Theatre News

David Leonard & Annette McLaughlin take over in Matilda

| London's West End |

1 June 2012

David
Leonard
will take over the role of Miss Trunchbull in the RSC’s multi-award-winning production of Matilda the Musical from 3 July. Bertie Carvel, who created the character, will appear for the last time in the role at the Cambridge Theatre on 1 July. Leonard was seen in the West End most recently playing
Robert Lyon
in The Pitmen Painters.

Also
announced was the casting of Annette McLaughlin as Mrs Wormhood,
the role created by Josie Walker. McLaughlin, who appeared in
David Edgar‘s Written on the Heart at the RSC’s
Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, and then in the show’s
shortlived West End transfer, will join the Matilda
company from 21 August.

The
actors join Haley Flaherty and Steve Furst who recently took over as Miss
Honey and Mr Wormwood. Currently sharing the title role are Cleo
Demetriou, Eleanor Worthington Cox, Isobelle Molloy and Jade
Marner. Along with the other two original Matildas, Kerry Ingram
and Sophia Kiely, Demetriou and Worthington Cox won this year’s
Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Hayley Canham will
also join the company in the role of Matilda full-time from
mid-August.