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 Robert Lindsay reprising his role as Jack Cardiff 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); Twelfth Night and Now we are here (both Young Vic); Machinal (Almeida); The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic/Royal & Derngate); Our Country's Good and Treasure Island (both National Theatre); White Hot and Weak (Old Vic New Voices Festival); Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse); ‘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 London Theatre); Pocket Comedy; Pocket dream; The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream (all Propeller) and Ignition 2 (Royal Court Upstairs). His film and Television work includes Chewing Gum, Holby City, 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 (Park Theatre/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 1 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 (Hen and Chickens Theatre). 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 (Greenwich Theatre); 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 the Space 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 2 about by our audiences. So we’re delighted that people all over the country will have the opportunity to see what caused the excitement and to enjoy this very special piece of theatre.” Tour Schedule 2019 Birmingham Repertory (3–12 October) Richmond Theatre (14-19 October) Nottingham Theatre Royal (21-26 October) Edinburgh Kings (28-2 November) Chichester 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); Me and My Girl (London/New York); Becket and Cyrano de Bergerac (both Haymarket); The Entertainer (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 My Family. 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 Actor Award, a Variety Club Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, a Fred Astaire Award and a Tony on Broadway. Tara Fitzgerald plays Nicola. Theatre work includes Shipwreck (Almeida Theatre); 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); Hamlet (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; Game of Thrones (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. 3 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); A Christmas Carol (RSC); Lady Windemere's Fan and Dead Funny (Vaudeville, West End); Once Upon a Christmas (Unicorn Theatre, 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