'2,000 Feet Away' with Fiennes Extends

2,000 FEET AWAY, starring Joseph Fiennes, has been extended by a week at west London's Bush Theatre. Anthony Weigh's play received its UK premiere at the 81-seat west London new writing venue on 16 June 2008 (previews from 11 June) and had been booking until 12 July. It will now continue until 19 July, with extra seats released from 1 July to meet demand.

In Eldon, Iowa, a tiny community in the American heartland with a high concentration of sex offenders, the deputy sheriff (Fiennes) must enforce a new law banning them from living within 2,000 feet of anywhere children may gather. When the deputy has to evict his neighbour's son AG, the new law hits home.

Joseph Fiennes has appeared on screen in Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Enemy at the Gate and The Merchant of Venice. His last stage appearence was the 2005 West End revival of John Osborne's Epitaph for George Dillon. Fiennes is joined in the cast by Ian Hart as AG and Phyllis Logan as AG's mother, as well as Roger Sloman, Kirsty Bushell and Kevin Trainor in multiple parts and, alternating in the three children's roles, Oliver Coopersmith, Joe Ashman, Charlotte Beaumont, Miranda Princi and Charlie Coopersmith.

The production, which marks the UK debut for Australian-British playwright Anthony Weigh, is directed by Bush artistic director Josie Rourke and designed by Lucy Osborne.

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