Machinal
11 Apr–30 May 2024
What you need to know
Dates
11 Apr–30 May 2024About the show
‘How can that be? A great sin – a mortal sin – for which I must die and go to hell – but it made me free! One moment I was free!’
From the outside, Helen Jones and her husband had a ‘happy marriage’. Until she murdered him.
Based on the true crime story of Ruth Snyder in 1928 that shook a nation, Sophie Treadwell’s seminal Machinal is a pulse-pounding journey of someone pushed to breaking point by the relentless machinery of life, expectation and convention.
A Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath production in association with The Old Vic
Presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books
The Cast
Rosie Sheehy
Young Woman
Daniel Abelson
Man at Bar, Defence Lawyer, Doctor, Office Clerk
Sam Alexander
Prosecution Lawyer, Older Man at Bar
Christian Alifoe
Ensemble
Steven Beard
Doctor, Judge, Priest, Bartender, Office Clerk
Daniel Bowerbank
Filing Clerk, Younger Man at Bar, Court Bailiff, Prisoner
Imogen Daines
Woman at Bar, Jailer, Reporter
Buffy Davis
Mother
Steven Dykes
Ensemble
Tim Frances
Husband
Carla Harrison-Hodge
Telephone Girl, Reporter
Emilio Iannucci
Adding Clerk, 2nd Man at Bar, Barber, Doctor, Court Photographer
Jane MacFarlane
Ensemble
Caroline Moroney
Ensemble
Pierro Niel-Mee
Young Man
Wendy Nottingham
Stenographer, Nurse, Jailer
Creative Team
Richard Jones
Director
Hyemi Shin
Set
Sarah Fahie
Movement
Nicky Gillibrand
Costume
Adam Silverman
Lighting
Benjamin Grant
Sound
Ginny Schiller CDG
Casting
Charlie Hughes-D’Aeth
Voice
Rick Lipton
Dialect
Lucy Hind
Intimacy
Stanley Wade
Assistant Director
Joe Price
Associate Lighting
Magdalena Seyfried
Costume Supervisor
Stage Management
Kate Schofield
Company Stage Manager
Adam Tripp
Deputy Stage Manager
Emily Compton
Assistant Stage Manager
OV Backstage
Amina Pagliari
Set (Design)
Georgina Williams
Set (Stage)
Ryan Raphael Rose
Costume
Elizabeth Grace
Sound
Elise Paige André
Stage Management
Gustavo Teodosio
Production Management
EJ Saunders
Project Coordinator