Bushell and Chance Set to Star in Theatre503's PETER AND VANDY

Theatre503 announces cast for Peter and Vandy by Jay DiPietro

Nominated for a US Drama Desk Award

Direction by Tim Roseman, Design by Libby Watson,

Lighting by Richard Howell, Sound by Fergus O'Hare

2nd March - 27th March 2010

Press Night - Friday 5th March at 7.45pm

A love story in disorder

Kirsty Bushell (Vandy) theatre includes?In Process with Theatre Cryptic On Orlando, Edmund (Wiltons Music Hall), Pornography (Tricycle), Serious Money (Birmingham Rep), 2000 Feet Away (Bush Theatre), Testing The Echo (Out of Joint), Angels in America (Headlong), Twelfth Night (Filter), The Voysey Inheritance (NT), Comedy of Errors, Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (Sheffield Crucible), Don Juan (Lyric Hammersmith), Fen and Far Away (Sheffield Crucible), Be My Baby (Soho Theatre), The Seagull (Northampton Theatre), An Inspector Calls (West End), The Two Gentleman of Verona, (NT), Blue Heart (Out of Joint).??Television includes Pornography (Channel 4), Law and Order, FM, Pulling, Family Man, Midsommer Murders, Talk to Her, Life Isn't All Hee Hee Ha Ha, Eastenders?.

Joseph Chance (Peter) trained at LAMDA. Theatre: Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre), Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stafford Castle), Cyrano de Bergerac (Manchester Royal Exchange), Tartuffe (Watermill/Tour), Macbeth (Leicester Haymarket), The Importance of Being Earnest (Bristol Old Vic), The Spanish Golden Age Season - Pedro The Great Pretender, The Dog in The Manger (RSC/West End) and Tamar's Revenge (RSC), Incarnate (Edinburgh), Snowbound (ETC Theatre). Television: Wallander, Family Business and Bloody Britain.

Jay DiPietro (Director/Writer/Producer) is a New York City playwright and a filmmaker. Peter and Vandy was his film directorial debut. He adapted the screenplay from his acclaimed play of the same title, which enjoyed sold out houses during its four month run in downtown New York in 2002 and received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Play. Jay has numerous projects in development for the screen and stage. He also enjoys directing music videos.

Tim Roseman (Director) is joint Artistic Director of Theatre503, where his work includes The Final Shot and Natural Selection. Other directing credits include Overspill. (Soho Theatre), The Arab-Israeli Cookbook (Gate/Tricycle), This Much is True (Theatre503).

Playwright Jay DiPietro:

"A few years back I wrote a scene about a man and a woman and had some actors read it. After the actors read it, a friend said, - You should keep writing about these characters,- and before he could finish the sentence I knew exactly what I would write: I would write the story of this couple, Peter and Vandy, and tell it out of sequence... and in doing so, make their story that much clearer.

In that moment I saw the scenes - the first I love you - arguing about ordering Chinese food - splitting up - seeing each other on the street... but what really excited me was idea of playing these scenes against one another. All of the funny inconsistencies and hypocrisies and truths would be emboldened. I imagined getting to know this couple intimately... and then seeing their first date. I imagined seeing them falling in love... and then seeing them call each other every name in the book.

And what's more... I imagined how all of these scenes illuminated each another. All of the clues to who they become are there when they fall in love. It may feel, at first, like they just go from "innocent lovers" to "grizzled couple." But the more you get to know them, the more we see that they are setting up who they become, even in the most romantic of scenes. By first seeing their future, we can fully understand what is happening in the past... and vice versa."

Tickets: £14/ £9 conc. (Tuesday 'pay what you can')

Early Bird Offer: Book before 2nd March and tickets are £2

Dates: Tuesday 2nd March - Saturday 27th March 2010

Times: Tuesday-Saturday 7.45pm, Sunday 5pm.

Box Office: 020 7978 7040

www.theatre503.com

Theatre503

The Latchmere Pub

503 Battersea Park Road

London SW11 3BW

Nearest Tube: Sloane Square then bus 319 or South Kensington then bus 49 or 345

Nearest Rail: Clapham Junction (from Victoria or Waterloo) then 10min walk or bus 49, 319, 344, 345