Evelyn Hoskins in the acclaimed production of This is My Family at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield. Picture Keith Pattison
Following a critically acclaimed, award-winning run last year in the Studio, Daniel Evans’ production of Tim Firth’s musical This Is My Family returns to Sheffield Theatres from 9-18 October, ahead of a national tour to Royal & Derngate Northampton, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Liverpool Playhouse and the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.
Clare Burt (Yvonne), Bill Champion (Steve), Evelyn Hoskins (Nicky), Terence Keeley (Matt) and Rachel Lumberg (Sian) reprise their roles from the original run, and are joined by Marjorie Yates as May to complete the company.
‘This is my family’. That was the competition. All Nicky had to do was describe her family and she could win a dream holiday. Okay, so she lied through her teeth and made them all sound perfect, but who cares!? She won! She could take them to Rio! To Florida! Acapulco!
Instead, 13-year-old Nicky Perry chooses pretty much the last holiday her family were expecting…
Majorie Yates plays May. Her theatre credits include Untold Stories (West Yorkshire Playhouse), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Liverpool Everyman/Kingston), Orpheus Descending (Royal Exchange), This Happy Breed, Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal Bath), Ahasverus (RSC/Hampstead), Origin of the Species (Arcola), Twelfth Night, The Master Builder (RSC), Three Tall Women (Oxford Playhouse), Honeymoon (Royal Court), Star Quality (Apollo Theatre), The Daughter-in-Law (Young Vic), An Inspector Calls (Garrick Theatre) and The Glass Menagerie (Bristol Old Vic).
Tim Firth’s work for theatre includes Calendar Girls, Sign of the Times, Our House, The Flint Street Nativity, Absolutely Frank, The Safari Party, Neville’s Island and A Man of Letters. For television, his credits include Trapped, Cruise of the Gods, Border Cafe, Preston Front, The Rottentrolls, Once Upon a Time in the North and All Quiet On the Preston Front; and for film, The Wedding Video, Kinky Boots, Calendar Girls and Blackball.
Artistic director of Sheffield Theatres Daniel Evans directs. As director, he previously staged The Sheffield Mysteries, Oliver!, This is My Family (UK Theatre Award for Best Musical Production), The Full Monty (UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production – also national tour and West End), My Fair Lady, Macbeth, Othello, Racing Demon as part of The David Hare Season, and An Enemy of the People – the opening production of his inaugural season. Evans’ acting work includes Sunday in the Park with George (Menier Chocolate Factory, Wyndham’s Theatre and Broadway) – a role for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical (his second Olivier Award, the first being for Merrily We Roll Along in 2001) and a Tony Award nomination. His extensive credits include work with the Donmar Warehouse, RSC, Royal Court Theatre and National Theatre.
Evans is joined by designer Richard Kent, musical director Caroline Humphris, lighting designer David Plater, sound designer Nick Greenhill and movement director Lucy Hind.
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