Mark Benton will swap Waterloo Road for Waterloo Station theatre this December when he joins the cast of the award-winning production The Railway Children.
Benton will play Station Master Perks from 3 December for the show’s final six weeks of performances before it finishes its second run at the site-specific venue on 8 January.
Benton was most recently seen on the London stage in the Lyric Hammersmith’s Comedians. The actor’s other credits include Kosher Harry at the Royal Court and The Front Page at the Donmar Warehouse.
A well known face on television, Benton, who can currently be seen in BBC1’s Waterloo Road, has appeared in Hustle, Silent Witness, Doctor Who and The Fixer. On the big screen the actor has appeared in The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus, Breaking And Entering and Mike Leigh films Career Girls and Topsy Turvey.
Telling the story of three children who move to the country after their father is mysteriously taken away, the Olivier Award-winning show has played to over 400,000 people since beginning life at the York Theatre Royal in 2008 before transferring to London in 2010.
Staged at the old Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo Station and featuring a real steam train, audience members sit either side of the platform as they watch E. Nesbit’s much-loved classic story unfold around them.
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