Hollywood star Thandie Newton will tread the boards in London this Autumn as she plays Paulina Salas in Ariel Dorfman’s Olivier award-winning thriller Death and the Maiden at the Comedy Theatre from Thursday 13th October 2011.
In the drama Thandie plays a former political prisoner who suffered at the hands of a captor whose face she never saw, but whose voice and mannerisms she recalls with terrifying clarity.
Years later, she acts as judge and jury to a man she believes to have been her oppressor. She struggles to find a form of reconciliation for the experience that she and others, have endured.
Thandie Newton was awarded a BAFTA for her role in Crash, Paul Haggis’ Oscar-winning film about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles. She also starred in the title role in Beloved opposite Oprah Winfrey and in Mission Impossible II with Tom Cruise. She appeared in The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith and played Simon Pegg’s ex-girlfriend in Run Fat Boy Run. She played Condoleezza Rice in Oliver Stone’s W and the US President’s daughter in 2012. She was most recently seen in Huge and is currently filming Good Deeds, written, directed by and starring Tyler Perry.
Death and the Maiden also stars Tom Goodman-Hill as Gerado and Anthony Calf as Doctor Roberto Miranda. The show is directed by Jeremy Herrin with design by Peter McKintosh.
LINKS
Book tickets to Death and the Maiden at the Comedy Theatre in London
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