The new stage adaptation of sci-fi classic Minority Report has announced casting ahead of its run at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in London.
The play is based on Philip K. Dick’s 1950’s sci-fi novel The Minority Report, that was turned into a blockbuster movie by Steven Spielberg starring Tom Cruise.
Billed as a futuristic thriller, Minority Report is adapted for the stage by writer and actor David Haig, and directed by Max Webster (Macbeth, Life of Pi).
Minority Report will star Jodie McNee (Orlando, Cuckoo, Anatomy of a Suicide) as the main character Julia Anderton, with Nick Fletcher (The Crucible, Anna Karenina) as George, Roseanna Frascona (Macbeth, Salomé) as Anna, Nicholas Rowe (Tammy Faye, The Inquiry) as Ralph and Tanvi Virmani (The Crown Jewels, Life of Pi) as David.
The cast also includes Chrissy Brooke (Dr Semmelweis, Dirty Dancing), Xenoa Campbell-Ledgister (Sister Act), Ricardo Castro (Wuthering Heights, Come From Away) and Danny Collins (Sweet Charity, Tammy Faye) playing multiple roles.
Joining Max Webster in the creative team are Production Designer Jon Bausor; Video Designer Tal Rosner; Lighting Designer Jessica Hung Han Yun; Composer and Sound Designer Nicola T. Chang; Movement Director Lucy Hind; Illusions Designer Richard Pinner; and Casting Director Lotte Hines CDG.
Minority Report is set in 2050, where neuroscientist Dame Julia Anderton (Jodie McNee) is about to launch the next phase of her pioneering Pre-Crime programme, detaining people for crimes before they are committed. But when Julia is accused of pre-murder, she’s in a race against time to save herself from her own system.
The show is co-production with Simon Friend (The Crown Jewels), the Birmingham Rep and Nottingham Playhouse, and will premiere at Nottingham Playhouse from 16 February to 9 March 2024 and then Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 22 March to 6 April 2024, before playing at the Lyric Hammersmith in London from 19 April to 18 May 2024.
Minority Report forms part of the Lyric Hammersmith’s 2024 season which also includes the UK premiere of Australian musical FANGIRLS and a revival of Alice Childress’ drama Wedding Band – a play about racial prejudice and ignorance in early 20th-century America.
Minority Report is playing the Lyric Hammersmith from 19 April to 18 May 2024.
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