THE WRITER
SET & PROPS DESIGNER
A young female playwright and an older male director find themselves alone in an empty theatre. She wants a new form of theatre that dismantles capitalism and overturns the patriarchy. He’s turned on by the commercial potential of her rage.He flirts. She stares him down. She wants to do things her way. She wants to change the shape of the world. And without warning it does, revealing stories nested within stories like Russian dolls, each more brilliant and daring than the last.The Writerpremiered at the Almeida Theatre in 2018 and takes aim at the business of making art – the compromises it demands, the people it chews up, and the endless ways in which patriarchal power can infect. It rocks the very foundations upon which theatre is built.
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Written by Ella Hickson
Director Zoë Hollyoak
Set & Props Designer Paris Burrows
Costume Designer Jessi Seymour
Lighting Designer Madeleine Picard
Sound Designer Julianna Stankiewicz
Assistant Directors Fernando De Miguel Fuertes & Temuulen Jargalsaikhan
Production Stage Manager Grace Sackman
Deputy Stage Manager Sherydan Simson
Assistant Stage Managers Niamh Nolland, Thomas Shepherd & Poppy Townsend -
Construction Manager Lyndsey Brown & Nicholas Day
Costume Supervisor Maverick Durkin
Properties Superviso rJess McIntosh
Electrician Carol Gonzales
Costume Makers Nina Price & Giulia Zanardo
Set/Props Assistant Designer Mia MacCormick
Costume Assistant Designer Daisy Hughes
Construction Assistants Evangelina Doosey Shaw, Michael Fisher & Zoe Howard
Costume Assistant Imahn Pholi
Properties Assistant Emily Lilley
Mechanist Matt Phillips
Floor LX Thomas Howieson
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CAST
Female Actor/Girlfriend Yasna Delo
Male Actor/Boyfriend Chris Turner
Writer Teodora Matovic
Director Hadrian Le Goff
Understudies Caleb Jamieson and
Amy GoedeckePhotographs by Philip Erbacher