The Croft starring Liza Goddard & Caroline Harker to tour the UK in 2025

Original Theatre in association with Wiltshire Creative has announced a new tour for Ali Milles’ critically acclaimed thriller The Croft, opening at Salisbury Playhouse on 9 May 2025.

Directed by Philip Franks (Murder in the Dark, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d), the production will star Liza Goddard (Noises Off, Doctor Who, Bergerac) and Caroline Harker (A Touch of Frost, Steel Magnolias).

Further cast and creatives are to be announced.

The Croft is based on a true story set in the remote Scottish Highlands. Two women arrive at a former crofter’s hut in the deserted village of Coille Gillie. Suddenly, the weekend getaway takes an unexpected turn. Cut off from the modern world, Laura and Suzanne find themselves drawn into the dark history of the Croft and the lives that passed before them.

The 2025 tour will play Salisbury Playhouse (9-17 May), Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (20-24 May), Malvern Theatres (27-31 May), Churchill Theatre Bromley (3-7 June), Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford (17-21 June), Festival Theatre, Edinburgh (25-28 June) and Liverpool Playhouse (1-5 July).

Alastair Whatley, Artistic Director of Original Theatre, said in a statement: “I am thrilled that we are finally able to revive Ali Milles’ superb new thriller which was last seen on the eve of the Covid Lockdown in 2020. Ali’s play is a tender evocation of place, family and the ties that bind us to each other – often in ways we don’t always understand. The reaction to the play in its curtailed first production was so exciting – I can’t wait to return to the Applecross peninsula and to the magical and at turns terrifying Croft in Coille Gillie.”