Full circle: Cherrelle Skeete
(Picture: Photographer: David Reiss; Make-up: Kenneth Soh; Styling: Justin Hamilton)Facing the prospect of replacing a lead actor at Hampstead Theatre’s new show a fortnight before it opened, Cherrelle Skeete had one thought: “What would Noma do?”
Noma Dumezweni had played her on-stage mum, Hermione Granger, in the West End show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The acclaimed performer had also experienced being a late replacement in a play — in Linda at the Royal Court in 2015 — where she had to go on early in the run, script in hand.
