The Children’s Hour, which stars Hollywood headliner Keira Knightley and Mad Men actress Elisabeth Moss, has extended its run at the Comedy theatre before the curtain has risen on the first preview performance.
Lillian Hellman’s boarding school-set drama, which opens on 9 February following previews from 22 January, was scheduled to run until 2 April. It has added four weeks to its West End season and will now close on 30 April.
In 1930s New England, Karen Wright (Knightley) and Martha Dobie (Moss) run a girls’ boarding school, but when a rumour begins to spread they become embroiled in a devastating story of deceit, shame and courage.
Moss and Pirates Of The Caribbean star Knightley are joined in the cast by Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn, former Taxi star Carol Kane, and London stage regulars Nancy Crane and Tobias Menzies.
The Comedy theatre is currently playing host to the stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s First World War drama Birdsong, which finishes its London season on 15 January.
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