The full cast has been announced for the West End transfer of Robert Icke’s new adaptation of Mary Stuart . Following a critically acclaimed, sol d out season at the Almeida Theatre i n 2016 - 17, the production will open at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 15 January for a limited run bef ore visiting Theatre Royal Bath, Salford Lowry and Cambridge Arts Theatre.
As p reviously announced , Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams reprise the play’s central roles. Also reprising their roles are Rudi Dharmalingam (Mortimer), David Jonsson (Davison), John L ight (Leicester), Carmen Munroe (Kennedy), Eileen Nicholas (Melville) and Daniel Rabin (Kent) . Joining the cast are Michael Byrne (Talbot), Christopher Colquhoun (Paulet), Calum Finlay (Aubespine) a n d Elliot Levey (Burleigh) .
Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution.
Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of some of British history's most crucial days. Playing both Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart , Juliet Stevenson ( Hamlet ) and Lia Williams ( Oresteia ) trade the play's central roles, decided at each performance by the toss of a coin.
Adaptation and direction Robert Icke
Set and Costume Design Hildegard Bechtler
Lighting Jackie Shemesh
Sound Paul Arditti
Composition Laura Marling
Video Tim Re id
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Mary Stuart is presented by Fiery Angel and the Almeida Theatre .
Duke of York’s Theatre
St Martin’s Lane
London WC2N 4BG
Box office number : 0844 871 7623
Website : MaryStuartPlay.com
Dates: Monday 15 January 201 8 – Saturday 31 March 2018
Performance Times: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm , Wednesday and Saturday at 2 pm
Ticket Prices: £10, £25, £40, £55, £65, £95.
Previews: £10 off the top 3 prices.
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Dates: Wednesday 4 April 2018 – Saturday 14 April 2018
Performance Times: Wednesday 4 to Saturday 7 April at 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm ; Monday 9 to Saturday 14 April at 7.30pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm
Ticket Prices: £7.50 – £40.50
Salford Lowry
Box office number : 0843 208 6000
Website : thelowry.com
Dates: Tuesday 17 April 2018 – Saturday 21 April 2018
Performance Times: Tuesday to Satur day at 7.30pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm
Ticket Prices: £16 – £38
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Box office number : 01223 503333
Website : cambridgeartstheatre.com
Dates: Monday 23 April 2018 – Saturday 28 April 2018
Performance Times: Monday to Saturday at 7.45 pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2 .30 pm
Ticket Prices: £25 – £45
Biographies
Juliet Stevenson is one of Britain’s leading actors. She has worked extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Royal Cour t, winning an Olivier award for her performance as Paulina in Death and The Maiden in 1991. Most recent theatre credits include starring roles in Wings at the Young Vic, Robert Icke’s Mary Stuart and Hamlet (both of which transferred to the West End) and o f course Beckett’s Happy Days , also at The Young Vic. Her films include Truly, Madly, Deeply , Bend it Like Beckham , When Did You Last See Your Father? , Being Julia , Pierrepoint , Mona Lisa Smile , Diana and Departure . Recent releases include feature film Let Me Go . Recent television work includes starring roles in Williams brothers’ thriller One of Us for BBC1 and Sky Living’s supernatural thriller The Enfield Haunting as well as playing series regulars on two series of Atlantis and The Village . Other televis ion work includes Place of Execution , The Accused , The Hour , and White Heat . She was awarded the CBE in 1999. In addition to her Olivier award, Juliet has been nominated a further four times and is five times BAFTA nominated for her film and television wor k.
Lia Williams most recently appeared in the Almeida Theatre ’s production s of Mary Stuart and Oresteia (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress) as well as Harold Pinter’s Celebration . Other theatre credits include The Revengers’ Comedies in the West E nd ( Critics Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award, Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy Performance ) , Old Times in the West End , Arcadia and Skylight on Broadway, at the National Theatre and in the West End (Tony and Olivier Award nominations for Best Actress) , Earthquakes in London , The Hothouse and Mappa Mundi at the National Theatre , Oleanna , King Lear and My Child at the Royal Court , The Homecoming at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in the West End and on Broadway , and The Lover and The Collection at the Donmar Warehouse. Her television credits include Kiri , Strike : Silkworm , , The Missing , The Crown , Secret State , Doc Martin , May 33 rd (BAFTA nomination for Best Actress) , The Russian Bride , Imogen’s Face , A Shot Through the Heart , Flowers of the Forest , Seaforth and Mr Wroe’s Virgins. Film includes The Foreigner , Jonathan Toomey , The King is Alive , Different for Girls , The Fifth Province , Firelight , Dirty Weekend and La Suite Blanche - Neige. As Director, her credits include The Match Box for the Liverpool Playhouse
and the Tricycle Theatre and films Feathers , The Stronger ( BAFTA nomination for Best Short Film ) , Dog Alone and the feature documentary Nanabozhung.
Michael Byrne plays Talbot. His theatre credits include Molly Sweeney , The Chairs , Slight Ache/ Precisely (The Gate Theatre), Juliet And Her Romeo (Bristol Old Vic), New World Order, Death And The Maiden (Royal Court Theatre), Entertaining Strangers (National Theatre), The Faith Healer (National Theatre and British Council Tour of India ) and Man And Superman (Haymarket Theatre). His television credits include Midsomer Murders , Doctors , Harry Price: Ghost Hunter , The Living and the Dead , Agatha Raison , Cuffs , Casualty , Wallander Series 4 , Crossing Lines , Borgia III , Frankie , Lightfields , Coronation Street , Honest , Mark of Cain , Silent Witness , Empire , The Fix , Richard III , Devils Crown and Silence Of the Seas and his film credits include Intrigo , The Last Witness , Chef/Adam Jones , Diana , Quartet , Outpost Black Sun , Harry Potter and the Hal f - Blood Prince , Beyond the Sea , Sum Of All Fears , Gangs of New York , Tomorrow Never Dies , Braveheart , Indiana Jones III and A Bridge Too Far .
Christopher Colquhoun plays Paulet. His theatre credits include Yellowman (The Young Vic), The Lion King ( UK Tour), The Believers (F rantic Assembly/ Tricycle Theatre), The Colour Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Five Guys Named Moe (Theatre Royal Stratford East/ Edinburgh International Festival/ UK T our), Troilus and Cressida (The Globe Theatre), Macbeth , Three Sisters (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Saint Joan (National Theatre), Simply Heavenly (West End), Ain’t Misbehavin ’ (Derby Playhouse), Blues in the Night (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Snake in the Fridge and The Way of the World (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Angels in America (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), The Slow Drag (Whitehall Theatre) Romeo and Juliet (USA Tour), Moby Dick , King Lear , The Tempest and T he Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespea re Company). His television credits include Absenti a , Vera , Fleabag , Midsomer Murders , Flowers , Law and Order , The Crash , Missing , Coronation S treet , The Bill , Belonging , Wire in the Blood - Series 5 , Casualty , North Square , Silent Witness , London Bridge , Band of Gold and Shakespeare Shorts , and his film credits include iBoy and Oh Happy Day .
Rudi Dharmalingam plays Mortimer. His theatre credits include Mary Stuart (Almeida Theatre), 1984 (Playhouse Theatre), X (Royal Court), Hamlet (Barbican), Oresteia ( Almeida Theatre), Dara (National Theatre), Hope (Royal Court), The Events (Young Vic/ UK Tour), The Seagull (Headlong/ UK Tour), Much Ado About Nothing (RSC/Noel Coward Theatre), You Can Still Make A Killing (NT Studio), England People Very Nice , Playing With Fire (National Theatre), Rafta Rafta (National Theatre/ UK Tour), The English Game (Headlong), The Fastest Clock In The Universe (Naach Theatre), The History Boys (National Theatre/ Broadway/ International Tour). Television credits include The Split , Electric Dreams: The Commuter , Our Girl Series 3 , Rellik , Casualty , Doctor Who , Coronation Street , Hollyoaks , New Tricks , The Bill , Cutting It , and film credits include National Theatre Encore: Hamlet a t t he Barbican , Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them and Britz .
Calum Finlay plays Aubespine. His theatre credits include Hamlet (Almeida/ West End), The Ghost Train , Too Clever By Half (Manchester Royal Exchange), Dunsinane (Royal Shakespeare Company/ National Theatre of Scotland), Tartuffe (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), The Merry Wives of Windsor , The Mouse and His Child , Macbeth , Jubilee (Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Prince of Denmark (National Theatre). His television credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Holby City . He has also appeared in the film Bates of the Amazon
David Jonsson plays Davison. His theatre credits include Mary Stuart (Almeida Theatre), Don Juan in Soho (Wyndhams Theatre), Pigeon English (Bristol Old Vic/ Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Romeo and Juliet (Riv erside Studios), Ghosts (Theatre Bankside), and his television credits include Endeavour .
Elliot Levey plays Burleigh. His theatre credits include Saint Joan and Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse), The Mighty Walzer (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndam’s Theatre) and multiple productions at the National Theatre including Danton’s Death, The Art of Habit, All’s Well That Ends Well, England People Very Nice, His Dark Materials and Henry I V Parts I & II. Levey is well known for his role of Francesco Pazzi in Da Vinci’s Demons, and has also appeared on television in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ripper Street, Jamaica Inn, Silent Witness and New Tricks. His film credits include Fallen, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Lady in the Van , Philomena and The Queen.
John L ight plays Leicester. His theatre credits include Mary Stuart , Carmen Disruption , The Master Builder , Certain Young Men , The Cenci , The Tower (Almeida Theatre), The Winter’s Tale , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , A Life Of Thomas Paine (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), Three Days in the Country , The Night Season (National Theatre), Taken at Midnight (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Blackest Black , The Giant, My Boy J ack (Hampstead Theatre), Thom Pain (The Print Room), Luise Miller (Donmar Warehouse), Apologia , Clocks And Whistles (Bush Theatre), Julius Caesar , The Tempest , The Seagull , In The Company Of Men , A Patriot For Me (R oyal S hakespeare C ompany ), Singer (Tricyc le Theatre ). His television credits include Mars , Maigret , Father Brown , Midsomer Murders , Atlantis , WPC56 , Endeavour , Silk , Dresden , North & South , Cambridge Spies , Lloyd And Hill , Band of Brothers , Love in a Cold Climate , Aristocrats , Cider with Rosie , T he Jump , The Unknown Soldier , Holding On , Cold Lazarus . His film credits include Agent Hamilton , Albert Nobbs , Scoop , Partition , Heights , Lion In Winter , Benedict Arnold , The Good Pope , Dk2 , Trance , Purpose , Investigating Sex , 5 Seconds To Spare , A Rather English Marriage , Mrs Pollifax and Wavelengths .
Carmen Munroe plays Kennedy. She made her stage debut in Period of Adjustment in 1962 (Royal Court/ Wyndham’s Theatre) , with her subsequent West End credits including The Apple Cart , Redemption Song , The Amen Corner , Trouble in Mind . Other credits include Cain (Royal Shakespeare Company), Walk Hard - Talk Loud , Gen of The Ocean , Fabulation (Tricycle Theatre) . On screen, Carmen was in the Channel 2 series Desmonds , which won the Best British Comedy Award. C armen was awarded an OBE in 2007.
Eileen Nicholas plays Melville. Her theatre credits include Mary Stuart (Almeida Theatre), Every One (Battersea Arts Centre), The Scar Test (Untold Theatre), It’s Only Words (Oran Mor), I Killed Rasputin (George Square T heatre), All About My Mother (The Old Vic), The Queen Of Lucky People (Traverse), Buried Child (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), I Didn’t Always Live Here (Finborough), Lobster/ Vantastic (Oval House Theatre), Misery (Edinburgh Festival), Elizabeth Gordon Quinn - Through the Leaves ( Traverse Theatre and Bush Theatre, London), Same Old Moon (Gielgud Theatre London), Juno and the Paycock (Royal Lyceum), American Bagpipes (The Royal Court and Royal Exchange Manchester), Endgame and Request Progr amme (The Donmar Warehouse), Revenger's Tragedy (Cambridge Theatre Co) and Lady of Letters (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds). Her television credits include Jimmy McGovern’s Broken, Midwinter of The Spirit, Law and Order : UK, Half Broken Things, Taggart, Be tween the Lines, The Bill, Casualty, Dr Findley's Casebook, Doctors, The Final Run and Mitch . Her film credits include Dead in A Week, Gunned Down, Blackwood, The Quiet Ones, Estranged, The Wee Man, Late
Bloomers, Bomber, Trainspotting, Regeneration, Mr Co rbett's Ghost, Widowmaker, Mind the Gap , Hush, The Lump and Falcon.
Daniel Rabin plays Kent. His theatre credits includes Hamlet (Almeida Theatre/ West End), Mary Stuart (Almeida Theatre), 1984 (West End), Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, King John, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Anthony and Cleopatra and Holy Warriors (The Globe Theatre), Ignorance (Hampstead Theatre), The Bomb (Tricycle Theatre ) The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre including US tour and Pentagon performances), Sixty Six Books (The Bush), The Fever Chart (Trafalgar Studios/ Theatre Royal York), Enemy of the People (Arcola Theatre), All Quiet on the Western Front & Chicken Soup with Barley (Nottingham Playhouse), Shoreditch Madonna, Diamond & Jerusalem Syndrome (Soho Theatre), The Last Sortie (New End / Hampstead Theatre) and Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Lyric Hammersmith). His television credits include The Royals, Game of Thrones, Ambassadors, Our Men, Holby City, Murder On the Homefront, Spooks, Henry - Mind of a Tyrant, The Bill, Casualty, The Rom an Mysteries, EastEnders and Money Can't Buy You Love . His film credits include Lilac's Laughter, Mind The Gap, Two's Company, The Penalty King, Bury It and Susie Gold .
Robert Icke is a writer and theatre director. He is currently Associate Director at t he Almeida where his work includes adapting and directing Mary Stuart , Uncle Vanya , Oresteia (also West End) and 1984 (co - created with Duncan Macmillan, also Broadway, West End, National and International tours). As director, his productions include Hamlet (starring Andrew Scott, also West End), The Fever , Mr Burns (Almeida Theatre ), The Red Barn (National Theatre), Boys , Romeo and Juliet , Decade (Headlong, where he was Associate Director until 2013). For Oresteia , Robert won Best Director in the Critics Circle and Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2015, and the Olivier Award for Best Director in 2016.
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