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Thu 7 Aug 2008
Cast Update for Wig Out! at Royal Court
Cast update for Wig Out!, by Tarell Alvin McCraney, which opens at the Royal Court Downstairs 28 Nov 2008, following previews from 20 Nov - running to 10 Jan 2009.
Cast includes: Katie Gillespie, Leon Lopez, Danny Sapani, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kevin Harvey, Alex Lanipekun,
Holly Quin-Ankrah, Craig Stein, Jessika Williams.
Katie Gillespie London stage credits include (Hairspray & the Old Vic’s Aladdin), Leon Lopez (Piaf, Rent), Danny Sapani (Big White Fog, The Overwhelming, Macbeth, His Dark Materials) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (The History Boys, Big White Fog, A Chain Play).
It is directed by Dominic Cooke and designed by Ultz.
Enter the legendary House of Light, a hyper-glamorous, uber-competitive drag queen refuge where a daughter who was once a son, can find a family. While the House are primping and preening for a catwalk showdown with the other houses, drag queen Nina is wooing the delectable Eric as ‘Wilson’, a de-camped, make-up free ‘straight’ gay man. How can Nina/Wilson strut the thorny divide between opposite genders and differing worlds? With sassy music, killer costumes and performed in a club cabaret setting, Wig Out! brings to glorious, vivid life, a riotous, defiant drag queen sub-culture.
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