King Charles III - casting announced for UK tour
JOINING Robert Powell in the UK touring production of King Charles III will be Penelope Beaumont, Jennifer Bryden, Richard Glaves, Dominic Jephcott, Lucy Phelps, Ben Righton, Giles Taylor, Parth Thakerar, Tim Treloar, Beatrice Walker and Paul Westwood.
Previously Posted: The UK tour of Mike Bartlett’s award-winning play King Charles III, with Robert Powell in the title role, will visit Richmond Theatre from September 22 to September 26, 2015.
The play imagines the succession of Prince Charles following the death of The Queen, exploring the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family.
Robert Powell will always be remembered for his portrayal of ‘Jesus’ in Franco Zefferelli’s Jesus of Nazareth, for which he received multiple awards and a BAFTA nomination. He went on to star in numerous film hits including The 39 Steps, The Four Feathers and Shaka Zulu. On stage, he has appeared in Alan Bennett’s Single Spies, Keith Waterhouse’s Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee.
King Charles III is directed by the Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold with Whitney Mosery and is designed by Tom Scutt, with music composed by Jocelyn Pook, lighting by Jon Clark and sound by Paul Arditti.
King Charles III opened at the Almeida Theatre in April 2014, before transferring to the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre the following September. The production will open on Broadway – at the Music Box Theatre – this October, with Tim Pigott-Smith reprising the role of Charles.
The UK touring production opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre (September 4-19), before continuing to Richmond, Newcastle, Nottingham, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Canterbury, Malvern, Guildford, Edinburgh, Bath, Chichester and Plymouth.