Machinal 2024

‘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.

Rosie Sheehy (Oleanna, Chernobyl) reprises her critically acclaimed role in Olivier Award-winning director Richard Jones’ ‘outstanding production’ (Daily Mail).

The cast of Machinal will also include: Daniel Abelson, Sam Alexander, Steven Beard, Daniel Bowerbank, Imogen Daines, Buffy Davis, Tim Frances, Carla Harrison-Hodge, Emilio Iannucci, Pierro Niel-Mee and Wendy Nottingham, with further casting to be announced.

Director Richard Jones

Set Hyemi Shin

Movement Sarah Fahie

Costume Nicky Gillibrand

Lighting Adam Silverman

Sound Benjamin Grant

Casting Ginny Schiller CDG

A Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath production in association with The Old Vic

__Assisted performances__

Audio described - Fri 17 May 7.30pm

Relaxed - Sat 18 May 2.30pm (will be audio described, captioned and BSL interpreted)

Captioned - Mon 20 May 7.30pm

BSL - Fri 24 May 7.30pm