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Dateline: 7th August, 2009
The Bridge Project's Second Year Sam Mendes has announced the first casting for the second year of the Bridge Project, the unique three-year series of co-productions between The Old Vic, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Neal Street Productions, devoted to producing large-scale, classical theatre for international audiences. The productions will be As You Like It which opens at The BAM Harvey Theatre in January 2010, followed by The Tempest in February 2010. Following the same pattern as this year, the productions will then embark on an international tour visiting Asia and Europe before arriving in London at The Old Vic in the summer. The new cast is led by Stephen Dillane, Anne-Marie Duff, Christian Camargo and Juliet Rylance with other casting to be announced later. Dillane will play Prospero and Jaques, joined by Duff as Ariel and Rosalind, with Camargo as Stephano and Orlando, and Rylance as Miranda and Celia. "Stephen Dillane and I began a conversation about his playing Prospero in The Tempest when I first conceived The Bridge Project back in 2007," Sam Mendes said, "and I’m delighted to be finally bringing those plans to fruition. I’m equally thrilled to be welcoming Anne-Marie Duff, one of the finest actors of her generation, playing Rosalind in As You Like It. Complemented by Christian Camargo and Juliet Rylance - two actors I have also followed, admired and hoped to collaborate with – it all adds to my excitement about forming the Bridge Project’s second company, and building on the wonderful experience of our first year. "The Bridge Project is a major commitment for actors. It unfurls across nine months with two plays performed across major seasons in New York and London, interspersed with an international touring schedule that takes in the Far East and many of Europe’s finest cultural festivals. The current Bridge company has been made extraordinarily welcome in the countries we’ve visited and I’m hugely looking forward to making a second such journey."
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