Full cast and creative team announced for ANANSI THE SPIDER

Shehrazade Zafar-Arif 23 June, 2026, 17:28

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Unicorn Theatre have announced the full cast for Anansi the Spider, opening in August.

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Written by Justin Audibert and directed by Robin Belfield, Anansi the Spider brings to life classic West African and Caribbean folktales with jaw-dropping puppetry and imaginative storytelling. Step into a time long ago when animals walked on two feet and spoke with words. The most famous and cleverest of the animals in the kingdom is Anansi the spider, a trickster and spinner of yarns who can sometimes be too clever for his own good. It will play on the theatre lawn for ages 4+ and their families.

The cast includes Cynthia Emeagi (Narrator 1), Elizabeth Peace (Narrator 3), Becky Sanneh (Narrator 2), and Mira Morrison (Understudy). In the creative team is Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey (Designer); Asha Jennings-Grant (Movement Director); Esther Kehinde Ajayi (Sound Designer); Duramaney Kamara (Songs Composer); Joel Trill (Voice and Dialect Coach); Delyth Evans (Associate Designer).

Belfield said, "Celebrating the oral storytelling traditions and Afro-Caribbean heritage, what better place to weave the magic of these stories than under the trees at Regent's Park."

Anansi the Spider will play from 15 August to 6 September, with a press performance on Tuesday 18 August, 2pm.

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