The Man in The White Suit

Adapted and directed by Sean Foley.
Based on the play The Flower Within the Bud by Roger MacDougall
And Screenplay by Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Alexander Mackendrick.
By special arrangement with Studio Canal.

Stephen Mangan and Kara Tointon play Bath prior to the West End, in the world premiere of the classic Ealing comedy The Man in the White Suit.

When Sidney Stratton (Stephen Mangan) invents a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out, manufacturers and trades unions are terrified by the threat it poses to their industry and their jobs. Only Daphne (Kara Tointon), the mill owner’s daughter, shows Sidney any support as his world gradually falls apart before he finds love. This fast-moving comedy reunites Stephen Mangan and Sean Foley who also created the Olivier award-winning production Jeeves and Wooster.

Sue Johnston will join the cast playing Mrs Watson.

Stephen Mangan‘s many stage appearances include The Birthday Party, Jeeves and Wooster and The Norman Conquests, for which he received a Tony nomination. His many screen credits include the lead as Sean in Episodes for the BBC, and for the Bafta winning Green Wing.

Sean Foley‘s many productions include most recently in the West End, The Dresser, The Miser and The Painkiller. He is a double Olivier award-winner and has recently appointed as the next Artistic Director at Birmingham Rep. For The Man in the White Suit, he joins forces with Designer Michael Taylor, with whom he also created The Ladykillers.

Kara Tointon‘s stage credits include Olivia in Twelfth Night for the RSC, Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking, and Absent Friends, and as Eliza in Pygmalion.

Sue Johnston‘s stage credits include Peter Gill’s Small Change at the Donmar Warehouse, The Master Builder in the West End and Kenneth Branagh’s The Play What I Wrote at Wyndham’s Theatre. Her screen credits include playing Barbara Royle in The Royle Family and Dr Grace Foley in Waking the Dead.