REHEARSAL IMAGES RELEASED FOR SPIKE – IAN HISLOP AND NICK NEWMAN’S COMEDY OPENING NEXT WEEK

FIRST LOOK

REHEARSAL IMAGES RELEASED FOR

SPIKE

IAN HISLOP AND NICK NEWMAN’S COMEDY

TOUR LAUNCHES ON 6 SEPTEMBER AT THE EVERYMAN CHELTENHAM

AND TOURING TO MALVERN, GUILDFORD, OXFORD, SALISBURY, BRIGHTON,

DARLINGTON, AYLESBURY, GLASGOW, RICHMOND, BLACKPOOL AND CARDIFF

Robert Wilfort (Gavin and StaceyBridgerton) will take over the role of ‘Spike Milligan’, Patrick Warner (‘Peter Cook’ in The Crown, One Man, Two Guvnors and Play that Goes Wrong) will also join the production to play ‘Peter Sellers’, and Jeremy Lloyd (The Comedy About a Bank RobberyTrial by Laughter) will return to his critically acclaimed role as ‘Harry Secombe’

TV comedienne and podcaster Margaret Cabourn-Smith (MotherlandMiranda, Buffering) will reprise her role as ‘Janet’, as will James Mack (The Watermill’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Rivals, Macbeth and Journey’s End) as ‘Denis Main-Wilson / Peter Eton’,  Ellie Morris (The Play That Goes WrongMischief Movie NightThe Comedy About A Bank Robbery for Mischief Theatre company) as ‘June’, and Robert Mountford (The Habit of Art, The Haunting of Alice Bowles for Original Theatre Company, House and Garden for The Watermill) as ‘BBC Executive’.  Peter Dukes will join the company as ‘BBC Announcer’, as will Tesni Kujore as ‘Myra’, and Sam Ducane as ‘Doctor’.