the tricycle annual report 2011

THE TRICYCLE
THEATRE
CINEMA
GALLERY
ANNUAL REPORT 2011
The Great Game: Afghanistan Special Washington Performance for the US Pentagon, 11 February 2011
‘BRITAIN’S LEADING POLITICAL PLAYHOUSE’
THE TIMES, 2011
MISSION STATEMENT
To present accessible work of the highest standard in theatre,
cinema and visual arts, with a distinctive voice responding to
the local diverse community as well as maintaining a national
and international profile.
Educational work has the highest priority.
STATEMENT OF ARTISTIC POLICY
The Tricycle’s four main policy objectives are:
• To produce new work and to present world classics to a new generation
• To promote and celebrate work which represents the diverse culture
of Brent and the surrounding community
• To present work for children and to provide participatory and training
workshops for children and young people, particularly the disadvantaged
• To produce work which challenges national and international injustice
and inhumanity
CONTENTS
Executive summary
Access
Theatre
Cinema
Education and Social Inclusion Overview
Education Programme
Social Inclusion Programme
Visual Arts Programme
Gallery
Fundraising
Bloomberg
Patrons and Directors
Theatre show dates and company details
Attendance and financial perspective
Cinema screenings
Summary Income and Expenditure Account
Balance Sheet
Trustees’ Statement
‘THE TRICYCLE OFTEN OFFERS THE MOST
POLITICALLY AUDACIOUS PROGRAMMING
OF ANY THEATRE IN LONDON’
Financial Times, 2010
Company Registration Number 1396429
Registered Charity Number 276892
Cover image:
Daniel Rabin, Danny Rahim, Vincent Ebrahim and Nabil Elouahabi
in The Great Game: Afghanistan | Photo: John Haynes
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This year’s Annual Report celebrates the
Tricycle’s 30th Birthday. In last year’s Annual
Report, looking back over the last twelve
months, I wrote that it was “the most exciting
in the Tricycle’s history” – I am now in danger
of repeating myself.
The three highlights of the year were:
Women, Power and Politics, a two play
cycle looking at the lack of women’s
representation in Parliament – the plays
and surrounding festival made a big media
impact coming, as they did, shortly after
the general election; The Great Game:
Afghanistan, the revival of our acclaimed
trilogy of the previous year; and Arthur
Miller’s Broken Glass, which transfers
to the West End in the Autumn of 2011.
In July we hosted a special trilogy
performance of The Great Game for the
Ministry of Defence. On the day Sir David
Richards, now Chief of the Defence Staff,
made a speech from the stage saying:
‘If I’d seen the plays before being deployed
to Afghanistan for the first time in 2005
it would have made me a much better
commander.’
ACCESS
In the Autumn The Great Game toured to
Washington, Minneapolis, Berkeley and
New York in the USA and over 11 weeks
played to nearly 50,000 people. The tour
culminated in two special command
performances in Washington for Pentagon
staff, serving military and aid workers.
The Times leader said of this performance:
‘It shows that the Tricycle company ranks
as Britain’s leading political playhouse.’
The cinema produced good box office figures,
and the UK Jewish Film Festival, as well as
the many Q&As throughout the year, played
to large houses.
The Tricycle’s extensive weekly programme of
plays, workshops and activities for children
and young people continued to expand with
over 50,000 attendances in 2010/11. The
programme for socially excluded children and
young people was broader than ever before.
The collaboration with the Muslim Jewish
Theatre Group built on its successful
foundations and the continuing commitment
and support from Brent Council confirms the
Tricycle’s place in the heart of its community.
Nicolas Kent
Artistic Director
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Open all day, seven days a week, the
Tricycle not only houses a theatre, a
cinema, an art gallery, a painting studio,
a rehearsal room and two community
spaces dedicated to children’s activities,
but also has a vibrant bar and café.
Accessibility
The Tricycle ensures that pricing, programming and access are tailored to the needs
of all. Reduced price tickets range from 1p
on a twice-weekly Pay What You Can scheme,
to £8.50 for students and £4.50 for Brent
Residents. The average price paid for a
theatre ticket in 2010/11 was £13.56. There
is an infra-red system for the hard of hearing
in the theatre and cinema. The building has
excellent disabled access and disabled
parking bays nearby.
The last financial year (2010/11) saw
185,000 attendances at the Tricycle and,
in addition, over one million people in the
United Kingdom saw or heard productions
that originated at the Tricycle. The 39 Steps
continued its run in the West End and on
Broadway, and has now played in more than
29 countries; whilst BBC Radio 3 broadcast
four plays from the Tricycle’s production of
The Great Game: Afghanistan.
‘The Tricycle Theatre is an inspirational
example of how art with a social
conscience need not require creative
compromise’
Liberty Human Rights Arts Award, 2010
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Photo: Tristram Kenton
Photo: John Haynes
Photo: John Haynes
Photo: Bridget Jones
THEATRE
TRICYCLE PRODUCTIONS
Niamh Cusack and Lara Rossi
Karl Davies and Tom McKay
Danny Rahim, Raad Rawi and Michael Cochrane
Antony Sher and Lucy Cohu
WOMEN, POWER AND POLITICS
THEN: Plays by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marie
Jones, Moira Buffini and Lucy Kirkwood with
verbatim accounts edited by Gillian Slovo
NOW: Plays by Joy Wilkinson, Bola Agbaje,
Zinnie Harris, Sam Holcroft and Sue
Townsend with verbatim accounts edited
by Gillian Slovo
4 June – 17 July 2010
THE GREAT GAME: AFGHANISTAN
Plays by Richard Bean, Lee Blessing,
David Edgar, David Greig, Amit Gupta,
Ron Hutchinson, Stephen Jeffreys,
Abi Morgan, Ben Ockrent, Simon Stephens,
Colin Teevan, Joy Wilkinson
23 July – 29 August 2010
USA Tour:
The Shakespeare Theatre at
the Harman, Washington
15 – 26 September 2010
BROKEN GLASS
by Arthur Miller
30 September – 27 November 2010
‘Tales of the struggle dazzle and delight…
This ambitious cycle of nine new short plays
gives audiences a remarkable bird’s-eye-view
of the changing landscape of opportunity for
women in these isles over the years.’
 The Daily Telegraph
‘Hilarious and moving… raises serious
questions about the balance of power.’
 The Guardian
‘Sparky, spiky, humorous, wistful… a terrific
achievement and crucial, frightening viewing
for both sexes.’
 Evening Standard
‘This is theatre as crusading journalism.
Nourishing and demanding, The Great Game
cements the Tricycle’s status as Britain’s
leading venue for political theatre.’
 Evening Standard
‘The Tricycle’s enterprising and fascinating
collection of short plays about Afghanistan
will leave you feeling both educated and
entertained.’
Financial Times
‘The Great Game is a triumph… It shows
that The Tricycle company ranks as Britain’s
leading political playhouse’
The Times (leading article)
The Guthrie Theater at the
McGuire Proscenium, Minneapolis
29 September – 17 October 2010
Berkeley Repertory Theatre at
The Roda Theatre, Berkeley
22 October – 7 November 2010
‘Unmissable… flawless… brilliant’
 Mail on Sunday
‘Extraordinarily moving… the acting is
superb.’
 The Daily Telegraph
‘Mesmerising… grips like a thriller.’
 The Times
The Public Theater at the Skirball,
Washington Square, New York
1 – 19 December 2010
Pentagon Performances:
10 – 11 February 2011
‘A remarkable seven-hour marathon’
New York Times
‘A provocative, educational work that leaves
audiences to draw their own conclusions.’
Washingtonian
‘Artful and very entertaining’
The New Yorker
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Photo: Douglas Robertson
Photo: Michael Daniel
Photo: Melinda Leuthold
Photo: Tristram Kenton
VISITING PRODUCTIONS
Marty Maguire and Chris Corrigan
Oliver Dimsdale
Jim Lichtscheidl and JC Cutler
Matthew Pidgeon and Cora Bissett
CHRONICLES OF LONG KESH
by Martin Lynch
15 March – 17 April 2010
Green Shoot Productions
TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare
4 – 29 May 2010
Filter in association with the
Royal Shakespeare Company
TINY KUSHNER
Plays by Tony Kushner
1 – 25 September 2010
The Guthrie Theater and
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
MIDSUMMER (A PLAY WITH SONGS)
by David Greig & Gordon McIntyre
29 November 2010 – 29 January 2011
Traverse Theatre Company
‘Sean Holmes’ production cuts through the
melancholic membrane to the quick of its
bloodstream… a production that should be
compulsory viewing.’
The Independent
‘In these five short plays [Kushner] reveals
his gift for blending the hallucinatory and
the political.’
 The Guardian
‘An important drama, impeccably presented.’
 Evening Standard
‘A vigorous, six-strong Irish cast make terrific
use of chanting, roaring, boot-stomping and
lusty renditions of Tamla Motown classics…
this is ripping theatre.’
 Sunday Times
‘An undeniably colourful and involving
piece of documentary drama performed
with passion and wit.’
Time Out
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‘Great fun… gloriously over-the-top’
The Times
‘Vibrant tales of angels and sinners. Radical
politics and erudite, high-camp fancifulness
inform these five short but imaginatively
outsize works.’
 The Independent
‘A play with music that warms the heart so
thoroughly that even slushy streets and a
biting east wind cannot cool the golden glow.’
 The Daily Telegraph
‘Just the thing to put warmth and hope
into every wintry heart.’
 Mail on Sunday
‘Beautifully chartered… left me giddy
with warm-hearted pleasure.’
 Sunday Express
‘Small is beautiful and bold in Tiny Kushner.
This quintet of one-act plays shows Tony
Kushner at his most fanciful and eclectic…
fierce, strange and clever theatre.’
 Evening Standard
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Photo: Simon Kane
CINEMA
The Tricycle Cinema is a luxury 300-seat large
screen cinema showing the best art-house,
mainstream and family films. As part of
Europa Cinemas – the Pan European Film &
Cinema Network – the Cinema is committed
to showing the best British and international
films.
This year the Cinema continued to build on
its reputation for delivering exciting special
events to celebrate films, and developing
new audiences.
Oliver Dimsdale and Ferdy Roberts in Water
WATER
Created by Filter and David Farr
1 February – 5 March 2011
Filter and Lyric Hammersmith
‘The show with the flow. Filter subtly blend
storytelling and stagecraft… uses hi-tech
staging to tell a very human pair of stories
that intertwine the personal and the political.’
 The Times
‘A boldly imaginative piece which dares
grapple with the amorphous topic of climate
change.’
 The Daily Telegraph
‘Spellbinding theatre… The use of layers,
both physical and thematic, is both playful
and disturbing.’
 Financial Times
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LAMDA –
FINAL YEAR STUDENT PRODUCTIONS
23 – 31 March 2011
TAKING STEPS
by Alan Ayckbourn
TOUCHED
by Stephen Lowe
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
by Oscar Wilde
A number of Q&As took place with talent from
both in front of, and behind, the camera.
Highlights included visits from critically
acclaimed British directors Mike Leigh
(Another Year), Ken Loach (The Wind That
Shakes the Barley) and Stephen Frears
(Tamara Drewe); as well as internationallyrenowned actresses Kim Cattrall (Sex and
the City 2); Rosamund Pike (Barney’s
Version) and Miranda Richardson (Made in
Dagenham) amongst others.
Special screenings ranged from compelling
panel discussions with experts alongside
films like Lebanon and Bhutto, to gala
evenings with cupcakes and champagne to
celebrate the opening of Sex and the City 2.
Stephen Frears, Tamara Drewe Q&A, September 2010
The Tricycle’s first International Oscar
Season also launched. It celebrated
world cinema, screening the best Foreign
Language Film entries for the 2011 Academy
Awards in the week prior to the Awards
ceremony.
Other partner festivals throughout the year
included the renowned BFI London Film
Festival, the UK Jewish Film Festival, who
hosted over 30 films at the Tricycle over two
weeks, Images of Black Women Festival,
the Kilburn Film Festival and the London
International Documentary Festival.
The Cinema continued to successfully
programme its own in-house film festivals.
Both The Great Game: Afghanistan and
Women, Power and Politics, ran across the
theatre, cinema and gallery, with the topics
explored through documentaries, fictional
features, and short films alongside Q&As
with filmmakers.
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For more than 28 years, the Education
Department has delivered performing,
creative and visual arts activities for children
and young people. Last year, the Education
Department offered an affordable
programme of drama and movement
workshops, youth theatre, children’s and
school’s theatre shows, cinema screenings,
student nights and children’s festivals.
It welcomes children and young people
aged from 18 months to 26 years.
The Tricycle’s Social Inclusion Programme
provides a variety of arts-based activities,
both on and off-site. It targets young refugees
and asylum seekers; young people who have
been, or who are at risk of being excluded
from mainstream education; young people
living in areas of high crime; young people
experiencing economic deprivation; young
people from the Traveller community; and
young people with special educational
needs.
Photo: Pia Jamie
Access to the Arts and Art Education is a
key priority for the Tricycle. It has one of the
largest primary, secondary and community
education programmes of any London
theatre, designed to open up the arts to all
young people, regardless of their economic,
cultural or social background.
EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Over 36,000 children and young people
attended Education Programme activities;
including workshops, theatre shows and
film screenings.
Photo: Gillian Christie
EDUCATION & SOCIAL INCLUSION OVERVIEW
50,000+ ATTENDANCES IN 2010/11
The 2010/11 year comprised of:
• 33 different Children’s Theatre shows,
for children aged 3+ years, viewed by
over 15,000 people.
• 12 productions presented for primary
school pupils in Key Stage 1 and Key
Stage 2.
Minding the Gap Little London performance,
March 2011.
• 15 term-time weekly workshops, totalling
450 per year, in drama, dance and music;
including a junior and senior Youth
Theatre Group. Up to 18 children and
young people, aged between 18 months
to 26 years, attended each workshop.
‘I would like to express a huge thank you
on behalf of all the girls who attended the
performance. Everyone greatly enjoyed
the whole evening, and I cannot thank you
enough for making it possible for everyone
to come.’
Mother of pupil from St Marylebone Girls’
School who attended a performance at the
Tricycle, October 2010
• 20 half-term and holiday workshops in the
creative and performing arts, involving
over 300 children and young people.
• 12 student matinees of Tricycle
productions, many including postperformance discussions, attended
by over 2,000 students.
• 18 student screenings in the Tricycle
Cinema, including an annual collaboration
with National Schools Film Week, which
presents screenings for Primary and
Secondary schools.
Limelight Drama Workshop for 14-16 year olds
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• 18 work experience placements at the
Tricycle, completed by students from
schools and colleges in Brent, Camden
and Westminster.
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SOCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMME
The Tricycle delivered two further phases of
the Responsibility Awareness Project (RAP)
addressing some of the issues relevant to
teenagers and young people. The programme
was delivered to schools borough wide
including Brent, Camden, Enfield, Haringey,
Ealing, Hillingdon, and Edmonton and as far
afield as Waltham Forest and was attended
by over 600 young people. Each session
comprised a 15-20 minute performance of
a specially commissioned script, discussion
and workshop. The Jack Petchey Foundation
funded the theme of conflict in relationships
between family and friends. More recently
funding from The John Lyon’s Charity
facilitated a further RAP presentation
engaging over 200 students exploring
the issues around cyber-bullying.
‘I think the positive atmosphere created
during the project was excellent and well
received by the students.’
Year 8 teacher, Capital City Academy
Cyber-Bullying Project, May 2010
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Social Inclusion Projects included:
Photo: Jack Lewis
The Tricycle continues to introduce theatre
to children by hosting productions from
companies who specialise in theatre for the
very young. Funding from the John Lyon’s
Charity subsidised performances for early
years’ centres, reception classes and Key
Stage 1 classes from across Brent and
Camden, as well as other London boroughs.
Photo: Simon Williams
In addition to the core activities:
Tricycle Singers performing at the Tricycle’s
30th Birthday Party, March 2011
Minding the Gap Women of the World performance,
July 2010.
The Tricycle Theatre has continued its
partnership with Brent Citizens Advice
Bureau working together on a project to
tackle debt related poverty among young
adults. More than 15 groups (approximately
2,000 young people) in Brent received a live
performance of a short play, followed
by a structured workshop discussion.
Four presentations were made to the
College of North West London.
The Tricycle’s Social Inclusion Programme
uses the power of theatre, film and visual
arts to focus on disadvantage and social
exclusion, as well as promoting access to all
children and young people regardless of their
background. All the projects run through the
Social Inclusion Programme promote selfesteem and develop transferable skills
to support better opportunities and life
choices for children and young people. The
Programme concentrates on working with
young people who are disadvantaged due to
reasons of background, migrant or refugee
status, Special Educational Needs or being
young carers. The Social Inclusion
Programme supports about 14,000 young
people each year.
In May 2010 the Tricycle Theatre teamed
up with Deafinately Theatre, supported
by additional funding from Arts Council
England, to produce a play that incorporates
British Sign Language, imagery and physical
theatre, making it accessible for Deaf and
hearing audiences. John Lyon’s funding
enabled the subsidy of tickets to local
schools, groups and other organisations.
The company also offered practical
drama exercises linked to the themes
of the play to explore characters and
story-structure.
In addition to performing at the Tricycle’s
annual fund-raising event in March, the
Tricycle Singers performed at The Fortune
Green Festival, in Queens Park and Kilburn’s
Winter Festival. This was the first event for
several newcomers to the group and the
feedback was that it was “an amazing
experience”.
The MUJU Crew
MUJU, a theatre company where
Muslims and Jews come together
through a shared passion for creating
art, started life at the Tricycle and is
now an independent charity (Charity
No. 112 6691). The Tricycle continues
to support The MUJU Crew with free of
charge rehearsal and office space.
MUJU work within a process, which
creates a context of honesty, trust and
respect that breaks down barriers and
allows for open conversation.
• Minding the Gap
Weekly drama and art workshops for
12-18 year olds newly arrived to the UK,
with refugee, asylum seeker or migrant
status, and not yet in mainstream
education. Over 100 young people
attended the project each week, and
three public performances took place
at the Tricycle.
• Literacy and Numeracy through Drama
Workshops delivered weekly in primary
schools using drama, participation and
performance to address literacy and
numeracy skills in a creative way. Session
content is in line with the requirements of
the National Curriculum. Numeracy
through Drama has been extended and
now reaches a larger cohort of children.
• Young Carers Drama Group
On-going drama workshops for young
people who care for a member of their
family with a disability or drug or alcohol
dependency. The group devised a short
play, which was performed in the James
Baldwin Studio.
Weekly workshops for young people:
Street Dance and guitar lessons were offered
for free or subsidised prices to young people
from low income families.
‘It was excellent because it helped most of
us do really well in maths and also gave us
an adventure so showed us how fun maths
could be.’
Pupil participating in Numeracy through
Drama, April 2010
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VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMME
• Pupil Referral Unit Drama
Drama sessions for young people
permanently expelled, and those at risk
of permanent exclusion from mainstream
education, continued throughout the year.
• Transitions project
Following on from the success of Transitions
2010, this project worked with Year 6 and 7
pupils from three Special Educational
Needs schools in Brent. The project focused
on the transition from primary to secondary
school. The groups produced five short films
to document the process.
• Travellers Drama project
This year, the project worked with a group
of boys from the Traveller community and
the group produced a short film titled
In Our Words. The film involved the boys
describing the cultures and traditions of
Irish Travellers’ in their own words.
Community-based activities included:
Brent Women’s Advice Centre offered
support for refugees and asylum seekers
along with weekly Homework Support
sessions; and We’ll Meet Again – an arts
activity group for people aged over 60 –
met weekly during the year.
Most activities were free to participants.
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Photo: Morgan Davey
Outreach and off-site projects:
• Press Road Drama, Film and Art project
Weekly workshops for young residents of
the Press Road Housing Estate, where there
are high levels of crime and deprivation.
In March 2011, art group participants aged
7 - 12 years produced a mural expressing
Unity in the Community, which is
permanently displayed on the estate.
Press Road Mural unveiling, March 2011
Social Inclusion projects were delivered in
partnership with the following educational
establishments, organisations and charities:
Brent Alternative Education Service, Brent
Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement
Service (EMTAS), Brent Young Carers, Capital
City Academy, City Learning Centre, College
of North West London, Copland Community
School, Crest Academy, English PEN,
Granville Plus Youth Arts Centre, Greenway
Project, Kilburn Park Junior School,
Mitchell Brook Primary School, Princess
Frederica C.O.E Primary School, Salusbury
WORLD Refugee Centre, St Mary’s C.O.E.
Primary School, Stadium Housing
Association, Stonebridge Primary
and Oval House Theatre.
‘You have been able to gain the trust of
the Irish Traveller pupils, who continue to
face discrimination in wider society and
are one of our most vulnerable minority
ethnic communities in the UK.
Congratulations on your success and
I thank you for the opportunity you have
afforded these pupils.’
Rocky Deans, Head of Service - Ethnic
Minority & Traveller Achievement Service
(EMTAS), July 2010
Natalie Ryde continued her tenure as Artistin-Residence in 2010/11. The role of Artistin-Residence is to work closely with the
Education Department to deliver a strong
and coherent visual arts programme to the
Tricycle’s learning audiences. The artist uses
a third of their time at the Tricycle to develop
their personal practice allowing them to
generate new approaches and ideas that
feed into the taught workshops. The artist is
also responsible for the administration and
upkeep of the Paintbox Studio.
The Young Artists Group is made up of
teenagers with a particular aptitude for art
that live or attend school in Brent. In previous
years children were selected by their schools,
however the group has grown organically
in recent times to accommodate home
schooled children and several pupils whose
talents have been nurtured through the
Tricycle’s Minding the Gap programme.
In 2010 the Young Artists continued their
Kilburn Adventure project culminating in an
exhibition in the Tricycle Gallery from 20 April
– 3 May. The Artist-in-Residence and the
Young Artists worked closely with the
architects of the new adventure playground
in Kilburn Grange Park and produced pinhole
photographs, animations and plaster reliefs,
as well as exploring a range of drawing
techniques.
The success of the project resulted in the
architects commissioning the Artist-inResidence to produce a site-specific,
sculptural installation in the adventure
playground due for completion in 2011.
Tree Silhouette screen-print by Anna Lincoln age 14
Natalie Ryde presented her second solo
show Inside Out at the Tricycle Gallery from
11 October – 5 November 2010. The
exhibition displayed a collection of drawings
and installation pertaining to aspects of the
biological and botanical woven into a deeply
personal narrative examining memory, place
and the uncontrollable forces of nature.
The use of the Paintbox allowed Natalie
to explore drawing on a very large scale
producing screen-printed and drawn wall
hangings on paper.
Minding the Gap students participated in
weekly art classes in the Paintbox and in their
own schools. Approximately 60 children per
week took part in the Tricycle’s visual art
classes. This year the children exhibited at
the Topolski Experience and produced
screen-printed London scenes. Students also
learnt about themes raised in the Women,
Power and Politics season through a variety
of art projects. The students work with the
Artist-in-Residence and two facilitators,
Sandie Sutton and Pia Jaime.
Three weekly life-drawing classes take place
on Thursdays. Classes continue to be popular
and extra whole day sessions are run on
occasional Saturdays.
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GALLERY
The Gallery offers an opportunity to
emerging artists to showcase their work
in a professional space.
Throughout 2010/11 the Tricycle Gallery was
programmed by the Curator, Paul Purgas,
interspersed with exhibitions relating to the
Theatre programme and the Education
activities.
In addition, to create a new audience for
the Tricycle Gallery, two off-site shows were
arranged – one a "pop-up" show in a disused
shop on the opposite side of the Kilburn
High Road to the Tricycle and the second
NARCISSUS TRANCE in East London and
Bristol. The latter exhibition was supported by
an award from the Henry Moore Foundation.
HIGHLIGHTS OF LAST YEAR’S EXHIBITIONS
The 10 exhibitions in 2010/11 were:
The Empire Never Ended by Jack Brindley
8 March – 17 April 2010
Tricycle Young Artists
20 April – 3 May 2010
Hanane Ech-Charif
4 May – 5 June 2010
Women, Power & Politics
8 June – 17 July 2010
The Great Game:
Afghanistan – Istalif Ceramics
19 July – 30 August 2010
Clair de Lune by Natalie Brem
31 August – 10 October 2010
Clari de Lune (detail) by Natalie Brem
Inside Out by Natalie Ryde
11 October – 6 November 2010
Look Closer by K Yoland
8 November 2010 – 15 January 2011
Rachael Macarthur
17 January – 6 March 2011
Group Exhibition: The Harlesden Gallery
7 March – 10 April 2011
The Empire Never Ended by Jack Brindley
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FUNDRAISING
Memberships
The Tricycle felt the impact of the recession
this year with a small but noticeable
reduction in the numbers of renewed
memberships with several members
renewing but at a lower tier. Nonetheless
the Tricycle members still made a large
and valuable contribution to the income
of the organisation.
Events
The Development Committee ran another
successful calendar of events and rose over
£90,000. This year saw the celebration of
the Tricycle’s 30th Birthday, which attracted
overwhelming support from many very
generous individuals. The celebration was
held at the Louise Blouin Foundation and
was attended by more than 250 of the
Tricycle’s most avid supporters.
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The Tricycle’s 30th Birthday, March 2011
We are very grateful to the following major
donors for their support:
Education and Social Inclusion
D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Ernest Cook Trust
Robert Gavron Charitable Trust
Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
Help a London Child
Henry Smith Charity
Irish Youth Foundation
Jack Petchey Foundation
John Lyon’s Charity
The Mercer’s Company
Sobell Foundation
Stanley Foundation
Unity Theatre Trust
Vandervell Foundation
Tricycle’s Productions
and General Programming
Bloomberg LP
British Council
Kobler Trust
Little Charity
Mackintosh Foundation
Henry Moore Foundation
Diana and Allan Morgenthau
PCL Projects
David & Elaine Potter Charitable Foundation
John Reid
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Tulchin Communications
Sir Siegmund Warburg Voluntary Settlement
Al & Joan Weil
Garfield Weston Foundation
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
Photo: Simon Williams
Photo: Simon Williams
The challenges for fundraising continued to
mount in 2010/11 with cuts looming and
slow economic recovery. Yet the Tricycle’s
core of loyal members and supporters played
a vital role in maintaining the work of the
Tricycle. Coupled with the hugely successful
30th Birthday Party, the fundraising income
remained strong.
The Tricycle’s 30th Birthday, March 2011
Capital
The Foundation for Sport and the Arts
Corporate Benefactors
HSBC Bank plc
John Lewis Partnership
Slaughter & May
Corporate Supporters
BADA
Blick Rothenberg Chartered Accountants
Clean Green Cleaning Services Ltd
Daniel & Harris Solicitors
J Leon & Co Ltd
Mulberry House School
Prontaprint
Samuel French Ltd
Smoking Gun Books Ltd
And Anonymous Individuals
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BLOOMBERG
PATRONS AND DIRECTORS
Through reduced ticket prices and the
support of new writing talent in the theatre,
Bloomberg continued to collaborate with the
Tricycle’s commitment to attract first-time
theatregoers by sponsoring its New Writing
for New Audiences Programme.
Bloomberg has steadfastly and enthusiastically supported the Tricycle’s new writing
programme, working with a group of 20 Black
and Asian professional playwrights in
developing their work. Throughout the year
the Tricycle ran workshops and discussion
forums for members of the group, and in late
March held a week-long retreat in France.
This retreat has proved particularly valuable
to the group, allowing the writers to work in a
supportive and collaborative atmosphere.
Patrons
Sir Cameron Mackintosh
Jon Snow
Directors
Baz Bamigboye
Fiona Calnan
Kay Ellen Consolver
Tim Foster
Lucy Freeman
Sarah Gavron
Barbara Harrison
Pam Jordan
Jenny Jules
Hilary Kirkham
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Judy Lever
Jonathan Levy (Chair)
Jeremy Lewison
Errol Lloyd
Rupert Lord
Janet Mokades
Andrée Molyneux
Indhu Rubasingham (Vice Chair)
Philippe Sands
Simone Warner (Lady Warner)
Brent Council Representatives
(Voting Observers)
Until May 2010: Cllr Ann John and Cllr Alan Mendoza
From May 2010: Cllr Ann John/Cllr Mary Arnold, Cllr Reg Colwill
Development Committee
Kay Ellen Consolver (Co-Chair), Judy Lever (Co-Chair),
Ginette Chalmers, Andrew Daniel, Helen Fraser, Anya Jones,
Grant Jones, Jonathan Levy, Jeremy Lewison, Rupert Lord,
Andrée Molyneux, Bertie de Rougement, Mirium Ryley,
Michael Sandler, Caroline Schuck, Gowri Siva
2011 Bloomberg Writers’ Retreat
The Bloomberg Tricycle Playwrights Group
‘To spend all day of each day, from
breakfast in the morning until late into
the night, engaged in a constant dialogue
about the content of our work, the subject
matter that moves us, plays and films we
love (and despise), and the ups and downs
of our careers, was nourishing and
invigorating. Getting seven full-on days
of this level of exchange is a fantastic
privilege.’
Amy Evans, Bloomberg Playwright,
Writers’ Retreat
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Hassan Abdulrazzak, Lydia Adetunji, Bola
Agbaje, Oladipo Agboluaje, Michael Bhim,
Shenagh Cameron, Neil D’Souza, Dolly
Dhingra, Amy Evans, Jennifer Farmer, Juliet
Gilkes, Amit Gupta, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Rex
Obano, Ashmeed Sohoye, Lorna V, Paven
Virk, Shelia White, Roy Williams, Trevor
Williams
The Tricycle also hosted three Bloomberg
Supper Nights for different productions
during the year. These special evenings each
gave approximately one hundred young
people (many of whom were first-time
theatregoers) the chance to see a new play
and then have supper with the cast
afterwards – all for £1.50. The evenings were
extremely popular, and demand for them was
very high.
Joined from April 2010:
Sally Doganis, Michael Harding, Mairead Keohane
Artistic Director
Nicolas Kent
General Manager
Mary Lauder
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THEATRE SHOW DATES
AND COMPANY DETAILS
Chronicles of Long Kesh by Martin Lynch
Dates
Producer
Directors
Set and Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Musical Director
15 March – 17 April 2010
Green Shoot Productions
Lisa May and Martin Lynch
David Craig
Conleth White
Paul Boyd
Cast
Freddie
Eamonn/Others
Thumper/Others
Oscar/Others
Hank/Others
Toot/Others
Billy Clarke
Chris Corrigan
Jo Donnelly
Marty Maguire
Andy Moore
Marc O’Shea
Women, Power and Politics
by Bola Agbaje, Moira Buffini, Zinnie Harris, Sam Holcroft, Marie Jones, Lucy Kirkwood,
Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Sue Townsend, Joy Wilkinson with verbatim accounts edited by Gillian Slovo
Dates
Producer
Director
Associate Director
Set & Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
4 June – 17 July 2010
Tricycle Theatre
Indhu Rubasingham
Amy Hodge
Rosa Maggiora
Matthew Eagland
Tom Lishman
Ensemble Cast
Simon Chandler, Oliver Chris, Claire Cox, Heather Craney,
Niamh Cusack, Stella Gonet, John Hollingworth, Amy Loughton,
Tom Mannion, Kika Markham, Lara Rossi, Felix Scott
The Great Game: Afghanistan
by Richard Bean, Lee Blessing, David Edgar, David Greig, Amit Gupta, Ron Hutchinson, Stephen Jeffreys,
Abi Morgan, Ben Ockrent, Simon Stephens, Colin Teevan, Joy Wilkinson
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Dates
Producer
Director
Music and Sound Designers
4 – 29 May 2010
Filter in association with Royal Shakespeare Company
Sean Holmes
Tom Haines and Ross Hughes
Cast
Orsino/ Aguecheek
Toby Belch
Olivia
Viola/ Sebastian
Malvolio
Maria/ Feste
Musician
Musician
Musician
Musician
Jonathan Broadbent
Oliver Dimsdale
Victoria Moseley
Poppy Miller
Ferdy Roberts
Gemma Saunders
Tom Haines
Ross Hughes
Alan Pagan
Russell Marsh
Dates
Producer
Director
Project Designer
Associate Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Ensemble Cast
23 July – 29 August 2010
Tricycle Theatre
Nicolas Kent and Indhu Rubasingham
Assisted by Rachel Grunwald
Pamela Howard
Miriam Nabarro
James Farncombe
Tom Lishman
Daniel Betts, Sheena Bhattessa, Michael Cochrane, Karl Davies,
Vincent Ebrahim, Nabil Elouahabi, Shereen Martineau,
Tom McKay, Daniel Rabin, Danny Rahim, Raad Rawi,
Jemma Redgrave, Cloudia Swann, Rick Warden
Tiny Kushner by Tony Kushner
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Dates
Producer
Director
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting & Projection Designer
Sound Designer
1 – 25 September 2010
The Gutherie Theater/Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Tony Taccone
Annie Smart
Anita Yavich
Alexander V Nichols
Victor Zupanc
Ensemble Cast
J C Cutler, Kate Eifrig, Jim Lichtscheidl, Valeri Mudek
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Broken Glass by Arthur Miller
LAMDA – FINAL YEAR STUDENT PRODUCTIONS
Dates
Producer
Director
Designer
Lighting Designer
Composer
Sound Designer
30 September – 27 November 2010
Tricycle Theatre
Iqbal Khan
Mike Britton
Matthew Eagland
Grant Olding
Tom Lishman
Cast
Margaret Hyman
Phillip Gellburg
Dr Harry Hyman
Harriet
Sylvia Gellburg
Stanton Case
Cellist
Madeleine Potter
Antony Sher
Nigel Lindsay
Emily Bruni
Lucy Cohu
Brian Protheroe
Laura Moody
Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn
Dates
Director
Designer
23 – 30 March 2011
John Bashford
Sara Perks
Touched by Stephen Lowe
Midsummer (a play with songs) by David Greig & Gordon McIntyre
Dates
Producer
Director
Songwriter
Designer
Lighting Designer
29 November 2010 – 29 January 2011
Traverse Theatre
David Greig
Gordon McIntyre
Georgia McGuinness
Claire Elliot
Cast
Helena
Bob
Cora Bissett
Matthew Pidgeon
Dates
Director
Designer
24 – 31 March 2011
Colin Cook
Sara Perks
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
Dates
Director
Designer
25 – 31 March 2011
William Oldroyd
Sara Perks
Water by Filter & David Farr
Dates
Producer
Director
Music & Sound Designer
Set & Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Video Designer
1 February – 5 March 2011
Filter and Lyric Hammersmith
David Farr
Tim Philips
Jon Bausor
Jon Clark (recreated by Peter Harrison)
Andi Watson (recreated by Salvador Bettencourt Avila)
Ensemble Cast
Oliver Dimsdale, Victoria Moseley, Tim Phillips, Ferdy Roberts
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THEATRE 2010/11
ATTENDANCE AND FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE
NUMBER OF
PERFORMANCES
ATTENDANCE
AND % ACHIEVED
INCOME
AND % ACHIEVED
Chronicles of Long Kesh
20
3,224
69%
£43,765
63%
Twelfth Night
31
4,264
59%
£44,309
48%
Women, Power & Politics
49
6,143
54%
£78,099
47%
The Great Game (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
49
8,780
77%
£119,183
56%
Tiny Kushner
27
2,700
43%
£31,883
35%
Broken Glass
64
14,095
95%
£212,254
83%
Midsummer
60
7,172
51%
£96,515
44%
Water
36
4,211
50%
£60,205
42%
ANNUAL TOTAL
336
50,589
65%
£686,213
55%
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CINEMA SCREENINGS 2010/11
MAIN FEATURES
A Christmas Carol
A Town Called Panic
Africa United
Age of Extremes
Agora
Ajami
Animal Kingdom
Another Year
Archipelago
Bad Lieutenant
Barney's Version
Benda Bilili
Beyond the Fire
Biutiful
Black Swan
Brighton Rock
Catfish
Cemetery Junction
Chico & Rita
Clash of the Titans
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Crazy Heart
Cyrus
Dogtooth
Eat Pray Love
Enemies of the People
Enter the Void
Evolution: Evolve 0.1
Fair Game
Fit
Four Lions
Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique)
Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema
Gasland
Good Hair
Greenberg
Gulliver's Travels
Heartbreaker (L’arnacoeur)
Hideaway (Le Refuge)
His & Hers
Howl
I Am Love
Inception
Inside Job
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
Jean Charles
Karate Kid
Knight and Day
Leaving (Partir)
Lebanon
London River
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti)
Lourdes
Made in Dagenham
Miral
Morning Glory
Mr Nice
My Afternoons with Margueritte
Never Let Me Go
No Greater Love
Of Gods and Men
On Tour (Tournee)
One Below The Queen, Rowley Way Speaks For Itself
Peepli Live
Please Give
Rabia of Bactria
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Refugee Week: Animation Screening
Robin Hood
Samson & Delilah
Sex and the City 2
Sherlock Holmes
Shutter Island
Somewhere
Son of Babylon
Source Code
South of the Border
Tamara Drewe
Tangled
The American
The Arbor
The Blind Side
The Certified Copy (Copie Conforme)
The Concert
The Cutting Tradition
The Fighter
The Ghost
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
The Illusionist
The Infidel
The Joneses
The Kids Are All Right
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The King’s Speech
The Lovely Bones
The Maid (La Nana)
The Portuguese Nun (A Religiosa Portuguesa)
The Secret in Their Eyes
The Social Network
The Tourist
The Town
The Way Back
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
This Is My Destiny
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
Undertow (Contracorriente)
Vincere
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
West Is West
Whatever Works
Wild Grass
Winter’s Bone
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Old Dogs
Percy Jackson
Ponyo
Prince of Persia
Ramona and Beezus
Secretariat
Shrek Forever After
Space Chimps 2
Step Up
Streetdance
The Last Airbender
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Sound of Music
The Tooth Fairy
Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue
Toy Story 3
Twilight Saga Eclipse
Up
Wall-E
When In Rome
FAMILY FILMS
A Christmas Carol
A Turtle's Tale
Alice in Wonderland
Alpha & Omega
Astro Boy
Cats & Dogs 2
Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of Dawn the Treader
Clash of the Titans
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Despicable Me
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Fantastic Mr Fox
Furry Vengeance
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
How to Train Your Dragon
Inkheart
Iron Man 2
Karate Kid
Legends of the Guardians
Marmaduke
Monsters vs Aliens
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
LONDON INTERNATIONAL
DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Burma VJ
Rio Breaks
War Don Don
High-Rise
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WOMEN, POWER AND POLITICS
Bhutto
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
Egypt, We Are Watching You
Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt
La Hija Del General
Pray the Devil Back To Hell
Rough Aunties
Sisters in Law
Sunday Shorts
Viva Zapatero!
We Are Half of Iran's Population
What's Your Point, Honey
KILBURN FILM FESTIVAL
Best of Brain Wash Shorts
Celia the Queen
Movie Matinee Local Shorts
THE GREAT GAME:
AFGHANISTAN FILM FESTIVAL
Addicted in Afghanistan
Afghan Star
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
Sensation
3 Seasons in Hell
UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
A Film Unfinished
A Jewish Girl in Shanghai
A Matter of Size
Anita
Arab Labour
Berlin 36
Black Book
Broken Lines
Diplomat
Five Hours from Paris
Forgotten Transports
Holy Rollers
Imagine 2018
Joan River, a Piece of Work
Oh What a Mess
Rafting to Bombay
Religion.com
Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish
Simon Konianski
Soloman & Gaenor
Srugim with the Honeymoon Suite
Surviving Hitler
The Loners
The Matchmaker
The Round-Up (la Rafle)
The Statesman
There Were Nights
Ultimatum
Variations for Piano for 6 Hands
Yankles
INTERNATIONAL OSCAR SEASON
Biutiful
Confessions
Incedies
Life, Above All (Chanda's Secret)
Lula, The Son Of Brazil
Of Gods and Men
Outside the Law
Simple Simon
Solemn Promise
The Blacks (Crnci)
The Human Resources Manager
Tirza
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
IMAGES OF BLACK WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL
Women & Power: Moloch Tropical
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SUMMARY INCOME AND
EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT
BALANCE SHEET
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2011
AS AT 31 MARCH 2011
2011
Box Office Income
Other Earned Income
Funds Raised
(inc. Charitable Trusts, Sponsorships & general fundraising)
Grants received from Statutory Bodies for core funding
TOTAL INCOME FOR THE YEAR
£
2010
1,036,655
676,769
532,216
985,784
182,130
582,890
£
350,000
458,165
2,021,592
28,374
2,858,131
350,000
471,016
2,044,066
27,108
£ 2,892,190
1,271,629
1,179,958
3,517,269
2,930,762
£
£
199
272,077
990,726
5,329
1,268,331
£
199
196,599
734,640
7,184
938,622
£
847,647
95,792
943,439
£
631,101
22,761
653,862
FIXED ASSETS
Freehold Land
Leasehold Premises
Development Costs to date
Fixtures, Fittings and Equipment
CURRENT ASSETS
Investments
Sundry Debtors and Prepayments
Cash at Bank
Cash in Hand
EXPENDITURE
Production and Cinema Costs
Education and Social Inclusion Programme
Advertising, Publicity and Marketing
Salaries
Administration and Overhead Costs
2011
2010
INCOME
1,913,426
245,617
179,175
691,741
471,143
1,299,556
202,299
172,731
692,875
461,682
3,501,102
2,829,143
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Sundry Creditors
Cinema/Theatre Box Office Advance
NET CURRENT ASSETS / (LIABILITIES)
TOTAL EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR
£
£
EXCESS OF ASSETS OVER LIABILITIES
324,892
£
3,183,023
284,760
£
3,176,950
Represented by:
EXCESS OF INCOME
OVER EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR
101,619
7,615
(94,004)
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT
Accumulated Surplus at 31 March 2010
ACCUMULATED DEFICIT
AT 1 APRIL 2010
ACCUMULATED SURPLUS
AT 31 MARCH 2011
16,167
£
23,782
£
7,615
23,782
7,615
DESIGNATED FUNDS
(Set aside for Staff Pensions etc.)
143,569
123,569
RESTRICTED FUNDS
(Education and Other Funds held in advance
for expenditure in the following year)
246,150
240,919
2,769,522
2,804,847
ENDOWMENT / CAPITAL FUND
(Funds raised for Development Costs incurred)
£
3,183,023
£
3,176,950
The Balance Sheet and Financial Statements were
approved by the Board on 10 October 2011.
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THE TRICYCLE THEATRE
COMPANY LIMITED
LIMITED BY GUARANTEE
TRUSTEES STATEMENT WITH REGARD TO THE SUMMARY
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2011
The attached summary accounts are not statutory accounts but a
summary of information relating to the INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
ACCOUNT and the BALANCE SHEET. The full financial statements
from which these summary accounts have been derived have been
externally examined by audit. The audit process for the charitable
company is in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the
Companies Act 2006 and is unqualified.
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accounts have been submitted to the Charity Commission and the
Registrar of Companies. The Board approved the full accounts on
10 October 2011.
Jonathan Levy
Chair of Trustees
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