FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR RICHARD EYRE’S
GHOSTS AT JERMYN STREET THEATRE
Jermyn Street Theatre today announces the full cast for Richard Eyre’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’sGhosts. Carne Deputy Director Kwame Owusu directs Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Pastor Manders), Cecilia Appiah (Regina), Peter F. Gardiner (Jacob), Flora Montgomery (Helene), and Joe Pitts (Oswald) in Ibsen’s timeless masterpiece, which explores family secrets, inherited guilt, moral duty, and the pressures of social expectation. Eyre’s contemporary adaptation brings these enduring themes into sharp focus, interrogating morality and its place in today’s society.
The production opens on 14 October, with previews from 8 October, and runs until 14 November 2026 at Jermyn Street Theatre.
Kwame Owusu today said, “I’m so thrilled to be working with such an incredible cast of actors, as we stage this extraordinary modern classic this autumn. I’ve loved working with the brilliant Matthew Dewsbury to assemble this ensemble, and I’m so excited for us all to get started in rehearsals soon.”
Jermyn Street Theatre presents
GHOSTS
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Richard Eyre
8 October – 14 November 2026
Cast: Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Pastor Manders), Cecilia Appiah (Regina), Peter F. Gardiner (Jacob), Flora Montgomery (Helene), Joe Pitts (Oswald)
Director: Kwame Owusu; Set Designer: Cara Evans; Costume Designer: Natalie Johnson;
Lighting Designer: Ben Ormerod; Composer & Sound Designer: Fran Amewudah-Rivers;
Casting Director: Matthew Dewsbury CDG; Assistant Director: Magnús Thorlacius
They don’t die. They don’t vanish. They walk the world again.Norway, 1890. Years ago, Helene sent her beloved son away from the family home. Today, Oswald returns. His arrival coincides with the grand opening of an orphanage to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his father’s death. But as mother and son reunite, long-buried secrets emerge – setting off a chain reaction that threatens to consume them both.Carne Deputy Director Kwame Owusu directs Richard Eyre’s powerful adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts. This family drama examines our hunger to be free – from our past, society, and destiny – and the cost on the people that we love the most.
Richard Eyre is a film, theatre, television and opera director. Eyre was the Director of the National Theatre and has received numerous accolades including three Olivier Awards as well as nominations for six BAFTA Awards and two Tony Awards. His stage directing credits at the National Theatre include Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, John Gabriel Borkman, King Lear, The Invention of Love, and Skylight. Other stage directing credits include Dance of Death (Orange Tree Theatre), Trumpets and Drums (Nottingham Playhouse), Racing Demon (Vivian Beaumont Theatre), The Judas Kiss, Hedda Gabler, The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, Little Eyolf (Almeida Theatre), Amy’s View (Ethel Barrymore Theatre), The Crucible (Virginia Theatre), Quartermaine’s Terms (Wyndham’s Theatre), Vincent in Brixton (Wyndham’s Theatre, National Theatre, John Golden Theatre), Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre, New Amsterdam Theatre), Private Lives (Vaudeville Theatre, Music Box Theatre), Ghosts (Almeida Theatre), Ghosts (Almeida Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndham’s Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music), My Name is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre), The Bay at Nice (Menier Chocolate Factory), Blithe Spirit (Duke of York’s Theatre), and A Voyage Round My Father (Theatre Royal Bath). His television directing credits include Play for Today, The Cherry Orchard, Past Caring, Screen Two, Tumbledown, Great Episodes, Rockaby, Vincent in Brixton, 10 Minute Tales, The Hollow Crown, The Dresser, and King Lear. Eyre has also written and produced for various television projects, notably writing for Play for Today, The Dresser, and King Lear, while also producing multiple episodes of Play for Today. For film, his directing credits include The Ploughman’s Lunch, Loose Connections, Singleton’s Pluck, Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal, The Other Man, The Children Act, and Allelujah. He also served as writer on Richard III and Iris, and worked as executive producer on Stage Beauty, Atonement, and The Other Man.
Oliver Alvin-Wilson plays Pastor Manders. His theatre credits include Macbeth (Hull Truck Theatre, Octagon Theatre Bolton, and Derby Theatre), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe), Dr Strangelove (Noël Coward Theatre), Now, I See, Antigone (Stratford East), Disruption (Park Theatre), All of Us, The Red Barn, Emperor and Galilean, All’s Well That Ends Well (National Theatre), Henry VI: Rebellion, War of the Roses (RSC), Samskara (Yard Theatre), The Doctor (Almeida Theatre), The Twilight Zone (Ambassadors Theatre and Almeida Theatre), Nine Night (Trafalgar Theatre and National Theatre), Genesis Inc (Hampstead Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Vic Theatre), Doctor Faustus (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Citizens Theatre); Blue/Orange, Romeo and Juliet, and To Kill a Mockingbird (Theatre Clwyd and UK tour). His television credits include Curfew, The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, The Bay, Murder in Provence, Collateral, and Lovesick.
Cecilia Appiah plays Regina. Her theatre credits include Great Expectations (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre), and The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre). Her television credits include Wolf Hall, The Mirror and the Light, Hijack, The Chelsea Detective, and Toast of Tinseltown.
Peter F. Gardiner plays Jacob. His theatre credits include Some Mother’s Do ‘Ave ‘Em (UK tour), The Railway Children (King’s Cross Theatre), Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, The Secret Garden (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester), A Little Hotel on the Side, Balmoral (Theatre Royal Bath), This House (National Theatre), Hapgood (Birmingham Rep and West Yorkshire Playhouse), A Trip to Scarborough (Stephen Joseph Theatre), and The Railway Children (King’s Head Theatre). His television credits include Coronation Street, Down Cemetery Road, Marriage, A Very English Scandal, Frankie, Days that Shook the World, and Breeders.
Award-winning actress Flora Montgomery plays Helene. Her theatre credits include Under the Black Rock (Arcola Theatre), Never Not Once (Park Theatre), Miss Julie (Lyric Theatre, Belfast – winner of Irish Times Best Actress Award), In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (Theatre Royal Bath and The Other Palace), Good Grief, The Good Soldier (Theatre Royal Bath), Gaslight (Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto), Arcadia (UK tour), Robin Hood (RSC), Dinner (Wyndham’s Theatre), Taming of the Shrew (Bristol Old Vic), The Reckoning (Soho Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Birmingham Rep), Bash, The Shape of Things (Gate Theatre, Dublin), and Hamlet (Norwich Playhouse). Her television credits include Talamasca: The Secret Order, Dune Prophecy, The Crown, Patience, Professor T, Showtrial, Bloodlands, A Very English Scandal, Quirke, Monarch of the Glen, Murder in Provence, Endeavour, Midsomer Murders, and Poirot; and for film, Mother’s Milk, The Daisy Chain, Man to Man, The Discovery of Heaven, When Brendan Met Trudy (winner of Best Actress Award at the Las Palmas Film Festival), Basic Instinct 2, and Goldfish Memory.
Joe Pitts plays Oswald. His theatre credits include Blink (King’s Head Theatre), The Da Vinci Code (UK tour), The Wind and The Rain (Finborough Theatre), and Spring Awakening (Almeida Theatre). His television credits include FBI: International, The New Look, and Bodies.
Kwame Owusu is the Carne Deputy Director at Jermyn Street Theatre. His directing credits include Dreaming and Drowning (Bush Theatre – winner of the Mustapha Matura Award and RSC 37 Plays Competition, also writer), The Bacchae (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre), and Titus Andronicus (RSC and Hampstead Theatre, as Revival Director).
LISTINGS
GHOSTS
16B Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6ST
Box Office: 020 7287 2875
www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk
A SLOW FIRE
20 August – 26 September 2026
Monday – Saturday, 7:30pm
3pm matinees on Tuesdays and Saturdays
Tickets from £20
GHOSTS
8 October – 14 November 2025
Monday – Saturday, 7:30pm
3pm matinees on Tuesdays and Saturdays
Tickets from £20
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
19 November – 3 January
Monday – Saturday, 7:30pm
3pm matinees on Tuesdays and Saturdays