Rock 'N' Roll confirms closing date
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
AFTER two extensions, Tom Stoppard’s critically acclaimed Rock ‘N’ Roll which is playing at the Duke of York’s Theatre, will close at the end of its current booking period – on February 25, 2007. A Broadway transfer is planned for the autumn.
Previously Posted: From November 14, 2006, Dominic West and Emma Fielding will join the cast of Rock ‘N’ Roll which has extended its booking period at the Duke of York’s Theatre for a second time – until February 25, 2007.
West will take over the role of Jan from Rufus Sewell. His previous London theatre credits include the National Theatre’s production of The Voysey Inheritance in which he played Edward Voysey, As You Like It (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Seagull and Cloud Nine (Old Vic), and The Silver Tassie (Almeida).
Fielding who replaces Sinead Cusack as Eleanor/older Esme, has appeared on stage in Stoppard’s Arcadia, Playing with Fire and Look Back in Anger (both at the National Theatre), and Private Lives (Albery Theatre, now the Noel Coward).
At the same time, Dolya Gavanski replaces Nicole Ansari as Lenka; while, Peter Sullivan and Martin Chamberlain continue in their roles of Ferdinand and Milan.
Previously Posted: From September 26, 2006, David Calder will join the cast of Tom Stoppard’s critically acclaimed new play, Rock ‘N’ Roll, which recently extended its run at the Duke of York’s Theatre by six weeks – until November 5, 2006.
Calder, who replaces Brian Cox in the role of Max, has worked extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. His more recent theatre credits include Five Gold Rings and Conversations After a Burial (Almeida), The Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse), and Home (Oxford Stage Company).
His screen credits include Tumbledown, A Question of Attribution and Wallis and Edward (TV); and Defence of the Realm, American Friends, The King is Alive, plus the soon to be released Goya’s Ghosts and Perfume (film).
Calder will be joining Nicole Ansari (Lenka), Louise Bangay (Candida), Anthony Calf (Nigel), Martin Chamberlain (Milan), Miranda Colchester (Gillian), Sinead Cusack (Eleanor/older Esme), Alice Eve (younger Esme/Alice), Edward Hogg (Stephen), Rufus Sewell (Jan) and Peter Sullivan (Ferdinand).
Previously Posted: Trevor Nunn’s production of Rock ‘N’ Roll which is now playing at the Duke of York’s Theatre, has extended its booking period by six weeks – until November 5, 2006.
Previously Posted: Following its six-week season at the Royal Court Theatre, Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘N’ Roll will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre. Performances begin on July 22, 2006, with booking open until September 24, 2006.
Tickets: £10 – £45, plus concessions
Previously Posted: Tom Stoppard’s first play for the Royal Court, Rock ‘N’ Roll, will run from June 3 to July 15, 2006, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
It will star Brian Cox, Sinead Cusack and Rufus Sewell.
Stoppard’s provactive new play spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution – but from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock ‘n’ roll band came to symbolise resistance to the regime, and the British left, represented by a Communist philosopher at Cambridge.
Stoppard’s other works include The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love, the Olivier Award-winning Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night and Day, Travesties, Jumpers and After Magritte. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was the first of his plays to be staged.
Actor Brian Cox is probably best known for his many film and TV appearances. They include The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Identity, Troy, Kiss the Girls, Braveheart and Rob Roy (film); and Nuremberg (TV).
Sinead Cusack has appeared in the RSC and Royal Court productions of Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice. She also appeared on the West End stage alongside her father Cyril and sisters, Sorcha and Niamh, in The Three Sisters.
Her film and TV credits include V for Vendetta, I Capture the Castle and Stealing Beauty (film); and North and South and Winter Solstice (TV).
Sewell too, is well known for his many film and TV roles – in Tristan and Isolde, The Legend of Zorro and A Knight’s Tale (film); and The Taming of the Shrew and Charles II: The Power and the Passion (TV).
His theatre credits include The 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic, Luther, Macbeth and Pride and Prejudice in which he played Darcy.
Rock ‘N’ Roll will be directed by Trevor Nunn who, like Stoppard, will be making his Royal Court debut.
Tickets: £7.50 – £25
For further information call the Royal Court Box Office on 020 7565 5000, the Duke of York’s Box Office on 0870 060 6623 or visit the websites.