Photos: Wire Stars Reunite Backstage at Butley

Sheffield
Theatres’ artistic director Daniel Evans will direct Peters and West as
Othello and Iago and founding artistic director of the Crucible Colin George
as Brabantio and Gratiano. Othello
will be designed by Morgan Large with lighting design by Lucy Carter and sound design by Alex Baranowski.

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Besides portraying Detective
Jimmy McNulty in The Wire and the titular teacher Ben Butley,
Dominic West has appeared in stage productions Life is a
Dream (Donmar
Warehouse), Rock ‘n’ Roll
(Duke of York’s Theatre), The
Voysey Inheritance (National), As You Like It (Wyndham’s
Theatre), Design for Living
(Broadway), The Country Wife
(Crucible Theatre) and The
Seagull (Old Vic). Simon Gray‘s Butley
opened at the Duchess on 6 June (previews from 31 May) following a short run in
Brighton.

West’s
screen credits include The
Awakening, Johnny English Reborn, Centurion, 300, Hannibal Rising, The
Forgotten, Mona Lisa Smile and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
has appeared on television in Appropriate
Adult, The Hour, The Devil’s Whore and Nicholas Nickleby.

Peters’ theatre credits include Porgy and Bess (Savoy
Theatre), Simply Heavenly
(Trafalgar Studios), Mourning
Becomes Electra, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre), The Iceman Cometh (Almeida
Theatre and on Broadway), Chicago
(West End and on Broadway), Kiss
of the Spiderwoman (Shaftesbury Theatre) and last year’s
revival of Five Guys Named
Moe at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Peters’ television work includes Treme, Damages, The Corner, Jonathan Creek,
Medics and Masculine
Ending and his film credits include Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,
Freedomland, Gulliver’s Travels, Valediction, Endgame, Marley and Me
and Notting Hill.

– Matt Hannigan