Retrograde

Show Info Cast & Creative Age & Content Guide

Genre Drama

Venue

First Performance 08/03/2025

Closing 15/06/2025

Running Time 1h30, no interval

Following its sold out run at the Kiln Theatre, Ryan Calais Cameron’s Retrograde comes to the Apollo Theatre for a strictly limited run.

Ten years before he becomes the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Actor, this gripping drama captures the moment a young Sidney Poitier prepares to sign a career-defining Hollywood contract that could make him a star. But there’s a catch. Will he put his career before his principles?

In a time of betrayals, will he name names? Will he sign his life away?

Cast

Sidney - Ivanno Jeremiah

Mr Parks - Stanley Townsend

Bobby - Oliver Johnstone

Creative

Author - Ryan Calais Cameron

Director - Amit Sharma

Design by - Frankie Bradshaw

Lighting by - Amy Mae

Sound by - Beth Duke

Casting by - Juliet Horsley

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