The Girl On The Train Stageplay To Schedule A Thrilling Stop At The Playhouse Liverpool

Peter Eric Lang
Apr 28
3 min read

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The Stageplay For The Girl on the Train, A Gripping Thriller Based On The Internationally Acclaimed Number One Best-Selling Novel By British Author, Paula Hawkins, Returns To The Liverpool Playhouse With A New Cast From Tuesday The 13th to Saturday The 17th Of May 2025

Liverpool Playhouse will welcome a scheduled stop in the City from The Girl On The Train. Pictured is Louisa Lytton as Rachel Watson (Credit: Danny Kaan/Supplied/Image was provided to The Liverpudlian with permission to share, courtesy of the Publicist on behalf of their client. We make no claim to this content).

The international phenomenon, The Girl On The Train, the British novel which has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and inspired the DreamWorks Pictures 2016 film starring Emily Blunt, is set to have it's stageplay interpretation make a scheduled stop in Liverpool City Centre.

The show enjoyed a record-breaking box-office theatrical tour in 2019. Now, the production returns with EastEnders actress Louisa Lytton starring as Rachel Watson.

The Girl on the Train comes to the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday the 13th to Saturday the 17th of May, 2025. Ticket prices range from £12 to £47. Tickets for the show are available at The Playhouse's website.

Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

Louisa Lytton is best-known for playing the role of Ruby Allen for over two decades in BBC’s EastEnders. Her TV work includes; Murdoch Mysteries for Amazon Prime and Edge of Heaven for ITV. On stage she recently starred as Jenny in 2:22 A Ghost Story for a UK tour. Samuel Collings, who worked with Liverpool Playhouse on Dr Faustus (directed by Philip Wilson), and appeared in Lady Windermere's Fan, Edward II, The Lady from the Sea, and The Comedy of Errors at the Royal Exchange, plays Scott Hipwell.

Duncan Abel and Rachel Wagstaff, who also adapted Birdsong, have adapted The Girl on the Train for the stage. They said: “Since opening in the UK in 2018, The Girl on the Train has been performed around the world, and we’re thrilled that Loveday Ingram’s powerful and stylish production is coming back in a UK wide tour.” 

Completing the cast are Daniel Burke (Imperium Part I and Part II, Troilus and Cressida, RSC/Gielgud Theatre; The Witcher, Netflix) as Kamal Abdic, Zena Carswell (A Voyage Round My Father, Jonathan Church Productions/UK Tour) as Anna Watson, Natalie Dunne (The Third Man, Menier Chocolate Factory/VBW; Works of Art, Turbine Theatre) as Megan Hipwell, Paul McEwan (Witness For The Prosecution, London County Hall; The Echo, BBC) as D.I Gaskill and Jason Merrells, who won the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Saved at the Bolton Octagon, as Tom Watson. Understudies for the production are Ellie Gallimore and Oliver Joseph Brooke.

Produced by Josh Andrews Productions and Simon Friend Entertainment, who also produced the sold-out run of Ghost Stories, the smash-hit Wiltshire Creative Production of The Girl on the Train is written by Paula Hawkins, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, and is directed by Loveday Ingram, who previously directed Baskerville – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Ken Ludwig at the Liverpool Playhouse in 2017.