Seven actors will make up the family at the centre of Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night at Kiln Theatre this winter. The run has been extended before rehearsals have begun, and now plays to 2 January 2027.
Kiln Theatre has named the full cast and creative team for its new production of Nine Night, and the run has grown at the same time. Natasha Gordon’s play now runs from 12 November 2026 - 2 January 2027, extended by popular demand, with Kiln Artistic Director Amit Sharma directing.
Sonya Cassidy plays Sophie and Estella Daniels plays Trudy. The company is completed by Llewella Gideon as Auntie Maggie, Ava Hinds-Jones as Anita, Gary McDonald as Uncle Vincent, Dani Moseley as Lorraine and Javone Prince as Robert.
Television audiences will recognise most of the seven. Cassidy is a series regular in Reacher for Amazon Prime, Gideon has been seen in the BBC’s Mr Loverman, Moseley played a supporting lead in Dreaming Whilst Black, Hinds-Jones starred in Channel 4’s Generation Z, and Prince’s credits include Channel 4’s PhoneShop. Two of the company already know the building: McDonald’s Kiln credits include A Raisin in the Sun, and Prince appeared there in Loot.
Set and costume design is by Libby Watson, with lighting by Rory Beaton, sound design and composition by Mwen and movement direction by Kloé Dean. Hazel Holder and Claudette Williams are voice and dialect coaches, Julia Horan CDG is casting director and Poppy Apter casting assistant.
Amit Sharma, Artistic Director and CEO of Kiln Theatre, said: “I can’t wait to start rehearsals with this absolute powerhouse of a cast. Natasha’s play captures a family seeking love, dealing with loss, and with family secrets that come to the fore. And it’s funny - boy, is it funny! We are all itching to do this seminal play proud!”
Natasha Gordon added: “I’m so thrilled to be reviving Nine Night at Kiln Theatre. With a knockout cast, under Amit’s direction, I’m excited to revisit the play.”
The play gathers three generations of a London family for a Jamaican nine-night wake after the death of their matriarch, Gloria. Mourners keep arriving, rum and curry and complaints arrive with them, and over nine days of vigil the things the family has not said out loud stop staying unsaid. It is a comedy about a house full of grief, and it is very funny about it.
It was Gordon’s first play, and it sold out at the National Theatre in April 2018 before transferring to Trafalgar Studios in 2019. It won her the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and the Critics’ Circle Award, and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. The US premiere followed at the Round House in Washington DC in 2022, and Leeds and Nottingham Playhouses staged a revival in the UK.
Sharma’s productions at the Kiln include Retrograde, which transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in March 2025, as well as Please Please Me, Pins and Needles and The Purists.
Press night is Friday 20 November 2026 at 7pm, and tickets are £15 to £45. Access performances run through the extended dates: a BSL performance on Tuesday 8 December at 7.30pm, captioned performances on 3 and 22 December at 7.30pm, a relaxed performance on Saturday 12 December at 2.30pm, and an audio described performance on Thursday 17 December at 7.30pm, preceded by a touch tour. There is also an alcohol-free performance on 23 November, a post-show Q&A on 1 December and a schools performance on 9 December at 1.30pm.
Nine Night follows Table 17, which runs at the Kiln until 24 October 2026 and whose full cast we reported when it was announced. Berlin follows in the spring, from 10 March - 17 April 2027, and booking for more than one show in the season carries a 25% multibuy discount, excluding All The Things We Can’t Explain.
