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Dateline: 30th June, 2002 National Theatre News
Glenn Close and Iain Glen are to star as Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in Trevor Nunn's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The production, in the Lyttelton, opens on 8th October (previews from 28th September) and runs until 23rd November. Although best known for her films, Glenn Close has been equally successful on stage, where her Broadway/off-Broadway credits include Rex, Barnum, The Real Thing (Tony Award), The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (Obie Award), Benefactors, Death and the Maiden (Tony Award) and Sunset Boulevard (Tony Award). This will be her UK stage debut. Iain Glen is well known for his work with, among others, the RSC, the Donmar Warehouse (where he played opposite Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room, winning a Broadway Drama League Award) and the Royal Court. This will be his RNT debut. Chekhov's Ivanov, directed by Katie Mitchell, is a new version by Scittish playwright David Harrower (Knives in Hens, Kill the Old Torture Their Young). It opens in the Cottesloe on Tuesday 10th September (previews from 2nd September). Paul Rhys plays the title role, and the distinguished cast also includes Juliet Aubrey, Robert Bowman, Sarah Flind, Gillian Hanna, Stuart McQuarrie, Bridget Turner, Indira Varma, Philip Voss and Peter Wight. Katie Mitchell’s previous work includes The Oresteia, Rutherford and Son and The Machine Wreckers at the National, The Phoenician Women (RSC), The Maids and Uncle Vanya (Young Vic), and Face to the Wall and Nightsongs (Royal Court). The final production in the transformed Lyttelton will be Play Without Words, devised by Matthew Bourne, running from 20 August – 14 September (press night: Friday 23 August). The designer will be Lez Brotherston, with lighting by Paule Constable, music by Terry Davies and sound by Christopher Shutt. The cast includes Scott Ambler, Belinda Lee Chapman, Saranne Curtin, Will Kemp, Stephen Kirkham, Michela Meazza, Eddie Nixon, Alan Vincent, Ewan Wardrop and Richard Winsor. In their previous dance/theatre collaborations (including the multi-award-winning Swan Lake and, most recently, The Car Man), Matthew Bourne and designer Lez Brotherston have taken the art of non-verbal storytelling to new heights and new audiences. Often finding inspiration in cinematic forms, in this case British new wave cinema of the early 60s, Bourne and his extraordinary group of actor/dancers push the boundaries of movement-based narrative yet further. The Associate by Simon Bent will run in the Loft Theatre from 15th – 31st August, directed by Paul Miller and designed by Jackie Brooks. The cast is John Normington, Matthew Rhys, and Nicolas Tennant.
"It’s not safe, the world is not a safe place." A pensioner has his council house re-decorated by two self-employed chancers. But there are worse crimes than benefit fraud. A richly comic study of politics and wallpapering. The final production in the Loft will be Closing Time, a new play by Owen McCafferty, running from 5th - 21st September. It is directed by James Kerr and designed by Rae Smith. The cast includes Pam Ferris and Patrick O’Kane.
A run down hotel in Belfast acts as a refuge from reality for its regulars - and its owners. Gradually the night erodes their ability to cope with each other, or themselves. A tender portrait of the lonely and the alone from the award-winning author of Shoot the Crow. Owen McCafferty was writer on attachment to the National Theatre Studio in 1999 and is the winner of Paines Plough / Granada Award 1999. He is author of Shoot the Crow (Druid Theatre, Galway), Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh Theatre, UK Tour) and Freefalling (New Theatre, Dublin). The full cast for Sanctuary by Tanika Gupta, running in the Loft Theatre from 25th July – 10th August, directed by Hettie Macdonald, is Nitin Ganatra, Barbara Jefford, Eddie Nestor, Sarah Solemani, Susannah Wise and Leo Wringer. Three plays from the Transformation season in the Loft will tour venues in the UK this autumn as follows:
Sanctuary
The Associate
Closing Time
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