Ovation presents
A NEW PLAY WITH MUSIC
WALLISa certain person…
Written by Jennifer Selway
Original Music by Simon Slater
Devised and Directed by John Plews
Set between 1931 and 1936, Wallis is a dramatic account of the love affair that led to the biggest constitutional crisis in modern Royal history. Just how did Mrs Simpson, a divorced American,capture and keep the heart of the playboy prince? What secrets lay beneath the scandal that rocked British Society and threatened to bring down Stanley Baldwin’s Government?
27th May – 26th June 2016
PRESS NIGHT WEDNESDAY 1st JUNE – 7.30pm
Katie Arnstein Robert Hazle Eliza McClelland Grant McConvey
Emma Odell Lee Ormsby Bernard O’Sullivan Alice Pitt-Carter Tom Slatter
Taking on the title role is EMMA ODELL who was last seen Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Ovation’s hugely successful production of INTO THE WOODS. Also making welcome returns to Highgate are GRANT MCCONVEY& LEE ORMSBY who were part of Aria productions recent AMERICAN JEWISH SONGBOOK and KATIE ARNSTEIN who was a member of Ovation’s BLONDE BOMBSHELLS OF 1943. ELIZA MCCLELLAND takes on the dual role of Lady Cunard and Lucy Baldwin with BERNARD O’SULLIVAN playing the Conservative Prime Minister of the time – Stanley Baldwin. Also in the cast are ROBERT HAZLE as the piano-playing ‘narrator’,TOM SLATTER recently seen in CLOSE TO HOME at the Finborough and as Lady Thelma Furness, the long-time mistress of the Prince of Wales, ALICE PITT-CARTER.
Designer – Emily Bestow
Lighting Designer – Sam Waddington
Casting – Katie Bradley
PRODUCED by KATIE PLEWS for OVATION
Performances: Tuesday – Saturdays at 7.30pm / Sunday Matinees at 4.00pm