STAGE and screen actress Sophie Ward has been revealed as the lead in the brand new stage production of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, coming to the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham on October 20-24.
Brave New World, widely considered to be one of the finest and most prophetic dystopian novels of the twentieth century, bursts into life on stage in an adaptation by award-winning playwright Dawn King.
Sophie Ward will star as ‘Margaret Mond – the Regional World Controller for Western Europe’, which in Huxley’s novel is a male character.
Dawn King said, “I took this decision primarily because as a feminist, I wanted to increase the gender equality of the show.
“I also felt that having a female world controller of Western Europe is more representative of our world today, and of a world of the future.”
Sophie Ward’s extensive screen credits include series-regular roles in Land Girls, Heartbeat and Holby City, and appearances in the films Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Young Sherlock Holmes.
With a nine-date tour, Brave New World is the fifth Touring Consortium Theatre Company production funded by the Arts Council of England‘s Strategic Touring Programme, and the third co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton.
See more at everymanthea tre.org.uk and Theatrecloud.com.
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