Cast
Giovanna Fletcher
Christine
Giovanna Fletcher most recently led the UK Tour of international bestselling novel The Girl on The Train in the role Rachel Watson, and was previously seen in the West End run and UK tour of the critically acclaimed Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, as Miss Hedge after finishing leading the UK tour of Peter James’s Wish You Were Dead. Other theatrical credits include 2:22 A Ghost Story and Ivanov, both for the West End, as well as A Christmas Carol, Backbeat and The Christmasurus. She’s also appeared in the feature film The Boat That Rocked.
As well as being an accomplished actress, Giovanna is a hugely successful author, podcast host and Queen of The Castle after winning I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2020. In 2013, Giovanna published her first fiction book, Billy and Me, and 2021 saw her publish her sixth novel Walking On Sunshine. Together with her husband Tom Fletcher, the pair have combined their love of writing to pen a trilogy of Sunday Times best-selling books. Giovanna’s first non-fiction book Happy Mum, Happy Baby was a No.1 bestseller that she later turned into an award-winning podcast with Pixiu, with over 30million listeners. Adding to her non-fiction work in 2020, Giovanna wrote Letters on Motherhood, another bestseller.
Giovanna is a proud patron for Breast Cancer Awareness charity CoppaFeel! and an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust and Tommy’s.
Further casting to be announced
Creative Team
Rachel Wagstaff
Adaptor
Rachel wrote the book for Flowers for Mrs Harris which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre after premiering at the Sheffield Crucible (Best Musical, UK Theatre Awards). The London premiere at Riverside Studios won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production. Rachel adapted Sebastian Faulks’s novel, Birdsong, opening in the West End. Her award-winning stage version has had five subsequent UK tours with Original Theatre Company. Rachel adapted The Mirror Crack’d for Agatha Christie Limited (various productions including 2 UK tours, NCPA, Asolo Rep and The Alley Theatre). Rachel’s musical Moonshadow, co-written with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), played at the Royal Albert Hall and the Princess Theatre in Melbourne. Rachel also wrote the book for original musical Only The Brave, which opened at the Wales Millennium Centre. With Duncan Abel, Rachel adapted Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (2 UK tours and West End transfer), The Da Vinci Code (UK tour and various international productions), P.D. James’s Death Comes to Pemberley (The Mill at Sonning, followed by a UK tour) and Rebecca Netley’s The Whistling (The Mill at Sonning). Rachel and Duncan have also co-written Room 13, an original ghost play (The Barn, Cirencester). For radio, Rachel adapted Sebastian Faulks’ novel The Girl at the Lion d’Or as a five-part series for Radio 4. Her theatre work is performed internationally, and she currently has multiple screen projects and new plays in development.
Loveday Ingram
Director
Loveday is a theatre director and adapter whose career includes productions in the West End, for the RSC, regionally throughout the UK, and internationally.
Her recent productions include the UK tour of the internationally bestselling novel The Girl on the Train for Josh Andrews and Simon Friend Entertainment, which originated at Salisbury Playhouse, and a UK tour of Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation of Little Women for Lee Dean and Daniel Schumann Associates. Her acclaimed production of The Rover for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which she adapted and directed, had a sold-out run at The Swan Theatre and won a UK Theatre Award. As Associate Director at Chichester Festival Theatre, she directed many productions, including the musical My One and Only, with music by George and Ira Gershwin, which transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre and was nominated for the TMA Award for Best Musical and four Olivier Awards; David Hare’s The Blue Room, which transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket; and Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey, which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre after a sell-out run in the Minerva Theatre and was nominated for The Barclay TMA Best Musical award.
She has directed several productions in Ireland, including Terry Johnson’s Hysteria, which won an Irish Times Theatre Award, and David Mamet’s Boston Marriage, which was nominated for two Irish Times Theatre Awards. She recently directed the world premiere of Frank McGuinness’s Dinner With Groucho.
Other productions include the UK tour of Fatal Attraction for Ambassador Theatre Group; the international tour of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville, also with ATG, which opened at Liverpool Playhouse and played at the National Theatre of China in Beijing; Samuel Beckett’s Rockaby at the Barbican and the Gate Theatre Dublin as part of the Beckett Centenary Festival; Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce at the Noël Coward Theatre; an international and UK tour of The Merchant of Venice for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Brian Friel’s Three Sisters; Terry Johnson’s Insignificance and Dead Funny at Chichester Festival Theatre; as well as the UK premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera Vanessa at the Lyric Hammersmith and, in her own adaptation, All About Love at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio.