Casting Announced For THE FASTEST CLOCK IN THE UNIVERSE

Casting has just been announced for the first production in The Hampstead Theatre's autumn season, Philip Ridley's The Fastest Clock In The Universe.

Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch, Dead Set) will make her stage debut, alongside Finbar Lynch (Dancing at Lughnasa at The Old Vic), Neet Mohan (England People Very Nice at the National Theatre), Alec Newman (Plenty with Cate Blanchett at the Albery Theatre) and Eileen Page (Eleanor of Aquitane, the RSC's Waste with Judi Dench).

In a room above a long-abandoned fur factory in London's East End, thirty-year-old Cougar is preparing for his 'nineteenth' birthday party yet again. The arrival of young and beautiful Foxtrot ignites a chain reaction in which narcissism, desire and an obsessive fear of ageing are played out to their extremes.

Philip Ridley has had more plays produced at Hampstead Theatre than any other playwright. The Fastest Clock in the Universe premiered at Hampstead in 1992, starring a young Jude Law, and won Ridley the Evening Standard award for Most Promising Playwright, the Time Out Award, and the prestigious Meyer Whitworth Prize.