Faith Healer - Ron Cook completes cast
Casting news
RON Cook (as Teddy) will join Stephen Dillane (Frank) and Gina McKee (Grace) to complete the cast of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, which runs at the Donmar Warehouse from June 28 (previews from June 23) to August 20, 2016.
Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling which brings him into conflict with his wife Grace and his manager Teddy. Their accounts of their lives together and their memories of the past collide as they attempt to understand the power which lies at the heart of Frank’s ministry.
Ron Cook returns to the Donmar after appearing in Trelawny of the Wells, Richard II, King Lear (also UK Tour and Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York), Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Wyndham’s Theatre), Juno and the Paycock and Glengarry Glen Ross.
His extensive theatre credits elsewhere include The Homecoming and The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios), Henry V (Noel Coward Theatre), The Seafarer (National Theatre) and Our Country’s Good (Royal Court Theatre).
His screen work includes four series of Mr Selfridge, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Bert and Dickie, Vera and Little Dorrit (TV); Hot Fuzz, On a Clear Day, 24 Hour Party People, Charlotte Gray, Chocolat, Topsy Turvy and Secrets and Lies (film).
Faith Healer is directed by Lyndsey Turner and designed by Es Devlin, with costume design by Jack Galloway, lighting design by Bruno Poet and sound design by Christopher Shutt. Composer is Rupert Cross.
Read more about Faith Healer.
Also at the Donmar: Welcome Home, Captain Fox!, Anthony Weigh’s new version of Jean Anouilh’s hit 1937 comedy Le Voyageur Sans Bagage (until April 16) and the UK premiere of Nick Payne’s Elegy (April 21 to June 18, 2016).