Laura Whitmore joins Sophie Melville, Bryan Dick and Leander Deeny for the world premiere of Apex Predator, debuting at Hampstead Theatre this March.
Written by John Donnelly and directed by Blanche McIntyre, it will play Hampstead’s Main Stage from March 22 – April 26.
Mia is going out of her mind in a flat with a baby that won’t feed. Her son Alfie’s getting bullied at school; her husband Joe is working all hours for the police on a job he can’t talk about; the neighbour keeps blasting music at 2am; and another body has been found in the Thames.
As Mia desperately looks for something in her life she can control, Alfie’s teacher Ana proposes an unconventional route to empowerment – and suddenly the hunted becomes the hunter…
Following her West End stage debut in 2022 in 2.22: A Ghost Story, presenter and broadcaster Whitmore will play Ana, with Melville (Iphigenia in Splott) as Mia, Dick (The Hills of California) as Joe and Deeny (Abigail’s Party) as Victor.
They will be joined by Callum Knowelden and Lorcan Reilly who share the role of Alfie.
Donnelly’s latest work following The Knowledge and The Pass is described as a genre-busting new play is at once a sophisticated critique of the way we live now and a supernatural thriller.
Director McIntyre returns to Hampstead following her record-breaking production of The Invention of Love. She recently directed The Merry Wives of Windsor for the RSC.
Joining McIntyre on the creative team is designer Tom Piper, lighting designer Jack Knowles, sound designer Christopher Shutt and movement and intimacy director Ingrid Mackinnon. The casting director is Annelie Powell.
Find tickets for Apex Predator here.