CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR PLAQUES AND TANGLES AT THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE

Monica Dolan’s previous work for the Royal Court Theatre includes The Twits, Birth of a Nation, Sliding with Suzanne and The Glory of Living. Her other theatre includes The Same Deep Water As Me (Donmar), Chalet Lines (Bush), King Lear, The Seagull, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), Jane Eyre (Shared Experience Tour & West End), Macbeth, Mary Stuart (Southampton Nuffield), She Stoops to Conquer, A Laughing Matter (Royal National/Out of Joint), The Walls (Royal National), Hayfever (Triumph Proscenium) and The Glass Menagerie (Royal Lyceum). Monica’s television credits include W1A, The Casual Vacancy, Wolf Hall, The Escape Artist, Complicit, Call the Midwife, Coming Up, Spoof or Die, Appropriate Adult, U Be Dead, Excluded, Inspector Banks, Occupation, Midsommer Murders, The History of Mr Polly, Poirot, The Commander, Tipping the Velvet, Judge John Deed and The Gift. Her film credits include Eye in the Sky, Pride, The Falling, Alpha Papa, Kick Ass 2, Sightseers, The Arbor, Never Let Me Go, Within the Whirlwind, King Lear, Topsy Turvy and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Rosalind Eleazar makes her theatrical debut in Plaques and Tangles.

Alice Felgate’s television includes You, Me & Them and Some Girls. Her film credits include Side By Side and The Cabin.

Robert Lonsdale’s theatre includes Another Place (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury), Brilliant Adventures (Manchester Royal Exchange), A Life (Finborough), Anna Christie (Donmar), La Bete (Music Box) and The Indian Wants the Bronx (Young Vic). His television credits includes The Interceptor, Silent Witness, Doctors, Plus One, Heartbeat, Ben’s Patient and Coronation Street. His film credits include Lost Christmas, A Passionate Woman and The Glass House.

Ted Reilly’s previous work for the Royal Court Theatre includes Vera, Vera, Vera. His other theatre credits include Morning (Traverse/Lyric Hammersmith), Grandfathers (Ovalhouse), Theatre Uncut (Red Ladder) and Entertaining Mr Sloane (South London). His television credits include Call the Midwife, Hetty Feather, Grantchester, Law & Order, Suspects, Unknown Heart, Nightshift and Casualty.

Ferdy Roberts’ previous work for the Royal Court Theatre includes Pigeons, Talk Show, The President Has Come to See You (Open Court), If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep and Playing the Victim. His other theatre credits includes Shakespeare in Love (Noel Coward), Water (Filter, Tour), Three Kingdoms, Three Sisters (Lyric, Hammersmith), The Silence, Twelfth Night (Filter/RSC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Faster (Filter), Wallenstein, A Christmas Carol (Chichester), Caucasian Chalk Circle (National), Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, Aladdin (Bristol Old Vic), The Fixer (Almeida), Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (Sheffield Crucible), Frankenstein (Derby Playhouse), Switchback (Glasgow Tron), The Contractor (Oxford Stage Company), Another Country (West End), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Beautiful Thing, The Changeling (Salisbury Playhouse), The Sea (Chichester Minerva Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Filter Theatre & Lyric Hammersmith). Ferdy’s television includes Foyles War, MI High, The Whistleblowers, Goldplated, Your Mother Should Know, Holby City and Doctors. His film credits include What You Will, Mr Nice, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll and Honest.

The Big Idea: Plaques and Tangles

The Hole of My Heart
written and performed by Rob Drummond
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Tuesday 27 October, 6.15pm
When Rob was eight years old doctors found a hole in his heart and advised his parents he had only a few months to live.
Join him now in his thirty fourth year as he investigates his past medical health and examines the possibility of knowing his future with the help of human genome scientists in America, who, for three thousand dollars, will tell him how he is likely to die.
Tickets: £5 (or free with a ticket to the show)

Nicola Wilson in conversation
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Wednesday 28 October, Post-show
The playwright talks to Royal Court Associate Director Lucy Morrison.
Tickets: £5 (or free with a ticket to the show)

Genetic Inheritance and Alzheimer’s Disease
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Wednesday 18 November, 6.15pm
A talk by consultant neurologist Professor Nick Fox on what we have learnt from familial Alzheimer’s disease.
Tickets: £5 (or free with a ticket to the show)

The Big Ideas event partner is Time Out.

Listing Information

Plaques and Tangles
By Nicola Wilson
Directed by Lucy Morrison
Wednesday 14 October – Saturday 21 November 2015
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Monday – Saturday 7.45pm
Saturday matinees (from 24 October) 3pm
Thursday matinees (from 22 October) 3pm
Captioned Performance Friday 6 November 7.45pm
Press Night Tuesday 20 October 7pm
Age Guidance 14+
Tickets £20. Mondays all seats £10 (available on day of performance from 9am online).
Concessions £15 (available in advance until 24 October, and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day)*
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
ID required. All discounts subject to availability.

Plaques and Tangles by Nicola Wilson is supported by Jerwood New Playwrights.

Jerwood New Playwrights is a longstanding partnership between Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the Royal Court. Each year, Jerwood New Playwrights supports the production of three new works by emerging writers, all of whom are in the first 10 years of their career. The Royal Court carefully identifies playwrights whose careers would benefit from the challenge and profile of being fully produced either in the Jerwood Downstairs or Jerwood Upstairs Theatres at the Royal Court.