The new play, based on Josephine Tey's seminal crime novel and written by playwright M. Kilburgh Reedy, will make its world premiere in London next month.
Rob Pomfret, Rachel Pickup and Jenna Fox. Headshots provided by production.
Directed by Jenny Eastop, the cast for The Daughter of Time at the Charing Cross Theatre this summer includes Rob Pomfret (The Mousetrap, West End) as Inspector Alan Grant, Rachel Pickup (The Gilded Age) as Marta Hallard, Noah Huntley (The Days of Our Lives, Library Theatre) as Nigel Templeton, Harrison Sharpe (Overwhelm, Donmar Warehouse) as Brent Carradine, Hafsa Abbasi (The Daughters of Oedipus) as Nurse Ingham, Jenna Fox (African Gothic, Park 90) as Nurse Darroll and Sanya Adegbola (Doctor Who) as Sergeant Williams.
Completing the cast are Henry Douthwaite (Bob Marley: One Love), understudy for Grant and Templeton; Sophie Doyle (Twelfth Night), ensemble and understudy for the Nurses; and Gregor Roach (Primary Playwrights), ensemble and understudy for ‘Carradine’ and ‘Williams’.
The Daughter of Time is a reimagining of Tey's genre-defining novel – ranked No.1 in the British Crime Writers’ Association’s list of the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time – that follows Inspector Alan Grant as he investigates the true story behind King Richard III’s reputation as a villain while recovering in a hospital. He uses his skills to challenge the story that Richard murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower.
The strictly limited run of this new play will run from 18 July to 13 September.
