You Are Here at Southwark Playhouse – full cast announced

Full casting has been announced for the re-scheduled UK premiere of You Are Here at Southwark Playhouse.

Rebecca Lock (Curtains, Wyndham’s Theatre, Mamma Mia! Novello Theatre), Phil Adéle (Our Town, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Little Shop of Horrors UK tour) and Jordan Frazier (Nina Simone, Kenny Leon Theatre Company, Bat Out of Hell, UK and international tour) will join the previously announced Wendi Peters in the production which will be performed live at The Large to in-person socially distanced audiences from 17 May to 12 June 2021.

Presented by the newly launched theatre company The Grey Area, the live performances will go ahead subject to the Government’s lifting of the ban on indoor theatre performances.

If the live shows go ahead the run will also include two live-streamed performances on 22 May at 3pm and at 7.30pm. If there is any change to the Government’s proposed 17 May earliest date for the reopening of theatres with social distanced audiences, all performances will be live-streamed and ticket holders will be offered the chance to watch the production online or obtain a refund.

With music and lyrics by Neil Bartram and a book by Brian Hill (the team behind Broadway musicals The Story of My Life, Something Wicked This Way Comes and the upcoming Bedknobs & Broomsticks), You Are Here is set on the night of the moon landing 20 July 1969.

Peters (Big, Dominion Theatre, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Arts Theatre) will take centre stage as Chicago housewife Diana, who takes her own ‘giant leap into the unknown’ when she walks out on her safe, comfortable suburban life.

The Grey Area’s artistic director Matthew Rankcom (Before After) will direct the production with musical direction by Laura Bangay, movement direction by Annie Hibbert, set and costume design by Libby Todd, lighting design by Jai Morjaria and sound design by Charles Parry.

Southwark Playhouse currently has a selection of on-demand streams available via the Southwark Stayhouse streaming platform on the website.

Angela Thomas