WORMTOWN: CAST ANNOUNCEMENT
Wormtown
South Shields
Customs House Friday 1st June 2018
Newcastle
Alphabetti Theatre Saturday 16th June 2018
The
Customs House is delighted to announce the full cast for Wormtown. The play has
been written by The Takeover Festival’s first Young Writer in Residence, Reece
Connolly, and features a young cast of ‘ones to watch’.
All of
the cast are under the age of 25, as the purpose of this strand of The Takeover
Festival is to give young actors a platform, as well as giving emerging actors
more professional experience.
Andrew Finnigan, 21, from South Shields, who has previously appeared in
The Fifteen Streets and Drip at The Customs House and is also starring in My
Uncle Freddie at The Customs House this summer, will be playing Kezzy.
The
Customs House is where it all started for Andrew, as a member of The Customs
House Youth Theatre, and he can’t wait to return with such a “unique and
gripping show”.
Also
returning to the venue are former Youth Theatre member and recent Arts Ed
graduate James Gladdon, 21, originally
from Middlesbrough, playing J, and Lauren
Waine, 22, from Sunderland, a graduate from The Liverpool Institute for
Performing Arts, playing Cassie.
Top (L-R)
Andrew Finnigan, Serena Ramsey, Lauren Waine, Daniel Watson.
Bottom
(L-R) Luke Maddison, Kema Sikazwe, James Gladdon, Abigail Lawson.
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Luke Maddison, 23, from South Shields, who has appeared in Geordie The
Musical at The Customs House, as well as the annual pantomime, will be playing
Scrum.
Abigail Lawson, 21, from Sunderland, will be playing Batter in her
second professional theatre credit, following Blowin’ A Hooley’s Want, since
graduating from Newcastle College this year.
In the
multi-roles, there is Daniel Watson, 24,
from Newcastle, who trained at Newcastle Theatre Royal’s Project A and recently
starred in The Terminal Velocity of Snowflakes at Newcastle’s Live Theatre.
Alongside
Daniel is Serena Ramsey, 21, from Newcastle
but now London-based, whose first TV appearance was in CBBC’s Mission 2110. She
graduated from the Court Theatre Training Company in 2017.
The cast
is completed by Kema Sikazwe, 24, from Newcastle,
a rapper who got into acting in his early 20s and went on to land a leading
role in BAFTA and BIFA Palme D’or award-winning film I, Daniel Blake.
Wormtown will
be directed by Jake Smith, who hails from the north east and began his career
at Hull Truck Theatre as a Creative Learning Facilitator. He has since been a Resident Director at the
Almeida Theatre, Trainee Director at Chichester Festival Theatre and trained on
the National Theatre Directors’ Programme. He is the current Artistic Director
of Petersfield Shakespeare Festival and has previously been nominated for an
Off West End Award for Best Director.
Reece,
from Prudhoe, is a playwright and theatre-maker, and has been based in East
London since studying drama at Queen Mary University of London. He now splits
his time between London and the north east.
Wormtown is
a re-imagining of the Lambton Worm fable and is described as ‘a new legend of
misfits and monsters’ and is a darkly comic, sci-fi tale.
Writer Reece
Connolly has been mentored by Laura Turner, who is a writer for stage and
screen. She has written more than 30 original plays and adaptations of classic
novels, and has most recently worked with the Almeida Theatre, Hull Truck
Theatre and One Day Creative.
Wormtown
will be staged on Friday 1st June at 7.30pm at The Customs House,
and again on Saturday 16th June at 7.30pm, at Alphabetti Theatre,
Newcastle, as part of the region’s first Youth Fringe Festival.
The
Takeover Festival is an annual youth arts festival run by and for young people
in the north east aged 15 to 25. It features film, art, poetry, dance and much
more and runs at The Customs House from Monday 28th May to Friday 1st
June.
Its work
is made possible with the generous support of South Tyneside Council, Arts
Council England, WA Hanley Trust and Scottish Power Foundation.
Tickets:
Customs
House: For
tickets, available on a Pay What You Decide basis, contact the box office on (0191)
454 1234 or book online at www.customshouse.co.uk.
Newcastle Alphabetti: Details of the Youth Festival - https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/whats-on-menu/coming-up/17-whats-on-articles/313-alphabetti-theatre-youth-festival
Tickets are £4
from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/247489
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