Tom Byrne will play Richard Hannay within the UK Tour of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning comedy, THE 39 STEPS. He performed Prince Andrew in The Crown sequence 4 and appeared in Bridgerton, A Discovery of Witches and Black Mirror. He can at the moment be seen in BBC 3’s Dreaming Whilst Black and the brand new movie The Persian Version launched this month. Theatre consists of A Christmas Carol and Twelfth Night for the RSC.
He will star alongside by Safeena Ladha as Annabella Schmidt / Pamela / Margaret. Safeena’s current theatre work consists of She at London’s Tara Theatre and on tour, through which she performed eight characters, Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show, Cassandra, Andromache and Menalaus in Troilus and Cressida (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Coriolanus (Rose Theatre Bankside).
Further casting consists of Eugene McCoy as Clown 1 and Maddie Rice as Clown 2 – that is the primary time this manufacturing has solid a feminine figuring out actor as one of many Clowns. Eugene McCoy appeared on the earth premiere of American Psycho on the Almeida Theatre, the world premiere of Groundhog Day on the Old Vic Theatre and Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Films embrace Wonka, Matilda and Paddington 2. Maddie Rice took over from Phoebe Waller-Bridge within the stage present of Fleabag. Other current theatre credit embrace All My Sons at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Michael Grandage’s Henry V on the Noel Coward Theatre. Her TV credit embrace Fleabag, Stath Lets Flats, Ten Percent, The Other One, I Hate You and the all-female sketch present Flaps. Jacob Daniels and Hannah Parker additionally be a part of the solid because the understudies.
Patrick Barlow’s hilarious adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s traditional spy thriller ran in London’s West End for 9 years, lastly closing in 2015. It received the Olivier Award and What’s On Stage Award for Best Comedy in 2007. It additionally took Broadway by storm, profitable two Tony Awards and a Drama Desk Award in 2008. The play, with its quintessentially plucky spirit and dashing sense of British enjoyable, has toured to 39 nations and performed to over 3 million folks worldwide.
Follow the unimaginable adventures of our good-looking hero Richard Hannay, full with stiff-upper-lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double-crossing secret brokers and, after all, devastatingly lovely ladies.
This splendidly ingenious and gripping comedy thriller options 4 fearless actors, taking part in 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced enjoyable and thrilling motion.
The 2024 UK Tour is delivered to the stage by UK tour director Nicola Samer, with the unique artistic group of designer Peter McKintosh, lighting designer Ian Scott, sound designer Mic Pool and director of motion Toby Sedgwick. Casting is by Abby Galvin. The tour is a remount of the award-winning manufacturing directed by Maria Aitken and tailored by Patrick Barlow.
Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Tue 28 May – Sat 1 June
Tue – Sat: 7:30pm
Wed & Sat: 2:30pm
