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Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming announced in new Old Vic season

Foy and Smith reunite on stage – you can see production shots for ”Lungs” below

Alex Wood

Alex Wood

| London |

30 April 2019

Alan Cumming, Daniel Radcliffe, Claire Foy and Matt Smith
Alan Cumming, Daniel Radcliffe, Claire Foy and Matt Smith
© Dan Wooller for WhatsOnStage

The Old Vic new season has been revealed.

The Crown lead stars Claire Foy and Matt Smith will reunite to take on the two roles in a new production of Duncan Macmillan's hit play Lungs, directed by Matthew Warchus. The show, about a couple trying to conceive a child and weighing up the consequences, runs from 14 October to 9 November.

Lungs has set and costume design by Rob Howell, lighting by Tim Lutkin and sound by Simon Baker.

You can see production shots below:

Also in the season:

Daniel Radcliffe will return to the Old Vic alongside Alan Cumming to star in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, presented in a double bill with his short play Rough For Theatre II. Running from 27 January 2020, the piece is directed by Richard Jones and follows a blind tyrant Hamm and his servant Clov.

Details have been revealed for the London transfer of Bill Forsyth and David Greig's Local Hero following its premiere in Edinburgh earlier this year. The show will run from 18 June 2020 in London, with the London cast to be confirmed.

Over Christmas, Jack Thorne's A Christmas Carol will return for a third year, with casting to be announced. The piece begins previews on 23 November.

Commissions for the new year and beyond include a new version of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex penned by Ella Hickson, an adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People by Simon Stephens and a new play by Paul Unwin about the NHS directed by Sarah Frankcom. It has been confirmed that Sylvia is still in development following its work-in-progress run in London last autumn.

The Olivier Award-winning adaptation of Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls, directed by Sally Cookson will open in Washington following its run in London, while Conor McPherson's Girl from the North Country has announced a run in Toronto. That show's original star Sheila Atim will be made a trustee of the theatre, as will Tina Alexandrou.

The theatre has also announced a new loyalty scheme entitled OV Extra, as well as Matinee Idols aimed for those over 60. The Matinee Idols offers the opportunity to attend a matinee at low cost and take part in a social event either pre or post show.

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