London's 'Bent' and 'Summer and Smoke' to Close Early

The London revivals of Bent and Summer and Smoke have both announced early closing dates.

The revival of Martin Sherman's 1979 play Bent, directed by Daniel Kramer and starring Tony Award-winner Alan Cumming, was originally booking through January 13th, 2007.  The show, which opened at Trafalgar Studios on October 5th, will instead close on December 9th.

Adrian Noble's production of Tennessee Williams' 1948 work Summer and Smoke, starring Rosamund Pike and Chris Carmack, opened on October 18th and was originally booking through February 7th, 2007.   It will close early on November 25th.

"Bent follows a personal journey from the cabarets and clubs of a hedonistic city to the inhuman excesses of a totalitarian regime, as a gay man discovers the true meaning of love and self-acceptance against almost impossible odds. A transcendent love story, Bent has touched a universal nerve through the years in the more than fifty countries that it has been seen in," state press notes.

In Summer and Smoke, Pike stars as Alma Winemiller, a minister's daughter who "finds her youthful passions rekindled when the neighbour's hard-living prodigal son John Buchanan returns home and soon resumes his sinful ways," according to earlier Whatsonstage.com notes.