Monday, 28 April 2014

Jenna Russell to star in Mr Burns at the Almeida; casting announced

It has been confirmed that Jenna Russell will star in Mr Burns at the Almeida Theatre.

The European premiere of Anne Washburn’s play will be directed by the Almeida's associate director Robert Icke (who recently he wrote and directed 1984 with Duncan Macmillan).

The company also includes Fiona Digney, Adrian der Gregorian, Demetri Goritsas, Adey Grummet, Michael Henry, Justine Mitchell, Wunmi Mosaku, Annabel Scholey and Michael Shaeffer.

Mr Burns will be designed by Tom Scutt who most recently worked on the Almeida’s current production of King Charles III. Philip Gladwell will design the lighting, sound design will be by Tom Gibbons, with joint composition and musical direction by Orlando Gough and Michael Henry.

Mr Burns asks whether the stories we tell make us the people we are, explodes the boundaries between pop and high culture and, when society has crumbled, imagines the future of America’s most famous TV family.

Due to popular demand the production has extended to Saturday 26th July. Mr Burns opens on Thursday 5th June.

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