Snake in the Grass extends run
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
THE CRITICALLY acclaimed London premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s rarely performed play, Snake in the Grass, has extended its run at The Print Room until Saturday, March 12, 2011.
Previously Posted: Lucy Bailey will direct the London premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s rarely performed play, Snake in the Grass, at newly launched theatre The Print Room – from Wednesday, February 9 to Saturday, March 5, 2011.
Snake in the Grass, a dark and sinister thriller, is described by the playwright as ‘a ghost play’.
Following the death of their cruel and tyrannical father, Annabel returns to the family home to be re-united with her sister, Miriam. Their father’s former nurse, Alice, accuses Miriam of murdering her father, and attempts to blackmail the sisters. As the sisters deal with Alice’s threats, they find themselves haunted by the ghosts of their past.
The cast includes Susan Wooldridge (as Annabel), Sarah Woodward (Miriam) and Mossie Smith (Alice).
Susan Wooldridge found fame as Daphne Manners in the 1984 television drama Jewel in the Crown. Since then she has appeared in many British films, including Hope and Glory, and is at present working with Luc Besson on his new film due to be released later in 2011.
She has worked with Bailey at Chichester Festival Theatre on Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 and Don’t Look Now for Sheffield Crucible Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith.
Sarah Woodward has just completed a UK tour of the celebrated Globe production of Merry Wives of Windsor and later this year, returns to the National Theatre for The Cherry Orchard.
Although best known as Prime Suspect‘s PC Maureen Havers, Mossie Smith‘s screen credits also include Resistance alongside Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough and the legendary Road production (also at the Royal Court Theatre). Her other theatre credits include Dreams of Violence, directed by Max Stafford Clark, at Soho Theatre and on tour.
Lucy Bailey, Co Artistic Director of The Print Room, directed Pasolini’s Fabrication, the venue’s inaugural production. Her other credits include Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), the RSC’s Julius Caesar (coming to the Roundhouse in January 2011), Dial M for Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Private Lives (Hampstead Theatre).
Snake in the Grass is designed is by seven-times Olivier award-winner William Dudley, whose work includes All My Sons (West End), End of the Rainbow (Trafalgar Studios) and Peter Pan (Kensington Gardens).
Tickets: £16, £12 concessions – available at the box office on 08444 77 1000 or at www.the-print-room.org
Times: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday matinee at 3.30pm.