{"id":111185,"date":"2023-09-16T18:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/16\/full-cast-announced-for-richard-beans-to-have-and-to-hold-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2023-09-16T18:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T18:43:15","slug":"full-solid-introduced-for-richard-beans-to-have-and-to-hold-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/16\/full-solid-introduced-for-richard-beans-to-have-and-to-hold-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Full solid introduced for Richard Bean\u2019s To Have and To Hold \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hampstead Theatre immediately publicizes the complete solid for Richard Bean\u2019s uproarious new comedy,\u00a0To Have and To Hold<\/a><\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0which opens on\u00a020<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/sup>October<\/strong>\u00a0and runs till\u00a025 November<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Alun Armstrong<\/strong>\u00a0(New Tricks,\u00a0<\/em>BBC One;\u00a0Sweeney Todd,<\/em>\u00a0National Theatre;\u00a0Endgame<\/em>, Donmar)\u00a0 will play Jack Kirk and is joined by\u00a0Marlene Sidaway<\/strong>\u00a0(Mum,\u00a0<\/em>BBC;\u00a0The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel<\/em>, UK tour) as his spouse Flo Kirk.<\/p>\n

Alongside Armstrong and Sidaway as Jack and Flo\u2019s youngsters are\u00a0Christopher Fulford<\/strong>\u00a0(Loot,\u00a0<\/em>Park Theatre;\u00a0Screw,\u00a0<\/em>Channel 4) and\u00a0Hermione Gulliford<\/strong>\u00a0(The Southbury Child<\/em>, Bridge Theatre;\u00a0Romeo & Juliet,<\/em>\u00a0Globe). The solid is accomplished with\u00a0Rachel Dale<\/strong>\u00a0(The Hypocrite,\u00a0<\/em>RSC;\u00a0The\u00a0<\/em>Bay, ITV) and\u00a0Adrian Hood<\/strong>\u00a0(Harvest<\/em>, Royal Court;\u00a0The Rise and Fall of Little Voice,<\/em>\u00a0West End).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0Richard Wilson<\/strong>,\u00a0To Have and To Hold<\/em>\u00a0tackles the prickly downside of coping with ageing dad and mom who simply don\u2019t wish to be handled.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe talks about going to Switzerland, to that place where you pay them to kill you\u2026 And I say \u201cgo!\u00a0 It\u2019ll do you good.\u00a0 Broaden your horizons\u2026you\u2019ve never been abroad!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

After sixty years of marriage, fortunately settled into their retirement village in Yorkshire, Jack and Florence have elevated bickering nearly to the standing of excessive artwork. That mentioned, they\u2019re in any other case getting alongside high-quality with the help of a cousin and the hilarious interventions of the person recognized regionally as \u2018Rhubarb Eddie\u2019. But will their anxious son, shuttling between London and LA, and their errant daughter, who\u2019s considering a transfer to Australia, go away them to reside out their days in peace?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Writer of the worldwide smash-hit comedy\u00a0One Man, Two Guvnors,\u00a0<\/em>Richard Bean returns to Hampstead after successes with\u00a0Kiss Me<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0In the Club<\/em>.\u00a0His different work contains\u00a0Jack Absolute Flies Again<\/em>\u00a0(National Theatre),\u00a0Young Marx<\/em>\u00a0(Bridge) and\u00a0Made in Dagenham, The Musical\u00a0<\/em>(Adelphi).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Director\u00a0Richard Wilson\u00a0additionally returns to Hampstead after the success of his manufacturing of\u00a0Peggy For You.\u00a0<\/em>He is reunited with Bean whose performs\u00a0Toast, Under the Whaleback<\/em>\u00a0(each Royal Court) and\u00a0The Nap<\/em>\u00a0(Sheffield Crucible) he additionally directed.<\/p>\n

The manufacturing might be designed by\u00a0James Cotterill<\/strong>\u00a0with lighting by\u00a0Bethany Gupwell<\/strong>\u00a0and sound by\u00a0John Leonard<\/strong>. The casting director is\u00a0Robert Sterne<\/strong>\u00a0CDG<\/strong>\u00a0and Assistant Director is\u00a0Jos Vantyler<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

To Have and To Hold<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a Hampstead Theatre Next Decade fee \u2013 a joint Hampstead Theatre and AKO Foundation initiative. The manufacturing can be kindly supported by Lin and Ken Craig.<\/p>\n

\u00a0To Have and To Hold\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>opens on Friday 20 October and runs till Saturday 25 November.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets are on sale now at\u00a0hampsteadtheatre.com<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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[ad_1] Hampstead Theatre immediately publicizes the complete solid for Richard Bean\u2019s uproarious new comedy,\u00a0To Have and To Hold,\u00a0which opens on\u00a020\u00a0October\u00a0and runs till\u00a025 November. Alun Armstrong\u00a0(New Tricks,\u00a0BBC One;\u00a0Sweeney Todd,\u00a0National Theatre;\u00a0Endgame, Donmar)\u00a0 will play Jack Kirk and is joined by\u00a0Marlene Sidaway\u00a0(Mum,\u00a0BBC;\u00a0The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, UK tour) as his spouse Flo Kirk. Alongside Armstrong and Sidaway as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}