01 February 2019
Newsdesk
Henrik Ibsen’s classic examination of a country in state of political flux has been adapted by Duncan Macmillan (People, Places and Things, 1984, Every Brilliant Thing). The sharply prescient play will be directed by Ian Rickson (Jerusalem, The Birthday Party, Translations), with set and costumes by Rae Smith, lighting by Neil Austin, music by Stephen Warbeck, sound by Gregory Clarke and casting by Amy Ball CDG.
‘‘Now I see that love is selfish. It makes you a country of two. At war with the rest of the world.”
An election looming. A country on the brink. A rabid press baying for blood. At the centre of the storm is Rosmersholm, the grand house of an influential dynasty. This is where the future will be decided by John Rosmer – a man torn between the idealised hope of the future and the ghosts of his past.
The role of John Rosmer will be played by Tom Burke who was recently seen on the London stage in The Deep Blue Sea at the National Theatre and Reasons to Be Happy at Hampstead Theatre. He is best known for playing the lead role in Strike, the BBC television adaptation of the Cormoran Strike novels by JK Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Other notable television roles include Athos in the BBC series The Musketeers and Dolokhov in the BBC literary-adaptation miniseries War and Peace. His latest film, The Souvenir, premiered at this year’s Sundance Festival.
Hayley Atwell will play the role of Rebecca West. A prolific actress across stage, TV and film, her most recent theatre work includes Measure for Measure at the Donmar, Dry Powder at Hampstead Theatre and The Pride at Trafalgar Studios. She won great acclaim for her performances in the BBC adaptations of Howards End and The Long Song last year. Widely known as Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and subsequent TV series Agent Carter, she also starred in The Duchess, Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella and most recently Christopher Robin. Her latest film Blinded by the Light, directed by Gurinder Chadha and based on the book by Sarfraz Manzoor premiered at Sundance 2019.
Further casting will be announced soon.
Rosmersholm is the tenth collaboration between Sonia Friedman Productions and director Ian Rickson following celebrated West End productions of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, Old Times and Betrayal, and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem (West End and Broadway), The River (Broadway) and Mojo (West End). He also worked with SFP on productions of The Children’s Hour (West End), Electra at the Old Vic and The Seagull on Broadway. Rickson was artistic director of the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006. His recent stage productions include Translations, Evening at the Talk House and The Red Lion (National Theatre), The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (West End), Against (Almeida Theatre) and The Nest (Lyric Belfast/Young Vic).
Duncan Macmillan is an award-winning writer and director who previously collaborated with Sonia Friedman Productions on the West End and Broadway run of 1984, which he co-adapted/co-directed with Robert Icke. His other plays include People Places and Things which enjoyed huge success in London and New York, Lungs, Every Brilliant Thing, 2071 (co-written with Chris Rapley), The Forbidden Zone and most recently City of Glass adapted from Paul Auster’s novel.
Rosmersholm will play at the Duke of York’s Theatre from April 24th, with an opening night of May 2nd. The run will end on July 20th. Tickets are on sale from Friday 1st February at 1pm with 20% of all tickets available at £25 or less.
ROSMERSHOLM
by Henrik Ibsen
In a new adaption by Duncan Macmillan
Directed by Ian Rickson
Set & Costume Rae Smith
Lighting Neil Austin
Music Stephen Warbeck
Sound Gregory Clarke
Casting Amy Ball CDG
Duke of York’s Theatre
St Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4BG
First performance: April 24th
Final performance: July 20th
Opening Night: May 2nd at 7pm
Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm, Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm
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TOM BURKE
Tom’s theatre credits include: The Deep Blue Sea and The Doctor’s Dilemma at the National Theatre, Design for Living at the Old Vic, The Cut at the Donmar Warehouse, as well as Creditors for which he won the Ian Charleson Award in 2008, Romeo and Juliet at The Globe, Reasons to Be Happy, Glass Eels and Fragile Land at Hampstead Theatre, Reasons to Be Pretty and Macbeth at the Almeida, Don Carlos at the Exeter Northcott Theatre, Restoration at Salisbury Playhouse, Don Juan Comes Back from the War at Belgrade Coventry, Scenes from an Execution at Hackney Empire, The Incarcerator at the Red Lion Theatre, The Monument at Finsborough Theatre, Gertrude the Cry at Riverside Studios.
His film credits include: Only God Forgives (Only God Forgives Productions), Third Star (Western Edge Pictures), The Show (Lex Films), The Souvenir (The Souvenir Film Ltd), The Hooligan Factory (Thing Big Productions), The Invisible Woman (BBC Films), Clean Skin (UK Film Studio), An Enemy to Die For (Fladen Film), Look, Stranger (Narwhale Productions), Cheri (Cheri Productions), Telstar (Aspiration Films), Donkey Punch (Warp X), I Want Candy (Fragile Films), The Libertine (Mr. Mudd), Anastezsi (Mate Producciones), Dragonheart: A New Beginning (Universal).
His television credits include: Strike (BBC), The Musketeers Series 1-3 (BBC), War and Peace (BBC), Utopia (Channel 4), Heading Out (Red and Square Peg), The Hour Series 2 (Kudos), Great Expectations (BBC), Poirot: The Clocks (ITV), In Love with Barbara (Quickfire Media), Number 13 (BBC), Napoleon (BBC), Dracula (BBC), All About George (Granada), Jericho (WGBH Television), The Brief (Carlton Television), Casanova (Red Production Company), Bella and the Boys (BBC), Inspector Lynley (BBC), P.O.W. (Company Pictures), The Young Visiters (BBC), State of Play (BBC), All the King’s Men (BBC).
HAYLEY ATWELL
Hayley’s theatre credits include: Measure for Measure at the Donmar Warehouse, Dry Powder at Hampstead Theatre, The Pride at Trafalgar Studios, for which she was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the Olivier Awards 2014 and for the Best Actress in a Play Awards at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2014, The Faith Machine at the Royal Court Theatre, A View from a Bridge at the Duke of York’s Theatre for which she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Olivier Awards 2010, Major Barbara at the National Theatre for which she received an Ian Charleson Commendation in 2009, Women Beware Women at the RSC, Prometheus Bound at the Sound Theatre.
Her film credits include: Blinded by the Light (Bend It Films), Christopher Robin (Walt Disney Pictures), The Complete Walk: Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe/British Council), Ant Man (Marvel Studios), Cinderella (Walt Disney Pictures), Testament of Youth (BBC Films/Heyday Films), The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Marvel Studios), Captain America – The Winter Soldier (Marvel), Jimi: All Is By My Side (Watchtower Films), The Man (Sprout Michaelmas Pictures), The Sweeney (Sweeney Productions), I, Anna (Embargo Films), Captain America – The First Avenger (Marvel), The Duchess (Paramount) for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the British Independent Film Awards 2008 and for British Supporting Actress of the Year at the London Critics Circle Film Awards 2008, Brideshead Revisited (Miramax/DREAMACHINE), How About You (Ferndale Films), Cassandra’s Dream (Virtual Films).
Her television credits include: The Long Song (BBC), Howards End (BBC), Conviction [Pilot] (ABC), Agent Carter Series 1 & 2 (ABC/Marvel); Life of Crime (ITV) for which she was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the TV Choice Awards, 2013, Black Mirror Series 2: Be Right Back (Channel 4), Restless (BBC), Falcon: 'The Blindman Of Seville' and 'The Silent And The Damned' (Mammoth Screen/Sky Atlantic), Any Human Heart (Carnival), Pillars of the Earth (Scott Free Productions) for which she was nominated for Best Actress in a Mini Series at the Golden Globe Awards 2011, and for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini Series at the Gemini Awards 2011,The Prisoner (ITV), Mansfield Park (Company Pictures), Ruby In The Smoke (BBC), Fear of Fanny (BBC), The Line of Beauty (BBC).
DUNCAN MACMILLAN
Duncan’s plays include: People, Places and Things at the National Theatre, Wyndham’s Theatre, St Ann’s Warehouse New York and on UK Tour, 1984 at Nottingham Playhouse, Playhouse Theatre, Hudson Theatre Broadway, UK and International Tours, Every Brilliant Thing at the Edinburgh Festival, UK and International Tours, City of Glass at HOME Manchester and Lyric Hammersmith, 2071 at the Royal Court Theatre and Hamburg Schauspielhaus, The Forbidden Zone at Salzburg Festival and Schaubuhne Berlin, Wunschloses Ungluck at Burgtheater Vienna, Reise Durch die Nacht at Schauspielhaus Koln, Festival d’Avignon and Teatertreffen, Lungs at Sheffield Theatres and Studio Theatre Washington DC, Monster at Royal Exchange.
IAN RICKSON
Ian Rickson was the Artistic Director of the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006, where he directed The River (also Broadway) Jerusalem (also West end and Broadway), The Winterling, The Night Heron and Mojo (also Chicago), all by Jez Butterworth; Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen and This is a Chair by Caryl Churchill; Dublin Carol and The Weir by Conor McPherson (also Dublin, Chicago, West End and Broadway); The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (also Broadway); Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett; Alice Trilogy by Tom Murphy; The Sweetest Swing in Baseball and Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman; Fallout by Roy Williams; Mouth to Mouth by Kevin Elyot; The Lights by Howard Korder; Pale Horse and Some Voices by Joe Penhall; Ashes and Sand by Judy Upton and Killers by Adam Pernak.
In the West End, Rickson has directed Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Birthday Party, Old Times,Betrayal and The Children’s Hour (all at the Harold Pinter Theatre); and at the National Theatre, Translations by Brian Friel, Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn, The Red Lion by Patrick Marber, The Hothouse by Harold Pinter and The Day I Stood Still by Kevin Elyot. Productions at the Old Vic include Electra by Sophocles. Productions at the Young Vic include The Nest, Now We Are Here and Hamlet. Productions at The Almeida Theatre include Against by Christopher Shin and Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth.
Work on screen includes Fallout (Company Pictures for Channel 4) and Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (BBC4) and on radio In Therapy (BBC Radio 4). Rickson also works with PJ Harvey and Kate Tempest on their music and poetry shows.
SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (SFP) is a West End and Broadway production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions in London and New York.
Since 1990, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 160 new productions and together they have won a staggering 48 Olivier Awards including a record-breaking 14 at the 2014 Awards. In 2017, SFP won 9 Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awards ever received by a single production in Oliviers’ history. The company has also won 24 Tonys and 2 BAFTAs.
In 2019, Sonia Friedman OBE was awarded ‘Producer of the Year’ at the Stage Awards for the fourth time. In 2018, Friedman was also featured in TIME100, a list of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2017 she took the number one spot in 'The Stage 100', becoming the first number one in the history of the compilation not to own or operate West End theatres and the first solo woman for almost 20 years.
West End and Broadway productions include: the UK premiere of The Book of Mormon, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London, New York and Melbourne, Mean Girls at the August Wilson Theatre, New York, The Ferryman at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York, All About Eve at the Noël Coward Theatre, London, The Jungle at St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, The Inheritance, Summer and Smoke, Dreamgirls, The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre, London, Consent, The Birthday Party, Ink, Hamlet starring Andrew Scott, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, The Ferryman Royal Court and Gielgud Theatre, London, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Travesties, The Glass Menagerie, Nice Fish, A Christmas Carol, Funny Girl, Farinelli and The King, Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, 1984, Sunny Afternoon, Bend It Like Beckham, The Nether, The River, Electra, King Charles III, Shakespeare in Love, Ghosts, Mojo, Chimerica, Merrily We Roll Along, Old Times, Twelfth Night and Richard III, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Sunshine Boys, Hay Fever, Absent Friends, Top Girls, Betrayal, Much Ado About Nothing, Clybourne Park, The Children’s Hour, A Flea in Her Ear, La Bête, All My Sons, Private Lives, Jerusalem, A Little Night Music, Legally Blonde, Othello, Arcadia, The Mountaintop, The Norman Conquests, A View From the Bridge, Dancing at Lughnasa, Maria Friedman: Re-Arranged, La Cage aux Folles, No Man’s Land, The Seagull, Under the Blue Sky, That Face, Dealer’s Choice, Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin, In Celebration, Boeing-Boeing, The Dumb Waiter, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Love Song, Faith Healer, Bent, Eh Joe, Donkeys’ Years, Otherwise Engaged, Celebration, Shoot the Crow, As You Like It, The Home Place, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, By the Bog of Cats, The Woman in White, Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’, Endgame, Jumpers, See You Next Tuesday, Hitchcock Blonde, Absolutely! {Perhaps}, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Ragtime, Macbeth, What the Night Is For, Afterplay, Up for Grabs, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Noises Off, On an Average Day, A Servant to Two Masters, Port Authority, Spoonface Steinberg and Speed-The-Plow.
Forthcoming productions include: Fiddler on the Roof at the Playhouse Theatre, London, The Jungle at the Curran, San Francisco, Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Curran, San Francisco, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Mehr! Theatre am Großmarkt, Hamburg.
For a full list of SFP’s theatre credits, please visit soniafriedman.com.
