THE YOUNG VIC &Β THE YOUNG ONES PRESENT
SIENNA MILLER & JACK O’CONNELL
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
OPENING IN THE WEST END JULY 2017
STRICTLY LIMITED TWELVE WEEK RUN
Β£10 GOOD SEATS FOR 25S & UNDER FOR EACH PERFORMANCE
75 TICKETS AT Β£20 OR LESS FOR EVERY PERFORMANCE
Sienna Miller and Jack OβConnell will lead the cast as Maggie and Brick in Benedict Andrewsβ Young Vic production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof which will begin previews in the West End at the Apollo Theatre on 13 July 2017. This strictly limited twelve-week run is booking to 7 October 2017. Set designs are by Magda Willi with costume designs by Alice Babidge and lighting by Jon Clark. Further casting will be announced at a later date.
Tickets go on public sale 24 February 2017, at 10am. For this Young Vic production, there will be seats available at Β£10 for under 25s for each performance, booked through the Young Vic Box Office, with 75 tickets at Β£20 or less for every performance.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof marks the Young Vicβs first production to debut directly in the West End and is presented by the Young Vic and The Young Ones. Previously the Young Vic have transferred A View from a Bridge, Golem, The Scottsboro Boys, Simply Heavenly, Tintin and A Dollβs House.
The truth hurts. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddyβs birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real β and which will win out?
Tennessee Williamsβ Pulitzer prize winning play received its world premiere in 1955 at the Morosco Theater on Broadway with Barbara Bel Geddes and Ben Gazzara as Maggie and Brick. The UK premiere, directed by Peter Hall, opened at the Comedy Theatre in 1958 with Kim Stanley and Paul Massie in the same roles. The 1958 Academy Award nominated film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman was directed by Richard Brooks.
Sienna Miller (Maggie) trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. She was last on stage in the West End as Patricia in Flare Path at the Haymarket Theatre and was previously seen at Wyndhamβs Theatre as Celia in As You Like It. Her New York theatre credits include After Miss Julie, Cabaret, Independence and Cigarettes and Chocolate. Her many film credits include Live by Night, Mississippi Grind, Layer Cake, Alfie, Casanova, Factory Girl, American Sniper, Foxcatcher, The Edge of Love, G.I. Joe, Yellow and the forthcoming The Lost City of Z. On television her credits include The Girl, Bedtime and Keen Eddie.
Jack OβConnell (Brick) was last seen on stage in The Nap at Sheffield Crucible Theatre. His other theatre credits include Scarborough for the Royal Court and The Spiderman, The Musicians and Just for NT Shell Connections. His film work has garnered him multiple awards, including the 2015 EE BAFTA Rising Star Award, the New Hollywood Award and the Chopard Trophy Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Most recently, his project Home won the BAFTA for British Short Film in 2017. His other film credits include Money Monster, 300: Rise of an Empire, Unbroken, β71, Starred Up, Liability, Private Peaceful, Tower Block, Weekender, Wayfaring Stranger, Eden Lake and Black Dog. OβConnell will next be seen on screen in Tulip Fever, The Man with the Iron Heart as well as starring in the Netflix TV series Godless. His television credits include Skins, United, The Runaway, This is England, Dive and Wuthering Heights.
For the Young Vic, Benedict Andrews has previously directed his own version of Three Sisters, which won the London Criticsβ Circle Best Director Award, and A Streetcar Named Desire, with Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster, which transferred to New York in 2016. His first production for the Young Vic was Monteverdiβs The Return of Ulysses, a co-production with ENO β where he has also directed La Boheme and Detlev Glanertβs Caligula. His many directing credits for Sydney Theatre Company include The Maids with Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert, which toured to the Lincoln Centre Festival in New York; and Big and Small which came to the Barbican, also starring Cate Blanchett. Andrews has also worked extensively at the SchaubΓΌhne Berlin, Komische Oper, National Theatre Iceland and Belvoir Street Sydney. His first feature film, Una, starring Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn, premiered at the 2016 Telluride Film Festival and will be released later this year.
The Young Vic, one of the UKβs leading theatres, produces new plays, classics, forgotten works, musicals and opera. It co-produces and tours widely in the UK and internationally while keeping deep roots in its neighbourhood. It frequently transfers shows to Londonβs West End and invites local people to take part at its home in Waterloo. In 2016 the Young Vic became Londonβs first Theatre of Sanctuary. Recent productions include Simon Stoneβs new version of Lorcaβs Yerma which returns to the Young Vic with Billie Piper reprising her multi award-wining performance in July, the premiere of Charlene Jamesβ multi-award-winning play Cuttinβ It and Ivo van Hoveβs production of Arthur Millerβs A View from the Bridge (West End & Broadway transfers), as well as Horizons, a season of work exploring the lives of refugees. David Lan is Artistic Director with Lucy Woollatt as Executive Director.
www.youngvic.org
Cast photography by Charlie Gray
Listing
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
13 July β 7 October 2017Β
Monday β Saturday at 7.30pm
Wednesday & Saturday matinees at 2.30pm
Apollo Theatre
31 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 7ES
Box Office
Apollo – 0330 333 4809
Young Vic – 020 7922 2922
www.youngvicwestend.com
Previews Monday β Thursday Β£10-Β£55,
Friday & Saturday Β£10-Β£57
from 25 July 2017 Monday β Thursday Β£10-Β£65,
Friday & Saturday Β£10-Β£67
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