Cast announced for tour of James Graham’s Quiz with Rory Bremner

Full casting has been announced for the UK tour of James Graham’s acclaimed Quiz.

The hit play, recently turned into a major ITV TV show, explores the real-life story of Charles Ingram, aka the Coughing Major, and his infamous appearance on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

The Olivier-nominated drama previously ran in the West End in 2018 following its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre. Quiz now returns to the stage, embarking on a UK tour from 22 September to 2 December 2023.

Impressionist and renowned comedian Rory Bremner will star as Chris Tarrant with Emmerdale star Charley Webb, in her first professional stage role, Lewis Reeves, Mark Benton, Leo Wringer, Sukh Ojla, Marc Antolin.

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September 2001: The nation is gripped by a scandal that remains, to this day, a mystery. In an outrageously audacious heist, Charles Ingram, aka the Coughing Major, and his accomplices duped the world’s most popular TV quiz show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, out of £1,000,000.

Or did they? And if they did cheat, how did they really do it?

Uncovering new evidence, it’s time to ask you, the audience, to put fingers on keypads and answer the ultimate 50/50: guilty or not guilty?

Quiz is directed by Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, Daniel Evans and Seán Linnen with design by Robert Jones, and produced by Jonathan Church Theatre Productions and Wessex Grove, by arrangement with William Village. Lighting by Ryan Day, composition and sound design by Ben and Max Ringham, with video by Tim Reid and casting by Ginny Schiller CDG