by In addition to Andrea Rishorough, Susan Sarandon is said to give her British theater debut when the couple portrays the same woman in tracy letts’ drama mary page Marlowe in different age groups.
The play will be held this autumn in the old Vic in London by Matthew Warchus as an artistic director last season. Several actors portray the title character, which is described as a “time -comprehensive mosaic”, which extends in Ohio for 70 years in the life of an accountant and mother of two children.
It is a top-class return to the stage for Sarandon, which in 1972 celebrated her Broadway debut in a evening with Richard Nixon and … from Gore Vidal before her breakout film role in the Rocky Horror image show. When she was closest to Broadway, in 2009 she was a well-known name and five-time Oscar candidate in 2009 (who won Walking for Dead Man). Sarandon said: “I feel very honored, while Matthew Warchus’ last season in the old Vic to be in one piece, and added that she was” scared but excited “.
Ridborough, similarly better known as a film star, has not acted on stage for 15 years. Her last big London role was in Ivanov to Kenneth Branagh in Donmar Warehouse 2008. She recently appeared in Warchus’ screen version of Matilda the Musical. Ridborough said: “It is an honor to take on the role of Mary – among other things – in Tracy Letts’ moving piece in addition to the extraordinary Susan Sarandon. I am so grateful to work with Matthew again and enthusiastically to work in the old Vic, a nice room.”
Warchus called Letts “one of the largest living writers in America” and said that the play would be staged in the round-like all productions in his last season. Mary Page Marlowe runs from September 23 to November 1st.
Letts is the best known for his Pulitzer winner August: Osage County, who was staged by Anna D Shapiro in 2008. Shapiro led Mary Page Marlowe’s premiere for the Steppenwolf Theater. A friend’s photo album in no particular order, other faces, others unexpectedly.
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This will be the British premiere of the piece. Letts said: “From my first experiences as a playwright here 30 years ago to the term of August: Osage County at The National, London is an integral part of my development as an artist. I am deeply pleased to have Mary Page Marlowe with the old Vic, who is staged by Matthew with these remarkable actors. An Execter -Thrill.”
Warchus will step down from the old Vic in September next year when Rupert Goold, which in turn is replaced by Dominic Cooke in the top job in the Almeida Theater.
