Hampstead’s Wild Honey – Casting Announced

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Hampstead Theatre have announced casting for their production of Michael Frayn’s Wild Honey which will be presented from 2 December 2016 – 14 January 2017. Tickets are on sale now. Wild Honey is a comedy of errors, drawn from Chekhov’s untitled – and posthumously discovered – early play. It is a tale of nineteenth-century Russian life replete with classic misunderstandings, irrepressible desires and nostalgia for a vanishing world. Village schoolmaster Platonov has it all: wit, intelligence, a comfortable and respectable life in provincial Russia, and the attentions of four beautiful women – one of whom is his devoted wife… As summer arrives and the seasonal festivities commence, the rapidly intensifying heat makes everyone giddy with sunlight, vodka – and passion. Wild Honey will be directed by Howard Davies – Hampstead’s Associate Artist and will star Geoffrey Streatfeild in the role of Platonov making his debut at Hampstead Theatre. The cast … Read more