Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As a young mother, she followed her politics and vocation, storming Parisian barricades and moving to Florence. Her recent memoir secures her place in history but fails to mention her sons.
Her birthday should be a time of celebration but when her sons decide to deliver their own versions of the past, everyone must confront the cost of Kristin's commitment to her passions.
APOLOGIA is Alexi Kaye Campbell's second play, following his acclaimed debut The Pride (Laurence Olivier Award, Critics' Circle Award) which ran at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in November 2008.
APOLOGIA is presented with the support of the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust and Deliverance
Emma has been an Associate Artist of the Bush Theatre and her credits here include Three Birds, Where’s My Seat, Like A Fishbone, The Whiskey Taster, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, 2nd May 1997, Apologia, The Contingency Plan, Wrecks, Broken Space Season, 2000 Feet Away, My Romantic History and Tinderbox.
Theatre credits include Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Elizabeth (Royal Opera House), The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), The Oresteia (Home Theatre, Manchester), Wuthering Heights, The Merchant Of Venice, Consensual (NYT), The Effect (Sheffield Theatres), Henry The Fifth (Unicorn Theatre, Imaginate Festival), All My Sons (Talawa Theatre, UK Tour), Hello/Goodbye, The Blackest Black, #aiww: The Arrest Of Ai Wei Wei, Lay Down Your Cross, Blue Heart Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre), Each His Own Wilderness, Widower’s House (Orange Tree Theatre), Accolade (St James Theatre), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Royal Exchange, Royal And Derngate And Northern Stage), Pitcairn (Out of Joint, Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour), Saints (Nuffield), The Colby Sisters Of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Tricycle Theatre), Pests (Clean Break, Royal Exchange & Royal Court), Carthage (Finborough Theatre, Coriolanus, Berenice, The Physicists, Making Noise Quietly, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), All My Sons, A Doll’s House, Three Birds, The Accrington Pals, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Royal Exchange), Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic), Nut (National Theatre), OMG! (Sadlers Wells, The Place & Company Of Angels), There Are Mountains (Clean Break, HMP Askham Grange), The Promise (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), You Can Still Make A Killing (Southwark Playhouse), The Sacred Flame (English Touring Theatre), Black T-Shirt Collection (Fuel UK Tour and National Theatre), Invisible (Transport UK Tour & Luxemborg), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams Theatre, West End), Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios), Charged (Clean Break, Soho Theatre), Men Should Weep (National Theatre), Travels With My Aunt (Northampton Theatre Royal), Sisters (Sheffield Theatres), Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse and Tricycle Theatre), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (National Theatre), Europe (Dundee Rep, Barbican Pit).
Emma is the Associate Sound Designer for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse. She won the Falstaff Award for Best Sound Design/Original Score for her work on Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014.
Lighting for the Bush: Apologia, Wrecks, Artefacts (also New York), How to Curse, and the space lighting concept for The Library, the initial 2010 season in the Bush’s new building.
Other UK theatre includes The Voysey Inheritance, Elmina’s Kitchen, Scenes from the Big Picture for the National Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Coriolanus (also USA), and The Merchant of Venice for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Lower Ninth, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Days of Wine and Roses, Passion Play and Good for the Donmar; Gaslight and As You Like It at the Old Vic; Mrs Warren’s Profession at the Strand Theatre; The York Realist for the English Touring Theatre/Royal Court; and Love, Love, Love for Paines Plough. Other London theatre includes Faith (Royal Court); Certain Young Men, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Tongue of a Bird (Almeida); The Rubenstein Kiss (Hampstead); The Field (Tricycle); Nakamitsu (Gate); and The White Devil, The Common Pursuit, Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory). UK regional theatre includes The Birthday Party (Birmingham Rep); Arcadia, The Rivals, Loot, Paradise Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); A Number, Gladiator Games (also London), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Original Sin, The Tempest, Don Juan, The Country Wife, A View From the Bridge, As You Like It (also London), Twelfth Night (Sheffield Theatres); Rutherford and Son (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Where There’s a Will (Theatre Royal Bath Productions); Treehouses (Northcott, Exeter); Dealer’s Choice (Clwyd Teatr Cymru); Dealer’s Choice (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Australian theatre includes In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play (Sydney Theatre Company), The Gift (Melbourne Theatre Company), The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne), and Cordelia (Little Dove Theatre Art, Canberra). European theatre includes Great Expectations and American Buffalo (Gate, Dublin) and Hysteria (English Theatre, Frankfurt).
Musicals include the Menier Chocolate Factory production of A Little Night Music on Broadway (Walter Kerr) and in London’s West End (Garrick); Miss Saigon (Gothenburg Opera); Showboat, West Side Story (Tiroler Landesteater, Innsbruck); Promises, Promises (Sheffield); The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham); and Assassins (Oxford). Opera includes: Mary Seacole, Oreste, and Oresteia (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio); Les Pêcheurs des Perles and Iris (Opera Holland Park, London); and M Butterfly, Martha, The Barber of Seville, La Sonnambula, Carmen (Castleward Opera, Northern Ireland).
Hartley is also artistic director of C venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Josie is the Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre.
Josie trained with directors Peter Gill, Michael Grandage, Nicholas Hytner, Phyllida Lloyd and Sam Mendes. Before coming to the Bush she worked for five years as a freelance director and was the Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres and Trainee Associate Director at the Royal Court.
At the Royal Court she directed CRAZYBLACKMUTHFUCKIN'SELF by Deobia Oparei and LOYAL WOMEN by Gary Mitchell. At Sheffield, she directed WORLD MUSIC and THE UNTHINKABLE by Steve Waters; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL by Willis Hall and KICK FOR TOUCH by Peter Gill. She was the tour director of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler. At the Young Vic, she directed MY DAD'S A BIRDMAN by David Almond. For the Royal Shakespeare Company she directed BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL and KING JOHN (RSC Complete Works). She has directed the 24HOUR PLAYS at The Old Vic Theatre and in New York. For the Donmar Warehouse Josie has directed FRAME 312 by Keith Reddin, WORLD MUSIC by Steve Waters and THE CRYPTOGRAM by David Mamet. For The Bush, Josie has directed HOW TO CURSE by Ian McHugh, TINDERBOX by Lucy Kirkwood, APOLOGIA by Alexi Kaye Campbell, 2,000 FEET AWAY and LIKE A FISHBONE by Anthony Weigh. Recent work outside the Bush includes TWELFTH NIGHT and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW for Chicago Shakespeare Company and MEN SHOULD WEEP at the National Theatre. Forthcoming work includes MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Wyndham’s Theatre.
Theatre designs include: The 39 Steps (London, New York, Boston, Australia, Korea, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, UK tour) for which he received two Tony nominations on Broadway (Best Scenic Design and Best Costume Design); Entertaining Mr Sloane, Fiddler on the Roof, The Dumb Waiter, Summer and Smoke, Donkeys' Years, The Birthday Party, Ying Tong, A Woman of No Importance, Boston
Marriage (West End); King John, Brand, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pericles, Alice in Wonderland (RSC); Honk!, Widowers' Houses (National Theatre); Be Near Me, The Chalk Garden, John Gabriel Borkman, The Cryptogram (Donmar Warehouse); Waste,
Cloud Nine, Romance (Almeida); the world premieres of Brian Friel's The Home Place (Gate, Dublin, and London) and Kirikou et Karaba (Casino de Paris).
Dance includes: Cut to the Chase (English National Ballet).
Opera credits include: the world premiere of The Handmaid's Tale (English National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Canadian Opera) Michael Nyman's Love Counts and The Silent Twins (Almeida Opera).
Theatre includes: Caryl Churchill Readings: Icecream (Royal Court); The Member of the Wedding (Young Vic); Prometheus Bound (Sound Theatre); Problem Child (Presentation House Theatre); Demons, Two Gentlemen of Verona, All My sons, Lysistrata, Others,
Three Sisters, The London Cuckolds, Measure for Measure (LAMDA).
Film includes: Rob and Valentyna in Scotland, A Bunch of Amateurs, Refraction.
Radio includes: A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Age of Innocence.
Theatre for the Bush includes: Clocks and Whistles.
Other theatre includes: Hedda Gabler (Gate, Dublin); The Giant, My Boy Jack (Hampstead); Julius Caesar, The Tempest, The Seagull (nominated for the Ian Charleson Award), In the Company of Men, A Patriot for Me (RSC); The Night Season (National Theatre); Singer (Oxford Stage Company); The Tower (nominated for the Ian Charleson Award), Certain Young Men, The Cenci (Almeida).
TV includes: Dresden, North & South, Dalziel and Pascoe, Cambridge Spies, Lloyd & Hill, Band of Brothers, Love in a Cold Climate, Aristocrats, Cider with Rosie, The Jump, The Unknown Soldier, Holding On, Cold Lazarus, A Touch of Frost.
Film includes: Scoop, Partition, Heights, The Lion in Winter, Benedict Arnold, The Good Pope, Trance, Purpose, Investigating Sex, Five Seconds to Spare, A Rather English Marriage, The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax, Wavelengths, Flying with Posh People.
Radio includes: The Razor's Edge, Les Parents Terribles, Man and Boy, Minuet.
Philip is an Associate Actor of the RSC and among the roles he has played for that company are Prospero, Shylock, Malvolio, Menenius in Coriolanus, Cardinal Monticelso in The White Devil, Sir Epicure
Mammon in The Alchemist, Nabokov in Artists and Admirers, Octavio Piccolimini in Wallenstein, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida.
Theatre includes: The Wandering Jew, Countrymania, The Strangeness of Others, Peer Gynt, Piano, Abingdon Square, Ivanov, Love's Labour's Lost, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Mikado
(National Theatre); The Seagull, Three Sisters, Marriage (Shared Experience); As You Like It, The Royal Family, Much Ado About Nothing (Peter Hall Company); The Giant, 3 Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead); The Circle (Chichester Festival).
TV includes: Second Sight, Bad Company, The Dwelling Place, A Village Affair, A Royal Scandal, Where the Heart Is, Let Them Eat Cake, Fish, North Square, Trial and Retribution, Dinotopia, Brides in the Bath.
Film includes: Indian Summer, Mountains of the Moon, Clockwise, Lady Jane, Octopussy, The Secret Rapture, Stranded, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell.
Radio includes: Lord of the Rings, Embers.
Nina Sosanya returns to the Bush Theatre where she appeared in Apologia. Also for theatre, her credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello Threatre), Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It, The Learned Ladies, The White Devil (RSC); Herbal Bed, Henry V (RSC tour); The Happy Haven (RSC Fringe); Fix Up, House and Garden, Antony and
Cleopatra (National Theatre); Almost Nothing (Royal Court); The Vortex (Donmar Warehouse); The Marriage of Figaro (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Nativity (Young Vic); Dead Meat (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Tempest (Holders Festival, Barbados); Educating Rita (Solent People's Theatre); Othello (Barons Court Theatre); Dinner Dance (KOSH national and international tours); Hair (Broadway Musical Company European tour); Twelfth Night, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest (national and international tours and Oddsocks Theatre Co.).
TV includes: Framed, FM, Cape Wrath, Reichenbach Falls, The Wide Sargasso Sea, Sorted, Doctor Who, Much Ado About Nothing, Casanova, Nathan Barley, The Good Citizen, No Angels, The Debt, Teachers, Serious and Organised, The Jury, People Like Us, Urban Gothic, Doctors, Jonathan Creek, Prime Suspect, The Bill, Hercules and the Amazon Woman.
Film includes: Manderlay, Code 46, Love Actually.
Theatre includes: Tusk Tusk (Royal Court); For Services Rendered (Newbury Watermill); Private Lives (Ipswich); The Holy Terror (Duke of York's); Three Sisters (Playhouse Theatre); The Tempest, Pericles, Henry VI Parts One, Two and Three, Richard III (RSC);
Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible); Hamlet (Gielgud); She Stoops to Conquer (Queens); Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket).
TV includes: Kingdom, Wallander, Ten Days to War, Midsomer Murders, George Gently, The Fixer, Whistleblowers, Clapham Junction, Silent Witness, Party Animals, Spooks, Robin Hood, Surviving Disaster, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, The Government Inspector, Conquest of America, Rosemary and Thyme, Holby City, Murder City, EastEnders, In Defence, Poirot, Wing and a Prayer, Aristocrats, Staying Alive, The Investigator, McCallum, Ain't Misbehavin', Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice, Harnessing Peacocks, Unnatural Pursuits, Boon, Jewels, Heartbeat, Bad Girl.
Film includes: Vanity Fair, Bridget Jones's Diary.
Theatre for the Bush includes: Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie, Commitments.
Other theatre includes: The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland; international tour; Lincoln Centre, New York); Jenufa (Arcola); Mrs Warren's Profession (Royal Lyceum); Driver/Painter (New End);
The Canterbury Tales, Heresies, Moscow Gold (RSC); Pyrenees (Tron, Glasgow/Menier Chocolate Factory); The Entertainer (Liverpool Playhouse); When We Are Rich (Nuffield, Southampton); Further than the Furthest Thing (Tron, Glasgow/National Theatre; winner Evening Standard Award for Best Actress and Stage Award for Best Actress, 2000); Holy Mothers (Royal Court/Ambassadors); Camino Real (Young Vic); The Misfits (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Machine Wreckers, Richard II, Square Rounds, Countrymania, The Wandering Jew (National Theatre); Plays by Gertrude Stein (Citizens', Glasgow); The Trojan Women, Vassa (Gate, London); Britannicus (Sheffield Crucible); Ghosts
(Edinburgh Lyceum); On the Verge (Sadlers Wells).
TV includes: Midsomer Murders, Ashes to Ashes, Spinechillers, Fergus's Wedding, McCready and Daughter, Harbour Lights, Maisie Raine, Peak Practice, Devil's Advocate, Just William, The Gospels, The House of Eliott, Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One, Forever Green, First Among Equals, The Monocled Mutineer, They Never Do
What You Want, A Murder is Announced, The Young Ones, A Fine Romance, Fame is the Spur, Minor Complications.
Film includes: Love's Brother, Come and Go, Intimacy,The Tichborne Claimant, Vigo, Les Miserables, The Sailor's Return.
