Casting Announced - 15th Anniversary Season 2014

Casting Announced - 15th Anniversary Season 2014

Please follow the links for each production for a full casting breakdown

AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare 13 Feb - 22 March

 ARCADIA by Tom Stoppard 27 March - 19 April
Then the two plays in repertoire 22 April- 3 May

 After appearing as Lady Anne in Richard III and Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona as part of SATTF’s 2013 Season, Dorothea Myer-Bennett returns to play Rosalind in As You Like It and Lady Croom in Arcadia.

Matthew Thomas, last seen at the Tobacco Factory as Bullingbrook in Richard II and Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors in 2011, returns to SATTF to play Oliver in As You Like It and Bernard in Arcadia.

 Jack Wharrier joins the company for the first time to play Orlando in As You Like It and Valentine in Arcadia, after recent roles as Jimmy Porter in Look Back In Anger at Reading rep and Macbeth and Romeo for the Young Shakespeare Company. SATTF is also delighted to welcome Peter Basham as Charles and William in As You Like It, after film appearances including Skyfall and Inception, and on stage as Lancelot in The Legend of King Arthur at the Theatre Royal York; Polly Frame, who makes her SATTF debut as Hannah in Arcadia after recently playing Viola in Twelfth Night for Filter Theatre; and Hannah Lee who joins us for Audrey and Thomasina Coverly, soon after graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

We are pleased to announce that Vic Llewellyn - currently the lead in the Tobacco Factory Theatres Christmas production, The Last Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor which opens on Wednesday this week - will play Touchstone in As You Like It; and that Daisy May will join us for Celia in As You Like It and Chloe in Arcadia, her previous roles including Blanche in King John at The Union Theatre.  

Other actors new to the company include Vincenzo Pellegrino as Le Beau in As You Like It and Chater in Arcadia, Offue Okegbe as Amiens and Hymen in As You Like It, and Sophie Whittaker as Phebe. 

Christopher Bianchi makes a welcome return as Dukes Frederick & Senior after appearing as King Edward IV in SATTF’s Richard III; Paul Currier as Jaques in As You Like It and Brice in Arcadia, after appearing as Buckingham in Richard III; and Piers Wehner, Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona, will be seen as Septimus Hodge in Arcadia.

Ben Tolley returns to us for the first time since 2004 to play Silvius; and SATTF regulars Paul Nicholson and Alan Coveney return also.

AS YOU LIKE IT will run for five and a half weeks, then ARCADIA for three and a half, and then the two plays will play in repertoire for the last two weeks of the season, before AS YOU LKE IT goes out on our second national tour. Our first tour, of TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA this year - generously backed by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and by Patron Julian Thomas - was a great success and we intend to build on that in 2014 and beyond.

15th Anniversary Season Appeal

 'SATTF receives no form of public subsidy; and in the present financial climate funds from commercial sponsors and charitable trusts are ever more difficult to find. So the support of individuals is critical to our survival. We have therefore launched a 15th Anniversary appeal to raise a vital £15,000 to support our 15th Season and help to secure our work into the future.' Artistic Director, Andrew Hilton

Please click on the Big Give logo below for more information about the appeal and to - THANK YOU!