Assassins (April 2019)
“If you can’t do the things you want to, then you do the things you can.”
A five-time Tony Award-winner, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins is a darkly comic look at the men and women of American history who took their own shot at the big time — with varying degrees of deadly success. Brought together by Sondheim’s signature style and a phenomenal script by Emmy and Tony-winning writer John Weidman (Pacific Overtures, Anything Goes, Sesame Street), nine villains take aim at their President in the name of love, rage, patriotism and the promise of the American Dream.
Bold, original, and alarmingly funny, Assassins might be the most timely musical for a Western world this divided, and for a Scotland trying to grasp it all from the sidelines.
Cast
- John Wilkes Booth: Chris McLeish
- Charles Guiteau: Luca Hlaing
- Leon Czolgosz: Richard Dalrymple
- Giuseppe Zangara: Angus Reid
- Samuel Byck: Alasdair MacRae
- Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme: Anna Bryan
- Sara Jane Moore: Zoë Most
- John Hinckley: Steven McFeat
- The Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald: Goose Masondo
- The Proprietor: Barry Walker
- Company: Ellie Moran
- Company: Jennifer Park
- Company: Hils Paterson
- Company: Vanessa Sedgwick
- Company: Owen Davies
- Company: Ewan Macleod
- Company: Gerry McLaughlin
Creatives
- Director: Andi Denny
- Musical Director: Erik Igelström
- Assistant Director: Marion Baird
- Producer: Rachel Thomson
- Assistant Producer: Kelly Johnston
- Costume Designer: Rebecca Murray