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1st Night Photos: Baxendale Makes New Friends

Editorial Staff
London's West End

April De Angelis‘ new play Amongst Friends received its world premiere at the Hampstead Theatre last night (26 May 2009), starring an accomplished cast of Helen Baxendale, James Dreyfus, Aden Gillett, Vicki Pepperdine and Emma Cunniffe.

The play, billed as a “darkly comic social satire”, has a limited run to 13 June as part of the Hampstead’s 50th anniversary season, and is directed by the venue’s artistic director Anthony Clark.

Journalist Lara and her ex-MP and crime writer husband Richard, are happy and successful. Having moved to a fashionable ‘gated community’ they invite their old neighbours Caitlin and Joe to dinner. When the security system fails the food for dinner is delivered by a stranger and the dinner party takes quite a different turn…

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PHOTOS BY DAN WOOLLER FOR WHATSONSTAGE.COM.

Baxendale, who plays Lara, is best known for TV roles including Cold Feet, Cardiac Arrest and Friends, was last on stage in Swimming with Sharks with Christian Slater at the Vaudeville Theatre. Amongst Friends marks her third role at Hampstead, following Morning and Evening and Bearing Fruit.

– by Theo Bosanquet