{"id":789704,"date":"2026-10-02T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789704\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:16:10","slug":"charlie-cox-to-lead-the-kings-ransom-play-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789704\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Cox to Lead ‘The King’s Ransom’ Play in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cDaredevil\u201d star Charlie Cox<\/a> is returning to the London stage this winter to lead \u201cThe King\u2019s Ransom,\u201d a new play by Stuart Slade. <\/p>\n

\n\tWorld premiering at the Donmar Warehouse, \u201cThe King\u2019s Ransom\u201d is set in 1977 Memphis and stars Cox as Vince Black, a small-time crook who is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. \u201cThe plan is simple: Kidnap Elvis Presley\u2019s corpse. Stash him in a chest freezer. Collect the million-dollar ransom,\u201d the play\u2019s synopsis says. \u201cVince assembles a crack team of misfits and dropouts to attempt the heist of the century.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe ensemble includes \u201cThe Inbetweeners\u201d star Blake Harrison as Rusty, Tom Fletcher as Charlie, Matthew Flynn as Mr. Bluefield, Leo Patrick as Jessie Lee, Jenny Rainsford as Rhonda\/ Jenny, Christopher Short as Elvis, Cherrelle Skeete as Mike and Ronnie Yorke as Red, with the role of Martha played by Ruby Barker, Eira Kay and Trixie Willis.<\/p>\n

\n\tMatthew Dunster (\u201c2:22: A Ghost Story,\u201d \u201cThe Hunger Games on Stage\u201d) directs. \u201cThe King\u2019s Ransom\u201d will open on Dec. 16, with previews starting Dec. 5, and runs through Feb. 6, 2027. <\/p>\n

\n\tCox previously starred in the 2010 production of \u201cThe Prince of Homburg\u201d at the Donmar Warehouse. His other theater credits include the West End revival of Harold Pinter\u2019s \u201cBetrayal\u201d in 2019, which he transferred with to Broadway. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe King\u2019s Ransom\u201d creative team includes set designer Anna Fleischle, costume designer Jean Chan, lighting designer Sally Ferguson, sound designer Holly Khan, illusion designer Chris Cox, fight and intimacy directors Ruth Cooper-Brown and Rachel Bown-Williams of Rc-Annie, and casting director Lotte Hines CDG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDaredevil\u201d star Charlie Cox is returning to the London stage this winter to lead \u201cThe King\u2019s Ransom,\u201d a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,73120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-charlie-cox","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}