Full cast announced for Tom Stoppard’s ROCK ‘N’ Roll at Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre has announced the full cast for Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, which plays at the venue from 6 December 2023 - 27 January 2024. 

Hailed by the New York Times as “triumphant” and “arguably Stoppard’s finest play”, Rock ‘n’ Roll is a compelling tale set against the backdrop of 1968. Directed by Nina Raine, Stoppard’s play spans 21 years in the lives of three generations.

The cast includes Nancy Carroll (Olivier and Evening Standard Award Best Actress winner for After The Dance) as Eleanor, with Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit) as Jan, and Nathaniel Parker (Wolf Hall - Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role) as Max. 

Joining them are Hasan Dixon as Ferdinand, Phoebe Horn as Young Esme/Alice, Anna Krippa as Lenka, Georgia Landers as Gillian/Magda, Emily Mytton as Candida, Brenock O’Connor as The Piper and Colin Tierney as Milan. 

“If I was English I wouldn’t care if Communism in Czechoslovakia reformed itself into a pile of pig shit. To be English would be my luck.” 

1968: Russian tanks have rolled into Czechoslovakia, and Syd Barrett has been dumped by Pink Floyd. Jan, a visiting postgrad at Cambridge, breaks with his old professor Max, a Marxist philosopher, and heads home to Prague with his suitcase full of “socially negative music”. 

Rock ’n’ Roll covers the ensuing 21 years in the lives of three generations of Max’s family while Jan is caught in the spiral of dissidence in a Communist police state. But it’s a love story too - and then there’s the music… 

Nina Raine is joined on the creative team by designer Anna Reid, lighting designer Peter Mumford, sound designer Tingying Dong, movement director Jane Gibson, and casting director Amy Ball.

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