Full casting announced for West End revival of David Hare's TEETH 'N' SMILES
Full casting has been announced for the 50th Anniversary West End revival of David Hare’s rebel play TEETH 'N' SMILES, which runs at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre from 13 March-6 June.
Joining the previously announced Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, as Maggie, are Michael Fox (The Land of the Living, National Theatre) as Arthur, Phil Daniels (Waiting for the Out, BBC) as Sarrafian, Bill Caple (Dear England, National Theatre) as Nash, Michael Abubakar (Macbeth, RSC) as Wilson, Samuel Jordan (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Sheffield Theatres/National Theatre/West End) as Smegs, Jojo Macari (The Past is a Tattooed Sailor, Old Red Lion) as Peyote, Noah Weatherby (Mary Page Marlowe, Old Vic) as Inch, Joseph Evans (Cyrano, Park Theatre) as Randolph, Aysha Kala (The Father and the Assassin, National Theatre) as Laura, Christopher Patrick Nolan (Beautiful Thing, Theatre Royal Stratford East) as Snead, and Roman Asde (Bacchae, National Theatre) as Anson, with Gregor Milne (Fiddler on the Roof, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Damien James (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse/West End) , Levi Heaton (Vera, ITV) , Guy Amos (Dido, Queen of Carthage, Shakespeare’s Globe), and Daniel Crespin (These Words That'll Linger, Pleasance Theatre) completing the company.
David Hare said: “It’s thrilling for me to watch Rebecca Lucy Taylor and a brilliant ensemble revive the play that shook the plaster off the ceiling of the Royal Court Theatre just fifty years ago.”
Before the New York Dolls. Before Debbie Harry. Before Kurt Cobain. There was Maggie Frisby. Once the roaring voice of 60s counterculture, now broke and disillusioned, a band’s youthful dreams of anarchic rebellion collapse into bitterness. Amidst the wreckage, lead singer Maggie tears through the night fuelled by booze, fury, and a voice that refuses to die. 50 years after David Hare’s trailblazing play set The Royal Court alight, TEETH 'N' SMILES is ready to burn things down all over again.
Written by David Hare and directed by Daniel Raggett, TEETH 'N' SMILES has music by Nick Bicât and lyrics by Tony Bicât, with new additional music and lyrics by Rebecca Lucy Taylor, set design by Chloe Lamford, costumes by Alex Mullins, lighting by Matt Daw, sound by Ben and Max Ringham, music supervision by Liam Godwin, and casting by Bryony Jarvis-Taylor CDG.
