Machinal

‘How can that be? A great sin – a mortal sin – for which I must die and go to hell – but it made me free! One moment I was free!’  

From the outside, Helen Jones and her husband had a ‘happy marriage’. Until she murdered him.  

Based on the true crime story of Ruth Snyder in 1928 that shook a nation, Sophie Treadwell’s seminal Machinal is a pulse-pounding journey of someone pushed to breaking point by the relentless machinery of life, expectation and convention.  

 A Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath production in association with The Old Vic
Presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books

Rosie Sheehy – Young Woman
Daniel Abelson – Man at Bar, Defence Lawyer, Doctor, Office Clerk
Sam Alexander – Prosecution Lawyer, Older Man at Bar
Christian Alifoe – Ensemble
Steven Beard – Doctor, Judge, Priest, Bartender, Office Clerk
Daniel Bowerbank – Filing Clerk, Younger Man at Bar, Court Bailiff, Prisoner
Imogen Daines – Woman at Bar, Jailer, Reporter
Buffy Davis – Mother
Steven Dykes – Ensemble
Tim Frances – Husband
Carla Harrison-Hodge – Telephone Girl, Reporter
Emilio Iannucci – Adding Clerk, 2nd Man at Bar, Barber, Doctor, Court Photographer
Jane MacFarlane – Ensemble
Caroline Moroney – Ensemble
Pierro Niel-Mee – Young Man
Wendy Nottingham – Stenographer, Nurse, Jailer

Richard Jones – Director
Hyemi Shin – Set
Sarah Fahie – Movement
Nicky Gillibrand – Costume
Adam Silverman – Lighting
Benjamin Grant – Sound
Ginny Schiller CDG – Casting
Charlie Hughes-D’Aeth – Voice
Rick Lipton – Dialect
Lucy Hind – Intimacy
Stanley Wade – Assistant Director
Joe Price – Associate Lighting
Magdalena Seyfried – Costume Supervisor

Kate Schofield – Company Stage Manager
Adam Tripp – Deputy Stage Manager
Emily Compton – Assistant Stage Manager

Amina Pagliari – Set (Design)
Georgina Williams – Set (Stage)
Ryan Raphael Rose – Costume
Elizabeth Grace – Sound
Elise Paige André – Stage Management
Gustavo Teodosio – Production Management
EJ Saunders – Project Coordinator