Delayed COMPLICIT, Directed by Spacey Opens at Old Vic 1/28

The Old Vic's World Premiere of the new play, COMPLICIT by Joe Sutton and directed in-the-round by Kevin Spacey which was postponed for nine days, officially opens tonight, January 28th. It was originally scheduled to open on the 19th.

Richard
 Dreyfuss, 
David
 Suchet
 and 
Elizabeth
 McGovern star in 
the world 
premiere of the 
new 
play 
at
 The
 Old 
Vic. Complicit is a powerful American play that explores our current political climate. Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ben Kritzer (Richard Dreyfuss) is hauled before the Supreme Court where he faces the dilemma of defending his belief in the freedom of the press or protecting his family.

Elizabeth
 McGovern 
plays 
Judith
 Brown. 
Elizabeth 
has
 worked 
extensively 
in
theatre,
film 
and
television.
 Her
 early 
film 
credits 
include
 Ordinary 
People 
with
 Robert 
Redford,
Ragtime 
for 
which 
she
was 
nominated 
for 
an 
Academy 
Award 
and 
a 
Golden
 Globe,
 Lovesick
 with 
Dudley 
Moore, 
Once
Upon 
a
 Time 
In 
America
 with 
Robert 
De
Niro 
and 
Racing 
With 
the 
Moon 
alongside
 Sean
 Penn 
and 
Nicholas
Cage. 
Elizabeth's 
more 
recent 
film
 credits
 include
 The
Favor 
starring
 opposite 
Brad 
Pitt,
Buffalo
Soldiers 
with
 Joaquin 
Phoenix, 
House 
of
 Mirth 
and
 Wings 
of 
the 
Dove. 
On 
television,
 Elizabeth
appeared 
in 
the 
ITV 
remake
 of
 A
 Room 
With A
 View
 and
 in
 the
 recent
 BBC
 flagship
 comedy
 Freezing
 with
 Hugh
 Bonneville and Tom Hollander.

David
 Suchet
 plays
 Roger
 Cowan.
 David
 is
 perhaps
 best
 known
 for
 his
 role
 as
 the
 Belgian
 detective
Hercule 
Poirot 
in
 Agatha
 Christie's 
Poirot. 

His
 other 
television 
work 
includes
 The 
Life 
of
 Freud,
the
BBC 
drama
 Victoria
 and
 Albert,
 Murder
 in
 Mind
 and
 Anthony
 Trollope's
 The
 Way
 We
 Live
 Now
 (BAFTA
nomination).
 Recent 
television 
credits
 include 
Henry 
VIII 
opposite
 Ray
 Winstone
 and
 Helena
Bonham 
Carter 
as
 well 
as 
Maxwell
 (Best
Actor,
2008 
International
 Emmy
 Awards). 
David's
 film 
credits
include 
Executive 
Decision 
with
 Kurt 
Russell, 
A 
Perfect
 Murder
 with 
Michael
 Douglas,
Flood 
with
Robert 
Carlyle
 and 
The 
Bank 
Job 
with
 Jason
 Statham 
and
 Saffron 
Burrows. 
Aside 
from
 his 
television
and 
film
 work,
David
 has 
also 
worked 
extensively 
in
 theatre.
 His 
stage 
credits 
include 
the 
Royal
Shakespeare 
Company
 productions
 of 
Troilus 
and 
Cressida, 
The 
Tempest
 and 
Othello. 
Other
 credits
include
 Who's 
Afraid 
of 
Virginia
 Woolf?
 at
 the
 Aldwych
 Theatre 
(Critic's
Circle
Award),
Separation
at
the
Hampstead
 Theatre 
(Olivier
 Award
 nomination),
Oleanna 
at
 the 
Royal
 Court
 Theatre 
(Best
Actor,
Royal
Variety
Club),
 and Amadeus
 at 
The 
Old 
Vic 
and 
on 
Broadway 
(Best
Actor,
Royal
Variety
Club
Award,
Tony 
nomination
 and 
Olivier
 Award
 nomination).
Most 
recent
 theatre 
credits 
include
 Once 
In 
a 
Lifetime
 at
 the 
Royal 
National 
Theatre
 and 
The 
Last
 Confession 
at 
the 
Theatre 
Royal 
Haymarket.

Richard Dreyfuss plays Ben Kritzer. Richard Dreyfuss' career spans theatre, film and television. He can currently been seen in Oliver Stone's 2008 bio-pic W as the American Vice President Dick Cheney. His extensive film credits include Mr Holland's Opus for which he was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe, What About Bob? with Bill Murray and Tin Men with Danny DeVito. His stage credits include the Broadway productions of Death and The Maiden with Glenn Close and Gene Hackman and Sly Fox, and in the West End The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Other credits include The American President, Lost in Yonkers, Stakeout and Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Dreyfuss is perhaps best known for his roles in the blockbusters Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, both directed by Steven Spielberg. He was also the youngest actor of his time to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Goodbye Girl, for which he also won a BAFTA and Golden Globe.

Kevin Spacey is Artistic Director of The Old Vic Theatre Company. He directed its inaugural production Cloaca, before appearing in National Anthems, The Philadelphia Story, Richard II and A Moon for the Misbegotten, which subsequently transferred to the Brooks Atkinson Theater New York, and most recently in Speed-the-Plow with Jeff Goldblum. Previous theatre includes The Iceman Cometh (Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Actor, and Tony Award nomination) directed by Howard Davies (Almeida, The Old Vic and Broadway); Lost in Yonkers (Tony Award, Best Supporting Actor); Long Day's Journey into Night, with Jack Lemmon, directed by Jonathan Miller (Broadway and West End). He also sometimes works in the film industry.

Playwright Joe Sutton has gained a reputation for provocative, contemporary and topical work. His
previous credits include Voir Dire (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the Best Play Award of the American Theatre Critics Association), As It Is in Heaven, The Benefits of Doubt, The Third Army, Special Interests, Restoring The Sun and Black Market.

Visit www.oldvictheatre.com for more information.

 

 

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