The End of Longing - full casting announced
Casting news
CHRISTINA Cole, Jennifer Mudge and Lloyd Owen will join internationally acclaimed actor Matthew Perry to complete the cast in the World Premiere of his playwriting debut, The End of Longing, which runs at the Playhouse Theatre for a strictly limited season – from February 2 to May 14, 2016.
Meet Jack, Stephanie, Joseph and Stevie: four lost souls, entering their forties and searching for meaning. After sharing one raucous night together in a downtown Los Angeles bar, their lives become irreversibly entwined in a rollercoaster journey that forces them to confront the darker sides of their relationships.
Described as a sharply written and hilarious dark comedy, The End of Longing, will make you realise that broken people don’t need to stay broken.
Christina Cole’s (Stevie) stage credits include The Magistrate (National Theatre), The Lightening Play (Almeida Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Theatr Clwyd).
Her extensive screen credits include SS-GB, The Blacklist, Suits, New Tricks, Lumen, Partners in Crime, Rosemary’s Baby, The Assets, Second Sight, Silent Witness, Chaos, Breakout Kings, Lewis, Human Target, Midsomer Murders, Emma, Maggie Hill, Poirot: An Appointment with Death, Lost in Austen, Sold, Ladies and Gentlemen, Cane and Sea of Souls, Jupiter Ascending, Mutual Friends, Blitz, The Time Machine – Morlocks, Doghouse, Surviving Evil, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, God’s Wounds, The Death of Ian Stone, Casino Royale, What A Girl Wants, Gun and Light.
Jennifer Mudge (Stephanie), who will be making her West End debut in The End Of Longing, most recently appeared off-Broadway as the Witch in Into The Woods at the Roundabout Theater, for which she was nominated for a Lortel Award for outstanding lead actress in a musical. Her other stage credits include Of Good Stock (Manhattan Theater Club), Rocky (Winter Garden Theater, Broadway), Happy Hour (part of the La Mama’s ADA Festival), Dutchman (Cherry Lane Theater) for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for out outstanding actress in a play, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Geffen Playhouse).
Mudge’s screen work includes Shades of Blue, My American, Boss, Dead Man Down, You Don’t Know Jack, Sonnet for a Towncar, Drifting Elegant, Lefty Loosey, Madam Secretary, The Big C, The Good Wife, Mercy, Life Is Wild, Canterbury’s Law, Law & Order and L&O Criminal Intent.
Mudge is appearing with the support of UK Equity, incorporating the Variety Artistes’ Federation, pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity.
Lloyd Owen’s (Joseph) numerous stage credits include Good People (Hampstead Theatre/Noël Coward Theatre), Stuff Happens (National Theatre), which was included in the National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage, The Bodyguard (Adelphi Theatre) for which he was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical in the Whatsonstage.com Awards 2013, Loyalty (Hampstead Theatre), Iphigenia and Edward II (Crucible Theatre), Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Tempest, Philoctetes, The Parquet Floor and The Passport (Young Vic) and Closer (Lyric Theatre).
Owen’s equally numerous screen credits include Silent Witness, Death In Paradise, You Me and The Apocalypse, The Originals, Midsomer Murders, Fairly Legal, Taking The Flak, Inside The Box, Inseparable, Viva Laughlin, Calais Rules, The Innocent Project, Ghost Squad, The Monarch of the Glen, The Vice, Coupling, Dead Gorgeous, Wire in the Blood, Hearts & Bones, Gypsy Girl, Get Real, The Cinder Path, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The Story of Frankenstein, Stay Lucky, The Chief, Forever Green, Boom, Free Ride, Apollo 18, Miss Potter, The Republic of Love, Get The Picture and Between Dreams.
The End of Longing is directed by Lindsay Posner and designed by the 2015 Evening Standard Award-winner, Anna Fleischle (Hangmen), with lighting by Lucy Carter and composition and sound by Isobel Waller-Bridge.
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