We’re thrilled to announce the full cast for Red Speedo by Lucas Hnath.
Matthew Dunster directs previously announced Finn Cole alongside Fraser James, Parker Lapaine and Ciarán Owens. Red Speedo opens at the OT on 18 July and runs until 10 August, with previews from 13 July.
Matthew Dunster directs at the OT for the first time following critically acclaimed productions including Shirley Valentine (Duke of York Theatre), The Pillowman (Duke of York Theatre) and 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End and UK Tour).
He is joined by a creative team of Set Designer Anna Fleischle, Associate Set Designer Cat Fuller, Costume Designer Cat Fuller, Lighting Designer Sally Ferguson, Sound Designer Holly Khan, Casting Director Matilda James CDG, Fight Director Claire Llewellyn for RC Annie and Accent Coach Aundrea Fudge.
Lucas Hnath is one of America’s most exciting new playwrights, whose Tony Award-nominated A Doll’s House Part 2 was seen at the Donmar Warehouse. His other works include A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep) and Death Tax (Humana Festival, Royal Court Theatre).
A co-production with David Adkin.
Finn Cole makes his professional stage debut as Ray.
His television credits include Peaky Blinders (as series regular Michael Gray), An Inspector Calls and Animal Kingdom. For film his credits include Slaughterhouse Rulez, Dreamland, Here Are The Young Men, F9 and Locked In, and the forthcoming Last Breath.
Fraser James plays Coach.
His theatre credits include The Seagull (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Liberian Girl, King Lear (Royal Court Theatre); Wildefire, Chimps (Hampstead Theatre); Mogadishu (Royal Exchange Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); Love the Sinner, President of an Empty Room (National Theatre); Troilus and Cressida, The Frontline and King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe).
His television credits include Endeavour, Double Busy, Origin Wolfblood, Loch Ness, Strikeback, Outnumbered, Robin Hood, Frankenstein, Love Lies Bleeding, Babyfather, Judge John Deed, Second Sight, In Exile, Life After Birth, The Affair, Guardians, The Healer and Prime Suspect.
Film credits include Terminator: Dark Fate, Yardie, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, Hero, Birds of Heaven, Sometimes in April, The Purifiers, Wing Commander and Shopping.
Parker Lapaine makes her professional stage debut as Lydia.
For television, her credits include the forthcoming second series of House of The Dragon.
Ciarán Owens plays Peter.
He returns to the Orange Tree having previously appeared in The Brink.
His other theatre credits include The Interview (Park Theatre); Farewell Mister Haffmann (Theatre Royal Bath); Cabaret (Lido de Paris); The Windsors: Endgame (Prince of Wales Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (Almeida Theatre); Tumulus (Soho Theatre); Rutherford and Son, Love and Information (Sheffield Theatres); Disco Pigs (UK and Ireland tour); King John (Shakespeare’s Globe); So Here We Are (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Handful of Stars (Trafalgar Studios, Theatre503); Oh What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Candide, A Mad World My Masters and Titus Andronicus (RSC).
His television credits include Curfew, Ancient Empires, Father Brown, Peaky Blinders, Temple, Small Axe: Red White and Blue, Washington, Krypton, The Last Kingdom, Strike Back, Arthur and George, Crazyhead and Spotless; and for film, Red Joan, Where Hands Touch, Immaculate Heart, Mugs’ Arrows, New Gods and Widdershins.
Lucas Hnath is an award-winning playwright whose other plays include A Doll’s House, Part 2 (South Coast Repertory and Broadway); The Christians (Humana Festival); A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep); nightnight (Humana Festival); Isaac’s Eye (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and Death Tax (Humana Festival, Royal Court Theatre).
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2015 Whiting Award, a Whitfield Cook Award, two Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citations and a Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.
Matthew Dunster’s directing credits include Shirley Valentine (Duke of York’s Theatre); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Apollo Theatre); True West (Vaudeville Theatre); Oedipus (Bunkamura Theatre); Hangmen, (Royal Court Theatre, Golden Theatre); Liberian Girl (Royal Court Theatre); The Seagull, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Love’s Sacrifice (RSC); The Lightning Child, Doctor Faustus (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Love Girl and The Innocent, You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse); Mametz (National Theatre Wales); Before the Party (Almeida Theatre); A Sacred Flame (ETT); Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Royal Exchange Theatre); Mogadishu (Royal Exchange Manchester and Lyric Hammersmith); The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler’s Wells); and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal & Derngate, Northampton).
His writing credits include Children’s Children (Almeida Theatre); You Can See the Hills and Two Clouds Over Eden (Royal Exchange Manchester).
