FOLLOWING A RECORD-BREAKING SELL-OUT RUN
AT THE ALMEIDA THEATRE
SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS WILL TRANSFER
PETER MORGAN’S NEW PLAY
PATRIOTS
TO THE NOËL COWARD THEATRE
FOR A LIMITED TWELVE WEEK SEASON
FROM 26 MAY TO 19 AUGUST 2023
STARRING TOM HOLLANDER
WITH
WILL KEEN
AND A CAST INCLUDING LUKE THALLON
REPRISING THEIR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ROLES
ON SALE FROM WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2022
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‘It had me on the edge of my seat, and a West End transfer is a must’
Mail on Sunday
‘This is a cracking, exciting piece of theatre that’s become, sadly, very timely’
Evening Standard
‘Peter Morgan’s absorbing, acerbic new play’
Variety
Patriots is international award-winning writer Peter Morgan’s (Frost/Nixon) first new play since The Audience. He is best known for writing the multi award-winning Netflix hit, The Crown.
Patriots is the Almeida’s fastest selling new play and transfers to the Noël Coward Theatre for a limited twelve-week run from 26 May to 19 August 2023, with Opening Night on 6 June 2023. Directed by the Almeida’s Artistic Director, Rupert Goold (Ink, Enron), Patriots is a brilliant and startlingly timely story of ambition, loyalty and betrayal in a brave new world.
BAFTA-winning actor Tom Hollander (The Night Manager; Travesties) reprises his starring role as Boris Berezovsky, the ‘kingmaker’ behind Vladimir Putin, with Will Keen (His Dark Materials) also returning to play Putin and Luke Thallon (Albion) as Abramovich. Further casting will be announced in due course.
“If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes”
1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.
With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today’s patriot can fast become tomorrow’s traitor.
As a new generation of oligarchs fights to seize control, PATRIOTS follows billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky from the president’s inner circle
to public enemy number one.
The full creative team for Patriots is Director: Rupert Goold, Set Designer: Miriam Buether, Co-Costume Designers: Deborah Andrews and Miriam Buether,Lighting Designer: Jack Knowles, Movement Director Polly Bennett, Sound Designer and Composer: Adam Cork, and Casting Director: Robert Sterne.