Niamh McGrady and Will Featherstone Board NIGHT MUST FALL UK Tour; Full Cast Set!

Niamh McGrady and Will Featherstone will star as Olivia and Dan respectively in the national tour of Emlyn Williams's psychological thriller, NIGHT MUST FALL, directed by Luke Sheppard, joining the previously announced Gwen Taylor as Mrs Bransom and Daragh O'Malley as Inspector Belsize, along with Alasdair Buchan as Hubert, Anne Odeke as Nurse Libby, Mandi Symonds as Mrs Terence and Melissa Vaughan as Dora.

Niamh McGrady is best known for playing the regular characters Mary-Claire Carter in Holby City (BBC) and PC Danielle Ferrington in three series of The Fall (BBC). Her theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End and Broadway).

Will Featherstone's theatre credits include Dr. Scroggy's War, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It and Anne Boleyn for Shakespeare's Globe, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Comedy of Errors for Propeller, and The History Boys for Sheffield Crucible. Screen credits including Fresh Meat (Channel 4), Endeavour (ITV), Ashes to Ashes (BBC) and Midsomer Murders (ITV), as well as the forthcoming feature film A United Kingdom, starring Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo.

New dates have also been added to the tour, which will now end at Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford on 3 December.

When charming, smooth-talking Dan arrives at old Mrs Bramson's remote woodland home, he soon ingratiates his way into her life and that of her niece, Olivia. But when a local woman goes missing and is later found murdered, Olivia begins to suspect her aunt's new private assistant. She resolves to find out the truth.

Emlyn Williams wrote NIGHT MUST FALL in 1935 and played the lead role in the first stage production. The play was noted for its exploration of the killer's complex psychological state, a step forward for its genre. Robert Montgomery starred in the film version in 1937 and Albert Finney in the 1964 re-make.

NIGHT MUST FALL will be designed by David Woodhead, with sound and music by Harry Blake and lighting by Howard Hudson. The national tour is produced by Alastair Whatley and Tom Hackney for The Original Theatre Company and Sebastian Warrack for Salisbury Playhouse, in association with Eastbourne Theatres.

For more information, visit www.originaltheatre.com .

TOUR SCHEDULE:

19 August - 3 September Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne on sale now

www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk 01323 412000

6 - 24 September Salisbury Playhouse on sale now

www.salisburyplayhouse.com 01722 320333

28 September - 1 October Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on sale now

www.belgrade.co.uk 024 7655 3055

4 - 8 October Festival Theatre, Malvern on sale soon

www.malvern-theatres.co.uk 01684 892277

17 - 22 October New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich on sale now

www.wolseytheatre.co.uk 01473 295900

25 - 29 October Exeter Northcott Theatre on sale soon

www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 01392 726 363

1 - 5 November Palace Theatre, Southend on sale soon

www.palacetheatresouthend.co.uk 01702 351135

8 - 12 November Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on sale now

www.everymantheatre.org.uk 01242 572573

15 - 19 November York Theatre Royal on sale soon

www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk 01904 623568

29 November - 3 December Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford on sale soon

www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk 01483 440000

The Original Theatre Company was formed in 2004 by Artistic Director Alastair Whatley. Based in Whepstead, Suffolk, they create touring productions of both classical and contemporary texts. Past productions include Flare Path, Birdsong, Our Country's Good, See How They Run, Twelfth Night, Dancing at Lughansa, The Madness of George III, The Importance of Being Oscar, Journey's End, Othello, and Vincent in Brixton. They are currently producing the national tour of Torben Betts's Invincible.

Salisbury Playhouse is an arts and educational charity and one of Britain's leading producing theatres, with a national reputation for home-grown work of the highest quality that attracts audiences from across Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset and beyond. Recent productions have seen Kirsty Bushell as Hedda Gabler and the premiere of Up Down Man (produced with Myrtle Theatre Company), and the forthcoming autumn/winter season includes a new adaptation of Frankenstein (produced with Living Spit) and a revival of Chris Chibnall's hit comedy Worst Wedding Ever. For more information please visit www.salisburyplayhouse.com.

Since 2001, Eastbourne Theatres has been proudly producing shows 'in-house'. The Theatres pride themselves in presenting a mixture of popular classics such as You Only Live Twice, Funny Money, Private Lives, creating brand new shows such as Gotta Sing Gotta Dance, and reviving forgotten gems such as Nunsense and By Jeeves. Previous productions also include Barnum, Neville's Island, Roy Clarke's Moonbather, Stepping Out, Taking Steps, Dames At Sea, Murder by Misadventure, Deadly Game, Round & Round the Garden and the last 15 pantomimes at the Devonshire Park. Co-production highlights include Telstar, which transferred to the West End, The Quiz starring David Bradley, and many other diverse and exciting projects.

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