22.11.2024
Lead Cast Announced for Macbeth 2025
Following the UK and international tour in 2023 and 2024, ETT today announces Macbeth will return to the stage for a limited run. Artistic Director of ETT, Richard Twyman will direct Alex Austin in the titular role as Macbeth and Lois Chimimba as Lady Macbeth in the 2025 production at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.
Macbeth will open on 5 March, with previews from 28 February and runs until 29 March 2025 at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.
ETT’s Artistic Director Richard Twyman and Executive Producer Sophie Scull said today, “Following a UK and international tour in 2023/2024, seen by more than 40,000 people, we are delighted to be bringing our production of Macbeth to the Lyric Hammersmith, with the exciting talent of Alex Austin and Lois Chimimba playing Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. We can’t wait to introduce you to the rest of the cast and hope that audiences in London will find something both familiar and provocative in the story and society that unfolds on stage.”
Full cast to be announced shortly.
Alex Austin a performer, script reader and dramaturg from Walthamstow in East London.
Theatre includes: As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), Olivier Nominated Blackout Songs (Hampstead Theatre), LOVE (Park Avenue Armoury Theatre, New York), Wuthering Heights, The Skriker (Royal Exchange), Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic), The End of Eddy, Henry The Fifth, The Nutcracker, The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot, How to Think the Unthinkable (Unicorn Theatre), A New and Better You (Yard Theatre), Gundog, Grimly Handsome, Primetime, Yen, Pigeons (Royal Court), Thebes Land (Arcola), Fury (Soho Theatre), Olivier Nominated Barbarians (Bad Physics/Young Vic), Idomeneus (The Gate Theatre), Hope, Light and Nowhere (Underbelly), My City (Almeida Theatre) Telling Tales and Encourage the Others (Almeida Young Friends).
Film and Television includes: Smashing (Zoic Films), Andor (Disney +), I Hate Suzie (Bad Wolf), Doctor Who, The Mallorca Files, Casualty, Holby City (BBC), The Bike Thief (Roman Holiday Ltd), Blood Out of a Stone (Watersmeet Productions/BFI Flare), Legacy (Legacy Films), The Christmas Candle (Pinewood Films), The Hooligan Factory (Altitude HF Ltd), The World’s End (Black Pictures Lts), The Swarm (Stray Bear Productions), Liar (Brocess Ltd), Sherlock (Hartswood), The Interceptor, New Tricks, The Musketeers, Misfits, (Clerkenwell Films).
Lois Chimimba is a Glasgow-born actress who trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and has gone on to work extensively on both stage and screen. She was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA for Best Actress for her performance in Group for BBC Scotland.
Theatre includes:: Playing lead role, Aly in Damon Albarn’s, Wonderland (National Theatre); Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre) directed by Olivier Award winning Rebecca Frecknell; Parliament Square (Royal Exchange/Bush Theatre); Common (National Theatre) and Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith).
Television includes: Cold Water (ITV); Still Up (Apple TV +); Nightsleeper (BBC); This One (Netflix); BAFTA TV nominated series, Vigil (BBC); Avenue 5 (HBO); The Outlaws S1&2 (Amazon/BBC One); The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (ITV); Doctor Who (BBC); Top Boy (Netflix); Trust Me (BBC One) and A Discovery of Witches (Sky).
