The National Theatre have announced that its new musical Hex will return in November 2022 and will conclude its previews on 22 January.

Artistic Director Rufus Norris said: "Like many productions (including several other NT ones), this one has been blighted by Covid, with the first week of previews seeing a different combination of understudies and stand-ins at almost every performance, and three weeks of performances lost since then due to illness. We had hoped to emerge into a clearer situation in January, but while we have started performances again, fresh cases are still emerging and the creative team have had to disperse to other projects. We have also had to cancel the planned NT Live.

"In light of this, and as the show is scheduled to run only until 22 January, we have decided to remount Hex in November, to give it the chance to have a full run, and so we have taken the decision to move the press night to later in the year. "

The show has music by Jim Fortune, a book by Tanya Ronder, design by Katrina Lindsay, choreography by Jade Hackett, orchestrations by Simon Hale, musical supervision by Marc Tritschler, musical direction by Tarek Merchant, lighting by Paul Anderson, sound by Simon Baker and video by Ash Woodward.

The current cast features Tamsin Carroll, Rosalie Craig, Michael Elcock, Kat Ronney, Christopher Akrill, Delroy Atkinson, Esme Bacalla-Hayes, Natasha J Barnes, Madeline Charlemagne, Ebony Clarke, Sonya Cullingford, Hanna Dimtsu, Tamsin Dowsett, Joe Foster, Ben Goffe, Daisy Maywood, Kody Mortimer, Joseph Prouse, Sasha Shadid, Shaq Taylor and Sargon Yelda.

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