Soho Theatre today announces the cast for the 2024 Verity Bargate Award winner LITTLE BROTHER by Eoin McAndrew. Catherine Rees will play Brigid, Cormac McAlinden will play Niall, Conor O’Donnell will play Michael Doran, and Laura Dos Santos will play the remaining characters. Directed by Emma Jordan, LITTLE BROTHER will be staged in Soho Theatre’s main house this autumn, 16 October to 22 November. Press Night Wednesday 22 October.
Eoin McAndrew’s LITTLE BROTHER follows Boys on the Verge of Tears by Sam Grabiner, winner of the 2022 Verity Bargate Award, which went on to win a Stage Debut Award for Best Writer and an Olivier Award in the Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre category earlier this year.
Launched in 1982, the Verity Bargate Award is Soho Theatre’s prestigious biennial new writing award, sponsored by Character 7, and is one of the longest-established playwriting awards in the UK. The award’s main prize is an £8,000 prize and a fully staged production at Soho Theatre. The 2024 judging panel, chaired by Character 7’s Stephen Garrett, was composed of industry experts: Moira Buffini, Anupama Chandrasekhar, Alan Cumming, Anthony Lau and Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem.
Also announced today, the LITTLE BROTHER creative team are:
- Set and Costume Designer – Zoë Hurwitz
- Lighting Designer – Bethany Gupwell
- Sound Designer and Composer – Katie Richardson
- Casting Director – Áine O’Sullivan
- Costume Supervisor – Ellen Rey De Castro
- Production Manager – Chloe Stally-Gibson
- Company Stage Manager – Julia Nimmo
- Deputy Stage Manager – Abi Morris
- Assistant Stage Manager – Mali-Beth Roberts
- Assistant Director – Millie Foy
“I’d like you to promise me that you’re not going to try and set yourself on fire again.”
3AM. Brigid’s phone rings. Her brother Niall is by the river with a plastic bag and lighter fluid.
LITTLE BROTHER is Eoin McAndrew’s darkly comic Verity Bargate Award-winning new play about sibling love, self-destruction, and what it means to save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.
Set in modern-day Belfast, it asks what happens when the systems designed to help us fall short, and love is doing more heavy lifting than it should.
Directed by Emma Jordan, award-winning Artistic Director of Prime Cut Productions.
Sometimes being there for the people you love is very very very difficult.
“LITTLE BROTHER has great theatricality, humour and compassion. It stayed with me long after I had finished reading.” – Moira Buffini