As rehearsals began this week for the first ever adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove, starring seven-time BAFTA award winner Steve Coogan as Dr Strangelove, President Merkin Muffley, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake and Major TJ Kong a new photograph and a video of Coogan as Strangelove has been released and the full cast has been announced.
Joining Steve and the already announced Giles Terera as General Buck Turgisdon, the company is completed by: John Hopkins (General Jack D. Ripper), Oliver Alvin-Wilson(Jefferson), Penny Ashmore (Vera Lynn), Ben Deery (General Staines), Richard Dempsey(Frank), Mabli Gwynne (Swing), Mark Hadfield (Faceman), Tony Jayawardena (Russian Ambassador Bakov), Tom Kelsey (Ensemble), Daniel Norford (Ensemble), Dharmesh Patel (Lincoln), Adam Sina (Ensemble), Alex Stoll (Ensemble) and Ben Turner (Colonel Bat Guano).
Performances at the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End begin on Tuesday 8 October 2024 and finish on Saturday 25 January 2025 before a limited engagement at Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre from Wednesday 5 – Saturday 22 February 2025.
With a world-renowned creative team led by BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award winner Sean Foley, this explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction will leave a whole new generation of audiences laughing and afraid.
You can check out the first look at Steve Coogan as Dr Strangelove above.
