Almeida Theatre

First look at Roots on stage 👇

Cast: Michael Abubakar, Morfydd Clark, Iwan Davies, Billy Howle, Eliot Salt, Sophie Stanton, Ellora Torchia, Tony Turner, Deka Walmsley

Writer: Arnold Wesker
Director: Diyan Zora
Set Designer: Naomi Dawson
Costume Designer: Tomás Palmer
Lighting Designer: Lee Curran
Sound Designer: George Dennis
Movement Director: Chris Evans
Fight and Intimacy Director: Yarit Dor
Casting Director: Amy Ball
Costume Supervisor: Sabia Smith
Dialect Coach: Edda Sharpe
Associate Director: Tian Brown-Sampson
Production Dramatherapist: Wabriya King

📸 Marc Brenner

Who’s coming to Roots first preview tonight? 🙋🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

Wishing the entire team a fantastic show 🤞

Our Angry and Young season is officially on!

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Join us on a backstage tour of The Years with photographer Marc Brenner 📸

Four shows left – if you didn’t manage to see it, it’s your last chance to queue for returns 🎟️

To find out about any future plans for the production, please sign up to our mailing list: bit.ly/3Xjnnsj

Time for a first look inside the rehearsal room for Roots 👇

Double the drama! It’s still possible to see both Roots and Look Back in Anger for £25 if you book early 🎟️

The two plays will run alongside each other with the same cast for 11 weeks as part of our Angry and Young season.

Check out the full performance schedule at almeida.co.uk/angryandyoung

📷 Marc Brenner

“We should all be allowed to be more eccentric”

Get to know Morfydd Clark better in this insightful piece for The Observer and then come see her live in both Roots and Look Back in Anger 👇

‘I seem to have this uncanny vibe about me’: actor Morfydd Clark Whether playing a creepy nurse in Bafta-nominated Saint Maud, or ethereal Galadriel in The Rings of Power, Morfydd Clark’s ability to bring an other-worldly quirkiness to roles is unmatched. Tim Lewis meets the Welsh actor who bewitched her way to stardom by embracing her eccentricities

In 1984, Deborah Findlay (currently appearing The Years) brought Henrik Ibsen’s iconic Hedda Gabler to life on our stage.

Now, 40 years later, history comes full circle as Amy Evans and Bea Hemsley, two talented young actors from the Almeida Young Company, step into the same role in Beyond Her Years.

🗓️ 3 performances left – today at 2pm and this Sunday at 2pm and 7pm.

🎟️ Tickets £5 >> almeida.co.uk/beyondheryears

📷 1: Dee Conway
📷 2 - 3: Ian Hippolyte

Your first look inside the rehearsal room for Look Back in Anger is here 👇

Our rep company alternates rehearsals between Roots and Look Back in Anger and there will be days when they’ll be performing one show in the afternoon and another one in the evening!

Check out the full performance schedule at almeida.co.uk/angryandyoung

📸 Marc Brenner

This is Beyond Her Years on stage 👇

Created and directed by Hana Pascal Keegan in response to The Years, our Young Company show innovatively interweaves four iconic plays: Henrik Ibsen‘s Hedda Gabler and The Lady from the Sea, Clare Barron‘s Dance Nation, and Ifeyinwa Frederick‘s The Hoes.

3 performances coming up:
🗓️ Friday 16 Aug 2pm
🗓️ Sunday 18 Aug 2pm & 7pm

🎟️ Tickets £5 >> almeida.co.uk/beyondheryears

📷 Ian Hippolyte

“Memory never stops. It pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.”

We gave The Years cast a disposable camera – here are some backstage memories they snapped 📸

There are still ways to get tickets for The Years – here are our top tips 👇

🎟️ Almeida For Free:
Free performance for 25s and under on Thu 22 Aug (to find out when booking opens, sign up to our emails for Tickets & Events for 16-25s)

🎟️ Access Performances:
Audio Described, Captioned, Relaxed Environment – call 020 7359 4404 or email [email protected] to book if you have access requirements.

🎟️ Check for Returns:
We often get tickets returned to us. They are immediately made available online, by phone, or in-person at the Box Office.

Last-minute returns are offered on a first-come, first-served basis roughly 1h before a performance.

Stars are shining bright for The Years 🤩

★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ Independent ★★★★★ Financial Times ★★★★★ The i ★★★★★ The Stage

🎉 It’s Press Night for The Years 🎉

Join us in wishing the entire team a brilliant show tonight 🤞

Cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra, Harmony Rose-Bremner.

Director and Adapter: Eline Arbo
English Adapter: Stephanie Bain
Original Book Writer: Annie Ernaux
Translators: Tanya Leslie and Alison L. Strayer
Music Supervisor and Sound Designer: Thijs van Vuure
Set Designer: Juul Dekker
Costume Designer: Rebekka Wörmann
Lighting Designer: Varja Klosse
Intimacy Director: Yarit Dor
Casting Director: Amy Ball
Costume Supervisor: Heidi Bryan
WHAM Supervisor: Sophia Khan
Vocal Coach: Matt Smith
Dialect Coach: Fabien Enjalric
Associate Director: Yasmin Hafesji

📷 Ali Wright

The countdown is on for our Angry & Young season featuring two of the most iconic plays in British theatre:

Arnold Wesker's Roots, directed by Diyan Zora and John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, directed by Atri Banerjee.

The mirror they held up to 1950s society is now angled towards 2024, with the two plays running alongside each other featuring the same cast in different roles.

From 10 Sep 🎟️

Billy Howle is Jimmy and Ellora Torchia is Alison in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, directed by Atri Banerjee.

Jimmy Porter is frustrated by his post-war life running a local stall. Embittered by the disapproval of his wife Alison’s wealthier family and a world that has shut him out, he frequently spirals into fits of rage.

One night, when Alison’s friend unexpectedly turns up at their home, this uneasy marriage descends further into freefall, with their friends left trying to keep the peace.

Presented alongside Arnold Wesker’s Roots as part of our Angry and Young rep season – with the same cast performing both plays.

Look Back in Anger performances start Fri 20 Sep 🎟️

Morfydd Clark is Beatie in Arnold Wesker’s Roots, directed by Diyan Zora.

Beatie Bryant returns to her rural home in Norfolk, inflamed with political zeal from her time spent living in London. As the family anxiously prepares for the arrival of her firebrand activist boyfriend Ronnie, Beatie struggles to fit back into her old way of life.

Presented alongside John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger as part of our Angry and Young rep season – with the same cast performing both plays.

Roots performances start Tue 10 Sep 🎟️

One company, two shows 🤩

Rehearsals are underway for Arnold Wesker’s Roots and John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger a.k.a our Angry and Young season 💥

Clockwise from left: Sophie Stanton, Michael Abubakar, Iwan Davies, Billy Howle, Tony Turner, Deka Walmsley, Tian Brown-Sampson (Associate Director, Roots), Eliot Salt, Ellora Torchia, Morfydd Clark, Diyan Zora (Director, Roots), Atri Banerjee (Director, Look Back in Anger)

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Final bow today for Alma Mater ✨

Big shout out to everyone who worked so hard on the show and all of you who came to see it ❤️

📷 Marc Brenner

Peek backstage at Alma Mater with photographer Marc Brenner 👇

Only four shows left ⏳

Come see ★★★★★ “theatre’s most thoughtful take on the culture wars yet” (The Telegraph)

A few tickets left for this Saturday’s performances 🎟️ almeida.co.uk/alma

In case you haven’t seen yet, these five incredible actors about to take to our stage in The Years have made the cover of this week’s The Observer New Review 👏

You can read the full article here 👇

🎟️ Tickets from £10 still available if you haven’t booked yet.

‘Each time I read one of her books, I wanted to read more’: five actors on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir to the stage As a play of the Nobel prize-winner’s memoir The Years opens in the UK, the actors playing her at different ages – including Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee and Romola Garai – talk about what the work means to them

🚨 ANNOUNCING 🚨

Beyond Her Years, our next Almeida Young Company show created and directed by Hana Pascal in response to The Years.

Two women promised wealth and stability,
By men eager for their love,
Unable to forget how it felt to…

And now: Dancers determined to win,
Determined to own their own bodies,
Determined to figure out what they want from life
And take it!

🗓️ 11, 16 & 18 Aug
🎟️ Tickets £5 >> almeida.co.uk/beyondheryears

📸 Ian Hippolyte

Final week! Last chance to catch Alma Mater ⏳

★★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★★ The Sunday Times

★★★★ “Kendall Feaver’s dissection keeps twisting, balancing and switching sympathies” (The Observer)

★★★★ “Led by two blazing performances“ (Financial Times)

🎟️ almeida.co.uk/alma