The Little Dog Laughed - Gemma Arterton joins cast
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
GEMMA Arterton will star alongside Rupert Friend and Tamsin Greig in the UK premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s Tony Award-winning comedy The Little Dog Laughed, which runs at the Garrick Theatre from January 8 to April 10, 2010.
The cast of Beane’s four-hander is completed by Harry Lloyd whose stage credits include A Gaggle of Saints, Ghosts, The Sea and most recently, A View from the Bridge alongside Ken Stott.
Beane’s play, a satire on Hollywood morals, centres on Mitchell (Friend) – movie star, heartthrob and homosexual – who wants to to come out of the closet; his acerbic agent Diane (Greig) who thinks he shouldn’t; and the love triangle created when Mitch falls for rent boy Alex (Lloyd) who has a girlfriend called Ari (Arterton).
Arterton is probably best known for her screen roles – in St Trinian’s (as Head Girl Kelly), Three and Out, Quantum of Solace (as Strawberry Fields) and television’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (as Tess). And although she made her stage debut in 2007 in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Globe Theatre, The Little Dog Laughed marks her West End debut.
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