Cast

(Lyndsey Holmes, Chris Ashby, Kieran Garland, Clare Perkins, Paul Sockett, Edward Grace, John McAndrew (back to camera), Joshua Jenkins, Ann Marcuson, Emmanuella Cole, Stuart Laing, Jessica Williams)

At this stage, I should probably introduce the 15 actors that make up the touring cast of Curious Incident. In alphabetical order, they are:

Geraldine Alexander
Chris Ashby
Emmanuella Cole
Kieran Garland
Edward Grace
Lucas Hare
Gina Isaac
Joshua Jenkins
Roberta Kerr
Stuart Laing
Ann Marcuson
John McAndrew
Clare Perkins
Paul Sockett
Jessica Williams

There are 11 actors with speaking parts on stage for every show. In addition, because of the nature of the production, we have a few actors who are mainly engaged in helping with physical sequences - who also understudy the speaking roles - and two actors who share the part of Christopher Boone.

We rehearsed for 6 weeks throughout November and December last year - with a huge and necessary emphasis on the physical side of things, guided primarily by Scott Graham and Delphine Gaborit of Frantic Assembly - and were led by our Associate Director Katy Rudd and Resident Director Kim Pearce; in addition to Marianne Elliott, director of this production in all its forms since its inception at the National Theatre in 2012.

This production has played for nearly 3 years in various locations: on the South Bank, at two theatres in the West End, and on Broadway. I'm proud to say that the largest crowd it has played to so far is 1,718 people: at the Lowry, Salford on 10th January 2015.

Those who've seen our show will know the significance of Polperro, a small port on the south coast of Cornwall: Christopher clearly recalls the day that he, his father and his late mother spent there when he was 9. He remembers his mother swimming in the sea, and her exclamation "Bloody Nora, it's cold!" Whilst in Plymouth in March, most of us travelled to Polperro one Sunday and paid our own little tribute: partly for posterity and partly for fun (thanks to Lyndsey Holmes for the video).