Tena Štivičić's

3 Winters

Writer
Tena Štivičić

Director
Anna Ledwich

Location
The Sainsbury Theatre

Dates
Thursday 3 April at 7pm
Saturday 5 April at 7pm
Monday 7 April at 2pm*
Tuesday 8 April at 7pm
Wednesday 9 April at 2pm

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*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.

About the show

A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. From the remnants of monarchy to Communism, democracy, war and the EU: Croatia 1945 - 2011. The Kos family argue, adapt, fall in and out of love. World after world is erected and torn down around them. The one constant is the ivy-clad house in Zagreb, built by aristocrats, partitioned, owned by all, owned by a few; witness to four increasingly educated and independent generations of women. But when the family assemble for Lucia's wedding, Alisa learns that her nouveau-riche brother-in-law has bought the once nationalized house. For the bride this is progress, for her sister it's a shady act of greed. For their principled parents, finally, it's one battle too many. 

Anna is a writer and director. She was Resident Director at Chichester Festival Theatre and was co-artistic director of Theatre on the Fly for Chichester’s 50th Anniversary. She received the Headlong/Gate Theatre New Directions Award for her adaptation of Lulu. Her work has been nominated for two Olivier Awards: Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for Four Minutes Twelve Seconds and Best Comedy for Dry Powder, both at Hampstead Theatre.

Further credits include Girls and Boys (Nottingham Playhouse), The Heartbreak Choir, Photograph 51 (both Ensemble Theatre, Sydney), Godzonia (Q Theatres, Auckland), anthropology, Labyrinth, No One Will Tell Me How To Start A Revolution, Wilderness, Deluge, The Empty Quarter, Donny’s Brain (all Hampstead); Kiss Me (Hampstead/West End); Coram Boy, Blue Remembered Hills, A Christmas Carol (all Chichester Festival Theatre); Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Stick House (Raucous Collective/Bristol Old Vic), Dream Story (Gate), Lovely & Misfit (Trafalgar Studios).

Her theatre adaptations include: Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, The Butterfly Lion, Crossing Lines (all Chichester Festival Theatre), Lulu, Dream Story (both Gate Theatre).

Tena Štivičić is a Croatian born writer, whose plays Can't Escape Sundays, The Two of Us, Fragile!, Fireflies, Invisible, Europe, Three Winters, 64 Shots and Cabaret Kaspar have been performed across the world and translated and published in several languages. She recently won Short Circuit's 'First Feature' Development Fund for her film Acid. 

Her play 3 Winters, which opened at the National Theatre to 5* reviews and international acclaim, won the prestigious Susan Blackburn-Smith prize in 2015 and has since been performed across the world, most recently opening to great reviews at the Burghtheater in Vienna. Tena's first English language play Fragile! played at the Arcola Theatre, and was later adapted for BBC Radio 4. It won numerous awards, including best European Play and Innovations Award at Heidelberg Stuckemarkt in Germany. Off the back of this, Tena was nominated as one of the 50 most promising young writers in Great Britain on an initiative launched by the Royal Court Theatre and the BBC.

Tena is also a columnist and screenwriter; she co-wrote on The Postcard Killings, a film by Danis Tanović.

Since relocating from London to Scotland she has worked with the National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC on the Scene for Survival project. 

She is currently under commission by the Berliner Ensemble for a new play, has a feature film in development with Screen Scotland, another with Antitalent Productions in Croatia and a TV project with Adrenalin Productions in Serbia.

Contains depictions of domestic violence, assault, drunkenness, multiple instances of smoking marijuana and casual racism. References to displacement after war, the ethnic cleansing of Jews, Serbs and Roma during World War 2, death during childbirth and alcohol use disorder. Use of explicit language throughout and blood.

This amateur production of “3 Winters” is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. 

Booking

Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation. Read up on our latest audience guidelines here.

Members of the industry: secure your complimentary seat by emailing the Box Office​​​ on [email protected]

Pricing and concessions 

Tickets cost £14, but we have £7 concessions tickets available to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, schools, students, or people who are over 65, under 18 or are on Job Seeker's Allowance. You'll just need to provide proof of your eligibility when you collect your tickets at the Box Office. We offer a complimentary ticket for carers, to book please call the box office on 020 8834 0500. If you belong to our Pathways Programme or work with any of our Pathways Partners you are entitled to complimentary tickets. Please contact the box office to book.

Accessibility 

If you have any additional requirements, you would like us to be aware of, please contact box office on 020 8834 0500. 

Booking your tickets 

Book your tickets online or by calling our box office on 020 8834 0500. 

Industry booking 

If you're a member of the industry, please email [email protected] to book your tickets. 

Group tickets 

We're pleased to offer discounted tickets to groups of 10+ people. Standard tickets are discounted to £9 per person, while under 18's tickets are discounted to £5 per person. To book, please contact [email protected]

E-Tickets

There is no need to collect tickets. You will be send an E-Ticket via email which you can present on arrival.

Refunds 

Unfortunately, all tickets are non-refundable.

Creative Team

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Director 
Anna Ledwich*

Designer 
Amanda Mascarenhas*

Producer
Rebecca Lyle*

Assistant Producer 
Bobby Harding*

Voice Director 
Jessica Hammett*

Costume Supervisor 
Tabitha Stock*

Intimacy & Fight Director 
Enric Ortuño*​​​​​

Movement Director
Shona Morris*

Lighting Designer
Aidan Gibson

Sound Designer
Bella Kear*

Assistant Directors 
Gus Hodgson
Tara Jamora Oppen

Cast

Aleksandar King 
Darcy Bengt

Alisa Kos 
Zella Clay

Rose King
Emily Hayman

Karolina Amruš
Olive McHugh

Marinko & Karl Dolinar
Caleb Mercer

Lucija Kos 
Muireann Ní Fhaogáin

Monika Zima 
Lily Olufemi-Bywaters

Igor Maljević
John Rice* 

Dunja King 
Thelma Solea

Vlado (Vladimir) Kos 
Reuben Thomas

Maša Kos
Selena Thompson

Marko Horvat
James Walsh

Production Team

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Company Stage Manager
Maia Thompson

Deputy Stage Manager
Chloe Wood

Assistant Stage Managers
Tilly Cox
Torrin Gieler

Production Manager
Meghan Sorohan*

Deputy Lx / Programmer
Ghoti Fisher

Production Lx
Ronan McKenna

Production Sound Engineer
Abigail Brophy

Production Carpenter
Simon Fleming

Lighting Technicians
Sofia Altamirano
Izzy Barton
Paige Fernandez
Phoenix Morgan
Ming Ong
Kat Parry
Indianah Raymond
Jackson Walsh

Sound Assistants
Phoebe Bennett
Ben Birkwood
XiTong Cao
Bastie Colclough
Nazaire Kilborne-Appiah
Peter McNally
Aryan Sherifi
Ash Vaughan

Construction Crew
Inaaya Abdullah
Lucia Cohen
Finley Cozens
Caspar Edwards
Ashlyn Fray
Rhianna Minhoca
Brooke Sangster
Nicola Usher

Sound Operators 
Phoebe Bennett
Aryan Sherifi
Ash Vaughan

Video Operator
Ben Birkwood

Scenic Artists
Millie Heighes*
Zoe Bridger*