Take a look at Patriots, the new play from Peter Morgan that has landed at the Nöel Coward Theatre.
Tom Hollander (The White Lotus) stars as Boris Berezovsky, with Will Keen (His Dark Materials) as Vladimir Putin and Luke Thallon (Albion) as Roman Abramovich.
The cast also includes Matt Concannon (Assistant/Daniel Kahneman/Russian Captain), Ronald Guttman (Professor Perelman), Sean Kingsley (Voloshin /Nurse), Paul Kynman (Korzhakov/Yeltsin/FSB Boss/Reporter/Bodyguard) and Jessica Temple (Anna Berezovsky/Newscaster/Journalist/Secretary/Pianist).
New cast members Josef Davies (Alexander Litvinenko), Ashley Gerlach(Lawyer/Home Office), Howard Gossington (Teacher/Compromised Newscaster), Stefanie Martini (Marina Litvinenko/Nina Berezovsky) and Evelyn Miller (Tatiana/Katya/Judge/Lover). They are joined by understudies Peter Eastland, Lydia Fraser and Matt McClure.
Patriots is writer Morgan’s (Frost/Nixon) first new play since The Audience. He is best known for writing Netflix hit The Crown.
It is the Almeida Theatre’s fastest selling new play and has now transferred to the Noël Coward Theatre for a limited twelve-week run, which began on May 26 and continues until August 19, 2023. Opening night is on June 6.
Directed by the Almeida’s artistic director Rupert Goold (Ink, Enron), Patriots is a brilliant and startlingly timely story of ambition, loyalty and betrayal in a brave new world.
1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union. With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today’s patriot can fast become tomorrow’s traitor.
As a new generation of oligarchs fights to seize control, Patriots follows billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky from the president’s inner circle to public enemy number one.
The full creative team for Patriots is director Rupert Goold, set designer Miriam Buether, co-costume designers Deborah Andrews and Miriam Buether, lighting designer Jack Knowles, sound designer and composer Adam Cork, casting director Robert Sterne, movement director Polly Bennett and associate director Sophie Drake.
