Further cast set for Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Young Vic – including Jordan Stephens

Jordan Stephens will make his stage debut in Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Young Vic this autumn. The production runs from 15 September to 8 November 2025, with a press night on 24 September.

Stephens, known as one half of Rizzle Kicks, joins Christopher Fairbank, Tamzin Outhwaite and Daniel Cerqueira in Joe Orton’s play, which will be directed by Young Vic artistic director and CEO Nadia Fall.

Stephens said: “I love the Young Vic and feel incredibly grateful to have this opportunity. I’m terrified and excited. I couldn’t have imagined my stage debut arriving in this way. With such an iconic, wicked play and under the certified guidance of Nadia Fall. As well as stage veterans in Tamzin, Daniel and Chris. What an honour.”

Fall added: “Jordan Stephens is an artistic polymath, from writing and screen to music and his campaigning. I’m incredibly excited to be directing his stage debut. He has the ear of a new generation who will be discovering Orton for the first time through Jordan’s Sloane, the thought of that is simply thrilling. Together with the rest of the brilliant cast, I cannot wait to channel the downright audacity of this play!”

Fairbank will play Kemp alongside Outhwaite as Kath and Cerqueira as Ed in Orton’s play, first staged in 1963. The story follows Kath, who invites the young Mr Sloane to lodge in her family home. Her brother Ed disapproves but soon develops his own interest in Sloane, while their father Kemp remains suspicious of the visitor.

The creative team for Entertaining Mr Sloane includes Peter McKintosh (set and costume), Richard Howell (lighting), Tingying Dong (sound), James Cousins (movement), Amy Ball (casting), Haruka Kuroda (fight and intimacy), Richard Ryder (voice and dialect), Carole Hancock (wigs, hair and make-up), Yvonne Milnes (costume supervisor), Jamie Owens (props supervisor) and Alex Hurst (Jerwood assistant director).