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Yeast Nation: The Triumph of Life Cast Announced

by Staff Writer
June 24, 2022
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Yeast Nation Cast

Yeast Nation Cast

The cast for the London debut of Yeast Nation has been announced today, combining four seasoned performers with four recent graduates.

West End favourite Christopher Howell (42nd Street, Wicked, Hairspray) heads up the cast as the oldest being in the universe, Jan the Eldest; with Mari McGinlay (Hairspray, Young Scottish Musical Theatre Performer of the Year 2014) as Jan the Sly; Shane Convery (recently seen at Southwark Playhouse in Anyone Can Whistle) is Jan the Wise; and James Gulliford (Salad Days) plays Jan the Wretched.

The pandemic prevented over two academic years of drama school graduates from getting a proper launch into the industry, and the team at Yeast Nation are committed to making opportunities for exciting new talent to shine. This production sees Stephen Lewis-Johnston, Hannah Nuttall and Sarah Slimani make their professional debuts, joined by Marisa Harris who also graduated recently but can currently be seen in Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] at Park Theatre.

       

Yeast Nation is a musical comedy, written and composed as a second part of a trilogy along with Urinetown by Tony and Obie award-winning writers Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann. This debut London production is directed by Benji Sperring (The Toxic Avenger, Night of the Living Dead – Live!).

A black comedy set in the brine of the primordial soup over 3 and a half billion years ago. The original colony of Yeast, led by Jan the Elder, is a monarchy in peril, with a starving population and a dictatorial leadership in fear. Jan the Second Eldest, Jan the Elder’s son, knows that their colony cannot continue indefinitely with waning resources. Unfortunately, Jan the Sly, Jan the Elder’s daughter and second in line to the throne, has ideas of her own to take control of the nation to further her own ends. As The Yeast’s drama plays out, however, they find they are up against a foe much bigger than themselves: Love.

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Director Benji Sperring said, “Now more than ever it is the duty of producers and directors to look after the future of the industry, making commitments to hire graduates who have had the most remarkable struggle over the last two years, and are now finding their feet in an incredibly changed, shifted landscape of creativity. What better way to empower young graduates than by making them dress as yeast and calling them all Jan.”

Yeast Nation is at Southwark Playhouse 22 July – 27 August 2022

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