BRONAGH LAGAN Director
Rise and Fall of Little Voice
UK Tour 2022CREATIVES
CREATIVES
Writer- Jim Cartwright
Director – Bronagh Lagan
Designer- Sara Perks
LX Designer- Nic Farman
Sound Design- Andy Johnson
Associate Sound Designer- Eamonn O'Dwyer
Producers- Aria Entertainment, Glass Half Full Productions & Tiny Giants Productions
CAST
LV – Christina Bianco
Mari Hoff – Shobna Gulati
Ray Say – Ian Kelsey
Billy- Akshay Gulati
Mr Boo- William Ikley
Sadie- Fiona Mulvenny
Phone Man- James Robert Moore
Cover LV- Anna Hale
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice will open in Southampton on 23 March 2022 and tour to The Capitol Horsham, Exeter Northcott, Malvern Theatres, Theatre Royal Brighton, Liverpool Playhouse, Theatre Royal Wakefield, Crewe Lyceum Theatre, The Lowry Salford, Blackpool Grand, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Richmond Theatre and York Theatre Royal. For full dates and listings information please see ‘Notes to Editors’.
From Judy Garland to Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe to Billie Holliday, Christina Bianco will vividly bring to life performances from the great chanteuses in Cartwright’s tender and life-affirming play. The Rise and Fall of Little Voice won both the Oliver award and Evening Standard award for Best Comedy when it premiered at the National Theatre in 1992 in a production directed by Sam Mendes which transferred to the Aldwych, starring Jane Horrocks and Alison Steadman. Horrocks later reprised the role of LV in a film adaptation also starring Brenda Blethyn, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor and Jim Broadbent.
Meet Little Voice and Mari Hoff. A mother and daughter central to the heart of this Northern fairy-tale, but as far apart in character as can be. Left to her own devices, Little Voice starts to embody the famous divas she plays on repeat, from Judy Garland to Shirley Bassey, and becomes an overnight sensation.
With humour, heart and countless powerhouse ballads all performed live on stage, Cartwright’s timeless and iconic tale explores the highs and the lows of small-town dreams, family rivalry and finding your voice in a noisy world.
