Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal For MY ONE TRUE FRIEND at Tristan Bates Theatre

The world première of Alexander Matthews' My One True Friend is today announced with full cast. Antony Law directs Theo Bamber (Gordon), Mensah Bediako (Kapenie), Suzanna Hamilton (Lady L), Lucy Lowe (Oonagh), and Joseph Rowe (George). The production opens on 27 August at Tristan Bates Theatre, with previews from 21 August, and runs until 14 September.

1970 Rhodesia. Two families, two different lives.

Preparations are in hand for the irascible Lady L's birthday party but her children are there not for family loyalty or celebration but to claim what they feel is rightly theirs. On another part of the estate Kapenie and his grandson argue about loyalty. Kapenie is loyal to a family but not his own and the generational divide is splitting even wider.

Set against a backdrop of prejudice and inequality, My One True Friend has a profound and life-altering friendship at its heart.

Tristan Bates Theatre
1A Tower Street, London WC2H 9NP

Box Office: 020 3841 6611
www.actorscentre.co.uk/theatre

21 August - 14 September, Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm (Saturday and Sunday 3pm matinée)

Press night: Tuesday 27 August, 7pm