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Photos: Spacey, Mendes & Cast Open Last Bridge Play

Date: 30 June 2011

Sam Mendes was reunited with Kevin Spacey for the Old Vic's production of Richard III which opened last night (29 June, previews from 18 June 2011). The pair last worked together as actor and director on 1999 feature film American Beauty - for which they both won Oscars.

The final instalment of the three-year Bridge Project, which sees transatlantic casts present work under the auspices of the Old Vic (where Spacey became artistic director in 2003), New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music and Neal Street Productions (Mendes' production company), Richard III resides in London until 11 September 2011 before touring internationally and opening in Brooklyn next January.

Other cast members appearing alongside Spacey include Annabel Scholey, Gemma Jones, Haydn Gwynne and Chuk Iwuji as well as Broadway’s Maureen Anderman and Chandler Williams.

The cast and creatives celebrated their opening at the Savoy Hotel last night, where they were joined by guests including Indira Varma, Lindsay Duncan, Julia Bradbury, Kieran Bew, Maimie Mccoy, Andrew Marr, Eve Best, Rob Ashford, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Fraser, Gareth Gates, Fiona Millar and Alastair Campbell.

TO SCROLL THROUGH ALL OF RICHARD III’s 1st NIGHT PHOTOS,
JUST CLICK ON THE "NEXT >" LINKS BELOW THE FOLLOWING FRAME.
PHOTOS BY DAN WOOLLER FOR WHATSONSTAGE.COM.

- Caitlin Robertson

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Tricky Sticky Dickie - 1st Jul 2011 blog
Review Round-up: Spacey's Richard III Wows Critics - 30th Jun 2011 roundup
Richard III (Old Vic) starstarstarstar - 30th Jun 2011 reviews
Photos: Spacey Is Richard III in Final Bridge Show - 29th Jun 2011 photos
Opening: Beggar's Opera, Richard III, Village Bike - 27th Jun 2011 news
Top Five: Summer Shakespeares - 21st Apr 2011 features
Cast: Chicken & Full Spacey Richard Company - 20th Apr 2011 news
Cast: Scholey in Richard, Root's Sea, Full Butley - 25th Mar 2011 news
Hall's Propeller Errors & Richard Hit Hampstead - 2nd Feb 2011 news
Spacey Pulls Forward Bridge Richard to 2011 - 1st Dec 2010 news
Mendes Directs Spacey in Bridge 2012 Richard III - 26th Aug 2010 news



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