FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF KATHERINE MOAR’S RAGDOLL
AT JERMYN STREET THEATRE
With Cascando opening next week, Jermyn Street Theatre today announces full casting for the world premiere of Katherine Moar’s Ragdoll. Josh Seymour directs Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Olivier award-winner and Tony nominee for Wolf Hall), as Robert, Abigail Cruttenden (The Theory of Everything, Not Going Out) as Holly, Ben Lamb as The Lawyer, and Katie Matsell as The Heiress.
The production opens on 14 October 2025, with previews from 9 October, and runs until 15 November at Jermyn Street Theatre.
Ragdoll marks Moar’s return to Jermyn Street Theatre following her critically acclaimed debut play Farm Hall, which embarked on a UK tour and subsequent West End run at Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Katherine Moar today said, “I’m thrilled to be returning to Jermyn Street Theatre after the wonderful experience I had there with my debut play, Farm Hall. There’s something truly special about this space – its intimacy draws the audience into every moment, making each performance deeply personal. I’m especially excited to be working with such a phenomenal cast. I can’t wait to see them bring this play to life in rehearsals and to share that magic with audiences.”
Artistic Director Stella Powell-Jones and Co-Artistic Director and Executive Producer David Doyle also added, “Katherine’s debut play Farm Hall showed her to be one of the most assured and talented writers of her generation, thrilling audiences here, on a national tour and on the West End. We’re delighted to now premiere her second, Ragdoll. Josh Seymour has a rare gift for making theatre that grips you tight. He leads an exceptional cast and creative team, and we can’t wait to share this production with audiences.”
Jermyn Street Theatre present
RAGDOLL
By Katherine Moar
Cast: Nathaniel Parker (Robert); Abigail Cruttenden (Holly);
Ben Lamb (The Lawyer); Katie Matsell (The Heiress)
Director: Josh Seymour; Set Designer: Ceci Calf; Costume Designer: Tom Paris;
Lighting Designer: Jamie Platt; Composer and Sound Designer: Lex Kosanke;
Movement Director: Anjali Mehra; Casting Director: Becky Paris CDG;
Dialect Coach: Andrea Fudge; Voice Coach: Tess Dignan
9 October – 15 November
“You love the attention, you always have.”
1978. Holly, a young heiress, sits in a California prison awaiting trial for her role in a string of armed robberies that have captivated the nation. Her only hope? Her hotshot lawyer, Robert—who might make his name, if he can save hers.
2017. Robert, now one of the most famous attorneys in America, faces a different kind of trial: the court of public opinion. In a last-ditch bid for redemption, he turns to the one former client who could help him plead his case. But will she?
Following Farm Hall’s record-breaking run and West End transfer, Katherine Moar returns to Jermyn Street Theatre with her second play, inspired by the trial of Patty Hearst. Rising star Josh Seymour directs this world premiere, plunging us into the psychedelic swirl of celebrity, violence, and scandal of 1970s America.
Katherine Moar is a playwright. Her debut play Farm Hall premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre, before embarking on a UK tour, then transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Moar is a PHD student at King’s College London and the Imperial War Museum.
Nathaniel Parker plays Robert. His theatre credits include The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre), Alma Mater (Almeida Theatre), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Hampstead Theatre), An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville Theatre), This House (Chichester Festival Theatre/Garrick Theatre), The Audience (Gielgud Theatre), Speed the Plow (Duke of York’s Theatre), Wolf Hall (RSC, Aldwych Theatre and Broadway – Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Tony Award nomination), and Romeo and Juliet (Young Vic). His television credits include The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (as series regular detective Thomas Lynley), Bleak House, Hotel Babylon, Land Girls, Merlin, Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, The Vineyard, Grantchester, La templanza, Of Kings and Prophets, Me and Mrs Jones, The Proxy, and History of a Pleasure Seeker; and for film, The Last Duel, Swimming with Men, Swords and Sceptres, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Perfect Host, and St. Trinian’s.
Abigail Cruttenden plays Holly. Her theatre credits include A Man for All Seasons (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Handbagged (Kiln Theatre), Swive (Shakespeare’s Globe), Black Chiffon (Park Theatre), Her Naked Skin (Salisbury Playhouse), An Enemy of the People, A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Rivals (Chichester Festival Theatre), Accolade (The Other Palace), Drawing the Line, 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre), The Seagull (UK tour), Benefactors, The Crucible (Sheffield Theatres), When Did You Last See Mother (Trafalgar Theatre), The Knot of the Heart (Almeida Theatre), Afterlife, Flight (National Theatre), The Wood Demon, Tartuffe (Playhouse Theatre), Twelfth Night (RSC), The Importance of Being Earnest (The Old Vic/Birmingham Rep), Hay Fever, The School for Scandal, The Cherry Orchard (Theatr Clwyd), and Romeo and Juliet (Ludlow Festival Theatre). Her television credits include Not Going Out (as series regular Anna), The Outcast, The Robinsons, Doctors and Nurses, Monarch of the Glen, Love on a Branch line, Benidorm, Teenage Kicks, Foyle’s War, Sharpe, Fresh Meat, and Anna Karenina; and for film, Portraits of Dangerous Women; Munich: The Edge of War, Denial, Charlotte Gray, and Await Further Instructions.
Ben Lamb plays The Lawyer. His theatre credits include How to Survive an Apocalypse (Finborough Theatre), Macbeth (Young Vic), The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), Mary Shelley (UK tour), and Hamlet (Sheffield Theatres). His television credits include The Gilded Age, Endeavour, Knightfall, Victoria, The Alienist, and The White Queen; and for film, Divergent, Now You See Me 2, A Christmas Prince, and The Warrior Prince of Bhanji.
Katie Matsell plays The Heiress. Her theatre credits include Suddenly Last Summer (English Theatre Frankfurt), Othello (National Theatre), Clybourne Park (Park Theatre – Offie Nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Play), The Mirror Crack’d (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative), and Museum of Austerity (English Touring Theatre and National Theatre); and for television, Criminal Record and Titans.
Josh Seymour directs. His directing credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (Sheffield Theatres), Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), That Face (Orange Tree Theatre), Suddenly Last Summer (English Theatre Frankfurt), The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre), [TITLE OF SHOW] (London Coliseum), MUSIK (Edinburgh Festival and Arts Theatre), Homos, or Everyone in America, Adding Machine (Finborough Theatre), and One Arm (Southwark Playhouse). Credits as Associate Director include Hello Dolly! (Palladium Theatre), A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic), The Normal Heart, Follies (National Theatre), Red (Wyndham’s Theatre), Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre), and My Night with Reg (Apollo Theatre). As Resident Assistant Director for the Donmar Warehouse, his credits include City of Angels, My Night with Reg, Fathers and Sons, Privacy, Versailles (Donmar Warehouse), and other credits include Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory), Our House (New Wolsey Theatre and UK tour), Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour), Sex with a Stranger (Trafalgar Studios), and Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre).
LISTINGS
RAGDOLL
16B Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6ST
Box Office: 020 7287 2875
www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk
CASCANDO
2 – 13 September 2025
Press performance: Tuesday 2 September at 6:30pm and 7:45pm
Tuesday–Friday: 3pm, 6:30pm, 7:45pm
Saturday–Sunday: 1:30pm, 2:45pm, 4:15pm
Tickets from £22
RAGDOLL
9 October – 15 November 2025
Monday – Saturday, 7:30pm
3pm matinees on Tuesdays and Saturdays
Relaxed Performances: Thursday 23 October at 7.30pm and Tuesday 4 November at 3pm
Captioned Performance: Wednesday 5 November at 7.30pm
Tickets from £18
DAVID COPPERFIELD
20 November – 20 December
Monday – Saturday, 7:30pm
3pm matinees on Tuesdays and Saturdays
Relaxed Performance: Wednesday 10 December at 7:30pm
Captioned Performance: Wednesday 17 December at 7:30pm
Tickets from £18
NOTES TO EDITORS
JERMYN STREET THEATRE
Jermyn Street Theatre is the West End’s Studio Theatre, a home for extraordinary artists and curious audiences for over thirty years. Together, Artistic Director Stella Powell-Jones, Executive Director Penny Horner, and Co-Artistic Director and Executive Producer David Doyle lead the theatre. The theatre stages superb classics and thrilling new plays, offering audiences unforgettable theatre from stars including Patricia Allison, Siân Phillips, Caroline Quentin, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Roy Williams alongside those taking their first steps in the industry.
With just 70 seats, audiences are never more than 4 rows from the action. Every flinch is felt. Every whisper is audible. It is a small theatre with big stories to tell. In 1994, Co-Founders Penny Horner and Howard Jameson came down the stairs of 16b Jermyn Street for the first time and saw what could be: a studio theatre right in the centre of town where theatre artists could afford to take risks, and where audiences could afford to see the work. The theatre upholds those commitments today, and in the three decades since has created ambitious work that has won countless awards and reached global audiences through transfers across the UK, Broadway, and beyond. In 2021, Jermyn Street Theatre won the Stage Award for Fringe Theatre of the Year, the first theatre to win the award twice.
Last year, the theatre celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with productions that included the world premieres of Roy Williams’ Offie Award-winning stage adaptation of Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Laughing Boy by Stephen Unwin after Justice For Laughing Boy by Sara Ryan, and the West End transfer of Katherine Moar’s debut play Farm Hall. The Lonely Londoners transferred to the Kiln Theatre for a run earlier this year.
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