Way to Heaven. Juan Mayorga

Way to Heaven

has placed a renewed emphasis on the development of international work and a creative dialogue now exists with theatre practitioners all over the world including Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Palestine, Russia and Spain. All of these development projects are supported by the Genesis Foundation and the British Council.

The Royal Court has produced new International plays through this programme since 1997. Recent work includes My Name is Rachel Corrie, At the Table and Almost Nothing by Marcos Barbosa, Push Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Ladybird by Vassily Sigarev and Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers.

WAY TO HEAVEN is produced by the Royal Court International Department:

Associate Director Elyse Dodgson

International Administrator Chris James

International Associate Tiffany Watt-Smith

PROGRAMME SUPPORTERS

The Royal Court (English Stage Company Ltd) receives its principal funding from Arts Council England, London. It is also supported financially by a wide range of private companies, charitable and public bodies, and earns the remainder of its income from the box office and its own trading activities.

The Genesis Foundation supports International Playwrights and the Young Writers’ Festival.

The Jerwood Charity supports new plays by new playwrights through the Jerwood New Playwrights series.

The Skirball Foundation funds a Playwrights’ Programme at the theatre. The Artistic Director’s Chair is supported by a lead grant from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, contributing to the activities of the Artistic Director’s office. Bloomberg Mondays, the Royal Court’s reduced price ticket scheme, is supported by Bloomberg. Over the past eight years the BBC has supported the Gerald Chapman Fund for directors.

ROYAL COURT

DEVELOPMENT BOARD

Tamara Ingram (Chair)

Jonathan Cameron (Vice Chair)

Timothy Burrill

Anthony Burton

Jonathan Caplan QC

Sindy Caplan

Gavin Casey FCA

Mark Crowdy

Cas Donald

Joseph Fiennes

Amanda Foreman

Joyce Hytner OBE

Gavin Neath

Michael Potter

Kadee Robbins

Mark Robinson

William Russell

Sue Stapely

James L Tanner

Will Turner

PUBLIC FUNDING

Arts Council England,

London

British Council

Creative Partnerships

London South

London Challenge

Royal Borough of

Kensington & Chelsea

TRUSTS AND

FOUNDATIONS

American Friends of the

Royal Court Theatre

Gerald Chapman Fund

Cowley Charitable Trust

The Dorset Foundation

The Ronald Duncan

Literary Foundation

The Foundation for

Sport and the Arts

The Foyle Foundation

Francis Finlay Foundation

The Garfield Weston

Foundation

Genesis Foundation

The Haberdashers’

Company

Jerwood Charity

Lynn Foundation

John Lyon’s Charity

The Magowan Family

Foundation

The Rayne Foundation

The Royal Victoria Hall

Foundation

The Peter Jay Sharp

Foundation

Skirball Foundation

The Bruce Wake

Charitable Trust

Michael J Zamkow &

Sue E Berman

Charitable Trust