CHEEK BY JOWL

SIZE OF COMPANY
26 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFFf
Artistic Director
Declan Donnellan

Artistic Director
Nick Ormerod

Executive Director
Griselda Yorke

ARTISTIC POLICY
Cheek by Jowl produces Shakespeare and European classics. The unique approach and method employed by the Artistic Directors has set Cheek by Jowl productions apart from all others and the company’s productions are distinct with their fusion of vivid storytelling, music and song.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘A first class ensemble excel in this spellbinding production… close to perfection.’ Le Figaro (Cymbeline)

‘I cannot imagine a more delicate, luminous and emotionally piercing production... Heartbreaking simplicity; simply heartbreaking.’ The Times (Three Sisters)

‘A star performance. The place should be packed.’ The Sunday Times (The Changeling)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Troilus and Cressida The Trojan War, the defining legend of western literature, is stripped to its raw heart in Shakespeare's scathing satire on glory, chivalry and doomed love. Staged in traverse. (Running time tbc, 16 on stage, 27 on the road.)

Boris Godunov Pushkin's lyrical masterpiece is a gripping exposé of the seductive appeal of power and the terrible price that must be paid for it. Money, corruption, sex and blood thicken this sinuous and radical play, inspired by Shakespeare’s histories. Staged in traverse. Performed in Russian. (135 mins, no interval, 17 on stage, 31 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Andromache Racine's sharp, modern analysis of the human psyche illustrates perfectly the old adage that ‘the heart is a treacherous place'. Subversive, surprising and ironic, Racine dismembers our self-deceptions with an implacable logic. Performed in French. (120 mins plus interval, 7 on stage, numbers on the road tbc.)

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 France, Iceland, Italy, USA (Cymbeline)
2006 France, Luxembourg, Spain (The Changeling)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request