Cast: Chicken, Merrie England & Steptoe & Son
Loose Women
presenter Lisa Maxwell joins the cast of Chicken,
which opens at Trafalgar 2 on 25 June. In her first straight theatre
role Maxwell plays Lina, wife to Wendall (Craig Kelly), who along
with his childhood friend Floyd (George Georgiou), is grooming a
sickly rooster for an illegal cockfight in an attempt to make ends
meet.
Written by New York playwright, Mike
Batistick, the play is directed by Sam Neophytou and co-produced
by Amy Tez and Inner City Productions. Having opened off Broadway in
2008, Chicken receives its UK
premiere in this production.
Casting has been announced for the
Finborough Theatre’s production of Merrie England.
Written for the Savoy Theatre in
1902, the light opera explores romantic entanglements at
the court of Queen Elizabeth I as she visits Windsor for a May Day
celebration. This rediscovery
production celebrates the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee as well as the
150th
anniversary of birth for the composer, Edward German.
The
cast consists of Sammy Andrews, Alexander Beck, Jamie Birkett,
Daniel Cane, Luke Courtier, Stephen Darcy, Virge Gilchrist,
Tom Giles, Rachel Holbrook, Nichola Jolley, Christopher
Killik, Ruth Leavesley, Brendan Matthew, Michael Riseley,
Jody Ellen Robinson, Gemma Sandzers, and Rhys Saudners.
Directed
by Finborough regular Alex Sutton, with musical direction by Eamonn O’Dwyer,
Merrie England runs
at the Earl’s Court venue on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays from 27 May.
Kirsty
Woodward joins the cast of Kneehigh and West Yorkshire Playhouse’s
stage adaptation of Steptoe & Son. Joining
Mike Shepherd and Dean Nolan as Albert and Harold, the
production’s title roles, Woodward plays The Woman. Woodward performs
regularly with Kneehigh and appeared at the RSC in 2011 in Romeo
and Juliet, American Trade, Julius
Caesar and A Winter’s Tale.
Steptoe &
Son, which is adapted and directed by Emma Rice, opens at the
Asylum, Cornwall on 21 August before transferring to the West
Yorkshire Playhouse from 14 September ahead of a UK tour.
