Casting has been announced for the world première of Lady Anna: All At Sea, a new play by Craig Baxter inspired by the work of Anthony Trollope.
The play was commissioned by the Trollope Society as part of its namesake's bicentennial celebrations and will be directed by Colin Blumenau at Park Theatre in London.
It's 1871, and celebrated novelist Anthony Trollope is Australia-bound aboard the steamship Great Britain. Accompanied by his wife Rose and her maid Isabella, Trollope passes the time by writing his latest tale, Lady Anna.
The story, full of intrigue, rebellion and social politics, proves divisive among his fellow passengers, and it's not long before fact and fiction overlap. Is Trollope himself a surprising radical pitted against the status quo or are his characters to blame for the controversy?
Caroline Langrishe will play Countess Lovel and Rose Trollope, Antonia Kinlay will play Lady Anna and Isabella, Andy Rush will play Daniel Twaite, Bore and Anna’s Maid, Adam Scott-Rowley will play Frederic and Pedant, Julie Teal will play Aunt Jane and Lady Fitzwarren, Edward Halsted will play Mr Flick and Rector and Tim Frances will play Anthony Trollope and Sir William Patterson.
The production will run at Park Theatre from 19 August to 19 September.