The cast of Rita, Sue and Bob Too - Samantha Robinson, Taj Atwal, Sally Bankes, David Walker, James Atherton, Gemma Dobson.

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 BOOK TICKETS

26 - 30 September 2017

Harrogate Theatre BOOK TICKETS

3 - 7 October 2017

Bristol Old Vic BOOK TICKETS

10 - 14 October 2017

Liverpool Playhouse BOOK TICKETS

17 - 21 October 2017

Warwick Arts Centre BOOK TICKETS

24 - 28 October 2017

Oxford Playhouse BOOK TICKETS

31 October - 4 November 2017

Royal and Derngate, Northampton BOOK TICKETS

7 - 11 November 2017

Cast, Doncaster BOOK TICKETS

14 - 18 November 2017

York Theatre Royal BOOK TICKETS

21 - 25 November 2017

Derby Theatre BOOK TICKETS

9 - 27 January 2018

Royal Court London BOOK TICKETS

31 January - 3 February 2018

Laurence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield BOOK TICKETS

6 - 10 February 2018

Theatr Clwyd, Mold BOOK TICKETS