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Casting announced for Actually by Anna Ziegler at Trafalgar Studios

Published on

May 19, 2019

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Casting has been announced for Actually, a play by Photograph 51 playwright Anna Ziegler at Trafalgar Studios 2.

Casting has been announced for Actually, the European premiere of Anna Ziegler's first play in London since Photograph 51.

Amber and Tom hook up at a party at their elite American university and spend the night together. They agree on the drinking, they agree on the attraction, but what actually happened between them?

Through conflicting accounts of a college hook up, Actually boldly delves into the messiest of grey areas and the intersectional complexities of race, religion and gender, controversially picking at our individual biases and internalised prejudices in ‘he said, she said’ cases of sexual consent. Yasmin Paige is to play Amber. Yasmin is best known for films Submarine and The Double (both directed by Richard Ayoade) and her lead roles in television’s Pramface, The Sarah-Jane Adventures and Glue. Her recent stage credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (Home MCR), and Ah Wilderness! (Young Vic). Simon Manyonda is to play Tom. Simon appears in the BBC's upcoming His Dark Materials and featured in The Bay (ITV) as well as appearing opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Emma Thompson in the BBC production of King Lear. On stage, his recent credits include Alys, Always (Bridge Theatre), The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse), Barbershop Chronicles (National Theatre) and King Lear with Glenda Jackson (Old Vic). Actually will be directed by Oscar Toeman and produced by Announcement Productions running at Trafalgar Studios 2 from 6 -  31 August 2019.

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