Casting has been announced for Andrea Dunbar’s landmark play Rita, Sue and Bob Too directed by Max Stafford-Clark which starts a UK tour on the 6th September 2017.
Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from married Bob after babysitting his kids. When he takes the scenic route and offers them a bit of fun, the three start a fling they each think they control.
The cast will include James Atherton (Treasure Island – West End, Wallenstein – Chichester), Taj Atwal (East is East – West End, Educating Rita – Hull Truck), Sally Bankes (The Winter’s Tale, Two Noble Kinsmen – RSC), Gemma Dobson (TV – In The Club 2, Brief Encounters), Samantha Robinson ( Screwed – Theatre503, Educating Rita – Mercury Colchester) and David Walker (Hangmen – West End, Crap Dad – West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Commenting on the play, Director Max Stafford-Clark said; “When Andrea wrote her first two plays, she was a teenager from a rough council estate who’d never been to the theatre. Now, thirty-five years after its premiere, Rita Sue and Bob Too takes its place in the Octagon and Royal Court’s seasons in the role of Classic Play. It’s one of the privileges of my career that Andrea’s astute, fresh and funny writing reached my desk, and it is exciting to bring her vivid, albeit alarming world to life again with these fine actors.”
The Rita, Sue and Bob Too UK tour is co-produced by Out of Joint, Royal Court Theatre and Octagon Theatre.
RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO UK TOUR
6 – 23 September 2017
Octagon Theatre Bolton
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26 – 30 September 2017
Harrogate Theatre
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3 – 7 October 2017
Bristol Old Vic
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10 – 14 October 2017
Liverpool Playhouse
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17 – 21 October 2017
Warwick Arts Centre
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24 – 28 October 2017
Oxford Playhouse
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31 October – 4 November 2017
Royal and Derngate, Northampton
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7 – 11 November 2017
Cast, Doncaster
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14 – 18 November 2017
York Theatre Royal
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21 – 25 November 2017
Derby Theatre
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9 – 27 January 2018
Royal Court London
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31 January – 3 February 2018
Laurence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
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6 – 10 February 2018
Theatr Clwyd, Mold
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