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Cast announced for Nassim at the Bush Theatre

Nassim Soleimanpour’s piece runs at the Bush before a month in Edinburgh

Will Longman
London Off-West End
Phelim McDermott, Hattie Morahan, Alexi Kaye Campbell and Sabrina Mahfouz
Phelim McDermott, Hattie Morahan, Alexi Kaye Campbell and Sabrina Mahfouz
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Casting has been announced for the London run of Nassim Soleimanpour's new play Nassim.

Directed by Omar Elerian, the play will see has a different actor taking to the stage with the playwright to perform his new work about the power of language. The performers will be handed a sealed envelope containing the script for them to perform for the very first time with no prior preparation.

The piece will run in London at the Bush Theatre from 25 to 29 July before moving to the Traverse in Edinburgh in August.

For the London run, the performers joining Soleimanpour will be Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner), Vivienne Acheampong (City of Glass), Alexi Kaye Campbell (Apologia), Phelim McDermott (Akhnaten), Sabrina Mahfouz (With a Little Bit of Luck) and Hattie Morahan (Anatomy of a Suicide).

Click here to read more about the Traverse's Edinburgh Festival Fringe line-up

Nassim runs at the Bush Theatre from 25 to 29 July, and the Traverse in Edinburgh from 3 to 27 August.