First Look Photos: The Truth at the Apollo Theatre, London

Check out the new production photos for The Truth at the Apollo Theatre in London.

Now playing at the Apollo Theatre for a strictly limited 14-week run, The Truth is a wickedly funny and elegantly crafted comedy from Academy Award-winning playwright Florian Zeller, in a translation by Christopher Hampton.

The Olivier-nominated play brings together four of the UK and Ireland’s most beloved stage and screen performers: Tony Award-nominated Stephen Mangan (The Split, Episodes) as Michel, comedy icon Ardal O’Hanlon (Father Ted) as Paul, Sarah Hadland (Miranda, Strictly Come Dancing) as Alice and double Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee as Laurence.

Directed by Lindsay Posner (Noises Off, A View from the Bridge, Equus), the production is a sophisticated, fast-paced comedy about adultery, loyalty and the lies we tell the people we love — and the ones we tell ourselves.

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First look photos: The Truth in London

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About the production

At the centre of The Truth is Michel, a man who embarks on an affair with his best friend’s wife while attempting to convince himself and everyone around him that honesty is overrated.

As the web of deception grows ever more tangled, the audience is left delightfully off-balance, never quite sure who is deceiving whom. It is classic Zeller: an ingenious puzzle of a play that begins as a playful comedy about adultery and steadily reveals itself to be something deeper and more surprising, without ever losing its sense of fun.

Florian Zeller is widely regarded as one of the most exciting contemporary dramatists, best known internationally for The Father and The Son. The Father, which Melting Pot also produced on stage, was adapted into the double Oscar and BAFTA-winning film starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. The Truth showcases the same gift for blending psychological tension with biting humour, but, as producer Simon Friend notes, “there are considerably more laughs this time.”

A cast to die for

The real draw here is the quartet of performers at the play’s heart. Stephen Mangan returns to the London stage bringing the comic timing familiar from The Split and Episodes; Ardal O’Hanlon, forever beloved as Father Dougal in Father Ted, brings his own distinctive warmth; Sarah Hadland, known to millions from Miranda and her recent Strictly Come Dancing run, and double Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee complete a company perfectly suited to Zeller’s elegant, fast-moving comedy of manners.

With Christopher Hampton’s lean and witty translation and Lindsay Posner’s assured direction, this is a revival built around four performers at the very top of their game.

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