The full cast has been announced for Marianne Elliott’s revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which will be led by Monica Barbaro, Gabrielle Drake, Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner when it debuts at the National Theatre in March.
Also confirmed for the production are Ishmail Aaron, Sharif Afifi, Curtis Angus, Charlotte Avery, Nandi Bhebhe, Lucia Chocarro, Liz Ewing, Ali Goldsmith, Darragh Hand, Georges Hann, Dianté Lodge, Katie Lusby, Amy Macken, Aisha Naamani, Bryony Pennington, Cat Simmons and Hannah van der Westhuysen.
Rehearsals are now underway on the production, with Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s novel receiving its first ever staging at the National Theatre.
Elliott is joined in the artistic team by set designer Rosanna Vize, costume designer Natalie Roar, choreographer Tom Jackson Greaves, composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman, lighting designer James Farncombe, sound designer Ian Dickinson for Autograph, intimacy director Ingrid Mackinnon, fight director Sam Lyon-Behan, casting directors Alastair Coomer and Naomi Downham, voice and dialect coach Hazel Holder, associate director Mumba Dodwell and associate wigs, hair and make-up designer Adele Brandman.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses plays in the National’s Lyttelton theatre from March 21 – June 6, 2026. Tickets here.
Top image: Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the National Theatre. Photographer Alexandre Blossard (image supplied)