RICKY WHITTINGTON to Feature Cameos from Richard Gadd, Adam Riches, Katy Wix & Will Andrews

Edinburgh Comedy award winner Richard Gadd will be the first in a stellar line of performers to make guest appearances in a mystery rotating role in Ricky Whittington. The hotly anticipated millennial take on panto is written by acclaimed comedians Liam Williams and Daran Johnson - both of whom will also inhabit the role at least once each - and stars a host of the country's finest comic talent led by Fresh Meat and Call The Midwife's Charlotte Ritchie.

Gadd won acclaim for his theatrical, multimedia tour de force Monkey See Monkey Do at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was the first Scottish recipient of the festival's highest comedy honour since 1987.

The casting is fitting as Gadd also spent a large part of a recent fundraising gig for Ricky Whittington jokingly (we think) lamenting the fact that he had not been cast as the piece's main villain.

Joining Gadd, Williams and Johnson in making cameo appearances in the mystery role will be Adam Riches - another acclaimed comic performer who won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2011; Katy Wix of Not Going Out, Fried and Agatha Raisin; and Will Andrews Scottish BAFTA and Tap Award winner, who recently appeared in Broadchurch.

Producers have also hinted that further performers could yet be drafted in to fill the rotating role in the production, which opens at New Diorama Theatre on 12 December and runs until 7 January.

About Fight in the Dog

Fight in the Dog was established with the intention of bridging the gap between the worlds of theatre and comedy. The company's chief aim is to create work that's at once as funny as the best comedy and as thought-provoking as the best theatre. So far in 2016 they have produced Liam Williams' debut play Travesty to a warm popular and critical reception at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and New Diorama Theatre, and Twelfth Night with comedians which was originally performed in January 2016 at King's Cross Theatre featuring Tim Key, The Pin, Ellie White and Kieran Hodgson. The show was then performed at Latitude Festival and LonDon Wonderground, Southbank Cnetre over summer 2016.

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About New Diorama Theatre

New Diorama Theatre is a pioneering venue in the heart of London dedicated to providing a home for theatre ensembles, both emerging and established, from across the UK. Since opening in 2010, New Diorama has welcomed over 120,000 audience members and has developed productions that have toured both nationally and internationally. Having received two prestigious Peter Brook Awards for their programme, New Diorama were also the recipients of the 2013/14 Les Enfants Terribles Prize and Artistic and Executive Director David Byrne was awarded the OffWestEnd Award for Best Artistic Director in 2014. Supported by a strong community programme New Diorama were Mayor of Camden's Official Charity in 2012/13 and are proud of their work with Access, being the only non-government funded Studio Theatres to offer access performances throughout their whole season.

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