Sheffield Theatres and Clean Break have announced the cast for the upcoming production of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s new play, Typical Girls, running from 24 September to 16 October.

Typical Girls will be directed by Clean Break’s Joint Artistic Director Róisín McBrinn . The cast includes Helen Cripps (Women Beware Women, Shakespeare’s Globe), Lucy Edkins ([BLANK], Donmar Warehouse), Lucy Ellinson (Run Sister Run, Sheffield Theatres), Eddy Queens (Through This Mist, Clean Break), Alison Fitzjohn (Take That’s – The Band Musical, UK Tour), Lara Grace Ilori (Living Newspaper Edition 6, Royal Court) and Carrie Rock (Julius Caesar, Donmar Warehouse/St Ann's Warehouse, New York).

Typical Girls is part-gig, part-play, celebrating and including the music of all-female punk band The Slits. It follows a group of women in a prison mental health unit who discover punk rock music and, inspired by The Slits, form their own band. The find a remedy in the music they create but can it thrive in such a suffocating system?

Sheffield Theatres’ Artistic Director, Robert Hastie, said: “We couldn’t be more excited to be producing such a bold, riotous new play with a company as inspiring as Clean Break, and can’t wait to welcome this brilliant cast and creative team into the rehearsal room.”.

Echoing his sentiments is Róisín McBrinn, Joint Artistic Director of Clean Break, who said: “We’re over the moon to be co-producing this raucous, explosive show! Morgan’s script is electric, and we have a stellar creative team and hugely exciting cast. Clean Break is so proud to be returning with this joyous, important play and to be exploding it onto the beautiful Crucible stage!” 

The show on 6 October will also be live-streamed. Tickets are available to buy here.