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ANNOUNCES FULL CAST FOR 

OEDIPUS

CREATED BY ROBERT ICKE, AFTER SOPHOCLES

STARRING MARK STRONG AND LESLEY MANVILLE

3000 ADDITIONAL TICKETS JUST RELEASED

Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) today announces the full cast for the West End run of Oedipus, a new adaptation created by Robert Icke after Sophocles.

Joining the previously announced Mark Strong (Oedipus) and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) are Samuel Brewer (Teiresias), Michael Gould (Creon), Sara Hazemi (Lichas/Understudy Antigone), Gary McDonald (Driver), Bhasker Patel (Corin), Phia Saban (Antigone), Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), June Watson (Merope) and James Wilbraham (Polyneices), with Jim Creighton (Ensemble/Understudy Oedipus & Creon), Derek Elroy (Ensemble/Understudy Corin, Teiresias & Driver), Celia Nelson (Ensemble/ Understudy Jocasta & Merope) and Jake Rory (Ensemble/Understudy Polyneices, Eteocles & Lichas) completing the cast.

Tickets for the strictly limited run at Wyndham’s Theatre are on sale now, with a further 3000 tickets just released across the run, including the front Stalls. Sonia Friedman Productions is also offering 1000 tickets at £30 exclusively for those aged 30 and under across the run, reflecting their ongoing commitment to ticket accessibility within the arts. For more details visit oedipustheplay.com/ticket-information. 

The creative team is Hildegard Bechtler (Set Design), Wojciech Dziedzic (Costume Design), Natasha Chivers (Lighting Design), Tom Gibbons (Sound Design), Tal Yarden (Video Design) and Julia Horan CDG (Casting Director).

Behind every great man is a great woman. 

Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change.

Starring the internationally renowned, multi-award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller.

After his revelatory Oresteia, visionary director Robert Icke (1984, The Doctor) reimagines another Ancient Greek tragedy, bringing the secrets of the past bursting into the present.

Oedipus opens on Tuesday 15 October, with previews from Friday 4 October 2024, and runs until Saturday 4 January 2025.

Icke’s production was originally produced in Dutch by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival.

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

Mark Strong (Oedipus)

Multi-award-winning actor Mark Strong returns to the stage. He previously appeared in A View from the Bridge (Young Vic, West End and Broadway – Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play and Tony Award nomination);  The Red Barn, Closer, Death of a Salesman, Murmuring  Judges, Fuente Ovejuna, Napoli Milionaria, King Lear and Richard III (National Theatre); Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse – Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor); Speed the Plow (New Ambassadors Theatre); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre); The Thickness of Skin and The Treatment (Royal Court Theatre); Hess is Dead, The Plantagenets and The Man Who Came To Dinner (RSC).

His television credits include Temple (also series Executive Producer); Deep State; Low Winter Sun; The Long Firm (Broadcast Guild Award for Best Actor and BAFTA nomination); Prime Suspect; Fields of Gold; The Jury; Anna Karenina; Our Friends in the North and the forthcoming Dune: Prophecy (HBO Max).

An acclaimed film actor, he recently appeared in The Critic with Ian McKellen; Dead Shot with Felicity Jones; Nocebo with Eva Green; Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston (Netflix) and will next appear on screen in various projects including The End We Start From with Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch; Shadow Force opposite Omar Sy and Kerry Washington and Atlas opposite Jennifer Lopez.

His other film credits include Todd Field’s Tár with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ 1917; Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain; Cruella alongside Emma Stone; The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley; The Kingsman films with Taron Egerton and Colin Firth; Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman;Thomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Gary Oldman; Peter Weir’s The Way Back; John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard; Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood with Russell Crowe; Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law; Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern; The Young Victoria opposite Emily Blunt; Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty; Danny Boyle’s Sunshine; Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana with George Clooney; Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist and Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love.

Lesley Manville (Jocasta)

Award-winning British Actor, Lesley Manville has had an expansive career to date, across both screen and stage. Lesley most recently appeared on our screens in the sixth and final series of Netflix’s critically acclaimed series, The Crown – reprising her role of Princess Margaret. Lesley also starred in Sam Taylor Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, Back To Black, for StudioCanal. Further upcoming projects include Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, opposite Daniel Craig, Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer for Apple and Cold Storage, alongside Liam Neeson. In addition, Lesley will star in The Critic, alongside Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton.

Lesley recently appeared as the villainous Dahlia Archer in Citadel for Prime Video, alongside Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra. Notable television credits include Mum(RTS Best Female Comedy Performance and two BAFTA nominations for Best Female Performance in a Comedy) and the BBC’s Sherwood, for which Lesley received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at this year’s BAFTA Awards. The series has been announced for a second season, which will air later this year.

Notable roles in film include Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread(Academy Award nomination for Best Performance by An Actress in a Supporting Role, BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress), the titular role as Mrs Harris in Mrs Harris Goes To Parisfor Focus Features (which earnt Lesley a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress) Let Him Go, Ordinary Love, Misbehaviour.

On stage, Lesley’s theatre credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Ghosts (Olivier Award for Best Actress and Critics Circle Best Actress Award), Grief (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Three Sisters (Clarence Derwent Award) andThe Visit. Further credits include, Six Degrees Of Separationand All About My Mother at the Old Vic Theatre and Some Girls and The Cherry Orchard in the West End. 

Samuel Brewer (Teiresias)

Training: BA Acting CDT at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

Theatre includes: It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (Vault Festival/Soho Theatre/New Diorama Theatre/Underbelly at Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Soho Playhouse/UK Tour/Southbank Centre); Frankenstein (Parkwood Theatre), Who Plays Who? (Asylum Arts / Barbican Open Labs), CRIPtic Pit Party (Barbican Theatre), Night Out in Nature (Frozen Light), Farenheit 451 (Complicité); The Eyes of the Night (Cervantes Theatre).

Other work includes: Odd & The Frost Giants (Workshop, Unicorn Theatre); Otto Weidt’s Brush and Broom Workshop for the Blind (Workshop, Leeds Playhouse); The Sleeping Sword (Workshop, Watermill Theatre). Samuel co-created It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (dir. Josh Roche), where at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he was chosen as one of The Fringe Five by The Stage alongside his co-creators & director.

Jim Creighton (Ensemble/Understudy Oedipus & Creon)

Theatre includes: The Suspicions of Mr.Whicher (Watermill Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Good (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre); The Best Man (The Playhouse Theatre/UK Tour); Macbeth (Theatre Severn); An Enemy of the People (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston); Journey’s End (Watermill Theatre); The Silver Tassie (National Theatre); Richard III (Nottingham Playhouse); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket); 1936 (Arcola theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre); Fram (National Theatre); Loot (Tricycle Theatre); The Entertainer (Old Vic) Market Boy (National theatre); On the Middle Day (Old Vic); The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National theatre); Brand (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre/Royal Shakespeare Company); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); Money (National Theatre); Summerfolk (National Theatre); Troilus & Cressida (National Theatre); Peter Pan (National Theatre); An Enemy of the People (National Theatre); Skylight (National Theatre); Three Tall Women (Wyndham’s Theatre).

Television includes: EastEnders; The Curse; The Crown; Bulletproof; The Child in Time; Grantchester; Apple Tree Yard; WPC 56; Doctors; The Hour; Holby City; King Lear; Ashes to Ashes; The Merchant of Venice.

Derek Elroy (Ensemble/Understudy Corin, Teiresias & Driver)

Training: Rose Bruford College.

Theatre includes: One Man Two Governors (The National Theatre/Theatre royal Haymarket/National tour Nick Hytner); Kingston 14 (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Calendar Girls – The Musical (UK tour); Grim Tales (Dukes Play House); Wind in The Willows (Rose Theatre Kingston); Grenfell: Value Engineering scenes from the Inquiry (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn Theatre). 

Television includes: Hope and Glory (BBC); Fortitude (Tiger Aspect); Casualty (BBC) If… (BBC) Rev (Big Talk Productions); The Bill (London Weekend Television). 

Film includes: Breakfast on Pluto (Pluto Films); Bridget Jones Diary (Working Title).

Michael Gould (Creon)

Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); King Lear; The Writer (Almeida Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic); The Audience (West End); A View from the Bridge (West End and Broadway); Hamlet; The Jungle; (Young Vic); Kerry Jackson; All of Us; Anna; Our Class; Women of Troy; Waves; The Seagull; Earthquakes in London; The Oresteia; (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Swive; (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Ugly One (Royal Court); Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); The Phoenician Women; Othello; The Theban Trilogy (RSC).

Television includes: I Am Maria (Channel 4); There She Goes; Showtrial; You Don’t Know Me; Black Earth Rising (BBC).

Film includes: One Life; Darkest Hour; Rogue One; Undergods; The Duke.

Sara Hazemi (Lichas/Understudy Antigone)

Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); King Lear; The Writer (Almeida Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic); The Audience (West End); A View from the Bridge (West End and Broadway); Hamlet; The Jungle; (Young Vic); Kerry Jackson; All of Us; Anna; Our Class; Women of Troy; Waves; The Seagull; Earthquakes in London; The Oresteia; (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Swive; (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Ugly One (Royal Court); Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); The Phoenician Women; Othello; The Theban Trilogy (RSC).

Television includes: I Am Maria (Channel 4); There She Goes; Showtrial; You Don’t Know Me; Black Earth Rising (BBC).

Film includes: One Life; Darkest Hour; Rogue One; Undergods; The Duke.

Gary McDonald (Driver)

Theatre includes: Hardtime Pressure (Royal Court Theatre); Heroes Welcome (Royal Court Theatre); Gregory Motton’s Downfall (Royal Court Theatre); Some Singing Blood (Royal Court Theatre); Been so Long (Royal Court theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Kiln Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (The Tyne Theatre/Bloomsbury Theatre); Macbeth (National Theatre); Black Poppies (National Theatre); Great Big Shame (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Leonardo in Blood Wedding (National Theatre); The Trader in Market Boy (National Theatre); Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse/New Ambassadors Theatre); Headmaster Marrow in Choir Boy (Royal Court); Sitting in Limbo (Watford Palace Theatre).

Television includes: London’s Burning pilot; EastEnders; Valentine Falls; Thief Takers; Brothers and Sisters; Dreamteam (Sky One); Numb3rs; Airforce One is Down

Film includes: Shooting Stars; Secrets and Lies; All or Nothing; Until Death; The Shepard; Airforce One is Down; Outpost – Black Sun; Lapse of Honour

Celia Nelson (Ensemble/Understudy Jocasta & Merope)

Training: The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art

Theatre includes: Dear Octopus (The National Theatre); The House of Bernarda Alba (The National Theatre); The Doctor (Richmond Theatre/The Duke of York’s Theatre); A Flea in Her Ear (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Sherman Theatre); Big Fella (Dublin Festival); Blithe Spirit (Salisbury Playhouse/Perth Rep); Broken Glass at (Theatre Royal Northampton); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (The Torch/Milford Haven); Hard Times (The Torch/Milford Haven); Having a Ball (Perth Rep); Joking Apart (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); La Vie de Boheme (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Salisbury Playhouse); Loot (UK tour); Private Lives (The Stephen Joseph Theatre); Saints Day (The Orange Tree); Spokesong (Sherman Theatre); Sticks and Stones (The Old Red Lion); Tartuffe (Perth Rep); The Animals (Dublin Festival); The Playboy of the Western World (The Torch/Milford Haven); The Rehearsal (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Turn the Old Year Go (The Torch/Milford Haven); Vanity Fair (Sherman Theatre); Virtual Reality (The Stephen Joseph Theatre). 

Television includes: The Bill; Slap; Telephone Detectives.

Radio includes: The Archers (BBC Radio 4).

Bhasker Patel (Corin)

Theatre includes: Silence; The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); Anthony and Cleopatr (Liverpool Playhouse); A Map of the World; Nation; The Royal Hunt of the Sun; Tartuffe; Wicked Yaar; The Magic Carpet; Playing with Fire (Royal National Theatre); Blood; The Great Celestial Cow (Royal Court); Timon of Athens (Young Vic); The Comedy of Errors (Bolton Octogan); A Passage to India (Farnham Redgrave); Passing (Park Theatre); MacBeth (New York International Theatre Festival).

Television includes: Emmerdale; Coronation Street; Dirty Filthy Love; Jewel in the Crown; Crown Court; A&E (ITV/Granada); Doctor Who; The Garden; Spooks; Holby City; My Family; Murder in Mind; Only Fools & Horses; Birds of a Feather; Casualty; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Moving On (BBC), Brookside (Channel 4).

Film includes: Drachenfutter (CIVIS Award – Best Actor/ Germany); Snowden; Octopussy; Goldeneye; Being Human with Robin Williams; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Kidulthood; Anuvahood Someotherhood; Hanif Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic; Wild West; Thunderbirds (Working Title); Twin Town; My Beautiful Launderette.

Jake Rory (Ensemble/Understudy Polyneices, Eteocles & Lichas)

Training: Arts Educationals’ (BA Acting).

Credits while training include: Macbeth in Macbeth; Edward in The Voysey Inheritance; Val in Orpheus Descending; Lopakin in The Cherry Orchard; Captain Chen in Qibla.

Phia Saban (Antigone)

Training: Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Credits while training include: Amanda in Private Lives;Nina in The Seagull; Ollie in Pomona;W in Cock; Cassandra in The Trojan Women;Iago in Othello; The Girl in The Wheel; Antigone in Antigone.

Television includes: Helaena Targaryen in House of the Dragon (HBO); Aelfwynn in The Last Kingdom (Netflix/Carnival Films).

Jordan Scowen (Eteocles)

Training: LAMDA.

Theatre includes: Darkin in The History Boys (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre).

Television includes: Robert Tipton in Belgravia: The Next Chapter (MGM/Carnivals drama); Sgt John Shaffer in Masters of the Air (Apple TV+); Ringo Starr in Urban Myths (SKY); Home (Channel 4).

Film includes: Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (BBC Films).

June Watson (Merope)

Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar Warehouse); Sea Creatures; Uncle Vanya; Good People (Hamsptead Theatre); As You Like It (@Sohoplace); After Life; The Welkin; John; Scenes from the Big Picture; The Good Hope; Our Lady of Sligo; Cardiff East; The Prince’s Play; Le Cid; Rutherford and Son; Machinal; Billy Liar; Whale; Garden of England; As I Lay Dying; The Beggar’s Opera; Lark Rise; The Passion; The World Turned Upside Down; The Long Voyage Home; Il Campiello; State of the Revolution (National Theatre); Road; Kosher Harry; Beside Herself; Saved; Small Change; Life Price; Glasshouses (Royal Court Theatre); Escaped Alone (Royal Court Theatre/ BAM/ UK tour); The Father; Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios); The Cripple of Inishmaan – Clarence Derwent Award (Noël Coward Theatre/ Broadway); Before the Party, Hippolytus (Almeida Theatre); Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre); Calendar Girls (UK tour); Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal Bath); Aristo (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Children’s Hour (Royal Exchange Theatre); Smaller; Middle Aged Spread (Lyric West End); Mary Stuart (Apollo Theatre); Talking to Terrorists; Sliding with Suzanne (Royal Court/Out of Joint); Romeo & Juliet (RSC); Streetcar to Tennessee (Young Vic); Blue Heart (Out of Joint); Coriolanus; The Winter’s Tale; The Wars of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company); Ballroom (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Waiting for the Parade (Lyric Hammersmith). 

Television includes: Whitstable Pearl; The Cockfields; All Creatures Great and Small; Casualty; The Midnight Gang; Chernobyl; Call the Midwife; To Walk Invisible; Agatha Raisin; Thirteen; Unforgotten; A Song for Jenny; Holby City; The Café; Doctors; Wallander; Law and Order UK; Coming Up; Above Suspicion; New Tricks; Hancock and Joan; The Bill; The Street; Billy Goat’s Gruff; City of Vice; Clapham Junction; Wedding Belles; The Time of Your Life; Strictly Confidential; In Denial of Murder; The Key; Willian & Mary; Midsomer Murders; Brotherly Love; Thursday 12^th; In A Land of Plenty; Where the Heart Is; Berkeley Square; Kavanagh QC and A Mug’s Game.

Film includes: Your Christmas or Mine; The Bike Thief; The Death of Stalin; The Lady in the Van; Ghost Hunter; 102 Dalmatians; Highlander IV: Endgame; The Last Yellow; The Knowledge and Bloody Kids.

James Wilbraham (Polyneices)

Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Credits whilst training includes: Den in The Electric; Sebastien in All That I AM; Feste/Student in Twelfth Night Remembered; Angelo in Measure for Measure; Captain Brice in Arcadia.

Theatre includes: Ikaria (UK Tour).

Television includes: Tom Jones (Mammoth Screen for ITV); SAS Rogue Heroes (Kudos); In My Skin (Expectation for BBC); Ordinary Lies (BBC); Pobol y Cwm (BBC Wales); Gwaith/Cartref (Fiction Factory).

CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES

Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and director, working in theatre and on screen. His recent production of Player Kings, starring Ian McKellen, opened at the Noël Coward Theatre before a national tour. His other recent work includes Judas, Children of Nora, and Oedipus at International Theater Amsterdam, where until he was the inaugural Ibsen Artist in Residence. His adaptation of Animal Farm played an extensive national tour in 2022 and is slated for a London transfer. His monologue condensation of Enemy of the People starred Ann Dowd at Park Avenue Armory and was one of the first new pieces of theatre to play in New York post the pandemic shutdown.

In six years at the Almeida, he made eight productions; five transferred to the West End, and four to New York. These included his adaptations of The Wild Duck, Mary Stuart (also West End and National tour), Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also West End; Schauspiel Stuttgart; Park Avenue Armory), and 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan, also Broadway; West End; national and international tours). As a director, his productions included Hamlet starring Andrew Scott (also West End; Park Avenue Armory; and broadcast on BBC2); The Fever and Mr Burns. His play The Doctor, which played successful runs at Park Avenue Armory in 2023 and in the West End in 2022, remains in repertoire at both the Burgtheater in Vienna and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, as well as in numerous new productions across the globe.

His awards include two Evening Standard ‘Best Director’ Awards; the Critics’ Circle Award, the Kurt Hübner Award (for his debut production in Germany); and the Olivier Award for ‘Best Director’, of which he was the youngest ever winner. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Hildegard Bechtler (Set Design)

Hildegard Bechtler is an award-winning designer based in London and working internationally.  Work in theatre includes designs for the Almeida Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Donmar, on Broadway and extensively in the West End including Top Hat, Oresteia (both Olivier-nominated for best set design), Mary Stuart, Hamlet, Consent, Arcadia and The Crucible.   Credits for the National Theatre include Antony and Cleopatra, Hansard, After the Dance (Olivier Award) and Iphigenia at Aulis (Evening Standard Award nomination).  Credits for the Royal Court include The Seagull, Krapp’s Last Tape, My Name Is Rachel Corrie.  Recent work includes The Doctor, Hamlet/Oresteia and Enemy of the People at the Park Avenue Armory; Four Quartets in the West End; Judas, Nora and Oedipus for Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam, The Doctor in the West End, at the Burgtheater Vienna and at the Adelaide Festival and Iwanow at the Staatstheater Stuttgart.  Her many designs in opera and ballet include productions for English National Opera, La Scala Milan, Glyndebourne and the world premieres of The Cellist for the Royal Ballet and Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel at the Salzburger Festspiele, the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House. She won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House. Upcoming work includes a world premiere for Zurich Ballet; and Dr Strangelove in the West End.

Wojciech Dziedzic (Costume Design)

Wojciech Dziedzic designs costumes for opera, theatre and musical and leads, in parallel, a career of a stylist. He studied fashion design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, institutions in which he later taught. Between 2010 and 2019, he directed the fashion department of the Poznań School of Design in Poland.

Recent credits include Simon Boccanegra (New National Theatre in Tokyo); Die Blume von Hawaii (Theater Magdeburg); Shirine (Opéra de Lyon); Acis and Galatea (Concertgebouw Amsterdam); Keine Stille außer der des Windes (Nationaltheater Mannheim); Cardillac (Polish National Opera); Anatomy of a Suicide (Berliner Ensemble); Apocalypse Arabe (Aix en Provence); Ivanov (Schauspiel Stuttgart); Les Indes Galantes (Opéra national de Paris); Aus Licht (Dutch National Opera); Tristan and Isolde, Penthesilea (La Monnaie Brussels); The Crucible (Theatre Basel, Dir. Robert Icke); Eugene Onegin, Il Serpente di Bronzo and A Wintery Spring (Oper Frankfurt); Invasion-Explosion (Holland Festival); Shirine, GerMANIA, Macbeth (Opéra de Lyon); The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Broadway); Nora, A Sort of Hades, Blindeness, Phaedra, Crave, Caligula (Theater Utrecht); Fidelio (Erl Festival); Boris Godunov, the Conquest of Mexico, Bomarzo, Lohengrin, El Público, Brokeback Mountain (Teatro Real Madrid); Oedipus, From The Life of The Marionettes, The Maids, Mary Stuart, Danton’s Death, Nora, Angels in America, And never we’ll be parted, The Miser, All my Sons (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); The Crucible (Broadway, Dir. Ivo van Hove); Cries and Whispers (BAM); Mazeppa (Komische Oper Berlin).

Natasha Chivers (Lighting Design)

Natasha’s awards and nominations includes: Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play, and nominated for an Olivier and Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for Prima Facie.She won the Olivier Award for best lighting for Sunday in the Park with George. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for 1984 and for an Olivier Award for Oresteia 

Her extensive work in theatre includes: The Hills of California (West End); Prima Facie (Harold Pinter Theatre/ Broadway); SYLVIA, The American Clock (Old Vic); Peaky Blinders (Rambert); Doctor, Hamlet, Oresteia (Almeida/ West End/ Park Avenue Armory); Enemy of People (Park Avenue Armory, New York); Judas (Internationaal Theater, Amsterdam)  Mates in Chelsea, Shoe Lady, White Pearl, The Cane, Bad Roads, Mistress Contract, Fireworks (Royal Court);  Ivanov (Staatstheater, Stuttgart); ; Kan Ya Ma Kan (Riyadh); Message in a Bottle, Electric Hotel, Gravity Fatigue (Sadler’s Wells); Drive and Live: La Bohème (ENO); The 1984 (Playhouse Theatre/ Broadway); The Antipodes, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, Statement of Regret (National Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea, The Chalk Garden, The House They Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre); We Are Here (La Mama, New York); Allelujah! (Bridge Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (RSC); Belleville (Donmar); Electric Counterpoint, Strapless (Royal Ballet); Green Snake (National Theatre of China); Macbeth (Broadway); Sunday in the Park with George (Wyndham’s)

Tom Gibbons (Sound Design)

Recent work includes Dear England (National Theatre, West End); Dead Man Walking (The Metropolitan Opera); Here We Are (The Shed, New York); Jesus Christ Superstar (DeLaMar Theatre, Amsterdam); Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre, Young Vic); Grey House (Lyceum Theatre, Broadway); Good (West End); Hamlet, Oresteia, The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory, Almeida Theatre, West End); Animal Farm (UK tour); West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway); Cabaret (Göteborg Opera); Judas, Oedipus, The Doctor (International Theatre Amsterdam); The Antipodes, Home, I’m Darling, People, Places and Things (Winner for Best Sound Design, Olivier Awards 2016), Hedda Gabler, Sunset At The Villa Thalia, The Red Barn (National Theatre/West End); All About Eve (West End); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Doctor, Wild Duck (Almeida/West End); Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Mr Burns, 1984 (Almeida/West End/Broadway); Fanny and Alexander, The Lorax (Old Vic); A View From the Bridge (Young Vic/West End/Broadway); Obsession (International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican); Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead Theatre); White Devil, As You Like It (RSC); Translations, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible); After Life, The Absence of War, Romeo & Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicite); Venus in Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar, St Ann’s Brooklyn); The End of History, Pah La, The Woods, Love Love Love, (Royal Court). 

Tal Yarden (Video Design)

London credits: Get Up, Stand Up, Anna X, My Brilliant Friend, Hamlet, Antigone, The Damned, Kings of War, The Fountainhead, Roman Tragedies, Lazarus.  Broadway credits: Indecent, Network, The Waverly Gallery, Sunday in the Park with George, The Crucible; Off-Broadway & Regional credits: Becky Nurse of Salem, Grey Rock, King Lear, Distracted, Liberty City, The Misanthrope; A Walk on the Moon, Ocean Filibuster, Passing Strange, Frost/Nixon; Opera credits:  Exterminating Angel, Between Worlds, Mahagonny, Salome, Brokeback Mountain, Macbeth. Video: Pat McGrath, Rick Owens, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, James Brown, Patti Smith; Awards: Molière, Lucille Lortel, Noinations: Tony, Drama Desk, Hewes, Outer Critic.

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LISTINGS

OEDIPUS

Wyndham’s Theatre

4 October 2024 – 4 January 2025

Opening Night: Tuesday 15 October, 7pm

Tickets from £25

Box Office: Oedipustheplay.com

New cast announced for the
Spectacular, Spectacular!
MOULIN ROUGE!

THE MUSICAL

Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life

Natalie Kassanga to play Satine, Dom Simpson to play Christian, and Craig Ryder to play Harold Zidler in the hit musical at the Piccadilly Theatre, London

Global Creatures, Producers of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, are delighted to welcome a new cast of bohemians and aristocrats as the hit show enters its fourth year at the Piccadilly Theatre in London.

From 14 October 2024, Natalie Kassanga (Dreamgirls)joins the cast to play Satine alongside current cast members Dom Simpson (The Book of Mormon) as Christian and Craig Ryder (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) who will play Harold Zidler having previously covered the role. The show welcomes Dex Lee (The Scottsboro Boys) as Toulouse-Lautrec, joining Ben Richards (Emmerdale) as The Duke, Ivan De Freitas (& Juliet) as Santiago and Charlotte Gooch (Dirty Dancing) as Nini. Hannah Jay-Allan (Beautiful – The Carole King Musical) and Helen K Wint (Oklahoma!) will alternate the role of Arabia, and Matteo Johnson (Bat Out of Hell) will play Baby Doll, joining Bernadette Bangura (My Fair Lady) as La Chocolat, and Angela Marie Hurst (TINA: The Tina Turner Musical) as Alternate Satine.

The full cast will also include Oliver Adam-Reynolds, Takaiyah Bailey, Erin Bell, Emily Bolland, Ross Chisari, Athena Collins, James Davies-Williams, Katie Deacon, Serenar Douch, Rola Elliott, Myles Hart, Grace Hawksworth, Maiya Hikasa, Melvin LeBlanc, Tom Mather, Kira McPherson, Paul Mukembo, Dean Read, Ben Rutter, Gavin Ryan, Mark Samaras, Jamie Shields, Catrin Thomas, Lindsey Tierney, Alex Tranter, Matt Trevorrow, Kevin Tristan, Ben Whitnall, and Sasha Woodward.

Set in Paris, 1899, a world of indulgent beauty and unparalleled extravagance, of bohemians and aristocrats, of boulevardiers and reprobates, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the story of a lovesick American writer, Christian, and Satine, the dazzling star of the Moulin Rouge nightclub. 

When their lives collide at the Moulin Rouge, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be thwarted by the nightclub’s host and impresario, Harold Zidler, and The Duke of Monroth, the wealthy and entitled patron of the club who thinks he can buy anything he wants, including Satine. Together with his Bohemian friends – the brilliant and starving artist Toulouse-Lautrec, and the greatest tango dancer in all of Paris, Santiago – Christian stages a musical spectacular in an attempt to save the Moulin Rouge and win the heart of Satine.

Baz Luhrmann’s iconic film comes to life onstage, remixed for today in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Moulin Rouge! The Musical invites you to enter a world of passionate romance and eye-popping splendour… a place where Bohemians and aristocrats revel together in electrifying enchantment… a place where all your wildest dreams come true! 

LISTINGS

For further information and tickets, please visit www.moulinrougemusical.com

Piccadilly Theatre
16 Denman Street
London

W1D 7DY

VICKI MANSER HEADS THE POWER CAST OF

WRITTEN AND COMPOSED
BY LOURDS LANE

CURVE THEATRE, LEICESTER

FROM 22 OCTOBER – 9 NOVEMBER 2024

Vicki Manser, a powerhouse performer who has made a superhero-sized impact on the UK theatre scene playing every single Queen in SIX the Musical, is now continuing her reign in Leicester as she takes on the lead role of Katie in the rock opera SuperYou.

WATCH VICKI PERFORM IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ME FROM SUPERYOU A NEW MUSICAL

Completing the cast are Kingsley Morton (Heathers) as Ima-Mazing, Courtney Stapleton (Beauty and The Beast) as Blast,  B. Noel Thomas (Sister Act) as Seven, Damien Walsh (Dreamboats And Petticoats) as Jay, Owen Lloyd (Clueless The Musical) as Matty, Belinda Lee Chapman (Nutcracker!) as Mom, with Lu Anthony (Trapped Between Stories) as SuperYouman and cover Seven, Elizabeth Chalmers (A New World) as cover Katie and Young Katie, Ellen Eckersley (Snow White) as Alternate Rise, Jacob Fisher (Singin’ in The Rain) as SuperYouman and cover Mi Roar, Jay and Matty, Bayley Hart (Greatest Days) as SuperYouman and cover Ima-Mazing and Blast and Catherine Saunders (Swan Lake) as SuperYouman and cover Mom.

SuperYou features an entirely female band consisting of Musical Director Jenny Deacon, Associate Musical Director Issie Osborne, Maria Rocha, Laura Williams and Ashley Young.

SuperYou is led by a seasoned West End and Broadway creative team with Direction and Choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter (Bad Cinderella, School Of Rock), Music Supervision by Wendy Bobbit Cavett (Come From Away, Hamilton), Set Design by Tony-nominated Anna Louizos (In The Heights, School Of Rock),Costume Design by Cynthia Nordstrom (Rocktopia), Sound Design by Olivier Award Winner, Tony Gayle (My Neighbor Totoro),  Lighting Design by Ryan O’Gara (Thoughts Of A Colored Man), and Video Design by Caite Hevner (Derren Brown: Secret). Will Bozier returns as Associate Choreographer and Billy Mitchell joins as Associate Director. Casting by Pearson Casting CDG, produced by Melissa M. Jones / All Awesome LLC with general management by Anthology Theatre Productions.

SuperYou is an uplifting musical, written and composed by Lourds Lane, that centres around the transformative journey of a comic book artist who discovers self-love and her own voice as her superheroine creations spring to life. SuperYou will have its first fully staged UK production at Leicester’s Curve theatre this autumn.

After making its West End debut for a sold-out, one night only concert at The Lyric Theatre in 2023, this new rendition of the beloved cult hit is a complete reimagination, now rewritten and presented entirely through song.

The musical’s score is a dynamic rock soundtrack which seamlessly incorporates a wide range of musical styles, including pop, hip hop, swing, blues, gospel, country, and soulful power ballads. Through its instantly memorable soundtrack, SuperYou delves into themes of discovering inner strength, while fostering acceptance, inclusivity, and kindness, both towards others and, crucially, oneself, making it a tale that feels particularly relevant and timely in today’s world.

Initially planned for an off-Broadway debut, SuperYouwas the first theatrical production to perform during the pandemic, staging concerts on socially distanced pick-up trucks at a drive-in, in upstate New York. These pandemic concerts garnered national and international attention, and a film was later released as a popular documentary on Broadway on Demand.

During the pandemic, while many shows stopped activity and shut down, SuperYougained what Playbill calls “a substantial cult following” for its online content and concept album of demos with over 23 million views on TikTok. #FANCOVERFRIDAY emerged as fans worldwide created their own SuperYoumusic renditions, a trend continuing until today, four years later.

Due to its online popularity and viral videos, SuperYou quickly sold-out Carnegie Hall for two nights in July 2022, and then proceeded to win BroadwayWorld’s Best New Musical Award in Milwaukee for its developmental presentation the following year.  With an impressive debut at London’s Musical Con in 2022, SuperYoureturned last year as a “teaser” ahead of the West End concert at The Lyric Theatre in November.

LONDON COLISEUM – UNTIL 8th SEPTEMBER 2024

REVIEWED BY JACKIE THORNTON

4****

The unmistakable, haunting melody of the oboe brings the expectant packed house at
London’s largest West End theatre into Tchaikovsky’s magical world of Swan Lake 147 years after it was first performed in Russia. Now it’s in the hands of the State Ballet of Georgia, restaged by Alexey Fadeechev and Nina Ananiashvii (regularly cited as one of the greatest ballerinas of our time) and conducted by Papuna Gvaberidze, who ensure it maintains a strong sense of tradition, familiarity and nostalgia.

Indeed, its music and imagery are so iconic and embedded in culture that it’s hard not to be stirred by the wondrous Swan Maidens in glimmering white, even if they are symbolic of the ultimate, feminine beauty and virginal purity.

Swan Lake tells the tale of enchanted love between a Swan Maiden, Odette, and a handsome Prince, and their battle with the evil sorcerer, Rothbart, and his daughter
Odile.

Act One, Scene two, often referred to as the White Act, takes place at night and makes simple use of silvery trees flanking a lake with a pale moon backdrop, allowing the bodies of the swans to take supreme precedence and capture our imaginations. Clever lighting coupled with the mirror-like stage floor succeed marvellously in creating the illusion of duplicating hologram swans, legs and arms dividing and merging with each swift movement. It was stunning and the highlight for this reviewer.

Playing Swan Lake’s leading role of Odette/Odile is the pinnacle of any prima ballerina’s career and Chloe Misseldine had the audience in raptures with her impressive fouettés ronde jambe en tour tournant. The endless turns were enough to make one feel slightly queasy but her talent and skill is undeniable. Michal Krčmář as Prince Seigfried glided across the stage with strength, agility and prowess and Filippo Montanari cut such a brilliant villain as Baron Von Rothbart that he drew pantomime boos from the audience

There has been some controversy over the years regarding the ending of Swan Lake and it’s generally up to the choreographer to choose whether it’s a happy or sad one. As for whether this production goes for the tragic or fairytale ending, you’ll have to go along and discover for yourselves.

Grand Theatre, Blackpool – until 1 September 2024

Reviewed by Debra Skelton

5*****

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has arrived in Blackpool and can be seen at The Grand Theatre Blackpool until Sunday 01st September.

This production by ENSEMBLE Theatre Blackpool and presented by arrangement with Musical Theatre International is a feel-good adaptation of this classical movie and is a show that has something for everyone bringing nostalgia to the older generation and excitement to the young.

It is based on the novel by Roald Dahl with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman with songs from the motion picture by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley including ‘Candy Man’ and ‘Pure Imagination’.

The story is about Charlie Bucket who dreams about chocolate and visiting Willy Wonka’s world-famous Chocolate Factory based in his hometown. He lives in poverty with his mother and grandparent’s and only gets the chance to have a bar of Wonka chocolate on his birthday each year. He does play games with his bedridden Grandpa Joe around the chocolate factory as Joe did once work there.

Willy Wonka who has been hidden behind his closed factory doors for years when suddenly he decides to hide five Golden Tickets in his Wonka Bars with the finders of these tickets being given a chance to tour the factory.

Charlie desperately wants to win one of these tickets and is disheartened every time a golden ticket is found (the first four tickets are found by gluttonous Augustus Gloop, spoiled Veruca Salt, compulsive gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde, and television addict Mike Teavee) until the Wonka bar he buys after finding some money in the snow contains the final golden ticket.

As Charlie will need to be accompanied by an adult and his mother needs to work, his Grandpa Joe suddenly regains his mobility and volunteers to accompany Charlie to the factory.

Wonka welcomes the children and parents inside his factory, a wonderland of confectionery creations that defy logic and warns them not to give in to their impulses as there will be consequences. Unfortunately, only Charlie pays heed to this with the other children being ejected from the tour in darkly comical ways. Augustus is sucked up a pipe after falling into the Chocolate River, Violet decides to chew an experimental stick of three-course dinner gum and swells into a giant blueberry figure after ending with a blueberry pie flavour, Veruca falls down a garbage chute after trying to capture one of the nut-testing squirrels, and after misusing the Television Chocolate device despite Wonka’s warnings, Mike is shrunk down to the size of a chocolate bar much to his mother’s delight.

During the tour the children meet a race of impish humanoids called the Oompa-Loompas who help Wonka run his factory and cannot help themselves by singing about the children’s misbehaviour each time disaster strikes.

As Charlie is the only remaining child, he thinks that he has won a years supply of candy but in fact the whole reason for opening the factory was for Wonka to find a worthy heir for his business with which he offers this to Charlie with him passing all the tests.

The show ends with them riding in his glass elevator where Wonka informs Charlie that he has already moved his family into the factory to live.

For me it was lovely to see a production by a locally based theatre company with exceptional talent by all the characters young and old.

This production would not be a success if I did not also point out the creative and adaptable set, lighting, sound and authentic costumes.

The final thing to say is do not miss this show as you will be disappointed.

FULL CAST

ANNOUNCED FOR

WORLD PREMIERE OF

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A MUSICAL

ROYO, UNIVERSAL MUSIC UK, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT & MIGHTY VILLAGE are delighted to announce the full cast for the world premiere of NOW That’s What I Call A Musical, a brand-new British musical written by award-winning comedian Pippa Evans and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood. NOW That’s What I Call A Musical will begin performances on 6 September 2024 at Aylesbury’s Waterside Theatre before commencing a major UK and Ireland tour.

Joining the company are Kieran Cooper (Strictly Ballroom – UK tour) as Younger Tim, Christopher Glover (The Kite Runner – 2024 Ireland UK Tour) as Dad, Chris Grahamson (Phil Spector in TINA – The Tina Turner Musical) as Tim, Maia Hawkins (Cassie in A Chorus Line at Doreen Bird College) as Younger April, Lauren Hendricks (Much Ado About Nothing at the East London Shakespeare Festival) as Ms Dorian, Shakil Hussain (Frankie Goes to Bollywood – UK tour) as Frank, Nikita Johal (Wendla in Spring Awakening at Hope Mill Theatre) as Younger Gemma, Luke Latchman (Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre) as Younger Frank, Matthew Mori (professional debut) as Younger Steve, Phil Sealey (TONY! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] – UK Tour) as Steve, Callum Tempest (Miss Saigon at Sheffield Crucible) as Barney and Poppy Tierney (Cabaret at Lido 2, Paris) as Mum.

The cast is completed by Emily Barnett-Salter (Annie – UK Tour), Molly Cheesley (Jane Austen’s Emma – UK Tour), Lizzy Ives (professional debut), Stefanos Petri (professional debut), Martha Pothen (Oliver! at Leeds Playhouse) and Blake Tuke (West Side Story, Opera Australia).

They join the previously announced Nina Wadia who will star as Gemma, Melissa Jacques as April from 6 September 2024 (Aylesbury) up to and including 7 December 2024 (Brighton) and Sam Bailey who will then take over the role from 14 January 2025 (Southampton) to 12 April 2025 (Wimbledon) as well as an be an array of special guest stars playing themselves and singing the songs that made them NOW icons. In 2024 Sinitta will perform in Aylesbury, Sheffield, Canterbury, Nottingham and Norwich with Sonia in Newcastle, Cardiff, Milton Keynes and Brighton, Carol Decker in Truro, Belfast and Woking, and Jay Osmond in Bradford.

In 2025 Sinitta will be appearing in Dublin, Hull and York with Sonia in Southampton, Southend, Bristol, Liverpool, Wimbledon and Birmingham and Carol Decker in Oxford. For further detail, patrons are advised to check their local websites.

Get ready to relive the playlist of your life by celebrating 40 years of the iconic and chart-topping compilations brand NOW That’s What I Call Music, which has sold an estimated 200 million copies worldwide. This fun-filled evening is bursting with hits from Whitney Houston, Wham! Blondie, Tears For Fears, Spandau Ballet and so many more.

It’s Birmingham, 1989. Two school friends, Gemma and April, are busy with very important business – planning their lives based on Number One Magazine quizzes and dreaming of snogging Rick Astley. Cut to Birmingham 2009 and it’s the most dreaded event of their lives– the school reunion. Drama, old flames and receding hairlines come together as friends reunite and everything from the past starts to slot into place. The biggest question is: what was with all that hairspray?

NOW is produced by ROYO, Universal Music UK, SONY Music Entertainment and Mighty Village.

Website: thenowmusical.com

Facebook: theNOWmusical

Twitter: @theNOWmusical

Instagram: @theNOWmusical

2024 / 2025 TOUR SCHEDULE

6 – 7 September Aylesbury Waterside Theatre www.atgtickets.com/Aylesbury

10 – 14 September Sheffield Lyceum 0114 249 6000 www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk

17 – 21 September Canterbury Marlowe Theatre 01227 787787 www.marlowetheatre.com

24 – 28 September Nottingham Theatre Royal 0115 989 5555 trch.co.uk

1 – 5 October Norwich Theatre Royal 01603 630 000 www.norwichtheatre.org

8 – 12 October Newcastle Theatre Royal 0191 232 7010 www.theatreroyal.co.uk

15 – 19 October Bradford Alhambra Theatre 01274 432000 www.bradford-theatres.co.uk

29 October – 2 November Cardiff New Theatre 0343 310 0041 newtheatrecardiff.co.uk

5 – 9 November Truro Hall For Cornwall 01872 262466 www.hallforcornwall.co.uk

12 – 16 November Milton Keynes Theatre www.atgtickets.com/milton-keynes-theatre

19 – 23 November Belfast Grand Opera House www.goh.co.uk

26 – 30 November Woking New Victoria Theatre www.atgtickets.com/new-victoria-theatre

2 – 7 December Theatre Royal Brighton www.atgtickets.com/Brighton

14 – 18 January 2025 Southampton Mayflower Theatre 02380 711811 www.mayflower.org.uk

21 – 25 January Dublin Bord Gais Energy Theatre 0818719 377 (ROI) bordgaisenergytheatre.ie 08442485101 (UK)

28 January – 1 February Manchester Opera House www.atgtickets.com/Manchester

4 – 8 February Hull New Theatre 01482 300 306 www.hulltheatres.co.uk

11 – 15 February Southend Cliffs Pavilion www.thecliffspavilion.co.uk

18 – 22 February Glasgow Kings Theatre www.atgtickets.com/Glasgow

25 February – 1 March Edinburgh Playhouse www.atgtickets.com/Edinburgh

4 – 8 March Liverpool Empire Theatre www.atgtickets.com/Liverpool

11 – 15 March Birmingham Alexandra www.atgtickets.com/Birmingham

18 – 22 March York Grand Opera House www.atgtickets.com/York

25 – 29 March Oxford New Theatre www.atgtickets.com/Oxford

1 – 5 April Bristol Hippodrome www.atgtickets.com/Bristol

8 – 12 April London New Wimbledon Theatre www.atgtickets.com/Wimbledon

NANA MENSAH TO STAR OPPOSITE ADRIEN BRODY

IN THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

LINDSEY FERRENTINO’S THE FEAR OF 13

FULL CASTING ALSO ANNOUNCED

The Donmar Warehouse today announce the full casting for the world premiere of Lindsey Ferrentino’s The Fear of 13 – the inaugural production in Tim Sheader’s first season as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. Nana Mensah will star opposite previously announced Adrien Brody, and they are joined by Michael Fox, Aidan Kelly, Posi Morakinyo, Cyril Nri, Ferdy Roberts and Tommy Sim’aan.

Justin Martin’s production opens on 10 October, with previews from 4 October, and runs until 30 November.

THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
THE FEAR OF 13
by Lindsey Ferrentino
Based on the documentary film by David Sington

Directed by Justin Martin; Set design by Miriam Buether; Costume design by Brigitte Reiffenstuel;Lighting design by Jon Clark; Sound design by Ian Dickinson for Autograph;Video design by Ash J Woodward; Composer and Music Director DJ Walde; Hair, Wigs and Make up design by Campbell Young Associates; Associate Director Ed Burnside; Voice Coach Barbara Houseman;Dialect Coach Aundrea Fudge; Casting Director Anna Cooper CDG.

4 October 2024 – 30 November 2024

“The first thing you should know is that this is true. It’s what actually happened.

I know it seems like it’s a story – inside of a story – inside of a story.

–but that’s how it is for most people. At least the ones in here.”

Nick’s got a story to tell you. About how a routine traffic stop turned into a conviction for murder. About how he spent the next 22 years on Death Row. About how he finally petitioned the court to ask not for an appeal, but for his execution date. And about what happened next…

Based on the extraordinary true story of Nick Yarris, Academy Award winner Adrien Brody makes his London theatre debut in the world premiere of The Fear of 13; a new play by Lindsey Ferrentino (Ugly Lies the Bone) directed by Justin Martin (Prima Facie).

Following a successful partnership with Clean Break in 2023, the Donmar Warehouse will be partnering with the company again this Autumn to offer up to 8 volunteering placements across front of house roles to provide employability skills to women aged 18 and above who have lived experience of the criminal justice system or are at risk of entering it. Clean Break is a women’s theatre company, changing lives and minds, on stage, in prison and in the community.  

Lindsey Ferrentino is an American playwright with three world premieres in the 2024 season. In May, she opened The Artist in the UK (co-adapted with Drew McOnie, Theatre Royal Plymouth), and this August, she opened the world premiere of the new musical Queen of Versailles (book by Lindsey Ferrentino, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham, The Colonial Theater). Her other produced plays include Ugly Lies the Bone (Lyttelton at National Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, with over 100 productions worldwide), Amy and the Orphans (Roundabout Theatre Company), This Flat Earth (Playwrights Horizons), and The Year to Come (La Jolla Playhouse).  Her plays have been translated into Spanish, German, and Portuguese and have been produced across the US, in London, Germany, Spain, and Venezuela. This winter, she will direct her first feature film – an adaptation of her play Amy and the Orphans for Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films. She is the recipient of The Arc’s prize for Entertainment Industry Excellence for her writing centered on disability inclusion. Other prizes include: the Kesserling, ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, Paul Newman Drama Award, Laurents/Hatcher Award, NYU Distinguished Alumna Award, and Hunter College’s 40 Under 40 Distinguished Alumna.

Adrien Brody is an Academy Award-winning actor, producer, composer and painter best known for The Pianist, for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor. For television, he has starred in HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Los Angeles Lakers and the acclaimed crime drama Peaky Blinders. He garnered Emmy nominations for his performances as Harry Houdini in Houdini and investor Josh Aaronson in HBO’s acclaimed drama series Succession. His film credits include Asteroid City, King Kong, The Darjeeling Limited, The French Dispatch, and Midnight in Paris. His forthcoming films include Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.

Nana Mensah plays Jackie Schaffer. Her theatre work includes the Tony Award nominated play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York), Nollywood Dreams (MCC Theatre, New York) and Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theatre – Outer Critics’ Circle nomination). For television, her work includes Presumed Innocent, The Diplomat, The Chair, Bonding, Little America, 13 Reasons Why, Evil, New Amsterdam, and An African City; and for film, After Yang, Queen of Glory – which she also wrote and directed (Best New Narrative Director and Special Jury Prize for Artistic Expression at the Tribeca Film Festival, nomination for Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards, winner of the California Film Institute’s Mind the Gap Creation Prize), King of Staten Island, Farewell Amor, and Love or Something Like That.

Michael Fox’s theatre work includes Othello (Riverside Studios), Clybourne Park (Park Theatre), Kerry Jackson (National Theatre), All in a Row, A Lie of the Mind (Southwark Playhouse) and An Enemy of the People (Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre). For television, his work includes Bombing Auschwitz, Endeavour, Downton Abbey (as series regular Andrew Parker), Marvellous, The Ark, New Worlds, Little Big Mouth and Mrs Bradley Mysteries; and for film, Downton Abbey, The World Will Tremble, Dunkirk and Good People. 

Aidan Kelly returns to the Donmar where he previously appeared in The Man Who Had All the Luck. His other theatre work includes The Treaty Debates (Anú), Last Orders at the Dockside, The Country Girls, Macbeth, Terminus, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Doubt, Howie the Rookie, True West, Julius Caesar, The Burial at Thebes, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, The Barbaric Comedies,  Sucking Dublin (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Salome, Treasure Island, The Silver Tassie (National Theatre), Once the Musical (Phoenix Theatre), Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice (RSC), Terror, Have I None/The Chair Plays, Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith), The Pride of Parnell Street (Fishamble @59E59, New York), Howie the Rookie (Bush Theatre), The Shaughraun (Edinburgh Lyceum), Inside the GPO (Fishamble), and The Playboy of the Western World, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, and The Good Father (Druid Theatre). For television, his work includes Say Nothing; Borderline, Stay Close, Fair City, London Kills, Killing Eve, Warrior, Call the Midwife, No Offence, Ashes to Ashes, Kitchen, Making the Cut, Bachelors Walk, Proof  The Clinic and The Cassidys; and for film, Jericho Ridge, The Physician, Durango, Eden, Michael Collins, Porcelain and The Smiling Suicide Club.

Posi Morakinyo’s theatre work includes For Black Boys… (Garrick Theatre), Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations (Prince Edward Theatre), Mandela (Young Vic), Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre) and Madagascar (UK and international tour).

Cyril Nri’s theatre work includesFurther than the Furthest Thing (Young Vic), Trouble in Mind, Our Country’s Good, The Observer, The Darker Face of the Earth, Way of the World, Blood Wedding (National Theatre), Vassa, Desire (Almeida Theatre), The Weatherman (Park Theatre), The Barbershop Chronicles (National Theatre/Australia and New Zealand tour), Hamlet, Kiss Me Kate, Breaking the Ice, Life’s a Dream, Volpone, Henry VIII, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar (RSC), The Absence of War (Headlong Theatre), Black Jesus (HMD Productions/Finborough Theatre), Julius Caesar (RSC/West End/BAM New York), The Riots, Playboy of the West Indies, The Piano Lesson, All or Nothing (Tricycle Theatre), Mad About the Boy (Iron Shoes/Edinburgh Festival), Oxford Street,  Infidel in the Upper Room, Where Do We Live, Search and Destroy, Ficky Stingers, A Colder Climate, Prairie Du Chien, Edmund (Royal Court Theatre), Road (Cochrane Theatre), The Dragon Can’t Dance (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Macbeth (National Theatre/American tour), Othello (Birmingham Stage Company), The Exonerated (Bob Balaban), The Tempest (The Old Vic), and Serious Money (Wyndham’s Theatre). For television, his work includes Missing You, Daddy Issues, Holier than Thou, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, The Power, Noughts and Crosses, Devils, Zapped, The ABC Murders, Class, Death in Paradise, Cucumber, Criticals, Crims, Law and Order, New Tricks, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Waking the Dead, Cold Blood, The Bill – as series regular Superintendent Adam Okaro, Arabian Nights, Maise Raine, A Touch of Frost, Only Love, Goodnight Sweetheart, This Life, Pie in the Sky, Frank Stubbs Promotes, Calling the Shots and A Strike Out of Time; and for film, Wicked Little Letters, The Witches, Backdraft 2, Jellyfish, Deadmeat, Long Time Dead, The Siege, Talos: The Mummy, The Steal and Strapless.

Ferdy Roberts is Co-Artistic Director of Filter Theatre, and was previously an Associate Artist at The Lyric Hammersmith. His theatre work includes Kyoto (RSC/Good Chance), Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Filter Theatre/HOME/Lyric Hamersmith), Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic), Fatherland (Frantic Assembly), Twelfth Night; Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Faster (Filter Theatre), Plaques & Tangles, If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep (Royal Court Theatre), Lampedusa (HighTide/Soho Theatre), Shakespeare In Love (Noël Coward Theatre), Water (Filter Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith /London /Sydney /New York), Pigeons, Talk Show, The President Has Come to See You (Open Court at the Royal Court), Three Kingdoms, Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith), Silence (Filter Theatre/RSC), Wallenstein, A Christmas Carol (Chichester Festival Theatre), On Religion (Theatre Poche, Brussels), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Filter Theatre at the National Theatre), The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, Aladdin (Bristol Old Vic), The Fixer (Almeida Theatre), Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (Sheffield Theatres), Frankenstein (Derby Playhouse), Switchback (Sweetscar/Glasgow Tron), and Playing the Victim (Royal Court/Told By An Idiot). For television his work includes:Dark Angel, Foyle’s War, MI High, The Whistleblowers, Gold Plated, and Your Mother Should Know; and for film,Ozma, What You Will, Mr Nice, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll and Honest.

Tommy Sim’aan’s theatre work includes A View from the Bridge (Headlong), The Tempest (RSC), Starcrossed (Arden Entertainment)and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Tilted Wig Productions). For television his work includes Vigil and The Midwich Cuckoos.

Justin Martin directs. For theatre, his credits include Kyoto (RSC/Good Chance co-production), Stranger Things – The First Shadow (Olivier Award for Best Entertainment), The Jungle (A Young Vic/National Theatre co-production which played at the Young Vic, West End, St Ann’s Warehouse and in San Francisco and Washington DC – Obie (Southbank Sky Arts Award and a Broadway World Award for Best Direction) – all co-directed with Stephen Daldry. His other credits include Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie with Jodie Comer (West End and Broadway, with the NT Live broadcast being the highest earning event cinema of all time). His other theatre work includes Low Level Panic (Galway Theatre Festival, Irish tour and Australia, Last Chance: A Plea For the Unaccompanied Children of Calais (Young Vic), The Nether (Seymour Centre, Sydney), Far Away (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne), Fifty Two (Leicester Square Theatre), Good Chance/No Chance (as part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love), Harvey and Frieda (Arcola Theatre), Street (Mick Laly Theatre – Galway Theatre Festival), The Kitchen (HM Theatre, Victoria) and Skintight (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne). His long collaboration with Daldry also includes as Associate Director on The Inheritance, Skylight and The Audience (West End and Broadway). He is an associate artist with Good Chance Theatre, and was the inaugural recipient of the Roger Leach Award for Theatre. In 2021 he co-directed the critically acclaimed and BAFTA Award-winning film Together with Stephen Daldry for Sonia Friedman Productions, BBC Films, and Shoebox Films (starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan). His other screen credits include The Lovers for Sky Atlantic, Sundance and AMC, the first two seasons of the award-winning Netflix series The Crown, the upcoming Netflix film The Beautiful Game, and the NT Live performances of Prima Facie, Skylight and The Audience.

DONMAR WAREHOUSE

LISTINGS

41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9LX

Box Office: www.donmarwarehouse.com / 020 3282 3808

Instagram, X (Twitter) and Facebook: @donmarwarehouse

PERFORMANCE TIMES

Evenings Mon – Sat 7.30pm

Thursday & Saturday matinees 2.30pm  

TICKET PRICES

The Fear of 13, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
£65 (£60) / £50 (£45) / £30 (£25)

Backstroke, Intimate Apparel
£60 (£55) / £45 (£40) / £25 (£20)

Preview discounts apply to the first four performances only

Standing £15 to be released at a later date

35 AND UNDER TICKETS AT £20
Aged 16-35? Sign up to our exclusive email list to book tickets for £20, located throughout the theatre including the front row. Plus receive insights to shows, invites to socials, and exclusive offers at the bar and more. Book early to secure these prices. www.donmarwarehouse.com/35under

Maximum two tickets per person – both need to be aged 35 or under at time of the performance. Subject to availability. ID will need to be shown at Box Office to collect tickets. 

DONMAR DAILY

New tickets on sale every day at the Donmar. Allocations of tickets will be made available every day for performances 7 days later. Tickets will be available across the auditorium at every price band.

ACCESS

The Donmar Warehouse is fully wheelchair accessible. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is a Loop system and a Radio Frequency system fitted in the main auditorium and there are also hearing loops at all the front of house counters.

ASSISTED PERFORMANCES
If you require a companion to attend the Donmar, their ticket will be free. To book call 020 3282 3808 or email [email protected].

For all other access enquiries or bookings call 020 3282 3808.

THE FEAR OF 13
4 October 2024 – 30 November 2024
Captioned: Monday 18 November 7.30pm
Audio described: Saturday 16 November 2.30pm

NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
7 December 2024 – 8 February 2025
Captioned: Monday 27 January 7.30pm
Audio described: Saturday 1 February 2.30pm

BACKSTROKE
14 February 2025 – 12 April 2025
Captioned: Monday 31 March at 7.30pm
Audio described: Saturday 5 April at 2.30pm

INTIMATE APPAREL
20 June 2025 – 9 August 2025
Captioned: Monday 28 July at 7.30pm
Audio described: Saturday 2 August at 2.30pm

DONMAR WEST END:

NEXT TO NORMAL
Directed by Michael Longhurst
WYNDHAM’S THEATRE
Until 21 September 2024

MACBETH
Directed by Max Webster
HAROLD PINTER THEATRE
1 October – 14 December 2024

DONMAR WAREHOUSE

The Donmar offers a uniquely intimate theatre experience where no audience member is ever more than four rows from the action.  In our converted warehouse in the heart of the West End, we bring together exceptional artists to tell powerful, popular and inclusive stories.  For over 30 years we’ve been making celebrated productions of classic plays, new work and intimate musicals that illuminate the human experience and thrill theatre-goers at our home base and further afield through transfers and on screen.  We enable talented emerging artists to find new routes into the industry, and create opportunities for local young people to experience the artform as both audience members and makers.  Through our productions and participation programmes we inspire audiences and artists of all backgrounds to embrace the experience of live theatre as a catalyst for inquiry, compassion, connection and joy.

WENDI PETERS TALKS ABOUT HER LIFE ON THE ROAD AND IN A HABIT

Star of stage and screen, Wendi Peters, has joined the convent as Mother Superior in the UK tour of Sister Act The Musical which comes to Darlington Hippodrome in September. We caught up with Wendi to chat all about life on the road, and in the habit!

You’re a regular face on TVs across the country, much-loved for your time on Coronation Street as Cilla Battersby-Brown, but you began your career in theatre. What keeps bringing you back to the stage?

Yes! Although, while I am best known for Cilla Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street, I did start my career in theatre. I trained in musical theatre for three years and did ten years before Corrie on stage in musicals, plays and comedies – so it really is part of me. It is what I adore. It is why I wanted to be in the business in the first place. My mum used to take me to see all the big musicals when they came to Manchester and that is when I really knew that’s what I wanted to do for a career – there is nothing like the stage. There is nothing like a live audience and being part of a company, so that is what always brings me back.

Sister Act is a much-loved movie as well as a musical. Were you aware of the show before joining?

Sister Act is a much-loved movie and musical, but I have to admit – I’ve never seen the movie! But I have seen the musical quite a few times. A few times at the London Palladium – I think that was 2009 – and just fell in love with the fun of it, the score and what a great time everyone was having, both cast and audience.

Numerous people have taken on the role of Mother Superior – Maggie Smith on screen, Lesley Joseph and Sue Cleaver on stage. How would you describe your characterisation?

Quite a few actresses now have played Mother Superior. I think, in terms of my characterisation, the nice thing is that everyone who has played Mother Superior has been so different – not just physically but within their acting and characterisation – I am going to play her American and quite stern but with a heart. And hopefully a little bit cheeky, too!

People often say, to survive in musical theatre you need to live like a nun – how will you be looking after yourself on the road?

Yeah, musical theatre is hard. I have done musicals over the years for a very long time and there is, sort of, a rule – not quite a rule but you do have to look after yourself both physically and mentally. Especially on tour, you’re going to be away from your loved ones. And physically – I do a lot of walking on tour. I am going to be taking the dog on tour so I will be walking the dog every day and trying not to have too many late nights. The odd glass of wine is fine, but early nights and trying to get out during the day which hopefully will keep me going throughout the tour.

Sister Act features a fantastic score by the multi award-winning Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid). How would you describe the soundtrack, and do you have a favourite number to perform and/or watch?

I absolutely adore the soundtrack. It is one of my go-to’s when I am feeling a bit down – you stick it on, and you can’t help smiling and feeling a bit happy. Every number is just a killer and that is the great thing about the show – it builds and builds and builds. If I had to pick one, I’d have to say ‘The Life I Never Led’ which is just the most beautiful song which tells a story and is just wonderful – a wonderful piece.

What do you hope audiences take away from this production?

I don’t need to hope – I just know audiences will take away from this production a brilliant evening. Two hours of complete escapism where they will have fun, they will laugh, they may even cry towards the end and just enjoy themselves. I think it is so needed in the world at this moment – people need an escape and to enjoy themselves so come and see Sister Act on tour.

Is there a piece of advice you’ve received or that you would pass on to anyone hoping to go into the creative industry?

I’ve had lots of pieces of advice over the years, but I think the best piece of advice is that you really need to work hard. It is a tough business out there and you need to love it, truly want to be in it and just work so hard. But also, treat people as you would like to be treated. Everyone within the theatre is doing an amazing job – not just the people on stage but the crew, the wardrobe, everybody – stage management, sound, lighting – it’s a real team so treat everybody as you want to be treated, get on and you will have a fab time!

SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL runs at Darlington Hippodrome from Monday 9 to Saturday 14 September. For more information or to book call 01325 405405 or visit www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk

MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO GO TO THE BALL!

Concrete Youth and Barnsley Civic Announce

EXTRA PERFORMANCES DUE TO PUBLIC DEMAND

of their Groundbreaking New Production in the West End

SENSORY CINDERS

The Studio, 5^th Floor @sohoplace from 30 October – 5 November 2024

• The West End’s first inclusive sensory pantomime specifically designed for audiences labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities has added extra performances due to the demand for tickets.
• Four additional performances added on Thursday 31 October at 4pm, Friday 1 November at 4pm, Monday 4 November at 11am and Monday 4 November at 4pm.
• Sensory Cinders is the first production to be staged in the Studio on the 5^th Floor @sohoplace and plays a strictly limited run from 30 October – 5 November 2024, with Press Day on 1 November.
• @sohoplace is the West End’s newest theatre and has unrivalled accessibility. Now in its second year of programming, previous main house productions include Marvellous,  As You Like It, Medea, Brokeback Mountain, The Little Big Things, Red Pitch and Death of England which runs until 28 September.
• Tickets are now on sale via @sohoplace. 

Concrete Youth and Barnsley Civic today announce that due to public demand they have added extra performances to the run of their first West End co-production, a brand-new pantomime, Sensory Cinders. This trail blazing show is the first inclusive sensory pantomime specifically designed for audiences labelled with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD).

The production has added an additional four matinee performances to its run, allowing more audiences labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities to access sensory theatre in the West End for the first time. Additional dates include Thursday 31 October at 4pm, Friday 1 November at 4pm, Monday 4 November at 11am and Monday 4 November at 4pm.

Sensory Cinders is the first production to be staged in the Studio on the fully accessible 5^th floor of @sohoplace and will play a strictly limited run from 30 October to 5 November with a Press Day on 1 November. 

Tickets are now on sale via @sohoplace.

Daniel Swift FRSA (CEO & Co-Artistic Director of Concrete Youth) and Belle Streeton (Co-Artistic Director of Concrete Youth) said: “We are absolutely thrilled that even more audiences labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) will now have the chance to experience Sensory Cinders in the West End. The addition of extra performances is a true testament to how well-received this groundbreaking production has been, and it demonstrates the huge demand for inclusive and accessible theatre by audiences labelled with PMLD in the UK. We’re so excited to meet you at the ball and can’t wait to share this magical experience with everyone!“

Sensory Cindersis a new sensory pantomime adaptation of Cinderella for audiences living with PMLD, featuring original music that explores themes of identity, self-expression, transformation, magic, personas, authenticity,  and connectedness. What does it mean to pursue self-love and understanding in a world that doesn’t understand you?

The production features specially designed sensory materials by Henshaws Arts & Crafts, a Yorkshire-based collective supporting local learning-disabled visual artists. The show marks all the artists’ professional theatre debuts.

Sensory Cinders is directed by Belle Streeton,Co-Artistic Director at Concrete Youth, with music/lyrics and musical direction by Guy Hughes, the production is creatively produced by Daniel Swift FRSA, CEO & Co-Artistic Director, of Concrete Youth. The production will be designed by Stella Backman, the dramaturgy is by Lizzie Milton, the production’s creative access consultant is Phoebe Kemp, audience development & outreach is by Annabelle Lee and the show is production managed by Isabel Potter. Casting and further creatives to be announced.

Sensory Cinders is a co-production from the multi-award-winning sensory theatre company Concrete Youth and the nationally recognised venue Barnsley Civic. The production is presented in partnership with @sohoplace and Henshaws Arts Centre. Sensory Cinders is supported by Sheffield Theatres and Arts Council England. The production’s development was supported by the National Theatre’s Generate programme

Listings Information:  

Studio | 5^th Floor @sohoplace | 4 Soho Place | London | W1D 3BG

Box Office 

www.sohoplace.org  

0330 333 5961

Access Bookings/Customer Ticketing Enquiries: 0330 333 5962

Group Bookings: 0330 333 5963

30 October – 5 November 2024

30^th October – 11am & 1:30pm (Previews)

31^st October – 11am, 1:30pm & 4pm (Previews)

1^st November – 11am & 1:30pm & 4pm (Press Performances)

2^nd November – 11am & 1:30pm

4^th November – 11am, 1:30pm & 4pm

5^th November – 11am & 1:30pm

Press Performances: Friday 1 November, 11am, 1.30pm & 4pm

Ticket prices

From £15

Jamie Muscato
joins the all-star cast for 3 staged workshop performances of
new musical Winghaven Park

West End star Jamie Muscato (Christian in Moulin Rouge!, Guy in Once, JD in Heathers) has joined the 16-strong cast for three staged workshop performances in London of the new American musical Winghaven Park.

Jamie will co-star as Rev. James ‘Jim’ Lock alongside the previously announced four times Olivier Award nominee Summer Strallen (Meg Giry in Love Never Dies), Victoria Hamilton Barritt (Queenie in Hex, NT,) Ryan Anderson (Rudolpho in Matilda the Musical), Charlotte Kennedy (Cosette in Les Miserables) and Anton Stephans (Little Shop of Horrors).

A further 9 additional cast members are also announced today:
Lloyd Notice (Mufasa, The Lion King)
Keisha Amponsa Banson (Mrs Neilsen, Girl From the North Country)
Alastair Parker (Fezziwig, A Christmas Carol, Old Vic)
Julie Jupp (Ghost of Christmas Past, A Christmas Carol, Old Vic)
Simon Anthony (Guys & Dolls, Bridge Theatre)
Kris Manuel (Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera)
Christopher Erasmus (Beast, Beauty and the Beast)
Maisie Mardle (Matilda, Matilda the Musical)

During the tensions and uncertainties of World War 2 America, Hollywood movie star Vera Webster (Summer Strallen) returns to Vashon Island and her childhood home, Winghaven Park, during a national fundraising tour to sell war bonds to the public. Her three-day stay turns into a journey of self discovery as she navigates an estranged sister, buried family secrets and rekindles a long-lost love with her high school sweetheart.

100 seats at each performance of this major new musical will be available to the public. With every ticket priced at £22, you can be among the first to see this extraordinary musical on stage.

Creative team:
Director Gabriel Barre
Musical Supervisor Paul Schofield  
Set Designer Justin Williams
Costume Designer Reuben Speed
Lighting Designer Toby Darvill
Sound Designer Dan Samson
Choreographer George Lyons
Casting Harry Blumenau CDG CDA
Marketing Make A Noise
PR Kevin Wilson PR
General Management /UK Executive Producer Thomas Hopkins Productions

Winghaven Park
A New Musical

Music, Book & Lyrics by Lisa Peretti

Directed by Gabriel Barre

ST PAUL’S
THE ACTORS CHURCH
Bedford Street,
Covent Garden,
London
WC2E 9ED

Wednesday 25 September
at 8pm

Thursday 26 September
at 3pm & 7.30pm

100 seats are available to the public
at each performance

Tickets:
£22.00

Book online at
www.winghavenpark.com