The Tricycle Theatre Announces their Summer/Autumn Season

Sean Holmes' production of Ron Hutchinson's MOONLIGHT & MAGNOLIAS returns to the Tricycle Theatre for a strictly limited four week run from 2 July – 2 August following its sell out season last year.  Returning with a cast led by Andy Nyman and Steven Pacey, who plays legendary Jewish film producer David O. Selznick, MOONLIGHT & MAGNOLIAS is the hilarious story behind the re-writing of the film Gone With The Wind. Designs are by Francis O'Connor with lighting by Davy Cunningham and sound by Carolyn Downing.  Ron Hutchinson's latest play Topless Mum opens at the Tricycle later this month.

Producer David O. Selznick and writer Ben Hecht join (reluctant) forces with director Vic Fleming, poached directly from the set of The Wizard of Oz, in a desperate and hilarious attempt to re-write the script of Gone with the Wind as they shut down production on the movie.  Moonlight & Magnolias is a parody of the inside workings of the film industry and an insightful look at the politics of 1930's Hollywood.

The cast includes Andy Nyman and Steven Pacey who reprise their roles as Selznick and Fleming respectively.  Final casting will be announced shortly.

Andy Nyman's theatre credits include Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Call In The Night and The Merchant of Venice all for West Yorkshire Playhouse, Saturday Sunday & Monday for Chichester Festival Theatre, Lust for the Theatre Royal Haymarket, The Gingerbread Lady for The Palace Theatre Watford and A Slice of Saturday Night for the Arts Theatre.  His television work includes the forthcoming Charlie Brooker series, Peak Practice, Tame, New Voices, Birds of a Feather and The Bill. His film credits include Severance, Death at a Funeral, Shut Up and Shoot Me, Played, Wild Romance, The Brother's Bloom and Coney Island Baby.  Later this year he will be seen in films The Brothers Bloom and The Tournament.

Steven Pacey's theatre credits include Someone Else's Shoes for Soho Theatre, The Old Masters at the Comedy Theatre, Democracy for the National Theatre, The Constant Wife for the Apollo Theatre, The Birthday Party for the Piccadilly Theatre, By Jeeves for the Duke of York's Theatre, High Society for the Victoria Palace Theatre and Celebration and The Room for the Almeida Theatre.  His television credits include Distant Shores, Spooks, Murder  in Mind, Troubles and Strife, Pie in the Sky and Just William.  On film his credits include Conspiracy, Return to House on Haunted Hill and Julius Caesar.

Ron Hutchinson's plays include Topless Mum and Moonlight and Magnolias at the Tricycle, Says I, Says I, The Dillen, Rat in the Skull, Burning Issues, Head/Case, Eejits, The Curse of the Baskervilles and Lags.  In addition he adapted Mikhail Bulgakov's Flight for the National Theatre.   His screen writing credits include Vertical Limit, Blue Ice and Red King, White Knight.  His many television writing credits include Traffic, The Pentagon Papers, Naked and the Dead, Prisoner of Honor, The Josephine Baker Story, The Marksman and Bird of Prey.

Sean Holmes' work includes The Man Who Had All the Luck for the Donmar Warehouse, Translations, The Mentalists, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Caucasian Chalk Circle for the National Theatre.  His productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company include Julius Caesar, Richard III and The Roman Actor.  His other productions include Singer and The Price   for the Tricycle Theatre -the latter went onto tour nationally -  Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness for the Royal Court, and Cleansed and Home for Oxford Stage Company (now Headlong), where he is an Associate Director.

Kwame Kwei-Armah's LET THERE BE LOVE will also return to the Tricycle for a strictly limited four week run from 5 - 30 August.  Directed by the author with a cast led by Joseph Marcell who reprises the role of Alfred Morris, Let There be Love previously opened the Tricycle's 2008 season in January to great acclaim.   Set against the music of Nat King Cole, Let There be Love is an immigrant's tale of beginnings, endings and Britishness.  Designs are by 2007 Linbury prize-winner Helen Goddard.  Let There Be Love - a Tricycle Bloomberg Commission - is part of the Tricycle's Bloomberg New Writing Scheme for New Audiences and is sponsored by the Kobler Trust.   Further casting will be announced shortly.

When West Indian pensioner Alfred Morris is kicked out of his daughter's Croydon house he returns to his Willesden home to find he's been gifted a 'Polish cleaner/home help'. Eager to learn the ways of her new land, the cantankerous and xenophobic Alfred realises that he may indeed still have a role in life: he could teach Maria to be British – and if he succeeds, maybe she might help him in the most unexpected way!

Joseph Marcell was part of the Tricycle's 2006 African-American Season appearing on stage in Walk Hard Talk Loud and Gem of the Ocean.  Other recent stage credits include Breakfast with Mugabe at Bath Ustinov Theatre, Coriolanus and Under the Black Flag at the Globe and numerous productions for the RSC including Crates and Barrels, Our Friends from the North and The Brothers Menechimi.  He also works regularly with the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C.  His screen credits include Rough Crossing, EastEnders, Jericho and The Professionals IV.  He is best known on television for playing Geoffrey in long running series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air alongside Will Smith.

Kwame Kwei-Armah is a member of the Tricycle's Bloomberg Writers Group and in 2003 he won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright.  His play Elmina's Kitchen – the first in Kwei-Armah's triptych for the National Theatre - was nominated for an Olivier Award and transferred to the West End.  Elmina's Kitchen was followed in 2004 by Fix-Up and in 2007 Statement of Regret premiered at the Cottesloe. He was a finalist in Celebrity Fame Academy and a regular in Casualty.

Sean Holmes will direct a Filter/Royal Shakespeare Company production of William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT from 1 - 27 September with press night on 2 September at 7pm. The cast includes Ollie Dinsdale and Ferdy Roberts, both co-artistic directors of Filter.

Filter's explosive and irreverent new take on this story of romance, satire and mistaken identity combines dynamic narrative drive with a torrent of sound and music creating one of the most accessible Shakespeare productions of recent years.

Filter's TWELFTH NIGHT premiered in 2006 at The Cube as part of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre's Complete Works Festival and has subsequently had sell out performances in London and at the Edinburgh Festival.

Paulette Randall will direct the British premiere of August Wilson's RADIO GOLF running at the Tricycle from 2 October – 1 November, with press night on 6 October at 7pm.  Designs are by Libby Watson with lighting by Matthew Eagland.

Set in the United States, Radio Golf is the last in Wilson's cycle of ten plays that examines the African-American experience in the 20th Century. Each play tackles a decade and RADIO GOLF, the final play in the cycle, focuses on the 1990's.

RADIO GOLF, directed by Timothy Douglas, received its World premiere at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 2005 just before Wilson's untimely death .  Radio Golf received its Broadway premiere in 2007 at the Cort Theater and was named Best American Play by the New York Drama Critics Circle and is the recipient of four 2007 Tony award nominations.

Matt Di Angelo will play Hal in Joe Orton's LOOT, directed by Sean Holmes.  LOOT will run from 11 December – 31 January with press night on 15 December. Designs are by Anthony Lamble.    Further casting will be announced shortly.

LOOT follows the fortunes Dennis and Hal, two young lads who hijack Hal's mother's coffin to stash the loot from a recent heist.  The plot thickens as her body keeps turning up around the house, the unscrupulous police Inspector Truscott arrives on the scene sowing confusion around him, whilst Nurse Fay works her dubious charms on Hal's Dad.

Matt Di Angelo was most recently seen in BBC 1's hit show Strictly Come Dancing followed by a National 'Strictly' tour.  Previous screen credits include playing Deano Wicks in EastEnders for two years, Felix in I Dream, Ewan Blair in Project C, Lance in There's a Viking in my Bed, Robbie in Harbour Lights, Telling Lies and Laugh On The Bus.  Loot will be Matt's professional stage debut.

Joe Orton's  work as a playwright includes What the Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloan, The Erpingham Camp and Loot, nominated for four Tony Awards.

LOOT will tour to Newcastle Theatre Royal from 2-7 February after its opening at the Tricycle.