Casting announced for the Globe's Twelfth Night
Casting news
CASTING has been announced for Emma Rice’s production of Twelfth Night, which runs at Shakespeare’s Globe from May 24 (previews from May 18) to August 5, 2017.
The line up comprises Marc Antolin, Carly Bawden, Nandi Bhebhe, George Ikediashi, Tony Jayawardena, Joshua Lacey, Pieter Lawman, Annette McLaughlin, Kandaka Moore, Katy Owen, John Pfumojena, Theo St Clair and Anita-Joy Uwajeh.
Feste will be played by George Ikediashi, also known as award-winning drag performer Le Gateau Chocolat. His theatre and opera credits include The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre), Porgy & Bess (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Imago (Glyndebourne) and Varjak Paw (Royal Opera House).
Ikediashi’s drag act as Le Gateau Chocolat has toured worldwide, including performances at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Wroclaw in Poland and the Sydney Opera House. He has sung at Wigmore Hall and with Basement Jaxx at the Barbican. Other appearances include I Heart Chocolat at the Royal Albert Hall, Black with the Homotopia Festival at the Soho Theatre, and singing as part of the flotilla for the Queen’s Jubilee.
Carly Bawden will play Maria. Her recent theatre includes the role of Alice in Wonder.land (National Theatre), McQueen (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Assassins and Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory), Dead Dog in a Suitcase and Other Love Songs, Tristan & Yseult and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Kneehigh) and My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible). On television, she has appeared in Close to the Enemy.
Anita-Joy Uwajeh will play Viola. Her recent theatre credits include Girls and Fury (Soho Theatre). Her recent screen work includes Lucky Man, Cut and Agent 47.
John Pfumojena will play Sebastian, having most recently appeared in the National Theatre’s Peter Pan. His other credits include I Am Thomas (National Theatre of Scotland/Told By an Idiot) and Playing Warriors and Workshop Negative (Tangle International).
Joshua Lacey will play Orsino. His recent theatre credits include Imogen (Shakespeare’s Globe), Wonder.land, Everyman, One Man Two Guvnors and The Magistrate (National Theatre), Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ragtime and Crazy for You (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and Billy Elliot (West End). His films include Murder on the Orient Express and London Road.
Katy Owen will play Malvolio. Her recent credits include 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Globe and UK/US Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), Rebecca (Kneehigh), The World of Work (Difficult Stage), Apparitions of Spirits with the Forsythe Sisters (Gaggle Babble) and Maudie’s Rooms and Plum and Cinders (Sherman Cymru). Her film work includes Daddy’s Girl and Shopping for Happiness.
Annette McLaughlin will play Olivia. Her recent credits include Billy Elliot (UK Tour), The Odyssey (Almeida Theatre), Volpone, Love’s Sacrifice and The Jew of Malta (RSC) and Matilda (West End).
Marc Antolin will play Sir Andrew Aguecheek. His recent theatre includes Peter Pan (National Theatre), The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (Bristol Old Vic/Shakespeare’s Globe), The Trial (Young Vic), Taken At Midnight (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Chichester Minerva), Amadeus, Singin’ In The Rain and The Music Man (Chichester Festival Theatre), From Here To Eternity (West End), Matilda (RSC/West End), Into The Woods and Hello, Dolly! (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Billy Liar (UK Tour) and Imagine This (New London Theatre).
On screen, Antolin has appeared in London Road, Coconut Shy, Love Actually and More Than Love.
Tony Jayawardena will play Sir Toby. His recent theatre credits include Bend it like Beckham: The Musical (West End) and The Tempest, The Roaring Girls, The Arden of Faversham and The White Devil (RSC). His screen work includes The Windsors, Strikeback and A Street Cat Named Bob.
Twelfth Night is a tale of love and loss that begins as Viola is washed up on the coast of Illyria, following a shipwreck in which she believes her twin brother has perished.
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