The Enfield Haunting reveals full cast to join Catherine Tate & David Threlfall

Producers of new thriller The Enfield Haunting have announced the full cast for the show, which comes to the Ambassadors Theatre in London from 30 November 2023.

Written by Paul Unwin (Casualty), and directed by Angus Jackson, The Enfield Haunting is based on one of the most famous poltergeist events in the world.

The play will run at the the Ambassadors Theatre for a limited season from 30 November 2023 to 2 March 2024.

Already announced in the cast are Catherine Tate (Queen of Oz, The Catherine Tate Show) as Peggy Hodgson, a single mother who tries to protect her three children from something that is incomprehensible and deeply disturbing; and David Threlfall (Shameless, The Hangman) as Maurice Grosse, a ghost hunter.

They will be joined by Ella Schrey-Yeats (Secret Invasion, The Witcher, His Dark Materials) as Janet Hodgson, Grace Molony (Artemis Foul, Layla, Mary Queen of Scots) as Margaret Hodgson, Jude Coward Nicoll and Noah Leggott sharing the role of Jimmy Hodgson, Mo Sesay (Murphy’s Law, Vera, Endeavor) as Rey, Neve McIntosh (Shetland, Ripper Street Stan Lee’s Lucky Man) as Betty Grosse, Daniel Stewart (Silent Witness, Law and Order, Star Trek: the Next Generation) as Writer/Old Man and Understudy Maurice, Stacha Hicks (David Brent: Life of the Road, Call the Midwife, Casualty) as Understudy Peggy and Betty and Jasmine Spence as Understudy Janet and Margaret.

The creative team will also feature Lee Newby (Set and Costume Design); Neil Austin (Lighting Designer); Carolyn Downing (Sound Designer); Paul Kieve (Illusions Consultant); Sophie Holland, CDG (Casting Director); Laura Cubitt (Movement Director); Kate Godfrey (Voice & Dialect); Roberta Zuric (Assistant Director); Frankie Fearis (Casting Associate); Patrick Molony (Production Manager); Fahmida Bakht (Props Supervisor); Joan Hughes (Costume Supervisor); Rebecca James (Company Manager); Olivia Roberts (Deputy Stage Manager); Erin Davis (Assistant Stage Manager); Lisa Brindley (Wardrobe & Wig Manager); and Fiona Steed for Smith & Brant Theatricals (General Management).

Writer Paul Unwin said in a statement: “Before Guy Lyon Playfair the poltergeist expert died in 2018, I spent a long afternoon with him in his basement flat in Earls Court. He and Maurice Grosse had spent months with the Hodgson family trying to protect them, but also make sense of what was going on. What Guy told me was terrifying. So much of what appears to have happened was impossible to fake and yet at the centre of the whole thing were real people trying to make sense of their lives. The Enfield Haunting is a psychological ghost story. It is a ghost story for now.”

Ahead of the London run, The Enfield Haunting will play the Brighton Theatre Royal and Richmond Theatre.

The Enfield Haunting is produced by MarketStall Productions, The Development Partnership, Smith & Brant Theatricals, Gavin Kalin Productions, Sayers & Sayers Productions Ltd. and Eilene Davidson Productions.

Book tickets to The Enfield Haunting at the Ambassadors Theatre in London

Sign-up for booking alerts, offers & news about The Enfield Haunting and other shows:

Main photo: The Enfield Haunting - Catherine Tate and David Threlfall