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Jessie Buckley, Miranda Raison and Hadley Fraser join Judi Dench in Branagh's Winter's Tale

Full casting has been announced for ”The Winter’s Tale” and ”Harlequinade”

Miranda Raison, Hadley Fraser and Jessie Buckley
Miranda Raison, Hadley Fraser and Jessie Buckley

Full casting has been announced for Kenneth Branagh's productions of The Winter's Tale starring Judi Dench and Harlequinade.

Jessie Buckley (The Tempest, Henry V, I'd Do Anything) will play Perdita and Muriel Palmer, with Miranda Raison (Hello/Goodbye, Strangers On A Train, Spooks) as Hermione and Edna Selby in The Winter's Tale and Harlequinade respectively.

Others joining the cast of the productions, which will play in repertory from 17 October 2015 to 16 January 2016, include Tom Bateman (Florizel and Jack Wakefield), Jack Colgrave Hirst (Clown and Tom Palmer), Hadley Fraser (Polixenes and First Halberdier), Michael Pennington (Anitgonus), Zoe Rainey (Emilia), John Shrapnel (Camillo and George Chudleigh), Kathryn Wilder (Mopsa and Joyce Langland) and Jimmy Yuill (Shepherd and Mr Burton).

As previously announced, Kenneth Branagh will play Leontes in The Winter's Tale and Arthur Gosport in Harlequinade.

Other shows in Kenneth Branagh's residency at the Garrick Theatre include The Entertainer, Romeo and Juliet and The Painkiller.