Douglas Henshall Joins Kim Cattrall in London Cryptogram

Full casting has been announced for The Cryptogram, the David Mamet play that will begin performances at the Donmar Warehouse on October 12th for an October 17th opening.  The play, a drama about a dysfunctional '50s family, will run through November 25th.

Joining previously-announced star Kim Cattrall ("Sex and the City," Whose Life is It Anyway in London) will be Douglas Henshall, who will play Del, a friend of Donny's (played by Cattrall) absent husband, according to Whatsonstage.com.  Young actors Joe Ashman, Adam J. Brown and Oliver Coopersmith will alternate in the role of Donny's son John, who doesn't understand why his father has left.

Henshall's West End credits include Death of a Salesman, Darwin in Malibu, The Crucible and The Coast of Utopia, while film credits include This Year's Love, Psychos and Anna Karenina.

Mamet's other works include Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, Oleanna and Boston Marriage.

The Donmar previously announced a starry season that will include performances by Frank Langella and Michael Sheen (in Frost/Nixon), Rhys Ifans (in Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho), and Penelope Wilton and Ian McDiarmid (in John Gabriel Borkman).

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