Cast:: CHESS at Lowry

Wicked’s Shona White will play Florence whilst Daniel Koek of West Side Story fame plays The Russian. Poppy Tierney takes on Svetlana and Phantom’s James Graeme will play Walter.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel Horwood directs the company
of actors and musicians in an extraordinary new staging of the classic
musical CHESS.

Written by Tim Rice and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, CHESS
has one of the greatest musical theatre scores of all time including
“One Night In Bangkok”, “You And I” and “I Know Him So Wel”l which
became a number one hit for Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson.

Two of the world’s greatest chess masters battle it out at the
world chess championships but their greatest contest is for the love of
one woman. Amidst political intrigue and international conspiracies,
the American and the Russian fight to win the heart of Florence Vassy
in a romantic triangle that mirrors the heightened passions of the Cold
War all set to an explosive score.

CHESS arrives at the Lowry from 26 – 30 October.