London's National Theatre has announced two literary adaptations for its winter 2006 season--stage versions of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin and of Virginia Woolf's The Waves.
Directed by Marianne Elliot,
Nicholas Wright's adaptation of Zola's 1867 work
Therese Raquin will open on November 13th, according to Whatsonstage.com. "Therese, unhappily married to Camille, embarks on a passionate affair with the couple's lodger Laurent, with whom she conspires to murder her husband, under the very nose of his doting mother. The successful deed sets in motion a chain of nightmarish consequences for the guilt-ridden culprits." The show will play the NT Lyttelton.
Ben Daniels (
The Wild Duck and
The God of Hell at the Donmar) will star as Laurent, while
Mark Hadfield, Emma Lowndes and
Judy Parfitt will be featured in the cast (with more to be announced). The creative team will include designer
Hildegard Bechtler, costume designer
Fotini Dimou, lighting designer
Neil Austin, sound designer
Christopher Shutt and composer Olly Fox.
Waves, based on the experimental Woolf novel, will begin previews on November 8th and open on November 16th at the NT Cottesloe. The show was created by director
Katie Mitchell, along with her company (which includes Kate Duchene,
Anastasia Hille and Liz Kettle). Waves "is 'suggested by' Woolf's fragmented and dreamlike novel...1931's
The Waves consists of dramatic monologues from six characters which are broken up by poetic sections describing a coastal setting at different times of the day." The production will be designed by
Vicki Mortimer, with lighting by
Paule Constable and sound by
Gareth Fry.
The National Theatre's previously announced winter season will also include the previously-announced
The Alchemist, The Seafarer, Caroline, or Change, Faust and
Coram Boy.Visit
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk for more information.
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