Tricycle Theatre’s artistic director Indhu Rubasingham has announced the cast for the UK premiere of Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand. Set in New Orleans in 1836, following an era of French colonial rule and relative racial acceptance, Louisiana’s ‘free people of color’ are prospering. Beartrice has become one of the city’s wealthiest women through her relationship with a rich white man. However, when her partner mysteriously dies, the foundations of freedom she has built for herself and their three unwed daughters begins to crumble. For The House That Will Not Stand, Rubasingham will direct Ronke Adekoluejo (Odette), Ayesha Antoine (Agnes), Michele Austin (La Veuve), Martina Laird (Beartrice), Tanya Moodie (Makeda), Clare Perkins (Marie Josephine), Danusia Samal (Maude Lynn) and Paul Shelley (Lazare).
Date: 17 October-22 November (previews from 9 October)
Venue: Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR
Price: £10-£28 (concs available)
Website: www.tricycle.co.uk
To book: 020 7328 1000