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Press release LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES by Christopher Hampton 11 December 2015 – 13 February 2016 Les Liaisons Dangereuses will be broadcast live in cinemas in partnership with National Theatre Live on 28 January 2016. PRESS NIGHT: Thursday 17 December Director: Josie Rourke Designer: Tom Scutt Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson Sound Designer: Carolyn Downing Composer: Michael Bruce Fight Director: Richard Ryan Cast includes: Adjoa Andoh, Alison Arnopp, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Elaine Cassidy, Morfydd Clark, Edward Holcroft, Janet McTeer, Thom Petty, Jennifer Saayeng, Una Stubbs, and Dominic West This production is supported by an anonymous donor Artistic Director Josie Rourke’s production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton’s stage adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel start previews at the Donmar Warehouse from 11 December. The production will star Adjoa Andoh, Alison Arnopp, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Elaine Cassidy, Morfydd Clark, Edward Holcroft, Janet McTeer, Thom Petty, Jennifer Saayeng, Una Stubbs, and Dominic West. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, will be broadcast live in cinemas in partnership with National Theatre Live on 28 January 2016. For more information visit www.ntlive.com. In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’ novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalised the world. Two hundred years later, Christopher Hampton's irresistible adaptation swept the board, winning the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play. Josie Rourke’s production will now mark the plays’ thirty-year revival. Former lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont now compete in games of seduction and revenge. Merteuil incites Valmont to corrupt the innocent Cécile Volanges before her wedding night but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel. While these merciless aristocrats toy with others’ hearts and reputations, their own may prove more fragile than they supposed. Christopher Hampton (Writer) is a prolific playwright, screenwriter and director. As well as writing the stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses, he also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation Dangerous Liaisons starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. More recently Christopher adapted Ian McEwan’s Atonement for the screen, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Christopher wrote his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother? while at Oxford University. It was subsequently performed at the Royal Court, before transferring to the Comedy Theatre in 1966. He then went on to become the Resident Dramatist and literary manager at the Royal Court from 1968 to 1970. Christopher’s plays The Philanthropist and Tales From Hollywood have both been performed at the Donmar and his other plays include Total Eclipse, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, The Talking Cure and Appomattox. Christopher has written the book and lyrics for several successful musicals including Sunset Boulevard and Stephen Ward with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black, and musical adaptations of Dracula and Rebecca. Screenplays include A Doll’s House, Beyond the Limit, The Wolf at the Door, Total Eclipse, The Secret Agent, The Quiet American, Sunset Boulevard, A Dangerous Method and Ali and Nino. Josie Rourke (Director) is Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse where she has directed The Recruiting Officer, The Physicists, Berenice, The Weir (which transferred to Wyndham’s Theatre), Privacy, City of Angels (Olivier Award Winner – Best Musical Revival) and The Vote broadcast live on More4 on the night of the General Election 2015 to an audience of over half a million. In 2013 she directed The Machine, a new play by Matt Charman, as part of the Manchester International Festival, which also played at Park Avenue Armory, New York. Rourke trained at the Donmar, under Sam Mendes, through the theatre’s annual Resident Assistant Director scheme. Prior to the Donmar, she was Artistic Director at the Bush Theatre, London, from 2007 to 2011, where she directed and programmed the work of (amongst other playwrights) James Graham, Lucy Kirkwood, Nancy Harris, Nick Payne, Jack Thorne and Steve Waters. Her 2010 production of Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart ran in the Lyttelton at the National Theatre. In 2011 her production of Much Ado About Nothing, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, ran in the West End at Wyndham’s Theatre and received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Revival. Adjoa Andoh (Madame de Volanges) makes her Donmar debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Adjoa is currently rehearsing A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes (Tricycle), and her other theatre credits include, for the National Theatre, His Dark Materials, The Revenger's Tragedy, Stuff Happens and Or You Could Kiss Me (also Handspring Theatre). For the RSC, Adjoa has appeared in Tamburlaine, The Odyssey, Crowned with Fame, Julius Caesar (also Noel Coward and BAM, New York). Other stage credits include Breath Boom and Sugar Mummies (Royal Court), Joe Turner's Come and Gone, In The Red And Brown Water and The Snow Queen (Young Vic), The Dispute, Pericles and Nights at the Circus (Lyric Hammersmith), Glory (Lyric/Derby Playhouse/West Yorkshire Playhouse), Our Day Out (Birmingham Repertory), Death Catches The Hunter (Traverse), and Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic). Further theatre credits include The Vagina Monologues (Old Vic), Blood Wedding (Almeida), Purgatorio (Arcola), Starstruck (Tricycle) and Lear’s Daughters and Princhdice And Co (Women’s Theatre Group). Adjoa’s television credits include Line of Duty, New Tricks, River, Cucumber, Broadchurch and The Interceptor. Adjoa has also recently appeared in the films Remainder, Julius Caesar, Adulthood and Invictus. Alison Arnopp (playing The Maid) has makes her Donmar debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Previous to this Alison starred as Dusty in Dusty Springfield at the Charing Cross Theatre. Other theatre credits include Cabaret in the House (Lauderdale House), Titanic (Whatsonstage Awards), An Incomplete History of Faces (Tristan Bates Theatre), Constance and Sinestra (Latitude Festival/Camden People's Theatre), My Land's Shore (Workshop) and Tannhauser (Royal Opera House). Film includes Obsession: Dark Desires, The House and Typecast. Theo Barklem-Biggs (Azolan) makes his Donmar debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Theo has performed on stage previously in Chapel Street (Bush). He has appeared in a number of television productions including Ballot Monkeys, Tatau, Crims, The Interceptor, Silk, Miranda and Silent Witness. Theo’s film credits include Kingsman: The Secret Service, Hammer of the Gods, Keith Lemon – The Film, The Man Inside, Borrowed Time and The Inbetweeners Movie. Elaine Cassidy (Madame de Tourvel) returns to the Donmar in Les Liaisons Dangereuses after starring in Lyndsey Turner’s critically-acclaimed production of Brian Friel’s Fathers and Sons in 2014 and Les Parents Terribles at Trafalgar Studios alongside Frances Barber and Tom Byam Shaw in 2010. Other theatre credits include Deluge (Hampstead Theatre), There Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida Theatre), The Crucible (RSC) and Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre). Film includes Mum’s List, Strangeways: Here We Come, Icon, Just Henry, And When Did You Last See Your Father, The Bay of Love and Sorrow, The Others, Disco Pigs, Felicia’s Journey and The Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Television credits include The Paradise, The Miraculous Year, Harper’s Island, Little White Lie, A Room with a View, Fingersmith, Uncle Adolf, Watermelon, The Lost World, Mission Top Secret and Glenroe. Morfydd Clark (Cécile Volanges) makes her Donmar debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. She is currently rehearsing for Romeo & Juliet (Crucible, Sheffield), and other theatre credits include Violence and Son (Royal Court), Blodeuwedd (Genedlaethol Cymru) and No Other Day Like Today (National Youth Theatre Wales). Television credits include Arthur & George, A Poet in New York and New Worlds. Film credits include The Call Up, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Falling and Madame Bovary. Edward Holcroft (Le Chevalier Danceny) makes his Donmar debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Edward’s film credits include Kingsman: The Secret Service and Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters. Janet McTeer (La Marquise de Merteuil) returns to the Donmar after starring opposite Harriet Walter in Donmar Associate Director Phyllida Lloyd’s Mary Stuart in 2005. Janet reprised the role of Mary Stuart when the Donmar’s production was taken to New York in 2009, earning her the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress. Janet is a Tony, Olivier and Drama Desk Award-winner, as well as a two-time Academy Award-nominee, and in 2008 she was awarded an OBE. Janet has numerous stage, television and film credits, including The Grace of Mary Traverse (Royal Court), A Doll’s House (Playhouse), Uncle Vanya (National) and God of Carnage (Gielgud). Recent television credits include Battle Creek, The Honourable Woman, The White Queen, Parade’s End and Damages. Her film credits include Hannah Arendt, The Woman in Black, Albert Nobbs, for which she received the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination, and Tumbleweed, for which she received the Best Actress Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Mary Jo Walker. Thom Petty (playing Major-domo) makes his Donmar debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Thom recently appeared in Lyndsey Turner’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining
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