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Full Casting Announced for London Bent Revival
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 11, 2006
Casting is now complete for Daniel Kramer's new production of Martin Sherman's award-winning Bent, which will open at the Trafalgar Studios on September 22nd with press night on October 5th. The production is currently booking through January 13th, 2007.
Joining previously-announced star Alan Cumming (Tony Award-winner for Cabaret, Design for Living, Threepenny Opera) will be newcomer Chris New, who was plucked directly from Rada by director Kramer (Woyzeck, Hair) and writer Sherman (Rose, the film Mrs. Henderson Presents), and who will make his professional stage debut playing Horst. The cast will also feature Richard Bremmer (Greta), Hugh
Ross (Freddie), Kevin Trainor (Rudy), Benjamin Wilkin (Wolf), with
Ricky Champ, Charles Mayer, Matthew Spencer and Laurence Spellman. Cumming will play Max.
With set designs by Robin Don and costume designs by Mark Bouman, Bent will feature an original song by Chris Lowe (of the Pet Shop Boys) which will be performed to Martin Sherman's lyrics. Bent will be produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Mark Rubinstein and Tulchin/ Bartner Productions.
"Bent follows a personal journey from the cabarets and clubs of a hedonistic city to the inhuman excesses of a totalitarian regime, as a gay man discovers the true meaning of love and self-acceptance against almost impossible odds. A transcendent love story, Bent has touched a universal nerve through the years in the more than fifty countries that it has been seen in," state press notes.
Sherman's Tony Award-nominated play received its world premiere at The Royal Court Theatre in 1979 with a cast including Ian McKellen and Tom Bell. The production later transferred to the Criterion Theatre. In the same year
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