Everett & Lipman take the lead in Hampstead’s autumn season
Rupert
Everett and Freddie Fox will lead the cast in a new production of
David Hare‘s The Judas Kiss at the Hampstead
Theatre. The show launches the theatre’s autumn season,
which also sees Maureen Lipman star in Old Money,
a new play by Sarah Wooley; and the world premiere of a new work by
Howard Brenton, 55 Days.
Everett
and Fox play Oscar Wilde and his young lover Lord Alfred Douglas in
this revival of Hare’s 1998 drama about the Irish playwright’s fall
from grace. Directed by Neil Armfield, The
Judas Kiss is set on the eve of Wilde’s arrest and on a
night after his release from jail. The show runs from 6 September to
13 October, with a press night on 12 September.
55
Days concerns the political upheavals of mid 17th-century
England and will be directed by Howard Davies. It runs from 18
October to 24 November. Casting is yet to be announced.
Old
Money, starring Maureen Lipman and Tracy Ann Oberman
and directed by Robin Lefevre, opens on 5 December (running until 12
January 2013). Lipman plays Joyce, a woman who is freed from the
constraints of domestic duties after a lifetime given up
to her husband, father and daughter.
