Cast announced for Fast at Park Theatre

The cast has been announced for the compelling and chilling true story, Fast, a psychological drama laced with suspense that focuses on cult health professional Linda Hazzard.

The play is due at Park Theatre from 15 October to 9 November 2019 (further listing details are given below).

In a chilling parallel to our modern world of influencers peddling protein shakes and pills, Fast is the true story of Linda Hazzard who advocated a fasting cure that gripped the press and divided a nation.

Casting has now been announced with Caroline Lawrie (Peaky Blinders, BBC; An Ideal Husband, The Old Vic; The Master Builder, Theatre Royal Haymarket), playing Linda Hazzard.

Joining Ms Lawrie will be Jordon Stevens (Harlots, ITV and Hulu; Call the Midwife, BBC; Phantom Thread) and Natasha Cowley (Othelllo, Shakespeare's Globe; Connections 2018, National Theatre; War and Peace, BBC Radio 4) who appear as her patients Claire and Dora Williamson.

Journalist Horace R. Cayton Jr. will be played by Daniel Norford (Small Island, National Theatre; Disney's The Lion King, UK and international tour; Rocky Shock, Wardrobe Theatre).

Shortlisted for Best New Play 2018 by New Writing South, Fast is a dark and powerful thriller, based entirely on real historical figures, which interrogates the lengths people will go to for ambition, for a story, for a cure.

When searching for a clean slate without discomfort, niggles or twinges, it can be easy to lose sight of the risks of extreme methodologies when they promise to be the miracle solution.

Director Kate Valentine commented ...

"Hooked on Internet influencers, we now risk trusting people who peddle pills and potions and can lose sight of the perils to our health when adopting extreme regimes.

Fast depicts a remarkable woman who uses her powers of persuasion to lure patients, desperate for any miracle cure.

Laced with suspense and psychological drama, Fast explores the true crime of a woman determined to prove herself to a world challenging her methodologies."

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