Royal Court Theatre and Kandinsky announce the full cast for More Life by Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman

Royal Court Theatre and Kandinsky Theatre Company have announced the cast for Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman’s More Life. BOOK TICKETS

Imagine yourself as a file on a computer: That’s you. That’s what you are now.’ 

A woman wakes up in 2075 in a body that is not her own. 

Fifty years ago, Bridget died in a car accident. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough, she is back: her mind, her consciousness, in a synthetic body. Metal. Wires. But she’s still Bridget, isn’t she? She must be. 

This sci-fi gothic horror, by Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman, is set in a future where pain and death are rapidly going out of date. More Life is a thrilling exploration of what it means to be human. They say the first person to live forever has already been born. This is the world they are making for us.

Clockwise from top left: Marc Elliott (credit: Ross Ferguson), Alison Halstead (credit: Claire Newman-Williams), Lewis Mackinnon (credit: Harry Livingstone), Tim McMullan (credit: Clare Park), Danusia Samal (credit: Daniel Sutka), Helen Schlesinger (credit: Agatha A. Nitecka).

The cast includes Marc Elliott (A Tupperware of Ashes, NT50, The History Boys, Juice, Call the Midwife and Holby City (BBC), Alison Halstead (Princess Essex (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Cherry Orchard, and Hamlet (Theatre Royal Windsor), Lewis Mackinnon (Black Sheep, Deciphering (New Diorama), Your Last Breath (Southwark) (Curious Directive) and Miles (Riverside Studios), Tim McMullan, (Mnemonic, Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead, The Master and Margarita, The Noise of Time, (Complicite), Granchester (ITV) and The Go-Between (BBC), Danusia Samal (Bangers (Cardboard Citizens), Billy the Girl (Clean Break) (Soho) and Gangs of London (SKY), and Helen Schlesinger (Richard III, Henry V, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Hamlet, As You Like It (Globe), Lewis (ITV) and Merlin (BBC). The director is James Yeatman, and the text and dramaturgy are by Lauren Mooney.

More Life is designed by Shankho Chaudhuri, with lighting design by Ryan Joseph Stafford. The composer & sound designer is Zac Gvirtzman, the co-sound designer is Dan Balfour, and the costume supervisor is Isobel Pellow. 

The production runs at the Royal Court Theatre from Thursday, 6 February to Saturday, 8 March 2025.