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We’re excited to announce the full cast for The Da Vinci Code, which will run at Salisbury Playhouse from 10 April - 3 May, before heading to Mercury Theatre Colchester (7 - 24 May).

Directed by Chelsea Walker, this gripping stage adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller is brought to life by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, the same duo behind The Girl on the Train. Starring Joe Bannister as Robert Langdon and Georgia-Mae Myers as Sophie Neveu, the cast also includes Sherry Baines (Sister Sandrine), Philip Bretherton (Teabing), Richard Clews (Jacques Saunière), Joshua Griffin (Remy/Philip/The Clerk), Louise Mai Newberry (Collet/Vernet/Volunteer), Anthony Ofoegbu (Bezu Fache) and Joe Pitts (Silas).

We’re delighted to welcome back to Salisbury Playhouse Sherry Baines, who most recently appeared in One Last Push, as well as Philip Bretherton (How the Other Half Loves, Before the Party) and Richard Clews (Waiting for Godot, Journey’s End).

Join us for a pulse-pounding journey across Europe, where ancient secrets, coded messages, and relentless rivals collide in a race to protect a secret that could change history forever.

Sherry Baines

Salisbury: Before the Party, How the Other Half Loves (2023), One Last Push (2024)

Theatre includes: The Mousetrap (West End), Much Ado About Nothing (Stafford Open Air Shakespeare), I Am A Camera (Southwark Playhouse), Angela Carter’s Cinderella (Improbable Theatre/Hammersmith Lyric), Beauty and the Beast (Young Vic), Agamemnon’s Children (Gate Theatre, Notting Hill), A Small Family Business (Theatr Clwyd), Honeymoon Suite (New Vic Stoke), Absurd Person Singular ( Bolton Octagon), Henceforward (Derby Playhouse), Bedroom Farce, Callisto 7 (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Larkin With Women (Library Theatre, Manchester), Dead Funny, Man of the Moment (York Theatre Royal), Shakers, Cramp, Departures (Hull Truck). Television includes: Ralph & Katie, The A Word, Call the Midwife, Coronation Street, Casualty. Film includes: Jungle Cry (Bollywood Productions), Testimony (Isolde Films).

Joe Bannister

Theatre includes: Confessions (National Theatre), The Contingency Plan (Sheffield Theatres), Trouble in Mind (National Theatre), As You Like It (Olivier Theatre). Television includes: Lockerbie (Sky), Screw (Channel 4), This England, Finding Alice (ITV), The Singapore Grip (ITV/Mammoth), Curfew (Sky), Howard's End.

Philip Bretherton

Salisbury: How the Other Half Loves (2023)

Theatre includes: A Role To Die For (The Barn Theatre), Dracula (national tour), Tony’s Last Tape (one man show as Tony Benn - Nottingham Playhouse, Clapham Omnibus, national tour, Houses of Parliament), Twilight Song ( Park Theatre), The National Joke (SJT Scarborough), Somewhere in England, As You Like It, Blackthorn, God of Carnage, Pygmalion, Noises Off, An Ideal Husband, Present Laughter, Blithe Spirit, The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatr Clwyd), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Six Degrees of Separation (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Life After Scandal (Hampstead Theatre), Private Lives (Glasgow Citizens’), St Joan (Birmingham Rep). Television includes: As Time Goes By, Coronation Street, Footballers' Wives, Casualty, Strikeback, Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse, The Syndicate. Film includes: The Fifth Estate, Dark Floors, Cry Freedom. Audio includes: The Plucky Squire, Clockwork Revolution.

Richard Clews

Salisbury: Waiting for Godot, Journey’s End

Theatre includes: The Secret Garden (Regent’s Park), Taming of The Shrew, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wendy & Peter Pan (RSC), King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre & West End), Babette’s Feast (Coronet Printroom), The Government Inspector (Birmingham Rep/tour), Rebecca (Kneehigh), Dr Faustus, God of Soho, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Timon of Athens ( Shakespeare’s Globe), Nakamitsu (The Gate), The Rest is Silence (dreamthinkspeak), 1984 (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Spanish Tragedy (The Arcola), Casanova, I Can’t Wake Up, I Weep at My Piano (Told By An Idiot), The Firework Maker’s Daughter (Sheffield Crucible), Unheimlich Spine (David Glass Ensemble), Great Expectations (Unicorn Theatre), The Threepenny Opera (Sinfonia/Northern Stage), Twelfth Night, Blood Wedding, The Wasp Factory, A Clockwork Orange (Northern Stage), Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Dracula, Sweeney Todd, The Price (Dundee Rep). Television includes: Doctors,The Trip to Greece, The Last Kingdom, Atlantis, A Touch of Frost, The Shadow in The North (Sally Lockhart Mysteries), Birds of a Feather, Hornblower, The Detectives, Paradise Club.

Joshua Griffin

Theatre includes: Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe, Headlong), Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre), The Mousetrap (West End), Fahrenheit 451 (Complicité). Television includes: Doctors (BBC Birmingham), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Father Brown (BBC). Film includes: Too Rough (Sean Lionadh), Repair (Duktiga).

Georgia-Mae Myers

Theatre includes: All’s Well That Ends Well, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe), Frankenstein UK Tour (Leeds Playhouse & ITD), Dismissed (Soho Theatre), Wars of the Roses, Henry VI: Rebillion (Royal Shakespeare Company). Film includes: Breath of Another (Blue Sera Films) and Ruth (The New Flesh).

Louise Mai Newberry

Theatre includes: The Whitby Rebels (SJT), Metamorphosis (Frantic Assembly), The Good Person of Szechwan (ETT, Sheffield Crucible & Lyric Hammersmith), The Climbers (Theatre by the Lake), Romeo & Juliet (Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory), Plenty (Chichester Festival Theatre), All’s Well That Ends Well (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Lampedusa (Citizen’s Theatre Glasgow), Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Pericles (Factory Theatre), Evelyn’s Roots, Adventures in Wonderland, Twelfth Night (Teatro Vivo), The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (High Tide/Arcola), Any Means Necessary (Nottingham Playhouse), Lampedusa (High Tide/Soho Theatre), The Smeds & The Smoos (Tall Stories), The Snow Dragon (Tall Stories UK & US tour), The Gruffalo (UK & Ireland tour), The Long Life and Great Good Fortune of John Clare (Eastern Angles), Dim Sum Nights, Wave, Boom (Yellow Earth Theatre), Not The End Of The World (Bristol Old Vic), Transmissions (Birmingham Rep), The Good Woman of Setzuan (Leicester Haymarket), Noah’s Ark (Walk The Plank), Hecuba (Theatro Technis), King Lear (Orange Tree Theatre), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (RSC). Television, Radio and Voice work includes: Blade – Marvel Move, Grandma Mei’s Fantastic Folk Tales, Doctors, Blacklist, Goal!, The Bill, Dream Machines, Future Makers, Clifford’s Puppy Days, Dr Who, Inspector Chen, The Good Listener. Film includes: Go Back Home, The Shape Of Things, Screentime, My One And Only, Fluid, Christie, Foreplay, The God Game, Fracking Regent’s Park, Put It On The Map, Tsuppari, La Jalousie.

Anthony Ofoegbu

Theatre includes: Best Friends (Rich Mix), 42nd Street (UK tour, Toronto), Conundrum (Young Vic), Barber Shop Chronicles (USA/UK Tour), Circle Mirror Transformation (HOME, Manchester), Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra (Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford-Upon-Avon / Barbican), Twelfth Night (Nottingham Playhouse), Death and the King’s Horseman (Royal National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Theatre Royal, Northampton), Oedipus at Colonus (Nevada Conservatory Theatre/ Greece), The Lion And The Jewel (Barbican), Treemonisha (Hackney Empire and Battersea Arts Centre), The Beatification of Area Boy  (West Yorkshire Playhouse / World tour), Once On This Island (Royalty/Island Theatre, West End). Television includes: Moonfleet, Spooks, Casualty, Chambers, Family Affairs, The Bill.   Radio/Audio includes: BBC Radio Drama Company, Royal National Institute for the Blind. Film includes: Dark Game, Escape, Testament, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Mum, Dad, Meet Sam, Bad Day.

Joe Pitts

Theatre includes: Spring Awakening (Almeida Theatre). Television includes: FBI: International, The New Look (Apple). Film Includes: Bodies (Netflix).