Tennessee Williams’ Triple Bill - final casting
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
LYSETTE Anthony, Anna Doolan, Rachel Izen and Jos Vantyler will join Susannah York in the cast of the Tennessee Williams’ Triple Bill, which runs at Hampstead’s New End Theatre from September 23 to October 10, 2009.
Anthony’s theatre credits include Noel Coward’s Hayfever (Manchester Royal Exchange); Alan Ayckbourn’s Tons of Money (touring production); The New Statesman (West End and UK tour) and Dead Funny (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Her television and film credits are numerous and include Hollyoaks (as Yvonne Summers), Casualty, Doctors, Baggy Trousers, The Bill (as Rachel Heath) and Three Up, Two Down (TV); Husbands and Wives, Look Who’s Talking Now, Without a Clue and The Lady and The Highwayman (film).
Izen first appeared on the West End stage when she was just eighteen – in the groundbreaking show A Chorus Line (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) – before playing June in the original cast of Chicago (Cambridge Theatre). Most recently, she played Felicia Gabriel in the national tour of The Witches of Eastwickwith Marti Pellow.
Vantyler’s most recent theatre roles include Billy in The Real Thing (Tabard Theatre), Underfoot in Show Business (The Devonshire Park Theatre), Jeremy in Prophecy (New End Theatre) and Lord Fancourt Babberley in Charly’s Aunt (New Wimbledon Theatre).
Doolan will be making her professional debut in the Tennessee Williams’ Triple Bill, which is directed by Ninon Jerome.
Previously Posted: Award-winning actress Susannah York will play Mrs Hardwicke-Moore in Tennessee Williams’ The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, part of a Tennessee Williams’ Triple Bill which runs at Hampstead’s New End Theatre from September 23 to October 10, 2009.
Mrs Hardwick-Moore, a Blanche Dubois-like character, is a faded Southern belle, reduced to prostitution while trying gamely to maintain a façade of gentility in a fleabag hotel.
The evening also features This Property Is Condemned and Talk to Me Like the Rain, Williams’ most poignant and moving plays. Rarely produced, the three one-act plays are full of the perception of life as it is and the passion for life as it might be.
This Property Is Condemned is about Willie, a young girl who has worked out her own survival strategy as her friend Tom looks helplessly on; and Talk to Me Like the Rain depicts a couple trying to cling to each other when there is little left in their relationship.
York has previously appeared at New End Theatre in one of its inaugural productions The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs directed by Simone Benmussa and more recently, Alice Virginia.
York’s other theatre credits include September Tide (Comedy Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Camino Real and Hamlet (RSC): and The Cherry Orchard, Picasso’s Women, Amy’s View and The Hollow Crown (national tours). She also performed her own one person show The Loves of Shakespeare’s Women at the Edinburgh Festival subsequently taking it to New York, Hungary, Georgia, Australia and on tour in the UK.
Her numerous screen credits include We’ll Meet Again, The Crucible (with Sean Connery), The Prince Regent, Second Chance, Fallen Angels and Star Quality (TV); The Greengage Summer, Tom Jones, Tunes of Glory (alongside Alec Guinness and John Mills), They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Images, A Man For All Seasons, The Killing of Sister George and Battle of Britain (film).
Tickets: £12, £10 concessions.
Times: Wednesday to Saturday at 9pm, Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm.
Running Time: 1 hour.
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