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Olivier winners Lindsay Duncan and Jeremy Northam will lead the cast of Noel Coward’s
Hay Fever at the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre. Joining Northam and Duncan on stage will be Kevin McNally and Olivia Colman. Additional casting will be announced shortly. Performances of the play, directed by Howard Davies, will begin on February 10, 2012.
Judith Bliss (Duncan) once glittering star of the London stage, now in early retirement, is still enjoying life with more than a little high drama and the occasional big scene. To spice up her weekend, Judith invites a young suitor to join her in the country. However, her novelist husband, David (McNally), and her two eccentric children, Simon and Sorel, have had the same idea for themselves and any hope for private flirtation disappears as the family’s guests begin to arrive. Misjudged meetings, secret seductions and scandalous revelations all run riot at the most outrageous of all house parties.
Duncan’s many London theater credits include
Plenty, The Homecoming, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Cryptogram, That Face and Noel Coward’s
Private Lives. Her screen credits include Rupert Goold’s
Richard II, White Heat, Dr Who, Lost in Austen, Longford, Rome, Shooting the Past and Perfect Strangers, The Rector’s Wife, A Year in Provence, GBH and
Traffik. Her film credits include Tim Burton’s
Alice in Wonderland, Starter For Ten, Mansfield Park, An Ideal Husband and
Prick Up Your Ears.
Northam’s theater credits include
Old Times, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Country Wife, Certain Young Men and
The Voysey Inheritance. His television credits include
The Tudors, White Heat and Journey’s End, and his film credits include
Creation, Dean Spanley, A Cock and Bull Story, Gosford Park, The Winslow Boy, An Ideal Husband, Happy Texas, Possession, Emma, The Net and
Carrington.
McNally has appeared in
Hamlet, Ivanov, Boeing Boeing, The Lady in the Van, Naked, Dead Funny and
The Iceman Cometh. His television credits include
Downton Abbey, New Tricks, Life On Mars, Margaret, Bloodlines, Dunkirk, Spooks, Shackleton, Rab C Nesbitt, Enigma and
Diana, and his films include the
The Pirates of the Caribbean films,
Valkyrie, De-Lovely, The Phantom of the Opera, Johnny English, Sliding Doors, Irish Jam and
Entrapment.
Colman’s stage credits include
England People Very Nice, The Three Some and
A Long Day’s Journey Into Night Her film credits include the upcoming
The Iron Lady and
Hyde Park on Hudson, as well as
Tyrannosaur, Dog Altogether, Grow Your Own, I Could Never Be Your Woman and
Hot Fuzz.
The limited engagement will run through June 2, 2012, and feature set design by Bunny Christie, lighting by Mark Henderson and sound design by Mike Walker
