Tickets now on sale for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
January 30, 2013
Following the global success of War Horse, the National Theatre is hoping that they can replicate the success with another Marianne Elliott-helmed production – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Luke Treadaway in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
And if the reviews from its short run at the National are anything to go by, it should be another winner.
The press was superlative for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which is a new adaptation by Simon Stephens of Mark Haddon’s popular novel. The Independent called it “a profoundly moving play” and heralded Luke Treadaway’s performance in the lead role as Christopher as a “remarkable performance”. The Telegraph said that, “it resonates with quality, and will undoubtedly be another hit for the ever-bold National Theatre.”
The show transfers to the Apollo Theatre in London from 1 March, and is initially booking until 25 May 2013.
Alongside Luke Treadaway (who performs on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturdays) as Christopher Boone, the fifteen year old maths genius with behavioural problems, is Matthew Barker, Niamh Cusack, Sophie Duval, Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty, Nick Sidi and Howard Ward, all of whom were also in the original cast.
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LUKE TREADAWAY in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
January 17, 2013
Luke Treadaway heads to the West End in the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
It’s hard to imagine getting better reviews for a play than those for Luke Treadaway’s performance as Christopher in the National’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in 2012.
Michael Billington in the Guardian: “A remarkable performance from Luke Treadaway captures all the hero’s zeal, obduracy and terror of tactile contact”; Laura Thompson in the Telegraph: “Luke Treadaway’s performance as Christopher would be called a tour-de-force, except that this misses the terrible vulnerability at its heart”; Henry Hitchings in the Standard: “ It’s a performance of great physical poise and stunning conviction”; and TimeOut’s “Luke Treadaway is astonishing”.
Enough said.
Luke’s theatre credits include War Horse and Saint Joan at the National Theatre, Piranha Heights at the Soho Theatre and Over There at the Royal Court Theatre alongside his twin brother Harry.
Screen work includes TV drama Clapham Junction and The Innocence Project, and films Wasteland, Get Lucky, St George’s Day, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, You Instead, Late Bloomers, Attack the Block, Killing Bono, The Whistleblower, Clash of the Titans, Heartless and Brothers of the Head.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, transfers from the National to the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue and also stars Niamh Cusack.
Book tickets to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre in London
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre
January 7, 2013
The National Theatre’s sell-out production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time transfers to the Apollo Theatre in the West End. Based on Mark Haddon’s novel and directed by Marianne Elliott (War Horse), the cast includes Luke Treadaway and Niamh Cusack.
Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears’ dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain, exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
Luke Treadaway will recreate his ‘astonishing’ (Time Out) performance as Christopher Boone. He will be joined by Matthew Barker, Niamh Cusack, Sophie Duval, Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty, Nick Sidi and Howard Ward, who were also in the original cast.
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was originally published in 2003. It was the winner of more than seventeen literary awards, including prizes in Japan, Holland and Italy as well as the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in the UK in 2004.
Theatre: Apollo Theatre
ROBERT SHEEHAN in The Playboy of the Western World
July 17, 2011
Robert Sheehan has become a bit of a sex symbol since his breakthrough role as Nathan in E4′s hugely successful series Misfits.
Robert won a BAFTA nomination for the role, and now he’s setting his sights on the stage as he gears up to make his professional theatre début as Christy Mahon in John Crowley’s new production of Irish classic The Playboy of the Western World at the Old Vic Theatre.
Robert’s other TV credits include forthcoming BBC adaptation of The Borrowers, Love/Hate and the Red Riding Trilogy. Film credits include Killing Bono with Ben Barnes and Season of the Witch with Nicholas Cage.
He stars in The Playboy of the Western World alongside Ruth Negga and Niamh Cusack, from 17 September 2011 at the Old Vic.
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RUTH NEGGA in The Playboy of the Western World
July 17, 2011
Ruth Negga is clearly going places, and her starring role in forthcoming Samuel L Jackson movie The Samaritan, a neo-noir thriller directed by David Weaver, is proof enough.
Ruth Negga. Photo: Sabrina Lantos
So it’s good to hear that she hasn’t abandoned her stage roots and will get back to theatre later this year starring in John Crowley’s new production of J M Synge’s Irish comedy The Playboy of the Western World at the Old Vic.
Negga, who plays Pegeen Mike in the play, will appear alongside her fellow Misfits co-star Robert Sheehan and veteran Irish actress Niamh Cusack. The play runs from 17 September 2011 at the Old Vic.
Ruth returns to the role of Pegeen having starred in the Druid Theatre Company’s Australian tour of The Playboy of the Western World. Other theatre credits include National Theatre runs in Hamlet and Phèdre, both directed by Nicholas Hytner, performances at The Abbey and Peacock Theatres in Ireland including The Crucible, The Importance of Being Ernest and David Levaux’s production of The Real Thing, and as Cat in Max Stafford-Clark’s production of Duck at the Royal Court, which earned her an Olivier nomination for Best Newcomer in 2003.
In addition to her role as Nikki in E4′s Misfits, TV roles include mini-series The Nativity, Love/Hate and Criminal Justice. Movie roles include Breakfast on Pluto and Isolation.
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Photos: Anne-Marie Duff in Cause Celebre at the Old Vic Theatre
March 31, 2011
Production photos of Terence Rattigan’s Cause Celebre at the Old Vic Theatre
Anne-Marie Duff in Cause Celebre at the Old Vic
Thea Sharrock (Blithe Spirit) directs Terence Rattigan’s final play, Cause Celebre at the Old Vic Theatre, starring Anne-Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack.
The play is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury (Anne-Marie Duff), who was put on trial in 1935 along with her 18-year-old lover, accused of killing her husband. Vilified by the public as much for her seduction of a younger man as the murder of her husband, the play examines the role of passion, guilt and loyalty in 1930s England. Niamh Cusack plays socially and sexually repressed jury forewoman of the trial, Edith Davenport.
The play also stars Lucy Black, Timothy Carlton, Simon Chandler, Richard Clifford, Oliver Coopersmith, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Freddie Fox, Jenny Galloway, Patrick Godfrey, Nicholas Jones, Tommy McDonnell, Lucy Robinson, Tristan Shepherd, Richard Teverson, Sarah Waddell, Michael Webber and Tristram Wymark.
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Book tickets to Cause Celebre at the Old Vic Theatre in London
Cause Celebre – news and photos
Cause Celebre – Reviews Round-up
March 31, 2011
A round-up of reviews for Cause Celebre at the Old Vic Theatre in London
Anne-Marie Duff in Cause Celebre at the Old Vic
Terence Rattigan’s final play, Cause Celebre, has opened at the Old Vic Theatre in London starring Anne-Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack.
The play is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury (Anne-Marie Duff), who was put on trial in 1935 along with her 18-year-old lover, accused of killing her husband. Vilified by the public as much for her seduction of a younger man as the murder of her husband, the play examines the role of passion, guilt and loyalty in 1930s England. Niamh Cusack plays socially and sexually repressed jury forewoman of the trial, Edith Davenport.
Thea Sharrock, who directed an Olivier award-winning production of Rattigan’s After the Dance at the National Theatre last year, directs the play following her recent revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit at the Apollo Theatre.
The play also stars Lucy Black, Timothy Carlton, Simon Chandler, Richard Clifford, Oliver Coopersmith, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Freddie Fox, Jenny Galloway, Patrick Godfrey, Nicholas Jones, Tommy McDonnell, Lucy Robinson, Tristan Shepherd, Richard Teverson, Sarah Waddell, Michael Webber and Tristram Wymark.
Read reviews from the Times, Telegraph, Hollywood Reporter, Express and Evening Standard, below.
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Cause Celebre – news and photos
FREDDIE FOX in Cause Celebre
January 22, 2011
Up and coming Freddie Fox, from the Fox acting dynasty, to star in Rattigan’s Cause Celebre at the Old Vic Theatre
It’s hard to find a young actor better connected to the profession than Freddie Fox, 21.
Son of actors Edward Fox and Joanna David, brother to Emilia Fox, nephew of James Fox, cousin of Laurence Fox, godson of John Mortimer, great grandson of famous dramatist Frederick Lonsdale, the list goes on and on.
Fox only graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama last year, but has immediately found work – notably in two major TV dramas, playing 80s pop star Marilyn in the BBC’s Boy George biopic Worried About the Boy and the young version of writer Peter Scabius in Any Human Heart, the high-profile Channel 4 adaptation of William Boyd’s novel.
Up next he plays a bisexual assassin in BBC thriller-noir The Shadow Line alongside an impressive cast that includes Christopher Eccleston, Sir Antony Sher, Stephen Rea and Chiwetel Ejiofor. And he won’t have to travel far to get to work in Cause Celebre: Freddie can be currently seen starring as cleft-palated Camille in Feydeau’s farce A Flea In Her Ear at the Old Vic, opposite Tom Hollander.
Cause Celebre also stars Anne-Marie Duff, Niamh Cusack, Lucy Black, Timothy Carlton, Simon Chandler, Richard Clifford, Oliver Coopersmith, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Jenny Galloway, Patrick Godfrey, Nicholas Jones, Tommy McDonnell, Lucy Robinson, Tristan Shepherd, Richard Teverson, Sarah Waddell, Michael Webber and Tristram Wymark.
The play opens at the Old Vic Theatre on 29 March 2011, with previews from 17 March. It is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who was put on trial in 1935 along with her 18-year-old lover, accused of killing her husband. Vilified by the public as much for her seduction of a younger man as the murder of her husband, the play examines the role of passion, guilt and loyalty in 1930s England.
Thea Sharrock directed Rattigan’s After the Dance at the National Theatre earlier this year and will direct Alison Steadman in Blithe Spirit from 2 March 2011 at the Apollo Theatre.
Book tickets to see Cause Celebre at the Old Vic Theatre in London
NIAMH CUSACK in Cause Celebre
January 21, 2011
Niamh Cusack to star alongside Anne-Marie Duff in Rattigan’s Cause Celebre at the Old Vic
Niamh Cusack returns to the London stage this spring in Thea Sharrock’s revival of Terence Rattigan’s Cause Celebre, timed for the writer’s centenary in 2011.
Cusack, whose father was acclaimed Irish actor Cyril Cusack and her sister Sinead is also an accomplished actress, has worked extensively in theatre, film and TV. Stage roles include Dancing at Lughnasa at The Old Vic, Portrait Of A Lady at the Theatre Royal Bath and His Dark Materials at The National Theatre. TV work includes The Last Detective and Heartbeat and film roles include The Closer You Get, Playboys and Shadow Under The Sun.
Cause Celebre also stars Anne-Marie Duff, Lucy Black, Timothy Carlton, Simon Chandler, Richard Clifford, Oliver Coopersmith, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Freddie Fox, Jenny Galloway, Patrick Godfrey, Nicholas Jones, Tommy McDonnell, Lucy Robinson, Tristan Shepherd, Richard Teverson, Sarah Waddell, Michael Webber and Tristram Wymark.
The play opens at the Old Vic Theatre on 29 March 2011, with previews from 17 March. It is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who was put on trial in 1935 along with her 18-year-old lover, accused of killing her husband. Vilified by the public as much for her seduction of a younger man as the murder of her husband, the play examines the role of passion, guilt and loyalty in 1930s England. Cusack plays socially and sexually repressed jury forewoman of the trial, Edith Davenport.
Thea Sharrock directed Rattigan’s After the Dance at the National Theatre earlier this year and will direct Alison Steadman in Blithe Spirit from 2 March 2011 at the Apollo Theatre.
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NIAMH CUSACK – CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Theatre Gate Theatre Dublin: Hester Worsley in A Woman of No Importance, Irina in Three Sisters, Nora in A Doll’s House; RSC: Desdemona in Othello, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Jane Hogarth in The Art of Success, Rosalind in As You Like It; West Yorkshire Playhouse: Pegeen Mike in The Playboy of the Western World, Gemma in Captain Swing; Lady Mary in The Admirable Crichton (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Gustchen in The Tutor (Old Vic), Nora Clitheroe in The Plough and the Stars (Young Vic), Irina in Three Sisters (Royal Exchange Manchester), Helena in The Faerie Queen (Aix-en-Provence), The Maids (Donmar), Nabokov’s Gloves, Molière’s Learned Ladies, Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Chichester Festival Theatre), Serafina Pekkala in His Dark Materials, Ghosts (Gate London); Television Lucky Sunil, Poirot, Till We Meet Again, Jeeves and Wooster, Heartbeat, Angel Train, Shadow of the Sun, Colour Blind, Rhinoceros, Little Bird, A&E, Loving You, Too Good to be True, State of Mind; Films Paris By Night, Fools of Fortune, The Playboys, The Closer You Get; Awards Irish Life Award, Irish Post Award.
