Further Casting Announced for King Lear

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PRESS RELEASE 27 05 16

FURTHER CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR KING LEAR

By William Shakespeare Directed by Deborah Warner Starring Glenda Jackson and with William Chubb, Morfydd Clark, Jane Horrocks, Rhys Ifans, Celia Imrie, Simon Manyonda and Harry Melling.

Previews from Tuesday 25 October, press night Friday 4 November 2016

Tickets on general sale from Tuesday 31 May

Further casting is today announced for King Lear, which previews from Tuesday 25 October with a press night on Friday 4 November 2016. Tickets will go on general sale on Tuesday 31 May at 12 noon.

A quarter of a century after she gave up acting for politics, double Academy Award-winning legend Glenda Jackson returns to play King Lear in Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy. She will be joined by Celia Imrie in the role of Goneril, Morfydd Clark playing Cordelia and William Chubb playing Albany alongside the previously announced Jane Horrocks, Rhys Ifans, Simon Manyonda and Harry Melling.

Glenda Jackson is a two-time Academy Award-winning actress. Her work spans theatre, film and television and she was awarded a CBE in 1978. In 1992 Glenda became a Member of Parliament, representing constituencies in Hampstead and Kilburn for 23 years. Stepping down in 2015, she has since starred in BBC Radio 4’s Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money (2015).

Theatre includes Marat/Sade (RSC, Broadway and Paris), Hamlet, US, Hedda Gabler and Antony and Cleopatra (all RSC), Strange Interlude (Broadway), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Los Angeles), Scenes from an Execution (Almeida), Macbeth (Broadway), The White Devil and Phedra (The Old Vic).

Film includes Women in Love (1969, Academy Award for Best Actress), The Music Lovers (1970), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Academy Award nominated), A Touch

of Class (1973, Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Evening Standard Award, BAFTA nominated) and Hedda (1975, Academy Award nominated).

Television includes Elizabeth R (two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress, BAFTA nominated), Mary, Queen of Scots (Evening Standard Award, Golden Globe nominated) and The Patricia Neal Story (Emmy Award nominated).

William Chubb plays Albany. His theatre credits include Lawrence After Arabia (Hampstead Theatre), Waste, Great Britain, Othello, Scenes from an Execution (National Theatre), Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Vortex, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Love’s Labours Lost (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Yes Prime Minister (Chichester Festival / Gielgud Theatre), The History Boys (National Theatre) and The Sea (Theatre Royal Haymarket).

Television and film credits include Close to the Enemy, My Baby, Breathless, Edge of Heaven, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Law and Order, Silk, The Bill, 6 Days, Adrift in Soho, Tezz, Veer and Milk.

Morfydd Clark plays Cordelia. Her theatre credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse), Romeo & Juliet (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Violence & Son (Royal Court), Blodeuwedd (Theatr Genedlaethol), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Drama Centre), The Relapse (The Drama Centre) and No Other Day Like Today (National Youth Theatre Wales).

Film includes Interlude In Prague (2017), Pride, Prejudice & Zombies (2016), The Call Up (2016), The Falling (2014), Madame Bovary (2014) and Two Missing (2014).

Television includes Arthur & George, A Poet In New York and New Worlds.

Jane Horrocks plays Regan and has had a diverse career spanning stage, television, film and voice work. Theatre includes If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me (Young Vic), East is East (Trafalgar Studios and UK tour), Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic), Aunt Dan and Lemon (Royal Court), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic), Absurd Person Singular (Garrick Theatre), Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse and West End) and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (National Theatre and Aldwych Theatre).

Film includes the upcoming Absolutely Fabulous The Movie (2016), Sunshine on Leith (2013), Corpse Bride (voice, 2005), Chicken Run (voice, 2000), Little Voice (1998), Life is Sweet (1990), Memphis Belle (1990), The Witches (1990), The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989) and The Dressmaker (1988).

Television includes Inside No 9, Cold Comfort, Little Crackers, Barbra, The Cruise, Trollied, This is Jinsy, Coming Up: A Kind of Magic, The Road to Coronation Street, Gracie!, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The Street, Jericho, Mirrorball, Absolutely Fabulous, Linda Green and Never Mind the Horrocks.

Rhys Ifans plays the Fool. His work as an actor encompasses stage, television and film. Upcoming projects include the television series Berlin Station and films Snowden (2016) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).

Theatre includes Protest Song (National Theatre), Don Juan in Soho, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Bad Finger (Donmar Warehouse), Volpone and Under Milk Wood (National Theatre), Beautiful Thing (Duke of York Theatre), Thyestes (Royal Court), Smoke and Poison Pen (Manchester Royal Exchange).

Film includes Dominion (2016), Len and Company (2015), Under Milk Wood (2015), Serena (2014), Another Me (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Anonymous (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), Greenberg (2010), The Boat that Rocked (2009), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Hannibal Rising (2007), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002), Human Nature (2001), The Shipping News (2001), Hotel (2001), The Replacements (2000) and Notting Hill (1999, BAFTA nominated).

Television includes Not Only But Always (BAFTA Award for Best Actor), Shakespeare Shorts, Trial and Retribution, The Two Franks, Judas and the Gimp, Nightshift, Spatz, Burning Love, Review and Gifted.

Celia Imrie plays Goneril and last performed at The Old Vic in 2012 in Noises Off which transferred to the West End.

Theatre includes: Hayfever (Rose Theatre), Habeas Corpus (Donmar Warehouse), Acorn Antiques: The Musical (West End), Laughing Matters (St James Studio), Unsuspecting Susan (The King’s Head Theatre) Yerma (National Theatre) and The School For Scandal (National Theatre).

Film includes: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), Love Punch (2013), St Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (2009), St Trinians (2007), Nanny Mcphee (2005), Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Edge of Reason (2004), Wimbledon (2004), Calendar Girls (2003), Star Wars – The Phantom Menace (1999), A Christmas Carol (1999), The Borrowers (1997) and Frankenstein (1994).

Appearances in upcoming films include Bridget Jones’s Baby (in which Imrie is set to reprise her role as Una Alconbury), Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie and Year By The Sea (adapted from Joan Anderson’s best-selling memoirs), in addition to horror films A Cure For Wellness and Hush.

Television include: Doctor Who, Love and Marriage, Bergerac, Acorn Antiques, A Dark Adapted Eye, Kingdom, Absolutely Fabulous, Marple, Doc Martin, Dinnerladies, The Darling Buds of May, The Riff Raff Element.

Imrie has also made her debut as a novelist with Not Quite Nice – a Bloomsbury top selling title and Sunday Times bestseller.

Simon Manyonda plays Edmond. He trained at LAMDA and theatre credits include Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, King Lear, Greenland and Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dreaming and Julius Caesar (RSC), Giving (Hampstead), Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible), Wildfire (Hampstead), The Mamba (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith), Red Peppers (Old Red Lion) and All Night I Dream of Being Good (The Yard).

Film includes Jawbone (2017 release), World War Z (2013), Julius Caesar (2012) and How It’s Done (2009).

Television includes Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories, Doctor Who, Suspects, Holby City and Whitechapel.

Harry Melling plays Edgar and is perhaps best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter film series.

Theatre includes Hand to God (Vaudeville Theatre), The Angry Brigade (Paines Plough / Bush Theatre), Peddling (HighTide / Arcola Theatre, BAM New York), King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre, BAM New York), The Hot House (Trafalgar Studios), Smack Family Robinson (Rose Theatre Kingston), I Am a Camera (Southwark Playhouse), When Did You Last See My Mother (Trafalgar Studios), School For Scandal (Barbican Theatre), Women Beware Women and Mother Courage and Her Children (National Theatre).

Film work includes Lost City of Z (2016) and the Harry Potter film series, and the short films The Winds of Change (2014), I Think Therefore (2012) and Felicity (2011).

Television includes Musketeers, Joe Mistry (Pilot), Garrow’s Law, Merlin, Just William, and Friends and Crocodiles.

Deborah Warner is a director whose work encompasses theatre, opera, film and installation. She has worked with the actress Fiona Shaw since 1989 creating over fourteen works. At 21, she founded The Kick Theatre Company and directed a season of Shakespeare plays. She was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2013 and was made a CBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Theatre includes The Testament of Mary (Broadway, Barbican), A School for Scandal and Julius Caesar (Barbican), Titus Andronicus (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards), King John and Electra (RSC), The Good Person of Sichuan, King Lear, Richard II, The Powerbook, Happy Days and Mother Courage and her Children (National Theatre), Hedda Gabler (Abbey, Playhouse Theatre, Olivier Award), Footfalls (Garrick Theatre), The Tempest and Coriolanus (Salzburg Festival), Une Maison de Poupeé (Odéon, Paris), Medea (Dublin, London and Broadway, Evening Standard Award) and a world tour of The Waste Land (Obies and Drama Desk Awards).

Installation pieces include The St Pancras Project and The Tower Project (LIFT), The Angel Project (Lincoln Center, PIAF, Australia) and Peace Camp (London 2012).

Opera credits include Between Worlds (ENO at The Barbican), Fidelio (La Scala, Milan), Eugene Onegin (Metropolitan Opera), Messiah (Lyon), Wozzeck and La Voix Humaine (Opera North), Don Giovanni and Fidelio (Glyndebourne), Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher (BBC Proms), The Turn of the Screw (ROH at The Barbican, Evening Standard and South Bank Awards), The Diary of One Who Vanished (ENO, Lincoln Center and National Theatre), Messiah, Eugene Onegin and St John Passion (ENO), Death in Venice (ENO, La Monnaie and Milan), The Rape of Lucretia (Bavarian State Opera), Dido and Aeneas (Vienna, Opera Cimique and Netherlands Opera) and La Traviata (Vienna).

Television and film credits include Hedda Gabler (1993), Waste Land (1995), Richard II (1997) and The Last September (2002).

Cast list: Glenda Jackson (King Lear), Fiston Barek (ensemble), William Chubb (Albany), Morfydd Clark (Cordelia), Jane Horrocks (Regan), Rhys Ifans (Fool), Celia Imrie (Goneril), Simon Manyonda (Edmond), Harry Melling (Edgar), Gary Sefton (Oswald) and Clifford Rose (Old Man).

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King Lear

Tue 25 Oct – Sat 3 Dec 2016 Mon - Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm Press night: Fri 4 Nov 7pm

[Please note there are no matinee performances on 26 Oct, 29 Oct, 2 Nov, 5 Nov, 9 Nov, 16 Nov, 26 Nov, 30 Nov.]

Captioned Performance: TBC Audio Described Performance: TBC

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All concessions are limited and subject to availability. All 2016 ticket prices (apart from the PwC £10 Previews tickets & schools tickets) include a £1 restoration levy.

NOTES TO EDITORS

2015-16 SEASON LISTINGS

RISE By Deirdre Kinahan From The Old Vic Community Company Directed by Alexander Ferris

On Waterloo Millennium Green

Wed 10 – Sun 21 Aug 2016

Tickets are released on Wednesday 22 June 2016

GROUNDHOG DAY Book by Danny Rubin Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin Directed by Matthew Warchus Choreography by Peter Darling

Mon 11 Jul – Sat 17 Sep 2016 Mon–Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm Press Night: Tue 16 Aug 7pm

[No matinee performance on Wed 13 Jul, no performance on Thu 14 Jul, no matinee performance on Sat 16 Jul, no performance on Mon 18 & Tue 19 Jul, no matinee performance on Wed 20 Jul, no performance on Mon 25 & Tue 26 Jul, no matinee performance on Wed 10 Aug, Tue 16 Aug 7pm start, no matinee performance on Wed 17 Aug, additional matinee on Thu 18 Aug. Please see website for full schedule].

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2016-17 SEASON LISTINGS

Tickets on general sale from Tuesday 31 May.

NO’S KNIFE By Samuel Beckett Presented by Lisa Dwan

Thu 29 Sep - Sat 15 Oct 2016 Mon - Sat 7pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm Press night: Mon 3 Oct 7pm

[Please note there is no matinee performance on Sat 1 Oct]

Captioned Performance: TBC Audio Described Performance: TBC

TICKETS: £10, £15, £20, £35 For information regarding Premium Seats please call the box office

PwC £10 Previews: Half of all seats priced at £10 for the first 3 previews, released 5 weeks in advance Senior Citizens: n/a School Groups 10+: £10 for Mon - Wed eves & Wed matinees Groups 10+: £10 off for Mon - Thu eves & Wed matinees Disabled Patrons: £21 for all performances

ART By Yasmina Reza Translated by Christopher Hampton

Sat 10 Dec 2016 - Sat 18 Feb 2017 Mon - Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 3pm (Tue 27, Thu 29 Dec & Thu 5 Jan 3pm) Press night: Tue 3 Jan 7pm

[Please note there are no matinee performances on 10 Dec, 14 Dec, 17 Dec, 28 Dec, 4 Jan and no evening performances on 24 & 31 Dec]

Captioned Performance: TBC Audio Described Performance: TBC

TICKETS: £12, £16, £21, £30, £55, £65 For information regarding Premium Seats please call the box office

PwC £10 Previews: Half of all seats priced at £10 for the first 5 previews, released 5 weeks in advance Senior Citizens: Best available seats for £30 for all matinee performances only School Groups 10+: £10 for Mon - Wed eves & mid-week matinees Groups 10+: £10 off for Mon - Thu eves & mid-week matinees Disabled Patrons: £21 for all performances

WOYZECK By Georg Büchner In a new version by Jack Thorne

Sat 6 May – Sat 24 June 2017 Please note new dates Mon - Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm Press Night: Wed 17 May 7pm

Captioned Performance: TBC Audio Described Performance: TBC

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