FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR UK TOUR OF
ANNE-MARIE CASEY’S NEW STAGE ADAPTATION OF
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE WOMEN
Lee Dean and Daniel Schumann today announce full casting for the extension of their successful UK tour of Anne-Marie Casey’s new stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s much loved novel Little Women,directed by Loveday Ingram.
Joining the previously announced Belinda Lang, ( Sister Boniface Mysteries and 2point4 Children)reprising her role as Aunt March, are TV Bafta award winner Juliet Aubrey as Marmee (Middlemarch, Professor T, All Creatures Great and Small) with Natalie Dunne (Locked Up Abroad), Tom Richardson (Brooke/Bhaer), Jewelle Hutchinson (Amy), Megan Richards (Beth), Jade Oswald (Meg), Perry Williams (Laurie).
The production is set to begin it’s new autumn tour at Salisbury Playhouse from the 3-13 September, before going on tour to a further seven venues across the UK, concluding its run at Liverpool Playhouse 4 – 8 November.
Lee Dean and Daniel Schumann present
Louisa May Alcott’s
LITTLE WOMEN
Adapted by Anne-Marie Casey
Cast: Belinda Lang (Aunt March), Juliet Aubrey (Marmee), Natalie Dunne (Jo), Jewelle Hutchinson (Amy), Megan Richards (Beth), Tom Richardson (Brooke/Bhaer), Jade Oswald (Meg), Perry Williams (Laurie)
Director: Loveday Ingram; Designer: Ruari Murchison; Lighting: Mike Roberston; Composer and Sound Designer: Mathew Bugg; Movement: Mike Ashcroft
Anne-Marie Casey’s masterful new adaptation of Little Women that breathes new life into one of the best loved novels of all time.
Step into the world of sisterhood, courage, ambition, as the March sisters – tomboy Jo, beautiful Meg, sensitive Beth, and spoilt Amy – navigate the challenges of the Civil War era, forging unbreakable bonds of love and family.
Inspired by author Louisa May Alcott’s own journey into womanhood, Little Women is as relevant today as it was at the time of its first release, proving that women can be bold, persistent, self-assured, and the heroes of their own story.
Following the recent success of the Greta Gerwig film, this beautiful new adaptation is a celebration of women, filled with laugher, tears and a theatrical, heartwarming lifting of the spirits.
Anne-Marie Casey’s play adaptations include Wuthering Heights – adapted from the novel by Emily Brontë, and Tess – the circus adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel. For television, her credits include Miss Haversham, The Shockers, The Story of Lucy Gault – adapted from the novel by William Trevor, Wild Irish Girl, and The Master.
Belinda Lang plays Aunt March. Her theatre credits include Duet For One, Single Spies, Ladies in Lavender, The Reluctant Debutante, Present Laughter, Duet For One (UK tours), The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre), Humble Boy (Orange Tree Theatre), Oklahoma! (Albert Hall Prom), The Constant Wife (Gate Theatre), The School For Scandal (Park Theatre), The Letter of Last Resort (Traverse Theatre) The Bomb (Tricycle Theatre), The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre), An Hour and A Half Late (Bath Theatre Royal), Hay Fever (Royal Exchange Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket), Liberty (Globe Theatre), What The Butler Saw (Criterion Theatre), Dead Funny (Savoy Theatre) and Mrs Klein (National Theatre). Her television credits include Sister Boniface Mysteries (as series regular Mrs Clam), This England, Citizen Khan, My Family, Three Minute Moments, Rosemary & Thyme, Justice in Wonderland, 2point4 Children (as series regular Bill Porter), Second Thoughts (as series regular Liza), The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (as series regular Agatha Troy), Dear John (as series regular Kate)and To Serve Them All My Days.
Juliet Aubrey plays Marmee. Her theatre credits include The Last Yankee (Bolton Library Theatre), An Oak Tree (Soho Theatre), Ivanov, Summerfolk (National Theatre), The Tempest (Oxford Stage Company), and The Long Mirror (Theatre Clwyd). Her television credits include Whitstable Pearl, All Creatures Great and Small, Professor T, On the Edge, Van der Valk, Snatch, The Village, The White Queen, Lilyhammer, Silent Witness, Hunted, Outcast, Five Daughters, City of Vice, Criminal Justice, Judge John Deed, Primeval, The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Measure For Measure, Bertie and Elizabeth, Ella and The Mothers, Extremely Dangerous, The Unknown Soldier, Supply & Demand, The Moth, Death of a Salesman, and Middlemarch (TV BAFTA for Best Actress); and for film, Truly Naked, Vindicta, Frankenstein: Legacy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, LX 2048, Fallen, Christmas Eve, Mine, The Infiltrator, Super Eruption, Caught in The Act, A Good Murder, The Constant Gardener, Iris, II Tempo Dell’ Amore, The Lost Lover, Still Crazy, For My Baby, Food of Love, Welcome to Sarajevo, Go Now, Jacob, Look To The Sky and Shining Through.
Natalie Dunne plays Jo. Her theatre credits include The Girl on the Train (UK tour), Party Games (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), The Third Man (Menier Chocolate Factory), Works of Art (Turbine Theatre), Victoria Knicker (Soho Theatre) and To Paint the Earth (Southwark Playhouse). Her television credits include FBI International, Trying, and Banged up Abroad; and for film, Surviving Earth and Your Christmas or Mine?.
Jewelle Hutchinson plays Amy. Her theatre credits include Stiletto (Charing Cross Theatre), Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella (Nottingham Playhouse), Coram Boy (Chichester Festival Theatre, Lowry Salford).
Megan Richards makes her professional stage debut as Beth. Her television credits include Wanderlust and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Tom Richardson plays Brooke/Bhaer. His theatre credits include Just Between Ourselves, Abigail’s Party (UK tour) Twelfth Night, Hamlet (The Orange Tree), Sleeping Beauty, The Snow Queen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Julius Caesar (Storyhouse), The Hound of The Baskervilles (Eastbourne Theatre), Little Women (HOME Manchester), Much To Do About Nothing (Actors From The London Stage), Sherlock: A Study In Lipstick, Ketchup & Blood, Private Lives (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), She Stoops to Conquer, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor(Guildford Shakespeare Company),Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Churchill Theatre Bromley), The Prince and The Pauper (New Vic Theatre), Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Single Spies, Sense and Sensibility (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, York Theatre Royal), Elton John’s Glasses (Watford Palace Theatre), Dial M For Murder, The Rivals, Watch It Sailor! (Theatre by the Lake), Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment (The Rose Playhouse) The White Carnation (The Jermyn Street Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Wind in the Willows, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre), Roots (Nottingham Playhouse, Hull Truck, New Vic), The Heir at Law (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Arsenic and Old Lace, The Winter’s Tale, The Rivals, The Grapes of Wrath (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Arsenic and Old Lace (Vienna’s English Theatre), Dad’s Army Marches On, Dad’s Army – The Lost Episodes (UK tours), and The Mousetrap (St Martins Theatre, 60th Asia Tour).
Jade Oswald plays Meg. Her theatre credits include Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical (Theatre Royal Bath), Treason The Musical: Concert (Theatre Royal Drury lane), Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (Sondheim Theatre), Maria Friedman And Friends: Legacy (Menier Chocolate Factory), Judy – No Place Like Home (Lyric Theatre), 73 Seconds: A New Musical(Birmingham Hippodrome), Sondheim In Red (Phoenix Arts Theatre) and Doctor Zhivago The Musical In Concert(Cadogan Hall).
Perry Williams plays Laurie. His theatre credits include Maud (The Vaults) and Player Kings (Noël Coward Theatre); and for film, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
Loveday Ingram’s directing credits include Room 13 (Barn Theatre), Rebus: A Game called Malice, Fatal Attraction (UK tours), Dinner with Groucho (Dublin Theatre Festival, Belfast International Festival and Arcola Theatre), The Girl on the Train (Salisbury Playhouse) The Rover (RSC), My One and Only, Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Blue Room (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Liverpool Playhouse), Baskerville (National Centre for the Performing Arts, China) Julius Caesar, Henry V (Storyhouse Theatre), Macbeth (Theatre Severn), Boston Marriage and Hysteria (B*Spoke Theatre Company). Additional directing credits include the original Assistant Director for Mamma Mia! and Associate Director at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her writing credits include a short film selected to represent Women’s Aid internationally for the campaign for Elimination of Violence Against Women.
LITTLE WOMEN
LISTINGS
Salisbury Playhouse
3 – 13 September
Box Office: 01722 320333 / https://www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk
Lighthouse Poole
16 – 20 September
Box Office: 01202 280000 / https://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk/
Darlington Hippodrome
7 – 11 October
Box Office: 01325 405405 / https://www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk/
Chelmsford Theatre, Chelmsford
7-11 October
Box office: 01245 606 505 / https://www.chelmsfordtheatre.co.uk/
Storyhouse, Chester
21 – 25 October
Box Office: 01244 409 113 / https://www.storyhouse.com/
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
21 – 25 October
Box Office: 01483 44 00 00 / https://www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/our-venue/contact-us
Bath Theatre Royal
28 October – 1 November
Box Office: 01225 448844 / https://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/
Liverpool Playhouse
4 – 8 November
Box Office: 0151 709 4776 / https://everymanplayhouse.com/