Sarah Frankcom, former Royal Exchange Artistic Director who has directed the Exchange's current production of Brief Encounter, will return to Manchester to direct Eve Steele's new play Work It Out at HOME in spring.
Steele will play Siobhan in this play set in a community-based fitness class, where a rag-tag band of participants work out their problems together with music, exercise and gallows humour. But amidst the sweat and camaraderie, there is a simmering mix of fragile egos and impulsive behaviour that threatens to boil over at any moment.
Also in the cast are Elizabeth Twells (BBC’s Everything I Know About Love, ITV’s The Bay) as Alice, Aaron McCusker (Channel 4’s Shameless, Marcella for Netflix) as Rab, Eva Scott (Betty! at Royal Exchange Theatre) as Colette, Eithne Browne (BBC’s Secret State, Stags and Hens at Young Vic) as Marie, Raffie Julien (Film4’s MO <3 KYRA 4EVA, Follow The Signs at Soho Theatre) as Rebecca and Dominic Coffey (Lay Down Your Burdens at The Barbican, Don’t Mind Me at Sadler’s Wells) as Shaq.
It will run at HOME Manchester 1–16 March 2024.