Hay Fever - full casting announced
Casting update
FULL casting has been announced for Howard Davies’ production of Noël Coward’s Hay Fever, which runs at the Noel Coward Theatre from February 9 to June 2, 2012.
Joining Lindsay Duncan (as Judith Bliss), Jeremy Northam (Richard Greatham), Kevin R McNally (David Bliss) and Olivia Colman (Myra Arundel), will be Sam Callis (Sandy Tyrell), Freddie Fox (Simon Bliss), Jenny Galloway (Clara), Amy Morgan (Jackie Coryton) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Sorel Bliss).
Sam Callis was most recently on stage in Henrik Ibsen’s The League of Youth at Nottingham Playhouse. His other theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York) and The Tempest (Sheffield Crucible and Old Vic).
Although probably best known for his role of Sergeant Callum Stone in The Bill, he has also appeared on screen in Doctor Who and London’s Burning (TV); Shrink, Capital Punishment and Kidulthood (film).
Since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama last year, Freddie Fox has appeared in three productions at the Old Vic – A Flea In Her Ear, Cause Célèbre and last month’s 24 Hour Plays.
His screen credits include Any Human Heart, Worried About The Boy, The Shadow Line and the title role in BBC’s forthcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens’ The Mysteries of Edwin Drood (TV); The Three Musketeers and St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (film).
Amy Morgan, recently seen in Inadmissible Evidence at the Donmar Warehouse, has also appeared on stage in The Taming of the Shrew and To Kill A Mockingbird (Theatre Clwyd) and the 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic). Her screen credits include Holby City, Baker Boys and Closer (TV); A Way of Life and Big Font.Large Spacing (film).
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s theatre credits include Sixty Six Books (Bush Theatre), Tribes (Royal Court Theatre) and Rope (Almeida Theatre). Currently playing Chloe in Sky 1’s The Café, her other screen work includes How Not To Live Your Life and Doctors(TV); the forthcoming The Iron Lady and Albert Nobbs (film).
Olivier Award-winning Jenny Galloway was last seen on stage in Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse. Her previous theatre credits include Les Miserables, Oliver! and Mamma-Mia. She is best known on television for her role of Bella Ellis in Marple: The Pale Horse; while her film credits include In Transit, About a Boy and Johnny English.
Judith Bliss, once glittering star of the London stage, now in early retirement, is still enjoying life with more than a little high drama and the occasional big scene. To spice her weekend up, Judith invites a young suitor to join her in the country.
However, her novelist husband, David (McNally), and her two eccentric children, Simon and Sorel, have had the same idea for themselves and any hope for private flirtation disappears as the family’s guests begin to arrive. Cue: misjudged meetings, secret seductions and scandalous revelations running riot at this most outrageous of all house parties.
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