Nicola Stephenson and Patrick Robinson to Join West End Production of War Horse

Nicola Stephenson and Patrick Robinson will join the London production of War Horse on March 9 at the New London Theatre. Stephenson has been cast as Albert’s mother, Rose Narracott, and Robinson will play German soldier Friedrich Muller. Tickets are on sale for the West End production through February 18, 2012.

Now in its fifth year, Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s book has been playing to packed houses at the New London Theatre, repeatedly breaking records for the highest weekly grossing play in the West End. War Horse is now headed for Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, where it begins previews on March 15, co-directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris. A Toronto production is due to open in February 2012 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.

War Horse begins at the outbreak of World War I as Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. He’s soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man’s land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.

Stephenson is best known playing Nurse Julie Fitzjohn in the long running BBC drama Holby City and Suzie Davidson in the BBC’s Clocking Off. Her theater credits include Edmund and His Girl Friday for the National Theatre and A Patriot for Me for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Robinson is best known for playing Nurse Martin ‘Ash’ Ashford in the long-running BBC medical drama Casualty as well as Detective Constable Jacob Banks in ITV’s The Bill. His many theater credits include Mappa Mundi for the National Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing, King John, King Lear, Richard III, All God’s Children Got Wings, The Great White Hope, Class Enemy and Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Festen for the Almeida Theatre and in the West End and Dangerous Corner for West Yorkshire Playhouse and West End.