With Hedda now open to ★★★★★ reviews, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals in rehearsals, we’re excited to announce the full cast for Richard Eyre’s new adaptation of August Strindberg’s Dance of Death, as well as Nicholas Wright’s Vincent in Brixton.
Geoffrey Streatfeild joins Lisa Dillon and Will Keen in Richard Eyre’s new adaptation of Dance of Death, and Carne Associate Director Georgia Green directs Niamh Cusack in her return to the OT in the first major revival of Nicholas Wright’s Vincent in Brixton. The show premiered at the National Theatre, winning the 2003 Olivier Award for Best New Play. Jeroen Frank Kales joins the cast opposite Cusack as Vincent van Gogh, with Rawaed Asde, Amber Van Der Brugge, and Ayesha Ostler completing the cast.
Artistic Director Tom Littler, said today, “The Orange Tree continues to be a meeting point for theatrical debutants and veterans: a place where people take their first steps into professional theatre alongside those who have shaped our landscape. It’s a particular pleasure that Richard Eyre, who directed the first production of Vincent in Brixton, will be in the building directing Strindberg while our Associate Director Georgia Green, who first directed here as a student, is directing the first major London revival of Nicholas Wright’s gorgeous play.”
Dance of Death runs from 31 January – 7 March 2026, with Vincent in Brixton following from 14 March – 18 April 2026. Tickets for both shows are on sale!
Introducing the cast for Dance of Death
Lisa Dillon plays Alice.
Her theatre credits include Farewell Mister Haffman (Theatre Royal Bath), The Fever Syndrome, Hapgood (Hampstead Theatre), Blithe Spirit (Theatre Royal Bath, Harold Pinter Theatre), King John (Rose Theatre Kingston), The Roaring Girl, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), A Flea in her Ear, Design for living (The Old Vic), When the Rain Stops Falling, The Knot of the Heart, Hedda Gabler, Period Of Adjustment (Almeida Theatre), Private Lives (Vaudeville Theatre), Under the Blue Sky (Royal Court Theatre), As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Iphigenia, The Cherry Orchard (Sheffield Theatres), The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Present Laughter (National Theatre), and The Master Builder (Albery Theatre). Her television credits include Black Work, Dirk Gently, Cambridge Spies, Cranford Chronicles, and Hawking; and for film, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Suffragette, The Beat Beneath My Feet, and Bright Young Things.
Will Keen plays Captain Edgar.
His theatre credits include Patriots (Olivier Award-winner) The Duchess of Malfi, The Coast Of Utopia (National Theatre), Ghosts (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Almeida Theatre), Waste, Tom And Viv, Five Gold Rings (Almeida Theatre), Quartermaine’s Terms (Wyndham’s Theatre), Hysteria, Don Juan, Man and Superman (Theatre Royal Bath), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Huis Clos (Donmar Warehouse), Macbeth, The Changeling (Cheek By Jowl), The Arsonists (Royal Court Theatre), The Rubinstein Kiss (Hampstead Theatre), and Pericles (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre). His television credits include Ridley Road, The Pursuit of Love, Temple, His Dark Materials, Dime Quién Soy, Genius: Picasso, Watergate, The Hellenes, The Crown, The Musketeers, Wolf Hall, The Refugees, Sherlock, Garrow’s Law, The Man Who Crossed Hitler, Titanic, Silk, Foyles War, New Tricks, Wired, Casualty 1907, The Colour of Magic, Elizabeth, The Impressionists, and Murphy’s Law; and for film, Operation Mincemeat, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Frankenstein, Love and Other Disasters, and Nine Lives of Thomas Katz.
Geoffrey Streatfeild plays Kurt.
His theatre credits include A Mirror (Almeida Theatre, Trafalgar Theatre), Watch on the Rhine, The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse), Blithe Spirit (Theatre Royal Bath, Harold Pinter Theatre), Cell Mates, Wild Honey (Hampstead Theatre), Hamlet, Ivanov, The Seagull, The Beaux Stratagem, Children of the Sun, Earthquakes in London, The Pains of Youth, Bacchai (National Theatre), The History Boys (National Theatre, UK tour), My Night with Reg (Donmar Warehouse, Apollo Theatre), Macbeth, Copenhagen (Sheffield Theatres), Eigengrau, The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre), Henry V, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Richard III, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3 (RSC), Journey’s End (Harold Pinter Theatre), Mountain Language (Royal Court Theatre), Nathan the Wise and The Merchant of Venice (Chichester Festival Theatre). His television credits include Unbroken, Consent, Anatomy of a Scandal, Life, Traitors, The Miniaturist, Prime Suspect 1973, The Hollow Crown, New Worlds, Endeavour, The Thick of It, Spooks, Point of Rescue, Above Suspicion, Ashes to Ashes, Hunter, Elizabeth I, 20,000 Streets Under the Sky, The Other Boleyn Girl, Love in a Cold Climate, Sword of Honour; and for film, Consent, Making Noise Quietly, The Lady in the Van, A Royal Night Out, Spooks – The Greater Good, Rush, Private Peaceful, City Slacker, Angel, Match Point, Kinky Boots, and Kursk.
Introducing the cast for Vincent in Brixton
Niamh Cusack plays Ursula.
She returns to the Orange Tree having previously appeared in That Face. Her other theatre credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (Gate Theatre), Hamlet, Juno and The Paycock (Bristol Old Vic), Faith Healer (Abbey Dublin), My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston), Macbeth (Barbican), Ghosts (Home Theatre Manchester), Unfaithful (Found 111), The Winter’s Tale (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Ticking (Trafalgar Studios), The Rehearsal (Minerva Theatre), Afterplay (Sheffield Theatres), The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (Apollo Theatre, National Theatre), The Enchantment, His Dark Materials (National Theatre), Playboy Of The Western World, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Tutor, Cause Célèbre (The Old Vic), Women, Power & Politics (Tricycle Theatre), Andersen’s English, Nabakov’s Gloves (Hampstead Theatre), Portrait of a Lady (Bath Theatre Royal), Crestfall (Theatre503), The Painter (Arcola Theatre), Ghosts (Gate Theatre), Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre), Mammals (Bush Theatre), The Merchant Of Venice (Chichester Festival Theatre), As You Like It, Mary After The Queen, Othello, Romeo And Juliet, The Art Of Success (RSC), The Maids (Donmar Warehouse, UK tour), A Doll’s House, A Woman Of No Importance (Dublin Gate Theatre), Not I (The Beckett Festival At The Barbican), The Plough And Stars (Young Vic), The Phoenix (Bush Theatre), and The Admirable Crichton (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Her television credits include Falling, Big Mood, Jack Wright, Archie, The Tower, The Virtues, Testament of Youth, Silent Witness, New Tricks, Best of Men, Henry IV, Fallen Angel, 4.50 From Paddington, The Last Detective, Too Good To Be True, State Of Mind, Always And Everyone, Little Bird, Rhinoceros, Colour Blind, Heartbeat, From Paddington, Trauma, True, Till We Meet Again, A Marriage Of Inconvenience, Chalkface, Jeeves And Wooster, Poirot, and Angel Train; and for film, We Live in Time, Midwinter Break, Four Mothers, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, Unwelcome, The Ghoul, 5 Minutes of Heaven, The Closer You Get, Playboys, In Love with Alma Cogan, Hereafter, Shadow of the Sun, Paris by Night, Lucky Sunil, and Fools of Fortune.
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eroen Frank Kales plays Vincent van Gogh.
He is a recent graduate of Mountview; his theatre credits include Situations and Confr/plications (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). His television credits include Pony Rider; and for film, Room 203.
Rawaed Asde plays Sam Plowman.
He is a recent graduate of RADA. His theatre credits include playing Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe). His television credits include Nightsleeper.
Amber Van Der Brugge plays Anna van Gogh.
She is a recent graduate of Guildford School of Acting. Her theatre credits include The Tempest (Verona Shakespeare Festival).
Ayesha Ostler plays Eugenie Loyer.
She is a recent graduate of RADA; her theatre credits include The Inseparables (Finborough Theatre), As You Like It, 12 (The Greenhouse Theatre) and Twelfth Night (The Playground Theatre).
Richard Eyre is a film, theatre, television and opera director. Eyre was the Director of the National Theatre and has received numerous accolades including three Olivier Awards as well as nominations for six BAFTA Awards and two Tony Awards. His stage directing credits at the National Theatre include Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, John Gabriel Borkman, King Lear, The Invention of Love, and Skylight. Other stage directing credits include Trumpets and Drums (Nottingham Playhouse), Racing Demon (Vivian Beaumont Theatre), The Judas Kiss, Hedda Gabler, The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, Little Eyolf (Almeida Theatre), Amy’s View (Ethel Barrymore Theatre), The Crucible (Virginia Theatre), Quartermaine’s Terms (Wyndham’s Theatre), Vincent in Brixton (Wyndham’s Theatre, National Theatre, John Golden Theatre), Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre, New Amsterdam Theatre), Private Lives (Vaudeville Theatre, Music Box Theatre), Ghosts (Almeida Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndham’s Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music), My Name is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre), The Bay at Nice (Menier Chocolate Factory), Blithe Spirit (Duke of York’s Theatre), and A Voyage Round My Father (Theatre Royal Bath). His television directing credits include Play for Today, The Cherry Orchard, Past Caring, Screen Two, Tumbledown, Great Episodes, Rockaby, Vincent in Brixton, 10 Minute Tales, The Hollow Crown, The Dresser, and King Lear. Eyre has also written and produced for various television projects, notably writing for Play for Today, The Dresser, and King Lear, while also producing multiple episodes of Play for Today. For film, his directing credits include The Ploughman’s Lunch, Loose Connections, Singleton’s Pluck, Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal, The Other Man, The Children Act, and Allelujah. He also served as writer on Richard III and Iris, and worked as executive producer on Stage Beauty, Atonement, and The Other Man.
Georgia Green is currently the Carne Associate Director at the Orange Tree Theatre where she is about to direct the first major revival of Nicholas Wright’s Vincent in Brixton. She is also currently the Associate Director on Into The Woods at the Bridge Theatre. She was previously Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and Staff Director on The Grapes of Wrath and Infinite Life at the National Theatre. As a director, her work includes The Winslow Boy and Gloria at RADA; The EU Killed My Dad at Jermyn Street; Invisible at the Bush Theatre and 59E59 in New York; Ruckus at Southwark Playhouse, Edinburgh Summerhall, and on UK tour; Pilgrims at Guildhall School of Music & Drama; Three Sisters, Blue Stockings, and You Got Older at LAMDA; Human Animals at RWCMD; Twelfth Night at ALRA; Parliament Square at Rose Bruford; and OUTSIDE and The Mikvah Project at the Orange Tree Theatre (nominated Best Director at Stage Debut Awards). Further work as Assistant or Associate Director also includes Emilia at LAMDA; Dirty Crusty at The Yard; Amsterdam (also for Actors Touring Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth); Out of Water and The Double Dealer at the Orange Tree; and Zog at the Rose, Kingston.
Radio also includes The Mikvah Project on BBC Radio 4 The Get on BBC Radio 3.
Georgia has been a lead facilitator with Cardboard Citizens and currently teaches on the MA Directing course at LAMDA.
