Whitehead E. A - Alpha Beta

The first major London revival for more than 40 years Alpha Beta by Ted Whitehead First performed at the Royal Court Theatre: Wednesday, 26 January 1972. This production was first performed at the Finborough Theatre: Thursday, 18 June 2015. Alpha Beta by Ted Whitehead Cast

Norma	Tracy Ifeachor
Frank	Christian Roe

The action is set in Frank and Normas home. The performance lasts approximately one hour forty minutes. There will be no interval.

Director	Purni Morell
Designer	Verity Quinn
Lighting Designer and Production Manager	Phil Bentley
Assistant Director	Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
Fight Director	Tim Klotz

Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members.

We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress. TRACY IFEACHOR
NORMA Trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), Raisin in the Sun (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), As You Like It (The Curve, Leicester) and Noughts and Crosses (Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon and Tour). Film includes Take Down and Blooded. Television includes Doctor Who, Hawaii Five-O, The Originals, John Malkovichs Crossbones, Jo, Strike Back and Casualty. CHRISTIAN ROE
FRANK Trained at LAMDA and the National Youth Theatre. CHRISTIAN ROE
FRANK Trained at LAMDA and the National Youth Theatre.

Theatre includes Stand (Oxford Playhouse), Seesaw, How Nigeria Became, The Velveteen Rabbit (Unicorn Theatre), Monkey Bars (Unicorn Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and UK Tour), Roaring Trade (Paines Plough at Soho Theatre), The Power of Yes (National Theatre) and Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre). Television includes Skins: Fire, Wallander, Walters War, Criminal Justice and White Heat. TED WHITEHEAD
PLAYWRIGHT Playwright Ted Whitehead was born in Liverpool in 1933. His first play, The Foursome, premiered at the Royal Court Upstairs in 1971 and transferred to the West End. Alpha Beta premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1972, directed by Anthony Page, with Albert Finney and Rachel Roberts. It went on to be performed at Londons Apollo Theatre.

His later plays include The Sea Anchor, Mecca and Old Flames, and an adaptation of The Dance of Death at the Riverside Studios starring Alan Bates. He has also written extensively for television, including adaptations of The Life and Loves of a She Devil and The Mayor of Casterbridge. PURNI MORELL
DIRECTOR Purni is Artistic Director at the Unicorn Theatre where she has directed The Velveteen Rabbit (2014 and 2015), Dora and A Winters Tale. She was previously Head of Studio at the National Theatre where she worked on Ajax by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Public Toilet Land by Hanna Borglund and The Leisure Society by Franois Archambault. Purni has worked in the literary departments of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California, and the National Theatre and spent a number of years working as an independent theatre producer in Glasgow. VERITY QUINN
DESIGNER Trained at Nottingham Trent University. VERITY QUINN
DESIGNER Trained at Nottingham Trent University.

Theatre includes Free (Half Moon Theatre), The Fourth Wise Man, Seesaw, When I Think About the Universe I Laugh For No Reason, Dora (Unicorn Theatre), The Trial (RETZ), Jack and the Beanstalk (Dance City), Blue Boy (New Writing North and Northern Stage, Newcastle), Apples (Northern Stage and Company of Angels), The Girls from Poppyfield Close (Live Theatre, Newcastle), The Beautiful Journey (WildWorks) and Heartbreak Soup (The Empty Space). PHIL BENTLEY
LIGHTING DESIGNER and PRODUCTION MANAGER Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Quality Street. Trained at The Arden School of Theatre. Lighting Designs include The Chair and Seesaw (Unicorn Theatre), Orpheus (BAC and Salzburg), Hansel and Gretel (Bloomsbury Opera), Hair and The Constant Wife (Bridewell Theatre), Dracula, Black Battles with Dogs, The National Theatre, A Cure for a Cuckold, A Russian in the Woods, An Experiment With an Air Pump, The Winters Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, Figaro Gets Divorced, The Wild Duck, The Rehearsal, The Hot L Baltimore and The Kitchen (Drama Centre London), Dick Whittington, Dream and The Ring Cycle (Cochrane Theatre), Cooking With Elvis, Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The Merry Widow (Carl Rosa Opera Company UK tour), Them With Tails and The Owl and The Pussycat (Tall Stories UK tour), Ice Baby, ASBOy and Love Letters (The Ashton Group UK tour), Blood Wedding and The Witch of Edmonton (Waterside Theatre, Manchester). Phil is Technical Director at the Unicorn Theatre. ANASTASIA OSEI-KUFFOUR
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Trained through the Young Vic Directors Programme.

Theatre includes Pushers (Etcetera Theatre), Universally Speaking and You Know That Ill Be Back (Theatre503). Assistant Direction includes Idomeneus (Gate Theatre), Henry the Fifth (Unicorn Theatre) and A Dolls House (The Young Vic). Anastasia is currently Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre, and as Artistic Director of Wrested Veil Theatre Company has been awarded a place on Talawa Theatre Companys Studio Firsts scheme, developing Hoseas Girl, a new dance theatre play. TIM KLOTZ
FIGHT DIRECTOR Trained at The British Academy of Dramatic Combat. Fight Direction credits include work at Shakespeares Globe, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Festival Hall, Haymraket Theatre Basingstoke, Nashville Ballet, Comedy Theatre London, and The Tobacco Factory Bristol, BBC, and Channel 4. Tim has provided casting assistance for productions seeking action actors and motion capture performers, including Kingdom of Heaven and Alexander.

Work in motion capture for video games includes Medieval Total War II, Spartan Total Warrior, Killzone 2, and

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