Cast announced for THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO by Ian Hallard

James Seabright and Birmingham Rep have announced the full cast for Ian Hallard’s brand new play, The Way Old Friends Do, which runs at the Birmingham venue from 17 February-4 March before touring.

Simultaneously tender and laugh-out-loud funny, this heartfelt story, written by and starring Ian Hallard, is directed by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Dracula, Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen).

The cast includes Donna Berlin (Doctors), James Bradshaw (Endeavour), Sara Crowe (Olivier Award winner for Private Lives), Andrew Horton (Jupiter’s Legacy) and Rose Shalloo (Call The Midwife), with understudies Anton Tweedale (The Mousetrap), Toby Holloway (Trainspotting Live) and Tariye Peterside (Lysistrata).

This wonderfully uplifting play also features the voices of two of the UK’s best-loved performers, Miriam Margolyes and Paul O'Grady.

In 1988, two school friends tentatively come out to one another: one as gay, the other - more shockingly - as an ABBA fan. Nearly thirty years later, a chance meeting sets them on a brand-new path and they decide to form the world’s first ABBA tribute band - in drag! But can their friendship survive the tribulations of a life on the road which includes platform boots, fake beards and a distractingly attractive stranger?

A story that will appeal to anyone who understands how it feels to be a fan: of ABBA or of anyone.  

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