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Pennington & McCormack Star in Kureishi's NightDate: 29 January 2004
Michael Pennington and Catherine McCormack (pictured) will star in the world premiere of Hanif Kureishi’s latest play, When the Night Begins, which will now open for a five-week season at north London’s Hampstead Theatre on 11 March 2003 (previews from 3 March).
Billed as a psychological thriller in which the lines are blurred between victim and aggressor, the two-hander follows recently widowed Jane as she seeks out a man from her childhood in a south London high-rise.
As co-founder of the English Shakespeare Company, Pennington toured the world playing many leading Shakespearean roles. His recent stage credits include, in the West End, The Guardsman, Timon of Athens, An Ideal Husband, Gross Indecency, The Misanthrope and Major Barbara, while last year, he appeared in the West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep co-production of The Madness of George III.
McCormack is a familiar film face from her roles in the likes of Braveheart, Spy Game, This Year's Love, Land Girls, Born Romantic and The Tailor of Panama, though, recently, she’s been seen regularly on the London stage where her credits include Anna Weiss, All My Sons, A Lie of the Mind, Free, Honour, Dinner and Under the Curse.
Author Hanif Kureishi’s diverse body of work includes stage plays Sleep with Me, screenplays for My Beautiful Laundrette and London Kills Me and award-winning novels The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy.
When the Night Begins is directed by Hampstead artistic director Anthony Clark and designed by Patrick Connellan, with lighting by Paul Pyant, sound by Gregory Clarke and fight direction by Terry King.
As already reported (See News, 18 Dec 2003), the run of this production has been brought forward by a week and the previously scheduled world premiere of Drew Pautz’s All This Stuff, which was due to run from 5 February to 6 March, has been postponed until Hampstead’s not-yet-announced autumn 2004 season.
- by Terri Paddock
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