Dear Brutus - casting announced
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
CASTING has been announced for J. M. Barrie’s rarely performed Dear Brutus, which runs at Southwark Playhouse from December 4 (previews from November 29) to December 30, 2017.
The line up includes Helen Bradbury (as Lady Caroline Laney), Charlotte Brimble (Joanna Trout), Emma Davies (Alice Dearth), Robin Hooper (Lob), Josie Kidd (Mrs Coade), Bathsheba Piepe (Mabel Purdie), Simon Rhodes (Matey), Miles Richardson (Will Dearth), Edward Sayer (John Purdie), Venice van Someren (Margaret) and James Woolley (Mr Coade).
Previously Posted: J. M. Barrie’s rarely performed Dear Brutus will play a Christmas season at Southwark Playhouse. The new production directed by Jonathan O’Boyle (Sense of an Ending) will run from December 4 (previews from November 29) to December 30, 2017.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
1917. In a remote English village there are rumours of an enchanted wood. One of the inhabitants – a mysterious old man – invites eight strangers to stay. They all have something in common. When, one evening, the wood miraculously appears the guests feel compelled to enter. What happens there has the power to change their lives forever…
From J. M. Barrie, the celebrated writer of Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton and Quality Street, comes this haunting drama of self-revelation. Darkly comic, and presented in a sumptuous production for the play’s centenary year, Dear Brutus is Barrie at his most magical.
Dear Brutus is produced by Troupe, who return to Southwark Playhouse after their critically acclaimed production of The Cardinal.
The production is designed by Anna Reid, with lighting design by Peter Harrison and sound design by Max Perryment. Casting has not yet been announced.
Tickets: Previews – all tickets £12. From December 4 – £20, £16 concessions. To book, call the box office on 020 7407 0234 or visit southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/.
Times: Monday to Saturdays at 8pm; Tuesday and Saturday matinees at 3.30pm.
Also at Southwark Playhouse: Tony Cox’ Mrs Orwell, starring Cressida Bonas and Peter Hamilton Dyer (until September 23) and the first London revival in 10 years of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, A Parable (until September 30, 2017).