James Farncombe
Theatre
For the National Theatre: The Other Place in association with
A Zeldin Company, Phaedra, People, Places and Things (also West End, on UK tour and at St Ann’s Warehouse, New York), When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Plough and the Stars, Man and Superman, Three Winters, Edward II, People, The Magistrate, London Road, Juno and the Paycock, Men Should Weep and Double Feature
In London’s West End: Vanya, The Ladykillers, Jeeves and Wooster, The Dresser and Swallows and Amazons
Other theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second at the Almeida; John Gabriel Borkman at the Bridge; Yerma (also Park Avenue Armory, New York), Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard and Measure for Measure at the Young Vic; As You Like It, White Devil and A Mad World, My Masters for the RSC; Anatomy of a Suicide at the Royal Court; and The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic
Opera
Jenufa, Theodora and Lessons in Love and Violence at ROH; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and LA Opera; Innocence (also Finnish National Opera), La traviata (also Garnier, Paris), Pelléas et Mélisande, Alcina (also Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow), Ariadne auf Naxos and Trauernacht at Aix-en-Provence Festival; Le Vin herbé at Berliner Staatsoper; Jenufa at Dutch National Opera (also in Valencia); Street Scene at Teatro Real, Madrid (also in Cologne and Monte Carlo); Miranda at Opéra Comique, Paris; The Barber of Seville at Glyndebourne; Marriage of Figaro at Opera North; and Der fliegende Holländer and Ariodante at Scottish Opera
Awards
People, Places and Things – Olivier Award nomination
(Updated September 2024)