Casting announced for The Offing - adaptation of Benjamin Myers' hit novel - at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre

By Sue Wilkinson
Published 18th Aug 2021, 11:30 BST
James Gladdon as Robert, Cate Hamer as Dulcie and Ingvild Lakou as RomyJames Gladdon as Robert, Cate Hamer as Dulcie and Ingvild Lakou as Romy
James Gladdon as Robert, Cate Hamer as Dulcie and Ingvild Lakou as Romy
Casting has been announced for a new adaptation of Benjamin Myers’s best-selling novel, The Offing, at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this autumn in a co-production with Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne.

The adaptation by Janice Okoh, with additional material by Paul Robinson, will bring to the stage all the vibrant colour and warmth of the much-loved coming-of age story, which captured the hearts and minds of so many readers on its publication in 2019, when it was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.

It will feature James Gladdon as Robert, Cate Hamer as Dulcie and Ingvild Lakou as Romy in the story of 16-year-old Robert Appleyard who, in a Britain still reeling from the Second World War, sets out on an adventure – to walk from his home in Durham to Scarborough, where he hopes to find work.

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