With Pacific Overtures having broken all box office records at the venue, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announces that Giles Terera (Baxter) and Michael Benz (Lucas) join the cast of the European première of Paul Grellong’s Power of Sail, directed by Dominic Dromgoole.
They join the previously announced Julian Ovenden (Charles Nichols), Tanya Franks (Amy), Katie Bernstein (Maggie), Georgia Landers (Quinn) and Paul Rider (Frank).
This production – co-produced with Daryl Roth who previously collaborated with the Menier on the critically acclaimed production of Indecent – opens on 28 March, with previews from the 20 March, and runs until 12 May.
All hell breaks loose when Harvard professor Charles Nichols invites a contentious white nationalist to his yearly symposium. His colleagues are very concerned about how this will affect both his and the University’s reputation; his students are vociferously protesting. However, Charles refuses to budge. Is there another agenda?
Penned by Paul Grellong, whose television credits include The Boys and Law & Order: SVU, this moral thriller investigates the thin line between hate and freedom of speech – who bears the ultimate cost? This European première, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, promises to be one of the most talked-about plays of the year.
