Gaslight - further casting announced
ANDREW Woodall and Rowena Cooper will join Rosamund Pike and Kenneth Cranham in the Old Vic’s production of Gaslight.
Woodall’s stage credits include King Lear (Old Vic), As You Like It (Wyndham’s Theatre), Disappeared (Royal Court), Butterfly Kiss (Almeida), The Life of Galileo (National Theatre) and, most recently and also at the National, The Voysey Inheritance.
As well as working with director Gill on The Voysey Inheritance, Woodall also appeared in Gill’s play Certain Young Men again at the Almeida.
Cooper’s stage credits include Birds of Passage (Hampstead Theatre), Blithe Spirit (National Theatre) and Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); while on television, she has appeared regularly in Down to Earth and Playing the Field.
Pike is currently appearing on screen in the legal thriller Fracture. In an interview with Rob Carnevale, she talks briefly about Gaslight.
Read the interview
Previously Posted: Rosamund Pike and Kenneth Cranham are to star in Peter Gill’s revival of Patrick Hamilton’s thriller Gaslight, which opens at the Old Vic on June 14, 2007 (previews from June 7) for a limited season only – until August 18, 2007.
Gaslight is the powerful story of a young woman psychologically dominated by her husband. While Jack Manningham is out on the town each evening, his wife Bella (Pike), stays at home alone, believing she’s losing her mind.
She can’t explain the disappearance of familiar objects, the mysterious footsteps overhead or the ghostly flickering of living room gaslights. However, questions about Jack’s behaviour and true identity are aroused following the unexpected arrival of Detective Rough (Cranham).
Gaslight was first seen on stage in 1938. Two years later, it was adapted for the British screen and in 1944, George Cukor directed Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in the Hollywood version; Bergman winning an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as the psychologically terrorised young wife.
As well as his other great play, Rope which was filmed by Alfred Hitchock, Patrick Hamilton also wrote the novels Hangover Square and Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky.
Pike’s screen credits include Doom, Pride and Prejudice (as Jane Bennet), The Libertine and the 2002 Bond thriller Die Another Day (as Miranda Frost).
On stage, she played the title role in the Royal Court’s production of Terry Johnson’s 2003 play, Hitchcock Blonde, which subsequently transferred to the West End; starred opposite Henry Goodman in the London premiere of Brian Friel’s Performances at Wilton’s Music Hall; and most recently, led the cast of Summer and Smoke at the Apollo Theatre.
Cranham’s numerous credits include Endgame, The UN Inspector, Flight, An Inspector Calls, School for Scandal and The Novice (stage); Layer Cake, The Boxer, Chocolat and Hot Fuzz (film); and Rome (TV).
Gaslight will be directed by playwright/director Peter Gill whose recent directing credits include The Voysey Inheritance, Scenes from the Big Picture and Speed the Plough, as well as two of his own works The York Realist and Certain Young Men.
Robert Lindsay is currently starring as Archie Rice in The Entertainer at the Old Vic.