Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched - casting announced
Casting news
AN ALL-star cast has been announced for the world premiere of Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched. Described as a mucky romp through the morals, memories and music of the 1950s, it runs at the Park Theatre from Tuesday, September 1 to Saturday, September 26, 2015.
The line up includes Wendi Peters, Diana Vickers, Vicky Binns, Matthew Fraser Holland, Kevin McGowan, Wendy Morgan, James Wrighton and Danielle Flett.
Written by Gemma Page and Michael Kirk, Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched is a black comedy set in the industrial north of England.
Wendi Peters is well known on television as Cilla Battersby Brown in Coronation Street. Her theatre credits include Oh What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal, Stratford East and UK Tour) and White Christmas (Dominion Theatre).
A semi-finalist on The X Factor, Diana Vickers played LV in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and Holly in The Duck House, both at the Vaudeville Theatre.
Vicky Binns’ credits include Molly Compton in Coronation Street, Ollie in Emmerdale, Martha on two series of The Mill and Lina Lamont in the national tour of Singin’ in the Rain.
Matthew Fraser Holland played Mr Protherough in Code of a Killer on ITV.
Kevin McGowan’s theatre roles include Gerardo Escobar in Death and The Maiden (English Theatre of Frankfurt) and Ray Say in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Derby Theatre).
Wendy Morgan’s theatre work includes A Streetcar Named Desire and Phedre, both at the National Theatre. She has also apppeared on screen as Cynthia Lennon in Birth of the Beatles and Mollie in Yanks, for which she won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcommer.
James Wrighton is the award-winning co-founder/writer and performer with Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly Perrier) nominated sketch group ‘Idiots of Ants’. The ‘Ants’ have twice toured Australia and New Zealand appearing at the Melbourne & Sydney International Comedy Festivals and winning Best International Act at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival.
Danielle Flett’s roles include Poppy in Noises Off (Old Vic and UK tour), Emily in Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Theatre) and Carolyn in Top Boy (Channel 4).
Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched is directed by Michael Kirk and designed by Rachel Stone (Sweeney Todd, Twickenham Theatre), with lighting by Derek Anderson (Scenes from a Marriage, directed by Trevor Nunn at St. James Theatre).
Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched is produced by Stuart Piper for Cole Kitchenn and Bradford Street Productions. Piper is the two-time Whatsonstage Award-nominated producer of New Boy and Lifecoach (Best New Comedy, 2009 and 2010) at Trafalgar Studios that starred Nicholas Hoult and Phill Jupitus respectively.