Cast announced for Sonali Bhattacharya’s Two Billion Beats at The Orange Tree Theatre
Full casting has been announced for the return of Sonali Bhattacharya’s Two Billion Beats at The Orange Tree Theatre.
Following its acclaimed world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre in 2022, the production returns on 24 January with previews from 20 January and runs until 4 February 2023.
Nimmo Ismail and Tian Brown-Sampson will direct Shala Nyx (Asha) and Tanvi Virmani (Bettina) in Sonali Bhattacharyya’s upbeat coming-of-age story about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don’t make the rules.
Seventeen-year-old Asha is an empathetic rebel, inspired by historical revolutionaries and iconoclasts Sylvia Pankhurst and B R Ambedkar. She’s unafraid of pointing out the hypocrisy around her but less sure how to actually dismantle it.
Meanwhile, her younger sister, Bettina, wide-eyed and naïve, is just trying to get through the school day without getting her pocket money nicked. When Bettina turns to her for help, Asha starts to ask what standing up for her political beliefs really looks like.
The production has design by Debbie Duru, lighting design by Alex Fernandes, sound design by Tingying Dong, associate sound design by Anna Short, movement by Chi-San Howard and casting by Christopher Worrall.
For more information and tickets, visit orangetreetheatre.co.uk
