Following the recent announcement of Guy Masterson and Bill Cain’s 9 Circles at Park Theatre, the company have announced Daniel Bowerbank as the final cast member to join the cast.
The European premiere of 9 Circles will open at Park Theatre (29th June – 23rd July) before heading to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. In a psychological thriller told through the eyes of the accused, 9 Circles asks how a soldier can be trained as a cold-blooded killing machine while clinging on to the threads of his humanity.
From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, the European premiere of 9 Circles is based on a true story of a repatriated US Army Private accused of war crimes.
In a psychological thriller told through the eyes of the accused, 9 Circles asks how a soldier can be trained as a cold-blooded killing machine while clinging on to the threads of his humanity. Private Daniel Reeves, based on the real life Steven Dale Green, has committed appalling acts, but does the blame entirely rest with him, or the army that put weapons into the hands of a clinically disturbed 19-year-old? Can we truly apply civilian moral standards to a soldier in the throes of mortal combat? The play is a Dantesque descent into the conundrums, contradictions and hypocrisies of war.
9 Circles premiered at the Storefront Theater in Chicago. The UK production sees the return of New York cast member Joshua Collins (Top Boy; Richard III, Almeida Theatre) to the central role of Daniel Reeves, and he is joined by Samara Neely Cohen (Los Angeles Opera; Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival), David Calvitto (12 Angry Men, West End; Shawshank Redemption, Dublin) and Daniel Bowerbank (The Merchant of Venice, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, BBC Arts’ Masterclass).
The full cast is Joshua Collins, Samara Neely Cohen, David Calvitto and Daniel Bowerbank.
