Mr Foote's Other Leg - Joseph Millson and Dervla Kirwan join cast
Casting news
JOSEPH Millson (as David Garrick) and Dervla Kirwan (Peg Woffington) will join Simon Russell Beale in Richard Eyre’s production of Ian Kelly’s Mr Foote’s Other Leg, which runs at Hampstead Theatre (Main Stage) from September 14 to October 17, 2015.
Joseph Millson’s many stage roles include Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Rocket to the Moon and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre), Love Never Dies (West End), The Priory (Royal Court Theatre) and Judgment Day (Almeida Theatre).
Millson has also appeared on screen in The Last Kingdom, Banished, 24: Live Another Day and Penny Dreadful (TV); I Give It A Year, Dead of the Nite and The Dead 2: India (film).
Dervla Kirwan’s recent theatre credits include The Weir (Donmar Warehouse), Uncle Vanya and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Aristocrats (National Theatre). Her screen work includes Ballykissangel, Goodnight Sweetheart, Silence, Material Girl and Moving On (TV); Ondine, Entity, Luna and Silent Hours (film).
Completing the cast of Mr Foote’s Other Leg will be Micah Balfour, Sophie Bleasdale, Joshua Elliott, Jenny Galloway, Ian Kelly, Forbes Masson and Colin Stinton.
Described as a riotously funny new play, Mr Foote’s Other Leg is based on Kelly’s award-winning biography of Samuel Foote and explores our obsession with celebrities.
Read more about Mr Foote’s Other Leg.