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Shaun Williamson Joins The Railway Children Cast

Douglas Mayo20th April 201617th January 2016 News, West End

Shaun Williamson to join the cast of The Railway Children

It has been announced that Shaun Williamson will join the cast of The Railway Children playing Mr Perks. This casting announcement comes as the show celebrates it’s first anniversary at London’s purpose built Kings Cross Theatre. Best known for his long-standing role as Barry in television soap Eastenders, Shaun has recently completed a national tour of the musical Love Me Tender. Also joining the cast of The Railway Children on 16 January will be Sophie Ablett as Bobbie, Beth Lilly as Phyllis, Matt Jessup as Peter and Lindsay Allen as Mrs Perks. Sophie Ablett and Beth Lilly are both making their West End debuts with The Railway Children. The new cast members will join Caroline Harker as Mother, Peter Gardiner as Doctor/Butler, Mark Hawkins as Jim/District Super, Connie Hyde as Mrs Viney, Blair Plant as Father/Schepansky, and Moray Treadwell as the Old Gentleman, as well as Helen Brampton, Rebecca Brierley, … Read more

REVIEW: Roaring Trade, Park Theatre ✭✭✭

Tim Hochstrasser10th October 2015 Off West End, Reviews

So for all the efforts of the actors to make their characters more rounded and sympathetic this play tells us more about the anger in the air after the events of 2008 than it gives pointers to how we should think of the world of Canary Wharf in the future.

Casting Announced for Roaring Trade at Park Theatre

Douglas Mayo25th February 201610th September 2015 News, Off West End

Casting has been announced for Roaring Trade by Steve Thompson (Dr Who, Sherlock, Upstairs Downstairs), directed by Alan Cohen, at Park Theatre from Wednesday 23 September – Saturday 24 October, with a press night on Wednesday 30 September. Canary Wharf. As the curtain comes down on the recession, four wildly different bond traders put their limits to the test. The coarse tactics of top dog Donny are challenged when young, bright Cambridge graduate Spoon arrives and fights to stake his claim in the bank. Savvy young Jess is wrapping clients around her little finger, but seasoned trader PJ lags behind as he struggles to paper over the cracks of a family life in suburbia. In glass buildings that never sleep, what will it take to shatter the glass ceiling? Nick Moran will star as ‘Donny’, alongside Michael McKell as ‘PJ’, Lesley Harcourt as ‘Jess’, Timothy George as ‘Spoon’, Melanie Gutteridge … Read more