Daisy Edgar-Jones returns to London theatre for Tennessee Williams play

The Normal People and Where The Crawdads Sing actress, 26, volition prima other Bob Marley: One Love histrion Kingsley Ben-Adir and The Walking Dead prima Lennie James successful Cat On A Hot Tin Roof astatine the Almeida theatre.

The theatre besides announced a caller accumulation of different US playwright’s work, Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon For The Misbegotten, with two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon and Luther prima Ruth Wilson successful the main roles.

Speaking astir the 2 shows, Almeida creator manager and Olivier Award-winner Rupert Goold said: “The play is bookended by 2 timeless American classics directed by our subordinate manager Rebecca Frecknall.”

Frecknall was down the Olivier-winning accumulation of Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire with Edgar-Jones’s Normal People co-star Paul Mescal.

Twisters prima Edgar-Jones returns to the Almeida for the household play astir falsehoods being uncovered aft making her nonrecreational signifier debut successful Mike Bartlett-written Albion, a Goold-directed production.

Goold besides called Pearl Harbour prima Shannon and A Very Royal Scandal histrion Wilson “two heavyweight stars of signifier and screen”, arsenic they prima successful A Moon For The Misbegotten, acceptable connected a barren workplace successful Connecticut.

Other caller productions astatine the venue see Otherland, a play by Chris Bush, 1536 by Ava Pickett and Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco.

A Moon For the Misbegotten is acceptable to tally from June 17 to August 16 2025.

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof has a day for moving from December 10 2024 to February 1 2025.