How The World Began – Cast & Creative

The cast includes…

Anna Francolini, reunited with Perry Millward after they starred together in Caroline, or Change at the National Theatre. In 2009 Anna won the TMA Award for Best Performance in a Play for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Royal and Derngate, Northampton. Other stage appearances include Company and Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar), Into The Woods (Royal Opera House) and as Maria Callas in Onassis (Novello, West End).

Ciaran McIntyre was in Out of Joint’s Dreams of Violence, with other recent theatre including The Absence of Women and The Quare Fellow at the Tricycle, Deep Cut (Traverse, Tricycle and tour), The Comedy of Errors (RSC) and Richard II (Old Vic).

Perry Millward played a leading role in Caroline, or Change and has also appeared in the West End productions Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Les Miserables. He played Christopher Isherwood’s brother Richard in the recent TV drama Christopher and his Kind.

Director Des Kennedy
Designer Alyson Cummins
Lighting by Mark Howland
Sound by Paul Millen
Video design by Ben Gutteridge.

Produced by Tom Atkins, and supported by Out of Joint and the Arcola Theatre.