Full Cast Announced for HAPGOOD at Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre announces the full casting for Tom Stoppard's play Hapgood, which previews from Friday 4 December 2015. Directed by Howard Davies, the full cast features Lisa Dillon, who will take the title role, Gary Beadle, Joe Evans, Edward Hancock, Gerald Kyd, Tim McMullan and Alec Newman. Child actors Adam Cansfield and Sasha Graycomplete the cast.

"I can't remember which side I'm supposed to be working for, and it is not in fact necessary for me to know..."

London 1988. The Cold War is approaching its endgame and somebody in spymaster Elizabeth Hapgood's network is leaking secrets. Is her star Double Agent a Triple? The trap she sets becomes a hall of mirrors in which betrayal is personal and treachery a trick of the light.

Lisa Dillon plays Hapgood. She trained at RADA and her theatre credits include The Roaring Girl, The Taming Of The Shrew, Othello (RSC), Happy New (Trafalgar Studios), Birthday (The Royal Court), Design For Living, A Flea In Her Ear (Old Vic), The Knot Of The Heart, When The Rain Stops Falling, A Period Of Adjustment, Hedda Gabler (Almeida), Under The Blue Sky, Private Lives (West End), Present Laughter, The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other(National Theatre), The Master Builder (West End) and Iphigenia (Sheffield). Film and television credits include Suffragette, The Beat Beneath My Feet, Bright Young Things, Stan Lee's Lucky Man (Sky), Black Work, The Jury (ITV), Dirk Gently (BBC3), Cranford, Hawking and Cambridge Spies (BBC). Radio credits include Dr No, Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever (R4).

Gary Beadle plays Wates. Making his Hampstead Theatre debut, Gary's previous theatre credits include The Whipping Man (Theatre Royal Plymouth), The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco (Gate Theatre), Skipping Rope, You Know Who You Are (Talawa Theatre), Banksy: The Room in the Elephant (Tobacco Factory), Sucker Punch, God's Second in Command (Royal Court) and Family Man (Theatre Royal Stratford East). Television and film credits include The Interceptor, Doctors, Common Ground, Crime Stories, Hustle, Casualty, EastEnders and Absolutely Fabulous. Gary's film credits include In the Heart of the Sea, Til Death Do Us Part, Wit and The Imitators.

Joe Evans plays The Russian. Having trained at Mountview Academy, Joe's theatre credits include 3 Winters (National Theatre), The Late Henry Moss (Southwark Playhouse), Chicken Dust (Leicester Curve), Love on the Dole (Finborough), Game (Arcola), Final Whistle (The Old Red Lion), Les Miserables (Queens Theatre), 'Beast' in Beauty & The Beast (UK & International Tour), and Neil Kellerman in Dirty Dancing (UK Tour).

Edward Hancock plays Merryweather. Edward's theatre credits include Jeeves and Wooster (The Duke of York's Theatre and National Tour), One Man Two Guvnor's (National Tour), Romeo and Juliet (The Watermill), Too Much Pressure (The Belgrade Theatre) The Adventure (Pleasance Courtyard), Twelfth Night (Ludlow Shakespeare Festival), Laburnum Grove (Finborough Theatre), Antigone at Hell's Mouth (Soho Theatre), Great Expectations (The Watermill), Limehouse Nights (Kandinsky Theatre), Roar, (Dumbshow), Life For Beginners (Theatre 503) and POSH (The Duke of York's Theatre). Film and television credits also include Rules of Textual Attraction, Super Goths, The Boat that Rocked, Breathless (ITV), Doctors, The Green Green Grass (BBC) and My Spy Family (Boomerang).

Gerald Kyd plays Ridley. Gerald's previous theatre credits include Feed the Beast (Birmingham Rep), 3 Winters, Children of the Sun, The Cherry Orchard, Blood and Gifts (National Theatre), Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), Little Black Book (Park Theatre), 55 Days, Revelation (Hampstead Theatre), The Years Between (Royal Theatre Northampton) and The Seagull (RSC). Film and television credits include Legacy, The Defender, Tomb Raider II, Principles of Lust (Channel 4), Benidorm (ITV), The Coroner, Doctors and Sherlock (BBC) and the role of Mark in Persons Unknown (Fox TV).

Tim McMullan plays Blair. Tim's theatre credits feature over 15 shows at the National Theatre including Man and Superman, The Cherry Orchard, Burnt by the Sun, Coram Boy, Dark Materials and The Three Sisters; and he is an associate of Complicité with who his work includes The Master and Marguerita, Mnemonic and Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol. Other theatre credits include Fathers and Sons (Donmar Warehouse), A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC), The Misanthrope with Keira Knightley (Comedy Theatre, West End), King Charles III (Wyndham's Theatre), and As You Like It (Glove Theatre). Film credits include The Woman in Black, The Queen, Shakespeare in Love, The Fifth Element and Shadowlands. Recent television credits include Dr Thorne, Grantchester II, The Go-Between, Foyle's War (in which Tim played the MI5 agent, Valentine, for two series), The Hollow Crown: Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2, and Parade's End.

Alec Newman plays Kerner. Alec has previously performed at Hampstead Theatre in The Fastest Clock in the Universe. Other theatre credits include The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Danton's Death (National Theatre), These Shining Lives (Park Theatre), King Lear (Donmar Warehouse/BAM), Andorra (Young Vic), Plenty (Albery Theatre) and Certain Young Men (Almeida Theatre). Television and film credits include The Bastard Executioner, The Last Kingdom, Dracula, Rouge, 24-Live Another Day, Waterloo Road, Frankenstein, Dune, Spooks, Greyhawk, Lonely Place to Die, The Principles of Lust and Bright Young Things.

Performances are Fri 4 Dec 2015 - Sat 16 Jan 2016. Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed Mats 2.30pm; Sat Mats 3pm

TICKETS:

Tues-Sat eves: £25-35

Mondays/Matinees/Previews: £18-28

Senior Citizens: From £15

Under 30s: From £10 for any performance

Other Concessions: From £14.50

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