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Press Release DRAFT 21 May 2019

Hampstead Theatre announces the full casting for the world premiere of Cash Cow, and the national touring production of Prism

• Jonathan Livingstone and Phoebe Pryce star in the next Downstairs show Cash Cow, by Oli Forsyth and directed by Katie Pesskin • Terry Johnson’s Prism returns to the stage as part of a national tour with reprising his role as and Tara Fitzgerald joining as Nicola Cardiff

HAMPSTEAD DOWNSTAIRS / CELIA ATKIN PRESENT CASH COW By Oli Forsyth Directed by Katie Pesskin

14 June – 20 July Press night: Monday 24 June, 7.45pm

‘Just tennis all day, whenever you want. Not many 13 year olds have that, do they? They’re going to make you so good we won’t recognise you’

Hampstead Theatre today announces casting for the world premiere of Oli Forsyth’s breakthrough play Cash Cow. Directed by Kate Pesskin, this gripping new play is a blistering exploration of blind, parental ambition and the consequences of tough love. The cast includes Jonathan Livingstone as Ade, alongside Phoebe Pryce as Nina.

Creating a tennis champion costs a lot; it requires time, dedication and, most importantly, cash. Nina and Ade decide early on that their daughter is worth the investment. Imagine the return - prize money, world travel, endorsements and maybe their own tennis academy. Hell-bent on their child becoming Britain’s number 1, the pair are willing to sacrifice just about anything. If you want to reach the top spot in the game of tennis, love means nothing…

Jonathan Livingstone plays Ade. His theatre work includes After Edward; Edward II and Romeo and Juliet (all Shakespeare's Globe); and Now we are here (both ); Machinal (Almeida); The Caretaker (/Royal & Derngate); Our Country's Good and Treasure Island (both National Theatre); White Hot and Weak (Old Vic New Voices Festival); Superior Donuts (); ‘Tis Pity She's a Whore (Cheek By Jowl); The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); 7 New Plays by Young Writers (Kids Company/National Theatre Studio); Pandora (Giant Theatre Company/Arcola); War Horse (National Theatre at New Theatre); Pocket Comedy; Pocket dream; and A Midsummer Night's Dream (all Propeller) and Ignition 2 (Royal Court Upstairs). His film and Television work includes Chewing Gum, , Still Life and The Witches.

Phoebe Pryce plays Nina. Her theatre work includes The Picture of Dorian Gray (UK tour); About Leo (Jermyn Street); A Passage to India (/UK tour); The Tenant of Wildfell (Octagon Theatre Bolton/Theatre Royal, York); The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare's Globe/World tour) and Charlie’s Dark Angel (Drayton Arms

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Theatre). Her Film work includes The Complete Walk - The Merchant of Venice and Plus One. Her Radio work includes Pale Horse. Pheobe trained at RADA.

Oli Forsyth’s theatre work includes Such Filthy F*cks (Pleasance Edinburgh 2019); Kings and Happy Dave (both New Diorama Theatre); Cornernmen (UK Tour) and Tinderbox (). Oli is also artistic director of new writing company, Smoke & Oakum Theatre. Katie Pesskin directs her first production at Hampstead following her associate and assistant directing credits with Jude, I and You, Prism and Uncle Vanya (all Main Stage) and The Strange Death of John Doe (Downstairs). Her directing credits include Pickle Jar (Soho); Ken (Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe/The Bunker Theatre); NewsRevue 2017 (Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Canal Café Theatre); Sam Bailey: Live in the West End (Lyric); NewsRevue 2016 (Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Canal Café Theatre); British Musical Futures (St James); The New Musical Project (Leicester Square); The Last Five Years (); 35MM: A Musical Exhibition (Greenwich Theatre/Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Macbeth (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery) and Dinner (Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol). Theatre work as Associate/Assistant Director also includes Mrs Henderson Presents (Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto); All’s Well That Ends Well and She Stoops to Conquer (both Changeling Theatre); Saucy Jack and Vixens (King’s Head) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Changeling Theatre).

GREG RIPLEY-DUGGAN FOR HAMPSTEAD THEATRE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS A HAMPSTEAD THEATRE AND BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY CO-PRODUCTION OF PRISM Starring Robert Lindsay and Tara Fitzgerald Written and Directed by Terry Johnson With Victoria Blunt and Oliver Hembrough

Designed by Tim Shortall Lighting by Ben Ormerod Video Design by Ian William Galloway Sound by John Leonard Music by Colin Towns

Following a sold-out run at Hampstead Theatre, Terry Johnson’s Prism returns to the stage as part of a national tour with Robert Lindsay reprising his role as the double Oscar-winning cinematic master Jack Cardiff. Jack Cardiff has retired to the sleepy village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. His days of hard work - and play – on some of the most famous film sets in the world are now long behind him, as are his secret liaisons with some of the most famous women in the world... Surrounded by memorabilia from a lifetime of ‘painting with light’, the writing of an autobiography should be an easy matter - were it not that Jack would now rather live in the past than remember it… Greg Ripley-Duggan, Hampstead Theatre’s Executive Producer said: “It’s wonderful that Prism is having this further life. It was a massive sell-out hit at Hampstead in 2017, and Terry’s fascinating play and Robert Lindsay’s brilliant performance are still talked

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Tour Schedule 2019 Birmingham Repertory (3–12 October) (14-19 October) Theatre Royal (21-26 October) Edinburgh Kings (28-2 November) Festival Theatre (4-9 November) Guildford Yvonne Arnaud Theatre (11-16 November) Cambridge Arts (18-23 November) Malvern Festival Theatre (25-30 November)

Robert Lindsay plays Jack Cardiff. Robert Lindsay has experienced huge success on stage and screen since graduating from RADA in the early 70s. Robert has performed in television comedies and dramas, in Hollywood films, on Broadway and on the West End stage, with seasons at the RSC and the National Theatre. Theatre work includes In Praise of Love (Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath); Prism (Hampstead Theatre); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy); Richard III (RSC); Power (National Theatre); (London/New York); and Cyrano de Bergerac (both Haymarket); (Old Vic) and Onassis (Chichester Festival Theatre/Novello). Films work includes Disney's Maleficent: Mistress of Evil; Grace of Monaco; Wimbledon; That’ll be the Day; Bert Rigby; Loser Takes All; Remember Me; Divorcing Jack; Fierce Creatures and Genghis Cohn. Television work includes Citizen Smith; GBH; Jake’s Progress; Hornblower; Oliver Twist; Galavant; Spy and . All this work has given him an international reputation and garnered him many Awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including a BAFTA, a Royal Television Best Award, a Variety Club Award, two Awards, a Fred Astaire Award and a Tony on Broadway.

Tara Fitzgerald plays Nicola. Theatre work includes Shipwreck (); In Praise of Love (Ustinov Studio, Bath) The Secret Theatre (Wanamaker Theatre); Macbeth (Shakespeare's Globe); Gaslight (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); Farewell to the Theatre (Hampstead Theatre, London); The Winter's Tale (RSC at Stratford and tour); Broken Glass (Tricycle/Vaudeville, London); The Misanthrope (Comedy, London); A Doll's House (Donmar, London); And Then There Were None (Gielgud, London); Clouds (UK tour); A Doll's House (Birmingham Rep/UK tour); A Streetcar Named Desire (Bristol Old Vic); Antigone (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford/Oxford Playhouse/Old Vic, London); (Almeida, London/Broadway) and Our Song (Apollo, London/UK tour). Film work includes The Runaways; The King; Una; Legend; Exodus; Child 44; Five Children and It; I Capture the Castle; Dark Blue World; Rancid Aluminium; New World Disorder; The Snatching of Bookie Bob; Conquest; Childhood; Brassed Off; The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain; A Man of No Importance; Sirens and Hear My Song. Television work includes Belgravia; Poirot: The ABC Murders; The Strike Series; Churchill's Secret; Death in Paradise; (Seasons 3,4 and 5); In the Club; The Musketeers; The Body Farm; U Be Dead; Waking the Dead; Jane Eyre; The Virgin Queen; Rose and Maloney; Like Father Like Son; Miss Marple – The Body in the Library; Love Again; Murder in Mind; In the Name of Love; Frenchman's Creek; Little White Lies; The Woman in White; The Student Prince; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; The Vacillations of Poppy Carew; Cadfael; Fall From Grace; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Anglo-Saxon Attitudes and The Camomile Lawn.

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Victoria Blunt plays Lucy. Theatre work includes Macbeth; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet (all Watermill Ensemble for The Watermill Theatre, Newbury); (RSC); Lady Windemere's Fan and Dead Funny (Vaudeville, West End); Once Upon a Christmas (, London) and Newsrevue (Canal Cafe Theatre, London). Film work includes Ammonite. Television work includes Borderline.

Oliver Hembrough plays Mason. Theatre work includes The Hired Man (Queens, London); Superblackman (B.A.C, London); Friday Night Sex (Royal Court, London); A Further Education and Seminar (both Hampstead Theatre, London); Insignificance (Arcola, London); Mamma Mia (West End); Oh, What a Lovely War! (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Echo's End (Salisbury Playhouse); Wasted (West Playhouse); We Have Fallen (Edinburgh Festival); No Wit like a Woman’s (Shakespeare's Globe); The Wind in the Willows (Birmingham Rep); Titanic and The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (both Southwark Playhouse, London); As You Like It (Emily Dobbs Productions); Inherit the Wind; Where Have I Been All My Life?; Far From The Madding Crowd; Spring and Port Wine; The Rivals (all New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme); Through the Door (Trafalgar Studios, London); Macbeth and Twelfth Night (both Shakespeare in the Gardens, Exeter Northcott); The Deep Blue Sea (Exeter Northcott); Auricular Season 3 and Motel Chronicles (Theatre 503, London); Immortal (Courtyard Theatre, London); Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic Company). Film work includes Eunice; Spring in June; Shine; Really Lost (Short) and The Joy of 8 Millilitres (Short). Television work includes The White Princess; Criminal Justice; City of Vice; The Spare Room; Casualty; Junk and Northanger Abbey.

Olivier and Tony Award-winner Terry Johnson’s critically acclaimed hit Prism transfers to a tour following its successful run at Hampstead starring Robert Lindsay. Other notable credits at Hampstead Theatre include his new version of Uncle Vanya, Hysteria starring Antony Sher as well as Race; Old Money; Seminar and The Memory of Water. Playwright credits include Dead Funny, Prism and Ken (all Hampstead Theatre); Insignificance; Cries from the Mammal House; Hysteria; Piano/Forte and Hitchcock Blonde (all Royal Court); The Graduate and Mrs Henderson Presents (both West End); Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick and The London Cuckolds (both National Theatre). Other credits as Director include Oh What a Lovely War and Fings Ain’t What They Used T’Be (both Theatre Royal Stratford East; marking the 50th Anniversary of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop); Lost Land and The Libertine (both Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago); Dumb Show (Royal Court). West End and Broadway directing credits include The Duck House; End of the Rainbow; The Prisoner of Second Avenue; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; La Cage aux Folles; Rain Man; Whipping It Up; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Entertaining Mr Sloane and Elton John’s Glasses. His work for television includes Not Only But Always (, which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff and the Best Actor Bafta for ); The Man Who Lost His Head (ITV); Cor, Blimey! (ITV) and The Bite for the BBC and ABC Australia. Nicholas Roeg’s film of Insignificance was the official British Entry at Cannes in 1985. His plays have won him the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in both 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year Award 1995, Critics’ Circle Best New Play Award 1995, The League of American Theatres and Producers Best Touring Play Awards 2001, plus two Evening Standard Theatre Awards, two Writers Guild Best Play Awards, Time Out Best Play Award, the Mayer- Whitworth Award and the John Whiting Award. As a director he has been the recipient of a dozen major theatre awards including the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical 2010, Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival and Critics’ Circle Best Musical Award 2009 all for La Cage aux Folles. The commissioning of Prism was funded by NEXT DECADE, a joint Hampstead Theatre/AKO Foundation initiative.

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The original production was generously supported by Lin and Ken Craig. PRESS CONTACTS For Hampstead Theatre production press enquiries: Hannah Stockton | E [email protected] | M 07889 542 245 | T 020 7520 9392 Freya Edgeworth | E [email protected] | M 07718 318 705 | T 020 7520 9392

For Prism on Tour press enquiries: Joe Kelly | E [email protected] | T 020 3701 7500 Alex Ollington | E [email protected] | T 020 3701 7500

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Previews, Mondays and matinees Full Price: From £18 Under 30s/Students: £15/£10* Seniors (matinees only): £22/20 Groups: For every 9 tickets get the 10th free Access: £16

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THE FIRM By Roy Williams Directed by 3 May – 8 June

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CASH COW By Oli Forsyth Directed by Katie Pesskin 24 June – 20 July

Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Wed Mats 2.45pm; Sat Mats 3.15pm First Five Previews: All tickets £5 First twelve performance thereafter: £12 Remaining performances: £14 U30/students: £10 Seniors: £10 (matinee only)

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