Casting announced for BONNIE AND CLYDE at Old Joint Stock
Fresh off the back of their Be More Chill production — which enjoyed multiple five reviews and a run of sold-out performances, the Old Joint Stock Theatre has announced the cast of their upcoming non-replica production of Bonnie and Clyde.
Once again, the Birmingham venue will stage its biggest ever cast of sixteen performers in their intimate 85-seat venue, continuing to break down barriers and redefine what fringe theatre can achieve.
At the centre of the story are two outstanding newcomers, India Lily Cooper and Samuel Murray, taking on the iconic roles of Bonnie and Clyde with raw energy and undeniable chemistry. Joining them are Killian Thomas Lefevre (Dear Evan Hansen, Bat Out of Hell) as Buck/Understudy Clyde, and Faye Campbell (Hamnet, No Such Thing as Wolves) as Blanche. Hannah Victoria (SIX, International Tour) will be playing the Preacher. Completing the leading company is Davis Weaver, fresh from Starkid’s Nerdy Prudes Must Die, who will be playing Ted.
The company also features Hannah Willars, understudying Bonnie and Blanche, and who was originally cast as Blanche in the cancelled UK tour, and Thomas Oxley, understudying Clyde, Buck and Ted, recently Offie-nominated for [title of show]. Steven Rostance (The Play That Goes Wrong, Noises Off) returns to the Old Joint Stock stage, alongside Kurran Dhand (Pop Off Michelangelo!), Charlotte Neale, and Charlotte Dixon in the ensemble.
In a first for the venue, four young performers — Tessy Hawkesford, Beau Eaton, Evie Pavlovs and Dan Dare — join the cast to play Young Bonnie and Young Clyde.
This bold, non-replica staging of Bonnie and Clyde strips back the gloss of traditional productions, instead leaning into the grit and desperation of Depression-era America.
Associate Artistic Director Emily Susanne Lloyd said: "We’re so proud to be welcoming such an extraordinary mix of fresh talent and experienced performers to our stage for Bonnie and Clyde. This is a story about outlaws rewriting the rules — and in many ways, that’s exactly what we’re doing at the Old Joint Stock: proving that bold, innovative, large-scale theatre can thrive in the most intimate of spaces."