The UK tour of hit West End comedy The 39 Steps has announced casting.
This inventive comedy thriller features four fearless actors, playing 139 roles in 100 fast-paced minutes!
The cast will include Tom Byrne (Prince Andrew in The Crown, Bridgerton) as Richard Hannay, alongside Safeena Ladha as Annabella Schmidt / Pamela / Margaret, Eugene McCoy as Clown 1, and Maddie Rice as Clown 2. Jacob Daniels and Hannah Parker are the understudies.
This will be the first time that a female identifying actor has been cast as one of the show’s Clowns.
The 39 Steps tour kicks off at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, playing from 14 to 30 March 2024, and then visits Richmond Theatre in London, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Cardiff New Theatre, Sheffield Lyceum Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Malvern Festival Theatre, Cheltenham Everyman Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal, Birmingham Alexandra Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Norwich Theatre Royal, Bath Theatre Royal,Guildford Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Brighton Theatre Royal, York Grand Opera House, and Leicester Curve. See all The 39 Steps tour dates here.
Patrick Barlow’s hilarious adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller ran in London’s West End for nine years, finally closing in 2015. It won the Olivier Award and What’s On Stage Award for Best Comedy in 2007. It also took Broadway by storm, winning two Tony Awards and a Drama Desk Award in 2008.
The play, with its quintessentially plucky spirit and dashing sense of British fun, has toured to 39 countries and played to over 3 million people worldwide.
The 39 Steps tour is directed by Nicola Samer, with the original West End creative team of designer Peter McKintosh, lighting designer Ian Scott, sound designer Mic Pool and director of movement Toby Sedgwick. Casting is by Abby Galvin. The tour is a remount of the award-winning production directed by Maria Aitken and adapted by Patrick Barlow.
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More about the cast of The 39 Steps
Tom Byrne played Prince Andrew in The Crown series 4 and appeared in Bridgerton, A Discovery of Witches and Black Mirror. He can currently be seen in BBC 3’s Dreaming Whilst Black and the new film The Persian Version released this month. Theatre includes A Christmas Carol and Twelfth Night for the RSC.
Safeena Ladha’s recent theatre work includes She at London’s Tara Theatre and on tour, in which she played eight characters, Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show, Cassandra, Andromache and Menalaus in Troilus and Cressida (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and Coriolanus (Rose Theatre Bankside).
Eugene McCoy appeared in the world premiere of American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre, the world premiere of Groundhog Day at the Old Vic Theatre and Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Films include Wonka, Matilda and Paddington 2.
Maddie Rice took over from Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the stage show of Fleabag. Other recent theatre credits include All My Sons at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Michael Grandage’s Henry V at the Noel Coward Theatre. Her TV credits include Fleabag, Stath Lets Flats, Ten Percent, The Other One, I Hate You and the all-female sketch show Flaps.
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