Cast announced for premiere of Barney Norris' Eventide

Full casting has been announced for the premiere of Barney Norris' play Eventide, which opens at the Arcola Theatre in September ahead of a short national tour.

The cast includes Hasan Dixon (War Horse, The Alchemist, Call The Midwife) as Mark,
James Doherty (London Road, Chicago, Les Miserables, The IT Crowd) as John and Ellie Piercy (The Heresy of Love, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well)
as Liz.

Described as "a love song, an elegy, a celebration", the play is set round the back of a Hampshire pub and tells the story of three people whose worlds are disappearing. A co-production from Up in Arms and Arcola Theatre, Eventide will be directed by Alice Hamilton.

Barney Norris will premiere his first play since winning the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Visitors in 2014. Up In Arms artistic directors Barney Norris and Alice Hamilton said: "Up In Arms exists to get the highest quality actors touring beyond London and bringing news of life in this country right now back to the capital.

"We're thrilled to be doing that with actors as exciting as Hasan, James and Ellie. This story will be funnier, more moving and more seductive because they're telling it."

Arcola Theatre’s artistic director Mehmet Ergen added: "I commissioned Barney to write this play after the huge success of Visitors at Arcola. Eventide is every bit as touching and enthralling, but funny and surprising too."

Eventide runs at the Arcola Theatre from 25 September to 17 October ahead of a national tour to Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, The North Wall Oxford, Salisbury Playhouse and The Brewery, Bristol Tobacco Factory.