Buried Child - final casting includes Game of Thrones' Charlotte Hope
Casting news
FINAL casting has been announced for Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer and Obie prize-winning play Buried Child, which runs at Trafalgar Studios for a strictly limited season – from November 14, 2016 to February 18, 2017.
Joining previously announced Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Jeremy Irvine will be Charlotte Hope (as Shelly), Jack Fortune (Father Dewis), Barnaby Kay (Tilden) and Gary Shelford (Bradley).
Charlotte Hope will be making her West End debut in Buried Child, following A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre. She most recently starred opposite Richard Gere and Peter Dinklage in Jon Avnet’s film Three Christs of Ypsilanti, and can next be seen in the Robert Zemeckis’s World War II action-romance Allied, with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, and in Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom.
Although Hope is best known for her recurring role as ‘Myranda’ opposite Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones, her other film credits include Testament Of Youth, The Theory of Everything, The Invisible Woman and Les Misérables.
Jack Fortune’s stage credits include Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland, and on international and UK tour) and King Lear (Bristol Old Vic). His screen credits include Critical, Route Irish, Above Suspicion – Silent Scream, Law and Order, The Appropriate Adult, Dunkirk, North Square, Judge John Deed, Serious and Organised and Sparkling Cyanide.
Barnaby Kay’s numerous stage credits include Welcome Home, Captain Fox and A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar Warehouse), The Captain of Kopenick, Danton’s Death and Closer (National Theatre), The Real Thing (Old Vic), Eric Larue, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Herbal Ben, The Changeling and A Jovial Crew (Royal Shakespeare Company), Dying for It (Almeida Theatre), Raving and War and Peace (Hampstead Theatre) and King Charles III (Wyndham’s Theatre).
Kay’s equally numerous screen credits include Treasure Island, Red Tails, Arn: The Knight Templar, AKA, Conspiracy, Eisenstein, Croupier, Shakespeare in Love, Oscar & Lucinda, The Man who Knew Too Little, Wallander, One Child, New Tricks, Frankie, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Dead Boss, Public Enemies, Without You, Wuthering Heights, The Fixer, The Passion, Lifeline, The Government Inspector, Spooks, Prime Suspect IV, Silent Witness, Blonde Bombshell, The Bill, The Castle, Jonathan Creek, Cracker and The Vet.
Gary Shelford’s many stage credits include Ross (Chichester Festival Theatre), As You Like It and The Heresy of Love (Shakespeare’s Globe), Ghost Stories (Arts Theatre), Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter’s Tale and Henry V (Propeller Theatre Company, on world tour), The Shop (Bristol Old Vic), Angry Young Man (Trafalgar Studios), Present: Tense (Southwark Playhouse), They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Apollo Theatre), Market Boy (National Theatre Studio) and No Man’s Land (National Theatre).
His screen credits include Luther, Silent Witness, Holby City, My Family, The Quatermass Experiment, EastEnders, Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, The Scampi Trail, Charlotte Gray, A Portrait Of London and Slapper.
Buried Child finds Dodge and Halie barely hanging on to their farmland and their sanity while looking after their two wayward grown sons. When their grandson Vince arrives with his girlfriend, no one seems to recognize him, and confusion abounds. As Vince tries to make sense of the chaos, the rest of the family dances around a deep, dark secret.
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