Comedian, actor and writer, Stephen Fry, will star in a new online radio play to raise funds for the theatre industry as it deals with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Emily Atack, famed for her role as Charlotte Hinchcliffe in the multi-award winning E4 The Inbetweeners, multi-award winning actress, singer, model and composer, Sheila Atim, Sarah Hadland of BBC TV’s Miranda and Russell Tovey, who is best known for playing the werewolf, George Sands, in another BBC production; the supernatural drama Being Human, will all appear in ‘The Understudy’, based on the novel by David Nicholls.
Fry said: “I am just so delighted to be working on Henry Filoux-Bennett’s superb adaptation of David Nicholls’s ‘The Understudy’.
“I do hope lots of you will listen in and combine a good time with support for our wonderfull theatre industry”.
Nicholls added: “I’ve always had a soft spot for ‘The Undertaker’ and was hugely excited to see it come to life on a new online stage and with such a great team”.
The play will be broadcast online in two parts, in May, to members of the public who have bought a £5 ‘ticket’.
All of the actors taking part in the production will record their individual lines seperatley at their individual homes.
