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In Person

Machinal

11 Apr–30 May 2024

What you need to know

Dates

11 Apr–30 May 2024

About 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

Trailers & Interviews

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