The play, which is directed by former National Theatre artistic director , is based on Kelly's own award-winning biography of Samuel Foote, who was one of the great lost figures of Georgian London: a satirist, impressionist and dangerous comedian who had the ear of the King. In an age obsessed with fame, his colleagues from the worlds of science and the stage 鈥� from Benjamin Franklin to David Garrick 鈥� begin to wonder: does fame make you mad?
Also in the cast are Micah Balfour, Sophie Bleasdale, Joshua Elliott, , Ian Kelly, Dervla Kirwan, Forbes Masson, Joseph Millson and .
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