DARLINGTON Civic Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s seminal novel Brave New World in the autumn.

It will be presented by Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Royal & Derngate Northampton from Tuesday to Saturday, November 10-14.

Brave New World, widely considered one of the finest and most prophetic dystopian novels of the 20th century, has been adapted by award-winning playwright Dawn King.

The director is James Dacre, set designer is by Naomi Dawson and British band These New Puritans will create original new music.

Sophie Ward, whose screen credits include TV series Land Girls, Heartbeat and Holby City, and films including Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Young Sherlock, will play Margaret Mond, the Regional World Controller for Western Europe. The character was the male Mustapha Mond in the novel.

Her theatre work includes One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Go Back For Murder and Private Lives.

Olivier Award-winning Abigail McKern, fresh from Shakespeare in Love in the West End, takes the role of Linda.

The ensemble cast also includes Olivia Morgan (Macbeth, West End, The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s Globe), William Postlethwaite (King Lear, Bath Theatre Royal, Collaborators, National Theatre) as John the Savage, Scott Karim (The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s Globe, Great Britain, National Theatre) as Helmholtz Watson, and Gruffudd Glyn (Three Sisters, Young Vic, Hamlet, RSC) as Bernard.

Theo Ogundipe will play Benito, Samantha Pearl is Polly, James Howard the Director and David Burnett appears as Henry.

Tickets cost from £17.40. To book, contact the box office on 01325 486555 or visit darlingtoncivic.co.uk.