The Barn Theatre announces cast of Around the World in Eighty Days

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has announced the cast of Toby Hulse’s take of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.

The venue will present the fast paced and playfully comic adaptation of the epic adventure novel from 30 January – 11 March 2023.

Making up the cast are Evangeline Dickson (Doctor Who: Time Fracture – West End) as Fix of the Yard, James El-Sharawy (The Response – The Seagull Theatre/Soho Theatre) as Passepartout and Adam Elliot (Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap – St Martin’s Theatre) as Phileas Fogg.

The production will be directed by Joseph O’Malley, who previously directed the Barn Theatre’s productions of The Hound of the Baskervilles, The 39 Steps and Ben Hur.

In the great Victorian Age, it is clearly impossible to go around the world in eighty days, and only an idiot would try it.  It is also clearly impossible to tell this story with only three actors, but these idiots are going to take us all on a breath-taking roller-coaster ride around the world; filled with thrills and adventure, and no short order of panache, in a Built By Barn version of a rollicking, side splitting, laugh a minute, adaptation.

Maybe, through the power of human invention and a bit of Barn ingenuity, they might just pull it off.

The production opens the Barn Theatre’s 2023 Season which also includes the first stage adaptation of Morpurgo’s 1990 Carnegie Medal shortlisted novel Waiting for Anya (27 March – 5 May), a new staging of Noël Coward’s comedy of manners Private Lives (15 May – 24 June), a revival of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical Once (3 July – 12 August), the world premiere of Richard Hough and Ben Morales Frost’s new musical Sin: A New Musical of Revenge (18 August – 16 September) and the premiere of Alan Pollock’s festive adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story Treasure Island (20 November – 6 January).

For more information and tickets, visit barntheatre.org.uk