Full casting announced for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre

Final casting has been announced for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre.

The production will see Richard Eyre return to the Almeida to adapt and direct Ibsen’s famous play. Ghosts opens on 3rd October 2013 (previews from 26th September) and runs until 23rd November 2013.

Brian McCardie (Jacob Engstrand) and Charlene McKenna (Regina Engstrand) join the previously announced Lesley Manville (Helene Alving), Jack Lowden (Oswald Alving) and Will Keen (Pastor Manders).   

Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of his father’s dissolute life.

Please visit www.almeida.co.uk for further information and tickets.

Cast Bios

Will Keen returns to the Almeida where he has previously been seen in Waste, Tom and Viv and Five Gold Rings. His other theatre credits includeQuartermaine’s Terms at Wyndhams Theatre, Hysteria for Theatre Royal Bath,Huis Clos at the Trafalgar Studios, the title role in Macbeth for Cheek by Jowl at the Barbican, Kiss of the Spiderwoman for the Donmar Warehouse, The Rubenstein Kiss for Hampstead Theatre, The Coast of Utopia for the National Theatre and Pericles for the Lyric Hammersmith. On television his credits includeSilk, Garrow’s Law, Titanic, Foyle’s War, Elizabeth I, The Impressionists, Into the Void, Murphy’s Law, Monsignor Renard and Martin Chuzzlewit. His film credits are Love and Other Disasters and The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz.

Jack Lowden was most recently on stage playing Eric Liddell in Chariots of Firewhich after opening at Hampstead Theatre, transferred to the West End. His previous roles include Cammy in the Laurence Olivier award-winning Black Watchfor the National Theatre of Scotland which was also seen at the Barbican and on tour worldwide. On television his credits include Mrs Biggs, Blue Haven and Being Victor and the forthcoming The Tunnel. His film credit is uwantme2killhim?

Multi award-winning theatre, film and television actor Lesley Manville will make her Almeida debut in Ghosts. She was last on stage at the National Theatre in Grief where she has previously been seen in Her Naked Skin, Pillars of the Community, The Alchemist and His Dark Materials. At the Old Vic her credits include Six Degrees of Separation and All About My Mother. Her work for the Royal Court includes Top Girls, Serious Money, The Pope’s Wedding and Three Sisters and for the Royal Shakespeare Company she has been seen in The Wives’ Excuse, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and As YouLike It. Manville’s film work with regular collaborator Mike Leigh includes Another Year, All or Nothing, Topsy-Turvy, Secrets and Lies and High Hopes. Her other film credits include The Christmas Candle, Molly Moon, Maleficent, Romeo and Juliet, Spike Island and A Christmas Carol. On television her credits include An Adventure in Space and Time, The Man Who Would Be Bond, Mayday, Cranford, North & South, Bodily Harm, Other Peoples' Children, Promoted To Glory, The Cazalets, David Copperfield, Painted Lady, The Bite, Holding On, Tears Before Bedtime, A Statement of Affairs, Top Girls, Grown-Ups and The Firm.

Brian McCardie’s theatre credits include A Doll’s House for the National Theatre of Scotland and A Number, The Mercy Seat and Gagarin Way all for Prime Cut Theatre. His television credits include The Crash, The Accused, Shameless and Whistleblowers. On film his credits include Filth, The Damned United and 200 Cigarettes.

Charlene McKenna’s previous theatre credits include The Eleventh Capital at the Royal Court, Lonesome West at The Lyric in Belfast and Romeo and Juliet at The Garage in Monaghan. Amongst her television credits are Ripper Street,Misfits, Merlin, Raw, Sirens, Law and Order UK, Being Human, The Fixer,Whistleblower and The Old Curiosity Shop. Her film work includes A Boy Called Dad, Dorothy Mills, Porcelain, Middletown, Tiger’s Tale and Breakfast on Pluto.

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