and breathe…BY YOMI .SODE

DIRECTED BY MIRANDA CROMWELL

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and breathe…By Yomi .SodeDirected by Miranda Cromwell16 June – 10 July 2021

CAST

Junior David Jonsson

Composer & Musician Femi Temowo

CREATIVE TEAM

Writer Yomi .Sode

Direction Miranda Cromwell

Light Paule Constable

Sound Tony Gayle

Video Ravi Deepres

Composer & Musician Femi Temowo

Design Consultant Miriam Buether

Costume Claire Wardroper

Voice Coach Hazel Holder

Assistant Director Ewa Dina

PRODUCTION TEAM

Production Manager Tom Horton

Stage Manager Lorna Seymour

Head of Costume Claire Wardroper

Chief Technician Jason Wescombe

Lighting Technician Robin Fisher

Theatre Technician Fraser Craig

Scenic Artist Claire Barnett

Video Programmer Isaac Madge

Sound Op 1 Callum Donaldson

Animation Steven Spencer

Film Collaborator Evy Dutheil

Film Collaborator Luke Unsworth

Stage floor by Gemstage Ltd

Production and Rehearsal Photos by Isha Shah

Registered charity number 282167

Cover: David Jonsson photographed by Ravi Deepres

David Jonsson photographed by Ravi Deepres

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AN INTRODUCTION BY YOMI .SODE

As much as ‘and breathe…’ explores a loss in the family, I really wanted to investigate vulnerability, pride, and culture. I wanted to dig further into behaviour, and the conditioning of behaviour over time in regard to Black men. I experienced situations on a personal level with little knowledge of knowing how to deal. My coping mechanisms often being tucked away somewhere.

I was interested in the many ways I adapted to the places and spaces I either belonged to or entered. Each of them calling a different side out of me. This sequence of poems provided opportunities to understand code switching on a more personal and protective level. A level that in some cases can be unhealthy, as well as oddly comforting.

While sitting through the rehearsals, I began to relive experiences of the protagonist, Junior by listening to David and Miranda interrogate and question his actions. They wondered why he didn’t say or do something in various situations, they questioned his motive in relation to his cousin, Ade. The points raised were often mirrors held up to my face. A weird experience in the first instance because should there be an elephant in the room, it was me. And in some cases, they freely asked “what was going on?” This (I believe) was a new experience for all of us.

‘and breathe…’ goes further into this exploration. Each poem serving itself as the voice I did not have at specific points in time. Moments that speak for the book, MANORISM. Moments the microaggressions could have been challenged, or moments to contact a family member that could really do with a caring call. It’s one thing to write these thoughts to be read. It’s another thing entirely to write this for a stage adaptation.

The sequence is very unorthodox. The team have had to make sense of prose poems and adapt it to theatre, which has been a fun process for all of us. It’s been brilliant to observe as a writer as it’s also shaped the sequence through the editing process. There’s something very outer body about this that is hard to explain, especially speaking from such a personal space, about a family that still feel the weight of the loss.

I guess I want the reader/viewer to process loss differently in ‘and breathe…’ I want to explore grief, whether in laughter, anger, or just utter confusion. I want a very natural response to something that is taboo to think about. I want people that have gone through bouts of grief in waves of guilt, to know they are not alone.

I have experienced more losses in the last two years than I can remember. One of them being a family member due to COVID, and all of them not given enough room to reflect or mourn.

Some close friendships are not as close any more. There is also loss there. All these things happening with no pit stops to refuel. It’s just to keep going, running on empty. The more I wrote about this, the tougher it became. So, to watch and hear this back has been difficult. Everything crashing into itself.

I am thankful to Miranda, David, Ewa, Tony, Femi, and Lorna for allowing space for the many tears and consoling. It’s as if all the venting I needed to do then, I’m doing now.

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Aneephya / ʌh,niːfɪə /

Aneephyitis is the release of the aneephya toxin into the blood stream. Announced by a sound similar to that of knuckles quietly cracking, it is triggered roughly between ages 9–11, continuing into adulthood, and later old age. This is specific to Black people as a result of weathering and trauma carried down generations.

Aneephya: In relation to ancestry

Secrets often carry through generations. As universal as this phenomenon may be across all racial and ethnic backgrounds, studies show that the levels differ dramatically when it comes to Black people. Dr Senyo Eriife YGLT (hons) notes the following from his recent book – Aneephya: From the Cradle to the Grave:

White families tend to spill their tea so freely their gardens become soft, limp and infested with root rot. This is not the case within Black families. It’s as if the ground beneath their feet struggles to flower and when it does, it dries up and dies.

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THE COMPANY

DAVID JONSSONJunior

For the Almeida: Mary Stuart (also West End).

Theatre includes: Don Juan in Soho (West End); Pigeon English (Bristol Old Vic/ Edinburgh Fringe); Romeo and Juliet (Riverside Studios); Ghosts (Theatre Bankside).

Television includes: Industry; Deep State; Endeavour.

FEMI TEMOWOComposer & Musician

Femi Temowo is an award-winning musician and composer who draws on musical influences from both West African and American jazz pioneers. His phenomenally successful collaborations with alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch culminated in a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, a BBC Jazz Award for Best New Group, and several MOBO awards. In 2003, singer Amy Winehouse appointed Femi music director of her band and he was featured on her debut, Frank (Island, 2003).

Theatre as composer includes: Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/ West End).

Solo albums include: Quiet Storm (Femitone, 2006); Orin Meta (Femitone, 2011).

Albums as guitarist/musician include: An Ordinary Day In An Unusual Place, Us3 (Universal, 2001); Frank, Amy Winehouse (Island, 2003); Conversations With The Unseen, Soweto Kinch (Dune, 2004 – nominated for Mercury Prize); A Life In The Day Of B19: Tales Of The Tower Block, Soweto Kinch (Dune, 2006).

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REHEARSAL

Photography by Isha Shah

Clockwise from top left: David Jonsson; David Jonsson; Femi Temowo (Composer & Musician), Miranda Cromwell (Director), David Jonsson, Ewa Dina (Assistant Director), and Yomi .Sode (Writer).

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From top: Femi Temowo (Composer & Musician); David Jonsson.

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From top: David Jonsson and Miranda Cromwell (Director); Yomi .Sode (Writer).

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From top: Yomi .Sode (Writer); Femi Temowo (Composer & Musician).

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CREATIVE TEAM

YOMI .SODEWriter

Yomi .Sode, is a Nigerian British writer, performer, and facilitator. He is a recipient of the Jerwood Compton Poetry fellowship 2019 and was recently shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2021. He has read his work internationally at various festivals and performed his debut solo show COAT to sold-out audiences. His debut poetry collection, Manorism, will be published in spring 2022 by Penguin Press.

MIRANDA CROMWELLDirection

Theatre includes: Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/ West End, as co-director); Rockets and Blue Lights (Manchester Royal Exchange/ BBC radio 3 - Oncomm winner for best Audio production); Half Breed (BBC iPlayer/Talawa Theatre/Soho Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe Festival/India tour); Magic Elves; Hey Diddle Diddle; Sense (Bristol Old Vic); Pigeon English (Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Bristol Old Vic); The Rest of Your Life (Bush Theatre); Death and Treason (Bristol Old Vic/UK tour).

Miranda Cromwell won the Olivier Award for Best Director for Death of a Salesman, which also received a Black British Theatre Award for Best Production.

PAULE CONSTABLELight

Paule is an Associate Director of the National Theatre where her credits include: The Visit; The Ocean at the End of the Lane; ‘Master Harold’...and the boys; Follies; Pericles; Nine Night (also West End); Pinocchio; Mosquitoes; Common; Angels in America (also Broadway); The Red Barn; The Threepenny Opera; wonder.land; Behind the Beautiful Forevers; The Light Princess; Table; This House (also West End/ UK Tour); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End/ Broadway); Phèdre; Death and the King’s Horseman; Waves; War Horse (also West End/ Broadway/ International Tour); Saint Joan and His Dark Materials.

Other theatre includes: Wolf Hall (RSC/ West End/ Broadway); ear for eye; How to Hold Your Breath; Clybourne Park; The Weir (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Cripple of Inishmaan; Peter and Alice; Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company/ West End); Teddy Ferrara; The Chalk Garden; Othello (Donmar Warehouse); Happy Days; Feast; Vernon God Little (Young Vic); 17; Herons and Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith).

Opera includes: Benvenuto Cellini; Satyagraha; Medea; Dr Dee (English National Opera); Billy Budd; Entführung aus dem Serail (Glyndebourne); Roberto Devereux and Cav and Pag (Metropolitan Opera, New York).

Dance includes: Romeo and Juliet; Swan Lake; The Red Shoes; Sleeping Beauty; Play Without Words and Dorian Gray (Matthew Bourne).

Paule Constable was awarded the Olivier Award for Best Lighting in 2005 (His Dark Materials), 2006 (Don Carlos), 2010 (The Chalk Circle), 2013 (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and 2020 (The Ocean at the End of the Lane). She was awarded the Tony Award for Best Lighting in 2011 (War Horse) and 2015 (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time). She is also an associate Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and a founding member of Freelancers Make Theatre Work.

TONY GAYLESound

Theatre as Sound Designer includes: Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical; The Wild Party; Bumblescratch (West End); From Here (Chiswick Playhouse); Gin Craze! (Royal & Derngate Theatre); Titantic – The Musical (Guildford School of Acting); The Living Newspaper; Shoe Lady (Royal Court); Poet In Da Corner (Royal Court and Tour); Beautiful & Disaster (Deafinitely Youth Theatre); Salad Days (UK tour); West Side Story (Bishopsgate Institute); Songs For Nobodies (Wiltons Hall, co-design with Justin Teasdale); Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Arts Ed); Candide (Bridewell Theatre); Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall) and On The Line (audio play).

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Theatre as Associate Sound Designer includes: Dear Evan Hansen (West End); The Girl From The North Country (The Old Vic/ West End); Matilda The Musical (international tour); Tina Turner The Musical (West End/ Hamburg & Utrecht); Jersey Boys (UK tour); Here Lies Love (National Theatre/Seattle Repertory Theatre); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); Disney’s Aladdin (West End/ Germany); Beautiful (West End/ UK tour); The Book Of Mormon (West End/ UK tour); American Idiot (UK tour) and Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End).

Tony Gayle is a Sound Supervisor/Consultant for Bird College, Urdang Academy, London School Of Musical Theatre, American Musical Theatre Academy, Narin Gylman and Old Vic Events.

RAVI DEEPRESVideo

Theatre includes: Crave (Film Design and Immersive Broadcast Film, Chichester Festival Theatre); Josephine & I (Bush Theatre / Public Theater, New York) and Raj Packet (New National Theatre, Tokyo)

Other recent work includes: Launch Artist for ITV Creates campaign 2019; Legacy (Royal Opera House Olympic Gala Ceremony); BRIT Awards Opening 2016 sequence in collaboartion with Wayne McGregor (O2 Arena); Gain Line (Gallery Film Installation in partnership with FVU).

Dance includes: Atomos (Studio Wayne McGregor/ Random Dance); The Raven Girl; Woolf Works; Qualia (Royal Opera House/ Wayne McGregor); Deloitte Ignite Festival 2014; Quartett (Royal Opera House); Genus (National Ballet of Canada/ Paris Opera House/ Wayne McGregor); MitoSys (Film) (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance); Eden : Eden (Atlanta Ballet/ Wayne McGregor); Entity (Sadler’s Wells/ Wayne McGregor); Dido and Aeneas (La Scala, Italy/ Wayne McGregor); Nemesis (Sadler’s Wells/ Tour/ Wayne McGregor);

Exhibitions/Installations/Commissions include: The Voice and The Lens (IKON Gallery); The Gain Line Film and Video Umbrella (Rugby Art Gallery and Museum/ ICIA Bath/ Leicester Phoenix); Perspectives (Birmingham Cathedral/ Magnum Photos); Michael Clark, Monologue (Violette Editions); Union (The Public, West Bromwich); Pure

Cinema (PM Gallery London/ Wolverhampton Art Gallery); Inside Out (Royal Opera House/ Deloitte Ignite Festival); Patriots (Guangzhou Photography Festival); One Love: The Football Art Prize (The Lowry, Manchester); Museum (Museum of Lost Heritage); Runner (Dance City/ Tyneside Cinema); A Tale of (ICA); 22 (Worcester Art Gallery); Tremor (Channel 4); Only A Game (v Impressions gallery); Spectator Sport; Broken Channek (Cornerhouse); Tyneside Journey (Newcastle Quayside); Still.Moving (Southbank Centre); and Turandot (Edinburgh Festival / Tokyo).

Ravi Deepres is an award-winning artist, photographer, and film-maker with an international reputation for focusing on the intersection of the still and moving image. He collaborates frequently with choreographer Wayne McGregor. He has also worked with other globally renowned choreographers, directors, and musicians, including Saburo Teshigawara, Phyllida Lloyd, Michael Clark, Zoviet France, Shobana Jeyasingh.

FEMI TEMOWOComposer & Musician

Femi Temowo is an award-winning musician and composer who draws on musical influences from both West African and American jazz pioneers. His phenomenally successful collaborations with alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch culminated in a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, a BBC Jazz Award for Best New Group, and several MOBO awards. In 2003, singer Amy Winehouse appointed Femi music director of her band and he was featured on her debut, Frank (Island, 2003).

Theatre as composer includes: Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/ West End).

Solo albums include: Quiet Storm (Femitone, 2006); Orin Meta (Femitone, 2011).

Albums as guitarist/musician include: An Ordinary Day In An Unusual Place, Us3 (Universal, 2001); Frank, Amy Winehouse (Island, 2003); Conversations With The Unseen, Soweto Kinch (Dune, 2004 – nominated for Mercury Prize); A Life In The Day Of B19: Tales Of The Tower Block, Soweto Kinch (Dune, 2006).

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MIRIAM BUETHERDesign Consultant

For the Almeida as Designer: Hymn; Shipwreck; Machinal; Albion; Boy; Game; When the Rain Stops Falling; Judgement Day.

Theatre and Dance as Designer includes: King Lear; To Kill a Mockingbird; Three Tall Women; A Doll’s House 2; The Children (Broadway); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ New York); The Trial; Public Enemy; Wild Swans; The Government Inspector; In the Red and Brown Water; The Good Soul of Szechuan; Generations; Measure for Measure (Young Vic); Glass.Kill.Blubeard.Imp; Sucker Punch; Cock; In the Republic of Happiness; Get Santa! (Royal Court); The Children; Escaped Alone; Love and Information (Royal Court Theatre/New York); Wild, Sunny Afternoon (also West End); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre/West End); Bend it Like Beckham (West End); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Red Demon; The Bee (Young Vic / Japan); Guantanamo: “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” (Tricycle Theatre/ West End/ New York/ San Francisco); Frame of View (Cedar Lake, New York); The Cherry Orchard (Amsterdam); Toot (Oper Leipzig).

Opera as Designer includes: La Fanciulla Del West (ENO and Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck (ENO); Suor Angelica, Il Trittico – Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House, as Set Designer); Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House and New York); Boris Godunov (Berlin Opera); The Death of Klinghoffer (Edinburgh Festival/ Scottish Opera).

Miriam trained in costume design at Akademie für Kostüm Design in Hamburg, and in theatre design at Central Saint Martin’s, London. She won The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 1999 and received the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London and Sucker Punch, and in 2018 for The Jungle.

CLAIRE WARDROPERCostume

Claire is Head of Costume at the Almeida Theatre, and during her time here has supervised many productions including: Albion; Boy; Hamlet; Oil; Against; Dance Nation; The Wild Duck; The Tragedy of King Richard II. Prior to her time as Head of Costume, Claire was a freelance Costume Supervisor, working at venues such as The National Theatre, The Royal Court and the Young Vic to name a few.

HAZEL HOLDERVoice Coach

Theatre includes: Death of England: Delroy; Death of England; Small Island; Nine Night; Barber Shop Chronicles; Pericles; Angels in America; Les Blancs; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); Uncle Vanya (West End); Pass Over (Kiln); Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/West End); Richard II (The Globe); Dreamgirls (West End - as Resident Director); ear for eye; Poet in Da Corner; Father Comes Home from the Wars (Royal Court).

Film includes: Small Axe; Silent Twins; Death on the Nile.

TV includes: The Power.

EWA DINAAssistant Director

Ewa Dina is a director, facilitator, actor, voiceover artist & poet. She is currently associate director at Nouveau Riche and one fifth of Theatre Peckham’s resident in-house theatre company: No-Table. As a facilitator, Ewa regularly works for Company Three and has worked with the Kiln Theatre, Central School of Speech and Drama, The Pleasance, The Damilola Taylor Centre and has co-created and facilitated a workshop on music, movement and storytelling for Talawa Theatre Company. Music and movement are integral parts of Ewa’s process; she is a confident mover.

Theatre as Assistant Director includes: Sunnymead Court – Assisting James Hillier (The Actors Centre).

Theatre as Director includes: The Kola Nut Does Not Speak English (VAULT Festival 2020); Omish

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(Courtyard Theatre); Route (Tristan Bates Theatre/ Bread & Roses Theatre/ The Hope Theatre).

Theatre as Curator includes: Pleasance Fringe Future’s Festival Week One: The Future is Noir.

Work as Actor-Mover includes: BAFTA Craft Awards 2021; How We Love (VAULT Festival 2020); One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The English Theatre, Frankfurt); Custody (UK tour) (Prime Theatre & The Art Machine); Run It Back (Talawa Theatre Company).

Ewa graduated from the Rose Bruford BA Acting course in 2019.

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Mr. Anton OzorninEllie Packer & Bob FreidusMr N ParkerMrs. Rakshita PatelMiss Michele PaytonMs. Anne PeckBen & Christina PerryMr Steve PeskinLisa PhillipsAlison PhillipsonMr. Jamie Russell PidgeonMark PlantSally PosgateEdna & Arthur PottersmanSue PrickettMarie PruttonValerie RademacherMr. Simon RandallMr. Mark RansfordMs. Mary C RawlinsonPam RaynorTim ReadLiz & Nick ReeveA J ReevesDr Nicole ReinhardtScarlett ReissMr. Terry ReynoldsAnthony RhodesIan RichDavid RooksbyMrs. Vivien RoseRoger and Carol BestDr. J. SandelsonCarole and John SayersJoan SchachterEdward SchneiderMr Chris ScottTanya SeghatchianJason Seigal and Aude BreusseBruce and Susannah Selby BennettDr SennettRebecca ServadioMr Naveed ShahMs. Emily ShammaMrs Susan ShammasAngela SiegertMark SilversteinMs. Sarah SkeltonLinda and Laurie Slavin

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Peter & Moira SmithPeter SmithBridget SomekhKade SpearsUnni SpillerMrs L SpitzMrs. Anna SpringMrs Lucy SpringettMs Victoria StableCharlie StebbingsMel & Marilyn SteinThe Stephens familyMr Stephen StephensElizabeth SternJanis Susskind OBEDeborah and Davis TaggartR.W & J.TaylorMichael ThomasDavid ThomsSteve TimothyLouise ToemanMr. Bruce TozerDominic Treadwell-CollinsMr Brian TurnerMr Chris TurnerMr William UnderhillAnthony UnwinDonna and Richard VinterPhill Ward LADSue & Alan WarnerSophie & Stephen WarshawMr Roger WatsonMr Tim WatsonMr Kiffer WeisselbergRobert & Sue WelsfordMr John WelzAnnette WhamondAilsa WhiteAndrew K. WilcockDr Peter WillisJamie WilsonMs Ann E F WingateMrs. Jo WoodMs. Valerie J WoollvenDavid WurtzelErnerst YelfDr. Bogdana Zoica

LEGACY GIFTSAnonymousLord & Lady AttenboroughDr Barbara Beryl CollierArthur Donald FlemingClare HopeAnn Totterdell

ACCESS SUPPORTERSThe Sobell Foundation

PARTICIPATION SUPPORTERSAnonymous SupportersAspenSimon & Caroline ClarkThe Mildred Duveen Charitable TrustElm Capital Associates LtdThe Don Hanson Charitable FoundationGregory Nasmyth & Samantha Rowe-BeddoeOak PhilanthropyCharles Skey Charitable TrustThe Steel Charitable TrustThe Taylor Family FoundationThe Garfield Weston Foundation

BUILDING & INFRASTRUCTUREThe Backstage TrustThe Rose FoundationThe Wolfson Foundation

EMERGING ARTIST SUPPORTERSThe Martin Bowley Charitable TrustThe Eranda Rothschild FoundationThe Garrick Charitable TrustThe Genesis FoundationIdlewild TrustJohn & Sarah McNeilGregory Nasmyth a& Samantha Rowe-BeddoeUniversal Music

AMBASSADORSSue BaringGeorgiana BoothbySarah ElsonStamos J FafaliosMary Francis CBEMichael GwinnellAndrew HaighLord Hart of Chilton

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Rick HaythornthwaiteDorothy HendersonMichael HoffmanLinden IfeJack KeenanJohn KinderLady Rosemary Leith Berners-LeeGeorgia OetkerNigel PantlingLady RayneJessica de RothschildAndrea SullivanMartha TackAndrew Wilkinson

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALMEIDAKenneth David BurrowsA Michael HoffmanWilliam Palmer

DEVELOPMENT COUNCILSian Hansen (Chair)Jamie ArkellWilliam BurnandRupert GavinAndrew GoldstoneKaren GreenSusan HahnMassimo MarinelliAliceson RobinsonJohn ShakeshaftIvana Todd

LOCAL LIAISON COMMITTEESusan Hahn (Chair)Rob EdgeCaroline HoareLinden IfeMandy LeadleyMaria MarinosJennifer MeechDeirdra MoynihanClare ParsonsDemelza Short

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CORPORATE SUPPORT

The Almeida presents critically acclaimed, award -winning productions and was awarded The Stage’s London Theatre of the Year in both 2016 and 2018. All our Corporate Partnerships are bespoke and developed together with each company to create the highest possible value.

Benefits can include:

• Brand alignment with bold, exciting and award-winning work and a leading UK arts organisation

• Exclusive client and staff entertainment with the chance to meet actors and creative teams

• CSR fulfilment by helping to support our young people and community work

• Exciting staff engagement opportunities and corporate training

To learn more about how a partnership with the Almeida can help meet your business objectives contact the Development team on 020 7288 4932 or email partnerships@almeida.co.uk

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Thanks to all other corporate donors including Elm Capital.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us with generous donations and encouraging messages since our closure. We are excited to welcome back in-person audiences and remain determined to continue to share our work in whatever way we can.

Three Sisters (2019). Photo: Marc Brenner

Thank you for your belief in what we do. Your support is truly appreciated by all of us at the Almeida. We look forward to sharing some great theatre with you in 2021.

WAYS TO SUPPORT

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