Greig joins cast of Hare’s new NT play
David Hare’s new play Gethsemane - dealing with party political fundraising - will see Tamsin Greig make her National Theatre debut.
Tamsin Greig (Beatrice) in Much Ado About Nothing at the Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon in 2006 Photo: Tristram Kenton
The show is part of the NT’s autumn/winter season, which also features the London premiere of the critically lauded August: Osage County, which transfers from the US, a new work by Tom Stoppard and a new play by Samuel Adamson based upon Ibsen’s Little Eyolf.
Stoppard’s latest - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - is written in collaboration with composer Andre Previn and will feature the Southbank Sinfonia, Britain’s young professional orchestra. The show will tell the story of a dissident who has been locked up in an asylum. It will be directed by Tom Morris and Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett.
Meanwhile, Marianne Elliott will direct Mrs Affleck, Adamson’s new take on Little Eyolf. Claire Skinner will take the title role.
The season runs from November to February.
Also from The Stage
- Reviews: God of Carnage
- Reviews: King John
- Reviews: Much Ado About Nothing
- London transfer for August: Osage County after Tony Award wins
- Uma Thurman to star in BBC2 Hare adaptation
- West Yorkshire Playhouse's new season to feature Stoppard's Hapgood
- Stoppard is top of the Brits for Tony nominations
- Hare returns to NT as part of impressive production line-up
- Listings: Cottesloe
- Listings: Lyttelton
- Listings: Olivier
- Features: Sweet medicine - Tamsin Greig and Green Wing
- Shenton's View: Tamsin Greig
- Shenton's View: August: Osage County
External links
- National Theatre
- Entry for Tom Stoppard in Wikipedia
- Entry for Tamsin Greig in Wikipedia
- Entry for David Hare in Wikipedia
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