All-star cast revealed for fifth annual Platform Presents WEST END GALA

The game of Consequences – drawing an image, turning over the page to hide it and passing it on – often ends in astonishing and hilarious results.

Now inspired by this “what will happen next?” children’s game, Oliver Chris (Motherland, The Office) and Katie-Ann McDonough (Associate Director Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons) will direct Theatrical Consequences, a play-about-making-a-play where everything that can go wrong does, for a one night only gala fundraising gala evening at the Savoy theatre on Monday 15 May. 

Seven writers working in isolation will collaborate on one script. They will be briefed on the entire plot, the characters and what happens in their scene – but will not be able to read the scene before or after theirs! 

The cast confirmed so far is Bessie Carter (Bridgerton), David Mumeni (Stath Lets Flats), Denise Gough (Andor), Freddie Fox (Slow Horses), Jack Wolfe (Shadow & Bone), Jade Anouka (His Dark Materials), Kerry Godliman (After Life), Manjinder Virk (Midsomer Murders), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Gangs of London), Sacha Dhawan (Doctor Who), Sam Phillips (Bridgerton), Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet) and Tracy Ann Oberman (Friday Night Dinner).

The writers are David Mumeni (I’m Not That Kind of Guy), Frog Stone (Bucket), Helen Kingston (Half Bad), Isaac Tomiczek (Time Out Runner Up, Platform Presents Playwright’s Prize 2022), Manjinder Virk (Midsomer Murders), Olivia Nixon (The Mother/Daughter Moment)  and Peter Fellows (Veep).

This evening of comedy is the fifth annual fundraiser to raise money for the Ambassador Theatre Group Playwright’s Prize in association with Platform Presents, with five Runners Up prizes supported by Time Out. It promises to be one of the best fun nights out in the West End.