Full casting announced for DR. STRANGELOVE starring Steve Coogan

Photo credit: Sebastian Nevols

Full casting has been announced for the first ever adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove, which plays at the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End from 8 October 2024 - 25 January 2025 prior to a limited engagement at Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre from 5 – 22 February 2025.

Starring the previously announced Steve Coogan as Dr Strangelove, President Merkin Muffley, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake and Major TJ Kong and Giles Terera as General Buck Turgisdon, the company is completed by John Hopkins as General Jack D. Ripper, Oliver Alvin-Wilson as Jefferson, Penny Ashmore as Vera Lynn, Ben Deery as General Staines, Richard Dempsey as Frank, Mabli Gwynne (Swing), Mark Hadfield as Faceman, Tony Jayawardena as Russian Ambassador Bakov, Tom Kelsey (Ensemble), Daniel Norford (Ensemble), Dharmesh Patel as Lincoln, Adam Sina (Ensemble), Alex Stoll (Ensemble), and Ben Turner as Colonel Bat Guano.

With a world-renowned creative team led by BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award winner Sean Foley, this explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction will leave a whole new generation of audiences laughing and afraid.

Sean Foley said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled than to be working with such a talented and exciting cast on our version of Stanley Kubrick’s extraordinary ’nightmare comedy’. I know from their amazing collective experience that every character and every situation will not only be seriously dark and terrifying, but also seriously funny.”

The production has set and costume design by Hildegard Bechtler, lighting by Jessica Hung Han Yun, sound by Ben & Max Ringham, projection design by Akhila Krishnan, casting by Amy Ball CDG, illusions by Chris Fisher, and movement direction by Lizzi Gee.

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