SHEFFIELD THEATRES ANNOUNCES FULL CASTING FOR
WAITING FOR GODOT AND THE NAP
With the critically acclaimed Show Boat currently running in the Crucible, and Partus and A Raisin in the Sun in rehearsals, Sheffield Theatres’ Artistic Director Daniel Evans announcesthe full casts for the forthcoming productions of Waiting For Godot and the world première of Richard Bean’s comedy thriller The Nap, both at the Crucible this spring.
Sheffield Theatres’ Associate Director Charlotte Gwinner (The Distance, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis) opens the 2016 season with Beckett’s masterpiece of modern theatre Waiting For Godot (Thu 4 – Sat 27 February). In her first production for the Crucible stage, Charlotte directs Richard Cordery,currently appearing as Sir Leicester Dedlock in BBC One’s Dickensian, as Pozzo, Lorcan Cranitch, well-known to television audiences for his roles in Hornblower, Spooks, Shackleton and as DS Jimmy Beck in ITV’s Cracker, plays Vladimir. Bob Goody, who returns to the Crucible having previously appeared in The Country Wife, plays Lucky and Jeff Rawle, familiar to audiences from Drop The Dead Donkey, Hollyoaks and as Amos Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, playsEstragon. The Boy will be played by young local actors Toby Allwood and William Oxley.
Samuel Beckett’s most famous play is a masterpiece of modern theatre that follows two friends as they await the arrival of a mysterious character. They wait. And wait. And wait. As time passes, the men muse on their friendship, their favourite jokes and what it all means until their patience begins to wane. And then they spy something coming towards them on the horizon…
Joining the previously announced BAFTA Rising Star winner Jack O’Connell, who plays up and coming snooker player Dylan Spokes in Richard Wilson’s production of The Nap and making their Sheffield Theatres debuts are Mark Addy and Ralf Little. Well known for his starring roles in the iconic film The Full Monty and the hugely successful Game of Thrones, Mark plays Dylan’s wheeler dealer Dad, Bobby Spokes, with Ralf Little, star of The Royle Family and Lewis, as his cocky manager Tony DanLino. Also appearing are Chris Brailsford, who returns to Sheffield having previously appeared in An Enemy of the People, Esther Coles (The Syndicate, Shameless), Louise Gold (Gypsy, Oliver! Mary Poppins), Dermot Crowley (Luther), Youssef Kerkour, also familiar to Sheffield audiences from his role in Plenty (David Hare Season) and Rochenda Sandall (Pomona – National Theatre/Manchester Royal Exchange. They are joined by professional snooker player John Astley.
A world premiere from Richard Bean, the award-winning writer of One Man, Two Guvnors, The Napis a laugh out loud comedy thriller about love, honour and not getting snookered, set at the World Snooker Championships.
Tickets for Waiting For Godot and The Nap are on sale now and can be purchased from Sheffield Theatres’ Box Office in-person, by phone on 0114 249 6000 or online at sheffieldtheatres.co.uk.