Lot and His God - casting announced
Casting news
CASTING has been announced for Howard Barker’s Lot and His God, which receives its UK premiere at The Print Room, where it runs from November 3 to November 24, 2012.
Joining Mark Tandy (as Lot) are Justin Avoth (Drogheda), Vincent Enderby (The Waiter) and Hermione Gulliford (Sverdlosk).
Mark Tandy’s theatre credits include Racing Demon (Sheffield Crucible), Mrs Warren’s Profession (Comedy Theatre/Theatre Royal Bath), The Voysey Inheritance, Luther, Mountain Giants and Major Barbara (National Theatre), Othello, Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Nicholas Nickleby (RSC), Richard II and Beauty and the Beast (Old Vic), Beside Herself and The Lucky Chance (Royal Court Theatre) and Siblings (Lyric Hammersmith).
On screen, he has appeared in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Shackleton, Alan Clark’s Diaries, Trial and Retribution, Absolutely Fabulous, Portrait of a Marriage, Jewel In The Crown, The Deep Blue Sea, A Cock and Bull Story, Bridget Jones – The Edge Of Reason, The Luzhin Defence and Howards End.
Justin Avoth’s theatre work includes The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Headlong Theatre Company), Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead Theatre), Moliere (National Theatre/Finborough Theatre), As You Like It (Curve, Leicester), De Montfort and Chains (Orange Tree Theatre), Hamlet (Southwark Playhouse), Othello (RSC), Edward II (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Exchange, Manchester – commended for Ian Charleston Awards) and King Arthur (Royal Opera House/Chatelet Theatre de Paris).
His television credits include Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Spooks, Merlin, Judge John Deed and Coronation Street.
Hermione Gulliford has previously performed onstage in The Way of the World, The Critic, The Real Inspector Hound and Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre), Drama at Inish (Finborough Theatre), Arcadia (Bristol Old Vic), The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony and Cleopatra (RSC), The Country Wife and Twelfth Night (Sheffield Crucible), Happy Savages (Lyric Hammersmith) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Old Vic).
Her screen credits include Upstairs Downstairs, Hustle, The IT Crowd, Rev, Doctors, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, All About George, Heartbeat, Monarch of the Glen, Carrie’s War, Jane Eyre and The Bill.
Vincent Enderby graduated from Drama Centre London in 2009. During his three years of training he was cast in Hamlet, Three Sisters, A Flea In Her Ear and The Government Inspector. His subsequent theatre work includes Macbeth (Cheek By Jowl) and The Duchess of Malfi (Eyestrings Theatre Company); while on television, he has appeared in Doctors.
Described as a powerful and imaginative play, Lot and His God exposes the human truth behind the biblical legend of the story of Lot and is set the day before the city of Sodom is completely annihilated.
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