Watch out for . . .

HAYLEY SQUIRES (pictured), who got her breakthrough in Ken Loach’s Cannes prize-winning film I, Daniel Blake, and has been picked by director Benedict Andrews to join Sienna Miller, Jack O’Connell, Brian Gleeson, Lisa Palfrey, and Colm Meaney in the Young Vic’s production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. It will run at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, from July 13 for 12 weeks. Ms Squires — one of our more exciting young actresses — will play Mae, the conniving daughter-in-law who wants Big Daddy (Meaney) to leave his money to her husband Gooper (Gleeson) rather than other son

SHARON D CLARKE, who gives an electrifying performance as a maid working in a white household in louisiana in 1963 in Caroline, Or Change. She plays Caroline, who bottles up her resentment at having to raise four children on her own, and you can see the hurt etched on her face. Director Michael longhurst has picked the perfect ensemble, including nicola Hughes and abiona Omonua. The show’s run in the Minerva at Chichester Festival Theatre ends tomorrow, but there are whispers about a possible West end transfer.

Brick (O’Connell) and wife Maggie (Miller). Ms Squires won honours from the Evening Standard and BIFA (the British Independent Film Awards) for I, Daniel Blake. She has been filming David Hare’s drama Collateral for BBC TV and Netflix.