Distribution complète annoncée pour la reprise d'EQUUS de Peter Shaffer au Menier Chocolate Factory

Le Menier Chocolate Factory a annoncé la distribution complète pour la grande reprise de Lindsay Posner de l'œuvre de Peter Shaffer Equus, une co-production avec Theatre Royal Bath Productions. Rejoignent l'acteur déjà annoncé Toby Stephens (Dr. Martin Dysart) : Amanda Abbington (Hesther Salomon), Bella Aubin (Jill Mason), Emma Cunniffe (Dora Strang), Paula James (Infirmière), Colin Mace (Frank Strang), Ed Mitchell (Nugget/Joueur de jeune cheval), DAVID RUBIN (Dalton) et Noah Valentine (Alan Strang), avec Luke Hodkinson, Aristide Lyons, Zach Parkin, Tommi Sutton et Moses Ward.

La production débute au Menier le 18 mai, avec des avant-premières à partir du 8 mai, et se poursuit jusqu'au 4 juillet, avant une représentation au Theatre Royal Bath du 14 au 25 juillet.

Distribution : Amanda Abbington (Hesther Salomon), Bella Aubin (Jill Mason), Emma Cunniffe (Dora Strang), Paula James (Infirmière), Colin Mace (Frank Strang), Ed Mitchell (Nugget/Joueur de jeune cheval), DAVID RUBIN (Dalton). Toby Stephens (Dr. Martin Dysart) et Noah Valentine (Alan Strang), avec Luke Hodkinson, Aristide Lyons, Zach Parkin, Tommi Sutton et Moses Ward

Mis en scène par : Lindsay Posner; Décors et costumes : Paul Farnsworth; Conception lumière : Paul Pyant; Composition musicale et design sonore : Adam Cork; Directeur de mouvement : James Cousins

Présenté en co-production avec Theatre Royal Bath

Quelle impulse peut amener un garçon de 17 ans à crever les yeux de six chevaux ? C'est le défi auquel est confronté le psychiatre Martin Dysart alors qu'il plonge dans le psychisme de son jeune patient Alan Strang pour chercher des réponses tout en se demandant si le remède n'est pas plus dangereux que le crime. La pièce intrigante et brillamment construite de Peter Shaffer, lauréate de nombreux prix, est désormais considérée comme un chef-d'œuvre moderne.

Biographies

Amanda Abbington incarne Hesther Salomon. Parmi ses crédits théâtraux figurent (This is not a) Happy Room (King's Head Theatre), When it Happens to You (Park Theatre), The Unfriend (Criterion Theatre), The Son (Kiln Theatre/Duke of York's Theatre), The Little Princess (Royal Festival Hall), The God of Carnage, Abigail's Party (Theatre Royal Bath), God Bless the Child (Royal Court Theatre) et Love Me Tonight (Hampstead Theatre). Ses crédits télévisuels comprennent The Family Pile, Desperate Measures, Wolfe, The Net, Sherlock, I Hate Suzie, Mr. Selfridge (Miss Mardle récurrente), Cuffs, The Queen and I, Unsaid Stories, Safe, Married Single Other et After You've Gone; et pour le cinéma, The Lost King, Three Pints and a Rabbi, Decrypted, The Six Days of Sistine, Crooked House, Another Mother's Son et Ghost.

Bella Aubin joue Jill Mason. Récemment diplômée de RADA, ses crédits théâtraux incluent A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre) et Macbeth (Lyric Hammersmith).

Emma Cunniffe revient au Menier pour incarner Dora Strang – elle est apparue précédemment dans Proof. Parmi ses autres crédits théâtraux : The Importance of Being Earnest, Edward II, Three Sisters, Major Barbara, Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Trials (Marlowe Theatre), Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith), Romeo and Juliet, The Crucible (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Hogarth's Progress (Rose Theatre Kingston), Queen Anne (RSC/Theatre Royal Haymarket), Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC), Conquest of the South Pole (Arcola Theatre/Rose Theatre Kingston), A Doll's House (Manchester Library Theatre), Dumb Show (Rose Theatre Kingston), Educating Rita (Glasgow Citizen's Theatre), A Buyer's Market, Caravan (Bush Theatre), As You Like It (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), Hamlet (Oxford Stage Company), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Bristol Old Vic), Losing Louis (Hampstead Theatre/ Trafalgar Studios), Tales from Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse), The Entertainer (The Old Vic), The Glasshouse (Hampstead Theatre) et Women Beware Women (RSC). À la télévision, ses travaux incluent Marble Hall Murders, Call the Midwife, A Very Royal Scandal, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Chelsea Detective, The Long Shadow, Grantchester, Agatha Raisin, Endeavour, Roadkill, The Irregulars, Unforgotten, George Gently, Father Brown, Waterloo Road, Moving On, Jo, Southcliff, Good Cop, Doctor Who, A Place of Execution, Northern Lights, Trouble in Paradise, 10%ers, All the King's Men, Blue Murder, Cracker, Cuts, Dangerfield, Flesh and Blood, Great Expectations, Life After Birth, Love or Money, Plain Jane, Rough Diamond, The Cry, The Genius of Mozart, The Innocents, The Lakes (Emma Quinlan récurrente) et The Whistleblower; et pour le cinéma, H is for Hawk, Miss Marx, The Rabbit on the Moon, Tube Tales, Dreaming of Joseph Lees et Among Giants.

Paula James incarne Nurse. Ses crédits théâtraux incluent The Three Little Pigs (Unicorn Theatre/ Chichester Festival Theatre), The Snow Queen (Polka Theatre), The Lost Spells (Theatre by the Lake/ Watford Palace Theatre/Polka Theatre), The Wind in the Wiltons (Wilton's Music Hall), Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Rose Theatre), Gin Craze! (Royal and Derngate, China Plate et ETT), The Eternal Summer, Love's Labour's Lost, Robin Hood, Julius Caesar (Guildford Shakespeare Theatre), Hamlet (Iris Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (RSC), The Gingerbread Man (Hiccup Theatre tour), Dead Reckoning (Young Vic), Alice in Wonderland (Derby Theatre), Snow

Child (tournée internationale), Half a Horse, Unearthed, The Gift (New Vic Staffordshire) et The Revenger's Tragedy and The Tragedy of Marian (Lazarus Theatre). Ses crédits télévisuels incluent The Agency et Jerk.

Colin Mace joue Frank Strang. Ses travaux théâtraux incluent Arcadia, Time and the Conways (The Old Vic), War Horse, The Magistrate, Saint Joan (West End), Hamlet (Broadway/Almeida Theatre), Alterations; One Man, Two Guvnors; War Horse (National Theatre), We Anchor in Hope (Royal Court Theatre) et Othello, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (RSC). À la télévision, ses travaux incluent, FBI: International, The Gold, Sexy Beast, Maigret, The Diplomat, Before We Die, A Spy Among Friends, Marriage, Slow Horses, Young Wallander, Trying, Washington, War of the Worlds, A Confession, This Country, Dark Heart, Strangers, Silent Witness, Endeavour, Broken, Prime Suspect 1973, Father Brown, I Want My Wife Back et Thirteen; et pour le cinéma, Savage Hunt, Back to Black, Cyrano de Bergerac et Last Night in Soho.

Ed Mitchell incarne Nugget/Jeune Cavalier. Ses crédits scéniques incluent Hamlet (RSC), The Party (Breakin Convention), Sunny Side (Northern Rascals et UK tour), How About Now (Lowry et le Bridgettine), Call for Creation, Illegal Side (tournée néerlandaise), Tom, A Good Man (Bullyache), Illegal Dance (UK tour), SCRUM (tournée Avant Garde), Duet 6 (Institute of Contemporary Arts) et White Lies (Botis Seva).

DAVID RUBIN joue Dalton. Ses crédits théâtraux incluent The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (Chichester Festival Theatre), Tamburlaine, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, The Grain Store, American Trade, Julius Caesar, Le Morte d'Arthur, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest (RSC), Oxy and the Morons (New Wolsey Ipswich), Woyzeck (The Old Vic), People, Places and Things (National Theatre/Headlong/West End), Richard III (West Yorkshire Playhouse), A Mad World My Masters (RSC/ETT), Pitcairn (Out of Joint/Shakespeare's Globe/Chichester), Twelfth Night (Liverpool Everyman), These Trees Are Made of Blood (BAC), The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Palace Gardens), Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World (BAC/Tara Arts), The Overcoat (Gecko Theatre), Taylor's Dummies (Gecko Theatre), Fightface (Lyric Hammersmith), The Threepenny Opera, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Tempest (National Theatre), Stomp (Yes/No Productions), Five Guys Named Moe (West End), Company (New Wolsey Ipswich), Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Stratford East) et Peter Pan (Southampton Nuffield). Ses crédits télévisuels incluent Grantchester, Vera, Doctor Who, Birds of a Feather, The Block, Too Close for Comfort, Three Sheets to the Wind, The Passion, Sitting Pretty et Mysteries of July; et pour le cinéma, Judy et The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.

Toby Stephens joue Dr. Martin Dysart. Ses crédits théâtraux incluent Wendy and Peter Pan, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Coriolanus, Unfinished Business, Wallenstein, All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Tamburlaine (RSC), Corruption (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, NY), The Forest (Hampstead Theatre), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios), Oslo (National Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre), Private Lives (Chichester Festival Theatre/Gielgud Theatre), Danton's Death (National Theatre), The Real Thing (The Old Vic), A Doll's House, Betrayal (Donmar Warehouse), The Country Wife, The Royal Family, Japes, A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Ring Round the Moon (Lincoln Center), Phedre and Britannicus (Almeida at the Albery Theatre/BAM) et Tartuffe (Playhouse Theatre). Ses crédits télévisuels incluent Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Season, A Cruel Love, The Split, Dodger, One Day, How to Date a Pleasure Seeker, Prisoner, Alex Rider, Summer of Rockets, Lost in Space, Black Sails, And Then There Were None, Vexed, Strike Back, Robin Hood, Wired, The Wild West, Jane Eyre, Sharpe's Challenge, The Best Man, The Queen's Sister, London, Cambridge Spies, Napoleon, Perfect Strangers, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall et The Camomile Lawn; et pour le cinéma, Giant, Marama, The Kashmir Princess The Morrigan, Journey, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, All Things To All Men, The Machine, Theatre of Dreams, Dark Corners, Severance, The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, Die Another Day, Space Cowboys, Possession, The Announcement, Onegin, Photographing Fairies, Sunset Heights, Cousin Bette, The Great Gatsby, Twelfth Night et Orlando.

Noah Valentine joue Alan Strang.  Ses crédits théâtraux incluent Noughts and Crosses (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre). Pour la télévision, il a travaillé sur Waterloo Road (Preston Walters récurrent), Casualty, Indie No.9, The Boy et Mother's Day; et pour le cinéma, Good Boy.

Peter Shaffer's (1926 – 2016) pièces incluent Five Finger Exercise (Evening Standard Drama Award), The Private Ear/The Public Eye, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Black Comedy, The White Liars, Amadeus (Evening Standard Drama Award et Tony Award for Best Play), Yonadab, Lettice and Lovage et The Gift of the Gorgon. Il a également écrit les scénarios pour les versions cinématographiques d'Equus et d'Amadeus.

Le metteur en scène Lindsay Posner a dirigé dans tous les grands théâtres londoniens ainsi qu'au RSC et à Broadway. Parmi ses crédits récents figurent Endgame (Studio Ustinov de Bath), la double affiche de The Lover et The Collection de Pinter (Studio Ustinov), The Deep Blue Sea et A View from the Bridge (tous deux à Theatre Royal Bath et Theatre Royal Haymarket), Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath, Phoenix Theatre et UK tour), et Edward Albee's classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre Royal Bath). Pour le Chocolate Factory, il a déjà dirigé The Truth (également au Wyndham's et Theatre Royal Bath), The Lie, Communicating Doors, Abigail's Party (également au Wyndham's et en tournée UK) et Dinner with Saddam.

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