Headlong has announced the full cast and creative team for its forthcoming new production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.
Directed by Tinuke Craig (Trouble in Butetown, Jitney, Crave, The Color Purple), A Raisin in the Sun will premiere at Leeds Playhouse from 13 to 28 September, and then tour to Oxford and Nottingham, plus a run at London’s Lyric Hammersmith Theatre from 8 October to 2 November 2024.
Previously announced A Raisin in the Sun casting includes Joséphine-Fransilja Brookman (High Times and Dirty Monsters, A Pigment of Your Imagination, Macbeth) as Beneatha, Cash Holland (A Streetcar Named Desire, Odyssey, Julius Caesar) as Ruth, Solomon Israel (Jitney, The Barber Shop Chronicles, Miss Littlewood) as Walter Lee, and Jonah Russell (Arms and the Man, I, Joan, The Brilliant Friend) as Karl.
They will be joined by Gilbert Kyem Jnr (The Milkmans Purpose, Love Speech) as George, Kenneth Omole (Top Boy, Macbeth, Barbershop Chronicles) as Joseph/Bobo, and Doreene Blackstock (Sex Education, Unknown Rivers) as Lena.
The role of Travis will be performed by Jayden Dias, Josh Ndlovu and Adiel Magaji in Leeds and Oxford, and by Jeriah Kibusi and Oliver Dunkley in London and Nottingham.
Groundbreaking and challenging, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun broke barriers as the first play by a Black woman on Broadway. This classic family drama full of humour and heart remains relevant and powerful in a world still divided by inequality.
Joining Tinuke Craig in the creative team are: Cécile Trémolières (Set Designer) Maybelle Laye (Costume Designer), Dominique Hamilton (Wigs, Hair & Make up Designer) Max Pappenheim (Composer & Sound Designer), Joshua Pharo (Lighting Designer), Sarita Piotrowski (Movement Director), Haruka Kuroda (Fight & Intimacy Director), Aundrea Fudge (Voice & Dialect Coach), Phillipe Cato (Associate Director), Ruta Irbite (Design Associate), Luke Haywood (Lighting Associate), Lotte Hines (Casting Director) and Joi Gresham (Literary Trustee).
A Raisin in the Sun is a Headlong, Leeds Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse co-production.
Book tickets to A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London
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