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De artistiek directeur van het Donmar Tim Sheader en de uitvoerend directeur Henny Finch hebben de volledige cast en het creatieve team aangekondigd voor A Month in the Country, van Brian Friel, naar Ivan Turgenev. Voorstellingen vinden plaats van 22 augustus tot 3 oktober.
Sophie Okonedo leidt de cast als Natalya Petrovna, en ze wordt vergezeld door Thomas Arnold (Arkady Islayev), Jessica Brindle (Katya), Susan Brown (Anna Islayeva), Rachelle Diedericks (Vera Aleksandrovna), Patrick Gibson (Aleksey Belyayev), Mark Hadfield (Herr Schaaf), Michael Hodgson (Alfanasy Bolshintsov), Jonathan Livingstone (Matvey), Alistair Petrie (Michel Rakitin), Daniel Rigby (Ignaty Shpigelsky), en Amanda Wilkin (Lizaveta Bogdanovna).
Terwijl Lyndsey Turner de creatieve ploeg compleet maakt, zijn Leslie Travers (ontwerper), Max Pappenheim (geluidontwerper), Tim Lutkin (lichtontwerper); Anna Morrissey (beweging directeur & intimiteitscoördinator), Angus MacRae (componist), en Lotte Hines CDG (casting director) betrokken.
Honderden vrouwen zouden jaloers op me zijn, nietwaar? Een mooi huis op het platteland van Rusland. Een toegewijde echtgenoot, een kring van bewonderaars. Een leven van orde, rust en stille terughoudendheid. Het is genoeg om je te laten schreeuwen.
Natalya Petrovna lijkt voor de wereld een tevreden vrouw, maar de komst van een blinde jonge tutor doet haar rusteloze hart opvlammen, waardoor een vonk van verlangen ontbrandt die de zomer in vuur en vlam zet.
A Month in the Country zet passie tegenover fatsoen, terwijl een cast van personages probeert hun levens te verzoenen met het geluk dat ze verlangen. Lyndsey Turner regisseert Brian Friel's bewerking van Turgenev's meest beroemde toneelstuk.
Biografieën
Thomas Arnold speelt Arkady Islayev. Zijn theatercredits omvatten Mnemonic, Oslo, Henry IV Delen 1 en 2, Cyrano de Bergerac, Mourning Becomes Electra, Three Sisters, The Stoppard Trilogy (National Theatre), A Very Expensive Poison, Fanny & Alexander, Dr Seuss's The Lorax (The Old Vic), The Kids Stay In The Picture (Royal Court Theatre), Hamlet, Orlando (Royal Exchange Theatre), en Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead en The Master and Margarita (Complicité). Zijn televisiecredits omvatten Doctor Who, Such Brave Girls, Wolf Hall, A Very Royal Scandal, A Spy Among Friends, Echt, Falling, I Hate Suzie, A Christmas Carol, The Aeronauts, MotherFatherSon, The Missing, War and Peace, Call the Midwife, Homeland, This is England '86; en voor film, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, Heart of Stone, Matilda: The Musical, The Murder Network, The Riot Club, Thor: The Dark World, Bel Ami, One Day, en The Golden Compass.
Jessica Brindle speelt Katya. Haar theatercredits omvatten Christmas Day (Almeida Theatre), Emma (Rose Theatre Kingston), A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado About Nothing (Sh!t-faced Shakespeare), Top Girls; Absolute Hell (National Theatre), Pleasure and Pain (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), Dream On (BBC Arts), en Used Blood Junkyard (Arcola Theatre). Haar televisiecredits omvatten Sweetpea.
Susan Brown keert terug naar het Donmar om Anna Islayeva te spelen - ze verscheen eerder in Julius Caesar, Making Noise Quietly, en The Wild Duck. Haar andere theatercredits omvatten Under Milk Wood; Home, I'm Darling - Olivier Award nominatie voor Beste Bijrol, Husbands and Sons, Harper Regan, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Henry IV Delen 1 en 2, Playing with Fire, Cardiff East (National Theatre), Angels in America - Tony Award nominatie voor Beste Bijrol (National Theatre en Broadway), Image of an Unknown Young Woman, The Chairs, The House of Bernarda Alba (Gate Theatre), Good People (Noël Coward Theatre), If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep, Goodbye to All That, Seagulls, Gibraltar Strait, Road (Royal Court Theatre); Saved (Lyric Hammersmith), The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre), Dying for It, Butterfly Kiss (Almeida Theatre), Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre), Iphigenia, Small Change (Sheffield Theatres), Bad Weather, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Easter (RSC), You Be Ted and I'll Be Sylvia (Hampstead Theatre), Playing Sinatra (Croydon Warehouse, Greenwich Theatre), The Beaux' Stratagem, The Way of the World, en A Woman of No Importance (Cambridge Theatre Company). Haar televisiecredits omvatten Falling, Bridgerton, Mr Bates vs de Post, The Crown, It's a Sin, Good Omens, Partners in Crime, Atlantis, Father Brown, Call the Midwife, Broadchurch, Silent Witness, Stella, Game of Thrones, Waking the Dead, Torchwood, Coronation Street (als vaste rol Connie Clayton), Pinochet's Progress, Rose en Maloney, Brides in the Bath, Dalziel & Pascoe, When Hitler Invaded Britain, Blue Dove, Wire in the Blood, The Best of Both Worlds, The Vice, Where the Heart Is (als terugkerend personage June Wrekin), Anorak of Fire, Taggart, Wokenwell, A Touch of Frost, September Song, The Riff Raff Element, Absolute Hell, Making Out, Nona, Prime Suspect, Road en Loving Hazel; en voor film, Mary, Belle, Now Is Good, The Iron Lady, Brideshead Revisited, en Hope and Glory.
Rachelle Diedericks speelt Vera Aleksandrovna. Haar theatercredits omvatten Mother Courage and Her Children (Shakespeare's Globe), Pericles (RSC, en Chicago), The House Party (Headlong/Chichester Festival Theatre), A View From The Bridge (Headlong), The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse), The Crucible, Our Generation (National Theatre), Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre), en The Band (Theatre Royal Haymarket en UK tour). Haar televisie-werk omvat Up To No Good, Grace, Andor en Speechless; en This Time Next Year en The Silence and the Noise.
Patrick Gibson keert terug naar het Donmar om Aleksey Belyayev te spelen - hij verscheen eerder in Clyde's en Sweat. Zijn andere theaterwerk omvat Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Young Vic). Zijn televisie werk omvat Dexter: Original Sin, Shadow and Bone, Before We Die, The Spanish Princess, The OA, The White Princess, Guerilla, The Passing Bells en Neverland; en voor film, Play Dead, The Portable Door, Good Girl Jane, Tolkien, The Darkest Minds, In a Relationship, Their Finest, Property of the State, Cherry Tree en What Richard Did.
Mark Hadfield speelt Herr Schaaf. Zijn theaterwerk omvat Dr Strangelove (Noël Coward Theatre), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Cymbeline, Henry VI: Open Rehearsal, Tamburlaine, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Talk of the City, The Seagull, Twelfth Night, The Canterbury Tales, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC), Notes from a Small Island (The Watermill Theatre), Dmitry (Marylebone Theatre), Sydney and the Girl, The Weatherman (Park Theatre), Vanya and Masha and Sonya and Spike, The Tempest, Jeffrey Barnard in Unwell, Man and Superman, Don Juan (Theatre Royal Bath), Pinocchio, Thérèse Raquin, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National Theatre), Road (Royal Court Theatre), Richard III (Almeida Theatre), The Painkiller (Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Garrick Theatre), The Meeting, Matchbox Theatre (Hampstead Theatre), Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre), Jeeves and Wooster: Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York's Theatre), Singin' in the Rain (Palace Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre), The 39 Steps (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Donkey's Years (UK tour), Into the Woods (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Rookery Nook en Talent (Menier Chocolate Factory). Voor televisie omvat zijn werk Outlander, Maigret, From the Cradle to the Grave, Trollied, Wallander, The Wyvern Mystery, The Vice, en Headless; en voor film, Belfast, Football Monologues, Girls' Night Out, Mary Shelley's Frakenstein, In the Bleak Midwinter, Felicia's Journey, A Cock and Bill Story, en Hamlet.
Michael Hodgson speelt Alfanasy Bolshintsov. Zijn theaterwerk omvat Waiting For Godot (Citizens Theatre Glasgow en tour), Macbeth (UK en VS tour), Romeo and Juliet, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Macbeth, The Mouse and His Child (RSC), Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads, Strife (Chichester Festival Theatre), Treasure Island (Birmingham Rep), A Christmas Carol, Road, Catch 22, Get Carter (Northern Stage), Noir (Live Theatre), Oliver Twist (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), The Pitmen Painters (National Theatre, West End, UK tour, Broadway), The Wind In The Willows, The Devil's Disciple (National Theatre), Bones (Hampstead Theatre), The Tower (Almeida Theatre), Brilliant Adventures (Royal Exchange Theatre), Death of a Salesman, The Last Yankee (Leeds Playhouse), The Three Musketeers (UK tour), Travels With My Aunt, Jane Eyre (West End), The Guise (Edinburgh Festival, Off-Broadway), en King Lear (Young Vic, Japan tour). Zijn televisie werk omvat Smoggie Queens, Passenger, Accidental Farmer, George Gently, Skins, Spooks, The Ghost Squad, Instinct, Spit Game, The Visit, Angel Cake, Two Thousand Acres Of Sky, 55 Degrees North, The Babywar, Lawless, en Touching Evil; en voor film, The Duke, The One And Only, The Lowdown, The Last Minute, Wonderland en First Knight.
Jonathan Livingstone speelt Matvey. Zijn theatercredits omvatten A Ghost In Your Ear, Cash Cow (Hampstead Theatre), Troilus and Cressida, After Edward, Edward II, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe), Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Now We Are Here (Young Vic), Machinal (Almeida Theatre), The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic), Our Country's Good, Treasure Island (National Theatre), White Hot en Weak (Old Vic New Voices Festival), Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse), 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (Cheek by Jowl), 7 New Plays By Young Writers (National Theatre Studio), Pocket Comedy (Propellor), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), en Pandora (Arcola Theatre). Zijn televisie werk omvat Entitled, Bridgerton, Criminal Record, Peacock, The Pentaverate, Pls Like, Death in Paradise en Chewing Gum; en voor film, Hard Truths, Trouble with Jessica, The Witches, Treasure Island en Still Life.
Sophie Okonedo maakt haar Donmar-debuut als Natalya Petrovna. Haar theatercredits omvatten Medea (@sohoplace) en Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre). Haar televisiecredits omvatten Ratched, Slow Horses, en Modern Love; en voor film, Clarissa, Mouse en Janet Planet.
Alistair Petrie speelt Michel Rakitin. Zijn theatercredits omvatten Hamlet (National Theatre en New York), Time and the Conways, Henry IV Delen 1 en 2, His Dark Materials, Playing with Fire (National Theatre), Shakespeare in Love (Noël Coward Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (West End en Australië), Troilus and Cressida (RSC en VS), en Mine (Hampstead Theatre). Zijn televisiecredits omvatten Sex Education, The Night Manager, Andor, Utopia, Death by Lightning, Funny Woman, The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies, The Terror, Emma, Cranford, The Forsyte Saga, Deep State, Sherlock, Undercover, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, Agatha en The Midnight Murders, Genius, Year of The Rabbit, Harley and The Davidsons, The Game, Lucan, The Escape Artist, Whitechapel, The Whistleblowers, en State of Mind; en voor film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Saga, Cloud Atlas, Rush, The Bank Job, The Mark of Cain: The Cursed, The Duchess, A Bunch of Amateurs, A Little Chaos, The Face of An Angel, Victor Frankenstein, Hellboy, Sulphur and White, Magpie, en Oddly Flowers.
Daniel Rigby speelt Ignaty Shpigelsky. Zijn theatercredits omvatten One Man Two Guvnors (National Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, Music Box Theatre New York), The Witches, Twelfth Night (National Theatre), Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (Sheffield Theatres, Lyric Hammersmith, Theatre Royal Haymarket - UK Theatre Award voor Beste Prestatie in een Toneelstuk), Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith, Garrick Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frost/Nixon (Sheffield Theatres), Breaking the Code (Royal Exchange Theatre - Manchester Theatre Award voor Beste Actor), Holes (Arcola Theatre), Daniel Rigby: Berk In Progress, Daniel Rigby: Afterbirth, The Mothwokfantastic, Pleasance Comedy Reserve (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), The Count Of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Beyond The Front Line (The Lowry), Natural Selection (Theatre503), Great Expectations (Aberystwyth Arts Centre), All Quiet On The Western Front, The White Album, Burial At The Thebes (Nottingham Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Nuffield Southampton Theatres), en Hamlet (Barbican, UK tour). Zijn televisiecredits omvatten I, Jack Wright, Harry Potter, Summerwater, Bladerunner 2099, The Ballad of Renegade Nell, Tom Jones, The Witchfinder, After Ever After, Landscapers, Defending the Guilty, Gameface, Timewasters, Flowers, Plebs, Sick Note, Gap Year, Jericho, Undercover, Big School, That Day We Sang, Agatha Christie's Marple: A Caribbean Mystery, Black Mirror: The Waldo Moment, Cardinal Burns, The Function Room: Meet The Police, Eric & Ernie - BAFTA TV Award voor beste acteur, Ideal, Watson and Oliver, The Street, Lilies; en voor film, Cold Storage, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, en Stand Up Short en Flyboys.
Amanda Wilkin speelt Lizaveta Bogdanovna. Haar theater omvat The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (RSC), Bacchae (National Theatre), Otherland (Almeida Theatre), Dr Semmelweis (Harold Pinter Theatre), Shedding A Skin (Soho Theatre – ook toneelschrijver, Verity Bargate Award winnaar), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Gabriel, The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe), Emilia (Vaudeville Theatre), The Little Sob (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), White Teeth (Kiln Theatre), La Ronde (The Bunker Theatre), The 306: Day (National Theatre of Scotland), The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios), Pilgrims (Theatre Clwyd/HighTide Festival/The Yard Theatre), Hopelessly Devoted (Paines Plough en Birmingham REP), Arabian Nights (The Watermill Theatre), Blood Wedding, The Bacchae (Royal and Derngate), en A Midsummer Night's Dream en Marat/Sade (RSC). Haar televisie werk omvat Delia, Am I Being Unreasonable?, Spent, Until I Kill You, High End Homeless, The Split, The Girlfriend Experience, Finding Alice, Unforgotten, Berlin Station, en Gavin and Stacey; en voor film, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!.
