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Dateline: 1st June, 2008
Bridge Project Back on Track The Bridge Project, an Anglo-American co-operation between Sam Mendes and Caro Newling's Neal Street Productions, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Old Vic, which was put back a year in July 2007 because actor Stephen Dillane had to withdraw, is now back on track, it has been announced. Its first productions will be The Cherry Orchard (in a version by Tom Stoppard) and The Winter’s Tale, which will play in rep at BAM from January to March, 2009, then visiting Singapore, New Zealand, Spain and Germany, before playing in at the Old Vic from May to August. The company will be made up of actors from the UK and the US, and it will include Simon Russell Beale, Sinead Cusack and Ethan Hawke. Two other American actors, Josh Hamilton and Richard Easton, and British actress Rebecca Hall also join the company. Sam mendes said, "I’m particularly looking forward to reuniting with my friend and collaborator Simon Russell Beale for what will be our seventh Shakespeare production together and thrilled that he will be leading a transatlantic company of exceptional talent. I’m also delighted to be working with two of the greatest theatres in the world and continuing my relationship with their artistic directors, Joe Melillo at BAM and Kevin Spacey." In The Cherry Orchard Beale will play Lopakhin, Cusack Madame Ranevskaya, Hawke Trofimov, Hamilton Yasha, Eston Firs and Hall Varya. Their parts in The Winter’s Tale will be: Beale Leontes, Cusack Paulina, Hawke Autolycus, Hamilton Polixenes, Easton Old Shepherd and Time, and Hall Hermione. Other casting will be announced later.
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