Cast Announced for 'Let There be Love' at Tricycle

Joining Joseph Marcell in the cast for Kwame Kwei-Armah's Let There be Love, will be Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Lydia Leonard.   Let There be Love, also directed by Kwei-Armah, runs at the Tricycle Theatre from January 17 – February 16, 2008, with press night on January 21.

Set against the music of Nat King Cole, Let There be Love, a Tricycle Bloomberg Commission, is an immigrant's tale of beginnings, endings and Britishness.  Designs are by 2007 Linbury prize-winning Helen Goddard.  Let There Be Love, part of the Tricycle's Bloomberg New Writing Scheme for New Audiences, is sponsored by the Kobler Trust.

"When West Indian pensioner Alfred Morris is kicked out of his daughter's Croydon house he returns to his Willesden home to find he's been gifted a 'Polish cleaner/home help'. Eager to learn the ways of her new land, the cantankerous and xenophobic Alfred realizes that he may indeed still have a role in life: he could teach Maria to be British – and if he succeeds, maybe she might help him in the most unexpected way!" explain press notes.

Sharon Duncan-Brewster's Tricycle Theatre credits include Fabulation, Playboy of the West Indies and Blues For Mr Charlie.  Here other theatre credits include The Bacchae and The Magic Carpet for the Lyric Hammersmith and Clean Break for the Royal Court.  Her screen credits include ITV's Bad Girls and two series of Babyfather for the BBC, The Teacher, Waking the Dead and The Bill.

Lydia Leonard's theatre credits include Frost/Nixon both at the Donmar Warehouse and the Gielgud Theatre, Hecuba for the Royal Shakespeare Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream for Bristol Old Vic, Grimm Tales for the Tobacco Factory Bristol and Love's Labour's Lost on tour.  Her film credits include True True Lie and on television her credits include A Line of Beauty, Jericho, Rome, Foyles War and Midsommer Murders.

Joseph Marcell was part of the Tricycle's 2006 African-American Season appearing on stage in Walk Hard Talk Loud and Gem of the Ocean.  Other recent stage credits include Coriolanus and Under the Black Flag at the Globe and numerous productions for the RSC including Crates and Barrels, Our Friends from the North and The Brothers Menechimi.  His screen credits include Rough Crossing, EastEnders, Jericho and The Professionals IV.  He best know on television for playing Geoffrey in long running series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air alongside Will Smith.

Kwame Kwei-Armah is a member of the Tricycle's Bloomberg Writers Goup and in 2003 he won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright.  His play Elmina's Kitchen – the first in Kwei-Armah's triptych for The National Theatre - was nominated for an Olivier Award and transferred to the West End.  Elmina's Kitchen was followed in 2004 by Fix-Up and earlier this month Statement of Regret premiered at the Cottesloe. He was a finalist in Celebrity Fame Academy and a regular in Casualty.

The Tricycle Theatre is located at 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR.  Box office 020 7328 1000 or visit www.ticketweb.co.uk.  Box office is open 10AM-9PM Monday – Saturday; and 2-9PM on Sundays.

Tickets from £8.50 - £18.00 plus reductions.  Show times are Monday – Saturday at 8pm, Saturday matinee at 4pm.  Visit www.tricycle.co.uk  

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