A number of Manchester’s most exciting young actors are in the cast for the Library Theatre Company’s third and final site-specific production, Manchester Sound: The Massacre.
Written by Polly Wiseman and directed by Paul Jepson, it runs at a secret city centre venue between June 8-July 6 and sees the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 collide with the explosion in acid house rave culture in 1988/89. Each actor, some of whom will double up as musicians in the production, plays a character from both historical eras.
The cast comprises Bolton-born Leah Hackett; Rachel Austin, who starred recently in the Manchester Theatre Award-winning production of Black Roses at the Royal Exchange Theatre; Northern Broadsides regular Simeon Truby, who is also the musical director; former professional boxer and rugby league star Adam Fogerty; Pete Ashmore, who appeared in the Library Theatre Company’s well-received Grimm Tales in Christmas 2009; Dean Anthony Fagan, who is a jazz-funk DJ in Manchester when he’s not acting; Stephen Fewell, who played Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing in English Theatre Frankfurt’s 2012 production of Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code; and Janey Lawson, whose appearance in the controversial The Assassination of Paris Hilton in the 2009 Edinburgh Festival hit the headlines.
Manchester Sound: The Massacre will be designed by award-winning Amanda Stoodley.
Details: www.librarytheatre.com