Modern Cast to Bring BRIDESHEAD REVISITED UK Tour to Today's Britain

English Touring Theatre and York Theatre Royal's world premiere of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, reimagined for the stage by Tony Award nominee Bryony Lavery (FROZEN) and Olivier Award-winning director Damian Cruden (THE RAILWAY CHILDREN), has found its cast.

The Daily Mail writes that the multi-ethnic company of the production, helmed by York's Artistic Director Damian Cruden, will bring the story into a modern context.

The high society at the center of the tale "was a very white world. The world that looks back on that today is not that," Cruden said. "It's not about their being black actors to do the roles, it's about their being a really good company of actors to tell this story and those actors should represent the world we live in now because they're telling the story to the community now."

Christopher Simpson will play Sebastian, with Kiran Sonia Sawar as Cordelia, Brian Ferguson as Charles Ryder and Rosie Hilal as Julia Flyte. The cast also features Paul Shelley and Caroline Harker as Lord and Lady Marchmain, as well as Nick Blakeley and Shuna Snow.

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED will feature designs by Sara Perks, lighting by Richard Jones, sound by Yvonne Gilbert and music by Chris Madin.

English Touring Theatre's official description reads: "During the midst of World War II, Captain Charles Ryder finds his past and present blur as he confronts memories of his first youthful encounter with the Marchmain family at Brideshead Castle. Falling under the spell of their privileged lives, Charles looks back at the way his own life would be changed forever by the summers spent with the seemingly charming Sebastian and his beautiful sister Julia. Don't miss the first large-scale stage adaptation of the evocative and timeless story that has captured audiences' imaginations for over seventy years."

The BRIDESHEAD REVISITED UK tour launches April 22 at York Theatre Royal, and will move on to Theatre Royal Bath, Nuffield Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Theatre Royal Brighton, Oxford Playhouse, and Richmond Theatre through July 2, 2016. Click here for a full list of dates.

Image via the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye/@bazbam/Twitter.

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