Il Menier Chocolate Factory ha annunciato il cast completo del grande rinnovamento di Lindsay Posner di Equus di Peter Shaffer, in coproduzione con Theatre Royal Bath Productions. Unendosi ai già annunciati Toby Stephens (Dr. Martin Dysart), ci sono Amanda Abbington (Hesther Salomon), Bella Aubin (Jill Mason), Emma Cunniffe (Dora Strang), Paula James (Infermiera), Colin Mace (Frank Strang), Ed Mitchell (Nugget/Young Horseman), DAVID RUBIN (Dalton) e Noah Valentine (Alan Strang), con Luke Hodkinson, Aristide Lyons, Zach Parkin, Tommi Sutton e Moses Ward.
La produzione apre al Menier il 18 maggio, con anteprime dall'8 maggio e va avanti fino al 4 luglio, prima di una rappresentazione al Theatre Royal Bath dal 14 al 25 luglio.
Cast: Amanda Abbington (Hesther Salomon), Bella Aubin (Jill Mason), Emma Cunniffe (Dora Strang), Paula James (Infermiera), Colin Mace (Frank Strang), Ed Mitchell (Nugget/Young Horseman), DAVID RUBIN (Dalton). Toby Stephens (Dr. Martin Dysart) e Noah Valentine (Alan Strang), con Luke Hodkinson, Aristide Lyons, Zach Parkin, Tommi Sutton e Moses Ward
Diretto da: Lindsay Posner; Design dell'ambientazione e dei costumi: Paul Farnsworth; Design delle luci: Paul Pyant; Compositore e Designer del suono: Adam Cork; Direttore del movimento: James Cousins
Presentato in coproduzione con il Theatre Royal Bath
Cosa spinge un ragazzo di 17 anni ad acciecare sei cavalli? Questa è la sfida che si presenta allo psichiatra Martin Dysart mentre si addentra nella psiche del suo giovane paziente Alan Strang alla ricerca di risposte, mettendo al contempo in discussione se la cura sia più pericolosa del crimine. Il brillante e intrigante dramma di Peter Shaffer, premiato, è ora considerato un capolavoro moderno.
Biografie
Amanda Abbington interpreta Hesther Salomon. I suoi crediti teatrali includono (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) e Love Me Tonight (Hampstead Theatre). Tra i suoi crediti televisivi The Family Pile, Desperate Measures, Wolfe, The Net, Sherlock, I Hate Suzie, Mr. Selfridge (come ruolo fisso Miss Mardle), Cuffs, The Queen and I, Unsaid Stories, Safe, Married Single Other e After You've Gone; e per il cinema, The Lost King, Three Pints and a Rabbi, Decrypted, The Six Days of Sistine, Crooked House, Another Mother's Son e Ghost.
Bella Aubin interpreta Jill Mason. Recente laureata alla RADA, i suoi crediti teatrali includono A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre) e Macbeth (Lyric Hammersmith).
Emma Cunniffe ritorna al Menier per interpretare Dora Strang – era già apparsa in Proof. Altri suoi crediti teatrali includono 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) e Women Beware Women (RSC). Per la televisione, ha lavorato in 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 (come ruolo fisso Emma Quinlan) e The Whistleblower; e per il cinema, H is for Hawk, Miss Marx, The Rabbit on the Moon, Tube Tales, Dreaming of Joseph Lees e Among Giants.
Paula James interpreta l'Infermiera. I suoi crediti teatrali includono 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 and 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 (tour internazionale), Half a Horse, Unearthed, The Gift (New Vic Staffordshire) e The Revenger's Tragedy e The Tragedy of Marian (Lazarus Theatre). Il suo lavoro televisivo include The Agency e Jerk.
Colin Mace interpreta Frank Strang. Il suo lavoro teatrale include 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) e Othello, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (RSC). Il suo lavoro televisivo include, 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 e Thirteen; e per il cinema, Savage Hunt, Back to Black, Cyrano de Bergerac e Last Night in Soho.
Ed Mitchell interpreta Nugget/Young Horseman. I suoi crediti teatrali includono Hamlet (RSC), The Party (Breakin Convention), Sunny Side (Northern Rascals e UK tour), How About Now (Lowry e le Bridgettine), Call for Creation, Illegal Side (Dutch tour), Tom, A Good Man (Bullyache), Illegal Dance (UK tour), SCRUM (Avant Garde tour), Duet 6 (Institute of Contemporary Arts) e White Lies (Botis Seva).
DAVID RUBIN interpreta Dalton. I suoi crediti teatrali includono 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) e Peter Pan (Southampton Nuffield). Il suo lavoro televisivo include Grantchester, Vera, Doctor Who, Birds of a Feather, The Block, Too Close for Comfort, Three Sheets to the Wind, The Passion, Sitting Pretty e Mysteries of July; e per film, Judy e The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
Toby Stephens interpreta Dr. Martin Dysart. I suoi crediti teatrali includono 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 Theatre, 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 e Britannicus (Almeida at the Albery Theatre/BAM) e Tartuffe (Playhouse Theatre). Il suo lavoro televisivo include 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 e The Camomile Lawn; e per il cinema, 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 e Orlando.
Noah Valentine interpreta Alan Strang. I suoi crediti teatrali includono Noughts and Crosses (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre). Per la televisione, ha lavorato in Waterloo Road (come ruolo fisso Preston Walters), Casualty, Indie No.9, The Boy e Mother's Day; e per il cinema, Good Boy.
Peter Shaffer's (1926 – 2016) opere teatrali includono Five Finger Exercise (Premio Drama Evening Standard), The Private Ear/The Public Eye, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Black Comedy, The White Liars, Amadeus (Premio Drama Evening Standard e Premio Tony per la miglior opera teatrale), Yonadab, Lettice and Lovage e The Gift of the Gorgon. Ha anche scritto le sceneggiature per le versioni cinematografiche di Equus e Amadeus.
Il regista Lindsay Posner ha diretto in tutti i principali teatri londinesi, così come al RSC e a Broadway. I suoi crediti recenti includono Endgame (Studio Ustinov di Bath), il doppio spettacolo di The Lover e The Collection di Pinter (Studio Ustinov), The Deep Blue Sea e A View from the Bridge (entrambi al Theatre Royal Bath e Theatre Royal Haymarket), Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath, Phoenix Theatre e tour nel Regno Unito), e il classico di Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre Royal Bath). Per il Chocolate Factory, ha precedentemente diretto The Truth (anche al Wyndham's e Theatre Royal Bath), The Lie, Communicating Doors, Abigail's Party (anche al Wyndham's e tour nel Regno Unito) e Dinner with Saddam.
