Pike Ignites Gaslight at Old Vic in June???
Date: 23 March 2007
Rosamund Pike received a Best Actress nomination in this year’s Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards for her role in Adrian Noble’s recent revival of Tennessee Williams’
Summer and Smoke. Despite Pike’s star performance and some ecstatic reviews, however, the production closed early in an autumn season dominated by big musicals (See
News, 13 Nov 2006). But keen theatregoers should be able to catch the former Bond girl on stage again soon. Pike is tipped to star in a new Old Vic production of the psychological thriller
Gaslight. English novelist and playwright
Patrick Hamilton (whose other big hit was
Rope) wrote
Gaslight for the stage in 1938. It was adapted for the British screen in 1940 and, four years later, was made into a much more famous Hollywood version directed by George Cukor and starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. Bergman won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as a wealthy woman who’s gold-digger husband convinces her she’s losing her mind. According to today’s
Daily Mail, the new stage production of
Gaslight, directed by
Peter Gill and co-starring
Kenneth Cranham as Pike’s scheming spouse, will run at the Old Vic in June. A theatre spokesperson told Whatsonstage.com today that nothing had yet been confirmed. Currently at the Old Vic, Sean Holmes’ acclaimed 50th anniversary revival of John Osborne’s
The Entertainer, starring
Robert Lindsay] as Archie Rice, has extended its season by a week to 27 May (See
News, 16 Mar 2007). An official announcement about the next show at the theatre is expected in early April.
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