Cast revealed for new play
CASTING has been announced for Alan Plater’s Close The Coalhouse Door, which is being revived by Northern Stage and Live Theatre in Newcastle.
Directed by Samuel West, with additional material by Lee Hall, the production will open at Northern Stage on Wednesday, April 28, with previews from Friday, April 13, and will tour the UK until June 2012.
Adam Barlow (Coronation Street) will play the Vicar, Chris Connel (The Pitmen Painters) will play Jackie, Louisa Farrant (The Glass Slipper, Northern Stage) will play Ruth and Jane Holman (film of Billy Elliot) will play Mary.
Other cast members include David Nellist (Billy Elliot) who will play Geordie, and Paul Woodson (Eternal Law) who will play John.
Samuel West said: “When I began casting Close the Coalhouse Door, I was apprehensive. Finding people to populate a play with a strong sense of place and music at its heart was always going to involve a big search.
“The shopping list of skills we need is long: native or convincing Geordies who can sing, move, tour and play at least one musical instrument and preferably two, and who have the talent and wit to serve Alan Plater and Sid Chaplin’s words.
“I needn’t have worried. At the very first casting session in Newcastle I realised the incredible depth of talent in the North East.”
The story is structured around music by Alex Glasgow, inspired by north eastern folk songs.
Alan Plater CBE, who died last year, was one of the greatest writers of the golden age of British television drama.
Directed by Samuel West, with additional material by Lee Hall, the production will open at Northern Stage on Wednesday, April 28, with previews from Friday, April 13, and will tour the UK until June 2012.
Adam Barlow (Coronation Street) will play the Vicar, Chris Connel (The Pitmen Painters) will play Jackie, Louisa Farrant (The Glass Slipper, Northern Stage) will play Ruth and Jane Holman (film of Billy Elliot) will play Mary.
Other cast members include David Nellist (Billy Elliot) who will play Geordie, and Paul Woodson (Eternal Law) who will play John.
Samuel West said: “When I began casting Close the Coalhouse Door, I was apprehensive. Finding people to populate a play with a strong sense of place and music at its heart was always going to involve a big search.
“The shopping list of skills we need is long: native or convincing Geordies who can sing, move, tour and play at least one musical instrument and preferably two, and who have the talent and wit to serve Alan Plater and Sid Chaplin’s words.
“I needn’t have worried. At the very first casting session in Newcastle I realised the incredible depth of talent in the North East.”
Close The Coalhouse Door, based on the stories of Sid Chaplin with songs by Alex Glasgow, is a musical play written and first performed in Newcastle in 1968, charting major strikes, victories and disappointments in British mining history from the formation of the first unions in 1831.
The story is structured around music by Alex Glasgow, inspired by north eastern folk songs.
Alan Plater CBE, who died last year, was one of the greatest writers of the golden age of British television drama.
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