Tag: Deborah Andrews

Peter Morgan’s Patriots arrive at Nöel Coward Theatre

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.

Guys & Dolls storm Bridge Theatre

Bridge Theatre has welcomed its first ever musical in explosive fashion – and here’s the trailer to prove it.

Guys & Dolls, one of the greatest musicals of all time, is currently being performed in a new immersive experience that will transport audiences to the streets of Manhattan and the bars of Havana. It runs until September 2, 2023.

The ensemble cast includes Simon Anthony, Lydia Bannister, Kathryn Barnes, Callum Bell, Cindy Belliot, Jordan Castle, Cornelius Clarke, Petrelle Dias, Ike Fallon, Leslie Garcia Bowman, George Ioannides, Cameron Johnson, Daniel Mays, Robbie McMillan, Cedric Neal, Perry O’Dea, Anthony O’Donnell, Mark Oxtoby, Andrew Richardson, Ryan Pidgen, Celinde Schoenmaker, Charlotte Scott, Katy Secombe, Tinovimbanashe Sibanda, Isabel Snaas, Marisha Wallace, Sasha Wareham and Dale White.

Based on the story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, the book is by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.

It is directed by Nicholas Hynter, with choreography by Arlene Phillips with James Cousins. Tom Brady is musical supervisor and arranger, Bunny Christie is the set designer, and Christie and Deborah Andrews are costume designers.