Artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert Hastie, has announced the full cast for Eugene O’Neill’s, Desire Under the Elms, in his inaugural season. Sam Yates directs the previously announced, Olivier Award-winner, Matthew Kelly in the role of Ephraim, and joining him will be Claudia Cadette (Woman), Colin Haigh (Old Farmer/Sheriff) and Tim Dewberry (Man). The company will also include Me’sha Bryan (Young Girl), Emma Darlow (Fiddler), Aoife Duffin (Abbie Putnam), Theo Ogundipe (Peter), Sule Rimi (Simeon) and Michael Shea (Eben). The production will open on the 25 September with previews from the 20 September and will run until 14 October.
‘If I could, in my dyin’ hour, I’d set it afire an’ watch it burn…’
Ephraim Cabot’s sons work from morning till night, believing his farm will one day be theirs. But everything changes when the old man returns from town with a new wife. This haunting and erotic tragedy is one of the great American plays from Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill.
Desire Under The Elms is at Sheffield Theatres Crucible Lyceum Studio 20th September – 14th October 2017.
