Buried Child - Jeremy Irvine joins cast
Casting news
JEREMY Irvine will make his West End debut in Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer and Obie prize-winning play Buried Child, which runs at Trafalgar Studios for a strictly limited season – from November 14, 2016 to February 18, 2017.
Irvine will be taking on the role of Vince, and starring alongside the previously announced Ed Harris and Amy Madigan, who will both be reprising their roles of Dodge and Halie respectively. Further casting will be announced in due course.
One of the most exciting young British actors of his generation, Jeremy Irvine was discovered by Steven Spielberg for the starring role in his epic war film War Horse in 2011. Irvine subsequently earned widespread critical acclaim for his role opposite Dakota Fanning in the independent film Now Is Good, leading critics to list him among Hollywood’s fastest-rising stars. Now Is Good was followed by Mike Newell’s Great Expectations in which he starred as Pip.
In 2013, Irvine gained a reputation as a method actor after he dropped more than 25 pounds and performed his own torture scene stunts in the film adaptation of The Railway Man. Since then, he has starred in Stonewall, A Night in Old Mexico, The World Made Straight, Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Bad Education: The Movie and Beyond the Reach, in which he stars alongside Michael Douglas.
Irvine’s forthcoming films include Fallen (based on the bestselling book Billionaire Boys Club) alongside Taron Egerton, Kevin Spacey and Suki Waterhouse, and This Beautiful Fantastic, alongside Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott and Tom Wilkinson.
Buried Child finds Dodge and Halie barely hanging on to their farmland and their sanity while looking after their two wayward grown sons. When their grandson Vince arrives with his girlfriend, no one seems to recognize him, and confusion abounds. As Vince tries to make sense of the chaos, the rest of the family dances around a deep, dark secret.
Described as a wildly poetic and cuttingly funny take on the American family drama, Buried Child gleefully pulls apart the threadbare deluded visions of our families and our homes.
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