New casting announced for THE STRAW CHAIR at the Finborough Theatre

New casting has been announced for the English premiere of The Straw Chair by award-winning Scottish playwright Sue Glover, running from 19 April-14 May at the Finborough Theatre.

The company includes Finlay Bain (Trainspotting Live, UK tour) as Aneas, Rori Hawthorn (Call Me Fury, Hope Theatre) as Isabel, Jenny Lee (Driving Miss Daisy, Wyndham’s Theatre) as Oona, and RSC Associate Artist Siobhan Redmond as Rachel.

1735. Isabel, barely seventeen, is sent from Edinburgh and the life she has always known, to live with her new husband on Gaelic-speaking St Kilda, an island on the furthest edges of the Outer Hebrides, in the storm-tossed waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Struggling to adapt to island life, Isabel meets Rachel – a wild, seemingly mad woman, shunned by the local inhabitants. Over time, Isabel learns that Rachel is none other than the infamous Lady Grange, kidnapped by her husband following their bitter divorce and long imprisoned on the island. Lady Grange clings with tragic dignity to the two things she has left in the world – a consuming rage and an old straw chair.

Inspired by a true story, The Straw Chair is a modern Scottish classic, exploring liberty, marriage, madness and incarceration, and female empowerment, against the backdrop of the lost way of life of the Western Isles.

The production is directed by Polly Creed, with set design by Alex Marker, costumes by Carla Joy Evans, lighting by Jonathan Chan, sound by Anna Short and musical direction by Rori Hawthorn.

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