EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Tony winner Victoria Clark (The Gentle within the Piazza, Kimberly Akimbo) has joined the forged of Manhattan Theatre Membership‘s Punch, the James Graham play set to open on Broadway this fall.
Clark joins the beforehand introduced forged Camila Canó-Flaviá (Broadway: Community, Patriots) as Clare/Nicola; Will Harrison (A Full Unknown, Daisy Jones & The Six) as Jacob, Sam Robards (A.I.: Synthetic Intelligence, Broadway’s The 39 Steps) as David/Raf’s Dad, and Lucy Taylor (Broadway’s Betrayal) as Mum/Wendy.
Along with Clark, who will play the sufferer’s compassionate mom, different newcomers introduced for the Punch forged are Cody Kostro (Broadway: Six Levels of Separation) as Raf/Sam and Piter Marek (Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac) as Tony/Derek/DS Villers.
Cody Kostro, Piter Marek
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Punch facilities round Jacob, a younger man who makes a deadly mistake that lands him in jail. However as he struggles to just accept the implications of his actions and construct a brand new life, he finds an uncommon supply of salvation: the dad and mom of the boy he killed.
The play is getting an uncommon simultaneous opening on Broadway and in London’s West Finish this fall, with totally different casts after all. MTC’s Broadway manufacturing will begin previews on Tuesday, September 9 and open Monday, September 29 on the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, simply because the London manufacturing begins performances on the Apollo Theatre within the West Finish. Each productions are directed by Adam Penford.
The most recent castings had been introduced immediately by Manhattan Theatre Membership’s Lynne Meadow, Inventive Director, and Chris Jennings, Govt Director.
Two-time Olivier Award winner James Graham (Labour of Love, Pricey England; TV: Sherwood) returns to MTC the place his Olivier-nominated play Ink obtained six Tony Award nominations in 2019, together with Finest Play. Punch, primarily based on the ebook Proper from Unsuitable by Jacob Dunne, earned ecstatic evaluations when it premiered final 12 months on the Nottingham Playhouse within the UK, in a manufacturing directed by Adam Penford.
Penford returns to Broadway, having beforehand been the Affiliate Director on the Tony Award-winning One Man, Two Guvnors. Punch is introduced in affiliation with Nottingham Playhouse, the place Penford serves as Inventive Director.