Idomeneus

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Troy has fallen –
and the Cretan General Idomeneus
is on his way home.

But the Gods are angry (aren’t they always?) and so now Idomeneus must make a great sacrifice - but these sacrifices never pan out in the way we’d like them to. Now our General is really in trouble.

This extraordinary new play, inspired by The Iliad and written by one of Germany’s leading writers Roland Schimmelpfennig, receives its UK premiere in a bold new production by Gate Associate Artist Ellen McDougall.

The running time of Idomeneus is 1 hour and 10 minutes, without an interval.

Please click here to download an Idomeneus Cast List.

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Mon – Sat 7.30pm

Sat 3.00pm

Matinees 3.00pm on 9 & 16 July

?The running time of Idomeneus is 1 hour and 10 minutes, without an interval.

Mon 23 June – 7.00pm

Thu 19 June – 7.30pm
Fri 20 June – 7.30pm
Sat 21 June – 7.30pm
Sat 28 June – 3.00pm
Sat 5 July – 3.00pm
Sat 12 July – 3.00pm
Sat 19 July – 3.00pm
Thu 19 June – 7.30pm
Fri 20 June – 7.30pm
Sat 21 June – 7.30pm

Cast & CREATIVES

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Alex austin

Alex Austin

Theatre includes: Wuthering Heights, The Skriker (Royal Exchange), Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic), The End of Eddy, Henry The Fifth, The Nutcracker, The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot, How to Think the Unthinkable (Unicorn Theatre), A New and Better You (Yard Theatre), Gundog, Grimly Handsome, Primetime, Yen, Pigeons (Royal Court), Thebes Land (Arcola), Fury (Soho Theatre), Barbarians (Bad Physics/Young Vic), Idomeneus (The Gate Theatre), Hope, Light and Nowhere (Underbelly), My City (Almeida Theatre) Telling Tales and Encourage the Others (Almeida Young Friends). Film and Television includes: I Hate Suzie (Bad Wolf), Doctor Who, The Mallorca Files, Casualty, Holby City (BBC), The Bike Thief (Roman Holiday Ltd), Blood Out of a Stone (Watersmeet Productions/BFI Flare), Legacy (Legacy Films), The Christmas Candle (Pinewood Films), The Hooligan Factory (Altitude HF Ltd), The World’s End (Black Pictures Lts), The Swarm (Stray Bear Productions), Liar (brocess Ltd), Sherlock (Hartswood), The Interceptor, New Tricks, The Musketeers, Misfits, (Clerkenwell Films).

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Jon Foster

Jon Foster’s previous work for the Gate Theatre includes Idomeneus, Trojan Women, Dream Story, Tenet and Mud. His other theatre credits include Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), F*ck The Polar Bears (Bush Theatre), Buckets (Orange Tree Theatre), A New Way To Please You, Sejanus: His Fall, Speaking Like Magpies, Thomas More (RSC), Food (Traverse Theatre) and Long Time Dead (Paines Plough). His television work includes Fortitude, Da Vinci’s Demons, The Great Fire, Rev, Southcliffe, The Town, The IT Crowd and Mrs Biggs; and for film, Nice Guy and Tides.

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Mark Monero

Theatre Credits include Lloyd, One Man Two Guvnors (National Theatre), Pedro/Farshad, The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland), Frank, Angelhouse (Eclipse UK Tour), Abhorson, Measure for Measure (Almeida Theatre) Paul, Pure Gold (Soho Theatre), Sailor, A Taste of Honey (Liverpool Playhouse Theatre), Obadele, Abyssinia (Southwark Playhouse), Angel, Adrenalin Heart (Bush Theatre) and Carl, Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre). For television, his work includes Coming Up, Dark Matters, Doctor Who, Skins, Trial And Retribution, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, and Eastenders (as series regular Steve Elliot).

Susie Trayling

Susie Trayling

Theatre credits include The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead (Liverpool Everyman/ETT tour), The Hook (Royal and Derngate/Liverpool Everyman), Vast White Stillness (Brighton Festival), The Crucible, Twelfth Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Thomas Tallis (Shakespeare’s Globe), Idomeneus, Vanya (Gate Theatre), King John, Richard III, A Soldier in Every Son (RSC), Mary Goes First, The Mob (Orange Tree Theatre), Love's Labour's Lost (Rose Theatre Kingston), A Doll's House, The Portrait of a Lady, Habeus Corpus, Measure for Measure (The Peter Hall Company), Women of Troy, Dream Play, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Forest (National Theatre), Don't Look Now (Sheffield Lyceum & Lyric Hammersmith), Skylight (Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest, Closer (Royal and Derngate), Camera Obscura (Almeida Theatre), Hamlet (Northcott Theatre, Exeter), Edward II (Sheffield Crucible), Anna Karenina (Bolton Octagon). Her television credits include A Christmas Haunting, We'll Take Manhattan, Vera, Emma and Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Her film credits include Fragile, Fog Bound and All The Queen's Men.

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Ony Uhiara

For theatre, her work includes The El Train (Hoxton Hall), Cannibals (Manchester Royal Exchange), Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe), How To Be an Other Woman (Gate Theatre), Eurydice, In the Red and Brown Water (Young Vic), and well as seasons for the RSC. For television, her credits include Law and Order, Stolen, White Van Man, Criminal Justice, Barclay and Proof; and for film, Venus and Sixty 6.

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David Tushingham – Translator

David Tushingham works as a dramaturg for the Salzburg Festival.

He has previously programmed and commissioned new works for Wiener Festwochen, Theater der Welt, RuhrTriennale and Linz09 European Capital of Culture, as well as leading German theatres in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf.

He has translated Roland Schimmelpfennig’s earlier plays
The Golden Dragon (ATC/Traverse/Arcola and international tour), The Woman Before (Royal Court) and Arabian Night (ATC/Soho Theatre).

Other translations include; State of Emergency (Gate), Mr. Kolpert, Stranger’s House, Waiting Room Germany (Royal Court), Jeff Koons (ATC/ICA), Death of an Intern (Royal Academy), Innocence, Olga’s Room (Arcola), Land Without Words (Edinburgh) and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Southwark Playhouse).

Clare Slater – Dramaturg

Clare Slater is the Literary Manager at the Donmar Warehouse, dramaturgically supporting all of the plays on the Donmar’s stage, with recent productions including Limehouse by Steve Waters and The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht in a new adaptation by Bruce Norris. She previously worked as Executive Director at the Gate. She is also a freelance adaptor and dramaturg and her recent freelance credits include Idomeneus, Here’s How It All Began (Gate Theatre), The Last Mermaid, Man To Man (Wales Millennium Centre), Lotty’s War (UK tour), We Have Fallen (Theatre 503/Underbelly). She previously worked as the Assistant Literary Manager at the National Theatre and in TV and film development with Rare Day.

Ellen McDougall – Artistic Director and Joint CEO (2017-2022)

Ellen is Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre. Previous credits at the Gate include – Dear Elizabeth (2019), Effigies of Wickedness (2018), The Unknown Island (2017) and Idomeneus (2014). Other credits include Our Town (Regents Open Air) and The Wolves (Stratford East); Othello (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe); the Lyric’s annual pantomime – Aladdin (2016) and Cinderella (2015); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange); The Remains of Maisie Duggan (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Glass Menagerie (Headlong); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); Henry the Fifth (Unicorn Theatre); Glitterland (Secret Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith) and Ivan and the Dogs (Actors Touring Company/Soho Theatre) – nominated for an Olivier Award. Ellen was formerly part of the Secret Theatre Company at the Lyric Hammersmith. She trained as an assistant to Katie Mitchell and Marianne Elliott. She was awarded an International Artists’ Development Award (ACE/British Council) in 2012.

Ana Ines Jabares Pita – Designer

Ana Ines is a graduate from MA Scenography at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 2012. Her work crosses a range of genres: opera, ballet, theatre, experimental, site-specific and film. She had previously trained at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, specialising in painting and in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo where she first came into contact with Scenography. In parallel she has an extensive grounding in music which made her become interested in sound as a fundamental part of the scenography. She finds that theatre is the perfect fusion between her biggest passions: art, music and sound. Her work includes an award-winning play Sappho... in 9 fragments (Best Design award – Ottawa Fringe Festival), Hamlet's Fool (Cockpit Theatre) and the film ANANKE (as art director). Recently she has been announced as Overall Winner 2013 of the prestigious Linbury Prize. Ana is one of the Gate’s Jerwood Young Designers for 2014.

Maria Koutsouna – Design Assistant

Maria Koutsouna is a UK based theatre and set designer from an architectural background. She studied at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama -MA in Scenography (2012). Prior to this she completed her studies in Architecture at National Technical University of Athens -BA, MEng in Architecture (2010). Maria loves to experiment with different materials and textures, exploring new ways of creating space. During her course at RCSSD she had the opportunity to design for dance at The Place in collaboration with London Contemporary Dance School. Since graduating, she has been assisting several designers for theatre, dance, site-specific performances, films and TV shows. Currently she is working as a set designer and an architectural assistant for GOA Studio.

Lizzie Powell – Lighting Designer

Lizzie Powell is a lighting designer in theatre.

As a Lighting Designer her credits include: The Country Girls (Chichester Festival); The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Out of This World (Dance Touring Partnership); Frankenstein/Hedda Gabler (Northern Stage); Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland/UK Tour); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (Duke of Yorks Theatre, NTS Tour); Human Animals, Violence and Son (Royal Court); Endgame, The Choir, Fever Dream: Southside, The Libertine, Far Away/Seagulls, Krapp’s Last Tape/Footfalls (Citizens); The Brink (Orange Tree); Fruit Trilogy (West Yorkshire Playhouse): Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible); The Mighty Walzer, Anna Karenina (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Secret Theatre (Lyric, Hammersmith/Tour); Adam, In A Time O’ Strife, My Shrinking Life, The Enquirer, An Appointment with the Wickerman, Knives in Hens, Girl X, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Venus as a Boy (National Theatre of Scotland); Idomeneus (Gate Theatre).

Anastasia Osei-Kuffour (AD) – Assistant Director

Anastasia is currently Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre. She has trained as a director through the Young Vic Directors Programme, as assistant director on several young people’s projects (Young Vic), and as the Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director on A Doll’s House (Young Vic, Dir. Carrie Cracknell, 2013). Anastasia’s directing credits include Under the Radar by Keith Large (BRTC), An Evening with Sienna Dax by Kymberly Ashman (Blackshaw TC) and Hosea’s Girl written by herself. Anastasia started directing through writing and creating youth theatre productions. She is currently artistic director of Wrested Veil, a new theatre company comprised of an ensemble of actors and directors creating new writing, adaptations and devised pieces of theatre.

Roland Schimmelpfennig – Playwright

Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most produced European playwrights. His plays have been translated into over 20 languages and he made his US debut in 2007 with a production of his play Arabian Nights, produced by NYC’s Play Company. He first worked as a freelance journalist and author in Istanbul before studying as a theatre director in Munich’s Otto Falkenberg School in 1990. He then became an assistant director and later a member of the artistic team at Munich’s Kammerspiele. Roland Schimmelpfennig was then engaged as dramaturg and author at the Berlin Schaubühne for the 1999/2000 season and was resident playwright at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In 2010, Schimmelpfennig was awarded the Mühlheimer Dramatists Award for his play The Golden Dragon. The play premiered at the Burgtheater Vienna last season and has since received more than 20 productions worldwide. He just finished a commission for the Tokyo National Theater and the Burgtheater in Vienna. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre.

Jon Nicholls – Composer and Sound Designer

Jon Nicholls studied composition at the London College of Music and electroacoustic music at Dartington. Music / sound scores for theatre include Spring Storm, Beyond The Horizon and The Holy Rosenbergs (National Theatre); Bakersfield Mist (Duchess), Bracken Moor, Mermaid (Shared Experience), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Sheffield Crucible); Yerma (Gate); The Norman Conquests (Liverpool Playhouse); Red Light Winter, The Welsh Boy, deadkidsongs, The Double and the Spanish Golden Age season (Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov); The Wind In The Willows, Dancing at Lughnasa, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Eden End, Humble Boy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, In Praise of Love and the Young America season (Northampton), Blue Remembered Hills, Art, The Changeling, Silas Marner (Theatr Clwyd); Rutherford and Son (Northern Stage); Katherine DeSouza, The Mothership, Linda (Birmingham Rep); Amadeus, Masterclass, Be My Baby (Derby Playhouse); Private Lives, Much Ado About Nothing, If I Were You, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, The Heretic, The Seagull (Library Theatre, Manchester); The Picture (Salisbury Playhouse). Screen work includes scores for numerous documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, and over 30 short films. Extensive music and sound design for BBC radio drama includes: The Broken Word, Pink Mist, Erebus, Laurels and Donkeys, In Memoriam, At The Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Between Friends, Babel’s Tower, Faust, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Caesar Price Our Lord, It’s Better with Animals, The Histories of Herodotus, The Time Machine, Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Five Fever Tales and What I Heard About Iraq (Prix Italia Jury Special Mention). He's composed two operas: Falling Across and most recently Flicker which was premiered at Sadlers Wells in 2013.

Joe Wild – Movement Director

Joe is an dance artist and performance maker specialising in movement, dance and pedagogy. He trained as a choreographer and dancer at Laban (BA Dance Theatre), and as a Movement Director at the Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Movement Studies). He was a dance Lecturer on BA Drama at Northampton University for a number of years, and Lectured on Movement Anatomy at the Acadamy of Live and Recorded Art. He has presented lecture performances at the Place- London, 2012 Psi conference- Leeds, Theatr Wred- Oldenburg, Milan University and Calcutta University, and had writing in the first publication of The Swedish Dance History. He has taught with Cambridge University, Central St Martins, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Earthfall dance company, and internationally with Europian Live Art Network.
Joe’s movement direction work has included collaboration with Firenza Guidi making work in Italy, Wales, France and India. Other movement direction credits include Give It a Name (Chapter, Cardiff), Hijinx (UK Tour), Blanche Macentire (Southwark Playhouse), Justin Audibert (The Gate). He has taught Movement Analysis on MA Character Animation at Central St. Martins and collaborated with award winning director Vicky Mather on a short film for Lulu Guinness.

Bill Knight – Production photographer

Bill Knight is a photographer specialising in portraits, theatre and opera. www.knightsight.co.uk

Rosie Farrell – Artist-in-Residence

Rosie Farrell is an artist working with sound, moving image, and performance. Her work focuses on the rituals, repetitions and rhythms of everyday contexts, looking at how the mechanics of storytelling, musicality and performance can be used to search for a thing, an image or phenomenon.

She attended Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2012. She was awarded the neo:art prize 2013, and in the same year was a recipient of a six month research residency at Lionel Dobie Project. She was also the recipient of a Chelsea Arts Club Trust Special Projects Award in 2012. Recent presentations of her work include: PRESENTS at Rogue Projects Space (2013), Carter Presents (2013), We Can Elude Control at Bold Tendencies (2012), Moving Image Screening at South London Gallery (2012), Ideal Home at Chelsea Space (2011), and Gone with the Wind at Raven Row (2011).

Idomeneus is supported by Arts Council England and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

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Troy has fallen –
and the Cretan General Idomeneus
is on his way home.

But the Gods are angry (aren’t they always?) and so now Idomeneus must make a great sacrifice – but these sacrifices never pan out in the way we’d like them to. Now our General is really in trouble.

This extraordinary new play, inspired by The Iliad and written by one of Germany’s leading writers Roland Schimmelpfennig, receives its UK premiere in a bold new production by Gate Associate Artist Ellen McDougall.

The running time of Idomeneus is 1 hour and 10 minutes, without an interval.

Please click here to download an Idomeneus Cast List.

The Gate Theatre Company is a company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales No. 1495543 – Charity No. 280278