Nigel Barrett to Play 'Big Bad Wolf' in BADDIES: THE MUSICAL at Unicorn; Cast Announced!

Full casting is announced on Baddies: the Musical, which returns for Christmas with new staging and choreography from Caroline Pope, this follows last year's hugely successful and critically acclaimed sold-out run. Artistic Director Purni Morell directs this deliciously artful and mischievously comic (anti) musical about fairytales much feared anti-heroes.

Nigel Barrett takes the role of The Big Bad Wolf. Nigel is a well-known performance artist and theatre maker and one half of the extraordinary and award-winning duo, Nigel and Louise who won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2015 and currently appearing in Margate/Dreamland. An Associate Artist of Shunt, Nigel's theatre credits include The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre), Death in Every One (BAC) and the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac (Royal & Derngate and Northern Stage).

The versatile cast also includes Christian Roe (Velveteen Rabbit) plays Peter Pan, David McKay plays Rumplestiltskin, Ngo Ngofa (Dancing in the Streets) plays Ugly Sister May, Karis Jack (Urinetown) plays Ugly Sister Fay, Cornell S John (Kidulthood) plays Captain Hook, Kathy Rose O'Brien plays Cinderella, Jon Trenchard (Guard) and Jack Benjamin (Guard).

Baddies: the Musical imagines what happens when five notorious villains from well-known fairytales - the Big Bad Wolf, Rumpelstiltskin, the Ugly Sisters and Captain Hook - are under threat of being thrown out of their own tales by the Council of Bedtime Stories who want to rebrand them. Under the council's critical eye, the Baddies are at risk of being transformed into bland, sugar-coated 'Goodies' forever. But how are you supposed to tell who the good guys are when there are no baddies around.

This year's staging includes choreography from Caroline Pope, one of the UK's leading movement directors working across film, television, theatre and opera. Her credits for film include Hot Fuzz, Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre and Labyrinth with David Bowie. Television includes Mr Selfridge, Jekyll and Hyde, You, Me and the Apocalypse and for theatre Lucy Bailey's King Lear (Theatre Royal Bath) and The Night Season (National Theatre), Jonathan Kent's award-winning Medea with Diana Rigg (Almeida).

Nancy Harris is an award-winning Dublin-born writer whose credits for the Unicorn include the critically acclaimed The Man with the Disturbingly Smelly Foot which played as part of the Greeks season 2012. Her other credits include One Cold Dark Night (Bush Theatre), No Romance (Abbey Theatre), Our New Girl (Bush), The Kreutzer Sonata (Gate Theatre), Girl in a Bath and The Cleanest Way to End It (Soho Theatre), Love in a Glass Jar (Abbey Theatre, Dublin) and Little Dolls (Bush). She also writes for film and television and was nominated for a BAFTA in the Breakthrough Talent category in 2014 for her writing on the Channel 4 series DATES.

Marc Teitler has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. His credits for the Unicorn include The Nutcracker and The Mouse King. Other work includes Stuck on a Sunday (Royal Opera House) which was made into an animated film by BAFTA winning Marc Craste, Blood + Gifts for Howard Davies at the National Theatre, Does My Society Look Big in This for Tom Morris at Bristol Old Vic and The Secret Agent at the Young Vic. Film work includes Beacon 77, Hearts and Missing which was nominated for Best Music for an Animated Film at the Berlin Independent Film Festival. Marc is currently under commission for work at the National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic.

Age guide: for everyone aged 6 and over. Duration: Approx 2 hrs 10 mins (including an interval).

CHRISTMAS EVENTS:

Fairytale Fun and Games Workshop

Sat 26 Nov, 3.30pm / for ages 7 - 10 / £10 per child

Take to the stage for a fairytale workshop focusing on Grimm tales and other storytelling favourites.

Magical Midnight Mischief Sleepover

Sat 10 & Fri 16 Dec / For ages 7 - 10 / £79 per child

Enjoy dinner in the Baddies Lounge followed by our 5-star show: Baddies: the Musical, then meet the cast and take part in a whole host of activities before you bunk down on the set for the night. You'll be woken up in the morning with a breakfast and a goodie-bag too.

Sing-a-long Performance

Sat 3 Dec, 7pm

This captioned performance of the Baddies: the Musical offers audiences the chance to join in with the songs!

ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES:

Relaxed performances: Wed 30 Nov, 11am / Sat 10 Dec, 2pm

Pre-Show Touch Tours: Fri 2 Dec / Sun 4 Dec

Audio Described performance: Sun 4 Dec, 2pm

Signed performance: Wed 14 Dec, 11am / Sat 17 Dec, 1pm

Live Captioning (also a Sing-a-long performance): Sat 3 Dec, 7pm

Assistance dogs are welcome.

There is an infra-red Sennheiser sytem for sound amplification.

The building is wheelchair accessible throughout.

IF YOU GO:

BADDIES: THE MUSICAL

Unicorn Theatre
147 Tooley Street
London
SE1 2HZ

Box Office: 020 7645 0560
www.unicorntheatre.com

Previews: £16
Under 18s: £12 / £16 / £18
Adults: £ 18 / £22 / £24 (concessions £3 off)

Premier experience: £30 Under 18s / £36 Adults - book for the very best seats in the house, access to the Baddies VIP Lounge and the chance to purchace exclusive signed merchandise.

School groups of 10+ one teacher free for every 10 pupils - £11

Disabled customers may bring 1 free for carer

FAMILY TICKET

15% OFF when you buy 4 tickets.

(must include at least one Under 18 ticket and one adult ticket. Offer excludes premier seats, concession prices and preview performances)