Hampstead Theatre has announced full casting for its revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love.
Blanche McIntyre directs the production, which plays at Hampstead Theatre from 4 December 2024 to 25 January 2025.
Already announced is Simon Russell Beale (House of the Dragon; The Lehman Trilogy; King Lear and Hamlet, National Theatre) as A E Housman.
He will be joined by Matthew Tennyson (King Lear, Almeida; A Monster Calls, Old Vic) as the young Housman.
The cast also includes Dickie Beau (Re-member Me; Botticelli in the Fire, Hampstead Theatre) as Oscar Wilde; Stephen Boxer (The Box of Delights, RSC) as Dr Jowett/Labouchère, Jonnie Broadbent (Much Ado About Nothing, Globe) as Walter Pater/Frank Harris, Seamus Dillane (Bridgerton) as Pollard, and Florence Dobson (A Mirror, West End; Bridgerton) as Katharine Housman.
Completing the cast are Peter Landi (Witness for the Prosecution, West End; Ted Lasso) as Pattison/Postgate, Ben Lloyd-Hughes (Kiss Me, Hampstead Theatre) as Moses Jackson, Michael Marcus (The Merchant of Venice, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) as Chamberlain/Ellis, Dominic Rowan (The Divine Mrs S, Hampstead Theatre) as John Ruskin/W. T. Stead/Jerome K. Jerome, and Alan Williams (Till The Stars Come Down, National Theatre).
Tom Stoppard (Leopoldstadt, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Arcadia) returns to Hampstead after revivals of Hapgood and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Joining Blanche McIntyre in the creative team are designer Morgan Large, lighting designer Peter Mumford, composer and sound designer Max Pappenheim, movement director Polly Bennett and assistant director, Matt Dann. The casting director is Anna Cooper CDG.
In The Invention of Love, A E Housman is, as he understands it, finally dead. The noted Latin scholar and celebrated poet of A Shropshire Lad is being ferried across the Styx to Hades – but beyond the stygian gloom on the other side of the river he finds, to his surprise, the Oxford University of his youth. Alive with the academic debates that shaped his work and the friendships that shaped his life this is the Oxford of Ruskin and Pater, a place still marked by the brilliance of a recently departed student called Wilde…
The Invention of Love is running at Hampstead Theatre from 4 December 2024 to 25 January 2025.
Currently playing at Hampstead Theatre is Reykjavik by Richard Bean, to 23 November 2024.
Coming up at Hampstead Theatre is the UK premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s King James, directed by Alice Hamilton, from 15 November 2024 to 4 January 2025.
More about tickets to The Invention of Love at Hampstead Theatre London
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