A cast of 13 actor-musicians and 24 young performers will appear on stage at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme in a new production of Robin Hood and Marian.
The theatre-in-the-round’s artistic director Theresa Heskins has adapted and directs this version of the Robin Hood legend.
In 2014, more than 43,000 people saw Heskins’s adaptation of Mary Norton’s family story The Borrowers, including more than 20,000 schoolchildren.
The Robin Hood and Marian cast features Jonathan Charles (Dracula and The Borrowers at the New Vic), Crystal Condie (The Hoard Festival at the New Vic), Liam Gerrard (Miss Julie at Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre), Susan Harrison (Showstopper! The Improvised Musical at the Apollo Theatre in the West End and The Elephantom at the National Theatre), Sophia Hatfield (An August Bank Holiday Lark, The Grand Gesture and Love’s Labour’s Lost for Northern Broadsides), Bryn Holding (A Christmas Carol at the New Vic), David Kirkbride (The Hoard Festival at the New Vic and Othello at the National Theatre), Perry Moore (The Hoard Festival at the New Vic), Pippa Moss (Flatspin at Frinton Summer Theatre), Charlotte Palmer (Bleak House and Alice in Wonderland at the New Vic), recent graduate Harrison Reeves, Steven Rostance (London Road at the National Theatre) and Isaac Stanmore (Dracula at the New Vic).
The production will be brought to the stage by the creative team behind The Borrowers and The Hundred and One Dalmatians: set design is by New Vic head of workshop Laura Clarkson, costume design by head of design Lis Evans and lighting by Daniella Beattie. Composer will be James Atherton.
Robin Hood and Marian runs at the New Vic from Saturday 21 November until Saturday 30 January 2016.