The full company has been announced by Chichester Festival Theatre for Jonathan Kent’s production of new Paul Unwin play The Promise.
The drama is about the pioneering post-war Labour government, and runs from 19 July to 17 August 2024 at Chichester’s Minera Theatre.
The cast of The Promise features Suzanne Burden (Strike, Shakespeare in Love) as Violet Attlee; Clare Burt (Flowers for Mrs Harris, Sondheim’s Old Friends) as Ellen Wilkinson; Reece Dinsdale (Emmerdale, This House) as Herbert Morrison; Martyn Ellis (Renegade Nell) as Winston Churchill; Felixe Forde (Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)) as Joan Vincent; Peter Hamilton Dyer (Wolf Hall, The Confessions of Frannie Langton) as Richard Stafford-Cripps; Richard Harrington (Hinterland, Poldark) as Nye Bevan; Allison McKenzie (The Butterfly Lion) as Jennie Lee; Majid Mehdizaheh-Valoujerdy (Testament, War Horse) as Thomas Merriman; Miles Richardson (Witness for the Prosecution) as Hugh Dalton; David Robb (Downton Abbey, The Audience) as Lord Moran; Clive Wood (Casualty, Antony and Cleopatra) as Ernest Bevin; and Andrew Woodall (The Other Boleyn Girl) as Clement Attlee.
Paul Unwin’s new drama promises to be a pertinent portrayal of the people who moulded modern Britain and what it cost them. Set in 1945, in a country exhausted and crippled by debt after six years of war, time is up for Winston Churchill’s Tories. With a rallying cry for change, Labour wins an astonishing, landslide election victory.
Driven by the passionate and courageous radical Ellen Wilkinson, and the visionary firebrand Nye Bevan, a very British revolution is in the air. But in the face of bitter opposition, is this an audacious pledge of hope or a promise too far?
Paul Unwin is co-creator of TV’s longest-running medical drama Casualty, and his plays include The Enfield Haunting. Jonathan Kent’s previous Chichester productions include Gypsy, Sweeney Todd and Young Chekhov Trilogy.
The creative team of The Promise also includes set design by Joanna Parker, costume design by Deborah Andrews, lighting and video design by Peter Mumford, music composed by Gary Yershon, sound design by Christopher Shutt, and casting by Annelie Powell CDG.
The promise is running at Chichester Festival Theatre’s Minera Theatre from 19 July to 17 August 2024.
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