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Full cast announced for UK tour of Flare Path

Justin Audibert’s production opens in Eastbourne in August

Olivia Hallinan as Patricia Graham and Leon Ockenden as Peter Kyle
Olivia Hallinan as Patricia Graham and Leon Ockenden as Peter Kyle

Full casting has been announced for the national tour of Terrence Rattigan's Flare Path, which opens in Easbourne in August.

Joining the previously announced Leon Ockenden, Olivia Hallinan and Philip Franks will be Adam Best, James Cooney, Simon Darwen, Stephanie Jacob, Shvorne Marks, Siobhan O’Kelly, William Reay, Holly Smith and Alastair Whatley.

Based on Rattigan's experiences as a tail gunner during World War II, the play centres on the life-and-death existence of the RAF bomber crews, and their wives and sweethearts who were left waiting their return.

Flare Path will open on 17 August 2015 at Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne, before touring to Richmond, Bath, Malvern, Exeter, Cambridge, Salisbury, Winchester, Ipswich, Coventry, Liverpool and Guildford.

Justin Audibert's production is produced by Alastair Whatley for The Original Theatre Company and Anne-Marie Woodley and Jon Woodley for Birdsong Productions Ltd.