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Griselda Yorke
Cheek by Jowl
c/o Barbican Theatre Stage Door
Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS

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SIZE OF COMPANY
Up to 28 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle- to large-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors

Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod

Executive Director
Griselda Yorke

ARTISTIC POLICY
Cheek by Jowl is a theatre company internationally renowned for fresh and vivid productions of classic texts. Led by co-artistic directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, the company is currently touring and presenting work in English, French and Russian.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘Whatever Cheek by Jowl does next constitutes a major happening.’ The Guardian

‘One of the greatest events of the international theatre season.’ El Pais ()

‘Declan Donnellan is one of the most original directors in the theatre today.’ Le Figaro

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The great tragedy of the imagination. A man and a woman, bound together by ambition, are destroyed in a welter of blood. Cheek by Jowl’s latest work conjures a world of witchcraft, ghosts and apparitions in an hallucinatory experience of sound and shadow.

WRAP-AROUND
Cheek by Jowl give pre-show talks (including book signings of Declan Donnellan’s ), workshops and master-classes (the latter tend to be held at drama schools). The company has a particular interest in working with emerging theatre professionals (actors, directors and designers).

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008European tour ()
2007World tour ()
2006European tour ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Spring/summer 2010 and spring 2011

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