First look: Pilot Theatre’s Noughts & Crosses on tour

A first look at the tour of Pilot Theatre’s award-winning production of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses has been revealed.

Sabrina Mahfouz’s adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s critically acclaimed young adult novel of first love in a dangerous fictional dystopia opened this week in York.

Told from the perspectives of two teenagers, Noughts & Crosses is a captivating love story set in a volatile, racially segregated society and explores the powerful themes of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world.

Production images released today feature cast members Effie Ansah (The Maladies, Almeida Theatre); James Arden (So Here We Are, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Emma Keele (East is East, Birmingham Rep and National Theatre and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, UK Tour); Nathaniel McCloskey (Macbeth, Box Clever Theatre); Amie Buhari (Flowers, Channel 4); Steph Asamoah (Billy Eliot, Curve Theatre ); Chris Jack (Brighton Rock, Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal and Our Town, Royal Exchange Manchester), Abiola Efunshile (& Juliet, West End); Daniel Copeland (Invincible, Orange Tree Theatre and The Jungle Book, Leeds Playhouse) and Tom Coleman.

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Directed by Pilot Theatre’s Artistic Director Esther Richardson, Noughts and Crosses runs at York Theatre Royal till 24 September and then tours till 1 April 2023.