Comedian and actor DYLAN MORAN, BAFTA winner FRANCESCA ANNIS, and TV stars PATRICK ROBINSON and CHARLIE ROWE are among the cast announced today as part of the RALPH FIENNES / THEATRE ROYAL BATH SEASON.
They join the previously announced Dame Harriet Walter and Gloria Obianyo in the new production of Shakespeare’s comedy AS YOU LIKE IT, directed by Ralph Fiennes.
Dylan Moran, who plays the role of Touchstone, has had a thirty-year career interspersed with award-winning worldwide stand-up comedy tours and much-loved screen appearances. Since winning the Perrier comedy award in 1996, he created and starred in the BAFTA winning series Black Books, and appeared on screen in Notting Hill, Shaun of the Dead, The Witcher and Stuck.
Patrick Robinson plays Duke Senior and Duke Frederick. He has appeared regularly with the RSC and National Theatre with roles including Edmund in King Lear, Banquo in Macbeth and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing. He is well-known for his long-running role as Ash in the BBC series Casualty, with television appearances in some of the most popular series including Death in Paradise, The Last Kingdom, The Sister Boniface Mysteries and Vera.
Charlie Rowe made his first appearance on screen in the 2007 movie The Golden Compass and recently starred on TV in Slow Horses and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Charlie will play Orlando.
They join Olivier Award winner Harriet Walter, playing Jaques, whose four-decade stage career has seen her acclaimed for Shakespearean roles on both sides of the Atlantic, and rising star Gloria Obianyo who plays Rosalind. Gloria’s stage credits include her prize-winning performance in the National Theatre’s Paradise and recently appeared on screen in the Disney+/Star Wars series, Andor.
The cast for AS YOU LIKE IT also includes Sam Alexander (Le Beau/First Lord) Hannah Azuonye (Lady-In-Waiting/Lord in Arden), Matt Ray Brown (Dennis/Lord in Arden), Michael Brophy (Corin), Imogen Elliott (Phebe), Matt Gavan (Sir Oliver Martext), Amber Grappy (Audrey), Emilio Iannucci (Jaques de Boys), Amber James (Celia), Paul Jesson (Adam), Nitai Levi (Amiens), Jake Neads (Oliver), Richard Pryal (Charles/William/Lord in Arden) and Ethan Thomas (Silvius).
AS YOU LIKE IT, directed by Ralph Fiennes, is at the Theatre Royal Bath from Friday 15 August – Saturday 6 September.
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