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Billie Piper & Rupert Goold create Prebble Effect at National

Date: 3 August 2012

Former Dr Who assistant Billie Piper has been confirmed as the star for new play The Effect at the National Theatre. Rupert Goold will direct the show, a collaboration between his Headlong theatre company and the National Theatre. The play, which opens 6 November 2012 at the NT Cottesloe, will also star Jonjo O'Neill, Tom Goodman-Hill and Anastasia Hille.

Goold described the The Effect, written by Enron playwright Lucy Prebble to the Mail as having “a hint of Romeo And Juliet, in that there are star-crossed lovers, played by Billie and Jonjo, and it’s about how and why people fall in love”, adding that it would showcase “love at its purest.”

As well as numerous TV credits, Piper's stage credits include Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty at the Almeida Theatre and a revival of Christopher Hampton's Treats in the West End.

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	Billie Piper Stars in LaBute�s Reasons to Be Pretty at Almeida - 2nd Sep 2011 News
	Review Round-up: Piper is LaBute's Beauty at Almeida - 18th Nov 2011 Roundup
	Review Round-up: Critics Hail Goold's 9/11 Decade - 9th Sep 2011 Roundup
	Goold Creates Narnia in Kensington Gardens this Summer - 3rd Jan 2012 News

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Although i didnt manage to get tickets for the effect. I did see reasons to be pretty and treats at the garrick was impressed by the show at the almeida the most. - schiff

26 Apr 13

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