Sheffield Theatres today announces the cast and creative team for We Could All Be Perfect: the debut play by Doncaster writer and actor Hannah Morley, commissioned, developed and produced by Sheffield Theatres and performed in its intimate and flexible Playhouse.
The cast includes: Anshula Bain, Heather Forster, Rosa Hesmondhalgh, Alice Walker, and Jada-Li Warrican, all performing as cast, and who all make their Sheffield Theatres debut with We Could All Be Perfect.
‘Why are we screaming? I don’t know, it feels good!’
A teenage girl steps over a barrier and destroys a painting. Another steals a lipstick. Another has her first kiss in the dark. Whilst another walks into a supermarket and starts a republic.
Everyone is feeling everything at all times, even if they don’t want us to know it. This is the superpower. It doesn’t all happen here. It doesn’t all happen now.
A furious and funny new play that explores whether teenage girls will save the world and asks if they should have to.
Tickets for We Could All Be Perfect are on sale now. Tickets can be booked through the Box Office in person, over the phone on 0114 249 6000 or at sheffieldtheatres.co.uk.
TANYA MOISEIWITSCH PLAYHOUSE
Saturday 23 September – Saturday 14 October 2023
Press night: Wednesday 27 September, 7pm
A Sheffield Theatres Production
WE COULD ALL BE PERFECT
By Hannah Morley
Director Ruby Clarke
Designer Rūta Irbīte
Lighting Designer Jessie Addinall
Sound Designer Annie May Fletcher
Casting Director Nadine Rennie CDG
Assistant Director Rebecca Solomon
Cast Biographies:
Anshula Bain is a Drama and Film graduate from The University of Manchester. She trained with
The National Youth Theatre, Royal Exchange Youth Company and the Almeida Youth Company. Credits include: Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep) Lotus Beauty (Hampstead Theatre); Imaam Imraan (National Youth Theatre), (This Isn't) A True Story (Almeida Young Company), Nothing (Royal Exchange).
Heather Forster trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her TV credits include; Call The Midwife, DI Ray, Grace, Casualty and Doctors. She also appeared in the film The Colour Room and made her stage debut in The Book of Dust at the Bridge Theatre.
Rosa Hesmondhalgh is an actor and writer from West Yorkshire. It has been her dream to work at Sheffield Theatres since she was a teenage girl, so having her Sheffield debut playing a teenage girl feels incredibly full circle. Theatre includes: Children of the Night (CAST Doncaster), Madame Ovary (Edinburgh Fringe, UK Tour and Storyhouse), The Snow Queen (The Yvonne Arnaud), Trial By Laughter (UK Tour) and A Christmas Carol (Hull Truck). TV credits include Bridgerton S3 (Netflix) The Long Shadow (ITV). Radio and audio includes Requiem (BBC Radio 4), Sour Hall (Audible) and Just a Woman (BBC Radio 4). Rosa trained at LAMDA.
Alice Walker trained at Collage Voices & WAC Arts and at Rose Bruford South West (formerly ALARA). She is a member of Theatre Royal Stratford East Young and Talented with RADA & Guildhall and the Theatre Royal Stratford East Young Company. TV credits include: Doc Martin and Grantchester. Film credits include: Midas Man. This is Alice's professional stage debut.
Jada-Li Warrican Born in the vibrant city of Birmingham, Jada-Li Warrican is a classically trained Actor and Singer. She pursued a BA (Hons) in Acting from the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and graduated in 2022. Jada-Li has made notable appearances in TV, including Doctors (BBC) and Champion (Netflix and BBC). Her recent Theatre credits include Sky Comedy Rep (The Rep, Birmingham), Our Town Needs A Nandos (Liverpool Everyman), Generations (The Crescent Theatre, Birmingham) and Leave Taking (The Curve Leicester). When she's not gracing the stage, Jada-Li embraces every opportunity to travel around the globe, savouring new experiences that nurture her creativity and drawing inspiration for the world’s beauty.
Creative Biographies:
Hannah Morley (Writer) is a writer and actor originally from Doncaster. In 2019 she won a Channel 4 Playwrights Award and became Writer in Residence at The Finborough Theatre, where her play Petrichor received a rehearsed reading as part of Vibrant Festival. Petrichor also won the Radius Prize and was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. Hannah has also been a member of Soho Theatre’s Writers Lab and the BBC Writersroom London Voices development group, and has previously worked with Sheffield Theatres through their Open Script Submission Window scheme. Her episode of BBC Radio 3 anthology series The A-Z of Things was broadcast in 2022. Acting credits include: Apartment 7A (Paramount), Coronation Street (ITV), and The Strongbox (VAULT). We Could All Be Perfect is Hannah’s debut stage production.
Ruby Clarke (Director) is a Sheffield based director, dramaturg and writer with a particular interest in new writing. She most recently directed the sell-out Children of the Night by Dannielle Phillips (CAST, in Doncaster), her previous directing credits include Made of Nowhere by David Jarman (Camden Fringe Festival), Quicksand by Matthew Midgley and The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute (York Theatre Royal), and Timon of Athens (International Shakespeare Festival). Ruby is the New Work Coordinator for Sheffield Theatres, managing the literary department and working as dramaturg for all in-house productions. For Sheffield Theatres she directed the NT Connections production of A Series of Public Apologies, and co-directed NT Connections Stuff. She is also the Literary Associate for Hull based Silent Uproar, and an Associate Artist with Common Ground Theatre in York.
