Casting Announced for Southwark Playhouse's TANZI LIBRE and £5 Ringside Standing Tickets Released

Meryl Fernandes plays Platinum Sue. She trained at Millennium Performing Arts and is best known for playing series regular Afia in BBC's EastEnders. Theatre credits include The Man of Mode, A Matter of Life and Death (National Theatre), A Small Town Anywhere (National Theatre Studio), Who Asked You? (Arcola Theatre), The Lion of Punjab (Waterman Studios), The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Brick Lane Music Hall) and Oliver! (London Palladium. Film credits include Ashes and Living with the Infidels. Other television credits include Doctors, Minder, Clone, Demons and Doctor Who.

Patricia Gannon plays Tanzi's Mum. Her theatre credits include Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Here Lies Mary Spindler (Royal Shakespeare Company, Latitude Festival), Tartuffe (Watermill Theatre, Newbury and Tour), Flying Under Bridges (Watford Palace Theatre), The Venetian Twins, The Gentleman of Olmedo, Dancing in Lughnasa (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), The School of Night, As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Tamer Tamed (Royal Shakespeare Company and Queens Theatre), The Playboy of the Western World (National Theatre), Silence (Birmingham Rep). Television and film credits include Holby City, Coronation Street, Ashes to Ashes, Silent Witness, The Bill and London's Burning. Film credits include V for Vendetta.

Roger Griffiths plays Tanzi's Dad. Theatre credits include One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Sheffield Theatres), The Graft (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Radio Golf (Tricycle Theatre). Film credits include Batman Begins, Buffalo Soldiers, Tube Tales, Greenwich Mean Time and Hard Men. Television credits include Rock and Chips, Vexed, Hustle, Doctor Who, Doctors, EastEnders, The Lenny Henry Show and Harry Enfield.

Olivia Onyehara plays Tanzi. She trained at Drama Studio, London. Theatre credits include Orpheus and Eurydice (Riverside Studios), The Possibilities (Tristan Bates Theatre) and All Our Daughters? (New Vic Theatre).

Mark Rice-Oxley plays Ref. He trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Theatre includes Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre), Town (Royal and Derngate), Switzerland (High Tide Festival), Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Holding Fire (Shakespeare's Globe), Pool (No Water) (Frantic Assembly), The Romans in Britain (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), The Life of Galileo (Birmingham Rep Theatre), David Copperfield (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Kindness of Strangers, The Entertainer (Liverpool Everyman), The Comedy of Errors (Bristol Old Vic), Cuckoos (Barbican), The Dwarfs (Tricycle Theatre), The Danny Crowe Show (Bush Theatre), Workers Writes (Royal Court), Cressida (Albery Theatre). Television credits include Whitechapel, WPC 56, The Dwarfs, Judge John Deed, Preston Passion, Land Girls, New Tricks, Hotel Babylon, EastEnders, Holby City and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

Kazeem Tosin Amore plays Dean Rebel. He trained at the London School of Dramatic Art and at Bird College. Theatre credits include Macbeth (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Camden (Hiraeth Productions), and Rumpelstiltskin (The Spinning Wheel, Oxford).

Southwark Playhouse are delighted to announce that there will be a limited number of £5 Ringside Standing tickets available for each performance which will allow spectators to be an even bigger part of the wrestling action! Tickets can be purchased online or on the phone via southwarkplayhouse.co.uk or 020 7407 0234.

As previously announced, Tanzi Libre is the first production in Southwark Playhouse's new main space, The Large, opening in May 2013 for a six-week run. Former Artistic Director Ellie Jones returns to the theatre to direct an updated version of Claire Luckham's 1980 play Trafford Tanzi, re-titled Tanzi Libre. It will play from 15 May to 22 June 2013 with a press night on 21 May.

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