FIRST LOOK AT THE CAST OF THE KENNETH BRANAGH THEATRE COMPANY’S HARLEQUINADE / ALL ON HER OWN

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FIRST LOOK AT THE CAST OF THE KENNETH BRANAGH THEATRE COMPANY’S PRODUCTION OF HARLEQUINADE / ALL ON HER OWN

ZOË WANAMAKER WILL PERFORM RATTIGAN’S ONE-WOMAN PLAY, ALL ON HER OWN, PRIOR TO HARLEQUINADE EACH NIGHT, AS PART OF A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN DOUBLE BILL

HARLEQUINADE / ALL ON HER OWN WILL PLAY IN REPERTORY WITH THE WINTER’S TALE FROM 17 OCTOBER 2015 UNTIL 16 JANUARY 2016

The first publicity images featuring the company of Harlequinade and All On Her Own are released today. The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s never-before-seen Rattigan double bill will play in repertory alongside The Winter’s Tale from 17 October 2015 as part of thePlays at the Garrick season.

In the rarely seen comic gem Harlequinade, a classical theatre company attempts to produceThe Winter’s Tale and Romeo and Juliet, while the intrigues and dalliances of the company members are accidently revealed with increasingly chaotic and hysterical consequences. Kenneth Branagh will play Harlequinade’s actor-manager Arthur Gosport in addition to co-directing the production with Rob Ashford.

The full cast for Harlequinade includes: Jaygann Ayeh (Second Halberdier), Tom Bateman(Jack Wakefield), Kenneth Branagh (Arthur Gosport), Jessie Buckley (Muriel Palmer), Vera Chok (Miss Fishlock), Jack Colgrave Hirst (Tom Palmer), John Dagleish (Policeman), Hadley Fraser (First Halberdier), Ansu Kabia (Johnny), Stuart Neal (Fred Ingram), Zoë Rainey(Wardrobe Mistress), Miranda Raison (Edna Selby), Michael Rouse (Rehearsal Pianist), John Shrapnel (George Chudleigh), Zoë Wanamaker (Dame Maud), Kathryn Wilder (Joyce Langland) and Jimmy Yuill (Mr Burton).

In addition to playing Dame Maud in Harlequinade, Zoë Wanamaker will also perform Terence Rattigan’s dramatic monologue All On Her Own, which has never before played in the West End. In this brief but powerfully atmospheric play, which will be staged every evening prior toHarlequinade, a woman with a secret, alone at midnight in London has a burden to share that is at times both heart-breaking and sinister. Zoё Wanamaker will not appear in The Winter’s Tale.

The Winter’s Tale, Harlequinade / All On Her Own, The Painkiller, Romeo and Juliet andThe Entertainer make up the inaugural season of work for the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company.