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Antigone casting announced
01Jul
We are delighted to confirm our casting, and the full creative team, for Antigone, the final production in our 90th anniversary season. This contemporary retelling of Sophocles’s epic story is the second new commission this season, and is written by Inua Ellams (Barber Shop Chronicles, Three Sisters).
A torn family. A hostile state. One heroic brother. One misguided son. One conflicted sister, and the second is on the run.
Zainab Hasan plays the role of Antigone, and Tony Jayawardena plays Antigone’s uncle, Creon.
Also joining the cast are: Pandora Colin (Eurydice) Rhianna Dorris (Lyra), Sandy Grierson (Aleksy), Nadeem Islam (Polyneices), Abe Jarman (Eteocles), Oliver Johnstone (Haemon), Munir Khairdin (Nikomedes), Susan Lawson-Reynolds (Commissioner), Eli London (Tiresius), Shazia Nicholls (Ismene), Mervin Noronha (Chorus), Razak Osman (Athan), Joseph Prouse (Officer), Nadia Sohawon (Kyria), Riley Woodford (Strom) and Lydia Bakelmun (walking understudy).
The creative team for Antigone includes: Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante MBE (composer), Shanaé Chisholm (casting assistant), Barbara Houseman (voice & text and season associate director), Carrie-Anne Ingrouille (choreographer), Polly Jerrold (Casting Director), Jack Knowles (lighting designer), Emma Laxton (sound designer), Ingrid Mackinnon (season associate: intimacy support), Khadija Raza (costume designer), Leslie Travers (set designer), Jo Tyabji (co-director), Max Webster (director) and Kate Waters (fight director).
