Mark Benton will join the London cast The Railway Children on 3 December to play Perks for the final six weeks of Damian Cruden's Olivier award-winning production at Waterloo Station. Since it's opening Cruden's production has now been seen by almost 400,000 people. The final London performance, in the specially created 1000 seat space in the old Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo Station, will be on 8 January 2012.
Mark Benton can currently be seen playing maths teacher Daniel Chalky in BBC1's Waterloo Road and has recently guested as Geoff Blackburn in Inspector George Gently. Next month he can be seen as famer Frederick Finch in BBC1's Land Girls. His more recent stage credits include Toad in The Wind in the Willows for Northern Stage, A Day in the Life of Joe Egg for Nottingham Playhouse, Comedians for the Lyric Hammersmith, Kosher Harry for the Royal Court and The Front Page at the Donmar Warehouse. His other television credits include Hustle, Silent Witness, Doctor Who and The Fixer. His film credits include Beyond The Pole, Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Breaking and Entering, Redemption Road, and Mike Leigh's Career Girls and Topsy Turvy.
Featuring the Great Northern Railway No 1, Stirling Single from the National Railway Museum, York, and the Old Gentleman's Saloon that was used in the original 1970 feature film, Mike Kenny's adaptation of The Railway Children was first produced by York Theatre Royal at the National Railway Museum, York, where it enjoyed two sell-out and critically acclaimed seasons. With audiences sitting either side of a real railway track, The Railway Children has award-winning designs by Joanna Scotcher, lighting by Richard G. Jones, music by Christopher Madin and sound by Craig Vear.Photo Credit: Richard Davenport/Simon Annand
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