Amanda Drew has previously been seen at the Almeida in Ian Rickson's production of Parlour Song and Michael Attenborough's production of Gorky's Enemies as well as the Almeida's 2008 A Chain Play. Most recently she was seen in Enron at the Royal Court and the West End. Her other theatre work includes Faces in the Crowd and The Stone for the Royal Court, Otherwise Engaged at the Criterion Theatre, Blithe Spirit at the Savoy Theatre, Breakfast with Emma and The House of Bernada Alba for Shared Experience as well as many productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company both in Stratford and in the West End. On television she is best known for playing Dr May Wright in EastEnders. Her other television credits include Men Behaving Badly, Tough Love and The Maitlands. Her film credits include Mrs Dalloway and This Year's Love.
Peter De Jersey has worked at the National Theatre in productions including War and Peace, The Merchant of Venice and Troilus and Cressida and the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet. His other theatre credits include Hamlet for Cheek by Jowl and Someone to Watch Over Me for Theatr Clwyd. On television his credits include Doctors, Sugar Rush and Waking The Dead and on film his credits include Hamlet, Out of Depth and The Bank Job.
Michael Landes will make his Almeida debut in House of Games. His extensive television career includes The Last Days of Lehman Brothers as well as roles in New Tricks, Boston Legal, CSI Miami, Love Soup, Material Girl, Christmas Carol, Hotel Babylon, Ghost Whisperer, The Wonder Years and thirtysomething. Landes played the role of Jimmy Olsen in the first season of Lois and Clark: The Adventures of Superman. His many film credits include My Girlfriends Boyfriend, Just Wright, Homecoming, Last Chance Harvey, Posession, Final Destination 2 and An American Summer. Landes has previously been seen on the London stage in When Harry Met Sally at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
John Marquez has previously been seen in A Chain Play and The Hypochondriac at the Almeida. His other theatre credits include Alice, Comedy of Errors, Iphigenia and Sweet Charity for Sheffield Theatres, All Manner of Means for Battersea Arts Centre, Annie Get Your Gun and The Good Soul of Szechuan for the Young Vic and The Emperor Jones, Market Boy, Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads for the National Theatre. His television credits include Doc Martin, Hotel Babylon, Suburban Shootout, Blair, Soldier Soldier and Killing Me Softly.
Al Weaver's theatre credits include Toyer for the Arts Theatre, How to Curse for the Bush, Coram Boy for the National Theatre and All the Ordinary Angles for the Royal Exchange Manchester. His television credits include Nativity, Sherlock Holmes and Survivors. His film credits include Honeymooners, Me and Orson Wells and Colour Me Kubrick.
David Mamet's other works as a playwright include Romance, which received its British premiere at The Almeida Theatre in 2005, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Speed-the-Plow. As well as translations and adaptations his other writing includes five volumes of essays, children's books, as well as poems and novels. His films, as a writer, include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables and The Winslow Boy and as writer/director, House of Games which marked his film directorial debut, Oleanna,The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main and Heist.
The Almeida has previously presented Richard Bean's version of Moliere's The Hypochondriac. His play On the Side of the Angels will be presented as part of the Tricycle Theatre's The Great Game: Afghanistan season in July. His other writing credits include England People Very Nice which premiered at the National Theatre in 2009, The English Game, produced by Headlong, Harvest, Honeymoon Suite and Toast all for the Royal Court, The Mentalists for the National Theatre and Up On Roof for Hull Truck.
Previously Lindsay Posner has directed Mamet's Romance for The Almeida Theatre as well as The Hypochondriac and Tom and Viv. His other extensive directing credits include Mamet's Oleanna, A Life in the Theatre and Sexual Perversity in Chicago, as well as, more recently, Fiddler on the Roof for Sheffield Theatres and the Savoy Theatre, Three Sisters on Hope Street for Hampstead Theatre, Carousel at the Savoy Theatre and A View from the Bridge at the Duke of York's Theatre.
PRINCIPAL SPONSOR
The Almeida Theatre is grateful to its Principal Sponsor Coutts & Co., who is currently in their eighth consecutive year of support. The relationship between Coutts and the Almeida, first established when the newly refurbished theatre reopened in 2003, is a unique collaboration which has developed and flourished over the past eight years. www.coutts.com
PRODUCTION SPONSOR
Long-term major sponsor of The Almeida Theatre, Aspen, continue their generous support of the theatre into a seventh year as Production Sponsor of House of Games. Aspen is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider to clients worldwide, listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol AHL. www.aspen.bm
Arts Council ENGLAND
The Almeida Theatre is supported by Arts Council England
ACCESS PERFORMANCES
House of Games
Captioned Performances 16 October at 3pm and 2 November at 7.30pm followed by speech to text Talkback
Audio Described Performance 30 October at 3pm with a Touch Tour at 1.30pm
Almeida Access Line 020 7288 4999 or email access@almeida.co.uk
ADDRESS Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, Islington, London, N1 1TA
CAFE-BAR The Almeida Cafe-Bar is open from 11.30am -11.00pm, Monday to Saturday, serving food, drinks and snacks.
BOX OFFICE
Phone 020 7359 4404 (24 hour)
In person 10.00am - 7.30pm, Monday - Saturday
On line www.almeida.co.uk
Tickets £32.00 - £8.00, concessions available
PERFORMANCES SCHEDULE
Regular performances are Monday - Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday matinees (from 18 September) at 3pm, Press Nights at 7.00pm
Extra matinee performances for House of Games - Wednesdays 20 October and 3 November at 2.30pm
WEBSITE www.almeida.co.uk
