Full cast announced for Bristol Old Vic’s Tom Felton-starring summer production

Full cast announced for Bristol Old Vic’s Tom Felton-starring summer production

Posted on: 18 Apr 2024

Hitting the UK’s longest continuously running theatre in June, A Child of Science is an exciting new play from Bruntwood Prize-winning writer Gareth Farr.

 

A Child of Science will run at Bristol Old Vic from Wednesday 5 June until Saturday 6 July 2024.

 

In 1978, Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards and Jean Purdy changed the world as we know it – and most people don’t even know their names. Joining the already announced Harry Potter favourite Tom Felton will be a star of La La Land and Ex Machina, a lead in The Crown and a beloved Waterloo Road staple.

 

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Gareth Farr’s brilliant new piece tells the pioneering story of these historical figures and those of the army of UK women whose immense bravery helped them achieve the impossible and create human life in vitro. Faced with fierce hostility and hounded by the media for “playing God”, trials were largely kept secret.

 

However, their determination to offer hope to families struggling to conceive eventually led to one of the most remarkable medical breakthroughs in history: the birth of a baby girl and the creation of IVF, a procedure which has now supported the birth of over 12 million babies worldwide.

 

Directed by the acclaimed West End director Matthew Dunster (Hangmen, 2:22 A Ghost Story, Shirley Valentine) and starring the likes of Tom Felton (Harry Potter), Jamie Glover (Waterloo Road, Casualty), Meg Bellamy (The Crown), Adelle Leonce (Fool Me Once, Black Mirror) and Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon, Ex Machina, Devs).

 

Completing the cast are Bobby Hirston, Everal A Walsh, Gruffudd Glyn, Amy Loughton, Bebe Saunders and Bristol theatre mainstay Saikat Ahamed. A Child of Science is about determination, dreams, and courage. It is a celebration of life.

A Child of Science will run at Bristol Old Vic from Wednesday 5 June until Saturday 6 July 2024 with tickets available to purchase now, HERE.

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Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.