James Dreyfus is to join Anna Friel and Joseph Cross in the new stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 9 September.
Also joining the cast are Suzanne Bertish, Dermot Crowley and John Ramm.
Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor Dreyfus has been a regular on the London stage of late with roles in Cabaret at the Lyric theatre, Donkeys’ Years at the Comedy theatre, The Common Pursuit at the Menier Chocolate Factory and, just last month, Amongst Friends at the Hampstead theatre. He is also recognisable for his roles in television series The Thin Blue Line, Gimme Gimme Gimme and My Hero.
Bertish won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s epic adaptation of The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby which played in the West End and on Broadway. Since then her career has continued to encompass stage roles on both sides of the Atlantic, in Salome and The Molière Comedies – for which she was Tony Award-nominated – on Broadway, An Inspector Calls in the West End, Crossing Jerusalem at the Tricycle theatre and several productions for the National Theatre.
Crowley’s London stage credits include Stuff Happens and Scenes From The Big Picture at the National, Calico at the Duke of York’s theatre and The Weir at the Royal Court. Ramm is known for appearing opposite The 39 Steps writer Patrick Barlow in the spoof two-man theatre troupe The National Theatre Of Brent and has numerous stage credits in regional theatre.
Adapted from Capote’s novel by Samuel Adamson, who recently adapted Pedro Almodóvar’s film All About My Mother for the Old Vic, Breakfast At Tiffany’s is a drama set in New York in 1943, when young writer William ‘Fred’ Parsons (Cross) meets charming and elusive good time girl Holly Golightly (Friel). Everyone falls in love with Holly, including William, but he is poor, and Holly needs rich.
The rest of the cast is James Bradshaw, Gwendoline Christie, Paul Courtney Hyu, Felix D’Alviella, Nicholas Goh, Annie Hemingway, Sam Hoare, Natalie Klamar and David Phelan.
Breakfast At Tiffany’s is the second production in director Sean Mathias’s season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket after Waiting For Godot, which ends its run on 9 August.
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