Speaking in Tongues - Lucy Cohu joins cast
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
LUCY Cohu will join John Simm, Ian Hart and Kerry Fox in the cast of Speaking in Tongues, which opens at the Duke of York’s Theatre on September 28, 2009 (previews from September 18).
Cohu, who plays two roles – Leon’s wife Sonja, and Valerie, a therapist whose disappearance Leon investigates – has previously appeared on stage in Macbeth and School for Scandal. Speaking in Tongues will mark her West End debut.
However, she is probably best known for her television roles – in Soldier Soldier (as Major Jessica Bailey); The Bill (Philippa Manson); The Queen’s Sister (Princess Margaret), for which she was Emmy and BAFTA nominated; Forgiven (Liz), for which she won an Emmy for Best Actress; and Torchwood: Children of Earth (Alice Carter).
She has also appeared in the films Becoming Jane and Gosford Park.
Previously Posted: John Simm will star in the West End premiere of Australian playwright Andrew Bovell’s 1996 emotional thriller Speaking in Tongues, which opens at the Duke of York’s Theatre on September 28, 2009 (previews from September 18).
Speaking in Tongues received its UK premiere at Hampstead Theatre in 2000 and the following year was adapted for film by Bovell. Entitled Lantana, it starred Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey.
A complex and multi-layered thriller, Speaking in Tongues interweaves nine parallel lives, four infidelities, one missing person and a mysterious stiletto, all of which are drawn together through the investigations of detective Leon Zat (Simm).
Although probably best known as detective Sam Tyler in BBC One’s Life on Mars (for which he was BAFTA nominated), Simm’s screen credits are numerous and include State of Play, Sex Traffic, The Canterbury Tales, White Teeth, Crime and Punishment, Blue/Orange, The Devil’s Whore and Skellig (TV); 24 Hour Party People, Human Traffic and Wonderland (film).
His theatre credits include Goldhawk Road (Bush Theatre) and Elling (Trafalgar Studios), for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.
Simm will be joined in the cast of Speaking in Tongues by Ian Hart (The Homecoming, 2,000 Feet Away, stage; Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Land and Freedom, A Cock and Bull Story, film); and New Zealander Kerry Fox (Cruel and Tender, I Am Yours, The Maids, UK stage; Shallow Grave, Welcome to Sarajevo, film).
Speaking in Tongues will be directed by Toby Frow, whose previous work includes Bovell’s Ship Of Fools (Theatre503), Samuel Adamson’s Some Kind Of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios), Beautiful Thing and The Real Thing.
Bovell’s other plays include Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class, Holy Day, Ship Of Fools and Scenes From A Separation. His most recent work, When The Rain Stops Falling, is currently playing at the Almeida theatre.
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