Photos: Dominic West & Cast in Posner’s Butley
The West End revival of Simon Gray‘s Butley starring Dominic West invited photographers to the Duchess Theatre today (3 June 2011) ahead of the play’s opening night on Monday (6 June, previews from 31 May 2011).
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Butley, written by Gray in 1971, centres on a rapier-tongued lecturer trying to cope with the strains of divorce and academia. West takes the lead in what is described in marketing material as a “razor sharp and darkly comic assault on the soft underbelly of academia”.
Butley premiered in 1971 with Alan Bates in the title role, directed by Harold Pinter. Pinter later directed Bates in a film adaptation of the piece which was released in 1974.
Dominic West will be well known to fans of HBO’s The Wire having played Detective Jimmy McNulty for five seasons from 2002 to 2008. His other screen credits include The Devil’s Whore, Centurion and 300.
On stage, his credits include Peter Hall’s production of The Seagull at the Old Vic, As You Like It at Wyndham’s Theatre, The Voysey Inheritance for the National Theatre, Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll and, last summer, Life Is A Dream at the Donmar Warehouse.
