mrs Biggs, and further BAFTA-nominated for The C Word and her titular role in Cilla, for which she was also Emmy-nominated. Big screen credits include Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet and most recently The Railway Children Return. She has released two albums, titled Sheridan and A Northern Soul, resulting in two Classic BRIT Award nominations.
Nicola Hughes is a two-time Olivier Award nominee for ‘Lead Actress in a Musical’ for her starring roles in Fosse (Palace Theatre) and Sir Trevor Nunn’s Porgy & Bess (The Savoy Theatre), in which she played Bess. With a career spanning 30 years, Nicola was the first woman of colour on the West End to play Velma Kelly in Chicago (Adelphi Theatre), taking over the role from Ute Lemper. She also starred with the late Jerry Lewis as Lola in Damn Yankees (Adelphi Theatre).
Other theatre work includes: The Witch in Into the Woods (Theatre Royal Bath, Nominated for Best Supporting Performance at the 2022 UK Theatre Awards); Beverly Frasier in the UK premiere of Jacqui Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Fairview (Young Vic); Nurse Pinkney in the world premiere of Alan Bennett’s Allelujah (The Bridge Theatre); The Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol (Old Vic); Alma in Yellowman (Young Vic); Dottie in Caroline or Change (Chichester Theatre); Bess in Porgy & Bess (Regents Park Theatre); The El Train, a set of plays by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Ruth Wilson & Sam Yates (Hoxton Hall); Shug Avery in the original London company of The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory); Ella Fitzgerald in Marilyn & Ella (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Yum Yum in The Hot Mikado (Watermill Theatre); Zarita in Simply Heavenly (Young Vic & Trafalgar Studios); The Acid Queen in the original London company of Tommy (Shaftesbury Theatre); and Crazy for You – in the original London company (Prince Edward Theatre).
Film, television, and radio credits include: Death in Paradise (BBC); The Split 2 (BBC); Allelujah (National Theatre Live); Mount Pleasant (Sky 1); Parents of the Band (BBC 1); Friday Night is Music Night – A Tribute to Kander & Ebb (BBC Radio 2); Rock Rivals (ITV); Eastenders (BBC 1); The Royal Bodyguard (BBC 1); Jonathan Creek (BBC 1); Doctors (BBC 1); Trial & Retribution 2 (BBC 1); Man of All Work (BBC Radio 4); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Amazon films).
Recordings include: Crazy for You, Simply Heavenly, and Nicola Hughes – Musical Theatre Album (Pennant Productions).
Theatre includes: Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Kit Kat Klub at the Playhouse Theatre); Spy for Spy (Riverside Studios); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Ramona Tells Jim (Bush Theatre); Lazarus (King’s Cross Theatre); Kinky Boots (Adelphi Theatre – Olivier nomination); The Last Five Years (Blunt Fringe & The Lyric Belfast); Tracks (The Miniaturists) (Arcola Theatre); The Pink Bedroom (Defibrillator); Puss in Boots (Hackney Empire); 9 to 5 (UK Tour); Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre); Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (UK Tour); Decade (Headlong Theatre); The Secret Garden (Birmingham Rep); Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Royal &Derngate / Assembly Rooms).
Television includes: Holby City, Casualty (BBC); Shetland (ITV).
Film includes: Never Let Me Go (DNA Films).
Shira Haas can currently be seen starring in the Netflix sci-fi limited series Bodies alongside Stephen Graham. After its premiere in October 2023, the series quickly became the most watched series on the platform. She previously starred as “Esty” in Netflix’s critically acclaimed mini-series Unorthodox. For a performance that received flawless reviews across the board, Shira was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Limited Series and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series. The New YorkTimes called Haas “a phenomenon, expressive and captivating” and Vulture says “Haas gives an extraordinary performance here, evoking fear, grief, and a mix of both naïveté and wonder…”
Also on Netflix, Haas stars in the standout role of “Ruchami” on the international hit series Shtisel. Additional television credits include the Israeli series Harmon and The Conductor.
On the big screen, Haas stars in Marvel’s Captain America 4, which will be released February 14, 2025. She co-starred as “Urszula” in Niki Caro’s 2017 film The Zookeeper’s Wife and appeared in Natalie Portman’s A Tale Of Love And Darkness. Haas made her feature film debut in the emotionally complex Israeli drama Princess, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film festival. For her performance she was nominated for Best Actress at that year’s Ophir Awards (the Israeli Academy Awards). Haas later received Ophir Award nominations for her roles in Broken Mirrors and the Oscar-nominated Israeli film Foxtrot. She won for her role in Noble Savage. Haas also starred in the drama Asia, for which she won Best Actress in an International Narrative Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
Theatre includes: The Lehman Trilogy (Gillian Lynn Theatre), 2:22 A Ghost Story (Noel Coward Theatre), City Of Angels (Garrick Theatre), The Antipodes (National Theatre), The Deep Blue Sea (Chichester Festival Theatre), Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre), Saint Joan, City Of Angels, Coriolanus, The Vote (all Donmar Warehouse), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bristol Old Vic), The Winter’s Tale & Harlequinade (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company At The Garrick Theatre), The Machine (Manchester International Festival & Park Avenue Armoury, NYC), The Pajama Game (Chichester Festival Theatre), Les Miserables (Queens & Palace Theatres), The Pirate Queen (Broadway), The Fantasticks (Duchess Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep), The Shaughraun (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Assassins (Sheffield Crucible), Pacific Overtures (Leicester Haymarket), Longitude (Greenwich), The Pirates Of Penzance, Peter Pan (both Savoy Theatre), The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury Theatre), The Last 5 Years (Theater Aspen, Colorado) And The Phantom Of The Opera 25th Anniversary (Royal Albert Hall), Les Miserables 25th Anniversary (O2 Arena). He has workshopped extensively for the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Almedia Theatre, Old Vic and many others.
Film & Television includes: The Gold, Gentleman Jack, All Is True, Murder On The Orient Express, The Legend Of Tarzan, Les Miserables, Decline & Fall, The Wrong Mans, Endeavour, Holby City, Doctor Who, Pompidou, Him, Sons Of Liberty.
Hadley wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Committee… for the Donmar Warehouse. As a recording artist and musician Hadley has appeared on numerous albums including the recently released Lights Around The Shore with jazz pianist Will Butterworth, his own EP Just Let Go and cast recordings of Young Frankenstein, The Pirate Queen, The Phantom Of The Opera 25th Anniversary and Les Miserables 25th Anniversary. He has provided music for theatre productions including Measure For Measure (Donmar Warehouse) and Hobson’s Choice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), and on radio for Ross Noble: Britain In Bits. He has collaborated with artists and composers including Pete Townsend, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Adam Cork, Grant Olding, Joby Talbot, Joe Stilgoe, Jeremy Holland-Smith, Michael Bruce, Tom Deering, Laura Tisdall, Scott Alan, Ramin Karimloo & Stuart Matthew Price. Hadley co-presents the podcast Poddin’ On The Ritz with Ross Noble. He is a regular guest on BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night. In concert Hadley has appeared at venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, London Palladium, Birmingham Symphony Hall, The Other Palace, Lyric Hammersmith, Live At Zedel, Birdland Jazz (Nyc), M Bar (Los Angeles), Little Lake Festival (Toronto) And Orchard Hall (Tokyo).
Hadley is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and Patron of PPA Guildford and Debut Performing Arts College, Manchester.
Theatre credits include: Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion, The American Clock, Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic); The Messiah (West End); The Twilight Zone, The House of Games, The Chain Play, The Hypochondriac (Almeida); Once in a Lifetime, Annie Get Your Gun, Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy); Neville’s Island (Chichester Festival Theatre); Ding Dong the Wicked, Mother Teresa is Dead (Royal Court Theatre); Privates on Parade (Noel Coward Theatre); Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); The Emperor Jones, Market Boy, Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads (National Theatre); The Anniversary (Garrick).
Television credits include: Showtrial season 2, In the Club, Hotel Babylon, Ronnie Anconna & Co., Death in Paradise season 6 (BBC); Doc Martin seasons 7-10 (ITV); Suburban Shootout (Channel 4).
Robert trained at the University of Cape Town and early in his career played numerous romantic leading roles including Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lancelot in Camelot, Roger in Grease, both Joseph and Pharaoh in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Claude in Hair and Tony in West Side Story.
After moving to London in 1996 he performed numerous roles in the West End including Nick in Fame – The Musical (Cambridge Theatre), Chris cover in Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre & UK National Tour). He also played Brad in The Rocky Horror Show and Jean-Michelle in La Cage Aux Folles in Frankfurt, Germany.
In 2006 he returned to South Africa and played roles including Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Greece & Korea) and won the ‘Fleur Du Cap Award’ for Best Performance in a Musical, Alex in Aspects of Love (directed by Nikolai Foster), Coach Bolton in High School Musical (Shanghai) and Gus/Growltiger in Cats.
Robert returned to the UK in 2010 to play Bob Cratchit A Christmas Carol at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. He most recently performed the role of Duke Remington in the play Sound Clash (Edinburgh Festival) and prior to that, the role of Juan Peron on the World Tour of Hal Prince’s Evita.
Television appearances include: Wild at Heart (ITV), Sir Robert in Derren Brown Special (Channel 4) and Lord Ram in Legend of the Hidden City (SABC).
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre credits include: Walking cover/Understudy Shelley Berger in Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (Prince Edward Theatre); Neil Bogart in Summer! The Donna Summer Musical (Norwegian cruise lines); Dave in Next Lesson (Above the Stag theatre) and Peter in Party (Above the Stag theatre)
Film credits include: Jamie in Tis the Season (Sparks productions)
Theatre Credits Include: Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre); Head of Civil Service in Corbin: The Musical (Waterloo East Theatre); Wanda in Van Winkle: A Folk Musical (The Other Palace); Princess Julia/1st Cover Josie, Big Sue and Janet in Taboo (Brixton Club House); Alumni Chorus in Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert (The O2); Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (The Charing Cross Theatre & Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Angel/Cover Reno in Anything Goes (Mac-Hadyn Theatre, New York); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); Cats (25th Anniversary Tour); Nellie/Cover Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde (UK Tour); Patience in Moonshadow (Workshop); Mabel in The Buccaneer (The Finborough Theatre); Mother in Waterbabies (Workshop, The Dominion Theatre).
Other Credits Include: Zombie in GiffGaff (Commercial); Christine in Selections from Love Never Dies (Recording, JAY/TER Records); Mathilde Neruda/Carmen in The Postman and The Poet (Recording, JAY/TER Records); Dublin! AKA Ha’Penny Bridge (Recording); Simply Broadway (Recording, JAY Recordings); Soloist at Berio Southbank Festival (Dukes Hall).
Chrissie trained at Millennium Performing Arts and the Urdang Academy, London.
West End Credits include: Eva’s sister in Evita & Blippi the Musical
Other Stage Credits include: Love Beyond The Musical, Concert; Jill in Jack & The Beanstalk (Victoria Theatre, Halifax); Congresswoman Wilkins & Dance Captain In Call Me Madam (Upstairs At The Gatehouse); Soloist In Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Gala (European Tour); Alice Fitzwarren In Dick Whittington (Hawth Theatre, Crawley); Ursula In The Sound Of Music (UK Tour); Eva’s Sister & Understudy Mistress In Evita (UK Tour); Serena In Legally Blonde (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Ensemble In Dick Whittington (Riverfront Theatre, Newport); Lead Vocalist On Aida Luna, P&O And Ms Island Escape. Snow White, Disneyland Paris.
Ivo van Hove is an award-winning auteur director who served as the General Director of the prestigious International Theatre Amsterdam (formerly Toneelgroep Amsterdam) from 2001 to 2023. His acclaimed productions continue to tour around the world and have earned him many international accolades, including a Tony Award, an Olivier Award, two Obie Awards, and multiple others in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. van Hove is a Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, a Commander of the Order of the Crown in Belgium, and the recipient of the 2019 Johannes Vermeer Award, the Dutch state prize of the arts. Broadway & West End highlights include Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (most recently at the Harold Pinter Theatre and Savoy Theatre), West Side Story, The Human Voice with Ruth Wilson; Network with Bryan Cranston; The Crucible with Saoirse Ronan, Ben Whishaw, and Ciarán Hinds; A View from the Bridge with Mark Strong; All About Eve with Gillian Anderson and Lily James; and Lazarus, which he created with David Bowie and Enda Walsh. Select International credits include Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies and Kings of War, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler with Ruth Wilson, Luchino Visconti’s Obsession with Jude Law, Anne Carson’s translation of Antigone with Juliette Binoche, and Tennessee Williams’ La menagerie de Verre with Isabelle Huppert. Opera directing highlights include Opera credits include The Case and Salome for Dutch National Opera; Boris Godunov and Don Giovanni for Paris Opéra; the world premiere Brokeback Mountain for Teatro Real Madrid; Macbeth for Opéra de Lyon; La clemenza di Tito and Idomeneo for La Monnaie De Munt; Der Ring des Nibelungen at Opera Antwerpen; Mazeppa for Komische Oper Berlin; Mahagonny in the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Don Giovanni and Dead Man walking at the Metropolitan opera in NY.
Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists, songwriters, and composers of his generation. The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer-songwriter has released ten studio albums to date, three DVDs, and three live albums including the Grammy-nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. He has collaborated with artists such as Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Miley Cyrus, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, Pet Shop Boys, Heart, Carly Rae Jepsen, Robbie Williams, Jessye Norman, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Sting, and producer Mark Ronson, among many others. He has written numerous songs for movies and TV and two operas. Prima Donna premiered at the Manchester International Festival with subsequent performances in London, Toronto, Hong Kong, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and the Festival d’Avignon among many others. Hadrian premiered in 2018 at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and a new semi-staged production featuring images by Robert Mapplethorpe premiered in the summer of 2022 at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Peralada Festival. He has been working on his first musical for the West End with Ivo van Hove for a number of years. His latest GRAMMY® and JUNO nominated album of original songs, Unfollow the Rules, finds Wainwright at the peak of his powers, entering artistic maturity with passion, honesty, and a new-found fearlessness. His newly-released studio album Folkocracy marking his 50th birthday features reinvented folk classics and duets with artists like Chaka Khan, Brandi Carlile, John Legend and Anohni and many more.
Wainwright has now more recently completed a series of symphonic shows celebrating the 20th anniversary of his genre defining albums: Want One and Want Two. The tour crossed the globe, including two Proms concerts at the Albert Hall in London in one night with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, and the Nashville Symphony at Americanafest. While in Nashville, Rufus performed at the Americana Awards, the legendary Bluebird Cafe, and had his premiere at the esteemed Grand Ole Opry. He has recently finished a sold out 3 night retrospective covering over 75 songs from his extensive catalog at the Philharmonie de Paris. Furthermore, Wainwright’s newly completed Requiem will premiere with the Orchestre Philharmonique de la Radio France in June of 2024. Co-commissioners for the Requiem are the Master Chorale in Los Angeles, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra, the RTE Orchestra in Ireland, and the Royal Ballet London.
Jan trained at the Sint-Lucas Institute in Brussels and at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. In the 1980s, he and Ivo van Hove were two of the founders of the Flemish theatre groups Akt/Vertikaal and Toneelproducties De Tijd. During that time, they worked with some of the most remarkable theatre makers in The Netherlands. Jan became the regular scenographer of Eindhoven’s ZuidelijkToneel Theatre Group in 1990.
In 2001 he moved to International Theatre Amsterdam, formerly Toneelgroep, where he became the head of scenography and the group’s regular designer. He worked on productions of Age of Rage, Battles and Metamorphoses of a Woman, Angels in America, Cries and Whispers, Rocco and His Brothers, Antonioni Project, La voixhumaine, Teorema, Summer Trilogy, Children of the Sun, And We’ll Never Be Parted, The Miser, The Russians!, Husbands, Macbeth, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Danton’s Death, The Fountainhead and Mary Stuart. For the West End: A Little Life, All about Eve, Network, Hedda Gabler, Obsession, Lazarus, Antigone and A View from The Bridge.
Jan has been a guest lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and is one of the co-founders of the scenography training programme in Antwerp. He has been responsible for design and lighting for numerous productions including works by O’Neill & Camus; West Side Story on Broadway; Dead Man Walking by The Metropolitan Opera; Le Tartuffe oul’Hypocrite by Comédie Française; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany by Festival Aix-en-Provence; Lulu and the complete Ring des Nibelungen by the Flemish Opera; I due Foscari by the Munt Opera; Don Giovanni and Fidelio by Opéra national de Paris; De zaakMakropulos, La clemenza di Tito and Iolanta by the Netherlands Opera; and the musical Lazarus in New York, London and worldwide. In addition to his work with Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, he has collaborated with many internationally renowned directors, including Johan Simons and Pierre Audi.
He won the Bessie Award in New York for his scenography for Drumming Live, and he received the OBIE Award for Hedda Gabler. In 2008 he received the Dutch theatre prize Prosceniumprijs, together with Ivo van Hove. In 2015 he received the Amsterdam Award for the Arts for Proven Quality (with Ivo van Hove), in 2016 the Knight of Illumination Award for Song from Far Away (Young Vic) and the 2017 Molière Award in France for Best Visual Creation for Les Damnés (Comédie Française).
An D’Huys studied fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and was part of the design team for the fashion house Ann Demeulemeester for over 11 years.
Recent and earlier productions: A Little Life (West End); West Side Story (Broadway); Dead Man Walking, Don Giovanni (The Metropolitan Opera); Forêt (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Le Louvre Paris); Een kleinleven (Edinburgh International Festival, International Theatre Amsterdam); Ingolstadt (Salzburg Festival); Le Tartuffe oul’Hypocrite (Comédie Française, Paris & Tour); Age of Rage (Barbican, International Theatre Amsterdam); De dingen die voorbijgaan, The Fountainhead, Antigone and Kings of War (International Theatre Amsterdam); Unsere Zeit (Residenz Theater Munich); The Glass Menagerie (Théâtre de L’Europe, Paris); All About Eve (West End); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny (Aix en Provence); A View from the Bridge (the Young Vic, West End, Broadway); Don Giovanni, Boris Godounov, Cosi fan tutte (Paris National Opera); Network (Broadway, National Theatre London); Hedda Gabler (National Theatre London); Obsession (London, Paris, Luxembourg); Lazarus (London, New York Theatre Workshop, Amsterdam); Medea (Burgtheater Wien); The Damned (Comédie Française, Paris, Avignon); The Marx Sisters, Poquelin, De Kersentuin (TG STAN Antwerp); The Misanthrope (Schaubühne Berlin); Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Flanders Opera); Quartet, Bitches Brew and Cassandra (Rosas Brussels).
An has also designed costumes for several film productions including Toto le héros (Jaco van Dormael) and Rosie (Patrice Toye).
Nigel trained at King’s College, London and the Royal Academy of Music, receiving the DipRam award. He was elected as an associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2013. He regularly teaches and co-wrote the book ‘Thank You – That’s All We Need For Today’ with vocal coach, Mary Hammond.
Recent work includes Dear England (National Theatre, West End); Dead Man Walking (The Metropolitan Opera); Here We Are (The Shed, New York); Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre, Young Vic); Grey House (Lyceum Theatre, New York); Hamlet, Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory, Almeida Theatre, West End); Animal Farm (UK tour); West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway); Cabaret (Göteborg Opera); Judas, Oedipus, The Doctor (International Theatre Amsterdam); Good, The Antipodes, Home, I’m Darling, People, Places and Things (Winner for Best Sound Design, Olivier Awards 2016), Hedda Gabler, Sunset At The Villa Thalia, The Red Barn (National Theatre/West End); All About Eve (West End); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Doctor, Wild Duck (Almeida/West End); Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Mr Burns, 1984 (Almeida/West End/Broadway); Fanny and Alexander, The Lorax (Old Vic); A View From the Bridge (Young Vic/West End/Broadway); Obsession (International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican); Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Crucible (Theater Basel, Broadway); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead Theatre); White Devil, As You Like It (RSC); Translations, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible); After Life, The Absence of War, Romeo & Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicite); Venus in Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar, St Ann’s Brooklyn); The End of History, Pah La, The Woods, Love LoveLove, Goats (Royal Court).