Hampstead Theatre today announces the full cast for its upcoming production of Tom Stoppard\u2019s Jumpers, directed by Blanche McIntyre. The production plays the Main Stage at Hampstead Theatre from 25 November 2026 to 23 January 2027 with a press night on Monday 7 December.<\/p>\n
Star of the Netflix smash-hit series Heartstopper Rhea Norwood (Cabaret, KitKat Club; Pride and Prejudice) will play Dorothy and James Corrigan (A Doll\u2019s House, Almeida Theatre) will play George.<\/p>\n
They are joined by Jude Akuwudike (Kyoto, RSC) as Crouch, Tim McMullan (Woman In Mind, Duke of York\u2019s Theatre) as Archie, Scarlett Stitt (Cara and Kelly Are Best Friends Forever for Life, Soho Theatre) as Secretary and Jason Thorpe (Fatherland, Hampstead Theatre) as Inspector Bones.<\/p>\n
Completing the cast are Joshua Arkey, Alex Anthony Fevrier, Nick Godfrey, Alex Houston, Laura Kenyon, Ocean Navarro, Dominic Owen and Miguel Torres Umba who all play jumpers.<\/p>\n
Tom Stoppard\u2019s dazzling 1972 comedy of murder, marriage and metaphysics has not been seen in London for over 20 years. This production follows Hampstead Theatre\u2019s record-breaking seasonal revivals of Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll and Hapgood.<\/p>\n
Set in a Britain on the brink of change, the reforming Radical Liberal party has won power with a landslide, a man has been put on the moon, and George, a Professor of Moral Philosophy, is up late writing a paper: Man \u2013 good, bad or indifferent? Driven to distraction by the wild election party that his wife Dotty, a reclusive ex-musical star, is hosting \u2013 a party featuring a full band and live acrobatics \u2013 he makes an anonymous complaint to the police. The next morning the police duly arrive, but not to investigate George\u2019s complaint. Unbeknownst to him, a murder took place at the party \u2013 a murder in which Dotty is the prime suspect\u2026<\/p>\n
Blanche McIntyre returns to directing Stoppard, after her triumphant production of The Invention of Love. Her other Hampstead Theatre productions have included The Assembled Parties and Letters from Max.<\/p>\n
Joining Blanche McIntyre on the creative team are designer Robert Innes Hopkins, lighting designer Guy Hoare, sound designer George Dennis, composer Tim Sutton, video Ian William Galloway and movement and circus director Tim Claydon. The casting director is Anna Cooper and the Assistant Director is Jess Barton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampstead Theatre today announces the full cast for its upcoming production of Tom Stoppard\u2019s Jumpers, directed by Blanche…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807734","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=807734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}