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Sam Alexander, Anna Chancellor, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sheila Hancock, et al. Set for Hampstead Theatre’s Fall Season

Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock

Hampstead Theatre has announced casting for Steve Thompson’s No Naughty Bits, to run September 8 – October 15, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Edward Hall will direct the production.

The play reimagines the real-life trials of Monty Python’ s Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin as they take on the American television networks and courts in defense of English humor after all the rude bits were cut out of the Monty Python series when it was first broadcast in the U.S.

The company will feature Sam Alexander, Harry Hadden-Paton John Guerrasio, Joseph May and Charity Wakefield.

In related news, preliminary casting has been announced for Nicholas Wright’s The Last Duchess, to run October 20 – November 26). The play is based on Caroline Blackwood’s book about the last days of Wallace Simpson, the American divorcee’s who became the Duchess of Windsor after marrying and necessitating the abdication of Edward VIII. The production will feature Anna Chancellor, Sheila Hancock, Angela Thorne, and be designed by Anthony Ward, with lighting by Peter Mumford.

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