Donmar Warehouse - April to November 2007
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
A NEW season that includes the London premiere of a Tony Award-winning musical, has been announced for London’s Donmar Warehouse.
Kiss of the Spider Woman – from April 25 (previews from April 19) to May 26, 2007.
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Betrayal – June 5 (previews from May 31) to July 21, 2007.
Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter’s drama about love and deceit, is played in reverse thereby tracing a seven-year affair from its poignant end to first illicit kiss.
The three-hander, which premiered in 1978 at the National Theatre and starred Penelope Wilton, Michael Gambon and Daniel Massey, was last seen in the West End in 2003. Both productions were directed by Peter Hall.
The Donmar’s revival will be directed by Roger Michell who directed another of Pinter’s works, Old Times, at the Donmar three years ago.
Absurdia – July 31 (previews from July 26) to September 8, 2007.
Douglas Hodge, the Donmar’s newly appointed associate director, will direct this celebration of British absurdist playwrights in which NF Simpson’s A Resounding Tinkle and Gladly Otherwise will be paired with the world premiere of Michael Frayn’s The Crimson Hotel.
Hodge made his West End directing debut last year with See How They Run at the Duchess Theatre.
The cast will include Lyndsey Marshal, Peter Capaldi, John Hodgkinson (The Front Page, The Eleventh Capital) and Judith Scott (The Romans in Britain).
Capaldi’s theatre credits include Feelgood, Treats, Valued Friends and The Judas Kiss (West End and Broadway). While his numerous screen credits include Waking the Dead, Aftersun and Pinochet’s Progress (TV); and Shooting Fish, Dangerous Liaisons and Soft Top Hard Shoulder (film).
Marshal’s theatre credits include The Hypochondriac, Blood Wedding, Sleeping Beauty, Redundant, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible and, most recently, A Matter of Life and Death with Douglas Hodge at the National Theatre. She was last seen at the Donmar Warehouse in the 2001 production of David Mamet’s Boston Marriage which subsequently transferred to the West End.
Parade – September 14 to November 24, 2007.
Based on a true story, Parade is set in 1913 Altanta, where a Jewish man from Brooklyn is accused of a young factory worker’s murder.
The cast will include Bertie Carvel (Leo Frank), Lara Pulver (Lucille Frank), Helen Ankar (Mrs Phagan/Sally Slaton), Mark Bonnar (Hugh Dorsey/Mr Peavy), Norman Bowman (Detective Starnes/Tom Watson), Shaun Escoffery (Jim Conley/Newt Lee), Joanna Kirkland (Iola Stover), Gary Milner (Britt Craig/Governor Slaton), Steven Page (Old Soldier/Judge Roan), Malinda Parris (Angela), Stuart Matthew Price (Frankie Epps/Young Soldier), Zoe Rainey (Monteen), Celia Mei Rubin (Essie), Stephen Webb (Officer Ivey/Luther Rosser) and Jayne Wisener (Mary Phagan).
The Tony Award-winning 1998 musical by American composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown, has a book by Alfredy Urhy and was co-conceived by Harold Prince who directed its premiere at New York’s Lincoln Center in 1998.
The Donmar production will be directed by American choreographer Rob Ashford (Guys and Dolls, Evita) in what will be his directorial debut; and designed by Christopher Oram.
Following Parade, the Donmar’s Artistic Director, Michael Grandage will direct a Christmas production.
John Gabriel Borkman is currently playing at the Donmar.
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