Full cast announced for The Lord of the Rings musical revival

The new, epic and intimate immersive production will play from 25 July and 15 Oct at the Watermill Theatre Newbury

The story is based on the well-known trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. The stage version has a book and lyrics by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus and music by A R Rahman, Finnish folk band Värttinä and Christopher Nightingale.

As the Hobbits celebrate Bilbo Baggins’ eleventy-first birthday, he gifts his nephew Frodo his inheritance – including his most precious belonging – a gold ring. Little does he know that his legacy will confront Frodo with an immense and impossible task; a perilous journey across the darkest realms of Mordor to foil the Dark Lord’s quest for total dominion.

Bursting out of the theatre and into the Watermill gardens, be immersed in the magical landscape of Tolkien and join an ensemble cast and large-scale puppets on an epic journey celebrating the power of friendship and common goodness to conquer unimaginable evil.

The cast in alphabetical order is Folarin Akinmade as Gimli, Matthew Bugg as Gollum, Reece Causton as an ensemble, Kelly Coughlin as an ensemble, Geraint Downing as Merry, Peter Dukes as Boromir, Amelia Gabriel as Pippin and Tom Giles as Elrond/Saruman, Charlotte Grayson as Rosie, Nuwan Hugh Perera as Sam, Bridget Lappin as ensemble/Dance Captain, Georgia Louise as Galadriel, Elliot Mackenzie as an ensemble, Peter Marinker as Gandalf, Louis Maskell as Frodo, Aoife O’Dea as Arwen, John O’Mahony as Bilbo, Yazdan Qafouri as Legolas, Sioned Saunders as ensemble/onstage musical director and Aaron Sidwell as Aragorn.

The show will be directed by Paul Hart with design by Simon Kenny, musical supervision and orchestrations by Mark Aspinall, choreography by Anjali Mehra, lighting design by Rory Beaton, sound design by Adam Fisher, projection design by George Reeve, associate directed by Sibylla Archdale Kalid, puppet design by Charlie Tymms, and puppetry direction by Ashleigh Cheadle. The stage management team are Cat Pewsey, Katie Newton, Natalie Toney and Fern Bamber with -Leila Stephenson.