RSC announces casting for Whitney White’s All Is But Fantasy

The Royal Shakespeare Company has confirmed the full company for All Is But Fantasy, a new work created and directed by Whitney White.

The show runs at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon from 21 January to 21 February, with its press performance on 4 February. It brings together Shakespearean material, contemporary storytelling and live music across two parts.

The cast features Juliette Crosbie as Desdemona and Juliet, Daniel Krikler as Man, Renée Lamb as First Witch, Georgina Onuorah as Second Witch, Timmika Ramsay as Third Witch and White as Woman.

White makes her RSC stage debut with the production, while her work includes directing The Last Five Years and Jaja’s African Hair Braiding on Broadway, a range of off-Broadway productions, and creating Macbeth In Stride for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, for which she wrote the book, music and lyrics.

The creative team includes White, set and costume designer Soutra Gilmour, lighting designer Ryan Day, sound designer Tony Gayle, music supervisor Simona Budd, music director Tom Knowles, assistant music director Falk Meier, intimacy director Lucy Hind, fight director Kate Waters, voice coach Nia Lynn, choreographer Sarita Piotrowski, associate choreographer Christopher Tendai, assistant director Mumba Dodwell, dramaturg Réjane Collard Walker and casting directors Charlotte Sutton and Christopher Worrall.

The RSC has also announced an event titled Reframing Women in Shakespeare: Harriet Walter and Whitney White in Conversation, taking place on Saturday 7 February at The Other Place. Hosted by Sandeep Mahal, the session will include discussion, readings from She Speaks and All Is But Fantasy, and an audience Q&A.

Read our interview with Onuorah here.