Duncan to Star in London in Royal Court's That Face

The two-time Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress Lindsay Duncan is to star in Polly Stenham's That Face for the Royal Court, showing at London's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.  She will be joined by Matt Smith and Felicity Jones in the play, which begins on April 20 and runs through May 19.

The play is described by the London Theatre Guide as a "hard-hitting, intense dissection of parent-child relationships, [that tells] of Mia and Henry, who find themselves in the unenviable position of having to protect their own mother from herself."

Duncan's theatrical credits include Mouth To Mouth, Ashes To Ashes and Top Girls at the Royal Court. She won her first Best Actress Laurence Olivier Award in 1986 for her role in Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Barbican Pit and the Ambassadors. In 2002 she picked up her second, for Noel Coward's Private Lives at the Albery. Duncan's recent work on screen inludes the films Starter For Ten, Under The Tuscan Sun and Mansfield Park, and Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence.

Actor Smith has appeared in several productions at the National, notably in all three of the plays Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, Simon Stephens's On The Shore Of The Wide World and as Lockwood in The History Boys in the Lyttelton and on tour. He is currently playing Labour researcher Danny Foster in the BBC television drama Party Animals.

While this is Jones's first professional theatre role, the actress has played Emma Carter in The Archers on BBC Radio and her history in television includes Northanger Abbey and All Quiet On The Preston Front.

That Face at the Royal Court is the first play by 20-year-old writer Stenham, who attended the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme.