11 Questions with the cast of Public Enemy – David Sibley

What is your favourite play (seen, read, or worked on)?
Uncle Vanya

What is your favourite midnight snack?
I’m asleep long before then.

What is your favourite word?
Sunshine

What are you most passionate about?
My grandchildren.

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do for the extra 4 hours?
Hope for sunshine and sit in it, playing music and reading.

If you could be in a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
Good red wine.

Favourite city – why?
New York. It’s like being in a Batman film and a Woody Allen film at the same time.

What is your favourite song?
A Soft Place to Fall, Allison Moorer.

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
I feel fine about the era I was born into!

If you could have any supernatural power, which would you choose?
The power to put this government into the shoes of the people it’s hurting. (I think that answers the ‘why’ as well.)

David Sibley plays Morten Kiil in Ibsen’s Public Enemy, which begins 4 May at the Young Vic.

Previous Young Vic credits: Sweet Nothings, Uncle Vanya, Cruel and Tender.

Theatre includes: Dallas Sweetman (Paines Plough/Canterbury cathedral); Space Project (RSC/Davidson US); Naked (Almeida); Dirty Wonderland (Frantic Assembly); Edward Bond’s Lear (Sheffield Crucible).

Film includes: Mr Nice, Closed.

Television includes: Broadchurch, Utopia, Mrs Biggs, New Tricks, Wallander.

 

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11 Questions with the cast of Public Enemy – Adam Best

What is your favourite play (seen, read, or worked on)?
Seen – Shining City at the Royal Court. Read – The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh.

What is your favourite midnight snack?
Chicken from Chick ‘n’ Ribs, Tooting

What is your favourite word?
SNACK!

What are you most passionate about?
Friends and family.

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do for the extra 4 hours?
Procrastinate.

Favourite holiday?
Mooched about Cornwall with Sarah and ate nice food.

Favourite city – why?
London. Home. Or Edinburgh because it smells excellent.

What is your favourite song?
Changes frequently. Currently Drops in the River by Fleet Foxes. (Listen here!)

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
Jurassic. Just to see.

If you could have any supernatural power, which would you choose?
Willpower.  Then I’d go to the gym more often.

Adam Best plays Horster in Ibsen’s Public Enemy, which begins 4 May at the Young Vic.

Theatre credits include: Woman in Black (West End); Our Country’s Good, Journey’s End (Original Theatre Company); The Golden Dragon (ATC); Pieces of Vincent (Arcola); Northern Star (Finborough); By the Bog of Cats (Wyndhams).

Film and television includes: Holby City, Waking the Dead, Silent Witness, The
Bill, The Catherine Tate Show, Blooded, CupCake.

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11 Questions with the cast of Feast – Noma Dumezweni

Do you have any connection to Yoruban culture?
My neighbours and friends.

What is your favourite play (seen, read, or worked on)?
“Bogus Woman” and “A Raisin in the Sun” for worked on, too many read and more to see!

What is your favourite word?
Balls.

What are you most passionate about?
People being comfortable.

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do for the extra 4 hours?
Alternate between dancing and sleeping.

If you were in a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
Sunshine.

Favourite holiday?
Juice fast holiday in Turkey.

Favourite city – why?
Don’t know yet…

What is your favourite song?
The one that makes me move.

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
I’m fascinated with now, really.

If you could have any supernatural power, which would you choose?
Flying!

Feast opens 25 January at the Young Vic – tickets are on sale here.

11 Questions with the cast of Feast – Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Do you have any connection to Yoruban culture?
Yes. Many friends and possible historical/cultural/lingustic links because I was born in Ghana.

What is your favourite play (seen, read, or worked on)?
1997, The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the NT by Complicite, August Wilson and David Mamet.

What is your favourite midnight snack?
Toast with (Ghanaian) peanut butter and guava jam. Or jalapeño popcorn!

What is your favourite word?
Yes.

What are you most passionate about?
Kindness and Art.

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do for the extra 4 hours?
Tap dance. Really. Or become a master turntablist.

Favourite holiday?
Tokyo 2007 and…

Favourite city – why?
New York, NY! Because if the world had a capital it’d be it.

What is your favourite song?
Today it’s ‘Burn’ by Admiral Fallow.

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
Coastal Ghana in the late 1600s. Just to see.

If you could have any supernatural power, which would you choose?
Teleportation – for travel – or laser eyes – for fun.

11 Questions with the cast of The Shawl – Denise Gough

What is your favourite play (seen, read, or worked on)?
Desire Under the Elms.

What is your favourite midnight snack?
Cheese on toast.

What is your favourite word?
Too rude to print!

What are you most passionate about?
Acting.

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do for the extra 4 hours?
Sleep!

Favourite holiday?
Yoga holiday in Spain.

Favourite city – why?
London – because I haven’t got to New York yet.

Dogs or cats?
Neither.

What is your favourite song?
Too many to decide.

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
Now.

If you could have any supernatural power, which would you choose?
Flying.

11 Questions with the cast of Blackta – Michael Oku

Michael plays Younger Black in Blackta.

What is your favourite play (seen, read, or worked on)?
The Hypochndriac.

What is your favourite midnight snack?
Potato.

What is your favourite word?
Yes.

What are you most passionate about?
If I don’t say acting, does that make me a bad person?

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do for the extra 4 hours?
Sleep for those 4 hours, stay awake for the 24.

If you could be in a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
Games.

Favourite holiday?
Paris.

Favourite city – why?
Miami – it seems like a hot place to bask.

Dogs or cats?
Dogs – small ones.

What is your favourite song?
‘Marvelous Me’ – you don’t know it but I do.

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
80s. Music playlist is 70% from that era, and also we weren’t in a credit crumble back then.

If you could have any supernatural power, which would you choose?
Invisibility – what else?

11 Questions with the cast of Three Sisters – Ann Queensberry

What character are you playing?
Anfisa in Three Sisters.

Favourite play (either seen, read or worked on)?
Three Sisters – seen, read and worked on (and I have three daughters).

What is your favourite midnight snack?
Banana sandwich.

Favourite word?
Gorgeous.

Proudest moment?
When at a Q&A session after the show, Terry Hands said I was deeply subversive.

Favourite city?
Paris

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do with the 4 extra hours?
Play Sudoku.

If you could be in a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
AIR

Dogs or cats?
CATS! (Preferably Russian blue)

What is your favourite song?
Burlington Bertie.

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
Now – anaesthetics and pain killers.

11 Questions with the cast of A Doll’s House – Steve Toussaint

Steve Toussaint plays Dr Rank in A Doll’s House.

Tell us about your character
Rank is a romantic and playful soul, who pretends to be grumpy!

Favourite word?
Obstreperous.

Proudest moment?
Too many to name.

If you could be in a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
Happiness.

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do with the 4 extra hours?
Sleep.

Favourite holiday?
Warsini – an island off the coast of Kenya.

Weirdest quirk?
Couldn’t possibly tell you that!!

Favourite play?
Julius Caesar.

If you could have one supernatural power, which would you choose and why?
Flight.

Do you have any regrets?
Life’s too short for regrets.

Favourite midnight snack?
Currently digestives and cheese.

11 Questions with the cast of A Doll’s House: Susannah Wise

Susannah Wise plays Kristine Linde in A Doll’s House. 

Tell us about your character
Kristine’s a dude. She’s a great knitter, practical advice giver and she likes the odd whiskey when nobody’s looking

Favourite word?
Crepuscular.

Proudest moment?
Having my son (or winning the school obstacle race, aged 6; it’s a tough call).

If you could be in a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
Great views of the countryside.

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do with the 4 extra hours?
Sleep more (I have a toddler) or write that play that’s been in my head for years.

Favourite holiday?
New York, New York in 2008.

Weirdest quirk?
Biting my thumb nails.

Favourite play?
August Osage County (Steppenwolf Company at the National in 2008).

If you could have one supernatural power, which would you choose and why?
Being able to breathe under water.

Do you have any regrets?
No.

Favourite midnight snack?
Super noodles (classy!).

11 Questions with the Cast of The Suit – Rikki Henry

Rikki Henry is the assistant director of and appears onstage in The Suit.

What is your favourite play (either seen, read or worked on)?

Today it’s Uncle Vanya, tomorrow it’s probably Titus Andronicus, day after who knows.

What is your favourite midnight snack?

Ice cream. Rum with a bit of raisin.

What is your favourite word?

Amapotchefstroom. It’s in The Suit.

Proudest moment?

Learning to play a bit of Maid With The Flaxen Hair.

Favourite city?

London.

If days were 28 hours long, what would you do with the 4 extra hours?

Watch French cinema, it’s all I seem to be doing at the moment.

If you could be in a room full of any one thing, what would it be?

Man Ray originals.

Dogs or cats?

Dogs that look like cats. Not Chihuahuas.

What is your favourite song?

At the moment, Cinematic Orchestra: To Build a Home.

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?

The 60s.

If you could have any one supernatural power (flying, being invisible), which would you choose and why?

Telepathy. I have plans of world domination.

The Suit must close on 16 June. Book your tickets here.