ZOË WANAMAKER AND ZRINKA CVITEŠIĆ
IN WORLD PREMIERE OF NANCY HARRIS’
T W O L A D I E S
DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS HYTNER
Zoë Wanamaker and Zrinka Cvitešić will play Hélène and Sophia respectively in Two Ladies, a new play by Nancy Harris to be directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Bridge Theatre. Two Ladieswill preview from 14 September 2019 with opening night on 25 September. This strictly limited 6-week run will conclude on 26 October 2019. Tickets will go on sale at 10am today for priority members with public booking opening on 5 June 2019 at 10am.
As their husbands clash over an international crisis, the first ladies of France and America find themselves alone together in a side room. Friends, or enemies? When the stakes are so high, can they trust each other? Can they trust their husbands?
Set and costume designs are by Anna Fleischle withlighting by Johanna Town and sound byGeorge Dennis. Final casting will be announced shortly.
Zoë Wanamaker was last on stage as Meg in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party at the Harold Pinter Theatre. She has had a much-celebrated career working for the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse as well as in the West End and on Broadway. Her many television credits include My Family, Poirot and Mr Selfridge as well as Killing Eve, Britannia and Girlfriends. Her many film credits include My Week with Marilyn, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, Wilde and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. As well as being the recipient of numerous awards and nominations, Wanamaker was appointed a CBE for her services to Drama.
Playwright Nancy Harris was born in Dublin. Her plays include The Beacon, No Romance, Our New Girl, Love in a Glass Jar, Baddies: The Musical, Journey to X, The Kreutzer Sonata and an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes. Harris received The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and The Stewart Parker Award for her debut full-length play No Romance in 2012. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. She has also written for radio and television and was nominated for a BAFTA as a Breakthrough Talent in 2014 for her writing on the Channel 4 seriesDates.
Nicholas Hytner co-founded the London Theatre Company with Nick Starr. He was Director of the National Theatre from 2003 to 2015, where the productions he directed included The History Boys, Hamlet, One Man, Two Guvnors, and Othello. His films include The Madness of George III, The Lady in the Van and The History Boys. Hisbook Balancing Acts is published by Jonathan Cape. For the Bridge, Hytner has directed Young Marx, Julius Caesar, Allelujah! and Alys, Always. His forthcoming immersive production ofA Midsummer Night’s Dreamopens next month.
T H E L I O N, T H E W I T C H A N D T H E W A R D R O B E
FOR 12 WEEKS ONLY
The London Theatre Company by special arrangement with Elliott & Harper Productions andCatherine Schreiber, presents the much-celebrated Leeds Playhouse production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for 12 weeks over the 2019/20 festive season at the Bridge. Based on the novel by C. S. Lewis and directed by Sally Cookson, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will have its first performance on 9 November 2019 with opening night on 18 November and will run until 2 February 2020. Tickets will go on sale at 10am today for priority members with public booking opening on 5 June 2019 at 10am. Full details of the performance schedule, including Sundays, are available on the Bridge website. Casting will be announced at a later date.
This critically acclaimed production reunites director Sally Cookson with designer Rae Smith, writer in the room Adam Peck, movement director Dan Canham, lighting designer Bruno Poet, sound designer Ian Dickinson and music by Benji Bower all of whomoriginally brought the show to life in 2017 breaking box office records at Leeds Playhouse.
Written by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first book published inThe Chronicles of Narnia in 1950 and went on to become one of the most popular children’s books of all time, still regularly topping reader votes on the best books for children nearly 70 years later.The Chronicles of Narnia – The Magician’s Nephew, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair and The Last Battle – are classics of children’s literature, having enchanted generations of young readers, with over 100 million copies sold worldwide in over 70 countries and 59 different languages. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia are published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Sally Cookson’s most recent production was the Olivier award-winning A Monster Calls at the Old Vic. She is an Associate Artist at Bristol Old Vic where her productions include Jane Eyre and Peter Pan which were also seen at the National Theatre and on tour, Sleeping Beauty, Treasure Island, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Strange Case, Pericles, Pains of Youth and The Visit. Her work in the West End includes La Strada, Hetty Feather and Bearhunt. Her numerous collaborations with Travelling Light Theatre include Strictly Balti by Saikat Ahammed, The Ugly Duckling based on Hans Christian Andersen, Shadowplay, Cloudland based on the book by John Burningham, Lenny by Francis Monty, Bob the Man on the Moon based on the book by Simon Bartram.
Rae Smith received multiple design awards including the Olivier and Tony Awards for War Horseat the National Theatre and on tour internationally.Her theatre credits include the forthcomingThe Night of the Iguana at the Noël Coward Theatre as well as Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s Theatre, Girl From the North Country at the Old Vic, the Public Theater in New York and on Broadway, Translations at the National Theatre and Barbershop Chronicles at the National Theatre, the Roundhouse, Brooklyn Academy of Music and on UK tour, The Goat at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, This House at the Garrick Theatre and on UK tour, Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre andRusalka at Glyndebourne. Other theatre credits include Wonder.Land and The Light Princess for the National Theatre and The Tempest and Prince of the Pagodas for Birmingham Royal Ballet. Smith is the recipient of The Rootstein Hopkins Fellowship which extends boundaries between the live performing arts and drawing.
Director Marianne Elliott and Producer Chris Harper founded Elliott & Harper Productions in 2016. Their multi award-winning production of Company recently completed its run at the Gielgud Theatre and their current co-production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is playing to great critical acclaim and sell-out houses at the Young Vic Theatre.
Catherine Schreiber is a two-time Tony and Olivier Award-winning international Producer and Broadway Global Producer of the Year 2017. Current Broadway productions include Network, Pretty Woman and The Play That Goes Wrong. In 2014 Schreiber brought the award-winning musical The Scottsboro Boys to London, winning the Critics Circle Award and Evening Standard Award for Best Musical.
Leeds Playhouse was established almost 50 years ago. It’s a cultural hub, a place where people gather to tell and share stories and to engage in world class theatre. Currently undergoing a £15.8 million capital redevelopment, Leeds Playhouse is due to reopen in October 2019, with a new city-facing entrance, improved access into and around the building and a new studio theatre.
BROADWAY TRANSFER FOR LAURA LINNEY IN
M Y N A M E I S L U C Y B A R T O N
It has been recently announced that Laura Linney will reprise the title role in Richard Eyre’sproduction of My Name is Lucy Barton at the Manhattan Theatre Club marking the London Theatre Company’s first Broadway transfer. Adapted by Rona Munro from Elizabeth Strout’sPulitzer Prize-winningnovel, My Name is Lucy Barton will begin its Broadway run on 6 January 2020 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Following its world premiere at the Bridge in 2018, Linney returned earlier this year for a second sell-out run.
L O N D O N T H E A T R E C O M P A N Y
TO OPEN SECOND THEATRE IN KING’S CROSS
The London Theatre Company and King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership earlier this month announced their joint venture for a brand-new theatre in King’s Cross to open in Winter 2021/22. The new 600-seat flexible auditorium will be based on the award-winning Bridge Theatre which opened in October 2017.
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