Hampstead Theatre announce cast and creative team for world premieres of THE SNAIL HOUSE and RAVENSCOURT
Hampstead Theatre have announced the full cast and creative teams for The Snail House and Ravenscourt, which open at the venue this September.
The world premiere of The Snail House will feature Amanda Bright (In From the Cold, Netflix), Raphel Famotibe (Wonder Boy, Bristol Old Vic), Vincent Franklin (Bodyguard, BBC), Grace Hogg-Robinson (The Ocean at the End of the Lane; National Theatre/Duke of York’s), Megan McDonnell (Normal People, BBC), Eva Pope (Still Alice, UK Tour) and Patrick Walshe McBride (Peer Gynt, Barbican).
The Snail House, written and directed by Richard Eyre, will run from 7 September-15 October. Former Artistic Director of the National Theatre and writer and regular adaptor of other people’s work for the stage, The Snail House is Eyre’s first completely original play.
The production is designed by Tim Hatley, with lighting by Hugh Vanstone, sound by John Leonard, and casting by Ginny Schiller CDG.
Sir Neil Marriot, familiar from TV as a government medical advisor, is hosting his own lavish birthday party. But, amidst the oak panelling and the champagne his family are at one another’s throats - and there’s something deeply unsettling about one of the caterers …
Richard Eyre said: “Apart from versions of existing plays in foreign languages, I haven’t written and directed a play of mine since 1968 when my adaptation of Jennifer Dawson’s novel, The Ha Ha, was on at what was then the Hampstead Theatre Club. I am very nervous and very excited to be directing my first original play at almost the same location.”
In the theatre’s Downstairs space, Ravenscourt by Georgina Burns, directed by Hampstead Theatre’s Associate Director Tessa Walker, will run from 23 September-29 October. Burns is an alumnus of Hampstead Theatre’s INSPIRE course for emerging playwrights and Ravenscourt is her first produced full-length play.
The world premiere of Ravenscourt will feature Josef Davies (Hangmen, Royal Court/Wyndham's), Jon Foster (The Salisbury Poisonings, BBC), Andrea Hall (Shook, Southwark Playhouse) and Lizzy Watts (The Durrells, ITV).
The production is designed by Debbie Duru, with lighting by Matt Haskins, sound by Anna Short, and movement direction by Rebecca Wield.
Lydia is a mental-health professional determined to make a difference. But as she settles into her new job at Ravenscourt she starts to realise how high the odds are stacked against real change. Maybe the cynics are right: the system is broken and nobody cares…
Tessa Walker said: “It is a great pleasure and privilege to be directing Georgina’s first produced full-length play, and the first piece that we have produced from our INSPIRE programme. Ravenscourt really captured my imagination when I read the script and I can’t wait to get started in rehearsals with this wonderful team.”
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