Fresh from the critically acclaimed West End production of One Man, Two Guvnors, Rufus Hound has been confirmed in the cast of Neville's Island at the Theatre in the Park this summer.
He will play Roy, one of four businessmen sent off on a team-building excercise in Tim Firth's comedy about a disastrous outward bound expedition. They succeed in becoming the first people ever to get shipwrecked on a island in the Lake District, and what ought to have been a bonding process turns into a muddy, bloody fight for surival amid a carnival of recrimination, French cricket and sausages.
Hound's role as Francis Henshall in One Man, Two Guvnors followed his performance in the UK tour of the National Theatre's award-winning production. Other acting credits include a leading role in the film The Wedding Video, written by Tim Firth.
He recently presented BBC Radio 4's My Teenage Years, a series in which celebrities talk about the diaries that they kept during adolescence, which was a Silver Winner in the Best Comedy category at the 2013 Sony Radio Awards. He is also a regular panalist on numerous popular television quiz and comedy shows.
Neville's Island will be the second production staged in the temporary state-of-the-art auditorium, Theatre in the Park, which is in the process of being built while the Festival Theatre's £22 million RENEW development continues, the first production being the circus musical Barnum, which takes place from 15 July to 31 August.
Angus Jackson directs Neville's Island, which promises to be a technically and visually ambitious staging of a darkly funny play, and also directs If Only which opens in the Minerva Theatre on Thursday 20 June.
Neville’s Island runs from 11-28 September.