Full cast announced for the world premiere of Mischief’s first musical comedy, THESPIANS.
MISCHIEF, the team behind the multi-award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, rewrite ancient history with the first musical created by ‘the UK’s funniest theatre company’ (LBC Radio).
Written by Jonathan Sayer (co-writer of The Play That Goes Wrong) and Ed Zanders (musical director Mischief Movie Night), Thespians transports the audience back to 534 BC, where, on Greece’s smallest island, a brave band of bards is battling to avoid defeat in a nationwide prayer competition set up by a thin-skinned tyrant.
The odds couldn’t be higher – the loser faces the death sentence and things are not looking good for the islanders… until… Thespis accidentally invents acting, leading to the world’s first play and the birth of theatre as we know it!
The Cast
Allie Dart as Rhapsodes/Dance Captain
Claire-Marie Hall as Poly
James Spence as Thespis
Luke Latchman as Atlas
Marc Pickering as Adonis
Matt Cavendish as Bard
Mia Jerome as Melampus
Rhys Taylor as The Tyrant.
The ensemble are Curtis Patrick, Josh Patel-Foster and Ashley Tucker.
The creative team
Director – Robyn Grant
Designer – Jasmine Swan
Choreographer – Melody Sinclair-Marsh
Lighting Designer – David Howe
Sound Designer – Nick Lodge
Musical Director – Ben Smith
Associate Director – Joe Allen
Casting Directors Lucy Jenkins CDG and Sooki McShane CDG
Executive Producer Henry Lewis.
Following the run at the Mercury Theatre Thespians will embark on a ten-week tour. If you thought something funny happened on the way to the forum, wait until you hear what happened enroute to the amphitheatre!
Tour Dates
9 – 23 May Colchester Mercury Theatre
26 – 30 May Bath Theatre Royal
2 – 6 June Swindon Wyvern Theatre
9 -13 June Guildford Yvonne Arnaud
16 – 20 June Cheltenham Everyman Theatre
23 – 27 June Cardiff New Theatre
30 June – 4 July Guildford Yvonne Arnaud
7 – 18 July Manchester Home
