Wildcard and the Mercury Theatre have announced the full cast of new play Evelyn which will run 3rd – 12th June at Mercury Theatre and then 23rd June – 16th July at Southwark Playhouse.
Evelyn stars Nicola Harrison (Emmerdale BBC 1, Mayday BBC 1, Good Omens Amazon Prime, BBC Two) as Sandra and Rula Lenska (Rock Follies, EastEnders, Doctor Who, One Foot In The Grave, Footballers’ Wives, Coronation Street) as her unsuspecting – but maybe that’s because there’s nothing to suspect – landlady Jeanne.
Yvette Boakye (Love The Sinner SKY/ Roughcut TV, Girls Soho Theatre, The Special Relationship, Soho Theatre) as Laura and Offue Okegbe (Amiens in As You Like It UK Tour/ The Tobacco Factory, Miguel in Children of Fate Inside Intelligence/Bussey Building, Malcolm in Macbeth Custom/Practice) as Kevin make up this intense four-hander performance.
Inspired by real life events, Evelyn is a story of mob-justice in modern day Britain that interrogates the question: when is justice really served?
This unflinching piece of theatre takes a no-holds-barred look at vigilantism, social media, and our collective quickness to judge, to scorn, to threaten and sometimes, to attack.
The premise of Evelyn saw writer Tom Ratcliffe shortlisted for the 2016 intake of the Old Vic 12 before the play reached the longlist of 27 plays for the 2017 Verity Bargate Award. The play has also been longlisted for the Papatango New Writing Prize and the Theatre503 playwriting Award.
