Janie Dee, Martin Marquez, George MacKay and More to Star in AH, WILDERNESS! at the Young Vic This Spring

By: Feb. 05, 2015
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According to the Daily Mail, Eugene O'Neill's AH, WILDERNESS! is coming to the Young Vic this spring, running April 12 through May 23, 2015.

Starring are Olivier winner Janie Dee, TV actor Martin Marquez, and George MacKay, who recently appeared on the big screen in Matthew Marchus's PRIDE.

O'Neill's AH, WILDERNESS! debuted on Broadway in 1933 and is set on the Fourth of July in 1906 and centers on the Millers, a Connecticut family, and their 16-year-old son Richard. The play has seen several revivals over the years; the most recent ran in 1998.

Dee won the Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics' Circle, Obie and Theatre World awards for her performance in Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential. She also won an Olivier for Carousel at the National. More recently, the actress appeared in Hello, Dolly! at the Curve and Noises Off at the Old Vic. She has also appeared in productions for the RSC, Chichester Festival Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and more. Her other West End credits include Betrayal, Much Ado About Nothing, Mack & Mabel, Donkeys' Years, Shadowlands, Twelfth Night, Calendar Girls and more.

Marquez has appeared on TV in Hotel Babylon, The Bill, EastEnders, Doc Martin, The Catherine Tate Show, Murder Most Horrid and Plastic Man. Onstage, he starred in Trevor Nunn's 2002 revival of Anything Goes, as well as Insigificance, and both Billy Elliot and From Here to Eternity in the West End.

Aside from Pride, MacKay has appeared on the big screen in Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson, For Those in Peril, the musical film Sunshine on Leith, How I Live Now, The Thief Lord, Peter Pan and more.



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