Cast announced for return of CABLE STREET - A NEW MUSICAL

Casting has been announced for the critically acclaimed Cable Street - A New Musical, which plays at Southwark Playhouse Elephant from 6 September - 10 October.

Cable Street continues its onwards life, with several of the original cast joining the further developed new production, including Danny Colligan, Sha Dessi, and Joshua Ginsberg as the three young friends (Ron, Mairead and Sammy) who passionately live their lives in the multi-cultural melting pot that is Cable Street in 1936.

Joining them will be new cast members Davina Moon (Life Of Pi, Miss Saigon), and Mia Overfield (Demon Dentist, UK tour).

Marching again into Cable Street are Max Alexander-Taylor, Aiofe MacNamara, Ethan Pascal Peters and Jez Unwin, making up the fantastic line up of on-stage talent.

Cable Street is an electrifying reimagining of one of London’s most momentous days – when The Battle of Cable Street was fought and won in the heart of London’s East End on 4 October 1936. With racial tensions running high, people took to the streets. The hugely powerful and topical Cable Street celebrates a community who came together with a call for action. A timeless story, as powerful today as it was in 1936.

This extraordinarily talented ensemble company tell their story as they desperately try to carve out their own lives on Cable Street, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (Blackshirts) start to march on the East End. Over a hundred thousand Jews, Irish workers, trade unionists, the labour and communist parties, women and children all unite to blockade Cable Street - the road they all call home. As the people raise their voices with cries of, They Shall Not Pass, they take a united stand against hatred. The lives of the streets’ residents will change forever.

The production has music and lyrics by Tim Gilvin and a book by Alex Kanefsky, with direction by Adam Lenson, choreography by Jevan Howard-Jones, musical supervision by Tamara Saringer, musical direction by Ellen Campbell, vocal arrangements by Tim Gilvin & Tamara Saringer, set design by Yoav Segal, lighting by Sam Waddington, sound by Charlie Smith, costumes by Lu Herbert, and casting by Sarah Leung.

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