Cast announced for 'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy'

The production invites audiences to journey from a pub to spaceships and alien worlds, all within the confines of Riverside Studios.

Summary

• Sanjeev Bhaskar and Tamsin Greig will be among the pre-recorded cast
• Audiences will go on a galactic adventure with Arthur Dent Zaphod Beeblebrox and more
• Performances begin this November

The cast has been revealed for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which opens at Riverside Studios in London this November.

Co-created by Arvind Ethan David, a protégé of Douglas Adams (original creator of Hitchhiker), the production invites audiences to journey from a pub to spaceships and alien worlds, all within the confines of Riverside Studios. Audiences will follow Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Fenchurch and Marvin the Paranoid Android on a galactic adventure as they escape Earth’s destruction.

Combining pre-recorded celebrity voices with a live cast, the show will include actor and comedian grandee Sanjeev Bhaskar (Taskmaster, Unforgotten) voicing Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, Olivier Award winner Tamsin Greig (Black Books, Episodes) voicing The Guide, Lenora Crichlow (Avenue 5, Being Human) appearing digitally as Tricia McMillian AKA Trillian, and journalist Samira Ahmed appearing as a newsreader.

The live cast includes Benjamin Durham and Robert Thompson as Arthur Dent, Oliver Britten and Matt Colyer as Ford Prefect, Kat Johns-Burke as Fenchurch, Andrew Evans as Marvin the Paranoid Android, Lee VG as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Richard Costello as Slartibartfast.

Completing the cast are Angelis Hunt and Aya Elmansouri as Humma Kavula, Briony Scarlett as Eccentrica Gallumbits and Tom Bowen as Wowbagger, Alex Anthony Fevrier, and Tamara Saffir.

Bhaskar said, “I’m really excited to be a part of Hithchikers. Arvind’s understanding and love for Douglas Adams’ work supersedes and surpasses anyone else I know. So it was such an easy ‘Yes’”.

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Photo credit: Tamsin Greig and Sanjeev Bhaskar. (Courtesy of production)