De Menier Chocolate Factory heeft de volledige cast aangekondigd voor Lindsay Posner's grote heropleving van Peter Shaffer's Equus, in coproductie met Theatre Royal Bath Productions. Bij de eerder aangekondigde Toby Stephens (Dr. Martin Dysart) voegen zich Amanda Abbington (Hesther Salomon), Bella Aubin (Jill Mason), Emma Cunniffe (Dora Strang), Paula James (Verpleegster), Colin Mace (Frank Strang), Ed Mitchell (Nugget/Jonge Ruiter), DAVID RUBIN (Dalton) en Noah Valentine (Alan Strang), met Luke Hodkinson, Aristide Lyons, Zach Parkin, Tommi Sutton en Moses Ward.
De voorstelling opent op 18 mei in Menier, met previews vanaf 8 mei, en loopt tot 4 juli, voorafgaand aan een speelreeks in Theatre Royal Bath van 14 tot 25 juli.
Cast: Amanda Abbington (Hesther Salomon), Bella Aubin (Jill Mason), Emma Cunniffe (Dora Strang), Paula James (Verpleegster), Colin Mace (Frank Strang), Ed Mitchell (Nugget/Jonge Ruiter), DAVID RUBIN (Dalton). Toby Stephens (Dr. Martin Dysart) en Noah Valentine (Alan Strang), met Luke Hodkinson, Aristide Lyons, Zach Parkin, Tommi Sutton en Moses Ward
Regie: Lindsay Posner; Decor en Kostuumontwerp: Paul Farnsworth; Lichtontwerp: Paul Pyant; Componist en Geluidsontwerp: Adam Cork; Bewegingsregisseur: James Cousins
Gepresenteerd in een coproductie met Theatre Royal Bath
Wat drijft een 17-jarige jongen ertoe om zes paarden te verblinden? Dit is de uitdaging waarmee psychiater Martin Dysart wordt geconfronteerd terwijl hij de psyche van zijn jonge patiënt Alan Strang onderzoekt op zoek naar antwoorden, en tegelijkertijd zich afvraagt of de genezing gevaarlijker is dan de misdaad. Peter Shaffer's briljante, intrigerende en bekroonde toneelstuk wordt nu beschouwd als een moderne klassieker.
Biografieën
Amanda Abbington speelt Hesther Salomon. Haar theatercredits omvatten (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) en Love Me Tonight (Hampstead Theatre). Haar tv-credits omvatten The Family Pile, Desperate Measures, Wolfe, The Net, Sherlock, I Hate Suzie, Mr. Selfridge (als vaste serie Miss Mardle), Cuffs, The Queen and I, Unsaid Stories, Safe, Married Single Other en After You've Gone; en voor film: The Lost King, Three Pints and a Rabbi, Decrypted, The Six Days of Sistine, Crooked House, Another Mother's Son en Ghost.
Bella Aubin speelt Jill Mason. Een recent RADA-afgestudeerde, haar theatercredits omvatten A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre) en Macbeth (Lyric Hammersmith).
Emma Cunniffe keert terug naar Menier om Dora Strang te spelen - ze verscheen eerder in Proof. Haar andere theatercredits omvatten The Importance of Being Earnest, Edward II, Three Sisters, Major Barbara, Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Trials (Marlowe Theatre), Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith), Romeo en Juliet, The Crucible (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Hogarth's Progress (Rose Theatre Kingston), Queen Anne (RSC/Theatre Royal Haymarket), Wendy en 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) en Women Beware Women (RSC). Voor televisie omvat haar werk 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 (als vaste serie Emma Quinlan) en The Whistleblower; en voor film: H is for Hawk, Miss Marx, The Rabbit on the Moon, Tube Tales, Dreaming of Joseph Lees en Among Giants.
Paula James speelt Verpleegster. Haar theatercredits omvatten 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 (internationale tour), Half a Horse, Unearthed, The Gift (New Vic Staffordshire) en The Revenger's Tragedy en The Tragedy of Marian (Lazarus Theatre). Haar televisie werk omvat The Agency en Jerk.
Colin Mace speelt Frank Strang. Zijn theaterwerk omvat 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) en Othello, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (RSC). Zijn televisie werk omvat, 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 en Thirteen; en voor film: Savage Hunt, Back to Black, Cyrano de Bergerac en Last Night in Soho.
Ed Mitchell speelt Nugget/Jonge Ruiter. Zijn toneelcredits omvatten Hamlet (RSC), The Party (Breakin Convention), Sunny Side (Northern Rascals and UK tour), How About Now (Lowry en le Bridgettine), Call for Creation, Illegal Side (Nederlandse tour), Tom, A Good Man (Bullyache), Illegal Dance (UK tour), SCRUM (Avant Garde tour), Duet 6 (Institute of Contemporary Arts) en White Lies (Botis Seva).
DAVID RUBIN speelt Dalton. Zijn theatercredits omvatten 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) en Peter Pan (Southampton Nuffield). Zijn televisie werk omvat Grantchester, Vera, Doctor Who, Birds of a Feather, The Block, Too Close for Comfort, Three Sheets to the Wind, The Passion, Sitting Pretty en Mysteries of July; en voor film: Judy and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
Toby Stephens speelt Dr. Martin Dysart. Zijn theatercredits omvatten Wendy en 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) en Tartuffe (Playhouse Theatre). Zijn televisie werk omvat 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 and The Camomile Lawn; en voor film: 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 en Orlando.
Noah Valentine speelt Alan Strang. Zijn theatercredits omvatten Noughts en Crosses (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre). Voor televisie omvat zijn werk Waterloo Road (als vaste serie Preston Walters), Casualty, Indie No.9, The Boy and Mother's Day; en voor film: Good Boy.
Peter Shaffer's (1926 – 2016) toneelstukken omvatten 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 en Tony Award voor Beste Toneelstuk), Yonadab, Lettice and Lovage en The Gift of the Gorgon. Hij schreef ook de scenario's voor de filmversies van Equus en Amadeus.
Regisseur Lindsay Posner heeft in elk belangrijk Londens theater geregisseerd, naast de RSC en op Broadway. Zijn recente credits omvatten Endgame (Bath's Ustinov Studio), de dubbelvoorstelling van Pinters The Lover en The Collection (Ustinov Studio), The Deep Blue Sea en A View from the Bridge (beide in Theatre Royal Bath en Theatre Royal Haymarket), Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath, Phoenix Theatre en UK tour), en Edward Albee's klassieker Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre Royal Bath). Voor de Chocolate Factory heeft hij eerder The Truth (ook in Wyndham's en Theatre Royal Bath), The Lie, Communicating Doors, Abigail's Party (ook in Wyndham's en UK tour) en Dinner with Saddam geregisseerd.
